Just...Transform damn you. (open/no death)

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It was rather bright out today, annoyingly so with not a single cloud dotting the sky as far as the eye could see. Open lines between building had slow crowds milling through them while shadows cast by the buildings themselves contained individuals trying to hurriedly reach the next one. Heavy coats of all colors and shapes with little hats and gloves to match darted back and forth as winter grew ever colder and shoppers grew ever more pressed for time.

"Feh, if I could just get you in the spirit of giving this silly ritual is supposed to inspire I might get this damn chain off." A demented little elf did utter, for as shoppers and commuters did toil below Giuli toiled above to unleash a hollow on them just to see what might happen first. It got full, or a shinigami came along to break it. To most this endeavor would seem pointless but then most did not work on the same level as Giuli did. He stood to learn two valuable things no matter what happened. Once made could a low-level hollow gorge endlessly on human souls if given the chance or would it fill itself up to burst and then leave. The other tidbit would be a rough estimate of shinigami response times for the area. Oh, but you ask, wouldn't it take several of these attacks to correctly judge the second of these two options?

Yes normally it would, but Giuli is a truly devious man and he has many a devious servant, or at the very least a handful of weak numeros doing this very same thing at other locations in the area. The others had gone off already and fled. Hollows all slain but Giuli himself would have to look at the data later to see what did it.

"Come...On...ONe...More...Pull!" He groaned, planting a foot on the screaming Earth-bounds chest and tugging one last time. A satisfying pop issued and Giuli toppled back over the edge of the building as lights flashed and flared about him. His new hollow shot out over the street and down into the crowd with a starved sort of desperation already apparent in his eyes. "Now then...how long till they get here." Giuli pondered, hanging upside down amidst the air as he took in the first screams of terror.

"Ah..so beautiful."

Giuli doubled over in laughter as Akashi seemed to feel some form of legitimate fear of being near him. "Oh calm down little-" Giuli suddenly stopped laughing, changing hands of the knives and subconsciously formed two small disc. Portable generators for his dark fields. As they erupted open he tossed them forward, head still tilted to one side even as the second creature was birthed from the boy's power.

The fields left all three entirely engulfed, unable to see anything about them for the next few moments before the two spare fields fell below them to break on the ground harmlessly. First he emptied the three knives from his hand by flinging them, surrounded by Bala to strike the dark engulfed Akashi. To follow up behind it he held both hands out and splayed forward with twin orbs of malevolent purple filling them.

"You should remain calm, darkness only has hold on those who show it FEAR!"

He released the blasts, aimed towards the creatures. Giuli standing at a different height from him not being obstructed by the boy standing before the hollow.

"I told you I would help you gain control, don't run from me....I suppose that makes it a lot worse."

Rask stared with half lidded and uninterested eyes. His arms were crossed, but his gauntlet was glowing oddly. It didn't usually do that. Rask had taken a slight interest to it. It didnt burn, sting or numb him. With this kind of commontion going on however there would probably be some reason for it.

These people who were fighting, a boy and a....well Rask couldn't be sure what exactly it was by both the distance and long hair. But strange though the reason why these two were fighting in the first place, grant it he wasnt there for the start but it should be known the middle was always the most entertaining.

Neither seemed to be pulling the weight of the battle though equal as it seemed the child looked to be dishing out the more impressive moods. By the feel of his reiatsu he was both hollow and shinigami--though more shinigami, even stranger when the opponent was the same though more hollow. That was too trivial to think about though, and preposterious at that. Rask hummed and he plopped down to sit upon his rooftop, watching the battle, "I should take the victor..." He muttered to himself.

As Rask's eyes drifted he caught i figure in his view. A figure in pure white, "Thats...odd. When did he get here?" Rask's eyes narrowed at the overwhelming pressure coming off of him, though even stranger that his gauntlet was glowing even brighter. Whatever or whoever this person was seemed to have something to do with him. Rask's eyes drifted back towards the fight, but always keeping the man clad in white in mind.

Akashi panted, looking from side to side quickly. He could see nothing, and it was beginning to freak him out. The speech bubble above Akashi's head was still there, and the message board did not say anything, so Giuli could safely assume that the boy was still blind. "I... I can't help it... It's like this whenever... Whenever he's there... It scares me!" He tried to calm himself down, standing still and attempting to gather his wits as he was struck by the Bala, knocking him back a bit. The message board came across his legs as he stopped, reading "AKASHI TAKES 54 DAMAGE!!!" Dullahan merely blocked the attack with his shield, while Catastrophe flaps to the side, the attack rebounding off of it's own shield.

Akashi straightened himself out and shook his head. "If you want me to calm down, then why are you still attacking me?!?!" The attack did nothing for Akashi's fear, holding his blade straight to the sky. "Weapon change!" The blade shifted again, forming a shorted blade that looked like it could do some damage. However, once the shift happened, Dullahan reached to his side, as if it were going to draw a sword. As it turned out, that's exactly what it did, even though there was no sword there. It pulled a long bolt of lightning out, nearly ten feet long, taking the shape of a European greatsword. He began stepping forward, clearly not blinded by Giuli's attack, because he lacked sight anyways. Catastrophe looked to be having trouble, however. Dullahan stepped and swung the bolt of lightning for Giuli, but it would not cut him. If it hit him, it would strike with a horrible, nonfatal but paralytic, shock.

Isaac watched with apathetic eyes, the fight between the Arrancar and the Shinigami. It seemed that the Shinigami was beginning to teeter over the edge. If it came to that, Isaac would intervene. With the darkness coming, and Isaac not being able to see anything, he was undeterred. He could hear every word, and nearly every breath coming from both beings within perfectly. It seemed like... training? But that couldn't be right, could it? The Arrancar was attempting to help the Shinigami gain control over his Hollow, with the way it sounded to Isaac. No matter, he would both destroy the Arrancar and prevent the Boy's Hollowfication.

When another spiritual pressure entered the area, however, Isaac's head jerked up towards the sky. Togabito, one of two things he was supposed to put before Hollow's and Arrancar's; manifestations of evil in their most physical of forms. Togabito, nearly as bad as the Sin's themselves, but far more in number. Ordinarily, he would destroy this Togabito, but he had orders to retrieve one was he given the chance.

However, a Togabtio was a Togabito, no matter the condition it was in. So, the one that had just arrived was actually the perfect opportunity for Isaac to complete a goal for the Consecro. Isaac raised his arm, before moving it suddenly to the right, as if he were slapping the air. The bells jingled. As they did, the air began seeming to shimmer right in front of him, like what one would see on a very hot day. The shimmer moved to Rask, meeting him seconds later. Rask would hear a voice speaking to him, and the man across the way staring directly at him, but he would see nobody.

"Togabito... Give yourself up." It said, but that was it. If one tried to pay attention to Isaac they would blink, and he would be... gone. Merely just gone, as if he were never there to begin with. But that was just his speed at its best. Rask would hear someone speaking behind him, it being that same man from before; the member of Consecro, Isaac "Gravedigger" Cantrell. "And if you do, you will not be harmed." He said. Despite his calm words, he looked battle-ready at that instant. His face seemed to be that of a metallic ebony skull, pitch black with nearly-glowing indigo eyes behind it. Of course, it was just thin sheet metal covering his face, so it was obvious he had humanoid features, it just looked as if his face had turned to bone and become more skeletal. But, thus was a side-effect of using his Virtuous abilities.

"I will give you one chance." He said, as at least a dozen long, thin, tendril-like slivers of metal came from his back, coming away from skin-to-tip at about ten feet. The points were all pointed directly at Rask, ready, should he choose to say no. Should he say yes, however, all that would happen was a cage would be formed around the Togabito.

"Oh no, I've seen what your lightning does." Giuli flipped up, not really moving up but making it to where he literally was walking straight upwards. The blade pass beneath him, and in the next moment before the Hollow would even have had a moment to bring the sword back for the next attempt he was standing upside down above it with yet one more marble in his hand. He let it drop softly into the armored husk before again disappearing and moving into the darkened sphere around Akashi.

"The pain keeps you grounded, without it to focus you I might lose you to the fear of nothing. Why do you think I used such weak bala to deliver my love-taps." He said gently from of behind him and to the left. "You invite him out, you Want him to come out and take over for you don't you. You shinigami have millenia of spells and arts to fall back on but no, before trying those you summoned him. Your not afraid of him, your afraid of not having him around. Of not being able to imagine your darkest thoughts were caused by his influence on your mind. You want to not fear him? He is right there...right beside us both as we speak. You have the spells and the power....dominate him...shoot him from the sky and show him YOU are the one in control here. That he doesn't attack for you...he attacks Because you command it."

Giuli's voice had remained soothing, he'd even moved the darkness out away from the boy so he could watch him approach slowly. hands held up but read yo retreat in an instant. "So...obliterate him, right where he stands I want you to call all the power you have down on him. Claim your prize of the information I offer, and likewise gain the control of yourself you claim to want." He reached out slowly, taking hold of the hand grasping the boys within his full view, and with a squeeze broke the field generator and let the light of the world shine back in. Dullahan, Akashi, Catastrophe, and Giuli. All standing in the light of day.

"Break him Akashi, don't be broken BY him."

"Togabito... Give yourself up."

Rask's ears perked, someone was near and as he looked back he knew who it was. But it was too late. The man in white was gone. Rask sighed as he got up. The man was still there, his reiatsu filled the air with such pressure it was nearly choaking. It was also obvious to Rask that this man was more powerful then he was. Something Rask wasn't fond of.

"And if you do, you will not be harmed."

Rask would've laughed at that if he had the emotion to. This man was a liar, he could sense it in his speech. But, lies or not, Rask's gauntlet with glowing so brightly it was practially white. He held it close to his chest; it gave off a slight heat.

Rask sighed again, "You expect me to go with you, without even first introducing yourself?" And then he saw the several tendrals, almost hidden by the light that bounced off of them. All of them were pointed at him. But they were metal, and noting the metal skeletal mask that had probably struck fear in many before, they were probably apart of him. "We can settle this like gentlemen im sure."

Swords appeared out of nowhere, all ten of them surrounded Rask in a tight gate--leaving no room inbetween. Black lightning crackled angrily around his tall blades, the smell of ozone plagueing the air. "I'll say no...for now. I do have a few questions first. You may find this hard to believe but, whether or not you think i'm evil--i do not know of my evil deeds that sent me to hell. I'm suffering from sort of...memory loss? I suppose that could be it. Im not entirely sure. I know i wasnt a doctor in the past life. But...to me..i suppose that would be an absolution in itself."

Rask stared blankly at the sword infront of him, turned to face where the man in white was. He placed a hand on the smooth sword blade, lightning dancing around his fingertips, just in case. "My questions are...who are these two. More specifically--what are they? Due to my...memory loss and time in Hell i dont get out much and havent experianced many of the people out here." He sighed, "My second question is...who are you? Who are you with and what do you want with me?" Rask adjusted his mask with his free hand--making sure it was on but also realising his last result of escape.

When he heard the word "no", it took effort for Isaac to contain himself. He had been about ready to attack, but the fact that the Togabito kept speaking made him pause. Questions? Very well, he would get the Togabito in the end, either way. Hearing the first question, he looked towards Guili and Akashi, still listening in on the two's conversation. "One of them is a Shinigami, and the other, an Arrancar." He said, before placing his attention back onto the Togabito. Quickly, the tendrils from his back went back into his skin, leaving holes in his clothing in the back.

"The fact of the matter is not whether you actually did anything bad. Normally, I would have destroyed you in an instant, but we require your... services. When I say you will not be harmed, I promise this, as we need you alive to figure out your connection to Hell, so we may close the gate. If you aren't willing to come on your own, then I will be more than able to bring you in pieces." He said, as his clothing rippled for a second. Throughout his small speeches, his own speech stayed about as dead as Rask's, no emotion held within, as it was something Isaac found he required to do his job.

Isaac took a look at the gauntlet, checking to see whether it was worth note or not. Figuring it was, as it may be trouble later on, Isaac made a mental note to keep an eye on that. "If you won't come willingly, then... I'll take you by force." He said, as three small tendrils on either side of his chest ripped out once more, each of them aiming for Rask's arms.

"An Arrancar and a Shinigami. Strange how they fight when their seemingly almost alike." Rask watched as the tendrils pointing at him sank back into the man's back. He was an odd fellow of sorts, seemingly more odd them most of the creatures or people he had seen recently.

He was human, by the feel of it, and Rask narrowed his eyes at him, 'How did a human become this powerful?' He thought to himself. He hummed to himself and the blades surrounding him shattered to peices around him.

The man before him then talked of 'services.' "Services eh? And you should know that im so reliable in whatever i do. Picking me was a great choice--you must have an eye for his." He said sarcastically. "Regardless, i hope you pay well."

"Now then, lets be off. I cant wait to meet your leader." Rask sighed, "There's no need for cages or anything like that. I assure you that i'll follow--diligently." Rask said with a flat expression. He passed the man, wary of the three new tendrils pointing out at him. "My name is Raskeria Saero. Aside from the future decapitation, eviseration, amputation and...rudeness...It's very nice to meet you. Now then, lets leave these two back to their little scrabble."

Hearing the man lament to help them, the tendrils, rather than attack, quickly sunk back into his body, though there were rips in his clothes. No doubt Sister Illyena would be irritated at him for ripping his clothes once more, but it was something he could not help. Isaac, having heard his comment on Shinigami and Arrancar, merely nodded.

Upon comment of how he came to acquire his abilities, Isaac looked to him briefly, before turning and walking. "Dedication." he merely said, saying nothing more. "It matters not if you're reliable. We can get whatever information we need through any means necessary. I cannot tell you what will happen, nor can I even guarantee your safety. But know that in coming along willingly, you've saved yourself a lot of pain." He said. He heard the man introduce himself as Rask, nodding once more, and for the final time. "And you may refer to me as Isaac." He said, as he kept walking.

[EXIT]

Akashi shivered as the darkness released him. He looked to Giuli softly as he tried to figure out just what exactly was happening. However, the more and more Akashi listened to the scientist, the more it began to make sense. "I... I... I guess you're right..." He looks to Guili softly and sighs. "I don't want to lose him, as he's a powerful ally. But of what worth is an ally if it tries to take over your mind and assimilate your body?" He sighed softly and looked to his sword, shivering. Dullahan turned around slowly, staring down the two. A dark sound came from the armor as the marble exploded, doing nothing but making smoke rise from the opening on the neckline. Dullahan seemed to take no damage from the blow. He stepped heavily over to the pair, pushing Giuli to the side lazily at he held Akashi in his moment of confusion.

Akashi stared up to Dullahan, shaking softly. "I... I command you to release me!" Dullahan appeared to listen, disappearing from view. Catastrophe vanished as well, leaving Akashi with his staff. "Ahh... Did... Did it work?" He then groaned, gripping his chest and coughing roughly. He fell to his knees and gasped out, looking to Giuli. "Guh... Go now! I don't want to hurt you! Just... Go... Before... It's too late..." Akashi then yelled out, arching his back and twitching. He just knelt there for a while, shaking softly as his head seemed to be fading from view.

"Oh a cheeky little hollow aren't you?" Giuli said with perhaps a slight hint of annoyance in his tone. He could probably have ripped the arm off that tried to shove him but instead let it push him back by all appearances. Best not to upset it when he had just forced the boy to challenge it. Get it riled they might say.

"Come on boy, don't show it timidity. I want you to literally blast it apart with your power. A hollow knows not of intelligence, it knows of only DESTRUCTION!" He screamed out his final word with mad enthusiasm, a cero charging in his hand as his other hand hovered above it. A passing bird, now Giuli would never reveal how he got it to do this, flew between his out-held hands and he blasted it into oblivion then and there. Maintaining the energy with his hands as mirror for the released firepower.

"You see Boy? He did not listen at all to you." Giuli said as the spirits both vanished. "He isn't listening, he is turning his back on you." He was ready to continue, collapsing the Cero down into a ball before quashing it completely between his mirror hands. when Akashi suddenly doubled over and started spouting something about Giuli needing to go.

"Oh my dear DEAR boy, you forget I agreed to not let harm come to the innocents. I'm paraphrasing to make the deal still work but I dare say you won't be a danger to me unde the control of a dumb hollow." Giuli spun slowly as a Garganta opened behind him as he disappeared and flashed back in behind Akashi, the Garganta now a backdrop for the boy.

"The endless sands will serve you well int learning control of this monster and I intend to stay here for every minute of it for your safety and for my reseach." He grinned even as he delivered a kick to the boy, not painful but almost like he was bunting him, that sent him flying into the Garganta and into the Huecos endless sands. He chuckled as he strolled through right behind the boy.

(akashi/giuli exit?)

Continued Here:

https://bleachoblivion.rpg-board.net/t1093-transformation-continue-s-invite-only#18066

"Alrighty then, time to signal another shinigami to come collect you." Giuli said, glancing about as if a shinigami would just appear because he had said that. With a sigh he slumped his shoulders and moved over to the tallest building and set the boy down. "Oh, probably should reseal myself so I don't scare anyone who comes to pick you up now shouldn't I?"

He shifted Akashi to be comfortable before putting his hands together as if to pray or meditate. After a second he began to pull them apart and as he did his sealed form blades began to extend outward from them and his diamond formed arms began to revert to normal. Once he had them fully withdrawn he plopped them back into the odd bag he used for a sheath and moved over to pluck Akashi's staff up and examine it.

"I might as well study this while we wait for your pickup." he said crossing his legs and beginning to play with the weapon.

(alright, waiting for a person to come pick up akashi...akashi can wake up if he wants i think but i figure somebody will come get yah soon.)