Blood-Stained Moon

As soon as Phuzes said spar Akemi grin widened as she started to get excited, If he hadn't of asked for a fight then she would of gone for the redemed HellAfter's head on the way to Karakura instead. She lifted her finger to her neck pushing his sword away from her.

"Is that a threat or a challenge..?"

Lifting her foot up she jumped a bit so she could kind of stand on his sword for a second and then jump back further. Lifting her own zapactou out she thought this would be the right time to train to get her own bankai out. Akemi's eyes looked to Namonai who was just to the side of her a bit, he dlook bothered as usual not getting into fight like the rest of the redemed.

"I'm coming after you next, so I'd run."

Akemi laughed as she stanced with her zanpactou in her right palm ready to fight.

"Ready or not here I come."

Charging right at him she swung her zanpactou down but then flash stepped behind him and then continued swinging her sword onto him. His rough espada skin didn't even leave a mark but she knew this would happen. Playing around with him, Akemi flash stepped whilst running around him, attacking at various points just to "toy" with the espada.

Phuzes observed Akemi's movements carefully, he wasn't bothered with the light strikes upon his body since his hierro* would protect him. He soon found the pattern in her movements and could accurately predict where she was going to move and strike next.
He suddenly slashed outwards, slicing a shallow cut across Akemi's cheek and hacking a small chunk of hair off. The black strands dropped slowly to the ground and fell softly upon the evergreen grass. His bamboo hat still covered his eyes, his smile still wide.
He followed up by locking blades with the girl.
"Let's make this interesting. Show me your shikai."

*Hierro - Steel Skin

Whilst in a clashing of swords with the espada, Akemi had swapped blades just before he struck at her. Holding her copy zanpactou against his zanpactou with one hand, she smirked at the espada knowing to step up her game. Keeping her other zanpactou behind her she decided to show him her shikai.

"Slaughter.. Ashura!"

The espada feel for it, as he thought the zanpactou that was against his would change instead the one behind her back formed into a scythe. Swinging her scythe round it rammed into his side just above his hip. Pulling it out, her blade of the scythe was so blood drenched from his deep wound. Putting her other zanpactou away for the minute, Akemi flash step a fair way back and then pulled back her scythe. The shadows from the trees and their own looked like they had been drained as the shadows flew amoungst the ground to her scythe. Unleashing a shadow wave of reatsui, it was so quick that the espada could take the hit defencively or try to escape but get hit still.

Phuzes grin grew into a slight chuckle as he watched the shadow wave come towards him. The chuckle elevated to a cackle is he held his sword with both hands. He lashed out at the wave as it came in range, his strength causing to divert direction across the field. Phuzes opened his mouth wide and a dark red energy whipped up at the back of his throat.

Cero!

The blast erupted from his mouth and surged forwards at Akemi. It was bigger and more powerful than the cero he had fired at Namonai.

Akemi knew that this cero was quite powerful but decided to test herself to see if she could stand it instead of escaping it. Raising her scythe she slashed it down the centre with reastui added to the cut so it could cut through anything, slicing down the middle as the cero beam got to her it split in two just missing her by an inch. As it past her she would of sighed with relief yet there was still a battle going on. Flash stepping behind him but then infront and then behind once again just to surprise him in where she was going to attack Akemi went to strike again but charged up a shadow waves at the last minute and released it down on him.

Phuzes fought back, dissipating the energy wave through to Akemi's sword. He pushed her back, sending her flying through the air. With a slight movement, Phuzes sheathed his blade and balled his hands into fists. A red and black energy enveloped around them.

Bala.

The bolts lit up the sky as they raced towards their target in the sky. Phuzes' hands were but a blur as they rapidly punched in a backwards and forwards motion. The bullet-like blasts of energy spread all around her, offering no escape. Although fairly weak, the bala could be harmful in large quantities.

Whilst in the air lightly coming down, Akemi blocked the bala with her scythe but then decided it was time for a little base ball. Holding back her scythe as she watched more Bala bullets come her way she swung her scythe like a bat as it hit the bala bullets they shot down to earth straight at Phuzes.

"Akemi does a homerun and the crowd go wild!"

She did in a commentators voice and then made crowd cheering and appluding noises. Getting ready with the next lot of bala, Akemi charged one more shadow wave before things got a bit more serious. Releasing it harshly as she batted the next lot of bala bullets she flash stepped to the floor bowing at her imaginary audience.

"Thank you, Thank you!"

Still having her guard up she was trying to piss the espada off with her messing about looking like a right nut job.

Phuzes wondered if Akemi had noticed that he wasn't on the ground any more. He had used the bala as a cover to move without being seen. He had dashed high up into the sky, further up than Akemi. He quickly held out his palms and muttered:

Ce-ro.

The ray struck down like a bolt of lightning at its target who didn't seem to know it was coming. Phuzes could only wait and see.

Whilst Akemi was bowing she did noticing something red bolting down towards her, Using her scythe as a leaping pole, Akemi flash stepped over and then launched herself up by pushing her scythe into the earth. Dragging her scythe with her as she was jumping up further in the sky she decided to use her other shikai now. Pulling out her copy blade she smirked as this zanpactou was pretty poweful

"Scatter... Senbonzakura!"

The blade of the zanpactou changed into a crimson colour and then scattered off into many different pieces of cherry blossom, there much have been at least thousands. Moving her hand towards the espada, the crimson blossom followed in control quite quickly all rushing at him. Akemi laughed but then stopped to notice how badly burned her arm was from the cero.

Dammit...

"Holy guacamole..." he muttered as the flurry of crimson petals came whirling towards him. His fists once again emanated a black and red glow, his sword was still securely sheathed by his side.

Bala.

The outbreak of red "punches" exploded against the mass of crimson, creating bright scarlet fireworks to crackle through the sky. No matter how many bala Phuzes produced, there was always more senbonzakura shards to counter them. The attacks were getting closer and closer by the second, Phuzes only had a few seconds to react.
Shooting up further into the sky, the thrust from Phuzes' legs beat the speed of the blossom. Whilst jumping higher, Phuzes still fired downwards with the bala. Eventually, there were no petals left.
"Shit, that girl's made me work up a sweat. Those two zanpakutou are troublesome." Phuzes wiped the sweatdrops from his brow and unsheathed his katana once again.
Flipping upside down in the air, Phuzes bounced off the spirit particles towards the ground like a missile. He held his sword out in front of him to aid his aerodynamic shape. The attack was sure to create a giant crater if it missed it's target from the massive amount of speed put into it.

Putting her arms out infront of her Akemi wiggled her fingers as she lowered her arms making a sign like rain falling. The crimson blossom petals reacted immediatly and swiftly soared through the sky faster towards they're target making no escape for him. At the same time, Akemi jumped down to near earth where the espada was and took her scythe up and swung it down creating a shadow wave which parted into three. The waves made a rippling noise as they was crashing further down at him. Watching the crimson blossom along with her black shadow waves about to attack him, she licked some of his blood of her scythe and had a taste.

Phuzes looked back at the waves and blossom coming towards him. He quickly changed course and zigzagged sideways just before he hit the ground. The shadow waves smashed into the earth behind him. The nearest wave just nipped his leg as he tried to dodge. A thin stream of blood trickled from the slight wound.
"Damn, I'm gonna have to release." Phuzes stopped running and landed on the grass. He brought his sword to his mouth.

Cannibalize. Syachi.

Phuzes bit down hard on the edge of the blade. The blade snapped on impact, the spirit particles from it encircled his body along with a blood orange aura as the senbonzakura blossom came closer and closer. His figure changed, three large, skeletal dorsal fins erupted from his back. The ivory coating spread across his arms, transforming his hands into what seemed to be shark heads and down to his lower back where a whale-like tail flapped out. His pure white bamboo hat floated on the wind currents over to a patch of daisies, unveiling his dark purple hair... and piercing, golden eyes.

The crimson petals now surrounded him, just about to slice his body. From beneath the canopy of the thousands of blossom, came a bright orange light. All of a sudden, the petals blew away as a pillar of orange spirit emitted from Phuzes' shark-head "hands". Phuzes suddenly disappeared and reappeared 10 metres behind Akemi. He held his right arm out towards her, smoke still billowing from its maw. His eyes glazed over her back.

Akemi smirked as she knew he was behind her but he didn't know her shikai wasn't only a offensive type but also a defensive one too. Telling from her last attack her copied shikai wouldn't be of any use against his released form. Turning around she walked forward to meet 5 meters from him, she thought to herself it was such a shame she might have to use her copy bankai because in the end he was a good worth opponent she'd love to fight again but Akemi never liked to lose. Holding out her hand the crimson cherry blossoms turned into they're normal sword form in her hand.

"Ban-Kai!"

Dropping the sword it disappeared through the earth like into water, the scenery turned black as like they was in a black wide room. All of a sudden hundreds of crimson swords appeared in rows all around them. Akemi started getting this idea of an experiment on a rat to see if he could out run and possibly escape some of her attacks. Smiling with her teeth and little fangs revealed, she put her hand up in the air and was so excited yet being really evil. Waving her hand down in front of her all the sword pointed straight at Phuzes, but Akemi was being a bit soft as she decided only for about 25 swords to go in at once.

Namonai's eyes widened suddenly at the look of Akemi's blade. I... know that.... In a rush he flash stepped behind Akemi and grasped her by the waist, then flash stepped again. In a slight dusk cloud they appeared 2000 miles away, on a mountain pasture. Namonai dropped to a knee from exhaustion. He brought himself up though, standing in front of Akemi and gasped out, " Who... are you?... That holds Senbonzakura.?[i]

Just as the sword dropped down to earth targetting Phuzes, Akemi had forgotten about the redemed HellAfter until he flash stepped her miles away. Unreleasing her bankai, Akemi sheathed her zanpactous rather annoyied. Holding her fist up she wacked him in the head one so annoyied he had spoiled her fun of their battle.

"Idiot, I was in the middle of torturing my little lab rat experiment!"

Akemi ran at a mini like hill on a mountain and jumped up to the top, she looked over at the horizon noticing he had taken her quite far away. Jumping down she was tempting wether to have his head or not for punishment, glaring at him with evil eyes.

Namonai recovered from the hit without saying anything, and began to walk away.

Standing there just watching him turn without a word or a reason, he just walked off like Akemi had disappeared.

"Tsh, Redemed."

Quite intrested in wether she should go back and continue her fight or now fight with Namonai it was a bit of a decision but seeing as Namonai was just walking away most of the time he'd be a bit boring. Akemi didn't say anything back she jus flash stepped back to where Phuzes was in that open field outside Karakura. With her zanpactou out she stood behind him leaning against he zanpactou which was stood in the ground.

"Now, Where were we?"

She said in a seductive tone jokingly with a wink whilst standing there lent on her sword.

Zumbetu sat on a branch of a near by tree. His hood was up over his head creating a light shadow over the upper part of his face. A smile spread over his face as he watched Akemi.
He rest his arms on his sheathed Zanpaukto's and sighed in deeply. he wind rushed past him lightly blowing his long coat and push his long hair back.

He then dropped down from the tree lightly and stepped forward swiftly. He was at the edge of the field and looking in.

Her pupil darted to the corner of her eye, Akemi knew he was here. He had found her, again. Putting her index finger up to Phuzes to sign to him to wait for a second, Akemi flash stepped over to the corner of the field and stood up the tree looking down at him. The wind picked up blowing Akemi's hair and ribbon back to the side, her eyes turned away to look out at the open field.

"Oii, What you smilin' at?"

Looking from Zumbetu to where he was looking, Phuzes was standing over there even though she knew he was looking at her. Akemi burst out in laughter pointing at the espada, making a joke of it all.

"Gotta crush on the espada, eh?"

Phuzes looked over at the pair of HellAfters, slightly pissed off he was being ignored. He closed his eyes, forcing his resurrecion to dematerialize into the white sword. He sheathed it and kicked high off the ground into the air.
"We'll meet again."
His figure blurred as he darted off into the horizon.

<< EXIT >>

All of a sudden Zumbetu kicked off the ground and unsheathed both his zanpauktos. As he darted up at Akemi he started to rotate in mid-air, spinning up towards the tree. He stuck his first Zanpauto out slicing the branch she stood apun, and then he swung the other zanpaukto at the girl. He stopped the zapaukto from hitting her but then he swung it around and used his arm to swing her against the trunk. He stuck both his zanpauktos in to the tree on both sides to her. He then Smiled again as he looked down to her.

"You better shut up with your over confidence and cheekiness or i rip off your head and stick it up your arse.... Got it?" He said out of curled tight lips. He then withdrew the Zanpauktos from the tree and resheathed them. He slightly and gracefully Flash stepped down from the tree and on to the other side of the field.

He then looked back, looked over to her then slowly walked in to the forest, and towards the city.

[SHINIGAMI HUNTING TIME!!]

Watching Zumbetu threaten her, she smirked simpy after he was gone. Akemi was always a really cheeky person who would get herself into trouble just by insulting the enemy and possibly sometimes her friends. When she watch him storm off for a kill, she watched him and lent on the tree bark with one arm whilst standing on what remained of the tree branch.

"Someone definatly woke up on the wrong side of the bed today."

She muttered to herself a bit loud, but not too loud enough for him to hear, Akemi couldn't decide where she wanted to go now. The wind breezed down a little bringing along a few cherry blossoms off the tree. Flicking her finger the cherry blossoms turned from a light pink into a deep crimson red to match the ribbon to her dress. The crimson cherry blossoms surrounded her then blew way in the wind to reveal that she had disappeared.

[Exited]