The Opening Battle.

The Vizard didn't humor him with a response to that statement. He didn't agree to showing him his power either. But he would. Armond stood there as Marin released. He didn't waver even when the reiatsu blasted past him. His eyes settled on this beast before him. It was flashy, quite literally, but Armond could deal. He just smiled "Well I have nothing that gaudy...thankfully. Well I suppose I shall show you my bankai...Other things will come in due time. You'd be wise to recall what I do show you and pray that it doesn't end you..." Armond smiled and reached behind him, his hand vanishing within his coat. "Bankai..." Armond's own reiatsu flowed freely and wildly. A darkness swirled around him sprouting from his back. The darkness flowed 'round him quicker and quicker until it flew off like the wind itself.

Armond was left with a new outfit, but that same smile he held beforehand. He wears a tight white sleeveless vest. It is armored though, but the material it is made from is very flexible, which allows for him to be able to move freely. His pants are tight around his hips, causing them and the vest to look like one thing. As they move down his legs they flair out though. The right side of his pants are are black, and the left side is white. He has a piece of cloth that hangs down over his left leg, which reaches his feet. The cloth is a shade of gray. His shoes are black on the left side, and white on the right. He has on a pair of gloves as well. The gloves are incredibly soft despite their leather look. The left glove is black, and the right glove is white.

He held out his hands. "Not as energetic as your form. But, it's got its fair share of tricks..." He chuckled. One of these tricks had already begun. But it was unseen due to the dark storm clouds. Mixing in with this clouds however were others resting just above the rainclouds. Oh yes, this was the perfect weather for Raion to play.

He was right, nowhere near as flashy, but that was ok. The storm continued to rage on as the two foes and cousins stared each other.

"Defense and Offense alone is easy why don't you attack first hmm?"

Lightning struck and wind howled, it was as if the sky was acknowledging the power of these individuals amongst all the other fighting. Marin was aware that this stare down couldn't last forever one would have to make a move eventually and he was readying for whatever Armond was going to throw, his Bankai would have to come out of his outfit at some point...

Hatsu Ouso (Active)

Callo and Kallo went on to find more lower Shinigami to pacify and there wondering ran them across something unusual. There was a Shinigami fighting a fraccion and this Shinigami was augmented somehow with furry ears and a tail. No matter the appearance how ever Callo wanted to help, but as he when in Kallo stopped him.

"Wait, let's just remain in sight and come if Kueshi calls."

"What! He's right there and Kueshi's a fraccion why not just kill the freak with Delta tactic?" Callo retorted

"Callo!" said Kallo forcibly "There's something not right it's almost like there something hanging in the air about that Shinigami."

Callo balled his hand into a fist, "Could it be the death around here? There's far too much going on to make a call like that... what I sense is a Shinigami and an Arrancar fighting, there may be a little sour in the area, but that could be anything... maybe even a Bount."

Kallo sighed, "Fine, we'll wait a little for a signal and then join if we aren't told to go... Ok?"

"Sure, but let's not wait too long." Callo responded

Reyne parried the kama with her zanpakuto, making it veer off course towards Gimel, giving her only a half of a second to respond. After reyne had dodged the kama, she backed up a few feet and looked at her zanpakuto and whispered the release phrase. “Moyasu” as she said that her zan began to illuminate with extremely bright flames that looked you’d be burn at just the touch. The light from her zanpakuto created shadows which flattered her curvy body very well. “Sadly I can’t play much longer and it’s time I got serious.”

Gimel grabbed the Kama out of the air as it flew towards her. “Do you think your sword can hurt me girl?” Gimel giggled. “I’ll show you what you can do with that sword.” Gimel grinned at the way that the flames showed off Reyne’s body; then jumped into a Sonido, popping up behind and to the side of Reyne holding the Kama to her neck. “I could have your blood right now… but instead…” Gimel threw the sword towards the hole in the building where Zoushi was with her off hand and then brought her whip like blade upwards in a circle around Reyne. “Instead I will have you in my trap. Can you escape my pretty Shinigami?” Gimel licked the skin on the back of Reyne’s neck, waiting for Reyne to tense up or feel uncomfortable in the slightest. Gimel was a master of two things. First off was her speed; she was hardly matched by anybody in all of Hueco Mundo. Second off was her ability to disgust her enemies in one manner or another. She could always find the buttons to press to set them off.

The screams of Arrancar and Shinigami were heard everywhere, in every direction. The sounds of steel hitting steel clanged and clashed, and often mixed the sounds of steel cutting through flesh and bone. Kyle, and his division were doing well pushing forward cutting down all who walked in their way. Kyle had killed more than he had thought he could, it was to the point where he was covered in the blood of those he had slain. Kyle looked as if he was Ripper his other side. Kyle even felt that way. He knew he was lossing control and that there was little time to spare before he lost control. Kyle looked around trying to find some sort of thing to hold his other side. If he lost himself here there would be no telling just how far he would be willing to go. Would Ripper be able to help his division and kill the Arrancar or would he simply kill both. Kyle feared this thought mainly due to the fact Ripper would most likely kill anything he felt like killing. In a way his other side reminded him of a Vizard's Inner Hollow. Kyle respected the Vizards for their ability to control their Inner Hollows, and use them to increase their powers to new levels. It was something Kyle wanted to feel, in a way he was getting tired with a lot. He could feel more of himself fading everyday. He was starting to resent himself for always following through with all the orders given to him. He also hated waiting for orders to jump into battle when it was clear that his division were ment for the front lines. Kyle shook his head quickly waking himself up back to the world. He would have to worry about all that later for now he had to finish this battle.

After a few minutes Kyle began to cut his way towards Reyne's location. He had no idea however that she was there, and he was unaware she was fighting two Espada. The only thing Kyle knew was that there was a path to Marin in that area. As he killed two Hollows with his hands he made his way towards Reyne, though unaware of it. Once he passed through the two he came face to face with Reyne fighting two Espada. Kyle was a bit shocked. He wasn't shocked to see her fighting two, but rather at the fact she was being held back by two Espada when it was her job to aviod such battles. She also had the speed. It bothered Kyle to see her getting attacked by two. "Wow Reyne... I never thought you would have got yourself into a fight with these two?!" Kyle joked as he started to laugh. As he began to laugh he noticed one of the Espada who was in the wall stop and stare at him. She looked a bit shocked to see that Kyle had not draw his Zanpakuto. To tell the truth so was Kyle, he thought he would have been up against more. It looked like he was wrong. All it took was knowing where to step, and when to strike. "Want me to help you out Reyne?!" Kyle asked as he watched her fight. As he watched her fight he couldn't help but notice her clothing. He made every effort not care about the way she looked, but it was hard for him not to be attracted to her. Kyle quickly dismissed all thought of this and went back to watching her go through with her fight. As he waited for her reply he began to think how odd it was that he was acting like Ripper rather than himself. Kyle shook his head getting rid of such thoughts for now.

Kueshi saw Chevalier die right before his eyes. At least that is what he thought he saw. The tingling sensation on the back of his neck told him something was out of place. He could feel that some of the shards of crystal were not where they should be. That and there was the sound of metal scraping against crystal behind him. Kueshi generated a crystal the size of a dodgeball directly behind him and sent it flying back into his attacker’s stomach. Unless the man could dodge while his sword was surrounded by hard crystal which was pressing against it he would take the brute of the force which would hopefully pull him and his sword away from Kueshi. Kueshi expected to take some amount of damage, but by pulling the sword away instead of following through he was hoping for the sword to only get maybe an inch into his skin; his arm could be saved later from the frostbite. If this didn’t work Kueshi would have to get himself a new arm and tend to frostbite near major organs and arteries in his chest. Kueshi picked back up the crystals that were out of place. They were meeting resistance of some sort he knew, he didn’t know what it was though. Kueshi decided it would be a good idea to twist and pull on them to get them out of whatever this was.

Kaelos narrowed her eyes at him and was starting to get a bit annoyed from him taking her hits yet it didn’t seem as if they were actually causing damage against him. “Heh. And Valintine thought I was cocky. I am merely seeing how tough you are and if you are even worth fighting in the first place.” She turned a bit and flipped backwards from the explosion that happened from Valintine’s lightning bolt coming into contact with Shin’s Hado. She gritted her teeth a bit in silent annoyance as she knew that now this Captain was far stronger then the rest. She had a feeling that he was the Sotaicho and that Valintine basically just saved her life right then and there. She kept her eyes on Shin as Valintine appeared beside her and whispered to her softly. When she heard that her suspicions were correct, she swore within her mind a long list that would make even the most colorful outspoken people blush. She rolled her eyes at him all the same before she used Shunpo to disappear then reappear right behind Shin, aiming a kick to his lower back while she was charging up a cero within her mouth.

Tai merely smiled at him as if this was just her playing around with him. She kept her blade ready, just waiting for him to attack her once more. He was in for a nasty surprise no matter how he attacks. She watched him latch onto the building that stopped him from flying off wildly before he shot himself right at her like a bullet. She sensed rather then heard the sound of thunder coming closer to where all of these battles were taking place. “Oh no…better finish this guy off before my fear takes over.” She thought to herself as she simply moved her body higher up in the air by at least 5 feet to dodge Joe. She placed the hilt of her blade in her teeth before she aimed her palms at the dark blue ribbons that were still attached to the building. “Hado #88: Hiryugekizokushintenraiho…!” She said within her mind as from both of her palms came out a gigantic electricity blast of spiritual energy that would result in a truly enormous explosion.

'Not bad, finally demonstrating some tactical thinking skills,' Chevalier thought to himself as he noted the crystal orb forming to come to Kueshi's aid. Only problem with a move like that was that once again it wasn't going to be able to build up enough velocity to be much of a threat given the tight quarters between them. Tugging on the head of his saya he was able to drag it far enough out of it's loop to bring it up in time to intercept the oncoming projectile, the hardened material of the sheath blunting the impact enough to negate most of the force behind the attack and allow him to finish his strike. However, now that Kueshi was aware of his presence he was going to have to try a different tactic.

Finishing his stroke he activated the Shimobashira as he drew the weapon back, firing another 300 needles off this time from inside his opponent's body and thus avoiding his hierro in the process. Although even a move as potentially lethal as that one might not prove deadly to this particular opponent, it would most certainly cause enough damage to make this fight a lot easier to finish.

Once he had finished his attack he leapt back and away from his foe, landing about a dozen feet back and to the left as he removed the obnoxiously wriggling crystal shards from his arm with a sweep of his hand across the material of his coat. He was lucky the Arrancar hadn't gotten cute and broken them down, trying to burrow them into his bloodstream or something. That could have been a real problem, but thankfully this guy seemed too arrogant and hotheaded to think of such things on his own... and Chevalier sure wasn't about to go and put any ideas in his head.

Shin didn't move a muscle when Valintine intercepted his Hado before it could reach Kaelos, or when Kaelos sonido'd behind him and fired a cero while attempting to kick his lower back. Sad. That was the first word that came to mind. If he let the cero hit him, odds are it would only sting. He wasn't in the mood to take a cero so close, so Shin ducked, and watched the cero flied pass his head, "Bakudo #9. Geki" Shin released the Bakudo at Kaelos, wanting to halt her movements. Not caring if the Bakudo wored Shin attacked with a sweep kick, aiming for the leg that was still on the ground. Timing both the Bakudo and the kick at almost the same time, Shin decided to cast one more Kido spell, this time using the incantation. "Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle!. Hado #63 Raikōhō!" The Hado was fired, and this one more powerful than the one he released earlier, thanks to the incantation.

Sin wrinkled his nose in slight disgust as Valentine had so cruely attacked that shinigami. He really shouldve fought back, but obviously it was much too late now. Actually Sin enjoyed the display of Valentine's mercilessness, though he didn't kill him, Sin would have in a New York minute, get it? He cracked his neck slowly and decided to move on as Valentine did, it was finally time Sin took his pick of the litter and went to work. 

He hopped atop the buildings for awhile until he came across a nice little situation to interupt. Two captains, one male and one female, Reyne and Kyle, fighting side by side against two of Sin's comrades. He didn't much enjoy a straight jump to a captain-level opponent, but he thought he might as well be a bit daring. He pointed his finger at them as he looked from afar. "Eenie-meenie-miny-mo." His finger landed on the male captain, that was the one he wanted to seperate and take for his own. How pleasant.

He stuck out his tongue and licked all the fingers on his right hand lightly then held his hand forward with his fingers extended. A maroon ball of energy formed in his palm as he charged finally he fired his cero at the feminin looking male captain, laughing tauntingly, loud enough for them to hear.

Kueshi let out a cry of pain as he felt the inside of his shoulder freezing and making horrid crackling sounds. The muscle must have been shredded, there was nothing more he could do here. Kueshi had to get out of here fast. He opened up a garganta behind him and jumped towards it as soon as his opponent had backed away. He only hesitated from leaving right away for one reason. “What is your name?” Kueshi asked from inside the garganta, closing it slowly but holding it large enough so his face could be seen and he could see out of it. Kueshi returned from his resurreccion to his previous form, letting the crystal armor fall to the ground, as well as the crystal on the other side of the garganta fall to the ground inept and dissolve into nothing.

After giving his opponent time to respond if he was going to, Kueshi closed the garganta and found his way to the medical dock back where the Arrancar took home. He may not have died, but the Vizard he was facing taught him a lesson. Kueshi was not the strongest man out there. He wasn’t even the strongest arrancar…

Marin's new body eerily swayed in the wind. He still waited for Armond to move, what ever he was going to do it must be big for him to be so still. Though his overconfidence was returning and decided to take more preemptive measures, Marin began charging a Cero in his left hand.

Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Cero Charge 1

***

Joe began to recoil backwards, but became unstable as the ribbons were severed. The Espada sonidos off of air to below and flails a paw strike to the Vizard, ut before it lands, in a feint he used another sonido to reach his foe's left and went for an unexpected Cero charged bite as thunder sounded and lightning lit the sky.

***

Callo sighed as the fraccion fled, "He left, he took a couple of hits and left. heh, beaten by a Shinigami... and maybe a Bount somewhere."

Kallo looked at his cohort, "Don't be so hard on him. That guy's(?) skilled. Besides... Up Down Chad?"

Callo shook his head, "Dual hard fast hit Delta."

The thunder sounded as Kallo narrowed his then smiled, "Hmm, ok. I'll be the fast front."

Callo nodded and they then both used Sonido, Kallo appeared from the sonido 10 meters in front of the seemed Shinigami and began unleashing rapid fire Bala at the foe. A second later while this "Shinigami" is reacting Callo slows from sonido at a 15 degree side angle and fired a Cero at this furry eared opponent hoping to strike the androgynous person in the back while they defend.

Armond looked up. His face looked perplexed. "Do one of your men control weather or something like that?" A light snow had started to fall over the city, increasing with intensity the longer it fell. "Damn...at this rate I'll be frozen solid with what I'm wearing." He chuckled and looked back to Marin. He noticed the cero but it appeared it was charging. Armond visibly readied herself for this cero. He didn't know how big it would be or how fast. But he had to be ready. His violet eyes locked onto Marin despite the snow fall.

'Well that's surprising,' Chevalier thought to himself as he watched Kueshi flee into the protective embrace of his garganta. Obviously his survival instincts were stronger then his killer instincts, probably for the best. At least now he could theoretically move on again, "Chevalier..."

Fate had other plans however, almost simultaneously as the portal closed a new foe appeared to obstruct his path. Raining a barrage of balas down on his position as his partner attempted to catch him in a crossfire using cero. 'What is this, do I have some kind of target painted on my back today?' Rushing forward using shunpo he made a mad dash towards his first target, weaving in between the blasts quickly enough to leave a trail of lesser clones in his wake as he moved towards his goal. His last burst positioned him at the optimal striking point behind Callo, carrying him well clear of the deadly cero as he pressed his blade against the side of his target's throat, "Are you always in the habit of sneaking up on a potential opponent the second after they've finished a duel? I'd have thought someone of your apparent level would be above such things..."

It confounded Marin that the storm turned snow, but he wouldn't reveal that fact to Armond.

"Are you still just standing there? Get on with it before I make this snow razors on you skin." Marin of course was bluffing, he had no control over the snow.

Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Cero Charge 2

***

Callo smiled, "You think a blade to the jugular will scare me?" While this fact did of course make him uneasy, Callo tried not to show it and reached to grab the Shinigami's Zanpaktou. Callo's skin was pierced assuming the blade didn't move. He used this blood cut to surge a short gran ray hopping to shatter this person's Zanpaktou.

At the same time Kallo sonidoed over to a position behind the furred person preforming a round house kick to his head.

"You're pretty good, for now..."

Reyne was pissed. She was caught in Gimel's trap and being watched by Kyle, who was teasing her like he always did, just didn't help matters. Reyne ingnored the lick Gimel gave her and the remarks, she refused to be riled up by that. Reyne look around her she could be free, but it would be interesting to see Kyle's reaction if nothing else, she didn't use it often and tried to keep it secret of how well she had mastered this skill. At his remarks reyne glared at him with deadliness for his somewhat insulting remark. “oh Kyle by the way Im doing my job by killing these to, instead of letting them kill our people or getting in the way and as to your help....Hmmmm maybe when I'm done you can give me a little help, but I have this.....I think, but if I get hurt badly yes then by all means come and rescue me.” Reyne smiled at him after only moments before glaring at him.

Reyne took a deep breath there weren’t many ways she could free herself. But there was one that came to mind. If pulled off correctly would kill Gimel. Reyne took a deep breath “Shunko” and a gust of unyielding wind surrounded her body/right arm. Bolts of lighting flying out in all directions. “You think this little trap can stop me? Ha! Then you have no idea who you are fighting.” As the lighting and wind gathered around her the whip-sword broke to little pieces and a smirked crossed Reyne's face. With god like speed Reyne Thrusted her arm at Gimel's face and had the image of her brother saying “burning finger!”

Reyne's sleeves disintegrated into nothing making her top become a halter and looser around her cleavage. The next thing Gimel's head imploded from the shunko, .making her basically dead in that instant. Reyne then looked over at kyle and shunpoed over to be next to him. “Still think it was a waste of my time to take out the number one espapda?” She said with a sarcastic smile on her face. She fully didn't notice the fact that her clothing was even more skimpy then it had been before.

Yet another cocky one, but this one wasn't as cool under pressure either. His body language was giving away his nervous energy in spite of his efforts to the contrary. What surprised him though was when Callo made a move to grab for his blade, were all of this current generation of Arrancar's mentally challenged in some way? Even without the knowledge of just how cold Shinoyuki's edge currently was this guy should have known better then to attempt to grab another person's weapon. Assuming they had been paying attention at all in the last few minutes they would have known their hierro wouldn't help them much and thus they were only courting injury... or maybe that was the point?

Yanking back his blade with all the speed he could muster, he felt the weapon give slight resistance as it moved across something, but he didn't have time to check on what it was as he was more concerned with the aura he suddenly sensed behind him. Glancing over just in time to catch sight of the oncoming limb, he relaxed his body and allowed himself to roll with the force of the impact and clear of the potential cluster-fuck he just gotten himself into. He then proceeded to skid to a stop in mid-air and bring his blade across in a wide arc, activating the Shimobashira and sending three hundred icy needles back the way he'd just come in retaliation.

Kyle laughed as she began to make her move to get out of the trap the Espada had pulled on her. Kyle found it rather funny, and enjoyable, yet at the same time he felt bad for not really doing anything to help her. Yet he also knew she could handle these two Espada and get out of the trap without any trouble. After all she hadn't become the second Division's Captain for nothing. She was a deadly opponent, and she was someone you didn't want to pissoff. Yet she was someone you wanted to fight beside. Kyle hoped he would get the chance to fight beside her, he always wanted to try and see if he could keep up with her. It was something he wanted to try.

As Kyle watched Reyne preform her escape he began to smile. She was trying to push him to the point where he would get a nose bleed from her top becoming loose around her chest. Kyle was turned on by what he was seeing but he did his best not to show it. He knew that was what she would want to see. She always seemed to do something that would make him lust for her, just so she could put him down. Kyle shook his head and continued to watch her make her move. Once she was out she quickly turned around and blew the head off of the Espada. Kyle was impressed. "Looks like she won this one..." Kyle thought as she shunpo'd beside him. When she said she had killed the 1st Espada his eyes went wide for a second before returning back to normal. "Oh good for you Reyne, by the way your top looks pretty loose." Kyle pointed out as he patted her shoulderblade.

As Kyle gave her praise he quickly looked over to see another Arrancar fire a Cero towards him. Reyne hadn't yet noticed, and the Cero blast was already heading right towards him. Kyle had to make a move fast, he had only seconds to react. Kyle quickly shunpo'd away just in time to dodge the Cero. Once he was safe Kyle straightened himself. "Are you okay Reyne?" Kyle asked as he gave her a warm smile.

Uvaras arrived through a garganta and had no idea what was happening. There were lots of people and it seems there was a fight as well and still fighting. Uvaras was just standing from afar trying to observe the situation and hidden his spiritual powers. He observed and saw some Captains as well as Espadas and some of them seem to be Vizards by looking at their spiritual power. Uvaras was quite surprised for three races to meet and fight. He then saw his leader fighting in there as well which made him to wonder.

He thought strangely and wondered if he should attack them as well. He was afraid by getting into the crossfire which might kill him. He waited patiently and he was getting bored of observing and decided to join in the fight. So he then decided to launch an attack when the right moment comes and hoping that he wouldn’t be seen by the enemy though there were only two people who could were free so it was a relieve for Uvaras.

Daisuke had been sleeping for sometime as it started to snow. He felt it on his skin and it was refreshing on his skin which started to lower his fever bit by bit. Having wonder what was going on he could not move and wished he could. He coughed up some more blood and stared out into the darken clouds and then closed his purple eyes and with drew into his inner world.

Most Zanpakuto inner worlds are different and unique to the wilder and his was no exception. When he appeared inside his inner world it was the same as ever. Overgrown trees, vines, ivy and anything that can grow, over took the forgotten city of legend. He walked around as he notices Ranmyaku standing on the riverbank that ran along the forgotten city. There was not much sunlight in here but yet it was not dark at all. Twilight is what she called it. Perfect for chaos.

Daisuke walks over to her and stands at the shoreline next to her and looks at her. "I don't know how much further i can go Ranmyaku. I'm running out of options here. Do you have anything up your sleeve that can help me survive this ordeal?"He asks her as he turns and looks at her hoping she may have one option left. She does not answer him for a few minuets then looks at him. "There is one option left and in your current state it can be a double edge sword. I don't know if you want to risk doing it though."She said as she looked at him. Daisuke looked at her and smiled."It's the only thing i got left. What's the option" He asks her. She looked at him. "Channeling your spiritual pressure and using it in the form of a flare." He smiles. "let's do it."

Outside in the outer world a black aura glowed over Daisuke's body and as he began to focus on his spiritual pressure and kept on focusing on it as he waited and waited until she told to let it loose. He kept on focusing and at that moment cracks appeared on the ground which in turn caused some of the buildings to collapse on themselves due to the cracks on the ground.

Kaelos knew that she was fighting a losing battle. She knew that this Shinigami male could kill her easily. She was mainly just keeping him preoccupied while the others were busy in their own battles. Yet the cocky smirk that was on those pretty lips of hers never went away, even when she was hit by the Geki. Her whole body was glowing in a red light and she felt her muscles paralyze in place. This only lasted for a moment before she shook it off, but her leg that was still on the ground was hit by Shin’s sweep kick. She fell back and laughed as she rose up her arms to cover and protect her body from the Raikōhō. Her chuckle could be heard as she stood up from the cloud of dust that came from the blast. Her arms looked as if they were a bit sunburned. She smirked as she looked to Shin. “Heh, you are fun to play with Sotaicho. A shame you are not an Arrancar.” Kaelos dusted herself off some as she spoke. She then stretched out her limbs again.

Tai silently watched as Joe moved. She took the handle of her Zanpakuto out of her mouth and back into her hand by the time he reappeared to make a paw strike at her. She spinned her body to the right and held up her blade to hold back Joe’s mouth from biting her. “Sorry, but I don’t like hickies from a stranger, much less an Espada.” She said within his mind before a chuckle sounded after it. She raised up her free hand and pointed it straight into his opened mouth. “Hadō #91: Senjū Kōten Taihō.” She said within her own mind. She summoned several spears of light that are all fired towards the same focal point. The culminating explosion would be exceedingly devastating even more so at such a close range.

Armond smiled as Marin blathered on about doing something or becoming prey to the snowfall. He just shook his head. "Oh truly now? Then please...do show me these deadly snowflakes. For last I checked...this snowfall was my own. Darkness Falls..." As the last words fell from Armonds lips, the storm turned into a violent blizzard. It's temperatures nearing freezing, and hail falling in large clumps. It was bad. Anyone caught in here had absolutely no visibility, unless they were Armond. Armond's sight was altered a bit. He could see as if it was a light snow fall. So his vision was more than enough. "You'll first notice you cannot see right now...you might also notice you cannot sense me, yes? Welcome to Darkness Falls. Take care not to freeze to death before it's over." Armond shunpo'd ten feet behind Marin and then quickly walked to his location were he delivered a powerful roundhouse kick aimed at Marin's mid-back.

Marin was momentarily concerned when Armond wanted him to actually use the snow and was about to speak, but stopped when it was clear Armond wasn't done yet. It was sudden and swift, the snow fall suddenly became a hailing blizzard and he cringed at the blistering change. Marin had to shift his footing several times as the hail occasionally penetrated his Heirro, not enough to cause immediate injure, other than bruises, but that was only a matter of time as it was cumulative. Armond truly had power.

"Darkness Falls... the claim that you have perfectly enshrouded yourself is-" Marin stopped as he couldn't single out Armond with the Shinrei Shouchi! It was like listening for a yell in high wind, there was too much noise.

'No... I can't sense him, see him... this Bankai is-', "Ghya-" Marin's thought was broken as an kick landed in his mid-back and sent him flying and tumbling for a good five meters. The Arrancar ended his tumble in a crouch, visibly battered.

'This man is at least equal to me!' He was impressed, but now wasn't the time.

Marin lept high into the air, using sonido as needed, to reach an altitude of 20 meters. Marin had to make gaps in this shroud of Armond's. There was another option, but that was a fallback plan. He then flayed his hair out in a criss-cross of the area below and used his Hatsu X Yougeki technique, catching his Zanrei hook blade with his free hand. Now, with his hair flayed a Cero fired from each strand dragging across the area below. While the net tightened he unleashed his charging Cero as a MIRV Cero to bombard the area.

His Ceros dragged across the area hopefully making gaps in the shroud long enough to lock onto Armond, assuming he's in the revealed areas. His Charged Cero split into the maximum amount of 25 individual ones for intense saturation of the battle zone.

'I didn't expect to need such force' he thought

“May you live, but crippled my respected foe...”

Htasu Ouso (Active)
Shinrei Shouchi (Active) [Jammed]
Hatsu X Yougeki! D-1
Cero Charged 2 (As MIRV, 5 stage) D-1
*Zanrei Blade=Lvl 15

***
Joe was surprised to find that the Vizard countered, but now it was too late and with the blizzard rushing into existence he couldn't defend. He was dished an immense amount of energy internally. Now he fell waiting for the coupde' grace.

"You will fail... I will be replaced... A plus..."

***

Zoushi swiftly retrieved her weapon and assessed the situation... she attempted to hide in nearby shadow for the proper time to strike.

Valintine stood there and watched Kaelos and Shin "duke it out" He wasn't getting involved just yet. Kaelos was a Numeros, yes, but she wasn't just any numeros. Hell, most of the Espada's powers paled in comparison to her abilities. She was truly smething unique. Valintine was not getting into this fight just yet. So much information was around him. He wanted to gather it all, but he couldn't. What he could see, however, were various Shinigami, and powers. Valintine knew he'd need the information for a later date. The EXIT came out from it's dormant state. He looked around using a rapid image capture function as well as the zoom function to snap pictures of faces, haoris, and powers the Shinigami had used so far during the fight. Each image was uploaded to the EXIT's server. He didn't want any surprises next round with the Shinigami. The man Marin fought was the only exception. He doubted anyone would be fighting him but Marin himself. And he knew Marin would be damned before he forgot any tricks up his opponent's sleeves. He looked back at Shin and Kaelos in time to see Kaelos break out of the Geki. No surprise there. Valintine touched the bangle on his right wrist that was created entirely of feathers. It was a work of art to behold. It had taken apart many foes, but in this form it was near harmless. It looked harmless. None he'd met had ever suspected this bangle as being his weapon, but it was. Would this shinigami discover it's secrets? He assumed yes. When he was done taking pictures and gathering information, he ordered the EXIT to it's dormant state and continued watching the battle between Kaelos and the Sotaicho.