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No One Stands On the Sky: An Aizen Quest (Bleach) (DEAD)

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CH 2-4 Maximum Spider
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    • You don't say anything to the man. It's not like you have any thing that would allow you to make a good first impression. Who knows what that man has seen in his centuries of service. Besides you have someone else to show off to right now.

    "Alright, I accept the challenge, Kenta-san." You calmly state, though you have to raise your voice to make sure he notices as he's hemming and hawing with the rest of the class. He gets out a single syllable of "Wh-" before you're out of hearing distance.

    Despite the thin spiritual atmosphere of the real world, you find it far easier to flash step on account of your altitude. Without the hassle of the ground being under your feet, you are able to focus solely on rocketing through the sky and maximizing your horizontal velocity via venting reishi.. The ground draws closer and closer as you approach your destination: the gulf of a sprawling canyon. You touchdown hard in dried out river bed and go careening foward. You slam your hand down to brake yourself and come to a halt a few yards away.

    Besides a burning pain in your left hand, this has to be one of the most pleasant sprints you've done yet. If only you could fly then you would never have to worry about dealing with footwork ever again.

    A chittering noise interrupts your thoughts. You look up and see something black dart past and behind a boulder. Drawing your sword, you feel an odd wetness in your hand and glance down to see the hilt is coated in blood. Oh, oh well.

    Kenta lands besides you panting. Apparently he elected for the more subtle approach of not shooting at the finish line in a straight line, though you doubt that would have changed things. "What the hell was that?" he huffs in disdain.

    "Winning," You answer coolly. Though with the sun overhead that's liable to change shortly. Is it even hotter down here on the ground?... No, that can't be right.

    "You sm- GAH" Kenta is interrupted as a white mass slams into him and sends him tumbling back. You look back in the direction of the attack. A black orb, supported by 8 spindly legs, charges at you. Adorning it is a simple mask with two holes for eyes and a half oval for what appears to be a smile. From it's mouth shoots another white glob and you leap out of the way up towards the sky. Glancing aside, you see Kenta bound to the ground by a white viscous putty, and he desperate wiggles to break free. The orb looks up and shoots another at you forcing you to halt your vertical momentum and flash step backwards.

    "Bah, of course they'd give us this one today," Seinosuke jogs briskly up to you. The dummy begins sprinting backwards and leaps into a field of rocks. "Everyone I've talked to says this one's the absolute worst," He adds.

    "When you said puppet-ed by kido, I thought it would just walk back and forth," You say. How do you even animate something like this to perform complex behaviors?

    "Yeah, That's usually the case, but this one's special. Some savant in the second division- hold up" Seinosuke pushes you to the side gently and holds up his palm. "Bakudo Number Eight: Seki!" He shouts conjuring a blue orb from his hands. An instant later another white blob slams into it and bounces off as the orb explodes in a flash of light. A white splinter continues forward, however, and slams into Seinosuke's forehead clinging to his black hair. "Shit!" He yells.

    "Hey, now you look like the first division guy!" Aki shouts from ground. She appears to be trying to extricate Kenta using her zanpakuto. Kenta was electing to scream and writhe in terror in response.

    Seinosuke glares at her and mutters "Hopefully she'll get a makeover too." Personally, you don't hope that but keep silent. "You're doing a good job manuevering in the air, by the way. You should try taking the movement arts exam soon," Seinosuke adds.

    You hear kenta scream, and Aki leaps up besides you two. You look down and see Kenta ensnared in even more of the mysterious white substance.

    "I can cut him free, but it's gonna take a while. We ought to take care of that thing first," Aki suggests.

    "Yeah seems like it," Seinosuke concurs. "Do you have any ideas on how we should proceed, my oh-so talented kouhai?" You don't know why but your cheeks feel a tinge warmer after hearing that.

    Choose what tactics Aizen suggests:

    [] Stick to the air to keep your room for evasion open.
    [] Take to the ground to conserve stamina.
    [] Move in close while your partners use kido.
    [] Write-in (sub option write ins for the other choices are accepted as well)
     
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    Character Sheet
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    • Aizen Sosuke
    Student at Shin'o Academy. Currently trying to make friends.

    Primary Skills:
    Reiryoku Control: Student (71/100) Favored
    The Ability to pull from ones reserve of spiritual energy and affect the world with it. Some might say that this is less a primary skill and more the foundation of a Shinigami's combat ability. Aizen finds it comes naturally to them and for this reason has been placed in the accelerated class.

    Zanjutsu Competent(0/200) Favored
    The art of the blade. It is almost synonymous with Shinigami.

    Hakuda Student (0/200)
    The art of the fist. The oldest Shinigami combat art dating to the time before zanpakutos but no longer the most popular.

    Hoho Student (0/200)
    The art of movement. Aizen can leap several stories and run several times faster than Olympic athletes. He has also developed a rudimentary understanding of shunpo.

    Kido Competent (0/400)
    The second oldest of the shinigami combat arts. The ability for a shinigami to shape spiritual energy into a construct. The uses of which are too many to contain in the margins of this character sheet.

    Shikai Competent (0/400)
    [REDACTED] is a blade that [REDACTED] with the command [REDACTED]. It's ability consists of [REDACTED].

    Techniques:
    Seppa
    A shiba earth magic technique to transmute matter into sand. Very potent in close combat and you suspect you may be able to expand on it in the future.

    Iaijutsu (10/75)
    The art of unsheathing the blade and attacking in a single motion. It's effectiveness as an opening strike and counter attack directly correlate with Aizen's skill in Zanjutsu.


    List of Hado Spells (WIP)
    List of Bakudo Spells (WIP)
     
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    • [X] Stick to the air to keep your room for evasion open.
     
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    stairmaster said:
    then again did not your zanpakuto ask you to be more ambitious? But likewise would she respect a man who chases such base desires?

    "Also. all the girls will be watching," Isshin helpfully adds.

    You're reminded of your conversation of Sei. You guess that's something you should be doing, and really isn't impressing a woman what you're trying to do to achieve shikai? Haha, oh dear.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...

    *squints*
    Is Aizen trying to seduce his own soul?

    ...this is glorious

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    Isshin laughs. "Maybe I'll be scared when you can actually cast something more complicated than Sho."
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...

    Hado: 99 was immediately what came to mind. Black Coffin, I think.

    [X] Move in close while your partners use kido.

    what would Aizen like?
    to be the center of attention.
    (and to leave his useless enemy in some petty situation)

    its perfect!
     
    [X] Stick to the air to keep your room for evasion open.
     
    [X] Stick to the air to keep your room for evasion open.

    Our Zanjutsu and Hakuda are "Untrained", so going for the melee approach isn't the best.
     
    Omake XP: Rank up Kido! It's thematically appropriate.

    [X] Stick to the air to keep your room for evasion open.
     
    @stairmaster: So when does the Omake EXP get applied anyways? If we suddenly gained Student Rank Kido on the spot, that'll definitely be interesting to see. Though it would probably be simpler to wait until the training session is over.
     
    CH 2-5 Dejection and Catharsis.
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    • You've been practicing your movement arts for last two months and you aren't going to stop now.

    "Let's harry it from the air with kido until it's stunned and we can move in for the kill," You suggest. "I'll keep it's attention occupied."

    You flash step forward directly over the puppet. White globes shoot into the sky trailing you. You land on the canyon wall and sprint along it. As the projectile stop coming at you, you skid to a halt and leap back at the puppet to regain it's focus. You squint as the sheen of the simulated hollow becomes a bright red briefly before two fireballs slam into it. Then you close your eyes as the spider vanishes in an explosion and turn away as dust pelts you.

    You wipe your face of the particulate and look back. The puppet lays on the ground slumped over with its legs limp. Slowly the mask slides off and then... confetti shoots out from where it had been lobbing fluid.

    That's it?

    Seinosuke and Aki hi-five. Your shoulders slacken and you keep quiet as the instructor comes in to appraise your performance. Understandably he doesn't have much to say about your actions.

    ---

    The rest of the training session was short. The instructor took small groups outside of the barrier to administer soul burial on the newly deceased. You note that the task itself is completely skill-less but negotiating with the wayward deceased is something that requires nuance. Unfortunately you weren't much in the mood for it.

    Wiping your brow, you step out of the senkaimon back into Soul Society. You're still out of sorts after that anti-climatic combat exercise. Did you really need to be there at all? Aki and Seinosuke try to laud your skills but really-

    You stop. All the students who exited before you are standing at attention. Slowly but surely they part, marching into two separate columns facing each other. You immediately fall suit but get a glance of a figure at the other end of the roof. There stands a man with dark green messy hair and piercing emerald eyes. What truly catches your eye is the white overcoat he wears atop his shinigami robes. Recognizing what that means you immediately break off your glance and stare straight ahead. You hear Aki,standing on your left, quietly giggle.

    The air is completely still as the captain quietly says something to the fourth year instructor. His spiritual presence is like that of a serene brook and yet you easily feel like you might drown in it. Why is it then, that for all the fear you feel there is no corresponding awe?

    "You're all dismissed," The instructor proclaims. "Aizen Sosuke, the captain would like to have a word with you." You clench your first. The class remains still for a moment before departing. Seinosuke smiles and gives you a re-assuring pat on the back before leaving and Aki smiles at you.

    You stride up to the captain and stay composed despite the aura of certain doom prevailing over you. What the hell is this about?

    "Aizen Sosuke, I am Captain Tsunayashiro Tokinada of the third division. I've heard some good things about you." He smiles warmly. Shit. He turns to the instructor. "I'd like to speak to him in private, if you don't mind." The instructor nods and departs for the stairwell. He makes sure to grab Aki, who is watching from afar, by the collar and drag her away too.

    Then, it is just you and one of the strongest men in all of soul society alone on this roof, and you made a public mockery of his relative this month.

    "So you've only been here for about 3 months and they're already sending you out to the real world? And you received a four on the reiryoku examination too?" He puts his hand on your shoulder and you cringe internally. He's building you up so he can knock you down! He continues: "There's a word for that confluence of skill and talent. Do you know what it is?"

    "No sir," You respectfully bow.

    "Genius, that's what. The instructors obviously won't use it because they don't want any of the students getting a god-complex." Then why are you telling me this? "I certainly hope that doesn't happen to you. If you remain on the path of an upstanding Shinigami there's a place for you in my division." He gives you a pat on the head and walks past you to the Senkaimon.

    You're not falling for this. You know what's coming.

    Tsunayashiro Tokinada halts. "By the way," He says. "I forgot to ask you about the incident last month regarding my nephew..." He turns back to you. Here it comes. "He hasn't been giving you any problems lately, has he?"

    You're not falling for this trap. You smile and answer: "Besides getting overzealous in training, Tsunayashiro Kimiya has acted with a dignity and grace befitting of House Tsunayashiro."

    Tokinada chuckles. "Keep talking like that and you'll get far in high society. Though I bet some friends of yours would be disappointed to see that." You raise an eyebrow. He laughs once again. "Don't worry about it." He turns back and the seinkaimon opens.

    Without a word he steps in and leaves this realm.

    That's it?

    ---

    Okikiba Genshiro had never known a heat this dry in the 1500 years since he had been brought into this world. As he dashes across the verdant desert scape, he knows that he'll be dealing with sunburn for the next week. At this moment, more than anything else he envies Sasakibe Chojiro for his ability to grow a decent tan.

    Though over the last millennium, Genshiro has learned not to linger on regrets or resentment. What if's have long since lost their allure.

    The buzz of the diving hollow interrupts his thoughts. Flash-stepping to the side, he bellows "Hainawa!" and thrusts out his palm. Yellow rays of light spawn forth and jut around the bee-shaped monster and coalesce into the form of ropes wraping around it. With a grunt, Genshiro heaves and lifts the hollow into the air and over himself. The ground rumbles and cracks as he delivers a suplex.

    "I think we've done enough running for today," By his count, Okikiba Genshiro has sprinted almost forty miles away from the academy students. He unsheathes his zanpakuto. The blade is straight and the handle a simple bronze covered in wick.

    The hollow twitches and its eight arms, all extending from the center of its mass, lash out ferally. It buzzes in a deep unnatural pitch. As Genshiro raises the sword, the violence of its movements intensifies. Then he brings the blade down and the hollow is still. Genshiro sheathes the blade once more and wipes the sweat off his brow.

    He sits on a nearby rock and waits. His task has just begun.

    Stinger D is not an exceptionally strong hollow. It relies on a brute force that can easily be surmounted by a seated officer of the Gotei 13. There is no particular reason the third seat of the First Division should be out in the mojave right now collecting its bounty except for one thing: This is the fourth time it's been reported as slain. The first time the bounty was claimed was by the fifth seat of the 13th Division who promptly returned back to Seireitei to claim the reward. The second and third were two junior officers of the Ninth Division. They vanished after making the report.

    Captain Hikifune has a hypothesis for what happened and Genshiro is here to test it. He doesn't have to wait long before a tear appears in the sky and splits the heavens. An unholy cacophony of buzzing fills the desert as a dozen more bees fly into the Human World.

    Genshiro sighs. Deep down he wished that it was just some form of re-animation. Now he must test for the second hypothesis Hikifune has drafted: That there is a queen to this colony. A tightrope must be walked: the hollows must be killed but not too quickly or easily otherwise the swarm might break off before said leader commits herself. Which means no bankai (which would be perfect for this situation) and no shikai right off the bat.

    Okikiba Genshiro draws his sword again and resigns himself to a long day.

    Time to return to the fundamentals.

    ---

    Dear Sosuke

    I hope this letter finds you well. I am ecstatic to hear that your studies at the academy are going well. Training as an officer is sure to make you a worthy successor to the business.

    Unfortunately due to recent incidents, I regret to inform you I will be out of town for an undetermined period of time. Forgive me, but I will most likely not be able to see you this new years. My thoughts and prayers will be with you nonetheless.

    Best wishes
    Aizen Eishun

    You slump into your bed as you finish reading the letter. This is just not your day. You failed to make an impression on anyone this morning and now this. The comments of that captain nag at your mind too. What was he trying to warn you about?

    "Aizen-san, Shiba-san is offering to take us out for soba. Sei is coming too." Kaname says as he walks into the room. What does that last part have to do with anything?

    "No, I'm not feeling hungry this evening." You say. "I think I'm going to go to sleep early."

    Kaname pauses and stares at you. He puts his hand on your shoulder. "Before you go to bed, perhaps you should consider meditating with your blade," He turns to leave. "I'll be back in an hour."

    "Thank you, Kaname."


    ---

    "Hello, Ou-sama I heard you had a hard day," Your sword says as she hands you another cup of tea.

    "No, just uncomfortable," You sip it. "Of course you should know how unbearable the weather was since you were there too."

    She giggles and leans in. "It's actually perfect weather for me. You certainly haven't been giving me enough time in the sun lately..." She pulls up her sleeve a little and despite the dim lighting you feel your heart race a little.

    "I didn't know that it worked that way..." Do you have a weakness for purple haired women?

    "Probably not," She laughs again and pours more tea. "I wouldn't have to worry about rusting out there at the very least." You know for a fact that it doesn't work that way. "I'm upset you didn't get to use me today and I think you are too." Her smile fades and her eyes narrow.

    "I certainly can't say I got all the practice in I wanted today," Your voice is confident and yet you suddenly have trouble meeting her gaze.

    "And that's why you kept to yourself for the rest of the day, right? and came here as soon as you had free-time?"

    You shirk away.

    She continues. "Did you not have visions of cleaving that machine in two? And even before that did you not dream of wielding my power before any of your peers could achieve the same?" She leans over the table and grabs you by the head to make sure you're looking at her. "If so why don't you claim it?"

    "I... don't know how,"

    Your zanpakuto lets go and leans back. "Just look around. I've seen how your eyes seem to lose focus when you try to gaze upon the surroundings here. You must get past that" She instructs.

    "Why are you doing this? What happened to finding a reason?"

    "When you despair, all light vanishes from this world. We travel down the same path remember?" She stands up and walks behind you. "Now tell me what you see."

    Your eyes widen and the blur surrounding the gondola fades.

    You see:
    [](CANON) An endless ocean surrounding you. An enormous moon hangs in the sky casting a breath taking reflection in the water.
    [](Elemental) An endless sky surrounds you. Your gondola stands atop a massive pillar wrapped in behemoth clouds.

    You see it all and not only that you hear-

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    Aizen has learned the name of his zanpakuto and achieved shikai. Now all that's left is to prepare for the combat arts tourney in 3 months to fulfill your promise to Isshin and after you'll without a doubt be ready to graduate.

    But first how do you end up spending your holiday?

    []Shiba Isshin hears your plight and offers to take you back to the shiba household for the week.
    []Tosen Kaname is headed back to his hometown in the rukongai. You decide to tag along.
    []The 8th division vice captain has offered the the top students of your class an opportunity to spend the week in the 8th division barracks learning a bit about being a shinigami (and providing free labor). You and Yadomaru Lisa decide to take this offer.

    Second you begin training intensely for the tournament. You don't dare over specialize (Gain 600XP) but there is one area you pay special attention to and that is:

    []Zanjustsu (Automatically becomes Trained and favored)
    -[] Kaname has been a good sparring partner. You will continue to seek his aid.
    -[] You don't want to get to used to a specific opponent. You change things up by asking Yadomaru Lisa to practice with you.

    []Kido. Shiba Isshin may be the only other first year participating (as far as you know) but he's also the best in the class at kido. (Becomes favored. You're already at trained so no free rank here)

    []Hakuda (Automatically becomes trained and favored)
    -[] The shiba clan has instructed Isshin well. You have no doubt he'd be willing to share a few pointers on grappling with you.
    -[] You saw a glimpse of what Lisa could do at the bar a few months ago. You think she can teach you how to deliver similar beatings to your opponents.

    Use a plan format to spend your XP

    There is a three hour moratorium on voting.
     
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    • [X](CANON) An endless ocean surrounding you. An enormous moon hangs in the sky casting a breath taking reflection in the water.

    [X]Shiba Isshin hears your plight and offers to take you back to the shiba household for the week.

    [X]Zanjustsu (Automatically becomes Trained and favored)
    -[X] You don't want to get to used to a specific opponent. You change things up by asking Yadomaru Lisa to practice with you.

    [X] Plan You Will Know Her Name
    -[X] 600 XP on Shikai
     
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    If you choose the elemental option(No points for guessing what element it is) your offensive options become rather potent. Developing Kyoka Suigetsu is more about flexibility.

    oh also: Reiryoku is now Favored because you're Aizen and because you're probably going to be reticent to spend on such a... vanilla skill in the first place.
     
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    Sounds like a matter of who we wanna hang out with, second one following up with a favored skill

    I want to hang out with Kaname definitely
     
    [](Elemental) An endless sky surrounds you. Your gondola stands atop a massive pillar wrapped in behemoth clouds.

    No one stands on the sky.
    Title drop!
     
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