The Sword Is Only As Sharp As It's User (INV)

Meilin looked around as laughter filled the room. Clearly she wasn't being taken seriously, oh well it wasn't something that bothered her too much. She rather liked when her opponents underestimated her, it made her feel so much better when she decimated them completely. It seemed that her intuition was correct as to why the large group of men had surrounded her today. Well at least this would be more fun than chasing away a bunch of pathetic perverts... hopefully anyways.

She moved quickly as the large lug lunged at her. His movements seemed slow, not quite up to par with Meilin, giving her more than enough time to react as she stepped back slightly, just out of his range. The impact of his wooden sword on the ground caused a small dust cloud to form, temporarily hiding her from his vision somewhat. Meilin used this to her advantage and ran forward quickly, her left hand swinging from right to left as the wooden sword lashed out at the man's midsection. As her left hand came back towards her, her right followed up with an attack of it's own garnering another wooden sword. It slashed upwards from the ground, vertically on his left. She was aiming for the armpit, intending to immobilize that arm and hopefully put him in enough pain that he would submit.

Once more he fended off all her attacks. Maybe these regular guards weren't all talk, but then again they did have more actual battle experience than she did herself. What she knows, she knew from sparring with Akane-sama and Tatsuya-senpai. These men went out to the front lines more often than her, or at least she figured they did anyways. It was the duty of members of the squad was it not? Now, it wasn't like she'd never faced a hollow before, but most of the ones she ran into were way beneath her level. She could only imagine the others such as a menos grande. Or even an Adjuchas, or the fabled Vasto Lordes of legend. Though the greatest prize of them all was the arrancar, half hollow, half shinigami. Man she'd love to fight one of those guys just once, these regular shinigami probably got chances to go at them all the time.

So she'd take advantage of fighting them all, to see how well she ranked among them in terms of strength. She smiled then, getting more excited as things picked up, "Yosh, just like that. Keep it up," she said in reference to his energy level. Her left hand reached over her head and lowered her blade vertically on her right side, warding off his attack. With a flick of her wrist she followed the mans own technique and pushed his sword away, leaving him open to attack. Meilin took advantage of this and stepped forward and using the wooden sword in her right hand she thrusted forward towards his stomach striking him hard and sending him flying backwards.

As the man stood back , she once again took her stance seeing as she had the time to relax and prep herself. She saw no point in pressing on and wasting energy. She'd enjoy crushing him and then see if any of the others still wanted to play after. Though she did have to admit, this man was doing better than she would have expected. No, this was the least she expected from them.  "I really hope that isn't all you got." She said cockily.

"That was a lucky shot, you here."

She laughed at that, well, luck or not she still managed to land a blow and sometimes that was all that it took to stay alive. "Well lets hope Lady Faith is still on my side shall we, since you have about four more people." She shot the jibe quickly at them. Noting that they needed that many just to deal with her. She glanced around at the faces red with rage for being made a fool of. She giggled and returned her attention to the man as he stood to his feet.

As he charged at her she braced herself, waiting to see how he would attack. A thrust came, she could either step back and then forward into his guard or parry and then a simple slash. Hmm, stepping back was probably smarter, but she was stronger than him, no need to worry about losing in a test of strength. She went forward with her left towards the inside of his blade in an attempt to slap it away. To her surprise, her sword met nothing but air, then she felt a sharp pain in her right wrist.

Ouch, that actually stung a little. Her sword had been flung from her hand and she shrugged her shoulders, now grasping the remaining sword with both hands.

"To be honest, I wasn't expecting that, let's see what else you've got."

Meilin watched proudly as Akane-sama made short work of the shinigami's offence. Clearly her lessons with Tatsuya weren't for naught. She watched as blood spurted from the open wound, her attention still on the ones behind them as well, noticing that they stopped their movements, She decided to concot a plan in the mean while. "I see you've been keeping up with practice Akane-sama." She had a half smile on her face as she waited for the men to finish conversing amongst themselves.They were right about thing, they did outnumber the girls, but it was quality and quantity that mattered here.

She stood waiting for the men to approach again, knowing it would be foolish to just run at them and leaving her charge unguarded. Even if she knew Akane could handle them, it wasn't in her to let the girl just fight on her own like that. Her eyes narrowed when the men finally moved, trying to close them in with a pincer attack. It was a smart idea Meilin admitted, but none of these men were quite fast enough to trap her in like that.

"Akane-sama," was all she said, indicating that the girl may either want to stay close or move away for the time being.

The two men from the front on the ground were upon them quickly, attacking from both sides swing in towards her. Meilin struck out at both their swords at the same time, blocking their attacks. She pushed hard leaving their guard right open at which time she bent slightly at the knees and pushed off backwards. The two that had been coming from behind in the sky swung then, narrowly missing Meilin as she stepped back, instead striking the two men in front of her between the collar bone and neck rendering them unconscious.

"There I think that evens things up a bit, don't you?"