Dragon Meets Quincy (Liam)

She sensed the reiatsu before she heard the voice speak up, it was large, too large to have just popped up out of nowhere like that. And it's source was definitely not a hollow or shinigami, it seemed closer to that of a human if anything. Shiori turned, slowly not giving away the fact that she'd been snuck up on, nor showing any signs that she may have been surprised. She looked at the male now standing in front of her, right in her face with her one uncovered eye. Yes he'd gotten much too close without her noticing.

"And you look like someone that could catch a sexual harassment charge sneaking up on a woman like that." She stepped back once, more so to remove him from her personal bubble than anything else. "Do you always push right up on a lady after meeting her?"

Now that she'd stepped back she could see him better, taking in his features of orange hair, his visage and general description. He seemed to match the man in the reports, and the reiatsu he was giving off was definitely captain class and Quincy. She had no doubt she'd found her mark. "Or does your preference simply fall to lone shinigami that you feel wouldn't be able to touch you if they tried." It was more of a statement than a question. She could tell from the tone of his voice that he didn't take much of a liking to her, or perhaps shinigami in general. Though now it was a matter of seeing how much it took to push him off the edge.

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Well there was no denying he was a snarky one, and he definitely wasn't denying to be the one that attacked the other shinigami that was here before. In fact he actually admitted to being the culprit all on his own, safe to say he wasn't a shy one at all. He exuded confidence and some pretty dangerous reiatsu along with his annoyed words, but that had little effect on Shiori. Not to say his reiatsu was weak, from what she could feel she knew he was strong, but she wasn't the type that scared easy. He'd need to do a lot better than that to get to her.

"Well I doubt I'm the reason you're still up, you zero reasons to come looking for me, especially if you know shinigami regularly patrol the area. So I guess the real question is... why are you of bed, little boy?" 

She dropped the boy remark mostly to provoke him a little more to see how he'd react. He really did seem like a loose canon, which made it possible that he could've attacked that group of shinigami without much instigation. Though she herself hadn't been there so she couldn't say for sure. Even in this situation she was the one provoking him, though he seemed angry just at her mere presence in the area as if she didn't have to do anything but exist.

"Now I'd rather not label you a bad guy right from the jump, but when you walk around late at night creeping up on people and flexing your muscles at them..." She pushed her own reiatsu back against his at this point, "It makes it hard not to find you a little bit suspicious." 

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She didn't feel fear, she wasn't surprised. No she stared on at the quincy flexing his full strength at her. Her knees buckled slightly and she clenched her jaw, raising her own reiatsu as much as she could to take off some of the pressure. He was definitely strong, but his distrust for shinigami was probably why he kept getting into trouble constantly with them. From her point of view anyways. Not many shinigami would like to be tested and toyed with this way, especially when it was a human doing the toying. She herself didn't like it, disdain for the situation was probably the only thing he could see in her eye at the moment.

"As I said, flexing your strength on those you know can't touch you even if they tried." 

His reiatsu vanished and once again it felt like gravity was back to normal, the oppressive weight being lifted from her shoulders. "You ask why do I antagonize you, but if I recall you're the one who got all in my face at first, generally creepy for a first meeting. Not to mention you seem to have a habit of showing off your strength in situations where it isn't needed."

She raised her right hand which held her zanpakuto within it's grasp. "Not once did I draw this, nor did I even raise my reiatsu until you forced yours onto me. How did you expect me to react, bow like a dog at the master's feet?"

She watched as he stepped taking up his stance, his hands closing into tight fists. He was already to go all out, even placing what seemed to be a threat on her life. She chuckled "I have no reason to fight you, other than the fact that you attacked a fellow shinigami and that you're basically asking me to enter the ring with you right here and now." She pointed at Liam with her right index finger, he was only a couple feet back close enough that if she tried and was careful enough she could probably end even one of his strength in one blow.

"Now while I don't really care about what you did to those other shinigami, they were probably careless with the way they approached this lion before me, I am curious as to what it would feel like to fight a captain class opponent. I think I'll take you up on your invitation."

Her right index was aimed at his left eye, if he was quick enough he'd dodge or somehow block, if not well he just might lose the sight of one eye. "Hadō #4: Byakurai." The shot of lighting moved quickly from her finger tip, faster than even a bala, quickly eating up the distance between herself and the target. No matter how strong he was, his eyes were still vulnerable to her attacks.

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He moved fast, faster than she would've thought he could. Just for that second she lost track of his movements and then the Quincy was standing before her hand stretched as he crushed her kido within his palm. Shiori looked up at his face and made to move back, but wasn't quite quick enough as he caught her by the hand and then took off. She supposed she had no problem with a change of scenery, but she could travel herself and would much rather that.

"I'm quite capable of handling myself, thank you very much." She wrapped her legs around him and squeezed tightly and pressed her free hand against his face. "Hadō #33 Soukatsui." At this range, there was no way she could possibly miss. The blue flames roared to life from her hand with full intentions to burn the Quincy's face. At the very least she would be able to blind him and probably immobilize him for a second. This was her strongest offensive kido spell, if this failed she had a feeling she would need pull out the big guns. Though something about this situation had her thinking even that wouldn't be enough, but perhaps it would give her a better chance of not just completely destroyed here.

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Again, he just took it to the face again. Well then guess the gloves had to come off. Before she knew it though his other hand grasped her she saw his head tilt back and immediately tilted her own head down slightly and braced herself for the blow. He hit hard, it rocked her and she went flying.

If you don't let me out, you'll die...

Shiori went skidding across dirt, grass, rocks and trees in some landscape far outside Karakura. During one of her rolls she pushed herself up and twisted her body into a flip in order to regain control and balance.

"I know already." She drew her zanpakuto then, still sliding backwards a cloud of dust around her. She could hear him talking, then she saw the bright light glowing her eyes watched it closely waiting and timing. She saw it coming towards her and pushed off to her right watching as the blue beam blew pass her. His reiatsu was massive, and if that attack had hit her she would've been seriously injured.

"Herald the end, Seraph!"

Her own reiatsu surged, her body covered in a crimson glow as it grew. Her sword didn't change in size or form, the only difference was the kanji appearing on it's blade meaning Apocalypse. By this point the invisible poison gas that she exuded when in her shikai would begin to spread over the area at bala speed. Perhaps it was a good thing he took her out of the town, not that she would've used this release there. At least not within range of the citizens.

About time.

Will you be quiet for a second or be helpful, she snapped back in her mind.

Her head was aching and it was bleeding, She was lucky he didn't crack her skull open. She closed her eyes and focused on her forehead, "Keikatsu." She said it quietly and held a glowing hand to her forehead, healing the wound for the most part. The headache was gone too. Now she needed to watch herself.

She held the same hand in, her left, and the same blue flame began glowing again. "Hadō #33 Sōkatsui," and they fired in Liam's direction again. Chances are he wouldn't dodge or just deflect it since he knew it couldn't do him harm, but that was of no concern to Shiori she just needed to hide herself from his line of sight for a moment. The blast force from the kido would also cause her poison to spread around more, though by now it would have probably covered everywhere within fifty meters.

She entered a step as the flames roared in Liam's direction hiding the sound of her shunpo and hopefully her movements as well. She exited her step about fifteen meters away from Liam in the air behind his left shoulder, at which point she lashed out with her zanpakuto, the blade acting like a whip all of a sudden. She was trying to ensnare him around his neck with the blade, surely at least her shikai could scratch him, right?

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Yep, just as she expected he took it all to the face, she had to admit for a living being he was one tough bastard. He didn't even flinch as her zanpakuto wrapped around his neck, and she could see why. It wouldn't cut into him, or more like it couldn't. Who was this guy? As soon as he launched in her direction she wasted no time pointing the hilt of weapon in his direction, speaking at the same time.

"Bakudo #39 Enkosen." The golden arch would protrude from the hilt of her zanpakuto, stopping the Quincy from grasping her sword. The blade wrapped around his neck released and retracted as she disappeared with a quick shunpo narrowly dodging the kick he launched at her. By now the gas secreted by her shikai would have covered it's range of 50m in every direction. Not that it mattered since he charged right into anyways. Now would be the time where she chose to activate her poison. If she couldn't take him down from the outside, then why don't we see just how strong his insides were.

"We're just getting started, what's the rush."

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She'd managed to put some distance between them, but only for what seemed like a moment. It wasn't long before he was behind her again, looking like nothing at all was wrong with him. Her eyes narrowed she refused herself to be totally powerless before this man. Her body went rigid, she couldn't move and he was gloating. She watched him, keeping her emotions from surfacing. Her eye and features remained calm and steady.

"Well to be honest, I feel lazy, but it has been rather peaceful lately so I haven't been getting much chance to exercise much. It's been real political up there lately." At this point she was referring to her current transfer to the Kidoshu and her even more recent promotion. Not that Liam here would have any idea what she meant. "But you don't really wanna hear about all that do you?"

She tested the bindings he casted on her. They were strong not something she could break on her own. She hated to admit it, but this guy was plenty strong. Currently her poison seemed to have no effect on him. Well then in that case she focused a tad more raising the potency of the airborne killer. She suspected he wasn't quite aware of it's presence yet, but it was rather his natural defences that were currently protecting him. She was actually impressed.

"But tell me, how does a guy like you stay off the map for so long?"

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Ah well it seemed he wasn't completely impervious. Blood had begun to leak from the corner of his lips, clearly he had let his guard down somewhat. However would he be back on guard now, or simply think of this as naught but a slight tap on the shoulder. A tickle if you will. Her eye watched him intently, wondering what it was that he was thinking currently, which decision he would make, that greatly impacted her current plan. 

With a burst of reishi he rid his fingers of the blood that he'd wiped from his lips. Around the same time she felt her bindings slacken. Yes it seemed he'd chosen to remain off guard, good that would make this somewhat easier.

So, ready Seraph? she said internally to her spirit.

Always. Came the simple reply.

Shiori began charging her reiatsu as the bindings were freed. Her zanpakuto's blade now glowing a deep crimson red. At that moment Jester appeared above, his movements fast, but she'd already seen him use his speed a few times, if she wasn't fast enough to keep up she just needed to act ahead of him. And where else would he have went in this instance besides for her and with technique she was about to unleash, the direction he came from didn't matter. As he dropped his axe kick, she swung her glowing blade up to meet it. The reiatsu built up in her sword would explode from the blade as she swung her zanpakuto. Cutting through the air, already forming a vacuum going out ten meters, not that the Quincy would be able to tell.

She was rather hoping he would assume he could take this attack, then she'd get a chance to land not one, but perhaps even two blows on this pompous ass. 

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She tried, she really did, but he seemed to have the upper hand in everything. Strength, speed, defence. No matter what she did she just couldn't break through, not even a little scratch she could leave on him. She thought things would be different when she unleashed the strongest move she currently held within her arsenal, but even that was met with a resistance that proved her efforts futile. Her sword clashed with his foot, and where she expected to see it cleave through she instead watched as little by little he pushed her back before eventually her blade was sent flying downwards to ground and his heel came crashing down hard on her right shoulder.

I do believe we may be in pretty deep water here, though if you wish to continue I will help as much as I possibly can.

Shiori didn't answer her spirit immediately, her breathing was ragged, her right arm fell limp to her side and her eye remained ever watchful of the Quincy before her. She knew when she was beat, she had no problem admitting her defeat to herself, though she didn't quite feel like giving this guy the pleasure of hearing her say it out loud.

I do agree with you Seraph, it would be a tad bit foolish to remain her when we clearly can't damage him.

Escape would be her best option, but she doubted he'd just allow her to open a senkaimon and leave. Even if she could doing so right in front of him wouldn't be the smartest move either. She would basically be opening the door to her home for the wolf, and that was not acceptable. She tried shifting her right arm and inhaled sharply as pain shot through her shoulder. Yeah it was definitely broken. She wasn't quite sure how to get out of this pinch but she wasn't going down without a fight.

She took up the best stance she could holding her zanpakuto in her left hand only and stared down the Quincy "Hmm, so there was someone like you walking around down here and no one heard about it until recently. How'd you manage to stay hidden for so long?"

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