The Dragon of the North, and Demon Below (Closed)

[kyouzou]

There Sayurin Momoiro was again preparing to train her skills as a Shinigami. However, this time it wasn’t normal training. After acquiring permission from Lieutenant Hinamori, she was given leave to train in the Rukongai this time. The reason for this, because the potential for mass destruction in Seireitei would be too high, due to what she planned to train. Yuri now stood in her custom-made training uniform; she was in a clearing a far distance north of Seireitei. Here she stood with the book bestowed upon her by Captain Unohana. She studied each and every page intently, looking to find the best Kido to learn.

The book she was reading through was no normal Kido book; it was an advanced Kido book that held many high powered Kido. Unlike the normal books that covered Kido from level 1 to Level 60, this one covered up to level 70. Although that might not seem like much of a difference, Sayurin recognized it as the next step to her ambitions. She wanted to become stronger to help others; she wanted to become stronger to protect her squad and the rest of the Gotei 13. She trained for this purpose; it was what all her training thus far contributed to.

The wind blew at her long dark, blue hair, as she stood there. She read and read and the wind around her grew strong her. The sky grew darker as she read, but she didn’t care. Right now all that mattered to her was proving to herself that she had what it took to become stronger. When she first got the book she thought nothing of it, but now that she was far away from Seireitei and in the middle of nowhere, her true feelings came out. She was becoming engulfed by her ambitions.

“It’s beginning to rain,” She said as she looked up to the sky. It had begun to drizzle, but it was obvious the weather would only get worse. After her first statement, she no longer acknowledged the weather though. She read and read until she decided on a spell. ‘This is the one that Lieutenant Momo had mentioned, Hado 63: Raikoho.. I will learn this one.’ She began to read the descriptions, the incantation, and the directions. She absorbed the information that the book had to give. She did notice that the text was more advance and included more directions and such, but that didn’t bother her at all.

Yuri probably spent 15 minutes in that drizzle just memorizing the incantation of the spell. She covered the book with a bag she brought containing her food. Once she was prepared, she placed the book in that bag and put it behind a nearby rock. She had chosen this situation specifically because of the rock, regardless of how much destruction she created, the rock would hopefully prevent any damage to the book in the bag. She had promised to take care of the book and she planned to keep that promise.

Now that she was ready, she walked a couple feet ahead of the rock. Now standing with the rock at her back, she was prepared to start practicing the spell. She looked ahead of her, and around her, to make sure that there wasn’t anything or anyone that she might hit if she were to somehow succeed. Next she began to feel for the flow of her own Reiatsu. Knowing that this spell was far more powerful than her previous owns, she made she to devote a lot of time on exercising her Reiatsu. She spent a good 10 minutes gauging her Reiatsu and making sure it was where she wanted it. “Reinforce” She said multiple times as she used her defensive spell on each piece of clothing she wore.

“Here we go.” It was a stern look on her face, stern, but focused. She placed her small hands ahead of her, both side by side with palms facing forwards. "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!" Upon finishing the incantation, she immediately forced as much Reiatsu out of her palms. With no idea as to what happened, she next found herself lying in front of the boulder that stood behind her.

“What just happened?” She asked herself as she looked forward. Her eyes moved up to where she was standing – there she saw nothing. She looked down at her clothing to find that they were singed, even though they were spiritually enhanced to take more damage. She tried to run through her head what happened, but all she remembered was watching energy fly from her palms and then she was next to the rock. “There.. must have.. been an explosion,” She said as she picked herself up from the ground. It was the most rational reason she could think of, but also it was the one reaction she was expecting.

Sayurin wasn’t so naïve as to think that she was going to get this Kido down on the first try. Polishing off her clothes with her hands, she walked back over to where she was standing when she casted the spell. Immediately her hands flew forward, her palms were once again facing forward too. "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!" She chanted once again. Remembering what she did the first time, Sayurin tried gain control when she sent out her Reiatsu. Still, she found herself back at the rock a second later.

Picking herself up once again, she was already prepared to try it again. Again and again she tried the spell and each time she was blown back by the amount of force supplied when trying to form the attack; this went on for more than an hour. “What am I doing wrong!?” She asked herself. Normally she would ask Senmidori’s advice, but that wasn’t the case this time. She thought and thought through the feelings she had when using the ability. She hoped to find some clue as to what she was doing wrong. ‘When I finish the incantation, I force out Reiatsu. The Reiatsu moves forward and creates an explosion.’ She thought as she then turned to look at the rock. ‘I then fly back towards the rock, somehow living.’ She looked back and forth between the two destinations. It was then that the drizzling had stopped. ‘I’ll think it over while I eat.’ She thought as she turned to head back to her bag.

She had a sandwich, but while she eats she continued to analyze the situation. “The spell uses a lot of energy and I’m letting it out.” She said out loud as she thought. “I am pushing the Reiatsu outward, but that’s as far as its going.” She took a bite of her sandwich and then drank some of the tea she brought with her. “It probably needs to be pushed out further, the Reiatsu.” She reasoned with some food still in her mouth. It made sense to her; the reiatsu is being released, but it wasn’t going anywhere. With nowhere to go, the Reiatsu tried returning to her body. The Reiatsu that could not return then exploded.

After she was finished eating, Sayurin wiped her face with a napkin and cleaned up. Strangely enough, the rain began to fall again, but this time it was a bit heavier than the drizzle that came down prior to her eating.

Yuri returned to the place she had been shooting off the Kido. She flicked her hair to her back and then began to work on casting the Kido again. She said the chant just as she said before, but when it was time that she sends out her Reiatsu, she tried hard to push it forward. She was too slow; another explosion happened. The difference between this time and the previous times was that this time she saw it. The explosion occurred about two feed ahead of her, but it was stronger than before. Still, she was able to react this time and allowed for her to be blown back. After flying back a distance, she regained her footing and ran back up to where she was standing.

She knew that the stronger explosion was due to the Reiatsu having nowhere to go at all because her body was further away. All she had to do was release her Reiatsu a lot quicker. She placed her palms forward, said the incantation and soon was blown back again. Regaining her footing, she tried again. She got to the incantation and pushed on her Reiatsu more than she did previously. She continued to repeat this activity, even as the rain continued to get worse.

[kyouzou]

“Why can’t I get this right!?” She yelled as she noticed the range of the attack was far from what it should be. After an unknown amount of time, she had pushed it forward enough that the explosions didn’t push her back as much, but she knew that the execution was far from what it’s intended.

She took a moment to take in account her Reiatsu flow. She practiced trying to get the Reiatsu to her hands as quick as possible, while still having some form of control over it. First she had her Reiatsu flow to them and then she forced it all back, and then she forced the Reiatsu back to her palms. It could be compared to the ocean, at the coast. The Reiatsu rose and then fell, and in time acquired a rhythm. "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!" She chanted once more as she tried to get that flow of Reiatsu where she needed it, when and how she needed it.

Yellow energy flew forward from her a large distance, but the range didn’t seem right and there was no major explosion at the end. ‘I need to apply more energy!’ She told herself as she quickly prepared to push more energy into the next cast. She quickly placed her palms up and said the incantation once more. Lightning struck down in the background as she went to cast. The yellow energy shot from her hand and flew a distance; this time it went further, but it didn’t have the bang at the end she was expecting.

At this point, Yuri was beginning to become fatigued from the amount of shots she fired so far. She wasn’t going to give up though – she was going to get this right even if she had to drain herself to the point that she’d go unconscious. Knowing that she didn’t have much left in her, she prepared to push as much as she could in this go. "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!" She said after bringing her palms back up into to position. She now forced all the energy she could forward from her palms. A thought crossed her mind, ‘This is it! This is what I was looking for!’ She knew that she had gotten the flow of energy right. The energy made its way from her palm and she quickly began to focus on where she wanted it all do go. She felt the energy all shoot forward and quickly stated, “Hado 63: Raikoho!”

Yellow energy shot forth from her hands at such a dazzling speed. After flying a large distance, the energy exploded unleashing a large amount of energy. Once it was clear that she had successfully used the spell, Sayurin fell to her knees due to how tired she had become.

“I did it!” She said, just to herself. The rain continued to fall upon her head, soaking her long blue hair. She took a hand to push the hair out of the way of her face, but upon doing so, she unveiled a determined look. She quickly got to her feet again and tried the spell once, twice, three times. She recalled what she did the first successful time and repeated it. She wasn’t satisfied until the third successful repeat.

She would have jumped up in joy due to her achievement or used the remaining energy she had to try it once more, but suddenly she felt as if she couldn’t move. Before she could even question why, she had fallen unconscious. Before completely passing out, she felt a wind caress her body.

When she had awakened, later on, she found that not only did she no longer feel that wind, but she also no longer felt the rain either. She opened her eyes to find that she was in some canyon-like region covered in yellowish earth. Although she should have worried about where she was, the more important thing to her was to think the only force that could have brought her away from that wet field, “Thank you, Senmidori Ten…”