God Yet Lives

*Iris quickly sonidos behind Aera and blocks the punch with his Zanpakuto.*

*Aera Sonido's forward and turns around.*

Aera: <What the hell do you think you're doing?!>

*Iris finds himself thrown across the desert while the man scratches a shallow wound on his fist, looking bored.*

<Killing you, of course. I would appreciate it if you hold still. I'm not very quick on my feet.>

*He then runs at Aera with his arms stretched back.*

*Iris flies and lands in a pile of sand a fair distance away from the other two. He gets back on his feet and rubs his head.*

Iris: <Damn, be a bit more gentle, would you?>

Noctis furled her eyebrows, "You know, we don't really have anyway of getting to anyone do we... We always need someone to make us a garganta, or senkaimon when we need to get to otherworldly help, which usually isn't an issue, but what if this stuff is bad for us?" Noct lounged a bit then let out a small hum, "Hey, we can use Ceros, right, then shouldn't we be able to use Gargantas too? Or do you think that is pushing it?"

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Sab tinged red and smiled, lacing her fingers between Aroma's. She considered leaning in for a kiss but decided against it as they were pretty much out in the open. The thought of it however, was still enough to deepen the shade of red on Sab's cheeks.

Sadly for Mortal, she has nodded off entirely.

*Euryale begins texting someone.*

"Hmm...I think I remember Gevurah using them. I didn't even think of asking Lilith about that."
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*Aroma lays her head on Sab's shoulder while Lilith just stands around looking uncomfortable.*

[This guy's strong... I have to be very careful.]

*Aera grits her teeth and Sonido's further away before releasing and casting ice spikes to burst from the sand beneath the attacker.*

*He jumps over the ice spikes. While Aera is watching him, a lithe Arrancar with braided black hair appears behind her & kicks her in the back of the head.*

Iris: <2v1? Hey, that's not fair at all.>

*Iris sonidos behind the newly arriving Arrancar and slashes at them.*

*Iris finds himself pulled away by the trunk of an elemephant, which retracts into the mask of another Arrancar.*

<3 vs. 2, actually.>

"Do you think she would know how to use them?" Noct shrugged, "Well, she knew about ceros... Anyway, point is, I'm not liking this Hell stuff. It made my shower unpleasant."

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Sab scooted a bit closer to Aroma, so that they were touching, and tilted her head so that it rested gently on Aroma's without her horns getting in the way.

Astarte glanced sidelong at Sab and Aroma again before flicking her eyes to the slumbering Mortal.
She looked as though about to say something before turning her gaze away and sitting cross-legged in the sand.

*Euryale's phone beeps & she glances at the message before doing a double-take & staring at it open-mouthed.*

"No...what? This doesn't make sense. John must have misunderstood what I was asking him. I mean...how could HE be talking to YOU? It just...doesn't make any sense. This must be a mistake."

*If & when Noctis looks at the message herself, she'll find that it's only one word long: Zalera.*
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L"Hey...aren't you guys concerned about being attacked again? Senthose isn't here, Mortal's asleep, &...that one...can't use one of her arms. Minus me, we're pretty much defenseless."

A"What about Sab & I?"

*Lilith stares at her with a blank expression.*

"Or me."

Aera: <Dammit, this time it's Arrancar? Why does this keep happening?!>

*She Sonido's into the air and opens her mouth, firing a Menos Que Cero at the second Arrancar (braided black hair).*

*Iris uses sonido to get away and up into the air, with which he quickly fires a Cero aiming straight for the elephant Arrancar.*

Astarte's face flashed with slight anger but she said nothing.

"I am pretty good at getting people out of danger," Sab said, "Besides, Mortal isn't dead, she is asleep. If something happens she can wake up."

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Noctis lets out a long sigh, "Zelara..." Instantly she started to think of ways in which she was going to have to rekill a motherfucker.

*Of course, Vera just takes to the air, & whatever Iris is trying to do doesn't work, because he's currently wrapped up in trunk. The Arrancar slams him into the ground while the fat one who had jumped before wraps his arms around Aera & bodyslams her.*
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*Sab finds herself on the ground & waking up from unconsciousness before she knows what hit her. Some jackass with an eyepatch, a bigass fork for a weapon, & long, black hair is standing over Mortal, charging a Cero on his tongue. He'd probably have already stabbed her, if Lilith wasn't tugging on his weapon with Kido chains.*
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"But I don't get it. Senthose said it was supposed to awaken hidden powers, didn't he?"

"Well, this may be stretching things, but Zelara and I fought in my mind, kind of, I think. I'm still not fully sure what happened, but the point is, perhaps instead of awakening a hidden power, it uncovered something else."

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Mortal releases, and bites the fucker's ankle, aiming to rip his foot right the fuck off, because fuck his bullshit. As Mortal bites his ankle, the dragon bites his entire upper body, aiming less to rip him in half, though that would be nice, and more to contain the cero blast.

OOC: I'd prefer you not knock out my character, and put another one in a position of danger (since she should have been woken up by either Sab getting hit, or Nnoitra making noise, or any number of things) just so you can... actually, I'm not sure why you were being a dick here. Point is, what happened is implausible, and borders on impossible given how I've already explained Mortal's level of spiritual energy perception, never said she was a heavy sleeper, and have shown quite a few times that she can be awoken easily, or just be lying down with her eyes closed (I'm sure she has done both already), and the fact that you also bypassed Astarte, and Yue doing anything during the situation.

OOC: I just didn't bother to write it from their point of view. Flashback!

*What had happened was that Nnoitra had suddenly appeared behind Mortal & took a swing at Sab & Aroma. The pair of them were surrounded by a blue pyramid, but this was easily shattered & the 2 were sent sprawling, & also stunned. Nnoitra spun his weapon to try to stab Mortal, when Lilith generated the Kido chains. Then he started charging his Cero, people started waking up, & here we are now. Of course, Nnoitra is now using his weapon to pry the dragon's mouth open, & Lilith Hollowfies.*
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"I don't get it. So it's, what, bringing back memories?"

Astarte hit Nnoitora in the side of the head with a Balla. She wore a puzzled expression, not sure of how this brute had managed to sneak up on them.

"I don't know, if it is, they are some weird memories... of things that haven't happened."

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Mortal bites down harder, and charges her own cero, scrambling out of the way so she doesn't hurt herself by accident when it goes off.

*Once Nnoitra shakes free of the dragon, he rolls & tosses his weapon at Mortal, firing the Cero at Astarte.*

L"Who is this freak?"
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E"Like what?"

Astarte avoided the Cero and fired another Balla for his face.