”YOU AGGRANDIZING HORSE COME ON OUT, WE’VE GOT A TRIP TO MAKE!!!
In the moment these words left his mask hidden lips, Helliodoro became deeply confused. To this Vasto Lorde, there had been ‘companions’ and ‘allies’ in the past, sure, but they never lasted. Either by their own efforts or by Helliodoro’s efforts, they would be left without even a speck of ash to remind the world of their existence. It was the dull mind of the hollow that drove others to betrayal and eventually to their demise. In the past century, Helliodoro had been effectively senseless, the already malfunctioning mind of the idiot was defunct, no memories nor thoughts ran through the brain. Still, the body moved and acted, on what? He might never know but if he stands now, something had to happen.
Perhaps his confusion derived from the possibility that his ‘ally’ would not fade away, they are stronger than all those who came before. Perhaps it was the rush of an old sensation that filled the mind of this dullard. He didn’t attempt to wrap his mind around why he is confused, he simply is and accepts it as such without a second thought. Eventually, the confusion would be washed away as the God-King speaks to the star.
”You were faster than me the last time we met, I assume that is still true? You may arrive there before me just try not to die before we’ve had our rematch. Hmmm, also, I never did get your name all those years ago.”
Those words flow and as they do, it’s as if the two horned Arrancar’s ears selectively.
”You were faster than me last time we met, I assume that is still true?” Of course he was, of course he
IS! ”Hmmm, also, I never did get your name all those years ago.” Ah of course, of course he would want to know the name of someone so glorious as Helliodoro. Staring down Maximiliano, the expression on Helliodoro’s face, while half hidden away by the bone that forms a mask, there is a clear glint of pride and joy in his eyes as he speaks. Boldly and as Loud as he can without screaming his lungs out.
Helliodoro! That’s my name!
That is all he has to say, it never occurs to him that he lacks any knowledge of the horse’s name. With that, he is done in Las Noches, just as he had previously said, they had a trip to make and as per usual, the obvious monstrosity beyond the spans of the deserts held not a shred of threat in the mind of this Vasto Lorde, simply another attraction to hunt down. Around them, the walls of Las Noches had recovered what they could in this small span of time and before Helliodoro, in the direct line between himself and the far off Kassius, is a wall, or rather, was. It was only after Maximilians departure that Helliodoro starts his own journey and without a shred of regard for both the structure he stood upon and those in his vicinity, a light once thought lost to Hueco Mundo flashes once more.
For but a moment, maybe half a second or so, Helliodoro unleashes a fraction of his Reiatsu unto the area surrounding Las Noches. Blinding. Not unlike the crimson hue that covered the skies with the arrival of Kassius’ new form, the skies flash white, the night skies momentarily taking on the day time they are so deprived of. Both the impossible heat and intense light that exudes from the star rob anyone of who looks on of their sight. The eyes in their sockets are either reduced beyond ashes and those who manage to resist this heat, instead have the inner workings of their eyes carbonize to a crisp. Incinerating. In that moment of intensity, the walls and floors that had attempted to regenerate, are once again reset to zero. Those who fail to protect themselves are left to the same fate as the fortress surrounding them. In their recovery of their sight, should they be able to, the Arrancar would find the area vacated of the star. The celestial Arrancar is physically far beyond Las Noches, but never out of sight as he lights the skies as he is destined to.
From the moment of his departure to the moment of his arrival, there is very little that runs through the Arrancar’s head and even then, what he perceives as his thoughts are simply reactions to his elevated emotions, the purest of exhilaration, preparing him from the clash to come. Nevertheless, he shouts out to himself what his body and mind feel.
”COME ON, COME ON, COME ON, COME TO ME LITTLE ONE!!!”
The God-King was correct to assume that Helliodoro retained his absurd velocity from before his evolution. Far above the sands below, the star darts at speeds beyond that of any Sonido. Through his travel, there are no physical traces of Helliodoro left, but there is evidence of his passing. As the star makes his journey over but a couple of seconds, there is no sonic boom to be heard but in its stead the sound of space collapsing and distorting around the shooting star booms throughout Las Noches. Helliodoro is no tactical genius. Helliodoro is no trained warrior. He is a beast, born from and for bloodshed. As is to be expected of Helliodoro, his approach towards this newcomer bears no strategy or even an attempt at such a thing. It is quite literally a headlong frontal assault. As is his nature, Helliodoro is the antithesis of stealth. He is to be seen. His convergence towards Kassius is a spectacle as the blinding light rages through the skies. Despite this, the chances that the monstrous freshborn Arrancar manages to react to the initial assault of the star are bleak.
Finally the moment of contact breaches the horizon. It is quite literally a head to head impact as Helliodoro launches his forehead directly towards Kassius’s face as directly as possible. With the near impossible speed backing this motion, Helliodoro acts less as a club and instead as a bullet. The initial impact alone sends a shock through the vast expanse of Hueco Mundo’s desert, the ground beneath the two Vasto Lorde turned Arrancar creaks and groans before buckling and shattering beneath the two beings to form yet another scar in the lands. Jagged pillars of rock jut outward into the skies and a plume of ivory sands expands outward from the crater, eventually coming back down like the fallout of a bomb.
As previously stated, Helliodoro would act as a bullet in this moment. Following the initial impact his body is propelled behind the body of Kassius and directly into the sands below where he would collide like a meteor only further damaging the surroundings as he neglects to correct his flight path and opts instead to eat dirt for the time being. Helliodoro is an idiot, that much is certain but he is not foolish enough to simply ignore the opponent before him. Living within that secondary impact of his for no time at all, he shoots back up, being propelled to his feet as a collective of meticulously refined jets of stark white Reiatsu pulse on and off to bring the Arrancar to his feet, staring directly at the back of this immense beast before him. As Helliodoro stares down the opposing force, waiting, the soles of his feet begin to sink into the sands as the pearly white grains vanish rapidly in contact with this Arrancar.
”Solutions, Pequeñin!”
To Helliodoro’s knowledge and ignorance, there were no others to hear his
’eloquent’ language, other than the headless brute of course. Still, he remains proud of his greeting.