The Sound of sirens echoed for miles as first responders maneuvered best they could through the ruined city. Police cordoned off several areas as a caravan of ambulances rushed the injured to the hospitals...those that were spared from the still unexplained disaster that has consumed it. The city was screaming in agony, bleeding from wounds carved by the antics of a single person, a being who was slave to his impulses. It was a threat invisible to the humans, an enemy to both Quincy and Soul reapers — an Arrancar named Grimaldi Uzzielortiz. He arrives within a jagged tear in space, and he doesn't come alone. Free from the confines of Hueco Mundo Grimaldi itching to showcase his power makes use of the strongest cero accessible to an Arrancar, typically one reserved to espada, a Gran Rey Cero. Banned from being released within Las Noches, Grimaldi smiles knowing no such ban exists here, letting loose the Cero mixed with his blood. The gyrating destructive blast warps the fragile space surrounding it in passing, a legion of souls snuffed out in a single moment. Grimaldi succeeds in scratching his itch for destruction...and drawing the attention of the Quincy to himself.
The smoldering flames and billowing smoke rising from the city that as of late, has become a beacon for tragedy begin to warp, growing distorted in the air. Lightning like cracks web out from a single point, no...multiple points, massive fingers reaching from beyond, extending from the pit of darkness, the gap of infinite nothingness, pulling aside the very space to make way for them, bone covered monstrous face birthed from each expanding jagged maw.
Like fragile glass, the very air begins to splinter and shatter, shards of it raining down as these massive creatures begin to tear their way into this world. Gillian (最下大虚 (ギリアン), girian; "Lowest Great Hollow"), the most common Menos class hollow. Large, lumbering, simple minded creatures coming often in droves. One might assume that they are here at the behest of Grimaldi given his position in the hierarchy between him and the unevolved Menos, however these simpletons have nothing to do with the impulsive Arrancar. Guided by instinct alone they are not easily commanded. Their purpose here has nothing to do with the Arrancar, nor is this some hidden machination of the God King currently inhabiting the World of the Living as well. Ironically the call to these hollows is one made by none other than the Quincy Empress herself, Blume Diamante. The Hollow bait scattered around the city on her command, draws the attention of the Gillian, its scent its call traversing worlds to reach them in Hueco Mundo from the Living World. Like sharks drawn to blood in the water, the Gillian are drawn to Karakura, driven by an instinctual hunger.
The earth shudders as they step out onto the ground, forcing those still on the streets to fall, buildings that were standing but damaged beginning to crumble, as several vehicles are overturned. Dwarfing all of the surrounding buildings the Gillian begin to hunt, seeking to sate the hunger whet by way of the hollow bait that had drawn them their eyes are set on the humans, most who remain blind to the towering threats, and powerless to do anything even if they could perceive them.
Enjoying the spectacle he had created, Grimaldi finds himself immediately accosted by a Quincy, the same Quincy who had taken the life of a Shinigami, it seems he intended on claiming the life of an Arrancar next. Perceiving the threat to himself, Grimaldi wastes no time releasing the constraints on his power, transforming into his released form. A battle between an Arrancar and two Quincy, dozens of Gillian flooding in...and still coming Karakura was a cup, a bowl of disaster like a cup of water threatening to overflow, certainly it couldn't get any worst.
And then it does
They feel it well before they can visually perceive it. Spiritual power bombarding and clawing at space, the air, the very minds and bodies of those present, felt by those all the way across Karakura town, distant from the current catastrophe, and coincidentally enough...several kilometers away from the Diamante Manor dozens of feet in the air.
"GYAHAHAHAHA WHAT'S THIS?!"
His reiatsu is felt before he is heard, and he is heard before his is seen. Space finds itself once again abused by those who reside in a world beyond their own, torn and ripped as easily as one may rip and tear paper. Kassius, driven by his hunger and thirst for violence and brutality has brought two of the strongest Espada in Hueco Mundo into the world of the living. What should be crisp air, is instead charred and smoke infested, contaminated from the destruction wrought by Grimaldi. Karakura Town finds itself host to two more impulsive hollow-born creatures. Gazing out into a city bathed in reds, oranges and yellows.
"THIS IS-Huh? OHOHOHOHOOO!!! WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?!"
Looping his fingers to form a ring bringing it over his right eye. The Primera turns his head, peering around 'hmming' all the while. The clash of reiatsu between Quincy and his own kind does not draw his attention, the flames from the Gran Rey Cero decimating the city also does nothing to catch the Espada's wandering eye, nor does he stop to focus on the lumbering Gillian scattered across the city.
"Ahhh...there you are!"
His slitted pupil dilates, his cheshire grin seeming to expand further as his reiatsu fluctuates with his giddiness. He turns his head towards the hulking behemoth that is the Cero Espada winking playfully at him before just like that...the Primera is gone. Having freed Kassius from his prison, the monster that had harassed the other Arrancar, those stripped of their title of Espada, now is let loose upon the world of the living, and perhaps the Quincy and Grimaldi as well. With the God King nowhere in sight, it begs to question who or what would or could stop Kassius's rampage once it began.
And then it does
They feel it well before they can visually perceive it. Spiritual power bombarding and clawing at space, the air, the very minds and bodies of those present, felt by those all the way across Karakura town, distant from the current catastrophe, and coincidentally enough...several kilometers away from the Diamante Manor dozens of feet in the air.
"GYAHAHAHAHA WHAT'S THIS?!"
His reiatsu is felt before he is heard, and he is heard before his is seen. Space finds itself once again abused by those who reside in a world beyond their own, torn and ripped as easily as one may rip and tear paper. Kassius, driven by his hunger and thirst for violence and brutality has brought two of the strongest Espada in Hueco Mundo into the world of the living. What should be crisp air, is instead charred and smoke infested, contaminated from the destruction wrought by Grimaldi. Karakura Town finds itself host to two more impulsive hollow-born creatures. Gazing out into a city bathed in reds, oranges and yellows.
"THIS IS-Huh? OHOHOHOHOOO!!! WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?!"
Looping his fingers to form a ring bringing it over his right eye. The Primera turns his head, peering around 'hmming' all the while. The clash of reiatsu between Quincy and his own kind does not draw his attention, the flames from the Gran Rey Cero decimating the city also does nothing to catch the Espada's wandering eye, nor does he stop to focus on the lumbering Gillian scattered across the city.
"Ahhh...there you are!"
His slitted pupil dilates, his cheshire grin seeming to expand further as his reiatsu fluctuates with his giddiness. He turns his head towards the hulking behemoth that is the Cero Espada winking playfully at him before just like that...the Primera is gone. Having freed Kassius from his prison, the monster that had harassed the other Arrancar, those stripped of their title of Espada, now is let loose upon the world of the living, and perhaps the Quincy and Grimaldi as well. With the God King nowhere in sight, it begs to question who or what would or could stop Kassius's rampage once it began.
Inside the protected and prestigious home of the Diamante, Blume resides spared from the destruction she has contributed to thanks to her previous order, while one of her subordinates works to sate his thirst for a challenge and by proxy, potentially save those humans that yet remain below. One can only wonder what is going through her head, what she might be thinking about. Does she regret her decision? Is she amused by what is transpiring? Or...perhaps she is indifferent to it all, her mind still upon the shinigami who had visited her when-
"Heeey, what'ya got in there?"
Appearing squatted before the Empress of the Quincy, pointing a single purple claw like nail towards her stomach...is Marcos. It would seem that whatever had drawn his attention, was coming from Blume, able to not only pick up on the unique signature but accurately locate it as well the Primera perceives himself at that location and thus, manifests there with his dual reiatsu composed self, studying the belly of the Empress. While he points at her belly his sheathed zanpakuto fixed on his lower back, the slit like pupil on the jewel embeded on its guard constantly shifting about, dilating and expanding, the other Marcos appears to be forming rings with his fingers, squinting while staring at the same thing as his counterpart. While Karakura plays host to Espada and Gillian, Blume now plays host to Marcos Loquez..the Primera Espada.
"Heeey, what'ya got in there?"
Appearing squatted before the Empress of the Quincy, pointing a single purple claw like nail towards her stomach...is Marcos. It would seem that whatever had drawn his attention, was coming from Blume, able to not only pick up on the unique signature but accurately locate it as well the Primera perceives himself at that location and thus, manifests there with his dual reiatsu composed self, studying the belly of the Empress. While he points at her belly his sheathed zanpakuto fixed on his lower back, the slit like pupil on the jewel embeded on its guard constantly shifting about, dilating and expanding, the other Marcos appears to be forming rings with his fingers, squinting while staring at the same thing as his counterpart. While Karakura plays host to Espada and Gillian, Blume now plays host to Marcos Loquez..the Primera Espada.
