A test in Strength

[Senroku]

The following is a match between Kenichi Takeshi and Letum, Primera Espada.

The battlefield is a simple street within Rukongai, surrounded by other battles between shinigami and hollow alike. The victor, if it is Kenichi, will be awarded 7 statistic points. If the victor is Letum, he will be awarded 5 statistic points.

Letum will post first, then Ken, and so on. The match is not too the death, but to the first unconscious.

I will be ruling the match.

Good luck.

[Necesse Letum]

Letum couldn't believe this. They actually had to do something. It had been easy going for a while there, then all of a sudden he has some arrancar banging on his door, telling him an invasion is about to take place. Why now of all times, he'd never know. Aizen was a sneaky bastard, and didn't even let his own Espada in on his schemes. Not that many of them would be able to interpret his crazy ideas as plans, anyway.

When they had finally managed to finalize what seemed to be a hastily thrown together battle plan, they had sent the barely organized arrancar through the gargantas and straight into Rukongai. Letum had to admit though that attacking them out of the blue like this was a good plan, and they would be able to do some major damage this way.

Letum had no doubts that the Shinigami would survive this first assault. The soul-reapers were just too damn stubborn to lay down and die from a surprise attack, no matter how many arrancar were thrown at them. Sometimes it managed to piss him off, especially when a shinigami had to keep fighting no matter how close to death they were.

As he stepped from the garganta onto the street of the Rukongai, he noticed around twenty shinigami standing around him, attracted like moths to a flame by the sound. He disapeared for only a second, reappearing on the other side of the street. The twenty shinigami fell to the ground dead, their heads seperated from their bodies.

Letum could already feel the approach of more shinigami, but they were intercepted by the arrancar pouring in from Garganta's all around the Rukongai. Hell, maybe he was wrong and they actually would be able to take out the Rukongai and Seireitei and end the shinigami for the rest of time. Then he could just sleep and love all the beautiful arrancar women for the rest of time, and eventually find and kill the one creature he despised.

His thoughts were interupted by another reiatsu signiture, this one stronger than that of fodder. The signature was unimpeded by the Arrancar army's own fodder, showing that whoever this shinigami was had some semblance of skill. Maybe he would get a challenge, instead of these heaps of garbage.

[Kenichi Takeshi]

"Oh come on, only one, you know you owe me like three for saving your ass out there!" His lips were parted as he growled. "You owe me a lot more food than this, I didn't have to save your damn life, you promised me a buffet, you bastard!" Kenichi crushed the table with one arm, going straight through as he mad e a large hole in the ground, his anger getting the better of him. "Next time i won't save your a-" Stopping as he turned his head he sighed.

"What the hell is it now?" Kenichi said to himself, looking back to the shopkeep. "He will pay the tab, maybe you can pay off that bill instead!" He grasped his jacket and placed it on beginning his running descent. "Disturbance in the field, huh, I don't know how the hell these things got in, but these bastards are getting out..." He began to see shinigami flash-stepping towards the goal, he chuckled. "Running is better..."

He began to leap towards the roofs of the path and smirked as he reached full speed. "Whats the deal with these things, what are these energy signatures?!" Kenichi asked a close-by shinigami, as he shrugged, Kenichi sighed. "just my luck, the bastards aren't even known..." As Kenichi reached the Roukonagi, he gasped. "Woah..." The battles left and right, he looked back and forth and weaved through the amount of dead bodies, the arrancars winning the battles so far. "Oh shit... this isn't good."

Kenichi watched as they began to fly towards him, his fists clenched as his eyes glowed bright red, his spiritual release of pressure beginning to tear through the air(which led to the sensing of his spiritual pressure). "You bastards picked the wrong one to attack." He said with his fist moving at such speed he began to weave through the enemies with just one blow taking them down and busting through their iron skin, his attacks beating the weaker ones.

"Where the hell is the leader..." Kenichi began to run once more, killing and destroying arrancar types along the way, with his fists alone, moving forward. "Hm, this spiritual pressure is intense the closer I get to it, meaning he must be it!" Kenichi dug his foot to the ground, with a great amount of power, he leaped breaking the ground from underneath himself, a leap great enough to see the Roukonagi in its entirety. "Hm, that's the one..." Kenichi twisted his body and placed spiritual particles into his feet, pushing off the air as if a platform, he began to spiral towards the man.

"HA!" Kenichi said, he made a deep crater underneath the ground, his body standing straight as he leaped from the ground, he watched the Espada and smirked. "Arrancar are so inevitably cowardly, sneak attacking is for cowards and idiots..." He stood straight, smirking as he watched him. "I'm your opponent now... so lets get this over with." Kenichi cracked his fists, and began to stretch his legs slowly breathing outward.

"First, what is your name?" Kenichi said smiling.

[Necesse Letum]

Letum looked upon his new opponent in boredom. The reiatsu wasn't as strong as he suspected it would be, but it was much stronger than those he felt around him. Probably a high-seated officer or fuku-taicho. Better than all this other fodder, he guessed.

The man did have some power though, evidenced by the large crater that had been left from his impact with the ground. Enough to entertain Letum for the moment, anyway. He did seem a little small for Letum's taste though. He liked his opponents bigger, since they were easier to hit. But he would just have to deal with it.

"Cowardly?" Letum said, his voice the epitome of bored, "Why, shinigami, this isn't a sneak attack." A small smirk, almost unseen through his bored facade, graced his lips. "It's a surprise attack. There is a difference. I wouldn't expect a shinigami to know that though. Living your nice, cushy lives. Your very feet being worshiped by the masses." The smirk dropped from his face, being replaced by what seemed to be a bored scowl. "Oh, no, I wouldn't expect you to understand at all."

First the shinigami insults him, then he ask for his name? Letum couldn't help but think of how absolutely rude this man was. Where had manners gone? You do the exchanging of names, THEN you start with the insults. That was how it had worked for as long as he could remember, even in his hollow years. He hadn't expected it to change so much now.

"My name?" The smirk from before returned, this time more prominent, "I thought it was polite to give your name first before asking for others? Has this tradition changed?" He shifted the large scythe that rested on his shoulder, the white hilt a stark contrast to the obisidian blade and the few black wrappings. The time for introductions was almost over. "They call me..." He raised his hand, a red cero appearing quickly, quicker than most arrancar or hollows, but not nearly as fast as a bala.

"Letum." The cero blasted from his hand, shrouding everything around it in red, making it look like everything had been covered in blood. A premonition of the end of the day.

[Kenichi Takeshi]

Kenichi released a chuckle from his lips and watched the man. "Seriously, shinigami lives aren't that cushy, my life has never been cushy..." Kenichi placed his arms in a cross and sighed. "In the waking world of Shinigami fighting to survive in a world full of monsters isn't cushy, especially when it comes from the bastards that kill innocent lives in order to take over the Soul Society, and the world..." He began stretching his arms once more.

"Hm..." Kenichi began to hear the words of his name in one instance and then the red flash of light releasing from his hands the other, a huge blast came forward, heads turning into the direction of such a blast with a wide arc. Smoke released from the mountains of vaporized and gone materials around the area. "Shit...." Kenichi said standing tall watching them man, his palm outward, his clothes missing. "I actually had to block that..."

Kenichi stood with his shirt ripped and messed up, his clothes were tattered after such a blast, his eyes watched forward. "That wasn't even your most powerful was it, you bastard..." He pulled his hand back and then nodded. "Testing out my strength, isn't that so nice of you..." Kenichi ran forward, holding his fist back as he leaped and pushed his fist forward, quickly changing course as his leg came outward going towards the neck of the espada.

Kenichi landed on the ground behind him, lifting his foot to the head of the Espada bastard, placing a lot of power within such a kick. "HA!" Kenichi exclaimed as he attacked the Espada with ferocious intent of his kick. Spinning once more his other leg went into the air going downward to his head. "Take this!!!"

[Necesse Letum]

Not cushy? This shinigami was young, he could already tell, and didn't know much of the horrors of Hueco Mundo. Nothing here could possibly compare to the horrors of that endless desert. He had lived long enough to know how these shinigami lived, up in there little palace while the denizens of Rukongai killed and murdered each other with no police force of any kind to keep the crime rate low. And they called hollow's monsters.

Letum wasn't surprised that this shinigami had survived his blast. He had only put a minimal amount of power into it. It was enough to probably kill any shinigami weaker than a 5th seat officer, so his guess at the man being pretty high in power was correct.

"What? No name for me? You shinigami are quite rude." The man had apparently decided he wanted to engage Letum in a battle of fist. Something Letum wasn't exactly an expert in. He dodged the first hit easily, being much faster than his opponent, and proceeded to duck under the kick that was on a collision course with his neck.

The last kick he didn't dodge, instead turning quickly and blocking it with his the blade of his scythe. The man had a lot of power in his strikes, and almost pushed him back. Letum doubted the man could do much damage to him this way, though, so he decided to taunt him into using more power, maybe even some kido the Shinigami were famous for. Not many shinigami had managed to use kido before he killed them.

"Is this really all the shinigami can offer? No wonder this attack is going so well. The only thing fighting back..." Letum jumped back, putting some distance between him and the shinigami quickly. "is TRASH!" At this point, a bala appeared quickly in his hand, and went screaming towards the shinigami, followed by two more.

Letum used a sonido, to the side of his opponent, throwing more bala with his one free hand. He then used one more sonido to appear above his opponent, charging a cero. The fast bala had almost reached their destination, and the cero had almost charged. "Lets see you block this, shinigami." He fired the cero, much bigger than the last one, and much more powerful.

[Kenichi Takeshi]

"Trash... who the fuck are you calling t-" Kenichi barely dodged the bala blast and began to dodge more of them quickly leaping in the air his body flipped over as he suddenly lost sight of the male. "Shit, forgot arrancar can rip off flash steps..." Kenichi felt his body go towards the ground after the next blast to his back, his coat having a large hole within it now. "Shit..."

Kenichi flipped on the ground and pushed backwards using his leg strength to push forward, again breaking the ground under his feet, to the arrancar at surprising speed, closing the gap as his body did a spinning rotation, pulling his fist backwards and then going forward with great might, Kenichi growled and spun forward with greater might the air from his punch creating a powerful whirlwind around his body with the rotation of his entire body.

'This guy is very quick, most people wouldn't be able to even see my blows, this guy is dodging them as if nothing..." Kenichi quickly landed on the air. "Damn, you are a fast bastard aren't you... something tells me, that you aren't even trying." Kenichi's eyes squinted into a glare, his fists clenched. "You are starting to piss me off..." Kenichi began to run once more, both his fists to his sides as he growled.

"Ha!" Beginning to release a flurry of punches pushing forward and running with this, the momentum increase as he increased the speed of his blows. He began to growl loudly, his eyes wide open his canines showing with his teeth.

[Necesse Letum]

Letum could of laughed. It seems his taunting had managed to frustrate his opponent. And an angry opponent was barely an opponent at all. When you were angry, you became rash, and when you became rash, your attacks became sloppy. And sloppy attacks were easy to dodge.

"Trying? Of course not! Trying requires work, and I'm not one for work." Many of the other arrancar who had been around since the first Espada would compare him to first Primera, Coyote Starrk. The main difference was that Letum had a great love for the beautiful women that existed, while from what he had learned, Starrk had not.

Letum let out a small chuckle at the mans growl. Apparently he wasn't one to calm himself, only driving himself further into this rage he had fallen into. Idiot. Hell, he had not doubt all these shinigami were idiots.

"Now, boy, I would calm down." Letum said this as he started block the first of the shinigami's blows. This only seemed to piss him off more. Up until this moment he had been blocking with one fist, but since the boy had increased his speed, he started using the hilt of his scythe. Letum could feel the power of the attacks increasing, but he could also see large gaps starting to open in his adversary's defense. Ones he would soon exploit.

Finally finished being on the defensive, he brought his leg up to kick the shinigami in the chest to put some room between them. He then grabbed his scythe with both hands, and brought it up to cut the man from to groin to neck. He then followed it up swiftly, turned a circle and bringing it around to bifurcate the man. Not stopping there, he turned in one more circle, letting the scythe go from one hand, charged a bala in it, and as he completed his circle, threw it at his opponent.

[Kenichi Takeshi]

Kenichi had felt his body begin to enrage itself with an explosive screaming nature as the "man" became less enticed with the usage of the fighting spirit of Kenichi. His anger had arisen and he had lost himself within the waves of swift attacks he had released from such frustration to the enemy.

Feeling the impact of the hilt, he felt the shove of the Espada's kick go into his lips grinned. "Won't be that e-" Kenichi saw the scythe screw forward to the torso of himself, coming towards the torso to cut in between him, he leaped backwards sliding on the ground as the arrancar spun his blade, almost being cut in half by such an attack his eyes were wide open as the infused "bala" scythe came forward.

He felt the power form the bala pierce into his body once more following downward as he flipped and slid once again on air, the brushing of the wind came. "This is pretty difficult, dammit, you really are the leaders of these stupid arrancar bastards." Kenichi's eyes were closed. "I guess, there is no holding back now..." Kenichi's eyes opened as he grinned.

"I rarely have to actually bring out my shikai, I like fighting without it as it's more like a crutch., but I will say I need it when I do..." Kenichi's energy began to form around him, his eyes watching the arrancar. "One warning, you may not be able to see my attacks so easily...." Kenichi's eyes then glared.

"Show the true power of your fists, Kyouko Tekken!" Kenichi's fist began to wrap with bandages slowly around his hands and fingers, a large grin was placed on his face. "Get ready!" The energy suddenly stopped, the free-flowing wraps around his forearms and with this he stood watching the arrancar once more. Kenichi began to breath in, his fist shooting forward as the follow-through released the power of a pressure punch, not seen by the naked eye.

[Necesse Letum]

"Shikai? Already? I'm flattered, truly, but that won't keep you alive." Letum was quite disappointed with mans shikai, since it looked like it took his weapon away and only gave him bandages. Of course he knew not to underestimate it, since many arrancar had died that way.

When the man struck out with his fist, Letum raised his eyebrow. What the hell just happened? It was then he could feel the condensed reiatsu coming at him fast. He dodged to the side, but he could feel the wind from the attack brush against his face.

"You were right, I couldn't see that until the last second. But trust me, that trick won't work on me." Letum thought for a second if he should release his own ressurrecion. He decided against it though. "Now, do you want to see the might of a Primera's cero?"

He didn't give the man time to answer. He raised his hand, almost like he wanted a handshake. The cero began forming there, but now you could literally feel the massive amount of reiatsu pouring into it. This attack would decimate whatever it hit, and much, much more. There was so much power pouring into in fact, that a lot of the battles below stopped to see what was happening. Many of them would not live.

"Gran Rey Cero."

The massive amount of reiatsu shot towards his opponent, a huge wave of destructive power. Letum had no doubts his opponent could easily dodge it, even without the use of the shinigami's shunpo. He merely wanted this shinigami to know the power he was trying to face head on. If the man continued to try to fight him, he was either very brave, or very stupid. If he ran, Letum wouldn't blame him. No, he would just laugh.

[Kenichi Takeshi]

Kenichi's eyes opened wide as he watched the focus and charging of the energy, knowing what would happen. "What is that attack, wait..." Kenichi looked back, and saw the entire population of the Soul Society, gasping. "Shit... If that things massive energy output is anything to go on, the people of the Roukonagi and the soldiers are in trouble!" Kenichi's fists went backwards.

"I can't stop that thing with my pressure waves... not alone with them anyway, b-but what if... I can neutralize some of its energy, enough not to..." His eyes closed as he began to wrap his head with his headband tightly, squeezing it as he breathed outward, his eyes opened once more. "Gotta protect the people... the Roukonagi and all of those innocent lives..." Kenichi growled loudly.

"You would destroy your own team, like I said!" Kenichi's fists began to whip forward at blinding speed, the blast releasing as he had began to pick up speed, releasing it with all the power he could bring outward. "I hate you, you son of a bitch!" Kenichi's fists began to release massive amounts of pressure at one point, curving them all inward to at least neutralize a good amount of the gran rey ceros power, the blast pushing Kenichi backwar, as his eyes closed, the pain of keeping up the attack going through his body.

A large scream could be heard, his eyes blood red as he growled louder pushing more power trough his fists, his body shaking as the blast finally came through, Kenichi taken back by such a blast, his body falling downward, as it went into the ground, however thanks to his strength and pressurized attacks, its power had been enough to at least half the damage, his body was smoking as it was a large crater still in the ground from the impact of such a massive attack, the shinigami laying on the ground and the arrancar also scattered, some dying from the attack although Kenichi tried his very best.

He began to slowly arise once more, smoking was his own figure his strength very low now as he, coughed. "Damn..." He said to himself, his arms exhausted from the use of such a high speed and focused attack, his eyes half open. "That bastard... that bastard..." He placed his hand to his chest. "Gotta... get up..." Kenichi began to rise once more, to his feet, his body struggling. "Dammit..." He gasped and placed his arms to his side.

"I-I'm still ready..." He gasped, after each word, his fists clenching but shaking, his body bleeding and scarred from the powerful attack.

[Necesse Letum]

Letum's eyes widened as he saw his opponent try to actually block his attack. He was surprised, very surprised, especially since the man was actually holding his attack back, but just barely. He actually wondered if the shinigami would be able to block the cero, but he was sadly disappointed.

The attack smashed through his defense, having only lost half its power. The shinigami was sent screaming down to the ground, and his Gran Ray Cero continued on it's merry way, still killing hollow-kin and shinigami alike, then finally finding it's way to the ground, causing a glorious explosion of crimson.

Letum made his way to the ground, where he had seen the shinigami fall. Surprisingly, by the time he got there, his opponent was standing. Letums feet touched the ground around ten yards from the now injured shinigami, and thats where he stood, looking at the shinigami with something akin to amusement in his half-closed eyes.

"Ready? Boy, it looks like you're half-dead. I bet you are having a hard time keeping up that pathetic shikai of yours." He moved his scythe from it's ready position in one hand back to its proper place on his shoulder. "I'm sorry to say this, but I think we should see other people." The mocking in his tone was easily detectable. He held up his hand, only this time in what looked to be a gun gesture. The red cero began forming, slowly, almost lazily.

"Goodbye. Cero."

[Senroku]

But alas, that would not be the end for Ken. A vast blast of electricity collided with the Cero as it neared the Fukutaichō, creating a huge wave of destruction over the area. Kenichi was quickly picked up and moved by a blur, which, when they stopped several yards away in an empty street, would be identified as Captain Senroku. The Taichō's own clothes were ripped and torn, and an open cut was visible upon the left side of his face.

"We'll get you fixed up." Was all he said, and then thought of the Espada that Kenichi had just been fighting against. Could it be.. The Primera, again?

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[Senroku]

Winner is Letum, Gaining 5 statistic points. Kenichi gains 3 for trying. PM me with where you want them placed.