Rules of Nature (Hollow Attack)

The park is silent as the girl sits alone in the center of it, perched on the wheelchair she'd brought with her, eyes closed, relaxing in the silence and stillness of the natural world. She doesn't know it, but the events that are about to transpire here today could shake the world, down to its very foundations, and spark off a war that, though a long time coming, is on just the razor edge of erupting.

Right now, all she knows is that she feels peaceful and at ease here, amongst nature. She does not know of the dozens, hundreds of creatures that surround her, stalking her, edging ever closer. Of all shapes and sizes, small and large, with two legs, four legs, and some with so many legs they defy counting... All approaching, ready to spring...

Norma felt it. Hundreds of disgusting spiritual signatures. Norma knew all too well what that meant. There was a horde nearby. Norma made her way through the town she was in until she came to a park. She was sent here to check things out, and boy did things need checking.

As Norma got closer she saw a mass of black and white approaching something, all with the same goal in mind. To kill and devour. There focus was a cripple girl sitting in a wheel chair. The child had no clue what was coming her way.

As the kido corps captain Norma was a master at kido. Norma flung her right hand forward, firing a kido at the edge of one side of the horde.

"Get back ye nasty beasts of hell!"

A blast shakes her back to her senses, her eyes snapping open, wide and staring before looking out around herself and seeing... "... Oh my. That's certainly... different. There are many of them... and..." her eyes turn around again, cast at the woman. "... And what might you be?" The Hollows had scattered for the moment, but they'd be back soon, the lure of the girl was too much to ignore.

Norma was a bit shocked at first that the girl could see her. If she could see her, why did she not notice the hollows? Maybe she saw no means of escape and was simply excepting her fate? Whatever it was it left Norma quickly.

"I'm a shinigami. Now, you need to try and get away from here before these damn beast eat you!"

Norma raised her arm and fired another spell at the approaching beasts. She took the head off of one and it went through the chest of another, taking out a couple more before it fizzled out.

"There is no need for that." She sighs, eyes closing again. "My focus lapsed for a short time. I should have been more attentive to my surroundings." A small black box on the back of her chair shifts a little before suddenly folding outward, metal plates locking around her shoulders before creeping down her body, swiftly covering it in the metallic coating that constitutes her Fullbring. From there, cybernetic limbs shoot out from the metal components, forming the remainder of her body even as she lifts herself to a standing position, her hand grabbing the sword that was just now falling from the case on its way to the ground.

The sword is drawn, arcs of lightning-like reiatsu shooting out around it. "I am not as defenseless as I look." A red tint shifts over her eyes, lightning-like energy shooting over her body before she launches herself into space, her Bringer's Light sending her rocketing into he swarm of Hollows, planting her feet firmly upon the underbelly of a massive, bat-like creature before the blade sinks to the hilt in its body, her own pivoting and bringing the sword slashing around in a half-moon slice which severs one of its wings. Again and again her body flickers through the field of battle, not staying still for more than a moment as she shoots from target to target, her blade wielded like a scalpel as she cuts through her enemies.

"Well I'll be damned."

Norma was surprised by this girl. She wasn't a cripple at all. She was a Fullbringer! Norma hadn't seen one of those in years. She had assumed they'd all gone into hiding. Norma drew her sword and flew forward, slicing the throat of a giant hollow that looking like a rhinoceros. She spun in the air firing three rapid kidos, all of which hitting different hollows.

"You're strong kid. I didn't even sense your spiritual pressure until you released your powers."

Norma looked like an old lady who couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag, but she was deadly. She grabbed a human sized hollow by it's lion like mane and threw it into the chest of a large hollow, when they made contact, she blasted them.

"There are hundreds of these bastards. I haven't seen a horde this size in centuries."

The girl spins in mid-air, her body bunching up into a little ball before striking out at a hummingbird-like beast just as it swoops down to strike at her. She grunts as this launches her into the path of another, this one like some massive beetle. The blade sings again, plunging itself into the tiny hole between two plates of the creature's armor. Then she spins, bringing the sword about in a full circle, slicing the creature in half. Then she makes her way to the old woman, just in time to slice the head off of one hollow that had attempted to sneak behind her, its spiritual pressure hidden by the mass around it.

"I am not strong. My parents were strong, but not equipped. I am... adequate." Her blade sings as lightning plays across it, eyes scanning the scene around them. The hollows had begun to be wary of the pair...

"Can you think of a plan to deal with tham?"

"I've still got a few tricks up my sleeves."

Norma held her arms out, palms facing forward. What she was about to do would causing a bang, and would take out more than just a few hollow.

"Hadō #91. Senjū Kōten Taihō"


Several points of purple light formed around Norma. The elderly woman flung her hands forward and the masses of lights flew into the horde of hollows and released a massive explosion.

"And what tricks they are..." The girl continues to weave through the hollows, her blade continuing to cut through their lines...

but no matter how many fall to blade or spell, no matter how many times they strike them down, still more surge forward to take their place. Soon, the girl finds herself pushed back to the old woman's side, but upon being forced back to stand in front of her, she retreats no longer. Her steel skin turns aside the blows of the Hollows as she puts herself between them and the woman, cutting them down as quickly as they come... but running hot for so long is starting to wear her out, cybernetics or no.

"We need to fix this fast..." Suddenly, she notices something. A hollow, behind the seeming wall of such creatures rushing at them. "There. In the back... big, about twelve feet. Armored, looks like some sort of giant armadillo with three eyes. He's not even trying to get close to us... he's their leader."

Norma looked into the direction of which the young woman was talking, and there behind them was a massive hollow. He did appear to be the ring leader in all of this.

"To stop the body we must sever the head."

Norma point one chubby finger at the armored hollow, carefully taking aim. Without even moving her lips she fired a kido spell from her finger tip.

The kido roars out toward the creature, but even as it leaves her finger, the swarm rushes inward to intercept it, sacrificing themselves for the creature before rushing toward them again.

"... You seem to have upset them!" She braces herself, busying herself slicing apart the horde.

"Bloom, Tsuchi Megami!"

As soon as Norma made the command, her ebony cane sword began to glow. A swirl of green light encased it, and vanished just as quickly. When it was gone, Norma's sword was now a magnificent long sword. 

After just a few moments, everyone on this battle field would become ensnared in her trap if she so wished. Pollen flowed from her blade, as if someone had turned on a faucet.

Norma began making illusions of herself that only the hollows could see. The young woman fighting with her could still see her as she was. Norma used her much larger blade to mow down hollows that thought they were fighting her, but were only attacking ghosts of what they thought were there.

She cut them down in scores, reaping them without mercy, but no matter how many fall, more simply push forward to take their place. they formed a solid wall with their flesh, preventing the pair from escaping, and deluded or not, eventually they would manage a hit on them.

"This is... wrong. It's like they don't have any self-preservation..."

She spins, her blade slicing through a pair of hollows bearing down on her.

"... Of course! Like you said... cut off the head! Whoever you are, you can do... magic, right? Can you open me up a hole? I need to get to that big bastard in the back!"

"Of course I can!"

Norma reached into her robe and pulled out a hell butterfly. She then held her sword out and stabbed the air and turned it like a key. A larger set of doors appeared in the air before them, they slowly opened and reveled a large black hole.

"Follow that butterfly. It will lead to the beast."

The door was a surprise, as she had never seen one of its like before. She turns to the woman, a serious look on her face. "You shall explain yourself when this is over." She doesn't seem angry, simply very interested in knowing what this woman really was, and then she's gone, turning and launching herself through the senkaimon without a second thought, following the butterfly with ease until it emerges from the other side, eyes glancing about to take in the scene in front of her, where the gate had left her relative to the creature.

"Sure I will."

Norma said rolling her eyes. She watched as the girl ran into the senkaimon and it closed behind her. Norma turned her attention back onto the horde of hollows. They were still subject to her hypnosis. Norma sliced through them one by one. Slicing through their chest, skulls, and necks. Their thick black blood flew through the air.

The path opens, the girl rushing out behind the butterfly as it erupts from the other side, the armadillo-like creature below her, and now she can see it, the bulbous mass within it. She can tell that it's the one controlling them, the one that she had to kill. Its hide was steely, and her first slash goes wide, black blade skittering across its shell. She grunts as a large claw lashes out, catching her in the midriff and sending her skidding across the dirt. "nn... That's it..." She stands up, hands moving on the blade. "It's over!" She moves forward, lightning-like reiatsu flooding over her form and down to her blade, flaring a brilliant crimson as she moves past the creature, stopping on her heel before leaping back, her blade reversing to slash through the creature once more, its body splitting open like a ripe tomato, blood pouring out of it before vanishing in a rush of reiatsu, some small portion of it flowing through her as it goes. The hollows around them go still, the death of their puppet master leaving their minds empty as the girl sways, her eyes closing before she falls to the ground, the armor on her form jerkily retracting, her energy utterly drained.

Norma watched as the girl fell, her weapons returning from whence they came. There were still dozens of hollows left. If Norma was alone, she could easily kill this horde, but with an injured girl on the ground, one who had aided her, Norma wouldn't be able to do it alone. Norma placed her hand to her ear, and began to speak in a hurried voice.

"I need shinigami from districts three, nine, and twelve to report to my location asap. We have approximately three dozen hollows one hand."

Norma raced between the hollows, slicing them as she went. She made it to where the girl lay on the ground and she scooped her up in her arms before flash stepping to safety.