Satoru calmed greatly as the man came into view. He raised his head and his ears twitched forward. He puffed out his chest slightly and turned his ears forward to listen to the man speak.

Satoru gave a slight chuckle out.

"Not looking." He paused only for a moment to look over the man. Full mask? Odd. Was he a human like hollow or an arrancar with a full mask? Perhaps he was of a new creation? "These days though, brother turn against brother. Childhood friends kill each other for the joy of spilling blood. When it should be the shinigami and fools they protect that die...we sit back and die ourselves." Satoru looked over the man once more.

"Are you looking for a battle?"

The sands rose gently behind Kurohime Kurai as the gleaming white mask of the sandworm sprang up from the depths. Hidden by the sands, he had crawled back around to Bigwing shamefully. "Littlewing couldn't get tasty two-leg!" he whined, moving his snout closer to her ankle. Sniffs and snuffles escaped the nasal passages of the worm, sliding unbidden over the dual tracts of his throat.

"Bigwing say two-leggers so tasty! Jaga wanted to try, and two-legger bothering Bigwing and Sharptooth, so Jaga drive two-legger away, but now Jaga failed!" A pathetic sight the worm appeared, his barely visible eyes leaking tears in little rivulets down his mask. Something rumbled beneath him, his stomach angry for food. Always angry. Always hungry.

"Maybe we trap!" he whispered to her, too quiet for any but the two of them to hear.

Oddly enough while this was all going on with the action of the silly hollow's what were seeming not to get along. Then again that was a normal day for hollows, the beast watching this all unfold would hunch over a rock, his deep purple eyes watching two of them. Of course it was getting annoying just watching these two. He had seen them year's ago but just never seemed to bother with them. He was just wondering what the devil they were up to and what the other's were doing. Standing back up he would place his right foot on the rock he was hiding behind before, resting his left arm on his leg he narrowed his eyes watching them more wondering what his next step would be. He could charge in and start ripping people's faces off. But that seemed a little to unfriendly. He needed to plan out his tactics  before entering that area. He rather not make some of those hollow's upset they kinda looked strong and at this time he couldn't fight all of them at once that would be just silly.

Letting out a low growl he bent over a little more tapping his knee with his hand. His eyes would open slightly wider as he watched Kurai with great detail. What was her plan..he seen the light slightly as see seemed to be acting all stealthy. Perhaps she was going to attack that other figure. He would just need to wait and see and hopefully not get caught in it. That would be most upsetting if he was dragged into a fight with someone he wished to speak with.

She couldn't take the silence of the new arrancar. It could pop out anywhere, and was most likely an enemy. She took a step in front of Satoru, holding her hand up as the red glow of her cero intensified. Her eyes reflected the glow, making it seem like they were about to fire off their own cero. Turning her head just enough to cast a glance at the worm and wolf her lips opened to utter a command, "stand back."

And like that, Kurai let loose the cero towards the building where the rock hit and swept across the street to the opposite buildings. The blast from her cero would make her stutter a step back, trying her best to keep it under control. After the red light from the cero went out, Kurai waited for the dust to settle, her breathing heavy in anticipation and exertion.

As the cero struck and dissipated, destroying the building that the rock had connected to, Arnold made his exit, finding the grouping not worth the risk. Perhaps later, another day.


Arnold exited.

Satoru felt uncomfortable letting the small child step in front of him. He stepped closer to her, pressing his back leg against her back, letting her know he was there and softly laying his tail against the front of her stomach.

As soon as she fired the cero, Satoru laid his head on the ground and covered his head with his paws. The light was too bright for his night preferred eyes and the sound of the power crashing into the building sounded as if it were right next to Satoru, he whimpered slightly then stood up, shaking off the dust he had just collected.

He heard a noise…

Satoru lifted his head high and inhaled through his nose. He sniffed a couple of times, the dust from the explosion kept throwing him off.

There was another smell…

Satoru lowered his ears and lowered his head. ”Look, whoever you are just come out! I know there is another person here, watching us. I don’t intend to fight, neither of us do. So if that’s what you plan, you are outnumbered and should rethink your strategy.”

And just like that, the prey they had targeted vanished! It put a further hunger in the stomach of the worm. He keened an alert of his dulled irritation. How unfortunate that the two-legger had vanished! And Bigwing had loosed that blast! It was so powerful that Jaga no longer doubted for a moment her weakness. She hadn't attacked because she was no longer in need of melee gnashings and slashings and diggings like Jaga. She could fight from afar!

Well, that was even better than before. Now the tiny two-legger Bigwing could attack enemies from a distance as Jaga led them into her attacks. His bulk shivered in delight of a hypothetical hunt.

But alas! He would never know how to fly! And he was so looking forward to soaring majestically through the air along with Bigwing.

He moved to curl near her feet, encircling her and alert to any danger, like that other hollow that had shown up. The sneakbeast was watching them, but he gave no sign that he was eager to threaten either Jaga or Bigwing. Sharptooth too seemed like a friend, and Bigwing seemed to consider both Sharptooth and Jaga close.

His stomach still gurgled, however.

Watching the blast go off Kronus slightly moved back, but after seeing he was no where near the attack he moved back, narrowing his eyes noticing that two of the hollow noticed him. One was ugly as hell and the other was a dog of some sort. Both nothing that he couldn't handle. It was the other one he was more interested in. Placing his right hand on his chin he itched it softly with his claw's trying to think of a way to come off to this odd group of hollows. He meant most of them no harm, he of course wouldn't mind killing the worm and dog thing. But if they were some how friends with the one he wanted to speak with. Perhaps he could forgive them for a few hours before killing them. Moving away from the boulder he began slowly walking towards the group still having his eyes look around for cover if she attacked once again. Hearing the dog scream for who ever it was to show him self he sighed slightly. Yes..that thing was a dog..was studied as one..Someone had to train the beast.

"Silly Dog wolf thing, I was never hiding if you used your eyes more and not your nose you would of seen me on the ridge over there. I was just in the same area and thought I would come and visit with one of you..And really only one of you. You Worm and Dog wolf thing are no means to me. I'm more interested in the Cero firing banshee. It has been some time since I've laid my eye's on you. But my have you evolved, If I may ask..how did one like your self find your self in that kind of form?"

Kronus was a very blunt man and he really didn't give to shits how he came off to the other two hollow here. His main eyes were on the Arrancar. He wanted to know everything about her. Even use her if she was silly enough to listen to his silver tongue. He would follow her until she told him how to become a human state looking creature. Of course he kept a safe distance from the party. Dealing with one would be easy enough..dealing with three that would be a party he wasn't meaning to join.

The pale eyes beneath her eyes began to show her exhaustion in the form of dark circles, ruby eyes dull. She was tired. She was still young. A low gurgling rumbled from her belly, telling her it was almost time for her to eat. A pale hand rose up to her face, rubbing at the dark circles, barely registering the new presence of Kronus. When hearing that she was the one he wanted to talk to, she made the effort to lock eyes upon his person, lazily taking in the form of the hollow.

He left the arrancar girl puzzled. He looked very human-esque, but he still seemed to have the appearance of what she recently left behind. "What the hell are you." The words slipped through her lips, laced deeply with fatigue. "I don't wanna talk about how I evolved. I'm no longer an adjucha so I don't want to tell. You wanna find out how, join us. Either way, I don't give a rip if you do or not."

The small girl turned towards Sotaru, placing a hand on the worm. "I'm ready to leave this place."

The "dog wolf thing"'s eye twitched as the man spoke to him. A short rumble erupted from the dog's chest, almost as a scoff mixed with a growl.

He let Kurai speak and then slowly stepped past the small girl. "Silly ugly ass hollow thing..." The wolf said, mimicking the man. "I never said you were hiding. I just didn't want to waist the energy on searching for you. Eyes are a useless tool used by useless creatures." The wolf raised his lip in a mix of a smile and snarl.

Satoru turned back to Kurai and smiled up at her, before leaning down and nudging her hand with his nose.

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{OOC: }Was given Admin permission to skip Daggmask Jaga

Kronus looked over at kurai as she smoke he allowed him self to bow slightly before the arrancar he was slightly upset that she didn't tell him how she became a human form. But in good time he would force it from those lips of hers if he had to rip apart everyone she ever cared about. His eyes turned to the dog and he let out a low breath.

"How about you learn to keep quite dog. I shall follow you, And I don't feel like telling you what I am."

Of course the last part of his talking was towards Kurai as he joined her. The fact of the matter he was waiting as he always did. He wanted power and to get power he had to fool this creature into gaining power. It may work it may not..either way at the end of the day they would be corpse's under his talons.

Kurai turned her gaze back to Kronus, hard eyes boring into him as her lip rose in a sneer. How dare this newcomer boss around her new lackey. A reptilian hiss left her throat, patience wearing thin. "You will not talk to anyone like that. Only I am allowed to. And if I ever catch you trying to pick them off, I will personally pop out your eyes and gut you with my zanpakuto, while you are still breathing." Removing her hand from the worm, Kurai then dug her fingers into the mane of the wolf, her features none to kind. "And you Satoru. Watch what you say, especially when those words concern me."

Kurai didn't delve further into why she was angry at the words of Satoru, but her eyes were her biggest asset, what with her thermal vision. She released the wolf from her grasp and started to walk away, stopping after a few seconds as she gazed back at the three. "Well? Aren't you coming? I have a place where you all can stay."

Diligence and obedience. Those were two virtues of the lengthy sandworm. He whimpered hungrily at the feet of the two-legger Bigwing but thought nothing further of the combat and encounter previous. Those involved big words and complicated concepts that the worm was not accustomed to. His strength lay in the hunt, and so he would stick to his strength, and he would continue to hunt into the early morning as they traveled back to whatever abode Bigwing wanted to lead them to.

He was a good worm, but he sure wished Bigwing would say so more often.

[Exit with Kurai whenever she does]

Kronus snicked under his breath as he began to follow the arrancar a smirk came over his face. Oh my dear you'll never notice when I start picking them off, Cause in his master plan she'll be the first then the rest of them. It'll be a fun day when it comes, he just needed to wait to see how use full this thing was going to be. He kept low to the ground trying to show he was smaller then he really was.

"Under stood mi'lord"



[EXIT]

Patting the worm, Kurai warily watched Kronus. She didn't like the creature and would keep a close watch on him, lest he wanted a knife between the ribs.

Turning her gaze back in front of her, Kurai began to take the rag-tag bunch to her old home, converted into their base of operation and scheming.

[Exit]

Satoru hastily followed the crowd of gathered brethren, off to discuss future plots, congregate and learn from one another. Revenge was such a sweetly-wicked thing, and time was the ultimate surveyor of their fate.

[Satoru exited, points halved, thread ended, graded below and profiles soon to be updated]

Satoru - 13/2 = about 7 + 2 = 9
Kurai - 14 + 1 = 15
Jaga - 7 + 2 = 9
Arnold? - 5/2 = about 3
Zelara - 4 + 1 = 5