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What Stands in the Way
Shirou Kamui is in Okumichi city, a day off. Hearing suspicious noises, he goes to investigate. A shambling corpse reveals itself, a spirit if ever there was one, but something... different. The creature attacks Kamui and bites his zanpakutō, the Shinigami passes out. He wakes up days later to find himself in a Twelfth Division laboratory, lying upon an examining table. He discovers his blade has been irreversibly damaged due to the weird creature's bite.
Scars That Won't Heal
Tategawa Shinji delivers a black box discovered in Alabama to Captain Arasugane of the Twelfth. Upon the box is engraved a story of a former captain who met a terrible fate, a parable. Within the black box is a sword. Eager to discover the reason for it's storage, Arasugane presents the zanpakutō to Kamui, a replacement for his broken blade. Humiliated by the destruction of his blade, Kamui snatches the replacement and leaves without a word of thanks.
Elsewhere in the Twelfth Division, Hakkebana Mei Hua recovers from an arrancar projectile. In her mind, she discovers that she has been tainted, possessed by a hollow within. Shirahama Ryuto discovers Mei with a mask forming upon her face. Suddenly, the hollow-possessed Shinigami, Picara, attacks! Under restraint from Kamui, the hollow is overcome as Arasugane and Mei's sister, Hakkebana Jia Yin arrive. To be a visored is heresy in seireitei, and so the Captain of the Twelfth explains to the sisters what must be done, a dignified death in the line of duty or an escape. Any alternative to a dishonourable execution.
Fangs of the Enemy 1 - The Past Unearthed
Following the lieutenant's erratic behaviour, Mikoto Miyazaki is assigned to watch Kamui, to make sure he doesn't fly off the handle. Just moments into their first encounter, Sanpuu Kikkai bursts in under orders to bring the pair with him to the Rukongai on a mission. Another of the creatures, revealed to be named Libitinarii, has appeared, destroying everybody and everything it touches. Keikoku Yomijou and Akio Kichiro Yuki immobilise the creature whilst the rest of the summoned officers arrive.
Three crossbow bolts turn the Libitinarii to dust, one of which misses and hits a rukongai peasant. Along with Miyazaki, Kamui and Kikkai, Shinji, Sho Kasuke and Yin also arrive. Questions are asked of the witnesses and the bolts are examined, revealed to be coated in a mysterious acid. The body is taken to Dr. Kimira of the Fourth Division, and the questioning of bystanders reveals the Libitinarii was once a Shinigami of Third Division who frequented a local bar.
Fangs of the Enemy 2 - Blood and Alcohol
Sho arrives at the bar to ask about the deceased Shinigami, he is attacked and knocked unconscious by the barkeeper. He is found by Yuki, who calls for backup in the form of Yin. The barkeeper admits he was instructed to attack any Shinigami entering, and immediately after divulging such information he is killed by another of the crossbow bolts. Two flaming bolts soon follow, setting fire to the bar. The three officers inside escape the blaze, only to be fired at by three bolts from the east. Mei reveals her presence to her sister as Shinji and Kikkai arrive at the scene, beginning to examine the bolts. Yomijou leaves to see to Dr Kimira's autopsy.
Shinji's equipment breaks when the bolts are examined, and it is only from some sort of psychic attack that Kikkai discovers the ammo is made from a tree native to the Eastern Rukongai. The group splits into two, with Yin, Mei and Sho heading for the source of the bolts, whilst Shinji and Kikkai follow rumors to a graveyard. At the graveyard, they discover that many bodies have been dug up, but none of the valuables or trinkets have been stolen.
Nightmare Anatomy
Dr Kimira is sent the body from the scene of the dead Libitinarii for an autopsy, and determines the cause of death to be from the acid coating the wooden projectiles. Two suspicious Shinigami arrive, armed with their zanpakutō and attempt to attack her. They are thwarted however by the arrival of Ryuto and Yomijou. Their attempt to escape goes awry, resulting in their arrest. They are held at the Third Division holding cells, whilst Yomijou makes his return to the Rukongai.
Angel's Final Advent 1 - Storm Drain
Kamui and Miyazaki are attacked on their way to rendezvous with the team from the bar by a Libitinarii named Chaos. The foe's attacks are strong, and push Kamui to his very limits, forcing him to use the bankai of his damaged Fuma. The force of the release shatters the blade, reasulting in the lieutenant's reliance upon his new replacement blade, Maelstrom. Upon the release of Maelstrom's shikai, the weather becomes foul and driven by some unknown knowledge, Chaos beats a hasty retreat.
On his flight, Chaos runs into the group from the bar. An act of desperation forces him to raise weird beasts from the dust of the ground, and summon flaming bolts from the skies. He fires an energy blast at Mei, evidently recognising the hollow sleeping within her. Yin saves Mei by using her bankai's ability, reflecting the blast back at the beast. But Chaos is too quick, he attacks Mei once more, and in a flash of light as the second blast hits her, she vanishes. Yin attacks Chaos in a rage at the apparent death of her sister, screaming at the top of her lungs whilst the rest of the group battle the dust monsters, seeming to win the battle.
Angel's Final Advent 2 - The Black Box Man
Upon Yin's enraged attacking and the rest of the group's arriving victory, all the Libitinarii vanish into thin air as an Armoured Figure appears. Chaos tries to attack the man, but his attacks do nothing. The Armoured Man kills Chaos, but refuses to reveal his identity, instead using psychic attacks against the whole group. Yin and Sho attack the figure, but he effortlessly dodges even the Goddess of Shunpo's movements, and quickly incapacitates Sho. Akio arrives and rescues his Eleventh Division friend, fleeing alongside Yin from the Armoured Figure.
Kamui stalls the Figure whilst his friends escape, using the power of his replacement blade to battle the mysterious person into fleeing. The Captains Sasha Miguel, Taichozoken Atamasha and Arasugane arrive upon the scene, Sasha, the captain of Mei, mourns the loss of her lieutenant, whilst Kamui looks on, insolent and unpunished.
Unrewarded Souls
A meeting of all the Captains and Lieutenants is called. Captain Commander Amarini is furious at the rukongai incident, but Kikkai defends by noting the unexpected and professional nature of the attack. Kamui is conspicuously absent from the meeting, as is Miyazaki. In the middle of the meeting, an officer bursts in to say that the seireitei Library and Archives are on fire! A team of two captains, two lieutenants and two third seats are dispatched.
The team arrives at the archives only to be attacked by a foursome of armoured figures, each using one of the classical elements as their weapons. The water and wind warriors attack the captains whilst Kikkai, Rikimaru, Akio and Shinji run into the archives themselves to stop the fire. They are confronted by a fire warrior, who Kikkai discovers is neither a Shinigami nor a Hollow. After a fraught half hour of battle, the four fiends vanish as if they'd never even existed, leaving the Archives burnt beyond restoration and the team utterly defeated.
Kamui and Miyazaki are revealed to be interrogating the two men who attacked Dr Kimira, and is only stopped by the arrival of Yomijou, who blows the door to the cell inwards. The men work for a mysterious cult whose next meeting is due just the following week in the rukongai. This information is presented to the remaining members of the meeting, and a plan is hatched to infiltrate said cult gathering.
Passing Destinies
An Armoured Figure waits in the Hakkabana Family Hall, and is met by Yin. They discuss the death of Mei, and the figure reveals his name to be Kain before convincing the young lieutenant of the inherent evils of Soul Society. He gives her a list of people deserving death, and vanishes. Arasugane enters the hall and speaks with Yin, the list hidden from the Captain's eyes.
Blendin' In
Following a lead obtained from the men who attacked Kimira, four lieutenants, Nuyeki, Yomijou, Yin and Kikkai, don peasants robes and travel to the fifteenth district, where they would infiltrate the mysterious cult meeting. Into an underground chamber they end up, and they hear of a plot to repair the damaged parts of seireitei being used as a cover to get anarchist cultists into the Court of Pure Souls. Kyoka, their leader, reveals the tool of their destruction, a Libitinarii, just like the one that killed the woman all those months ago.
With the meeting over and the cultists dispersed, Yin and Kikkai remained, breaking into the chamber beyond the meeting hall, and finding the Libtinarii chained to the wall, a pathetic creature forced to live by some cruel black magic. After dispatching it's guards, the Libitinarii breaks free, and can only be stopped by removing a piece of jewellery hanging from its back, which turned it to dust.
Unsee the Seeing
Following reports that the mysterious Libitinarii creatures had been spotted in the mortal realm, a team of Shinigami are dispatched to investigate. When the search produces no clues, the team split into three groups. Individually they prove much more productive, every one of them encountering a Libitinarii. With confirmed sightings, each group engages their respective creature, but before they can uncover the secrets the Libtinarii hold, a dark aura fills the building.
Kain, and the four fiends that attacked the Shinigami Archives arrive and set off to dispatch the Libitinarii before the Shinigami can retrieve them. It becomes clear that the armoured man and the undead creatures are linked somehow...
Ascension, Here We Go Again!
Kamui requests to take the Captain's test, and faces off against Captain Sasha in his first test. While trading attacks and insults, Kamui reveals his new zanpakutō and its abilities, then lapses into unconsciousness after manifesting a suit of armor. He later regains consciousness after treatment and forcefully leaves.
Falling Stars
A body is found in the river of Rukongai's district six, the body of Lieutenant Mikoto Miyazaki. Within the hour, an investigation team is summoned, comprising of members from both the ninth and sixth divisions in addition to Lieutenant Sanpuu of fifth and Hakkebana of twelfth divisions. Along with Ryuto, the team follow hearsay and clues regarding Miyazaki's last known whereabouts to a secluded path in the middle of a vast forest. Supicious cart tracks and evidence that would reveal Miyazaki was dumped in the river from that path all but confirm the ninth division's theory, when a bloodied messenger comes upon the team, bearing terrible news of an attack upon Seireitei's eleventh division headquarters...
Total Eclipse 1 - Penumbra
The eleventh division headquarters comes under attack from the mysterious armoured man known as Kain. Out of the flames and rubble comes Kamui, and the two of them battle, resulting in the death of the eleventh division's lieutenant. By the time his fellow lieutenants and comrades arrive, it's already too late, and Kain starts to unleash attacks. It takes the bankai of both Sho Kasuke (hastily promoted to acting lieutenant) and Lieutenant Hakkebana to hold the armoured figure back, whilst Lieutenant Sanpuu, Shirahama Ryuto and Shishiku Kimiko tend to the wounded and contain the destructive reiatsu flaring about.
Total Eclipse 2 - Antumbra
Eventually Kain is repelled, giving a few words of warning before vanishing. An explosion at the third division headquarters draws the strongest away from the eleventh, and the arrival of the Captains of the eleventh, fourth and ninth divisions brings news that the Seireitei's communications network, the hell butterflies, has come to a halt. Kimiko and Lieutenant Sanpuu head for the twelfth division, to investigate the lack of communications.
Tide From Abyss
Captain Blade is attacked in his office by a mysterious stranger, and the Division is surrounded in reiatsu. Several shinigami arrive, finding the place in shambles and most of the shinigami there incapacitated. The mysterious figure reveals itself to be Kamui in a new outfit, and is promptly attacked by the shinigami who have come to investigate. Kamui however reveals an ability to create illusions and thus occupies the shinigami attacking him. Eventually, the shinigami overcome the illusions as they receive backup, and Kamui immediately escapes through a portal, issuing threats as he goes. The shinigami, fed up with Kamui's constant disappearances, follow and find themselves in Hueco Mundo.
Total Eclipse 3 - Umbra
At the twelfth division, along with Tategawa Shinji, Lieutenant Sanpuu and Kimiko discover that the butterflies had been put to sleep by a mysterious smoke. Before they could look into the matter further, they are attacked by ninjas, a fierce battle culminating in the revelation that the recently deceased Mikoto Miyazaki has been transformed into a libitinarii herself, and that a man known only as the 'Tyrant King' has plans for Soul Society...
Reino Clave Inversa
For the intrepid band of shinigami, it is not Kamui that they find, instead, they are deserted in the middle of the white sands of Las Días, many miles away from even the outermost tower of Las Noches' city complex. News arrives of these intruders in the land of the hollows to Ortiga, who sends in successive waves, a band of menos grande as reconnaissance, and then himself, the commander of the exequisas and their fraccíon. The fight, interrupted by a rogue vasto lorde too, prevents the shinigami from gaining any distance towards Kamui, and only comes to an end when an experimental device handled by captain Arasugane tears open a portal from Soul Society to Hueco Mundo, ensuring the stranded officers' escape.
The Kingdom's Key
Free from those pesky shinigami at the third division, Kamui (now fully taken by the Tyrant King's blade) and his 'brother', Kain, arrive in the catacombs underneath Las Noches. They make sure that the arrancar's strongest members are removed by their ruse before making their way towards the ancient Chamber of Evolution. Unfortunately, Peligroso and Avienne, the segundo and tercera espada, block their path, stalling the armoured fiends' progress with both words and action. Tiring of the delays, Sedris (the being inhabiting Kamui's body), uses another portal to transport the arrancar and himself above the dome of Las Noches, far removed from the catacombs. Finally alone, Kain takes the five swords of his long-fallen allies into the evolution chamber, and by some weird witchcraft, moulds bodies for them out of the very zanpakutō that they sealed their minds away in. The centurions are reborn.
Dark Day for a Fanfare
The Shinigami re-enter Seireitei from Hueco Mundo through Arasugane's portal, arriving in the ruins of the Third Division. As the Shinigami arrive, Arasugane is stirred by the sight of the destruction and confesses to having given Kamui the Traitor King's blade as an experiment, thus being the main cause of the entire chain of events. However, she is overheard by several other captains, including the captain-commander. She is immediately sentenced to execution the next day, and taken away by the Second Division corps for imprisonment until then. The captain-commander immediately, due to the state of emergency, promotes everybody present: Yomijou Keikoku, Shogure Kasuke, Kikkai Sanpuu, and Hakkebana Jia Yin become captains, and Mitsuru, Shishiku Kimiko, Narusegawa Rikimaru and Tategawa Shinji become lieutenants. At once, most of the newly-promoted officers request clemency for Arasugane and are begrudgingly listened to; Arasugane's punishment will be decided after the crisis passes.
Jinchi Renu then produces intelligence that shows the extent of the collaboration with Kamui by the minor nobles previously investigated, and recommends immediate and total destruction of the minor noble house; this recommendation meets with a mixed reception, but in the end all the assembled captains agree to it and leave to make their own preparations.
Skulls and Coronets
The assault on the noble manor starts with a bang, after the shinigami are ordered to enter, almost instantly they come face to face with a legion of lumbering corpses, the most basic of libitinarii. Where all these bodies came from, nobody asks, they just focus on cutting them down and pressing forth into the depths of the building, their mission to arrest the nobles hiding within. As the battle is brought to the corridors, strange libitinarii begin to appear, their bodies oozing with highly corrosive acid. These are none other but the personal soldiers of Rene Pesil, the former twelfth division lieutenant and now a centurion. Shinozaki Kanaye finds Rene in the entrance hall of the manor, she is soon easily occupied by his libitinarii. Sho Kasuke and Tategawa Shinji appear in the hall, and Sho battles the dastardly Rene. With the centurion's oil-slick shikai, Sho hesitates to use his fiery shikai, getting mercilessly thrown around in the process.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the manor, Hakkebana Yin finds a pair of children huddled in the corner of a room, a brother and sister. The sister is missing her hair and has an arm torn out. Yin's efforts to heal the wounds are for naught, and she can't stay long as the familiar rieatsu of Kain appears at the centre of the manor. Joined by Yomijou, who has been searching the chambers for the nobles they are to arrest, and Kikkai, who had been maintaining battle stations outside of the building until his communications were severed, they discover that the nobles are all dead, killed by Kain. With a few words from the centurion, both he and Leo (who had arrived with Rene to keep the oil-slick centurion on his toes) vanish, and the bodies of the dead nobles raise to attack the captains. They swiftly dispatch them, but fail to pursue Kain.
Against Rene, Sho falls victim to the powers of Nergal, his opponent's shikai, whose power is to control whatever limb is covered by the thick oil. At a great risk to himself, Sho releases his bankai, engulfing himself and the oil with flames. He gets seriously burned, but the oil is destroyed. Once free from his opponent's power, Sho turns the bankai on Rene himself, and with his blade constantly spurting oil, the centurion quickly falls victim to the volatile nature of his own shikai, reduced to nothing within seconds.
Phoenix Ashes
The Centurions launch their attack on Seireitei, announced only by an onrushing mass of Imperium and the shadow of Sedris' zanpakutō! As the black dragon casts its pall over Seireitei, the Captains amass to face this threat, with their loyal subordinates, and battle is joined, kidō and swords flashing at the First Division and eventually spreading outwards.
Phoenix Ashes 2 - Scream
The battles rage on: Sedris against Yin, Kain against Sho and Ryuto, Leo against Yomijou, Kanaye, Akio, and Rikimaru, and Tirlene against Kikkai. Suddenly the balance of battle changes as Captain-Commander Ikenmaru and ex-Shinigami now-Centurion Mikoto Miyazaki enter the fray, and Sedris takes the opportunity to head for his goal, Soukyoku. At the same time, large masses of the weaker Shinigami are immobilised by banshees arising from an unknown source, forcing the stronger Shinigami to defend them too.
Phoenix Ashes 3 - Scales and Feathers
Ikenmaru is trapped by the insidious ability of Sedris' shikai, leaving Sedris free to release the giant zanpakutō and send it on a path of destruction. Each of the Centurions, one by one, reveals their shikai abilities, and in conjunction with their Imperium, forces the Shinigami forces to fight even harder! Sanfilt steps out of the shadows as Miyazaki falls, not leaving Yin any time to rest.
Phoenix Ashes 4 - Words of Steel
Sedris encases himself upon Soukyoku Hill as Soukyoku moves on restlessly; while Sanfilt and Yin engage in a battle of science and kidō, Kain engages in stirring debate with Sho and Ryuto. A chain of kidō flash between Kikkai and Tirlene, who releases her bankai; but it's not enough to protect her from the combined forces of both Kikkai and Kimiko, and a cunning combination of kidō, together with Kimiko's cold-blooded combat, make Tirlene the first of the Centurions to fall into death. Leo reveals his shikai's abilities, and Yomijou entrusts that Centurion to Rikimaru, Akio, and Kanaye as he leaves to confront Sedris.
Phoenix Ashes 5 - Gravity Plays Favourites
A battle of uneven numbers is under way; Sanfilt and his innumerable pirates, strengthened by his modifications, are set against Yin, who defends herself with kidō, while Kain's Imperium finally disappears and he is forced into bankai against his attackers. The source of the banshees is finally found, and a brave band of low-level Shinigami head for a mysterious tower; and Yomijou attempts to talk to Sedris, who is casting an arcane kidō on Soukyoku Hill. As more and more abilities are revealed by each party, and new strategies keep surfacing, the tide of battle is never certain!
Phoenix Ashes 6 - Trident
Kikkai attacks Sedris just as Sedris finishes his kidō, and suddenly Seireitei is under attack from multiple parties; hollows stream out of Soukyoku while the Centurions and their Imperium are still fighting, and even the peasant-workers in Seireitei rebel and fight the Shinigami. Sedris' long-laid plans are near success, even as he comes under attack from Kikkai and Yomijou; Sanfilt finally reveals his bankai, again numerically outclassing Yin greatly; and Cher is discovered in the tower, attacked by the Shinigami who discover her, and escapes!
Ashes to Ashes - Dust and Bones
Kikkai battles Sedris' zanpakutō, while Yomijou battles Sedris; but it rapidly becomes clear that Sedris is stronger, and he gains the upper hand—until Ikenmaru, freed by Kikkai, attacks Sedris. Yin uses her senkai, and Sanfilt is killed; Kain, Sho, and Ryuto charge each other, and Tomoe backs the Shinigami up with kidō. The battles are drawing to a close, and everybody is tired, but bravely battling on! Finally Sedris and Kain die, and Cher escapes with Leo; and the fight is over, and the recovery of Seireitei from this savage attack can finally begin.
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