In the Pursuit of Knowledge [Sobek]

It felt like a long time had pass for Sobek, for he was standing in front of his old cave. He had already moved everything that was in there, there were nothing left in it besides the bodies of his old victims, or well at least their bones. Sobek had smirked as he tried remembering the good old times, the times he did not have to deal with the bullshit of arrancar hood and the trouble it brings with it. Hell he thought everyone was out to get him, now while that was true all the time even before arrancarhood, at least during one part of his life was peaceful for some little time.

"The good old times....where i could experiment with freedom and have no problems.."

Sobek smirked gently when he had experimented on his own, the nice and bloody times it gave him when he would rip them open during his time as the Hydra Vasto Lorde. He was a terror to fear, but then he became a Arrancar and lost it all, he has only begun to regain it back. All the power, all the fear, all the times are all the things he had left behind when he became a arrancar, but in becoming a arrancar he had regained something. His desire to grow more and more intelligent and the desire to gain more and more interest in things that made him curious.

But now was not the time, for he had not expected company to come to him. But by using his sense, he had seen a group of hollows coming his way. Were they just a hungry pack of adjuchas hollows or were they something more? Honestly their survival was depending on that. He was not in the mood to be interrupted while he went through memory lane. But none the less he had decided to go see on who the hell they are, what they want. If they came this way cause of curiosity, he would spare them if they were interesting. If they came to try to eat him, well they would find out how terrifying his moods get when someone starts attempting to end him.

"Who ever the hell they are.... they better be interesting. Memory lane is the one thing i still enjoy thinking over"

Word Count: 382
GP count: 7

The group moved at a quick pace over the desert sands, not slowing down for any enemy who stood in their path. Most foes simply fled at the sight of the oncoming group, who wouldn’t, but those foolish enough to try and fight the group as they approached were quickly dealt with by her guardsman. She wouldn’t lower herself to fighting a base hollow when they were around to deal with them for her. Besides, she needed all her energy reserved for the main event. She had felt a target through her reiatsu perception. He was far off from their location but she knew the lay of the land and recognised the cave the man approached. She would cut him off their, force his only way out to be to venture into that cave and if she didn’t receive what she needed it would become his tomb. Simple as that.

When the group neared the man they spread out. Lissandra had spent years pushing battle tactics into these poor excuses for hollows, whilst they weren’t the brightest of the hollow race they understood that if they didn’t obey Lissandra would be mad and a mad Lissandra is something none of them wanted to deal with. Slowly but surely the group moved in on the target. Lissandra was sure the target had caught on by now and had either accepted his fate or was cocky enough to think he could take them. Lissandra wasn’t in the mood for games today and would give the target a rude awakening.

Lissandra approached the target alone, but not without backup. Dotted around the landscape in a circular formation the other hollows watched, expecting a fight. Sadly for them that wasn’t the sort of hunt they would be witnessing today. She strode forward at a confident pace. She was tense, but not showing it. Her past encounters with their kind caused enough problems with her but she wasn’t the kind to back down from a plan she had in mind.

“I’m sure you are aware of the situation you are in.” She spoke confidently towards the male Arrancar.

“I am Lissandra, Queen of these lands and Tyrant to my foes and I’m here for one thing. Make it hard and I shall kill you, simple as.”

She was not in the mood to toy with her food as usual. There had been too much embarrassment on her part with all her past meetings with Arrancar for her to remain her more jovial self.

“I’m looking for information. On many things. But for now we’ll start simple. I require your name, and I wish to know about your kind. Arrancar.”

She was confident, too confident maybe, but a Queen needed confident or she was nothing to her followers.

“If you don’t know then tell me quick so I can kill you and move on.”

WC: 478

GP: 9

Total: 23

Welp, this was a thing. The group was led by a overly cocky female hollow who believed she had power and apparently with the numbers of other weak hollows she brought. She was trying to either A, feel better for herself being weak and unable to get stronger as fast as she liked or B, she was just smart enough to trick the dumber hollows into following her. Well lets see what she had to offer shall we? I mean im sure a woman of 'her' caliber would have something worthwhile to come demanding the one thing Sobek even holds dear to him anymore.

"...So...you are just a hollow who im assuming is female, claiming a title of Queen. Even though you look weaker than a certain child arrancar that i know, listen. You can ask for the information i have, but if you demand it then i will refuse to offer it to you"

He sighed before looking around at the other hollows trying to surround him, man was this a pathetic combat attempt to make him scared, jeez who the hell would they terrify by using this kind of strategy. He sighed before shaking his head, the woman demanded his name and all the knowledge he had, while she was being a major bitch about the information it was indeed rude of him to not give her his name. Who knows, maybe this little group of hollows following this false queen would remember the terror that he caused.

"My name is Sobek Septicemia, Former Vasto Lorde'

He smirked as he saw some of the hollows following the false queen hollow, turn and run like they just heard the name of the fricken boogie man or something terrifying. None the less, he saw some of the hollows start shaking but hold their ground, apparently their fear was not as strong as their loyalty. Or was it their fear of pissing off their false queen that was more powerful then their fear of him? Who knew, but now he was going to show this woman that he was not gonna be bossed around by a demanding woman who did not deserve her so called title.

"Now. If you are still so cocky on trying to get information from me, then you can come and attempt to take it from me. But i will show you just why im not in the mood for a woman to start ordering me around when she does not deserve the title of Queen."


Word Count: 414
GP earned: 8
GP total: 15

The Arrancar ahead of her tried to act big, it was a cute attempt. Lissandra could feel just from her heightened abilities to perceive reiatsu that he was below her in strength. That was no reason to underestimate her foe though. She had been embarrassed many a time by fighting foes well above her strength level, now was not a day she’d make the same mistake. It would be a tough fight if they fought, but Lissandra was prepared to win. Few traits the Queen held could be considered good traits but more than anything her unshakable will could be considered her finest. Once she has an idea in mind she sticks to it. Unbending like steel.

“I could have asked for it you are correct.” Lissandra began, ignoring the insolent wretches insult of looking weaker than a child. “But nothing is free in this life. If I were to simply ask then you would try to bargain with me.” All hollows only thought for themselves, this was a fact of life Lissandra had come to learn. As long as they were getting something in their favour hollows didn’t care what happened to them. Lissandra was the same, Sobek was most likely the same too. She had never met a hollow who was truly selfless.

The man declared his name to be Sobek Septicemia, a fanciful name. All Arrancar seemed to take on such names, was it simply a trait that all Arrancar held? Glorified names? His name wasn’t important right now though, the title he attached to the name was. Vasto Lorde. Widely considered to be myths to those who hadn’t met them and demons to those who had. They were the strongest of the hollows that existed within the desert. So rare that you could count the number of existing ones on one hand. If he had been a Vasto Lorde what would that mean for his current power level? Lissandra could sense him below her, but was he hiding his true power or had he lost it all.

It certainly had an effect on her soldiers. The so called royal guard ready to flee at the sound of his name. She didn’t blame then, Vasto Lorde’s were beasts of legend. If she wasn’t so determined she might have backed away herself. She allowed herself a brief moment to flash glare at a few of the hollows that surrounded the area. They were quick to get serious again. She wasn’t a particularly harsh ruler, you’d be hard done by to find a cruel act she had done to her own people, but fear of knowing what she could do was a powerful thing.

She laughed when he said she did not deserve the title of Queen.

“I killed a man who once called himself King, took control of his followers and his land. What am I but a Queen?” She had led her people out of ruin. She was a Queen by all rights.

“So Sobek Septicemia. If I would like the information I want what is your price?”

If the price was fair she would accept it.

If it wasn’t, well.

Sobek wasn’t in for a good time.

WC: 531

GP: 11

Total: 34

Well this woman was either A a moron or B she was just so stubborn to even try to be nice that she thought all hollows were cruel. Not like the later is a bad thing, it just shows how paranoid she was in comparison to some of the other hollows and arrancars that existed in this world. Now he was bored with how this woman was trying to approach him, honestly it was silly to just come from out of nowhere and demand shit from him, honestly if people knew anything about kindness at all it would go a long way with him. Hell even that one shinigami woman was smarter being than this demanding female hollow.

" If you asked kindly i would of given the answers to you with no price besides intelligence that you know yourself. But seeing as you decided to walk on in here to demand from me like you are higher up in the food chain, i refuse to give you anything. Oh and just because your guards are still here does not mean they will attack. They know better "

Now it was time he showed his woman what power was, she claimed to have killed a false King in order to claim a false Queens title ship, now it was time to prove to her what real power was. And before long, seven cero's formed in his chest before merging into one, at this time her guards had gotten smart and started to run away, but it was too late for them. He had calculated on where the hollows were going to be and smirked when he knew that they were gonna be in range of this. So he threw the giant orb of merged ceros and of course a few seconds later a huge explosion devoured them like nothing.

" You brought seven guards, three ran and four have died. Now if you are truly as powerful as you say you are, then come on. Try to take my information from me, lets see how long you last."

She had ruined his good mood by walking up to his former home and demanding the one thing he held dear, now she was gonna pay for it. While he was not going to kill her, he wanted to teach her a lesson. If this lesson stuck with her than hell maybe she will grow to be stronger but right now, as of right now, Sobek finds her not interesting enough to kill, yet interesting enough to leave her bloodied and broken.


Word Count: 427
GP earned: 8
GP total: 23

Lissandra was pissed off. The man had asked her to play nice, she had done reluctantly but now he refused even that. In the small time of her reign she had expanded her own group and met many new faces in the sand. The first two Arrancar had tried to kill her. Not just kill her though. They had attempt to force their demands upon her, which Lissandra’s ego would have none of. If there were deals to be made Lissandra would be making the deal herself and would not bargain. Next they had tried to kill her when she didn’t give in. Outnumbered she was no match for them, they beat her and embarrassed her and left her to live. This impression of Arrancar had stuck with her. She met Cortez soon after and still doesn’t trust the man. Now she was face to face with Sobek, a man of knowledge who had no sense in how to deal with someone like Lissandra.

No matter, if he wanted combat he will get it.

The fool made a ploy of defeating the hollows around her. Weak creatures that only clung to her for a semblance of power like the bottom feeders they were. The cero he charged tore through their weakened bodies leaving the ones hit dead and the ones living running. Lissandra made a mental note to hunt them later. Leaving her service was treason.

Sobek was strong that much was certain. Even if he wasn’t Lissandra would die before she underestimated another Arrancar. Though she had seen the pattern. The strong Arrancar were the ones who used words and not their raw power. Sobek had no time for words.

Neither did Lissandra.

She moved fast without bothering to utter a word. The one mistake Sobek had made was his proximity to her. When they had spread out to encircle the man it was to make sure he couldn’t escape from Lissandra, but it had other purposes too. Numbers for one, though they didn’t amount to much, but presence as well. They were weak and a hollow instinct of an Arrancar would do them away first. She was on him before the fight was even underway.

Using her innate ability to focus areas for more battle strength she focused her ability to destroy. The muscles in her arm going into overdrive from her mentality to end this quickly. Whatever strength Sobek had she was willing to overcome it, whatever wall he could produce Lissandra would break it down brick by brick. The punch was fast and packed with a tremendous force behind it.

WC: 434

GP: 8

Total: 42

My stats currently sit at:

Power: 50

Precision: 40

Defense: 20

Speed: 30

Due to reiatsu perception difference. +20 to Power, Precision and Speed from 2 ranks difference.

Time to calculate the attack.

Using Ikkotsu which makes the attack 70 power 60 precision (-4 Stamina)

Hakuda rank makes it 70 power 65 precision.

Plus the extra +5 to Power Precision and Speed I get when I attack due to my Offensive Pesquisa

Makes the attack hit for 80 Power and 75 Precision.

[ONE ACTION]-[Ikkotsu]-[Power: 80]-[Precision: 75]--4 Stamina Cost

50/54

Coming full at you mister Sobek, if that’s cool with you.

Tell me if I need to tone it down and I shall, the reiatsu perception gives me a huge bonus though.

The woman was most likely expecting him to calm down after she wanted to make a deal for the information he had. Sadly she had already pissed him off to the point of him not even wanting to give her any form of information besides the type of information on not trying to piss people off when you want something from them. So as soon as he had killed her worthless excuse for a royal guard, she had decided that it was a smart idea to just go ahead and attack him without any form of real strategy other than hopefully over powering him. While not the smartest strategy, it works for some, but it wont work for her.

"..Hm... Good power behind a punch, sadly you lack one thing. The ability to actually do any worth while damage to me "

Now it was time to show her that if she had any desire to break his defense, then she would need to use a lot more than just what she has by using her fists in order to defeat him. All the while he was charging a basic cero, Course he had activated his power, allowing water from his zanpakuto's guard to flow around his Cero, making a spiral drill like appearence around it. Course he smirked as he lined up the cero and fired it directly at Liss as she charged at him. He smirked as the cero made her derail from her original angle causing her fit to hit his chest. The itself being nothing but a small bruise, with all its power, Sobeks defense was able to make it become nothing more then a simple punch.

"Now...show me something else you have, i am interested in what you can do. So tell me, Lissandra, just what can you do?"


Word Count: 310
GP earned: 6
GP total: 29