The Toy Looking For It's Master (Open)

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A silent figure watched over the landscape, his silver eyes watching everything quietly as his gloved hand adjusted his conductor hat on his hat. His silver hair seemed to flow in the wind and his front stretched from one corner of his chin to the other. "The world... So... Strange." He spoke, his voice was soft and wispy as his black jacket slowly swayed in the breeze behind him as he stood above a ten story building peering below to the people below. His hands twisted, grabbing one another as he cracked his fingers and rested his hands on his sides. "So much... Work." He said, cracking his jaw before he slowly began to walk the edge of the rooftop, his hands stretched out as if balancing himself. "So many souls... So many dreams... Nightmares... Peaceful..." He said, the night air was cool as the lights shone in the city below. "Let the fun... Begin." He said, releasing his spiritual pressure flow freely as it quickly overtook the town. "Cla-...." He said, his voice quickly overtaken by the wind as he continued to walk, trying to attract either familiar or new people to play with to him.

The figure continued to move, his eyes merely staring ahead as he leaped from the rooftop of one building to the rooftop of another. His pace continued as he landed, the lights casting his shadow along the floor. "Where... Everyone... So... Quiet..." The figure said, his mouth slowly moving in an almost robotic way before he stopped and looked towards the city below. His shadow seemed to slowly climb, seemingly another being as it rose up behind the figure. Yellow eyes opened along with a yellow mouth, a sad look on the shadow's face as it seemed to cry softly against the figure. It's hands grabbed the shoulders of the man as it continued to cry and the figure seemed to be frozen in place, reacting to nothing. "Claire..." The shadow cried, it's face peering over the figure's shoulder as there was a sudden pulse of strong spiritual pressure over the building. "Claire..." It said, it's eyes closing as it seemed to slowly sink back into the shadow of the figure. "Where... Is... Everyone..."

"C-laire..." The shadow said, the being seemed hell bent on finding this person who it continued to call out for. The body seemed to slowly change, the skin blackening as dark, shadow like hands slowly twisted around it's legs. The empty, soulless eyes just stared ahead as it slowly began to sink into the shadows which looked much like a yellow opened mouth with black eyes hovering over the opening. The sentient shade devoured the body it was using, it's eyes looking ahead as it slowly rose up, it's form almost liquid in nature. It stared out into the city below as tears seemed to flow from one of it's eyes. "Claire...Claire...Claire...Where..." It continued to call out, almost as if wishing the the person it was looking for would appear in front of it. It's spiritual pressure continued to fluctuate causing many humans to seemingly stray from the building it rested on as if they would die if they grew close.

It's eyes slowly shifted, looking ahead and then towards the ground as it slowly began to move across the rooftop, slithering along. It's hands reached out, grabbing objects and pulling them into it's shadow like form. It seemed to be thriving in the cool dark air. The only light being the soft light from the sun and as it thrived it devoured all that near it. It seemed to be out of control, storing things or devouring things from pieces to the roof to the metal pipes to even the animals. "Claire... Come... Back..." It seemed to be mad in nature as it viewed everything near it as food and quickly devoured it. The only things it didn't eat was things near any source of bright light. "More... Claire... She'll come back... If I stronger..." It said, standing up straight as it reached to a height of six feet. It's long hands reached out and tore the door to the roof off the hinges. It seemed it would slowly spread it's corruption throughout the building. Taking control of the building at least until it had devoured every denizen.

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Amidst the slowly growing, self contained chaos, there was yet another in the immediate area that seemed to resonate with a similar taste for power. The eleven foot high construct of black and bone slowly moved along the back alleyway to find what it was he was looking for, food. No matter how much he ate, everything only seemed like a snack, nothing was large enough to fill the void within him.

It was then that his body came to a stop and the helmet that held itself over his head rose up, as if to sniff the air and take in some sort of aroma. There was another energy that filled the air and it was strong, possibly strong enough to fill him if he could have it. His head lowered as he began to head in the direction of the building in question with little standing in his way.

This one wishes to feast.

The dark being slowly began to move down the stairwell, the featureless being moves slowly, long thin like legs which rounded out on the end carried it slowly. The shadows seemed to melt off of it like wax, dripping and corrupting the area and slowly the walls, ceilings and floors of the area became encased in the shadowy substance. Almost as if becoming apart of the building, the figure slowly moved down to the middle before closing it's eyes. Then the trap was sprung. Anyone who could sense the living, the souls or any power from the building besides the overwhelming chaos that was the creature in the center would suddenly be distraught at not being able to sense anything. It was as if every human being, any souls, any being other than the shadow like figure seemed to disappear in an instant. There was a loud roar from the building, the darkness creeping back to the main body as it slowly rested on the ground. "Claire..." It softly spoke, gripping it's head as another strong ping of spiritual pressure was release.

The being seemed to, in an instant, devour all the things that lived in the building. Whether it was keeping them in it's body as a source of strength or if it actually devoured them was really unknown. It seemed completely detached from the world besides eating all that was around it and searching for the mysterious person who's name it kept uttering. Some would believe that even coming close to such a being would be suicidal.

Shikotsumyaku continued to move toward the ever disturbing presence. The overwhelming power and the souls that where within suddenly...the vanished and he halted in his movement, one foot just above the ground, in wonder to what just happened. His food was just....gone. His footfall marked his curious nature as he let his arms rest at his sides and his head turn to the side so that he could get a full view of the building in question that laid not to far off.

It was abnormal and tempting, like a danger sign that said nothing else. What was the danger? Was it really that dangerous? Would it be a danger to him? All these things started to lack in the one thing he wished for. Nourishment, Food, eat something. He started more toward the building, one arm raised as the tip of the claw drew closer still towards it, a touch could not hurt....

The shadowy figure remained in that one spot, eyes focused ahead as it continued to repeat that one name until something else grabbed it's attention. It's eyes seemed to slowly change in color, changing from a soft yellow to a solid, dark red. It's hands slammed against the ground, releasing small tremors around the building before it released a loud inhumane roar. Seemingly territorial, it sensed something approaching the building, it must have set up a sort of spiderweb around the building. It could sense, it could feel, something was approaching it. Like a moth drawn into the flame, the flame sparked up as it released another deafening roar into the world. In an instant a powerful spiritual pressure seemed to blanket the city, smothering all of it's denizens under it. The epicenter, the building in which Shikotsumyaku was slowly approaching through hunger and curiosity. This pressure, was scary to say the least and it seemed to warp the town, everything seemingly becoming twisted.

Shikotsumyaku would probably see it, a torrent of black liquid pouring from one of the dark windows, the black pooling together on the ground. Two hands reached out, pulling up the shadow like beings head, red eyes staring out at the Adjuchas as the once soft yellow smile was now a deep red sharp teeth. It released another roar towards Shikotsumyaku as if threatening him to come any close. "Claire!" It roared, banging it's fists against the ground as it caused soft tremors to ripple out over the city. It was making quite the racket for just one hollow coming near it.

The large hollow froze just a few feet from the building as the sudden burst of spiritual pressure erupted from it. The ground itself seemed to shake which instantly caused Shikotsumyaku's defenses to rise as several bone-like protrusions ejected from his feet and into the ground as if to keep himself from falling over. It pulled its arm back as the creature appeared from the building only to let forth an unnatural noise. To this, it was unsure just what it was to do.

It instead did the only thing that it could think of at the current moment, it threw its arms out to its side and threw its own head forward and let forth a roar of its own, not of the same caliber but the bones that had jolted from its left quickly grew as the ground beneath it began to crack and falter. Spins and quills of bone began to protrude from the goliath of a hollow as its own roar went on.

The darkness which stood in front of the hollow continued to thrash about, smashing the ground around it with it's fists as it seemed to slowly grow. It released another ungodly scream/roar into the world as it grew larger and larger in standing till it easily towered over the hollow. It's red eyes stared down at the beast, blood red eyes just stared while it seemed to remain still, a giant now as it's spiritual pressure continued to blanket the city. It seemed to grow stronger slowly, it's strength growing as time slowly went on and it gained strength from the hundreds of people it just brought into it's body. It slowly leaned down, it's massive hands planting on the ground as it lowered it's head in front of the large hollow. It's blood red eyes merely stared at him as it released a very soft grumble towards him. "Where... Claire..." It spoke, it's blood red eye looking up and down the hollow.

"I'll devour you... Tell me... Where." It said, straightening up before quickly swirling back down, till it was merely four feet tall. It seemed clothed in an instant, pulling clothing from god knows where. It's once red eyes changed to a pale white, long blond hair ran down from beneath what some would call a witch's cap. It wore a light blue jacket with long sleeves, brown gloves, stripped pants that seemed worn up pretty high, white socks and a pair of shoes. It merely stared down the hollow as it's once crazy spiritual pressure seemed to condense around it. "I no have patience..." It said, holding up a fist which caused a purple orb to condense around it. To any hollow which has seen an arrancar use this before, they would quickly realize that it was a Bala. To Shikotsumyaku this being probably seemed very strange as it seemed hell bent on finding this one person.

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Shikotsumyaku aimed to hold his ground against the opposing force that only seemed to grow as how own did nothing but try and act as imposing as he could. The spines and bones that protruded out from Shikotsumyaku's body grew in many different directions and were erratic at best. His roar was not as power or dramatic as his foes but it carried enough or so he would like to think.

The creature then began to speak once more but Shikotsumyaku was unable to respond as the bones were protruding from its jaws and out from its mouth, almost like a it was growing several rows of extra teeth. It then let its roar fade as the figure slowly went down and into a far smaller figure. Shikotsumyaku felt less frightened but the number of bones did not diminish. When it talked about devouring him and shortly after, spoke of having little patience, the bones began to crack and fracture. Till his arm broke out and the rest of his body followed, leaving behind a bone case of sorts that looked like itself.

This one knows not of any....Claire...This one knows only of a Kyouga and a Siddhartha and a Yukino. This one has never met a Claire or at least, never met one and gotten a name before feasting.

The being stood there, yellow eyes piercing out from beneath the straw hat which cast a darkness which hid what ever wore the strange clothing. The purple condensed orb seemed to pop into thin air, a large wave of spiritual pressure quickly radiated off of the being as it turned it's head. "Kyouga... Familiar... The others... Not so much... I might need to take search into... Hostile lands." The being said, long blonde hair flowing gently around it's smaller form as one of it's hands reached up and tilted it's hat slightly. "You might be... Useful... If you hear anything... Tell me... I go to place where Hollow fear to tread. Might find something useful... There..." It said, raising one of it's hands as it touched the air and the dimension itself seemed to split slightly, opening up like a door for the being.

The shadow underneath the form seemed to spring to life, a strange object flew out, a key shaped object close which almost resembled a spear. At the end there was chains which seemed to bind it to the shadows beneath the creature which weld it. "I hate place... Bad memories... Lots of me... Dying." It said, tapping it's shoulder with the object before it looked towards Shikotsumyaku. "You follow if want... Might die... Killers of hollows live there... Might get good food... Might be killed... Either or." It said, seemingly extending an invitation for Shikotsumyaku to follow it where it went. Whether the hollow would join it was up to the hollow but it seemed either way the being expected some sort of co-operation from him.

Shikotsumyaku kept it's posture to the best that it could whilst listening to the other. It spoke of of knowing one of the idols that he spoke of but that was it. It then spoke of making sure that he was to tell him if he heard anything. Shikotsumyaku gave a slow but simple nod. But shortly after, the other spoke of going somewhere where hollows dare tread, that it was a place where hollow killer's were held.

But one thing broke through the want to not go to this place was the thought of food. To one with such power to say that the food was good would imply that it was something grand. Shikotsumyaku turned toward the door that was opened before them and began toward it.

This one wishes for food. Good food sounds...delicious.

"If go... Stay Close... Can't guarantee... Live." The smaller being said, it's eyes looked towards the door before it released a very soft sigh and walked towards it. It noticeably kept an eye on Shikotsumyaku as it made it's way into the path that it had made. It was going to take them into the forests in the outskirts of Soul Society. It was a very dangerous move on both of their parts since Shikotsumyaku could possibly be destroyed if he was noticed by anyone important in SS. The little one stood a little more of a chance as long as the person he was against wasn't too savy in fighting. "In the end... I'll find her..." It said, obviously it was concerned about finding who ever it was looking for. It slowly made it's way into the door which slowly began to close behind it.