Toshiro woke up a few moments later and found himself in the seventh level, his clothes soaked in blood that was not his own. He shook his head to clear the fog away and tried to remember what had happened, but the last thing he could recall was being caught in the grip of that arrancar. The memory loss disturbed him, but he could not loose focus. He needed to get through this last trial and continue on with his mission.
He went through the maze easy enough, though it was by far more difficult than the others. He only got confused once. He was rounding the last corner when he felt the presence of the final enemy. As he rounded the corner he took notice that it was a girl.
She smiled brightly at the young arrancar as he looked at her. Her hair a hot pink with a dark red streak running through it. Her eyes a dull blue. She had a dress on with a ruffled skirt the top had one long sleeve and the other was missing numbers and what looked to be pieces of clocks adorned her outfit. On her hands she wore black finger-less gloves and her feet black laced up boots. “A new toy to play with I see.” She replied looking on at Zeshin.
"My name is Mins. Now what should I name you?"
"Zeshin," was all he said. He kept his distance from her. He had a sneaky suspicion that she could manipulate time.
Before Zeshin could react Mins was in front of him just inches from his face, she had taken his chin and lifted it slightly with her fingertips to get a better look at him. "Zeshin you say? That will never do for one as cute as you." she smiled brightly at him, "I will call you Shin. A much cuter name I say." Quickly she jumped back when Zeshin tried to remove her hand, "Oh no no! You don't touch Mins. Only Mins can do the touching here."
"And why would Mins want to touch Shin?" He humored her.
Mins titled her head and smiled, "That's for me to know." she walked slowly around Zeshin she was not much taller then he was. She then reached out and touched his back with her fingertips slowly and softly dragging them from one shoulder to the other. She smiled and quickly lend forward whispering in his ear, “This fight might take longer than you think.” She then sonidoed back to her original place and watched as Zeshin started to move forward.
He walked towards her with a teasing sense about him. "Do you plan to keep me forever, or age me to be your new play toy as you mentioned earlier?" He stepped up close to her and grabbed her shoulders tightly. "What do you want to do with your new toy?"
Mins got a disgusted look on her face and pulled away from Zeshin’s grip. “I told you only Mins can touch.” She drew back her hand and bitched slapped Zeshin as he fell to one knee. She grabbed a handful of his dark red and black hair and jerked his head up as it hung down. She looked deep into his eyes, “I like to play with my toys. The rougher the better, but they don’t seem to be able to withstand the punishment I give them.”
She shoved Zeshin back as he fell to his back side. "Now tell me Shin? Why would you do something you were told not to do?"
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he turned slightly looking over her shoulder at him as she adjusted her glove.
Zeshin's held hung down as he stood up and he approached the girl. He said nothing as he stepped up behind her. A smile appeared on his face. His hand shot out and quickly grabbed her by the throat and began to crush it. "The more accurate question would be, how can I not," he retorted as the smile became cruel. He slammed her hard into a wall and replied, "I don't know why, but I get the feeling you truly want to be dominated and you put up a sadistic facade to hide that fact. True or false?" His grip tightened around her throat.
Mins could not speak as he held tight to her throat; she let her head roll back after he slammed her into the wall as she closed her eyes. Lifting her legs quickly she kicked Zeshin square in the chest sending him back a few steps. She gasps for air after his grip was broken going for her sword drawing it. She came down over the top of Zeshin, “You known nothing of the facts. Toys should be seen not heard nor should they touch.” She spun and landed behind him after he blocked her attack. Slowly she started to swing her sword like a pendulum on a clock every few seconds she would spin it in a complete circle. “Time is nothing to a toy. To a toy time even stand still.” Mins smiled at Zeshin as she watched him blink a few time and even waver a little as he stood before her.
He could sense time being distorted and reached out. He caught her blade his his hand to stop her spin and slapped her hard across the face. Knocking her to the ground. He quickly pinned her there under him to halt all her movements.
Mins struggled under him even under a daze he was very strong. Finally, she was able to flip him backward as she lifted her legs and wrapped them around his neck. She quickly walked up and kicked Zeshin in the side of the head causing him to roll a few feet. She walked over picking up her sword seeing Zeshin try to lift from the floor as he was on all fours she sonidoed over to him kicking him in the ribs sending him through the air right into the wall. He hit hard and slid to the floor. She walked over picking him up by the front of his jacket front. “I won't tolerate this from my toys. Is that an understanding.” She slammed Zeshin into the wall a few times.
Zeshin coughed up some blood and smiled at her, "And what would you do if one were to cut you?" He spat some blood in her eyes, drew his blade and sliced the arm that held her sword.
She smiled a sadistic smile at him and pushed him harder against the wall crushing the wall behind him more. “And what would you do if someone cut you?” She placed her blade against his chest and drug it the length of his chest. She then lifted the blade and licked some of his blood from the blade as she still smiled holding him tightly against the wall.
All he did was laugh. Laugh at her, laugh at the pain, just laugh. He looked up at her, the light gone from his eyes and replaced with insanity. He grabbed her arm with one of his hands and broke it at her elbow. He fell to the ground and sonidoed away. His laughs echoed around the room.
Mins grabbed her arm relocating it. Broken yes, but no longer dangling. She wont be able to use it, but after all, she does have two arms. “I see the real you has finally come out to play with me. I find you a lot of fun to play with Shin.” Her sword started to swing again, but after the third swing it spun like a wheel. Time seemed to slow and the air felt heavy for Zeshin and the more her sword spun the slower the seconds ticked by.
Finally, Zeshin found himself standing in one place as Mins was walking toward him. He swung at her, but to his surprise she graceful caught his sword arm and placed back at his side. She removed his sword from his hands and through it across the room sticking in the wall farthest away from them. “Now Shin. I think it is time you learned that you are a toy and nothing more to me. Don’t worry though. I like you. So I will take my time with your punishment so I can keep you around longer.”
So she had slowed time around him. This battle was proving to be difficult. If he was able to 'catch up' with this time then that would render the slowed time mute. There was only one way to do that and that was sonido, but in his state she could easily stop him. He had to find a way to protect himself while he caught up with time. He knew of a way, but he had not wanted to reveal it so soon. He slowly reached his hand up and concentrated.
Mins walked around Zeshin touching his limbs as she did, "What should I alter first. An arm? A leg perhaps?” She let her fingertips glide slowly down his cheek, “Your face is much too cute to start with first. But your eyes! I just love your eyes. I will have to keep one for myself when I am done with you. So tell me Shin?” She leaded in close to his ear and whispered, “where should I start?”
"You should start by holding your breath," he grinned. "Drown, Hielodragon!" His sword liquefied and washed over Mins. It surrounded her completely and pressurized into a sphere that no one could escape. The pressure alone stopped all movement. Zeshin stood up and sonidoed in place until he caught up with time, then turned to look at his prisoner.
He reached into the water and pried her sword away from her, then, before her very eyes, snapped it in two. He wondered if that caused her pain...
Mins eyes widened as she watched Zeshin snap her sword. It felt like someone had crushed her chest.
"You know, I was going to let you off easy and merely rip your head off," he grinned, "but you made me use my ability. I was saving that for later." He glanced up and the viewing box wickedly.
He tilted his head to the side and glanced at her, "Now I think I'll just crush you." He allowed the pressure to increase rapidly.
Mins thrashed away in the sphere trying to break the walls that held her in. The presser growing per square inch every millisecond the hands ticked by. Her chest was being crushed along with her limbs and head. Her eyes started to roll back in her head as her body went limp.
She could not breath she could not escape and now she could not move.
The pressure continued to increase until her body literally imploded. All that remain was a red sphere of blood.
Zeshin returned his blade to it's former state and put it back at his side. When he did the sphere was released an came splashing down, drenching him in red. He merely walked to the door and left the room that was now a sea of blood.
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