fandomhigh | Building a Better Fighter [Week 1, Period 5]; Thursday 05/17

As the students settled into the Danger Shop, which looked like a suburban street in Tokyo, Kenpachi and all his massiveness came in with a billowing of his tattered, frayed captain's robes and stood before them with his arms crossed over his barrel of a chest. His eye scanned over the group, and he sneered. Pathetic. Almost every single one of them. Some...could have potential, but that would be left to be seen.

"Building a Better Fighter," he announced, a bit hoarsely, and he cleared his throat, rubbing at the bandage wrapped around it. "You are here because you are weak. You are here because you hope to not be weak. But some of you will always be weak. Don't be one of those people." He grinned now, something as sharp as his features, as deeply cut as the scars on his jagged face. Something...more than just a little bit psychotic.

"I'm going to skip all the getting-to-know-you bullcrap because I don't care. I might, if I feel you're worthy, but, right now, I don't. Make me care. Make me feel like you were actually worth naming."

"This is Yachiru." As if on cue, the little pink haired poked her head out and she waved with a bright smile at all the students. "She's here to help you. Or make your life more miserable. Which is also to be determined."

"This is your first task." A great, looming monster showed up beside Kenpachi, its colours distinctly black and white, its limbs distorted. It tilted back its head in a strange moan of a roar and then turned its eyes, dark and hidden behind a mask, to the students. "This is a Hollow. None of you, I've noticed, seem to be Shinigami and might never actually have to deal with one of these in reality. However, one of you..." Kenpachi's eyes went to the boy; he should know who he was, "...have managed to encountered them before. With the strange magic that is this room, however, you do not need to worry about being mundane in spiritual things in order to see them. To defeat a Hollow, you..."

There was a pause. "You know what? I'm not going to tell you how to defeat it. See if you can figure it out yourself. Get yourself 'killed,' and you're done. Don't want to see you in this room anymore until next week, where you will make up for your failure. Manage to defeat it or at least survive, then you're lucky."

Crossing his arms over his chest, he waited for the first student to step up and take the challenge.

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Alec grumbled and stuffed the gun in the waistband of his pants rather than waste the rest of his ammo. "I really don't think that's your best look," he said, eyeing them a moment as he decided his next move.

He finally darted forward, attempting a somersault that would roll him between their legs and put him right in the middle of their group, hopefully so he could use his fists and feet to find out how they fared against blunt trauma.

Collectively, they all turned inward toward where Alec had rolled, wishing he wouldn't move so damn much.

This? Was probably not a good idea, but hell, this was the Danger Shop and Alec didn't usually have a chance to totally throw caution to the wind.

As soon as they all turned towards him, he picked one at random and darted forward, attacking with a flurry of punches backed with more than human strength and speed.

The flurry of attacks was more than effective in driving the chosen Hollow back and, eventually, knocking it down to the ground. Just as it was confused by the sudden assault, so were the others, who just stood and watched as their counterpart took the beating.

Alec was at the thing's head immediately when it fell, and pulled back his fist to deliver a strike to the mask that would, hopefully, destroy it as much as the bullets had done the others' earlier.

With that more-than-human strength of his, the mask cracked pretty easily under Alec's forceful punch, and the remaining four lifted their heads and let out a long, low, collective wail. They could not allow him to destroy any more of them. They gathered around him quickly. Must not give him another chance!

Adrenaline surging through him, Alec seemed outwardly calm and completely in his element, using it to concentrate on the task at hand. Alec drew his gun and retreated just far enough that they couldn't yet reach him with those freaky, gaping mouths. Focused, he sighted on one and fired at the mask, then did the same to another before he'd even seen if the first one hit or not.

Alec's aim was good and true ~~and the battle had lasted forever already anyway~~, on both masks, and the numbers were left to two. They would have had him already if it weren't for the fact that he was so quick and could move away like that. The remaining two hesitated...was it worth it? After so many others had fallen, they could see success would be unlikely...

Taking the opportunity afforded by their hesitation, Alec fired twice more.

The first one was hit easily; the second attempted to turn away, but its large body was far too big and slow to have evaded in time. The remaining Hollows disappeared, leaving Alec alone until Kenpachi stepped forward.

He had no words for a student that would rely so heavily on a weapon like a gun; he was trying to forget, as well, that there had at least been one taken down without it. It suggested that this student wouldn't be completely dependent on such a weapon, and he was feeling...antagonistic. So he kept it simple. "...You are dismissed."

That was no more than he'd ever recieved from his commanding officers at Manticore, really. Alec shrugged, smirking smugly, and headed over to watch the rest of the battles from the sidelines.

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