New Beginning 15: DX Directors Cut

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

By the way Mika's the weakest and Maka's the strongest of my creations that I've revealed so far. Matsuri is in the middle.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Good to know. Nikolai is the strongest of my normal humans. Then Zei.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Matsuri: "Interesting..."
Matsuri materializes another zanpakuto.
Matsuri: "Let's go with fire and ice. All things of the world return to ashes, RYUJINJAKKA!"
Matsuri fires off twin blasts of fire and ice at Brutus.
Matsuri: "Let's see you block this attack!"

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(Ooohhh...he looks like he's gonna take heed to my lessons at last! )

Brutus looks at the attack, and braces himself, thrusting forward his sword. The attacks are caught, and he slings the sword around twice to sling them off into the far, distant nowhere.

Then he plunges his sword into the ground, dragging the sword through full-force. As the sword trails through the ground, a psychic force builds up behind it, and he cleaves the ground again to propel the earthen psychic attack toward Matsuri.

As it heads her way, he breathes on the sword, sheathing it in a frigid frostbite, and begins running toward her with menace, ready to deal what damage he may.

[Zaleramancer]

T-that one?

THAT ONE?

GAHHHHH! EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

*Flees the impending inferno*

[Celadon's Penultimate]

You is late...

[Zaleramancer]

How powerful IS that weapon?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

[Zaleramancer]

Because the one she just picked up sends people into a panic even before the power has been used.

It was once used to pin up the big bad guy, and some of his cronies.

It's THIS guy's sword.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Kay. I'll keep that in mind.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Matsuri dodges the psychic earth attack and notices the frostbitten sword. Grinning she uses the power of Daiguren Hyorinmaru to move moisture around the sword which then freezes even more becoming heavier in Brutus' arms. Simultaneously, Matsuri teleports behind Brutus and slashes from both sides with Ryujinjakka and Daiguren Hyorinmaru.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Seeing her gone from in front of him, the familiar feeling he got with the Penultimate arose in him. He plunged the sword into the ground, and just as Matsuri teleported behind him, vaulted a front flip over the sword, causing Matsuri's slashing swords to meet only with the overly frozen blade.

Then Brutus grabs the blade up again, and holds it up to the air. For a second it stays suspended mid-air, and then zooms up, like a comet, and bursts into a shower of green-energy, shaped like flaming, razor-sharp leaves.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

In response, Matsuri has all the leaves from Senbonzakura Kageyoshi hit Brutus from all sides as she also freezes the air between her and the flaming leaves.
Matsuri: "Gotcha!"

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 "Noes!!1! Don't do that!!!"

Brutus' body falls limp. The crowd watching in the distance falls into stunned silence. Was he...? Certainly Matsuri couldn't have...victory at THAT price would simply have been too much.

That in mind, it was certainly good that he began, little by little, to get up from his battered state.

However...something was...different about Brutus.

As he arose from his injury, his body seemed a bit more stiff, and yet more loose at the same time.

That, and his eyes were glowing. And his hands. And the sword, which gently descended, knowingly, into his right hand. The wind whipped up again, carrying on them silvery whispers.

"Ba-ba-rai-na...ba-ba-rai-na...ba-ba-rai-na..."

The ground began to tremble, just under him, and his voice was a harsh rasp, echoing the voice on the winds.

"Iyim...esk'n...zund BABARAINA!!!"

Before Matsuri thought to respond, his reflexes went from human to preternatural; he ran forward with a new feeling surging through him, at speeds amplified by an unknown amount. The psychic energy he channeled now changed into some steaming, burning, alien, eldritch force. A mix of psychic energy, electrical power, heat, cold, sound and pure kinetic force...

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Matsuri startled teleports above Brutus and dematerializes both Daigurn Hyorinmaru and Ryujinjakka, then materializes two new zanpakuto.
Matsuri: "Shatter, Kyokasuigetsu! BANKAI! Tensa Zangetsu!"
One zanpakuto turns into a mist that brings forth illusions to confuse Brutus, the other into a black katana.
Matsuri: "Getsuga Tenshou!"
A black wave of energy flies toward Brutus...

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The blast is quick and, again, tosses Brutus back full-blast.

"RRRAAAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHH!!!!!" He exclaims in pain as he goes sailing backward.

He hurtles back into a small, empty duck pond, splashing all the water out. He pulls himself from the crater, still sparking with the occasional flash of painful dark power.

He stumbles to his feet, and turns his head to the side to spit out a piece of stone from the pond. But, overall, he's none the worse for the wear. His sword's energy changes from pinkish-purple to hateful red, and he resumes his attack with speed and quickness like before, sure that he'll find her weakness eventually.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Matsuri: "Tsk! He's quite stubborn. Looks like I need to use that strategy."
Matsuri dematerialized Tensa Zangetsu then materialized Ginjo's weapon. Still using Kyokasuigetsu's illusions, she teleports next to Brutus and stabs him once to absorb his energy from him.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Brutus yells out hatefully as the sword is stabbed into his side. But the warrior spirit that now claimed him, refused to let go of the sword. The wound literally clung to the sword with all its might.

Feeling a psychic vibration through the metal, he blinks, and then meets eyes with her, his mind simply too angry to fall for the mirage any longer. The sheer force of his anger reverberates through the sword, and he cries out again hatefully, backlashing her own energy back at her, adding his own psychic force, kinetic force and other energies behind it, and thrusting out the sword full blast, to boot.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Matsuri is blasted backward from the force of the energies but stands back up again. She then teleports into the air.
Matsuri: "Thanks for the energy, I was running out anyway. Now... Let's switch themes... Inuyasha theme... Rejected. I know! Let's go with... a Fairy Tail theme!"
Armor appears on Matsuri and swords appear in a semicircle as all the Bleach stuff disappears.
Matsuri: "Let's start with Riza."
She then sends all the blades to stab Brutus.

[Zaleramancer]