124 – I’ve Changed

124 – I’ve Changed

=Nelliel=

"How dare you show yourself in front of me again!" Nnoitra shouted.

Nnoitra recklessly swung his Zanpakuto, but Nelliel blocked it effortlessly with her own.

He grimaced. "Did you really think you could just walk back in like nothing happened?!" He said.

She looked at him with a neutral gaze ignoring him.

"You were nothing then and you are nothing now!" He shouted even louder.

Tesra tried taking advantage of her Zanpakuto being occupied to attack her from the other side, but she flipped over using her clash with Nnoitra as a pivot and kicked Tesra away like an annoying fly sending him bouncing off the ground until he hit one of the trees lining the clearing.

She parried Nnoitra's Zanpakuto to the side and followed up immediately with a swing down at him.

He dashed backwards to dodge and was mostly successful. The only thing she managed to cut with his cloth eyepatch causing it to split and fall off revealing the Hollow hole instead of an eye hiding behind it.

His eye narrowed as he stared at her cautiously. His gaze shifted to Tesra. "Get up you weakling!" He shouted.

Tesra struggled to his feet. His legs already shaking just from resisting a single blow.

Nnoitra dashed towards Nelliel swinging his Zanpakuto as hard as he could into her side.

She blocked it with her own Zanpakuto sending her sliding a few steps to the side before coming to a halt.

"You're too weak Nnoitra. You always were. Nothing has changed," she said calmly.

His gaze sharpened.

Tesra disappeared from where he was standing reappearing behind Nelliel swinging his Zanpakuto at her back.

Nelliel opened her mouth. Just before the Cero reached her it came to a sudden halt as if it hit a wall and slowly decreased in size while she slowly sucked it up into her mouth as if it were some kind of snack.

Nnoitra's eye widened.

Before he could react she spat it back out. "Haa!" She shouted.

The golden beam had turned purple was larger, more powerful, and faster than before as it hurtled right back at Nnoitra.

He tried to dodge, but he was too slow getting hit directly as it blasted him into the forest leaving a line of destruction into the forest of Menos with shattered and collapsed trees along the way until he finally came to a stop with one final collision and the energy contained in the beam detonated into a giant explosion with Nnoitra at the centre.

Tesra froze, his eyes darting between Nelliel and where Nnoitra had gone flying off to. He seemed to hesitate and his grip on her loosened.

Nelliel used his moment of distraction to turn and swung her Zanpakuto at him.

He realised too late and despite his best last ditch effort to dodge still lost an arm and was sent scrambling back.

A few moments later a far more injured Nnoitra scrambled out of the pile of rubble he was buried under.

He swung his arm at the rubble sending large chunks of it flying away in all directions.

He grimaced. "Cero Doble... how could I forget?" He groaned.

He glared at Nelliel, but didn't dive right back into the fight.

"No I refuse to stand below you again! I'll show you! You're nothing! I'll show you how I've changed!" He shouted.

A golden aura enveloped Nnoitra and the spirit particles in the atmosphere grew excited swirling around and towards him violently.

He raised his Zanpakuto up high. "Pray! Santa Teresa!" He shouted.

A bright golden light burst from the Zanpakuto blinding them for a moment.