Svan's breakdown (open)

[shinnmaru/ Tenma]

"Really pretty." Tabris said as the clone of fire rushed at him. It exploded at a close distance and made sand and dust fly up around him. A few seconds later, Svan's flames began to toast the area, and his sword began swinging. However, there was no sound of burning flesh or hacked bodies. On the contrary, the only sound was a metallic ringing made by Svan's sword.

"Damn." Tabris said, his voice seemed to come from above. "You're recklessss and impatient like this too." As the smoke cleared, Tabris's position was revealed. His naginata was implanted deep into the sand, the shaft of the weapon had extended itself upwards to where Tabris now stood on its end, approximately 5 feet above Svan. He had used his zanpakuto to dodge the initial explosion. As a result, Svan's spray of fire only hit the shaft of the weapon, as did his sword swings which explained the ringing.

Tbaris jumped down from his perch, one of his legs extended so that he would probably land on Svan's face.

[Clous / Svan / Derek]

"Well, I wouldn't say that." Svan moved back as Tabris started to make his move. Part of him wanted to just burn his leg off. But that was too simple and Svan wouldn't have enjoyed that at all. Svan used sonido to move up into the air above Tabris. He raised his left hand again, and fire off two bala with the third shot being a fire ball.

[shinnmaru/ Tenma]

"Above?" Tabris asked sarcastically, staring up at Svan. "How cliche."

Tabris's body began to twist in midair, performing some kind of sinister unheard of feat. His right arm spread flat across his chest with the palm out, and the left across his back in the same fashion. As the two blasts of the bala came towards him, his arms moved from the chest and the back, his hands now lightly touching the bala. It looked as if he were turning himself with only his arms. His hands, although only lightly gripping them in his palms for a mere second, were thrown off course towards the right and left sides of Tabris, corresponding to where he released them.

His body still in a twist, he used his still outstretched right arm to grip the shaft of his zanpakuto; and, using the momentum he attained in midair, swung his body around his zanpakuto, his legs traveling upwards until he and the zanpakuto were released from the sand and the heat of the fireball that nearly missed Tabris.

Tabris landed about 5 feet away, and prepared his zanpakuto for battle by taking a lightly defensive stance.

"What'sss up with thiss crap?" Tabris asked in an almost unusual serious tone. His normal smile was replaced with a dark scowl that marked he seemed to be severely unhappy. "Hurry up and return control to the old Svan, this new Svan isn't really Ssssvan at all. This isn't very exciting at all, not Svan at all. This isn't even an evolution, if anything it'sss a degradation. You're not the future version of Svan I trained against so just retire."

[Clous / Svan / Derek]

Svan gritted his teeth at Tabris, obviously pissed off. “I have a better idea. How about you die, and I devour you? And really I couldn’t care less what you wanted.” Using sonido, Svan appeared in front of Tabris, A cero more than ready for release was held in his mouth. A strange smile seemed to appear in his eyes as he looked in the eyes of Tabris. At the last minute Svan used sonido a gain to change his angel. Now behind Tabris the cero as released at point blank causing an explosion. "Hehe, hows that?"

[Jinn / Gojyo]

Gojyo was on his was back to Las Noches when he heard the explosion. This perked his curiosity, the speedy Espada walked casually to near the fight when he saw Svan and Tabris, one in a crator of the others Cero. He chuckled a little out of charcter and sat down on a dune, he was ready to move.

As he watched Svan's movements he figured he was in one of his raging moods and figured best not to get involved with these higher ups considering that the only way he would live would be by his higher speed, and he wasn't even sure of that being up to scratch to theres.

He coughed once or twice and said "May i be of help?" He asked leaning back on seemingly two hands when he was really getting ready to draw his unusually large Zanpaktou from its sheath behind his lower back, and holding the appearence of leaning back with his other right arm

[shinnmaru/ Tenma]

The explosion of the cero made the sand fly up in the air. It also created a rather large crater, and the sound of the sand shifting to fill in the new hole could be heard, a ominous hissing sound.

The back of Tabris's robes were burnt, some small blackened pieces came crumbling off. However, it looked as if Tabris was unharmed. He was standing in the same spot as before, only his feet had adjusted to balance himself on the crater. Across his back, besides the burn marks was the blade of his zanpakuto. The naginata had completely bent backwards and had impacted upon the cero before it hit the mark.

With no sound at all the zanpakuto shifted back into its original form. Only the sound of the hissing sand filled the air as Tabris turned around to face Svan. His eyes had an unusual gleam about them, not a murderous or wrathful gleam, but a shine of unbridled aggravation.

"You don't understand." He said, grinding his teeth as he made out the words. "I want you to be stronger than this... I want to fight you like that... I want to struggle."

His eyes shot over to the espada on the sand. "No. 8, Gojyo. Do what you like, I don't care if you get in my way or not."

"You're so weak now Svan. It's saddens me to hear your soul cry out with such tepid flames. But don't worry, I'll ween you off of this weakness like you would with a baby and its bottle."

Tabris turned his naginata upside down and stuck the blade into the sand. He curled both is hands into fists, his slender fingers cracking. As he extended them back, Tabris disappeared into a blur. He leaped at Svan with his arm held back. His hand shot forward, his arm making a strange spiral turn as it aimed towards Svan's chest. A flash of color went by and Tabris appeared again, this time behind. His arm making the same spiral motion towards Svan's back. Another flash of color. Tabris's image had appeared three more times, on both sides as well as from directly above. His arm making the exact same motion as all the rest.

[Clous / Svan / Derek]

Svan was overly annoyed and strung out by now. As Tabris started to move Svan had to admit that he was fast, there were even times when Svan lost sight of him completely. Fire rose from practically nowhere in a vague attempt to defend Svan. The first strike from Tabris was blocked, as the fire seemed to have a solid base when it was used for defense, however when Svan’s mind was in its current state, the fire which was usually stronger than it was now, was also slower, and was having trouble keeping up with Tabris. “Shit, don’t move around so much.” Svan was knocked to his knees as Tabris struck his back. A loud crack could be heard as his shoulder blade was knocked out of place. “Damn it!” Why are you so slow? Your hurt now and your focus is spread thin. I think I’ll take it from here. No you can’t, bastard I won’t-!

Svan spun with a fluid motion sending a kick into the dirt forcing it to fly up into the air. At the same time a small burst of fire was sent through the ground to cause smoke forming a smoke screen. Simply jumping at an angle Svan sent himself into the form of a back flip and landed clear from Tabris. Svan stood up from his knelt position, while snapping his shoulder blade back into place. Svan used sonido also forming three fire clones and flew towards the area. Svan jumped into the air sending a tooth jolting round house kick to the left side of Tabris’ face.

[shinnmaru/ Tenma]

Tabris received the kick to the face and a wave of sand flew up as he was pushed backwards for about 4 feet. He had remained on his feet and smiled. A small trickle of blood escaped from his mouth when he smiled, so he spit the rest onto the sand.

"You made me bite my cheek." He said through lightly-blood covered teeth. "Are you back yet Svan, or is this another personality that I should know about?"

[Clous / Svan / Derek]

"Don't worry, I'm back, just a bit surprised. I usually know when its comming. That was a bit unexpected. Besides. I usually fight smart uless im really pissed off." Svan plased his zanpakuto back to its place in the sash on his hip. "I'm still a bit out of it though. The eight espada showing up is also a bit unexpected. He would have already been out here for him to find us so quickly. There's only so fast he can go after all."

[shinnmaru/ Tenma]

"That'sss more like it"! Tabris said happily, completely shattering his once serious attitude. "I knew it was you from that kick, the real Svan. The Svan that will become like what I imagined, the Svan that could make me struggle."

Tabris walked over to his zanpakuto and rested it lazily on his shoulder. "Oi, Gojyo"! He called out. "It's all clear over here, but why were you out in the desert in the first place?"

[Jinn / Gojyo]

Gojyou stayed sat down, its not like he was hiding , he cupped a hand around his mouth and said "Same goes for you two" He almost chuckled. He stood up full height and soindo'd to near the three and said "Besides that was a good light show, passes the time" He had small traces of a smile on his face as he looked at the other two Espada. He was thinking of how to word his sentances as they could both kill him in moments of they so pleased.

[shinnmaru/ Tenma]

Tabris could tell that the 8th espada was rather nervous. "Well, all right then." He responded, as he wasn't about to tell Gojyo about what he and Svan had been up to.

A piece of Tabris's clothing fell off in a blackened lump onto the sand.

"Dammit Svan, you ruined my clothes." He said, trying to fake acting angry. "They were custom made too. Well then, I'll see you two later. I'll have to make a short trip back to Las Noches to retrieve a new shirt."

With a smile and a wave, Tabris disappeared into a narrow garganta that would connect back to Las Noches.

[Clous / Svan / Derek]

Svan decided to play coy. “Oh, but that wasn’t me.” He tried to add an innocent tone to his voce, but overall it just came out sounding sarcastic. And once again I’m left here to pick up the pieces. “Well, as you can see it was just a little fight between two Espada. Nothing more, or less. Lets just say it was training. Anyway head back to Los Noches.” Svan opened a garganta for the eighth espada to walk through, and After he would follow.

[Jinn / Gojyo]

Gojyou raised an eyebrow, it was odd for the other Espada to even notice him let alone offer a Garganta back. Still technically they were the higher officers and he bowed his head and said "Fine, i might as well head to the library" He sighed and walked into the Garganta into Las Noches