Post by `ARES on Apr 9, 2009 2:22:27 GMT -5
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[size=1]Gather round children and listen to the tale I have to tell...
Our story begins long ago with the struggles of a valiant Shinigami Hero fighting to protect both the human world and the Soul Society from the threat posed by the Hollow and their kin the Arrancar. A powerful force for good the Hero served both worlds with great honor, purifying Hollows that would have otherwise devoured countless souls in order to feed their insatiable hunger. Within both worlds the Hero was loved for his deeds, but just as with the moon there is always a darker side to every light. Deep within the bowels of Hueco Mundo resided the strongest of the Espada hungering for that next challenge; that next chance to test its power. After searching through the centuries the Espada finally located his challenge in the form of our Hero. Meeting at a strange plane between the worlds the Hero and the Espada faced one another in combat, each battling with all his might to vanquish the other, one to end the crazed reign of his opponent and the other to prove his superiority. For days the battle raged with neither side giving an inch, until suddenly both dropped dead; exhausted of all their energy. The plane, however, refused to allow their spirits to pass on into a new life.
As the years passed the bodiless spirits of the Hero and the Espada continued their epic struggle against on another, eventually merging their bodies into one form unlike anything that anyone has ever or will ever see. Merging completely with one another the pair formed one body, neither that of Shinigami or Arrancar; something entirely new, something known only as the Pulse. But though the souls inhabited one body both spirits still freely existed, still locked in their eternal bout. Thus the story goes that the Pulse remained in the world betwixt the worlds, functioning merely as a container and battlefield for the souls to fight over. Once every so often, however, one of them would gain control over their shared form; and when this happened the results were catastrophic.
The sheer force of their shared reiatsu wreaked havoc throughout the three worlds. Madness emerged in the Seireitei, sending those in the Maggot's Nest into a blind fury as everything in sight became a target to their deadly skills, especially one another. The Hollows of Hueco Mundo shifted into their own rage as well, taking part in mass amounts of cannibalism and attacks on the human world. But by far the Humans received the worst of the Pulse's fury. With each release of its power the Pulse would cause massive damage in the human world, causing the earth to shake, volcanoes to burst, and the very ocean to rise up and overtake the land with its power. Worse yet people and Hollows began to disappear as well, supposedly victims of the Pulse's ravenous Shadow seeking a strong opponent to end its suffering.
Overtime more and more people began to disappear, victims of the Pulse's ravenous hunger. With each new disappearance fear in each of the world began to grow. The fear of being dragged into the world between the worlds to the jaws of death. The fear of being crushed under the weight of the Pusle's power. The fear of never seeing death's embrace coming until it was too late. Though unintentional the Pulse had become the driving force behind every dark action in all the worlds, the fear it created leading to other darker emotions and actions. To combat the effects created by the Pulse the Soul King personally stepped in, sealing the other world away with a powerful Soul Lock forged from his own reiatsu; locking the Pulse and all its power behind the Lock. Then the disasters stopped and people began to stop disappearing. Peace, or as close to it as the worlds can get, flowed back into the worlds.
As we draw closer to the celebration of the King's coronation we are reminded of this tale and of how the Soul King long ago sealed away the plane on which the Pulse existed, locking away its disasters and reiatsu from the rest of the world 1000 years ago.
But that's just an old Shinigami's tale! Isn't it?
A new era is rising as the power of the Soul Lock begins to fade. Slowly the Pulse's power is beginning to seep back into the worlds. A new moon has begun to rise above the worlds.
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