A smoke bear? She fired a cero at it but that hardly slowed it down. so her two daggers blocked it's arms from getting around her while she blocked it's face from getting closer to her with the flat of her rapier. As her eyes moved down she saw Sumoki show up and attempt to stab her in her tummy which she was not fond of. Having had just about enough of this guerilla tactic distraction bullshit she used her Sound Burst ability and caused a pulse of sound so thick and powerful that it knocked the smoke, the bear, and Sumoki backwards away from Tara for a short distance. While this pushback attack was basically a non-threat as it's force was a mere bala.. it did keep them away from her long enough to give her room to breath.

She did not squander that time.

She formed a sound ball in her hand, cocooned it in her reiatsu, and caused it to light on fire. This flaming "rasengan" was then hurled at Sumoki's bear three times in rapid baseball pitcher style, each flaming sphere exploding for a small burst when it made contact with anything else. The total damage of the flaming orbs would be around the same as a normal Cero and she was kind of hoping that would be enough to destroy the stupid smoke bear.

As far as Sumoki goes, while Tara was unleashing these baseball pitches at his monster, holes opened up in the air above him and two spears popped out at high speed trying to skewer him at diagonal angles aiming to enter at both shoulders and exit at either side of his waist. One more hole appeared above Tara's head and an axe boomeranged itself at him from said hole trying to lodge itself in his chest just for good measure.

The bear ate the cero for lunch and kept coming, though it's form had become demonstrably weaker from the offensive. The pulse immediately gave Tara the space she needed, propelling both Sumoki and the bear away as the howl and scream of tinnitus worked it's way through Sumoki's ear drums yet again. The damage wasn't a huge problem, but he could feel pain in his ribs from the concussive effects of the attack when he breathed. The bear ate two of the fireballs intended for it, narrowly avoiding a third as it's visage began to fade from the picture slowly but surely.

While it was still up, Sumoki Shunpo'd forward quickly eager to capitalize on the free moment. One spear was narrowly avoided, but the other buried it's way through side even as he contorted to avoid it, puncturing his left lung and leaving him to a wheezing-half breathing state that would challenge his ability to continue in this fight. He latched onto the Arrancar with his arms as his bear used the last of it's energy to deflect the oncoming axe. A bloody smirk would cross Sumoki's lips as he quickly uttered the words. "Ignite and burn.."

In an instant, the smoke cloud they'd been occupying for this entire fight would be converted to a much more murky mix of hot ash and smoke. An explosion of energy would consume both combatants to accomplish this effect, and while he couldn't be sure his attack had landed on the Arrancar, he knew he'd scorched himself pretty good. His body was covered with 1st-2nd degree burns in some places, and his wheezing ensured he no longer held the element of surprise if he'd ever had it all. Of course, provided he'd been able to hold on for the explosion he would immediately let go so that he wasn't diced to ribbons.

Now to see how effective this had truly been..

The bear proved more resilient than Tara had suspected, but it was being damaged irregardless by the flare bombs she hurled at it. However what she wasn't ready for was being hugged by Sumoki, who seemed to flare his reiatsu and say something right before essentially exploding the area around the two of them. Her two daggers immediately spun away from the bear and attempted to dig into Sumoki's back, but Tara herself was coughing, covered in burns, and spitting up some blood from internal trauma since ya know she just took an explosion point blank.

Growling through the pain she attempted to grab the spear sticking out of Sumoki, only for him to quickly move backwards out of her grasp before she could yank if out of him and slap him with it. Instead she fired all five of her allotment hurling an arrow at each shin, a dagger at his face, another axe which tried to bury itself in his right shoulder, and a.. wait was that a large golden dumbell? anyways it tried to land on top of him and pin him to the ground with it's sheer weight.

Utterly annoyed that he continued to bombard her with such high powered attacks, she almost questioned if he was some kind of bottomless power source and almost, ALMOST, became scared of him. However she heard his blood sloshing about from his spear wound, his heart was beating faster due to adrenaline, and his breathing was getting worse.

The sounds of a dying man invigorated her enough for one last attempt to end the little shit. Raising a hand and pointing at him she spiked her reiatsu and lifted her finger up as if motioning for him to come and get her, except this created a giant column of fire that rose until it was fifty feet tall and was twenty feet wide right under his feet for the same power he had just used on her. Even should he dodge this, the column of flames would ring outwards with sound, sound that was amplified and sent as a shockwave away from the fire for up to an additional fifty feet possibly snagging him anyways although this secondary attack would only be on a level of a cero rather than the flames massive gran rey levels.

With that she was essentially spent, all things considered, while she could keep fighting, and she could even likely kill the man.. She saw no point. She had stated she wasn't willing to eat him because she didn't like shinigami and was already full. If he was dead already, oops, but if he was not, regardless of whether or not he was rwady or willing to continue fighting...

Tara started walking away, grumbling, slightly limping as she held one side, unless re-engaged for a true fight to the death Tara would consider this fight over. Sonido'ing into the direction Lazarus was most likely to be in at the moment given he was within inches of some quincy somewhere as far as Tara could tell from where she was.

He would either dismiss her for bothering him, send her home for rest, or kill her for losing. She wasn't actually sure which and didn't particularly care at the moment.

Good news! The attack had worked as intended and if the womans current condition was anything to go off of, the fight was nearing it's dramatic conclusion. Bad news! This didn't deter her from a further offensive and if anything it seemed to encourage her to go for a much more direct offensive aimed at eviscerating him on the spot. He would backpedal, doing his best to avoid her offensive as various sharp objects did their damnedest in spite of him. The axe sliced his shoulder, but the backwards momentum was enough to avoid it getting lodged in there though it was now very out of commission. One arrow lodged in his shin, but he'd been able to dance around and avoid the rest of the offensive through little more than luck and ingenuity. The bell was more of a problem, and he had to use ignite to poof away from it in order to avoid being trapped.

Sumoki's breath became raspy, and he was fortunate that this technique had, by proxy, helped in him avoiding the oncoming pillar of flames. Unfortunately, this pillar of flames carried a shockwave that had, effectively, blown Sumoki away and left his ears almost totally shot in the interim. As he began to rise to his feet, he noticed the Arrancar walking away and instead of trying to go back in for a 50/50 offensive, he elected to use Bakudo 26 to stalk her back to their leader. When he arrived, he couldn't believe his eyes. It was his first glimpse, his first fleeting glance at the Hollow King..

Lazarus.

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