<b>Re: Bleach: ZX Advent (Commy, Palaios [since he's joined], &amp;</b><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 9px">Dietor couldn't help but feel a grim sort of satisfaction when he felt his blades cut into Ulquiorra's flesh.  The wounds that they would leave behind would only be superficial, especially considering the Cuarto's powers of regeneration, but they had only served as a diversion for Dietor's kick to slip through and find its mark.  There was a loud and almost sickening <i><b>"CRACK!"</b></i> as Dietor's heel slammed into the side of Ulquiorra's ribs and sent the Espada reeling backwards across the white sands, leaving his back exposed just long enough for Dietor to appear suddenly behind and aim his twin knives right at the spot between Ulquiorra's black wings.  The predatory gleam in the assassin's eyes shone fiercely as the tips of his knives closed the gab between himself and his opponent's unguarded flesh.<br/>
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However, the twitch of movement from Ulquiorra's right wing caught Dietor's attention and forced him to change his tactics at the last moment.  Rather than risk being swatted like a bothersome fly, Dietor instead angled his body downwards and to the side so that he went sailing right <i>beneath</i> the wing just as Ulquiorra swung it at him.  The motion allowed him to rotate his body so that his back was facing the ground, his eyes staring keenly up at the blazing ball of emerald light gathering at the tip of Ulquiorra's finger.<br/>
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And that was when Dietor's new tactic changed even further.<br/>
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With a sudden motion that was both powered by raw speed and by Sonido, Dietor suddenly lashed out again with the blade of his knife and aimed a horizontal slash upward at Ulquiorra.  One that was meant to sever the finger pointing that emerald Cero at him.  If it worked, then Dietor would use his other hand to snatch the finger out of the air and then point it <i>and</i> the gathering Cero right at Ulquiorra so it would go off in his face instead of Dietor's.  And if it didn't...<br/>
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Well...<br/>
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The only thing Dietor could do that in that even was to continue sailing past Ulquiorra and hope that he was faster than that Cero of his.  He may have been the one appointed by Aizen to monitor and even kill any member of the Espada if it was absolutely necessary, but that didn't change the fact that a Cero fired from an Espada in their released form was still a lot stronger than a Cero fired from their sealed form.  Especially when Dietor had chosen to remain in his own sealed form for the time being.  <br/>
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If he <i>did</i> fail to cut off Ulquiorra's finger and turn his own Cero against him, and if he <i>also</i> managed to evade Ulquiorra's Cero on top of that, then Dietor would simply continue to put distance between himself and his opponent.  With his back still parallel to the sands, he would bring his legs up to his stomach and then vault himself backwards into the air before landing into a couch on a clear section of sand.  After that, he doubted that he would have any more time to do anything else before Ulquiorra would make his next move.</span>