The War of Four: A Battle of Brotherhood and Rivalry

The Inevitable Showdown, Black Fire vs White Lightning!
Seigi inhaled, and exhaled calmly. The turmoil ensuing outside of his Clan's walls were like a soothing lullaby to his spirit, the smell of ash a beautiful fragrance, the sound of thunder and explosions a magnificent orchestra, and the constant beating rain like drums of the coming battle for the veteran heir of the Takuji House.

He sat upon an elaborately carved, crimson-obsidian throne, with flames enamored into the head rest of the seat he leaned upon, with plush crimson cusions to make it comfortable to sit for lengthy periods of time. The room was a vast, crimson carpeted hall, where many advisors and guards would sit in a presentable manner, with many torches lit above. However, it laid dark and dormant, with the small exception of a tall doorway nearly fifty meters away from the massive building that Seigi sat upon.

As Seigi kept his eyes closed, he could hear the audible footsteps near the front of the massive building, causing him to inhale once more and exhale, slowing his breathing to be non-visible as the entity approached.

"Welcome home," Seigi spoke smoothly, as his cold, onyx eyes opened slowly to meet the faraway glaring black irises of Shindō standing at the entrance of the gate of the great Takuji Meeting Hall, "brother."

"You don't have the right to call me that, Seigi!" Shind ō snarled out fiercely, his body venting a voluminous amount of Spiritual Pressure into the air, as his body glowed a vibrant blue-white hue, "the only thing you deserve to be called, is traitor!"

Even as his Spiritual Pressure distorted the atmosphere, choking the foundation of the ancient meeting hall, Seigi remained stoic in the face of his brother's vehement projection. In fact, Seigi's calm demeanor made his own violet-black aura contradictory and intimidating when he raised it to match Shind ō's own significant powerful pressure, causing the whole walls to rattle and tremble.

"Foolish little brother. Your mind is clouded with rage and your heart is closed off by grief that has stricken you. At the state you're at, powerful or no, there's no way you can defeat me," Seigi spoke with a chiding tone, as his eyes glared a violet flaming hue.

Shind ō's glare held with Seigi's stare for a good minute, even as the atmosphere cried out with great rage and power, as other warriors clashed repeatedly, making the clouds blacker and larger. It was at this moment, that Shind ō's aura died down, and his glare was replaced with a confident smile.

"Do you find your powerless state amusing?" Seigi inquired rhetorically, not quite curious enough as to what scheme his younger brother had in his mind, but curious enough to know why he smiled.

"Powerless? You misunderstand the nature of my strongest power," Shind ō spoke aloud with a dark tone, as his Zanpakut ō  slid out of his right arm's sleeve, fully grasped in his sword hand, "my Zanpakut ō isn't a mere harness to the weather or controller of thunderstorms. It harnesses the accumulated power of emotions within the land, as well as the conflicts bordering it. Using my own emotions has always allowed me great power, but now, when so many powerful entities surround the very battlefield I have chosen, its magnified much more intensely. With the very heavens already consumed with turmoil and anguish, wrath and grief, rivalry and bloodlust, my power..."

''' KRAAAAAAAAAAAAK-VOOOOOOM!!! '''

"...IS AT ITS PEAK!" Shind ō's eyes suddenly lit up brightly, as his whole body became consumed with a fiery aura of blue-white electricity, as his Zanpakut ō swung upwards towards the ceiling. Within a matter of seconds, a pillar of lightning shattered the roof of the ancient meeting hall and was drawn into Shind ō's blade and coursed around his own aura, with such intensity that it cracked the walls and floor within an instant, turning it into rubble and ash.

It was at this moment, that Seigi's eyes widened with surprise and his mouth half-dropped. He could only utter one word, "Huh..." before he found a fissure of light slam into his body and blow him through the building.

'' To be continued...! ''