The patchy gait the Quinta--former Quinta--struck up was all but pathetic. Grimmjow nearly pitied him, but that was the price to pay for recklessly fucking with power. When their masks had broken for the first time, it'd granted opulence, strength beyond their prior limitations, but further racking spiraled haphazardly into chaos. As with the rest of their ranks, he'd heard the rumors sung by shy birds, what had happened to a previous Tercera.
Their world was not one of honor.
Finishing his count to twenty, Grimmjow kicked aside some of the rubble that had splayed across the arctic tile, listening to the hollow echo as it tumbled to a halt. To his credit, Nnoitra had retained his stealth. Not that it would negate his spilling reiatsu, dripping free like sand from a broken glass.
"Ready or not, Jiruga," he hissed through a leer, feeling the Fifth's presence as clear as day, just beyond a few walls.
Before the echo of his words had settled, Grimmjow had torn through the wall into Nnoitra's shelter, the crimson scarlet of bala ripping cold air.
Contorting his spine with feline verocity, Grimmjow lashed out for the other's throat and found it. Seizing hold of the slender neck, the Sexta turned his grip iron as he held the other up, in taunting mimicry of their position only minutes prior.
"You ain't run very far," he commented, airily. "Waitin' for me to catch up," he dropped him, "are ya?" The metal heel of his boot drove into Nnoitra's leg, pinning him there. "Masochist." Squatting down, Grimmjow drove his knee hard into Nnoitra's throat, leaning over him until his face was mere centimeters from his former superior's. Wisps of blue closed the distance between them as Grimmjow greedily drank in the sight of sheer terror before him. Ought he let his plaything go, and have a longer game of cat-and-mouse?
Maybe Nnoitra would offer him an answer.