A/N...ADDED A BIT MORE CONTENT...NEW FIC WITH SUMMARRY INCLUDED...RUKIA ON A MISSION TO A FORGOTTEN RUIN..SHE FINDS AND UNLEASHES AN ANCIENT BEING...WILL THIS BEING HELP HER...DESTROY ALL OR MAYBE JUST BECOME SOMEONE SHE CAN FALL FOR...OOC ON SOME AND AU...THE SETTING IS AFTER THE WINTER WAR BUT AIZEN IS NOT SEALED..HE ESCAPES.
[Edited...10/19/15]
DISCLAIMER..I DO NOT OWN BLEACH OR MUSIC USED
*In the Beginning...There was The Balance & The Four...These Four reigned...War...Famine...Pestilence and Death upon their foes...However the Balance was Broken and The Four Cast out and Sealed...Should They ride oncemore..all worlds will suffer their transgression...Lets us now gaze into the ether and See how the world will sway...as The Four Return*
THE FOUR
Rukia Kuchiki bows in front of the Head Captain of the Gotei13, "Lt Kuchiki...we will be sending you on a mission to the world of the living" yamamoto stated. Rukia stiffened slightly, "What kind of mission?" she asked. The doors slowly opened revealing a figure, "this mission is from the Soul King himself...Aizen Sosuke seeks to unearth something that should remain hidden" a voice stated. Rukia turned to see a woman with long purple hair wearing black haori, "I'm former squad twelve Captain Kirio Hikifune...now apart of squad zero" she stated. Rukia bowed once again, "why was I chosen?" she asked. Kirio handed rukia an envelope, "this mission must remain a secret...should you fail...the captains may be the only ones capable of standing against this...however...the true reason you were chosen will be revealed in time...take this...it has the location of where you need to go" kirio replies. Rukia bows to them and heads home to prepare, "all hope lies with her...if she fails its the end of all things...should either be released..." yamamoto states. Kirio watches rukia leave, "I know...its a terrible thought but we must lay those hopes in someone so young" she replies. Rukia returns home to find byakuya waiting, "good afternoon..Nii-sama" she greeted. Byakuya slowly nodded, "good afternoon..what did the Head Captain discuss with you?" he asked. Rukia diverted her gaze but quickly looked him in the eye, "a simple mission...I must leave tonite" she replies. Byakuya kept his gaze neutral, "I see..please be careful" he stated, heading to the garden. Rukia sighed in relief entering her room and started packing her things, "I'm Sorry Nii-sama but this is my mission" she thought.
IV
Rukia arrived at the senkai gate where ukitake was waiting, "Please be careful Rukia" he smiled and she bowed, "I will Captain Ukitake" rukia smiled back. The gate opened and rukia raced in and after a few minutes arrived in tokyo, "ok from here..its to Shinjuku to meet the resident soul reaper" she thought, vanishing. Rukia arrived in Shinjuku and was hit by a pulse of reiatsu, following the source and she found a soul reaper with white hair in tight ponytail, "Hajimemashite...I am Yusei Mikonori" he stated, bowing. Rukia bowed to yusei, "I am Rukia Kuchiki..Lt of squad 13...a pleasure" she greets. Yusei glanced around, "Now that you here...we can head to the temple" he stated. Rukia looked at yusei confused, "a temple?" she asked. Yusei tilted his head, "yes..did you open the envelope?...we are to head to Mt. Asahi in the Yamagata prefecture...Aizen's reiatsu was traced there" he stated. Rukia nodded and the pair vanished and about an hour later arrived in Hokkaido to a small home, "we will stay here tonite and tommorrow head to the mountain" yusei stated and ruka bows, "alrite..goodnight" rukia states. Yusei bows to her but rukia does not notice the smirk on his face, "so trusting" he whispers. Rukia enters her room and unpacks, opening the envelope that kirio gave her and finds a small pendant and a note, "a powerful kido is in place..use this when you arrive" it read but rukia paid the note no mind and went to sleep.
IV
The next morning yusei and rukia head to Mt. Asahi and headed up the summit, "its up ahead" yusei stated. Rukia walked close behind him, "I sense something off about him" she thought. Rukia could feel a disturbance and the pendant she carried started to glow, "what is this?" she thought, lifting the pendant. The area started to glow and a huge temple appears adorned with huge statues of ancient warriors and monsters, "Who dare comes to this place?!" a voice echoed. Rukia and yusei looked around and saw a old man with a chain in his chest standing on the steps. Rukia took a few steps forward, "We are looking for someone called Aizen!" she stated. The man looked around, "Never Heard of him...now Go Away!" he shouted. Rukia was not dissuaded, "We were sent to stop him from unearthing something...something that should remain hidden!" she shouted. The man's old eyes widen, "No!...This Aizen seeks One of The Four?!...Is he mad?!...they must never see the light of day again!" the man stated. Rukia slightly gasped, "The Four..who are they?!" she stated. The man walked down the steps, "they are the end of everything...come...I'll show you" he stated. Rukia and yusei followed the old man inside through many halls. Along the way they saw painting of four beings on horseback, one with a huge sword and another with a huge scythe. The other two were a man in a black robe with a scale and a sickly looking woman, "Who are you old man?" yusei asked. The man stopped in front of a huge door adorned in skulls and and swords, "I am Merious...guardian of this place...for the last three millennia" he stated. Rukia and yusei gasped, "I have watched over this place to make sure these two are Never awakened again...here sit..I'll explain" merious stated.
Merious sat down with a groan, "many millennia ago..the first Soul king..." he started and rukia gasped, "wait...first Soul King?" she asked. Merious nodded, "the current Soul King is the Third...now to keep the balance of the three worlds...the realm of man...the realm of the soul...and the realm of the demon or hollows...He created four being of overwhelming power to maintain the balance...in a way the very first soul reapers" he explained. Rukia's violet eyes slightly widen and merious cleared his throat, "The first was War...a beast of destruction and rage...The second was Famine...a being of balance and counter balance...The third was Pestilence...a being of disease...The final one was Death...the overseer of life and death...it is death where the name shinigami came from...As the millenniums passed these four watched over the balance but the four began to splinter" merious explained, finally pointing to a painting. The mural showed a hooded figure with a scythe and another hooded figure with a large sword on opposite sides, "War and Death walk hand in hand...However...War became infatuated with his power and sought to kill the second soul king but Death refused...Pestilence and Famine were forced to choose sides...Famine siding with his brother War and Pestilence choosing her brother Death...their battle raged for centuries till finally a man with help of the second soul king and many others quelled their fury...Both were sealed here in this temple...however famine and pestilence vanished from the world...both never seen or heard from again...Should either be awakened could spell doom for this world" merious explained.
IV
Rukia sat in shock, "why would the Head Captain choose me for something of this magnitude?!" she thought. Yusei coughed slightly, "did you know Death fell in love with the second Soul king's youngest daughter...that was the reason he refused to follow War" he stated. Rukia and merious turned to yusei, "how could you know that...Only someone from that era would know that" merious stated. Yusei smirked deviously, making rukia slowly went for her sword but a burning pain erupted in her back, looking back she saw aizen standing behind her, in all white save for a flowing black coat with his sword drawn and dripping with blood. Rukia turned to yusei and he faded into mist as she collapsed, "thank you Rukia-chan for leading me here...Its been so long...Now...War will walk the earth once more" aizen smirked. Rukia writhed on the floor in pain, "Aizen...Why would you awaken such a monster?!" she shouted. Aizen turned to her, "A monster?!...No far from it...besides he and I share a common path" he smirked, turning to the huge door. Merious stood with a spear in his hand, "You Shall not Pass...War must must never Awakened!" he shouted but it was over in second.
[song playing...Incantation part C Opus1...bleach ost]
Merious lay crumpled on the ground, "now to awaken War...I have the blood of the Innoccent and the blood of the Just" aizen smirked. Aizen stood in front the huge door and pointed his left hand at the door as white cero formed and blasts a hole in the large door. Rukia slowly made it to merious as aizen walked inside, "What did he mean innoccent and just?" she whispers. Merious struggles to one knee, "the blood is the life...it was used to seal both War and Death but for War both was used" he whispers. Aizen walked through the darkness of the huge room littered with chains. All leading to center and at the center stood a huge stone like kneeling figure, his arms apart bound in chains. Aizen smirked softly as he wiped the blood on his hand, "Soon you will be free" he states and wipes the blood across the stone and it seeps in. The stone soon reacts and starts to suddenly splinter and crack across its face to alog its arms. The stone figure started to crack more and more as flames erupted from the cracks. The chains started to melt as aizen watched on with a vicious smirks on his face, "The World will tremble in your wake" he declared.
[song playing...Cometh the hour part A...bleach ost]
The temple starts to rumble as the door caught fire, splintering and cracking. Rukia is suddenly hit by a crushing reiatsu burst, "what a power..its so malicious...evil...dark" she thought. Merious shook wide eyed as a half the door fell and a large fiery skeletal rock like hand gripped the door, "No!...War has been awakened" he gasped. The last of the door fell and the nearly thirty foot tall creature came into view. A fiery looking rock like creature with a skull like face and two huge black curved down horns. The creature reared up and let out an ear splitting roar, before revealing blood red eyes.
"Who Dares Disturb My Slumber?!" it bellowed. Aizen emerged from behind the creature, "I have Brother" he stated. The creature roared as rukia and merious looked on, "Brother?!...I have no human brother" it growled. Rukia slowly got to her feet, "brother..what does Aizen mean?" she thought. The creature looked down and sniffed aizen, "Hmm...I see..It has been too Long...Famine" it bellowed. Rukia and Merious stood wide eyed, "War and Famine have returned and the World is Doomed" aizen smirked.
TO BE CONTINUED
A/N...CH 1 IS DONE...WHAT DO YOU THINK SO FAR?...I USED THE MORE POPULAR FORM OF THE HORSEMEN...I.E..WAR..DEATH..FAMINE..PESTILENCE...DO YA LIKE THE TWIST OF AIZEN BEING FAMINE?...ALSO HOW DOES RUKIA PLAY INTO THIS AND WHY WAS SHE CHOSEN...NEXT CHAPTER...DEATH IS AWAKENED AND WHO PESTILENCE?...DROP ME A LINE IF YOU WANNA GUESS...STAY FROSTY...PEACE