Behind The
Masks
Season 3
Chapter 1: Back for more
My name is Chris Guruma and… honestly I don't know how to begin. Out of all the stories I can tell, this is the hardest one. I'm not sure if it's because of what it tells, or because it's so complex. I'm not sure how to begin, but I suppose I'll just fix it as I go along.
After having locked Milton up inside the Negacion, Charlie seemed to have distanced himself from us. At first he just said he was really busy with "something" and that he didn't have time to hang out like he used to. But then he distanced himself even more from us. He avoided us in between classes; he wouldn't call or pick up our calls; nothing.
Mikey told me he had actually gone to his house a few times but he was "never there". Even his girlfriend Mia seemed to know nothing about him aside from a few phone calls she said they had every day for about 15 minutes. Just looking at Mia, I could tell how much she loved him. She had actually become even closer to Milton's ex-girlfriend Zile than she already was.
After about a month strange things started happening all around the planet. Strange earthquakes in places that have never had one; tornadoes in the Caribbean, snow in Hawaii, there was even a snowstorm in Texas! It was as if Mother Nature had gone out for a weekend trip and never came back.
People were starting to get scared. Mikey and I wished we could do something, but unless it was some sort of Hollow causing it all, we really couldn't do anything; except pray for everything to go back to normal.
One day, as we were walking to the parking lot with our girls Isa and Lahara we sensed a strong current of reiatsu. Lahara and I are more sensible to reiatsu, causing us to get dizzy for a second. Lahara lost her footing and landed on my arms. We told them to go home and flew out to investigate.
When we got to central park, I quickly put on Tennotsukai's cape. We looked around to see where the reiatsu came from. We were surrounded by hollows, the real kind, not the shadow people hollows we fought before. There were hundreds, all over the place. We released out Zanpaktou and began the battle.
"Come Forth… Arufa"
"Descend… Tennotsukai"
We slashed all around us like mad. Every time we turned another hollow was right in our faces. They seemed endless, like if they multiplied. Three of them ganged up on me from behind, I pushed myself backwards sliding under them, and then fired the silver Getsuga Tenshou; three down. Mikey was on the other side beating the crap out of them with his reiatsu punches.
The battle seemed to be endless, until a strange voice came from close by.
"That's enough" it said menacingly
Which was when I noticed that the hollows weren't the source of the reiatsu we sensed earlier; it was that voice. It was so familiar, yet so obscure. The hollows vanished at the sound of the voice. Mikey got to where I was, but just as he was about to say something a strange portal opened behind us.
B-side
A tall, thin figure stepped out. He was dressed in white; his shirt open in the center showing a hole in between his chest and his abdomen. His right eye was covered by what seemed to be a bone like mask, while his left eye had a scar over it, as well as his chest, with an 'X' shaped scar.
"You… how" Mikey asked
He laughed at us like a madman. We looked at each other confused, and then looked back at him. He turned his head slightly and spoke to someone.
"Go ahead"
Another figure stepped out from behind him. He was about as tall as Milton was, also dressed in white. His face was covered by bandages. He drew out what seemed to be a Zanpaktou, while walking towards us. We picked up our stances, ready for anything. He took an impulse step, flying towards us. We protected ourselves with our blades, while he simply used his arm to block us.
He flipped around in midair and dropped his blade towards us. We dodged, but the blade hit the ground creating a shock wave. We were sent flying to opposite sides. We landed and pushed off towards him. He stopped Mikey's sword with his sword and stopped mine with his hand. He pulled me towards Mikey making us crash into each other.
He quickly kicked me sending me flying, then grabbed Mikey by the neck and threw him at me. We crashed again. All this time we could hear Milton laughing his butt off, while that other guy with the bandages seemed to not even be trying to fight; and yet he was wiping the floor with us. Mikey and I joined fists and pointed a hand towards the bandaged guy.
"GRAN REY CERO"
A gold cero and a silver cero were shot at him. He stopped them with his hands, and then closing his fists disintegrated them like nothing. Milton continued laughing. We took an impulse step and flew towards him, but were stopped by his fists, falling to the ground.
"Who is this guy?" Mikey whispered to me
"I think it's time you tell them." Milton told the guy
He removed his bandages, and threw them aside. The man in front of us had some sort of wound, which was covered by another bandage, in his left eye. The rest of the left side of his face was covered by a bone like mask.
"Charlie?" I asked
"The one and only, new and improved" He said walking back towards Milton.
Milton raised his hand, opening up a Garganta. The gray tunnel opened wide enough for the two of them; they walked inside. Right before it closed up Milton turned his head towards us.
"I told you you'd regret it."
