What's up? This is my other Bleach fanfic; it's a crossover with Gargoyles. I will try to update "Yakuza Princess" but right now I'm trying to get inside Grimmjow's head so maybe I can write it in his POV. This takes place during the Goliath Chronicles but the time period is our time or else how can I get Ichigo into this.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bleach or Gargoyles. But I do own Megumi.
As the sun sets on the city of Manhattan, the Clan awakens from their stone sleep. Eyes glow, stones crack and crumble. Roars echoed into the night as the gargoyles stretch and shake of the rest of the hard plates.
They step off their pedestals and went inside the castle on top of asoaring skyscraper. They went inside for night time breakfast and to their surprise David Xanatos and Owen Burnett were their waiting for them.
"Good morning," said the tall broad shoulder man. Xanatos wore his dark brown hair in a pony tail. The multi billionaire was once an enemy to the gargoyles but now their loyal friend. "There's something very interesting I want you all to see on the news channel; the good news is it's not about you guys this time."
"Why do I feel like the 'bad news' concerns us some how," Said the oldest gargoyle Hudson, long white beard and a scar over his eye. He sat in a recliner in the living room area and turned on the large wide flat screen hanging on the wall like a portrait (a gift from Xanatos).Hudson tuned into the local news channel, they were showing a video from daytime of a street downtown. There were large engravings in the road that look a lot like claw marks made by something very large, a mashed car and a knocked over street lamp.
"Whoa what did that?" saidBrooklyn a young gargoyle with red coloring and a beak like snout. "Did Godzilla drop by for a visit?"
Goliath the tall and built gargoyle who was the leader of the Clan turned to Xanatos. "When did this happen?" He questioned.
"Around midday," reply Xanatos. "This mysterious incident has caused a terrorist paranoia. No one was there to witness what exactly happened. Those who were near at time claimed they heard monstrous roars unlike they ever heard before and some said they felt an uneasy sick feeling afterward. People at first put blame on you lot." There were angered growls from the gargoyles. "But since it happened during the day the accusations were put aside. This is clearly something supernatural."
Goliath looked at Xanatos then at Owen. "But do you have any idea what could it be?"
"Well Owen here, aka Puck, has a suspicion on what it could be."
Owen a tall blond hair man, who was really the trickster Puck pushed his glasses higher on his nose. He said in amonotone. "This afternoon I sensed something during that incident, I hope that I was wrong but all the signs point to one thing."
"And what is that?"
Owen paused for the first they saw the always calm and stoic manapprehensive. "I believe that it could be a Hollow."
Elisa Maza stood at the street where the incident had occurred. She should be seeing the Clan but for some reason she was drawn to this place again. It was deserted now, before there were cops and FBI agents swarming the place and also a crowd of curious civilians. The detective knelt down to examine closely at the engraving in the asphalt. It was about seven inches deep, a several inches wide and over four yards long, and there were identical incises scattered over the road. She looked up to seen the smashed abandon car, and the fallen street lamp a few feet away.
The dark blue haired woman shook her head, mystified. She had no idea what could caused this. Not the gargoyles for certain, they were very strong, could claw in to stone and bend mental. But they couldn't leave these markings on the street. It was evident that it was done by something large, very large and strong. Or that's how she assumed from examining the crushed vehicle. But whatever it was seemed to be invisible, and left no DNA traces, so she bet it was defiantly supernatural and not a terrorist attack. She stood up and brushed her hair away from her face. What was she doing back here? She should be at Xanatos tower; her friends may know or have some idea of what's going on.
Elisa turned to her red mustang parked behind the yellow tape fence. She got in and drove to Xanatos Tower. She was about to turn a corner and she saw a huge black mass appear in front of her. She screamed and jerked her wheel to avoid collision. But she crashed into a brick fence; she banged her head against the dashboard and was knocked unconscious.
The Hollow step into the street and sniffed the air. It smelled something delicious.
"Okay greenhorn," said a twenty-one dark blond woman to her companion. The woman was dressed in a black coat over black shorts, white tunic top, and black knee high boots."Welcome to the NYC night patrol of the N.A.S.S."
"Do you have to keep calling me that, Megumi?" Grumbled the fifteen -year- old with bright orange hair, he was dressed in black shikakusho and strapped on his back was a large sword, wrapped in white bandages.
The woman called Megumi jab a finger at him. "Because Substitute Ichigo Kurosaki I have more experience than you do. By five years." She crossed her arms over her chest. She was a substitute shinigami like Ichigo as well as a vizard. "You're here to learn how to control your Inner Hollow remember." Ichigo grunted and looked away.
Yes he was in New York City to learn how to control the Inner Hollow in him. He was actually forced to come here by Kisuke Urahara.
"You have not completely conjured your I.D., Ichigo-san." Urahara said to Ichigo two days ago.
"I.D.?"
"You're Inner Demon, or to be specific, you're Inner Hollow. You can call it you I.H. but I.D. has a more ring to it."
"Yes I know," Ichigo said irritably. "But I don't know what to do. I keep trying to fight it, but he keeps coming back. But I don't want to go back to the Vizards, they might try to make me join them again."
"I know someone who can help you." ,said Urahara smiling slyly.
"You do?!" said Ichigo surprised and Urahara nodded smugly.
"Yes, really what would you to with out me. I'm the man. I'm the man with connections, I'm the man who---
"Get to the point!"
"Okay, okay. You see there's a young lady in the U.S. who has a lot in common with you." Urahara fanned his face dramatically. "She's both a Substitute and a vizard. Apparently it's becoming a cycle that a substitute has always faced with an Inner Hollow. I'm positive that she can help you. Her name is Megumi Honda of the North America Soul Society."
End of flashback.
"Hel-looo!" Megumi said loudly. "Earth to greenhorn!"
"Nani? What?"
"It isn't good to space out on the job."
"Job? I thought this was training."
"Well it's a test really. I want you to fight a Hollow out in the field." She paused to look at her Soul Phone. "And we're in luck, we've got ourselves a menos."
Ichigo sensed the Hollow's reiatsu and shunpo in its direction. "Hey wait up!" Megumi called after him and shundo-ed away.
Ichigo and Megumi rushed over, running in the air as if there was an invisible sidewalk. Ichigo noticed something fly near them, no more like glide and it was no bird. He stopped abruptly which caused Megumi to collide into him. "What gives?" snapped Megumi rubbing her nose. Ichigo pointed and Megumi looked at where he was indicating. "Holy crow."
It was several gargoyles gliding in the air. Megumi recognized them before but they never had the chance to actually meet. She knew of their protective nature and kept her distance to respect their space but honestly wanted to meet them. "It's the gargoyles, don't worry. Their not Hollows. They have nothing to do with them."
"Okay," said Ichigo uncertainly. Then his eyes widen. "If they have nothing to with them, then why are they going in the menos direction?"
"Say what?" He was right they were going in that direction. This is bad. No way do they stand a chance against a Hollow, practically a menos. "We have to intercept them."
The two substitute Vizards follow after the gargoyles. When they reached the gargoyles they could see the out line of the Hollow a block away. It was huge, bigger then the three story buildings around them. "Ichigo," said Megumi not addressing the nickname she gave him. "I want you to go after the Hollow. I'll go talk to the gargoyles."
"Okay," said Ichigo, he shunpo to the Hollow and Megumi went straight to the gargoyles.
"Hey!" ,she called to them in English. Her English lingo was very good with a faint trace of an accent. One of the gargoyles a female with long dark hair and bluish gray coloring looked over at her. Her eyes widen in surprise when she saw the young women suspended in midair.
"Father!" ,she called to Goliath who was leading the group to the Hollow. He turned his head and saw the woman in midair. He landed on top of building of an old shoe store. His Clan members Angela, and Brooklyn landed beside them. They watched the woman walk in the air as if there was an unseen bridge or something. She landed on the rooftop and stood several feet away from them.
"Um, hi." She said sheepishly. She brushed a strand of hair away form her face. "Wow it's really an honor to meet you. The Angels of the Night." She bowed Japanese style at them. She noted that they were pleased, and surprised by her manner and words. She figured that their encounters with humans haven't always been pleasant.
"Thank you," Goliath said returning the bow. "I am called Goliath. This is my daughter Angela." The female gargoyle bowed to Megumi and smiled warmly at her. "And my second-in-command Brooklyn." The red colored gargoyle bowed at her as well, rather awkwardly sense it was the first time he greeted someone in that manner.
"Nice to meet you all. My name is Megumi Honda."
"Honda, like the car?" asked Brooklyn and Megumi almost laughed, it wasn't the first time she was asked that question. Megumi nodded.
"Okay now that we introduce ourselves you need to listen to me." Said Megumi seriously. "I saw you were heading in that direction." She pointed to where the menos was. She could see the battle happening between Ichigo and the Hollow. "But you need to stay away, it's dangerous. I know you're protective of this city. But this is out of your league, leave this to the professionals."
"So are you one of these shinigami?" inquire Goliath and Megumi was surprised that he knew about them. "If you are, we would like to ask for your help. A dear friend of ours may be endangered."
Megumi stared at him. "Your friend? How can you be sure?"
"One of my clan members tried to contact her." Said Goliath. "She did not answer her cellular or her radio. We had her track down to that location." He pointed the direction of the Hollow and Megumi could sense Ichigo's and the meno's reiatsu spiking as they battle.
"Okay, I'll go make sure your friend's safe and get her out of there."
"She is our friend and we will go and save her." Said Goliath and Megumi could tell that he will not back down and she knew she couldn't argue with him all night.
She sighed. "Fine. But do not engage in battle unless you absolutely have to, ya hear?"
The three gargoyles nodded. "Okay." Said Megumi turning away. "Follow me, and try not to get yourselves killed."
"No problem," Brooklyn muttered watching her jump in the air and walk/fly into the Hollows direction. "Sheesh, she acts like we're a nuisance."
"We're probably are," said Angela as the three of them followed behind Megumi. "We don't know how to fight against Hollows, and their spirits. How can you fight something that's already dead?"
"As she had said leave it to the professionals." Goliath said. "If Elisa is endangered we must protect her how ever we can." But if this Hollow has harmed Elisa he won't let anyone stop him from going after the creature, spirit or not.
Megumi listened to the conversation being said behind her. She read the emotion in Goliath's voice and picked up that this was very personal to him. She didn't have time to mull it over as she entered the fight scene.
Ichigo had released his bonkai and his outfit was more slender than the first. His sword was black and became a daitō. "Getsuga Tenshō!" Cried Ichigo swinging his sword. A red and black reishi blast struck the Hollow and but it blocked it with its exoskeleton armored forearm. Wow, not even his bonkai took much effect. She thought his bonkai could take down a menos level.
"I'll be damned," said Brooklyn stunned as he landed behind Megumi they were standing at the street corner. "So that's a Hollow?"
"Yes a menos grande is what this class of Hollow is called." Said Megumi watching the fight with a thoughtful frown on her face. There was something off about the Hollow. Maybe it really wasn't a grande.
Goliath stared at the Hollow, it looked more fearsome up close and the sensation he was getting from it was making his stomach in knots. It was bigger than the Cyclops creature Prometheus turned into. A skull like mask, the signature trait of the Hollows Owen had informed them earlier, as well as the large gaping hole in its chest. For the first time ever he was frozen to the spot. Then he saw a familiar red mustang crashed into a brick wall. "Elisa!" He forgot all about the Hollow and Megumi's warning and charged forward.
"Hey you! Baka!" Megumi shouted at him. "I told you to stay out of it." She saw the Hollow to turn to Goliath as he stood by the wrecked car. It opened its mouth and a light began to spark in the black void. She shunpo in front of Goliath. She quickly drew out her zanpakutō, "Stand guard, Washi no Shukumei."
Gold and bronze transparent wings appeared around Goliath and Megumi. The wings folded around them and became a shield as the Hollow's blast them with a cero. When the clouds of dust disperse, the wings unfolded and disappeared. Megumi breathed a sigh of relief then she gasped when the other two gargoyles attack the Hollow. "Do those pointy ears of theirs even work!" She snapped exasperated.
"Elisa!" She heard Goliath exclaimed behind her. She turned around and saw an unconscious woman in the driver's seat of the mustang. She could see red blood in the woman's dark blue hair. Goliath used his inhuman strength to pull the driver's door open. He almost pulled it off its hinges from his force. He checked the woman's pulse than gingerly picked her up in his arms. "She needs to go to the hospital."
"Not yet," Megumi said suddenly. Goliath looked at her and saw her eyes following something. He noticed a white chain attached to Elisa's chest and saw the chain trail over the ground. He found what the other end of the chain and almost fell over in shock. It was Elisa! Her back was propped up against the brick wall, her head bent down seemingly unconscious like the double ganger in his arms. "Watch over her body." Megumi instructed him.
"What," started Goliath but he fell silent from her overpowering glare. She walked over to the other Elisa sitting on the side walk. She knelt down next to the older woman and gently shook her awake.
Elisa stirred and raised her head. The first thing she saw was a dark blond hair young woman looking at her with concern. She looked over the stranger's head and saw Goliath staring at her with worry and confusion. And then she was herself? "Am I dreaming?" she said thickly.
"If you are it's a nightmare." Said the young woman examining the chain attached to her chest. "Because you're half dead."
"Wh-what?!" stuttered Elisa. She stared bewildered at the chain attached to her chest and moved her hands to touch it. Megumi quickly hold her hands away from the chain. "If you want to live," she told Elisa earnestly. "I suggest you leave your Saketsu alone." Elisa blinked and let her hands fall to the ground.
"Don't worry, I'll pull you together." Megumi said to her reassuringly. She held her hands in front of Elisa. A golden and white light shone in Elisa's vision. Then it went black as she closed her eyes and disappeared. The chain disappeared with her and the Elisa in Goliath arms stirred put did not wake up.
"Elisa?" Goliath said overcome with concern. "Will she be alright?"
"She just needs to be brought to the emergency room for the head injury." She turned away form the large gargoyle and the comatose woman in his arms. During that time the Hollow had been defeated and was disintegrating. Ichigo back to his previous form his zanpakutō on his back again. He was helping Angela supporting an injured Brooklyn.
"Took you long enough ,greenhorn." Megumi huffed, hands on her hips.
Ichigo muttered something unintelligible under his breath, evidently Japanese but Megumi took awhile guess it was something offensive.
"Is Elisa going to be okay?" Angela asked with concern. Goliath assured his daughter she will be but he looked doubtful himself.
"I'll call Sybil and Kon." Said Megumi fishing out her Soul Phone. She saw Ichigo made a face when she mention her mod soul but ignored him. As she listened to the dial tone she thought, I forgot was there something really important concerning gargoyles?
Okay that's it for now. If you like it, hate it, or have questions please review.