Greetings! This is halberd42, and welcome to my first fanfic! I did get some helpful ideas from InhumanNexus, so credit can also go to InhumanNexus for this fanfic. I hope anyone reading likes it, and please review. I welcome constructive criticism, and I won't tolerate flamers.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Bleach.
"Out of my way!"
A screech of pain filled the air, followed by a snarl, then blood splattered and flew into the air.
A Hollow with a white mask of a crow, twice the size of the Gillian that roamed the forest below with green feathers and a large hole in its chest met its end, falling to ground from the sky disintegrating into nothingness, and was gone before hitting the white sand.
Its executioner, wielding a dagger landed in the sand as different Hollows of all shapes and sizes began surrounding a teenage-looking brunette styled into pigtails. Wearing a white, schoolgirl-themed skirt with a small black bow on the front with a white-colored, black-outlined shirt that ties to her neck, revealing her entire stomach, small pieces of her top barely covering her breasts and arms from the shoulders with white half-sleeves worn from the elbows down to the wrists.
The most noticeable feature bout her was the white mask fragment on her left eye, connecting her ponytail together as her visible light pink eye was narrowed, looking over the obstacles in her path. Her thigh-length black-colored, white-outlined boots shifted into the sand beneath her feet, ready to pounce when needed.
She flickered away from view, using sonido to appear in front of a Hollow and stabbing it straight in the mask. Before disappearing, it was used as leverage for a roundhouse kick to another Hollow, cracking its mask as well. Focusing her reiatsu into the air beneath her feet to create a solid base to stand on, the slender girl jumped forward, slashing another Hollow's mask while her free hand had red energy charging in it, aiming behind her.
"Cero!"
A red beam shot out, the ray taking out quite a few enemies, but it didn't stop there. While continuing, the aim was moved to the right, more opponents falling to the blast as it finally disappeared.
"Loly! You know you're not suppose to go ahead from me."
Loly Aivirrne blinked, looking behind to a short and spiky blond hair teenage girl with four flicks hanging over her mask remnant similar to Loly's, but on the opposite eye; her visible emerald green eye seem slightly annoyed.
She wore a white dress that wraps around with a modest v-neck, an upturned collar and sleeves with short slits on the side reaching slightly pass her elbows.
She also wears a white, segmented choker and a series of white bracelets, a black sash around her hips and shoes identical to that of Loly's. Her Zanpakuto was out, apparently taking out a Hollow that tried to get the brunette from behind.
"Its not my fault that I'm faster than you Menoly. Besides, these level of Hollows are nothing to me now." Loly scoffed, looking for another opponent to fight.
"That's not the point," Menoly Mallia sighed. "Don't forget why we came to Las Noches in the first place."
Las Noches, the fortress of Arrancar that contained the feared Espada and Aizen Sosuke, the leader of such great power…was nothing more now than a battleground. One entire year has passed since the failed invasion, most of the Espada destroyed and their leader most likely dead. Hollows that had feared Aizen and the Espada's strength were still in a long battle, even Arrancar who had stayed loyal due to fear had joined to decide only one thing.
Who will be the next ruler of Las Noches, which was also Hueco Mundo entirely?
While they weren't apart of this pointless battle, they were considered a possible threat due to who found both her and Loly by pure luck and trained them rather seriously. In the beginning, Menoly had worried about Loly's depressed state hearing Aizen being likely killed after betraying their kind. Having reality hitting her like a ton of bricks made her rather quiet for a few weeks.
She then threw herself into training one day, determined on being better as if nothing happened those weeks. Menoly later found out their sensei had a good talking to Loly, lifting the burden off her shoulders.
"I know why we came here, you don't have to remind me." The brunette sighed, brining the blond from her thoughts.
"Your not going to succeed, cause I'm going to stop you here!"
Both girls looked up in the air to a male Arrancar, wearing the classic uniform with a mask fragment on his cheek and short brown hair. Under him were a number of Hollows, and a few Menos Grande; they weren't hard to miss.
"Despite getting this far," the Arrancar continued to monolog, " you'll never win facing-"
There was no warning.
Menoly, Cero charged in her right hand, had already rammed it into the surprised Arrancar as the beam burst outwards, decimating the top half of his body.
While that happened, the bond's other hand sent a volley of Bala's that got rid of the other Hollows. Finished, Menoly was lightly panting from the amount of reiatsu she used for her attacks. She looked down at Loly, who was staring up at her with a blank look.
"What? He was asking for it."
Lightly chuckling, Loly joined Menoly in the air and the two took off to their objective.
Aaroniero's destroyed Palace
"Hold still!" an annoyed voice called out.
An explosion of dust bursts into the air, four figures from the smoke fighting three against one. The single fighter, who is male, mange to turn just in time to sidestep a broadsword as he quickly jumped to dodge a white snake from behind. On instinct, an elbow was used to block a kick to his right side, the left hand holding a katana to slice the snake's head off. Grabbing the offending leg, one of his opponents was thrown to the others as he got a quick breather.
His opponents were three young Arrancar ladies in their Resurreccion form. One with almost indigo blue hair neatly cut down to her chin was covered from neck to toe, or deer like hooves, in brown fur. Dangerous looking antlers topped her head, amber eyes with a red outline around them with small lightning bolt shaped markings on both sides of her face glaring at him.
Another was dark skinned with long, thick wavy brown hair and green eyes wearing armored garments that barely covered everything. It consisted of two claw-looking pieces holding her breasts while concealing enough to remain in the bounds of decency, an armored thong, thigh-high boots, and gloves that reached her elbow. The bone necklace she had worn had expanded into neck protection, while the top of her head had a headdress that had long golden hair reaching down to the small of her back.
His final opponent had flowing olive-green hair, long eyelashes, and three pink dots just below her lavender colored eyes. From the stomach down looked liked an anaconda's tail, her mask fragment extends around the back of her head like armor plating, similar to a cobra's head.
They had few cuts and burn marks on their body, but he wasn't fairing any better with a slash mark across his bare chest, his left cheek swelling and entire right arm burnt from a Cero. His spiked black hair billowed in the wind, showing his diamond mask fragment on his forehead.
"Tch, this guy doesn't know when to give up."
"That's because we're suppose to distract him, dragging the fight out is unavoidable Apacci."
"I already know that Sung-Sun," Apacci Emilou gritted out to the snake woman. "I'm not stupid."
"Oh? You could've fooled anyone with the way you're acting."
"Shut up Mila Rose! You're the stupid one here!"
Mila-Rose Franceska scowled, "What was that?"
"Now is not the time to be arguing amongst yourselves during a fight, besides, your both are rather stupid." Sung-Sun Cyan stated bluntly, hiding her mouth with her sleeve.
"Don't even start Sung-Sun!" both Apacci and Mila-Rose yelled simultaneously.
" Take down, Manto de Oscuridad!"(1)
Blackness covered the area around the three Arrancar, blinding the girls as reiatsu flared, then quickly suppressed.
"I think you're all stupid, allowing me to use my Resurreccion. You would've had a better chance taking me out, but now there's no room for mercy." The voice of the girl's opponent echoed all around them, the blackness around them going darker.
"Ha! This darkness only works in a certain area." Apacci pointed out.
"All we have to do leave the area and attack from a distance."
Sung-Sun, Apacci and Mila-Rose quickly used sonido in different directions…
Wham!
Bam!
Pow!
…Only to be all hit, back to back with each other.
"As if I'd left you leave. In my release form I'm as fast as the original septima Espada, you're not going anywhere."
The Amazon warrior barely dodge an attack, a cut across her cheek she felt and swiped her broadsword to the left, only to hear the surprised yelp of Apacci.
"Ow! That was my tail!"
"Wai-"
Too late to warn her companion, a strong kick met Mila's stomach, knocking the air out of her. Sung-Sun was already on the move, meeting with a force that knocked her back a few feet. Launching her dark pink Cero in that general direction, nothing happened… until she used her tail to block, and winced as a blade made its way in.
"Sorry Sung-Sun! This guy is using a hit and run method to make us attack each other." Mila-Rose explained hastily, ducking as a roundhouse kick from Apacci just missed her.
"Coward! Come out and face us like a man!" Apacci yelled out.
"And lose my advantage? Not a chance," the echoed voiced of the man rang out. "In this darkness, my opponents not only can't see, it muddles reiatsu signatures; making mine nearly invisible. "
"Its best to give up. If you do I'll-"
The male Arrancar was cut off as pink Cero's launched his general direction, hit his right shoulder and knocking the male Arrancar off his feet.
'How did those Cero's find my location?'
"Here!"
A scream filled the air, the dark energy dissipating revealing Apacci, Mila-Rose and Sung-Sun triumphant over the Arrancar as his Resurreccion disappeared.
"H-how…"
"When firing my Cero," Sung-Sun started explaining, "I had also released a few snakes under the path I fired to make sure they got out of the field."
"I gave them the command to fire Cero's at the smell of Mila-Roses blood."
"But you partners blood…was also on herself…and those snake couldn't see in…the darkness field I created."
" The accidental attack I made on Sung-Sung had drawn blood, and I was close enough to her to pass as an ally as she told us her plan." Mila-Rose added.
"All that was left was to wait for you to get hit. Your own field blocked the Cero's reiatsu signature as it entered enough to it you while your attention was on us. When we heard the impact, we all fired our strongest Cero's at the noise." Apacci finished with a smug grin on her face.
"…Dam…"
The Arrancar was now still.
"Ladies," a calm voice called, "its time to go meet up with Loly and Menoly."
The three turn, looking at a woman Arrancar with dark skin, short blonde hair with three braided locks and green eyes. She had on an Arrancar uniform; the only difference was her jacket that covers the lower part of her face, while baring a good portion of the lower half of her large breasts. The sleeves completely envelop her arms, terminating in black glove like extensions at her extremities, resembling the appearance of a cat's paw. She was sheathing her Zanpakuto on her upper back as Apacci, Mila-Rose and Sung-Sun gave a quick bow.
"At once, Harribel-sama." They said as one.
Karakura Town
"That was just boring."
This came from Ichigo Kurosaki, former Substitute Shinigami with spiky orange hair, brown eye looking on with disappointment at the fallen gang members littering the alleyway before him with a scowl on his face. He had on a white form fitting t-shirt with a black jacket over it, blue jeans and blue and white basketball shoes.
He left the battlefield, sighing with disappointment from the lack of challenge; the way those guys went about fighting was pathetic. They couldn't swing anything to save their lives.
While he never looked for fights, it was mostly to try and relieve some stress he had been feeling. You see, even though the orange haired teen lacked reiatsu to see normal spirits and Hollows, his spiritually aware friends did inform him on minor attacks from Hollows and spirits they've seen.
Uryu, Orihime, and Sado or 'Chad' always kept quiet about serious things from him.
Currently, a week had pass and his friends were still silent, even Keigo and Mizurio were rather quiet around him on certain topics and it was getting on his nerves. His friends seemed to be afraid that he would run off and get himself killed if he knew what was going on. Like keeping him ignorant was protecting him.
As a form of sick irony, he now knows how Tatsuki felt back when he did the exact same thing to keep her from possibly doing something suicidal. Normally he'd practice karate with her to keep his fighting skills up and to relieve some stress, but she was now busy as a sensei at the dojo he used to go to.
Right now as Ichigo walked in the park, he wished for something to keep him occupied.
"I got to admit, Karakura Town looks much better then Hueco Mundo ever did." A female voice said with awe.
That gave the former Shinigami pause mid step, quickly hiding his presence to listen in on the conversation a few feet away.
"We didn't really bother looking at the place before, but it does have a nice atmosphere."
"There just better be things to do, I don't want to do boring thing while we're here."
"We'll have plenty of time to adjust for our stay in the World of the Living, " an older woman's voice spoke as the leader among the girls that sounded present.
"I'm sure the person listening to our conversation would gladly help us out with our needs."
Ichigo silent cursed, having no other choice but to reveal himself to a possible enemy that can easily deal with him at any time. Once out in the open, both parties were silent, blinking in surprise at each other cause of the familiarities everyone knew about the other.
Tier Harribel was the first to speak.
"Ichigo Kurosaki. It looks like we finally meet face to face."
End chapter/Author's Note
(1) Manto de Oscuridad – Shroud of Darkness