Warning: This story contains scenes of strong language and violence. Everything written in this story was monitored and edited to be in the liking of one specific person (Zenray). *Gun held to head.* All characters from the original Bleach series, except for Hitsugaya Tōshirō, ends up dead. Enjoy all the advancements, twists, and turns this story has give.
Chapter 1: The Remaining Captains
Silence spread effervescently across the howling and abandoned Soul Society. The emptiness and tragedy that has befallen this great and homely realm would've brought sadness to all shinigami. However, sadness doesn't begin to cover what the surviving shinigami feel deep within them.
As Seireitei lay in ruins with broken buildings and crumbled floors, Hitsugaya and the other remaining shinigami travelled in the depths of the one place they'd never call home; Hueco Mundo. Even this barren wasteland seemed more comforting and full of life than Soul Society after the great loss.
After days of tracking through endless streaks of dry sand, Matsumoto began to complain, "Does anyone even know where we're going? We've been walking for days and I really need to eat something!"
"Shut up you whining bitch!" snapped Mayuri as he swung his hand backwards over Matsumoto as she flinched and took one step back, "While you bitch and moan, some of us are trying to think. We have-"
"Mayuri-san!" Interrupted Hitsugaya with an unfriendly glare. Everyone had stopped walking, and hearing Mayuri scream and shout was simply tiring. "This is not the time for you to lose your temper. Matsumoto is my vice and you have no right to even look at her" he said.
Mayuri gave a violent glare, but soon backed off. He knew he couldn't challenge Hitsugaya and the others alone. Especially since he no longer had Nemu by his side. "You might have the advantage here, boy, but one of these days I'll show you. Even without that whore Nemu" he said walking ahead of the shinigami.
The group had walked further into Hueco Mundo than anyone, except for Aizen, possibly, had been. No one had seen a Hollow in days and even Byakuya was getting anxious.
"What do we do know?" asked Matsumoto breaking the silence.
"You little-"
"Mayuri-san!" said Hitsugaya irritably.
Mayuri-sama turned to face Hitsugaya and hissed, "You're an annoying thing. You should've just died back at Seireitei you bastard!"
Hitsugaya glanced over and continued walking. He found no point in arguing. Their primary goal was to find a permanent, but temporary residence Aizen couldn't find.
"Don't you ignore me" called out Mayuri, but Hitsugaya did just that.
"You son of a bitch!" yelled Mayuri drawing his zanpakutō with purple spirit energy increasing around his body as he got angrier and angrier. "Scratch out, Ashisogi Jizou!" he said as his zanpakutō began to change shape.
Hitsugaya's speedy reaction allowed him to turn around and release his zanpakutō at the same time as Mayuri, "Descend upon the frozen sky, Hyorinmaru!"
The bright desert sun was soon covered in darkness. Hitsugaya's shikai brought forth a cloudy sky along with Hyorinmaru's 'weaker' form. Hitsugaya spread out his sword and Hyorinmaru charged for Mayuri.
As Hyorinmaru charged, Mayuri slammed the edge of his centre blade against the side of Hyorinmaru's face, and the outer blade on the right went into his mouth. Hyorinmaru pulled away, but the blade was hooked, and it sliced through and cracked his face.
Hitsugaya stood before Mayuri with his reitsu growing around him. The blue spirit energy was a delight.
Hyorinmaru's face began to freeze over the crack. Mayuri's poison hadn't taken affect; Hyorinmaru's ice must've frozen the poison on contact.
"What are you waiting for, Captain Hitsugaya?" asked Mayuri with a growing smile.
Hitsugaya frowned, and sent Hyorinmaru once again. This Mayuri jumped up, held out his blade seconds before Hyorinmaru hit, and his blade went straight into Hyorinmaru's giant red eye.
Hyorinmaru's body came crashing and knocked Mayuri to the ground along with him.
The impact of Hyorinmaru's body left them both weakened and lying on the floor, but Hyorinmaru had now been inflicted with some of Mayuri's poison.
Mayuri got up and jumped back. "And this is supposed to be the legendary ice dragon?" said Mayuri sarcastically, "Even Nemu could've defeated that weak little shit."
Hitsugaya glared angrily at Mayuri, and then stood up straight with a world of confidence. With a roar, Hyorinmaru began splitting apart into shards of ice, then reformed next to Hitsugaya. "Nobody can take down the legendary ice dragon." he said with a flush of delight.
Hitsugaya then crouched in a fighting stance and sent Hyorinmaru out once again; this time however, Hyorinmaru opened his mouth up so wide, Mayuri couldn't jump out the way. Hyorinmaru spread out his jaw and extended his teeth. A blizzard swooped through as Hyorinmaru shut his mouth.
Suddenly, as Hyorinmaru forced himself into a cage of ice, an explosion from within shattered him into particle of snow.
Hitsugaya stared at the point of explosion, shocked, and then noticed green goo like liquid pull together from all around the blast radius.
The goo then formed shape and Mayuri returned to his normal form. "You like?" he asked with a grin closely to that of Gin's. "That…" said Hitsugaya with eyes wide open, "That's not possible!"
Mayuri walked forward and picked up his zanpakutō. "I perfected it two nights before the attack," he said, "How do you think I survived?"
Hitsugaya pulled back his sword along with his right foot, but nothing happened. Hitsugaya looked at his sword as confused as he was and said, "What?"
"That explosion contained the same poison as Ashisogi Jizou in shikai form," said Mayuri, "Which means it'll be a while before you can bring your pathetic dragon back from its snow form…" Mayuri let out a slight chuckle.
Hitsugaya's reitsu had gotten greater than anybody had ever seen it. Since he couldn't bring Hyorinmaru back to his shikai form, then he'd use him in his current form. As Hitsugaya's incredible reitsu spread, then wind began to blow, and the snow form Hyorinmaru was in soon became a violent snow storm. The sheets of snow was so called and moving so fast, that it cut Mayuri's face.
Mayuri glanced downwards at the cut on his face then yelled out, "You son of a bitch!"
Hitsugaya then concentrated the blizzard in a small radius and sent it hurling towards Mayuri.
Mayuri's face was one that no one had ever seen before. It was one of fear and agonizing horror. He stood before the blizzard like a lost rabbit in front of a speeding car.
Just seconds before the blizzard hit Mayuri, Captain Commander Yamamoto stepped in front, drew his sword, and released a blazing flame to melt the snow. "Enough!" he said, "We've got a task ahead of us, and if we go around killing one another, we'd only be making it easier for Aizen!"
Hitsugaya stepped down and put away his zanpakutō. "You fu-" said Mayuri, but was interrupted by Yamamoto, "Silence! Ahead we walk. We must find a place to stay, for now."
While everyone walked ahead, Byakuya heard a rumbling from beneath the earth. He turned his head to see what it was, but at that moment it stopped.
He continued to walk, but the rumbling caught his attention – again. He turned his head, this time to notice a swarm of Hollow fly from below the sand; they must've noticed the reitsu from Mayuri and Hitsugaya. These Hollow were ones he'd never seen before. They were purple, had huge claws, and wings that moved faster than his eyes could see.
The buzzing caught the attention of the other shinigami. "Shit!" said Mayuri.
They all slowly drew their zanpakutō, trying anxiously not to make a sound. "You've seen these before, Captain Kurotsuchi?" asked Matsumoto in a loud voice. "Silence you dumb whore," whispered Mayuri, "These are the Hollow that destroyed the Bureau of Technology. They respond to sound."
The five shinigami stood before the Hollow, frightened. When they got out their zanpakutō, they all slowly called out and released their bankai.
"Bankai! Daiguren Hyorinmaru!" said Hitsugaya.
"Bankai. Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!" said Byakuya.
"Bankai. Kanjiki Ashisogi Jizou!" said Mayuri.
"Bankai. Hakai-tekina Haineko!" said Matsumoto.
"Bankai! Kyuukyoku Ryuujinjakka!" said Yamamoto.
Once all their bankai's were released, the flying Hollow vanished. However, their violent buzzing could still be heard. They were moving too fast for any of them to see.
They stood their trying to catch a single glimpse of at least one Hollow, but all they saw was the sand being blown across due to the Hollow' incredible speed.