The Awakening
"Jericho get up it's time for school." "Ok, ok mom I'm up! Jeez" he says. He looks at the clock: 7:53 am. "Shit I'm goanna miss my bus."
This is Jericho he's 15 years old, he is a fairly non descriptive type of person straight black hair, emerald green eyes, a medium build, and unknown to everyone has a captain class spirit energy level and is the only Quincy-shinigami.
He ran to his dresser and flew into his clothes (black denim jeans and a green Tee). He grabs a pair of socks and runs down stairs, and grabs his shoes. While he is putting them on he yells to his mom "Why didn't you wake me up sooner?! I'm goanna miss my buss!"
"Well I thought you could get yourself up today" said his mom. "I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS." He yells. Going into the kitchen he grabs a piece of toast, his back-pack and runs out the door.
2 minutes of non-stop running later the time is 8:06am. Jericho turned the corner just to see that the buss is already a block away and turning left on the corner. "God damn it all, mom!" He starts to kick the wall next to him ferociously. When he's done he starts to walk to school, muttering darkly to himself. What he and everybody else in the street failed to notice was the man in a black kimono, was watching him ... on the roof of a 3 story building.
"Interesting level of spirit energy" he said to himself. The phone in his pocket beeped at him. "Why do orders always come at the worst possible time?" he said. Then he was gone with a swish of his black robes.
Jericho was walking in the general direction of the school when he saw a slight haze on one of the roof tops. "Well that's interesting" he said to no one in particular. He turns down a deserted looking alley as a "short cut" (he actually had no idea where he was going). He reached the end of the alley - a dead end. "*sigh*, I might as well go back" he says
"So delicious" a raspy sinister voice says. "What, who said that!" Jericho looks around until on top of the building to his left he saw that haze again. Only this time it wasn't quite so hazy. He could make out arms and legs. He also saw that it was at least 7 feet tall. Though he could still see through it so he could see no distinguishing features about it. "Wh-what is that thing" he said so terrified he couldn't move. "Well if you must know" said the haze-creature-thing"I, am a hollow; and you are my dinner" And with that note of finality it jumped.
"There it is" said the shinigami looking at his mobile while jumping from roof to roof. Suddenly two things caught his eye. One was that the hollow he had been chasing had stopped. The other was that it had stopped above a spirit energy that was perceivably stronger than the other humans in the city.
Realization struck him, it was the same spirit energy as that kid that he had seen a few minuets before. "Aw crap, I'm too far away to help that kid. Unless he can buy himself some time he's dead." With that sobering statement he started running through the air instead of rooftops to save time.
Jericho watched as the hollow fell immobilized by fear. As it fell, the hollow moved his scythe-forearm into an attacking position. Jericho dove to his right just before the hollow swung. Instead of cutting Jericho in half it only cut his thigh albeit deeply.
"Come here little one I'll make it all stop, all the pain, all the fear. I will make it quick" it said this as if it were talking to a three year old.
The pain in Jericho's leg and adrenaline shook off his immobilization and the fear of death. He also realized what the hollow had just said to him, and how it was said to him.
Anger growing in him, Jericho looked around for a weapon of any kind. Score, he saw a few metal bars about six feet long lying on the ground in front of him.
He grabbed one of the poles, Leaned on it for support and limped closer to the hollow. "Are you going to fight me?" the hollow asked with some amusement.
"Yeah" Jericho answered "and this is for calling me little, bitch."
Leaning on his good side he aimed for the hollows head area (at least that is what Jericho hoped it was closed his eyes and swung as hard as he could.
The shinigami was getting closer to the fight, (if you could call it that) only about two miles away when his mobile gave out a low beep. That could only mean one thing. There was a significant spirit force that had just appeared in the area.
"Oh great now I'm gonna have to fight off two hollow, and get the kid." he said to himself. He stopped running and got out his mobile and landed on a roof.
He looked through the map of the city until he found it. It wasn't a new spirit force but rather a force that had already been there, just stronger. It was strong enough in fact that it created a slight pressure.
It was that same kid he had been following. "Well this isn't something that happens everyday, that kid might just survive after all." he said almost smiling to himself, and started running again.
When Jericho opened his eyes he immediately noticed a difference he could see the hollow. It was about eight feet tall with scythes for its lower arms; a white triangular mask that looked like it was made out of porcelain, with two long spider webbing cracks where Jericho had hit it with the pole. Other than that its' body was humanoid, and it was purple.
Staggering and glaring at him it said angrily "you'll pay for that I'll make sure you suffer delectabl- oh what's this." it exclaimed all anger gone"You just became a rarity."
It lunged at Jericho swinging both its arms down from its neck. Jericho held the pole in there path. It didn't help the hollow cut through it as if it were butter. The scythes continued their downward ark cutting two vertical, twin gashes in his chest. Cutting through skin and gouging his ribs.
The force of the swing knocked Jericho back and on his back. He looked down at his chest, it was bleeding profusely. He started to crawl backwards but was kicked down.
"I haven't had this much fun in a while" the hollow said while chuckling manically to himself. The grotesque creature bent down to Jericho. Sticking its impossibly long tongue out and licked at his chest wounds.
Jericho involuntarily cried out. The hollow looked at him and smiled (or at least that's what Jericho thought he did, it was hard to tell through its' mask, and his blood loss, and pain.) and said "I hate to play with my food, even if it is so delicious, now die!" It raised its' scythe/arm, took aim and swung down just as Jericho rolled out of the way.
Just then the Shinigami jumped down from the roof and yelled "Art of Destruction No. 33: Blue fire crash down!
The hollow looked up just as the blue flames engulfed him.