Currently in the basement of the Urahara shop, at the bottom of the shattered shaft.
"Oi Mr hat n clogs, how long do I have to stay down here." Came the voice of a certain orange haired teen.
"Well Ichigo the erosion process normally lasts weeks possibly even months depending on certain factors, but at the bottom of this hole there is a gas that speeds up the overall erosion time. So you have approximately 72 hours to climb out and regain your soul reaper powers, otherwise..." Kisuke Urahara looked downward to Ichigo with a grim expression. "You will become hollow and we will have to put an end to your existence."
Ichigo's head shot up in astonishment and axiety, "Hey Mr hat n clogs you bastard, are you trying to kill me or something ?"
A dark shadow loomed over Urahara's solemn face, "Unfortunately yes, the moment you give up"
Ichigo looked up towards Kisuke Urahara with his signature defiant smirk, "Well I better get moving then."
Ichigo struggled to his feet without the use of his arms, due to the bakudo Tessai cast on him. Ichigo gazed up the enormous wall in front of him and steeled his resolve, after taking a few steps back he bolted off from his position and scaled the shattered shaft to half its length before losing momentum and falling back down.
Jinta sneered at him and laughed, "You'll never get up here like that, you're going about it the wrong way."
Ichigo looked up and scowled at him, "Shut up! I'd like to see you get even half the length I did brat"
After twenty or so futile attempts to scale the wall of the shaft Ichigo was knelt at the bottom panting when the links in the chain began to eat away at themselves again. "Ah shit its happening again! I gotta get the hell out of this hole soon or I'll be in trouble."...
An unknown amount of time had passed in the shattered shaft and Ichigo's soul chain had eroded almost half of the way.
Urahara, Jinta and Ururu were still sat at the top of the hole looking down on Ichigotrying to scale the wall, when jinta turned to Urahara, "Ya know he's actually made it quite far up this hole a couple of times Mr Urahara."
Urahara turned towards Jinta, "Indeed he has made it quite far up this hole a few times Jinta, but that doesn't change the fact that we will have to kill him at the rate he's going at"
"Heeey! You gettin hungry at all?" Jinta shouted down to Ichigo.
Ichigo looked up to Jinta with a tick mark on his forehead, "NO! You idiot I'm a soul, I'm not gonna get hungry."
Jinta formed a sly grin on his face, "Good cos when you start to feel hungry thats a sign of you becoming a hollow."
Another unknown amount of time had passed in the shattered shaft and Ichigo's soul chain had eroded to around three quarters its original length. Ichigo looked up from his position to see Jinta falling to the bottom of the shaft carrying something.
"Yo, I figured you'd be getting hungry soon so I brought down some food." Jinta placed the food a few feet from Ichigo.
Ichigo smirked at Jinta, "Heh, you must be crazy i feel fine, and I've still got plenty of time to spare, look." Ichigo said looking down to his soul chain
Jinta's face turned serious, "Well you've been down here now for around 72 hours, it's actually a surprise that you haven't turned hollow yet." Just as Jinta was about to leap up to the surface he turned to face Ichigo his face darkened, "One more thing you should know, the last erosion is nothing like all the others." With that he turned and leapt to the surface
Ichigo's face instantly turned shocked and serious '72 hours, but I thought I had plenty of time to spare, it doesn't even feel like I've been down here for that long'. Suddenly Ichigo's souls chain began it's final erosion, where all the links had little mouths and started eating away at eachother, all the while Ichigo shouting in pain. "SHIT! Stop that! Hey stop you bastards!" Finally the black base of his soul chain was gone and all that was left was a hole. White liquid started to pour from the hole in Ichigo's chest flying up to cover his face in what looked like a thick white wax.
Tessai looked on without flinching or any change in emotion, 'Damn it Ichigo we thought you could do this! He still has a little time left to revert, although not much'. Tessai deciding to get out of any immediate danger leapt to the surface above the hole. Tessai turned to Urahara, "Kisuke we should start to prepare for the worst case scenario."
Kisuke Urahara said nothing, choosing instead to study the hollowfying form of Ichigo Kurosaki 'Come on Ichigo you've got to beat this and become a soul reaper... If you dont your dads gonna kill me.' Urahara sweat dropped at the last part of his musings.
Ichigo was now entirely covered from head to toe in the white substance that flowed like a river frm his chest, still managing to keep alive some of his humanity he was writhing around in pain trying desperately to fight the hollowfication, the white substance now forming an actual shape in his body.
Tessai looked on at Ichigo with fear and intrigue, he could feel Ichigo's suppressed spiritual pressure held back by nothing other than his dwindling humanity and it was monsterous, he had seen hollowfication before but never had he felt fear from it before. "Kisuke can you feel that ? I've never felt anything like this before, this spiritual pressure feels so malicious, so angry, so hateful, it feels like if i were down there with him my skin would melt away."
Kisuke Urahara was beginning to lose hope that Ichigo could come back, and was preparing himself to kill him at a moments notice, "Yes Tessai I can feel that, and it does indeed feel terrible, I fear we may have made a mistake by doing this to young Kurosaki, you need to get ready with the highest level bakudo you can cast and anything else that may help in defeating him."
Ichigo could feel all his negative emotions running rampant throughout his body, his anger towards himself for being unable to protect his mother, his hatred towards grand fisher for taking his mother and Kisuke for putting him through this unbearable agony, his fear of losing anyone he cared about, his frustration of not being able to overcome hollowfication and save Rukia, and finally his sorrow for failing Rukia, his family, his friends and everyone he cared about. Ichigo let go, his emotions had become too much for him, he could not take it, his last mental block had fallen and with it the explosion of crimson and black spiritual pressure from Ichigo shook the entire cave all the way to the shop and streets above.
Ichigo's mindscape
Ichigo had finally figured out how to locate his soul ribbon among all the boxes using the method Uryu used to locate him previously, he quickly summoned the soul ribbons and began searching for the red one.
'Come on its gotta be aroung here somewhere. I gotta find it soon otherwise im done for!' Ichigo was frantically searching for his soul ribbon among the sea of boxes. 'That's it!' He reached out to grab hold of the ribbon. It was within his grasp when suddenly it disappeared from sight with all the others.
Within seconds Ichigo could feel it. 'No! No NOOO! this can't be happening now' Ichigo was too late, slowly his being started to disintegrate from existence, being replaced by something far more sinister, 'Everyone I'm so sorry, Dad, Yuzu, Karin, Inoue, Chad, Ishida, Rukia. I'm sorry I wasn't able to overcome this. Rukia please forgive m-'. The last semblance of Ichigo Kurosaki left in the world was snuffed out.
Real world
Ichigo now had long talon like feet with four front claws and a back claw on each foot, his hands had sprouted long razor sharp claws where his fingers used to be, his shoulders had spikes jutting out of them, his overall build had bulked up massively compared to his human appearance with much more muscle on his arms, legs and torso, the thing that stood out the most though aside from the three foot tail with a red tip, was the blood chilling mask that Ichigo now had instead of a face, there were three red strokes that adorned the mask on the left side, with completely blacked out eyes and a demonic grin the looked as if it relinquished the sight of pain and misery.
Ichigo jumped out from the shattered shaft as new being, not a soul reaper but as a hollow, a hollow with emmense power and destructive capabilites. An ear shattering roar reached Urahara and Tessai which signalled the start of the two on one fight.
"Bakudo number ninety nine part two, BANKIN" Tessai screamed out while slamming his fingers into the ground.
"First song: Shiryuu!" Tessai cast the incantation and watched as the hollow was bound by numerous pieces of cloth.
"Second song: Hyakurensan!" Tessai cast out the second verse of the spell as the hollow was implaed all over his body by bolts.
There was a slight hesitation from Tessai as he cast the final part of the spell, 'Isshin I'm sorry for doing this'. "Final song: BANKIN TAIHO!"
The hollow that was Ichigo was crushed under a giant metal block. Tessai looked towards Kisuke, "Kisuke do you think that done it?".
Kisuke looked on towards the metal block studying it for any sign of resistance or any problems, "Yes Tessai I think that may have been enough to kill it." Urahara said as he walked away from the scene, "It's a damn shame too I thought Ichigo could ha-" Kisuke was cut off mid sentance he felt rumbling beneath his feet and a monstrous explosion of spiritual pressure destroying the Bankin and creating a medium size crater where the hollow was.
"Shit." Was all the store owner muttered as he watched the hollow emerge completely unscathed from the dustcloud and debris.
Another deafening roar was heard from the hollow as it sprang into action against its hostile foes. The hollow lunged at Urahara with a feral right swipe that would have ripped the shop owner to pieces if he hadn't of dodged it. Kisuke narrowly dodged more of the hollow's onslaught of attacks, the hollow was relentless with its attacks delivering swipe after swipe never giving the shop owner any room to breath or counterattack. Kisuke barely having any time to react between each attack slashed the berserking hollow across the chest to buy himself a few seconds.
Kisuke having caught a break took the opportunity to think to himself, 'Dammit, just how is this hollow so strong, Ichigo must have had some monstrous spiritual energy for this hollow to be so strong. I need to end this quickly before anything gets out of hand.'
The hollow recovered from Kisuke's attack quickly due to its regeneration capabilities and was charging towards Kisuke with speeds unheard of from any basic hollow.
'Shit! Its fast for a hollow.' Kisuke not being able to avoid the attack brought his sword up to block it, he was sent skidding back from the amount of raw power the hollow had, not wanting to get too close to the hollow shunpo'd away.
"Hado number 91: Senjū Kōten Taihō!" Came the booming voice of Tessai as ten pink energy balls appeared above him and launched themselves at the hollow, resulting in a devastating explosion.
The hollow fell to one knee from the power of the hado spell it's impressive regeneration already starting to repair any damage done to the hollow.
"Awaken, Benhime" Kisuke said calmly as he swung his sword in an arc towards the hollow, "Sing, Benhime" was all that came from the shop owner as crimson waves of energy flowed out of the blade towards the hollow.
Another terrible roar came from the hollow as it began to charge up a cero to combat Kisuke's attack, the cero was formed but what surprised Urahara was that it didn't stop growing in size. The cero had grown to around three times the size of the hollow charging it.
"Damn that cero is gonna do some serious damage, Jinta, Ururu into the shattered shaft." The two children quickly ran and jumped into the hole to escape the damage.
"Sing Benhime!" Urahara called out and a crimson energy shield apperared in front of the blade.
"El Escudo!" Tessai shouted as he raised his arms producing a strong kido barrier to block the cero
The hollow finished charging the cero and fired it at Urahara's previous attack. Both attacks collided in mid air resulting in a catastrophic explosion that rocked the entire cave and the surrounding area.
Kisuke stood behind his crimson shield that had taken quite a beating, being cracked in several places and chipped in a few corners 'That's impossible. For a hollow of that level to be able to produce such a cero, and for it to survive the blast being so close. We have to end this now!'
Kisuke dropped his crimson shield as did Tessai with his barrier, "Tessai!" Urahara looked and nodded at Tessai who understood the gesture.
The form of the hollow could be seen behind the dust and debris. The hollow charged at Kisuke who was also in mid-charge. The two clashed, sword to claws. Blow after blow the hollow was just managing to keep up with the blonde shop keeper.
Meanwhile in the background Tessai began chanting what could only be a terribly powerful kido, "Dark of the moon. Seeping wound of the damned. Grow numb and splinter!"...
The hollow now had taken many cuts and slashes from the Kisuke as it was begining to tire and stagger from each hit. Kisuke was without mercy, he was relentless in his assault on the hollow trying to expose a weak spot and capitalise on it. The hollow realising it was losing tapped into it's extreme brute strength, it parried Kisuke's diagonal chest slash and managed to send the shop owner skidding back a few feet, taking advantage of it's strength it charged once more at Kisuke with its right claw. Brutal blow after blow, the hollow was fast and strong, it was only managing to keep Kisuke on the defensive and hadn't delivered any actual damage. The hollow not realising what the shop owner was doing carried on with it's brutal onslaught of attacks.
"...Freeze and shatter! Fill with ice and know dispair! Hado number 94: Hyōga Seiran." Tessai had finished the spell and torrents of flowing ice left his hands heading towards the hollow.
Kisuke parried the hollow's swipe breaking it's stance, performed a bone crunching axe kick and shunpo'd away, "Goodbye Ichigo, Sorry" was all he said as he landed next to Tessai.
The torrents of ice smashed the hollow into the ground, never ceasing to crash and grind the hollow into the floor. After a few seconds the spell ended and there was a giant glacier in the middle of the underground cave. Kisuke turned towards Tessai with a sombre look, "Well Tessai it's done, let's go back up now". Kisuke said quietly to his long time friend while walking towards the shattered shaft.
"Kisuke there was nothing we could do, it was down to Ichigo to gain his powers back, we did what we had to do." Tessai said to Kisuke noticing his downtrodden mood.
Kisuke turned back towards Tessai, "No Tessai, I pushed him into this I really thought Ichigo would have been able to understand how to get his soul reaper powers back. Now he's dead." Tessai said nothing instead choosing to let his friend briefly wallow in his sadness.
Kisuke appeared above the shattered shaft, "Hey Jinta, Ururu it's over you can come out of there now."
The two children jumped out of the hole and noticed their boss wasn't his normal self, deciding not to say anything to him they walked silently toward the exit.
Kisuke looked to Tessai, "Hey Tessai can you clean up all this-" Kisuke's head bolted to the glacier as he felt the floor rumble and the twice thought dead hollow's spiritual pressure returning.
"This can't be I hit him with a full incantation high level hado, there should be nothing left of him!" Tessai said astoundedly.
The glacier began to crack and pieces began to chip away. After a few seconds the glacier exploded from the hollow underneath, the hollow was battered and damaged badly, it had many lacerations all over its body the most prominent being the one on its chest from where the kido hit it.
"SHIT! Jinta, Ururu get out of here now!" Kisuke commanded the two children, "Tessai no more mistakes this time, we have to put this hollow down now!" Kisuke said urgently.
The two charged at blinding speeds towards the hollow.
The hollow realising at couldn't win against the two opted to retreat, it tore a hole in the air with its claw and staggered in with the tear closing quickly behind it leaving Kisuke and Tessai alone in the cave.
The two stood eerily still in disbelief that the hollow actually managed to get away from them, the hollow they fought had been the most powerful hollow ever to come across either of their paths. If it managed to evolve it could spell catastrophe for all things to cross its path. The two stood wordlessly staring at the spot the hollow disappeared from before turning around and leaving the underground training facility, all the while Kisuke's mind going into overdrive about what he should do. ' I need to inform Isshin of his sons demise, I just hope he can forgive me and doesn't try to kill me, I will need to tell Ichigo's friends what happened too. Also I will need Yoruichi to go to soul society with Ichigo's friends to help Rukia.'
The garganta closed behind the hollow as it fell to the cold sand below, it had arrived.
Any feedback left would be greatly appreciated as this is my first story attempt. Any spelling errors, grammar, thoughts etc. Enjoy the first chapter ;D