This is my first fanfic I've ever posted online! I'd love comments and suggestions, so please review! No flaming, though, please.
There's no pairing, but I shall make a pairing fic soon! :D
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or any other characters in it. But if I did, let's just say it would be MUUUUCH different, and more Shoujo! :3
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He blinked once as Ulquiorra pointed his sword out at him.
"Bind…," the words were spoken calmly, "Mercialago."
The ground trembled as those words were spoken. His eyes widened as he felt rain on his head.
His head went up automatically. 'It rains here?'
A drop rolled down his mask, curving in and out of the crevices. Something seemed…out of place.
A small 'plunk' echoed through the still air.
It was followed by the pattering of rain.
Black rain.
He had only barely enough time to register that fact when the moonlight, his only source of illumination, was blocked out.
His attention diverted back to where Ulquiorra had been standing. His eyes widened at the Espada before him. Wings spread out like the darkness itself wrapped around him. Two egg-white horns protruded from the mask on his head.
His emerald-green eyes seemed to pierce through his soul.
The shinigami-daiko's mind screamed for him to run.
'You have to get away.
Monster.
Demon. You have to run.
Go, go! You have to get out of here!'
Fear wrapped around him like a blanket, making the air around him stuffy and uncomfortable. "Don't tremble." He spoke clearly, in the same unemotional voice he always spoke in. "Don't break your stance. Stay aware of your surroundings. Don't let your guard down for an instant."
'Fear.
It's evil -pure evil.'
Darkness swallowed him up.
'No light.'
Mentally, his blanket of fear pinned his arms to his sides. He was thrown into an ocean of evil, drowning in it.
All of this happened in a half-second. The soul reaper's thoughts seemed to make the blanket of fear heavier, thicker. They made the water polluted.
'I can't breath.
He's going to kill me.
I'm going to die.
Die.'
Fear consumed him, took away all of his power.
'No!'
He couldn't be defeated.
Inoue! Inoue needed him.
He had to get her out.
And Chad, Rukia, Uryuu, Renji.
They had all nearly died.
It was his turn.
'I have to move!'
The blanket ripped down the middle, cut by a black surge of power. Water exploded around him. Ripped pieces of the blanket fell around him, the ocean spreading out under him.
'I won't let him kill me!'
Within another half a second, these new thoughts went through his head.
'I won't let Fear drive me!'
He reflexively blocked Ulquiorra's attack with a Getsuga Tenshou.
"You used Getsuga reflexively…?" The Espada spoke as if he were teaching him. "…a prudent decision." He felt a fourth of his mask shatter. "If you hadn't, your head would be at my feet right now."
Ichigo nearly smirked at that comment.
'Bring it on.'
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A/N: I don't know if I spelled 'Mercialago' correctly. Or 'daiko.' Please tell me how I did and if I should change anything. X3 I hope this was better than I thought it was.
Thanks to my sister Copy for criticism.
:3