†Souls Are A Mindless-Self Indulgence †

Prologue

The earth below her was moist against her feet as she ran. The eastern wood was dark and thick. Her head up trying to see where she was going but the tears she cried burned her eyes and made it hard to see. Behind her she could hear the yelling of the predators screaming her name. Her mothers' words rang through her head as she tripped over her own two feet. She fell on her knees but the looked behind her. The firey radiance reflected in her eyes. Her heart beated with painful sobs as she watched her mother burn to the stake. She screamed but no sound. She whispered something that echoed through the forest. The predators saw her and then her beating heart felt a pain like no other. She fell backwards and looked to the sky. The holy brightness of stars broke into flames and the dark sky was a smoldering red. She closed her eyes and her body died. Now her sad, lonely soul remains on this earth till she finds her way of peace and happiness.

Info

Name: Maura (Dark) Anima (Soul)

Status: Wicken

Age: 15

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 110 lbs

Blood Type: AB

Birthday: May 15, 1551

Day Died: August 5, 1566

Village: Salem, Mass.

Ethnicity: British

Personality: Sweet, innocent, willing to help others, protective, powerful, slow, a bit of an airhead, hurt.

 


Chapter 1: Trolls?!

"Can anyone tell me the definition of the poem?" The teacher asked the classroom. The room was dead silence until Tatsuki raised her hand. "Ah yes Tatsuki?" Tatsuki started explaining the poem. Ichigo on the other hand had his mind set on something-

"Ichigo!" He heard Rukia behind him whispering. "A Hollow, you have to go, NOW!" She ordered him in that tone that annoyed him very much so.

"And what about you, aren't you coming with me?!" Ichigo said in his normal irritated tone. He was annoyed with this Hollow crap during school. His grades were dropping because of it and he wasn't very happy because of it.

"No! And anyways this spiritual pressure is starting to go off the charts! I don't know what kind of Hollow it is but if you don't hurry up it will keep getting stronger! GO!" She whispered harshly. Her hand went on his shoulder and her tracker/cell phone and her glove fell into his jacket pocket.

He growled and the raised his hand instantly. "Uh yes Ichigo?" The teacher asked.

"Can I go to the bathroom?" He said. He said it so fast and sudden that the teacher nodded and was confused to what was going on. He stood up quickly and then sort of ran out of the room.

Rukia sat back in her desk and took a deep breath. This spiritual pressure was nothing that she had ever felt before. She didn't want to tell Ichigo that, she thought it was a good idea to keep it to herself. This . . . This Hollow wasn't a regular Hollow . . . it wasn't even a Menos. What is this power? Rukia thought, This is really starting to piss me off!

But for Ichigo on the other hand . . .

"DAMN IT! HOW DO YOU USE THIS STUPID THING!?" Ichigo was yelling at the tracker/cell phone. He was running down the streets trying to find this Hollow that Rukia was talking about but this THING was getting in his way. He screamed and then put it in his pocket and took a hard right turn. But when he turned that corner he saw something that he wasn't expecting. The Hollow and a THING This thing was as tall as the bear like Hollow but did not resemblance anything of a Hollow. Its tall, fat body of a human; light brown skin, big nose, bald head, under bite, big ears and huge appearance. To Ichigo it looked like a . . . Troll? The Troll like monster then picked up the bear like Hollow and threw it in Ichigo's direction. Ichigo then fell to the floor, not wanting the Hollow to hit him or anything. So when it pasted him, Ichigo got up and started screaming at the thing. "Hey you . . . you thing! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE THROWING HOLLOWS WOULD YA!? YOU ALMOST HIT ME WITH THAT THING!" Ichigo was screaming and his temper was pretty high but as he stood there pointing at the thing that threw the Hollow he noticed the thing didn't pay any attention to Ichigo at all. It just stood there staring at the Hollow which tried to stand but failed. "Why I ought a . . . !" Ichigo said under his breath and this time the thing looked at him.

"You ought a what?!" The troll spoke with a low baritone and Ichigo twitched as it looked at him with it big eyes. The troll squinted at Ichigo and saw that Ichigo was in a soul reaper outfit and started to laugh. The laugh was so loud it kind of shook the earth a bit. Ichigo raised one eyebrow and was kind of getting annoyed by this TROLLS laughter. It stopped laughing and looked at Ichigo and its voice was back to that annoyed tone. "You a soul reaper, you finish it off, while I take care of host." As it spoke the earth shook some. The troll turned around and fell to the floor so that he was sitting on the ground. It's back towards Ichigo so it couldn't see Ichigo's pissed, annoyed, confused look.

"Host? What . . . ?" Ichigo trailed as he looked beyond the troll and saw the "Host". The "Host" was a soul, a girl soul. She was talking to the troll and then the troll held out its hand. The soul took its huge pointer finger and hugged it. She then let go, looked up at the troll and smiled so brightly it made Ichigo's insides turn. She then looked away from the troll and looked at Ichigo. She must have felt him staring at her and she smiled shyly at him. He immediately noticed how beautiful she was by looking in her mossy green eyes, her short tree bark down hair. The ratty clothes wrapped around her small body. But the one thing he noticed the most was that she had no chain or hole in her chest. She smiled at him sweetly but shyly and the scream of the Hollow disrupted his thoughts. He turned to face the Hollow which figured out to stand again. He smirked as he drew his sword from its hilt. He ran at it with full speed and jumped. He slashed the hollows face and landed on his feet. He watched the Hollow disappear in that glittery power. He smirked some more and turned around. "What the . . . !" The thing and the girl soul were gone. He scratched his head and looked around the area. "Their gone?" He grunted and put his sword back in his hilt. He then turned to walk back to school when:

"Soul Reaper?" He heard a soft toned voice with a British accent behind him. He turned around to find the girl soul in front of him. Now that she was closer to him, he saw that she was around his age and about 4 to 5 inches smaller than he was. He blinked because of the fact that she looked so much like the people from his history books from the 1800's. She then smiled and spoke again. "Thank you Soul Reaper. I don't think Clark could have taken care of that fully. If it wasn't for you I don't think he would have made it. I am very grateful, thank you." And with that she curtseyed. Her voice was soft and sweet to Ichigo's ears. Every word she spoke Ichigo felt his body relax. He then realized that THING had a name and he snapped out of the trance that she put him in.

"Wait!?" He said suddenly. She blinked in confusion. "That THING has a name!?" She then started to giggle like he was joking around with her, but he was being totally serious. He stood there staring at her and she suddenly stopped. She saw that he was being totally serious but Ichigo on the other hand was in a second trance because her laughter was even more beautiful that her voice and confused as why she was laughing. He really had no idea what that THING was.

"Oh I see." She said and covered her mouth. "Ah, well I guess I'll tell you later. I must leave you. I owe you Soul Reaper for saving my life." She then did something Ichigo thought souls couldn't do; she kissed him on the cheek. "Many thanks, good bye Soul Reaper." She turned to disappear and as she turned Ichigo saw a tint of pink upon her cheeks.

She then disappeared and Ichigo felt his face felt his face getting hot. I didn't think souls could kiss. Ichigo thought as he brought his fingertips the cheek that was just kissed. They can't! But then how did she . . . she must be like the other souls . . . WAIT! Ichigo then realized something he didn't catch because he was to busy thinking of his first kiss on his cheek that wasn't his mom.

"Hey! Come Back! What do you mean by you'll tell me later?" Ichigo's temper got the best of him so he started to yell. "Come Back! I need to know! AHH!" he screamed and started to throw a fit. He let some of his anger out by screaming but then stopped and grunted. He then turned around and stomped all the way back to school.


"Maura why do you insist on teasing him? He a Soul Reaper, I hate Soul Reapers!" Clark insisted. He and Maura were floating on a cloud in the sky above Karakura Town watching Ichigo walk back to school. They were also accompanied with two other lost souls.

"Clark why don't you go home? The other witch hollows are probably wondering where you are." The one, that spoke, was to Maura's left. She had long red hair that was up in a bun with brilliant dark purple eyes. She was wearing a black dress with colorful beads lining the hemming of the dress. And the sleeves fell off her shoulder like a gypsy's. "And let her do what she wants. She knows what she's doing." She was watching Ichigo, as so was Maura.

"But Miss Rachel." Clark started to protest but then Rachel looked over her shoulder and glared at him with a death glare. He then put his hands together and disappeared into his world that he comes from.

"I guess it was a good idea for you to go down to earth, huh Maura?" The other that spoke was sitting to the right of Maura. She had jet black hair halfway up, with bangs covering her left eye. She had radiant blue eyes and very fair skin. She had a black shirt with a gray skull on the front of it and one of the sleeves was falling off her shoulder. She was also wearing skin tight jeans with a studded belt. She nudged Maura's shoulder and then bit her lip. "Cause he's hot!" She moaned and Rachel looked at her in disgust.

"Eww, Britney shut up!" Rachel said with disgust and Rachel looked at Britney while leaning forward.

"Ohh like you weren't thinking it either gypsy!" Britney snapped.

"Shut up you whore!" At this point they were full fledge fighting and all that bickering was giving Maura a head-ache.

"Guys!" Maura screamed and they both stopped and looked at her. "How about you both just shut up and hear me out." Maura sighed and continued. "I know going down there was a huge mistake he could do something for me." Rachel and Britney looked at Maura. "He could be the one." Rachel and Britney then looked at each other and smirked. "So don't even think of coming down with me when I go!" Rachel and Britney whined and Maura giggled. "So lets see if he can handle all this and plus . . . . . he is kind of cute." Maura blushed and Rachel and Britney started laughing.

"Told you!" Britney said and they all started to laugh.