Whisper

Chapter One: A New Beginning.

" Will you stand still and die already?"

Growled the Hollow as it watched the man he was trying to kill easily evoid his last attack.

"You SoulReapers are all the same..."

" I hate to burst your bubble-But I am no SoulReaper..."

The man sneered as he brought his sword up to catch the Hollow's large clawed hand as it tried to hit him again.

" Well...What are you if not a SoulReaper...It'd be a shame for me to eat you without knowing. Not that it really even matters.'

'Not to be rude...well actually...But it is you who will parish in the end."

The two glare at each other for a few moments, true hatred could be felt between them-the man then leaps away and allows his sword tip to rest on the ground. The Hollow turns so that it is now completely facing this man.

'But if you insist on knowing...I left the Soul Society...too many rules and all that. Now I'm my own man...a free agent of sorts."

"so...Your a Phoney?"

The Hollow chuckled, his eyes narrowing with both loathing and entertainment.

"Are you happy now?"

The man was starting to raise his sword when there was a sudden 'thwak' followed by a sickening noise. The Hollow even appeared to be confused for a few moments before its mask shattered into thousands of pieces-which scattered in all directions. The man turned and using his free hand sheilded his face from the exploding beast. At that time he knew instantly what had happened to the Hollow and who was to blame, turning he looked unimpressed.

" Liane! I was about to kill him!"

" You were taking too long."

Standing on a wall behind the man was a woman with long blonde hair-one arm still outstretched as the bow connected to a golden arm band glistened in the street light.

' The score's even now...'

She continued, jumping down from the wall so that she could lean against the man who acted insulted.

'Heh. you couldn't stand me having one over you, could you?"

'Shut up...Okay well anyways, I'm hungry. Let's go get some food.By the way Brian, your buying...'

'Wait...I don't recall agreeing to that.'

But it was no use, Liane had already dashed off ahead. Brian shook his head, only Liane would be hungry after seeing something explode in the most horrible way imaginable. He began to sheath his sword when he felt as if he were being watched, by what he couldn't tell.He turned survaying the alley until his eyes came to a stop at the small hill in the cemetary that over looked this alley. Standing there in the shadows cast by the old tree was a figure, but when Brian tried to get a better look at them, they seemed to vanish or melt away as if they were never there. Frowning deeply Brian wondered if there had even been any one there at all or if he was just seeing things due to the fact he was tired and hadn't had a meal in about a day.

' Brian! what are you doing?"

Liane had back tracked when she noticed that Brian hadn't caught up to her (she was talking to herself).

'Sorry, just got dizzy...lets go...'

He put an arm around Liane and turned away from the cemetary-he wasn't about to tell her what he had just seen, It would either worry her or make her think that Brian was dillusional and wouldn't let him live it down.

"" When the doors between the living and the dead are open, even the worst of nightmares seem like an ordinary day.'''

The grey skies over head threatened to crack open, letting the rain within it drown the Earth below. Not that it bothered Brian who was on his way to the store. He wasn't like most people and he rather enjoyed a brisk walk in the rain every now and again. Deeply engrossed by the novel he was reading, Brian walked past a group of young children who seemed to be gathered around something. It wasn't until he reached the intersection that he felt a strange sensation that he knew all too well-it was that of tremendous spiritual power and it seemed to be eminating from near those kids. Distracted by this Brian didn't notice the large truck running the red light until his senses were flooded by the sould of squeeling tires. Without even lowering his book, Brian lept into the air out of harms way-safely landing on the meridian. The truck finally came to a stop several feet from were it would have hit Brian, there was also people screaming and shouting.

'feh...How annoying...'

he growled as he dog tagged his page before slipping the book into his coat pocket. Rolling his eyes, he knew he had to deal with the fact that he was just seen by many people jumping over a truck and landing unharmed several feet away. Many people ran into the street as they rushed to the aid of the man who obviously had been hit by the speeding truck.

'sir-sir...are you okay!"

"I'm fine...see..."

Brian jumped down from the cemet meriddian to prove his point to the on-lookers.

'it's a miracle!'

'That truck sent you sailing yet you aren't hurt at all!'

the people then began to pat Brian down and shake his hand, finding him to be amazing even though they couldn't have cared less about him before this inccident.

'I'm just lucky I guess, eh?"

'yah-you can pick my lottery ticket any day bud!'

Forcing a weak smile, Brian decided it was best to just play along and tell these people what they wanted to hear. He hadn't even realized what he had done until all these witnesses saw him and came flocking to his side. Looking over his shoulder, Brian tried to see where the truck driver had gotten to but wasn't surprised to see that both the driver and the truck were long gone. He probably figured he had killed whoever he had hit and since he already ran a light didn't want to get into any more trouble then he already was. Finding all the attention to be annoying Brian began to return his attention to the people talking to him all at once when he caught a flash of black and white robes near the on lookers on the other side of the road. Finally the people were chased off by the police and the traffic began to start up again, blocking the other side of the road from veiw and Brian's chance to see who was standing amongst the crowd.

'Things are going to get annoying now...'

He thought before continuing on and away from the annoying people-however he tried his best to ignore the fact that a small group of school girls were following him like he were some super God or something.

They hadn't gone even three blocks when brian came to a sudden stop, the girls following him almost ran into the back of him-but giggled as if they expected him to turn around and sweep them off of they're feet. Spinning, he lept towards the girls, making them all squeel in both shock and admiration.

'Get Down!'

He yelled, shoving them to the ground moments before the wall beside them exploded as if it had been slashed by a tremendous energy.

'Waah!'

'What...whats going on!'

'You Girls...Get out of here!"

The girls nodded, fear fueling them as they ran back they way they had come-Brian sprang to his feet and glared at the wall. The girls couldn't see what had caused the explosion but Brian could and he was not happy.

"Who Hell are you?"

He spat at the man standing amongst the rubble-his black and white robes bellowing around his legs.

'hahaha! I thought that it was You that I saw almost getting hit by that truck...too bad...'

'Answer my question."

Laughing some more the man moved towards Brian, his broad sword still in one hand.

'Oh...that's right. You wouldn't know me, I'm a recent addition...'

'Stop babbling and answer my question!'

Brian tilted his head as he waited rather patently for the answer to his question.
'I guess I could fill you in...'

began the man as if answering Brian wasn't worth his time.

'My name's Zakis Soukous and...I will be the one to kill the traitor...Brian Aod!'

Zakis stopped and dramatically pointed his sword at Brian who was unphased by this proclamation.

'You can try...'

this reply caused Zakis to fall over in disbelief but he instantly jumped back to his feet and began to wave his sword around wildly.

'Your not sappoused to be so calm! Fear me!'

'You better stop that before you poke someone's eye out.'

Again Zakis was unimpressed by Brian's cool and calm reply-deciding now that Brian was actually too scared to move he would attack him.

'You will die!'

Zakis laughed as he lunged at Brian-Moving ever so slightly, Brian lept out of the way with little effort.

'You'll have to do better then that.'

'Your a coward...afraid to fight me like a true SoulR...'

Zakis barely managed to deflect a large chunck of depris which was aimed for his head. Brian slowly lowered his foot, still looking bored (he had kicked it while Zakis was yapping).

'You talk too much. I don't fight Brats. And I don't fight people who aren't serious about killing me..."

waving slightly, Brian turned and began to walk away. No longer able to hide his anger, Zakis brought the blade of his sword to his free hand and run it along his skin-his blood glistened as it rolled down the cool metal.

"HollowDarken!"

Smirking, Brian felt the surge of energy explode behind him. Without thinking, he gave a small hop and landed gracefully on the blade edge.

'glad to see your getting more serious but its still not good enough.'

'Impossible'

Zakis muttered seconds before Brian's foot connected withi his face and was sent sailing back into the wall. HIs sword clattered to the ground-Brian bend down to pick it up but was met with a nasty surprise, the sword burnt his hand. Cursing he pulled his hand back just in time to see something metalic shoot towards him.

'Dammit!"

A large explosion errupted at Brian's feet, blinding him and sending both smoke and debris into the air. Zakis spat blood onto the ground while trying to see through all the smoke, blood gushed down from his forehead,nose and mouth.

'Did I get him? Huh...No this can't be!"

Zakis' eyes went wide as he saw the form of Brian leap from the smoke unharmed, sword in hand.

'Missed again...Now here's your punishment for failing to kill me!"

Brian came to a skidding stop and brought his sword up to his face eye level, a large and rather wicked smirk was on his face-he looked more sinister then he had only moments ago.

"Tell your Superiors that I say 'Hi'..."

he then swiftly slashed at the air, since he was out of range it seemed as if it was nothing more then just a threatening gesture, or so it appeared. Moments later Zakis fell back against the wall again as severe pain surged though him and blood seemed to be gushing out of him like a fountain. Looking down he saw Brian's sword had diagonally sliced through his shoulder and chest-the sword still pertruded out of him. Unable to stand, Zakis fell to his knee's doing his best to stay concious with the beleif that Brian was about to kill him. Simply recalling his sword, Brian stood staring at the now whimpering man.

'you...your a demon...'

he managed to mutter before finally surcoming to his injuries and passing out in a pool of his blood.

Brian wasted no time in hightailing it out of there, knowing that it wouldn't be too long before the area was crawling with people looking for the person who had done so much damage. He was wiping the blood off of his sword when he came across the blonde sitting under a tree eating an apple.

'Liane...what exactly were you trying to do?"

'Isn't clear? I was saving your butt...as useual.."

'Excuse me? You saved me? You nearly killed me...and did I look like i was in any danger?"

"er...well yea..."

'Sighs...I'm pretty sure that I was in no way in any danger...until you nearly shot my foot off."

Liane lept to her feet to walk beside Brian, her golden bow was nearly completly retracted back into its band.

'so...who was that creep anyways?"

Brian growled but this didn't detour Liane from wanting to know, she was curious to know more about Brian's past yet he refused to reveal much of it.

'His name was Zakis Soukous. He's going to cause many problems for us.'

'oh?'

'...I should have killed him..."

'Brian?"

The two came to a stop a top of a grassy hill over looking the city-a wind picked up with the beginning of the night's rain. The two were in a park, safely away from the vacinity of the battle yet Brian still felt that it wasn't good enough. He had spare Zakis' life and in return had probably doomed both Him and Liane. They're so called normal lives were about to change again and it would be at the hands of those who Brian refused to speak of.

'Bri...'

'He was from the Soul Society...'

Liane looked away from Brian, silently nodding and looking over the darkening city.

'So much for our "new Beginning"...'

Character Stats...

Brian

5'8

Silver eyes

Navy Hair

Over 200 years (looks 22)

Liane

5'4

Green eyes

Blonde hair

20 years old

Zakis

5'1

Blue eyes

White hair

Unknown age

Kelly

5'3

Brown eyes

Black hair

Brian Fan

Anne

5'6

Green eyes

Brown hair

Brian Fan