Ok , I got a brand new story comming your way. This is how it came to me, I was playing 'Piglet's Big Game' on PS2 on Eeyore's level when the story came to me. It has hints of Pokemon, not the human characters but the 'Eevee' evelutions and you know that episode with 'teen titans' where 'Beast boy' and 'Cyborg' go into 'Raven's' room, get sucked into the mirror and end up in her world where they meet aspects of her personality, my story is kinda like that. So anyway... hope you like it and I'll try and upload when ever i can get to a willing computer or beg my teacher during lesson or at the end of the day. So now...
Let the second chapter of this story...BEGIN!
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Matsumoto opened her eyes slowly. A bright light filled her view so she looked to the left to see Unohana still unconcious. Matsumoto stood up slowly and walked over the medical shinigami and began to wake her up. Once awake, both female shinigami began to wake up the boys who were not too far from them.
Once everyone was awake, the bright light began to dull down, letting them see their surroundings. when they saw it, they all gasped louder then when they found out Hyorinmaru was a girl.
They were standing on a sandy beach, clear ocean hitting the beach leaving all sorts of shells on the rim of the sand. A forest was not far away with what looked like a small-ish volcano happily resting to the left. The flowers on the banks danced on the wind that blew ever so gentle in the summer sun. Small birds of all kinds could be seen flying in the air, away from the sea and seatling down in the large oak and red wood trees in the distance. Everyone could only stare. None of them thought this was a dream the tenth division Taichou could have. They scanned their surroundings carefully and Ichigo scratched the back of his head.
"Well, this is quite a nice...WHERE'S MY ZANPAKTOU?!?" Everyone snapped out of their staring and looked down to their zanpaktou. They were gone, and that was where another discovery.
"Where is my shinigami uniform?!?" Everyone had notcied the same thing. Matsumoto was now wearing a blue, stripped bikini top that actually covered her breasts without any of them having the chance to escape and a pair of plain dark denim shorts that were inbetween her thighs and knees with a blue belt hanging loosly on her hips. Unohana was wearing a plain white bikini top that also covered her breasts without a chance of escape and a pair of light demin shorts with a loose white belt in the style of Matsumoto. Ichigo was wearing a pair of brown, baggy shorts and a orange and yellow hawiiain shirt. Renji was also wearing brown baggy shorts and a pink and red hawiiain shirt. Ukitake was wearing a black pair of baggy trousers and a plain white shirt.
"Why don't we have our zanpaktou or shinigami uniform?" It was a question no one knew the answer to. Well, the visiting shinigami that is. They began to walk along the beach, in hope of finding Toshiro as soon as possible, until they saw a spec of white on the beach sand. The closer they got, the more they saw that the figure was sitting on the sand, legs out and leaning forward. The figure was wearing a blue and white hawiiain shirt and dark blue baggy shorts.
"Look its Taichou!" shouted Matsumoto before she took hold of Unohana's wrist and began to run towards the figure. As soon as they stood over it, the figure turned round and looked up at them with really cofused, bright blue eye, before standing up and jumping up and down happily.
"Hihihihihihiwhoareyouandwhatareyudoingonthebeachsilliesyoumightgetwashedawayinthewater?" It took a while before any of the group could actually understand what he had just said.
"We're here to take you back from the dream world" He just stared at that answer.
"Thats not me silly, I'm not the one your looking for, I'm here to help you wake him back up, my name is Happy Shiro" Everyone just stared at him as he jumped up and down, shouting his name as loud as he could to the dream heavens above.
"I'm the happy aspect of his emotions" he said as-a-matter-of-factly, hand on hip. Everyone nodded but were kind of scared by this. Was that he was like when he was happy?
"Is Hitsugaya Taichou exactly like this when he is happy?" Asked Renji. Happy Shiro smiled at him before standing right infront of him.
"Nope, I just have the emotion of happiness while he has all sorts of emotions like anger, sadness joy...you get the picture" Renji nodded at understanding Happy Shiro and frowned slightly.
"So how are you going to help us?"
"I'm going to lead you to the crystal Vaporeon, which is what you need to help Toshiro but I cannot lead you very far in so you will have to figure out how to get the crystal away from the guardian" Everyone understood everything execpt to 'Vaporeon'.
"Vaporeon?" mimiced Renji. What in the name of God was a 'Vaporeon'?
"Vaporeon is the name of the water crystal and also the guardian that guards it from any danger that enters here" He said before looking over to the water. Renji looked over aswell.
"We should get going now, it will get dark in a few hours so you should use the light time wisely" Happy Shiro said before diving head first into the water. Everyone just watched when he lifted his head up from the water, smiled and waved for them to follow.
"Come on, if you want to save Toshiro then all you've got to follow"
"But thats water, we'll drown" Happy Shiro sighed before swimming back to them and wacking the red head in the forehead before diving back in. Ichigo sniggered at Renji and got a punch in face from said red head. The two began to fight, making everyone sigh before Ukitake picked Ichigo off of Renji and smiling at both of them. The two stopped fighting and just seatled for scolding eachother.
"It's a dream, use your imagination Baka head, see ya later if you're not gonna try it" And with that, he dived completely and didn't bother comming back up. Unohana and Matsumoto looked at eachother before diving after the happy Shiro. Ukitake put the boys down and followed the three into the water. Ichigo and Renji pushed and shoved eachother and ended up diving in together.
The underwater world was a beauty to behold. Not only could they hold their breathe, they could see underwater without any aid of underwater lenses. strange creatures swam passed them in their schools(I think thats a group of fish hehe). Some looked like seahorses and some like regular starfish with five points and a small red gem and ones with ten points and huge red gem(Reconise anyone). There were coral reefs and all sorts of underwater sea life that blended together in perfect harmony. They all came to a stop when Happy Shiro stopped and held his hand out and a small water based compass appeared along with peice of paper. He swam over to the group and handed Ukitake the compass and paper.
"This compass will change to the selected element of the envionment and this paper is part of the map of the dream scape i was given, other peices will be given to you by the guardians of the crystals and together it will show you the way to the crystal cantainer and, with all the crystals together, they will tell you where Toshiro is...also..." Happy Shiro clicked his tounge three times and a small round creature with a large, thin tail, with a blue orb at the end of the tail, larger then the creatures body, appeared. The creature swam round Happy Shiro before looking at the shinigami.
"This is Azurill, she will help you if you come across any problems on your way but cannot follow when you near the gaurdian, but now I must leave you here so I will say goodbye and good luck" He waved goodbye and began to swim towards the a school of seahorse creatures, swimming with them before slowly disappearing with the creatures.
"H-hey, one question, why do we not have our shinigami uniform or zanpuktou?" Happy Shiro
turned round but didn't stop swimming.
"This is a world where violence doesn't exsist and everything co-insides with one another without confict...Ja ne" He waved to everyone and azurill waved happily back at him as he vanished and Azurill soon turned to the shinigami.
"Hello, I have been taut how to speak human by Happy Shiro and he has put me in charge of leading you towards the gaurdian Vaporeon, but I must say we should hurry before it gets dark and the other creatures come out" The small creature swam round Ukitake and took the peice of paper right out of the ill shinigami's hands.
"Although he ran out of time to teach me to actually read human" The creature smiled before pointing its orb on the paper where some writing was placed. Ukitake read the writing:
'Head north for Azrill's swim time and then go through the Feild of Jellies, where Azurill must leave to survive, and then go to the cave on the west side after three coral reefs and a anenemia when the gaurdian will be waiting, Happy Shiro ;-)' What the hell did 'Azurill's time swim' mean? thought Ukitake.
"Well, he says we have to head north for Azuirll's swim time. What does that mean Azurill?" Azurill stopped swimming round him and sat on her tail sweetly.
"Its means that, well, with my tail I can determain the length of distance I can swim before it becomes too dangerous for me to continue, so shall we get moving?" Ukitake nodded and Azurill began to tap her tail three times before it began to beep at a slow pace. The group began to swim towards all sorts of plants, creatures came up to the shinigami and swam round them, one seahorse got attached to Unohana but soon had to let go when it realised it was out of its territory and waved its wings as a way to say goodbye. Unohana had given it a small hug before catching up with the group. Every time they pasted a territory, Azurill's tail beeped faster and soon they arrived at 'Field of Jellies'.
"I'm sorry but I must leave you here make sure you don't get get lost around here, you could get caught by some bad fish,and take this, just throw it in the air and call out the name, and only use it if the guardian will not hand over the crystal, Ja ne" Azurill's tail lit up before shooting a yellow sphere at the group. Azurill waved goodbye before rushing back to her territory. Matsumoto caught the sphere and put it in the pocket of her shorts while Ichigo looked to the sky above the water. The sun was begining to set so they had to hurry. There were a few of some of the most gigantic jellyfish they had ever seen when they arrived and soon more were appearing. They picked up the pace and where almost at a speed of shunpo.
When outside, everyone was panting heavily. Unohana looked up and around at everyone. All except for Ukitake, who seemed to be missing. She looked behind, below and above. No Ukitake anywhere. Then it came to her. He must be trapped in the jelly field. She caught back her breath before running back in to look for the ill shinigami.
There were hudreds of jelly fish with millions of stingers she had to dodge to find him. She heard a low groan and turned round and looked down to find the ill shinigami barely standing atop of one of the jelly fish.
"Ukitake Taichou, are you ok?" Said shinigami looked up smiled before falling to the jelly. Unohana rushed down and picked the fallen shinigami up. Now all she had to do was figure out which way was the exit.
"HELLO, MATSUMOTO, RENJI, ICHIGO!" She shouted as loud as she could
"UNOHANA TAICHOU WHERE ARE YOU?!?" Shouted the other voice.
"I'M WITH UKITAKE WHO IS INJURED, KEEP SHOUTING SO WE CAN FIND OUT WAY BACK"
"HAI UNOHANA TAICHOU" The voice then began to shout all sorts of things like the 'happy birthday song', 'beer song' and the entire theme songs from 'Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni' and 'Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai' before Unohana was able to escape the Feild of jellies. She found the nearest flat surface and placed Ukitake down carfully. She then proceded to do a healing kidou to the much she could, with all the water almost surpressing her reistu inside her.
Ukitake opened his eyes slowly to see Unohana trying her hardest to heal the wound to perfect health, or as healthy as it could be under his condition.
"Unohana Taichou, its ok, I can't feel any pain now i'll be find" He reasured her. She looked at him and smiled before slowly stopping the kidou and locking back her reitsu. Ukitake smiled at her before slowly standing up. The three other shinigami rushed over to make sure he was fine.
"Don't worry, i'm healed as much as i can be, there's no need to worry over me" The three shinigami nodded and smiled at the old man.
"So where do we have to go now?" Ukitake unfolded the map and looked over the directions from Happy Shiro.
"The next place to go is...go to the cave on the west side after three coral reefs and a anenemia and that is where the guardian should be waiting" Ichigo looked around.
"Theres the first coral reef guys so theres only two left to go then the anenemia" Everyone looked over to where Ichigo was pointing and smiled before begining to swim in the direction the water compass pointed to. It took ten minutes until they had pasted the second and third coral reef and now all they needed to do was find an anenemia.
"Ukitake-san, what does an anenemia look like exactly?" Ukitake stopped and turned round to look at Ichigo.
"Well an anenemia is a small plant that has loads of almost strands of a pinky-yellow substance" Ichigo blinked.
"Oh so you mean that thing" Ichigo said, pointing to an anenemia. Everyone around him sweatdropped. Ichigo was a real dumbass at times. Ukitake looked to the west and saw a almost unoticable hole in the wall just behind the anenemia. They swam up to it and all just sqeezed inside. 'No wonder its so small, Toshiro must visit this place often' Though Renji with a chuckle.
The cave inside was beautifully decorated. Chaderleirs hung on the ceiling each about 100 centermeters from eachother. There were potrates of all sorts of dragons, some of Hyorinmaru and even what looked like family photos of a group of dragons, which always had a small snow white dragon in them. A long red carpet streched across the floor, rubies, emeralds and saphires etched into the carpet along with long, multi-coloured dragons flying the direction of the darkness. Ichigo picked up a single lit candle, that had been held by a dragon hand, and handed it to Ukitake, who smiled back.
"Thanks Ichigo, now lets hurry, its getting dark fast around here" Everyone nodded before begining to walk the hall. Each time they looked at a picture, it was never the same as the last and it always had a picture of a baby dragon and a grown up dragon. A yawn was heard.
"What was that?" Another yawn and the candle blew out. Everyone tried to get their eyes to focus but with no like what so ever, it was almost impossible.
"Ukitake, I can't see, what should we do?" Matsumoto felt a tugging at her arm, then another arm link with hers.
"We link and continue forward as planned" Not too long after, everyone was linked together and continued to walk once again. One or two times the group almost fell over when someone in the line tripped on someones foot or over the long, red carpet. All the while, the yawns slowly getting louder until candles suddenly lit themselves, showing the shinigami where they were.
They were standing in a circle room, all the walls were sea blue and the floor pure white. Every inch of the room was something to do with sea, there were fish tanks with all sorts of weird animals and plants living inside and the ceiling was painted with all the animals of the sea the shinigami had seen today. And right in the center, there was a huge plush pillow with something sleeping ontop of it and just infront was the blue crystal, shining with all its might.
Renji stood out and quietly walked up to the crystal and was about to take it in his hand, when a tail whiped his hand away. Renji jumped back to the group, holding his hand tightly, as the creature on the plush pillow began to move.
The creature jumped down and stared at them. The creature was a light blue colour with, what looked like, a webbed neck that streched out for 15 cenimeters. It had three fins on the top of its head and it had a long tail which seperated into a two normal fins at the back and small spikes along the tail. It also had four legs like a kitten.
"I am the guardian of the element water crystal, Vaporeon" Everyone stared. That tiny thing is a guardian? It was tiny by all the shinigami standerds. But then, so was the person they were trying to rescue from this place.
"Why do you come to my home?" Questioned Vaporeon without much emotion in it's voice.
"We are here to bring Hitsugaya Taichou back to the soul society" Announced Matsumoto, fiddling with the belt on her trousers. The creature was kind of scaring her in the way it spoke. The creature didn't move from its space, it just began to swish its tail from left to right at a slow, all most un-movingly, pace as it watched their every move.
"That's all well and good, but I will not give the crystal willingly to you, you must prove that you can look after the crystal and re-awaken Toshiro...I believe you were given something by Happy Shiro, I'm I correct?" Everyone gulped and the small creature sighed.
"Well, are we going to get started or not, only one can control the creature that was given" Vaporeon took a battle stance. Renji elbowed Matsumoto slightly, so not to cause pain, and pointed to the woman's pocket. Matsumoto took the sign and she gave the sphere to the red head.
"You should you want to do this Renji?" whispered Matsumoto concerned. Renji nodded and stepped forward.
"So you're the one to challange me are you?" Said Vaporeon. Renji looked to the gaurdian and smirked his cocky smirk, the guardian chuckled at his postier.
"Yeah, guess I am" Renji looked down to the sphere and found the name inscribed into the sphere. 'Raichu' it read. He looked up again and smirked more. He got himself ready and...
"RAICHU!" He shouted and the sphere began to glow a bright yellow colour before it burst. When the dust from the burst item hit the ground, it began to form a small shape. As soon as the yellow tint dispearse, the creature stood infront of them. It was a sort of tubby creature, standing on its hind legs, with two ears that pointed at the top, curved in and made a small curl at the bottom of the ear. It had a long tail with some sort of lightning bolt on the very end. Its top paws were a dark shade of brown and so were its feet, while the rest of the creature was a basic light brown, its stomach almost white and had small, yellow circles on its cheeks. Renji felt something on top of his head and picked it up carefully. It was a peice of paper with yellow writing on it. 'Must have come from the sphere' He thought before he read all the information.
"Looks like Happy Shiro really isn't that stupid, I guess I'm going to have to give him more credit" The creature joked before opening its mouth wide. Small water particals began to form at the guardian's mouth. The water particals formed into hage water ball. Vaporeon smirked again at Renji.
"And...Begin" The water ball launched itself at Renji. Renji tried to jump out of the way but the ball was too fast for him and launched him into the wall. After a few seconds, Renji pried himself off of the wall and back to where he once stood. Raichu looked up to him and nodded. Renji nodded back and looked over the paper. Vaporeon watched with interest as the two seemed to confirm something.
"Raichu, double dash!" One minute the creature was stood there, next thing anyone knew was it had disappeared. They only found the creature once Vaporeon was sent crashing to the ground. Raichu reappeared at Renji's side and watched as the guardian slowly rised back into its battle position.
"Very good redhead(that got a loud 'HEY' from Renji) but lets see how hou handle this..." The gils ontop of Vaporeon's head began to move back and forth at a rapid speed and soon one of the windows in the room to see the outside burst open, flooding the room in a matter of seconds. Everyone held their breath when the water reached the shoulders and plumated to the watered floor. Only then did they remember that they could breath under water if they 'imagined' it. Everyone watched the guardian smirk all through them figuring out that they could breath under water still.
The water around Vaporeon began to slosh and swirl at high speeds before it began to take form. It was turning into a wirlpool. Everyone braised (sp?) themselves as the wirlpool began to move towards them. With a smile from the from the guardian, they wirlpool sucked in Renji and spat him out at the other end of the now drowned room. Raichu used it speed to get over to its temporary master, and helped him back to his feet.
Renji took the small paw of Raichu into his hand and whispered into the creatures before standing up straight. Raichu nodded and took its place next to Renji and watched as a second wirlpool began to form.
"Looks like you handed that one perfectly, but lets see how you. !" the second one launched at them faster then anyone had expected. Renji and Raichu looked at eachother and smirked before launching themselves towards the wirlpool.
"ARE YOU STUPID RENJI?!?" Shouted Matsumoto and Ichigo. Raichu charged up its electricity and...
"LIGHTNING STRIKE!" Shouted Renji. Raichu's charging lightning exploded into the wirlpool, catching Vaporeon completely off guard once more. The lightning trapped Vaporeon and shocked the water guardian until Vaporeon collapsed onto the floor, bearly concious. The water in the room began to drain until the room became bone dry once more. Raichu stood straight from where it launched the attack and burst into yellow tinted dust, that fell lightly onto the bone dry floor.
the guardian stumbled to its feet before it bowed to the shinigami group.
"It looks as though you are strong enough to take the water crystal, congratulations" Water particals from outside swarmed around Vaporeon until none of the creature could be seen. About two minutes later, the water particals just disintergrated, leaving a boy around Ichigo's age wearing a bright blue jacket, without sleeves, and a white top just viewable underneath. He had a pair of blue tracksuit bottoms and a black belt. He, like Toshiro and Hyorinmaru, had snow white hair and emerald eyes. Vaporeon walked over to the crystal and picked it up before walking over to Renji and handing it to him.
Renji took it with a smile and smirked when Vaporeon bowed slightly before standing back abit. A peice of paper formed in his hands and flew towards the group. Ukitake caught it and put it into his pocket with the other peice.
"That part of the map will lead you to the next crystal, good luck to all of you" and slowly, Vaporeon began to fade away until only a small spec flew up high and through the ceiling, into the sea. A part of the wall began to re-shape into a see-through door. The group took that as a sigh to get moving.
It was pitch black outside. They could bearly see anything except the moon that shone brightly. Everyone remembered what Happy Shiro had told them. 'use the light time wisely'. Did that mean just so they could see ok? Or did it mean that somethiing happened in the dark undersea? No one wanted to know what the trouble was and chose to swim as fast as they could. Until Matsumoto felt something wrap around her ankle, pulling her back down. Ukitake saw her slowly sink back down and took hold of her arm, trying to pull her back up. Everyone neededto know what the hell had hold of Matsumoto. So Renji took that matter into his hands. He did a hand sign for a very strong kidou. Hepoured as much reistu as he could into it and launched it near to Matsumoto's anckle. The first thing that was seen was a tentical of some sort, then the light hit its target. There was a huge, blue squid like creature with hundreds of tenticals floating round in some sort of sign of anger. While Ichigo took hold of Matsumoto for Ukitake, the three, fully dead, shinigami lunched a full attac on the creature with all they had. The creature made some sort of cry before letting go and swimming away. Ichigo helped Matsumoto back to the dry land they were so happy to see. Along with a fire that had not been there earlier. ten fist on sticks sat around the fire, cooking slowly, a small note attached to a rock just next to the fish.
'Hey visitors,
I knew you could do it, looks like you guys are one step closer to finding Toshiro, hope you guys are hungry 'cause catching those fish was hard work hehe, hope we meet again one day, Ja ne and renji, Raichu says 'Hi' And then said 'Bye'
P.S when you go to the woods, make sure to walk through the huge metal gate, you can't miss it byebye ;-)'.
Everyone smiled at the note before sitting down around the fire, and began digging into the fish that had been given to them. Unohana spent the next ten minutes healing Matsumoto's ankle, while laughing and joking with her. Everyone soon got themselves ready for some sort of well needed rest and soon huddled around the fire before drifting into a sleep within a sleep.
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The end of chapter 2
Hope you guys like the story 'coz its not so easy for me to write this hehehe
It might take some time to upload because i still have no computer but...oh well.
Ja ne ^--^
THE END XDDD