Chapter 2

"I got to get home though." I said pulling out of his grasp. "Maybe another time." I could sense a monster near by, and it was heading this way. I ran away from Uryū ignoring his protests. I was glad that he had come to save me, but I didn't need it. I could take car of my self.

Casting I quick glance behind me, I ran towards the monster

"Found you." I said reaching behind my neck.

"Why hello there, ready to be my snack?" The monster asked. "I can sense a lot of power with in you."

"No thanks." I said pulling my hand forwards as I leaned forwards. I drew the spirit particles out of the air and formed a blade. Taking a deep breath I blew on it. Flames sprung up along the blade.

"Oh, so your gonna make me fight for it? Heh, your just going to taste all the more sweeter." The monster said spreading out wings and jump in the air. Flapping its wings it flew up. The monster looked like a cross between a mini T-Rex and a pterodactyl.

I felt a sudden jump in my sensor. I went from only sensing a couple over monsters to over a dozen, and the number was slowly going up! I stopped looking at the thing for a split second, the spirit pressure was getting immensely strong.

All at once I was sent flying off my feet and straight for the pole in front of me. Using the lift I already had I did a flip in the air and hit the pole with my feet. Flipping off it before I could fall again I landed. "Whoa, never knew I could do that." I muttered. My sword was still in my hand. "Alright, lets end this now." I yelled as I threw it at the monster.

The monster dodged it. Laughing it looked at me its mouth wide. "You really expecting for me to be killed by that. Ho ho ho. Your one sad little girl there."

"Nah, I expected you to dodge it." I said as I made a quick gesture with my hand.

"What?" It asked blusteringly.

"So I could do this." I muttered to myself as my sword landed in the back of its ridiculously over-sized head. All at once it crumbled away and my sword started to fall. Making another quick gesture it came over to me and landed softly in my hand. "Time to go check how home is." I muttered as I broke out into a run, my sword shrinking back to a sliver in my hand.

Quickly I stopped at a store and changed. I didn't want to run around fighting these things in nothing but an insanely short skirt. It was nasty and had limited movement. Now I was wearing a pair of black jeans and a white t-shirt with a big black cross on the front and back.

I was ready for whatever was out there.

I stopped as I reached the top part of the park. Uryū and the orange haired dude stood in side of it surrounded by quickly eroding bodies. In Uryū's hands was a huge bow made of the same stuff my sword is made of. In orangies hands was a sword about as long as he was tall.

"In front of you, a shinigami- I must prove the strength of the Quincy!" Uryū yelled. His right hand was dripping small droplets of blood. "In this fight, I do not wish for your help. You and I are Shinigami and Quincy. I know that our views are polar opposites. If you think my views are wrong, you are welcome to watch from here. I will simply, prove my strength."

"You..." Orangie grumbled as he started running. Leaping up in the air he kicked him hard in the back of the head sending him forwards into the face of one of the monsters. "Your story too long!" He yelled as he kicked him.

"Wha- What was that for!"

"You messed up your own story! Your sensei wouldn't want you to prove the power of the Quincy's, you said it your self his greatest hope was for Quincys and soul reapers to work together. Isn't that right. C'mon think about it." Orangie growled as he grabbed Uryū's coller. "When will you ever have a better chance to do that then right here, surrounded by enemies. You said it yourself were opposite poles, but I say when two warriors are heavily out numbered the trick is to fight back to back." He pulled Uryū up to his feet and behind him so they were standing back to back.

I ran over to the hollows and quickly cut through 5 before they noticed I was there.

"Very well." I heard Uryū say.

"Hey, wait a second!" I yelled as I ran into the circle. Orangie and Uryū turned and looked at me. Looks of confusion covered their faces. "You won't be able to take on all of these guys by your selves. Let me help."

"Yuki?" Uryū asked a puzzled look spreading across his face.

"Who's Yuki?" Orangie asked.

"Never mind that. You guys won't be able to take on all of these guys. Let me help." I offered. There were dozens upon dozens of enemies here, two people wouldn't be able to beat them all, but maybe three could even the odds. I don't know why I was feeling such confidence, but in the heat of the battle I guess habits just leave you and instincts take over.

"With what? You don't have a weapon." Uryū said. "Just stand back, don't get your self hurt."

"No weapon?" I said as I glanced down at my hand. "You mean this isn't a weapon?" I brought my right arm to my left shoulder and swung it quickly across. My sword gathered up all the spirit particles it needed as it did so growing to its normal size. Quickly I blew on it and the fire ignited. "Guess not." I said smirking as I quickly studied all the monsters around us.

"Yuki, behind you!" Uryū yelled as he raised the giant bow and pulled back. An arrow formed on it and shot out hitting whatever was going to attack me. "Quick, get over here."

Quickly I ran over to them and got into battle stance. All at once the monsters jumped out at us. Uryū fired at them over and over again killing them before they even got close. Orangie jumped around and sliced through the heads of the monsters with ease.

The monsters lunged at me with speed but I was quicker. I sliced through them, killing them in one or two blows. They weren't cunning and it was easy to attack them.

"Now that was nice." I heard Orangie say to Uryū.

"I didn't do it for you. I only did it because they were about to attack Yuki or me." Uryū said.

"So what? Thats alright, its kill or be killed. Whats most important her is, together we can all kill a lot more. Isn't that a good enough reason for the two of us to join forces? After all we both share the same simple minded purpose, we all have reasons to destroy as many hollows as we can."

"You know my reason," Uryū started, "whats yours?"

"My mother was killed by a hollow."

"A hollow, is that what they're called?" I wondered aloud. I stepped back, the monsters had stopped attacking, for now at least. I cast a glance back at Uryū and saw a look of sympathy quickly cut across his face. But as soon as it appeared, it was gone.

"I'm sure you'll agree thats enough of a reason all by itself, but theres still more to it than that. After all the agony I suffered, I want to make sure others never suffer the way I did. My fathers and my sisters went through so much pain after mom was killed. It was so hard for me to watch." Two monsters leaped at Orangie but he cut through them with ease. I turned around and put a sympathetic hand on his shoulder. "Its something, I don't ever want to see again, that sadness in their faces." I took the hand off of Orangies shoulder and looked at Uryū. "I'm not a super hero, I know I can't protect everybody in the world, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be contempt protecting only the people I can hold in my arms either. I'm going to protect as many people as I possibly can! Your method of using bait to deliberately draw hollows here just to prove a point is only endangering innocent lives. I don't agree with that. Though right now is not the time for arguments. We've all got to work together. All three, so what do you say?"

"What do I say? I think you talk to much." Uryū said as he reached in and pulled out another arrow like thing. "But I get what your saying. I need to help you survive this battle or you won't be around for me to kick your butt!" Uryū yelled.

"I'll help." I said softly. I felt like I had intruded on something, but there was nothing I could do now.

"Sounds like a plan!" Orangie said charging behind Uryū and attacking the monsters. Uryū fired shots every where hitting all the monsters he aimed for. Letting go of my sword I let it fight for its self as I gestured it around. I was expelling a lot of energy but it was energy well used. Even though we had killed many, there were still more and more showing up.

"Urrrrgh, how many of you guys are there!" I cried as everyone fell back. I summoned my sword back into my hand.

"What the, Ichigo, Yuki. Look at the sky." I looked up. A big hole filled a chunk of the sky with cracks radiating out of it.

"Whats that?" Orangie and I asked in unison.

"I... I don't know." Uryū answered. Something reached its long bony fingers through the hole. Slowly it pulled the hole open and peaked its ugly face through. It looked like the grim reaper. My sword felt heavy in my hands due to the fear I felt, but I pushed the useless emotion away.

"Thats not you every day garden variety hollow." Orangie said. Everyone and everything was watching it as it slowly emerged from the hole.

"That little bit of bait I used can't possibly have drawn this." Uryū said.

"Maybe not, but its here."

"Be ready for this guy." I muttered as the monster continued pulling itself out.

"Here they come!" We all shouted as the monsters leaped at us. Suddenly they were all hit with what sounded like bullets.

"Huh?" I asked confusedly turning around. A little girl with cute pig tails held a bit gun like thing.

"I'm sorry were so late." She said lowering it.

"Ninja stiza triple!" A boy with red hair yelled as he kicked three of the monsters in the gut. (No idea what he's saying there). A big guy with huge muscle punched one of the monsters in the face like it was nothing.

"I thought you might need a little assistance Ichigo." A man wearing a green and white striped hat said.

"Mr. Hat and Clogs." Orangie said. The kid with red hair leaped at a monster and clubbed him over the head with the club he was carrying while the tiny girl fired shot after shot at the monsters mowing them down.

"If you don't mind me making a suggestion, why don't my crew and I take care of these small guys for you Ichigo, while you go concentrate on that big guy?" Mr. Hat and Clogs said pointing at the monster still working its way out. "Oh uh, you should probably get started before its too late."

The monster was almost out now. Too late was going to happen too soon. It opened its mouth a purple mist floated out. It turned its head towards us.

"That thing is too big for any of our weapons." Uryū stated.

"Ha, just because its over fed doesn't change anything, we just gotta chop a little more." Orangie said.

"Chop?" Uryū and I asked.

"Yep, and the bigger they are the harder they fall. C'mon together we'll take that ugly sucker down!" Orangie said raising his sword. "Lets go Uryū, Yuki." He charged off.

"Ichigo!" Uryū yelled.

"Orangie!"

"Don't be crazy!" We yelled together. The thing was finally out, I couldn't comprehend how big it was inside the hole, but now. It was about as tall as ten story building. Orangie ran at it as it raised its foot. Jumping up into the air he brought his sword down in front of him at full force.

"Orangies an idiot." I muttered. His sword caused absolutely no damage what so ever. Instead he was sent flying through the air surprise reigning his body. He rolled to a stop in front of me and Uryū.

"I told you that would happen." Uryū growled as he readied his bow.

"I've got this." I muttered letting go of my sword. This was going to use up a lot of energy, but it was better than letting the monster go any farther. Uryū shot an arrow at the monsters face, but all it did was glance off.

"Dam***." he swore. "Hey Ichigo, so can you get up?"

Orangie wheezed loudly. "Sure, I'm good as new." He saluted to Uryū and me.

"That was the dumbest charge I think I've ever seen. What were you thinking, did you think that would actually work!" Uryū yelled at him.

"Charge." I muttered to my sword sending it flying through the air. I didn't know if it would cause any damage but I could at least try. Gesturing it left and right as it flew through the air. "I got this. C'mon." I muttered louder.

"What are you doing?" Uryū asked breaking my concentration. All the speed my sword had picked up disappeared.

"Good grief. There it goes." I groaned as I reluctantly called my sword back.

"Well, I figured," Orangie started explaining his plan, "if I just kept chopping away on him like a giant tree I'd eventually bring him down to a point where I could whack him on the head."

"I can't believe your acting like this is some kind of little kids game." Uryū said kneeling down beside Orangie. "Now get up and lets try a different strategy." He grabbed onto Ichigo's sword and yelled out in pain and surprise.

"Uryū!" I exclaimed as his bow grew and shrunk rapidly.

"What'll I try next?" Orangie wondered aloud.

"Ichigo, look." Uryū said calling his bow to Orangie's attention.

"Ahh, what did you do Uryū, how did your bow get so big!"

"Just be quiet and listen. Yuki, touch Ichigo's sword. I think there actually may be a way we can defeat this thing!" Nodding I knelt down and reached out, touching the sword Orangie held. I felt extreme power coursing through me. Biting my lip hard enough to draw blood I kept my self from yelling in pain. "Are you ready to do it?" He asked us. The monster was finally out every last bit of it.

Using a bandage Uryū had in his bag we tied Orangie's sword to his head. I had was leaning next to Uryū and had my hand resting on his shoulder. I was pushing every ounce of power I had into him.

"Now we are ready to fight that thing." Uryū said like a warrior.

"Your not serious. This won't work." Orangie said letting go of his sword.

"Quiet!" Uryū yelled turning around. "Just do what I say. You gotta release all your spirit energy at once while were connected. That way I should be able to harness the power and shoot an enormous arrow. Its the best way to use all of your energy. Right now your just wasting it!"

"Well you don't have to be so insulting about it." Orangie said blankly.

"Ugh, quick taking things so seriously and start releasing that energy already!"

"How do I do that?" Orangie asked. I groaned and put my forehead on Uryū's shoulder.

"He's hopeless." I muttered.

"You tell me you don't know! Whats been your method for battling with hollows all this time?" Uryū yelled at Orangie. I stood up.

"Just instinct." Uryū's face went blank.

"Just instinct? But thats impossible."

"I never did really understand that stuff. I figured my spirit energy was pretty much always at its maximum level."

"Guys, its getting really close. We're running low on time." I said pointing at the on coming monster. They turned "Whoa, whats that read thing?" I wondered aloud.

"You've got to run! All of you! If your hit by that, there'll be nothing left of you!" The new girl called behind us.

"This will work, I'm sure of it." Uryū said. "Ichigo, grab that sword and lets do it." Uryū called while turning around. Orangie ran up and took the sword off his head, running up to the monster. "I meant lets do it together!" He yelled after him. Orangie ran up to the feet of the monster just as the big red ball disappeared. The thing opened its mouth and the beam shot out of it. The power it was emitting was immense. I was blown back a couple of steps but I didn't let that stop me.

"Whats he doing!" Uryū and I asked in unison. The power emitting from Orangie alone was almost to over whelming. I felt sick to my stomach, but I ignored the sickness and endured. It was getting harder and harder to stand, but I kept my ground. If Orangie could hold up something that could have obliterated us all I could endured a little wind.

All of the sudden a blue arc of light ran up the monsters shoulder. The wind knocked me back a couple of feet this time but Uryū grabbed my arm before I got blown away. The monster was backing away into the hole. Heading back to where ever it had just came from.

"Menos is retreating." Uryū said as the thing disappeared.

Raising two fingers in the air Ichigo joyfully announced. "Iiiiiii win!"

"What in the world is he?" Uryū asked aloud.

"I don't know, but he's one Orangie I don't want to make mad." I said. The cracks in the sky disappeared until nothing was left to show it happened.

"Well, whats the matter Uryū? You don't have anything to say? I just saved your butt, and cleaned up your mess too. It seems like, you could at least say thank you or congratulations or something." Orangie said as he fell on his face. "Thats weird, I can't, move." Suddenly his sword started deforming and letting out big waves of energy again. "Whats. Happening?"

"The zanpakto! Its breaking down!" Uryū exclaimed. "We gotta do something, before its too late." Uryū said. "Touch his sword, and send as much spirit energy away as you possibly can." Uryū instructed as he walked onto Orangies sword. Nodding I did so biting my lip as the strong power tore through my body. My sword instantly lengthened but I sent it into the sky, breaking it up as quick as I could. My energy was fading fast as I sent each sword up. I had never made so many in a day and it was tiring me out. My sword arm was covered in lacerations but I had to endure the pain. This kid just saved us, it was the least I could do.

Sending more and more swords into the air as Uryū fired arrows we slowly got rid of the out of control energy.

"What do you think your doing?" Orangie asked.

"Shut up." We said.

"But, Uryū, Yuki, your arms are getting torn apart." Orangie protested.

"I don't care." I muttered.

"I said shut up! How many times do I have to tell you? I have to make sure you survive so I have someone to pummel in the future. Stay alive, soul reaper, so I can beat the hell out of you! So you can try to do that same to me, Ichigo." Uryū yelled as loudly as he could. I looked over at Uryū and saw sadness covering his face. "Grandfather." He said as the spirit energy died down and we collapsed to our knees.

My energy was gone, I had used to much of it saving Orangie. Closing my eyes, I succumbed to the exhaustion and fainted.