Didn't like this chapter too much but prolly the longest.
No Grimm and Ichi loving so far..much.
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Both people stared at the cat in confusion. "What?"
"Not the time to explain." he pointed a claw at the men shooting at them outside.
The duo got to work at trying to shoot them down. Hallo was armed with two assault automatic shotguns and Ichigo had a mere pistol for now. She was making work of the men, but more and more kept coming. It was just a matter of being overwhelmed now. Grimmjow stood idly by, watching the scrap with interest. His tail flicked back and forth and occasionally hit Ichigo in the process.
Finally, there was an explosion and different uniformed soldiers stormed in. The Military and Army. Whichever suits you best. With their help, the two quickly put down all the enemies. Hallo ended the last one by drop kicking them on their skull and then blasting out their brains with her prized shotguns. She turned back to the group and spoke.
"Thank you so much for--" she was cut off as she was spun around and cuffed.
Ichigo was in the same position. "What the hell is this?!"
Soldiers had surrounded Grimmjow, but the cat hardly looked fazed. "Sir, what do we do with..this?"
Grimmjow put a paw to his chest and he purred, "Aw, you make me think I am not one of you." in their confusion, he had kicked both of them with deadly accuracy and speed, and landed on all fours when he was done.
Instantly, more soldiers crowded around him. Grimmjow, still, did not look fazed. Ichigo broke the soldier who was holding him's grasp and walked over to the supposed captain of the operation. "STOP! He is with us."
The other looked at him as if he was mad. "That thing you call a 'he' is a monster."
"Look.." Hallo spoke up. "..we promise to share everything we know with you for our freedom and his." she nodded towards Grimmjow.
"Why should I? Kurosaki, you unleashed this hell on us. You comitted a crime!"
"I know and for that I am sorry. But this man who hired us, he is planning something beyond our assumptions."
The captain paused and then shrugged. "Well, ok. But you are ONLY free until you stop whomever it is that hired you. Really, we have been looking for him for a while if he is the leader of the Black Order."
"Indeed he is. Aizen Sosuke. He tricked us into opening it, thinking I would die and he would kill Hallo later. When he revealed to us his real plan, he said something about getting Pandora's Box himself. We need that box."
Grimmjow stood silent as they talked. Before long, the soldiers moved out up the stairs and out the subway. Apparently there had been a Golem that was pulling debri into its body magnetically to give it shape. It was as big as two skyscrapers and was destroying the city currently, and so they departed to figure out a way to stop it. Hallo had left with them, so now it was just Ichigo and Grimmjow.
"Now, tell me who and what you are." he crossed his arms.
"Grimmjow. Said that earlier. I am a demon from Pandora's Box, obviously."
"So does this thing affect you too?" Ichigo eyes his hand suspiciously, and then held it up to Grimmjow. Light energy was suddenly leaving the cats body and seemed to flow into his hand.
"Stop!" he cried out in pain, suddenly bending over with his arms clutching his shoulders. Ichigo did as he was told.
"What is happening?" Ichigo clutched his hand to his chest.
"Your sucking Animus Energy out of me. Its all the creatures of Pandora's Box life sources. When one of us dies, we also leave behind a cloud of it. For some reason, you can absorb it and do what you did earlier and obviously heal yourself." Grimmjow straightened back up.
"What makes you different from..them." Ichigo murmured.
"I'm smart and their not. I was originally a human who got sucked into Pandora's Box long ago. So long, I only remember being human and nothing else. I gained this cat-like body and amazing speed. Also added to my strength." Grimmjow waved a paw.
"Why help me out of all people?"
"You opened Pandora's Box, did you not?" Grimmjow slyly came back.
"True. So are you going to follow me around no matter what?"
Grimmjow seemed to be in thought for a moment before replying. "Duh."
"Whatever." Ichigo sighed, and inwardly squeaked when he felt a body on his. The same one as before and it was pinnng him against one of the stone pillars holding the underground up.
"Maybe I can teach you to loosen up a little, right Kurosaki?" Grimmjow purred, his face dangerously close.
"What are you doing?! And Kurosaki is my last name, call me Ichigo!" Ichigo tried to hold up his hands defensively.
"Just having fun, chill..Ichigo." Grimmjow pulled back and waved it off with a huge grin on his face.
"L-lets get moving.." Ichigo walked forward up the stairs and tried to ignore the feeling he had when Grimmjow made that..move.
They were suddenly on the tracks of the subway. Ichigo went to step forward but Grimmjow put his hand in front of the boy to stop him from going any further onto the next set of tracks. Ichigo looked back in confusion, and just missed the subway train that sped past he and Grimmjow and crashed somewhere down the line. The screams of civilians and fire erupted from the origin of the crash.
"Sucks for them." Grimmjow murmured.
They began to walk towards the train, since thats where the door was, and were caught off guard by something emerging from the fire. At first it looked like a pile of rocks, and then it fully revealed itself to be a small lizard type animal. Its skin seemed to be made from coal and its skin, he assumed, was burning underneath. What old myth would call a Firedrake.
The creature spat towards Ichigo, but he moved out of the way as a very hot coal shattered into the wall. Lava spewed from it as well. Ichigo pointed his pistol and went to work on the little dragon, leaving it dead soon afterwards. It merely crumbled into a pile of rocks. He sighed and then noticed the Animus Energy floating in place of where the Firedrake once stood. He held out his hand, and the swirl of colors instantly zoomed for it. After the absorbing episode, he felt replenished once again.
Ichigo looked back to find Grimmjow, but saw that the cat was turning a valve up the stairs next to the door. Water suddenly spewed from a sprinkler above and rained down on the fire, putting it out. When he looked to Grimmjow with a confused expression, the cat pointed to where the Firedrake once stood and spoke.
"Well, they keep coming if you don't put out the fire. Nasty little bastards."
"Why would you fight your own kind?"
"I told you.." Grimmjow put his hands on his hips. "..I was once human you idiot."
They continued their trek. Once, they had to crawl through an air vent and Grimmjow had to open it with his claws. Once they were on the other side, Ichigo could see more evidence of carnage and destruction. Bodies lay scattered on the floor if not with deep gashes, than burned to hell. Each held an expression of pure terror before perishing. Grimmjow didn't seem to mind even if he was still somewhat human.
They heard shouting and he noticed Grimmjow prick up his ears. Ichigo raced up the flight of stairs that led to the outside and saw something rather horrifying. The Golem made of debri and magnetic force was tearing New York asunder as it smashed down on buildings to absorb more to its body. Grimmjow came up beside Ichigo, and he scoffed.
"What?" Ichigo whipped his head around to face the cat.
"Its so obvious. You just need a device that will temporarily disable anything electric and magnetic for a while. If you do that, the Golem will die." Grimmjow gave a thumbs up somehow.
With the idea in his head, Ichigo found some of the soldiers from earlier that helped out, and then the captain. He had figured out that the name of the captain was Ukitake or something like that. When the captain spotted him as well, he began to make his way over to the boy and demon.
"Any idea how to take down this thing?" he sounded irritated.
"Of course. Do you have a device that can pool apart the Golem's magnetic field? Maybe an EMP Generator?"
"Yes, we do. We will set them up immediately." Ukitake was about to say something else, but stopped when the floor under Ichigo gave way and sent he, Grimmjow, and several other soldiers back down into the sewers.
Grimmjow shook himself as he got back up, and Ichigo checked to make sure his guns were ok. The soldiers behind them had recovered as well and were staring at Grimmjow as if he was a new breed of freak. Well, he was but thats not the point. Ichigo turned to face them along with Grimmjow, and they backed up a little.
"Here you are, sir." one handed him some sort of assault rifle. "This would fair better in combat."
Ichigo nodded, and the party continued to trudge down the sewers. When they reached a series of catwalks, he heard Grimmjow hiss and turned to find the cat glaring at a blue-ish box that had risen and was floating in the air. Wait..what the hell was that? Was that box..giggling? It sounded like a small childs laughter. Before Ichigo could get to it, the box was thrown at Grimmjow, who dodged, and the light that possessed the box flew away with another fit of laughter.
"What was that?" Ichigo questioned the cat who was still glaring.
"Theyre called Nari. Might be what you humans refer to as pixies. Except these have the talons from hell."
Ichigo didn't quite get that, but pretended he did at least as they continued walking. There was suddenly a loud crash and he looked behind him to see that part of the catwalk had been smashed away. Water was below. Was there something there? Regardless, they continued their walk, Grimmjow sticking closer to Ichigo, and both yelped when they saw a tentacle shoot out from the water and smash the catwalk in front of them this time. There was no warning as the catwalk under them pushed them up into the air, and then dropped into the water.
Grimmjow squealed, making Ichigo guess it was a cat thing. The tentacles resurfaced again and grabbed Ichigo in their slimy grasp. Ichigo yelled out, taken by surprise, and felt himself being strangled as their grip tightened. Grimmjow regained his focus and swiped at the tentacle with force behind the swing, and it soon let go and retracted back into the water. Grimmjow took Ichigo in his arms and jumped back onto a nearby catwalk.
"T-thanks.." Ichigo stammered.
"No problem, but you owe me." Grimmjow pointed, making him curious as to what the cat had in store.
However, they continued and found what had almost got them earlier. The Nari. What Grimmjow said was indeed true and they resembled children. Well, their heads did at least. They had fast buzzing wings and their feet were long talons. Most likely sharp as hell. They would dissapear into an aura of blue and mock the two before appearing in a solid state, to where Ichigo quickly shot them with his new gun. In swarms, they were deadly but by themselves was managable.
Grimmjow grabbed one in his mouth and bit down on the small pixie, causing it to bust in Animus Energy. Ichigio held out his hand and sucked it up like everything else. Grimmjows ears flicked and he looked beyond a pile of rubble.
"What is it?" Ichigo put down his gun slightly.
"Outside." Grimmjow replied before running into the debri, and slashed at it with those claws of his. Surprisingly enough to Ichigo, the rubble crumbled to reveal a flight of stairs going up. He remembered that he and Grimm were the only ones alive now, since the tentacles got overyone else.
When they had indeed made it outside, Ukitake saw them and began to scream something to the two. "HEY! ICHIGO! WE SET UP THOSE EMP GENERATORS! BUT THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER POWER SOURCE! GO SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT!"
He pointed somewhere below them and Ichigo instantly saw the machine with a big round object on its top. It was emanating green energy, and he approached it fast with Grimmjow at his side. Ichigo looked it over, and moved his hand to physically inspect it as well. To his surprise, the machine started to show power when the hand brushed over it. Ichigo stared dumbly at the machine for a moment until Grimmjow pointed it out.
"Its the Animus Energy in your hand."
"Oh." Ichigo put his hand back over the machine, to which it sucked up the Animus Energy hungrily and eventually charged up and prepared itself to blast.
"Sir." Ichigo turned to see an officer. "There are two other generators in need of your attention."
As soon as Ichigo darted off, the man was impaled by the talon of a Nari. His screams echoed in Ichigo's ears as they entered a building that was flooding with the little pixies. They kept moving the generator by fusing with its solid form and floating it to another level of the building, but this was all put to an end as Grimmjow screamed, sounding very feline, causing the pixies to be stunned for a moment.
When he was done with that generator, he went back outside and moved on to the next one. Ichigo noticed once he had gotten close that the machine had been taken apart, so he approached the officer with a confused look on his face.
"The Nari took it apart into three different pieces. You must find them!"
Ichigo groaned and turned away, but was facing something he never thought he would see. A werewolf. Not one of those cute and fluffy ones, but ones that stood up on their hind legs and were skin and bones. Its claws were long and threatening looking as they loomed over him, threatening to swip. When they did, Ichigo felt someone push him out the way. Grimmjow, again. Instead of Ichigo getting hit, Grimmjow had a slash across his chest and was grappling with the monster.
Their hands were locked together, or well, paws, but Grimmjow ended this by running up the werewolf's body with his feet, which were still free, and kicked the animal in the face. As it was stunned for a moment, Ichigo shot with his assault rifle and downed the creature in moments. It gave a cry before falling to the ground. Grimmjow put a hand to his chest, and then coughed.
"You gotta decapitate it or it will just regenerate. Remember that." he did it this time for Ichigo, and swiped his nails over the creatures neck causing Animus Energy to spill out.
Ichigo looked worryingly to Grimmjow's wound, but the man insisted he find the parts. When all was said and done, Ichigo put the Animus Energy into the machine the same way as before and stepped back as all the machines began to hum in harmony. The Golem, who was still smashing the city, suddenly stopped and cried out a roar before it was tore apart along with the electricity in the city.
"Great job, kid." Grimmjow purred, with a hand still to his chest.
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