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Chapter 2- Take My Hand

Phantom felt herself falling in the bright light around her. It made her stomach do flips, had she been Fang Paw, she probably would've gotten sick. She slowed her breathing and cleared her mind, at first she tried to create her wings, to picture them attached to her back and beating with all their strength to control her descent. Instead with their presence, a sharp pain broke across her back and mind. Phantom let out a yelp,"Okay," she muttered as she kept falling in the portal,"No wings..."

She saw her exit point, a black hole that led to somewhere without a lot of electricity... Or maybe none at all. Phantom bit her lip, she could see it was raining, she straitened herself to where she was falling head first. She shook her head trying to clear it.

She saw a tower... A large island of land that rivaled it in size. It wasn't a hill, that was easily determined, it was probably a Mesa. Phantom gulped,"So aim for that."

That's when everything went to hell in a hand basket. She felt her vision become fuzzy. The air pressure around her increased. She blacked out.

Renji had felt uneasy all day. He felt as if something was just waiting to spring out of its hiding place and attack the Seireitei. The threat from Sword Beasts must be messing with me Renji thought. He managed to get all of his paperwork done that evening and decided to talk a walk to ease himself. Unfortunately, he was so lost in thought so he didn't notice when it was dark, nor when the storm clouds rolled in. Renji sighed and turned back to head to the barracks when he sensed a spike in spiritual pressure.

His eyes shot up to the sky above the Seireitei, just above Sokyoku Hill. He watched in awe as a white light appeared and slowly grew. A loud noise was made as something shot from it. At first, Renji thought it was a firework or maybe what Ichigo had described as a shooting star. He looked closer, and gave a shocked grunt, it was a person.

Phantom opened her eyes hazily. She was falling towards the ground, her back was still burning. She was practically glowing from the portal, it's energy still seeping from her clothes. She saw the Mesa and aimed for it, directing her body. This is gonna hurt.

She hit the ground, and rolled, rock and twigs tore into her skin. In fact, EVERYTHING hurt. Especially her shoulder, she landed on it. Phantom created a Sai-Sword as she was failing towards the edge. She grasped at the stone but still went over. As quick as Wally, she sunk her blade into the stone and held on for dear life with her hands. The rain poured down on her making her grip slippery. She let out a gasp and created another Sai-sword to sink into the stone. She craned her neck to look at her back. The red was still spreading. She drew in air and let out a scream as her hand slipped and used it to grasp the sword that was held in her other hand at a slightly higher height,"HELP," she screamed.

Renji had seen the girl land on Sokyoku Hill, he knew it was only a matter of time before everyone else recovered from the shock and sounded the alarms or got up to see what the commotion would be about. He turned to go report to Captain Kuchiki when he heard it.

"HELP," it was a shrill female voice, how it reached HIM, he had no clue,"HELP PLEASE! I'M GONNA FALL!"

Phantom's grip was slipping, she was crying and screaming. Everything was hurting and she didn't want to die, she launched herself up and scrabbled for better leverage on her sword. Her mind was going in a thousand different directions, her hands were cramping, her throat was getting sore. The rain. Ugh. The. Rain.

Just to make it worse, or add insult to injury, lightning started to flash over her head and thunder boomed across the sky. She screamed again as the lightning whizzed by her head, surly singing a few hairs. Her ears and tail pinned themselves to her body.

"HELP," she tried one more time, scrabbling. She head someone yelling, but they were far below her.

"Hey," her eyes flashed up. There was a man crouched near the edge, he was dressed in black, brown eyes, had tribal tattoos and deep red hair pulled back into a pony tail. Renji was almost shocked at her appearance, white hair in a ponytail with two K-9 ears and a white tail. A white shirt that showed her midrift that also left her shoulders bare, with white pants that stopped at her knees and white boots. Her white mask covered almost half her face made her dark green eyes pop. He reached down to her,"Name's Renji-Quick, take my hand."

Phantom made a grab for it, but missed,"No," she yelped, her sword snapped in half and she felt her stomach drop.

Renji eyes widened and it happened in slow motion,"No," he yelled and launched himself over the edge towards her.

They were falling. She was screaming.

Renji latched onto her and she clung to him,"Hold on," he yelled.

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