I sighed as I looked at the paper Kisuke brought down to his giant training area that was under his shop. We all ignored Renji who was having a fit about having to fight last and against Rukia, whilst the rest of us either talked or isolated ourselves.

"Wow! You're fighting first?" Siren asked from behind me.

"Yeah."

"Who're you fighting?" She asked, peaking over my shoulder.

"Ichigo…" I glanced to the side to see him sitting on a tree branch, head down, eyes closed and arms crossed. A almost permanent expression of grim and rage plastered on his face.

"Alright, let's get started, shall we?" Kisuke said and everyone sat and/or stood off to the side as Ichigo and I walked into the open. He already changed into his soul reaper form, so I closed my eyes and changed as well, Hikari at my side.

"Just so you know, I'm going to finish this quick 'cause I'm really not in the mood for this." He said darkly, voice low as he held his sword with both hands. I looked at it's size, getting a clue as to how powerful we really is. All I've been going on is some talk I hear from various soul reapers.

"Aren't you delightful. Fine. But just so that you know, your not the only one who became a hallow."

*Kisuke's POV*

Shinsui, Jushiro and I watched the two with morbid looks. "So, it's time then?" I asked.

"It would appear so." Shinsui sighed, staring at his daughter.

"Who'da thunk these two would be the chosen ones?" I asked, then looked at the group in front of us. "Hell, they all have a part, don't they?"

"We all do." Jushiro said, and I closed my eyes.

"Let's just play it cool for awhile. See how these two react to the others power." I said and they looked over to me.

"So, that was your plan from the start, huh?" Jushiro asked and I smirked, putting my head down some as I watched them begin to tap into their hallow powers.

"If the world is going to end, and all we have are these kids to help, then I want to make sure they can at least live up to their 'supposed' potential the prophecy says they have." I said, and Shinsui looked down.

"You've planned it all from the start." I over to him, as he to me.

"Yes. It was necessary they become hallows before facing the entire underworld." I explained, looking back over to Lara and Ichigo. Ichigo's sprit energy began to whirl out, black with red glowing from it. I was surprised at how easily he can control it now, but he was about to be educated in real power. "He doesn't have a chance." I said, smiling slightly.

"Not yet he doesn't. But we all know his predictable ability to grow even stronger." Jushiro said and Shinsui and I nodded.

"It will be a long time before they are all ready." I said darkly. "And too little time before the apocalypse."

*Ichigo's POV*

I smiled darkly as rich energy coursed through me. But she just stood there, sword limply in her hand and not powering up at all. Fine. "Let's go!" I yelled as I leapt at her, but before I got there she disappeared. I stopped and looked around. "W-what the?" I muttered, confused. All of a sudden powerful sprit energy hit me, and I fell on one knee. Everything became dark, and soon only a faint light gave the giant expanse visibility.

I grunted as I tried to stand despite the pressure, and looked around, body tearing from the strain. "Your stronger then I thought." She said, and I looked to see her right in front of me. I stared at her shocked at her new appearance and her insane spirit energy. Her once wavy brown hair was now short, spiky and pure white. What was suppose to be white was black with her eyes, and her irises that were once brown were now white with black lighting designs on them. Her once normal looking Zanpakutu is now slightly curved upwards at the end, the blade growing in width along with adding slight spikes on the top of the blade. The handle curved downward, and black spirit energy glowing white surrounded the whole thing. As I looked at her she smiled slowly, and her pupils turned into slits.

"Ichigo! be careful!" I heard Rukia yell and I looked over to where she was, but it was too dark to see that far. "She trained under my brother! Plus her abilities allow her to move faster then even my brother can do!" My eyes went wide and I looked back over to Lara, who just stood there, her spirit energy just increasing tenfold every second. It was like she had an endless amount.

"You can give up you know." She said and I smirked.

"As if! So what? You can move fast, big deal." I said and she tilted her head.

"You forget. When born my spirit energy equal that of six captains put together." My eyes widened as my mouth opened, whole body tense. "I've killed bigger bugs then you in my sleep." with that she disappeared.

"Use your senses! Now that she's in hallow mode, her power of light switches to power of darkness!" Renji yelled.

"What does that even mean?" I yelled, looking all around as all traces of her just disappeared. I was both happy and worried about that. Happy because that nauseating spirit energy wasn't pushing me down on my knees and worried because she could attack from anywhere.

"It means instead of traveling at the speed of light, she can now travel in darkness." As Renji said that I got slashed in the back, being pushed forward 50 feet, rolling for a couple more and slamming into a giant rock.

Everything turned light again and as I looked up Lara was back to normal, hands in her pockets with a bored look on. "W-What gives?" I muttered, wincing in pain.

"I just wanted to show you, you are way out of your league." She said and I growled.

"What kind of bullshit is that? You didn't even give me a chance!" I yelled, and she sighed, looking away.

"I wasn't at full power. In fact that was barley a quarter of my power."

My eyes went wide as I gaped at her. That's impossible… Her spirit energy was so strong and was just getting stronger, yet she wasn't even using half of her power? How can anyone be so strong?

*Normal POV*

"You didn't have to be so mean." Siren said as I sat down.

I shrugged, laying down with my hands behind my head, looking up at the fake, blue sky. "This preventing from further attempts of attacks. If I went easy then he would think he could beat me, then he would never stop persisting me."

"I guess I understand that, but you could have waited awhile…" She mumbled and I glanced over at her.

"Why?" I questioned and she looked away.

"Tomorrow is the anniversary of his mothers death…" My eyes went wide and my body became tense. A scream echoed in my mind as she continued. "She was killed by a hallow."

I looked back up with a glare.

"Never… forget….."

I closed my eyes and sighed. "I guess I should apologize."