(Bleach) Awake and Alive - Chapter 3: Horrific Sacrifice

- Video-

"Attention all taicho's! Prepare for battle! An unknown enemy had appeared along with a thousand hollows! All squads are to evacuate as well! Again taicho's, battle stations!"

All shinigami had begun running to the main gates as instructed. If the taichos were sent to battle, they all had to get to safety.

On top of each division building, except divisions 2 and 10, the specific taicho were standing atop of their roofs. They looked into the distance as the different types of hollows were approaching the Sereitei.

"Old man-Yama! Have the lieutenants gotten everyone out!" Kyoraku asked from his rooftop. Yamamoto just stared at the hollows as calm as anyone could be. "Yes...let us begin! Shihoin's move out!"

As Yamamoto's voice rang out through the Sereitei, two figures jumped over the group of hollows. They then shunpo'd at each hollow, in a split second. After each shunpo, 10 hollows would disappear. This kept up until the first swarm of hollows was gone.

The two figures then jumped onto the nearest rooftop. They were Yoruichi and Mikari Shihoin, wearing their haori's with proud faces.

"Ha! This is gonna be a piece of cake! Ne, Yoruichi?" Mikari looked to her big sister with a big grin. Her answer was Yoruichi laughing and petting her head.

"Look out you two!"

They turned around to see a Menos Grande about to fire a cero at them. As it fired, the two girls immediately jumped off the rooftop. Mikari jumped back to the Menos and punched its head with amazing strength. The impact shook the Menos' body and it disintegrated away.

Mikari stood up in mid-air and turned to the voice from before. It of course was Urahara.

"Oiii! Your suppost to be at your position baka!" She yelled at in anger at her fellow taicho. He ignored her and flew next to her and tried to pet her with a smile, but she moved out of the way and kicked him in the balls. Pain went through Urahara but he stood up strong to the assault.

Yoruichi approached the two laughing at Mikari's behaviour. "Now you two, we have to get rid of those hollows first, remember." Mikari stopped kicking with a sigh and nodded in agreement with Urahara.

They split up from their position and the two girls began taking out the hollows again with hakuda while the other captains used kido from their rooftops.

After all the hollows were all gone, the whole Sereitei began to shake as a strong reiatsu was released in the area.

"It's the unknown enemy. Fine him!" Yamamoto ordered.

The taicho's tried to sense where exactly the reiatsu was, but the pressure was too strong to pinpoint it.

Out of the corner of her eye, Mikari saw something move around her and Yoruichi...but it was too late. Something wrapped around both of the Shihoin's in a death grip. They began to choke as no air would fill their lungs from the invisible hold. Before they lost consciousness, both girls were thrown into the wall of a building.

All the other taichos immediately left their position to get to the girls but were swept back as a figure became visible infront of them. It was a tall man who had pieces of bone covering his body and he had a zanpakuto on his hip.

"Who are you?" Ukitake asked, releasing his twin sword shikai, prepared for an attack. The strange man smirked and took his katana out of its sheath. "I'm the arrancar Diablo."

The reiatsu around Diablo started to swirl around him and pushed the taichos back to the buildings behind them. Yamamoto was the only one able to stand his ground. Diablo saw this and charged at the Head Captain, hsi sword ready to strike. But he was stopped by chains of metal tying around his body and holding him in the air.

Diablo turned around to see Mikari floating in the air with the chain in her arms. Then before he could blink, Yoruichi appeared above Diablo and punched him to the ground.

The girls floated infront of Yamamoto, light scratches on their bodies. Diablo coughed up some blood before breaking the chains around him and flew infront of the three taichos. "Oji-san, we'll handle this." Mikari said with a determined look. Yamamoto approved and the two flew higher in the sky with Diablo following behind.

They flew around the sky, the girls dodging the ceros fired by Diablo and trying to get closer to him, but his reiatsu kept pushing them back. "Blades of Thunder!" Mikari yelled out, without needing to say the kido number." Electricity started to form around her and they materialized in the form of swords. The swords then flew at Diablo but he slashed each of them with his sword and charged at Mikari. She was able to take out her zanpakuto in time to block.

"C'mon you mutt! Release your shikai!" Mikari's pupils turned to slits and her reiatsu flared up at that word. "Like hell your worth it you bastard!" She pushed him back with her katana and charged at him again, but he disappeared in mid-slash.

'Where is he?' Mikari thought looking around. She then faintly felt his reiatsu and it was heading for Yoruichi. Moving quickly, she shunpo;d to Yoruichi and threw her to the ground. As she was falling, Yoruichi stared shock as she saw Mikari get slashed right through the chest.

Blood sprayed out from her chest and Mikari let out a screeching yell. Her eyes slowly closed and she began to fall head first to the ground. Before reaching the ground, Urahara caught her bridal style and took her to a rooftop where Unohana was waiting to heal her.

"Sensei! We should fall back for now! He's too much!" Ukitake yelled out, seeing Diablo's reiatsu rise and destroy the buildings slowly. The Head Captain stood silent at the scene but then turned to the taichos around him. "Retreat for now! We'll plan for later! Fall back and then we'll create a barrier to hold him in for some time!"

Following his order, the taichos began to fly towards the walls surrounding the Sereitei. Yoruichi flew to where Unohana, Kisuke and Mikari were, but was surprised to see Unohana and Kisuke in a barrier. She got to them and broke the barrier, then asked where Mikari was. Kisuke pointed up and Yoruichi looked to see Mikari, still badly wounded, but standing infront of Diablo.

"What you not gonna run mutt!" Mikari's ear twitched but her composure didn't change. "I rather die than admit defeat to you!"

Mikari took her zanpakuto and three it to the ground. It began to glow and light pulsed from it. The light begins to surround Mikari and Diablo in a sphere of light. "Way of Binding # 143: Dimensional Scream."

"That fool!" Yamamoto yelled out enraged at the kido just used by Mikari. Kyoraku looked at his sensei confused. "I've never seen this kido before. What is it Old Man-Yama?" Yamamoto looked at the barrier of light. Diablo's body had begun to crystallize and fly up to the sky. "...This is a forbidden kido...anyone in the light will be transported to a between dimension which nobody has been able to get to or leave from."

All the taichos's gasped and looked over at Mikari who was slowly crystallizing like Diablo. None of them could believe that Mikari used a forbidden kido to sacrifice herself, just to save the Sereitei and them from this enemy. She still had a whole life ahead of her.

"You BITCH!" Diablo screamed out charging at Mikari in rage. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll-" Just as his sword was about to reach her, his body fully crystallized and was transported away into the sky.

A sigh escaped from Mikari's lips before all her energy left her body and she began to fall to the ground. Just before hitting the ground, yoruichi was able to catch her bridal style and carefully laid her down on the ground, but still held her up in her arms.

"Why Mikari? Why? You didn't have to use a kido like that! We would of figured out a way to beat him!" Tears began to fall out of Yoruichi's eyes and hit Mikari's own tear face. "I'm sorry. I'm not one to wait and give up briefly...and I couldn't let him hurt you or the others."

At the moment, as the other taichos arrived to the scene, Mikari's body began to crystallize much more quickly to the wide eyes of the others.

Yoruichi's tears fell much faster at Mikari's form and hugged her closer to her body. "NO! You can't leave us or me! You're my little sis who makes this whole place so much fun! Please no..."

Mikari looked at Yoruichi with a smile and hugged Yoruichi lightly. "I'm sorry...maybe I'll be able to come back some day. But for now all I ask is that you watch over the Sereitei and the others...especially Ura-baka" A weak laugh came from Mikari before she closed her eyes with a soft smile.

Then her body gave off a bright, shining light and everyone stared as she faded away with the light. All that was left was the red ribbon form her hair.

Yoruichi picked up the ribbon and gripped it to her heart. She gave Mikari that ribbon when she became a shinigami and it was the only thing left. "Oh Mikari..." She whispered out in a sad tone. Tears appeared in all their eyes and the loss of the sweet, little taicho.

And in the background, Mikari's zanpakuto stood firm in the ground.

- Video End -

"Alright! You showed us what happened and made everyone feel sad about the past! So what's the point of all this?" Ichigo yelled out after seeing everyone with either tears or a sad expression on their face.

Yamamoto's head was down the whole video. When he looked back up at everyone, a strange look was in his eyes.

"Diablo's back."