After school the six of them met up and started on to there destination, upon arriving at the store Jake called out.
"Hey Gramps, we're here"
"This is terrible young dragon! The huntsclan has stolen the trophy containing the ghost! They apper to have come when I went out to by a burrito! We must retrieve it imedatl-, who is this?" He asked, having just come out of the back room of the shop he had not noticed the three transfer students until that moment.
Surprisingly enough the three of them did not seem to be paying vary close attention to him, and seemed to be looking rather concerned, Rukia briefly looked to him.
"Hello, I'm Rukia, and my friends are Ichigo and Rengi, Urahara should have told you we were going to be staying with you, did you say that that imprisoned soul has been stolen?" Blinking briefly at the bluntness of her stament/question, he hesitantly answered,
"Ah yes, he did call me and ask me to house some friends of his for a while but I was not expecting you so soon- wait did you just say-, but that means you must be-"
"The three death gods sent to retrieve that soul, 6th vice captain Renji Abarai at your service, Renji said abruptly
after a moment of staring at Renji they turned slightly to stare at Rukia and Ichigo
"Unseated officer if the 13th division, Rukia Kuchiki" Rukia stated after becoming slightly unnerved by the staring
"Ichigo Kurosaki, representative shinigami" Ichigo stated bluntly
"Shini-whaty?" asked Spud
"Shinigami, japanese for god of death, in other words, us" Renji replied, jerking a thumb to indicate himself and the other two
"Wait, if all are gods, shouldn't you be more like godly?" Trixi asked
"Well technically we're just dead people that learned some fancy tricks, well except for Ichigo here, he's still living out his human life" Renji replied
"Say what, you telling me that any dead dude can become a god? What sort of twisted logic is that? Why should idiots like the dude in the trophy get an opportunity like that?" Trixie asked scornfully
"The process of becoming a shinigami is a bit more complicated than that, although the soul we came here to collect would have a chance of becoming one, it is the duty of a shinigami to be fair to all souls, someone dies and we make sure they get to heaven if they don't get there on there own, don't get me wrong, those that commit a mortal sin in life are handed over to the gates of hell, no-ones ever come back from there" Renji explained
"Renji you were explaining how to become a death god" Rukia pointed out
"Oh right, well first of all it really depends on your reiatsu, your spiritual power, you see, once your dead you don't need to eat any more, you just need water to survive, but some people still get hungry these people have higher spirit power, if a soul doesn't have enough power they can't become a death god, we say anyone can become a death god beacuas this power can be found in any soul, it doesn't matter what type of person you are, its just something you are born with, now that I have explained that I think you have a few things to explain to us like just what exactly is this huntsclan?"
"Well, they are basically a group of people set on destroying all magical creatures" Jake said
"So what would they want with a ghost?" asked Ichigo
"Who knows with those guys, but whatever it is I'm betting its bad" answered Jake
every one took a moment to absorb all the new information they had gained in the last few minutes when the quit was suddenly interrupted by a toy lion popping up out of Ichigos bag
"AAARG! i can't stand it in there anymore!" everyone looked at the small figure in shock
"Um, am I hallucinating or is that toy talking?" Spud asked causialy, pointing to the toy mentioned
"Oh, thats just Kon, hes a mod soul that I use sometimes" Ichigo responded calmly.
"Mod soul? and what manner of creature is that?" asked Gramps
"Its not important!" Rukia said, brushing off the question
"What matters now is our plan of action, its clear that we have to get the soul back from the huntsclan before they do anything with it, it might help us to find out what they took it for in the first place, do you have anyway of finding out?"
"Uh, actually ya, I know one person thats in the hunts clan but is on our side, I can talk to her about it tomorrow" Jake said
"Okay, so what should we do until then?" asked Renji, they all shuffled a bit looking at each other , trying to think of some activity they could do to pass the time, after all, no-one likes to be board.
"Ai-ya!" cried Gramps (1)
"We must work on your dragon training young dragon! If you are to stand any chance of retrieving the trophy from the hunts clan you must be in top form!"
"Aw, G I can kick those huntschumps buts easy, why do I have to train for it?"
"If defeating the hunts clan was such an easy task we would have done it a long time ago young one" Gramps said wisely
"Um, excuse me? Why would jake be facing them, this is our job" Rukia pointed out
"Your job was simply to retrieve a trophy, now that the huntsclan has stolen it you can not possibly expect to be able to get it back on your own, now if you will excuse us we must train the the upcoming conflict" the diminutive man said as he began walking towards the exit
"Oh really? Well in that case why don't we come along? After all, you never know, we might be able to help out" Renji said with a smile smeared over his face, the native new yorkers did not notice it, but Ichigo and Rukia both felt vaguely concerned for the two dragons, but there own hurt pride prevented them from saying anything
"Well they might as well, that way they can help out with your training" Trixe interjected, as she shrugged and grabbed Spud before walking out her self
"You coming?" she said the the three death gods, as she walked out the door, looking at each other briefly the three foreigners silently agreed that they would make the elder dragon eat his words, before they followed the others out of the small shop.
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(1) I honestly almost typed uncle here