The First Encounter of the Hollow Kind
Italics will now represent the speaking of a zanpaku-to in sword form.
Theresa blacked out yet again, but this time immediately woke up to a gut-wrenching howl. Jumping to her feet, she was barely able to dodge the giant hand that came down upon her. "You picked a bad day to pick with me, dude. I'm up to my eyeballs in crazy shit, and you're just the icing on the cake!"
"Have you killed it yet?"
Theresa jumped at the disembodied voice of Axel, as a hand moved on an unknown instinct grabbed the sword hilt behind her head. "Axel?" Theresa shrieked wondering where his voice was coming from.
"I'm the sword you currently have in your hand. Can't you remember anything from Bleach? Now, kill the hollow." Theresa briefly wondered if he could read her thoughts, but decided it wasn't the time when she dodged another attempt of the Minotaur like hollow. Drawing the blade that was as long as she was tall Theresa stared down the hollow trying to figure out how to change the blade into a weapon she knew to use, through imitation.
Instinctively she held the blade with both hands, flaming spiritual pressure erupting from the blade making it glow red hot, and commanded, "Dance in a flurry of flames, Axel!" Drawing her hands straight out to her sides Axel's Eternal Flames chakarms appeared, already flaming and ready to kill.
Raising her head from her chest Theresa flashed her version of Axel's smirk, and with an almost lazy spin launched both of the chakarms into the hollow easily slicing the bone white mask into fourths. Raising her hands to her sides the still flaming weapons came back to be easily caught with another twirl.
"Good job. You'd be a member in the Organization with those skills, anyway just focus on the sword and they'll turn back into it."
Theresa nodded, and with a brief thought of the sword only to be holding it again. With a quick swipe in the air to clean the blade, Theresa lowered the blade back into its sheathe before using a shunpo to begin the long trek home. Within three uses of shunpo Theresa reached her rural home, and jumping in an open window leading to the basement started to hunt her home for herself.
