CHAPTER-4: INVADING

Ichigo and the company found themselves standing on the burnt lands as far as they could see. All of their eyes twitched as they tried to calm their nerve from busting out. However, with almost having no patients what so ever Ichigo was the first one to brake.

"You foul old goat!" he scrammed at the top of his lounge and grabbed Geo's collar "I thought you were going to take us to the Paradise and you bring us in here, a brunt hell where everything is black even the trees are brunt."

"Korosaki!" Uryuu exclaimed calmly and pushed back his glasses to its right place on his nose, "getting angry on Geo won't help us any way. You should live him we should all try to find a way for Paradise."

"Ne Ichigo-kun, Isada-kun is right you should not fight with an old man." Orihime said softly.

"The glass kid is right, orange kid." Geo said with a sly smirk that made Ichigo even redder from anger.

I won't be surprise if the people of Paradise throw Geo out because of his way of testing people. Thought Uryuu and Byakuya while Ichigo and Geo kept arguing about the so-called "Paradise".

"How much up do we have to go before we reach Paradise?" suddenly asked Sai Fon who was bending on her knee in a cat like position.

"Now there you asked a question that can be answered, woman." Said Geo as he freed himself from Ichigo's death grip and looked at Sai fon with narrowed eyes "how did you know that we are not in Paradise?"

"Well even though this place reeks ashes I still can smell a very faint scent of sweet most probably a flower in the air but not in the ground. According to you Paradise is just like Soul Society so I am pretty sure the Paradise is in the sky." Sai Fon said supporting her chin.

"All right then!" Geo stretched his hands "Since you have figured out that we are going up so why don't we call for our ride."

"Ride ?" Byakuya's eye twitched in amnions. Once he had taken a ride in Human World on a car he clearly heated it for its irritating sound and lack of sped in front of his sunpoed. Sai Fon felt curious, even Ichigo and Uryuu who were born in Human World were

"Yea !" Geo said felling satisfied from their curiosity. He looked up whistled loudly and kept whistling until cores roar filled around them, Byakua, Sai Fon, Ichigo, Orihima and Uryuu recognized the roar of horses and there sweet drop about thinking how is horses going help them flying.

However, they felt light headed in when the air around them sifted in to mini cyclone hit them. They looked up to the cause of it only to be confused to see the craters with wings like bird and a horn like rhino, still it was horse. "Dragon-steed!" they said without even thinking.

Ichiga, Orihima and Uryuu felt their throat went dry, they aloes heard about the beautiful dragon-steed from fairy tale when they were kids but they never imagined it to be real. The beauty of those creature mesmerized Sai Fon, she felt like she was kid who is somehow thrown into a fairy tale. The one who was less surprised and more like he should believe more of his family was Byakuya. After learning about Paradise the first thing he had done was to look into the Kuchiki clan war history where the writer had clearly mentioned about seeing a lot of thing or creature in Paradise that aloes he thought excised in mythology.

"What are you waiting for, Get on!" Geo said with a smirk, which he can't seem to hide from his face "Oh and this is my friend Sid, he lives in this burnt ground and this four dragon-steeds belongs to him." Geo pointed at a guy with dark brown who was sitting on a black color steed, Sid was completely unnoticed by them, for that they felt ashamed.

They slowly hop on the steed. Uryuu and Ichigo got on the white one, Byakuya was on a brown one and Sai Fon and Orihime were on a white one with pink shed feather. Geo was on with Sid.

They were adjusting with their vision when Uryuu found it odd for Orihime to be so silent. He clearly remembered when they invaded the Soul Society she was cheerful but now she seemed as if she was scared.

Felling being watched Orihime looked at Uryuu "Something the matter?", she asked him with soft smile.

"No!" Uryuu said, "You just a little tensed there, you ok?" he asked back in concern.

"Yap I'm fine!" she said with a fake smile, which did not went unnoticed by anyone. But Orihime could not say anything, she was upset about the whole Paradise thing; she was not sure why but she felt it was too calm, calm before an unknown strom.

Soon they flow through the air, they crossed the black clouds then the white clouds but still went up and up until their eyes fell upon a wall of glass. Their visions were cleared when the cloud was vanished from their sight. As soon as the glass came to their vision, Geo shouted, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you the Paradise!"

It was huge orb mode of crystal like glass, huge like the size of earth floating on the sky. However, what was more socking was, inside the orb there were islands, floating Islands. They felt their breath caught on their throat, they could not believe they what they were seeing was dream or real.

The picture in front of them was breath taking beautiful, no wander it's referred as Paradise. They kept on drooling until Byakuya's eye landed on a clef attached to the orbs wall like mole but it was white and looked odd in there.

"That used be an execution ground in Paradise." Geo said catching Byakuya's line of vision "Few decades ago an intruder was found there, the intruder's survival instinct was so high that her aura frizzed the blood sucking flower that was used kill the criminals."

Again, all of them were dumbstruck except Byakuya who found this intruder's aura similar to Rukia; days before Rukia's wedding the Kuchiki mansion was being nearly frizzed by Rukia's spiritual presser and it was a sign to Byakuya that she was not happy about the wedding.

"So how do we get in?" finally asked Uryuu.

Laughter and crinkle of glasses, the sounds were loud yet were appropriate for this situation. She looked up to the grand celebration of her family and could not help but be happy and sad at the same time. She looked out of the window and let the morning breeze brush her raven hair back. Suddenly a messenger owl landed in front of her and letting her know of the meeting, she has to attend. She took her coat from her butler (he fetched it as soon as he saw the owl and knew his mistress has to live) and she disappear living tiny bits of snow flecks.

She entered the huge room in no time and took her seat at the left side of the Cap. General. The room was tense. She looked in front of her the light blue hair kid who was sitting opposite her was deep in his thought. In his right side was sitting light brown hair woman who gave her light smile, Dr Nolan Mora that was her name and she was still the General of the fourth division.

Nolan looked at the whole room it was off white color and the walls were painted with green flower, which represents the 11-army division. The wall opposite the large double door had symbol of paradise and in front of the wall was handle couch with no back to lean in. The other two walls, each had five French windows and in front of each of them were 10 seats, 10 window and 10 seats each opposite other. The whole seat formed 'U' sheaf.

"Since our dear prince Daniel has taken the princes Raka from Soul Society, they are bound send someone to retrieve her and we have to prepare for everything and anything." The violet hair and violet eyes (no other shade in his eyes) Cop. General Raymond sighed "As you all know that tomorrow the barrier General Alba of 9th division had placed will be removed over Paradise to place new one."

"Tomorrow!" Ichigo scrammed as he tried jump off the dragon-steed to strangle Geo, "You stupid goat, why didn't told us before that we can't go there till tomorrow?" he started to shake in fury even Uryuu's panic voice did not matter who was trying to calm down the creature from throwing them out of its back.

"See that glass orb it's a seal, a barrier. We can't enter it on our own will." Geo pointed, "It will be removed tomorrow and we will sneak in take the princess and sneak out without getting caught, are we clear?" they nodded in agreement except for Ichigo who kept cursing under breath.

"I'm telling you we shouldn't do this." Pushing back his glass, he said.

"Oh Hakubi, you wary too much." Said the cheerful male voice, he pushed back his silver blond hair and held his sword tightly "If I master the second step of my sword then General will surely make me her lut and let you go and I'll get admire her even more."

"Huh like she will." Scoffed raven-haired guy, Hakubi "You keep dreaming Casper," he said as he held his bow and arrow (in 2nd step the bow was as big as him) "But you can never beat me." He whispered and released the bow toward Casper.

In return, Casper swing his sword (a plane sword in 2nd step) but not cutting the arrow and merely throw it up. Wrong move, the arrow possessed the strong of his master so instead of falling in the ground it flown throw the clouds until crashing with the orb, breaking a part of the barrier.

"OH Fuck!" Casper and Hakubi said in unison with fear.

"Is it me or is the Barrier is open?" Orihime was shocked. They were heading back to the brunt land for spending night and that's when Orihime caught the flash light and found the barrier open.

"Well that was unexpected. But we should go in." Said Ichigo and drove his dragon-steed through broken barrier. Without a ward, they followed him and found themselves landing on shattered yet green ground.

"It's a training ground." Said Byakuya, they had came to know from Geo about the 11th army division.

"Who the hell are you?" screamed a male voice behind them.

She was standing outside on ground while the Cap. General went through the plane to keep the gotei 13 out of Paradise, she and the Cap. General had spent hour to format this plane.

"Oh fuck!" she whispered and rushed back inside the meeting room.

"What is it?" Raymond asked when she entered the room.

"Intruder." She said as everyone gasped in silence and felt the broken barrier and unfamiliar aura.

"Go." He softly ordered her and she disappeared.

Byakuya was the first to introduce them self and found out that, Hakubi was a lut. and Casper was a 3rd seated officer of 2nd division and now they were engaged in a heated battle. Byakuya and Ichigo against Hakubi while Casper against Sai Fon and Uryuu.

They all had few cuts and some gases but they had to admit that Hakubi and Casper were holding on pretty good in one against two battle. Though they seemed scared kept muttering "We are going get killed by our merciless General."

Suddenly the air seemed to frizz and they all felt cold. They were sulking on ground even Byakuya was overwhelmed by the new aura. Hakubi and Casper looked up to one of the poll beside the ground. Others followed their gaze only to find figure standing up on the poll wearing a silver coat with golden border. The person's head was covered with a hood.

"General!" Hakubi and Casper whispered in fear stunning everyone.

A/N: So how is it? You might find it little bit boring but please bear with it. I'm sorry for uploading so late. You see, I'm having this stupid tests that will determine if I can take my board exams. It's still going on but I needed a break from study and decided to post a new chapter. The next chapter may came a little bit late.

Have anyone seen Avatar, imagine Paradise's floating island as same as Avatar's island.

Let your imagination run wild.