I'm back with chapter 4, don't worry I'm gonna try to actually finish this story unlike my first one. I'm finally done with my college classes and don't have to worry about school related stuff till the end of the summer. That means more free time but honestly I don't know what I plan to do in terms of uploading new chapters, still planning how I want to do that.
I gotta give thanks to Antex-The Legendary Zoroark for pointing out something I said about Orihime's powers, specifically the part I said about her powers only working within a day time span as it was revealed in the CFYOW light novel, she was able to give Grimmjow his arm and his Espada tattoo back when she was taken but he lost those a month beforehand, retcons a pain to deal with am I right?
So we're finally in Earthland in this chapter, took me long enough to finally get here, I'll try my best to actually mess around with the canon as much as it should be happening in a crossover story, if you guys have suggestions about deviations that should happen I'd be happy to discuss them with you so I can make the story the best it can be.
And before anyone asks me I'm not sure I'm going to be doing ships so don't start sending me recommendations about what ships I should do, if they feel right at a certain point I might do it but at the moment I'm not sure if I'm going to go through with them.
I'm still experimenting with my writing style till I find something that suits me, other than that enjoy the chapter.
"Regular dialogue"
'Inner dialogue'
Chapter 4 The New World
Ichigo, Grimmjow, and Nelliel looked over the town at the bottom of the hill. There was a fire spreading from the towns port inward. Ichigo started bolting towards the town as fast as he could go in his human body.
"We gotta go help those people down there!"
Ichigo said as he started to bolt towards the town. Grimmjow didn't move from his spot on the hill as he eyed the town.
"Why should I go help a bunch of weaklings from a fire."
Grimmjow said as he decided to lay down on the hillside. Ichigo turned around and looked at Grimmjow with a worried expression on his face.
"You may not want to help them but I'm not gonna stand by and let innocent people get killed when!" Ichigo said as he continued to bolt towards the own below.
"I'll go help him get the people to safety."
Nelliel said moving downwards the hill but stopped and looked at Grimmjow.
"You can sense it as well can't you? That's not normal fire that's spreading down there."
Nelliel said before disappearing with a buzzing noise towards the town.
Grimmjow kept staring at the fire with an unreadable expression on his face.
1 hour later
It had taken about 20 minutes to get everyone out of the fires path, thanks to the speed Nelliel was traveling at they were able to clear everyone of out. Ichigo was helping out as many people as he could in his human body. He had about helping them in his soul reaper form but didn't give much thought to it.
It took about 40 minutes for a majority of the flames to be pushed back and be safely contained within the port of the town, which is currently being put out.
"What do you think happened here?"
Ichigo asked Nelliel as the last of the flames were being put out.
"I don't know but this fire, it seems to be made up of something akin to reishi."
Nelliel said sensing around her and getting a weird feeling about the place they wound up at.
"Excuse me."
The two heard behind them as one of the towns people walked up to them.
"I would like to thank you two for helping put the fire out and saving my store before the fire could burn it down.."
The man said as he offered his hand to the two of them. Ichigo and Nelliel caught what the man said about the 'you two' but didn't make a move to act suspicious so they shook his hand.
"Is there a place we could stay for tonight? We're new around here so we're not too familiar with the area."
Nelliel said asking the man now knowing that she can be seen by him.
"I had thought as much when I saw what you were wearing. You two don't seem like you're from around these parts."
The man said eyeing the attire that the two had on. Mainly staring at Nelliel attire more than Ichigo's with a slight blush.
"There's an inn that the fire wasn't able to reach near the edge of town you could stay at."
The man said pointing in the direction of the inn.
"We have no money to be able to pay the night though."
Ichigo brought up and the man was quick to respond.
"It's fine my brother owns the inn, he's very understanding it won't be a problem when I explain to him what you've done for the town."
The man said in a cheery tone.
'That's not a very good way to run a business if he's willing on letting us stay at the inn with no money'
Ichigo thought to himself but didn't want to say anything to the man. Than he remember something.
"There's a third person that came with us but he stayed back at the edge of town we gotta go get him before we go to the inn."
Ichigo quickly explained to the man before he had motioned to Nelliel that they should go get Grimmjow.
"Before we go can you tell us what caused this fire?"
Nelliel asked the man as she stared at the spot where the last of the flames were lit before being put out moments ago.
"I had heard that it was started because of a scuffle between a Fairy Tail mage and the criminal Bora."
The man said with his hand on his chin trying to recall what had happened during all the commotion with the fire.
"That guild, they might be the most popular guild in Fiore but they're always doing more harm than good on jobs."
The man said looking at the damage done to the town. Ichigo and Nelliel started walking away towards Grimmjow's location.
Moments later when they reached Grimmjow they were explaining to him what they found out about the place they ended up at.
"They seem to be able to see my body as well have physical interacts with me. I had lowered my spiritual pressure as to not cause harm to any of the surrounding people. At first I thought the people had surprised looks on their faces because to them it would look like someone was lifted into the air by an unknown force. But now it seems they were just shocked to see me in the first place as I assume not many people look or dress as I am."
Nelliel as she made a gesture to how she was dressed
If they can have interacts with me as if I'm a normal human that means that the humans of this world have a much higher level of power than the humans back in the world of the living."
Nelliel said as she eyed the hand she used to shake the man's hand earlier.
"That could explain how that fire seemed to be made up something similar to reishi. Whatever it is it seems to be in the air like in the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo. But unlike those two it seems to also be mixed into with the physical make up of the world, normally reishi doesn't mix well with the physical make up of things like in the world of the living."
Nelliel said as she looked at their surroundings.
"The man said that the damage was caused by a 'mage' from a guild called 'Fairy Tail' that was fighting with a criminal. If mages exist in this world does that mean magic exist here?"
Ichigo said as he started thinking what these mages could be and how they would act.
Grimmjow's face held a look of boredom on his face.
"We tell you everything we just found out and you don't have anything to say?"
Ichigo said eyeing Grimmjow with a curious look on his face. Grimmjow stood up with the same bored look on his face.
"While you two went off to play hero, I actually tried to leave this place and I found something out myself"
Grimmjow said as he made the same hand motion Nelliel had used in Hueco Mundo to make a tear in the space to appear but this time no tear appeared before them.
"A Garganta won't open up here no matter how much I force one to appear, we're stuck here."
Grimmjow said in a blunt tone and putting his hands in his pockets. Ichigo and Nelliel's faces both had shocked expressions on them.
"So getting back home is currently off the table at the moment. If we can find this 'Fairy Tail' guild they might be able to help us get back home. If magic is indeed the form of power this world uses than they should have a way to be able to traverse between worlds."
Nelliel said as she held her hand to her chin thinking of how they'll start their journey to Fairy Tail.
"We'll have to worry about to how find them in the morning morning. It's pretty late and we're gonna need to rest, especially after what happened in the Garganta. We're gonna need to be fully rested since we don't know what this world has in store for us."
Ichigo said as he started making his way towards the inn the man was telling them about. Nelliel started to follow behind them but noticed that Grimmjow hadn't moved from his spot, in fact he decided to lay back down on the ground.
"Aren't you coming with us to the inn?"
Nelliel asked him as he put his sheathed sword on the ground next to him.
"I see no point in traveling down just get some shut eye. A bed or the hard ground it makes not different to me. You know where to find me if you need me."
Grimmjow said as he put his arms behind his head and closed his eyes. Ichigo and Nelliel looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and started heading towards town.
The next Morning
Ichigo woke up looking around the room he had stayed for the night.
'So it wasn't a dream than. All of that actually happened, I'm stuck in a world I know about and no way back home.'
Ichigo thought to himself as he started putting on his shoes and his jacket. As he started to head for the door he could feel Nelliel's spiritual pressure heading towards his room. He jumped away from the door way as she burst through the door with force.
"GOOD MORNING ICHIGO!"
Nelliel said as she held her arms out as if to hug him but was met with nothing but air and fell to the ground. She look around the room to see that was Ichigo was on the opposite wall from her pressing himself against it as much as he could.
"DAMN IT NEL YOU"RE JUST AS BAD AS MY DAD! YOU ALMOST BROKE THE DOOR IN HALF JUST BY DOING THAT!"
Ichigo yelled at her as if he was lecturing a small child about their actions. He was glad he had asked for separate rooms for the two of them. He was also glad that Nelliel didn't actually break the door in half when she burst through.
"I was only trying tell you good morning."
Nelliel said still on the floor but was now in a sitting position with a look on her face as if she was pouting.
"We should get going if we want to make any progress on reaching Fairy Tail anytime soon." Ichigo said as he composed himself and started heading towards the door, which he inspected to make sure it was still on it's hinges. The door seemed like it was okay and the two started heading to the front desk.
They asked the owner for directions on how to reach Fairy Tail. He took out a sheet a paper and started writing out directions for them to follow. The two thanked him and started heading out to get Grimmjow.
Grimmjow was still in the same area on the hill side but was now sitting in the shade under one of the trees. Grimmjow didn't move a muscle when Ichigo and Nelliel had walked up.
"So much for sleeping on the hard ground." Nelliel said as she stared at Grimmjow. His eyes opened up but he didn't have the look of someone who had just woken up. His eyes had the look of boredom on them.
"Took you long enough, waiting for you two got very boring."
Grimmjow said as he started getting up and started dusting himself off.
"According to the inn owner getting to Fairy Tail will take a couple days trip on foot since we have no money. I could use flash step and you two using Sonido we could get there before the day ends."
Ichigo suggested as he grabbed his badge from his belt buckle. Grimmjow grabbed his arm to stop him from going into his soul reaper form.
"Grimmjow what are you doing?"
Nelliel with a serious look on her face as she grabbed the hilt to her sword.
"We're gonna take our time getting there and Kurosaki is going to explain everything he knows about Hell and why that bastard King wants his head." Grimmjow said as he stared at Ichigo who had a scowl on his face.
AN: That's the chapter, not much in terms of action just more as a why to start some form of world building, if that's what you want to call this. So they just so happened to arrive in Earthland right after Natsu's fight with Bora in Hargeon town. I'm not gonna lie I'm not a fan of this writing style, maybe cause I don't use it much and just need to grow use to it. I don't know I'm still trying to decide what style I should stay with. Give me your opinions on what you thought about it and which of the styles I've used so far do you like best.
I've also completely caught up with the latest light novel of bleach and holy crap is the history of the bleach universe really fucked up, I'll probably use some of it in this story, just gotta find a good way to incorporate it into the story. I do gotta say Shuhei throughout the story definitely moved up on my list of favorite bleach characters, I'd say about mid-list to high-mid-list for me now. Anyway that's all for the time being don't know when the next chapter will come out, so see y'all next time Maniac out.