Chapter 4: You're Going To Die Soul Reaper!
Time its self has frozen . . . Now the prophecy must be fulfilled . . . He must fight for her life . . . If he dies or not . . . This Soul Reaper is now hers . . . No matter how hard it must be . . .
Ichigo stood there staring there at Maura, who had just started breathing a couple seconds ago. Her chest was taking long breaths; her lungs getting used to breathing again in . . . how many years she has been dead. Ichigo looked away from Maura and to his hand; her touch still lingering on his fingertips. What just happened? All I did was touch her. Ichigo thought. He closed his fist and his eyes moved back to Maura who didn't move except when she was breathing.
"Ichigo! Ichigo!" His thoughts were interrupted by Rukia screaming in his ear. He looked away from Maura to Rukia who was out of bed and was walking towards him. "Are you listening to me!?" Ichigo turned his whole body towards Rukia. She stood in front of him, her anger on an all new level. "You are screwed! God damn you are so fucking screwed!" Rukia was flailing her arms in the air and screeching on the top of her lungs.
"What just happened? What are you screaming about?" Ichigo said so solemnly you would have mistaken him for a stoner; but he was just stunned about what just happened with Maura.
"WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED? You just revived the most powerful Wicken in the world! Maura Anima!!!" Rukia was freaking out, kind of like a mental break-down.
Ichigo's eyes widened. Ichigo learned about Maura Anima in 9th grade during the folklore and myth's unit but it was just a day's lesson. Nothing big, but during the lesson he remembered that the Anima family had the most powerful magic on the face of the earth and the last descendant, Maura Anima, was the most powerful out of the whole family, even though she didn't know how powerful she really was. He remembered that because the teacher said the cause of her death caused disasters all over the world and her soul would come back and replenish the world. At the time he thought it was all just a joke but now looking at the most powerful Wicken of all time passed out on his bedroom floor, he totally wishes he had actually listened that day.
"Okay," Ichigo took a deep breath and looked Rukia in the eyes, "What's going to happen now?"
"Ohh nothing," Rukia said sarcastically and started to spin around in circle, till she spun around quickly and started to scream again and going crazy, "Just a Witch Hollow coming to earth to fight over her soul with you! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE ICHIGO!"
"Wait," Ichigo was a little freaked out he'll give you that, but a Witch Hollow. That just really threw him off the joy ride; he had never heard Rukia ever mention a Witch Hollow . . . EVER! "What the hell is a Witch Hollow?" He asked Rukia. Then suddenly the wall with his window and next to his bed disappeared. Rukia turned around and Ichigo looked up and saw the troll Ichigo saw that morning.
"That's . . . a Witch Hollow." Rukia said stunned just stood there looking. A huge gust of wind filled the room and the Witch Hollow stood outside but half of its body was leaning into the room, leaning on its elbows.
Ichigo on the other hand has pissed that his wall just magically disappeared. He twitched, "Hey! Big thing from before! WHERE THE FUCK IS MY WALL!?" Ichigo, for the second time today, was screaming there and pointing at the troll and, of course, the troll didn't hear him. "AHHH!" Ichigo's lid blew off the top and started freaking out as bad as Rukia was before. "Hey are you listening to me!? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY WALL! AHHH!"
The troll looked down at the freaking out Ichigo and then to Rukia, who was as calm as the ocean waves. He leaned inside the house a little more and spoke directly to Rukia. "What's tangerines problem?" That one question he asked Rukia got Ichigo's attention and pushed Ichigo his limits a little too far. He was about to say something but Rukia beat him to it.
"His wall." Rukia said so close to a whisper.
The troll leaned back a bit and started to laugh. As he laughed the earth shook once again. "He freak of that?" he said while laughing, "Tangerine Soul Reaper Stupid!"
The troll continued to laugh and that made the earth shake even worse. By the trolls laughter and rude remarks, Ichigo's attention left the missing wall and to the rude, obnoxious laughter coming from the troll. Ichigo gritted his teeth, "What did you just call me?" Ichigo said with a clenched jaw.
The troll stopped laughing, leaned in so that his nose was about 2 feet away from Ichigo's. "Tangerine. Freak Soul Reaper." The troll said slowly. Ichigo's hands were in fists ready to sock the troll right in the nose. "Heh . . . scary cat!" right then was Ichigo's last straw, he raised his arms in the air quickly but before h could take his first swing, Rukia was behind Ichigo holding his arm back.
Ichigo looked behind him, shocked that she was defending the troll, "Rukia . . ." was all that Ichigo could manage out of his mouth.
Rukia then made Ichigo's arm slowly go back to his side and she stood in front of Ichigo so he wouldn't take another swing at the troll. "A duel." Rukia said softly while looking into his eyes once again.
The troll leaned back a bit and raised an eyebrow. He smirked, "What kind of duel?" He asked as he moved one elbow to Ichigo's bed and put his chin in the palm of his hand.
To Rukia he seemed interested, she smirked. "A duel for Maura's soul."
"WHAT!?" Ichigo yelped. He looked at Rukia and saw that devious smile. The troll, on the other hand, smirked along with Rukia; he liked this idea better than smash-Soul-Reaper-butt-and-take-soul-back.
The troll nodded and gestured for Rukia to continue. Her smirk grew, "The first person to bleed critically loses. The other wins. If Ichigo wins, Maura stays on earth. If you win, you can take her back and she becomes a soul again." Rukia explained the basics and then the troll leaned in more.
"I accept your challenge." The troll then stuck out his massive hand for Rukia or Ichigo to shake.
Ichigo snickered and pushed Rukia out of the way. He put his hand on the trolls pointer finger, "It will be kicking your ass!" Ichigo said and the room turned white and they all disappeared into another dimension.
