When Hollows Attack: Chapter 3
Nursing a Vampire to Health
I'll tell you, the only thing harder then reading a cliff hanger is writing one…why? Because you want to keep writing! It's not only suspense for the viewer, but the author as well!
I was Afraid that I was going to forget what I was going to make happen next! Oh well, problem solved, eh?
Well, the OCs that are introduced in this chapter will have their creator credited in the bottom of the page again.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or most of the OCs being used in this fic.
Please R&R!
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(Amatarasu's POV)
My breath and heart rate quickened as his scarlet eyes peered into my dilating golden ones as he spoke: "Get off of me, human, before I give you a reason to."
Brain processing….processing…processing…ding!
"Oh!" I cried, sitting up "I'm so sorry, Sir! Are you alright?"
I might have sat up, but I didn't completely crawl off, concerned that if I removed to much pressure that her would lose even more blood then he already had. I may not be a doctor (I'm not even remotely close) but I knew that would NOT be good.
"Tch. Listen girl…" He breathed in a raspy tone, struggling to get up. "I would get out of here, I'm actually quite starved."
"Right!" I said with all the determination in my being. "I'll go get you some snacks from the store, it's just around the corner!" Just as I was about to get up and get him some help and food he grabbed my wrist, stopping me from going anywhere…why does everyone keep doing that today?
In a swift motion, I was pinned to the ground by the man who I had no idea had the strength to do so. "You're still not getting this, are you?"
"Getting what?"
"I don't eat regular food…I eat souls, little girl."
"So…you're a vampire?"
"Wha- I'm not a Vampire! Vampires drink blood, I eat souls…there's a difference."
"No, I'm pretty sure that Vampires are creatures that take human form and bite into them to devour their souls." I calmly explained in my situation of where he could claim my life at any time now. "The story was just made up that they drank blood."
It appeared that her was now frustrated with me since he was glaring now, before stating "Look, I am not a vampire, but a bount a B-O-U-N-T, bount."
"I take it that you're going to eat my soul now…"
"That's the plan…you're not scared?"
"Scared for you, what are you going to do after that? Bleed to death? I'm sorry but you are no where near an acceptable physical condition. Maybe you could eat half my soul, make me your eternal servant and have me patch you up then."
"I don't think it works that way, and…you…you would be okay with that?"
(Bount's POV)
This girl just offered me half her soul, completely on a whim. I sat up, completely confused. "You would really be okay with that? Seriously?"
"Sure" The girl beamed, flashing me a pure genuine smile "As long as I can, I'll do anything to help."
Okay there was something SERIOUSLY messed up in this girl's head. Her soul…her FREAKEN SOUL! "Okay…" I groaned "Lucky for you, I'm not even sure if that's physically possible to do, that…and you seem more useful to me now then soulless, you're spared."
"Well thanks for your kindness!" She beamed brightly while looking at the girl thinking about how un-naturally selfless she was being, I noticed something in the background that I should have noticed way earlier. "Um…girl?" I asked. "Is that a….ghost jellyfish?"
The next thing that happened was scary. Her golden eyes widened before sparkling at me as if I were her god or something, her lips curved into the largest toothy smile that I didn't even think that it was possible to get that big, and not only that, but this rainbow flowery aura started flooding out of her like crazy as she stuttered "You…you can see him too?"
"Yeah…"
"Oh, mister!" she squealed before glomping me into a death hug, squeezing my insides out "You have no idea how happy I am that I'm not the only one who can see Philip! Not even other dead people can see him!"
"K..killing me here…" I gasped as she was crushing my lungs "l…let…me go!"
"Sorry…" The girl frowned while releasing me.
"It's fine…what's your name, anyway?"
"Ah, Amatarasu Tetsuya! And you?"
"Nomad Orken."
"Orken? That sort of sounds like Ori-kun, mind if I call you that?"
"…"
"I'll take that as a "Go right ahead," should I go get you something to dress your wounds with?"
"Sure." I replied flatly, watching her fun off and slide down the ladder…what a strange girl. It makes me think why she would want to help me so much? She trips over me, nearly faints from al the blood, I pin her to the ground….I really should have thought that last one out….makes me sound like a rapist.
Suddenly, a snarkily pleased voice snickers "Sheesh, Nomad I didn't know you had gone soft …"
"Okay, you know what, Templar? You can just shut up." I growled to my stupid doll.
"You had a perfect opportunity to take her soul and gain some nourishment! But, you let her go…"
"What are you getting at?"
"I think you thought she was cute…"
"Okay, you know what? That's pedophilia."
"Not like that, geez! I meant like a kitten or something, you're always jumping to conclusions!"
"Yeah, well you're an idiot."
"None the less…she was interesting, wasn't she?"
"Okay, I'll give you that." I admitted, before noticing sage green messenger bag that was half way open and within my reach. "Hm. What's this?" I pondered, reaching inside it and pulling out a spiral edged sketch book.
"It's probably Amatarasu's" Templar concurred "Going through a young girl's things? Naughty, naughty…"
"Oh shut up and go die in a hole!"
"Right after you, master." He smugly replied.
After that I just ignored him took the liberty of flipping through the sketchbook. It genuinely surprised me. Through the entire book the drawings were each completely different, and I mean they weren't outstanding or anything, but the girl had general talent…it might have been refined talent, but it was talent none the less.
The first page was just a bunch of different types and styles of how she draws eyes, though in each one you could see the emotion of the character behind it, whether sad, happy, or mad.
The next page actually made me laugh though, I will tell you one thing, that girl could not draw a tree if her life depended on it! It looked like a distorted stick of cotton candy!
I spent the rest of the time flipping through her drawings until she returned with a couple of plastic bags full of numerous different things in one hand as she used the other to cling to the ladder. "Ah!" Amatarasu cried "My sketch pad!"
That snapped me back into reality.
"I wasn't being nosey!" I shouted, flinging the book into the air, causing Templar to snicker as the multi-color haired girl dived to catch it before breathing out a gasp of relief "that was close…"
After regaining her stature, Amatarasu opened up one of the bags and pulled out a first aid kit before opening that up and pulling out bandage wrap. "Now…"she sighed "take off your shirt, I need to stop the bleeding."
"What?...fine…" I gave in, removing the shirt that actually wasn't that good anymore, letting her wrap the bandages around my chest and head wounds.
"Okay then!" She happily chirped "Now that the bleeding's stopped, we'll have dinner!"
"Didn't I already tell you that I-"
"I know, you don't eat human food to gain nutrients, but I figure that it could be like in millennium snow where as if you eat enough human food, constantly that you might not have to feast on human souls!...that is, unless it's like in that one book "Adventures of Vladimir Todd" where food doesn't satisfy you…but it still tastes good!"
"I doubt that's the case…" I sighed at her statement.
"Well screw that, I haven't eaten dinner yet and if you won't eat, I will! (I got my own favorites anyway…)"
"…fine!" I murmured, grabbing the rice ball that she was just about to bite into before shoving the whole thing in my mouth…what, I said I was hungry, didn't I?
(Later, Regular POV)
It was just a regular Friday afternoon at around three, Ammy was just flaunting around down town un intentionally drawing all attention towards her strangeness….though this time…unlike any other, there was a tall stoic male following quickly behind her.
"Okay…" Nomad groaned rubbing his thumb and index finger on the bridge of his nose, "Why exactly am I here?"
"Because, Ori-kun…" Ammy stated twirling around on the ball of her foot before clinging to his arm like a baby koala "I'm going to show you where the book store is so you can stop bugging me to get you those dumb Shakespeare books!"
"Hey." He said, holding his hand out and placing it on the top of her head to prevent the fourteen year old from moving any further "You did not just call Shakespeare's fine literature dumb."
That caused even more attention to be drawn to the dark haired, rather tall bount and his short human companion, who for a moment couldn't figure out why she couldn't walk any further then she had before noticing his hand on her head.
"I did not just call Shakespeare's fine literature dumb."
"Good girl!" Nomad smiled before releasing her poor head and let her skip along again before starting to sing "Ooooh, walking down the street, going to the book store with a vampire~"
"Bount."
"Pardon?"
"I'm sorry, but if you're going to sing about everything that you're doing, at least get your facts right, I am a bount, not a vampire."
"My bad…walking down the street, going to the book store with a vampire in denial!"
"What did I just say?"
"He says that he's a bount, though he's really just a vampire and-" her mouth was briefly covered with the same hand he used to stop her from walking before he spat "that's enough singing out of you."
"Mmph mmthmg phmeh smummm mmmghp!"
"Heh? Oh!"
"Bleh! I said that's fine because the book store's right there!"
"Well, bye then."
"Bye…wait!"
"What?"
"…I'm hungry…"
"Seriously?" Ammy chuckled "You're like what, 24? 25?"
"I'm 400."
"You're a grown man who's perfectly capable of taking care of yourself, you don't need a fourteen year old girl to buy you lunch."
"I don't have any money….or if you prefer, I could always eat your soul…"
"I already told you that I was completely fine with that."
"Darn it, I suck at negotiation…just buy me lunch!"
"Fine!"
(Monday morning at school)
Being Monday, the week for 1B to wear their own clothes was over, so they were stuck back in school uniforms just like the rest of the population of the entire student body.
"waaaaaah…." Moped the American haired tomboy in the black sailor school girl outfit, it normally had a matching black jacket, but it was far too warm for those.
"I just don't get it…" Amatarasu whined "Why do I have to wear a skirt?"
"Because," Chiyo laughed, admiring herself in the cute but required outfit placed on her body "It's the girl's uniform. You're a girl, and uniforms are required."
"They could have slipped me one of the boy's…."
"Ammy-chan, you're a girl and you would have died of a heat stroke! They have to wear black pants, black attracts heat."
"Yes Chiyo, thank you for that 5th grade math lesson."
"Oh, by the way. Why do you have two lunches?" The red headed girl asked, pointing to the two different sized bento boxes, one being normal sized and the other….well, just plain large. "Never mind, let me guess…it's for Philip?"
"Hm? No, Philip doesn't deserve this. The bigger one's for a vampire who lives on the roof of the school."
"Then, it's filled with…."
"It's actually filled mostly with steamed rice. I don't know why he likes it so much, but he does!"
"Wait, so you're feeding him rice instead of blood?"
"What, why blood? Vampires eat souls, duh."
Before the two could continue their conversation, it was interrupted when a booming blonde slammed the door open shouting "GOOD MORNING CLASS 1B!"
Shortly after the one adult in the class came in after her, rubbing his temples and groaning "Kondachi, sit down."
"Yes sir!" she smiled before walking down the isle and taking her seat in front of Chiyo.
"Okay, class." The blonde homeroom teacher sighed "before we start, I would like to announce that we have a new student today. Miss Miharu Chiba, please enter the classroom now."
And with that, the half Japanese, half Latino, five and a half foot vizard entered the classroom wearing the same black and white school girl outfit as everyone else. Her long, pitch black hair went down to about her mid thighs and curled slightly at the ends. She just smiled sweetly and said "hello, I'm Miharu Chiba. But you can call me Mi-chan, Haru-chan, or even Chi-chan!"
A bunch of the students just went back to what they were doing while others gawked at her dumbly, not sure what to do, where as only one girl stood up out of her seat, waved in reply and beamed "Nice to meet you, Mi-chan. I'm Amatarasu Tetsuya!"
The short vizard took immediate liking to the outgoing human to say the least.
(During Lunch)
"Hey, Ammy-chan!" Miharu called, chasing after the paranormally gifted human "Wait up, where are you going?"
"Ah, Mi-chan!" Ammy smiled "I need to take this lunch up to my friend on the roof, don't tell anyone because he's not supposed to be on school grounds."
"Your friend, he's not human is he?"
"Nope, he's a vampire who needs to eat like a horse to prevent from eating people's souls!"
"You mean a bount?"
"Why does everyone keep saying that?" Amatarasu asked, about to turn around and continue to walk up to the roof when Miharu grabbed her shoulder and stopped her from walking any further.
"Look, Ammy. I was sent her to keep not only an eye on you, but this entire area by Miss Ai, as you can probably tell, I'm not human like you are, I'm a creature called a vizard, meaning I'm like a soul reaper, but with hollow powers."
"…what's your point?"
"It means I'm neutral! If the soul reapers found out there was a bount up here, they'd try to get rid of him, where as I'm fine with it as long as he doesn't bother anyone, okay?"
"….I can go give him his lunch now, right?"
"I don't see why no-"
She was cut off by a bone chilling roar that made the glass windows vibrate to the point where they shattered, sending shards of broken glass onto the floor and down to the ground. The two girls turned to see a dragon appearing like hollow step into the school yard.
It was a massive and white, scaly beast with a hole in the center of it's long, spear-like tail. Dark purple eyes scanned the school before it cried out again, propping itself up from four legs to two.
The girls just looked at each other before Amatarasu leaped out the window, about to tackle it before he whipped his tail around, hitting her almost at if a bat making contact with a base ball, sending her flying onto the roof with a large thud, right infront of Nomad's napping place.
"What the-Amatarasu, are you okay?"
"Oh, hi Ori-kun!" the golden eyed girl said, wincing to get up and dusting the rubble off the clothes "look I brought you your lunch!"
"He sat there, utterly confused with this girl's motives as she got up, ignoring her probably cracked or broken ribs and leaped back into the fight with Miharu, who had already unleashed her hollow powers.
"Ammy-chan!" She cried, taking a lunge at the beast with her zanpakto, "Are you alright?"
"Yep!" Amatarasu smiled, landing on the hollow's head and pointing her hand down like a gun, "I'm just peachy, bang!"
(Inside, back in classroom 1B)
"Gee," Chiyo sighed, slouching back in her chair, putting down the role she was about to take a bite of, "Where in the world is Ammy-chan?"
Like always, Chiyo was enjoying lunch in the classroom with her friend Kondachi Delahoussaye, except unlike any other day, their friend Amatarasu was not enjoying the meal with them.
"I think Miharu went to go get her." Kondachi replied "Though they sure are taking their time, now aren't they?"
"Oh look!" a male voice cut in.
The two turned to see the silver haired boy, also know as Tsubasa peering out the window "Amatarasu's flying again…"
When they looked this time, the two girls saw two completely different things. Kondachi's dark purple eyes widened at the sight of her friend running around on a white dragon along with the new girl, who's face was covered by a mask of somesort.
"Oh…" Chiyo said in a monotone voice "So she is, …I wonder how she does that…"
"What are you guys talking about?" Kondachi cried "Ammy's not flying, she's riding around on a dragon of some sort! And that new girl, Miharu is too!"
Tsubasa and Chiyo just slowly turned their heads around to face the blonde, both thinking the same thing: 'what the fudge is she on?'
"Nobodies out there besides Ammy…" Tsubasa said, closing his bark brown eyes in disbelief.
"Do you need to lie down? Maybe the heat's too much for you to take…"
"No guys, how do you not see the freaking dragon, it's right there, it's huge, and-oh! Now it blew up…shoot."
(Back to Miharu and Amatarasu)
"Wow, I'm impressed." Miharu admitted, flying back onto the school roof "You fought well."
"Thanks!" Amatarasu gushed "Hey is your body going to be okay? I mean, when anyone else leaves their gigais around, it's pretty much dead looking…"
"Don't worry about it, I left it in Chappy's care. We're so much alike that nobody will notice!"
"Uh…Chappy?"
"She's a soul candy model, you stick them in your gigai so they don't look…you know, dead…"
The two girls were just standing there talking before Amatarasu's knees buckled and she fell down "Owch…what just happened?"
"You're hurt, you idiot." Nomad cut in, getting up, out of his original spot and walking over to the injured human "You may have strange spiritual powers that allows you to fight…" He said, starting to bend over. "But you're still human, so you break like a human." And in one swoop he lifted her into his arms.
"Hey! Let me down, I can walk just fine, thank you very much!"
"No you can't idiot."
"But you can't go inside" Amatarasu protested "You're not even allowed on school grounds, nobodies going to buy that you're a student here!"
"She has a point." Miharu added.
"I'll say I'm a substitute teacher then, you need to get to the infirmary."
"I hate it when you're smarter then me…"
"So, all the time?"
"Just shut up."
Miharu just chuckled while walking behind them, they were highly amusing to watch, she could always find her gigai later…who knows? It might get her out of a few classes…
Besides, Ai had told her to keep an eye on Amatarasu, and she wasn't planning to break that order.
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Yeah, I'm done!
I was going to end with another cliff hanger but decided not to since that's what I did last chapter…
Anyways, I'm really proud on how Nomad came out in this chapter! I'd just picture him and Amatarasu to have that I'll pay you back but still bug you type of relationship…
A bit like siblings….
Anyways, OCs will be accepted until I say that they are not! Which is not yet…you still have time.
Please R&R!
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or most of the OCs in this story!
Nomad: gandalf42
Kondachi: BleachedFighter