The two continued looking into each others eyes, it was only a few seconds but it seemed like a lifetime, but even in the most peaceful moments, chaos is present, the simple fact of Ulquiorra being in the room made it suffocating. "Come now Rukia, join me, our new world is waiting," what came next surprised everyone, even Rukia, because she actually b began walking towards him.

With each step her eyes grew wider and her heart pounded faster, this continued until Ichigo got a hold of her. "Rukia stop don't let him hypnotize you." "I am not hypnotizing her, the reason she's coming to me is because she knows that it's her destiny to join me, so get your arms off of her before I rip them out of their sockets."

As this was going on Kisuke back up against a wall and took out something from behind the couch, he raised it up and pointed it Ulquiorra. Then came the gunfire, Kisuke shot at Ulquiorra with a shotgun, Ulquiorra was thrown back out the window by the force of the bullets. "Yoruichi! Get the kids to the basement, then lead them out the secret exit," Yoruichi nodded, "come one let's go!"

After Ulquiorra was shot out of the window, Szayel turned to Urahara only to be hit in the face with the butt of the gun, Urahara then reloaded and waited for Ulquiorra to come back in, once he did Urahara opened fire again and this time, Ulquiorra was able to actually dodge the gunfire, then he swung at Urahara, the latter intended to block the strike with his arm, but it snapped in half.

A sickening scream echoed in the room, as Urahara watched his arm dangle lifelessly, with one strike Ulquiorra snapped the arm like a twig. "Now get out of the way!" But then another gunshot his Ulquiorra's face, Kisuke was still resisting. "I won't let you leave, so you might as well kill me." "Fine by me, one less human in the world,"

(Elsewhere) Down in the basement, Yoruichi opened a hidden door behind the bookshelf, "Come on the three of you get in there!" The three friends walked into the narrow corridor and ran until they were back outside the house, "Ichigo get Rukia and Orihime in your car and drive off, far away and make sure that you don't look back, no matter what, oh and take this with you, use it when you know it will work." Ichigo nodded and escorted the two girls to the car.

As soon as she saw the car drive away and make a turn, Yoruichi looked back at her house, then she ran back into the basement and opened up a steamer trunk, inside the trunk was a pile of firearms. She picked up two sub machine guns and ran upstairs, Ulquiorra stood over a beat up Urahara and was about to land a kill blow, but was topped by a barrage of bullets fired by Yoruichi.

But it seemed no mater how many times the bullets hit him, there wasn't any sign of him feeling pain, no sign of him bleeding, and no sign of him giving up. "You're wasting your time; the weapons of today cannot affect someone from yesterday, and vice versa, hmm." Ulquiorra felt a bit euphoric in that moment, it seemed like he suddenly became interested in the ceiling, since he was looking up so interested.

"So it's time, in just one hour the Eternal Eclipse will return; only this time it will truly be eternal." Ulquiorra turned around and walked out of the house, leaving the couple relieved and frightened, Szayel had escaped the house and was now outside with his brother, "Ulquiorra, what happened did you kill them?" Ulquiorra didn't answer Szayel's question, instead he asked one of his own, "Which way did they go?"

"Alright I saw which way they went, come on get in the car," Ulquiorra grabbed Szayel's throat, "I asked, in which direction did they go," Szayel pointed south and Ulquiorra released him. Ulquiorra turned south and looked at the sky, then a bulge began forming on Ulquiorra back, cloak then tore open and two wings were revealed, Ulquiorra took flight and flew south with impressive speed.

As they watch Ulquiorra fly off, Yyilfort turned to his brother, "what now, are we finally getting out of this?" Szayel slapped his brother with a back hand, "No god damnit, I didn't spend my entire night following this big baby all over the city just to have him betray me like, that, I have an idea where he's going after he finds her, let's go." Szayel hopped into the car and started it up and beeped at Yyilfort to get in, once he did the two sped off.

(Elsewhere) Ichigo did exactly as he was told, the city around him seemed like a blur as his car zoomed past it all, of course this didn't go unnoticed, a cop read the speed on his gun, "120 mph, oh boy, damn kids thinking they're in some NASCAR race." The cop began pursuit on Ichigo's car, Ichigo looked into his rearview mirror and saw the cop coming, "damn it, we don't need this right now."

Since he could risk stopping Ichigo kept on going, but while he was worried about the cop chasing him, he almost forgot about the devil that was after his friend and speak of the devil, Ulquiorra was now flying right over them. Ulquiorra descended down to the hood of Ichigo's car, Ulquiorra folding his wings so that Ichigo's view wouldn't be blocked so much, because if his vision was blocked they might crash and, well you know.

"Orihime look in the glove compartment," Orihime opened it up and reached in, "you have a gun?" "Yeah pass it to me, quick," Orihime handed him the gun and Ichigo stuck his hand out the window and fired at Ulquiorra. The cop saw the flashes and heard the gunshots and assume the worst, "calling all for back up, suspect is firing at me, calling for back up."

Once he ran out of bullets Ichigo tried driving wildly to make Ulquiorra lose his balance but no matter what he tried Ulquiorra wasn't giving up. After a few seconds though, Ulquiorra jumped off the hood and took flight, with one strong pull, Ulquiorra ripped off the roof of Ichigo's car. Rukia looked up at Ulquiorra, the black wings made memories flash in her mind, memories of the demon she loved.

The two were reunited for the second time, Ulquiorra reached down, and Rukia reached up, but before they were able to touch Ichigo came to a sudden stop and Ulquiorra flew past them. Rukia looked ahead and saw a barricade of squad cars, then looked back and saw three squad cars blocking them from behind. Ichigo told the two to slowly step out of the car and take cover, they did so.

"Don't make any sudden movements, we will fire," Ichigo raised his hands and began yelling, "listen there's somebody after us, you all have to get out of here, he's a monster, he'll kill you!" The cops raised there weapons and closed in, "shut up and get one the ground," Rukia stood up and yelled. "Its true," a cop took Rukia down hard on the pavement; a second later that same cop had a spear through his throat.

The rest of the cops opened fire on Ulquiorra, but even as he was hit by the bullets Ulquiorra was able to slowly turn towards two cops, then impaled them through their chest with his bare hands. As the cops behind him were reloaded he picked up a squad car and crushed a cop between heavy metal and hard pavement, Ichigo saw this as his chance, "Orihime take Rukia somewhere else and find cover, make sure she doesn't run to Ulquiorra, I have a plan."

While Ulquiorra was distracted by the cops, Orihime grabbed Rukia's hand and dragged her to an alley that was covered by a row of cars, while Ichigo ran to a fuel truck that was standing clear of the massacre, Ichigo knocked on the door and the driver opened up, "what do you want kid?" Ichigo raised the gun at the driver, "get out I need this truck," the driver immediately got out and dropped the keys, then ran away.

"Okay I hope this works," Ichigo started the truck and began driving towards Ulquiorra, Ulquiorra was just about finished with all of the cops, then he noticed the bright lights coming at him, the truck ran into him full force and smashed him into a brick wall. Ichigo came out of the truck and waited for Ulquiorra to come, no sooner did Ulquiorra emerge from behind the truck, Ichigo then remembered what Yoruichi said, "Take this with you, and use it when you know it will work."

That sentence flashed in his mind as he reached into his pocket and took out a hand grenade, "burn in hell." Ichigo threw the grenade and took cover, Ulquiorra stared at the grenade and wondered what it was, and then it blew up and caused the fuel tanker to explode in a wave of fire that engulfed Ulquiorra.

After the explosion Ichigo turned around and saw Ulquiorra on fire and falling to his knees inside of the inferno, and then he fell on his face. Ichigo took a deep breath as Orihime and Rukia came out of hiding and went to his side, "Ichigo are you okay?" Ichigo looked up at Orihime, "yeah I'm fine," then gave her a kiss. Rukia looked into the fire sadly, but then she saw something rising in the flames, "Um Ichigo."

In that moment all of their happiness and all of their hope faded, they were instead filled with despair, because when they saw Ulquiorra it was absolutely heart stopping. All of Ulquiorra clothes were burned of, instead his lower body was covered in fur, as his hands and forearms, he grew a tail and a pair of horns, and his wings were a bit smaller, but they looked more demonic than before.

The fire seemed to be avoiding Ulquiorra, because every time he stepped forward the fire backed away, then he reached them, first he looked at Ichigo, then at Orihime, almost as if he was warning them about trying to stop him. Finally he looked down at Rukia, "the time has come, the eclipse will be here in half an hour," and with that Ulquiorra gently picked up the petite girl bridal style and flew off into the distance.

Suddenly the death in the air vanished and Ichigo regained his senses, "damn it!" Ichigo pounded the ground and yelled out in rage, "I can't believe I just laid here and let him take her, I'm pathetic." Orihime stroked his head, suddenly they heard a car beeping behind them, they looked and saw Yoruichi and Urahara, the two of them ran and got into the car, "what are you guys doing here?"

"No time just get in hurry, we have to get to the museum." The car drove off and headed towards the museum.

(Elsewhere) Ulquiorra gently put Rukia down and let her stand on her own two feet, Ulquiorra then began unbuttoning her shirt and slid it off, and then he slid off her skirt and presented her a dress. It looked old and it was decorated with priceless diamonds, Ulquiorra helped her into it, "there you're ready to stand by my side as I conquer the world for the second time."

"Ulquiorra, hey Ulquiorra, what is the meaning of this?" Ulquiorra and Rukia turned to Szayel. "You promised me a taste of power, if I helped you find her, well there she is so where's my reward?" "Very well you helped, so I'm going to give you a taste of my power, here it is." Suddenly Szayel was in terrible pain as a large number of chains hooked into him and then began pulling on his skin.

With a few more pulls the chains tore off Szayel's skin leaving him exposed to the environment, he crawled around the floor bleeding, and in terrible pain. "You wanted a taste of my power, well there it was that was a taste of what I can do, and soon I'll be able to do much more." Szayel cursed Ulquiorra's name as he yelled in pain, "damn it Ulquiorra this wasn't part of the deal."

As Szayel screamed and Ulquiorra waited with Rukia the door burst open, Ichigo stood at the door, holding a long black sword. Three more walked beside him, "Urahara told me that modern weapons don't affect you, so he guessed that it meant that old weapons like swords can still hurt you." Ulquiorra nodded and grabbed a nearby spear, "But still the question is, can you even touch me with that sword?"

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