Bleach – The Heart of the Matter

By Tayla Drago

Oh, boy…It looks like Ichigo had to start a fight with the person who saved him, Uryu, Chad, and Orihime. Along with Alucard was Sonia and Ichigo for they don't believe in their stories being real from one another – as the other two guys and Kon race towards where Ichigo might be, only for Orihime to make it as she watches the whole fight to worry about Ichigo who was about to go head to head against a random stranger. So…Who will win this fight? This should be something else.

"(Oh, Ichigo. Please be careful.)" Orihime said while watching.

Sonia and Ichigo go charging in at one another to begin their battle against each other.

"Let's go!" the two said at the same time.

The two warriors were going all out from their fast speed, power, and their swords to whipping weapons in battle without destroying the entire forest and/or causing a scene for the other humans to notice as they were playing it smart – while still giving it everything that they got. From sword slashing on Ichigo's end to move away from Sonia's whipping really fast; the same with her against his slash attacks to avoid and moving fast by using some of her weapons without really killing a human, it was only used for monsters to kill and that's it. Seems to be a fair fight as those two just gave it their all for Orihime to feel them out to be very fast for eyes to catch up to their movements. Besides they were both strong to create strong winds and such for Uryu, Chad, and Kon to find the location to go to that path, Ichigo and Sonia move aside to stare at each other to also be smiling on a fine fight they were having so far.

"Hey…Not bad." Ichigo said to be smirking.

"Really? Same goes for you too." Sonia does the same thing.

Nice way for Ichigo to get to know someone like Sonia like this, the same with her.

"Got more within you?"

"You could say that…"

As they kept on fighting for Ichigo thought that he was beating Sonia to lose her edge, only for her to whip him to tying his foot up to give him a throw down. Ouch! With Ichigo having trouble getting back up, Sonia tries punching him to make a hole on the ground to kicking him a lot to move away and tries blocking her movements. Looks like Ichigo was losing…How long can he defend himself against a female Belmont? Orihime sees the horror happening, she had to say something quickly to stop them from fighting at one another. For she tries supporting Ichigo to help him win by the power of love.

"(No! Ichigo!)" she runs closer in the battle. "Get up!"

Sonia stops to see Orihime just standing there to look worried for Ichigo's safety, and for him to see her acting like this. Does he know that she really loves him yet? So far…?

"O-O-Orihime…?" Ichigo was confused.

Not good on Sonia 'for she doesn't want anyone else getting hurt'.

"(This is bad…!) Another one of your friends?" she talks to Orihime. "Look, girl. Just stay out of this. Your friend Ichigo and I are fighting in words to understand each other a little better. You should know that by now."

Orihime knew that, but still…She wasn't afraid to still cheer Ichigo on even if Sonia was getting the best out of him.

"I don't care! I know that!" she said to say this next part to Ichigo. "Listen to me, Ichigo! You need to get up and keep on fighting, please! I know that you can do it! Prove your point to Sonia whether she's a famous pop singer or a fighter, you need to be strong! I'm with you all the way through this! So is Uryu, Chad, your family, and our other friends! You're not just a normal Soul Reaper after all, you are different than the rest of them! You are you!"

From Orihime's words there that she just said, has really gotten to Ichigo to be touched by it and Sonia to be kind of surprise as well as Orihime Inoue herself…Seems that Ichigo's heart started to race for this girl to start seeing her more and more than just a friend to him. Though Ichigo never admits his feelings too much, he says this to show that he does cares for Orihime and for her to understand in his own words.

"(Orihime…) Huh? What are you talking about!? I can fight just fine! Sonia just caught me off guard!"

Some of Ichigo's powers pushes Sonia aside to the tree to break as she whips it to pieces on her end.

"(Okay, how was Ichigo able to fight back?)" she asks herself. "(Was it because of his feelings towards this girl? Orihime?)"

With that guess on Sonia's mind, Ichigo says this to Orihime.

"You see? I'm just fine, so try not to worry so much about my behavior, got it? (Orihime, thank you. I'll knock a bit more sense a few more times to Sonia to get my…No, our point across this time.)" he says the rest. "So let me fight her, while you stay right there and watch me. This is the one fight that I wish for you or the others to not get into right now. I got this!"

"Yes! Of course, Ichigo! You do that!" she cheers him on. "(You're welcome.)"

And so, the fight continues for Sonia was ready for him to try hitting him with her kicks, only for him to use his arm to stop her in time from getting hurt again.

"I got you now-!" she was shock on what she was seeing. "What!?"

Looks like she was losing her edge this time.

"I see, Sonia, you're strong too just like me. Now let me show you my strength as well!"

Ichigo grabs Sonia's foot to send her flying and uses his sword to push her down again, moving away to get her vest ripped a little, a close call from almost be defeated in their conversation. This was getting good!

"So now we're talking serious here!"

"You think?" Ichigo asks her. "I'm only getting started."

"You think this will make me back down? Then you better think again!" she said.

"Funny, I was going to say the same thing to you." Ichigo kept on fighting. "Let's finish this!"

With the two still fighting from punches, kicks, fast speed, trying to block and hitting one another repeatedly for Ichigo nor Sonia won't give up on this fight at all for Orihime was amazed to see Ichigo was almost having the upper hand to knock some sense in to Sonia to lose in this fight…Until they both were pushed back by one person stopping them both to also be very strong, it was Alucard who saw the whole fight to put an end to it. As Uryu, Chad, and Kon have finally arrived to see this themselves. Sonia knew that her partner would show up so soon, but not to Ichigo or Orihime didn't felt him out until the last few seconds there.

"Alucard!" surprised Sonia.

"(What the…? Where did he come from!?)" surprised Ichigo. "(He just show up out of nowhere…!)"

Alucard holds on to Sonia to shove Ichigo aside a little, just not too hard.

"(Who is this man…?) questioned Orihime to then be seeing her friends. "Oh! Uryu! Chad! Kon! You guys showed up! Look who just appeared during Ichigo's with Sonia, it's her manager."

This surprises the other guys from seeing Alucard in person.

"What…?" Chad was speechless.

"Are you kidding me, Ichigo!?" Uryu didn't sound so happy there. "(What's with him getting in to fights a lot and not minding his own business!? Serious!)"

"I knew those two were up to something! And I was so right!" and Kon. "Didn't I tell you guys or what!? But no…! None of you didn't believe in me at first, but now you all do!"

I guess Ichigo would've won the fight against Sonia if Alucard wasn't in the way in a few minutes or so…Still, he wasn't too happy about this at all for Sonia enjoyed the little sparing for herself. For he was remaining calm, serious, and innocent from the look on his face to say so otherwise to get back to work, and more to say to them to get involved in to now after saving their lives.

"Sonia, why were you fighting with this person?" Alucard asks her.

As Sonia and Ichigo stared at each other to have an answer for him, one said something different than the other to be arguing.

"Ah…Alucard…" Sonia says it first. "Ichigo started it! This so call Soul Reaper was annoying me!"

"Well, she was annoying me first!" Ichigo does the same thing. "She was going on saying that monsters and Belmont heroes against the made-up Dracula was real!"

The two were barking at each other like mad dogs.

"It is too!"

"It is not!"

Ouch! Ichigo and Sonia were now acting like kids to be fighting over nothing.

"Cut it out!" the two said the same thing to each other.

Alucard, Orihime, Chad, Uryu, and Kon were all like 'what the…?' on their faces but Alucard to be watching and listening to the whole thing.

"What does it matter now!? I've loss!" Ichigo said. "I would've won if this emo man didn't get in my way!"

"That's Sonia's manager." Uryu, Chad, and Orihime corrected Ichigo.

He didn't know about that part either.

"And I told you about him already!" Sonia says the rest. "I'm a Belmont member and fighter to stop Dracula and his goons who are around this area to save the world as a tradition that happens every century when he comes back, and save my brother Richard who went missing for a year now! And he's Dracula enemy and the only half-breed son who's also human from a human woman who died for him long ago name Alucard. We're a team here to be undercover as a rock band!"

Too late to turn back now…Sonia said that part to tell Ichigo and the others the rest now since they were in this mess and were saved by them from the skeletons. Alucard sighed to let this one pass for Sonia to trust her a lot as she trusts in him the same, so the five were in a whole lot of things now to aid them.

"Sonia…"

Sonia felt bad to get embarrassed from her mistakes.

"Ah…Crap!" she said to have her face turn red and she was angry. "Now look what you may me say out loud!"

Ichigo didn't care about it.

"Don't blame me! You were the one who said it, not me!"

That's true, she did say it on her own. As the two-looked upset for Sonia to say this part to Ichigo about him almost winning the fight against each other 'for him to sound like he was a failure to prove a point', but that wasn't true at all. At least not to her. For Sonia to be a bit open minded to Ichigo to be trusting in him from this point on.

"Listen, Ichigo…The fight we had, you could've won in that moment if Alucard didn't butt in. And to my point of view-!"

Too bad that she couldn't finish saying it…as Orihime, Uryu, and Chad move up closer to Sonia to see her in person and ask her a few things since she was famous for a rock star.

"Hi! Sonia!" Orihime said while looking happy.

This made Sonia freak out little.

"Ah…Hi?" she said nicely. "And who are you people?"

"They are my friends who are humans with special powers on my team." said Ichigo. "You already know Orihime Inoue, the tall guy is Yasutora Sado for we just call him Chad, and that's Uryu Ishida who's one of the last Quincies alive. You guys, you already know both Sonia and Alucard. Turns out that what they said is true. She's a Belmont hero who stops vampires and monsters like Dracula who's real and saving her brother; along with her partner Alucard who's the half vampire son of their enemy to have his revenge by stopping his own father."

And this Ichigo just said to them, they were all surprise to notice and Kon for Sonia and Alucard couldn't hide it from them anymore. For they only care about was Sonia to be their biggest fan ever, and admire on Alucard's hard work to Ichigo's surprise on 'what the hell?' kind of look on his face.

"Its so nice to meet with you, Sonia!" Orihime said to be shaking her hand. "I love your songs, for me to listen to everyday before school."

As Orihime was hugging Sonia 'to feel weird about it all', Chad shakes her hand to be so very strong.

"Please to meet you. May I have an autograph from you?" he asks her.

She writes the name down for Chad and Orihime got a cell phone shot of them together, while Uryu kisses Sonia's hand out of the blue. Seems that he was a huge fan of her work to have a crush on her 'a little'. He was a gentleman to care for some girls.

"Uryu!?" shock Ichigo.

"What? I'm being a gentleman to her, unlike you. At least you told them nicely that I was the last Quincies alive." he talks to Sonia next. "Ms. Belmont, I enjoy your career of singing and what you did to save both my friends and me who's quite different from the rest of them. And for that, I thank both you and your partner."

Looks like Uryu was friendly towards Sonia for her to trust them back like she does with Ichigo.

"Nice to meet with you, friends of Ichigo. Glad you like my undercover band group of mine…"

Just then, Kon 'in Ichigo's body' to fall for her hottest already because of her fine legs and attitude to remind him of Rukia and only her. Oh, boy…!

"Well, well, hello beautiful. You're so a lot like Rukia Kuchiki!" he said to act like a pervert again.

Alucard stood behind Sonia to protect her for that is his job for one of them working as a team.

"Excuse me…? Are you Ichigo's twin brother?" she asked.

"NOT EVEN CLOSE!" Ichigo said in anger.

Kon pushes Uryu, Alucard, and Chad aside right into Ichigo 'but Orihime' to smooth talk to Sonia for she already hates it from this Modsoul to be using Ichigo's body.

"I'm afraid he's right, this is his human body I'm borrowing. I'm a Modsoul name Kon at your service. And may I say that you're very sexy-! Ow! Ow! Oooooooooooow!" Sonia was mad to grab Kon by the hair of his head hard to be restraining him on the ground in self-defense.

"In your dreams, freak!"

So much for Kon smooth talking to this girl again…Ichigo wants to see Kon get hurt too, just not in his body to stop Sonia in time.

"Hey! Hey!" he said. "I know how you feel about Kon acting like a creep and all, but that's still my body you got a hold of!"

Sonia re-releases Kon thanks to Ichigo saying so.

"You mean…? Sorry about that."

Ichigo then shows Sonia Kon stuff toy body to her.

"Instead, beat his toy-like body off, to take your stress away…"

He sure said it in the evil way to make Kon to worry suddenly.

"(Oh, no!)"

And so, Sonia does it…

"Well, in that case…" she starts kicking it on the grass ground really hard and fast. "I will do that instead! To feel the pain for touching me like that!"

Kon was crying in sorrow.

"Stop! You're ruining my used body!" he said in sorrow. "Oh, the pain!"

After Kon was taught a lesson the hard way by Sonia's doing to toss the toy next to Kon to feel that later when he goes back in there, Alucard begins to say something next after that show.

"It's nice to meet with you all, Ichigo and friends." he bows to them. "Both Sonia and I are glad you're all safe from Dracula's monsters. But this is far from over yet, for we're in a war right now that neither the two of us can handle or the great Richard Belmont couldn't either."

This was the truth for Ichigo to believe in Sonia's words to be very real. To be news to Orihime, Uryu, Chad, and Kon to hear it all…

"So, you were telling the truth." said Ichigo.

"I should've known it was all too real." Orihime knew all along as well from overhearing it all.

Now Uryu, Chad, and even Kon too needed to know the rest of the information and the strangeness that was going on lately…

"Dracula?" Chad was confused.

"Orihime, do you and Ichigo know something about these two on what they're saying?" ask Uryu.

She nodded a yes there for Kon was really shocked to have his jaw drop.

"Come again!?"

Now they all needed to know everything for Ichigo wanted the answers the most for only Sonia and Alucard can tell them all about it, and I do mean all of it to them to sound very serious.

"Well, since I'm starting to believe in your story so far, Sonia…Care for you and your partner Alucard explain the rest to us on what's happening?" Ichigo asks her.

Sonia looks at Alucard to be sure if they were doing the right thing.

"Alucard…"

"It's fine." he said. "I believe they're trust worthy from the fight you two just had to prove a very good point. And they're more than humans with the same powers as you got but much different, as the same as Ichigo's. So we will tell them only if they'll join us in this battle."

Seeing that there are no Hollows around in the area 'for the time being', seems that Ichigo and his team are going to have some trouble deciding here…

"Decide on what?" Orihime asked.

Sonia looks and sounded serious now to tell them all about it.

"Very well. We will tell you everything, but not here." She started to walk somewhere else. "Follow Alucard and me, let's talk somewhere in a more private-like area. Any of you know of one?"

Uryu knows where, at the empty building of the high school gym indoor area of a swimming pool, locker room, a gym area, and such would be perfect to go to have a talk at.

"I know of one." he leads the way. "Follow me, please."

He takes them to the place for Sonia, Alucard, Ichigo, Orihime, and Chad to follow Uryu for it would a good spot to talk privately in. Leaving Kon to have a bad feeling about all of this.

"I don't know, you guys." he said. "Maybe we should stay out of it? Hey!"

But Ichigo pulls Kon's ear 'or rather his' to get moving to hate the feeling of pain still in a human body. With everything seeming all clear with no one at the building to sneak into the gym-like building for all seven of them go inside quietly. All was good to go for Sonia and Alucard can tell Ichigo and the others 'and Kon' to learn what was going on in their home town; unaware that more monsters who worked for Dracula would soon make a move who was a giant with a lot more armies than the skeletons were. Not good…!

"Nice place you guys have for high school students." Sonia said to have a look around.

"Trust me, we get weird stuff to keep us kids in good shape all the time." Ichigo said to her. "Anyways, is everything cleared out there?"

All four of them checked to be fine on each of their ends.

"All good, Ichigo." said Orihime.

"Same." and Chad too.

"Fine…" Kon's other body was hit against to lose some of his stuffing. "Ah! Okay! Okay! All good over here! Just stop ruining my other body, Ichigo!"

He does stop to make Kon talk for sure. Now it was time to get things done, and that's by listening in.

"I think we're in a clear here." said Uryu. "Now then, shall we begin by telling us everything on what's going on, you two?"

Ichigo wanted to know himself as well, like right away.

"Yes, please tell us. Sonia. Alucard. If you want us to believe in your power and such, then we need to know everything. Alight?"

With Alucard and Sonia looking at each other, they had to tell them now to help them out without doing this type of mission alone this time and saving Richard's life.

"Very well, we'll tell you everything that you five need to know about." said Sonia. "So, pay close attention on what we have to say."

"What we're about to say is the truth that might be hard on some of you to understand the whole thing." said Alucard. "Anyways, I'll go first. Sonia, you help me explain the rest in the middle."

"Okay."

A lot to explain here on what Alucard and Sonia's task is in detail and I mean a lot, so I'll say on what these two say as Ichigo, Orihime, Uryu, Chad, and Kon all listen in. So here we go…

Tayla: Here's their story - The year is 1450 and a mysterious man made a pact with an evil deity to become immortal and conquer the world. Having become a powerful Demon King, he summoned evil demons from the underworld and sent them out to overthrow the entire European continent. He became known as Count Dracula, and nobody dared to oppose his might. The Belmont family, a house of nobles living in a remote area of Transylvania, had a young girl with powers not possessed by common folk along with her older brother too named Richard. Sonia Belmont was looked after by their grandfather who trained her in the use of his special whip that contained magical powers and then their master in their home village. One night, when she was 17 years of age and Richard was 18, she encountered the young enigmatic Alucard, and formed a bond with him. He was the son of the feared Count, but he had decided to turn away from him and his evil deeds. The mansion where Sonia and Richard were born was one day suddenly attacked by grotesque monsters. When they both returned to find her home in ruins the two encountered with their grandfather breathing his last. Before he passed away, he passed his whip on to them having different ones and told Sonia and Richard to use their special abilities to rid the land of evil. Train with their Master Keigo Shu 'along with Maria Renard and her pet owl Howey who are helping them out over the years'.

However, before those two brother and sister Belmont to do their work like Trevor Belmont did a long time ago, this happened…The story takes place during the year 1797, 5 years after the events of Rondo of Blood. Alucard, the son of Dracula, awakens from his self-induced sleep, and decides to investigate what transpired during his slumber as well as seeing his mother Lisa being killed when he was little when the people found out that she had the son of Dracula to burn her alive; he lives on forever to try putting a stop to his own father to sleep in and helping out Trevor once but failed, until today's modern times, for Sonia, Richard, Maria, Howey, Shu, and the people in the village aided him to live with them to train more and more along Sonia's side. For Richard takes on Dracula alone but disappears a year ago by Dracula's doing to be brought back to life, for the Mayor of the village orders Sonia and Alucard to do their parts to find Richard and stop the evil right away – as they're doing and to go undercover. Until they realize that they needed some help from our heroes now. You get it? I think Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, Uryu, and Kon all believe in them for the story is all true and why the monsters were moving all over Karakura Town for more power to get by Dracula's doing…

"Now do you guys get it?" Alucard said to them. "What you were all feeling out, it's no joke. It's very real. Like your powers and such whether we don't know about it yet for ourselves…We got more problems on our hands. I must stop my Father on what he did to me and my Mother from long ago, and more importantly we need to rescue Richard who he and Sonia took me in their home to help me live even more again without sleeping for eternity. I just have to…"

Alucard sounded upset there when talking about it for Sonia was with him all the way through this mess he was in, as she was as well to try saving her older brother during their task they must carry out.

"Alucard…I know." Sonia said. "I feel the same way too. We both do."

"I know, Sonia. We do." Alucard then says this next part. "Because we told you everything you all wanted to know. A curse passed down for centuries to stop Dracula without an end until we get lucky somehow to just keep on trying until the very end one day; that is why we ask of you humans, Modsoul creature, and half-breed Soul Reaper for all your help in this battle. If we don't do something right away and save Richard, Dracula and his monsters will rule the entire world and he will turn everything into darkness for all eternity. Or worse, you'll become vampires yourselves."

Now Ichigo gets it for Sonia was telling the truth about everything from the shocking reaction on his face looking very serious. As Orihime, Chad, Uryu, and Kon were as well after hearing the entire story. With Alucard bowing to them and Sonia trying to be serious by asking for their help now and still worry about Richard's safety and the villagers back at their hometown.

"We hate to put you all in this mess, but we're stuck to not handle this alone both Alucard and me." said Sonia. "Please, Ichigo, join us. You and your friends if you wish to protect your hometown from all of this. Will you join Alucard and me to defeat the Dark Lord Count Dracula himself?"

And when Sonia ask Ichigo that questioned and Alucard was scared but was willing to stop his own father for good this time, looks like he will help them out and protect everyone.

"You don't have to ask me twice about this mess…Like hell I'll leave you two to be the heroes against this vampire dude."

With Ichigo smiling at them…The others wanted in to aid Ichigo as a team.

"I'm in." said Chad.

"Anywhere that Ichigo goes, I want to be useful in battle!" Orihime as well with her hand up.

"Me too." Uryu as well to adjust his glasses. "I've heard of Quincies stopping demons of Dracula centuries ago to aid the Belmonts, so count me in."

So Alucard and Sonia learn about it a lot.

"So, you are the last of the Quinces I see." said the half breed vampire.

"That I am, good sir."

Looks like those two have become friends already to Ichigo's surprise only and not to anyone else or to Sonia to be too shock about it.

"Seriously!?"

And of course, Kon was in with the others and to having no choice but to be with Orihime and Sonia more, to be a hero while borrowing Ichigo's body sometimes in battle to win over the other girls. Yeah, right!

"I might as well help out. To at least give it my all…" said the Modsoul to act like he was brave and all.

And for all and done…

"What Kon is really saying is this, we're all in this together, Sonia."

As Ichigo shows out his hand to Sonia, to her surprise and the same for Alucard – they're in good hands to win this war for good this time.

"Wow, Ichigo. Thanks. I don't know what to say, except-!"

Soon the whole building started the shake coming from the ground to be getting louder and closer from outside. Kon looks out at the window to see lots of giants bulls were running towards the school to not look so normal looking to them.

"Aaaaah!" Kon was screaming. "Ichigo! We got big trouble! A bull stampede is heading our way!"

The others see it from the window next as they all try make a run for it right away.

"Alucard!" Sonia runs inside of the building first.

"Yes." He tells the others right away. "Quickly! Start running anywhere but this area! Those things are Undead Bulls! They won't stop until they crush someone to death who are in their way! Like us! Who were all send here by Dracula! So start running!"

The Undead Bulls 'or Behemoth' resembles a giant bull whose hind quarters have been torn off. During its introductory scene, the heroes must run ahead of the creature, smashing pillars along the way. The beast will continue its path, smashing through walls and leaving lots of rubble behind, and leaving the heroes with no means to give further pursuit. As the two started running first, so did the others. From Ichigo, Orihime, Uryu, Chad, and Kon.

"Let's go!"

"Wait up, Ichigo!"

"Ah! There's no way I'm dying like this!"

"Stick together!"

And of course, Kon was last to start running with the others from the behind as fast as he could run.

"You don't have to tell us twice, Chad! We're going-!" Kon stops to get his stuff toy body back in time. "I still need this body for later!"

As all seven started to run all over the gym building in time, all the heard of Undead Bulls broke into the place to destroy anything to cause a huge mess for the others heard and felt something near the school to be too shock about it, or to go near it at all…For our heroes gave chase to not get run down by them, but for how long? And how long was this place anyways to be so roomy?

"Don't stop! And don't look back either!" Sonia said while running.

"Believe me! We won't!" said Ichigo to say the same thing.

Alucard, Sonia, and Ichigo had no trouble running away 'as Kon was running really fast to be scared to finally catch up with the others', as Chad carried both Orihime and Uryu just in time before they were both trample or crushed by the bulls' huge feet for he was really strong for a person. Soon enough Chad made a huge wall-like shield in time all over the place. From Chad's the Direct - One Strike of the Giant…

"El Directro!"

Then Orihime uses her powers to make another shield twice as strong. And the other one being the Three Sacred Links Shield…

"Santen Kesshun! I Reject!"

Leaving Sonia to whip the rest and Alucard to cut them all in two with his long sword in seconds, leaving Kon to punch and kick some…and of course Ichigo to use his Zanpakuto to slash them all into dust for these zombie-like bulls. Ichigo's Zangetsu - Slaying Moon.

"Zangetsu!"

Looks like that takes care of all an army of dead bulls, nice one. And good team work there to both Alucard and Sonia's surprise to see there, well Uryu still wishes he could fight again if he didn't lose all of his Quincy powers. Bummer…

"Wow…" Sonia was amazed. "Now that's team work."

Alucard couldn't agree with Sonia even more.

"Not bad."

Orihime cheers with joy with Kon doing the same, while Chad stood and Ichigo was happy after doing a fine job.

"Yes! Now that's what I'm talking about!" said Ichigo.

Uryu didn't look so happy for Sonia to notice as she and Uryu had something in mind to let him fight again to use some Quincy powers somehow, really? Just like that?

"Hey, Uryu…Don't look so upset. There is one thing that Alucard and I can let you borrow for some Quincy power." said Sonia.

This makes Uryu get interested suddenly.

"Wait! Really!?" he asked to be surprise to hear. "There's a way!?"

"There is."

And before Alucard could say anything about that part to Uryu, more danger was around the building that wasn't anymore Undead Bull armies this time…More like lots of trees coming to life to be breaking in the place with long vines to catch Sonia, Alucard, Uryu, Kon, Ichigo, Orihime, and Chad by surprise; only for Uryu to see a female high school student to be out this late working on a school program after school – a new student for her name is Hayame Yoko with long dark blue hair, light blue eyes, had one black glove on her left hand all the time, and wore a girl's uniform to be smart, beautiful, and a caring person to be in the area at a very bad timing tonight.

"What's happening!?" Orihime was freaking out. "The place is growing with lots of trees!"

"This is not good…!" Chad was panicking in his own way.

Kon moves away from the odd moving vines of a tree in time.

"I don't like this!"

With Uryu running outside to do something in time before the vines could grab them…

"Uryu! What are you doing!?" Ichigo asks him.

"Someone else is in danger from outside of this school!" he answered. "I have to save that girl! It's the least I can do since I don't have any powers!"

As Uryu makes it out in time to see Hayame just about to leave the school for turning in the paper work, as she spots him thinking that he was passing by for there were Tree-Like Beasts behind the girl to not notice at all to get attacked from behind.

The Tree-Like Beasts 'or The Treant' is an ancient tree animated by a purely malevolent evil. It is a giant walking tree with a face on it and behaves and attacks exactly like other Golem or Great Armor enemies. It may be based on the Dungeons & Dragons Treant monster, which in turn is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Ents.

"Oh, hello there." she was greeting Uryu. "You go to school here? I'm new to this school. The name is Hayame Yoko, and I start here tomorrow-!"

"Look out!"

Uryu pushes Hayame away from the tree demon's whack of its giant branch-like arm to try hitting the girl, but he saves her in time to now see what was going on.

"W…What…What are those things!?" she panics.

He must think of something to get Hayame out of the danger in time and then the others will join Uryu once everything else's good.

"(This is bad…! How are we going to get out of this mess alive!?)"

I hope both Uryu and Hayame do get out of this mess in time...somehow! As Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, Kon, Sonia, and Alucard must face off with more army of Dracula's monsters of the big trees, strong, and scary looking to surround our heroes…Soon the two partners knew right away on who they were dealing with to do something like this.

"Alucard!"

"I know, Sonia!" Alucard said in anger. "It's one of Dracula's top men who serve him…"

For this one was much more bigger, or rather huge looking, big, scary, and deadly who was the Executioner himself 'the Castlevania: Legends version that is'. For he was carrying a huge axe to cut anyone or anything in half with on swing.

The Executioner seems slow at first, but that's just a ruse to set you up for his mad dashes and long jump attacks. Using his axe, he'll march toward any living being to do his dungeon-inhabiting job. It's not so much that he's hard to defeat, it's that the construction of his chamber makes it hard to maneuver around. The Executioner often plants himself on a platform right above them, swinging his axe wildly, leaving no way to escape.

"Executioner!" both Sonia and Alucard said.

"Exe-what now!?" Ichigo was lost.

With that big giant appearing in front of the six to cut down the undead bull into pieces in seconds, he was ready to kill his enemies by Dracula's orders. Strong to follow orders very well; but he wasn't too smart to talk funny so well.

"You two…" the Executioner spoke. "You son of Lord Dracula and Belmont person, enemies to him. Enemies to us…!"

Alucard and Sonia were ready for him as Ichigo and the others stop the tree demons together.

"Guess we'll handle the tree freaks ourselves. Attack!"

As Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, and Kon did their parts in battle – the Executioner uses his axe to create a powerful gust of wind to knock the others down to be trapped by the vines of the trees demons which was grabbing hold on all of them.

"Oh, no!" Kon was stuck.

"Can't…! Cut loose…!" so was Chad.

"Ichigo! We can't break free!" and Orihime as well.

Ichigo couldn't reach his sword to get tied up and couldn't escape either.

"I can't reach my Zanpakuto!"

Sonia uses her fire whip to try freeing the other four.

"Oh, no-!"

"Don't do it! Or else…!"

Before both Sonia and Alucard could save their friends, the vines of the demon trees were trying to pull the four hard until they could rip their limbs apart in seconds. Painful for Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, and Kon were all trapped.

"You wouldn't dare…!" angered Alucard.

"Me would. Take one step closer, and they will rip them. Starting with girl. You face me first, and friend outside will get crushed on own with no trouble. By order of Lord Dracula, we win this fight."

With the Executioner having the upper hand against Sonia and Alucard to fight with him together to save their friends, can they do it in time? Also, can they also stop the tree demons, Uryu to get the new girl Hayame out of danger, as well as saving Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, and Kon's lives before they're tore to death…? As the huge giant laughs for his enjoyment, Ichigo could see now that everything he was told so far was very much real here to know that they must win this battle, but not to die for real if they couldn't escape first!

"(This really sucks if we end up dying by the hands of a vampire…!)" Ichigo said while struggle to get out.

More to come next time…