Chapter 8: A New Enemy + Vampire

A/N: I should've put this in the first chapter but please don't send any flames. I know my writing sucks and I don't need anyone remind me of it. Now, the story continues.

Shrieker appeared in front of Rukia and started to throw punch after punch which was blocked by Rukia's zanpakuto. Rukia countered by slashing a piece of the former hollow's mask.

"I got you now," she said as she swung her sword one more time to cut Shrieker down but it was stopped by the former hollow's chain.

'A chain…'

"This chain can't be cut by someone like you," Shrieker said as he knocked Rukia back down to the roof where he put his little creatures. Then the creatures spit out some bombs above Rukia's head.

"DIE!"

"Too slow! SOME NO MAI…TSUKISHIRO!"

Once again, Rukia created a giant pillar of ice entrapped the creatures and the pillar began to crumble.

'That should take care his clones.'

Then she looked up and saw the bombs surrounding her.

"What?!"

The bombs exploded with Rukia still in mid-air. Elsewhere, Moka and Tsukune was walking back to the Urahara Shop as they saw the explosion.

"What was that," Moka asked.

"I don't know," Tsukune answered, "Come on, let's go find out."

"Hey, wait for me."

Tsukune and Moka started running toward the location where they heard the explosion.


Moka and Tsukune continue to head towards where the explosion occurred. "Tsukune, are you sure about this," Moka asked worried, "You know everyone is going to lash out on us if we're late."

"We're going to be late anyways," Tsukune said. Then he saw something falling from the smoke. He squinted his eyes to get a better view on the object that was falling. "What the hell? Is that Rukia?"

"It is, where?"

"It's at the same place that we were going. Come on, we got to help her."

The two started to run toward Rukia's location to help out their friend. Meanwhile, Rukia fell to the ground below her after feeling the effects of the blast caused by Shrieker's bombs.

'How is it possible,' she thought, 'I didn't sense the presence of any of his clones. Where did they come from?'

At that point, the former hollow dissented near Rukia's spot and said, "Hahaha, what's wrong? Aren't you going to run away?"

Rukia glared at the enemy as he landed on the ground. That's when the both of them heard, "GOOD MORNING, TSUCHINAMAZU!"

"What," Shrieker said as he saw Kurumadani activate his shikai, cracking the ground and encasing the former hollow in the rubble.

"That is," Rukia said in shock as her Karakura soul reaper replacement did his traditional laugh and jumped towards Rukia.

"Now's our chance to get out of here," he said.

"Th-That was an escape technique?"

Then Shrieker lifts his left arm and fired lasers-like bullets at the two soul reapers.

"What," Kurumadani said as he shielded Rukia from the attack and fell to the ground completely knocked out.

"KURUMADANI," Rukia yelled as Shrieker broke free from Kurumadani's trap. Rukia took a good look at Shrieker's arm and saw the bombs that she got hit with earlier. 'He got leech bombs in his body too!"

"Hahaha, my whole body is like one big bomb," Shrieker explained.

"Damn it!"

"Hurry," Kurumadani said weakly, "Get out of here…"

Moka and Tsukune arrived at the battlefield as and saw Shrieker grabbed Rukia by the throat and slammed her to a wall.

"RUKIA," Tsukune yelled as he saw his friend getting the life choked out of her. But that yell caught the former hollow's attention.

"Well, well," he said, "Humans that caught see me."

He dropped Rukia and slowly walked towards Tsukune and Moka.

'Oh, crap,' Tsukune thought, 'Didn't want that to happened.'

"Tsukune, Moka," Rukia called, "GET OUT OF HERE NOW! THE TWO WOULD BE KILLED IF YOU STAY HERE!"

"Hahaha, you should listen to her," Shrieker said as his speed started to increase.

"Tsukune, my rosary," Moka said, "Hurry, he's getting closer."

"Too late, now die."

Shrieker fired his leech bombs at the vampire but Tsukune stepped in and took the blows, protecting her.

"Tsukune," Moka said worried, "Are you…"

"You're still okay," Tsukune said weakly, "That's good."

Tsukune started to cough up blood and fell to his knees.

"Tsukune," said a sadden Moka.

"Don't worry about me. Just take this guy down."

Tsukune removed Moka's rosary before fading to unconsciousness. Just like the time against Kuyo, the pink-haired Moka disappears in sadness and the silver haired Moka arrived in pure rage.

"Oh," Shrieker said, "That's new. Is it because I killed your little friend?"

"YOU BASTARD," Moka yelled in anger.

"I take that as a yes."

"I'LL KILL YOU!"

With that said Moka threw a kick at the former hollow but it had no effect.

"What?!"

"What's wrong? Is it all you got?" Shrieker grabbed Moka by her and threw her into Rukia.

"DAMN YOU!" Moka charged in again and fired a barrage of kicks but like before it had little to no effect.

Shrieker grabbed Moka's leg and said, "Are you done yet? Good, my turn." Then the former hollow picked Moka up by her leg slammed her into the ground. After that, he grabbed Moka and Rukia by their throats and slammed into a wall. "Hahaha, well soul reaper, I'm different from before."

"What is he talking about," Moka asked Rukia while trying to get out of Shrieker's grasp.

"I'll explain later," Rukia answered then turned her attention back to Shrieker, "What…are you?!"

"You two don't know what this chain is, do you," Shrieker asked the two, "Let me explain. This is a chain of Hell. And I'm a sinner from Hell."

"Sinner," Rukia repeated, "There's no way."

"There's no way for what," Moka asked, "What is this guy about?"

"Alright, I'll explain," Shrieker said, "When I was a human, I committed countless criminal acts. After I died, I became a hollow, a monster that eats the souls of the living and the dead. That was until, this soul reaper here and her orange haired friend defeated me and sent me there."

"But, I thought there was no way for a sinner to get out of Hell," Rukia said.

"Well I did," Shrieker said, tightening his grip on the two girls, "And I'm here for vengeance on you."

Rukia and Moka continue to struggle their way out of Shrieker's grip until the both of them managed to loosen some of Shrieker's cloak making him to let go of his grip.

"What just happened," Rukia said gasping for air and seeing the former hollow turned sinner fasten his cloak, "What are you doing?"

"SHUT UP," Shrieker yelled.

Then a whip-like came out of nowhere and caused the sinner to back up.

"Renji," Rukia called as her childhood friend appeared in front of the two girls.

"Are you two okay," Renji asked.

"We're fine," Moka said, "I don't recall asking for anybody's help."

Renji's eye switched when he glared at the silver haired vampire who reminded him of his/Rukia's brother.

"Just be grateful that you got any help," he fired back angering Moka if her pride was shot already by being overpowered by Shrieker.

"Why are you here," Rukia asked.

"We got a report from the department of research and development about some weird spiritual pressure being detected in the world of the living. What the hell is this guy?"

"He's a sinner from Hell."

"A sinner. You must be kidding."

"Bastard," Shrieker cursed, "Don't stick your nose when things are getting good."

Shrieker fired more of his leech bombs and the three moved out of the way. Renji attacked with his shikai but the sinner moved out of the way of that and fired more leech bombs and Renji dodged them all.

"Don't get too cocky," Renji as he engaged in battle with the sinner. Shrieker grabbed Renji by the head and threw the lieutenant to a wall planted with bombs. Shrieker laughed as the bombs blew up and said, "One down." Then the smoke cleared as Renji activated his bankai.

"BANKAI, HIHIO ZABIMARU! HIKOTSU TAIHO!"

Renji fired a red beam from his snake-like weapon at the sinner. Shrieker tried to block it with but he moved instead. Then Rukia appeared behind him, sliced the sinner in the back. As he was falling, Moka appeared in front of him and said, "This is Tsukune, now KNOW YOUR PLACE!"

She delivered a hard kick to gut making Shrieker to the ground, or so she thought. As Shrieker was falling to the ground, a weird portal, similar to the garganta that the arrancars use, opened up and he fell in.

"Hahaha, That won't be enough to kill me," he said, "I'll keep coming back, hahaha."

After that was said, the portal closed and the sinner was gone.

"What the hell just happened," Renji asked.

"I don't know," Rukia answered, "But…"


In the soul society, there was a captains' meeting being held in the Squad 1 barracks of the seireitei. Among the group of the captains, there were one old man (Genryusai Yatamoto), a row of four people and a row of five. In those two rows are two women, (Soi Fon and Retsu Unohana), a child genius (Toshiro Hitsugaya), a wolf (Sajin Komamura), and five men (Byakuya Kuchiki, Shunsui Kyoraku, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Jushiro Ukitake, and Kenpachi Zaraki). This time the attendance is short two people.

"We will begin this emergency Captains' meeting," Genryusai said.

"Captains Zaraki and Kurotsuchi haven't shown up yet," Retsu stated.

"Never mind those two. I summoned all of you here under short notice. We'll talk about the missing captains later. Now then, we received word a while ago that a sinner from Hell entered the world of the living."

All of the captains were shocked when they heard the news.

"A sinner of Hell," Toshiro asked.

"Sinner is a resident of Hell, right," Shunsui asked, "When someone dies, their souls are sent to the soul society, the home of souls. However, if that person committed heinous acts during their lives can't enter the soul society and fall into Hell. Then they are bound by chains and punished for their sins."

"This is the first time in history of the soul society that a sinner found his way back to the world of the living," the head captain stated.

"Does that mean something went wrong," Toshiro asked.

"How could that be," Captain Unohana asked, "There's a gatekeeper called Kushanaada, who has absolute control."

"Yes," Jushiro said, "However, I've heard that there are powerful beings with mysterious powers that make their home deep in Hell."

"If they're able to freely find their way back to the world of the living," Shunsui said, "We've got a bit of a problem."

The head captain hit the floor with his cane and said, "This is a grave situation. We'll begin by dispatching Lieutenant of Squad 6 Renji Abarai and Squad 13 member Rukia Kuchiki, who first encountered the sinner, as advance troops to the world of the living. In the event the need arises, I'll provide them with procedures to infiltrate Hell and to make an emergency return."

"Then shall we request the assistance of Substitute Soul Reaper, Ichigo Kurosaki, as well," Jushiro asked.

"No, we mustn't. Give the orders to Abarai and Kuchiki that they are not to involve the Substitute Soul Reaper under any circumstances."


Meanwhile in Hell, the espada Szyael Aporro just crash landed in his present location.

"Szyael Aporro," a new voice said. The espada turned around and found his fellow espada member Aaroniero.

"Oh, it's only you, Aaroniero," he said, "I've noticed there something else was falling with me. But it was you. I must say that's one hard cylinder."

"You hoped it would break, didn't you," Aaroniero fired back.

"Not really. I'm saying that if it cracked, I would open it up and study the liquid inside."

"You bastard. I don't know what this place is, but I'm sure Lord Aizen isn't here. You can live on inside of me when my Glotoneria eats you."

"Hold on, you just said it, 'I don't know what this place is.'" Shall we investigate where we are, rather than kill each other?"

"I don't care either way," Aaroniero said in a now childish voice then talked in a deeper tone, "After I kill you, I'll investigate."

"You don't seem to understand the difference in our strength. I'm Espada Number 8 and you're Espada Number 9. You'll lose."

"What was that?!"

As the two espada are about to clash they were interrupted by a new voice when it said, "The two are funny." That immediately caught the espadas' attention. "What is this place? If you want to know, I'll tell you. You're in Hell."

"Who are you," Aaroniero asked the stranger, "Why don't you come down and talk?"

"You guys are funny," the stranger with purple hair (Shuren) said, "I told you, you're in Hell. The two of you are already dead."

"What kind of nonsense is that?!"

"I see," Szyael Aporro interrupted, "Thanks for jogging my memory. It looks like I did die. Because of that damned Soul Reaper."

Then Szyael Aporro used the sonido with his zanpakuto drawn and destroyed the spot Shuren was standing in.

"While I'm here, let me ask you…how we escape this place and go back to Hueco Mundo"

Shuren jumped out of the smoke and said, "No way."

"Is that so? If there is a way, it's to find it than you hiding it from us."

Then three more people appeared beside Shuren as he said, "The name's Shuren. Did you know? The only way to survive here is to do what I say."

"What was that?!"

"Taikon, Gunjo, Garogai, our guest are displeased. Please teach them to appreciate this place."

From out of nowhere, Aaroniero released his zanpakuto and charged in but was easily defeated by the fat guy with the blonde hair. Then Szyael Aporro released his zanpakuto and fired his version of the Gran Rey Cero. Shuren appeared in front of the espada and said, "A Gran Rey Cero, huh?"

Szyael Aporro's eyes widen when he saw the sinner escape the attack unharmed.

"That's the power of the cero from an espada? How disappointing. I got no use of you."

"DON'T GET COCKY WITH ME, SINNER," the espada yelled but he was easily curb-stomped by Shuren.

"Their powers were nowhere near opening it. Gunjo, what about the man we sent to the world of the living?"

"Sir," said the man with tentacle arms, "He came back safely. He was no longer of us, so I took care of him."

"I see," Shuren said as he takes out a lantern, "Our dark days are almost over. As I thought, it has to be you. I will bring you here, Ichigo Kurosaki."

What kind of monsters are these four and do they want Ichigo? Find out next time.


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