Hello everyone School's starting up in force for me so my chapters will take much longer to complete as I have to study, learn and what not. But rest assured I will be working to make a new chapter.

Now Lord Edric raised a point in saying that Fullbring abilities for the monsters is a little much. My answer to that is this, about half way through chapter seven I came upon a writers block. I stopped and thought long and hard about where I was going with this story, I realized that when I was finished with Ichigo and all the power ups I had in mind that most if not of his opponents would become would become so much meat soup.

It was then that I hit upon an idea due to the fact that Aizen is dead in my story I have cart blanche as to the reactions of Soul Society and other more sinister people. So Monsters in the distant future of this tale will be far more powerful than in the manga. There will be a good reason for this and rest assured that whatever power up I give the main cast will be answered in turn by power ups for their opponents. I might not happen right away but happen it will, I am not planning on having a Ichigo waltzes through all creation and kicks the spirit king in the balls then gets all the women fic. I hope to make it so there is real conflict thought I freely admit I have trouble writing a fight where the hero's lose. Though I am a man who cannot bring himself to play a dark side character on Knights of the Old Republic or a Renegade on Mass Effect so have a little pity on me.

Something else I should say is that I do not condone polygamy nor do I practice it. In real life it is wrong and does not work. However in Anime and Manga where the characters are the creation of the authors minds and people react however you want them to a harem is frigen hilarious and most of the best comedies in the mangaverse arise from these type of stories.

So with all that out of the way enjoy chapter seven and remember if you have any questions or see any plot holes or you think that I am over powering people please tell me in the reviews and I will answer as best I can.


The Storm Rises, What is Your Pride part 2


Ichigo


They kept moving, fast and hard, as they exited the forest into the large clearing in front of the Comissions building, the gate was made of steel and closed tight, the walls rose up fifteen feet into the air all around the building , leaning against the gate was a purple haired women, she was somewhere around five foot six, her purple hair going all the way down to her waist her eyes were a little farther apart than normal, and she had a sort of sneer set into her face. "So you are willing to sacrifice your friends Terror Lord? You do realize that you left them to die when you let them fight the fourth and third."

The sparks around the Ichigo began to increase, "I believe in them" he said quietly.

The girl started to laugh "Is that what you told them? Is that what they think?"

She looked like she was about to say something else but in an instant Kurumu was on her claws slashing, the purple haired girl laugh as she jumped out of the way, she turned in mid air and planted her feet on the wall and they stuck, kind of like a spider.

The gate she had been leaning on had a very lone X shaped slash in it, and when Kurumu bumped it with her elbow it fell to pieces. "Leave her to me Ichigo." She said her voice calm and focused, "This one is mine."

The shinigami nodded though a cold mist was not clinging to him like a cloak "Don't you dare die" he whispered before heading through the gate with Gin in tow.


Kurumu


She stared down her opponent with a clam resolve, the purple haired girl had stopped her laughter and proceeded to flip from the wall to the ground.

"You have made a grave mistake in challenging me girl. All three of you might have had a chance, but if it is just you I think I will be having a nice meal today." She moved her neck and Kurumu heard a few popping sounds "First web Keito"

She made her mouth into an O shape and a white substance shot out of it, Kurumu dodged to the left, falling into a roll that carried her away what ever she was being attacked with, thought the name she had just been given seemed to indicate what it was. Her roll allowed her to avoid several more she noted that the white balls were sticking to what ever they hit, so they were most likely webs.

She waved her hand and with a flare of her Youkai the tree beside Keito reached down an wrapped its limbs around her. Or seemed to, the girl paid it no heed save for a smirk. "Cute, Cute but inefficient, the weakness of illusions is that if the one the illusion is cast on flares more Youki than was used to cast it, the illusion fails."

"All right then" Kurumu said "Thanks for the advise." It was time to show her new strength, she was not quite sure what it was about the power she had summoned several weeks ago but ever since then she had been training and working on mastering it. It had appeared when she when her resolve, her pride in who she was, in what she was, in who she would be. When she had learned to love herself, that was when the power had appeared, it was a lesson she would not forget. She focused, focused on her feet gathered in her will and she moved.

Keito was saying "Do you really think you can" when Kurumu disappeared from her sight, it was a rushing sensation unlike anything she had ever felt, the feeling of being pulled through a funnel and coming out the small end. She appeared behind Keito, at her feet there was a flickering of green light.

She slashed out with her claws, Keito must of sensed something because she suddenly leapt forward. She was not fast enough to escape all the damage, Kurumu's claw scored on her back, digging nearly two inches in across her whole back.

The girl screamed in rage and pain, spider legs exploding from her chest as her Youkai jumped dramatically. "That does it, you die!" she yelled and dozens of webs shot out of her mouth and chest all had their ends hardened to spear points.

The training Ichigo had put her through turned out to be worth it, she moved with the webs, avoiding them by the barest of margins, allowing herself to flow with the attacks. However it turned out that he spider girl had planed for that, and Kurumu noticed it almost too late, the spears had been caging her into a smaller area giving her less and less to work with. She had almost no room as the last four shot towards her, almost being the key word.

Had it been several weeks ago it would have been too late, but with her new strength, what ever it was it was, almost was the key word. Her feet flickered with green light and she appeared in the air above the battle wings spared to allow her to fly.

The spider women screamed "Damn you" as she fired more of her webs, however because her opponent was in the air and had intently more room do dodge there was not way she could pin her again.

Kurumu decided to end it, with a thought and a will she activated her power, she called it Body Of The Queen, her form was covered in a luminescent glow, her Youkai skyrocketed as the glow settled.

Keito could only stare in shock, as the succumbs dived toward her, she recovered with a start and lunched as many of her web spears as she could, and to her dark joy they all transfixed her target. Only that turned out to be an illusion, as the real Kurumu fazed into existence beside her claws flashing, there was a flash of blood and the spider women toppled defeated and bleeding.

Kurumu let her power fade away as the weariness of using it set in, she tuned form the girl and began walking to the gate when she heard Keito speak "It doesn't matter you know, Kuyuou will kill you all."

The succubus did not answer and kept walking, "Didn't you hear me? You are all going to die!"

Kurumu turned and quietly said "I hear you, I just don't pay attention to things I don't believe."

"There is no one stronger than my Master, his fires will scorch your Lord to ashes not even the fires of hell itself can match his heat" Ketio sneered "And for all your faith, all your belief it will change nothing! I hope you get to watch your hero burn."

Kurumu stopped moving "What makes you so loyal to him?" she asked quietly

"What else is there for us Monsters, power," the girls eyes shown "To be near him is be near a firestorm, to be under his command is to be feared to be powerful. With his name behind yours there is nothing at this school you cannot do. Nothing that cannot be yours."

Kurumu was silent for a long moment then asked "Is that it?"

Ketio's eyes flared with anger "What else is there? You yourself cannot tell me that you follow the Terror Lord because your friends."

"Your right I can't tell you that" the young succubus said quietly "I follow him because I love him"

Keito snarled "Love? That is a world humans use for lust, a way they can gain power over others, a way they can satisfy their desires."

Kurumu tilted her head "I am living proof that you are wrong, I who am the embodiment of the creature created to destroy it. Why would my kind exist if love is so imaginary?"

The spider woman was silent before angry saying "You contradict yourself succubus, you say that you are in love and then say your its destroyer?"

"I said my kind was created to destroy it, but you cannot face something like that, you cannot face a force like love and not be changed. Over the century's as my kind attempted to finish it off we grew envious. For when we found people truly in love nothing we could do could kill it, we could only stair in wonder as something we would not allow ourselves to have blossomed and bloomed."

A light smile made its way across her face "And so we changed, we started to seek it out for ourselves, some looked for it the right way while others tried to use out gifts to create it. As I tried, I always believed that the ones of our race that made themselves more human to find love were traitors, that they had given up there pride in who they were. It took a no holds barred beat down to make me understand that they were right."

Kurumu began to walk away again "Love is not created, love is grown, love is earned, I gained the power to defeat you not from a desire to power myself. I gained to because I have something to fight for and that is why I follow him, to the highest reaches of heaven to the lowest pits of hell where ever he goes I will follow."

Kurumu allowed her self one more parting shot as she moved to the gate "And the best part is, what he is doing right now, risking it all to save a friend, he would do the same for me. Would your Kuyou do that ?"

She rounded gate and came to a stop, before her Gin was fighting for his life against what felt and looked like a very powerful monster. She could only watch as the two destroyed the area around them, giving her no chance to bypass them, she could not even summon enough force to use her high speed movement, so for the moment all she could do was stand there and watch.


Ichigo


No sooner had he left Kurumu at the gate did he come upon trouble, in the middle of the courtyard was a rather large buff student, his muscles bulged out form his school uniform and his eyes were intent and hard. "Raiku second claw" He said before charging them with the force of a stampeding bull.

Gin said with a nonchalant tone "Mine"

Ichigo did not feel any tugs of worry about leavening Gin behind to battle, he was quite sure the werewolf could handle himself, and he was a guy, so that also played a factor, it shouldn't of but it did.

So with a nodded he flashed past the charging man and entered the building on the run, following the sprit thread that would lead to Moka.


Gin


What ever else this Man was he was slow as hell, with a side step he avoided the charge and just stood there hands in his pockets. Raiku came to a stop turned and began to walk towards him slamming his fist together threateningly. Gin for his part stared at him calmly and did not move as he approached, the hulking man reached him and raised his fist. Gin still did not move, the fist came down it was meat inches form his face, that was when he stepped forward inside the reach of Raiku he pulled his left fist out of his pocket and punched the center of the mans chest. It was like hitting a brick wall, like a fly hitting a windshield. The man did not seem to notice it at all, he encircled Gin with his arms attempting to crush him with a constrictor hold. Gin used his speed to escape it, vanishing before the eyes of his opponent and appearing ten feet back.

The hulking man seemed unperturbed by this and began to advance again, Gin focused him self and charged to meet. He avoided the clumsily strikes and struck the head and chest of his opponent municipal times. The giant of a man not even flinching at the strikes that could shatter bones, it was like punching a tire iron, no scratch that punching a tire iron would show more results.

However on the plus side this thing was so slow that Gin could have had both his legs broken and still be able to avoided these blows. "Think Gin, think if you cant damage his core you need to work around it,….the legs! They have to be under a lot a pressure because of his size."

Gin charged in again, waiting until Raiku swung and missed before his struck, sliding under his legs Gin planted the heel of his palm into the ground, use it as an axis for his spin and kicked out against the giant's right leg, tip of his foot wedging into the side of Raiku's knee cap. There was a popping sound, as Gin continued his assault, pushing up with his arm he switched hands, planting the heal of his left hand in the ground and used that as leverage to kick out against his opponents other leg this time the heel of his foot smashing into the back of the knee. Then finally with one giant effort he planted both his hands into the ground and kicked with both feet against the giants back causing him to topple and slam into the earth with a loud thud.

He pushed with his hands one final time and flipped backwards away form the fallen figure. He waited to see what would happen next not believing for an instant the battle was over. And the universe proved him right, there was an explosion f brown Youkai that covered the body of the fallen giant. With in the clock he could make out hands pushing against the ground as the figure pushed himself back to his feet. There was a shifting in Gin's animal senses the feeling one gets when a very dangerous enemy enters ones territory. As the brown Youkai settled he realized why, the man had grown two feet, brown fur covering his entire body, the bulging muscles were no longer visible under it but Gin was willing to bet they had grown as well, certainly his massive shoulders had gaining nearly a foot in width. His face was the sort of mix between what could only be generously called a grizzly bear and human, across his humped back there was a silver strike of fur. His arms and hands had formed themselves into massive paws with razor sharp nails on the ends.

"Just great" Gin thought " A Werebear" But wait that was not enough bad news for day, because as Wearbear moved his cloths exploded form all the strain, as they hit the ground there created small creators. "And to top it all off he was wearing weighted clothes as well, just fuc*ing perfect"

The Wearbear let out a roar that shock several windows to pieces and charge, this time a great deal faster. Gin was forced to dodge and avoid only, not being able to risk an attack due to the fact he was not sure he could take one from such a monster. The swings in an of themselves were causing shockwaves such was the force behind them. But it could not last, he only had two options now, fight or flight. Once upon a time he would have chosen flight in fact that was the logical thing to do, but logic and friendship sometimes don't exist on the same wavelength. So with a grit of his teeth he attacked aiming a kick at the Wearbear's crotch. He connected and was rewarded with a howl of pain, and the mother of all uppercuts to the chest.

If a freight train had a child with a monster truck it might have had the same force and effect, Gin felt every one of his ribs shatter, his healing factor going into overdrive to keep him from being killing on the spot. The force of the upper cut launched him into the air about five feet. Then another punch that he barly managed to get his arms in front of sent him back twenty, he landing in a painful twisting roll before he smash into the wall a cry of pain and blood erupting form his mouth.

All feeling left his body as his healing factor over clocked to keep him alive, the Wearbear began to stalk over to him taking slow and ponderous steps. "Damnit, Damnit, Damnit, I can't move," Gin struggled to move his body, to twitch a finger, but nothing responded. He looked up and to his surprise saw a silver wolf standing in front of him it was ghostly in appetence with a see though body, and faint wisps of white smoke seeping of its fur. "Gin you must take my power, accept me back and transform, together we could beat this thing." Every survival instinct in his body urged him to accept, every logical thought agreed with it. But one memory held him back, every time he reached for the werewolf side of his soul he could see clear as day Moka's terrified eyes, he could see himself lose to his desires and let his wild self revenge her.

"No" he thought back "I will not"

The silver wolf pleaded "Gin you are about to die, we are about to die."

"You don't need to remind me" Gin said, glancing up to see that the Werebear was almost upon him, "If I die, I die as the person I want to be, not as the wild animal who lost everything."

"Gin" it said, its voice so low and sad "Do you"

It was interrupted by a howl of pain, Gin looked up to see that Raiku was reeling back from him a bloody slash across his face. Kurumu was standing in front of him claws out and covered in blood "If you want to hurt one of my friends you half to go through me first!" she yelled.

There was a furious snarl of rage and the Wearbear charged Kurumu who led it on a deadly dance away from Gin, avoiding its attacks and slash its body to draw its attention.

"No" Gin thought "If she takes a hit form that thing she'll die"

He let out a snarl of pain and slowly began to force his broken body to stand, pain flared over his entire body as he came to his feet.

The white wolf spoke again "If you will not accept my power for you self at least use it for the sake of your pack."

"No" he snarled back "Because I know exactly what you will do after the battle is over, I am not becoming that thing again"

Kurumu barely avoided one of Raiku's immense blows, each one of his strikes coming closer and closer to hitting.

"Do you really hate me that much Gin?"

Gin stated to move "No I don't hate you, you are part of me, my wild instincts made manifest. How could I ever hate part of myself. What I hate is what we become when we fuse, I hate losing control to our wild side, I hate the looks of fear that Moka gets when she looks at me. I am proud to be a werewolf but I will not let that compromise who I am."

The wolf was silent for a moment then said "I understand, if you will not fuse with me than use me as your armor."

"My what?" Gin asked

"It is your pack leaders doing, his power changed something within us, and within the rest of your pack, you will keep yourself intact with this power though it will not be as strong as our transformation."

Between them a silver ball appeared, "Show me your pride in who we are Gin, and lets save you pack."

Gin reached out and grasped the silver orb, and silver youkai exploded from his body, it traveled over his entire form erasing the pain that racked his body. To Kurumu and Raiku the white energy stretched and morphed out form Gin's body taking the shape of a wolf's face before covering Gin's body momentarily hiding him from sight. The light faded and Gin stepped forth, he was wearing a vest of white fur, the two side connected together by with a metal clasp shaped into a full moon. His pants had changed to bleach white, fur surrounding the bottoms of the pants leg linking the pants to the solid black boots that had appeared. White gloved covered his hands the fingers of the glove each adorned with one claw in the area between the knuckle and the middle finger joint. They were set in such a way that there use was clearly closer to the brass knuckles than claws. Gin's eyes were the sharpest change of all they were now that of the wolf, glowing yellow.

He vanished from sight appearing next to Kurumu wrapping her in a hug and vanishing again in a blur of speed to get her out of harms way. He deposited her in front of the gate before speeding back to the battle.

He hit the Werebear with a full out flying tackle at his fullest speed the force of it carrying Raiku back and pinning him to a wall. Gin wasted not time poring all the speed and strength he could summon he unleashed his fury, hundreds of punches in the space of a heat beat never letting up, the Werebear's body vibrating with each strike.

To Kurumu it was like watching a Gatling gun, Gin's fist not visible he was moving so fast, cracks appeared in that wall behind the monster Gin wailed on. Larger and larger as they spread, with a final roar of effort Gin pulled back his right fist silver power flowing to it, it cracked and sparkled with build up power. He punched with all his might, all his power, as his right fist connected with the stomach of his opponent for the briefest moment a web work of Youkai could be seen around it stretching out for ten feet in all directions, it was the in the shape of a Wolf head.

The wall imploded Werebear and brickwork being launched into the surrounding forest like a bunch of dust before a storm, the monster was no were in sight when the dust settled. Gin sagged the clothes flaring into white energy before vanishing. He nearly fell but Kurumu was there at his side putting his arm around her shoulder. She did not say a word about what she had seen, though she had to have been curious. Instead she helped him limp to the entrance to the building, by the time they reached it his healing factor had taken care of enough damage to allow him to walk unaided.

He and Kurumu followed the trail of destruction down several hallways and several flights of stairs, everywhere there were bodies, some slashed open by a blade, others broken by a solid smashing force. They thing they all had in common was that they were alive, thought several were properly wishing they weren't.

The reached what had once been a solid metal door before it had been introduced to an angry protector, around it were burnt and blackened bodies that were still very much alive but like the others up in the hall were wishing they weren't.

They found themselves in a large dungeon with chains and various unpleasant items lying around. They rounded a corner and found two rather burnt corpses a broken chair, and across the way a rather large hole in the wall. For inside that hole two conflicting energies of hot and cold could be felt as the battled each other. Then there was a scream and a whole new power unlike they had never felt before erupted from the area behind the hole.

The force of the aura nearly drove both of them to there knees, feelings of rage and anger filled the air, "What the hell just happened" Gin wondered.


So did you like Gin's and Kurumu's fullbring? Truth be told when I wrote Kurumu's power up in chapter 5 I had no idea I would be giving the cast fullbring's but after some thought and the realization that fullbring's can change their appearance as the user grows better accustomed to it, I thought why not and decided to make Kurumu's white aura her fullbring. Rest assured she will be the first to go through a transformation so she can get a more proper fullbring.

Have a good school year or work year Fanboy out.