Hello everyone! Back with chapter 10! This one, I have rather been looking forward to writing, I'll admit. Not sure if you guys/girls like fight scenes, but if you do, I think you will like this chapter. Has a fight for most of it, but… not all.
Okay, enough talking, here is chapter 10!
Chapter 10.
Toshiro grabbed Dawn's blade in his iced hand, tearing it away and going to punch her in the chest. Dawn stepped to the side, trying to pull the blade out from Toshiro's grip. The former captain gripped the blade harder and gritted his teeth as he forced the power of his ice to creep onto her blade.
"Kaen boru, dragon's breath!" Dawn said the flaming ball between the tips of her blades shot forward, igniting the air in its wake. Toshiro growled as he jumped out of the road, before turning away.
"You fight with cheap tricks that your zanpakuto can use. Not much of that is your own ability. They should never have made you a captain." Toshiro said, looking at Dawn over his shoulder. Hurt stung inside her as she looked down sadly.
"I never use cheap tricks Toshiro. It's all strategy." Dawn said, looking back up at him as he held his arm up to one side, turning it from side to side as he inspected his dangerous ice claws.
"Strategy? Is it really?" Toshiro began, as he turned around, dropping his arm to his side, cooling the air rapidly as Dawn braced herself, "Then so is this!"
Toshiro flicked his hand up in the air, freezing the air which he had cooled. Dawn muttered a curse as she realized how far the cold stretched and she raised her blade, calling upon the powers of her zanpakuto.
"Ryu no tsume, fire claws." She whispered, slashing her blade through the air. The fire protruding from her blade heated the air and melted the ice that came near her and she turned back to Toshiro, ripping her blade through the ice as she leapt over the ice. Anticipating this move, Toshiro had leapt onto the frozen ice and swung his fist straight for Dawn. Seeing the glint of red, Dawn commanded her zanpakuto's spirit to use its power. Obeying, the zanpakuto shot out a red fireball, slamming right into toshiro's arm and deflecting it away from her. Toshiro muttered in annoyance as the ice melted in a split second and he turned quickly to avoid being impaled with Dawn's sword.
"You really are trying my patience, Dawn. Best not to do that." Toshiro said, looking her straight in the eyes, "In fact, you're boring me. Time to end this little game of yours."
Tearing the tattered shirt off from him, Toshiro reached over his back, using his iced claws to tear two vertical lines down either side of his back. Feeling the blood trickle down his back, Toshiro commanded the water in his blood to freeze, before he froze the area around the blood ice, eventually forming the shape of wings. Cracking his iced hand, he carefully cut down the palm of his hand, forcing the red ice to form on his other arm.
Dawn, my master, he uses his own life as a weapon, and harnesses the power of his zanpakuto as though they are one. We cannot take chances, he will turn the tables in a second. Ryu'en whispered in Dawn's mind, her voice wrapped in worry. Dawn looked up angrily as Toshiro, hatred for Aizen building up inside her.
"You use your own life force as a weapon! What have then done-what has AIZEN done to you Toshiro!" Dawn yelled, throwing her zanpakuto's tip to the ground as she lunged forward. Toshiro was enraged by her comment and he roared in anger, ripping his claws through the air before sending ice out that mimicked what her zanpakuto's fire claws could do. Dawn's eyes widened as she dodged to the side, using her right leg to steer her momentum, she leapt back towards him.
"Kaen boru," Dawn began ripping her blade up, aiming for Toshiro, "Dragon's breath!"
"That's so pitiful." A second before the flames could hit him, Toshiro brought down his blood wing, blocking the fire. The explosion didn't even melt the ice a fraction as Toshiro lowered his wing, "I'm glad that Aizen has given me permission to end your life, I now see how worthless it really is. But don't worry Dawn, I will make it quick for you. It's the least I could do."
Toshiro turned to face Dawn as her face paled with fear. Opening his wings wide out behind him, he crouched down.
Dawn, no more games, we have to do this, now! You cannot take another hit, even if you are putting up a fight on the outside… Your internal organs, they are still damaged from the poison. Please! We have to! Ryu'en spoke to Dawn desperately, trying to get sense into the captain. Dawn looked dow slightly, lowering the tip of her sword as Toshiro lunged for her, his clawed hand extended in front of him, his razor sharp claws extended.
'Ryu'en… I'm so sorry… But… If he cannot remember who we are-what we mean to him… Then… why try to get him back? He's stronger than me, there's nothing I can do. Not yet.' Dawn said to her zanpakuto's spirit. She heard Ryu'en hiss in anger, before the spirit quietened.
Then, if you don't want to fight, step to the side. Toshiro has hurt Rangiku.
Dawn was puzzled by Ryu'en statement, why would her fighting zanpakuto want her to back away? Was she really that badly damaged with her organs? Ryu'en wouldn't back down from a normal fight. But then again, this wasn't normal.
Snapping her head up, Dawn locked eyes with Toshiro for a split second before she felt a spiritual pressure from behind her, something that Toshiro would certainly miss in his enraged state. A second before he ripped her stomach in half, Dawn stepped to the side.
"I'm sorry to do this to you Toshiro… Especially on your birthday." She whispered to him. Toshiro's mind seemed to freeze. Why was she trying to be kind to him, when all he wanted to do was rip her into tiny little pieces? Why was she being kind to him at all, they were enemies. That's what Toshiro had assumed at least. Toshiro felt himself getting angry with what he was thinking, just before more vivid memories came to him. Just a few memories… Dawn walking through the doors for the first time… Rangiku not signing her paperwork again… Renji wondering where Ichigo had gone to… finding Izuru and Rangiku drunk on the floor…
"Shoot to kill… Kamishini no Yari."
Howling in pain, Toshiro felt an iron blade easily rip through his gut, spraying his blood onto the ground behind him. He felt the ice covering his back crack as he grabbed the wound, cursing as the blade retracted.
"My my, what do we have here? Another one of Aizen's experiments, ah, little Toshiro Hitsugaya… Best be off. My bankai is wildly unpredictable sometimes." Gin said, crouched over Rangiku's body, where Toshiro had leapt towards in an attempt to kill Dawn and silence her.
"Gin… You betrayed everyone you know… Even Master Aizen… I'm going to kill you!" Toshiro roared, throwing his wings behind him and leaping towards the silver haired traitor. Gin calmly rose to meet him, slashing a wound so deep in Toshiro's side that Dawn was concerned it may have damaged Toshiro internally. Toshiro ripped his claws down, trying to strike at Gin. Gin still had that smile on his face when he stepped back, grabbed Rangiku and rolled out of harms way.
"Toshiro, before I do kill you, go and inform Aizen that I've interrupted with his plans. You won't live if you stay here." Gin said, matter-of-factly as he looked at Toshiro, his grin gone and replaced with a look of seriousness. Clenching his fists and ignoring the pain in his two injuries that this silver haired… freak had given him, he growled.
"Like I would ever do that!" Toshiro roared and lunged straight at Gin. But before Gin could even raise his sword, or give the command to kill, Dawn leapt in front of Toshiro, and in one swing of her blade, she cut off most of his wings. Howling in pain, Toshiro recoiled, gritting his teeth in pain as he felt his blood want to seep out from the red wing.
"Toshiro…" Dawn said, swallowing hard and placing a hand on his chest, "Don't fight him, please, I know you are strong, but please, I want you to live."
"I'll live anyway, move out of my way!" Toshiro roared as he brought his fist down on Dawn. Using all the strength that she had, the captain grabbed Toshiro's fist, holding it tightly as she looked back at him, tears in her eyes.
"Toshiro, I know you are still in there, and you have to listen to me… You fight Gin and you will die… I don't want that to happen. Please, Toshiro, go, we will fight another day." Dawn pleaded the former captain as he looked at her, a slight look of remorse on his angered face. Toshiro shook his head angrily as he felt more memories of tug at the back of his mind. Growling in anger, Toshiro turned away from Dawn.
"I will make sure that the next time we meet I will fight you to the death." Toshiro growled then, as if he had no control of what he was saying, he whispered, "Thankyou…"
And that's chapter 10 done, I hope that you all liked it! :D
Thankyou for reading this, I will try and have the next chapter up soon, thankyou again :D