AN: This is overdue. I don't know what to say other than sorry.

===Chapter 10: Welcome to Galuna===

Ichigo was tired. He had had to carry both Erza and Gray the majority of the way to this stupid island that was off in the middle of no where. Ichigo was irritated. Every night, Erza had felt it was her duty to crawl up to him to 'keep him warm' and in the process had stopped him from getting any sleep.

"Yo, Bossman! Can I practice my shunpo the rest of the way there?" Gray certainly wasn't helping Ichigo's mood with his constant pestering to learn new abilities, and about how to use his shikai effectively.

"For a bit, I guess. There's no harm in taking this a bit slower, you should let your body adjust before pushing yourself too hard." Ichigo said, knowing from personal expirience how difficult it was pushing yourself that hard, but Gray didn't have any time pressing concerns when it came to learning his powers, plus he was going to have to attain bankai the hard, or easy, depending on your point of veiw, way.

"But I wanna learn new stuff now!"

"No. My training was overly accelerated and as a result I didn't have any tecnique or formal instruction, I learnt what I know through grueling training and tough battles that should have been impossible to win. I was forced to attain bankai in only three days when normally it takes either decades or is impossible to attain, depending on the person."

"But if you did it then surely its possible for Gray to do that as well." Erza said,

"No, the device that was used to help me attain bankai belongs to one of my old friends and they… died, a while ago."

"Damn, what have you been through?" Gray said, quite shocked at the revalation

"Well that was during a full scale war that I was one of the few survivors of,"

"Wait your around 20 years old and you've been in wars!?"

"Yeah, I came from a different… country, I guess. They were incredibly protective of this magic but three powerful members of the military went rouge and ammased an entire army around the same level as I was, every one but Me, Starrk, Grimmjow and Old man Yama died, and I have no clue as to where the old man went." Ichigo was looking quite depressed by this, but internally quite satisfied with being able to pull off a story that was basically the truth.

"Wow, thats really tough, when did this happen?" Erza asked gently

"About 4 years ago, I've begun to come to terms with it but it hasn't been easy..."

"Well you certainly fit the Fairy Tail mold. Everyone has quite a tragic past and is also stronger because of it." Erza attempted to comfort him, in the traditional Erza fashion, smash his head into her chestplate! At first Ichigo was concerned but then she wrapped her arms around him and it became a lot more comforting

"Hahaha! Strawberry's whipped!" Came the cackling voice of his unfortunate hollow spirit known as Grimmjow, who Ichigo unleashed Shiro upon, but then he started laughing too, even Tensa was simply shaking his head in dissapointment and slight amusement.

"I'm going to beat you all senseless this evening if you don't shut up." Ichigo thought to his spirits with a growl,

"Umm, don't mean to interupt but we kinda have a job to get to..." Gray said, trying not to anger either of them.

===On Galuna Island===

Ichigo, Erza and Gray had all gotten to the main and only village on Galuna island only to be told that they needed to destroy the moon. Facepalm. Tensa looked quite excited at the prospect of living up to his name, Grimmjow and Shiro looked excited at the prospect of blowing something up.

They had waited at the village until nightfall to see the purple moon and boy were they surprised when the moon was actually purple. Gray was constantly shivering, despite being an ice mage, because he was feeling a familiar but dark presence and another but much smaller one off to the center of the island. As it would turn out, Gray was a natural at sensory abilities and already outclassed Ichigo in that regard, however Ichigo had attemped to tach him some kido but Ichigo and Grimmjow were just pissing themselves laughing at what a failure he was at that, unlike Ichigo himself.

"Hey, I think we should check out that temple at the middle of the island," Gray was beginning to worry because the first presence was getting bigger and clearer to the point where even Ichigo could sense it.

"If thats where the source of the curse and that weird presence is then I guess we should check it out, you've seemed nervous the entire time we've been here, Gray, is something wrong?" Ichigo asked, slightly worried for his newfound apprentice.

"Yeah, y'know that presence further on the island? the massive one that keeps getting bigger, I recognise it from somewhere, but I can't remember where..." Gray still looked slightly troubled although relived that he had gotten it off his chest, which was currently bare.

"I thought you were trying to get your stripping under control?" Erza asked Gray as the afore mentioned ice mage conviniently forgot his problems in favour of looking for his clothes.

"Well I have a feeling that the presence is coming from further in the island, so we'll head that way." Ichigo's presence broke Erza out of her stifled laughing fit at Gray calling for his clothes like a lost puppy.

===In The Forest===

Ichigo, Erza and Gray, who had recovered his clothes, were all getting quite close to the temple when they heard a noise like falling or breaking stone behind them and were confronted with a large shadow, strangely, it looked like an enourmous rat.

"Seriously? I can't go three days without something really weird happening can I?" Ichigo asked himself while drawing Pantera, and staring the rat dead in the eye. "You two go on ahead I'll catch up." they nodded and ran into the temple, Ichigo then sheathed his sword again and pointed two fingers at the giant rat, "Bakudo #99 Kin," the massive ropes and pillars sprung from no where and bound the rat in place, such a high level bakudo was probably unnecassary but who would take chances?

Ichigo took the opertunity of the rat being completely bound to try and figure out a way to knock it unconsious, he eventually settled with using a mid level hado, then it wouldn't be bothering anyone for a while. Kin was released as Ichigo began the next kido spell "Hado #74 Seinaru Kiyoi Shimo(holy cleansing frost, made up) and the rat creature was coated in a white glowing snow, even though it was hado, it had a binding effect much like bakudo, however it also compresses its victim to some degree causing most people immense pain. Then Ichigo began strolling casually into the temple, hoping to eventually catch up with Gray and Erza.

As it turns out, tracking down the other two mages was not very difficult as they had broken the floor and fell through. Ichigo realised that since he wasn't in his soul form he wasn't impervious to fall damage, so he used Bakudo #4 Hainawa on a rock and lowered himself down on the glowing orange rope of reishi, he was regretting not inventing a flight kido.

"Ichigo? Is that you?" Gray looked at the man repeling down the hole that they had fell through on a glowing orange rope.

"No I'm a bad guy. Who else would it be Gray?" Ichigo replied sarcastically at the sometimes thick ice mage, he just looked away from his friend, determined not to speak.

"Shut up, both of you. Now let's look for a way out." Erza interjected, determined not to let another rivalry form in the guild. It was bad enough when it was just Natsu and Gray. They then began trapsing down the jagged corridor that looked like it had been carved with explosives. "Can you make a light Ichigo?"

"Not with my magic if that's what you are asking, but I can do this." Ichigo began to softly glow a blue colour and the wind picked up around his feet. "This is about as good as I can do." It didn't really help much but any light is better than no light at all. This was one of those weird times when Erza wished Natsu was with them. She shivered at the thought of Natsu charging down the coriddor, flames spewing from his mouth, yelling something about hidden treasure and pirates.

"Damn, for all that fancy kido magic you were pulling you'd think it would have a simle light spell." Gray looked half glad that Ichigo was useless, but then realised he was insulting his magic as well.

"I don't see your ice being very useful." Ichigo retorted, while he and Gray launched into another insult match while Erza just sighed, it had happened again.

"Both of you be quiet, I feel a draft from up ahead." Erza silenced both of them while walking forward around another corner,. It opened into a large cavern with a large river flowing beneath the platform they were stood on, however there was no river or waterfall feeding it, no, what was feeding it was a collosal block of jagged blue ice, containing a massive brute of a demon, with large spikey armour and massive mane of black, matted fur flowing out the back of his head. Gray stopped, with a look of utter shock and terror on his face.

"D-d-d-Deliora! W-w-what is it d-doing here!" Gray could barely get the name out of his mouth, and he was absolutely distraught. It seemed Ichigo was right about feeling that the mission was connected to Gray's past somehow.

===The End===

===For Now===

AN: That's both a shit chapter and ending, I apologise for it taking so long, and for it being short, this is currently not the easiest for me to write, it seems Galuna is my stuck point for FT stories, the same thing happened with one of my other stories. But for now the updates for this will be quite random in both timing and length, mainly because another story has gotten my focus for now, it is called 'Black Reaper' and is a RWBYxBleach crossover, I'd love it if you checked it out, there will be updates for that every thursday for the forseeable future.

Bye for now!