Bleach – The Heart of the Matter
By Tayla Drago
So far for Sonia and Alucard giving their new members on their team some training, with some cool weaponry to borrow in order to stop Dracula, save the world, and rescue Richard as well. By doing this, for those two became from a band member to students at Ichigo's school for their afternoon training thing 'while the others do a club of making the rock band of Sonia's famous with design making ideas'; they train our heroes, with Orihime, Chad, Uryu, Rukia, Renji, Kon 'as well', the new Hayame joining in, along with Urahara, Yoruichi, Tessai, Jinta, Ururu, Ririn, Kurodo, and Noba were also there to help out. Cool! Looks like everything was going on fine so far…
And when I mean 'so far', I do mean that this was far from over. Well, still only the beginning of the battle ahead. For one thing, with Dracula sending out a few of his demon-like henchmen of one was a live puppet type of demon with a type of doll house to be carrying around. For what though? Well, for one woman luring in some people 'like men, women, and children' in an empty area, turns out to be a doll to be captured. Dead or alive, lots of reports have been going around lately because of it. For Alucard and Sonia to witness for themselves in distances they were in, Uryu hears it on the news from his TV back at his apartment-like rich home, and Hayame to hear and see the mess that's been happening lately where she was living in.
"(A murder? A scene of monsters by this Dracula's doing?)" Hayame questions herself. "(What's going on here?)" I take it that one of Dracula's monsters is behind all this…? Well, something was spying on Hayame at her apartment-like home to be some type of stranger, what the…? The next day – was a normal day of school for Ichigo and the others to have their things to do school work and then their training afterwards. 'As Urahara and the others were at his shop until later on today', as the other young heroes go on their normal days like always. Somehow the news about the people going missing had to be Dracula's doing for Hayame to tell Uryu about it during social studies class. "Hey, Uryu…Have you heard of the strange things that's been happening?" Hayame asks him.
"Huh?" he was just studying. "About the monsters working for Dracula, yes I have."
"Not that, this."
Hayame shows Uryu a newspaper article about the disappearance of the people to go missing in Karakura Town little by little. For some people saw a strange woman not looking so well, to see a doll house to show up in the middle of nowhere to disappear after that, Hayame wants to know more about it. As do Uryu deep down…
"(So, the rumors are true. I thought I saw the news from last night was too good to be true.)" Uryu said to himself.
Seems that Alucard and Sonia were overhearing those two talking about it while trying to be like normal-looking students to be studying.
"See what I mean?" Hayame asks Uryu. "That could only mean one thing, another one of this Dracula's monsters' are on the loose to cause more trouble! Maybe we should investigate. We should tell Sonia, Alucard, Ichigo, and the others about this too."
Maybe a good idea to do there, Hayame, but still to Uryu's point of view…
"You sure you want to do that?"
"Huh? Why not?"
Uryu was still too shy to tell Hayame on how he felt about her, to let her do things like that by herself.
"Well…It just…" he tries to think of something to say. "Maybe we should investigate first before telling the others about it, just to be safe. You know?"
Okay…? Kind of a bad move there, Uryu, keep on trying.
"Is that a question or an answer?" asked Hayame.
"Ah…I…I…Wish I knew which one!"
Just then Ichigo comes up behind Uryu to have a funny grin on his face to be saying this to him...
"He can't say a thing because Uryu likes you, Hayame…" said the teasing Ichigo.
Uryu freaks out.
"Like her!? As in…Like-like!?" he asked. "In your dreams, Ichigo!"
"Then why is your face so red?"
"Mind your own business! What about you and Orihime, huh!?"
Now Ichigo's face was turning red when Uryu ask him that.
"Orihime? What does she have to do with you two!?" Ichigo asked in an angry type of way.
"Your face shows it when you like someone, but you haven't admitted it yet…"
Hayame just stood there to be listening in to this fight.
"You like me, Uryu?" she asked.
"Well, I do…I mean…I…" Uryu couldn't say it. "(I really do like Hayame very much, but will she like me back?)" Uryu was speechless again.
"Of course, he does-!" he stops Ichigo for making fun of him.
"I thought I told you to shut up, Ichigo!" he said in anger.
"Then you shut up about my love life even if I got one." Ichigo barks back.
"You started it!"
"Only because it's true!"
With Ichigo and Uryu yelling at one another for the others to watch now like Tatsuki, Keigo, Chizuru, Mizuiro, Chad, Orihime, Alucard 'to try to ignore it', Rukia, and everyone else 'as Renji was still working around the hallways to be a undercover janitor'. Uryu says this to Hayame quickly while pushing Ichigo slightly away from him.
"Hayame, sorry about this but can we talk later after I deal with Ichigo's stupidity again? Please?" asked Uryu.
"Ah…Okay then, see you later." she understood.
"Thank you so much. See you later then."
Once she moves around for a bit in the classroom, Uryu and Ichigo kept on fighting.
"Uryu…you forgot to kiss your girlfriend goodbye…" Uryu kept holding Ichigo's face away from him in anger.
"Look what you did, stupid! You made me look like a fool in front of Hayame!"
"Who are you calling stupid!?" angered Ichigo.
Yeah…Those two will be arguing for a while, as always! Hayame goes over to sit with Sonia to try to get use to be in school 'while staying undercover' for any other reports on Dracula's monsters attacking innocent people again to be alerted, same with Alucard as backup. Those two were always like this, to always be alter. She wanted to ask Sonia on something else to keep the people disappearing part to Hayame and Uryu only for the time being.
"Hey, Sonia."
Sonia tries to stay calm around others to try not to give away her character in public but to the others who know of her and Alucard's secrets. Well, Hayame knows about it already but still to be very careful about it.
"Oh! Hi, Hayame. What's going on?" Sonia asks her.
"Oh…Nothing much. I like to ask you a question, well more of an advice."
An advice type of question…?
"Like what?"
"Are you and Alucard are a couple?" Hayame asks Sonia.
That question almost made Sonia fall out of her desk to freak out about it, Hayame catches her in time. Nice reflexes this this girl has.
"What the hell!?" Sonia was speechless here. "Alucard and me, in love!?"
"Well, are you or not?"
Seems like it to my point of view of Sonia and Alucard to be working and growing up together in their village, for her and Richard took him in with a home and family along with Maria and her pet owl/partner Howey as well.
"And what brought this silly question of advice up?" she asked.
So Hayame tells Sonia about it since she has seen Rukia and Renji together, along with Ichigo and Orihime, Sonia and Alucard 'possibly', and Hayame 'herself' with Uryu could happened…
"Well…I've been seeing lots of couples in our team lately for you and I can tell, right? I mean look around you." said Hayame.
Sonia then sees where Hayame was getting at.
"(Now that she mentions it, Hayame's right.)" Sonia said to herself. "(From Rukia and Renji on who they are, no doubt. Along with Ichigo and Orihime, easy to see that. And Hayame…Oh, Uryu? No way! Well, I never thought I would see that happening.)" she then asks this question. "I see…You like Uryu?"
"Huh? What!?" Hayame was shock. "(Uryu likes me!?)" Sonia covers Hayame's mouth in time.
"Shh…Keep your voice down. Do you like Uryu more than just friends?"
"Ah…Well, he's very nice to me." she said. "What of it? (He always very kind since Uryu saved me from those tree demons.)"
True, so there you go. Uryu has a crush on Hayame.
"What of it? Really?" Sonia repeats the question. "Well, there you go. The way Alucard and I do is…Well, he is cute. He's been a good friend to Maria and Richard, to also care about me. Well, my brother and Maria are cute together, that's for sure. So, I guess I do like him. Just not to rush in our relationship at all, we're fine the way we are right now. Everyone else that we know of are good to be with each other, to you and Uryu. I say go for it."
"Really?" Hayame was speechless.
Sonia then gets up to have a word with Alucard on other things to talk about, to let the others know later if needed.
"If you want. Please excuse me." she takes off.
"Okay, see you after school."
As the two leave the room for a few minutes and Hayame started to look at Uryu 'who was still fighting with Ichigo', I guess that she's starting to understand why he was so nice to her lately. Alucard and Sonia felt something from the other night being true.
"Alucard, do you feel that?" Sonia asks Alucard.
That he did, that's for sure…
"There's no doubt, it's one of his."
From the doll house, the mysterious woman, and the people that were disappearing? Probably…As school has ended for another training for Ichigo, Uryu, Hayame, Orihime, Chad, Rukia, Renji, Kon, Sonia herself, with Alucard, Urahara, Yoruichi, Tessai, Jinta, Ururu, Ririn, Kurodo, and Noba to do well to train with their new borrow items at a time every five days after school. With everyone heading back home for today from the after-school thing 'and some to get back to work for Urahara and the others'; Sonia and Alucard split up to find the mysterious dollhouse that keeps taking people away to try saving them in time from the next kidnapping – Alucard takes up high, and Sonia goes in low to look around all over the town.
With Sonia seeing something odd looking 'to also be passing by Hayame to go shopping for some food and drinks since her busy parents gave her the money for it', as the female Belmont tries stopping the strange woman in time to whip her and by tying her down, her body started to move weirdly. For this one wasn't human to turn her head and body to show scary teeth to make Sonia scream. It was loud enough for Hayame to feel it out nearby to stop shopping to go find her quickly, another monster working for Dracula was on the loose again!
"(Was that…? Oh, no! Sonia's Spiritual Pressure is gone! I got to go find her!)" Hayame takes off in a hurry.
With Hayame holding off from buying anything, she takes off back outside to sense out Sonia's energy to try saving her to be almost anywhere in town, but no luck to keep on going. Trying to feel out on where she was last at, to find her hair ribbon to be left behind, Hayame knows that something was up, and that was trouble. Also, she wasn't the only one who felt Sonia's disappearances…
"Hayame?"
It was Uryu just passing by to finish with his shopping for buy some sewing things, and for those two to bump into each other at a time like this.
"Uryu?"
"What are you doing here?" he asks her. "I felt Sonia's energy to go missing in seconds around this area."
Looks like Uryu felt it too like Hayame did.
"Same here, that's why I'm here." said Hayame. "I don't feel out her energy anymore!"
"I don't feel it either. We better have a look around."
It was team work time…
"Wait, you want me to come with you?"
"It's the only way we can find Sonia easily by working together you and me, without separating." he said. "Let's go. You might be right about the disappearance of the people missing, it's happening to Sonia now."
With Uryu showing his hand to Hayame, her face blushes to see that Sonia was right about those two-looking cute together. As she takes it, the search of Sonia Belmont begins.
"Yes, let's do this together." Hayame said and smiles.
As the two started to look around to then coming across the strange woman for Uryu to fire his Quincy arrows at it, he and Hayame follow it around the corner to try to stop her. But that creepy looking and walking woman-like doll goes missing after that. Though the arrow's power goes away on the grounds – she hasn't gotten very far.
"I know whatever that thing was didn't get very far. But where did it go?" Uryu then spotted something. "Hayame, look at this!"
The two then spotted something on the ground to show up out of nowhere, it was an empty looking dollhouse. Not good…!
"A dollhouse…?" Hayame looks at it from every side. "So weird to show up right in front of us." she picks it up next for Uryu to be a bit worried.
"I don't like this. Not one bit, Hayame, we need to stay on our toes." he said to then be thinking. "(A mysterious girl's toy looking brand new just shows up in the middle of nowhere when we were searching for Sonia? This is very odd.)"
"I'll be careful, Uryu." Hayame then sees something from the dollhouse. "Hey! Since when does this thing come with batteries to show the lights going on and off like that…?"
That didn't sound right. The house started to light up on its own to be floating next for Hayame to let go of it, soon a huge toy-like hand comes out to grab hold of her for Uryu tries saving her before getting dragged in fake looking dollhouse.
"Hayame!"
"Uryu! Help me!"
Trying to pull Hayame out, it was too strong for both Uryu and Hayame get dragged inside the dollhouse together to be left on the ground for no one else to see or hear it on the other side of the building. Not good at all. Sonia got caught like the other innocent people and now those two! Both Uryu and Hayame were transported from the Human World and into some other dimension from within the dollhouse to be trapped in to go flying 'like getting sucked in of a toilet to be flushed', as they land on the floor inside of the dollhouse itself to lock them in. How will they get out of this one? And without Ichigo, Alucard, or the others trying to rescue them, Sonia, and the everyone else? This was bad here. As well as the demon behind everything was watching on his victims.
"Ah, man…!" Uryu checks on Hayame. "Hayame? Are you all right? Hayame!"
Looks like she was fine to come falling down for that hard landing to try getting back up next.
"Huh? Oh, Uryu. I'm fine." she said. "Talk about a powerful landing we were just in."
"You sure you can still stand?"
"I said, I'm fine-!" Hayame falls again for Uryu to catch her, seems to be on top of each other to be staring into each other's eyes. Cute! They take a few seconds to get back to reality…
"(Hayame…)" Uryu snaps out of it. "Ah! Sorry about that!"
"No don't be, thanks for catching me." she gets back up. "We better have a look around this place to find any signs of Sonia, and the other missing people."
Good idea and all, except they need to stay close without splitting up.
"Then we better stay close. You know…Just in case we get loss in this maze." said Uryu. "This is no ordinary dollhouse."
Hayame asks Uryu this question about the strange dollhouse not looking so normal.
"Dracula's doing?"
"It's possible. Just in case, we should-!"
Just then, the two started to hear noises all over the room getting closer and closer that kept on saying 'turn back' repeatedly.
"What's are those things? Ghost?" ask Hayame.
They look all over to find out on where the voices were coming from, through a window were cute looking birds 'or so they appear to be'. They kept on saying it to soon be turning into weird looking purple bats with blue eyes, sharp teeth, big wings, holding up axes in in their hands, and looking very mean for they were known as Electric Spirits who want to cut Uryu and Hayame to pieces from the looks of it. Freaking out to make a run for it, the little Spirits-like devil bats fly after them in big swarming groups to try killing Uryu and Hayame while they try shaking them off.
A small demon who makes up for his size in ferocity and malevolence.
"Ah! Get them off! Get them off!" Uryu panics. "Hayame! Look out!"
She was doing the same thing.
"There are too many of these things! Quit cutting us to death!"
No matter what they tried to do – from punching, kicking, running away, and shaking them off will keep this evil spirits to not stop at all for neither Hayame nor Uryu couldn't reach out for any of their weapons to soon be pinned down to get cut many times until they bleed to death. But that's when it happened…One of them gets whip hard to then getting burned alive for the rest to be the same one by one within seconds for they all turned to ashes. Nice one! We only know of one person who can do that…
"Surprise that you two came. Well, since we're trapped can only means that we need to work together on this one."
It was Sonia Belmont to the rescue! She goes over to the two on which she has saved them from the many small axes that was pinning them down.
"Sonia!?" shock both Uryu and Hayame.
"Uryu and Hayame." she said back. "It's me alright. And what we're in right now is one of Dracula's monsters name the Puppet Master and his Doll Zombies are behind the people's disappearances. Trapping me and you guys too was a big mistake that this thing just made."
The Puppet Master appears in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow as the first boss of the Demon Guest House, the fourth boss the player will fight in the game. He appears as a traditional marionette with four appendages, namely arms, as well as a demonic head, all hanging down from strings on the ceiling. He only has two attacks, one of which isn't considered to be an attack on itself but can still be considered dangerous.
Doll Zombies 'or French Dolls' are enemies in the Castlevania series. They are creepy possessed dolls that float in the air and make passes at the hero.
From the look of the weird looking dollhouse, that must be it. The Puppet Master was a demon to control his army of looking woman-like dolls to be dead zombie-like doll demons. Not powerful in the World of the Living, but in their dimension, they are once they are luring humans inside to turn them into dolls to have the souls for Dracula and their blood in many tricksters all over with more demons to cause trouble.
"I guess I was right about this place isn't an ordinary looking dollhouse." Uryu said while adjusting his glasses. "A Puppet Master demon who works for Dracula, huh? That's not good."
Hayame gets out her staff to try opening any of the doors and windows that leave to nowhere but the back inside of the house, like the many random portals to go anywhere.
"So how do we get out of here?" Hayame asks Sonia. "And save everyone else? This thing might get to Ichigo, Alucard, and our friends next!"
At least Sonia knows all about Dracula's monster since she, Maria, Richard, and Alucard study all about them back at their village.
"Lucky for me, I dealt with monsters like this before. The only way to get out of here is to destroy the Puppet Master himself who controls everything from inside this dollhouse of his." Sonia explains. "As well as saving the people since he wants them alive to use their bodies for his new toys while taking the blood and souls from them at the same time. You see, Dracula not only drinks human blood but when consuming their souls along with it, those two things will only make him stronger."
That makes sense for something that Dracula can do to still freak Hayame out from that part to having powers.
"Gross!"
"So, that's what we need to do. We have to hunt for this Puppet Master to save the many lives of the humans and get out of this hellhole." Uryu says the rest.
"Correct." Sonia agrees. "Got to go where we can feel him out. If we're inside of the house on the first floor…" Looking from the higher level for the house itself, which means… "Then we go upstairs. Might not be so normal just walking up, so you two stay alert." Sonia goes on up first as fast as she could.
"Wait! You can't go alone!" Hayame warns Sonia.
"It's fine!" she said back. "I'll feel out the danger, you two just follow me from behind to fight off any other danger by working together! Remember what Alucard and I have taught you two of you so far! So please use it!"
Sonia goes up first from the dangerous dark clouds all over to show up out of nowhere. Uryu and Hayame were worried to try racing to the stairs for he grabs hold of her hand to do so…
"Come on, Hayame! Don't let go of my hand." he said to get out his borrowed red Quincy weapons. "Get ready to fight our way through!"
And so, she was to have her staff ready.
"Okay then, let's follow where Sonia's going!" said Hayame. "(Be careful, Sonia.)"
With the two racing to the odd stairs to start having statues pop out of there 'who were the Fire Demons in disguise' to blow fire at them for Uryu uses his sword-like light saber Quincy to stop the fire, and Hayame to break the rest with her staff in seconds and puts out the fire. A close call there! But the stairs were gone to slide down to the spikes on the bottom to fall into like one of the fire demons did to be killed for it, lucky for Hayame to run up first 'to be good on the track team' to saving Uryu next by grabbing his hand in time. They've made it.
The Flame Demon is an enemy in the Castlevania series. It is a demon born in the fiery pits of the underworld who wields the fires of Hell.
"Looks like we made it. Where did Sonia run off to?" Uryu looks around.
For Hayame finds one door leaving to the bathroom with one tub for her and Uryu to see just to be standing still.
"This is the only room upstairs, Uryu. With a…bath tub?" she was confused. "Where's the rest of the rooms?"
Uryu then thought of something to feel some air coming out from the bottom of the tub. From underneath the floors?
"Hayame, get in the tub."
"Excuse me!?" Hayame was confused again.
"Trust me." said Uryu to be going in the tub first. "It's not just a one bathroom."
With Hayame trusting in Uryu's words, she joins with him to sit in the tub to then starts to move like it was going through a car wash together. It was so weird...
"It's moving!"
I guess that Uryu was right, again!
"That would make sense on where Sonia went to next. Just hang on while we try getting through the next part."
What a ride this was, won't be so fun for very long…For another group of Dark Crows strike down at them during the ride for Uryu to fire his arrows and Hayame to stab them with her long staff, and the tub was getting washed by a real-life car wash of soap and water hitting them to get wet and cleaned to be one crazy type of battle. Still, they were fighting very well to get the demon type of birds away from them to be washed away instead and make it through the mess like Sonia did the same in front. Tiring here, huh?
Ravens and Crows are enemies in the Castlevania series. They are evil birds with an acquired taste for human flesh.
"We made it…" both Uryu and Hayame said.
Sonia sees them to finally catching up together again to another room of many doors they were in now, with some type of huge hallways as well.
"Good, you two caught up. And fought through the many traps and other monsters. Nice job." she said.
But that's not all that they did…
"We also fought two different monsters…" said Hayame feeling tired.
"To also face with some weird obstacles on the way up." same with Uryu too.
"Come on, it wasn't so bad. Anyways, here's our next task."
After they catch their breaths, they see the next room that they were in for Sonia to help them out this time that was less dangerous here until finding the Puppet Master. They were getting closer.
"This is a very big hallway here with so many doors!" surprised Hayame.
Before Uryu could open one of the doors, Sonia tells him to stop in time to explain the next one.
"Wait!" she said to throwing a knife at one door to be electrocuted. "This will be a lot of explaining here. Within these many doors of this room of long hallways and such with no ends, only one door out of twenty will lead us to the top of the dollhouse of where the Puppet Master controls all from within the dimension of his. As for the rest…For one thing that could of shock you to death, Uryu, and you're welcome. There are a lot of other traps in some of these rooms or demons. Either way, we need to be careful as a team to deal with this one next."
Guess Uryu gets it to almost get killed 'with his face turning blue in fear', we see that was a very close call there.
"Okay, we can do that, right, Hayame?" he asks her.
Looks like they had no choice but to give it a shot by looking through all twenty doors until one of them will take them to the top, it'll be kind of hard to do. Or to be doing it completely.
"I guess we'll get started then…" said Hayame. "Let's get going! Uryu! Sonia!"
The three get started on each of them to try seeing of the twenty doors to get the right one out of the rest, it gets tricky from one door to another. From a punching glove trying to hit something, many swords shooting out at the same time, seeing a real-like black and white weird type of movie, animal's head popping out, ink blasting out, and…a view to Karakura Town itself to see from high up? Okay! Now this place was getting even weirder. For Hayame's point of view to be seeing this one. While Uryu had, some weird bubbles flying all over one room on his end.
"(This is getting silly…)" he said to ask Hayame something. "Anything, Hayame?"
"Ah…Nothing yet. Just a nice view of Karakura Town from up here. If you want to put it that way."
I guess it's another look around again after trying eight so far for Hayame and Uryu, I wonder how Sonia was doing on the other doors? She opens one door to see another demon but a friendly one to say at least 'for the Puppet Master has his own to have so many random ones wonder around out of nowhere'.
Fairy Fighter – a normal-looking girl to be riding a broom stick to be like a witch almost. An immature witch who's still learning her spells.
"(Oh, great. Keep some as pets, and the rest as your pawns. Damn you, Dracula and you too, Puppet Master!)" Sonia then asks the Fairy Fighter this question to her. "Say! Fighter Fairy thing! Have you seen any capture humans in this place?" But she just gives Sonia a raspberry to fly on out after that. So…nope! Sonia does the same thing back to it. "…Yourself!"
Ouch…! Next door for Uryu to check an empty hallways of another non-dangerous demon known as a Pixie, just flying around the room. For this one was a type of devil-like woman. An enchanting demon who deludes her victims with mystifying beauty.
"Excuse me, Ms. Demon thing?" Uryu calls out to it. "But have you seen a group of missing people who are trapped in here?"
But she says this to him while leaving the room…
"Don't call me a Ms. Demon. And no, I have not seen any humans."
Uryu just let this one goes to mind his own business, to be pointless on what was on this demon's mind to begin with.
"Sorry. I guess…" he said. "Just so we're clear, I never judge a woman by her covers or their looks. As an enemy or not. So please take it easy."
Hayame tries again with another door to open as it shows another non-threatening type of ice demon, or an Ice Mick. To be having a fridge-like room to be playing an ice type of pool style. A wraith that can freeze the air.
"Ah… (Okay?) Sorry to disturb your fun time, but…Have you seen any missing people around?" she asks the female ice demon. "That is, if you don't mind me asking you-! Whoa!" Ice Mick fires another hit from the ball to get into the hole to come flying at Hayame to duck away, bouncing all over the room, back to the table, and into the hole, she has won the game to nod her head of a no there. And then leaves to shake Hayame's hand to feel too cold, weird… "Thanks anyways! I guess…"
So many other doors they did, for Sonia gets some sand dust blowing out from her other end and Uryu to have some weird parts to be going on, but Hayame then hears quiet all one other room she opens the doors to that could lead them to the Puppet Master up top. But still, Sonia needed to be sure about it to see for herself.
"Anything yet, Hayame?" Uryu asks her.
"I think I found something! Sonia! Come look!"
When Sonia hears Hayame calling out to her 'and Uryu to join with them', she looks around to see what type of room it was before they do anything from the inside and out very carefully. Once she throws a rock, the lights go on with an echo type of sound to be making some backwards type of slides to go on leaving them to where the master mind was at…From the many twenty other doors, the last and quiet type of room had to have the right one.
"Found the place." said Sonia. "Let's go!"
Going inside of the right room, for Sonia goes on the strange slide to go on up 'instead of down' to get where they needed to be. From her, then Uryu and Hayame followed her from behind to reach to the strange outdoor-like addict top of the house. As it goes really fast to move all the way up than down to then be breaking down the door for the three were ready to fight with the Puppet Master, wherever he was hiding at and then finding the missing people.
By then 'back outside in the World of the Living', Ichigo sees Alucard looking worried to know about Sonia to go missing to be finding her together, to Soul Reaper he goes in to it next! Please hurry, you two…While back at the dollhouse for Sonia, Uryu, and Hayame try looking around for any signs of the Puppet Master and the capture people in time. But there was nothing up top of the roof. Something wasn't right here to feel something odd all over the place.
"Looks like we finally made it up." Uryu had a strange feeling to then senses something out. "I got a very bad feeling about this."
"That I already know of, Uryu." said Sonia. "You two, stay close to me and be on your guard. Once we find the people who were taken, get yourselves and them out of safety while I fight off with the Puppet Master and get us out of here."
Sonia taking on the battle alone!? It could be very dangerous to do!
"You don't want us to help you at all?" ask Hayame.
"I have to! Since Alucard isn't here, there are some battles we must face by ourselves for the greater good." Sonia said to her.
Yeah, but still…Too risky! Soon one of the Zombie dolls' eyes were opened to be watching on our heroes. Creepy…
"I have to agree with Hayame on this one!" said Uryu. "It's too danger to battle a demon who works for Dracula alone! Why face something that powerful so much!?"
The doll jumps up at the three to freak out with sharp teeth, evil eyes, the creepy laugh, and moving in fast…Sonia pushes Uryu and Hayame away. To be kicking it down to the ground, only for the entire body to turn to make some odd noise to get the other one to rise in the room. Surrounding them and finding the missing people underneath of the floor who are all caged in 'they were all asleep', as the dolls gather to summon their master of them who were all puppets for him to stop Dracula's enemies – the Puppet Master himself. All of you guys who've played Castlevania should already know what the Puppet Master does and his doll too from a few video games that it was in, right?
"Welcome, enemies of Lord Dracula." spokePuppet Master. "Those who enter into my dollhouse of hell, shall die! Join with me, for my puppets to do just that."
Guess Uryu and Hayame both see Sonia's point on how deadly and strong the Puppet Master is.
"As you two can plainly see, that this thing has a lot of deadly moves that he can make."
"Ah…Good point there." said Hayame. "Uryu, we should start saving the people now. Come on."
And for seeing what they were up against for Sonia to use her ax to crack open the prisons, the rest was up to Uryu and Hayame to start freeing the missing people. By using their powers of staff hitting to arrow shooting to do so. The people will be fine thanks to them. Now it was up to Sonia to take out the Puppet Master and his Puppet Zombies alone; for Uryu and Hayame could only watch and get the people 'who were out cold' to safety from the battleground.
"Any Belmont member is the enemy to our Lord Dracula."
Sonia sees some invisible strings coming at her to use her sword in time to cut them all down, and whips the rest of the puppets with her fighting skills on the rest. The Puppet Master tries grabbing hold on her to jump from his many four arms to whip them to bits, only to be attached again to try biting her down. Though dodging the demon again, he does hit the ground to get bite down of glass all over instead. She was good.
"Ha! Missed me." Sonia mocks the demon. "Now it's my turn…Have a taste of my holy water!"
Surrounding the Puppet Master and his armies with a huge holy water to be trapped in, as Sonia tries jumping in for a front attack. But the Puppet Master uses one of his dolls to place inside of a bloody marry type of coffin with spikes in it, he places one in only to hurt Sonia in seconds instead of the doll. Leaving the demon to grab hold of her now.
"One hair piece is all I need to use on my puppet to get to you just now. You'll soon become one of my puppets like the rest of the humans that I've caught." said the Puppet Master.
The Puppet Master must have done it when his string tries trapping her, all part of his plan. With Sonia who was now trapped by the Puppet Master's hands, Uryu and Hayame did they part to save the many lives…They just can't leave Sonia behind to fight alone, otherwise she will be killed.
"Sonia!" Uryu panics. "This looks bad…!"
"I can't stand this!" Hayame tries running to Sonia's side for Uryu to stop her.
"Hayame! Wait!"
"But, Uryu! We can't sit here to just save the others and then leave one more to die like this!" she said. "We need to help her! You want to as much as I do too, am I, right?"
That she was for Uryu to know that Hayame sees right through him, knowing this what can they do? How can they rescue Sonia, stop the Puppet Master, and get out of the dollhouse alive? They need to help Sonia out 'is what Ichigo would've wanted if he was with them instead'. Still for him and Alucard still were both trying to find them. So Uryu powers up to do so as Hayame had to as well.
"(Hayame…)" he was ready. "You're right, we have to do this."
"Right!"
So off they go to save Sonia in time from many cuts from Uryu's Quincy type of light saber, and Hayame to push and hit a lot with her staff and saving Sonia in time to create a powerful wind to land her fall. Still, this demon won't go down so easily for he and his doll type of army were good to fight. For Sonia sees that they want to fight, she needs to know that doing things by yourself won't do any better.
"What are you two doing!?" she asks them. "I said to go save the people and leave this fight to me!"
But she sees that everyone was back down below of the many doors to be safe and sound already.
"It's all taken care of." said Hayame. "Besides, fighting by yourself…I mean, come on. You saved us, and we're doing you a favor in return. See?"
Nice hit there! For Uryu destroys the many coffins in time and dolls for Sonia to join in, they know what they needed to do right away.
"Sonia, let us stop the Puppet Master. Leave that to us. Just take care of the dolls before he does the same trick again." Uryu kept on firing his arrows. "Let's take care of this so we can get out when we're done!"
Uryu was right about that. And so, Sonia switch places to stop the dolls on her own, and leave the Puppet Master to Uryu and Hayame. From the hits she takes, she can patch herself back in no time to keep on fighting…
"Just stay alive." she said to start fighting.
And here we go! From Sonia fighting off the many Puppet Zombies, Uryu and Hayame do the same against the Puppet Master to fight normally without using his dirty trick to hit his strings, many arms, teeth, and his quick speed to still be powerful. The two were close to like each other, they could win…Only for the demon to go after the people from below the house for Uryu to stop the Puppet Master from touching them from the many hits and firings, he grabs another puppet of his with Uryu's hair to do the move again. Not good! Hayame tries stopping the demon, only he holds her down with his giant four arms and Sonia to be dog piled from a lot of other puppets to be trapped on top of them. What's going to happen next?
"Uryu! Watch out!"
"(I…! I can't move…!)" Uryu was trapped. "Hayame!"
He was more worried about Hayame than he was from himself getting hurt next and Sonia to fail on her mission to let more people die on her, because of her brother Richard's captured by Dracula.
"No!" Sonia won't be able to make it.
What will happen now? The Puppet Master was trying to slowly put the doll inside to try killing Uryu.
"Gotcha…Now die, human!"
With Hayame could have some strength to slow the Puppet Master down from getting to Uryu by pushing his many arms off her body to be held down, more and more she was doing it. For her body soon begins to glow up, she then morphs into something quite different to get use to life of a new world with her family to move so much from the United States, and now in Japan to make new friends which she has now, she couldn't where she was born because people found her strange from her powers that she was born with. And now seeing Ichigo, Sonia, the others, and liking Uryu a lot – she knows of this to become more powerful by becoming stronger.
Her body was now a form of a harpy but her face and a bit of her hair was still blue to have some pink linings in it. Wow! To her surprise to push the Puppet Master away, to freeing Uryu in time to be saved from falling to his doom – as he and Sonia sees on what Hayame turned into…From a few strains of pink hair, her hands became bird-like claws, the same to her feet, with light purple skin, pointy ears, blue feathers, with blue and purple clothing that was covering her entire body, and some feather-like tails from the back…Like Chad and Orihime having different types of powers, now does Hayame next. So cool.
"Hayame….?" surprised Uryu. "What…? What are you?"
"Huh? What do you mean what I am…?" Hayame sees herself in a reflection of a mirror. "Ah! I can fly! And I'm a bird! Did I…? Am I just like Orihime and Chad are? But different?"
As Hayame was seeing her new power up from her new battle form and for Uryu was more blushing from her beauty 'since she wasn't a Soul Reaper', Sonia already knew what she was.
"(No way…Hayame has become her own powers to be awaken, the Harpy. From the beautiful looks, she can fly, fight, cut things with her claws, create a powerful gust of wind, a powerful sonic wave from her sound of the voice, and throwing feathers can be skillful in battle. I never knew I would see one up close to be on our side until now. Amazing…)"
Shocking to the Puppet Master or his dolls, Uryu was amazed on what Hayame was to still like her on what she is.
"Hayame, I think it looks amazing. Well, maybe more beautiful on you…" he said to feel shy. "I like it."
"Really? You do, Uryu?" she was touched. "I'm so glad to hear that. Really I am."
The two then hold hands to be staring again and Uryu's body begins to glow up to like Hayame's for something to happen. Something from within Sonia of a strange cross-like marking to power them up suddenly to show Hayame and Uryu their new power ups from the Belmont from this Belmont woman. Was Sonia a true Belmont member or something else? Still the Puppet Master won't be going down like this 'at least Ichigo and Alucard finally located them nearby the back-alley part of town'.
"Think you can win with some new powers?" the demon didn't look scared. "There's no escape for any of you!"
And for this, Uryu and Hayame says this from their new powers for Sonia to see for herself to be useful for something to stop Dracula for good.
"Last of the Quincies, Uryu Ishida."
"Harpy gifted powers, Hayame Yoko."
And then they said this combined…
"Powers from within! Active!"
Wow! Not only Hayame has new battle type of harpy mode, but for Uryu to be a knight type of look to keep the light saber and arrows, but a lot more to use with skills for this one. Sonia now knows that this was their chance to finish things…
"(Oh! Right!)" she tells them. "Hayame! Uryu! Whatever happened to you two, use it! Finish the Puppet Master off!"
The two looked at each other to do just that. With Sonia having a chance to break free to use her fire whip at the dolls this time to be burning up and cutting them all to tiny pieces…Uryu uses his throwing arrows with his hands to hit the Puppet Master to be stuck to the walls, leaving him to use his sword to cut off the puppet like long arms for Hayame to cut the enemy to use another spiky coffin to put his limbs inside of it to be torn all over in one hit. It works! Another attack back on his own weapon, Uryu and Hayame make a great team, allowing Hayame to use her staff to destroy all of his teeth, and Uryu firing the rest of his arrows of the Puppet Master's leftover arms.
"We did it!" Hayame was happy. "Look, Uryu! We stopped the Puppet Master together! Did you see that!?"
Uryu was speechless to believe it for himself.
"(We did…?)" he sees that now. "I mean, you're right, Hayame! We did! Wow…"
"And with this new power of ours…Where did it come from?"
With Hayame asks Uryu that, Sonia now knows to finish the Puppet Master off since the dolls were all destroyed. Well, one left for Hayame to use her sonic type of powerful waves to shatter the last one in seconds.
"Thanks, Hayame." it was Sonia's turn. "Now then…Eat this!"
Sonia throws her type of cross-like boomerang to give a direct hit at the Puppet Master's forehead to glow up, to then be screaming in pain, and then glows up to soon blow up in seconds…
"My puppets! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!"
From that hit and fading into the light to be nothing left of the Puppet Master, he was defeated in the end. Nice! And all the Doll-like zombies were burned to aches long with their master in seconds. As well as the whole entire dollhouse place to soon be disappearing for the people, Sonia, Uryu, and Hayame to finally be free from the weird dimension now to get back to the World of the Living. Alright! Soon with Sonia feeling a bit better from her injuries to use her first aid kit of the Belmonts, both Uryu and Hayame go back to their normal selves again 'until the next time they need to use their new powers in battle'.
"Did we…? Are we free?" Hayame looks around. "It would seem like we are out of the dollhouse."
With everyone else waking up and to not remember anything and they will be all right, Sonia places some marking for the spell of a dollhouse to never be used or opened again. Sealing the deal in time.
"We're good. With this taken care of for Alucard and me to do, everyone else is fine." she said. "Nice job, you two. And…Sorry about before. I just hate to lose more people like Richard."
Hayame and Uryu already know about Sonia's pain to understand her.
"It's fine, Sonia, we understand." said Uryu. "We did a pretty good job winning as a team The power that we also used."
Sonia forgot to mention this to the others beforehand…
"Yeah, sorry. It happens if it's an emergency like what just happened today, it'll comes and goes. So please use it wisely." she then says this to Hayame next. "And Hayame, I never knew you had that type of power of a harpy. Nice job."
"You saved my life thanks to your new skills." Uryu thanks her. "(Truly amazing…)"
The harpy powers are now which is within Hayame.
"Really? Well, surprisingly cool, guess I need to train more. But I'll do my best with it."
Seems that she'll do a lot of training on her hands, but she can do it, from Hayame's new battle form and her staff weapon.
"Yeah." Sonia agreed.
This was surprising to Uryu and Hayame to hear Sonia say that word, offend now.
"Really?" the two of them said.
"Well, yes. Just to be sure that controlling your new abilities helps us out." she said. "Besides your bird form and staff weapon to be fighting with, Hayame. And you, Uryu, more upgrade to use your Quincies powers a lot from shooting arrows and using your light saber. I guess besides planning and training, working as a team does help in battle, I've learn a important lesson after today. Thanks to you two, we really pulled it off and save many lives."
Well, that was good to be smiling about there for Sonia to say that. Soon both Ichigo and Alucard have arrived to see how the three were doing just fine. And the other people as well for the ambulance, cops, and firetrucks to be on their way. As Alucard uses his powers to replace everyone's memories with his magic, just for emergencies…
"Sonia! Uryu! Hayame!" Ichigo was worried. "Are all of you okay?"
Seems like for Ichigo was worried over nothing to see that all was well.
"Yes, we are!" said Hayame to be waving to Ichigo.
"You look worried, Ichigo, but there's no need to since we're alive and well." Uryu said to him.
With Ichigo having an odd look on his face of confusion, Alucard goes to check on Sonia to report back to her.
"Alucard."
"It has been done, Sonia." he said. "Everyone has forgotten to be treated right away. We should leave this area while we still can."
Soon lots of cars came for backup, for the five make their escapes quickly.
"Here comes the cops, ambulance, and firemen to the rescue. We better get going, you guys." Sonia pulls Ichigo out of the area in time by force. "Let's go!"
The five take off in a hurry in time…
"Hey! Sonia!"
They got out of the area in time for Ichigo to try catching his breath after that, Sonia says this to Alucard.
"Hey, Alucard? Let's teach the others some more team work later." she said. "Okay?"
He couldn't agree with Sonia even more on that part of training.
"Right."
As Uryu and Hayame had some of their moment time again, seems that their friendship was a lot more than that, to be caring for one another since they first meant with each other…
"So…Uryu…" Hayame tries saying it first. "We did well, today, huh?"
"Oh!" he gets shy again. "Yes, I agree. We did very good. Such amazing powers you had."
"As of yours too, I know that your Quincy powers will come back on their own from within you in no time."
The two seem to stare at each a lot lately.
"I guess so…" said Uryu. "Maybe we can hang out more besides training and studying together. If you like…"
"Like...? I would love it." Hayame said to him. "Sure. Why not?"
Aw…Cute moment here. Looks like Uryu was falling in love with Hayame, to also make a promise to himself of getting his Quincy powers afterwards to borrow the other one 'thanks to Alucard and Sonia's help', to protect his friends 'to care about Ichigo as his friend deep down' and more for Hayame to prove himself to her.
"(So much that I must learn on my end, but I think…No! I just know that I will become a full Quincy to stop Hollows again. All for my friends, even some Soul Reapers who are good allies to me than enemies, and for Hayame the most. Yes, I think I can do it. And team work is all it takes to win in any battle, I'm glad that we've showed Sonia that part for a while, but I don't want to be thinking about dolls for a long time from what we been through after today.)"
Ha! Good point there, Uryu. Then Ichigo laughs in between Uryu and Hayame's moment together to get ruined again.
"Aw…Look at you, Uryu, so cute." Ichigo was laughing his head off.
Oh, boy…Hayame moves away a little for Uryu was mad at Ichigo again to chase after him on top of a building.
"ICHIGO!"
Here we go again, I guess. But still, Uryu was smiling a bit while Ichigo was still teasing him during the chase for Alucard to not get it still between those two. Maybe for Sonia and Hayame 'who is starting to know', that having lots of friends is a very good thing.
"See?" Sonia said to Hayame. "I think Uryu's starting to like you. (And…Maybe for Alucard and I are to have our relationship a bit closer.)"
Hayame gets it now and the powers that she got today was how she won to save Uryu's life.
"You're right about that, Sonia." said Hayame. "I'm happy to get to know you guys little by little."
And for that, looks like Sonia's powers of a Belmont was powerful than she thought to help Uryu and Hayame out today, maybe the others too later on. Who knows! But we also know that teamwork and love were the two powerful things to win in any fight.