Adventures In Summer School
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It was only an hour into the party, and things were already pretty crazy. They had consumed three large pizzas between them all, and taken turns embarrassing themselves during Truth or Dare. Thus, it was a very ordinary sleepover.
Ishida had been dared into licking the carpet, and Chad had revealed that he was afraid of centipedes. After Rukia had done jumping jacks around the room singing show-tunes, Keigo and Chizuru had moved onto their next evil game, which happened to be Seven Minutes in Heaven. At the moment Chad and Tatsuki were in Chizuru'S closet, despite their many protests. Ichigo wished he had had a camera when they had found out that their names had been pulled. He had never seen a pair sputter quite so much.
"Sorry I'm late everyone."
The group looked up from their post listening at the closet and saw their last guest.
"Oh! You made it Jess!" Chizuru babbled.
Ichigo felt the hair on his neck stand up. Her whole presence had changed somehow. It was murkier, foggier, and somehow very bitter.
He didn't like it one bit. What the hell was the Hollow doing to her?
A timer rang, startling him sharply.
"Time!" Orihime cried, going to release Chad and Tatsuki, whose minutes were up.
Keigo picked two more names out of the hat.
"Jess and Rukia! That's so kinky!"
Tatsuki quickly punched him to interrupt his tirade which would surely include many girl on girl jokes.
Ichigo watched in horror as Rukia and Jess {and the Hollow} were shoved inside the closet, the door locked and the timer set.
"Two pretty girls!" Keigo laughed, "All alone in a…"
BAM! All the party goers jumped and flinched as the wall of the closet was ripped off the side of the house like it was no more than wrapping on a birthday present. Splinters of wood and chunks of cement fell onto the lawn and street like some sort of hideous rainfall. Somewhere close by a hollow shrieked with grotesque fury.
Ichigo jumped out of the destroyed home and transformed on his way out, feeling Ishida and Chad launch out after him, Orihime on their tail.
He needed to end this now.
"Greetings Filthy Soul Reaper!"
"So it's been you causing all this trouble?" Ichigo laughed. Inwardly he was marveling at the ugliness of the Hollow. Nearly ten feet tall, he stood on two heavily armored feet, which were shaped like an eagle's foot. It had six pairs of arms and six huge, paw like hands. Most Hollows looked pretty bizarre, but looked more reptilian than anything else. The Hollow in front of him was green like a reptile sure, but from it's weird feet to the mask on it's face, he was birdlike. He even had a heavy plume of crimson feathers stemming from his head.
It was one ugly son of a bitch.
Ichigo must have spent too much time thinking, because he heard a whoosh of a clawed foot as it speed towards his head.
Dodging expertly, but cursing his inattention, Ichigo turned to glare murderously at the large nuisance.
"Who the hell are you? And why have you been possessing Jess? And where's Rukia?" Ichigo demanded angrily.
"Ha! Don't trouble me with such trivial questions!" The hollow laughed, "I suppose you thought I was controlling them so I could study you, but that's just hopeful thinking! I control the girls because it is my given ability! Their struggle amuses me!"
"Bastard!" Rukia cried. She looked as though she had fought it, but been hit. She wasn't bleeding, but Ichigo suspected that it had thrown her as it jumped out the window.
"Have either of you fools noticed that I have six hands? With one touch I may control anyone! I can get six at a time! Actually I already have! You two have until midnight to find them all!"
"Or what?" Ichigo challenged.
"I will kill all my little pets, and no one will ever know what became of them! But for now, I need a spot of rest. You have 4 hours until midnight. Oh, and I am Brimstone. Pleased to make your acquaintance!" Brimstone snarled and disappeared, leaving Rukia and Ichigo cursing.
"I don't feel like playing his little game!" Ichigo spat angrily.
"I don't see how we have any other choice. We already know about Jess and Denise and if we find them that only leaves four." Rukia reasoned.
"That's still a lot of people to find." Ichigo complained.
"I know. Let's concentrate on finding Jess for now." Rukia murmured.
"We'll help."
"Chad! Ishida!"
"And me!" Giggled Orihime.
"We ought to split up." Ishida suggested, "That way we can look very thoroughly for Jess."
"Ok. You three check that way. Rukia and I will go this way." Ichigo clarified. They all darted away in various directions to carry out their man hunt.
After walking for a few minutes Ichigo and Rukia came into an alley way. The smell of trash was slick in the air, making both teens crinkle their noses. A low hum came from the vicinity, and Ichigo stopped walking and tuned into his senses.
"Did you hear that?" He asked her cautiously.
"Hear what?" Rukia muttered back. A low and carnal growl emerged from the darkness. A dog sauntered into the alley, it's tail erect and it's back crouched. It's ears were flat against it's powerful skull. Drool dripped from his muzzle as he growled at the two soul reapers. He suddenly stopped and yipped, tossing his head from side to side, whimpering and flinching before it's eyes deepened in fury again and it resumed advancing toward them.
"Ichigo." Rukia murmured anxiously.
"What?"He asked quietly.
"I don't think that dog is in control of itself."
"It's not."
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