Chapter 11: Knight takes Pawn + Vampire

Last time, Ichigo met up with Chad, Orihime, and most of the newspaper club at school. As they were about to walk into the building, the scaffold around the school began to collapse without warning.

Evening came and pretty much, most of the students are home. Ichigo, Chad, Uryu, and Orihime stayed behind to find out what caused the scaffold to fall. The newspaper club, minus Gin, are there as well trying to figure out what's going on.

"This isn't any spiritual pressure," Chad predicted.

"But the way it collapsed is too fishy," Ichigo said.

"Perhaps it was just an accident," Orihime suggested.

"I don't know about that," Uryu said.

"I agree," Mizore added, "An accident could've never caused the whole scaffold to fall."

Uryu tried his abilities to find of spirit energy caused the scaffold to fall. "You sensed anything," Ichigo asked.

"Just a little trace," Uryu said, "But it's there. It's something we've never encountered before."

"How so," Chad asked.

"I'm not sure, but it's not a hollow. Or a human like Chad or Orihime, with special abilities. It's not monster energy like our friends from Yokai Academy possessed. And it's definitely not a Soul Reaper."

"Anyway, we know what happened," Ichigo said. Then everyone felt a huge amount of spiritual pressure coming out of nowhere.

"What the," Tsukune said startled, "What's this?" Then, a part of the school exploded right beside them. That caught the attention of Renji and Rukia, who were somewhere in Karakura.

"That spiritual pressure," Renji pointed.

"It's in the direction of Ichigo's school," Rukia said.

"WHY ICHIGO?!" Renji yelled as he prepares to head for the school.

"Hold on," Rukia stopped him, "There's another one."

"Yeah."

"Renji, you go to the school. I'll check over there."

"Got it, be careful."

"Right," was all Rukia said before her and Renji went their separate ways.

Back at the school, Uryu use the powers to help and Ichigo, in his soul reaper form, reach the floor of the school where the explosion took place. Kurumu and Ruby were with them too in their moster form, and what found were Tatsuki, Mizuiro, and Keigo completely unconscious.

"Hey, Tatsuki," Ichigo called running to his childhood friend, "Hang in there, Tatsuki!"

"Are you alright," Uryu asked tending to other two with Ruby and Kurumu. That's when the others caught up with those four.

"TATSUKI," Orhime yelled as her and Moka ran towards Tatsuki and Chad checks on Mizuiro and Keigo.

"Hey, just hang in there," he said to his unconscious friends.

"What the hell happened here," Tsukune asked surveying the damage caused by that explosion. That's when the huge amount spirit energy was felt again and the ones had possess that high amount of came out from the roof of the classroom. They wore the same cloak and mask as Shrieker when he attacked Rukia, Moka and Tsukune the previous night. One of them tried to attack Ichigo from with weapon but it was easily blocked by his zanpakuto.

"Ichigo Kurosaki," the masked man said.

Ichigo's eyes widen when the man said his name, "How do you know my name?" Ichigo pushed the masked man back and fired his Getsuga Tensho at him and it didn't seem like it had effect on him. Chad charged in sending the man outside the school.

"Orihime, Yukari, Tuskune, Moka, take care of them," Ichigo commanded. They nodded in agreement as Ichigo and the others followed Chad to the outside to fight the masked man.

"Tsukune," Moka called, "This guy, he was wearing the same cloak as the one from last night."

"Yeah," Tsukune said, "I gotta a feeling that he and Shrieker are connected somehow."

Back outside, Ichigo and the others are ready for battle. Uryu brought out his Genrei Kojaku, Chad's right cloaked with that black armor, Kokoa has her bat servant Ko as a weapon, Ruby has her wand, and Kurumu and Mizore are in their monster forms.

"This guy," Chad said.

"Ichigo's Getsuga didn't even scratch him," Uryu added.

"In that case," Ichigo said as he pointed his zanpakuto in front of the masked man, "BANKAI!" Smoke surrounds Ichigo as his appearance changed. "TENSA ZANGETSU!"

The masked man was stunned or acted like he was stunned by Ichigo's move. Ichigo charged in to strike but the masked figure moved out of the way.

"You're getting away that easy." Ichigo charged in one more time he saw a blade coming towards him. He knocked back but was knocked to the ground his original opponent. Then a second masked man showed up from nowhere. This is slimmer than the one that attack the substitute soul reaper and he's carrying a weapon with him. Ichigo and the others put guard up as soon as they saw him.

"He has a partner?"

"You people are too slow," the first masked man taunted as a third cloaked masked man appeared before Ichigo, Chad, Uryu, and the newspaper club members who were with him. This one has more muscle than the first two put together.

"Another one," Kurumu complained, "Where the hell are these freaks coming from anyway?"

"They look like the creature Moka fought last night," Mizore said.

"Who cares about they look like or they come from," Kokoa said, "These losers don't who they're dealing with and will their place.

"What are they," Chad asked.

"That spiritual pressure from before," Ichigo said, "Let's go!" Everyone dispersed going into battle against this new foe. Ichigo and Kokoa battle against the bladed masked man. Kurumu and Mizore assist Uryu against the muscle of the three. And Chad fights the first masked man that appeared. Can these 7 overcome these enemies or are they way over their heads?

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