You're a Soul Reaper, Snoopy!

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Chapter 11: Chad's Defense

As the day went on, Snoopigo and Rukia looked around the town to find the wounded Chad and the bird before they came across any more signs of danger.

"Any luck yet, Rukia?" Snoopigo asked the fellow Soul Reaper turned gigai as they scanned the streets for any sign of him.

"No luck. My tracker can't pick up any trace of Chad or the soul." Rukia responded as she smacked the tracking device against the wall trying to get it to work properly. "At this rate, a Hollow's likely to find him first."

"Dang it! Can things get any worse?" Snoopigo asked himself, as a cell phone in his pocket rang. "Hello?" Snoopigo barked as he answered the call.

"Snoopigo, this is Sally calling. Charlie Brown must've gone missing the same time your friend Chad did. Can you go look for them?" Sally said over the other line of the phone.

"Me and my big snout..." Snoopigo groaned to himself as they set out eventually reaching a nearby playground where Chad was catching his breath finding the park to be a safe zone. However, a rumbling in the distance caused the calm to break, as a Hollow burst out into the vicinity, and started sprinting towards Chad and another figure...

"It's Charlie!" Rukia realized, as she cusped her hands to her mouth and called out to him. "Charlie, get out there now. It's a trap!"

"Huh? Hey, mister. You're supposed to be back in bed." Charlie Brown said to Chad as he approached him.

"Needed to run..." Chad panted. "Yurichi's in danger." The young boy was about to ask Chad what the danger was, before a Hollow appeared behind him, and the young man pushed Charlie out of the way and punched the monster straight in its mask. It was at this moment as Charlie fled for home that Rukia arrived on the scene and saw Chad's incredible feat.

"He made contact with it without even seeing it," Rukia mused to herself. "He must be skilled too." She then became flustered when she saw Chad proceed to punch at thin air. "...Or not."

"Mortal... you will not get in the way of my revenge." the Hollow hissed in a venomous voice, before it attacked again. However, Rukia halted its attack with a sweep of her zanpakuto, leaving the monster to freeze in place.

"Chad... you need to help me take this thing down, or Yurichi is doomed." Rukia advised Chad as the teen stood up without another word and then began to aid Rukia in battling the Hollow as they dodged its claw swipes and slammed into its body, knocking the wind out of it and sending it back as they beat it to an inch near defeat.

"Stop!" Yurichi's voice called out from its parakeet body as Rukia was about to bring her sword down and destroy the Hollow. "He promised..."

"Promised what?" Rukia asked the soul.

"That he would bring my mama back."

"Hahahahaha, young souls are so easy to fool as they are to kill. To think you honestly would believe I could bring your mother back to life even after I killed you both and put your soul in a parakeet... when I'm done with them, I think I will reunite you with your mother- in Hell!" the Hollow cackled as it revealed the truth about Yurichi's fate.

"No... you monster!" Rukia shouted in anger as she was about to attack again, only to be knocked back by a legion of leeches the Hollow summoned. However, Snoopigo arrived just in time to protect the group from danger as he slayed the leeches and the Hollow with one fell swoop slicing it like freshly prepared sushi rolls.

"That'll teach it." Snoopigo said as he sheathed his sword back up and wiped the sweat from his furry brow before turning towards Rukia and Chad.

"Thank you for your help, Chad." Rukia thanked the muscle-bound teen before preparing to release the boy's soul from the parakeet and into the Soul Society as Chad picked its cage up. "I'll give you a minute to say goodbye to him. It's the least that can be done."

"I'll... miss you." Chad whispered, holding back his tears. The parakeet blinked at Chad before opening its beak to speak to him one last time.

"Chad... promise me that when we meet again, you'll give me a ride in the Soul Society." Yurichi requested as Chad handed the cage to Rukia, as performed the act of konso to the bird, allowing its soul to finally be at peace.

"I promise." Chad said solemnly as the group began to head back to the town hospital, and the sun set on this fateful day for everyone.


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