Blood Stains a Red Moon
By: Chris Harrington
Chapter Eleven: Before we wish it to
I see how truly beautiful this world is even after it was slightly damaged by the scum that decided to put a crack in this picture of loveliness. I truly love this world for all its faults and its short comings although they are few in my book. Now I have some information to gather on these hollows because they seem to have known each other and I can't allow one to eat the other or hell will be lost.
The following morning Ichigo and Rukia were walking to school when Orihime came running after them.
"I-I-chigo!" she yelled as she caught up with them and had to place her hands on her knees and catch her breath.
"What's up Orihime?" he asked.
"Did Ken go home with you?" she asked still panting, to which he replied no.
"Well he didn't come home last night and I'm really worried."
"Don't worry Orihime I sincerely doubt that he could get into any trouble that he couldn't get himself out of." Rukia said with a slight chuckle.
"If you say so." Orihime said with uncertainty.
They went to school and defiantly noticed the absence of the schools goofball that was Keigo Asano. Class started when there was commotion outside.
"You have no right to be here leave immediately!" yelled Kagine
"I am getting in that school whether you like it or not you are in my way." Said a man.
Ichigo looked at Orihime who gave him a look that simply said "Oh shit".
Many students looked out the windows just in time to see Ken punch Kagine in the stomach and he went down like a sack of potatoes. He then drew out his guns and the teacher informed the students to get away from the windows as they did so in fear. Soon Ken came bursting in and waived at Orihime.
"Don't worry I'm alright I just had some thinking to do." He said as he exited the room and soon the school entirely.
"Orihime do you know him?" asked Ms. Ochi.
"He's a-a cousin." She said in a questionable tone and soon class went on somewhat normally other than other students questioning her about Ken.
That night Orihime had to have a talk with Ken, "Listen you can't just barge into a school like that Ken do you know how much trouble you got me in?" she asked in a somewhat assertive tone.
"Sorry Ms. Inoue it will never happen again." He said as he bowed but then looked out the window with his red eyes.
"What is it?" she asked.
"It's a hollow but not one I'm after regardless its bound for hell so I am sorry but I have to cut this conversation short." He said as he grabbed his staff and guns and left but noticed Orihime following him, "Ms. Inoue I assure you I can handle a hollow on my own hell bound or not."
"I know I just wanted to come along is that okay?" she asked.
Ken summoned his black flames and made his body that of a Hellion again, "I don't have a problem with that."
They walked a ways and found some souls running from a fairly large hollow, that resembled that of a monkey, at a street corner and Ken was about to send it to hell but as the souls got away and the monkey saw him it charged at him only to be eaten by a much larger hollow the size of a skyscraper. It had a worm-like body with many fins on its back its face was pointed but at the end it was opened in eight different points that were its teeth that were munching on its last meal. This large hollow turned around and starred at Ken for a long time, gave a howl and disappeared in Garganta.
"What was that?" Orihime asked as Ken took on a human form again.
"That was Worm Hole one of the forsaken that I'm after." Ken said as he placed his staff on his back and walked past Orihime.
"Are you just going to walk away Ken what about that hollow it's still alive don't you have to kill it?" Orihime yelled as Ken turned around.
"What can I do Ms. Inoue?" he asked as dead silence was his answer, "He's in Hueco Mundo and I am sealed to the world of the living, he is out of my jurisdiction." Mere seconds after Ken said that the hollow reappeared behind Orihime and when Ken turned around she was gone, only a missing piece of the street laid where she once stood but the hollow wasn't gone yet.
Ken went to his original form of the Hellion and waited for the hollow to reappear. The hollow stayed underground for a long time until it popped out of the ground beneath the Hellion and Ken allowed the worm to swallow him whole. Inside Ken found Orihime surrounded by her Soten Kisshun although still unconscious. Ken then attempted to escape but was aided by a black energy blast with a red outline.
Ken jumped out of a slit in the large hollows neck still holding Orihime and greeted Ichigo on the outside.
"Why the hell was she with you?" Ichigo yelled as Ken placed her on the ground.
"She insisted on coming here, and I have no right to stop her Ichigo. I haven't the power or the authority to tell anyone living here to do anything except to stay out of my way when I have found the hollow not before."
The hollow screamed and howled at the pain coursing through its body and disappeared before Ken could get to it. Ichigo looked at Orihime and noticed that although her Soten Kisshun was working on her body, she had a chain connected to her chest and it was broken at the end of it. She was gone her powers remained in her body but her soul was gone.
"Orihime…Orihime!" yelled Ichigo in the nights sky as tears ran down his face and Ken reverted to his human form only to walk away.
END OF BEFORE WE WISH IT TO
