Sorceress Shinigami

Chapter 10

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BLEACH

Rukia entered the ice palace cautiously without Sode No Shirayuki she did not feel complete but she was determined to make it through the course, suddenly her path was intercepted by a freakishly tall woman. Her long red hair flowed till behind her knees and her gold eyes glimmered but the most outstanding thing about her were the pair of vermillion wings. She stood out in the background of the pale ice palace. Her fire engine red lips were curved into a mean smirk.

'Well, well, well.' She said moving forward 'If it isn't the Kuchiki princess or shall I say the Kurosaki princess.' She laughed 'Not to worry I'm not the enemy, well not exactly but I'm your opponent truthfully I don't quit think a lot can change in 11 days but whatever but if you're too weak or make a single foolish move I won't hesitate to kill you but look on the bright side if you were foolish enough to get killed by me you wouldn't be able to defeat Mimi and trust me getting killed by me would be better than being Mimi's lady-in-waiting. ' She laughed again then turned slightly serious 'Well to pass you have to beat you will know I'm beaten if my wings disappear but sadly you're not allowed to touch my wings.'

Rukia nodded 'Well then shall we start?' The woman smirked 'Of course.' All of a sudden Rukia found herself in a ring of fire. 'None of your little ice moves will work here, your ice moves will immediately turn to steam no water to douse my fire.'

Rukia felt like she was slapped in the face then perked up the water would condensate and become water dousing her fire.

'Ice Beam.' She called palms faced upward. Immediately a beam of ice shot upwards. As predicted it turned into steam before it condensate the woman did something Rukia had not expected she blew a hole in the ice palace and as luck would have it thanks to the direction of the winds all the steam blew out. The woman laughed again 'Did you honestly think your foolish plan would work against me the mistress of fire, Kasai. Naïve, young girl might as well finish you off now, now you should be proud you get to see my most powerful move Flame Dragon!'

Suddenly a dragon made of pure vermillion flames erupted and headed straight towards Rukia mouth open. Rukia dodged one second too late, the dragon had hit her hard, thankfully she wasn't too injured, however she noticed in the process of hitting her, the dragon had landed heavily on the ice. 'Yes, now the ice will melt.' She thought. Once again Kasai began to laugh 'Sorry princess the ice doesn't melt with my fire unless I want it to. Good try though.' Once again the dragon lunged at her and once again Rukia dodged. This went for a few more times until they both were pretty frustrated. Kasai smiled 'It was nice knowing you princess.' Turning towards the dragon she yelled 'Finish her off.' This time when the dragon lunged towards her she knew it meant business she was sick of this woman and her jokes. This time instead of dodging she let out an immense amount of raw power which to Kasai's surprise froze the dragon. This would be a good time to gloat but Rukia knew the dragon would soon escape from its prison she had to finish this off fast and plus Kasai looked pretty ticked her dragon was frozen currently.

Kasai smirked once more 'Think you beat me by freezing him, I still have more in me.' Suddenly the rather low ring of fire shot up and the one wall became two. Rukia froze 'No' she chided herself 'Have to keep calm' suddenly an idea struck her, true it was pretty farfetched but she had to try.

'Ice Seeds.' She called out the seeds fell into the flames but has Rukia had hoped the seeds weren't affected until they started growing the seeds could never be harmed. Putting all the power she could she made the vines grow. As she had expected in the miniscule place in between the flames there was no fire, thanks to the amount of power she put into it her vines were not affected and thanks to the fact ice seeds was an extremely stable spell which did not require too much power. The vines grew thicker and thicker until the encased the fire just like the dragon except 10 times thicker. Speaking of the dragon it was going to escape soon. She put in even more power making the vines thicker and thicker, Rukia felt like she was going to pass out but continued adding power until CRACK the vines snapped cracking the flames along with it. Suddenly both the flames and the dragon disappeared and so did Kasai's wings. She dropped to the ground elegantly.

'Well done Kuchiki, you didn't get killed. Congratulations you have successfully completed the Kisuke Urahara training course.' Kasai said.

'That's it.' Rukia asked slightly puzzled.

'Well…' Kasai started 'I was you know slowly supposed to move through the palace as we battled but I got a bit too caught up in the battle and even if I did move I have to admit I wouldn't have made it through the whole palace, you're pretty strong.'

'Thanks.' Rukia said 'Even you're pretty strong I feel ready to pass out.'

'Oh yeah, I'm supposed to heal you. Come over here.' Kasai said then smirked slyly 'Unless you want a certain Kurosaki prince to do it.'

Rukia flushed tomato red 'Nothing of that sort, can you please heal me quickly.'

Kasai's smirk dropped and she pouted 'Sheesh, you should blow up more, you're no fun.' She went upto Rukia and placed her hands above her head engulfing her in a pale orange glow.

Rukia could feel the magic flowing into her veins and her muscles relaxing.

'There you go.' Kasai exclaimed triumphantly 'Bye Kuchiki princess, do your best.' Saying this Kasai disappeared taking the ice palace along with her leaving Rukia once again in the middle of the ground where she noticed the sun was setting.'

'What.' Rukia shrieked 'I barely spent an hour in there.'

Ichigo walked upto her 'Did I forget to mention, time moves differently there; a minute there could be several hours here.'

'Oh.' Was all she could say.

'Well.' Said Ichigo, 'Just so you don't forget tomorrow's your battle with Mimi.'

'Oh my gosh.' She yelped 'No worries.' He said 'But we got to go back now.'

'Okay.' She agreed 'They both rode back in silence Rukia worrying and Ichigo staring at Rukia's worried face thinking how cute she looked.

AN: Next chapter is the hopefully anticipated battle I won't be updating that fast with musical stay backs from tomorrow but I have a bit of the battle ready already. Sorry about this chapter being cut off like that. Oh and do check one of SilverFox's latest fics Formula for Love a Prince of Tennis fiction

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