A/N: so this is the last chapter of the saving Rukia arc. I am going to go ahead and do the bount arc. Nobody has told me not to so im going to go do it. So yeah, oc's maybe? I'm still working on the particulars but let's just say that when I get that far, the captains aren't going to be the only ones ruining xcution's little charade.
Cain arrived at his own pace to Sokyoku hill; he wasn't going to risk getting killed by Aizen until he was nice and ready to die. Seriously that Aizen guy was head and shoulders beyond any captain he had encountered, that is with the exception of the captain commander. He didn't have a death wish, was the point.
When he got there he saw Ichigo face down on the ground, most likely he had himself nearly bisected, at least that was what he guessed had happened by all the blood on the ground. Aizen was in full, "I know everything mode," using his knowledge to scare the people around him with things that they hadn't considered. He had just finished extracting the Hogyoku from Rukia's soul; there was what looked like a werewolf bleeding out nearby. Cain stood by, he saw Aizen standing with Rukia suspended by what looked like a collar, it was clear that whatever he had wanted from her was no longer a problem. He knew this because the next words out of his mouth were "Kill her Gin."
"Well if I must. Shoot to kill Shinso." Cain waited patiently, he saw the captain that Ichigo had been fighting shunpo and snatch Rukia away from the treacherous captain just as Shinso was about to pierce her frail body, instead it pierced his right shoulder. He released his zanpakuto; he could feel the other captains and their lieutenants' approach. He figured he could at least stall even someone of Gin's caliber for at least half a minute, the figured Aizen didn't want to get his hands dirty and gin had told him to make everything believable. Of course that also meant that the silver hared captain was going to try and kill him, but hey, he had the best possible healers In the entire dimension to heal him back up in case he got to badly injured. The only thing is, he had to stay alive. Yeah, this may not have been his best plan ever but it beat just standing there with at least two captains bleeding out and he did have to keep his friends in mind.
"Sigh. Let's do this the easy way then. First off, Bakudo #21 Senkienton" From the tip of his dagger spewed a red fog that encircled the entire clearing, "Version #2: encircling fog" the fog crawled through the clearing, obscuring everyone's vision, the name of the spell inscribed itself onto the spell tag on the far left behind his head.
"It seems like someone is here with us Aizen." Came the lackadaisical voice of Gin "shall I take care of it for ya?"
"Go ahead Gin, not that anyone can stop us now, all we need to do is wait." Gin took the direction of Aizen and vented his reiatsu. Immediately Cain felt a huge pressure on him, he could still move but the sheer volume of it was massive. "Now who could this little rat be?"
From the fog came an energy rope that bound his hands together. "Bakudo #4 Hainawa" It was effective for about three seconds until Gin broke out of it, the lower level bakudo were useful yes, but against someone of his caliber they were like throwing paper knives at a brick wall.
"What did ya think that would do ta me? Tha's only a level four kido. Even if there were a hundred of em they'd still not be able to hold me" The smoke began to clear, not a lot but enough to make out distinct shapes within, it appeared as if Gin had been surrounded while he was temporarily distracted. "What's all this?" Gin looked around, and saw multiple copies of Cain, three spell tags full now, all encircling him, daggers all pointed at the third squad captain.
"Bakudo#61, Rikujōkōrō" six bars of light pierced the captain, the fifth spell tag filled itself out and Onmyouji glowed "Sorry Ichimaru, but Onmyouji hates to not be prepared and only achieves its true potential once he is nice and ready." He pointed his dagger at Ichimaru, and flashed forwards, all the images flashing forwards with him.
Ichimaru slashed through one image, and received a shallow slash on his back for the trouble. "Now that's odd." Ichimaru mused aloud, "I know that that was the right one, how'd I miss." He had broken out of the previous spell with only little effort and had been able to clearly see Cain's movements, he had no trouble tracking all of the images, but somehow he had still missed.
"Take a look at the forth spell tag Ichimaru, that spell is not just good for concealment ya know." It was true; on his fourth spell tag was the name of the third spell he had cast.
"Kyokko?" Ichimaru was curious, "I thought that only bent light one way. To think that you could you manipulate and change kido to such an extent." It was an impressive display, but Gin could already see a giant gap in Cain's plan. "You haven't cast a single Offensive Kido on me yet Foxy. Must be the limit of yer zanpakuto to only use Bakudo, and without Hado, you're only half as effective." He pointed his Shinso at Cain, and the sword pierced another image.
"Half effective I might be, but I am still good enough at misdirection to make you miss twice." Cain was right behind Gin at this point, he took the farthest right spell tag from its place above his head, and stuck it to the hem of gin's sleeve, the spell tag vanished and the writing from it appeared on Gin's sleeve. He was able to do the same thing with the other three tags, util on the fifth time he was finally caught by the extending tip of Shinso.
"Damn, I thought I could get this last one on before you got me." He stuck his dagger into the ground, and grabbed the last spell tag from above his head, and stuck it on his forehead "guess it's a good thing that I don't need to put it on you then , I just." He was about to activate the last tag when he felt all nine of his tails get severed by a sword.
"FUUUUUCKKK!" he screamed, he tried to revert into his normal form but was unable to, the missing tails being unable to rejoin with him causing him to become stuck in his awakened state. And while that was normally a good thing, the pain he was in was most definitely not.
"Gin, why did you play around with him instead of just killing him is beyond me." Aizen flicked the blood off of his blade.
Aizen found his own neck surrounded by another sword, as well as himself surrounded by all the most powerful that the Seireitei had to offer. "So you were buying time, well played Fox boy." He began another explanation that Cain missed most of because of all of his blood loss. He could barely feel the relief that Unohana was trying to provide with her kido. Three rectangles of light flew down from a rip in the sky.
"Farewell, you two were definitely interesting, if either of you survive it will be interesting to see how you both develop, Fox boy, Ryoka boy."
Several days later, during a captain's meeting.
"Bring forth the one named Cain Zephyrs." Commanded the first squad captain. His wooden cane rapping on the floor, making him seem even more authoritative than he already was. He had already let Ichigo leave, and that was already left him agitated, he was going to get his way, and by that he meant, he was going to get his way if even if that meant burning everyone in the room to ash. Cain entered the room, he was in his normal form, Unohana had been able to reattach his tails, and afterwards he had finally been able to pass out, his awakened form being able to be released. He had both swords on him, his Onmyouji was strapped to his left hip, and Sokyoku on his right. And while he hadn't been able to talk with Sokyoku since he had accepted it into his soul. And he had a feeling that he knew what this meeting was going to be about.
"Unless someone has been telling me a horrible joke," Cain began "That would be me." Yamamoto looked at him, his brows narrowed at him.
"I understand that you have obtained something that belongs to the soul society. And you are not leaving here until you give it back to us." He flared his reiatsu a bit, the temperature in the room raising and the pressure palpable, "I will NOT take no for an answer, I am already doing far too much by letting you live."
"I'm going to have to say no" Cain replied not afraid of the captain commander, " you lot misused this noble spirit, and I'm not going to give it back to be used as a tool for executions, and all that was just if I could give it back, which I can't." he began to fade away, "I figured that this is what this would be about, so I didn't come in person, jeez, the amount of things that are possible with kido are just astounding don't you think? In fact, the real me is already entering the Dangai, good luck with all that manhunt things you guys are about to do for me. I'll be long gone."
Cain vanished from the room, much to the anger of the captain commander, but, seeing as how he never really expected the Hybrid to give back the spirit, he decided to respect the risky move that he had made. Even if he was going to kill him personally the next time he saw him, he had to respect the dedication he showed to the phoenix spirit. And he felt that he could possibly have potential, after all, it was not every day that anyone talked to the spirit of the Sokyoku, it was a powerful fire type zanpakuto, but it had been left behind when the owner died, it was a unique circumstance, usually a zanpakuto died with its owner, but this one outlived it. Perhaps it was waiting for someone or maybe it just didn't want to die.
"Keep an eye on him, he's going to be far more troublesome than he looks" he ordered the captains, "I'd tell Ukitake to give him a combat pass as well, but it appears that he is already on his way back to the world of the living. I can't tell if he will be a threat or not, but one thing is for sure, he is definitely going to be powerful."
In the world of the living, right outside the dangai opening
"So how'd your trip to the world of the dead go?" Urahara asked them all, he was awaiting them on a flying carpet, "I suspect everything happened easily."
"I'm going to kill you someday Urahara." Cain told the eccentric shopkeeper, "But since you let me live at your shop I'm not gonna do it any day soon."
After they had dropped off all the others at their respective homes, Urahara motioned to the sword on Cain's right hip, "Where did you get the other zanpakuto? I'm getting the same kind of feeling I would get when I was training underneath the Sokyoku with Yoruichi."
"That's because this is the Sokyoku, it's my newest zanpakuto. I haven't had any real time to talk with it since it became my zanpakuto but I have a feeling that he will give me some much needed offensive power. I noticed that you hid something very important inside that Rukia person." He shook his head at the shopkeeper, "I don't know what exactly this Hogyoku thing does, but I know that it is going to be a pain in my tails for the foreseeable future."