Sorry it took me so long to update, I've been real busy with school and martial arts and haven't had a chance to update. Once again real sorry to the readers out there, enjoy, I made this chapter extra long to compensate!
Chapter 20- The Grande Battle, The Arrival of the Ultimate Lifeform!
"Let's clean off these pieces of garbage!" Hana snarled as she ran towards the oncoming mob.
She stepped forward and sliced one hollow in half. Without pausing she raised her free hand and fired a ball of fire out and disintegrated another hollow. Another tried to attack her from above but she merely raised her hand without even bothering to look up and unleashed a flurry of fireballs from her hand obliterating the beast.
"H-Hana-chan…" Miho stuttered in complete shock.
Hana merely smirked as she ran towards another mass of hollows.
"Bring it!" She cried, "Rain upon the Earth, Mizukuro!"
Her sword suddenly was covered in a coating of water. The blade twisted and shimmered then finally it evaporated leaving a rich sky blue sword with an ornate crosspiece resembling a pair of black angel wings. The handle was wrapped in black gauze and a blue sapphire pommel that resembled a water droplet.
"Wow," Miho murmured.
"Let's show them Mizukuro, flood!" She cried as she swung her sword in a wide arc.
Mist swirled around her obscuring everyone's sight completely. But Hana didn't need sight to know where the enemy was. She has trained non-stop with Renji and mastered her shikai completely to the point where sight was no longer a matter to her.
A hollow appeared in front of her screaming madly as it slashed down on her. With honed reflexes she made cut in circular motion in front of her. She blade lift a trail of water that remained suspended in the air. The hollow's fist slammed into the circle only it rebound off the mirror-like pane.
Hana wasted no time as she twirled around and sliced the hollow in half. She heard another rise up from behind her. She spans around and drew a door frame in front of her with her water. It immediately was covered in water. The hollow rammed into it with its head but fell back as if it had ran into a solid wall. Hana jumped through it and pierced the hollow's face in half.
"See, I can manipulate water to form anything and solidify it into 'hard water' that is ten times harder than steel," She explained confidently, "Nothing can pass through it, unless I want it to,"
She kept her eyes closed and breathed deeply.
"Your shikai is needs you to be able to not need your eyes whenever you invoke that mist, feel the spirit pressure around you, listen to the sounds, use everything possibly because when the mist rises, your eyes will get in the way,"
She side stepped one attack then sliced a hollow in half.
The others merely remained in a guarded position, unable to see anything as well.
"How long you think she's gonna take?" Ichigo muttered.
"She's a vice-captain, a master at kido, plus this is Hana-chan," Cho replied, "Shouldn't be long now,"
Meanwhile Shinn/ Yami crawled to his knees as he regarded his savior.
"So you're Shinn," Toushiro remarked, "And I suppose the dark spirit's with you?"
"Call me Yami," Yami sneered as he snapped back.
"Yami is it?" Toushiro murmured, "An unoriginal name,"
"Shut up," Yami spat.
"Calm down," Shinn sighed as he used his own voice.
"As entertaining as it is to watch one person argue with himself, we have to hurry," Toushiro called out, "According to energy readings we've got Menos that are bound to appear!"
"Menos," Yami whispered.
"Yes," Toushiro replied, "Let's go,"
"We only have maybe 12 minutes left in this form," Shinn remarked mentally.
"Then we'll just have to kill it real quick!" Yami snarled back.
The split shinigami took off in a mad dash after the snow haired captain.
Back at the school Hana had finished with her little adrenaline rush and dispelled the mist and allowed the others to join in.
"Jinta's Special Home Run Smash!" Jinta cried crashing his club down atop one hollow's skull.
"Hyo!" Tessai grunted as he fired a ball of energy that blew a hollow apart.
Ururu unloaded a massive barrage of missiles down onto the hollows from her bizarre rocket launcher.
Two hollows walked from both sides towards the strange blonde-haired man dressed in bizarre attire and the silly hat.
"Oh dear," Urahara sighed as he flipped open his fan and covered the bottom half of his face, "I don't think you have thought this all through,"
He snapped his fingers and Yoruichi jumped down and kicked both hollows in the face.
Urahara stepped in and sliced the skull masks in half with his cane sword.
"Hmmm, when is he coming here?" Urahara sighed, "And Cho is still putting up that act eh?"
Suddenly a giant dragon formed from water with ruby red eyes shot out and froze a mass of hollows in ice.
Nanu and her copy came out and sliced another hollow from two sides.
"Hmmm, he took his time," Shunsui sighed as he sliced two hollows in half with his massive scimitars.
"Sorry about that," Hitsugaya apologized with a wry smile, "The kid took longer that I thought to recover,"
"Kid!" Yami snarled, "Do you want me to kick your ass!"
The Shinn half of him took over.
"Sorry about that," Shinn apologized, "He's in a real bad mood right now,"
"White and black hair?" Hana smirked, "You trying to pull a Haru()"
"Sorry Hana-san, it's nice to see you again," Shinn replied.
"Enough of this!" Yami spat, "Let's fight, fight, fight!"
Immediately he took control and dove towards the masses of hollows.
He began taking slicing madly into the monsters with absolute glee.
"Y-Yami's in there too?" Hana stammered, "Is Shinn alright?"
"He'll be eventually Nanu sighed, "Yami doesn't seem all that bad,"
"Ehhh!" Hana cried.
Meanwhile Yami was busy slashing wildly across the battlefield. He unleashed wave after wave of black energy into the mass.
"You're spending too much spirit pressure," Shinn commented worriedly, "Focus your energy and harness it,"
"I'm not taking crap from some annoying little brat," Yami snarled as he unleashed a massive wave of black energy.
Shinn momentarily took control of his body and focused on the black energy that was pouring out from the sword.
"Focus your energy…mold it into what you need," He recited mentally.
He swung in a wide arc unleashing a spray of black needles that skewered twice as many hollows and using only half the amount of spirit energy.
"Tch, finesse, what good is it?" Yami spat, "Who needs to ration power when you have a limitless supply of it!"
He swung wildly and ripped three hollows to shred with a thick black bolt of spirit energy.
"What a complete idiot," Hitsugaya muttered.
"You can definitely tell when one of them is in control," Shunsui remarked.
"Man they're really going crazy," Cho added.
Rukia merely regarded the crazed shinigami with a growing suspicion.
"He's shikai…how does it use so many different techniques?" Rukia asked, "Most zanpaku-to can only do two different forms at the most,"
"This is his technique," Shunsui answered, "His shikai allows him to manipulate his spirit energy into various forms, he can charge it in one bolt or he can spray it in a mass of little ones, all he does is manipulate the energy itself,"
"How does he…" She began when suddenly Urahara walked up from behind her and pinched a nerve in her neck causing her to collapse unconscious.
"It's coming," Urahara murmured, "And she was asking too many questions,"
"Tch, you're one to talk, renegade," Shuunsui smirked.
"True, but we don't have time for this right now, it's coming," Urahara replied.
Suddenly a massive crack split open in the sky.
"I-I-t can't be," Ichigo whispered, "I felt this kinda spirit pressure before!"
"It's a menos grande," Hana whispered, "And it looks like it's hungry!"
"Aizen…" Urahara muttered.
Nanu stopped fighting and looked into the sky as the massive tower-like ghost crawled out of the tear.
"Orihime, Chad, get out now!" Ichigo shouted.
"Where would they go?" Hana snarled, "The menos'll find them anywhere, we have to make a stand now!"
"Dammit," Ichigo spat, "Then we're gonna have to beat it quickly!"
"Don't think that's gonna happen," Shunsui remarked as he pointed upwards.
Several other cracks formed and a stream of black energy poured out into the menos. It grew even larger and hunched over. Its mask began cracking and the skull warped into what resembled a fierce human skull with goat-like horns jutting out of the sides. Two long wizened arms with long dagger-like claws stretched out.
"Crap," Ichigo muttered, "This thing's like something completely new!"
"This is bad," Cho muttered, "They can't even touch that thing!"
"Well we got to try!" Ichigo cried running towards the massive mutant hollow.
"Ichigo…wait!" Cho called out.
"Huh?" Yami muttered looking up, "Ah fresh meat!"
He took off along with Ichigo.
"Y-Yami-san!" Miho cried.
"Oh crap," Cho groaned.
The Menos glared at the two oncoming fighters with what looked like a nasty smile.
"Why are you coming!" Ichigo shouted, "You're not nearly strong enough!"
"Shut up!" Yami spat, "No one's stronger than me!"
"We've only got one shot at this, unleash everything at once…we have to use the Grand Cutter combined with the Yamikaze's 2nd form, Yamikenpo!" Shinn instructed, "We have to aim for the head!"
"The let's do it!" Yami
"Damn you idiot!" Ichigo spat, "You should've headed back!"
"I'm more than a match!" Yami spat, "No menos is going to hurt me!"
"Not the menos…me!" Ichigo swore, "Bankai!"
The ground trembled and he was bathed in a black orb of energy. When the dark light faded Ichigo held his sword parallel to the ground with his head hung. His black flowing cloak fluttered in the wind as the ground shuddered with the new spirit pressure.
"W-what…" Yami whispered.
"He's done it," Urahara muttered.
"Unbelievable!" Hitsugaya whispered, "This is the form that defeated the Kuchiki family's number one shinigami officer…"
"Let's hope its enough," Shunsui muttered.
"Unleash Yamikaze! Ascend Shikai!" Yami screamed.
His blade flared brightly and reverted into its black katana form. He sheathed the blade and crouched low with his hand ready at the handle and took off towards the Menos.
"This is it!" Ichigo spat, "I'm taking you down!"
The Menos snarled angrily as it charged up a massive energy bolt in its mouth.
"Hell Death Bolt!" The hollow shouted in a deep sinister voice.
A thick beam of black and red lightning spat out from its mouth and headed straight for the two shinigami.
"Look out!" Miho screamed.
Yami looked up for a split second and saw the thick blast coming head on towards him.
"Damn…" Yami whispered as the bolt struck him head on.
Ichigo managed to leap out of the way thanks to his increased speed.
"Yami!" Ichigo cried.
Yami could feel his skin peel away from the burning sensation. His uniform caught on fire and his body began to burn apart.
"D-dammit…" Yami whispered as he was completely vaporized.
()(Haru- A member of the Sohma family in the anime Fruits Basket, personal joke)