The Return Of El Dios Hueco
chapter 19
Ichigo was dumb struck. Just as Dios was about to finish him off, he dropped him and gripped his head, screaming in pain.
"What the hell?" Ichigo said as he watched.
"Ichigo." Dios said, "It's me, Chad." Ichigo's eyes widened in shock. "Whatever you were doing, keep it up."
Back in Chad's inner world, Sado and Dios were locked in an epic fist fight. The two delivered blow after blow to each other, neither one showing the slightest hint of wavering. The two suddenly leapt away from each other, they both need a moments peace to ask the question they were both wondering.
"Where did this power come from?" Dios asked. "You were never this strong, Even after your training against Aizen. How did you become so powerful?" Chad looked at his hands, wondering the same question, then a thought came to him, he was surprised that he didn't realize it sooner.
"Because neither of us is being suppressed." Chad looked Dios in the eye. "You and I draw our power from each other. All my life, I have been subconsciously suppressing you. I kept you locked away while using your power. When you took control, you did the same with me, but now that neither of use is being suppressed by the other, our powers are equal." Dios glared at Chad.
"You dare say were equals!" Dios said, clenching his fist. "I am the ancestral father of all hollows. A human like you can't even hold a candle to the likes of me." Just then, a sharp pain shot through Dios' entire body, causing him to stumble.
"Got you." Ichigo said before getting smacked back by Dios. As Chad had instructed, Ichigo was doing his best to keep jabbing at the hole in Dios' chest, but it was proving more difficult then he thought. Dios might not have been attacking him anymore, but in the state he was in now, it was like trying to touch a feral animal. Each time Ichigo got close to him, Dios lashed out at him, he barley managed to make that jab at all.
"It...is...working...Ichigo." Chad stammered. Indeed it was working. Ichigo's attacks outside were giving Chad an advantage over Dios. Each successful jab Ichigo made caused Dios to stumble in pain.
"Chad, you and your friends are really beginning to annoy me." Dios said as he and Chad fought. Dios leapt back, and pulled back his right fist back, and fired a blast of blue spirit energy. Instead of dodging, Chad stood his ground. Just as the blast was about to hit, Chad raised his right arm, and blocked the attack with his shield.
"What!" Dios exclaimed. Chad had completely halted the attack, and with one quick motion, knocked the blast into the air.
"My turn." Chad said. The patterns on his left arm began to glow, and several beams of energy fired from his shoulder spike. Using his own arm shield, Dios managed to deflect the blasts.
"How did you do that?" Dios demanded. "You could never use that attack before."
"I already told you, Dios." Chad said. "You and I draw our power from each other. If one of us knows a technique, then the other knows it too." A sudden thought occurred to Chad; if he and Dios shared the same abilities, then maybe they shared that ability as well. Chad raised his right arm so that his shield was pointed at Dios. The mouth pattern on the shield opened, and a crimson beam of light fired at Dios. The hollow father dodged the blast, and with his great speed, closed in on Chad. He punched Chad in the stomach, sending him flying backward. As soon as Chad landed, Dios leapt on top of him, and pinned his arms to the ground.
"You dare try to absorb me. What do you take me for, a common garden hollow?" Dios began punching Chad over and over in the face. Chad fired another Cero from his shoulder spike, but Dios leapt out of the way.
"Chad, I have had just about enough of this." Dios said. He got to his feet, but just as he did, he fell back down by an intense pain.
Back in the real world, Ichigo managed to get the upper hand on Dios. By running around him in circles, Ichigo managed to confuse Dios enough to get through his defenses, and was able to land blow after blow to the hole in Dios' chest. What happened next took Ichigo completely by surprise. A beam of crimson light shot from Dios' face and from the hole in his chest, and that wasn't all. A dome of red spirit energy discharged from Dios' body, pushing aside anything in its way; Including Ichigo. Each energy wave stretched out several yards from it's source before dissipating and being followed by another burst.
Back in Sado's inner world, Chad managed to hit Dios with his hollow absorption technique. The crimson beam of light from Chad's right arm and was now pulling Dios closer in, but the hollow father was putting up a fight.
"I won't be defeated like this." Dios said, trying to break free of Chad's attack.
The two were locked in a dead heat. Chad was using all his energy to pull Dios in, and Dios was giving his all to resist, but the odds were about to shift to Chad's favor.
Using his sword as an anchor, Ichigo managed to withstand the force of the energy waves and inched himself closer to Dios. Once close enough, Ichigo grabbed onto Dios, and began jabbing the hole in his chest over and over.
Dios was now mere inches from being pulled into Chad's arm shield. He looked at Chad, and smiled.
"Well, Sado, it looks like its the end of the road for me." Chad didn't reply. "I'm sure you think of me as an evil monster, but even so, I just want you to know that everything I've done, I did for my children" and he was pulled into Chad's arm shield.
A blinding light radiated from Dios' entire body. Ichigo closed his eyes, and the energy bursts coming off of Dios' body threw him back several yards. Soon the light faded. Ichigo opened his eyes, and was overjoyed by what he saw. Chad, not Dios stood on the bare patch of earth. The hole in his chest was gone, and the skin color of his face was back to normal; though the rest of his body was the same as before.
Without a word, Chad raised his right arm into the air so that his shield was pointed up at the sky. A beam of red light fired from Chad's shiels into air. What happened next was like something out of a dream. All the surrounding sand was pulled toward the light, and drawn into Chad's arm shield, and it wasn't just the sand. The dark sky it's self was also being drawn toward Chad; like black ink being draw dawn a spiraling drain.
Back in the Seireitei, the battle against the hollow army wasn't going well. They may have been up against regular hollows and not arrancars, but each one of them was of Vasto Lorde class, and there were too many to count. Everyone fighting against them (captains, lieutenants, even Ren and his family) were at their limit. It seemed their defeat was imminent, but then a miracle. A crimson beam of light shot into the air where Ichigo, Dios and the head captan were. Without warning, every hollow was swept off it's feet as if caught in a violent wind. The sand was also being pulled away by the same invisible force, and the dark sky itself was also being drawn toward the crimson beam, leaving behind the bright light of day. This phenomenon was occurring even in the World of the Living. Kisuke Urahara watch with a smile as the white sand and dark sky was being pulled away.
"Ichigo." He said as the sunlight returned.
It was the strangest sight Ichigo had ever seen. The black sky, the white sand, and the mixed colors of countless hollows were swirling around in a giant vortex that was being pulled into Chad's right arm. After a few minutes of this, the last of the swirling cyclone was pulled into Chad's arm, and the world was back to normal. Chad lowered his arm and looked at Ichigo.
"Hey, Ichigo" He said plainly as if nothing had happened. Ichigo, on the other hand, was not so casual.
"What did you just do?" He asked.
"I returned the worlds to normal and sent all the hollows back to Hueco Mundo; after returning them to their original forms."
"What about those micro hollows?" Ichigo asked.
"I removed them from their hosts and returned them to their original form as well." Chad said. He walked over to the head captain, who was still out cold. After checking his pulse, Chad threw him over his right shoulder and picked up his Zanpakuto.
"Lets get back to the Seireitei." Chad said, and he and Ichigo made there way back to the Seireitei. The two walked in silence, just enjoying the sun shine and the blue sky; they had almost forgotten what day time was like. It took them a while, but they finally made it back to the Seireitei. As soon as they stepped through the broken gate, they were surrounded by the entire stealth force.
"Yasutora Sado, by order of Central 36, you are under arrest. You are ordered to put the head captain down and surrender!" Captain Soifon said, gripping her sword. Ichigo was about to stand and defend his friend, but Chad stepped in front of him.
"I expected this would happen, and I'll except the blame." Chad said. He gently put the head captain down and put his hands in the air. At once, a pair of stealth force grunts swooped in and retrieved the head captain, while the rest of the squad, including the captain restrained Chad.
"Get away from him!" Ichigo demanded. At once, a pair of stealth force grunts came and subdued him. Ichigo tried to fight them off, be he was too weak from the battle. All he could do was watch as they stealth force lead Chad away.
To Be Concluded
I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. To be honest, I can't believe I wrote it so fast. Schools been out for less then a week, and I finished another chapter (minus time to edit) I've had this done for a few days, but I wanted to wait until the hustle and bustle of the holidays was over before posting. Even though Dios has been defeated, they still have to deal with the matter that Chad nearly destroyed the world as we know it. How will Ichigo and company get Chad out of this jam? If any of you want to write in your guesses, you are welcome. Well, see you next time for the final chapter of The Return of El Dios Hueco.