Hey guys time for chapter 21
Chapter 21: Orihime vs. Angel!
Nighttime came and everyone was sound asleep expect for Orihime, who was looking up at sky, remembering how strong everyone was.
'It's been crazy the last few days.' Orihime thought as she remembers the battles that Luffy, Ichigo, Natsu and the others had ever since they met each other. 'Everyone is so strong and all I've done is cheering for them on the sidelines.' Then she got on her feet with a determined look on her face. 'Alright then the next enemy that shows up, I will challenge them and I will defeat them.' She nodded her head. 'It's about time I protect everyone, including you Ichigo.' She takes a look at Ichigo and then decided to go to sleep with the others. But before she could another tree popped out of the sand and rolled out a seed.
"Oh no, Ichigo wake up!" Orihime shouted, shaking the slepping Ichigo. "Luffy, Natsu, come on you guys! We got trouble!" Orhime shook everyone, trying to wake them up until Luffy open his eyes a little.
"Huh, what's going on?" Luffy asked, looking around and saw Orihime. "Oh hey Orhime, is it morning yet?"
"No, it's the middle of the night." Orihime answered. "But that's not important right now. Another enemy has showed up."
"Is that so?" Luffy said as he starts to look around again. "Where? I don't see any enemies."
"Over there, Luffy." Orihime pointed to where she last saw the tree but saw herself instead. "What the…?"
"What the…" Luffy repeated. "Orihime, that's you. But how come you're right here and over there at the same time?"
'Orihime' spoke up and said, "Luffy, get away from that woman. She's an imposter."
"WHAT?!"
"Don't listen to her, Luffy." Orhime said to Luffy, confusing him. "She's just trying to trick you."
"Stop lying to him!" 'Orihime' said to Orihime. "Luffy, you have to get away from her. She's the enemy. She looks like me so she can kill you and the others."
"Luffy, please listen to me." The real Orihime pleaded to the straw hat captain. "I'm the real Orihime, you have to believe me."
Right now Luffy don't know who to believe, he is severely confused about which Orihime is the real one. "Ahh, this is so confusing. My brain hurts trying to tell you two apart." Luffy said, sitting trying to think. Then a mysterious weapon appeared in 'Orihime's' hands as she prepares to strike Luffy from behind with it.
The real Orihime saw the imposter making a move and quickly put her on hairclips to activate her Shun Shun Rikka. "SANTEN KESSHUN!" she yelled as she created an orange shield behind Luffy and protected him from the fake Orihime's attack. That shocked Luffy as much as it did the imposter.
"What in the hell…" The fake Orihime said as she fell back to her position. "What kind of magic is that?"
Luffy looks at the shield in wonder, and then looks at the two Orihimes. "Uh, what's going on? How come that Orihime got a weapon and where did this orange thingy come from?"
"Like I said Luffy, the Orihime holding the weapon is an imposter." The real Orihime said. "And that orange shield you're looking at, that's my Shun Sun Rikka."
"So, you made this thing? That's so cool, Orihime." Luffy looks at the fake Orihime and realized that she is the fake. "Wait then, that Orihime is a fake?!"
The shield receded and returned Orihime's hairclips. "Yes, that's what I've been trying to tell you."
The imposter laughed at Luffy's hardheadedness and said the two. "So you figured it out, did you? It took you long enough, Straw Hat."
"Why you?" Luffy said standing up. "Who are you and why do you look like my friend?"
The fake Orihime ignored the question and said, "Mistress, they figured out my true identity."
"Really Gemini, is that so?" a feminine voice said, approaching Luffy and Orihime. Then the fake Orihime turned into two identical creatures and disappeared. "It won't make a difference. They'll die by my hands." The owner of the voice was a woman about Rukia's height, with short silver hair and bangs covering her forehead. "It's a pleasure to meet you two." She said. "My name is Angel. I see you two were well acquitted with my Gemini."
"Gemini?" Orihime repeated.
"That's correct. Gemini is one of the few celestial creatures that are contracted to me. I'm a celestial wizard."
"A celestial what?" Luffy said. "That makes no sense at all. You're real dense, you know that?"
"Really, you shouldn't be talking little boy. It's like the pot calling the kettle black. Anyways, I'm here to see that the both of you along with your friends are eliminated." Then Angel turned her attention to Ichigo and the others, who were still asleep. "After I'm through with you two, I wonder how they would feel if they were to be killed by the two people they considered to be their friends."
Orihime's eyes widen at what Angel said as Luffy was enraged by it. "Why you!" he said. "I'm gonna kick your …" He was cut off when Orihime put her arm in front of Luffy.
"I'll fight you." Orihime said to Angel, surprising Luffy.
"Wait Orihime, let me fight her. I want to make her pay for what she said!" Luffy was about to step up to wizard but Orihime stopped him.
"Sorry Luffy, I understand how you feel. But I think I need to take this one." She smiled and said. "And don't worry about me, Ichigo and the others aren't the only ones who know how to fight."
Luffy nodded in understanding and stepped back allowing Orihime to battle Angel.
"You're pretty confident, aren't you?" Angel said, reaching for one of her keys. "Well, confidence could get you so far. Just a little warning, you should let the Straw Hat help you for reasons like this. Open, gate of the scorpion: Scorpio!" Angel pointed the key at Orihime and a magic circle appeared, revealing a dark-skin man with red and white hair and a gun that looks like a scorpion's tail.
"What?" Orihime said shocked at what Angel just did. "How did she do that?"
"Whoa, that's totally awesome!" Luffy said with stars in his eyes again.
"So Angel, you called me." Scorpio said to Angel. "I was in the middle of my date."
"My apologies Scorpio, but this won't take long." Angel said. "Deal with the boy in the straw hat first then you can go back to your date. I'll even give you something to assist you. Open, gate of the chisel, Caelum!" Angel used a silver key to summon a sphere-shaped robot with a halo on top. Angel snapped her fingers and the spirit turned into a gun. "Here, use Caelum to eliminate him."
Scorpio grabbed Caelum and aimed for Luffy. "Ok then, if you wanna fight me bring it on!" Luffy at Scorpio as Caelum charges up to fire. "GOMU GOMU NO…" Caelum's blast is all charged up and is about to fire. "…BAZOOKA!" Caelum fires its beam at Luffy as Luffy hits his attack on Scorpio. Luffy was hit by the blast in point-blank range as Scorpio was send flying into a boulder, dropping Caelum.
Orihime's eyes widen as Luffy was severely damaged from the attack and fell to ground.
"LUFFY!" Orihime yelled as she ran towards him.
"Ah crap, that hurts." Luffy said as he struggles to get up.
"Are you okay? I'll heal you!" Then Angel appeared behind Orihime, surprising her.
"You should be concerned about yourself than your little friend." Angel said coldly and kicked Orihime in the face; sending her back a few meters back.
"Orhime!" Luffy shouted. "Damn you, you'll pay!" Then a green beam of light was fired through his right shoulder, knocking out the pirate.
"LUFFY!" Orihime yelled as Luffy fell to the ground.
Angel walked pass the unconscious pirate and towards the two spirits. "Thank you Scorpio, that would all. I'll handle the rest from here." Then Scorpio disappeared returned to the celestial spirit world.
Orihime looked at the unconscious Luffy and said, "Hold on Luffy, SOTEN KISSHUN!" An orange field appeared around Luffy and started healing him.
Angel saw the orange field around Luffy and turned her attention to Orihime. "You're still trying to save him? Don't worry, he's not dead yet. I wanted to see how will your friends react when they see that they were attacked by their own friend. So, I want to know their reaction if they were to die by your hands."
Orihime's eyes widen and start to water. "No, I can't…I wouldn't…"
"Who ever said that you would do it personally? Open, gate of the twins: Gemini!" Then the same identical creatures appeared and changed into Orihime. "You see, Gemini has a unique ability to transform into anybody, matching their body, voice and power. Observe."
Gemini displayed their ability of copying Orihime's power by making the orange field around the pirate disappear. "Now do you see? You can't beat me, you don't have the power. You mind as well give up. Gemini, use Caelum and finish her."
Gemini did what they were told grabbed Caelum as it changed into a sword. Gemini swung the changed weapon at Orihime and she used Saten Kesshun to block the attack. Then Gemini continued to swing Caelum at Orihime shield so that they can break it and finish her.
'She's right.' Orihime thought as she starts to cry. 'I'm not strong enough to defeat her or to protect my friends. I just wanted to show that I can fight alongside everyone and not get in the way but I can't do it.'
Gemini began to use Orihime's powers again to copying her Koten Zanshun to break through her defense. "Finally, I'm through." Gemini said. "Farwell kid, it's been fun."
Orihime closed her eyes, expecting the worst but when she opened them she saw the fake Orihime stopped and was in tears. "I can't do it." Gemini said. "I'm sorry Angel! I won't do what you want!"
Angel was enraged at her spirit's declaration and yelled, "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
"I can't do it. After what she did earlier, when she protected her idiot friend and in the middle of the battle when she tried to heal him before I was summoned, I just couldn't do it."
"Fine then, if you won't do it." Angel walked up to Gemini and snatched Caelum from Gemini and cut the spirit down, send to the spirit world. "Then, I will!" Orihime activated her shield again but this Angel destroyed it easily with Caelum and prepares to strike Orihime down with it. But the attack was stopped. Angel looked behind her to see what caused her attack to stop and Luffy, on his feet and his arm stretched out to stop Angel from attack. "What? How did…"
"Orihime, don't listen to word that she said." Luffy said. "I know that you can beat her. As matter of fact, even though they're asleep, everyone knows that you can win."
Orihime's look of despair disappeared when Luffy said that and she prepares to fight back. "Thanks, Luffy. I needed that, now it's my turn. KOTEN ZANSHUN!" Orihime created a big rotating orange circle from hairpins and threw it at the celestial wizard, cutting her and caused her to step back.
"How dare you...! Who do you think you are?!" Angel used Caelum to strike at Orihime again but used her shield to block it.
"I'm the person who can now fight alongside my friends." Orihime said, and used her Koten Zanshun to cut throught her making her disappear.
Orihime was elated knowing that she just won. "I did it!" she shouted as the sun rises to start a new day. 'I knew I can do it. Now, I know I can fight alongside everybody after all.'
To be continued…
Next Time: The Sand Crocodile!
Done with chapter 21 now 22 will be coming up!