OK, this will be last chapter of this story! It's taken me about 4 months to finish this story, not sure if that's long or short. This has been a really fun story to write and having a lot of school work to do, made it even more fun. Then I didn't have to do boring school work all the time :P. Anyway, let's get this over with. Thanks for the reviews so far!

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The Final Fight

Alice ran towards Toshiro's office, Shuhei right behind her. They had seen a huge, black dragon flying, something in his front paw. If I'm not mistaken, that might have been Karin. She thought. Shuhei didn't know what had gotten her in such hurry, but he followed her anyway. The opened the door to see Toshiro's office, but no one was here. The window was open and nothing was lit. It was completely dark, only the moon's reflection was lighting things up.

"Oh no, this is bad." Alice said.

"What's wrong, Captain?" Shuhei asked.

"You know that dragon we saw? It took Karin and Captain Hitsugaya followed it. I need you to go and tell Head Captain Yamamoto and tell him me and Captain Hitsugaya are already on it." she said, jumping out the window. Shuhei didn't have anytime to say anything against it so he Flash Stepped towards Squad 1. Meanwhile, Toshiro was right under the dragon now, seeing Karin unconscious in his front paw. I need to get her back. He thought, Flash Stepping like a maniac. The dragon saw him and smiled, speeding up. Toshiro tried to keep up, ending up outside of a dark cave. That's never been here before. It's not the one Muramasa used either. Hyourinmaru said. No, but it's where they're taking Karin so let's go. Toshiro said. Hyourinmaru and Timedrano nodded and Toshiro ran in.
Rangiku followed Alice, worried about her Captain.

Flashback

Alice ran as fast as she could, but didn't use Flash Step. Nor Cyrilia or Helldra asked why, they knew why. She ran past Rangiku, who got surprised by her. She ran after her, catching up rather quickly.

"What's your hurry, Captain Skysilver?" she asked, not thinking anything serious was going on. Alice looked at her, Rangiku plainly seeing how worried she was.

"A dragon took Karin and Captain Hitsugaya went after it. It might try and kill him if we don't hurry." she explained. Rangiku gasped, speeding up a bit. Alice followed her and they tried not to let any other Soul Reaper see them. The were able to sneak past Omaeda who was going to keep watch over the gate.

"Captain Skysilver, why is everyone after Karin?" Rangiku asked.

"She's important to my worlds survival. Merlik knows that so he wants to get rid of her now before she gets a chance to do something." Alice explained.

They saw a cave opening a bit ahead of them and were about to go in, but someone came in front of them, an Arrancar. This Arrancar wasn't one of them that had attacked before. He had shoulder-length, pink hair and amber eyes. His glasses were the remains of his Hollow mask, Alice thought anyway. The hole was on his glans and Alice couldn't see his nr. Anywhere. He had a long shirt that covered his entire torso and the top of his neck.

"Who are you?" Alice said, grabbing Cyrilia's hilt. Rangiku grabbed Haineko's hilt and was ready to attack.

"My name is Szayel Aporro Granz, Espada nr. 8. This is as far as you'll go for now." he said. Alice narrowed her eyes at him, just getting a smile from him. "Now, how about I test your power? I heard from Merlik that you were the ''Protector'' of your world. Time to see if he was right." he said, a huge group of Hollows appearing behind him. Alice drew Cyrilia and swung to her side.

"Spread your Frosted wings, Cyrilia!" she yelled, Spiritual Pressure surrounding her. Rangiku drew Haineko as well.

"Growl, Haineko!" she yelled, her Zanpaktou turning into ash. It went towards three of the Hollows, killing them rather quickly. The Spiritual Pressure surrounding Alice disappeared and she swung her Zanpaktou towards ten Hollows and froze them from the skin to the bones, destroying the ice afterward. Szayel Aporro Granz kept smiling and laughed a bit as well. Something's wrong. Why is he laughing? Alice thought. Don't know, but be ready for anything. Cyrilia told her.

Inside the cave

Toshiro started running up a huge set of stairs, getting tired from all the running. Nearly there, Toshiro. I can feel Merlik's power. Timedrano said. Toshiro nodded, Flash stepping the last few steps. He reached a huge dark, round room, seeing the dragon behind Merlik, who was sitting on a kind of throne. He didn't have the mask on, seeing a pretty burnt face. What happened to him? He thought.

"Where's Karin?" Toshiro yelled.

"Taken care of. Sooner of later she'll become a shell for my ''pet'' here. He has a lot of souls inside him so he needs more vessels to put them in." he said, smiling evilly.

"Where is she!" Toshiro yelled again, getting inpatient. Merlik laughed, his eyes leading to the corner. Toshiro followed his view and saw Karin, her eyes deep and he barley felt any Spiritual Pressure from her. "Karin?" he asked.

"She can't hear you, because she's not in this world to be exact. Her soul is already in the Darkness, and soon she'll be completely consumed by it." Merlik laughed. Toshiro felt his rage boiling inside his throat and ran towards Merlik, but got stopped by Karin being put in his way. "Sorry. If you want to get to me, you'll have to cut her down." he said, smiling at Toshiro's rage.

"You sick coward!" Toshiro yelled.

"Maybe, but you won't be able to protect her by just standing there. She's got less then ten minutes left. Unless you can get her soul back, she's toast." Merlik laughed, rubbing in Toshiro's face that there was barley anything he could do. There's one thing you can do, but you need to do it while no one's looking. That's what Karin didn't want. People seeing you two. Timedrano reminded him. Toshiro gave a small smiled of his own, making Merlik's smile go away.

"Rain over the frosted Heavens, Hyourinmaru." he said calmly. A frozen dome surrounded them, not to big and not to big either.

"What!" Merlik said, surprised by what he just did. Toshiro grabbed Karin's hand, trying to feel her Spiritual Pressure. Come on, Karin. Wake up. He thought, moving his head slowly towards her lips.

Outside the cave

Alice and Rangiku kept attacking the Hollows, but there kept coming and didn't show any sing of stopping either. This is useless. We'll never get to Captain Hitsugaya and Karin in time like this. Alice thought. I hope you're alright, Captain. Rangiku thought. Alice and Rangiku got back to back, more Hollows then ever surrounding them now.

"We need to get this over with now or it might be to late." Alice said.

"And how do you plan on making these Hollow's disappear? We can't just let them go into the Soul Society. Plus, that Arrancar won't let us just go past." Rangiku pointed out.

"I'm working on it. We just have to be patient." Alice said, making Rangiku a bit suspicious. They kept fighting the Hollows, both getting annoyed. As long as that guy is attacked, we'll never get rid of these Hollows. Cyrilia said. You'll have to use Bankai for that. He's and Espada. Helldra told her. Alice nodded, holding her Zanpaktou in front of her. "Bankai." she said, getting Rangiku's attention. A huge pillar of Spiritual Pressure cover Alice, making the Espada cover his eyes. When it disappeared, Alice's Bankai could be seen. She had dragon wings made of ice like Toshiro, but her eyes had changed and they looked like dragon eyes. She had a ice, blue tail, but it wasn't made of ice. Her hair was lose and a few pieces of her hair was frozen. Her Zanpaktou looked the same, but it had more power now then it had before. Rangiku looked at her in awe.

"An impressive Bankai, but will it be enough?" Szayel Aporro Granz said, sending more Hollows towards her.

"The Hollows are not my target." she said, Flash Stepping away. Szayel Aporro Granz quickly knew what she was trying to do, dodging her attack.

"So, not interested in waiting anymore, are we?" he said, trying to break her. She didn't react to what he said, but kept attacking him. Rangiku took care of the Hollows who tried to get in her way, but was getting very tired and wasn't paying attention. A Hollow came up behind her and she didn't have enough time.

Inside Karin's Mind

Karin couldn't see a thing. It was pitch dark, nothing as far as the eye could see and she couldn't feel FlameWolf anymore. Where am I? Why am I here? Karin kept thinking to herself. She kept feeling her strength slowly draining and she sat down, closing her eyes. She started falling, but she could barley feel a thing. She kept growing weaker and weaker, until a bright light started shining right in her face. She opened her eyes and saw Toshiro, kissing her. Her eyes widen in surprise, but quickly calmed down. She gave a few small moans, making Toshiro stop

Inside the Cave

Toshiro broke the kiss, hearing Karin moaning.

"You OK?" he asked, brushing her hair with his fingers. Karin smiled and nodded, feeling FlameWolf's power again. Toshiro smiled as well and broke the ice-dome. Merlik waited for it to be gone, seeing Karin was back to normal.

"How the hell did you bring her back!" he asked, furious.

"No point in telling you. Because soon you won't be here." Toshiro said, Karin nodding in agreement.

"You think you can get rid of me! I'd like to see you try!" he said, sending his dragon at them. Toshiro drew Hyourinmaru, holding Karin with his other hand. Hyourinmaru appeared behind him, a huge Chinese dragon made of ice with red eyes, but Toshiro didn't stop there.

"Ride the tides of Time, Timedrano." he said, a huge pillar of energy, but not Spiritual Pressure. Impossible! He can't be thinking of merging them, could he! Merlik thought. He's not bad, Karin. Seems like lover boy's taking a big risk. FlameWolf said. He'll be fine, I know he will. Karin said, very confident about what Toshiro was planing. The energy went up to Hyourinmaru and covered him. Sorry of this hurts, Hyourinmaru. Toshiro said. It would have hurt if I didn't know Timedrano, but I do so it's pretty much painless. Hyourinmaru said. Once the energy went away, Hyourinmaru had completely changed. Instead stood a part wolf part dragon creature over his head. The dragon parts were Hyourinmaru's parts. The rest Karin assumed was Timedrano. Amazing. Karin thought. She stepped a bit away from Toshiro, he smiling at her.

"FlameWolf." she said calmly. Her arm started glowing again and FlameWolf appeared over her head. Karin smirked, not thinking about what made her scared anymore, but how it made her strong. Flames started appearing in FlameWolf's mouth, while Timerinmaru, as Karin dubbed him, started getting a blue liquid or something in his mouth.

"Exploding Flame!" FlameWolf shouted, roaring flames out of her mouth.

"Time Destroying Roar!" Timerinmaru shouted, a signal of blue liquid coming from his mouth. The two attacks merged together and hit the dragon in the chest. The dragon let out a painfully roar, falling to the ground.

"Impossible!" Merlik yelled. Karin and Toshiro smiled and let their Spirits lose on him, making blue flames around him. He yelled in pain and vanished into thin air.
"Where did he go? We didn't turn him to ash." Karin said, calming down a bit.

"No, but we banished him from this world so he can never come back here again." FlameWolf explained. Karin sighed in relief and was glad it as finally over. Toshiro sighed as well, both of them heading back out.

"Hahaha! Don't think you've won yet!" they heard an echoing voice. They both turned, seeing a Spirit like person floating in the air.

"You can't be here! We banished you!" Timedrano yelled, him and Hyourinmaru being back to normal.

"You may have banished me from the World of the Living and the Soul Society, but I still have my own world to live in. As soon as me and my trusty ''pet'' recovers, we'll come back for you, Karin Kurosaki. So you better prepare yourself!" he laughed.

"Just try it! I'll be ready!" Karin yelled back at him. Toshiro smiled and looked up at him as well, making sure he wouldn't try to do something.

"Just you wait as well, Toshiro Hitsugaya. I'll be taking my revenge of you as well. So both you and Karin better wait." he said, disappearing.

"Just ignore him. Let's go out to everyone else." FlameWolf said, everyone else agreeing with her. FlameWolf, Timedrano and Hyourinmaru disappeared and Karin and Toshiro started running down the stairs.

Outside at the Same Time

Rangiku closed her eyes, waiting for the attack to hit her. But it never did. She opened her eyes and saw Renji blocking the Hollows attack.

"Renji? Who did you get here?" Rangiku asked.

"Captain Skysilver sent Shuhei to go and tell the head Captain what happened and all captains and Lieutenants were ordered to come here and get rid of the problem." Renji explained. Rangiku's eyes widen and looked back at Alice, who was having a bit of trouble against Szayel Aporro Granz. She looked around and saw everyone else fighting. Alice kept going at the Arrancar, but was not doing well. She wasn't really using her Bankai that much, but having it on made it easier for her because she could fly. She knew her attacks didn't do anything, so she decided to kick it up a nuch. She backed off a bit and swung her sword again, sending big, fast and many snakes made by her Zanpaktou towards him, but he dodged them very easily. Is that all she can do? That can't be it. He thought, and he was dead right. Alice smiled and swung her sword again, twin dragons this time. It made it harder for him to dodge, but he was able to. The dragons were long, an advantage for Alice. The dragon heads disappeared and spikes came out from all corners of the ice, cutting the Arrancar form everywhere. He yelled in pain, catching some of the Captains attention. They all looked up and saw Alice in her Bankai fighting Szayel Aporro Granz. Impressive Bankai. Soi-Fon thought. He got his balance back and looked up at Alice.

"It's useless! As long as the one who brought us back is still alive, no one can-" his little speech was cut of by himself. Alice waited for an attack, but nothing came at her. She relaxed a bit and noticed that he was having trouble breathing. "What- What is happening to me!" he said, frustrated. Alice smiled and stopped using her Bankai. Everything that was ice broke into small diamonds like orbs and started falling to the ground. "You haven't won yet, so why are you giving up?" he asked, thinking he could still fight.
"Because you're through. The one who brought you back has been defeated by Captain Hitsugaya and Karin Kurosaki. Now there's nothing to keep you from dying." Alice explained. Szayel Aporro Granz wouldn't believe what she said but soon enough, he vanished into thin air as well. All the Hollows also disappeared and everyone sighed and started yelling in victory. Alice looked down and found Shuhei, standing beside Isane who was healing some of the injured fighters. He looked up and saw his Captain, Flash Stepping to her side.

"Is it over?" he asked. Alice nodded, but she was worried about Karin and Toshiro.

"Yes, but we need to make sure Karin and Captain Hitsugaya made it out alright." she said.

After she said that, the cave started falling apart and soon was nothing left of it. Oh no! If they didn't make it out..! Helldra said, making Alice even more worried.

"Karin!" she heard Ichigo yell, who was already fast on his way over to the cave. She followed him, Shuhei, Rangiku and Momo behind her. The smoke from the fall made it impossible to see anything. Ichigo kept yelling for Karin, but no one answered. Alice closed her eyes, but the energy from the cave canceled her search for them. She saw two shadows from the smoke coming their way. Ichigo hadn't noticed them so Alice smiled.

"Relax Ichigo Kurosaki, they're both fine." she said, pointing at the shadows. Ichigo stopped yelling and sure enough, both Karin and Toshiro came walking towards them. Karin was caring Toshiro over her shoulder, Alice seeing his ankle was pretty swollen. Must have gotten a rock or a bolder over his leg. Alice thought.

"Karin!" Ichigo yelled, running up to them.

"Captain!" Rangiku yelled a second after, running up as well with Momo right behind her. Alice just stood there, smiling. Happy, are we? Cyrilia asked. Alice nodded, walking up to them.
"You two OK?" Alice asked, both of them nodding. Alice smiled and Rangiku took over helping her Captain walk and they all left for the Seritei.

The Other Day...

"Well, time for us to go home." Ichigo said, Yoruichi behind him and Karin beside him. Jushiro and Shunsui were there to see them off, along with Rangiku, Toshiro and Alice.

"When are you planing on coming back?" Jushiro asked.
"Next time you need help I think." Ichigo answered.

"If you want Karin, you can come here now and then and continue your training. Toshiro told me about what happened yesterday and I think training would help." Alice offered. Karin smiled and nodded. You just want to see lover boy, don't you? FlameWolf smiled. Maybe. Karin smirked.

"I'd like to, Alice. Thanks." she answered. Toshiro smiled at her, Rangiku getting suspicious. Looks like we'll be busy now that Karin isn't around. Maybe we can make him say a few things. Watereliena said, getting Rangiku's attention. Yeah, we won't leave him alone till we get an answer either. Rangiku laughed mentally.

"Well, we better hurry. Come on you two." Yoruichi said. They both nodded and Karin jumped on Ichigo's back.

"Bye Karin!" Rangiku yelled happily, giving Toshiro sore ears. You've got your hands full with this lieutenant. And something tells me she'll have a lot of questions for you. Timedrano laughed. Hyourinmaru laughed as well while Toshiro just sighed. Ichigo and Yoruichi were running through the tunnel quite quickly, not giving Karin a lot of time to look back at the Soul Society. Guess it' over then. She thought, focusing on not letting go of Ichigo's back. No, not accordion to Merlik. FlameWolf said, getting her attention. This is only the beginning, so be ready for anything. She advised her.

OK, that's the end. Thank you all so much for reading my story and all the reviews you've given me. You are free to keep reviewing my story for those who have not read it yet. As the ending of this chapter suggest, I'm making a second story for this exact theme. When it will be out, I have no idea. I'm writing another story, so it won't be out until I'm done with that story. If there is any other anime, movies, games or anything else you'd like me to write a story about, tell me in the reviews. I'm always open for peoples request. Thanks and hope you enjoyed this story!