Hope you guys enjoy the chapter, I was meant to post it earlier but I didn't get round to it but here it is :D

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'Chouko'

'Shiro'

'Tensa'

New Captain Arc: Night Visitors

The moon hung high in the air as Mugetsu dashed through the sky towards Rurichiyos house. Cool air brushed his face as it whirled past him, leaving an occasional howl ringing in his ears. Mugetsu could feel something in the air, like there was a charge setting him on edge and hinting that it was going to be worse than what he expected. Shaking off the shudder that crawled down his back his destination came into view.

There was only one light on as it glowed through the curtains at the giant back window slightly illuminating the smooth grass in their garden. The green blades trembled and quaked as the shook in the wind clearly trying to voice their distress. Not that Mugetsu noticed, everything looked as it should be in his eyes as he debated the best way of getting the attention of those inside.

However, his pondering was cut short when two figures crashed into the roof of the house after ripping right though the barrier. Yells could be heard from inside the now partially destroyed building as smoke and dust clustered around the impact zone. An explosion of light and spiritual pressure set Mugetsu into motion and he dashed down. As he reached the roof three figures appeared on top of it; Rurichiyo, Kenryū and Enryū. They coughed and spluttered as they tried to decide on the best course of action to ensure Rurichiyos safety. The girl in question was currently clinging to Enryūs back her face struggling to hold its composure.

"…hold them off while you get her to safety," Kenryū said as he raised his zanpakuto, sensing the attackers were about to retaliate. "Go!"

"Kenryū…" Rurichiyo quivered as Enryū turned to go. But before anyone could move Mugetsu was in front of them and blocking both oncoming attacks with his single blade. He couldn't help but notice something strange about one of the assassins; it was as if they were holding back. Mugetsu could sense the potential power behind him thanks to Shiro and Tensa showing him but there was something else that didn't add up. There were two assassins in front of him when there should only be one and the one with strange power levels was the head assassin, although something was different about him.

"What're you doing here?" Kenryū asked suspiciously.

"I'm stepping in for Ichigo," He smiled at Rurichiyo who now had a fearful expression on her face, "Don't worry, Ichigo's a good guy, he's just having problems lately." Mugetsu groaned as his pushed the two assassins back down into the building.

"You need to go," He said to them and when they didn't move he sighed, "Now! I'll deal with these two."

Nodding they left but not before Mugetsu heard the worried voice of Rurichiyo express her concern for his safety, "Kenryū, will that soul reaper be okay? He doesn't seem to be that strong…"

"It's his duty to protect you Lady Rurichiyo." Kenryū replied, repeating the same words he had yesterday which caused Mugetsu to snicker slightly.

Suddenly a figure jumped out from inside the building and sent a wave of energy at Mugetsu. Sweeping his sword across his body Mugetsu sent out a dark arc of reiatsu which completely obliterated the wave of energy and then continued on to the assassin. The blast caught the assassin who hadn't been expecting his attack to be so easily wiped out. Readying himself for an attack Mugetus waited for the reiatsu to clear. Nonetheless before it could clear the badly scorched and bleeding assassin charged through as he send multiple arcs of energy at Mugetsu. As he did so the sword which Mugetsu now remembered was a bakōtō, a sword that consumed the user's spiritual energy, started to grow as it consumed its way up his arm.

Using flash-step Mugetsu managed to dodge the attacks which solidified as they hit the ground beneath him. With a final flash-step Mugetsu appeared behind the assassin and leaving no time for the enemy to react he brought Zangetsu down with one hard strike Mugetsu tore through the assassins' body. Blood cascaded everywhere its putrid smell filling the air as it hit the floor, its broken vessel turning into dust before it hit the floor.

"So you're that Mugetsu guy I've been hearing so much about?" crooned a feminine head assassin who appeared in front of Mugetsu, "I've been dying to try you out, guess I don't need this stupid disguise anymore." The assassin shook his purple hair causing the cloak to swirl around him. In mid shake the whole figure and the hair changed revealing a woman with long wavy blonde hair and a pair of black wings perched on her back. The black cloak stayed as it flapped around her refusing to reveal what weapons she was hiding.

"My names Amy, and…well I'm here to kill you," She said bluntly before disappearing in a twirl. With lightning speed Amy appeared behind him and brought down, what felt like a thin dagger, on Mugetsus black before kicking him away as he growled in pain.

Cursing Mugetsu tried to regain control of his body as he sped across the sky. After regaining control he went for Amy who'd appeared in front of him hoping he wouldn't have been able to stop himself. She blocked his strike but then disappeared in an instant leaving Mugetsu to fall forwards so she could have a go at his back. Reacting to this Mugetsu used his momentum to turn and face her so he could block the strike.

As her small dagger hit his zanpakuto Mugetsu felt a strange sensation skitter through his body and he glared up at Amy. Her black eyes sparkled with delight and malice, narrowing as his began pushing her back. Hissing caused him to tear his eyes away from her face and down to her dagger. The design of the blade itself was rather simple as it looked like and ordinary dagger, except it was black and seemed to absorb all light around it. That was the only part of the blade which Mugetsu classed as normal. The guard was made up of a thin snake which curled its way up the hilt, its head positioned at the end of the hilt as it looked up at Mugetsu.

Its body was a dark brown which crept its way up to just behind the jaw as it merged into yellows, reds and oranges reminding Mugetsu of a flame as the colours seemed to roll around the skin. Looking into the eyes Mugetsu noticed something different, this wasn't a normal snake there was something that got to Mugetsu as he looked into its feminine eyes. Sadness dwelled in the serpentine eyes as the snake looked up at him, its forked tongue flickering out at him before a smooth but distressed voice wove into his mind.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to do this. Please help me…" The voice faded away as Amy pulled back and froze a few meters away allowing Mugetsu to take advantage of her sudden halted position. Mugetsu glided his sword upwards across her chest causing her to scream in pain as Zangetsu ripped through her chest. The puckered flesh gaped for a few seconds, allowing blood to pour from the wound before it proceeded to close. The skin knitted together leaving no trace of the wound that had been there only seconds ago.

Gritting his teeth Mugetsu pulled his hand across his face and brought his hollow mask into existence over his face. Tensing up Mugetsu stared at the black winged girl whose cloak was ripped and dripping with blood as it clung to the front of her chest revealing patches of clear healthy skin.

"You'll have to do better than that," Amy taunted as she leaned towards her dagger and whispered to it, "You better not do anything like that again or there'll be hell to pay." The snake on the blade appeared to shiver with fear as she spoke the words.

"What happened to the other assassins?" Mugetsu called, stalling so he could figure out a way to stop her and who sent her.

"I killed them on the way here, except that other weakling I just made him forget what happened." She replied back a cruel smile curling onto her face, "Now on with your demise." She pulled out another dagger which was the same as her current one only without the snake. With the smile still on her face she charged at Mugetsu and the two began a dance of blades as the block and parried each other's attacks.

Their metallic clashes could be heard across the sky with each meeting. Silhouettes of theirs flickered around each other as one tried to be quicker than the other in order to gain the upper hand. And although Mugetsu had been successful with blocking all of Amys attacks so far, he hadn't noticed the damage half her strikes had been doing to his stability.

As they clashed again Mugetsu noticed a flicker in the visibility of his sword and then felt more tingling sensations spread throughout his body. Pushing Amy back with a forceful Getsugatensho he jumped back to assess what was going on. When Mugetsu looked down at himself he saw that blotches of his body were being transparent and were beginning to creep outwards to absorb the rest of him.

"What the-" He spluttered but Amy interrupted.

"Wondering what's going on are we?" She grinned, dusting off her tattered blood soaked cloak as she did so. "Every time this little beauty," she indicated to the snake wrapped dagger, "hits you it exploits the cracks that have begun to form in your existence's stability. I'd say you have about 15 minutes left until you cease to exist."

"How did you know?" Mugetsu snapped as he squeezed the hilt of Zangetsu in frustration.

"We've all been told about you, he told us because he knows you. Ichigo." Amy grinned when she saw Mugetsus face twist into rage while a blast of thunder rolled through the now cloudy sky. Black clouds hid the moon as they swelled with the rain they wished to throw down on those below.

Tightening his grip of Zangetsu Mugetsu went for Amy but she blocked his attack with his blades. As he did so he heard the voice again, this time it was almost crying.

"I'm sorry but you need to hurry, I can help you if you kill her. To kill her all you need to do is rip out her wings and stab her through the heart. Now hurry, you don't have much time!"

The voice faded away as Amy pulled away but before Mugetsu appeared behind her. Now filled with resolve he grabbed both of her wings with one hand and sliced up cutting just above the skin to where they were connected. A deafening screech pieced the air as blood gushed from the two gaping holes in Amys back. Two holes that were showing no signs of healing like the over injuries he'd caused had.

Fuelled by rage Amy disappeared from few and repeated a move similar to what Mugetsu had just done to her. Coming from opposite directions Amy carved a bloody X into Mugetsus back causing him to cry out in agony. Not wanting the attack to faze him Mugetsu turned and took advantage of the opening that Amy had left after she attacked him. Jabbing straight forwards he pierced right through her heart and out the other side of her body.

The wingless woman screamed, but the scream soon became a blood filled gurgle as Mugetsu withdrew the zanpakuto from her chest and dashed forwards to catch her before she began her plummet towards the earth. She coughed and breathed heavily as she tried to focus her black eyes on Mugetsu. Blood poured out the front and back of her body, staining the rock-like bandages that covered his chest. The daggers she had been holding had already left her limp hands and began their decent to the ground, one Amy would soon follow as Mugetsus hands were starting to fade. He could sense Amys body falling backwards slightly while the tingling he'd been feeling in his hands vanished.

"Guess…you….still…lost…" She smiled weakly as she began to tumble backwards and down to the floor. Mugetsu tried to grab at her, he needed answers, but it was avail, she'd already dispersed into black spirit particles which shot towards the heavens.

"Are you okay?" Rurichiyos voice quivered from behind him. Turning Mugetsuts eyes meet with Rurichiyo and her two carers. Their eyes widened in shock when the saw the holes of nothing which spotted his body not causing him pain in anyway.

"Yeah I'll be…" He trailed off as the fading in his feet finished leaving him with blurred and blotchy stumps for legs. Unable to stand up Mugetsu collapsed forwards expecting to free fall to the ground but was instead caught by the big burly Enryū.

"What's wrong with him?" Rurichiyo cried her face distraught as she looked at Kenryū expecting an answer. The soul reaper looked at Mugetsu then back at the blonde haired girl and then back to Mugetsu. He shook his head unable to answer.

"I'm disappearing." Mugetsu said bluntly his voice quieted by the disappearing his was experiencing. The tingling across his body was becoming number and he could barely think straight as the vision in one of his eyes went dark. The most frightening thing Mugetsu found about it was the fact he couldn't feel anything as he began to cease his existence.

Well looks like Mugetsu in a pretty bad situation, but where did that snake go and who was Amy? D: Find out next time :)

Thanks for reading

Next time: New Captain Arc: Time Lives