Karin's POV

I looked him up and down. His resurrection form was extremely impressive. Where his hands once where there were giant white balls covered in spikes kind of like a mace. There was a hole going through the one on the left hand. The mask on his face remained and it had spread down his body wrapping around his body like bandages, his forest green hair was now so long it reached his waist and the dark clouds could now be seen in his eyes. The final big feature was that he had grown an extra arm that was holding his sword which had turned into something that looked like a branding iron. I held Honoo Tora defensively and stepped in front of Yuzu. She stayed behind me and also drew her sword ready for the fight ahead.

"Cleaver Arrancars, kill all the captives!"

"NO TOSHIRO!"

"Sōten Kisshun I reject!"

I saw an orange shield appear around Toshiro and turned to see Inoe stood there with a fierce expression on her face and Uryuu the quincey was stood behind her. He was in the quincey uniform and had his bow at the ready to fire. He drew it back ready to fire the thousands of arrows loaded. When they hit the cleavers though they seemed to have the opposite effect than the intentional, the cleavers seemed to grow when the arrows hit them. They then once they had about doubled in size spilt again to form another of themselves. Uryuu's eyes widened as he put the bow away and stood there. The cleavers were coming to attack us once again and this time we had to be ready to stop them if they grabbed hold of us, especially me and Yuzu we were dead. There would be no-one left to fight and he would kill us all. Uryuu shot everyone embarrassed and sorrowful looks and I smiled back reassuringly. It wasn't his fault he didn't know that is how they reacted to his weapon.

I flashed towards the Espada and Yuzu went off to see how Hanataro's healing was coming along.

"Kasai paisa kiba"

A flame came out of my zampakto as Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho would and he just stepped to the side looking extremely bored. I then felt a deep cut on one of my shoulders and looked to see that once again my neck was cut inches from the jugular. I couldn't let my guard down because that shot wasn't supposed to kill me but the next one will.

Orihime's POV

I looked around as everyone fought the smaller Arrancars that were attacking everyone. I was also trying to inflict some damage on the cleavers but wasn't having much luck. Uryuu didn't seem to be having any luck either due to the fact that his weapon wouldn't have any effect of them. I was looking around worriedly at all the people being attacked and didn't notice the giant cleaver stood behind me with an axe, I turned slowly as the axe was about to come down on my body and shut my eyes tightly to wait for the impact that never came. I opened my eyes gingerly to see that there was someone stood in front of me. The axe stuck into their shoulder and the collapsed to the floor. I kneeled down next to them and turned the body over to see that the poor girl was Tatsuki.

"O…Ori… hime!"

She then gasped and fell limp in my arms. Her chest rising and falling slightly but barely by millimetres and her eyes were shut her spiritual pressure fading rapidly. I gripped my hairpins and called out for the two healers. They looked at me with tired eyes and looked at her; they looked at each other and shook their heads in sync. I hugged her into my chest and cried, not my best friend.

Toshiro's POV

"TATSUKI!"

Everyone even the Espada turned with a shocked expression when we heard the scream that came from quite a while behind and turned to see Inoue holding a limp girl in her arms. She cried and hugged the girl. Just then we heard a familiar voice.

"GETSUGA TENSHO!"

I turned to see Ichigo stood in a dust cloud that had formally been where I was fighting off cleavers. Hello fate, why have you been so cruel to me today? Ichigo is gonna murder me! Yoruichi tapped me on the shoulder and pointed over to Karin who looked to be struggling which was extremely understandable. Well… I say struggling but by that I mean her face and hands were covered in blood and her kimono was also covered in red patches. She was on her knees using her sword as support to help her stand, once stood she once again pointed it at the Espada who had yet to get a scratch. I ran over to her as did Rukia who had just come through the portal with Shuhei. He had run off to help Inoue with the other girl. Rukia and I helped support Karin as she stood shakily; she was panting and beginning to weaken. The Espada looked at the scene and laughed.

"Girl? Are you that weak? You have quite impressive spiritual pressure, shame it's wasted. However you have lived longer than any other opponent of mine, to which I congratulate you! I'm afraid I am getting bored though so I am gonna just end this now, free lord Aizen and go if that's ok with you"

"Over my dead body!"

"If you insist!"

"Bakudō number 99, Kin!"

The Espada was trapped under a black cross that was then covered in what looked like concrete blocks, he grunted as he hit the floor and then we were all quick to attack. We also managed to inflict some rather serious injuries considering the fact he was bleeding rapidly and shouting curse words at the top of his voice. He broke through the kidou and stood once again and swung around his zampakto that looked like a branding iron. We all jumped back to avoid the iron when he laughed.

"I'd stay away from this iron if I were you; its ability is to mark souls permanently for hell. There is no way this will come off once you have been branded. The visible mark on your skin may disappear after a long time but the mark on your soul will never disappear and you will be left to wander hell alone for eternity."

Everyone's eyes widened. I didn't know you could get a zampukto with such an evil power but that was a good warning to keep our guard up or we were gonna go to hell when we die! Karin then stood up and positioned herself to fight again; I then joined her by standing next to her as did Rukia, Ichigo and even Yuzu. Ichigo didn't question what had happened to his sisters due to the fact it wasn't the time since we were in the middle of a fight but that luck wasn't gonna stay forever. I was gonna have to face him sometime. The Espada even though he had multiple stab wounds to the jugular stood up again unfazed. Even for me seeing the blood pump out of his neck was extremely off putting and that didn't usually bother me at times like this. He poised himself to fight and we both began to flash towards each other. Let the games begin.

Hello there…

I ate a load of cookies for dinner today…

Nothing else to say really, I have an interesting life don't I?

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