Chapter 29
Morning
Brrrrrrrriiiiinnnnngggggg
"Mmmmm..."
Adam shifted back and forth as he kept hearing the alarm clock ringing, after about two minutes Adam finally had enough and slammed his alarm shut. He got up and looked around and remembered that he had finally come home, he sighed and smiled.
"Finally! I thought that thing was gonna go on and on." said Cy who popped out of Adam's closet.
"Good morning to you too." Adam replied as he got up and headed towards his bathroom, after about five minutes he came out with a towel over his waist and his hair wet. Adam reached into his closet to grab his uniform when he heard his door opened, he panicked, picked up Cy, and threw him inside then slammed the door while he stood right there.
"Well, this is defiantly a weird morning." said Ajax in his dog form as he walked into the room then went towards Adam's bed and jumped on it.
"Oh it's you Ajax, i thought it was someone else."
Slam!
Pow!
Out of nowhere Adam was sucker-punched by Cy who slammed the closet door opened and was knocked into the ground, Adam glared at the stuffed tiger who just shook his butt at Adam and made him even angrier, Adam in a flash tackled the plush toy and the daily fight continued.
Karakura High
"Good morning Ichigo." said Mizuiro as he walked towards Ichigo.
"Morning."
"IIIIIIccccchhhhiiigggoooooo!"
Keigo screamed at the top of his lungs as he ran down the halls in a goofy fashion, but right when he reached them, Ichigo just flexed his arm and Keigo crashed right into him and slammed into the ground, then Ichigo proceeded to his class where he mumbled that the trick didn't work on him.
"I see you found yourself a nice spot on the floor." said Mizurio as he stood over Keigo.
When Ichigo entered the room, he immediately saw Chad and Orihime standing next to Uryu who was sitting down in his chair.
"Good morning Ichigo."
"mmm."
"There something called a comb, you should try it sometime."
"Oh really shut up."
Out of nowhere in a comedic way, Keigo popped out of nowhere and started his ranting of why all of them were hanging out with each other and it was like the beauty, the beast and the nerd in one complete group. Then he went on to question that ever since the beginning of the summer, they've been stuck like glue and he demanded to know why, then he went on about what could have happened over the summer to create such an alliance and asked Ichigo what he was doing with them, then he came to the conclusion that he was just an aging puppy nobody wanted to pet and ran away with tears out the door which someone was opening.
"Man Ichigo, what you do to him this time?" Adam asked as he entered the classroom and dropped his stuff at his desk before going to see the others.
"Nothing, besides you know Keigo he'll be fine."
"Yeah, i guess." Adam replied.
"So why did you come so late Adam?" Orihime asked, then she noticed that Adam had paw-bruises on his face.
"Me and Cy... Got into a little disagreement."
"Again, what is that the third time this week?" asked Ichigo.
"Hey, I still won." Adam said as he reached into his shirt pocket and took out a blue candy which was Cy in his pill form shaking it to make sure that Cy was being miserable.
'By the way, how do you feel after that talk with Kisuke?" Uryu asked.
Adam just stared at the Quincy before he looked outside the window into the clouds floating away, after the five of them returned Kisuke wanted to talk with Adam about what Karyia had said to him before he was destroyed. Adam knew that it could be something serious.
Flash Back
Adam, Yoruichi, and Urahara were sitting around a small table in his shop, while Yoruichi and Kisuke wondered what they could make out of Karyia's message, Adam just sat their with his entire body shaking from all the intense anticipation.
"Are you sure Adam?'' asked Kisuke to break the ice.
"For the last time Hat-and-Clogs Yes! All Karyia said was that someone had given him order to find me!" Adam yelled.
"Adam, calm down. We just need to be sure that's all." Yoruichi said in her cat-form
"Okay I'm sorry. It's just this entire thing about me is getting more and more irritating." Adam told them as he ran his hand through his spiky hair" not to mention the fact that someone out there knows about me and is planning something that involves some door!".
Kisuke just looked at the desk and started thinking, then he came to a conclusion.
"Well, no sense getting our heads wounded around this in time we'll figure this out." said Urahara as he got out his fan and covered his mouth."Adam for right now, go home and get some sleep you'll need it okay?".
Adam just nodded and headed out through the door, when Adam left Yoruichi gave Kisuke a glare while he just ignored it, then they heard a noise and turned around to see Ajax, in his dog form, come walking in and sit down on the spot were Adam was.
"You didn't tell him?" asked Ajax.
"No, we didn't, i don't think Adam's ready for the truth." said Yoruichi.
"Even so, i feel that we should tell him the truth."
"Ajax, I've known Adam for quite some time and i believe he's not ready to-"
"YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HIM SO STOP ACTING LIKE YOU DO!"
Yoruichi looked at Ajax with surprise, he realized what had done and bowed his head in same, Kisuke just rubbed his head and told Ajax that he was right and that Adam did have a rough couple of months.
"We'll tell him soon, i promise." Kisuke said, but unknown to all of them Adam was still right behind the door listening to everything they had said, Adam then realized that they were hiding something from him and he knew that he was gonna find out sooner or later.
End of Flashback
"Morning you guys."
Everyone looked to see Tatsuki standing there with her backpack over her shoulder, she then started to tell Adam where he was since she tried to go over his house but his aunt and uncle always said that he was busy with something.
Then out of nowhere she asked both Ichigo and Adam where they got their combat passes, Adam felt his neck and told her that it was his fathers and his uncle gave it to him, while Ichigo tried to tell her that his dad sewed it on but she quickly corrected him and she meant the thing with a skull and crossbones she also said the same thing for Adam who was wearing his combat pass as a necklace along with his chain.
"Oh, i got it at a gift shop...Wait, you can see it Tatsuki?"
"Huh?"
Adam was saved when he heard his teacher come in and tell them to take their seats, when Adam sat down he looked at his combat pass with a look of confusion. Remembering Ukitake telling him that it embedded a barrier that made it impossible for normal humans to see.
'Is this thing broken?'
Adam thought about it but then his thought were interrupted when he saw his badge's eyes start glowing and started saying the words hollow over and over again, Adam heard Ichigo scream and saw him running out with Orihime and Chad, Adam just popped the blue pill into his mouth and got out of his body then shunpo'd towards the hollow.
The streets of Karakura
Adam dodged and rolled to his right to evade the attack by the pig hollow, as he tried to find a opening all he could hear the hollow say was something that Adam found kind of wrong and kind of disturbing.
"Beef! Pork!"
Ichigo jumped up and raised Zangestu as he came towards the hollow ready to give the finishing blow.
"Make up your mind, beef or pork?".
"Dinner?... Pork!".
Ichigo sliced the hollow and watched as it disintegrated, Adam got up and dusted the dirt off his legs, Adam turned and saw Orihime and Chad standing right next to him, Ichigo looked at them and said that they didn't feel that he could do it on his own.
"By the way, where's Uryu?".
"Well, he hasn't been the same since we returned so it might take him a little while to tell us." Orihime said.
"Don't worry, i have faith in Uryu." Everyone looked towards Adam "If i know Uryu, he'll be joining us back on the field in no time."
Everyone nodded in agreement, then Ichigo told them that they should get back to school since their teacher would start getting suspicious while they headed back to school above them, stood a stranger with a water bottle hanging up side down.
"So Ichigo Kurosaki?"
Adam suddenly felt this bad feeling in the pit of his stomach which meant trouble and immediately turned back and looked up, he knew that something or someone was watching them but when he looked he saw that it was just the clear open sky.
"Adam is something wrong?" asked Orihime.
"...N-no, I'm good." Adam replied as he followed his friends.
Back at school
While the day went on as could be expected Adam's fourth period was a little strange, after he sat down in his seat and stared outside the window he didn't could hear how the teacher introduced the new student and how the new student, Shinji Hirako, told the entire class what each part of his name meant.
Adam then noticed something weird about the new guy, besides his bowl-shaped hair cut, it was the fact that Adam had never seen or meet someone who could reverse their name so perfectly.
Adam saw Shinji sit right next to Ichigo, Adam then heard Shinji introduces himself to Ichigo saying that they should get to know each other. Before Ichigo could reply to him, his combat pass started glowing and he immediately ran outside giving the teacher his same excuse.
Adam then noticed Chad trying to explain to Shinji, but he couldn't shake this feeling that there was something bad about Shinji. Adam then saw him turn around and look at Adam face to face.
"Is their something wrong?" asked Shinji.
"Oh on, i just... I'm just tired." Adam replied as he laid his head on his desk.
"Oh no prob."
Martinez residence
Night time
Adam and his family were eating dinner at the table while engaging in normal conversation as any family would, but this night was shortly lived.
"Honey, where you going?" asked Adam's aunt as she saw him leave the table and to Adam's shock, actually wash the dishes." Uh...Unc, is everything okay?" asked Adam.
"Yes, I'm just exhausted from working.'' Adam's uncle replied as he went up stairs.
"I wonder what's wrong?".
"Knowing your uncle, he might be exhausted, and you, Adam, should go and get started on your work."
Adam smiled at his aunt and nodded, he knew that he had alot of work ahead of him in order for him to catch up to his other classmates in their work. As he got up the stairs he could hear his uncle watching tv in his room, Adam really wondered what was wrong.
As he entered his room, in an instant he heard his badge calling and he groaned in annoyance, right when that happened Cy came with Adam's pass and gave it to him.
"Can't even get one day." Adam said as he grabbed his pass and slammed it on Cy when he got up.
"Stay in my body until i come back okay?"asked Adam when he opened the door.
"Can do." Cy replied seeing Adam shunpo away into the distance.
Somewhere else in Karakura
Ichigo had been alerted too and was on the scene as he had just finished off the hollow in no time, right after he finished, he put his sword on his shoulders. But unknown to him, someone was right behind him and his drew his sword and went for Ichigo.
SLASH!
"WHAT THE HELL IS...Shinji?" Ichigo blocked the incoming attack and looked back at his attacker only to see that it was the new transfer student Shinji Hikaro.
"Shhhh... You should be more careful Ichigo, people with your type of spirit energy shouldn't be so easily startled." said Shinji.
Everywhere in Karakura town, everyone who could use spirit energy sensed Ichigo's rising spiritual pressure and felt uneasy by it, meanwhile Adam could feel Ichigo's energy and knew that he had to help but right then he was hit and slammed into a wall.
"OW! What the...?" Adam stopped mid-sentence as he saw a huge-hollow with giant claws on it and walking on all fours, at first he thought it was a normal hollow but he could feel the increase in it's spirit energy which meant one thing for him.
'Is it a menos grande?".
Right when he thought that, he was attacked but dodged it in time and reacted to it by slicing one of it's claws off, but right after Adam did that it regenerated on it's own, Adam was shocked at this because he had never seen any normal hollow like this.
Back with Ichigo
While Ichigo was looking at Shinji who revealed to him that he was a Vizard, a person who possessed the powers of a hollow and a Soul-Reaper, and wanted him to join them since he told him that Ichigo didn't belong with his human friends. Ichigo suddenly felt another person's high spiritual pressure rise and drop quickly, he didn't what was going on and decided to go and investigate.
"Hey, where you going?".
"Look, I'm not interested in joining your freak show, I'm a Soul-Reaper." Ichigo proclaimed as he left, right when he left Shinji reached into his pocket and grab his cellphone he dialed a number and held it to his ear in a weird way.
"It's me, he didn't go for it." said Shinji.
"...!"
"Hey don't yell, it's not my fault."
"...!"
"Look don't worry about it sooner or later he'll come to us okay?"
Then out of nowhere Shinji suddenly felt a strange surge of spiritual pressure coming from a couple blocks away, he recognized it well and and smiled.
"I'll call you back, i think we found ourselves a new member." he said as he put his phone away and shunpo'd out to the location of the surge of energy.
Back with Adam
"Huff...Huff... What the hell is this thing?" Adam thought in pain as held his bleeding chest trying to keep to stop the blood, Adam didn't know what to do every time he sliced and attack this hollow, it would regenerate any part of it's body.
In that moment, Adam ducked and rolled from the hollow's attack and started running but the hollow appeared right in front of him and roared.
SLAAAMMMMM!
Adam was hit by one of the hollows claws and was slammed into the wall where he coughed up some blood before he fell straight on his stomach on the ground, Adam struggled and moved his head up to see the hollow getting ready to finish Adam off.
"I guess this is it, man this sucks." Adam thought in his mind as he closed his eyes and waited for his imminent death to occur, but out of nowhere Adam suddenly felt a strange presence before he heard the hollow cry out.
SLAAAASSSHHH!
Adam opened his eyes to see the hollow disintegrating and dissapear, he was surprised that someone could defeat such a strong hollow, he then felt someone right behind and wanted to turn around but suddenly his entire world went black again.
Shinji arrived at the scene to see a person right next to Adam pushing him up against the wall, the person was wearing a standard shihakushou along with a white sash and a white cape with a symbol on the back that almost looked like Adam's medallion.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't my old friend." said Shinji as went towards them.
"..." The person just looked at him.
"You know, i was surprised to find out you were living here all this time."
"..."
"So should i call you by your old name?".
"..."
"Or by your new alias... Ray Martinez."
