Chapter 34 – The eye of Agility (Ratiasu)

'Ah, the great pyramids of Egypt, what a sight to see,' exclaimed Ratiasu upon arriving by the pyramids in Cairo.

'We don't have time for sight seeing, let's get a move on I haven't cut anything for a while and I'm bored,' complained an annoyed Kenpachi walking off the other way.

'Hey don't just go off on your own, unless you know which pyramid we're going to.'

'It was Abu Rawash wasn't?'

'How did you remember something like that?' asked an astonished Ratiasu.

'I told him,' said a cheery Yachiru popping out her head from behind Zaraki's back.

'Even so the eye said twenty days, and it took us exactly eighteen days to get here. So we still have two days left, don't be in such a rush, let's enjoy our two days,' said Ratiasu.

'Yeah come on Kenny, let's have some fun,' encouraged Yachiru.

'Oh great, she's got you all excited now. Tch, I guess I have no choice. Fine, you lead the way, keep in mind that I'm the least bit interested,' said Kenpachi.

For the next two days they changed into gigais and enjoyed a much need R&R. Kenpachi did stand out however with his massive height towering above anyone. There was surprisingly no hollow activity in the area which gave them both days free. The visited and scouted out the pyramid of Abu Rawash, even went in it and had a tour, but found nothing suspicious. They explored the city of Cairo which was surprisingly modern. They also visited the many landmarks of Egypt e.g. the sphinx, the valley of kings, the mausoleum. Kenpachi actually enjoyed it even though he kept complaining it was boring, and obviously Yachiru and Ratiasu enjoyed the free time.

The two days ended too quickly for Ratiasu's liking and they were soon back on the doorsteps of the pyramid of Abu Rawash.

'Come on let's go, I've waited too long already,' grunted Kenpachi.

'Alright alright, calm down,' said Ratiasu walking into the pyramid. 'There's one thing though. Why this particular pyramid? It would've made more sense if it was a famous pyramid or something.'

'What do I care, I just want to slice something up.'

'Yay, Kenny's going to kill something!' cheered Yachiru on Kenpachi's back.

'That's not something a kid should cheer about, but then again it is you, guess being around Kenpachi has influenced you quite a bit,' thought Ratiasu as they moved deeper into the pyramid. 'Still, I do wonder why it's precisely this pyramid.' They stopped when they reached a fork in the tunnel, one that went up and one that went down.

'Damn, why didn't we explorer this place more fully the first time we were here. Oh wait I remember, because you said you were bored,' Ratiasu said pointing at Kenpachi.

'Tch, why don't we just pick a path and go that way? We can always come back if need be,' said Kenpachi.

'Great idea Kenny, I say we go down,' insisted Yachiru.

'Up? You two have been known to have the worst sense of direction, I say we go up,' argued Ratiasu.

'Hey my directions aren't bad, I have excellent direction sensing abilities.'

'Says the person who can never find their way around seireitei,' muttered Ratiasu. But unfortunately Yachiru heard her, and she jumped on Ratiasu.

'You take that back you liar,' shouted Yachiru.

'I don't need to take back the truth,' Ratiasu shouted back trying to get Yachiru off her hair. And they were like that for a while (no it's not a cat fight), until Kenpachi decided to move down on his own.

'Hey, wait for me Kenny,' shouted Yachiru running to catch up to Kenpachi.

'Whatever, guess we can always come back,' thought Ratiasu so she went down after them anyway.

They walked down the thin tunnel one after each other for about twenty minutes with nothing at all interesting happening until the reached… a dead end.

'So, do you see what I mean, I knew we should't have your direction, now we gotta walk all the way back, and we have little Yachiru to blame,' taunted a triumphant Ratiasu. She started walking back first, then an unhappy Yachiru jumped and attacked her again. Kenpachi sighed, grabbed both girls and ran at full speed back to the fork in the tunnel in less than a minute.

'Wow, that was fast, er… thanks I guess,' said Ratiasu.

'Yay that was fun, let's do it again,' cheered Yachiru. Kenpachi ignore them both and walked upwards. 'Aww, don't leave without me. Wait up.' Yachiru hurried after him.

'I wonder what that was about, Kenpachi's awfully quiet, hmm…' though Ratiasu and then she suddenly realized they had left without her. 'Hey wait for me.'

They blimbed gingerly through the tunnel which was widening with each step they took. The tunnel wasn't lit by anything so the tunnel itself was quite dark, only a light at the end gave some light to the tunnel. Kenpachi, still keeping unusually quiet was in front and walking quickly towards the end.

'Hey captain Kenpachi. Is it just me or are you being a bit quiet at the moment?' asked Ratiasu nervously.

'Maybe I am a bit, don't worry, it's because I couldn't be arsed interfering with your little argument and decided to stay out of it. After all, I do my fighting on the battle field,' he turned round and gave a devilish smile before carrying on. Ratiasu decided it was best not to say anymore so she followed in silence. Not even Yachiru said anything.

They reached the end of the tunnel and entered a huge hall. It had a gigantic gate on the other side, weird Egyptian statues lined up on either side of the hall and four tall torches stood on all four corners of the rectangular shaped hall, one lit, the other three unlit.

'This is unusual,' thought Ratiasu stepping into the hall.

'Wow, looks like a fun playground, exclaimed Yachiru who was jumping around the place climbing on the statues. Kenpachi didn't pay her any attention and advanced towards the gate opposite.

'Hey Yachiru, it's not a good idea to play on those, who knows how long they've been here, they could fall apart at any second,' warned Ratiasu.

'Awww, but they're so fun, and nothing looks broke to me, hee hee,' laughed Yachiru.

'Whatever,' sighed Ratiasu turning her attention to the gate ahead. Kenpachi had stopped looking spaced out staring at the gate. Ratiasu caught up with him and stood next to him.

'Sure is a big gate, I'm guessing this is where we're suppose to go next, question is how to get through,' said Ratiasu in a thinking way.

'I sense a massive amount of spiritual pressure behind this gate, it's almost luring me go it,' said Kenpachi whose voice sounded like he was in a trance.

'Erm… are you okay?' asked Ratiasu in a what-the-hell manner.

Kenpachi suddenly jerks and shakes his head, 'oh sorry, I didn't know what happened to me there.' He seemed to be back to his normal self. 'So, how do we get through then?' He asked completely ignoring Yachiru who was sliding down a statue laughing her head off.

Then, Ratiasu noticed something, 'hey look,' she said pointing near the top of the gate, 'If you look really closely you can see words inscribed on the edge of the gate and all the way round.'

Kenpachi looked as well, 'problem is, they're in some old language that non of us can understand.' But Ratiasu wasn't listening, she was concentrated on reading through the ancient language. 'You can understand it?'

Ratiasu finished reading and looked up at Kenpachi with a smile, 'surprisingly, yes.'

'So, what do we do?'

'It's actually pretty simple. Basically all the gate says is lit all four of the torches at the same time then unlock the gate with the key,' Ratiasu explained.

'And how do we light all the torches at the exact same time?' asked Kenpachi and looked over at the lit torch, 'there's only one stick there that can be used to light the others with the single flame, I doubt you can do that all at the same time.

'Did you forget that this eye is for me and me only? Which means something about me can do this task. Figured it out yet?' Ratiasu saw Kenpachi's blank and non bothered face and understood that he hadn't a clue, 'it's my speed, I can easily flash step to each place sequentially in less than a second.'

'Ah, I see. Well then, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and let's get this over with,' said Kenpachi impatiently.

Ratiasu flash stepped over to the wooden stick, picked it up and set it aflame using the lit torch. The stick was burning out pretty fast and looked like it can only last a few seconds. Ratiasu then immediately flash stepped to the rest of the torches and easily set them all alight just before the stick burnt out. The door gave a gold flash signaling that she had done it right.

'What next?' Kenpachi asked impatient as always.

'Just gotta unlock the door now with the key,' said Ratiasu walking towards the gate. She didn't wait for an answer from Kenpachi and carried on explaining because she knew he obviously was clueless, 'I saw a sword shaped hole in the gate, so I'm guessing that this is the keyhole, and my sword is the key.'

'Guess that makes sense, yay, go Terri,' cheered Yachiru who had stopped playing and now hangs on Kenpachi's shoulder again.

Ratiasu stuck her sword into the hole, turned it and pulled it out again. The gate glowed brightly and slowly creaked open. Behind it was an even brighter light that made everyone shield their eyes and Ratiasu jumped back next to Kenpachi.

'This is so shiny,' said Yachiru with her child like mind.

'Now's not the best time Yachiru,' replied Ratiasu unable to keep her eyes open.

'This is the massive amount of spiritual pressure I sensed earlier, let's see what it is shall we?' asked Kenpachi.

'I would if I could open my eyes,' said Ratiasu. Then all of a sudden the light vanished, and the room returned to its usual brightness. 'That was rather intense.'

Now that no light blocked their eye sight they were able to see beyond the gate, which wasn't at all anything impressive. It was just a light room, nothing but light surrounded the room. But what interested Ratiasu wasn't the light, or the room. It was the flashing eye hovering steadily in the middle of the room.

'There it is, what we came here to get,' said Ratiasu walking towards the eye. It responded to her and floated towards her as well. The eye passed the gate, and Ratiasu instantly knew something was wrong. The eye which had been hovering slowly towards her just suddenly shot at her, aimed for the necklace. It was absorbed into the necklace before it made contact so she didn't get hit.

But as soon as the eye was absorbed, Ratiasu started losing consciousness, she felt pain everywhere in her body as if something was trying to get out and she clutched her chest. She knelt down on the ground breathing fast, a voice suddenly appeared in her head saying, 'you're mine now Ratiasu. You are weak and don't deserve to control me, therefore I will control you, so give up and don't try to resist me, YOU'RE MINE.' A sudden surge of spiritual energy erupted inside Ratiasu, after a single heart beat, and she was knocked out cold, her weak body didn't stand a chance against that much power.

'Hey Terri, are you okay?' asked Yachiru getting off Kenpachi's shoulder and walking towards her.

But before Yachiru reached her, a pair of gigantic grey dragon wings sprouted from Ratiasu's back and wrapped itself around her. At this moment another surge of spiritual energy blasted out from Ratiasu and it was even strong enough to blast Kenpachi and Yachiru away into the wall.

'Terri, what's happened to you?' screamed Yachiru as she just managed to land unharmed on her feet.

The wings opened, and Ratiasu's appearance had changed. Her silver hair was now completely black, and her eyes had no pupils in them like she was in a trance or controlled. Her sword had changed into something demonic, red and black coloured and a skull for the guard.

'Ratiasu is no more,' she said, except it wasn't her voice. The voice was deep and evil enough to send Yachiru shivering in fear.

Kenpachi grinned with joy, 'now this is something worth fighting,' he shouted and got out his sword. He charged at Ratiasu without hesitation and slashed at her. She barely moved her arm as she raised her sword to defend.

Ratiasu laughed and said, 'weakling, I've got other people to kill, so I'll spare you life this time,' she didn't move, but a wave of spiritual pressure exploded from Ratiasu's sword and Kenpachi was blown away into the wall again. 'I'll give you a clue what I'm going to destroy, the one place Ratiasu loves, Soul Society.' She turned round opened a gate and disappeared into it.

'Ha, like I'm going to let you get away, this isn't over Ratiasu,' shouted Kenpachi his voice sounded happy, but then again what'd'ya expect. He jumped into the gate and disappeared also.

'Hey, don't leave me, wait up Kenny,' screamed Yachiru as she too jumped in after Kenpachi. The gate closed and the hall fell silent, an eerie silent.

Note: The reason why it's that particular pyramid is because I went on Wikipedia, found a list of pyramids and randomly selected one