A bit late sorry I was too lazy to get my laptop out ;P

We'll be starting with Ichigo.

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When we got back we found both adults awake and waiting for us. Vanthrin looked more amused then anything while my uncle looked irritated. "Have a nice stroll in the nightly woods?" he asked and I scratched my head embarrassed at getting caught.

"We didn't go for a stroll we were talking to Elrinas." Grimmjow spoke up laying down where he had been before I woke him. "He told us of another spirit who may know how to gain the help of the person in the mountains." He yawned and laid his head on his paws, tail flicking lazily. Aizen hummed ready to say something but Vanthrin just chuckled saying how lucky we were to have such amazing friends before promptly laying back down pulling Aizen with him gaining multiple complaints from my uncle. I laughed at them before laying back down as I had before curled up against Grimmjow's warm fur. In the morning we were sent to catch breakfast first thing. After eating we were told that training started immediately as Aizen sent a fire blast at Grimmjow, I barely had time to draw my sword and deflect it telling him to get going as his father charged us. We ran into the forest, myself blocking my uncle's magic while Grimmjow would block his father. "We can't just keep running Ichigo!" he panted.

"I know, but every time we try to stop and fight we get blown up!" I growled, it was really frustrating not being able to do anything. When it was just Aizen I at least had a moment or two to collect myself and defend but now with Vanthrin being thrown into the mix- even with Grimmjow keeping him back- it's always one or the other coming at us and we can only do so much. "It's a risk but you willing?" he nodded as we dodged another fire blast. "Switch with me, you take Aizen and I'll take your dad." He gave me a look that said he thought I was insane, "You got a better idea?" he growled out that he didn't and waited for his father to attack sliding under him rather then tackling him. I jumped off a tree trunk to get over top of him cutting downward at him. I caught his shoulder as I heard Aizen cry out.

"Clever, switching, but did you forget Aizen's illusion? Grimmjow hasn't fought against it before, that was the only hit he'll get." Vanthrin said facing off against me, Grimmjow and I were now back to back with Aizen on one side and Vanthrin on the other.

"So? That wasn't the point, it was to separate you." I grinned as I lunged magic swirling around my blade while I cut towards him. His eyes widened before he jumped back just dodging the blade, but not the magic as it scorched his fur making him hiss. "Grimm, feel him out don't look for him." I called over my shoulder when I felt the now familiar tingle of my uncle's magic as he hid himself. I heard Grimmjow grunt in reply before throwing up a defensive spell to repel his father as he lunged. It nearly shattered with just the first impact but I renewed it just in time for it to survive the second. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to fix it before the third and he busted through. I rolled to the side and lunged at him immediately after I got to my feet trying to keep myself between him and Grimmjow.

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My tail twitched as I scented the air, I was still new to the whole magic thing but I could feel something nearby. I jumped back as I felt the fur on my side stand up then swiped my paw towards that area catching cloth before a blast of air knocked me back. I rolled and quickly shook myself trying to tell where he was again but didn't react quick enough when he came down from above me and got driven to the ground. His knee was on top on my head, and he had cast some kind of binding spell on the rest of me. I growled and struggled against the invisible bonds while he got up and backed away. He relinquished his illusion as he headed for Ichigo.

I doubled my struggle knowing that Ichigo'd be facing them both now. "Damnit!" I roared as I forced myself to move against the spell, I could hear Ichigo panting and cry out as one of them attacked. When I saw him thrown into my line of sight and barely throw up a shield to block a fireball I lost hold on my cat form shifting back to human somehow slipping from the magical bonds and drew my sword attacking Aizen. This obviously surprised him as his eyes were huge, but at that point I couldn't really have cared as I cut at him in quick and rash movements. He jumped back throwing up a shield of his own as I brought my sword down. I refused to let the power of it make me bounce off and bore down on it till I saw cracks.

"Grimmjow!" I heard Ichigo call out, I looked to the side just in time to see my father coming at me but in an instant Ichigo was between us with his barrier up throwing him back. The shield I was pushing against vanished and Aizen stepped back but neither he nor my father made any move to attack. Both of us kept our swords up and at the ready, not sure what was going on.

"How did you get out of that spell? It shouldn't have slipped just because you changed?" Aizen asked with a complete dumbfounded look on his face, aside from his surprise just before that was the most expression I had ever seen out of the man. I shook my head honestly not knowing. I felt my legs shaking but refused to let myself fall let alone lower my blade, Ichigo seemed to be in the same state as I. "We are done for the day, it's now past noon you can put your weapons away." He said before he started pacing for lack of a better word as he mumbled to himself. Ichigo and I both fell to the ground exhausted.

My father came over checking us for wounds and healing what he could, "Sorry my healing magic isn't the best in the world. But I have to say that was quite something, and the fact that you stumped him hard enough to making him pace?" he whistled as he watched Aizen. "Tell me what you remember." He asked turning back to us.

"He came at me from above and pinned me with magic. When I saw Ichigo get thrown into my line of sight… I don't know I just lost it I guess…" I really didn't know what happened or where that sudden strength came from.

"Did you perhaps make eye contact?" We looked at him confused, "Yes it's important." I thought about it for a moment then nodded. We had just for a split second right before I changed back to being human and I said as much, "Do you remember the connection I spoke of?" I nodded, "That's how you did that then. You probably never would have noticed, but the way you were wielding your blade just then was similar to Ichigo. In that second of eye contact he subconsciously shared his knowledge and power with you allowing you to not only over power Sousuke's spell but to fight against him. This however was a two way street and Ichigo therein gained your quick reflexes allowing him to block me."

"For them to already be able to do such a thing…." Aizen said still confused though much less now that he had an answer.

"It wasn't on purpose so it's not really that surprising, we did push them into a corner after all. And it's not like it hasn't happened between the three of us in desperate times. Even though we don't have as strong a connection they do." Vanthrin said as he stood, "We'll get food you two rest up alright?" we nodded laying back on the ground as they adults went off Vanthrin teasing Aizen about getting out done by a couple of kids.

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For as tired as I was I couldn't fall asleep when they left to get food. "Hey Grimmjow…" he hummed in response telling me he was listening. "That was pretty cool, when you did that. But it felt kinda weird…like I was moving too even though I wasn't…" I rolled to my side using my arm as a pillow as I looked over to him.

"Yeah it was the same with me when you came to my aid, but it was cool you're right. … uhhhhh I'm so dead…." He groaned rolling over onto his stomach. "I bet it's going to be even harder tomorrow…." I nodded agreeing, there was no way Aizen wouldn't prepare for this next time. "Do you think they'll do something similar tomorrow? Should we try to plan for it somehow?" he asked me crossing his arms under his chin. I thought about it nodding it would probably be different but most likely only because they would be ready for the possibility of the 'connection' thing happening. We were just about to start talking about it when they came back. "So much for planning ahead…" he muttered just loud enough for me to hear.

"We won't be training too much tomorrow as I'd like to get out of this forest by the end of the week." Aizen said as they started prepping the elk they had caught. "Near the edge there is a large creature unlike I'm sure either of you have seen, and though I'm sure we could easily rid ourselves of it I'd rather not be bothered with having to. It is large ugly and smells of rotted flesh." He told us. This seemed to spark something in Grimmjow's head as he started digging through his pack for something. He pulled out the book Urahara had given him as a present and started flipping through the pages.

"Index….let's try this…." He mumbled after he scanned the page. He flipped to the middle of the book arriving on some gruesome looking creatures. "Is it one of these?" he asked holding up for my uncle to see. Aizen nodded saying it was the one on the left. "Let's see….Not very smart, very strong physically but only has slight magical power. Carnivorous, prefers solitude and lives in caves. These pictures are really disgusting…"

"Trust me they are nothing compared to a real troll." Vanthrin told us having come over to look at the book. "The three of us went against one a long time ago, and have made it a priority to stay as far away as possibly from them, Coyote almost got eaten…." Grimmjow and I both grimaced at that saying we were more then ok with staying away from them too. "Good, now come on food's almost done, we'll eat, rest then continue on till sundown. And you might want to start reading through that more thoroughly who knows, it may help." Grimmjow nodded putting the book away.

"Do you want me back in my cat form after we eat?" he asked and Vanthrin nodded saying that till we were out of the forest I was to stay in it, except for strange circumstances like the one earlier during training. "Alright then you are going to have to hold the book." He told me as he poked me, I laughed brushing him off saying I wanted to know what was in it to so I didn't mind. The rest of the day was boring for the most part. Me and Grimmjow spent it acting like kids as we chased each other back and forth to see who could stay away longest. At one point we ended up barreling into Aizen and he got really pissed off while Vanthrin just laughed. It's amazing how different the two of them are yet they seem to work really well together when they have to.

When we made camp for the night Grimmjow and I were sent to get food and then were left to read while the adults got it ready. We got through two chapters talking about small creatures of nature with minimum magical powers that weren't very dangerous before we were told to go to sleep. I put the bag back in Grimmjow's pack and curled up against his warm fur saying good-night to everyone before falling asleep.

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Not much to say other then you might have to start waiting more then a week from now on since I ran out of backlog. This is the last full chapter I have written out for now.