Sorry this took so long to get out guys, couldn't think of what to write, kinda. Anyway on with the chapter.

Thanks to plainpain for Beta reading.

I own none of the rights to Bleach, those go to Tite Kubo.

'Shiro'

'Tensa

Blood Tracker

Mugetsu, Soul Reaper Academy

Mugetsu looked down at the familiar chair he was currently bound to. A chill ran up his spine as he realised what would happen next. He was back in the dream, which picked on all his fears and what he blamed himself for. He looked around the dark room hoping to catch a glimpse of his tormentor to be, only to find nothing.

Gritting his teeth, Mugetsu tugged at his bonds knowing he needed to beat this nightmare. He wouldn't let it drag him down anymore. All his friends were fine, they were alive and he'd make sure nothing happened to them. They had him and his past self to protect them and that would be enough. And as soon as Shimi was dealt with everything would be back to normal, and he'd….Remain friends with them as Mugetsu.

With increased resolve he pulled and tugged at his bonds. They felt like leather as they rubbed into his skin, drawing blood that he barely noticed. He felt them loosen and grinned in victory, but that grin soon went.

The slackened ropes retightened themselves and a high pitched laugh echoed around him. It didn't sound like Ishida, the pitch was much too high for the Quincy. The cruel twisted laugh quietened down leaving small echoes around him as a figure appeared from the shadows in front of him.

Orihime.

Or what was left of her.

Her body was burnt and void of most of its skin. Half her face and an arm was all Mugetsu could see that kept its skin, the rest was covered by a simple clean white robe to protect her modesty. Her usual pretty face was decorated with cuts and remained unframed by any burnt-orange hair. The skin that clung to her was extremely white, and allowed her now dark brown eyes to stand out even more as they glared at him.

"Kurosaki-kun!" Ghost Orihime mocked in a hollow version of the real Orihime's happy voice. Mugetsu stared up at her, not wanting to believe that he'd done that to her, but knowing he had. He shut his eyes and tried to banish the nightmare away, but it was to no avail. He was stuck here until someone on the outside woke him up, and when that would happen he was unsure.

Her face twisted into that of disgust as she spat the next words as Mugetsu, "How disgusting, I can't believe I used to trust you. You killed me!" She screamed, "Weren't you there to rescue me? I was scared and feared for you, all during the time I was trapped. Deep down I didn't want you to rescue me, I didn't want you to get hurt. But looked what happened!" She gestured to herself and took a step closer to Mugetsu, "Your 'rescue' killed me. And the others," She added in a dark tone before clicking her fingers.

A light cut through the darkness above Mugetsu and collided with a screen in front of him. The image appeared to be paused at the moment when his hollow self was firing a cero. And if Mugetsu looked hard enough he could see the faint outline of an orange shield Orihime used.

"Let the reliving begin," Ghost Orihime snarled and clicked her blood tainted bone fingers again. Mugetsu shut his eyes again and kept them shut. It may've been the weak thing to do but he didn't want to watch it all again. He didn't want to see anymore. His friends were safe and he wanted to move on. Dwelling on what would never be wouldn't get him anywhere. But he could feel his new found resolve diminishing, the regrets he still had nipped and pulled it apart, trying to crush him under a huge wall of despair.

Why was this happening? None of this felt natural. Nightmares didn't normally attack you like his were. They brought out your greatest fears, and while his may be the deaths of his friends. He wasn't afraid of himself killing them anymore.

Mugetsu had no more time to pounder about his new found realisation as he felt his eyes being pried open again. When they were opened he saw ghost Orihime standing were she was before, shaking a finger at him and tutting as if he were a naughty child.

"You must keep your eyes open Kurosaki-kun," She said sweetly but then her features turned dark, "Or I'll pull them out and make you watch."

He tried to scowl at her but whatever was holding his eyes open prevented him from doing so. And before he knew it he was reduced to the same quivering wreck he was the night before as he watched the ending of his hollow's rampage.

The scene began to play and Mugetsu watched with horror as he discovered the origins of ghost Orihime's burnt skin. He watched as the cero collided with Orihime's orange shield, her pleas echoed in the air as they fell on deaf ears. The red smashed through the shield and into the girl who'd been stood behind it. She was swept away and surrounded by red, the only indication that she was still alive were her screams of agony.

Mugetsu could feel it, the emotions of the hollow bleeding into him combined with the sorrow he felt for attacking his friend. The hollow was no longer conscious of who it was attacking. It was too far gone in blood-lust and rage to tell the difference between friend and foe. Letting out a huge roar, the mindless hollow stalked towards where it's prey had last been.

Stomping over the white dusty ground the hollow located the two forms of Ishida and Orihime. Thoughts of hunger and amusement passed through the hollows mind and into Mugetsu as he watched Orihime try to pull his zanpakuto out of Ishida's gut. The girl sobbed as she put all her strength into pulling out the blade, but her strength soon faded from her.

His hollow stopped a metre from it's prey and allowed Orihime to slowly turn to face him, her face bruised and her eyes wide as tears leaked from them. A sob filled cough escape her before the hollow swiped at her face with it's claws, sending her flying a few metres away. It got closer to the Quincy as he came to, blood coming out of his mouth as he looked up at the hollow. His eyes pleading but still filled with confidence that he could get his friend back somehow.

"Kurosaki…" He coughed, his voice scratchy and faint. The hollow ignored the speech that the Quincy began as it reached down and pulled it's zanpakuto from Ishida's gut. After it was pulled free the boy in front of him sagged slightly and he flicked the blade to rid it of the blood that coated it. He was about to go in for the kill, ready to gorge himself of the sweet taste of his prey's reiatsu, but he sensed something coming towards him.

With a growl he looked up in the projectiles direction to see the girl holding her hands out and a small beam of gold heading towards him. Snorting in amusement the hollow executed a quick sonido and caught the golden missile, crushing it instantly. The sender cried out and another sonido was executed to reach her, intent on causing her pain.

Suddenly the scene paused, it froze with a few of a white clawed hand holding a burnt arm in it's grip tight and the flesh it held trembled.

"Before we move on Kurosaki-kun, I have a present for you," Her voice was sickeningly sweet as she walked closer to Mugetsu who then noticed she was missing an arm. His eyes widened as he realised that would be the next thing he had to endure, the next thing he inflicted on the girl he'd sworn to protect.

She stopped in front of him her hands held out in front of her as a ball of red began to form. Mugetsu shouted at her to stop, that this wasn't her. But the ghost laughed off his pleas and his vision was consumed by red.

The next he knew was burning, white hot pain. Mugetsu screamed as the skin was burn away from his bones. Everything was one fire as he trashed around in the chair trying to move away on reflex.

Then it stopped. And he was left with nothing but feeling numb as everything in his body slackened. He slumped down into his chair that was completely undamaged and his head drooped. Whatever forced his eyes open relented as his vision went blurred before being forced back up again. He locked gazes with ghost Orihime who was smiling the kind smile the real Orihime used to smile. The smile turned into a sneer as she raised her hand and clawed him across the face.

Mugetsu's head was forced to the side as she dug her nails into his cheek, clawing up through the slightly burnt flesh. She removed her hand with a harsh cackle and Mugetsu gasped and moaned in pain. His breathing was laboured but that matted little as with a click of her fingers he was forced to watch the remainder of the scene unfold.

Ghost Orihime appeared at his side, holding his arm in a tight grip before completely tearing it away in sync with the scene in front of him. As Mugetsu screamed Orihime screamed, both now void of an arm. He felt like he was on fire, but everything was going numb as if he were about to die. Black spots appeared in his vision but the dream wouldn't allow him to slip away. He could only vaguely see as Ulquiorra appeared behind his hollow, snapping off one of his horns to prevent him rampaging any further.

When the Ichigo had recovered and looked back up at Ulquiorra, the espada was already turning to dust. He gave a glance at the barely breathing Orihime who was sprawled out on the floor behind him. Ichigo turned to look at her, despair and devastation running through his brain. The emotions hit Mugetsu like a freight train, he remembered it all. He couldn't believe what he'd done, he hadn't seen any point in continuing. What would everyone think about him when it was over? They'd think he was an uncontrollable monster.

A choked sob escaped Ichigo as he turned back to Ulquiorra who'd half turned to dust. He tried to form words but he couldn't say anything and that was when the espada spoke. His voice tainted with a small part of emotion but it was barely noticeable.

"I was beginning to understand what the woman meant by a heart. It's a shame her life was ended by the one she seemed to love, how tragic. You should go, trash, it is pointless in staying here as you have already defeated me. Maybe if you're quick enough you can save the rest of your friends even if it's only prolonging the inevitable. Aizen-sama will dispose of you all in the end."

He disappeared into the wind, no longer alive but his words echoed in his mind and Ichigo turned back to Orihime and ran over to her constantly apologising for what he'd done. It stopped. Before Orihime could utter her forgiving words, saying she knew it wasn't his fault before her breathing stopped, leaving Ichigo alone.

"That was nice wasn't it, Kurosaki –kun?" Ghost Orihime asked sweetly, walking in front of him. "I guess my fun has ended, oh well. Here's one last parting gift."

She thrust her hand forwards into his chest and he screamed. Her hand hit with such force that it broke through the skin and shattered his ribcage. More would've continued had Mugetsu not been pulled from the dream, awaken on his bed screaming as someone tried to hold him down.

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Beelzebub, Soul Reaper Academy

"You did put another sleep spell on the kid right?" Beelzebub grunted to Iris as he tried to hold Mugetsu down. They'd awoken to hear Mugetsu screaming and thrashing in his bed and had instantly jumped into action, trying to awaken him.

"I did it when we woke up, Master," Iris confirmed as she watched Beelzebub try to calm Mugetsu down. The albino was clutching his chest with his left arm while the other lay limp at his side. He was covered with sweat and his face was panicked, but the eyes were empty.

"I-It was my fault…" He muttered more to himself then to anyone else in the room. "I killed them, I killed her," he looked at Beelzebub, anger in his face as he continued his babbling, "Why was I so weak? Why did I let it control me? I'm so pathetic! I couldn't protect any of them! I-" He wrenched himself out of Beelzebub's grip and jumped off his bed with a heavy thud.

"Mugetsu!" Beelzebub snapped at him, keeping as quiet as he could. "Look at me," Mugetsu looked at him and when Beelzebub met his eyes he saw what was going on. They were empty but, there was something else there. A small haze was on them, as if he were under a spell. And by combining that with the fact he was just in a dream Beelzebub realised what –or who- had happened.

"Morpheus!" He snarled the God of dreams name and as soon as he had Mugetsu backed away from him and ran out the door, muttering about it being his fault.

"Damn it!" Beelzebub cursed as the door closed behind Mugetsu, "We need to go after him. But we can't hide you as a student, things like that never work!" He growled, then something hit him, why bother with being someone else? "Iris, can you make our demon features invisible for about thirty minutes?"

"Thirty minutes is all I shall be able to give you, my strength isn't back, Master," She nodded and after a few seconds of mumbling Latin Beelzebub watched as her wings, tail and red eyes disappeared from view. Looking around them room Beelzebub spotted some spare uniforms and threw a set at Iris.

"Time for a change Iris," he smirked as the pair got changed in lightning speed, or in Beelzebub's case, half changed. He looked at the top in his hands and sighed, how the hell was he supposed to wear this? While his wings may be hidden from view it didn't mean they weren't there. He snorted, fine he wouldn't ware it, let them try stop him. Slinging the top over his shoulder he motioned for Iris to follow him and they both exited them room, hoping to avoid as many people as possible.

Thankfully when they stepped outside the corridor was deserted. Letting the door click softly behind them Beelzebub and Iris made their way down to their stairs, masking their spiritual pressure as they did. While walking down the stairs they both experienced a sense of nostalgia, as they'd both been through this kind of environment.

On the ground floor there were a few people wondering around but a few appeared not to notice Beelzebub and Iris, those that did left them alone while they whispered amongst themselves. They continued out the dorm block in silence until they came to a four-way-split. Silently cursing to himself Beelzebub looked around for someone to ask where the albino had gone. Then he spotted an older student with black hair and wearing a strange white thing on the side of his head. Recognising the way the boy held himself Beelzebub couldn't help but snort quietly, a noble, great.

"Oi," He called catching the nobles attention, "Have you seen…" he tried to think of the alias for Mugetus, "Tamotsu?"

"Who wants to know?" He asked suspiciously, green eyes narrowing at them.

"Cut the crap, I need to find him. Now," Beelzebub growled stepping closer to the noble.

"I'm not going to tell just anyone where Tamotsu went," the noble said. "He doesn't appear to be in the state to see anyone."

"That's why I need to find him!" Beelzebub snarled then noticing the way the noble talked about Mugetsu asked, "Who the hell are you anyway?"

"Kouki Kuchiki. I'm a friend of Tamotsu's," He said with a small smirk. "And who're you two?"

Beelzebub snorted, trust Mugetsu to make friends with a noble, someone who could rat him out. What the hell was with him? All the friends Mugetsu had so far, had either seen him without the illusion or had the power to bring everything down. He glanced at Iris, the small demon was bored, he could tell. She wanted to hurry up and find Mugetsu, and was rocking on the balls of her feet to voice her haste.

"We're just two, friends of his," Beelzebub found it strange to say the word 'friend'. When you were a Fallen you didn't have friends. You had brothers, enemies and slaves. But never friends.

Kouki raised an eyebrow then sighed, "I've never seen him with you two. In fact I've never seen you around the Academy, so who are you?"

Frowning Beelzebub quickly tried to think of an excuse, but the noble thought of one for him.

"Unless you're new transfers, or visiting for the day? You look foreign."

"We're just visiting Tamotsu." Beelzebub added, "Checking up on him."

"Really? He didn't mention anyone was visiting…"

"Surprise visit," Beelzebub interrupted. "Can you tell us where he went? We need to leave soon."

Trying to hide his suspicion Kouki nodded and proceeded to give them correct directions to Mugetsu, "If you keep going down this corridor then take a right, then left outside he'll be up a tree to the far right."

"What makes you so sure?"

"I followed him."

Smirking Beelzebub bid the Noble a quick goodbye and hurried to where he'd said Mugetsu was. Known to them they also had a certain Noble following them a few seconds later, but they had a plan to deal with that.

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The Tree, A Few Minutes Later

Beelzebub looked up the tree to see Mugetsu sat as far up as he could, staring out over the horizon. The sun was just rising, brining an orange glow to everything around them as it shone one Mugetsu's face. Nobody spoke as Beelzebub and Iris made their way up to him. He made no indication that he was going to run away, instead he just sat there. Staring at nothing while the thoughts inside him played havoc with his mind.

"Snap out of it Tamotsu," Beelzebub growled, gaining Mugetsu's attention.

Slowly turning to face the two demons with a blank face Mugetsu spoke in a frustrated tone, "I killed them. I was so weak and pathetic I couldn't do anything!"

Beelzebub nodded to Iris who quickly muttered a few things in Latin before they both relaxed slightly. Comfortable they could now talk without being heard clearly they both pinned Mugetsu with their eyes.

"Don't give me that crap Mugetsu," Beelzebub snarled. "You were lucky to still be alive and there've been those greater than you who've fallen just as badly."

Mugetsu looked at Beelzebub, really looked at him and realised what he was saying, "You? But I thought-"

"That I was like this from the start?" Beelzebub let out a harsh laugh, "Why do you think we're called 'Fallen'? Iris here has been a demon from the start."

Mugetsu eyed the young demon with a small ounce of confusion, "Did she do what I did? Kill her friends and as good as kill her family?"

"No," Iris said speaking up. "I made a deal to save my Mamma, I was twelve at the time and Mamma was dying from an accident that was my fault. We were at the market watching one of the prince's return to the city. I wanted to get closer but accidentally stumbled out into his path. Mamma ran out after me to move me out the way but as she did one of his forward guards ran her down. I managed to pull Mamma out the way but the damage was done and even I knew taking her to a healer wouldn't help her. That's when Master Beelzebub appeared and we made a deal; I was allowed to spend one year with Mamma after he healed her and then I'd have to go with him. I didn't get to spend a year with Mamma," Iris hung her head. "She left me when she found out I made a deal with a demon. Master Beelzebub's looked after me since then and made sure no one sacrificed me to Lucy before he collected me," she looked at Beelzebub with a smile.

"But I didn't save them," Mugetsu muttered. "I killed them."

"No you haven't killed them," Beelzebub said crouching in front of Mugetsu. "Everything you've seen, everything you know and everything you did, it's all gone. Most of it will never happen, because you've stopped it. You've saved them all, and they don't know it."

Mugetsu said nothing as he looked up at Beelzebub through the white mess of his hair, brown eyes still glazed over from the spell Morpheus was trying to keep him under. But there was hesitation in those eyes and that was all Beelzebub needed to break pull Mugetsu from despair.

Grabbing Mugetsu by the chin Beelzebub forced him to look at Iris, "Do it now Iris!"

"What the hel-" Mugetsu's protest was cut off as Iris began chanting, a sweat breaking out on her forehead due to the exertion of doing so many spell's in a short space of time. Looking Mugetsu in the eye Iris' chanting didn't take longer than a few seconds. When she was done the albino slumped forwards slightly before righting himself.

Blinking to clear his vision Mugetsu first sight was that of Beelzebub and Iris in Academy uniform, which surprised him. Almost falling backing in surprise Mugetsu scowled at the pair in front of him.

"What the hell are you doing?" He snapped, glancing round to see if anyone was watching.

"Looks like he's back to normal, well done Iris," Beelzebub snickered.

Iris giggled, "Thank you Master."

"Hey!" Mugetsu growled, "You didn't answer my question."

"We just prevented Morpheus from messing with your dreams again and brought you out of his spell," Beelzebub growled in response moving back away from Mugetsu to stand on a branch opposite him.

"Morpheus?"

"God of dreams, Greek. Shimi must have got him to do this somehow, he doesn't usually target people with such ruthlessness," Beelzebub explained leaning against the trees trunk. "All those horrible, realistic dreams you've been having were his doing. Good thing we caught it early, with the rate he was going at you'd be a fuckin' mess by the end of the week."

"Then everything I saw was a lie?" Mugetsu asked.

"Not all of it, I'm sure he would've shown you some memories, it's how he works."

"Personal experience?"

"Not me, a…brother of mine had many enemies. I didn't realise what was happening to him until it was too late," Beelzebub said his jaw tensing. "He couldn't fight back and they killed him. I only managed to get there just before his body turned to dust."

"Beelzebub…"

"Don't pity me Mugetsu, I'm over it." Beelzebub cut over him, "My brother was foolish enough to land himself in the situation, he…deserved what he got."

Mugetsu twitched, "Bastard, I was just trying to help."

"Telling me it's all okay isn't helpin', he died ages ago. I couldn't have done anythin'," He smirked at Mugetsu's still twitching look, "I know you're an empathetic person but I don't need it, you need to concentrate on yourself."

"Fine," Mugetsu growled, "So what now?"

"We have news for you, but you're not goin' to like it," Beelzebub sighed. "Apophis is looking for you, Shimi got her released from prison by most likely playin' a mind trick on the Royal Guard. Tch, I thought they were supposed to notice things like that, Grim should at least."

"I haven't seen him since he was supposed to be tracking you down," Mugetsu shrugged as he thought about the missing Grim Reaper.

"He's probably been captured by Shimi, they never located me as I was well hidden," Beelzebub thought for a moment before an idea came to mind. "If I could find out where he is, maybe he could make everyone realise Shimi isn't what they think."

"He's going to listen to you?" Mugetsu asked doubtfully. "From what I heard, they're all suspicious of your intentions and don't trust you."

"That's why when I find him, you'll be the one to convince him," He replied with a grin.

"What? You've got to be kidding!" Mugetsu retorted shaking his head, "I'm supposed to be laying low."

"While we find out how to prove your innocence," Beelzebub added. "This could be the only damn way, so suck it up and get over it. I'll send Iris to get you when we find him, might be a while though."

"Great, what about Apophis?" Mugetsu scowled.

"Let's see.." He cocked his head as he looked up, "It's about six thirty, I'd say we got enough time to take her down. If Iris is up to blocking out our Spiritual pressure."

"I can only give you fifteen minutes master," Iris pouted.

"That's more than enough; Mugetsu here's a powerful son of a bitch," Beelzebub grinned ruffling her hair. "Now what to do about our little follower?"

"Follower?" Mugetsu scowled.

"Some kid called Kouki, said he was a friend of yours." Seeing the look on Mugetsu's face he added, "Don't worry he hasn't heard a thing."

"You better not have done anything to him," Mugetsu said bleakly, knowing what Beelzebub was light.

"Nice to know you have faith in me," Beelzebub smirked. "And no, I didn't do anything, he's just stood down there waiting for you to come down and tell him you're okay. Looks like you made yourself some nice friends kid."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing," Beelzebub said. "Time to go, we've got to find Apophis quickly and before she finds you."

"Fine," Mugetsu said as he began to climb down the tree. "But how's she supposed to find me and why not bring Shimi with her?"

"She's a blood tracker, there aren't many of them left and their specific to her pantheon but they're a bitch to deal with. They track you using blood, hence the name, and there's no way of escaping them unless you kill them." Beelzebub paused to consider the other half of Mugetsu's question, "As for why she wouldn't bring Shimi with her, he's probably busy making sure everyone's under his control. He may be the Hogyoku but he's not all powerful and some people can break out of his spell, if they really want to."

Nodding in understanding Mugetsu continued down the tree, dropping himself in front of Kouki when he was low enough. The noble gave him a curious look then glanced up the tree to look for Beelzebub and Iris. When he caught sight of them half smiling he looked back at Mugetsu a small smile making its way onto his lips.

"Feeling better Tamotsu?" He asked, knowing what the answer would be.

"Uh yeah, sorry about earlier," Mugetsu replied running his hand through his hair. "I..uh remembered something I didn't want to."

Tapping him on the shoulder Kouki smiled in understanding, "Don't worry about it, I think I know what you mean. Sometimes I don't want to remember what they said about my father, doesn't stop me though. You never said you had friends from other pantheons."

"Well, they were just there when they died but I didn't expect to see them again," Mugetsu lied, shrugging as the two in question landed next to him. Beelzebub cast him a few glances to encourage him to hurry up.

"I've got to go help them with something, if you see Arata could you tell him?" Mugetsu asked as he backed away towards Beelzebub.

"Sure, just glad you're okay Tamotsu. Don't take too long though, or I might have to say something," Kouki grimaced waving them off as they flash-stepped and he couldn't help by notice the swirl of fire when Mugetus's friends did their 'flash-step'. He raised an eyebrow at both this and how easily Mugetsu had caught on to using flash-step but committed it to memory before making his way back inside.

Off to the distance Ryo had seen the exchange between the pupils noticing the foreignness of two of them. Narrowing his eyes as three of them flash-stepped away his watched as Kuchiki stared off in their direction before disappearing inside. Ryo wasn't sure what to do, he could attempt to follow his student and figure out what was going on but from the looks of it he was just helping out a new transfer. But then again the people he was with didn't look like transfers even if they were wearing uniforms. Sighing to himself Ryo turned around and decided it was best to go to the staffroom and tell the others, it was probably something they could add to the list.

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Thirty Minutes Later, Fifteen Miles Away From The Academy

"You sure this is far enough?" Mugetsu asked willing to go further away as he lent on a tree at the edge of a clearing.

Beelzebub didn't answer for a second as he had his eyes closed but after a few moments he answered, "Another five miles would be ideal but we don't have time. She's on her way here."

Without another word he jumped into the clearing with Iris following behind him. Following them Mugetsu jumped into the clearing and walked up to Beelzebub who turned his way.

"Take off the illusion band and you Academy uniform," He ordered then added. "If someone watches then they'll just see two convicts having a battle and that's what we want them to see. No Academy student."

Scowling Mugesu quickly tugged off his clothes then removed the vambrace like band and rolled them up together before looking around deciding what to do with them.

"Give them to Iris, she won't be fighting," Beelzebub said before adding, "And get your Zanpakuto to stop suppressing your power so much, the barriers are already up."

"Yep! Cause they're my speciality!" Iris grinned as she grabbed Mugetsu's uniform and disappeared in a flash of hell-step.

'I'm guessing you heard him Tensa.'

'Yeah, I'm still suppressing some of your power. You won't need all of it to take her down.'

'Oi! You better use me King, it's been boring sat here doing nothing!'

'If I need to, I will.'

'You better, or I might become a bitch to deal with.'

Mugetsu didn't reply to his hollow only noting that he would probably use the mask, just to keep him happy. He didn't need his hollow running around as his double, the outcome would be disastrous. Feeling the stiff bandages form on his chest and up half his face Mugetsu held out his hand and collected black reiatsu into the form of a sword.

He looked as Beelzebub who was holding two short versions of Tensa, and when he caught Mugetsu looking he explained.

"My power is 'borrowing' other peoples powers or abilities, problem is I can't copy that form of yours but I can copy your old stuff," He shrugged. "I might switch to Apophis' though, depends how it turns out."

"How do you-" Mugetsu began but Beelzebub cut him off.

"No matter what you are now, the power you had before is still on you. It's like an echo, but that's enough for me to copy some of it and add a few of my abilities, not that I have many others. This is like my 'Bankai'."

Beelzebub didn't get to add any more, even if he'd want to because just as he finished talking a familiar voice called out to them.

"How nice for you to come greet me Mugetsu," She walked out of the edge of the forest, looking at Beelzebub as she continued, "And Beelzebub too, well that is a surprise. Trying to redeem yourself are we? Like anyone would forgive a Fallen."

"I'd watch your mouth if I was you Apophis," Beelzebub growled as he started towards her, preparing to do a hell-step.

"No! I'd watch yourselves, after all I'm not alone." With a click of her fingers black holes appeared either side of her and two identical men appeared. They were both wearing a dirtied white sarongs accompanied by dirty gold thick straps of leather which were shaped like a crop top that had a huge V-neck. A single strip continued down into belts that held small chained black sickles. Their dark burnt like skin was also covered by vambraces and enhanced by bright yellow snake eyes. The bottom half of their faces elongated out into a snakes mouth as their forked tongues flickered out, tasting the air.

"You called Missstresss," They both hissed in unison, two long front fangs catching Mugetsu's attention.

"Sek, Mot, show this foolish Fallen what he gets for mocking me," She looked at Mugetsu with dark snake eyes before throwing off her cloak and revealed someone who looked extremely similar to Anubis. Two curved daggers hung from her waist before she pulled them off and launched herself at Mugetsu. At the same time Sek and Mot began attacking Beelzebub.

I guess not much happened in this chapter, I kinda got carried away with the beginning but anyway, next time it'll be the battle with Apophis and her minions. And soon we'll be catching up with Harribel and her fraccion.

Next time: Striking Venom