I'm back after so long, I didn't upload last week cause of hurricane Matthew here in NC. My power was out for a while and I had a writer's block for a bit so yea. You guys don't care about that you guys just want the next chapter after the cliffhangers. A couple things i want to say.

1) I'm honestly surprised at how many people have actually read this fanfic and enjoy it. Despite grammar, the OOC of the characters and the way the story started off. I didn't think much of it when I started off, I did this out of extreme boredom. 2) As you guys can tell I've been hitting a lot of writers blocks, if you guys want to help out with the story just PM me and we can talk about what you have in mind.

That's all for now hope you enjoy this chapter.

Hollow Zangetsu Regular

Chapter 37 Demon or Angel?

Moments Earlier Ichigo's Inner World

The Vasto Lorde class hollow Ichigo and Grimmjow were fighting was now fighting the two of them seriously. At first Ichigo and Grimmjow were getting the upper hand on the hollow, but in a split moment that all changed when the hollow's reiatsu started to raise at an alarming rate. The hollow then started to beat the two like they were small fry. Whatever damage either one of the two dealt to the hollow, it would be for nothing as the hollow would heal all it's wounds.

While the fight was going on, in Ichigo's inner world his white counter part was laying down on the sideways building looking through Ichigo's eyes. Old Man Zangetsu stood on his favorite pole also watching the fight through Ichigo's eyes. "We should go help King or else he'll die, meaning we die." The white counter part of Ichigo said to the cloaked man.

Zangetsu kept his attention on the fight going on. "Hey old man are you listening?" The hollow said as he got up from his position to look at the other spirit. "Hey don't you ignore me!" The hollow said as he stood up and grabbed his white version of Zangetsu by the hilt with a tick mark on his forehead. "Ichigo's life isn't in danger of dying at the moment." Zangetsu said to him.

"What do you mean 'isn't in danger of dying'? The hollow they're fighting is getting stronger by the minute King could die!" The hollow said as took a fighting stance and drew his white Zangetsu. "In the past Ichigo has always gone against strong opponents and come out on top." Zangetsu said with his emotionless face. "Why are you acting so cold right now? Wasn't it you that helped him and kept him from dying during his fight with Kenpachi? You called on me so I could help you with teaching him to use a zanpakuto." The hollow said with anger evident in his tone.

Zangetsu looked at him and decided to calm down the spirit before it goes into his full hollow form. "Once it is evident that his life is on the verge of death then you can help him." Zangetsu said as he walked off the pole and towards the other spirit. "You ain't gonna help him?" he said with anger and killing intent coming off of him. "I help Ichigo by lending him my power every time he enters a battle." Zangetsu said to the hollow.

"BULLSHIT! If you really do lend him your power then why haven't you given him any of those quincy abilities you have then?" The hollow said as grabbed Zangetsu by his cloak. "I haven't given Ichigo those powers because he doesn't know what powers he really holds."Zangetsu said the hollow's grip was loosing. "Then next time he comes in here we do one more test, if he can beat the two of us then we tell him everything we know." The hollow said letting go of the cloak. Zangetsu nodded then the two felt a huge buildup of reiatsu heading for Ichigo about to end him.

"Looks like King's life is in danger now. If you'll excuse me I got a Vasto Lorde to brutally murder." The hollow said as he started glowing red and his reiatsu skyrocketed. The hollow then disappeared from view and Zangetsu was all alone in Ichigo's inner world.

Present Time

The giant purple wave of energy heading for Ichigo and Grimmjow was cancelled out by a wave of black laced in red energy. When the smoke cleared it revealed Ichigo standing still and Grimmjow trying to stand as his resurreccion went back into it's sealed zanpakuto form. With all the injuries he received Grimmjow could barely stand on his own so he stabbed Pantera into the ground helping him stand. The hollow looked at the two confusingly. "The two of you aren't dead? I guess I just have to put more energy into my cero." The hollow said as it started charging another cero in the tips of his fingers.

The hollow was about to release the cero but then something it wasn't expecting happened, Ichigo had disappeared and reappeared right in front of him. What surprised the hollow was the fact that Ichigo had white material covering the entire left side of his face. The white material looked like a hollow mask with a black strip from the top of his head down to his chin.

"So you want to kill Ichigo? I can't let you do that, you see he dies then I die and that's a problem I can't have." The Hollow Ichigo said as swung Zangetsu at the hollow cutting through it's skin forcing it to jump back and discard the cero to heal it's wound. "So the rumors about you were true. Ichigo Kurosaki has a hollow within his soul." The hollow said as it charge hollow Ichigo and swiped it's clawed hand at him only for it to get caught by Hollow Ichigo and was crushing his hand.

"I don't give a damn about rumors right now. All I care about is hurting you so bad that you'll wish that Ichigo or Grimmjow were the one to kill you." Hollow Ichigo said as he ripped the hollow's arm off and smacked it in it's hollow mask with so much force it was sent flying a couple meters back. Grimmjow looked at Hollow Ichigo with surprised eyes. 'Kurosaki's hollow ripped off the bastards arm like it was nothing then smacked it in the face with it. How much stronger is his hollow?' Grimmjow thought to himself

The white substance on Hollow Ichigo's face started to spread across that rest of his face. The hollow mask now covered most of Ichigo's face but the upper right side of his face. A horn formed on the left side and three black markings appeared on the left side of his chest and his skin was partly white. The black markings on his chest stretched from across his chest and left shoulder, one of the three markings went up Ichigo's neck and connected to the black strip at bottom left side of the hollow mask.

"I'm still not fully hollowified but this should do for the time being." Hollow Ichigo said as he started walking up to the hollow as it regrew it's lost arm. "Such power, this is the power I've been looking for. Someone with enough power for me to go all out. Finally someone I don't have to hold back on." The hollow said as it glowed purple and and it's reiatsu skyrocketed making the winds pick up. "So you have even more power left in you? Guess I can fully hollowify then." Hollow Ichigo said as he started to glow red and the hollow mask spread across the rest of Ichigo's head.

Hollow Ichigo let out a roar and his reiatsu skyrocketed and a beam of red energy shot into the air and the winds started to pick up at incredible speeds. When it died down Hollow Ichigo's form was revealed. Hollow Ichigo's body was pure white, three more marking appeared on the right side of his chest, in the middle of his chest was a hollow hole. He had small red tufts of hair around his neck, wrists, and ankles. He had black retractable claws on his hands and clawed feet. He had straight long hair that reached his waist. His hollow mask looked demonic in it's complete form, he had four black stripes on his mask, two stopped at his forehead and the other two connected to the markings on his chest.

"Bring it on Ichigo Kuroskai's hollow, let us see which is stronger: The rare class of Vasto Lorde or the monster that destroyed hell itself?" The hollow said as it charged forward at high speeds. Hollow Ichigo charged forward at high speeds and the two started slashing at each other at even faster speeds. The hollow wasn't holding anything back in attacking Hollow Ichigo. Hollow Ichigo grabbed the hollow by the face and held it in the air and then stabbed it in the stomach with Tensa Zangetsu. Then Hollow Ichigo threw the hollow into the air, miles into the sky, then used sonido to appear right below the and started charging a cero in between his horns and released it pointblank at the hollow.

The hollow was covered heavily in burn marks. "That's a very powerful cero you have there. I barely got out of it alive." The hollow said as it was regenerating. Hollow Ichigo made a low growl seeing this. "Let's find out who's cero is more powerful shall we?" The hollow said as it charged a purple cero bigger then hollow Ichigo's body. Hollow Ichigo started charging a red cero between his horns, no bigger then his hand. The two released their ceros at each other, Hollow Ichigo's cero overpowering the hollow's cero and heading for the hollow who dodged the attack with his 'blur' technique.

"Your cero is much more powerful then I expected it to be, a small one is much more powerful then one of mine." The hollow said before Hollow Ichigo used sonido and appeared in front of him and shoved his left hand through the hollow's stomach. Hollow Ichigo then threw the hollow at the ground making a crater. and started charging a cero and released it at the hollow. The attack resulted in an explosion, and Hollow Ichigo let out a powerful roar along with red reiatsu. That's when he sensed it, the 10 magic signatures of the Fairy Tail group and Grimmjow were looking right at him.

Moment before

Just as both Hollow Ichigo and the hollow charged at one another Grimmjow sensed energy signatures heading in his direction. The Fairy Tail group saw Grimmjow who was using Pantera to help him stand up. Cana ran up to Grimmjow and put of his arms on her shoulders to help him stand. Gajeel walked around and grabbed Grimmjow's scabbard and sheathed Pantera. "Grimmjow are you okay?" Cana asked him with a look of worry on her face. Normally Grimmjow wouldn't accept any help or pity from anybody but his body was in so much pain from the fight that he had no choice but to accept it.

"Do I look okay to you?" Grimmjow said just as his legs gave out dropping him and Cana to a sitting position. "I'd say that you look like sunshine and rainbows right now." Gajeel said with a smirk on his face. Grimmjow glared at him but couldn't do anything in his condition. Erza step in front of the two, "Grimmjow where's the hollow, and more importantly where's Ichigo?" Erza asked him. Grimmjow grabbed Pantera from Gajeel and then with the same hand pointed at the two hollows in the sky charging up ceros. "How'd you miss them fighting?" Grimmjow as in let out a pained chuckle.

"The hollow fighting the one from before is Ichigo?" Lucy said as she witnessed the display of power it was showing as his cero overpowered the hollow's cero. "I thought there was something familiar about the pressure we felt on the way here. It was the same pressure we felt back during the whole thing with Phantom." Grey said watching as the two hollows just stood in mid-air.

Then Hollow Ichigo shoved his left hand through the hollow's stomach and then threw it at the ground far from then released a cero making an explosion with strong winds blow throughout the forest, pushing everyone on the ground. Then everyone heard the roar and it frighten some of the members in the group, especially when it turned its head at the ground and stared right at them.

Hollow Ichigo sonidoed to the ground a couple of yards from the group and started walking towards them. Then the hollow appeared in front of Hollow Ichigo and released a pointblank cero in his face. Hollow Ichigo stretched out his left hand and used his palm to catch the cero and kept walking forward. "So this level of power isn't even enough to hurt you. I'll just have to put more power into it." The hollow said as more power was being poured into the cero trying to force Hollow Ichigo back. Hollow Ichigo's palm grabbed the hollow's hand discharging the cero and crushed it stopping the attack. Hollow Ichigo was staring down the hollow then raised Tensa Zangetsu and cut the hollow in half down the middle, killing it in the process.

Everyone was in shock at what had just happened. Natsu and Grimmjow kept staring at Hollow Ichigo with caution. Mira went into her Satan soul, Erza requip into her Heaven's Wheel Armor, Grey, Gajeel, Elfman got into a defensive stance. Lucy, Happy, Juvia and Cana were terrified at not knowing what was gonna happen next. Hollow Ichigo stabbed Tensa Zangetsu into the ground. "F-f-fri-en-d." Hollow Ichigo said. 'I should really learn how to speak when I'm in this form.' Ichigo's inner hollow said.

"Did he just say...friend?" Happy asked as he was peeking from behind Lucy. "He must be trying to say his an ally then." Mira said. "W-w-won't...Hu-rt...You...Only...Protect..." Hollow Ichigo said as the Fairy Tail group was staring at him. "Protect? Protect who? Who were you protecting?" Juvia asked the demonic looking hollow. "I-chi-go...Pro-tect-ing...King..." Hollow Ichigo said.

"You were protecting Ichigo?" Natsu finally said something. "If you were protecting him then I guess you're a friend of ours." Natsu said as he started walking up to Hollow Ichigo with a smile. But before anyone could say anything else Hollow Ichigo's hand shot up and grabbed his face using his clawed fingers to scratch at his face while screaming in pain. When the hand got a good grip it yanked off the hollow mask shattering the rest of the mask and every piece of the hollowification turned into reishi and disappeared in the wind. Then Ichigo stood in front of the group and passed out on the ground.

Grimmjow watched as everyone ran up to Ichigo trying to wake him up. "Hey Grimmjow is something wrong?" Cana asked him. Grimmjow looked at her "Nah it's nothing I guess." Grimmjow said to her. "You sure? You look like you have something on your mind." Cana said a little worried. "It's nothing, it's just my regeneration is finally kicking in. It's healing all the minor injuries." Grimmjow said looking back at the unconscious form of Ichigo. 'So taking a beating like we did earlier and using all that power must've really taken a lot out of you huh Kurosaki?' Grimmjow thought to himself.

AN: That's the end of the filler chapters, finally! Next chapter we'll be back on track with the main story line of Fairy Tail. What did you guys think of the small fight of the fully hollowified Ichigo? How did the hollow know about the whole thing with hell? You find out in a future chapter. Again as I said at the beginning of the chapter I get writer's blocks ALOT so if you have ideas that could help progress this story forward then just PM me and we can talk about it.

*RANTING BELOW*

I can already guess that I'll be getting comments like: "You made him too strong in that fight." or something like "You didn't have him go berserk on that Vasto Lorde hollow." I'll be getting something along those lines, but there's a reason why I made it like that. I actually didn't make him as strong as you think I did. In the fight against Ulquiorra, Hollow Ichigo wasn't really going berserk you could tell he had more power than what he actually showed, he was playing with Ulquiorra, like a predator playing with it's food. You want to see a berserk hollow Ichigo then go watch the hell verse movie, or the visored training Ichigo was doing, or hollow Ichigo vs Zangetsu during the "Zanpakuto Rebellion Arc" those are more berserk hollow Ichigo. The Ulquiorra fight that was just badass hollow Ichigo.

The power difference between Hollow Ichigo and Vasto Lorde Hollow is noticeable. The reason why I made it like that is because again in the Ulquiorra fight he was just playing with him while admittedly being a badass at the same time. But he was toying with him as you can tell when Ulquiorra could't land a single hit on him at all in the CANON fight. IN the NON-canon fight which was the small fight scene at the beginning of the hell verse movie they made the two more equally powered and showed Ulquiorra landing a couple of hits in. Also I am taking the power he had in hell verse and incorporating it in this. So yea, by the way Ichigo's most powerful forms BEFORE he got his true shikai were his Dangai/Mugetsu form and his Fully Hollowified form.

*RANTING ABOVE*

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