Episode 49: And So it Begins
Corpses. Corpses lying everywhere. Rubble fell from the massive buildings in the area. Starrk jumped backward to avoid being crushed by the rubble. "Damn..." He mumbled. "I knew... I knew..."
"You knew... WHAT?" Growled a voice.
Starrk swiftly spun around, seeing Raizen covered in blood, lying on the ground. A massive piece of rubble had crushed his back. Starrk started pushing the rubble off of him, but he couldn't muster enough strength to move it.
"YOU KNEW WHAT, STARRK? YOU KNEW NOT TO USE YOUR BANKAI? Then... why did you? All these people... are dead because of you!"
Starrk's eyes widened. "No... that can't be..."
More rubble fell toward Raizen's head. Starrk flew toward it, his arms reached out for it.
"Stop! Don't bother trying to save me, you didn't bother to try to save the rest of them!"
Starrk stopped, and the rubble collided with his skull.
"WAKE UP, Starrk!" Lilynette roared while slamming a frying pan into Starrk's head.
Starrk groaned, as he came back to reality. "I'm awake, I'm awake."
"Come on, we need to get ready for the war!" Lilynette cried. "Get up, get up!"
"You know... I've been thinking..."
"Thinking what, Starrk?"
"What if we just don't go to the war?"
"ARE YOU INSANE?"
"Think about it. People are going to die. If we aren't involved... then we won't need to know who gets killed. I suggest we leave the Soul Society, maybe live with Urahara in the World of the Living. There's enough Soul Reapers there to win the war without us."
Lilynette punched him in the stomach. "Stop being an idiot. Let's go."
Starrk looked into her eyes. "Do you realize... that we might die?"
Lilynette froze, then nodded. "Yes, I know. But we still need to do this."
"Hey, Captain." Called someone.
He turned to see Kai and Mizu standing in the doorway, Kai had his sword swung onto his shoulder and a grin on his face.
"It's time to go, Captain." Kai said. "We need to fight for the Soul Society."
Mizu shook his head. "Not the Soul Society. The whole universe."
In Hueco Mundo, there was a massive group of hollows standing before the Primera Espada, Dann Gordeau. "Are you ready to go to war?" Dann yelled so everyone could here him. "If you are not willing to give your life for Hueco Mundo, do not come. This battle is not about one life. Not your life. Not Aizen's life. Not even my life. This battle is for the honor all the hollows! To give honor to Hueco Mundo!"
Everyone cheered.
"The people that are going to the World of the Living to go to Karakura Town, with me. And the people that are staying in Hueco Mundo will stay here. FOR THE HOLLOWS!"
"Are you ready, Kaname?" Ichimaru asked the man.
Kaname nodded. "Yes."
"Enough talk, you two. We have a battle that we need to attend." Aizen smiled, and walked out of the room, to see Dann standing across the hall, leaning against the wall. His piercing red eyes cut through the air like a knife. "Have you gotten the hollows ready?"
"Yes. Also, Aizen..." He pointed a hand at him, and a Cero formed and blasted toward him. The ball stopped an inch from his face. "Watch your back." The Cero disappeared.
Standing in Fake Karakura Town, a soft wind blew into the Captain jacket of Yamamoto. The elderly Soul Reaper had his hands rested on his cane. "The battle, is about to start." Yamamoto called, to the massive horde of Soul Reapers behind him.
Suddenly a massive black tear appeared in the sky, ripping open a portal to Hueco Mundo.
First, a pair off blood red eyes appeared, and then Dann flew forward. He began searching for something. Or someone.
"Damn. He isn't here."
Suddenly, eight beings stepped into Fake Karakura Town from the portal to Hueco Mundo.
Yamamoto stepped forward, drawing his sword. "All things of this world, turn to ashes... Ryujin Jakka." His blade transformed into a sword of flame.
Dann teleported over to Aizen. "The person who I want to fight isn't here. I'm going to find him, then I'm coming back."
"Take Zommari with you."
A large group of Soul Reapers charged into Hueco Mundo. "Hey, you two." Kai shouted, causing Chad and Uryu to turn toward him. "You guys are headed to find that woman, right? Mizu and I can guard you while you go there. Four heads are better than two, right?"
"Fine." Uryu replied.
A hollow charged at Kai, who slashed down into it's head, and Mizu stabbed the beast in the hip, causing the hollow to disappear.
Dann opened another portal, soaring into the Soul Society- searching for Starrk. "I can sense him... he's here..."
Flying behind Dann was Zommari who was struggling to keep up.
Flying toward the Seireitei, he collided with an invisible barrier, and he was sent flying backward. Dann rubbed his head, and he punched the barrier. He readied to punch the wall again.
"You aren't going to be able to break through that."
Dann turned to see Starrk standing there, his sword at his hip.
Zommari stopped right next to Dann.
"Hello, Coyote Starrk." Dann stepped toward him.
"We will not fight here. Follow me, I'll lead you to where we will battle."
Starrk flew away, the two following behind him. The two Arrancar easily followed behind him.
Starrk landed at a barren plane; grass licking at Starrk's ankles. Behind Starrk was Lilynette, Kensei, Ayame, and Raizen.
"I don't wish to battle your allies." Said Dann. "Tell them to leave."
"You brought an ally as well." Starrk gestured to Zommari.
"Zommari. Attack the man with grey hair." The Primera ordered. "Then kill the woman with black hair. While you're doing that, I'll take Starrk and the other man. The little girl will be no trouble to either of us."
Zommari flew toward Kensei, who dodged to the side and punched him in the face. Kensei reached into his back pocket, and he pulled out a large hunting knife with a trigger just beneath the hilt.
The Primera flew at Ayame, but Raizen drew his sword first and slashed at him. Dann spun around- dodging the slash, then he palmed at his head. Ayame kicked him hard in the side, and then grabbed onto his arm. Dann punched Ayame in the face with his free hand, and yanked his arm from her grip.
While he was distracted, Raizen slashed him across the shoulder, blood splattered onto his blade. "Slice. Manzo." His blade got a slight pinkish tint to it. Ayame jumped backward.*
"Starrk, Lilynette. You two need to get back, and we'll try and slow him down." She pointed her sword forward. "Destroy him, Takeuchi." Her blade morphed around her hand into a steel gauntlet with a single spike protruding from each side of her arm.
"All things of this world, turn to ashes... Ryujin Jakka." Yamamoto called, and flames flew forward- forming a circle around Aizen, Ichimaru, Tosen, and the Espada that had went to the Soul Society.
"This war..." Aizen said. "Has begun."
Notes: *At this point I realized how similar Raizen's abilities are to Ikkaku's Bankai. It's really annoying when you think that you have an original idea and then you realize that someone already did something similar. Similarities between these abilities were not intentional.
I AM BACK! Thanks for waiting, the fans of this series, it's much appreciated. I really hate planning things out, it's extremely boring- I'm an improviser. I came into a few problems, some of them I solved, and others... not so much. In an anime, a fight has aesthetic value. In a story such as this, it doesn't. It's up to the reader's imagination and my descriptions. And let's be honest, my descriptions aren't exactly high quality. The point is that in a story, an arc of just fighting can get extremely boring. It gets boring in anime too.
This arc is going to be almost only battles, unless I want to interrupt it with filler Bleach-anime style, but I'm not going to do that because that's annoying. I couldn't decide weather to just cut some fights out, make the lesser important battles shorter, or if I should just go normally. The only options I see are lose-lose situations. It would be appreciated if one of you guys could give me an idea as to what I should do. If not, I'll just have to figure it out myself.
Also, I'm planning on changing my name. Not sure what to, though. When I post new stories I'll be sure to put 'formerly known as Hungry Derp' in the first chapter and in my Bio. I'm also probably going to change my profile picture too.
