Dimensional Jump Chapter 23: True Bankai!

A/N: Sorry for the late chapter! It took me FOREVER to find a new and proper song for Maiya's new bankai! Finally, after a couple of months of searching, I found one! To add, having a new baby in the family sort of reduces my writing time...but hey, I can still do it! Thank you all for waiting and here's the next chapter!

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Thanatos, as he stood there, he watched his mistress closely. "Let's do this... That monster needs to go," Maiya spoke with a grudge lacing her voice. Confidence and determination, she didn't want Kai to interfere to save her butt or even to rely on anyone. She can handle her own fights despite being the lazy type of lady she is.

Without a sound, he vanished and reappeared behind Maiya. The elvish-eyed girl brought out her shikai and soon enough, her bankai was released... "Bankai, Vendethiel..." she paused for a moment and closed her eyes. "gather," she added in a low, clam voice. With that, Thanatos dropped his scythe into a black portal that he came out of to save her and wrapped his skeletal arms around her small frame.

His head lowered and the more it did, the more his skeletal body faded away. Her body floated into the air as her eyes remained shut, four pink fluffs appeared and flew after her soon attaching to her limbs. Two engulfed her fists and another pair covered up her feet. Large and long wings protruded from the ones on her feet with Thanato's black reaper wings mixing with red ones. The wings were gradient, starting off as black and appearing red the closer it got to the tips of them.

The pink fluffs were no longer pink anymore...but vibrant, glowing red. They all had a serious face plastered, an upside down V for a mouth and narrowed beady eyes. Maiya gained the clothing of Thanatos; His hood over her head, the two transparent veils that covered the hood and backside. She had the skeletal rib cage-shaped armor over her torso and her hair was down. Those butterflies that came with her old bankai had clung to her shoulder blades and were hardly noticeable from being behind those black, transparent veils.

Her head was lowered much like Thanatos's and her arms crossed over each other like a vampire who laid in their coffin for ages. Floating there, Schneider noticed how the sands beneath her feet turned black... That wasn't Thanato's death effect...that was her own, yet they looked similar. It wasn't death that much he knew...but, it was something else...

Once he concluded what it was, he became flabbergasted. "R-Radiation...?" Schneider questioned with a bit of a stutter. He knew he was in trouble... Combining her summons with herself to form a bankai, INCLUDING Thanatos himself...something didn't feel right and it wasn't certain death from the reaper.

Kai widened her eyes at the new bakai her friend got, she's never seen such a bankai before. Neither have the other espadas that remained watching in the sidelines.

(FINALLY, THE FINAL FIGHT! Play: 'Leviathan by Ignea -Instrumental-'! It' her new bankai theme!) Very slowly did it show the wings from the fluffs on her feet. The scene changed to show the fluffs on her fists, her keeping her arms crossed like before. Next, the veils that waved gently behind her, soon showing the armor on her chest and afterward her hood. Once her hood showed, her head lifted and her eyes were different... Instead of a Q, the line was in the center like a slit. Her visible eye gleamed brightly from afar...the only problem was...her voice was gone.

Disappearing within a blink of an eye, leaving a sonic boom in her place, Schneider gasped and was about to cross his arms to block only for her to appear before him. Rapidly she punched, landing blow after blow with such speed that not even he could keep up with. Each punch made explosions that would make him skid backwards so fast, that from the sidelines it looked like a long line of eruptions from nukes.

Those eruptions reached a far distance and Schneider was seen flying out of the last explosion. He twisted sideways in mid flight, put his arms together and shot out his black and blue hadou invention. Once Maiya was seen floating an inch off the ground, untouched by those nukes, all she did was turn to the side to let the hadou fly past her. It was quick, her movement was swift and effortless; No emotion on her face at all.

Leaning forward, Maiya bolted after him with hasted flight. This time, Schneider shot out multiple beams of black and blue only to watch her gracefully avoid them all with continuous horizontal spins.

Sitting up straighter, Maiya put out her fluff-covered fists before her and lifted her feet towards him in mid-flight. As soon as she crashed into him, her force pushed him back. Upon contact did a breath taking nuke go off. Kai gawked in shock at seeing the size of the nuke, but she knew that wasn't her super skill... She saw her super before...

A cloud erupted into the black sky of Hueco Mundo. Out flew Schneider from the blast, the impact caused him to soar and Maiya raced after him out of her own nuke. The wings the fluffs had on her feet, narrowed and stiffened to make herself fly faster.

Schneider saw her coming so he lifted his sharp bat wing-like arm and doing so, caused him to stab her straight through the chest. Her eyes widened as they hovered there in place, until he ripped his arm out through her side. "Got you.~" he sung. When he saw her head spazz out and jerk, her body twitched. Looking down, he noticed how her chest was...recovering? No...that wouldn't be right. The thought of Thanatos came to mind, when he recalled how he stabbed him in the chest and was still alive. "No..." he mumbled in disbelief. Seeing the chest cavity fully healed, he felt fear run down his spin...

With haste, Maiya's eyes returned to their narrow-eyed emotionaless state. A fist struck him hard and the explosion that went off made him crash into the ground. An instant, she disappeared high in the air but didn't take the time to fall like her super in her old bankai, required... Instead, she skydived. Her eyes illuminating brighter than before, he couldn't react in time to escape. So when she crashed into him...

From where Kai and the others stood, all they could see was an enormous nuclear blast erupting in the distance. It was the size of a large city, wiping out most of the sands and the white, withered trees. Before the blast even got near them, they saw the sands turn black not far from the mushroom cloud in the distance. Harsh winds whipped around, sand flew into the air and everyone's robes including hair, harshly flew back. The sands turning black was caused by the radiation that emitted from her nuclear strike.

Maiya was seen rapidly punching him now, her fluffed feet pressed against his hip area and them constantly erupting nukes. Fists making explosions and continuous nukes from contact with her feet sitting on his hip, he was losing bad...

All everyone could hear was nothing but dispersion in the distance and saw earthshaking nukes. What stopped Maiya from hitting him any further, was something that appeared ahead of her.. (Song ends here! Hope you liked it!)

One fist in the air ready to strike, had been halted in place. She looked up at what was coming and Schneider was terribly weakened. He could hardly move, all of that radiation and overwhelming nukes made it difficult to focus or move. A gate opened...an ominous gate... A gate which would only open for those who had committed terrible crimes... A gate...from hell.

Her eyes widened and she jumped off of him, leaving him stranded to hell's gate. Very slowly did Schneider rise up, standing on his feet. "Why exactly did you release me from your hold, soul reap-?" Before Schneider could finish his sentence, he got stabbed by something that came out of that gate. "W-What?! What is this?!" he yelled out, flailing his limbs as he got lifted into the air; Pain rode up his body and he cried out. An arm from a Kushanāda had come through and grabbed him... "NO, NOT THIS TIME! I WISH TO BE FREE! NOT TO BE IMPRISONED IN THAT ODD, SEPARATE REALM!" he exclaimed desperately. Maiya watched in utter surprise, so had the others that were able to see from that distance. Oh boy, was he assuming wrong... No, he wasn't going to be imprisoned in that realm he fled from...not this time. Instead, he was going to hell, where his half demon blood belonged.

"UNHAND ME YOU NUISANCE! I WISH TO BE WITH MY OWN KIND, NOT-!" Right before he could finish, he was pulled into the gate and the doors to it shut in his skeletal-hollow face. Maiya watched in horror, mouth agape and all. Not once had her fluffed feet touched the ground, if they had then everything would be covered in nukes... Oh yes, he will be with his own kind...just not with hollows.

A sigh of relief escaped her lips...he was finally gone... Her bankai had reverted to normal and her zanpakuto returned to its original form. Thanatos, however...remained next to her after separating. "Thanks... What's your name, again? I forgot," Maiya questioned and looked up at the hovering reaper with an exhausted smile.

Thanatos just nodded and gradually lowered himself to the sands, soon passing through a portal he came out of in the beginning. "Bye, then?" Blinking curiously, she watched the said portal disappear. Shrugging, her attention moved over to view Kai in the distance and her hand raised. She smiled real big with glee, so happy to be rid of that hybrid demon...

Kai on the other side saw her waving and grinning the most happiest grin she's ever saw and chuckled in return. "HELL YEAH! YOU BEAT HIS ASS! HAHAHAHA! ABOUT TIME, BRUH!" The goth laughed and pumped a fist into the air. For the first time in her life, she actually stood by and watched a fight. Something she'd usually find boring but since her friend was involved, she chose to watch just in case she had to step in. "NOW THAT WAS A HEATED BATTLE!" she added and laughed hard, soon running and reaching Maiya in the distance.

"Radiation...instead of death, in a specific radius that emitted from her? Intriguing..." Aizen mumbled with a smirk. Ulquiorra's eyes lingered on Maiya's distance frame, thoughts swirling in his mind while doing so.

"Bro, how'd ya survive that stab?!" Kai beamed with excitement. Maiya could tell she was excited, her eyes and veins were glowing...

The elvish girl nervously laughed and rubbed the back of her head, eyes shut in the process. "Well, when I combined with the reaper...it gave me an extra life. Vendethiel told me after Schneider got dragged into hell, that with every new battle, I'm given one extra life. Since he can't die, one extra life is added to mine. So in other words, um... If a certain death blow hits me and its meant to instantly kill, I'm given that extra life; Or if I die in battle, either way... I come back to life once I die during that moment and my body recovers from the blow... Weird, huh?" she laughed awkwardly and not once had she opened her eyes.

"DUDE, THAT'S AWESOME! HAHAHA!" Kai busted out laughing and smacked the girl's shoulder playfully. Doing so made Maiya jerk forward from the hit, only for her to laugh with her.

"I guess? I don't know but it'd be useful in dire situations that's for sure!" she continued laughing, feeling pure relief of Schneider's presence no longer there. She felt free, as if something was lifted off of her shoulders... Her true bankai, the bankai she was supposed to have before Schneider ruined it, she felt ten times better now. Tiredness was evident on her face, rest was planned that's for sure. "Hey..." Maiya began, looking up at the goth with an appreciative closed smile. "Thanks...for helping me," softly spoken, Kai blinked her usual bored eyes and rose a fist.

Down came a punch to the top of her head, making the girl jerk down. "Ow, what was that for?!" she exclaimed with a confused and angry expression now plastered. Her head rose up just an inch so she could see her Captain's face.

Kai pulled out a bone shard from her pocket and stuck it between her teeth, twitching. "Oi...how many times do I gotta repeat myself, man?! I'm your damn friend and CAPTAIN, of course I gotta save your hide! Don't need ya cryin' like some baby in battle!" she stated and put her arms up behind her head. With that, she walked away, with her dragon slits looking into the corners and an approving smirk laying on her black lips.

An annoyed feature was present on Maiya's face. Her hand still laid on her head and a sweatdrop rolled down the side. That frown of hers turned into an appreciative smile, soon she straightened up into a stand and giggled. "In other words..." she trailed off. "Don't show weakness in a fight and if I do, she'll be there to help me," she mumbled, translating Kaiorin's words. She knew that deep down, Kai cared so much about her but had trouble expressing it. Still, it was nice knowing the brutal goth had a soft spot. It's hard for others to see it, unless they really knew her.