Chapter Twenty: Battle for Karakura
*Fake Karakura Town*
Emilou and the others stood together, staring down their enemies. Aizen and the head of the soul reaper forces exchanged words. The soul reapers apparently created a whole fake Karakura town which they now hovered over. With the real one being apparently pulled into soul society for its safety. Aizen deduced that the four pillars behind the soul reapers were the binds keeping the fake Karakura separate from the real one. However before anyone else could do anything, the old man leading the soul reapers pulled out his blade and created a prison of fire, that trapped Aizen, Gin and Tosen.
Aizen didn't show the slightest bit of concern over this turn of events. Simply stating that even with him and his closest two subordinates trapped. The espada and the rest of his arrancar were still plenty powerful enough to defeat the Gotei 13. Not long after that Barragan decided to take command of the arrancar forces with Aizen trapped for the moment. Starkk was too lazy to argue with him and lady Halibel simply didn't care, she and tres bestias already knew more or less what they needed to do. Get to the pillars, destroy them so they could access the real Karakura and defeat any soul reapers that dared to get in the way.
"remember, work together and keep a sharp watch everything around you and we will prevail." Spoke Halibel.
"Yes lady Halibel" replied tres bestaia's in unison.
"let's do this" began Emilou "I've been waiting a long time to get back at these bastards for what they did to Yoshiro."
"let's stop them into the ground, we'll show them what happens when they hurt the ones we care for." Said Mila with some enthusiasm for the coming fight.
"indeed, it's high time someone teaches the soul reapers the repercussions of daring to cross us in such a manner." Chimed Sung-sun in her high class attitude, that held a dangerous edge in its' tone.
Halibel said nothing and merely nodded her head in agreement with her friends and hardened her glare at the soul reaper forces across from her. Mainly on a short white haired captain and a very busty blond woman. She knew right away who they were from the descriptions her son gave of his kidnappers from that time. She knew right away who she would be preying on to start with in this battle.
Halibel has always been one to keep her emotions in control, however even she couldn't help but let her anger and disdain for those two soul reapers in particular bubble within her. They had dared to try and take away from her the one thing a mother should value above all else, her children. They had dared to kidnap her son, the son she had sacrificed her life in her time as a living human for that day in delivery room at the hospital. The son she believed she would never see again once she became a soul. The son she had long since pushed away to the far reaches of her mind for her and his own good upon becoming a hollow. The son that despite all the insane odds in the world had somehow found his way to her in the afterlife and rekindle their relationship as mother and child. How they came to one another and in seeming no time at all were acting around one another as if they had never been separated from each other to begin with.
The memories of when Emilou came running to her that day when the kidnapping happened. How she and everyone else were overcome with sadness, anger and grief. She herself did not show it in front the others but when alone, she allowed herself to cry from the emotions of the situation. She had the ones responsible for it all in her sights, they had dared to anger a shark. Now they were going to learn folly of their actions. Halibel was never one to take pleasure in the pain of others but she knew she was going to find it very cathartic to sink her metaphorical jaws into the two soul reapers responsible for causing so much pain and grief. For her, her friends and most importantly, her son.
There were a few more tense moments of arrancar and soul reaper alike staring the other down, then as if on cue. Both sides scattered at once to meet their respective enemies head on.
*With Ggio Vega*
Ggio watched as his fellow fraccion battled against the soul reapers as he stood by his masters' side. He took note of the other battles happening around the area. He noticed the Trecera and her fraccion moving to a small Shinigami captain and a rathe busty woman. Vega knew exactly why the Trecera was headed that way too. Yoshiro had told him about the description of his kidnappers, during their talks with each other in the times they hung out together in las noches.
He couldn't help but smirk to himself at the thought of it all. The soul reapers had no idea what hell was coming their way. They deserved it too as far as Vega was concerned. While Vega wouldn't admit it openly around his master or his fellow fraccion. He had held a high amount of respect for the Quinta after hearing his tale and becoming honest friends with him. He also couldn't help but respect the Trecera and her fraccion, not simply because they had been vasto lords prior to becoming arrancar. Since there inherent superiority in strength over him demanded his respect, but also the simple individuals they were.
When Yoshiro had first invited him to hang out with him along with the Trecera and her fraccion, as well as his own. He had been rather unsure about it but ultimately went along with it out respect for his friend. He quickly learned it was rather enjoyable hanging around their company. He noticed that unlike most arrancar groups that functioned as nothing more but begrudging work associates or simple friends. Yoshiro and the Trecera's groups acted together more as a large adopted family of sorts, it was all rather unreal at first to him. Eventually though with some encouragement from the Quinta, he started to relax and become comfortable with such an atmosphere. It wasn't too long before he had in way become practically one of the group.
He certainly found his time amongst them more enjoyable then he did his own fellow fraccion. It wasn't just for the simple fact that most of them were attractive women, though he wouldn't deny that certainly helped. Once more while he would never admit out loud, he did find the one called Franceska Mila-Rose quite appealing. Yoshiro had caught him a few times staring at the lion arrancar woman, he always teased him about it and encourage him to make a move for her. Barragan apparently caught on to his subordinate staring out towards the Trecera and her fraccion, while in deep thought and spoke up.
"Vega you seem quite fixated on the Trecera and her fraccion" Barragan spoke.
Vega quickly came out of his daze and addressed his master with a slight bow.
"forgive me your majesty" Vega began "as I surveyed the battles being and preparing to take place. I noticed the Trecera and her fraccion are making a straight shot for the soul reapers responsible for the Quinta's kidnapping long ago before his ascension to an arrancar. No doubt they intend to make the soul reapers pay tenfold for their treatment of him, considering their various relationships with the Quinta. While I doubt it will be a long battle seeing how powerful they all are, it will sure to be something worth watching as they grind the soul reapers into the dirt." Vega finished with a slight malicious tone.
Barragan said nothing and simply huffed in indifference. Then both of their attentions were brought when most of the Segunda's fraccion that had been sent out to deal with the soul reapers guarding the pillars earlier had all been killed. Though one had managed to successfully destroy a pillar before his death. Vega and what other of his masters fraccion left were given the order to engage the soul reapers. Vega moved out and immediately encountered a short soul reaper woman with a captain's coat. Vega recognized her from Yoshiro's tales of his encounters with soul reapers.
"you must be captain Sui-Feng I assume?" asked Vega.
Sui-Feng was taken a bit by surprise that this hollow would know her. "how is it that you know me hollow?" she asked with some irritation.
"my friend Yoshiro Abe the Quinta espada mentioned you in his tales from his interactions with you soul reapers." Vega replied.
"so you know that freak do you now? What is it that he told you about me?"
Vega glared a bit at the woman's remark. He didn't take kindly to others insulting those he held respect for. Then he smirked to himself when he knew his reply. "he mentioned you're a bitter, angry woman, who's also a sexually repressed and closeted lesbian who will never be able to have the things you desire most and isn't nearly as good as you think you are."
Sui-Feng's mouth hung open a gape, taken aback by what she had heard. Then her face contorted to anger, as she glared at the arrancar in front of her. Without speaking a word she pulled out her blade and charged in fury at the arrancar too caught up in her anger to think clearly in the moment. It was precisely what Vega wanted. Taking advantage of his opponent blindly charging in, he quickly pulled his own blade out and with a burst of his own speed charged forward.
Sui-Feng was caught by surprise by the arrancars burst of speed and couldn't counter in time and took a nasty slash on her right shoulder. Grimacing in pain, she turned to face her opponent. Now taking the time to calm herself, realizing she let herself fall for the arrancars trick. She released her shikai.
"Sting all Enemies to Death Suzumebachi" she spoke, and her sword transformed into a black and gold gauntlet with a golden blade that covered her middle finger.
"now it's getting fun" spoke Vega "Bite Off Tigre Estoque!" Vega appearance changed to go with his release. He had red stripes on his face, he had bone like gauntlets on each arm that each had a long blade attached. His uniform gained tiger like stripes and his ponytail became longer and larger with a blade hanging off the end. "now the real fun starts" he chimed.
He charged with sonido at even faster rate, Sui-feng caught off guard by sheer increase in speed wasn't ready for when he struck at her with a round house kick connecting in her chest. She quickly caught herself and blocked a strike at her head from Vega's blades. Using the momentum to her advantage, she brought a spinning kick of her own around and connected Vega in the head with it. Vega went flying back but caught himself midair trying to shake the dizziness from his head from the hit.
Sui-Feng didn't give much time get his bearings back, she came at him swiftly with her weapon trying to strike at Vega. 'damn' Vega thought to himself 'she is fast, if I hadn't done so much training with Yoshiro prior to this all. I probably wouldn't be able to keep up with her like I am.' While Sui-Feng wasn't seemingly fast enough to overwhelm Vega at the moment it was enough to keep him on the defense.
Then a moment to counter-attack came. Sui-Feng took a stab at Vega's chest, Vega managed to side-step it and grab her weapon arm in place before she could move it back. using his free arm he gave her a vicious elbow to the throat forcing a good distance back. taking advantage of the momentum he quickly pointed his hand towards her.
"CERO!" he roared as a magenta colored blast went right towards the soul reaper captain and hit her dead on. Sui-Feng was thrown back out of control from the blast until she slammed into a building with enough force to be embedded in it. her captains coat was torn up and she had multiple burns and cuts on her body. Vega decided to keep pressing his advantage and charged the soul reaper looking to finish the fight.
As he charged forward ready to lay the finishing strike he stopped by a large looking soul reaper. He managed to block Vega's strike and held him place for a moment. Undeterred, Vega brought his foot up and round delivered a harsh hit to the soul reapers face with his heel, sending him flying away. Sadly this left wide open for Sui-Feng's next move.
"Bakudō #4. Hainawa!" she yelled out as a yellow rope of energy shot out and wrapped itself around Vega.
'Oh Shit!' he thought to himself as he tried to break free. Sui-Feng lunged forward with her weapon to strike the arrancar. He barely dodged the strike unfortunately he unknowingly left himself wide open for her next move. She quickly pointed her other hand at Vega.
"Hado #63 Raikoho!" she speaks as mass ball of yellow electric energy builds up and slams into Vega at point blank range. The blast rockets Vega until he slams into a building until he crashes into a large building at which point the kido spell explodes leveling the whole building and causing the ensuing debris to bury Vega mostly underneath it leaving only his head and an arm sticking out from the rubble. While not dead, Vega had been knocked clean out by the attack.
As Sui-Feng smirked to herself and prepared to go down and finish the hollow. She noticed the espada that had been giving orders preparing to move into the battle and begin attacking. She quickly focused her attention on the espada knowing it was the much bigger threat to now deal with.
*With Tres Bestias around the same time*
Emilou, Sung-sun and Mila had separated off from lady Halibel as she dealt with child sized soul reaper captain. They had gone off towards the closest pillar but had been intercepted by the big chested soul reaper woman and some tiny soul reaper who was smaller and kept her hair in a bun, tied in a cloth. They were both vice-captains looking at their armbands. The fact they actually stood in their way as Tres Bestias only obstacles, showed how ignorant they were to how dangerous Emilou and the others truly were. Emilou couldn't help but smirk at the thought of the shock that was going to run through the soul reapers once they realized how wrong they were.
"Sung-sun, Mila, you two take the smaller one. I want the blond one to myself, I have a very personal score to settle with that one." Spoke up Emilou. Sung-sun and Mila simply nodded their heads in agreement.
"what's your name?" Emilou barked out to the blond
"Rangiku Motsumoto and you?" Rangiku replied
"Emilou Apacci and I'm going to be the one putting you in the ground today." Emilou spoke with some malice filled glee.
"you and your friends are awfully confident with yourselves it seems?" retorted Rangiku.
"shut up bitch, I 'm going to make you pay for what you did." Emilou spoke with venom.
"and just what did I do to you per say?" questioned Rangiku.
"are you really as stupid as your tits are big?" spat out Emilou "you're going to pay for your hand in Yoshiro's kidnapping, you cow."
Rangiku narrowed her eyes a bit at that remark before replying. "just how do you know him by chance?"
"I know him very well you, fucking whore." Emilou growled out. "after all he kept me safe when you and the others came hunting for in this town all that time ago, I watched as I was unable to do anything before you and that pint-sized prick took him prisoner. I agonized for almost a whole year desperately holding out hope that the person I loved was would somehow return to me."
Suddenly everything clicked in Rangiku's head with the realization of her situation in front of her. "you….you were the Vasto lord we were looking for." She choked out.
Emilou smiled at the soul reapers reaction to figuring things out. "that's right bitch, I am and just so you know my friends were also Vasto lords before becoming arrancar too."
Rangiku's eyes went wide with fear and her mouth hung open unable to speak, as she realized just how over their heads her and Momo suddenly were.
Emilou smiled turned into a malicious smirk seeing the fear on the soul reapers face. "I see you realize just how fucked you really are. I'm going to enjoy every last bit of this you cow."
She pulled out her chakram like zanpakuto and began flaring her energy preparing to release. Sung-sun and Mila taking the hint pulled out their weapons and did the same. All three yelled out their release commands at the same time.
"Thrust, Cierva!"
"Devour, Leona!"
"Strangle to death, Anaconda!"
Then there all three were engulfed by their respective reiatsu colors of red, orange and dark pink. Before bursting forth and dissipating revealing their release forms.
Sung-sun now appeared wearing a short, cropped halter top, which stops and splits above her naval and has an opening in the middle, laced together with crossed strings, She also wears a matching thong of a similar design with a long flowing loincloth at the front, with embroidered designs on the center panel, with. She also now wore coronet, thigh-high boots, and matching arm gauntlets. Her single sai like zanpakuto had transformed into now a pair of them that had a highly detailed handles and eloquently shapely, pointed blades. She now had a set of pink dots under both eyes and her clothing had the semblance of snake like scales.
Mila-rose had a Greek styled armor set with chest armor that complete covered her upper body, knee high armored boots, armored wrist gauntlets and a battle skirt that hung at her knees. She gained an orange x mark on her forehead along with a long lion like mane that hung on top of her hair and down to her waist. Her broadsword like zanpakuto transformed into two separate items. In her left hand she held a large white spartan warrior like shield and her right held a xiphos styled sword.
Emilou's eyes had both turned amber in color and red lines surround them, that had lightning bolt like marks that went down the sides of her face. Her horned remained the same but now she had a pair of deer like antlers that went behind and out with four prongs on each one. Her chest was cover by a leather like chest piece that stopped just above her waist, with a skort that stopped just above the knees. Along with boots of sorts that ended just below her knees and kept her toes exposed. She also had fingerless gauntlets that stopped beneath her elbows. Her chakrams had merged together and turned into a three foot diameter ring blade weapon. The inside was dull with three evenly space handles built into the inside of the ring and the outside was perfectly circular excluding three even spaced sections that had eight inch blades that angled out and back, like some kind of metallic wave. The whole outside of the ring was razor sharp.
All three were giving off huge amounts of reiatsu. Any doubts Rangiku may have had about them not actually being vasto lord level arrancar were officially crushed. She looked over to Momo who face had gone as pale as imaginable from the fear she was feeling staring down such massive power.
Emilou couldn't help but drink in the satisfaction of the situation in. "now the fun begins." She coldly stated
From a distance away Hitsugaya's voice could be heard yelling as loudly as possible. "Rangiku! Momo! Get the hell out of there! You can't fight those three by yourselves!" this snapped both of them out of their stupor's and tried to make a run to reinforcements. They never even got a step in before they were surrounded by the three arrancar women.
"you're going nowhere bitch!" yelled Emilou as he brought a fist into Rangiku's chest causing her fly back. before Momo could even make a move, Mila brought the front of her shield around and slammed Momo square in the face with it. she went flying back crashing into a wall of building being embedded into it.
"hey, Sung-sun I want that one all to myself, watch me and Emilou's backs while we deal with these two." Spoke Mila.
"very well have your fun, I'll keep watch for any more soul reapers." Sung-sun retorted.
"Momo, no!" yelled Rangiku
"eyes on me you cow!" roared Emilou as she got in Rangiku's face and swung her ring blade at her. Rangiku could barely get her blade up in time block the blow, the force was still great enough to push her back. Emilou charged forward and kept pressing her attack.
Emilou swung her blade and spun herself in tandem with her ring blades movements. It was like an exotic dance to watch on display, as she whirled herself up, down and around her opponent with her weapon never relenting with her assault. Rangiku was losing ground fast and was doing everything in her power to keep up her defense. Then Emilou knocked her blade up with such force she went off balance, leaving her open.
Wasting no time, Emilou quickly brought her ring blade down and around. She connected and cut a deep gash into Rangiku's left abdomen.
"AAAAHHH!" Rangiku yelled in pain as she distanced herself from her opponent, feeling a good amount of blood pour from her wound. Undeterred rangaku went to try to do something herself.
"Growl, Haineko!" she yelled, and her blade turned to a mass amount of dust. She focused and sent the mass cloud of dust directly at Emilou.
Watching the dust approach her Emilou just scoffed at the sight.
"Dust huh? That's your weapons special power? How sad, let me show what I can do with cierva." Emilou just readied her ring blade and as she whirled it around in one fluid motion, she said.
"el torbellino!" a mass gust of wind shot out and met with the cloud of dust and harmlessly dispersed it immediately. "What!?" came Rangiku's reply.
Emilou just smirked. "you see" she began "I can control the wind however I want with cierva. You dust is essentially useless against me. So get ready to suffer." She gripped one the handle to her ring blade brought it behind her back. she focused her energy and wind began to build around the weapon. She swung it around and out in front of her.
"la escisa del viento!" she roared as multiple blades of wind shot off the weapon and flew with blinding speed at Rangiku. She couldn't put a defense up in time and howled in pain as she received bad gashes in both shoulders, her legs and another deep cut in her abdomen.
Emilou used her sonido to instantly get in Rangiku's face and put vicious knee to her gut. Then grabbed the soul reapers sword wrist and gripped with such force an audible snap was heard. Rangiku cried out in pain from the pain of having her wrist broken and dropped haineko in the process. It fell with a loud clatter once it landed on the street below.
Emilou held the battered soul reaper at her mercy. "I'm done with you yet bitch." She growled and preceded to lay punch after punch into the defenseless soul reaper. She repeated this process keeping a cold, hate filled glare on her face. After a minute or so of beating down the now nearly unconscious Rangiku. She brought the woman's' face to hers and in a low venom lace voice simply said.
"never touch the people I love bitch." Then she threw Rangiku into the air with her full might and raised cierva above her head and began spinning it around. Putting more force and energy into it until a tornado began to form from it. then she swung around aiming at Rangiku releasing the twister.
"RETORCIDOR DE CUCHILLAS!" she screamed. The twister shot forth towards Rangiku and engulfed her. Rangiku was thrown around inside the vortex of razor sharp like wind. Being able to do nothing but endure the immense pain of being cut to pieces everywhere across her body. Once the vortex ended, Rangiku fell from the sky and crashed onto the street below in an unconscious bloody heap. With too many cuts and gashes to possibly count.
Emilou simply watched the motionless soul reaper for a few moments before closing he eyes and letting out a deep breath. She felt immensely satisfied with having dealt with one of Yoshiro's kidnappers, but she couldn't take in the moment for long. There was still more work to be done after all.
"now then let's see how Sung-sun and Mila are doing." She said to herself with some cheer. She strapped her ring blade to her back and went over to Sung-sun who was keeping look out over the scene. She noticed Mila was just beating the little soul reaper senseless. She had her shield and sword put away and held her enemy by her hair as she was punching her around.
"things going here well it seems." Chimed Emilou as she came over.
"indeed" replied Sung-sun as she turned her head towards her friend, she had her sai's tucked away at her hip for the moment. "however I sense quite a few soul reapers coming this way. Be prepared for things to go up a notch or two very soon."
"fair enough, hey Mila! finish up with that one, we're gonna have a lot more company here very soon." Emilou yelled out.
"fine, I was finished with this one anyways. She couldn't give me a fight that could count as a warm-up." Spoke Mila as she tossed the battered and unconscious soul reaper aside. The soul reaper slammed harshly against the building and fell to the street below. Tres bestias suddenly felt the reiatsu of the battle of their mistress and the pint sized captain flare up.
"Lady Halibel is really getting serious over there." Chimed Mila as she came over to the others.
"of course she is, that midget was the other one who kidnapped Yoshiro. She has even more reason to hate him and see him dead than I do. being Yoshiro's mom and all that." retorted Emilou.
"ladies, not to interrupt but, we have more company to attend to." Announced Sung-sun.
At that statement, showed up in front of them. One looked like some yakuza, another one was bald, one looked like a soul reaper version of Luppi. Then there was one with spiky black hair and a 69 tattoo with some scars, a blond haired one and then finally a captain who looked like… a giant dog man thing?
"There throwing furries at us now? Wow that's kind of sad." Piped Emilou
"all of you keep behind me and provide support!" ordered out the furry dog man as he stepped forward with his blade. "Bankai: Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō" roared the dog like captain. Suddenly there was huge spike in spirt pressure and then a giant crash was heard as an almost 100 meter tall armored samurai with an equally massive blade appeared.
"huh, neat." Emilou said looking at the giant bankai before her and her friends. "hey girls shall we bring him out?"
"not a bad idea." Said Mila
"we did all keep our advanced regeneration, so it won't be any real hinderance to do so." Spoke Sung-sun.
"let's do it then" said Emilou as she, Mila and Sung-sun gripped their left arms with their right ones. Then in one swift motion they ripped their arms off and threw them together and channeled energy into them with their remaining arms. "Quimera Parca!" they said in unison. The severed arms began to glow and started mixing together and created a sphere of energy and began to grow. Then a truly massive figure grew out from it, the creature stood just as tall the armored samurai before them. It had a white deer skull at the center of its head. It has a long, dark brown mane, which flows to its lower back, with a lighter brown fur covering its arms and legs. A long, greenish-white snake tail extends from below the mane. In place of feet, it has two black hooves.
To say the soul reapers were shocked, if not a little horrified by this development would be an understatement.
"Well…..fuck." said the yakuza looking soul reaper.
"this is our little creation, we call him Ayon." Said Emilou as her and the rest Tres bestias severed limbs grew back into place as if they never were torn off to begin with. "Ayon, deal with the giant samurai and the soul reaper commanding it" ordered Emilou. While the giant chimera creature didn't really seem to respond at all to the command. It seemed to get the gist of it tough as it spotted the giant samurai and preceded to let out an ear splitting roar and began charging the massive enemy.
Ayon ran towards the massive samurai, trampling through the smaller buildings like they were nothing. The captain tried to swing his blade around to intercept the creature, his bankai copying the same motion, but it wasn't fast enough. Ayon headbutted the massive bankai in its' chest at a full run. The massive samurai was knocked clean off its feet and flew back and landed on its' back with an earth shaking force. Due to the unique connection between wielder and zanpakuto, the dog like captain suffered similar damage and was also thrown back, landing harshly in the ground.
The other soul reapers were forced to disperse for their own safety, they immediately regrouped once the fight between to massive beings moved away from them.
"we have to go support captain Komamura." Said the yakuza looking soul reaper.
"like hell you are!" roared Mila
The soul reapers turned to focus their attention on Tres bestias.
"I'm afraid that's not going to be happening you bastards." Spoke Emilou
"if you wish to help anyone else, you first have to get past us. Though that seems highly unlikely." Sung-sun spoke mockingly.
"Bring it on then!" yelled the bald headed soul reaper as he and the others readied themselves.
Ayon continued forward and attempted to strike the downed warrior, raising both fist above its head preparing to slam them down. Komamura acting quicker made slash with his blade that connected and went across the chimera's abdomen. Ayon howled in pain and took a few steps back from the attack. Not wasting time, Komamura quickly rose himself and his bankai back up. He made a charge and swung his blade up and down towards Ayon. The chimera tried to step back to avoid but wasn't fast enough and received a shallow slash on his chest. His blood starting to ooze out from his wounds.
Ayon roared in fury and stepped forward swinging a fist low and connecting in the giant samurai's lower side. Its armor dented in from the strike, causing Komamura to grimace in noticeable pain. The captain tried to make a swing with his blade but the arm of his bankai caught in place by Ayon. The chimera brought his other arm around in front of him and swung it hard, landing a fisted backhand square in his opponent's face. Komamura while somewhat dazed and now having some trickle out his mouth from the strike, stayed resilient.
He swung knee with tremendous force, his bankai doing the same and landing the strike right in the chimeras wounded abdomen. Ayon yelled in pain as he was force to let go of the bankais' arm and fall back a bit. Komamura pressed his opening, moving forward and attempting to bring his blade clean down on the chimera. Then Ayon made a move he didn't expect, the hollow chimera suddenly dove forward tackling the bankai to the ground on its' back before the swing could connect. Komamura was also thrown onto his back the wind knocked out of him.
Ayon wasted no time as he began to pummel his downed opponent with his fists'. He punched with tremendous force into the giant bankai repeatedly in the face and chest. Komamura could only try to suffer through the beating as much as possible. By the time the assault stopped Komamuras' vision had gone blurry and he was having hard time keeping focus. Then the hollow chimera did something no one could have expected to happen.
Ayon stood up and grabbed the massive bankai by its collar and waist. As it did so the chimera then in a display of incredible strength actually lifted up the bankai above his head. Then with a mighty roar he threw Komamura' s bankai away from him with it landing into and destroying one of the pillars keeping fake Karakura separate from the real one. The crash creating an earthquake that reverberated across the battlefield. Komamura had now fallen unconscious for the moment, his bankai dissipating, Ayon merely let out a monstrous roar of victory.
*with Tres bestias as the Ayon vs Komamura fight was happening*
"let's do this then!" said the bald soul reaper as he and his allies activated their respective shikai's.
"that's right make it fun for us!" said Mila with glee
Both sides readied their respective weapons and charged at each other. Mila engaged the bald soul reaper and the effeminate looking one. Emilou fought the Yakuza looking one and the one with a 69 tattoo. Leaving the blond haired one to Sung-sun.
"I expect you two to give a better time than that shrimp from earlier did!" Mila spoke at the two soul reapers in front of her.
"oh don't worry I'm sure we can oblige to that. I'm Ikkaku Madarame and this is my pal Yumichika Ayasegawa, we're both from squad 11. Who might you be by chance? I like to make an effort to know my opponent's name's." said Ikkaku holding his weapon that now resembled a wooden spear. With Yumichikas' looking like four long curved blades.
"Franceska Mila-rose, fraccion to lady Halibel the Trecera espada." She replied pulling out her shield and xiphos blade.
"my, my, such a rough appearance. Such a lacking in beauty especially for a woman." Chimed Yumichika.
A vein pulsed on Mila's forehead. "you did not just fucking say that!" she yelled in fury. "I may take that kind of shit from Sung-sun but that's only because she's my friend. No way in hell I'm taking it from a little prissy bastard like you!" and with that charged forward at full speed.
She got right in front of Yumichika and planted her foot square in his face, sending him flying. She turned and blocked a strike from Ikkaku's spear with her blade. She moved up and began making strikes at Ikkaku. Ikkaku dodged as he could and blocked with his spear when he had to. He quickly learned just how physically strong Mila was, every time he had to block his arms buckled a little from the force of the woman's strikes. It excited and worried him a little all at once.
Ikkaku decide to press back and go on the offensive. He whirled, lunged and swung his spear with all the skill he could muster. Unfortunately, nothing got through as Mila's shield proved seemingly impossible to get around. She was making him pay for every failed attack. When Ikkaku broke away he had collected a good number of cuts on him. Undeterred he charged forward again but just before he made contact.
"split!" he yelled as his weapon split into three different sections with chains attaching them. Mila managed to catch most it with her shield though the blade section did manage to get past and leave a cut on her arm.
"finally got around that damn shield of yours." Spoke Ikkaku.
"only because I was caught by surprise by that little trick don't think I'm gonna fall for that again." Retorted Mila
"Ikkaku get back!" yelled Yumichika, Ikkaku complied and as he was doing so. Yumichika launched his attack.
"Hadō #54. Haien!" he spoke a purple ball of energy shot out towards Mila. she quickly turned to raise her shield in order to block the attack and ball connected exploding in a blast of fire. After a few moments the smoke cleared, Mila stood her shield was slightly scorched and nothing more. She looked at Yumichika with annoyed contempt.
"You're a real fucking nuisance you know that?" she growled out. Then quickly point her blade out and it glowed with light.
"arpón claro!" she spoke. Then a beam of light shaped like her blade shot out at blinding speed and pierced Yumichika in the shoulder. Trailing from the back end of the light blade, was a rope of light that connected to the actual blade. Then as quickly as it flew to pierce Yumichika, it suddenly pulled Mila directly in front of the soul reaper. Mila used the edge of her shield to deliver a vicious upper cut and then took her blade and ran it deep and diagonally across Yumichika's chest and abdomen in a large spray of blood. He fell to the street with a thump and didn't move.
"Yumichika!" yelled Ikkaku, looking at his defeated friend. "what the hell was that!?"
"like that did you? You see that's my special power, I can control and manipulate all forms of light around me however I like. now then, it's only me and you for sure." Said Mila with a smirk.
"yeah I guess so." Growled Ikkaku towards Mila in anger. "No more holding back on my end. Bankai: Ryūmon Hōzukimaru!"
His weapon transformed into massive axe like blade on his back with a pommel and the crest of dragon it. there two massive chains connected on each side that went two massive blades with a crescent like shape with a long handle and large weighted pommel. With some red cloth in between the blades and their handles.
"now that's what I'm talking about." Mila spoke with enthusiasm.
"glad to see you approve." Chimed Ikkaku as he lunged forward. Swinging his blades about. Mila dodged the first one and brought the shield up to block the other. she immediately thrown back from the force of the hit when it collided with her shield. Ikkaku kept pressing, Mila was dodging and blocking as much as she could. She found herself at disadvantage now, the soul reapers weapon gave him way more reach to work with. He could now safely strike at Mila outside of her counter strike zone.
'time to change this up' she thought to herself. she disengaged back and moved her blade to her side pointed out towards Ikkaku. She started to focus her power and multiple small spears of light formed around her. She then thrust her blade out and said.
"lanzando un aluvión ligero!"
The multiple amount of small light spears shot out towards Ikkaku at incredible speed. He barely had time to put his blades up in defense. While they did block some, he still took a fair amount of hits that left deep gashes on his arms, shoulders and legs. Mila surveyed her opponent thinking about her next move, she then noticed something interesting. The dragon crest on the piece of his bankai that rested on his back now glowed halfway with a red light.
'that wasn't like that until after I attacked.' She thought to herself. 'maybe that's how his bankai works? The more damage he takes in combat the more his weapon charges until he can release a huge strike with it? Better end this now then if that's the case, I don't want to take any chances.'
Not wasting time Mila raised her sword up towards the sky and began focusing her power. Looking directly at Ikkaku her body began to glow with energy and then she swung her sword down.
"Rayo brillante!" she spoke. As she did, Ikkaku was suddenly engulfed in mass beam of light that came down from the sky. It was like being under a giant magnifying glass. His whole body felt like it was being burned, his weapons grew so hot in his hands he had to let them go, he was blinded by the intensity of it. it felt like he was standing in the middle of the sun itself. When the attack ended after a few moments, Ikkaku had burns and blisters all over him and he was still blinded from it all.
Before Ikkaku could think to do anything else, Mila appeared before him and drove her blade through his gut, between his waist and naval. Once she pulled it out, Ikkaku fell from the sky, crashing next to Yumichika.
"thanks for a good fight." Mila said as she looked down at him.
*with Sung-sun*
Sung-sun stared down the blond soul reaper in front of her, trying to gauge him as Mila and Emilou began engaging their respective opponents.
"perhaps some proper introductions before we fight? My name Cyan Sung-sun, fraccion to lady Halibel." She spoke in her usual tone.
The soul reaper paused for a moment before answering. "Izuru Kira, vice-captain of squad 3." Looked and noticed the unconscious and beaten forms of Rangiku and Momo. "you'll pay for what you did to them you damn hollow. You and all your kind will pay." He spoke in restrained fury.
"Now, now there's no need to be rude" she began "you should know I wasn't the one who did that, my companions did." Then Sung-sun narrowed her eyes and spoke with a slight edge. "not that it really matters I suppose, since you'll be winding up like them soon enough." she finished as she drew out her sai's.
The both stared each other down for a moment before they lunged at one another. Izuru swung his square hook like blade at Sung-sun's face, she ducked and twisted around bringing her foot up as she did so and connected her heel to Izuru's face. Sending the soul reaper flying back in the air. She followed up with a burst of sonido and attempted to stab Izuru in the abdomen with a sai.
He quickly dashed back swinging his blade up and across at Sung-sun. she deflected the blade away with one her sai's, she immediately noticed something odd about the sai she had used to block. It suddenly weighed a bit heavier than it did before, she quickly realized why.
"so that's your blades special power I see." She began "anything you hit with it automatically makes said object heavier than before. I assume this stacks with every successful hit until said object in question is completely unable to move?"
Izuru gritted his teeth, it didn't expect the arrancar to figure that out after only a single strike. "quite preceptive of you to figure it out after a single blow." He retorted.
"not really" replied sung-sun "my sai's are rather light weapons, any kind of shift in their weight making them heavier would be rather noticeable. I would have to be quite a fool not to pick up on it."
With that said she suddenly lunged with quick burst of speed and lashed out at the soul reaper, landing a decent slash on his left bicep. Izuru grimaced at the wound but didn't let it try to bother him as he made quick slash at his opponents' torso. She quickly jumped back out the way before she could be hit like she was some kind of dancer. Izuru was about to strike again when he suddenly felt something strange about his left arm.
"what the hell?" he muttered
"I see you've noticed." Chimed sung-sun "you see that's one of my abilities. my sai's keep themselves completely coated in a special toxin called 'veneno anestésico' that I'm immune to. The toxin when it gets in your system will steadily cause the muscles in the area effected to essentially fall asleep against your will. Rendering said limb, limp and useless until it wears off. Though I should note for you that even with said limbs going limp, the nerves are still quite active. So you can still feel pain with said limp limb. Obviously, the more hits I land the faster it takes root and longer it last. That arm will be completely useless for a good while soon enough."
'dammit it all' Izuru thought to himself. Even now he felt his left arm grow steadily weaker, it wouldn't be too long before it was useless. 'this is going bad, but I can't let up no matter what.'
He quickly put a palm up in front of him and shouted. "Hadō #63. Raikōhō!" a ball of yellow electric like energy shot forward at the arrancar. Sung-sun quickly raised a sai and shot a bala that intercepted and caused the kido to detonate midair. As the explosion went off, Izuru used flash step to get behind Sung-sun and attempted to slash her down her back.
Sadly for him sung-sun had been anticipating such a maneuver and quickly kicked a foot behind her catching Izuru in the stomach knocking the wind out of him before he could bring his swing down. Sung-sun then quickly whipped around and stabbed one sai in Izuru's left shoulder and another in his right shoulder. She twisted and dug the blades in deeper pouring more of the toxin in.
"foolish boy." Sung-sun spoke in a whisper. Then she opened her mouth and two snake like fangs appeared and a dark pink like liquid poured out of the fangs and formed a small ball in front of her mouth. She then wretched her sai's out of Izuru and kicked him away, launching the small ball as she did. The ball hit Izuru and exploded in large cloud of smoke that engulfed him. He quickly moved out of it, but the damage had been done seeing how he had breathed the smoke and had been covered in it as well.
"what the hell did you just do to me?" he choked out.
"it's one of the poison's I can generate with my fangs and use it how I please. That one in particular I call 'veneno de confusión'. You see once inhaled, injected or made contact with, it starts to throw all your bodies senses and feelings in complete disarray. You should be feeling it by now I imagine."
Izuru could barely hear what she said as his hearing suddenly started to go in and out, his vision went back and forth between blurry and overly sensitive. His muscles went from feeling numb and limp to feeling overly tight and painful in a rapid pace. Long story short, he had zero control of his body at the moment.
"now for the final touch." Sung-sun said coyly and had her snake like fangs reappeared and a black colored venom formed drips at the ends. Sung-sun used sonido to get in front of Izuru who was helpless in his current state, she grabbed him by his hair and pulled his head to the left exposing his neck and she clamped down with her fangs. After a brief moment she let go and pushed him away and Izuru fell to the street below.
"that's my final 'gift' to you." She said, "that particular venom is called 'beso de mamba'. It a special toxin that will slowly breakdown and cause your organs to liquify. Though I didn't inject very much so it will take a fair amount of time. I wonder if anyone will be able to save you before it's too late?" with that said she put her sai's away and left to rejoin the others.
She ran into Mila who had also just finished her fight, and both went off to Emilou. They saw Emilou finishing with her fight as the yakuza looking soul reaper fell to the ground after being hit by her 'retorcidor de cuchillas' attack. They noticed the other soul reaper with the 69 tattoo unconscious on the ground, looking at the area around. Emilou managed smash him against building with such force it knocked him out cold for the time being. Emilou put away her ring blade and rejoined them.
"Things went well for you two I assume?" asked Emilou
"decent fight but nothing more." Spoke Mila
"hardly a challenge but it is what it is I suppose." Said Sung-sun
Then the heard earth shattering roar and noticed the ground beneath shake like a small earthquake was happening. All three turned to see Ayon having seemingly defeat the dog like captain for the time being and even destroyed one of the other pillars.
"good boy, Ayon!" exclaimed Emilou.
"he beat the captain it seems and destroyed a pillar." Commented Mila.
"speaking of which" interjected Sung-sun as pointed towards one of the two remaining pillars not to far from them. "shall we ladies?" she asked as she stuck out a hand began forming a dark pink cero. Emilou and Mila merely nodded and formed their own respective ceros of orange and red. Then they cut them loose, all at once.
"CERO!" all three yelled in unison as the beams shot off towards the pillar, they connected on target in a mass explosion of color and once the dust settled, the pillar was no more.
"just one more left, its' back near lady Halibel." Said Emilou, who looked towards her mistresses fight with pint sized soul reaper captain. She had him pressed hard on the defensive and looked as though she was about to finish him.
"let lady Halibel finish things with the soul reaper. We can get the last pillar ourselves." Spoke Sung-sun
"should we try to get Ayon, to come with us?" asked Mila
"doubt he'll listen but it's worth a try." Retorted Emilou
Once all three turned to Ayon, they noticed something strange. He had stopped moving, then suddenly his body split clean in half vertically and fell to the ground.
"AYON!" all three yelled. Then before they could ask who was responsible, they received their answer when an elderly looking soul reaper appeared not that far in front of them. He was bald with a long white beard and scars on his head. He wore a captain's coat and had fierce glare of power and authority. The girls knew right away who he was, his name Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto. The captain-commander of the soul society and the most powerful soul reaper to ever exist.
Then before anything else could happen suddenly a massive garganta appeard on the other side of the field of battle. Out of it came Wonderweiss and some giant blob of a hollow that blew away the flames imprisoning Aizen, Gin and Tosen. Wonderweiss then let out a high pitched roar which caused the massive blob of a hollow to start vomiting out an absurd amount of gillian class hollows.
"Well this is certainly an unneeded development." Spoke Yamamoto "I will just have to just deal with you three quickly then I suppose." Then a yell of pain was heard, looking towards the source. Hitsugaya was falling from the sky to the ground below in a spray of blood. Halibel hovering in the air victorious.
"very quick indeed it seems" Yamamoto said with some bite as he brought out his blade.
"like hell we'll let you get near lady Halibel!" roared Emilou.
She drew out her ring blade, Mila and Sung-sun drew out their respective weapons as well. Tres bestias knew they were fighting a huge uphill battle, but they knew they had to fight it. Their loyalty to their mistress wouldn't allow them to do otherwise. All three women looked at each other and exchanged silent words knowing what to do. they quickly sliced open their palms, drawing out blood and mixing it with their own respective cero's.
"GRAND REY CERO!" they bellowed out in unison launching the blast directly at the captain-commander. There was a gigantic blast of reiastsu as all three grand rey ceros exploded. Once the dust settled there was an unfathomably large crater now in the fake Karakura town. The captain-commander was nowhere in sight.
"did that actually do it?" wondered Mila
"I'm afraid not young lady." Came his voice from behind them.
"shit!" exclaimed Emilou
"now then" Yamamoto spoke "Reduce All Creation to Ash Ryūjin Jakka." There was unfathomable release of spirit energy and mass flames erupted all around. Knowing an attack was about to come their way and they wouldn't be able to dodge it, Tres bestias focused all their power into their hierro.
"Taimatsu" spoke Yamamoto. A massive swirling ball of fire then engulfed Tres bestias.
"AAAAHHHHHH!" was the only thing heard from within the fire as it burned the three women, who cried out in horrible agony from it. when it finally ended Tres bestias was still hovering in the air and then fell to the street below defeated and barely alive. Focusing their heirro having been the only that kept them from dying to the inferno.
Yamamoto dropped to the street to observe the fallen arrancar women. "even though I didn't use my full power of my shikai in that attack. The fact you still withstood being turned to ash by it is impressive." He commented to himself.
"nice work old man." Spoke a new voice. Yamamoto turned to see it and was honestly shocked to see who it was. Before him in the air stood Shinji Hirako and all the visoreds who had escaped soul society over a century ago.
"long story short, we're to help with things on your end. Let us help deal with the remaining arrancar and the traitor captains. Yamamoto merely nodded in response and took off to the other end of the battlefield.
As Emilou laid on the ground badly burned and defeated. She was barely alive and conscious at the moment. Using what little strength she had left, she used pesquisa to check Mila and Sung-sun. to her relief they were still alive, if barely much like herself. Even with their advanced healing the damage was so great it would be a while before they would be any kind shape to do anything. Granted it was their advanced healing that was the only thing keeping them from dying because of their injuries now.
As Emilou began to slip into unconsciousness, she reached up to her neck and gripped the pendent around her neck. "I'm sorry Yoshiro." She weakly said to herself before passing out.
*with Halibel as Tres bestias fought the soul reaper forces*
Halibel stood across from the soul reaper who helped with Yoshiro's kidnapping. Her fraccion having taken off to deal with the other soul reaper responsible for it some distance away. While she had a rather stoic look on her face as she tended to as she stared down the child like soul reaper. On the inside she was anything but calm. Having her child's kidnapper in front of her was causing a mixture of her motherly, and hollow instincts to desire his death more than anything else in the world at the moment.
She took a moment to calm herself. as much as she desired to tear the soul reaper in front of her to pieces, she couldn't allow her emotions to get the better of her. Such things could cost her in the coming fight.
"just who are you exactly?" the soul reaper suddenly asked.
"Tia Halibel, Trecera espada. You must be Toshiro Hitsugaya correct?" she calmly replied. This got an eyebrow raise out of Toshiro.
"how is it that you know who I am?" he replied
"my son told me much about you after he managed to escape from your grasp." She retorted.
Toshiro thought for a moment on who she could be referring too, then it suddenly hit him. "Yoshiro Abe" he muttered.
"correct soul reaper, Yoshiro is my son."
"how? Is it somehow possible for arrancars to breed with humans? That might explain why he had hollow powers when he was still human." Toshiro speculated.
"hardly, what did my son tell you of his parentage by chance during your interrogation of him?" Halibel asked.
"all he mentioned was that both his parents died when he was young. His father in car accident when he was child and his mother died during…." Toshiro cut himself off when he suddenly realized it.
"figured it out, have you?" Halibel began "allow me to clear things up a bit. Yoshiro is my son because the day I gave birth to him was the same day I died in my human life. Then as you can figure out, I eventually became a hollow. Though I managed to keep enough rational thought and control of myself and left to hueco mundo before I became a danger to my surviving loved ones. There I hunted and grew until time passed until I became a vasto lord. having long since buried away the son I left behind believing I would never see him again." She paused before continuing.
"imagine my shock, surprise and joy. when despite all the odds I was united with my long lost child after so many years. The happiness I felt knowing I could reclaim something I held so close to me in life. I could actually be a true mother like I had been so excited about being back in my human life, while pregnant carrying my son within me. My son didn't even care that I was a hollow, he was simply happy to have me back in his life, having believed he would never get to know me. It wasn't long until we were interacting with one another as if we had never been separated by the cruelties of death to begin with." She paused once more and kept going.
"then in one fell swoop, as quickly as it came. It was seemingly ripped away from me once again. You couldn't possibly begin to imagine the pain I felt as a mother having my child taken away from me not just once but then twice. The grief and anguish that coursed through me, having to accept my child could be gone forever once more without any real hope of meeting again. After having just having him return to my life and filling a void in my heart that has lingered since my death, and you are to blame for that Toshiro Hitsugaya." She narrowed her eyes and continued.
"your decision to kidnap my son caused an enormous amount of grief, sadness, pain and anger. In my fraccion, myself and most importantly my son and I will have retribution for that." she finished with a tone that was colder than Toshiro's ice could ever be.
'I hope I can survive whatever is about to come my way' he thought to himself.
Then he suddenly felt a massive surge of three separate energy signatures. They were all vasto lord in their strength but what concerned him most they were right in front of Rangiku and Momo. He quickly turned and shouted
"Rangiku! Momo! Get the hell out of there! You can't fight those three by yourselves!" he suddenly had to turn back around as he caught Halibel charging him out the corner of his eye. He brought his blade up and managed to block hers in a shower of sparks.
"best keep focus on me if you don't wish to die right away Hitsugaya. Your friends are stuck being at the mercy of my fraccion." She coldly stated.
They separated and Toshiro activated his shikai. "Sit Upon the Frozen Heavens Hyōrinmaru!" the blade extended out a bit and it gained a long chain with a crescent shape at the end. He swung his blade, launching a dragon of ice in the process. Halibel wasn't concerned in the slightest, she barely brought her blade up and began focusing her energy into it.
"ola azul" she spoke and launched the beam of energy forward. It sliced clean through the ice dragon and Toshiro barley dodged it in time. Then Halibel in a burst of sonido appeared behind Toshiro and attempted to slash him. He managed to block the strike but then Halibel delivered a harsh kick to his chest causing him to fly back. he coughed up a little blood from it. Halibel pressed forward on the child like captain, swinging and striking out with Tiburon. Hitsugaya was completely on the defensive, he had managed to block most of the strikes but still suffered a few shallow cuts on him none the less.
Knowing he was going to get killed for sure at his current level, he locked blades with Halibel and using his full might managed to shove back enough so he could flash step away.
"Bankai: Daiguren Hyōrinmaru!" he yelled and his reiatsu shot up and his body became incased in ice that resembled a dragon. Then before he made his next move, he felt something that made his stomach drop. He suddenly felt both Rangiku's and Momo's spirit energy drop to almost nothing. He turned to where they were and while it was difficult to see from the distance. He was still able to see their broken bodies, lying on the street in a heap.
"no, no, no." was all he could say at the moment in dread filled horror.
"this is the retribution for your actions against me and my loved ones." Halibel chimed.
Toshiro turned to the arrancar in front of him, his face contorting in fury. "quite frankly arrancar, I don't give a damn!" he roared and lunged forward at the espada. He charged at the espada swinging his bankai about launching multiple ice dragons, trying to bring down his enemy. Halibel launched multiple 'ola azul' attacks cutting down the dragons but she steadily being pushed back. realizing she needed to release as well, launched a barrage of bala's at Toshiro. A few connected in his wings forcing him to slow down. She used the moment to get away and activate her ressureccion.
"Hunt, Tiburon!" she called out as she was engulfed in a vortex a water for a few moments. Then it dispersed displaying her release form and flaring the massive reiatsu increase that came with it. Hitsugaya was taken aback seemingly for moment by both her incredible power increase and the form of her release. Halibel took the chance and gave a quick check on her fraccion.
She felt with pesquisa and noticed her fraccion were in perfectly good shape still. There was multiple soul reaper presence including one that had to be another captain. Then she caught out of the corner her eye the bankai release of said captain. However her responded in kind by summoning Ayon. Knowing they had things under control she turned her attention back on Hitsugaya.
"let's see how well you handle this soul reaper." She said and with a huge burst of sonido and appeared before Toshiro. She ran Tiburon clean through him almost cleaving him in half from the shoulder down. There was something wrong though, then she noticed it was a fake ice clone of the captain.
"Hyōryū Senbi!" she heard behind her, she turned and noticed a multitude of ice dragons coming her way.
"Hirviendo!" she cried out while pointing her blade towards the ice dragons. The dragons immediately melted once they got to close to the blade and deflected the boiling water back at Hitsugaya. Toshiro quickly wrapped himself in his ice wings for protection. They managed keep himself from the boiling water, but they were destroyed in the process. Sadly he never had time to reform them.
While the boiling water collided with Hitsugaya and forced him to shield himself with ice wings. Before the attack even ended Halibel charged a cero into her blade and used sonido to get right in front of the child like soul reaper. Hitsugaya was greeted by a glaring Halibel right in his face with charged cero in her blade once the boiling water attack ended. He had no means of protecting himself with his wings having been just destroyed and he couldn't hope to dodge from such a range.
"Cero" was all she said as she swung her blade releasing the max charged cero with a tone that could flash freeze hell. Toshiro yelled in pain as he was blasted by the cero, he was sent flying back and crashed through a large building before crashing into another. His captains coat was gone completely. The top of his uniform was barely their and his body riddled with cuts and burns. He wasn't out of the fight, but he wasn't doing good by any means.
Halibel was about to pursue her prey when she suddenly heard a thunderous crash and roar. She looked and noticed Ayon had seemingly defeated the captain and destroyed one of the pillars in the process. Her fraccion had dealt with the other soul reapers around them. She took note as they then each fired a cero at the same at the next pillar closest to them and destroyed it.
Halibel couldn't help but feel some satisfaction, they were exacting their deserved retribution and the overall plan was going well. Now she still had to finish with the pint sized captain. She located her target as he tried to regroup himself, she wasn't going to give him the chance. She raised her blade up and said.
"Cascada" a lakes worth of water appeared in the air and was launched with thunderous force at Toshiro. Toshiro was forced to move sooner then he would have liked in order to avoid being crushed by huge torrent of water. Halibel wasn't letting up on him though. As he moved to avoid 'cascada' she pointed out her blade for her next assault almost immediately.
"La Gota!" she exclaimed as a blast of water shaped like her blade rocketed at Toshiro. She kept this assault up as she followed him never giving him a chance to retaliate. Toshiro blocked what he could with his ice dragons and dodged others, but it was wearing him out fast. Then a 'la gota' blast came at him that he couldn't block or dodge, he was forced to use ice wings to eat the shot for him.
His wings were shattered on impact and forced back from the force. Before he could properly recover, Halibel appeared next to him and launch bala that hit him square in the face. He was knocked off his footing and left wide open for her follow up strike. Halibel had her blade raised up, it was glowing with her energy. She uttered one word as she brought it down.
"Trident"
a high pressure wave of energy hit Toshiro and left a massive gash diagonally from shoulder to waist. There was a massive burst of blood from the wound and Toshiro's bankai dissipated immediately. He gave out a howl of pain as he fell to the street below and went unconscious. Halibel watch the form of the soul reaper for moments and keeping her senses sharp, remembering the ice clone from earlier. After a few more moments of nothing happening and seeing the blood pooling at the downed captain, she realized she had taken out the real one.
She took a quick notice and saw Wonderweiss and another mass hollow appear and free Aizen, Gin and Tosen from there fire prison and flood the area with gillian's. She noticed Starkk and Barragan were in their release forms and steadily winning against their opponents. It seemed the day was to be theirs.
Her thoughts of victory were short lived when she caught a massive fire ball out of the corner of her eye followed by the loud painful screams of her fraccion. She turned in the direction of the inferno, just in time for it to dissipate revealing her fraccion's burnt bodies as they fell from the sky to the street below. she quickly reached out pesquisa and felt that their presence was around still but very weak. She wanted to rush to their aid immediately then she saw the one responsible. The captain-commander of the soul reapers himself, she mentally told herself she would crush him like she did Hitsugaya.
However before she could move, she picked up the presence whole new group of soul reapers. She looked to where the sources were coming and took them into account. They were all dressed in normal cloths and something about their presence felt like that of Kurosaki back in los noches. Before she could make her move towards the captain-commander, the new soul reapers split up and she was confronted by three of them, all of them girls. one was short with wild blond hair and wore a red track suit. Another short one with mid length green hair, she wore a white and orange spandex suit of sorts. The last looked like teen with glasses and long black hair in braids, she wore a schoolgirl outfit.
"Let's kick some ass!" said the blond one.
"keep focused Hiyori this won't be such a simple task." Spoke the black haired one.
"oh please we can handle this Lisa." Retorted Hiyori.
"any input Mashiro?" the one called Lisa asked the green haired girl.
"my super Mashiro kick should do the job!" Mashiro exclaimed.
Halibel having no patience for this sort of the thing at the moment decided to address the trio.
"stand aside and I won't do to you what I did to captain Hitsugaya." Halibel stated.
"oh really?" began Hiyori as she and the others donned their hollow mask's. she then spoke with her distorted voice. "big talk coming from someone dressed like a stripper."
Halibel merely narrowed her eyes and let out a predatory growl, she raised her blade and said "cascada". Summoning a mass volume of water and launching it at her new foes. Just like that a new fight was on.
The visored's were giving Halibel a strong fight. Steel clashed, destructive water tossed about, punches and kicks sent all around. The fighting dragged on for much longer than she had hoped. While she kept her main focus on her three enemies, but she was still able to detect from the other energies around her. What was happening around the rest of the field of battle.
The captain and one of the other soul reapers her fraccion had dealt with earlier. Had rejoined the battle and defeated Tosen. She felt some of the visored's assist in fighting Barragan, to her surprise they managed to beat the ancient hollow. One of the visored's destroyed the mass blob hollow. The captain destroyed Wonderweiss but not before Wonderweiss managed to somehow capture the soul reapers fire. Which effectively turned the dying arranacar into a bomb, that the commander had to throw himself on for the safety of his fellows. It effectively took the commander out of the fighting. Then she felt the fighting going on between the Primera and his foe's. she nearly gasped when she felt Starkks presence began to fade signaling his defeat.
A few moments later while she was still battling her own foe's, she sensed someone appear behind her. She turned to see Aizen who then slashed her clean across her chest with his blade.
"you are no longer strong enough to serve me it seems." He coldly stated.
Halibel almost couldn't believe it, if not for the deep wound now on her. She had trusted Aizen fully, she had put her faith in him completely. She had been fighting with everything for the sake of his cause. Now out of the blue he suddenly decided to betray her. She was suddenly snapped out of her thoughts when Aizen spoke once more.
"I never thought I would be stronger than all the espada I gathered." He said with contempt.
Halibel was suddenly enraged, ignoring her pain. She thrust Tiburon forward and ran it through Aizen in hopes to kill him. But something was wrong, Aizen hadn't reacted at all to the strike.
"such a pain to deal with" Aizen spoke in annoyance.
Halibel realized in that moment she had attacked an illusion. Then she suddenly felt a massive pain in her gut, she looked down to notice she had been stabbed clean through from behind.
"you will never raise your sword against me again" spoke Aizen as he roughly pulled his blade out of her.
Halibel felt all her strength leave her as she plummeted to the street below. before she lost consciousness as she fell. She could of swore she heard her son crying out in horror.
*a few moments before Aizen's betrayal with Yoshiro and Orihime*
"oh shit" Yoshiro spoke as he saw Starkk falling out of the sky. He reached out pesquisa to see what he could feel. He could feel his mother fighting but alive and well, Starkk was alive and wouldn't be much longer without help. Then he felt some energy signatures and his blood went cold. He picked up Vega who only felt unconscious. He felt Cyan, Mila and Emilou, there signatures were faint. They were alive but they were barely hanging on as it was. He quickly turned to Orihime with panic and concern in his eyes.
"Orihime, I need you to please go and heal Starkk, Emilou, Cyan and Mila. there badly hurt and may not make it without your help." He spoke with obvious distress in his voice.
"I'll take care of it." she replied and took off locating Starkk first since he was the closest. Orihime had already told herself she would help Yoshiro how she could when she came with him. Plus her own kind nature wouldn't allow her to ignore people who needed help, especially seeing the look on Yoshiro's face when he spoke to her. She had never seen such a look on his face before, it showed just how much he cared about the people around him.
As Orihime went off to the near dead Starkk to keep him alive. As Yoshiro began to figure his next move, he suddenly felt his mother's energy drop like a rock. He quickly turned to her direction, only to see her falling out the sky bleeding badly. With Aizen standing above in the air his blade still wet with his mother's blood.
Time seemed to freeze in those moments. As shock and horror took hold of him from what he was seeing. Then those feeling gave way to unrelenting murderous rage that slowly erupted out of him.
"Aizen…..Aizen….you gonna pay for this!" he growled out as his body began to shake from his anger. "AIIIIZZZZEEEEEENNNN!" Yoshiro roared with animalistic fury as his reiatsu exploded everywhere. Aizen simply saw the display unfold with some amusement.
"good of you to join us here Quinta." Aizen spoke with a small cold smile and condescending tone. Yoshiro took off at Aizen, Zorro's in hand, he swung at Aizen who blocked it with his blade. As their blades were locked Yoshiro yelled at him.
"why dammit!? Why" he roared at the traitorous soul reaper.
"simple, she no longer was worth keeping for my plans. I have no need for tools who I feel can no longer properly serve me." Aizen spoke coldly.
"I'm gonna rip you pieces you bastard! I won't let get away with this!" Yoshiro yelled. He broke away from Aizen and made a move behind Aizen to stab him through the back. Aizen dodged and made a swing at Yoshiro, Yoshiro blocked with the staff portion of his naginata.
"a shame it had to come this Quinta; I had hoped to keep you around. So I could continue to study your growth. A pity but ultimately inconsequential, you are just easily replaceable as all the rest." Aizen spoke in his condescending manner and cold smile spread on his face as he spoke once more.
"shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu"
Yoshiro quickly moved back, realizing Aizen was releasing his zanpakuto but nothing seemed to happen.
'I don't understand?' He thought to himself. 'he released his zanpakuto but nothing hap-' his thoughts were suddenly cut off when he felt a mass pain across his chest. Yoshiro looked just to see a large slash open from the bottom left of his waist all the up to his right shoulder, in a huge spray of blood.
"how?" Yoshiro muttered keeping on his feet despite his injury.
"simple Quinta" began Aizen. My blades special ability is absolute hypnosis. The moment I released Kyōka Suigetsu in front of you, I had you trapped within my spell. Just like all the others, as I always manage to do."
"you son of a bitch this… this won't stop me!" cried out the Quinta.
"such foolish naivety." Aizen replied.
Yoshiro was about to move again but then a searing pain shot through his abdomen. He looked to see Aizen's blade sticking through him right below his belly button.
"wha….what?" Yoshiro choked out, then his eyes went wide when he noticed the Aizen in front of him shatter like glass and dissipate. He turned his head to see the real Aizen behind him.
"to think I would need to raise my blade against you twice just like that foolish mother of yours." Aizen said with annoyed contempt in his voice. He then ran his blade clean through the left side of Yoshiro's abdomen, in another spray of blood.
Despite the horrible pain and blood loss, Yoshiro refused to go down. He grit his teeth and quickly spun around with Zorro's in order to attack. He swung at Aizen's neck, but he easily blocked the naginata with his blade.
"How troublesome" said Aizen. "I will just make sure I put you down for good this time." He quickly moved away from the Quinta and before Yoshiro could move Aizen had already cast kido at him.
"Bakudō #4. Hainawa" Aizen spoke as yellow energy rope shot from his hand and wrapped around Yoshiro's body. "Bakudō #61. Rikujōkōrō" he said next as the light shot out from his into six separate pieces and struck Yoshiro all around his waist. Yoshiro couldn't move no matter what he did.
"now then, before I finish you. Perhaps I should tell why you were able to become what you are?" chimed Aizen
"wha….what the hell do you mean?" replied Yoshiro.
"the reason you had hollow powers, back when you were just simply human was all because of me." Aizen said with a cold smirk and continued.
"you see, I've spent many years studying hollows and arrancar. As a person of science first and foremost, I'm always looking at new ways to help further my research. I had done things such as perform hollowfication on soul reapers. The visored's you see are proof of that. Then one day an idea crossed my mind. What if I performed hollowfication on a perfectly normal human? what results could such an experiment bring me to help research and goals? So I found an appropriately powerful hollow to capture to use for the process. Then I just had to find the proper human test subject."
"ultimately, I decided to it would be best to perform on a child still growing inside a mother's womb, in order to ensure proper soul fusion of the human and hollow in question. I looked for some time and found your mother only a few months pregnant at the time with you. I took away your mother and embedded the hollow into her womb ensuring it would properly bind to you. Also I modified your soul chain so that when the day came you would awake your powers. you couldn't split from your soul-self from your physical body. I wanted to see just how the body would react having to deal with your powers as your power grew. I also had to make some modifications to your mother's own body to ensure she could properly support your growth with the hollow now having been made a part of you. After words I erased any memory of the incident from your mother's mind."
"Granted those same modifications led to her death in childbirth. Though that mattered nothing at all to me, as long as she successfully brought you to term nothing else mattered. In hindsight, her death did ultimately provide with a useful tool of an arrancar, while her usefulness lasted anyways. After you were born, I kept watch on your growth seeing how you would develop. You showed much higher spirit awareness then those around you, that was to be expected. After some years it seemed nothing was happening, so I thought to try and push you by forcing you through a severe emotional state. So I arranged to have your father's death occur to see if the emotional loss of that nature would do anything to trigger a reaction."
"Sadly, it did not and eventually I was forced to focus my attention elsewhere and wright you off as a failure. Imagine my surprise years later, when you showed up in a report of a failed vasto lord hunt. I knew right away you had to be directly tied to the vasto lord in question. It would only be matter of time before constant exposure to such a being would at last awaken you. So I had Rukia Kuchiki sent to Karakura, knowing that she would find you once you finally awoke your dormant hollow. Then at last it happened, you awoke your hollow and Rukia saw it as it happened and then reported it as I planned. Then Hitsugaya captured you and brought you to soul society. Then you did something I didn't expect, you actually managed to escape and flee to hueco mundo no less as well."
"that was ultimately fine though, you would either survive and grow for me, or perish as a failure and not worth my time. But you did survive, and you grew quite a great deal. Even I didn't anticipate your growth to be so high, when I spotted you in los noches that night. it was truly remarkable. So now you see that everything you are, is because I planned it to be. Yoshiro Abe." He finished at last.
Yoshiro could believe what he heard, his mother's death, his father's death. The reason he had an inner hollow to begin with, the reason he had ultimately lost his humanity for the sake of survival. it was all because of Aizen. Rage built up in Yoshiro, he tried to break his restraints, but his injuries wouldn't allow it.
"now then, it's time to put an end to you. You were useful while you lasted but this is goodbye. Yoshiro Abe." Aizen said mockingly
"Hadō #90. Kurohitsugi"
Yoshiro was suddenly enveloped in a black box of sorts. his body felt 100 times heavier and he was being sliced and cut everywhere on his body. He didn't know how long that hell lasted but once it was over Yoshiro tumbled out of the sky. He landed harshly on the ground in a heap. He felt his consciousness start to fade; he weakly turned his head to see that he had landed right next to his unconscious mother.
"I'm…..sorry everyone….I couldn't keep…..you all safe." He weakly said, a single tear slid down his face and everything went black.
*sometime later*
Yoshiro began to stir; his whole body was racked with pain, but he was feeling better somehow. 'how the hell am I alive?' he thought to himself. All I can remember was Aizen….AIZEN!' he suddenly jolted wide awake and tried to lift himself up, only slam face first into an orange barrier.
"owwwwww" was his only response.
"Yoshiro your awake!" said the voice he recognized as Orihime. The barrier disappeared and he slowly stood back up still feeling weak. He turned to see Orihime, his mother, Tres bestias, Vega, Starkk and Starkk's fraccion.
"what the hell happened? Seeing how were all alive I'm going to assume Aizen was stopped somehow." Yoshiro asked.
"Ichigo managed to defeat him." Spoke Orihime "I kept going around healing as you asked. Most of you may not have survived otherwise. I also heard everything Aizen said to you. I already told everyone here and I'm sure the soul reapers that were around heard it to."
"thank you Orihime, I owe you. It seems I also owe Ichigo big time as well for stopping Aizen." He spoke and then he turned to face his mother.
"mom, it was all him, he's the reas-" he began to speak but before he could finish his mother wrapped him in her arms hugging him tenderly.
"I know" she spoke softly. "he manipulated and hurt us all but it's over now. Now all we can do is push forward and try to make the best of things."
"ok" was his only response, they separated and before he could do anything else. Emilou immediately came up to him and pulled him into a deep kiss.
"I was so worried that I had lost you." She whispered.
"don't worry I'm here still here after all." He replied.
"what will you do now?" asked Orihime
"the only thing we can do. go back to los noches, see the damage and start rebuilding from there. That's all we really can do I think." Spoke Yoshiro "tell Ichigo I'm gonna repay him for defeating Aizen. I don't know how, or when but I will when the opportunity arises."
"I'll let him know" Orihime replied
With that said a garganta was opened, but before they could walk into it a new voice called out to them.
"hold on a second!"
Yoshiro knew right away who it was. He turned his head to see Rukia Kuchiki coming his way.
"don't leave just yet! I need to say something to you Yoshiro." Chimed Kuchiki.
"What is it?" he questioned
"I just wanted to say. I forgive you for what happened. With so much having happened and some much truth being revealed. I know that not everything that happened was all you. I was told about what Aizen did to you, what he did to your family. You're just as much a victim of Aizen's plotting as much as me and everyone else. Plus you went out of your way to make amends with me for how guilty you felt for doing what you did. You even managed to grant me my eye back and loose the scar." She finished.
He was quite for a moment before finally replying. "thank you Rukia."
She gave simple smile in response. With that done, everyone turned to the garganta and walked through back home.
A/N
Okay, so a whole lot unwrap here. First and for most you all are probably surprised by just how huge this chapter is compared to previous ones. I knew a head of time this chapter was going to big one and ultimately chose to make a super chapter of sorts. considering this is the big finish to this arc of the story.
Tres Bestias, since in this story there all vasto lord level arrancar. I figured their release states should reflect that status. I have to admit that coming up with their respective design and abilities choices. Was both fun and challenging all at once. I hope you guys like how I handled that aspect. As for their fights, it shouldn't be a surprise that they would curb stomp a bunch of vice-captain's. blech makes quite clear that vasto lords are insanely powerful even by captain standards. No way some vice-captains would stand a chance against a trio of vasto lord arrancars. Plus this was about showing off the nature and sheer power of tres betias in this story. Seeing how they really haven't had any opportunity to show of their battle strength in story until this point. So them using a bunch of vice-captains as punching bags was needed.
Ayon vs Komamura, I figured since tres bestias were vasto lords in this story. Ayon himself would naturally be way stronger and bigger than in canon. Matching him up against Komamura and his bankai was just fun idea, to have a pacific rim style kaiju fight in my story. It was too good to pass up in my head when I thought of it.
Ayon, tres bestias and the captain commander. This wasn't so hard to do. even though tres bestias and Ayon are so much stronger in this story then canon. The fact of the mater is that, old man yama is still old man yama. If even characters in canon like Aizen and Yhwach go through precise planning just to deal with him. How do you really think anyone not them is going fair against him?
Halibel vs Hitsugaya. Yes, I had Halibel outright win this unlike in canon. Simply because in this story Halibel is a lot more inclined to beat Toshiro into the dirt from the start. Seeing how he had a hand in her son's kidnapping. You don't hurt a mother's children, especially when said mother has the power to sink entire cities. It made sense that Halibel would be much more aggressive and much less inclined to give Hitsugaya any kind of breathing room in the fight. Plus in this story with Yoshiro and Tres bestias, Halibel has four different training partners all who are vasto lord level arrancar like she is. it stands to say she's a fair amount stronger in this story then in canon because of that.
Aizen big reveal to Yoshiro about his hand in his past. This was hinted at earlier in the story if you recall. I hope you liked that big reveal.
Well that's it for this part of the story, next up is headed to the fullbringer arc and working the way to the thousand year blood war and all that madness.
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el torbellino – Whirlwind
la escisa del viento – Wind Scythe
retorcidor de cuchillas – twister of blades
Quimera Parca - Reaper Chimera
arpón claro – light harpoon
lanzando un aluvión ligero – spearing light barrage
rayo brillante – shining beam
veneno anestésico – numbing venom
veneno de confusion – poison of confusion
beso de mamba – mamba's kiss
