Author Notes: I always thought Chad was severely underused in the original story after Nnoitra defeated him easily, not in my fanfic- he'll be an absolute beast. I also thought it was a wasted opportunity that Chad didn't finish off Shrieker even though it was nice to Ichigo to be extremely brutal to a nasty opponent and demonstration of how really evil Hollows go to Hell.
For Chad's fight debut, He'll be getting a special remix if it were composed by Taku Iwasaki who did Guren Lagann, Noragami, Akame Ga Kill, etc.
Again, I apologize for deleting this chapter along with others- it was because it went too quickly and things weren't as clearly explained when I began to read them. By the ninth chapter, everything should be cleared up.
Chapter 5: White Dance, Hell Bat, Right Arm of the Giant
My name is Yatsutora Sado, but most people call me Chad.
Chad thought to himself, he clenched his fist as he narrowed his gaze at the fallen form of his friend as Orihime continued to cry as she cradled it in her arms. He sensed that in addition to the lifeless body, that another Ichigo was in incredible pain- and he couldn't do anything.
Why, Abuelo (Grandfather)...you once told me my fists were not meant to be a giant that was a cruel diablo (devil) that used advantage in size, he intimidated and hit any other children who annoyed me; but rather a gentle gigante (giant) that would fight for the sake of others...
Past images of a younger Chad flashed through the tall student's head- the young child distorted into smiling demonic shadow that clenched the collars of the young boys that mocked him, continuing to punch them until they were bloodied, puffy wrecks. These frightening images were followed by a muscular older man with gray hair plus a mustache, wearing purple cap with a yellow shirt and black suspenders grabbing his left arm before he took things too far. The old man would offer a coin to him, the same coin he kept hidden under his uniform on a necklace. He was Oscar Joaquín de la Rosa, Chad's grandfather on his father's side.
"Why do you raise your fists to hurt others...when it is meant to protect them. A man must not fight for only the sake of himself, but for the sake of others," the old man said as he put his hand on the young man's right shoulder.
Then when finally I met a man that would fight for me and I for him-, as he continued his thoughts.
Memories of Chad being held by thugs threatening to destroy his coin memento due to its significance to him, unable to fight back due to his promise to his Abuelo and then saved by Ichigo who was passing by.
"How about this, let's promise to always help each other. You got my back and I got yours," the orange haired young man said with an aside glance as he scratched his chin to a startled Chad. After calming down, he gave Ichigo a fist bump.
He fell...(looking at the blurry images of the Hollows)...because of whatever did this to him, Chad internally said to himself as he narrowed his eyes in a tranquil fury. And clenched his fists enough to drip blood.
Meanwhile, Grand Fisher and Shrieker were looking at Fishbone D about to fight the Soul Reaper with the white blade.
"You already know my name, but I'll say it anyway- I am Fishbone D," said the Hollow as it stomped its feet in anticipation of killing his enemy.
"So you know the Soul Reaper customs despite being a giant fish brute. Then I will say that I am Rukia Kuchiki, I out of all my rank, is closest to the 20th seat of the 13th Division. Prepared yourself," the Soul Reaper responded as she pointed her sword upside down.
"In life, I was a fisherman who was laid off by a fuckin' hotel company that drove the people who had lived in that area for years until those bastards decided that we shouldn't live there anymore. I had those skills refined to only that trade, so I couldn't hold a job- my family slowly died of poverty- and-And-AND- MY OBSESSION WAS TO THAT COMPANY-TO HUNT DOWN EVERY HIGH CLASS RAT APART OF THAT COMPANY- DOWN TO THEIR SERVANTS, PETS, BUSINESS DEALERS AND RELATIVES- that's my 1000 bounty- so You're going to kill me just because I was avenging my people," Fishbone explained in an irritated tone until he became more lucid with each word.
"That is tragic, but killing those only slightly involved doesn't make you a saint; especially how you ganged up with those two monsters above you to kill a young man for no reason," Rukia said with both condescendence towards its hypocrisy and silent fury towards his involvement with Ichigo's recent demise.
"I'm just following ORDERS from the higher ups in Hueco Mundo-," Fishbone D roared as he sped up his punches until they seemed to be a flurry of fists.
"Hueco Mundo...that sounds familiar. Regardless, I'm just doing my duty as a Soul Reaper- Some no mai, Tsukishiro (First Dance, White Moon)," she answered back as she made a slashing motion as her opponent closed in, Rukia drew a circle with the tip of Sode no Shirayuki
"Why aren't you closing in, you need to cut our heads with that sword in order to-," Fishbone D tried to shout, but was forever silenced.
It noticed a white circle beneath him with snow rising from its edges. As it tried to lunge at Rukia, it was then covered in a pillar of ice that shot up to the sky.
"Never call this just a sword, it is a Zanpakuto- the manifestation of a Soul Reaper's powers and the embodiment of their being.," Rukia said as she turned her back on the now collapsing structure.
As the pillar shattered, Fishbone D's mask cracked as well until it revealed the face of a man with a large lower jaw and a white headband. As he calmed from the rage he had as a Hollow he thought this to himself with a serene expression:
Grand Fisher said that Souls pass onto the Soul Society if they don't stay too long and turn into a Hollow first...I wonder if my family is there...it would be nice...having a meal with them again.
The man's head then shot out of the crumbling pillar as his Hollow body vanished- a large Shoji opened in the sky and the head went through. The doors shut and then vanished as quickly as they appeared.
"Tch, a thousand man killer- what a joke...Are you going to fight the Soul Reaper," Shrieker complained about Fishbone D's demise, but quickly asked his ally.
"Correct...and you'll have your fun right," Grand Fisher responded sadistically.
"You understand me completely. Fighting the tough guys isn't my deal. I love to kill those who are helpless to do anyhing,"Shrieker smirked with a malicious glee as he prepared his latest set of amphibious horrors.
Clusters of the odd frogs began to crawl from Shrieker's back, down the building, to the ground and then up to where the classroom of Ichigo's peers were.
Rukia saw this and tried to head to them to stop them from hurting the students until a large shadow landed behind her. She turned around to see what was behind her-
Grand Fisher with his frontal hands sharpened into claws as he suddenly thrusted them towards the Soul Reaper only to stop short of an inch.
"Shrieker is a sadistic one, he loves to kill his prey as nasty as possible. While, he does have ideas, he's more the physical type of hunter...I'm the psychological type of hunter," Grand Fisher jeered at his new opponent. His sudden movement was merely to toy with her.
The boy with the arrow is down, I don't think reinforcements will come in time to take care of this- this is bad," Rukia thought to herself as she prepared for another of her techniques.
Shrieker giggled as he opened his mouth to unveil his forked tongue
Chad notices the thousands of small blurry objects crawling onto the wreckage of the room and heading towards the other students, unaware of the danger that they were in.
Clenching his right fist in frustration, he began to punch the ground in self-loathing. Orihime looked up to see Chad in anguish. She turned to Ichigo's face- she was feeling the same guilt of the inability to do anything that could've helped Ichigo
"What're you doing Chad," said Keigo nervously as he tried to comfort his loss.
I can sense them, but it doesn't mean anything if I can't even see them- why can't I use my fists the way you want Abuelo- to protect others with my giant hands. Even if they say I'm a giant who they all want to avoid- I want to use my fist to Protect Them! Chad thought loudly to himself.
"You know, talking to someone is a good way to let out some steam after-," Keigo tried to continue until he was blown away comically to the side of a wall with Mizuiro casually glancing.
Suddenly, with his 6th punch, the arm released a metallic alloy from the pores of his arm and covering it into a different form. From the punch also came a shock-wave so fierce that it blew away the frogs out of the sky and into the air as they exploded.
Shrieker gritted his teeth in frustration as his tactic had failed and fly in the sky to oversee what had happened coming from the classroom now emitting a large mist steaming from the inside of the room.
As the dust cleared, Chad emerged with a serious expression with his arm clad in a strange armor- the shoulder fanned out a bit into an upward extension, parallel to his height. It had an indentation at the top in the middle of the extension, stopping just where his shoulder began, separating the upward extension into two. There are two wing-like protrusions on either side of his wrist. The arm was black, with a dark magenta strip running down the middle of the arm, tapering down towards a point that stops at the wrist. The dark magenta strip was outlined by a thin white line. These patterns are on the top as well as the underside of his arm.
"I can see you now...the monsters who did this to Ichigo," Chad said with a stern voice, hiding his anger.
"Another one, I thought the Soul Reaper was the only one we had to worry about," Grand Fisher cursed under his breath, preparing to end their fight prematurely in order to face the newly awakened power.
"Your opponent is me," Rukia said to the Hollow to grab his attention as she clanged her zanpakuto against his claws.
First it was the boy who had powers like a Soul Reaper, then one of those people (noting Uryu) and now this...what is going on in Karakura Town, she thought to herself.
"So-so, you can see now- not that'll make a difference...time for my babies to use their trump card," Shrieker shouted arrogantly.
Shrieker's back showered a wave of the frogs as they rained down towards Chad. Their heads opened up to unveil streams of leeches from their exposed craniums, Shrieker made a shrill noise.
"Nice to Explode ya sucker, tell your Strawberry hi from Hell- You stupid brat!!," Shrieker shouted haughty and insanely as he gave Chad the middle finger with one of the fingers on his right wing.
Chad did not pay any mind, he simply pulled his right arm backwards and then pushed it forwards- it unleashed a beam of energy that incinerated the leeches, the frogs and went straight towards Shrieker. It resulted in an explosion that was seen across the entire Karakura District
Orihime turned her gaze towards Chad after focusing on Ichigo's body to give a wide-eyed expression of shock, Rukia gave an even larger expression of shock, Grand Fisher had his jaw drop and Uryu slowly woke up to see Chad's attack and gave a look of stoic disbelief.
As the stream dissipated, Shrieker, now heavily burnt, dropped clumsily into the classroom in front of Chad's feet. As he was about to get up, his mask was grabbed by Chad's left hand who clenched it so hard, that it began to crack.
"Wait-wait," Shrieker begged as he then vomited out a birdcage with a parakeet from his mouth. Chad looked surprised.
"T-this is my pet, I only stay here because I'm attached to the little-," he pleaded pathetically, causing Chad to loosen his grip until-
Shrieker's left wing was blasted off by a blue arrow coming from Chad's right side.
"How could I have made such a mistake," Uryu said with long breathing in-between as he slowly managed to stand up.
"Uryu,"Orihime said a weak smile.
Ryo sighed in relief and the other students were relived that at he had managed to make it out ok.
"Uryu, are you sure you can stand. I mean you took a lot of damage," Chad asked in concern.
"I'm fine, my father does worse to me," Uryu said in a matter-of-fact casual manner.
What kind of Home do you live in, thought Chad extremely worried about his bespectacled peer .
More importantly, I sense a human soul in that bird," Uryu informed his peer.
Chad's pupils shrank in rage as he turned to the now smug Shrieker.
"You got me. I was a serial killer before being a Hollow - my final kill was unfortunately the one that me killed too- by the little brat who was the son of the woman I killed. So I punished him by putting his soul in a bird and told him that if he let me kill enough people I'd bring his mother back- that's what a good son would do," Shrieker gloated disgustingly despite his disadvantage.
"You...vile-," Uryu growled angrily before being cut off by his wavy haired colleague.
Chad's eyes were shadowed in darkness.
"P-please mister, just let him kill you two...it'll be one step closer for me to see me mommy," said the parakeet with a weak, young boy's voice.
"That's right...you wouldn't want to break the boy's heart would-," Shrieker said in a snipe lyrical tone before being cut off by what he experienced next.
Suddenly Chad let go of his face and fired a barrage of punches so fierce that his mask cracked to reveal a pig-nosed thug. His face shadowed aside from his glowing right eye.
"T-thank you, kid, you've removed my mask- it means I get to go to Soul Society right...right?!," said the Bat Hollow pathetically with his tears welling up.
"Don't know about what Soul Society is. Normally, people like you just go to somewhere else- I don't like to mock people- but you are an exception. Nice to Explode You," said the dark skinned man coldly.
Shrieker's eyes widened as Chad fired a barrage of punches onto him, but this time combined with the energy blasts he made before- so that the Hollow would be even more pain. This beatdown continued for what seemed like hours.
Finally, Chad then punched Shrieker downwards by the side cheek of the exposed Hollow towards the ground, in which an odd thing then occurred. A purple gate chained shut and adorned with the bandaged head and torso of a skeleton on each door. The arms of both skeletons were positioned at an angle to pull the gates open when it is summoned. Suddenly, they opened revealed the face and left arm of a large demonic creature with tribal markings covering it, with armor on its upper arm. Shrieker was impaled by the large blade wielded by the demon as it pulled him inside and shut the doors. They crumbled into nothingness.
Grand Fisher's face gulped at prospect of going through those gates as well, and then darkened in anger.
Rukia looked confused at her zanpakuto.
Did he just punch a Hollow straight to hell? I thought only Soul Reapers could do that to Hollows, aside from the punching, Rukia thought to herself as she remained confused at the events she just saw.
Chad fainted from exhaustion.
How was that Ichigo? he thought as he collapsed and his eyes closed.
Rukia and Grand Fisher then stared each other as Chad slowly fainted to the ground and then lunged, preparing for a fight that lasted a few seconds.
Suddenly, an irritated and deep voice was heard in the sky.
"Done to only one of you. Average level Hollows certainly are trash," it said as the sky drew a line, bent downwards as if it were a mouth and opened up to squared tooth maw. Within them, there were four individuals- at three were humanoid.
Chapter 6: Broken Masks-Octopuppet-Six Faeries
