The Family soon arrived at the castle made of Sand stone That Anubis called home! the jackal stepping out dark black spiritual energy with golden center stormed around him, he looked to be made of Gold and he charged in slashing At Ichigo who quickly went to Bankai as he blocked it, "... That is a forced to work for you Zanpukto!" he declared stunned by it!

Anubis was slashing like as savage animal swinging the sword around while the others watched! Ichigo taking on his hollow state to get an edge that allowed him to slash with enough force that the blade was cracking when they slashed now! Not his the Dog man! he kept it up! his mind was clearly gone paying for his forced Bankai Ichigo just kept swinging as the Jackal charged! he was waiting for an opening and he jumped back and said, "their it is! BALA!" the blast fired form his horn! The shot fired hitting the Jackal in the chest killing him making him fall over!

Ichigo walked over and grabbed the ring the seventh ring of death and held it out For Orihime to reject! Five more rings till this hunt was over and they could just settle in steam land and live like a family the adventure over and done!

Watching this though a crystal ball using four others to talk to others was a white male dove in a tunic his hand held a ring, "So as you see my ring holders! trying to fight him like him Will simply not work! he is a monster beyond anything we have seen! his cubs follow in that foot step, his wife leads another! level of Monster! his oldest's Mate wil soon join by the way of this! At the end of the day I don't think we can stop him with might!"

Some one form one of the crystal balls spoke," And what have you? make a new weapon form! note how that did not work for the last ones who tried it! fight with a proxy Failed everyone who tried it! use the ring to reanimated a Monster failed the lizard lady! try merging those plans! did not work For Anubis! who did so technically speaking!

the next ball said " No I believe He wants to try and Win with out facing him! They accept challenges to combat for the ring just fine! probably a code of honor! The probably is everyone challenged him! now the wife's wind attack would give her away against he who flies on the mountain ranges!"

the third crystal ball spoke, "the mate of the oldest is out as well her shield can absorb power attacks and fire them back off something his magic bow would be weak against!"

the fourth crystal ball spoke up, " then that leaves either his oldest or youngest! we have it on record the oldest has all the same power as his father! So I would have the Tigress challenge the liger cub! he challenges the youngest and just use one of those parasite blades to make a fighter out of one of the turn the wheel feral slaves to fight the mate of the oldest, for a best of three! that way you only have to Win two battles may be put a clock so you can out last them!"

The dove nodded and said, "See thinking as a group hopefully we will win at least one for the first time This monster in tiger form has been beaten!" he declared he got up holding a quincy cross to summon a bow with two spikes around the hand guard he walked out to his feral slave pit to pick one to become a fighter for him in this declared mock war!

It was the doves best bet! use the mock war to battle the three weakest links, he would face cheeah, tigress would face Kazui and which ever slave he picked would battle Safa the gladiator slave!

Walking through the sands they came to the edge where it was now a mountain range filled with trees and even a stream! Cheeah blinked, "Ok this line makes no sense!"

Orihime then said,"only if was natural! but we saw that the sand is bone dust! So the Jackal probably sucked the life out of the area and used the bone dust to block the river so it didn't go in to make his territory how he liked it! So makes perfect sense in context of it's not naturally happening!

Ichigo nodded pointing to his wife, "Correct!" Safa rolled her eyes, the former gladiator slave didn't care about that! she want to complete this quest so she could start learning how to be a wife to Kazui!

Ichigo was also focused on Ring eight ever ring brought them closer and closer to victory! victory meant finally settling into this new world and getting back to some level of normal! If he ever did go down to hell he would have words with his so called friends running the show! he was captain level! he would probably end up their as staff and he would kick all their fucking asses till he was the warden of it! hay everyone has to have a retirement plan! Ichigo's was kicking ass in hell till he was running it! I believe he can do it! How about you?

Questions for later right now they would follow the trail up the mountain to the dove city to bring about the match with ring holder eight and move into the final fourth of the quest after words! honestly you would think destroying twelve rings would be easier then It has been! but strange world no more guide sound, don't know how to get around and where stuff is! reality is a cruel mistress some times! Well this is where we leave them as this chapter is done see you all next time for the planned matches to start! After all for once someone was smart enough to not involve Ichigo in their plan to keep their ring! A bad guy used common sense it's shocking isn't it?

to be continued