Rain had been falling over from the inside the entirety of Las Noches, still from the atmospheric change that came from Ulquiorra's Gran Rey Cero, and the distorted space it caused. The clouds have become dark and gloomy, gathering up together to make rain fall down.
Orihime's fairies have returned to her, now having been done to heal both Ichigo and Grimmjow back at their full strength. So now she had turned to heal Nelliel next, who had still been heavily exhausted.
Ichigo gripped his fist, as if trying to make sure everything had been working properly. Seeing that he had been at peak condition again, he had turned around to look at Orihime with a grateful smile. "Thank you for this. I appreciate the help you gave. You just focus on healing Nelliel now." he could still see that she was worried about him. Though it wasn't like he could really blame her much from that. But nonetheless he had felt confident he could take on Grimmjow. "And please, you don't have to worry about me. Trust me, I'll win this for sure. And after that, I will come back here." he promised her.
Orihime looked to be surprised by the promise. Ichigo then turned to look over at Grimmjow, more so wanting to change location to where their battle would be at. "Let's take this battle elsewhere, Grimmjow. I'd rather not do this here." he pointed at the girls from behind.
Grimmjow merely scowled, but nonetheless he agreed to it anyway, just so to battle Ichigo at his full power. "Fine by me."
The two of them then jumped off in the distance, leaving off a strong wind pressure that formed dust behind the girls. Though they haven't really been affected due to Orihime's shield and the barrier she formed so that neither could be wet from the rain. Ichigo had unsheathed his large cleaver sword, however he had decided to merely stay in his Shikai, feeling quite confident he should be able to challenge Grimmjow like this. With that said, Ichigo had landed down on the wet ground and the ground had made a small crater beneath his feet from the impact he made. He was now fully prepared for the battle to take place.
Grimmjow had landed on a tower, as he had been very eager for this moment. He was very close to where Ichigo was, only difference with the Espada having the high ground instead. He rested his sword on his shoulder, while also bending down slightly to take his battle stance. The Soul Reaper and Arrancar had taken a few moments of silence, letting the rain fall down on them, getting their clothes wet in doing so as well.
And just then, the two of them marched towards at one another with their Flash Step and Sonido, making Ichigo and Grimmjow clash their blades at one another. They kept on striking against each other multiple times, and with that their battle began. Ichigo and Grimmjow kept on going at one another at multiple places, both traveling at rapid pace.
Meanwhile with both girls, they have seen the combatants go at it, seeing plenty of smoke that came from the towers from different spots. Nelliel had turned to look at Orihime. "Say… out of the two of them, who do you think would win?" she wanted to know from her. This girl had an Arrancar uniform, but she didn't look like one, nor did she have the energy of one in the first place. Could this be the one that Ichigo mentioned saving? Though why would she be kidnapped in the first place for?
Orihime turned around to look at the former Espada with a smile. "I thought that would be obvious, the one who's winning this will be Ichigo. After all, he did say he would win and come back here." she said.
"Though… can you be sure? I'm sorry for being pessimistic, but we barely managed to get out alive from that Ulquiorra guy, and he was just the 4th Espada." Nelliel remarked. "If I'm still correct, Grimmjow should be the 6th, and by that he's weaker than the last one, but I just can't help but get worried." she looked down on the floor with a frown.
"I know how that is, but when it comes to Ichigo, you would just have hope that he really would win this. He's not really the type of person who would say that to someone if he was scared, nor would he say it if he was trying to fool himself." Orihime had tried to explain. "Ichigo is a very focused person. When he uses strong words like that, it's like he's pledging to something. I think it's more so he's making a vow to himself. I knew that when I saw him as a Soul Reaper for the first time." she still remembered that day, back when she first met him when he saved her from Hollowfied brother.
"If you want to kill Orihime, you'll have to get through me first!"
She remembered the same thing when they went to travel to Soul Society because of Kisuke's help. "He said similar words like that when we went to the Soul Society to save Rukia."
"I guess we'll just have to win then!"
Looking back at that, she couldn't help but make a smile with just how utterly brash that really was. But even then he hadn't been wrong. "He says those words to reassure us, but more than that it feels more so he's making that promise to himself. That's why I believe Ichigo is going to win. And all we have to do is have faith." she looked over at the rain that kept on falling.
Nelliel was honestly impressed by this. It wasn't even about the difference in their strengths, but more so the vow he made. "Yeah... I guess you're right."
Back within the battle, Ichigo and Grimmjow clashed their blades against one another again. The force of their blows had the ground beneath them to crack, and along that there were little rocks that levitated in the air from the force of their blows. Ichigo had pushed Grimmjow back away from him, but Grimmjow charged a Cero from his left hand and charged forward at his opponent. Ichigo knew he quickly had to get rid of it before that was fired from him. So with that he had swung his sword to strike right through Grimmjow's hand. "Getsuga—" However, Grimmjow ducked away from the cleaver before he threw away his own sword in the air, making a Cero from his right hand instead to trick Ichigo. Ichigo could see the Cero coming at right to his face, and it looked as though he wouldn't be able to dodge it.
That had been correct, Ichigo wouldn't have been able to dodge like this at such a close range. He could, however, be able to stop the blow. The Cero had been fired directly at him, but Ichigo managed to counter the blow just in time to use a Getsuga Tenshou. The Cero had managed to pierce a hole through the tower, all while the Getsuga had managed to defend Ichigo from the blast. There was a cloud of smoke seen from the tower, right before Grimmjow came through the smoke and started to laugh. "Hahahaha! This is fucking great! Finally, the chance I get to crush you at your full strength! You feel the same don't you, Ichigo Kurosaki?!"
The smoke had fully cleared up, and Ichigo had been revealed from the smoke, having shown no signs of any visible damage, besides showing a scratch from his cheek. "You're wrong." Ichigo said, holding his blade with two hands in front. "I didn't come all this way just to fight you and give some senseless rematch."
"Bullshit!" Grimmjow swinged his arm in sheer annoyance. Just what was this guy on about? After all of this he still doesn't want to go head-on?! "Don't give me such a pathetic lie! The truth is is that you want to kill me, don't you?! Say it! I teared a hole through that friend of yours!" he pointed a finger to his chest. He wanted to set him off. He wanted to see the murderous bloodlust from Ichigo. "You would want to get your hands on me, and rip me apart!" he now pointed to the scar on his chest, remembering how he got it from that Black Getsuga. "You'll know why I kept this scar! I'll start by ripping apart your throat! And prove which one of us is the strongest!"
Grimmjow then went back to where his blade had been, and it had sticked right onto the pillar. When he had gotten to it, he took out the sword and for higher in the air to take the same high ground he had before the battle began. However Ichigo had merely stood still at the same place he was at. But the body language he had and the look on his eyes still irritated Grimmjow. He still looked like he wasn't fully serious of the battle at all. Granted both of them were holding back, but Ichigo still looked as though he wasn't gonna go for the kill. "Oh for fuck's sake, what is it now?!" Grimmjow almost felt like he was about to lose it. "After all this, you still look like you don't wanna kill me!" just the sight of him alone made him feel disgusted now. Downright sick to his stomach. Well fine then… if he would be like that, he would just force it out of him. "You're one pathetic bastard."
Ichigo only took this to glare at him. "How about you come the fuck down here." he challenged him.
Grimmjow only scoffed at this. As if he would actually be provoked so easily to lunge at him blindly. Grimmjow used a Sonido to get behind at Ichigo. The Substitute teen widened his eyes when he sensed Grimmjow coming at him from above. Ichigo leaped out of the way when Grimmjow smashed his left fist down on the wet ground, making it crumble apart in doing so. As Ichigo was in mid-air, Grimmjow used this opportunity to diagonally slash at Ichigo, to which Ichigo moved his sword to the side to shield his body, with Grimmjow's sword smacking against the side of his blade instead. Ichigo twisted his body to get down on the ground all the while not daring to avert his eyes off of Grimmjow. Ichigo had started to get pushed backwards while still keeping his feet on the ground, all the while he and Grimmjow kept clashing their swords at one another, with neither gaining a successful blow in doing so.
Grimmjow and Ichigo then clashed at one another again, but this time they kept their blades firmly locked against one another. "Tell me this… why did you bother coming to Hueco Mundo in the first place?" Grimmjow asked, all while keeping his blade locked again Ichigo's.
Ichigo looked at him as if he had grown two heads right now. "Did you suffer some brain damage while coming here? I came all the way here just to save Orihime! It's as simple that!" he exclaimed, not understanding why Grimmjow of all people would just ask him that.
"Oh really?" Grimmjow had looked at him questioningly right before he gave a smirk. "If what you're saying is the truth, then why didn't you just grab her the moment she healed you first?" he saw Ichigo looking surprised by this. "I mean, you could have easily done that, so why didn't you?" he saw that Ichigo had frowned, but the Espada kept on pushing. "And tell me this, were you relieved to see that she was unharmed? Or at least it appeared that way on the surface?" Grimmjow leaned his head slightly closer. "Don't you think that something may have been done to her… on the inside?"
Ichigo then flashed a look of anger on his face, as he started to push his sword further, making Grimmjow take a step back while still keeping their blades locked. "What. Did. You. Bastards. DO?!" Ichigo demanded to know. The thought of what may have been done to her while he was still out made him more feared for her. "Answer me!"
Grimmjow was now more pleased by this. It was working. "Good… now that's more like it!" Grimmjow then pushed his sword back, and Ichigo had some the same while still keeping his guard up. "You said you came to save that girl, right? Since you don't seem to get it; I'll spell it out for you instead." he looked back at Ichigo, and gave off a smirk again. "You're wrong. The reason you came here is so that you could fight." Now he saw the Soul Reaper seemed more surprised, and a little hesitant as well. "Come on, Kurosaki, are you even aware of the path your instincts have led you to? You're a Soul Reaper. I'm a Hollow. The loser of this battle will be slaughtered. It's been that way for over a 1000 years now! It's a survival instinct of the last man standing! It's as basic and simple as you can possibly get! What more could you want when you have the power to back it up?!"
Grimmjow then charged at Ichigo again, whom swung his sword down at the Arrancar, but Grimmjow had both his hands on the sword to twist it around with both his forearms being above his head while having his sword diagonally and Ichigo struck the sword nearly at the end of the sharpened point. The positions have then changed extremely quick with Grimmjow flipping his sword to strike it down at Ichigo, but the teen quicky placed his sword above his head so that he wouldn't be cut apart there. But Ichigo swinged his sword horizontally to push Grimmjow back to which he managed to do that. They briefly got separated before both of them lunged at each other again, with Ichigo going for the attack to swing his more horizontally with his right elbow pointed down to his thigh while both his hands were right around his head. Though at the same time Grimmjow blocked it with a basic defensive stance needed. The combatants spun around for one circle before they let go of their swords, and they immediately got back at it again by clashing several more times.
Both of them had backed away from one another and started to charge up their attacks, with Ichigo charging off his blue Getsuga while Grimmjow charged a Cero from his left hand. They then unleashed their attacks at the same time, with Ichigo firing off his high density beam attack, and Grimmjow his red energy blast. Both their attacks had clashed at one another at the same time, with each looking as though they struggled to overpower each other. Their attacks have cancelled one another by neither one going through another, but instead they dispersed and created a wind of smoke.
Grimmjow then got behind Ichigo by doing a Sonido to do so. Ichigo quickly turned around to see Grimmjow diagonally swing his sword down, to which Ichigo placed his sword horizontally at his body. The blow from the sword caused Ichigo to start falling down, but in only one second, Grimmjow had instantly gotten on the wet sand grounds to be far below where Ichigo was at. Grimmjow placed his sword down next to him and let the rain fall down on him. Grimmjow slightly turned his head to look at Ichigo, whom looked at him with great ire. "You've lived up, Kurosaki, but…" Grimmjow placed his fingers directly on his sword, and slided them down just to get a drop of blood on them. He then got up and turned to face the Soul Reaper in a dramatic fashion where he had his hand pointed while holding onto his right wrist. "That's not good enough! You're not at the level where I want this battle to take place at!" then there was a blue energy ball that took shape of a Cero, but the shape of it was far more wild, destructive, and quite uncontrollable as well. "Behold! This is the ultimate Cero that only the Espada are capable of using!"
Ichigo was watching the blue Cero shape getting bigger and bigger. If he didn't know better, the amount of power there had increased tremendously compared to the normal Ceros he's been dealt with so far, and he could tell that even without sensing the power behind it. That shape looked sort of like what Ulquiorra had done if he remembered well. 'Wait a minute…' he thought when he sensed a few energies that were right behind him. Ichigo turned his head to see Orihime and Nelliel were still on that same ruined tower. He remembered the damage that Ulquiorra had done with an attack like that, and that wasn't even half of its full power. If he let that blast get released… Ichigo knew immediately he had to stop that blow himself when he looked down at Grimmjow. "Wait! Don't release it!" Ichigo shouted in warning, somehow hoping that Grimmjow wouldn't release this.
It was already too late, the blast was just about to be fired. "GRAN REY CERO!" Grimmjow screamed the attack's name right before he fired it from his hand. The blast seemed to be the size of the tower itself, and it looked as though it was heading for Orihime instead of Ichigo. Orihime had been standing in shock by this, not sure if she could somehow get away or block an attack like that
She didn't have to do anything however, when before she knew it the Gran Rey Cero had been dispersed. There was a wind of smoke that covered over on what happened, but everyone here saw that it had been dispersed. In front of Grimmjow there was a crater that formed. The smoke had quickly cleared away, and Ichigo had been revealed that he had cut down the attack rather casually, as he had now been in his Bankai form with his Tensa Zangetsu at his hand.
"Tch." Grimmjow scowled as he scanned the form that he wanted Ichigo at. "It's about damn time."
Ichigo had about all he could take with this. He wanted him to be in his Bankai so badly huh? Well fine then. He kept talking about that basic instinct of a surviving battle? Fine then, he would give him that. He'll tap in these instincts just so he could try giving this guy an equal fight he so badly wanted. If it would finally shut him and his Hollow up about this instinct talk, then he'll delve into them.
Orihime and Nelliel looked at each other before they looked back at Ichigo who had his back turned to them. They were about to thank him for saving their lives, but the words couldn't come out of their mouths when they sensed a change of mood within Ichigo's Spiritual Pressure. It felt far more fierce and aggressive now, in fact if he hadn't been standing right in front of them they would have a hard time believing this was even Ichigo they were feeling anymore.
Ichigo turned his head to look at them, but his eyes had different intentions. Instead of being protective, they looked as though he was searching for a fight worthy of his time. "It's alright now. There's really nothing to worry about now." he then looked away from them. "Not while I'm here."
Another effect of the Gran Rey Cero caused another weather effect and further distortion of the atmosphere. As of now there were thunders that boomed around Las Noches. Grimmjow had started to make a chuckle to himself, finally seeing the form he wanted. He would have to say he hated the rain that was falling on him, but right now he couldn't care any less for that crap. "Hahahahahaha! Ahahahahahaha!" The Espada began to cackle madly in joy. "Finally! I've been waiting for this to happen! Now the time has finally come!" he pulled his sword out of the ground and placed his fingertips with his right hand. The sword began to glow light blue as he put his left hand up to it. There were grinds of smoke surrounding the Espada. "Grind, Pantera!" He then swept his hand along the length of the blade with a swift motion.
The water rain that fell from the clouds had then started to turn into steam itself just by Grimmjow making his transformation. Ichigo had only let this happen as he watched from up above. Though he may have been eager for an equal battle, he couldn't let this go on without some protection. "Orihime, use your Santen Kesshun to make a shield around you and Nelliel. Because trust me, things are about to get ugly from here on out." he more so demanded. "No matter what happens, do not under any circumstances take it down, not even for a second until this is all over." he still heard no answer out of either of the girls. "I said do it!" Ichigo commanded.
Orihime nervously nodded her head before she went to do as told. "Y-Yes! Of course, Ichigo! Santen Kesshun, I reject!" she made the command for her fairies before making a shield for both her and Nelliel.
Nelliel herself almost couldn't believe what she was seeing. She felt like this was hardly Ichigo anymore, but instead it was a stranger. 'What the hell has gotten into him? He wasn't like this a moment ago.' she thought as she was still within the healing barrier.
Ichigo could now to start to vaguely see Grimmjow's form down from all the steam that piled up. But he could start seeing him more clearly, right until he could fully see Grimmjow's new Resurrection form, and his body took quite a drastic change, changing into something more feline and predatory. His teeth became jagged and sharp, and his hands turned into black claws, along his feet becoming black clawed paws, similar to that of a cat, along with a slender whip-like tail that's longer than his body. His hair was very long and flowing, and the markings around his eyes became larger that extended to the tips of his ears, which became swept back and cat-like. He lost his distinctive jaw mask, which was replaced by a sort of a headgear upon his brow covering his forehead. Even his clothing changed to become form-fitting white segmented armor. He had blades protruding from his forearms and his calves.
But nonetheless, Ichigo was more than prepared to take on this newly released Grimmjow, and there would be no need to use his mask to kick things off. In fact that would just be boring for him. Grimmjow had only been silent for a few seconds, letting himself feel of his Resurección. "Haagh…" he took a breath to himself, and just then he unleashed a powerful scream. "HRRAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" his scream had been so powerful that it had now completely dispersed and cleared away most clouds and got rid of the rain as well, generating a powerful shockwave as well.
Needless to say, Ichigo had been caught by surprise from this display of power. 'What the hell?! A shockwave?! He's generating that much power just by screaming?!' he thought to himself.
In an instant, Grimmjow leaped off from the ground and immediately got right in front to Ichigo. Grimmjow managed to land a punch right to Ichigo's cheek, sending him to another side where the Soul Reaper had crashed through multiple towers, and was still went flying. Grimmjow managed to easily catch up with him as he did a Sonido from behind to send a kick right to Ichigo's back, right before he reappeared from the front to perform a bicycle kick to Ichigo's jaw so that he could send him flying further from above in the air. "Damn it…" Ichigo cursed, until he sensed Grimmjow had appeared from behind where he was at as well. Ichigo turned his head from behind to see Grimmjow struck him down with his sharpened claw, and directly hit Ichigo's face before Ichigo got sent flying down and completely crash down through another tower, which had been destroyed in half from the impact that was caused.
Grimmjow looked down, and scanned his eyes to see where Ichigo was at from all the smoke that covered on the ground. But along that he felt some disappointment. Was he already defeated? Was all that excitement he gained was for nothing? No way would he accept this. "The hell is the matter with you?! You should be able to do better than that! Come on out!" Grimmjow called out, knowing damn well this guy should still be alive.
"Getsuga…" Grimmjow widened his eyes when he just sensed Ichigo from behind. "TENSHOU!" Grimmjow wasn't able to react before the Black Getsuga made a direct blow and completely engulfed him to be seen. However Ichigo made sure he held back as much as he could just so that he didn't accidentally kill him in the process.
"Hahahahaha!" Despite this, Grimmjow had laughed, as the Getsuga cleared up and Grimmjow was shown to be relatively unharmed by the attack. "Yeah! Now that's more like it, Kurosaki!" he turned to look at Ichigo's animalistic fueled eyes. "Those eyes! I hate those goddamn eyes! That's why you gotta die!"
"Well, would you look at that. The rain is gone, though space itself is still being distorted."
"Another Gran Rey Cero… and just after Ulquiorra had been the one to release it, something that should never be done within the canopy of Las Noches."
Apacci had stomped her foot down on the rooftop of Halibel's castle, or it could more so count as a large balcony of sorts. She, Mila Rose, Sung-Sun, Halibel herself had watched the battle from afar that captured their curiosity. "What's the matter?! Are you scared or something, Mila Rose?!" Apacci had taunted.
Mila Rose only smirked. "Me? Scared? I'm not the one whose teeth are chattering so loud I could hear it all the way from here!" the Amazon woman rebuked.
"Both of you, just stop." Sun-Sun had sighed from the argument that these two were just going on about. Just once it would be great if she did not hear them bicker with each other almost every day. Though seeing them getting provoked by her was just too good to pass up. "It makes you both look weak with how loud you're being." she insulted them.
This insult had been more than enough to provoke as their attention towards each other had now turned to her instead. "What the fuck did you just say?!" Mila Rose and Apacci yelled at the same time in annoyance. However Sun-Sun merely turned her back towards them. "Hey! Don't turn your back on us like that!"
Before they could get into any further argument, there came an extremely strong wind pressure that had the Fracciones nearly move from their spot while they were covering their faces. "What does Grimmjow think he's doing?! He's getting way too carried away!" Mila Rose exclaimed.
"Try not to worry about it." all three of the Fracciones became silent when Halibel spoke and walked in front of them. She herself could see the shockwaves from afar. "This battle is being fought by an Espada in his Resurreción form. It's not unreasonable for all of you to feel frightened." another strong wind pressure had came by, but she hadn't been phased by it at all. Though she could already know that even though despite their tough attitude, they were afraid from the inside. "That's your primal fear. Relish it." she told them firmly.
"...Yes, ma'am." Sun-Sun silently nodded her head
'Although… is the one he's fighting really who I think it is? If the person Grimmjow is fighting is really Ichigo Kurosaki, it's unbelievable that he's even human. At least from the footages I saw, he's supposed to be one.' Halibel thought as she continued to watch the battle unfold. 'But the sheer volume and intensity of his Spirit Energy is so dark and aggressive. Ichigo Kurosaki… your friend was right, there really is more to you than meets the eye. You just keep making me more interested in you by the second.' she had formed a small smile on her face. 'Your battle is the same thing of watching two Espadas fighting one another.' she then made a small frown as she had sensed Orihime, along with another strange Arrancar. She couldn't help but wonder why was she here. 'Although… what is Orihime doing there? Shouldn't she be in her room? I just hope that she's just unharmed…'
Back within the battle, Ichigo and Grimmjow have kept clashing against one another multiple times, with both of them coming at one another from high speeds that made both of them look like they were just blurs. Every clash they made caused wind pressures everywhere they fought, along with producing some shockwaves as well. During one of their clashes, both of them got sent back away from one another in opposite directions they went to, but that wasn't until Grimmjow got back to Ichigo as he struck his hand at Ichigo, to which he blocked it by swinging his sword at him. Ichigo was the one that got pushed back before he clashed his back against one pillar tower.
The cause of the impact made a crater against Ichigo's back. Ichigo's sword had stopped Grimmjow's hand from piercing him as it was placed horizontally below his neck, as he had somewhat of trouble in doing so. "I see that you've already gotten stronger since the last time we fought." Grimmjow remarked, as he already noticed quite the difference compared to their last battle and this one day right now all while he kept pushing his hand. "Could it be that you've been training more before you got here? Or maybe you've been somehow subconsciously improving when coming to Las Noches?" he saw that Ichigo had been silent, not really answering anything at all. "Well, I don't really care either way. In fact, I'm actually glad that's the case." he gained a cocky smirk. "It wouldn't be any fun if you were beaten too quickly." he then raised his other hand and struck it down at Ichigo. "Don't you agree?!"
Ichigo had only casually grabbed Grimmjow's hand and stopped it in its tracks. He looked at the Espada dead in the eye as he had done soc. "So… you're worried about this battle being boring?" Ichigo had then started to raise his Spiritual Pressure higher. "I'll spice it up for you then." Grimmjow then widened his eyes in shock right before the crater got bigger, and he was forced to back off as Ichigo swung his blade at him with a brief compressed Getsuga and horizontally cut through his chest, which had sprayed blood out of it. Ichigo looked back at Grimmjow again as his long black coat started getting blown by some wind. "You know what I think would be really boring? If you weren't in your Released State, so do me a favor, AND FUCKIN' STAY IN IT!"
Ichigo then started to leap towards Grimmjow as he swung his blade at him. Ichigo slashed his sword over at Grimmjow's arm, but the Espada had blocked it with the razor blades he had on them. Grimmjow then backed off Ichigo before going ahead to kick him on his hip. Ichigo on the other hand shrugged off the attack and countered back by trying to slice his head off, to which Grimmjow ducked his head to do that. Ichigo then swung lower, but Grimmjow had did a backflip to avoid while both of them were in the air. Grimmjow then started to spin his entire body while he was spinning himself towards at Ichigo. When the Espada had gained closer, he stopped spinning and quickly flipped his body to unleash a first kick, to which Ichigo backed away from the first time. The second time Grimmjow had done the same thing, but Ichigo also dodged that one until he charged forward. This one had been a mistake on his part as Grimmjow had flipped again, but since Ichigo was now more closer he wasn't able to dodge when Grimmjow struck him directly at his head, sending Ichigo flying down till he hit the ground all the way from below.
"Hahahahaha!" Grimmjow had laughed madly in joy. The bloodlust, the intensity, the excitement of an equal battle had his blood pumping in ways he never thought they could before. "Come on, Ichigo Kurosaki! Is that all you got?!" he had taunted before he leaped down far below just so he could catch up. On the ground he could see another crater on the sand.
Grimmjow had gotten closer and closer to where Ichigo had crashed at. On there he could still see smoke coming out. When he had gotten extremely close, the 6th Espada widened his eyes when he saw a black blade sticking out of it. Grimmjow could just barely get out of the way at the last second by going to his right, but the black blade had sticked right to his arm and started to slowly, but surely cut right through the armored skin. "Graaaaaagh!" Ichigo shouted as he had continued to draw blood from the arm, something that completely surprised Grimmjow to do so. This had happened until Grimmjow and Ichigo had separated from one another, with smokes surrounding them that blew over wind. This only lasted for the briefest of seconds before Ichigo wildly lunged over at Grimmjow with his sword raised above his head. Both combatants striked their weapons at one another and clashed at the exact same time, creating an extremely powerful shockwave in doing that.
Back with both of the girls from the tower, they have continued to watch the battle unfold in front of them. They just could not believe what they were seeing. Though out of the two of them, Orihime had been the one in more shock than Nelliel. 'Ichigo's Spiritual Pressure… something about it isn't right at all.' Orihime thought as she put her hand over on her fist, biting her lower lip as well. 'It feels much darker, more fierce and grittier. And it's so thick and heavy, that it's stifling.' her hands started to shake. 'I actually thought if he put on that Hollow mask, but he didn't. He's still in a regular Bankai, and yet… it feels almost even darker than when both of us were training with Shinji and the others.'
Back within the battle, Ichigo had been standing in the middle of all the smoke that was coming. He sensed a movement behind him where Grimmjow's hand came from behind. Ichigo turned around fast enough to smack the hand away with his own. "Graaaaaagh!" Ichigo made a battle cry as he swung his sword horizontally, clearing the smoke away in doing so where he could see Grimmjow clearly now. But Grimmjow had twisted his body to leap upwards from the sword before striking a roundhouse spin kick right at Ichigo's shoulder. Grimmjow immediately added by jumping upwards to raise his leg before striking it down at Ichigo, whom had casually side stepped out of the way. Grimmjow then ran half a circle around Ichigo before he strikes at him yet again. Both of them had made similar battles cries before clashing against one another yet again, this time their strikes causing some mixed black and blue colors, right before their strikes caused them to back away from one another and caused a crater to be formed between.
Now back with the girls, Nelliel had still watched the battle as well with clear wide eyes. Though she wasn't in shock as much as Orihime was, but she was still clearly taken by surprise from all this. All of the events that she saw this guy go was still a shock of her own. "It's… hard to believe…" Nelliel murmured as she was still inside the healing barrier, all while feeling her Spirit Energy coming back to her. But now that felt like the least of her worries. "Just… who is this guy? There is no way in hell is he a Soul Reaper." she said.
Orihime looked back at the woman she had healed, though she was more so looking at the cracked mask she had. It was strange to her, as most Arrancars she met so far always had their masks fully intact with them in some way or the other, but this woman before her had a mask that seemed damaged and incomplete. 'That mask of hers… what happened to it that made it look like that? It's strange, but I suppose I should heal that one as well.' she thought.
The battle had still resumed, and another strong wind pressure had just rattled as both Ichigo and Grimmjow came back at one another again. "Graaaaaagh!" they both yelled out as Ichigo struck his blade downwards while Grimmjow struck his razor blades upwards, making their weapons clash for the unkempt time in a row, resulting in another shockwave to burst forth.
Going clearly faster than the Speed of Light, Ichigo and Grimmjow used their Flash Step and Sonido to reappear to another place and continue their battle. Ichigo made a proper diagonal slash right at Grimmjow's chest, to which Grimmjow raised his wrist to block with the razor blades. Grimmjow pushed the sword away before performing an aerial spin kick at Ichigo's head, though the Substitute bended his back to avoid the kick, but not until Grimmjow had done the reverse with his left leg that had Ichigo react by vertically raising his left wrist to block it instead. The kick forced Ichigo to slide through the ground while still keeping his feet intact. Ichigo and Grimmjow immediately lunged at each other, with their weapons striking against one another, but the immediate contact had Ichigo bend down when Grimmjow acrobatically flipped away. Both of them turned around to see Grimmjow attacking with a swift roundhouse kick, which had Ichigo put his sword diagonally above his shoulder to block the kick. When that happened Ichigo immediately countered with violent slashes that one came from above his head to strike it down at Grimmjow's head, however Grimmjow bended his back far enough to avoid the blow, but Ichigo threw another wild slash that had Grimmjow put his hands on the ground from behind to perform a bicycle kick at Ichigo's right arm, to which Ichigo had been pushed back a little because of this.
Grimmjow had then tackled Ichigo, and Ichigo had been sent flying backwards quite far in the air, as the Soul Reaper put energy on his feet and his left hand to drop himself where he had been hovering behind another tower. "Haha! Take this!" Grimmjow exclaimed before he put his elbow to front and fired off 5 acutely bombs that travelled like bullets, as they had been fired off at Ichigo's head.
Ichigo had casually tilted his head to avoid these, but this had been a mistake right before he turned his head to look at that the bomb bullets were heading straight at Orihime's shield now. "NO!" Ichigo screamed out fearfully, using his Flash Step to get in front a second before the bullet bombs could. 2 of the bullets hit his shoulders, and the other 3 have hit his back directly. Ichigo coughed up some blood from all the blows, but other than that his body was still in one piece.
He turned his head to look at both women at the top. "H-Hey… you alright?" he asked them both, wanting to make sure if they were alright. When they nodded their heads, that was all the answer he needed. "Good." he said, though they looked as though they wanted to talk to him, but he ignored it as he went back down all the way on the ground, right where he could see Grimmjow in front of him.
Grimmjow himself only had a smirk on his face. "You really went out of your way to save them? How sweet of you." Ichigo honestly couldn't tell if he was mocking him or being… genuine about it? "Though I have to say, I'm quite impressed. You went out to save them but you took 5 of those bullets directly and still came out in one piece? But your body must have taken at least some damage."
Ichigo scoffed as he gave the Espada a glare. "What's your point?" he asked, though he was right that he did take some damage from those bullets. But that wouldn't be nearly enough to stop him.
Grimmjow pointed his elbow from behind and fired off just one bullet from it, which in turn had easily destroyed another tower as it fell apart quickly, all while he still had his eyes locked on Ichigo. "That tower I just destroyed? The other ones that are here in this place have been created by Aizen himself." he said.
Ichigo wasn't impressed. ''So? It's just a stupid tower. I fail to see what's the big deal out of that."
"You may not know this, but sometimes a creature by the name of Ayon is summoned here, and the first few times he did, he ripped this entire place apart. It was such a pain to fix it that Aizen just completely rediscovered an entire new material to just make these new towers."
If Ichigo was impressed, he didn't show any of that. But instead he still just scoffed. ''Are you done blabbering your mouth? You're starting to bore me with these details." he said.
Grimmjow shrugged off. "Just thought I could inform you." he then took his fighting stance again. "I was getting worried if you were at your limit."
Ichigo almost wanted to burst out laughing from this. Him? At his limit? Fuck that. "My limit…?" he had made a chuckle. "I'm nowhere close to even being halfway done!" he exclaimed.
Grimmjow made a smirk of his own. "Good. I would be disappointed if that was the case." but it was just then that the mask on his forehead made a crack.
"Oh?" Ichigo gained a cocky smirk. "Was that a crack I heard just now? Perhaps you're the one who's at his limit." he taunted him.
Grimmjow scowled out of this. "Afraid not… In fact…" just then, both of them started running at each other at the same time. "I NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE!"
Now back with both of the girls, they just kept on watching the fight that had gone down below. 'What is it with me? Why does my body feel like it's shaking?' Orihime thought to herself as she watched Ichigo's battle from below, or well, more so at Ichigo himself. She only flinched in doing so. 'I can't… I almost can't look at him the same way anymore now. When I look at him, I don't want to believe this is Ichigo now.' she had started to clench her gut. 'The eyes he has in the battle… it just can't be him. When he looks at me like that, it's like I barely exist to him. The eyes just like the ones my brother had…' she shivered when she remembered that, at the thought that she nearly died that day. 'This is like when the Symbiote took him over. But even then, his actions were more so perverted. It had bastardized what Ichigo had been doing, and even the distinction between the two was more obvious to what was going on. With the Symbiote, it was more like someone else was taking over his actions, with Ichigo being an oblivious puppet. But… this?' she looked back at the battle again. 'It's like Ichigo is fully aware of what he's doing… and enjoys it.' she started to clench her eyes shut. "This isn't Ichigo… it can't be him." she almost choked on her words on saying it.
The two animals went back at it again. Ichigo and Grimmjow had been backed off from one another from the blows they just withstood, with both their faces showing signs of bleeding, though with Ichigo's it less than what Grimmjow's showed. They lunged at each other again, with Ichigo swinging his sword down again and Grimmjow bending down to block it with his razor blades. Grimmjow then kicked Ichigo away from him, but Ichigo made a backflip to land on the ground to find balance so he could stop himself. He looked up to see Grimmjow flipping himself in the air the whole time just to get to him. Despite this Ichigo was smiling at the joy of the battle he was at before both of them struck each other at the time which in return they destroyed a ruined tower just by their blows.
Nelliel had still watched this herself. But throughout this fight there was just something that was bugging her. Why was Ichigo still holding back? Even right now in that Arrancar Bankai of his, if he was actually struggling like it was shown on the surface, then why couldn't he just use his Hollow mask and be done with it? If that mask of his could make Ulquiorra draw blood from him, he would have defeated someone like Grimmjow with simple ease. It just didn't make sense why was this fight still getting dragged out? The more she thought about it, the more it infuriated her.
"What an idiot…"
Orihime snapped out of her stupor and looked back at Nelliel again. "Huh?"
"I'm saying that your friend is being a moron!" Nelliel exclaimed with annoyance, though not directed at Orihime. "Why doesn't he just finish this fight already?! Or just use that damn mask when he should have done it already?!" the former Espada remarked. "He could have finished this anytime he wanted to! But no, he's just dragging this out on purpose!" she could feel another powerful wind pressure passing by from the battle. "Listen, I have no idea what's going on with him that's making him so violent and aggressive like this, but he needs to be brought back to his senses!"
"Brought back… to his senses?"
"Yes!" Nelliel exclaimed. "I can understand that you feel afraid of him, that it feels like you're watching a completely different person! But you can't tell me he's always been like this! He couldn't have come all the way from where he was at just for some fight! He told me the very reason he came here was to rescue you!" she told her. "It has to be! When that Ulquiorra guy insulted you, he attacked him with everything he had!" she saw Orihime widen her eyes in shock. "Just think about it! Wasn't there something — anything that might have affected him?! Whatever it was, there has to be something to do bring him back to his senses!"
Orihime had felt stupid now. She couldn't believe she hadn't even thought about it before. "I... I think you're right." she said. "It's just... I was so happy to learn that Ichigo and the others came here to save me. But when I saw that look in his eyes when he went Bankai, I thought if there was some change in him that he forgot that promise he made me… but I was wrong." she bit her lower lip. "All those fears mean nothing now. I know what I have to do."
Grimmjow had kicked Ichigo's head to knock him back against the pillar where Orihime and Nelliel were at. Ichigo crashed against it hard enough to have rubbles of the tower to fall down on him. But Ichigo quickly got out of this and proceeded to look back at Grimmjow again. "Man, you are just a freak of nature." Grimmjow commented, looking at Ichigo who was prepared to fight again while keeping a savage grin. "You just don't know when to stay down." he raised his clawed hand, prepared to attack Ichigo very soon.
Ichigo himself just couldn't stop smiling. He never realized how fun it actually was to fight on even grounds like this, even if he was still holding back his strength like this. This was just so much fun. Maybe he could still go on before finally deciding to finish this.
"Please… don't die."
It was at that moment that Ichigo widened both of his eyes when he could hear Orihime's voice telling him that.
"DON'T DIE, ICHIGO!"
Ichigo turned his head to look at where Orihime was at. When he had done so, he could see that she was having tears fall down on her face. "I don't care whether you win or not… you don't have to keep going for my sake. Just please, don't hurt yourself any more than you are now." she had begged from up above.
Ichigo had just continued to look at her, not uttering a word in doing so. 'What… what am I doing?' he thought to himself. Just what was he doing? All he wanted was to just have a taste of what enjoying a battle was like. But he had been so absorbed into it that he had mostly thought about and fought for himself. He really did enjoy going through battles. But now he took it so far that he made Orihime and probably Nelliel worry for him. He never meant to take it so far like that. The violence and aggression had blinded him. And to make things worse, he just made Orihime cry.
Ichigo had been then snapped out of his stupor when he sensed Grimmjow coming in to attack him again. "KUROSAKIIII!" Grimmjow screamed as he lunged at Ichigo again, with his clawed hand going directly at his face.
Ichigo had merely caught the clawed hand with simple ease when it got extremely close, not even bothering to turn around to do that. He had kept the hand firmly locked in place.
To say Grimmjow was surprised was an understatement. "So, Grimmjow, here's the deal." Ichigo then turned around to look at the shocked Espada. "I had a change of heart. It's been a blast, it really was. But unfortunately, I decided to stop playing around with you."
Grimmjow widened his eyes as far as they could go. Before he could react, Ichigo had slashed him right across from his shoulder to all the way down to his hip, drawing an extensive amount of blood in doing so.
Ichigo only watched as Grimmjow had slowly bend down to his knees from the injury he got him with. 'There. It should be over by now.' he thought to himself, as his blade was now covered in blood.
He was about to turn back and head over to Orihime and Nelliel, but to his surprise Grimmjow grabbed his bloodied sword and tried to get back up. "You're a fool, Kurosaki! You think you've won like this?!" Ichigo could clearly see Grimmjow's whole body was shaking, as he tried supporting himself with his hand on the ground. He glared a murderous killing intent against the Soul Reaper. "You think you've beaten ME?!"
"Ichigo, get out of there!" Orihime warned him.
It was already too late, as Grimmjow had shoved his clawed hand and made a jab right through Ichigo's stomach. Needless to say that even he wasn't able to dodge that blow. Ichigo had his eyes wide, as he had taken a good hit on that one, feeling blood oozing out of him. Ichigo had proceed to glare back at Grimmjow before he grabbed the Arrancar's wrist and pushed him away. "You son of a bitch…" Ichigo sweared as he held onto the bleeding wound.
Grimmjow just only stared at him. He looked at the eyes that Ichigo was looking at him with. He didn't like it with the way he was looking at him. It was making his blood boil. "What the hell is it with those eyes?!" he had started to remember all of their battles. "No matter how many times we just keep fighting, somewhere deep inside you always believe you can win against me, as if you're superior to me!" he then started running as fast as he could at Ichigo. "IT REALLY FUCKING PISSES ME OFF!"
Ichigo ran at him as well, with both opponents clashing their weapons at one another, though Grimmjow had been the one where he had been pushed back. "Just give it up, Grimmjow!" Ichigo exclaimed. "You were never a match for me in the first place!" he could see that Grimmjow's eyes were fueled with rage more. "Just what is it that you can't stand?! That some human like me would have the nerve to treat you as an equal?! Is that what this is about?!"
Grimmjow then unleashed a kick at Ichigo's jaw, to which he made a Flash Step to get away. Grimmjow looked up that Ichigo had been leaping far above in the air while still staring down at him. "That has nothing to do with it! It doesn't matter if you're a human, a Soul Reaper, a Hollow, or an Arrancar! Anybody that looks down on me with eyes like that… WILL BE CRUSHED!" Grimmjow started to go after Ichigo, and he had been prepared for any attacks that the Arrancar would throw at him. Though he hadn't expected Grimmjow to use a Sonido to get further above from where he was at. "And I'm gonna start with you first, Kurosaki!"
Grimmjow's claws had then started glowing with blue energy, right before he swung then down and each claws of his became long, sharp blades that composed of Reishi. Ichigo had made a backflip and jumped backwards, just so he could get a better view at the things Grimmjow unleashed. He was taken aback by this. "What the hell are those things?!" he asked in surprise.
"Desgarrón." Grimmjow remarked with a smirk on his face. "It's my most powerful technique."
'Wow, he's not kidding at all. Those things feel way more powerful than that Gran Rey Cero he unleashed earlier.' Ichigo thought to himself.
"This is the end for you!" Grimmjow exclaimed, as he had been prepared to throw half the set of claws there were. "You're the one who's going to lose to me!"
'You really don't know when to give up do you, Grimmjow?' Ichigo looked at the injured Espada. 'If I don't use my Hollowfication, this attack might kill me...' He sighed as he put hand on his face in a clawing form. "That's about enough. I'm done wasting time with you."
Grimmjow had unleashed the first half of the onslaught of the claws right at Ichigo. Ichigo had to admit, this man's determination was almost impressive, he had to give him credit for that. "It doesn't matter what you do now! You're going to be the one to get crushed by me! I am the King!"
Ichigo sighed by this before he went ahead to do what he should have done. His eyes turned yellow, and his sclera turned black in a second before dark Reishi surrounded his face before it was enveloped. When that had happen, there was an enormous amount of dark Spiritual Pressure released from him. And it had taken Grimmjow in complete shock from this, and along with some surprise coming from Orihime and Nelliel when they sensed the strength behind it.
Back from within where the Fracciones and the Espada had still been at the entire time, watching and sensing the combatants just going at one another wildly. But when they had sensed Ichigo unleashing his Hollow mask, it had taken Mila Rose, Apacci, and Sung-Sun by complete disbelief at the sheer stupidity from the amount of power they had sensed.
"This power…" Mila Rose was almost shaking by what she was sensing.
"This is unreal…" Apacci added on.
"It's as if though that an Arrancar had unleashed his Resurección." Halibel said, comparing the Spiritual Pressure that Ichigo had used earlier compared to now. Whatever he was using just now, she was having it hard to believe he was supposed to be a Soul Reaper.
Ichigo had managed to cut off the sharp Reishi blade that Grimmjow fired at him easily. He cut through it as if the attack was made out of thin paper itself. When he destroyed one of the blades, all of the other ones had disappeared when they were at the ground. Ichigo looked at Grimmjow with the Hollow mask he had on. Though something about it seemed more different. Instead of the previous 9, there were now about 10 markings on the left side of the mask. And along that, the markings of the mask were now far thicker as well.
Grimmjow couldn't even believe what he had seen. His most powerful had been cut down so easily like it was nothing. And along with that mask he had… and the Spiritual Pressure he had unleashed… just what was he?!
"Say, Grimmjow…" Ichigo spoke in his dual echo tone. "You said that you're going to crush me as your target first?" he then locked eyes at the shocked Espada. "Well, guess what… it's the same for me!"
Ichigo had then lunged at Grimmjow with his sword raised. And Grimmjow, in his last desperate effort, lunged all his remaining claws at Ichigo, hoping it could do some sort of damage at least. However, Ichigo raised his blade above his head as he cut through one of the sharp energy blades with ease again. "You were right about what you said earlier! I did come to Hueco Mundo so that I could fight you! I realize that I truly DO enjoy fighting! And now because of that, I'm going to take you down! And after that is Ulquiorra! And once that us taken over, I'm going to defeat Aizen!" he had kept getting closer and closer. "After that, I will bring back, Rukia! Then, Chad! Uryu! Renji!" he was now so close, with victory so close to him now. "I am going to take Orihime back! All of my friends!" Ichigo had then managed to cut through the whole attack and came at Grimmjow. "I WON'T LOSE TO YOU!"
Even if Grimmjow wasn't in shock, he wouldn't have been able to do anything anymore. Ichigo had finally stabbed through Grimmjow's chest. Blood had easily started to get out as it was spilled on the ground. "You… bastard…" Grimmjow spelled out before Ichigo got his blade out of him.
Grimmjow had no more strength left in him as he had started falling down. Ichigo had gotten rid of the mask, and he caught the falling Grimmjow by his hand. He had started to slowly float back down till he gently laid Grimmjow on the ground. 'Just so you know, I decided to keep you alive. Not because out of pity or anything like that. Though with your wounds now, you shouldn't be able to move for a while. You helped me realize I truly do enjoy battles. So I'll spare you, and give me a true challenge if both of survive this.' Ichigo thought as he looked down at Grimmjow's fallen from, right before he started to go back.
The battle was finally over.
Ichigo had gotten back to where Orihime and Nelliel were at. Orihime had dropped her shield, knowing that the battle had been over now, and she let go of her healing barrier once Nelliel had been back at full health. He had been fully in front of the women now.
"Are you—?"
"—Hurt?" Ichigo made a small chuckle when he and Orihime were asking each other the same question. "I was just about to ask you that. I'm not really as hurt as you think I was. I'm more worried about you now." he said, looking at her with carrying eyes.
Orihime smiled when she recognized the eyes that she was familiar with it. 'Thank goodness… he's finally back to the Ichigo I know.' she thought. "Don't worry, I'm fine as well."
."That's good... I'm relieved."
However, both of them looked over at Nelliel, whom they heard some groaning coming from her. They saw her holding her head, as if it was paining her. "Uh, hey, you alright?" Ichigo asked her in concern, not understanding what was causing her to have her be like this.
Nelliel blinked her eyes several times before she started to get up. "I... I remember." she murmured.
"Remember?" Ichigo was confused. "Remember what?"
"My memories." Nelliel said. "I remember everything now! I got all my memories back! I remember everything what happened!" she then started to touch her mask, but she could feel that nothing was missing and everything was in place. "Wait a minute, my mask… it's back in full shape. And my Spirit Energy isn't leaking anymore! But how did this…"
"You mean that mask you have?" Orihime pointed her finger at it. "I saw that it looked damaged, so I thought I could repair it."
"You did that?!"
"Well, yeah but—"
"Thank you!" Nelliel then ran to Orihime before giving her a tight hug. "I seriously owe you one!"
"Gaaagh!" Orihime started to lose air. "Too much! Too much!" she quickly started to pat Nelliel on the back at a rapid pace to have her get away.
"Oh! Sorry!" Nelliel got away from the hug and made a sheepish grin. "I got a little overexcited there…"
"Anyway…" Ichigo scratched his head. "I guess we should get down from here now." he said, right before he picked up Orihime and held her over his shoulder, which had embarrassed Orihime to say the least.
"Ahhh! Ichigo, put me down!"
"Huh? Why? Unless there's some secret elevator or a staircase I don't know about here, then getting you down why holding you is kinda about the only thing I can do."
"It's just…" Orihime had a blush. "I'm heavy…"
"Nah, don't worry about it so much. You're about as light as a feather for me. Let's just get down from here."
And so, the trio has settled down at the very bottom of the sand ground again, with Ichigo putting Orihime down as well. "Alright, I better get back." Ichigo said, as he looked around the place. "I really think Chad and Rukia need help." though maybe he thought Uryu and Renji might need as well, but so far he hadn't sensed anything fatal with them. So he would put them safe… for now at least.
"Wait, what about her?" Nelliel looked over at Orihime. "We can't just leave her here."
"In this place all by herself? Hell no." Ichigo remarked. "It's too dangerous. So either we stick together or one of us would have to…" he had then slowly turned around, where as he heard sounds coming by. "Take… her…" he stopped his sentence when all of them had seen what it was they heard.
And it turned out to be Grimmjow. However he looked like he was barely keeping his consciousness together, where as his body had been bloodied and battered. Ichigo almost couldn't believe how this guy was even still moving around after that blow he gave him.
"Grimmjow…" Ichigo regained his composure. But as of now his stubbornness was getting a little annoying. Why won't he just stay down? He already won the battle.
Grimmjow had started to take a few steps forward, still refusing to admit defeat until his enemy was crushed. However, his Resurrection form had dissolved back to bis base state from the lack of energy he had. He was completely exhausted at this point, but that didn't matter to the panther. Ichigo sighed as he stabbed his sword through the ground next to him. "You… haven't beaten me." Grimmjow breathed heavily, taking step by step to his adversary. "As if... I would ever lose to you! There's no way in hell…" he then started sprinting at him, raising his sword to cut him down. "I WOULD EVER LOSE TO YOU!"
Ichigo had only stood there. He let Grimmjow ran over to his path, and saw him making a sloppy strike with his sword at his head. However Ichigo had caught his wrist and stopped his sword to go any further with ease, all while he stepped the sword next to his head. "Grimmjow… just let it go already." Ichigo told him firmly. "Correct me if I'm wrong… but didn't you say you were some King? I don't know much about being a King, but I at least know some basics of it. You want to crush people just because you dislike them? If you did manage to crush everyone, then you would just be left with no subjects to rule over. What would be the whole point in ruling if there's nothing to rule at all?" he saw that Grimmjow lowered his head, not answering him at all. "If I really piss you off that much, then I'll fight you anytime you want. But right now… just stop it."
For a moment, there was just silence between them. Ichigo thought if maybe he had actually gotten through to him, but there was still some doubt in his mind for that. And he was right, just as Grimmjow wildly let go of his hand and continued to lash out. "NEVER! I'M GOING TO—"
As in a cruel joke to finally shut him up, a giant axe-like weapon that bearing two crescent moon-shaped blades fused together at the backs had managed to almost cut through Grimmjow's upper body. Ichigo, Nelliel, and Orihime had looked in shock as blood spilled out of the Espada. "Gu…" Grimmjow barely spat out the pain he felt before he hit the ground on his back.
Ichigo looked back to see the weapon getting dragged back by a massive looped chain. "Man, what a fuckin' loser. Just hurry up and die." the voice who had done such a vicious sneak attack had been none other than Nnoitra Gilga himself, as he grabbed his weapon and dragged it behind him. "The Soul Reaper is mine now!" he exclaimed with a leechorus smile shown on him, showing no shame at what he had done.
Nelliel had looked back at this man, seeming to be completely surprised. "No way... It's you... Nnoitra!" she exclaimed, immediately recognizing who it was.
Whew! This was pretty long to do, but I'm glad that it's finally finished. The chapter of Ichigo and Grimmjow's final showdown has now come to a conclusion. And damn, looks like the odds were in Ichigo's favor more in this, but this was still damn fun to write. And I'm surprised how extremely quick this came out.
And now that Grimmjow is gone out of the way, Ichigo's next challenge is now Nnoitra. And I guess probably Nelliel's as well considering she has her memories back, and her full power as well. So this one might be a little more difficult, but my Co-Author and I should have a way around it.
But yeah, hope you guys liked this chapter and leave your thoughts on it in the reviews.