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Chapter: Unmasked

(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")

(Ren and the Vizards)

The battle of Argus was almost overrun by the swarm of Hollows. It seems that is destiny that where Hollows go to wreck havoc upon the living, the shinigami are there to face them.

The tide was instantly turned in the living's favor. Hachi raised a Kido barrier protecting the militia and the fleeing citizens to prevent the Hollows going on a mad rampage for their flesh. Seeing their prey walled off, the Hollows charged the shinigami in both rage, hunger, and instinct. It couldn't be called a battle but more of a slaughter. Before their banishment, the Vizards were comprised of seated officers, lieutenants, and captains, and they have trained for a hundred years.

Most of the Vizards with Senna went to the sky to meet the brunt of the Hollow horde. Senna opened with an Okasen to rip through their formation and appear in the middle with a shunpo. Instinct convinced the Hollows that Senna was dead from being surrounded and outnumbered. The purple-head didn't bat an eye at the fast-approaching monsters howling for her flesh.

"Bring them to the Twilight, Mirokumaru."

Autumn leaves and ripping winds hid away her form as her zanpakuto transformed into the golden staff that commands the winds of the sky. Reiatsu flowed from her like the floodgates were open. With a twirl, Mirokumaru summoned a a twister shredding through the horde of Hollows leaving nothing but the decaying reiatsu of their purified souls. From below, they could see the Hollows literally dropping down from the sky, only for their bodies to disintegrate into nothing before even reaching the earth.

On the ground, Ren focused on clearing the streets of Hollows searching for victims in the houses. Once Ren had his eyes on his target, they were already dead with the Kido master moving on with a shunpo. Kakushifokkusu sliced through Hollow flesh without end and the edge still razor sharp.

Ren arrived on a street seeing a Hollow clawing at the door of a house where he could sense a family trapped.

"Hado 4: Byakurai."

Pale lightning shot from Ren's fingertip piercing through the Hollow's mask instantly killing it. From the window, he could tell someone was risking to glance at their savior but Ren prioritized on erecting a Kido barrier on the house to protect them.

But a split-second in his Kido manipulation, a Hollow chose to go for the kill with its jaw ready to bite off his upper body. Ren was going to shoot another Byakurai to eliminate the threat but a fireball beat him to the kill. His eyes glimmered with surprise to see Yang, Blake, Jaune, and Nora a few feet away their weapons at the ready.

Ren was about to speak, but Nora seemed to know exactly what his thoughts were.

"Don't be mean, Ren." Nora said, her grin plastered on her face as she readied Magnhild, "There's no way we'll just let you squash the fun without us."

Ren sighed inwardly. Same old Nora, no one can convince her otherwise. He even doubted that Yamamoto, the most imposing figure he had ever met, would have no chance of stopping Nora's addiction to pancakes. That thought graced a smile on his face.

Ren gave them a gesture that basically gave his friends the go, and just in time as the street ahead greeted a horde of Grimm. Yang was the first to go by jumping forward with the recoil of her shotgun gauntlet and prosthetic, and Blake stayed back providing covering fire. Bullets didn't seem to faze Hollows at all. A Hollow dared to leap to bite only for its mask to shatter from her punch. A shockwave was produced giving room for Yang to land with an almost feral smile.

Seeing that smile suddenly gave Ren an episode of the unique PTSD involving Kenpachi. One meeting with that man, no, monster was more than enough for Ren's sanity.

"Bullets may not work." Yang said, "But good fashioned punching solves everything."

Yang went on the complete offensive, embers flickering in her wake. She first punched a Hollow right in the stomach caving in its insides and shattering whatever bone underneath. She followed by a small flurry of shotgun enhanced punches to the chin before literally shooting off to the next with a kick sending the next Hollow careening away. She fired a few shotgun rounds burning the Hollows facing her. This left her wide open to be smacked away by a brute of Hollow with a mask of a gorilla. The blonde tumbled a few times before denting into a lamppost, but she got up like nothing happened.

"So that's how it is, huh." Yang muttered, her Aura flaring a golden light.

Yang took the liberty of "recycling" the busted lamppost by taking into her two hands squeezing the metal and wielded the iron pole. She further showed her superior strength swinging the lamppost like a bat knocking down a line of Hollows and then some. The same gorilla Hollow was just slightly smart enough to catch the pole and render it useless by snapping it.

That's when Nora decided to join crashing down her hammer on said Hollow's head with a war cry. The Hollow was instantly floored to the ground while a crater formed on impact. She shot off grenade launching herself off the dead Hollow and swung her hammer on another unfortunate soul striking its shoulder with a loud crack in an instant kill. Yang returned her hair glowing like the sun and the girls shared a grin before unleashing their ferocious strength on the rest of the horde.

Ren had a huge sweatdrop as he watched Yang and Nora tear through the Hollows like they were playing whack-a-Beowulf. He almost had the decency to feel sorry for the Hollows that had to face them.

"It, uh, doesn't seem they need help." Jaune spoke.

Ren nodded in agreement. And it wasn't out of lack of confidence from Jaune.

(Ruby and Ichigo vs. Shao Kin)

If Ruby could sum up how she felt now, it would be absolutely livid. She tried so damn hard to get stronger, to protect everyone when she could barely stand up for herself. But problems from another world follow her and dare to destroy what she loved.

Her eyes flashed red for a moment before Ichigo held her back by her shoulder. She whipped her head back to Ichigo being met with a stern look.

"Keep your cool." Ichigo calmly said, "We can't afford to go in reckless. It's the only reason we're still going."

Ruby narrowed her eyes as she tried to keep down her growing fury. It felt like. it was her fault that she led Shao to her own world where nothing could stop him without shinigami. Around her the streets and buildings of Argus burned and a cloud of smoke hanged dangerously above from the fires. Her fists tightened. After getting this power Ruby couldn't stop this from happening.

'Oi sis, quit the brooding and get to it.' Cristina berated.

'I'm with the red-eyed bitch, so stand strong and fight will you.' Zangetsu added from Ruby's mental link with Ichigo.

The pep talk snapped Ruby out of her blue mood and let a small smile grace her face. Trust her own sadistic twin to snap her back to shape. Her leader's mind went to work on a plan to take down Shao.

"Ichigo, I have a plan." Ruby said.

She gestured Ichigo to lend an ear and whispered a quick plan. Ichigo nodded and he took the opening charge to Shao. Sharp trunks of bone rose to impale him, but his speed easily shattered them. He even used his tail to sling around a trunk that grew in front of him just as he came closer to a few feet.

Shao was going to counter with a bone shot or if his body until Ruby did her piece.

"Hado 31: Shakaho."

A red ball of reiatsu shot at increadible speed from Ruby standing on top of one of the bone spires exploding on his shoulder. The damage was superficial but enough for Ichigo to close the distance in close-combat.

Even with two swords, Shao fekt himself pushed. To Ichigo, he was barely even thinking on each movement. His battle katas were abandoned replaced only by pure instinct. When there was danger, he instantly dodged without hesitation.

'He fights like a Hollow!?' Shao thought in shock.

To the human eye Ichigo disappeared from sight only to reappear behind Shao at the end of a swing. Shao's boken was v placed to parry a slice to his side during Ichigo's maneuver. He turned back to push back but found his right foot stuck. The Vasto Lorde looked down in surprise to see Ichigo's tail wrapped around his right ankle. The attack from before was only a diversion. Shao could do nothing as he lost his footing from Ichigo tugging back his tail.

"You're mine now!" Roared Ichigo, "Getsuga Tensho."

'Damn ningen!' Shao inwardly screamed as he was blasted by a point-blank blast of black reiatsu that cut a deep trench into the ground till finally exploding in the distance.

Shao was shot out of the dust cloud, his body covered in burns. Before he could even steady himself, Ruby appeared behind him with her superior speed and kicked him in a random direction. The Vasto Lorde let out a snarl clawing at the air but couldn't react in time before Ichigo used his own great speed and shunpo to flank Shao and knock him away. Immediately after that Ruby followed up in Shao's path kicking him away, then to be followed up instantly by Ichigo with a sound-shattering blow, and again with Ruby.

'This speed!' Shao thought as he was pummeled in every direction by the two shinigami, 'I-I can't keep up!'

The pattern went on and intensified as Ichigo and Ruby used their Semblances to further gain speed. When Ichigo would knock him away, it was either Ruby dashing in a flurry of rose petals to intercept or Ichigo using his Semblance to switch places with the Vasto Lorde so Ruby could strike him where Ichigo previously was. The two became blurs with Shao bouncing between them like a pinball. Ruby and Ichigo pushed their Semblances to the limit to the point they became a spiraling dome of white and black and Shao's screams of pain drowned away by the high-pitch hum of speed and deep drum of shunpo.

The dome grinded into the ground and Ichigo and Ruby appeared a distance away just as it exploded. Ruby had on a cheeky smile, her chest swelling in pride at the results of her awesome plan. Even Ichigo couldn't help but smirk at the damage at play.

"Aww, you beat me to the fun." Whined a male voice with mirth.

Ichigo and Ruby snapped their heads in the direction of the voice only for their eyes to widen on the ex-shinigami Kisuke Urahara, complete with a careless smile and his green bucket hat.

"Kisuke!" Ruby cried in joy, "H-How?"

"Why do you doubt my ingenuity?" Kisuke said.

A few bursts of shunpo revealed Ren, Senna, and Shinji with blades bloody from slaying Hollows. While Ichigo smiled in greeting, Ruby looked to the sky to see the horde of Hollows being cut down by the rest of the Vizards, thus saving the Argus. On the ground down the street she even saw Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, Oscar, and Qrow taking a part in the fight themselves while coming closer.

"Damn, you took the fun away from me." Senna pouted while applying healing Kido to Ruby and Ichigo.

"RUBY!" Shouted a familiar blonde as Ruby was tackled in a hug by a blur. Ruby shook from her daze not a second later as Yang looked over her little sister like a mother hen. "You alright?"

Ruby smiled while pushing Yang away at arm's length to prevent herself from being crushed. "I'm fine. I just got finished dealing with the boss."

"The fact that you're relating this to a video game tells me that you're okay." Yang said, still trying to squeeze her sister.

Blake was more than normally silent as she chose to rest and recover her Aura both from fighting Grimm and Adam.

Meanwhile, Ichigo gave his attention to Kisuke and Shinji.

"For once, I'm glad you're here Hat n' Clogs." Ichigo said.

"Judging how you're not a Hollow, you've subdued your Inner Hollow," Kisuke said while waving a fan, only for both him and Shinji to freeze once they noticed Ichigo's new appendage, "...You have a tail."

Ichigo could only scratch the back of his head sheepishly. "It's... complicated."

A moment of silence dropped between the two before Shinji decided to speak.

"Are.. Are you okay with it?" Shinji asked.

"I'm fine." Ichigo answered, waving his tail in front of him, "I actually kind of like it. Though I don't know what Ruby would say with her new wolf ears."

"Wolf ears?" Kisuke wondered for once in a long while stumped. He was expecting a lot of things when coming to a new world. Finding Ichigo and Ruby with new animal appendages certainly was none of them.

It seemed the was only the calm after the storm. The fighters tended to their wounds while some of the Vizards pushed the army of Hollows back to the Garganta tree. Such calm was false: the battle wasn't over.

The crater that housed Shao suddenly exploded in a dust cloud and launched debris into the air. A deep, heart-wrenching roar of a Hollow shook Argus like an earthquake. Huntsmen, Huntresses, and shinigami converted their eyes as the first was blown away. To the horror of the non-shinigami, standing in the center of the crater was Shao Kin, his form bloody from the last attack he took.

"He's still alive!?" Yang exclaimed.

Ruby scoffed. "I know he's a Vasto Lorde, but what does it take to put him down!?"

She and Ichigo had gone through most of their energy and reiryoku reserves just to pull off that stunt to put him in the ground. The only calm in this situation was that shinigami on there level were available to deal with him and Shao didn't have enough reiatsu to outlast a fight. But Ruby couldn't shake this gut feeling that this wasn't going to end soon.

"Damn... ningen...!" Shao spat, coughing blood.

"Vasto Lorde, you are in no condition to resist." Kisuke said in all seriousness, "The best we can do for you is a quick and painless purification."

"I won't even be found dead in the excuse of a 'heaven' that's Soul Society!" Shao hissed, suddenly disappearing in a sonido with the last of his reserves.

The Remnanties were startled by Shao's sudden disappearance. Ren quickly tracked down the Vasto Lorde's spiritual pressure to the giant bone tree. He gestured to the direction and the Shinji, Senna, Kisuke, Ruby, Ichigo, and himself went on the hunt in bursts of shunpo. Yang, Blake, Nora, and Jaune decided to run after them in the general direction they were facing. The rest of the Vizards were too busy pushing the Hollows back to the Gargantas, but at least the sight of them winning against the horde of monsters alleviated the fears of the militia and the citizens.

The shinigami and hybrids reappeared at the base of the bone tree where they saw Shao leaning against the trunk where his little platform was situated. He gave them a glance of his golden eyes blazing with so much hate. When the Remnanties arrived, they almost froze at the stare he was giving off.

"You have no idea!" Shao roared, his voice heard across all of Argus, "You shinigami think you cure us. You are part of our suffering as much as our hunger. The only true death god is your precious Spirit King, but I see nothing of his evidence. Only a bunch of worthless souls too arrogant in their place in the world. I will show you, shinigami, your place and what a true god really is."

Shao thrusted his hand through the trunk of the tree. The land became more cold and empty as though life itself was dying. The Gargantas changed into orbs and no longer allowed Hollows through. Instead, they could hear cries of agony and they could feel the swell of reiatsu that was gathering on each "leaf". Veins glowed along the tree and pulsed down to Shao's hand. The air felt heavy at the unending climb of reiatsu, making even Kisuke have a cold sweat. Argus shook under the power to return the fear to the people. And with fear come the Grimm.

After a few moments, Shao released the hold on the tree. In his hand was an orb of reiatsu condensed into a singularity glowing both yellow and orange while pulsing like a heart. It held the power of thousands of souls, more specifically the Hollows that were enticed by the rich smell of souls from Remnant along with the natural reiatsu from the land itself. Ichigo and Ruby weren't good sensors, but they could feel the unimaginable power emanating from it, and the Remnanties were struggling to stand just from its spiritual pressure.

"Be honored to witness my ascension." Shao announced as he did the unexpected.

He smacked the highly condensed orb of reiatsu onto his face while gripping his mask so tightly that it cracked. With just a few squeezes, his mask shattered. Blinding light forced the shinigami and non-shinigami to shield their eyes. They could hear screams of agony from Shao Kin as his spiritual pressure grew higher and higher but also unstable. The more brilliant and intense the light, the more he screamed and his reiatsu almost near critical level to explode. Fortunately or unfortunately, Shao's screams of agony turned into maniacal laughter.

The light died down and the reiatsu stabilized. Ruby and Ichigo blinked their eyes to get rid of the daze and looked to Shao's perch. What they saw was not the Vasto Lorde from before.

The new Hollow had the same pale skin and hole in the chest but that's where the similarities ended. Instead of a mask, there was a face of masculine build with a bit of feminine detail along the cheek bones. There were no gold eyes, but pale pupiless staring down at them with smug mirth. The man wore a robe with roomy sleeves, white pants, and black shoes. Pale white hair flowed down to his mid-back. On his forehead was a band of some kind with a pair of shaved horns. Sheated on his back was a naginate with a pale blade, golden floral-pattern pommel between shaft and blade, and a night black shaft lined with dark purple and a long chain at the other end.

It was indeed Shao Kin, but he was no longer a Vasto Lorde. By ripping his mask, he has stepped into the realm of the shinigami, as an arrancar.

"Now then..." The stranger muttered, clenching his fist.

He flexed his spiritual pressure and to say everyone was shocked was an understatement. His spiritual pressure was massive enough to send out a ripple that floored the Remnanties mercilessly, crumbled down nearby buildings, and cut down the giant white tree. Ruby and Ichigo were frozen on the spot as the spiritual pressure hit them full-force.

Ren visibly widened his eyes and his lips quivered in worry. He may have to use that by the amount of spiritual pressure he was sensing. As the Vizards snapped out of their shock and charged, Ren was about to join them when a different roar caught his and Senna's attention to the shore. The situation that already became worse had become even worse.

Because approaching the city was a giant Leviathan Grimm.

Ren was yet again torn from dealing with the new arrancar or the Leviathan. Yet again, he chose to trust his friends and rushed to meet the Leviathan in battle. A scowl marked his face as one thought crossed his mind.

'#### my life.'

Sorry if it's been a while. Just a little busy with some school stuff and with the other stories that I have been preparing. I would like to see suggestions for the name of Shao's resurrecion, with the release command being "Skewer..."

Up next is Chapter 39: Skewer, Empalador.

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