Disclaimer: The following is a fan-based parody. Bleach is owned by Tite Kubo. RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and the late Monty Oum (rest in peace you saint of a man). Please support the official release.

Chapter 40: Skewer, Empalador.

(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")

Two explosions blasted from both sides of Shao Kin, who curiously switched glances between the two. The ground moved out of the way as the black and white forms of Ichigo and Ruby crawled out of the rubble, shrugging off the dirt. Dried blood marked trails on their forehead and the corners of their lips, and bruises ruined pale skin on their hands and wherever skin was visible. But the look in their eyes still burned with the determination and will to go on.

"So that's how it is." Ruby muttered.

"You're different in more than appearance." Ichiogo noted, swiping Tensa Zangetsu to his side. "Ever since you took off you're mask, nothing has been the same about you."

"No," Ruby added, "rather, you're more of a monster than ever."

"Oh please..." Shao retorted. "We're both monsters here."

Ichigo and Ruby only narrowed their eyes, holding their zapakuto in preparation. Off to the sidelines, Yang looked at her sister with a mix of worry, fear, and a bit of awe. No matter how much she wanted, right there wasn't her innocent little sister but the greatest Huntress Remnant has ever seen.

"My, my, it seems Ichigo-san and Ruby-san are about to show their full power." Kisuke noted jovially. "What an exciting prospect to witness."

Blake's eyes widened. "What do you mean by full power? Just how strong are they?"

"If we're going by scale, I'd say the kind of power to level a continent in a few days." Kisuke answered while his fingers worked a Kido spell to free Hachi. "And yet there's so much potential in them, it's terrifying. So show me what you got."

Ruby and Ichigo disappeared in a burst of speed, momentarily returning back to sight as their feet pivoted to flank Shao Kin from both sides. White and black worked in tandem, the concept of such opposites coming together a spectacular sight to see. Glaive and daito struck like a clap of thunder, and the pressure cracking the ground into a large crater at their feet. Mazarozu and Zangetsu were held back Shao Kin in his bare hands. Despite the minor drop of blood, he glanced to both shinigami with a sickening smile.

"This is starting to get fun." Shao said.

"Let's teach him a lesson, Ichigo." Ruby declared, her Hollow's mask materializing on her face as red eyes glared out the slits.

Ichigo smirked before he summoned his own Hollow mask and his eyes turned a blazing gold. "Ikuzo!"

The three disengaged without warning at lightning speeds. As the arrancar backpeddled, Ruby and Ichigo struck again and again in a criss-cross pattern, white and black reiatsu lashing out like bolts of lightning upon each impact and path. To Yang, Blake, and any other human watching all they could see is a flash.

Shao stopped his backpedaling and engaged in hand-to-blade combat. Every swing exchanged was precise and sharp. Red and golden eyes glared on Shao without falter while blade and hand were blurs deflecting and countering in a deadly dance. Shao made a jab toward Ruby, who parried away the arm while at the same time jumping up to land a twisting kick. Shao flipped in midair and landed with a crash on the ground then taking a stance.

"Come!"

The hybrids responded in kind in a shunpo. Ichigo led the opening with a high kick and Ruby flanked behind. Shao knocked Ichigo back to focus on the Huntress instead. Once Ruby was pushed onto the defense, the arrancar lashed out with a strong kick sending the hybrid into the air with a crack on impact. Ruby quickly gained her bearings as she flipped her body and twirled her glaive till she was upside down. In a show of expertise that even veterans would say impossible, Ruby spun her glaive on her foot before shooting it forward like a spear.

'Did she just throw that with her foot?!' Thought Yang.

'Definitely a true student of yours, Yoruichi-chan.' Thought Kisuke.

Shao slapped the white projectile away, but it gave Ichigo to close in behind Shao's guard. Shao dodged a slice for his neck and blocked an elbow jab. The blow was countered with a jab from the arrancar that Ichigo evaded by tilting his head. Another came for his face that Ichigo quickly deflected away with his sword, the sudden parry leaving an opening that Ichigo capitalized on with a flurry of swings from Tensa Zangetsu. Shao Kin moved the blade away as his hands moved in a blur but none could hit Ichigo as he titled his head back. He even blocked a knee from Shao with his own, and with his balance off managed to force Shao's hands away so that Ichigo could land a solid punch to the arrancar's face with a loud crack.

Shao spat out blood, enraged. "How dare-"

Shao didn't get to finish as Ruby returned to the fray kicking him away with the speed of a bullet. In midair, the hybrid pair locked eyes with smirks behind their masks. After a few tumbles off the ground, Shao righted himself and for the first time in the fight drew out his naginate. Ruby and Ichigo dashed forward, their respective reiatsu blazing a trail behind them like lightning. Shao swung first from the right side after Ichigo, who slid under the pale blade. Ruby used shunpo to close onto the opening to thrust her glaive forward. Her blade met the end of Shao's naginate with a high pitch ring of steel, but the force was more than the arrancar could handle with the improper block and was forced back by the pure strength.

Shao spun and swung his weapon in a wide arc giving him breathing room. He anchored the blade of the naginate into the ground to support his body. Once Ruby closed in, Shao jumped off while kicking Ruby with enough force to propel himself into the air. By falling and twirling his weapon Shao was growing the potential strength. The result showed itself when he slammed the blade end down and split the earth in two. The quake reached to all over Argus, crumbling any loose buildings standing.

Fortunately, Ichigo and Ruby emerged from the built up dust with reiatsu blazing off their zanpakuto.

"Howaitososa."

Shao leaned to the right away from a funnel-shaped wave of white and purple reiatsu. He saw Ichigo preparing to unleash his Getsuga Tensho. Catching onto their plan, he raised his naginate in defense... or so he thought.

"As if that would work." Shao gloated.

"Same here." Ichigo said with a smirk as he instead stabbed the black daito into the ground. "Tsuki no Hogo."

A pitch black dome of reiatsu trapped Shao with the two hybrids. Sonido buzzed in the air followed by the arrancar being pelted away from the barrier as the dome of reiatsu lashed violently at him when he came close. Shao gritted his teeth in rage, ready to tear the shinigami apart if it meant his freedom. Instead, he was too late to do anything as Ruby stabbed her glaive into the ground.

"Bara no Sho."

What happened next blinded all of Shao's senses except touch, but all he felt was unyielding pain. Silver reiatsu bled into the earth like fire as it spread. White and black spiraled in twisted in a dance of domination in the dome of Ichigo's Tsuki no Hogo until ultimately the inevitable. With two such opposing reiatsus clashing on equal footing, all they could do was collapse and explode. In a split second before, Ichigo and Ruby escaped from the blast zone and watch their work unfold. A mighty geyser of white and black shot up into the air overshadowing Argus in its majesty while the ground was covered in a sheen of white flames that seemed to grow from the earth itself. Most of the unstable energy shot out in random directions, turning all to dust including roots of the bone tree.

Over with Kisuke, the violent reiatsu acted like poison cracking at the bone roots that held Hachi in place.

"Don't worry, Hachi, we're almost there." Kisuke said as he stabbed his zanpakuto through one of the cracks to pry Hachi free.

"If you manage to free me, we will need a quick victory thus a high Bakudo spell will be required." Hachi informed, still having a stoic look despite being trapped.

"Are you sure you have the reserves?" Kisuke wondered.

"Not if I use my mask and you join in the spell." Hachi said. "But we will only have one shot and we can't let this battle drag on."

From the settling dust cloud of the explosion Shao emerged covered in burns while being hurled to the top of the giant bone tree stump. He twisted in midair and ran his feet and hand into the ground to stop his velocity, letting out a ragged breath once he finally stopped. Ichigo and Ruby didn't give him a chance to escape and reappeared in front of him in a burst of shunpo.

Purple reiatsu gathered in Ruby's outstretched right arm forming into the rod of the Bakudou spell of Hyappo Rankan. But instead of throwing it at Shao, Ruby chucked the rod into the air till it stopped its climbing velocity and pointed down. At that point Ruby clasped her right hand together and chanted.

"Modified Bakudo 62: Hyappo Rankan Hokai."

The rod split into hundreds that rained down on Shao like the wrath of the heavens. The Grave King nimbly dodged the barrage in rolls and cartwheels, but received some close calls in the form of tears in his clothes. Too many were coming for him to escape with sonido. In frustration, Shao Kin unleashed his spiritual pressure to the point that a dome of kinetic force repelled all the rods coming to him and now littered the ground with them. Unfortunately, the toll left the arrancar exhausted.

The increase in spiritual pressure snapped Shao to attention and his pale eyes widened seeing the multiple of rods glowing an eerie red. He looked to Ruby who had a grin on her face and she held out her right hand. With a snap of her fingers, all the rods of reiatsu exploded as the spiritual energy contained within them overloaded. A mushroom cloud of ash rose twice as tall as the stump while Shao could be seen being hurled high into the air from the blast. Ruby ascended faster and higher into the air like a flash of white lightning. Until she reached a sufficient height, Ruby slowed down her momentum and aimed down as she spun her glaive by three fingers till it looked the end of her left hand held a silver disk of bright light.

"Howaitososa."

Ruby unleashed the built up reiatsu from her glaive, sending it down like a crescent blade of blinding white destruction. Shao steeled his features and righted his bearings. He poised his zanpakuto over his head, and then waited for the crescent of destruction to reach him at the last second before bringing it down and splitting the reiatsu attack in two. As the two halves soared harmlessly passed him, Shao discovered the charging form of Ichigo who used the Howaitososa as cover. He smirked already thinking two steps ahead.

Shao's left hand gripped the pale chain of his zanpakuto and threw it up to Ichigo. The throw was a success as the the long length wrapped around Ichigo's body and trapped his hands in the white steel's grasp. The arrancar took the opening to spear Ichigo through and leave him with one opponent. Then the next he knew, he felt an awkward sensation before darkness took his vision. The next he knew, Shao had somehow found himself in the place of Ichigo, who used his Semblance to switch places.

'NANI!?' Panicked Shao inwardly, completely at a loss of words to say.

Ichigo gave a rare grin to Shao's plight. Instead of attacking, the hybrid allowed gravity to do its work as Ruby soared down like a meteor with a fist cocked back. Shao looked back up only to widen his eyes at the approaching haymaker. The worst of all in this instance was that he was completely helpless trapped in the chains of his own zanpakuto.

"Son of a bi-"

"Kurikara Fudo Uchi!"

Ruby's right fist impacted like thunder, followed by Shao blurring and crashing into the stump with enough force to split it in two. He rebounded off crashing through the roots of the trees.

"Now that's a freaking punch." Yang commented full of pride seeing her little sister finally able to deal out damage the old-fashioned way.

Ichigo and Ruby grimaced as a wave of exhaustion swept through their bodies and the edges of their masks started to crack. Ruby turned to where Kisuke was and charged her voice box with reiatsu to enhance it like a megaphone.

"Kisuke," Ruby roared, the hiss of a Hollow carrying along, "we need something right now. We're at our limit."

Whether Kisuke heard or not, he was too busy to reply as he pried one last time and freed Hachi from his bindings. This was their perfect chance to deal one last blow now that Shao was weakened enough from the battle. The Kido masters crouched in sync and slammed their hands into the ground, Hachi summoning his mask for added effect.

"Bakudo 98: Wakusei Hakai."

Their reiatsu ran through the earth itself, commanding rock and stone for one single purpose. Gravity abandoned its hold as countless boulders tore from the ground and clumped together around Shao in midair. Yang and Blake watched in shock and terror as two people literally tore the land itself to their will. Layer upon layer of rock buried Shao via the core till a small, perfectly round asteroid now occupied the sky.

Hachi and Kisuke were not done as they channeled one last bit of reiatsu into one last binding seal. "Wall of iron sand, Tower formed from hate, forge molten iron and neatly finish in silence! Bakudo 75: Gochu Tekkan."

Two sets of five iron pillars connected by chains were summoned from the manifested reiatsu and wrapped around the asteroid until the pillars nailed themselves at random points and the chains tightened on the rock.

Shao's hold broke, freeing the rest of the Vizards. Ruby and Ichigo led out a breath of relief. Exhaustion soon took over unable to keep them up in the air and their mask shattered into dust. Fortunately, Shinji and Kensei shunpoed in time to catch them mid-fall and allow themselves to be their crutch on the ground.

"Amazing." Blake gapsed in awe

Yang chuckled dryly. "Was there any doubt since Ruby was on the case?"

Blake looked to Yang with a blank look. "Yang, all we know until now doesn't compare to this. Gods, demons, the afterlife. This is just... out of this world."

"Quite shocking, isn't it?" Kisuke said, his hat shadowing his features. "This is why we hide our war from mortals. They simply can't handle with the concept of powers that shake the world. Now normally I would erase your memories of all this..."

Yang and Blake instantly paled at his words, more for the blonde because Kisuke could potentially make him forget about her sister being alive again.

"...but I'll leave that to Ruby to handle." Kisuke said in a merry tone while waving his fan. "This is her world after all. Though I don't know how you're going to handle damage control."

To emphasize his point, he gestured to the scarred land itself. In total, Argus was decimated in a seven block radius from the shore. The crater left by Ruby, Ichigo, and Shao Kin was nothing but ashen earth. The environment itself was crippled from the bone tree absorbing its lifeforce into reiatsu. It is only by some cosmic entity either by Kami or Remnant's gods that Argus could come back unlike what happened to Vale and Beacon. What made it so terrifying was that this was all caused by only three people by themselves.

Ruby and Ichigo collapsed from the strain on their bodies and their depleted strength. The entire fight stretched the time limit of their masks, more so since it was the first time. Even Ruby's wolf ears relaxed back into her head.

Suddenly, the calm was shattered by an audible crack in the Bakudo spell. It was so small that no ordinary human would sense it, much less the killing intent that radiated like a flood. Kisuke, the Vizards, snapped their eyes to the floating asteroid. There was crack as long as a face and half as wide on the surface where they saw a pale eye burning with hate. The ground shook heavily as spiritual pressure was unleashed without restraint, and Shao's eyes glowed golden.

"Skewer, Empalador!"

All at once, bright yellow reiatsu erupted out of the asteroid like a volcanic eruption. Boulders of earth crashed down and the steel chains shattered into dust. A few seconds later, the whole asteroid completely imploded sending out an avalanche of dust and ash through the air. Those who didn't have spiritual pressure had to anchor themselves down with whatever they had while blocking their eyes from flying debris. But a sudden pulse dissipated the cloud into the clearing it once was.

Floating in the air was Shao Kin in what can be described as evolved. Multiple spins of bone the width of an arm sprouted out of his back and arched over his shoulder. His forehead now sported a proper pair of white horns painted black at the roots. His eyes were now a molten gold including the pupil with a black tattooing surrounding his eyes and going horizontally across like war paint. The sleeves of his hakama were gone revealing rippling muscle with the forarms and hand remained white while black painted his skin from his shoulder to his elbows. A loose, tattered robe went down his shoulders, momentarily revealing a body of hardened muscle painted black over the chest area and his Hollow hole visible for all to see. Sharp teeth flashed from Shao's predatory grin feeling the overwhelming in his body, and his fingers sported razor nails. His zanpakuto was gone, fused to his body to unseal the true power of the arrancar.

The arrancar stood still for a moment as he basked himself in an aura of golden reiatsu. The Vizards froze on the spiritual pressure that dwarfed his earlier power. Ichigo growled in frustration for he and Ruby were hardly able to go a Round 2 after trying to force reiatsu out of their bodies. Yang, Blake, and any Remnantie watching lost feeling in their legs not because of the spiritual pressure but how hope was snatched away from them.

"So then..." Shao muttered as he raised his right hand. The ground rumbled for a moment before branches of bone erupted from the earth. They stopped at Shao's height to reveal themselves as bone constructs with the faces of tigers with an array of sharp teeth and hollow black eyes. The necks counting five in total moved with the flexibility of flesh. "Shall we try again?"

This time he didn't bother with getting rid of the "side" courses. Let them draw their swords, call their names, and summon their masks. They shall come and they shall all fail.

Done. Nough said.

Next is Chapter 41: Awaken Zangetsu.

Stay in touch. Leave a review please.