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Chapter: Unbalanced
(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")
Strawberry ice cream bought by a boyfriend worked wonders bringing back Ruby's cheery mood, almost as if she didn't kill a sociopath earlier in an unstable state. Blake could tell that this wasn't the first time she had killed. Yang and herself were prepared to end Adam's life if necessary, but the way Ruby went about it with that raging spiritual pressure was wrong in a way. The way it went about was too ruthless like a predator finishing off prey.
The whole thing put an ominous atmosphere around Ruby, so it was all the more amazing how a few words and ice cream from Ichigo could change that back to the Ruby they knew. There was something about the three-way hybrid that gave Ruby this euphoric sensation of tranquility. When she was close to him, the smile on their leader's face got all the more brighter because she felt perfectly safe in Ichigo's embrace. She felt that nothing will ever come to harm her, even if it was the end of the world. Ichigo had this way of giving that vibe that he'll always be there whenever Ruby was in any sort of trouble and get rid of it.
'I'm almost jealous.' Blake thought, lamenting how her relationship with Adam was all the more opposite to what Ruby has.
The most disturbed was Yang, who was finding it harder to put her little 'sister' in place of Ruby what was now. What their leader just did made Ruby an entirely different person sharing only the same face and hair. Even her eyes were different when they bled a more menacing red than Yang could ever muster. For that moment, Ruby looked like a Grimm, but that was a topic they could not afford to waste on. Not while the Bounts were still at large despite now down one man.
"What's the plan now?" Weiss wondered.
Senna, JN(P)R, RWBY, Ichigo, Orhime, Chad, and their Mod Soul companions had rendezvous back at Kisuke's shop in afternoon. Ururu, Jinta, and the former shinigami captain himself were sitting opposite them from the small round table in the room. Renji was also present sitting at the sidelines, but Blake noticed he was sending very wary glances towards Ruby accompanied with a flash of fear.
'Please don't chain me up. Please don't chain me up.' Renji thought hysterically, seeing Ruby was the same person that was haunting him in his nightmares recently.
"We may have finished off one of the aggressive Bounts." Kisuke said, "However, since we failed in getting information of their objective we're basically back to square one. And in the wake of the death of one of their own, the enemy will be far more cautious."
"Damn." Cursed Ichigo. "Where's Yoruichi? With her speed, she would be great in scouting the town for them."
"I'm afraid I am not at liberty to say." Kisuke said, getting a shocked expression from the hybrid couple. "All that I know is that she hasn't come home yet."
"This is my fault." Ruby spoke glumly, grabbing wide eyes from the people around her. "If I didn't lose control there, we still would have someone to interrogate. Instead I..."
Ichigo's hand went to hold Ruby's left shoulder in comfort, drawing her silver eyes to his warm orbs. They had the instant effect of bringing back that sparkle in her eyes, bringing back from her sour mood.
"It's alright, Ruby-hime." Ichigo comforted.
"Jeez, if you keep doing that to my sis, I'm gonna get worried." Yang teased, only to get a glare from Weiss and Blake. "What?"
"Ichigo's right, you can't take the blame." Kisuke added. "From what we can say about that Utagawa guy, he'd hardly break from us due to his own entitled ego. That and we couldn't afford having a sociopath like him remain alive. He may have caused a serious commotion that would attract attention to the supernatural, and we can't have that."
"That would be bad." Senna said. "We can't have people start believing in vampires and have actual proof, but this still isn't good. We have no lead into what they are doing. More people are going to die because of this."
I really want to stab those vampires now." Nora said with the most venom she could muster.
"We'll make them pay, I promise." Jaune said with a sigh. "The best we can do is stay on alert. And, well, I would say more but at this point Pyrrha would also say something to encourage us."
No one noticed except Ichigo how Ruby tensed up at the mention of Pyrrha, and the perfect arrancar had to hold in a grimace. For over a week, Ruby had been struggling to tell Jaune and Nora, especially the former, that Pyrrha was 'around'. That she went into the Soul Society in the afterlife instead working as a shinigami, but had lost memory of her previous life until Ruby came around. How Pyrrha despite getting her memories back also had the thirst for blood and was the Kenpachi's adopted daughter!
Ruby was afraid of telling Jaune, and it was also tearing Ruby apart not to tell him. To Jaune, Pyrrha was a woman who he failed to reciprocate her love to him, and it crushed him everyday following her death. If Ruby told him now, Jaune would not stop going to Soul Society itself, which was full of shinigami were mostly not so lenient on trespassers, and get to Pyrrha to see her again. Most likely Pyrrha would be overjoyed to see Jaune again, but what really made Ruby terrified is what Kenpachi will do to Jaune!
'He'd be slaughtered on sight.' Ruby thought. 'Kenpachi isn't a guy that likes weaklings, and Jaune doesn't exactly paint a good picture on him. But I still have to tell him. I need to tell him! He deserves to know!'
After all they have been through in their time at Beacon and the following days, Ruby knew it
"The best we can do now is keep our senses sharp." Kisuke advised. "Ruby, if I may ask have you connected to your original zanpakuto?"
Ruby took a moment to blink in surprise before the question processed through her head. She slightly sulked at the answer, but spoke anyway.
"No, I haven't been able to talk to Mazarozu." Ruby said sadly, and unsheathed her new zanpakuto manifested when she became an arrancar. "And I don't know how to use this. I mean, I'm still strong, probably as strong when I am normally in Bankai, but I feel there is so much more to this. Why do you ask anyway, Uruhara-san?"
"I have a theory." Kisuke said, waving his fan. "You're imbalanced. Without a connection to your shinigami powers, you are left open to being influenced by your Hollow powers. Not by the manifestation, but the power that is coursing through you. It makes you rash and easy to fall to your emotions. It's because most Hollows are subject to their instinct like an animal."
"Oh." Ruby responded, not actually understanding what was being explained to her. "That's bad, right?"
"Depends on the situation." Kisuke said vaguely. "To put it simply, you have a nasty hair-trigger temper. But I highly recommend you still look for your original zanpakuto spirit."
"I already have my Inner Hollow on that." Ruby said. "We're sort on a mutual relationship, so no being taken over."
"Well that is a relief." Senna chirped. "I did not want to see that side of you... so many spikes..."
The natives of Remnant that were unfamiliar with Ruby's condition gave said hybrid quizzical looks, who only shrugged with a sheepish expression. Cristina had given Ruby a very good image of what she looked during Hollowifcation, and it left her wondering why her Adjuchas form favored spikes so much. At least in her Vasto Lorde form she looked cool, if very terrifying.
'Cristina, please find Mom soon.' Ruby prayed in her mind.
(Ruby's Mindscape)
"HOW ####ING HARD IS IT TO FIND THIS HAG!?"
Cristina's shout was let out in a primal roar that reverberated throughout the entire mindscape like a shockwave. The spiritual sister of Ruby was different than last time. Since reconvening with Ruby, she was far more relaxing in her powers, which then went to her appearance. Curled horns grew from her head along with most of her face covered in bone mask of a Beawolf. Only her mouth was visible revealing red lips and pale skin.
She had foregone the copy clothes of her sister with her combat skirt and red cloak and donned garments that suited to what she believed was herself. A black armor corset was placed on around her torso with two plates highlighting her bust and leaving the space between her neck and chest visible. Wrapping around most of Cristina's figure was a fur cloak that functioned more as a cape featuring both a white exterior and a black interior. Around Cristina's waste was a belt holding up black pants plated in armor with a wolf-face buckle. Her feet were wearing black boots reaching near her knees.
And let's ignore the fact she has a giant axe on her back.
The spirit was continuing this limbo that was the search for Mazarozu, a.k.a. the last remnant of the real Summer that manifested as a zanpakuto spirit when Ruby was exposed to spiritual pressure. The ways of Aura have only lightly touched on the powers of the soul, but when Ruby entered the Shattered Shaft it broke a dam that had been holding back a growing reservoir since then. If Ruby had stayed in Remnant, she may have grown one of the largest Aura capacities in the world, but here in this world of shinigami and killer ghosts named Hollows she was so much more. Her very soul was being affected, changing into something that was not human.
But ever since becoming an arrancar from that fiasco with that rogue Vasto Lorde, the mindscape had been become hectic. Once clear skies peering into the starry night were now dark with bolts of red lightning striking down. The roses and beautiful flora of the meadow still persisted against the tide, but they were under the danger of being buried by a slow fall of snow as well. Sometimes when Ruby had become vicious as recently with the killing of Utagawa the whole world would be buried in snow. It was only Ichigo's effect and the apparent connection between their mindscapes with Zangetsu that allowed the roses to grow out of the snow, if just barely.
Speaking of Zangetsu Y, the pale, perverted clone of Ichigo was trying his own attempt at finding Mazarozu with limited effect. The problem was that Cristina and Zangetsu Y were the gateways between the mindscapes of their respective wielders and one spirit could not go a certain distance away from the other. Cristina would not have brought the Hollow zanpakuto to Ruby's mindscape if she didn't have any other way, but Mazarozu was oddly very hard to find, and she had lived here the longest!
"You kiss your mother with that mouth?" Cackled Zangetsu Y.
Cristina growled threateningly at the zanpakuto, not entertaining to reply to his joke. After all, this was a search to find her mother, and she was glad of her choice of words. If Ruby was too good of a girl to swear, then she'll be the one to pick up the slack and make a sailor blush.
"At least it's not raining." Zangetsu Y commented, taking a look at the snow-covered meadow dotted with roses. "The Quincy bastard at home is such whiner when it comes to rain, and snow is so much better. Matches the drapes if you get what I mean."
Cristina made a gagging gesture as if she was going to vomit, making Zangetsu Y cackle in amusement. She should've expected this from Ichigo's Hollow zanpakuto. The real Ichigo was reserved and gentle, leaving his Inner Hollow to be the anti-thesis so to speak that gave him a perverted nature. Where Ichigo was all serious in the battle, Zangetsu Y lusted for battle as well as other things in life that Ichigo ignored. He was basically proof that Ichigo was a straight guy if the comments on Ruby earlier to go by.
"So," Zangetsu Y said, "how do you think I can get Ichigo to mo-"
"OH MY GODS, I AM GOING TO RIP OFF YOUR TONGUE IF YOU MAKE ANOTHER COMMENT ABOUT MY SISTER'S ASS AGAIN!" Cristina snapped, her lips pulled back to reveal rows of canine teeth ready to tear out said black tongue of Zangetsu Y.
"Who said it was about Ruby's butt?" Zangetsu Y teased.
SNAP!
Cristina gave a war cry as she tackled the Hollow zanpakuto to the ground. Nails turned into claws as they swung to rip into Zangetsu Y's flesh, but it was difficult with the zanpakuto's instinctive dodging capabilities. She eventually decided to go for the neck to choke the bastard. He may not die, but it would be so worth it.
"Kinky, aren't you?" Zangetsu Y noted as if he wasn't being choked.
"Show that tongue of yours so I can rip it off!" Roared Cristina as she proceeded to try and mull Zangetsu Y's face open.
(Back in the real world)
As Ichigo and Ruby rested a sudden migraine in their heads, the conversation continued on with Kisuke opening up with the substance traces left by the Bounts that carried a unique effect on space-reality.
"I've been debating whether or not to tell you this." Said Kisuke. "The reason were were initially interested in researching Bounts was because of a special substance they leave in the residue they created. It was harmless enough in small quanities, but if this substance became more concentrated it could possibly create affect space itself."
"Wha..." Nora said, totally lost in Kisuke's explanation.
"He means portals, Nora." Ren clarified for Nora.
"Oh." Nora perked up. "Still don't get it."
Ren visibly lurched as if he was going to fall to the floor.
"Can you give us anymore details so we know what we are dealing with here?" Rukia asked, brandishing a pen and notebook.
"This substance causes a reaction in the atmosphere causing a formation that can only be described as a tunnel between two separate planes of space." Kisuke explained, while Rukia scribbled in her notebook.
RWBY, Ichigo, Senna, and JN(P)R leaned over Rukia's shoulder to peak at her drawing, and most of their expressions visibly blanched. Rukia was doing her usual hobby of drawing this explanation through the use of poorly drawn bunny faces, which only served to further confuse them.
"Quit scribbling in that thing!" Ichigo said. "It's just confusing."
"Why do you have so many bunnies?!" Weiss admonished. "And what is that thing supposed to look like?! A space flower!?"
"I get bunnies, but it's making me confused." Jaune lamented.
"Oh, that makes so much more sense." Nora chirped.
Well, most of them anyway. Of course it would be Nora among them that could possibly make the most sense of what Rukia was drawing. Even Kisuke blinked in astonishment at the nonsense that was Rukia's way of explaining concepts through bunnies.
"Yeah, in a way." Kisuke said awkwardly. "It is a lot more complicated. You see it connects this world with Hueco Mundo, which is where the Hollows dwell. If Hollows gain unrestricted access."
"All of the shinigami patrols in the real world would be overwhelmed." Ren concluded with a grim expression. "And Remnant may follow."
Ruby stiffened, her silver orbs partially becoming red. "We can't let that happen."
"It would be a feeding frenzy." Kisuke said. "But this is one possibility, excluding Remnant since the Bounts have no knowledge of that ultra physical world. Still, that kind scenario of Hollows being unleashed is a 50 percent chance of happening."
"What kind of chances are those?!" Exclaimed Ichigo.
"Let's just say it is the most probable way of how the Bounts will act." Kisuke said.
Ruby sighed. "I guess we will have to stick our noses sharp when they come back."
Suddenly, the doors were roughly slid open, revealing the giant man of Tessai. He looked winded, a sign of coming here in a rush. Kisuke's full attention was one his old friend. Anything that put sweat on Tessai's brows was something that needed to be heard.
"I'm sorry for the interruption." Tessai apologized. "But I just received word that Uryu was put in the hospital. They say he was in a car crash, but it is more than likely he had just been attacked by a Bount."
"What?" Orihime exclaimed. "Oh no, is he going to be okay?"
"Could it have been a Hollow instead?" Ren wondered.
Tessai shook his head. "No, there hasn't been strong Hollow activity for a while."
"I guess we have our lead." Yang said, getting to her feet. "Let's go meet this Uryu person all of you know about and see what he knows."
Ruby had no time to give her two cents before Yang grabbed her arm and they bolted out the door with the rest of her team, followed closely by Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Senna, and JN(P)R. Kisuke and Tessai shared a look before the former started chuckling.
"Eager, aren't they?" Tessai noted.
"Yes indeed, my friend." Kisuke said. "Such interesting people."
Sorry if this chapter is a little short. I am kind of in a rush to make these chapters. I am out of my university since the whole mess with the coronavirus, so I am back home with all of my stuff for an indefinite amount of time.
I have to make up something to get Uryu in the hospital so the twins attack, but the fight will be much more easier there with Senna and her zanpakuto. It will probably be funny to see how the Remnanties deal with fighting water. I also had to make some sort of conflict with Ruby and her powers affecting her on a mental level. Summer Rose will be back soon, I promise.
Here's another story I literally thought of when me and my friend were playing God of War.
Fires of War, a God of War and Fairy Tail crossover.
Summary: Thor and Odin came for Kratos far earlier, and Atreus had no choice but to watch his father battle against the Aesier gods himself. The God of War was overwhelmed, leaving Atreus vulnerable, but an unlikely ally in Freya comes to the boy's safety. Using forbidden magic, Freya sacrifices herself to save Atreus by sending to realms of the far beyond. Right on the island of Tenroujima during the S-class trials. What will the son of Kratos do armed with bow, axe, his father's blades, and a black fire within him? WendyxAtreus. Rated M.
Yeah, I seriously don't know why. It doesn't leave my head until I share with you. I think I have a problem.
Up next is Chapter 54: Water Puns.
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