Bleach – The Heart of the Matter
By Tayla Drago
'And now [since we've gotten through the recaps from the series and such], on with the main event of my made-up story. Yes! It takes place after the Bount Saga and way before the Arrancar Saga afterwards to be in order. You get it? Okay then, and here we go!'
(Belmont Saga: Part 1)
Many years of Dracula's Curse to come and go. For something comes and goes a lot from people's fear and hatred to bring back one monster in our midst of our world of a villain known as Count Dracula from Transylvania, as every centuries goes like this…he comes out to make more victims as his new family of vampires to drain blood and make monsters for his son Alucard is bound to stop him from his human mother Lisa was killed because of a half breed son was born; and he seeks revenge with the help of some friends with a gift of power and one Belmont hero Simon Belmont to Trevor Belmont and so on to stop his evilness…And those monsters who work for him like the Grim Reaper who also known as Death himself. Good to keep the world saved and all over the years for those heroes and a lot more out there, but what would happen if a new plan came around centuries later? Around the year 2000? And in a different location this time?
One man was trying to take out Dracula to be revived yet again. Known as Richard Belmont to put a stop to this and saving the world and his village he was born in and train well by his master. During his hunt, he tries saving an innocent woman who was running away from Death trying to kill her as a human sacrifice for him to come to the rescue; although he did but only to get caught by other monsters like Succubus to retrain his blood and was out cold to be capture. Not good…! As she, Death, a creature known as Chainsaw Killer type of Frankenstein's monster, Shaft, Deku the Vampire Bat, Creature Bat, Death Dragon, Executioner, Flying Wolf, Minotaur, Medusa, and Joker 'Dracula's henchmen' who all worked and serve their master all gather together in one room. As the human girl is killed for her soul and body was absorbed to revive Dracula to rule the world this time, and better than ever before. For he has already come prepared thanks to Death's help.
Really not good here! With them and all his monsters and vampires wait for his orders and revenge on one capture Belmont who was Richard himself, what will happen to this poor soul? Gone for a year now and bad news for Dracula to roam the world for the others to fear the worse to come…Only another Belmont who was Richard's little sister can make a stand against it all, saving her brother's life, trains hard, save her village, the people, and the world before it was too late. Sonia Belmont was her name. Beautiful to look at, she can fight very well to not good down without a fight to do whatever she can with some help like Richard's childhood friend Maria Renard, her magical pet owl Howey, and their teacher Master Keigo Shu must rescue and find Richard. Along with Alucard who's joining with Sonia to know of him for a year now and to be working closely…It all comes down to this. A father and son battle or revenge, a girl who cares for the Belmont name to save her only brother, and such to stop Dracula's from reigning terror again right away. For his target, he and his monsters go for this time – is in Japan. That was somewhere around Karakura Town. Not good at all! From those details to give out, our story begins…
Seems that the background story's was true for some skeleton-like demons were taken out and a few vampire bats for both Sonia and Alucard did their jobs together to be protecting the many lives, stopping Dracula's evil monsters, and trying to find Richard who was out there somewhere for the search still continues. And where more of the enemies were headed to next by seeing from afar…Oh! And Sonia was the person watching the far after the last saga by the way!
"Alucard…Do you feel it?" Sonia asks him.
"I do, Sonia." he points out the location. "It's not too far from where we're standing. Father's making another move on the humans again."
"And because of this mess, my brother might be there. Then we know what must be done. Blending in."
In other words...those two already have them undercover type of get up to use when they are with others like Sonia's kind.
"Got it."
Looks like those two have got a mission to complete for they don't know about our heroes from which a new discovery and a new danger will be coming right at them, soon enough. With Sonia having her cell phone out, she calls up a few friends.
"(Dracula has to be stop! Richard, Alucard and I will save you!)" Sonia was ready to fight.
It would seem for those two had something in mind…As the sun started to set around Karakura Town to look normal for some Hollows were getting hunted down and stopped thanks to a Ichigo Kurosaki 'who's a Substitute Soul Reaper' and taking care of them all; along with Orihime Inoue 'with cool attacks, healing, and shield-like powers', Yasutora 'Chad' Sado 'with a powerful arm', Uryu Ishida 'who's the last Quincy to locate the Hollows but he has loss all his powers to regain them again somehow', and Kon 'a Modsoul who was strong within Ichigo's body and not as a stuff toy'.
Cool team there, huh? After a long day's work, living a normal life, going to school, and such – they have fun to do something to be going on of a live concert to see the most popular rock band for everyone to know and love. Well, all but Ichigo who was new to this to go with his sister Yuzu and Karin 'along with their dad Isshin Kurosaki as well'. To try enjoying the night. Same with Tatsuki, Arisawa, Keigo Asano 'who loves the leader of the band', Mizuiro Kojima, Chizuru Honsho, Michiru Ogawa, Ryo Kunieda, even Urahara, Tessai, Ururu, Jinta, Kon, Ririn, Noba, Kurodo, Yoruichi Shihouin 'in her cat form' were all there too; as well as Misato Ochi, Kagine, Harutoki Ide, Gitano Shigeo, Ryohei Toba, Heita Toujoin, Kei Uehara, and Kazuya Usaka. For everyone was all there! It was a huge concert. The band known as – The B-Last Band. Five of the girls for one was on the drums, two more on different guitars, another one on keyboard, and the last on bass for Sonia Belmont was the singer and Alucard was their manager.
Some songs are in English from other Anime series for Sonia to sing...Nana – Broken Rose. Why? I just wanted it to happen for she had a beautiful voice when she sings…
Sonia (singing): When I was darkness at that time
I feel my lips; they're trembling'
I sit in the dark corner, and I cry!
The more I struggle, the more it hurts
I remember my lost comfort
Don't you know how much that hurt me?
Nobody can save me
I swear only God can set me free
I can feel the pain stab me...my love!
I need your love! I'm a broken rose
The deep, falling sadness of your song
It haunts my life with nowhere to go
I need your love, I'm a broken rose
Oh, baby help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes
And sing to me, just for me!
I wanna need your love
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love~
When you were with me at that time
It's your shadow I would chase
Running barefoot, no one could stop me
The more I struggle
The harder it gets
Why's love so complicated?
So, for now, tenderly kiss me
Nobody can save me
You see I'm like a frozen rose
Let me fall asleep with my tears
I need your love! I'm a broken rose
I feel my sad little soul die away
I'm just a little girl who can't stop her tears
I need your love! I'm a broken rose
Oh, baby help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes
And sing to me, just for me!
I wanna need your love...
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love...
Nobody can help me
Nobody can help me
I'm a broken rose
I need your love! I'm a broken rose
The deep, falling sadness of your song
It haunts my life with nowhere to go
I need your love, I'm a broken rose
Oh, baby help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes
And sing to me, just for me!
I wanna need your love...
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love...
Nice song there! For everyone loved it, and Ichigo finds it to be just fine for all was good but Keigo was sort of annoying. After a fun night to see a great concert it was – Ichigo gets a report of more Hollows in the area to go into his Soul Reaper mode to get Kon to replace his body with to take over 'for the time being'…
Kon: Hey! I can be useful too you know!
Tayla: Okay, okay. Sorry. I'm just saying…
Kon: You better, because I'm going to be useful in this saga.
Tayla: Right….
Anyways…Off Ichigo goes to deal with it again along with Orihime, Chad, and Uryu tagging along 'even though he needs to find his Quincy powers to use again'. Soon Kon notices some bones lying on the ground to go check it out, as he spotted both Sonia and Alucard to go to the same area as well to follow them. Arriving to the spot to sense out a Hollow to be nearby. But where at…? That is what was on Ichigo's mind.
"(Strange…I know I sense a Hollow here somewhere.)" wonder Ichigo. "(So where is it now?)"
Soon Orihime, Chad, and Uryu have arrived.
"Ichigo! Hey! Ichigo!" Orihime runs up to him.
"Yo." Chad just said hi to his friend.
Ichigo sees his three friends.
"Chad. Orihime. And you too, Uryu…"
Well, Ichigo didn't think Uryu would show up due to losing his powers.
"Of course, I would be here too! With or without my powers! I will get it back!" he got mad.
"Well excuse me…" Ichigo kept on looking around the area. "You guys seen any Hollows anywhere? I know I felt one."
Orihime and Chad thought they did, but with no luck for neither of them.
"No." Chad answered.
"Sorry, I haven't either." and Orihime.
"I thought there was one nearby, but it went away already." also Uryu.
So in other words, no luck to neither of them to sense a thing. With Ichigo still looking around, he steps in something wet, for it looked like dark blood all over the grassy ground. Looking around some more, he spotted the Hollow who has already been killed with its head ripped opened for the others to see it as well. It wasn't another Soul Reaper in the area, but something else to be far worse who've done this.
"What the…?" surprised Ichigo. "This Hollow's already dead…! But how-?"
As Chad was shock and Orihime a bit horrified from seeing this, Uryu looks at it to see on this unlucky Hollow was killed.
"It would appear this Hollow was beaten to death. Like some type of group...on whatever it was did this as a team in seconds, no Soul Reaper couldn't have done it but to complete their job."
Soon they see some bones on the ground looking like it was human, so the four thought about it at first…
"Maybe a bunch of wolves did this by eating so many people." Orihime guess it out.
So weird for so many bones to be all over the place and one skull to move on its own.
"I doubt it was an animal's doing, Orihime." Chad corrected her.
"So…If it wasn't an animal's doing or another Soul Reaper's, nor it's human…" Ichigo was thinking. "Then what the hell was it?"
The four try to think hard on this one – that's when it happened…The ground started to shake fore lots of lively Skeletons to appear like zombies in a horror movie to go after them as well as the ones to be scattered all over. Not good! Joining in for the kill as a group and holding their weapons as long bone piece that can whack you to death like the Hollow was makes sense to be their doing. Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, and Uryu must fight against these things to be very new to them.
(Also keep in mind, for I'll explain what the new characters are and the monsters too...):
Skeletons are a basic enemy seen in many games in the Castlevania series. They make up the greater part of the Dark Lord's army. Risen from their graves, they now serve under the dark rule of Dracula. The basic skeletons may do one of two things: March back and forth, clogging up platforms. Jump high, sometimes in erratic patterns, and throw bones. They're usually easy to kill, however, despite their abilities. The bones they throw are presumably from their own rib cages.
"Well, there's our answer…" Uryu said to panic suddenly. "Those skeletons are alive!"
"Skeletons!?" shock both Orihime and Chad.
They were groaning, moving a bit fast, to state whacking at the others all over the place to be surrounded by.
"Lively skeletons, huh?" this was new to Ichigo the most. "So weird…These guys to wipe the floor with one Hollow and seeing they're on no one's side, this looks really bad for us."
Soon they started to attack by one skeleton giving out the orders to the rest of the group.
"Strike…Them down!"
Attack of the skeletons army come charging in at the heroes. Fight back! And they do…For Ichigo uses his sword against them all coming at them to break into pieces all over the place, for Orihime uses her shield ability 'to keep Uryu safe' to use her attack skills back and forth, and Chad punches them many times non-stop. As they were keeping it up only for all the skeletons as they get knocked down to come back up and put their bone-like bodies to still be attacking them; and because of this for our heroes couldn't keep it up in battle to be pushed back like this. For they grabbed a hold of Uryu to pin on the ground. And the rest try pulling Orihime by the hair and Chad for a group tries pulling him as well, they were all in trouble now.
"Not good…!" Chad was trying to fight back.
"Ah! Ichigo! Help us!" Orihime cries for help.
Ichigo sees his friends were in danger to still be fighting off the rest.
"Ah! There's too many of these things!" Uryu was stuck. "We're going to be beaten or tore to death!"
Soon Ichigo was getting held down as well to be in the same faith was the other three were, what's going to happen next? How can our heroes get out of this mess alive!?
"Damn it!" Ichigo had trouble breaking free. "At this rate, we'll all become skeletons ourselves if we don't get out of this mess!"
Just as all was loss for our four heroes were about to beaten to death by tons of demon-like skeleton armies, that's when another thing happens next…Something breaks of some type of water to spill all over the ground to surround all of the skeletons to be burning them but not the others that was very deadly to them; as one was really fast by using a sword to cut the rest into dust to then use dark magic for the other armies, leaving another one to whip a lot of them to fighting skills, a huge boomeranged-like cross type of weapon, and last some fighting skills. Punching and kicking kind of style. The two other strangers were good and fast too as they stopped all of the skeletons and saving the heroes. For neither Orihime, Chad, Ichigo, or Uryu 'a little' didn't felt it coming at all until the very end. There were no more skeletons anymore.
"Huh…? What…?" Orihime looks around to see what happened. "Looks like we're still alive, you guys."
"Yeah, looks like it." Chad pulls Uryu back up.
"Ah! Thanks for the lift, Chad." he said. "So, who just saved us…?"
Looking around the woods, there was only left-over bones of the skeletons to not come back this time. What gives? Ichigo was getting mad to not get any answers at all to be seeing who their heroes were. That's when Orihime spotted something to point out to the guys for Ichigo to sense of the two different people in seconds through his body.
"Hey! Look up there!"
And there, they see them…It was both Alucard and Sonia Belmont themselves who've stopped the skeletons and saved the four just in time. For they looked serious on their task to stop any demon who work for Dracula, finding him, and saving Richard Belmont on wherever he was right now. And for Alucard to go off in flight first, Sonia just stares down at them without saying anything.
"Two…people…but not normal…looking…" so Chad could feel out.
He was right about them for sure!
"Really, Chad?" surprised Orihime to feel them out like Chad was. "Yeah, you're right. They do feel different than anyone else from the Soul Society. Or any one of us."
Uryu fixes his glasses to know more about them.
"But the big question is this…Who are they?"
Ichigo had another one to add to it.
"And why did they save us?" he asked. "(That woman and that strange guy don't look like Wholes, Soul Reapers, or anything bad like the walking bones were. Just who are they? Who do they think they are…? Staring at us like that to ask if we are unharmed or not!? The nerve!)"
Soon she takes off before Ichigo could stop her or Alucard, only for Kon 'in Ichigo's body' to come running in the woods while holding his doll to say something to him and the others on something. A bit too late for the other two to take off as well.
"Ichigo! Hey, Ichigo!"
Uryu, Chad, or Orihime couldn't find the two strangers anymore.
"Where did they go now?" questioned Uryu.
Guess Sonia and Alucard are long gone now for Ichigo wasn't in the mood right now to hear Kon's annoyances.
"Ichigo!" Kon kept on saying his name. "Listen to me! There's something I felt out just now I have to tell you about-!"
Ichigo gives Kon the evil glare to walk up to him and scaring him for the other three sees this to have odd looks on each of their faces.
"Not now, Kon…!"
Kon tries calming Ichigo down quickly before getting his stuffing of the doll form beaten up again and ruined.
"Wait!" he stops Ichigo in time. "Just hear me out. I felt out two strangers, I bet the rest of you did too…! But that's not the only thing wrong. There are less Hollows and Wholes lately to more monsters wondering around."
Hold up…! Monsters were roaming around more by Dracula's doing for Alucard and Sonia to be in the area? Orihime, Uryu, and Chad recognizes her in their favorite band and Alucard as her manager to be surprised for they weren't normal humans at all. And for Kon to spot out the skeletons who were showing up and lots of bats to be not normal looking one, something was wrong in Karakura Town lately for those two appear and stopping monsters lately. Surprising to Ichigo, he demands to know what they were to grab hold of Sonia Belmont's spirit ribbon to follow her right away. He never gives up on anything until he gets some answers on a random thing or from a stranger, doesn't he?
"(Hold it you…)" he takes off. "Kon! Keep my body safe! I'm off!"
Too late for any of the four to stop him now.
"Oh, no…" said Chad.
"Huh? What the-!?" shock Kon.
"Ichigo! Wait! Where are you running off to this time!?" Uryu demanded to know. "(Damn! Why does he always do this to us!?)"
Well, it looks like the others were lost but Orihime to go after him on foot leaving the other guys to follow them in a bit. Knowing from her, she sure loves Ichigo for to really care about him a lot.
"I'll go after him!" she waves to her friends. "Follow us when you can! Chad! Uryu! And you too, Kon!"
And off she goes for Uryu, Chad, and Kon to follow both Orihime and Ichigo from behind. For him to go through so much just to know who the two new heroes were to him 'who weren't Soul Reapers to be normal looking humans for Sonia and Alucard as a half human to only know more until later', he will do what needs to be done. For Ichigo kept on searching throughout the woods to almost come to a path of the exit as no one else was around…He then felt Sonia out to stop, Ichigo spies on her from behind the tree and hiding his spirit energy the best he could 'so she wouldn't feel his out'. All she was doing was standing near the lake and looking upset suddenly. For Alucard wasn't with her right now, but the way she was doing things to have human emotions after all.
"(There she is-!)" he stops to see Sonia's true colors up close. "(What the…? Is this the same woman who stopped the entire army of walking bones? At first, she was all quiet, tough, and scary looking…But seeing her like this, she seems to be just a human being with feelings after all. I don't get it. Also, what happened to the other guy who was with her? Is he more than just human?)"
With Ichigo just looking around to moving his head slowly and quietly, Sonia disappears before Ichigo's eyes to show up from behind with a sword pointed next to his head.
"Halt!" she said.
"Whoa!" scared Ichigo by surprise. "(How the hell…? When did she move up from behind me so fast!? I didn't even feel her out!)" Ichigo tries moving away from Sonia's blade in time to still be on her guard.
"What gives you the right to sneak up behind a woman? Answer me!"
"Sneaking? You sneaked up on me with that blade of yours!" Ichigo looked and sounded angry. "I almost had my brains poked out!"
Look who was talking?
"Ah…You were the one who sneaked up from behind me first you know."
Ouch! Sonia has got Ichigo there. Boy, does he feel silly. It's true though.
"Well, I didn't mean to…Shut up!"
Sonia just laughs about it.
"Relax, kid." she said. "We're on the same side here. I felt you and your friends were different to having strange powers like Alucard and I. Although I'm human. I was trained under the family of the Belmont Clan to do one thing, to stop Dracula, and to save the many lives."
This was news to Ichigo.
"Dracula? Belmont?" he was confused. "Excuse me…?"
"Seriously!?" Sonia didn't sound happy. "Do you even think from either of those two things are!?"
"No…The only thing I know about are Hollows, Wholes, and Soul Reapers. Which is what I am! Ichigo Kurosaki, the Substitute Soul Reaper to protect my home town from Hollows who are trying to hurt innocent lives and Wholes who are wondering spirits to find a resting place in the Soul Society once I perform a Konso on them! You are looking at one of them right now!"
Sonia heard about those things, but to her – she only thinks of them as a fairy tale and not real at all. Unlike her thing 'for she thinks it wasn't real'. And Ichigo was the same thing.
"Soul Reapers…Hollows…Wholes…Soul Society…?" Sonia didn't get it at all. "Who do you think I am!? Stupid or something!?"
Now Ichigo was mad at her.
"Excuse me!?"
"You heard me, Ichigo!" she corrects him. "I'm Sonia Belmont! And both Alucard and I are on a mission to stop Count Dracula who's been brought back to life to rule this world, starting with your area. With Alucard who's a half breed son since his mother was killed, we both swore to work together to save my brother Richard Belmont who went missing for a year now since then to get kidnapped by our sworn enemy we've both promise to stop the monster together as a team. But since then…our village we had to protect it to fight back on what's to come."
One question on Ichigo's mind was this for him to ask Sonia about.
"Is that so? Okay, then answer me this, Sonia…What's up with you and that crazy rock band of yours…? The Ba-Ba Black Sheep?"
"It's called the B-Last Band!" Sonia corrects Ichigo. "The 'B' stands for Belmont! My God! It's our thing I made up to go undercover in different areas where there are monsters around! And Alucard is acting as my manager! How do you not know anything about rock and roll!?"
Like Ichigo cared.
"Nope." he said. "My family and friends are big fans of yours, just not me."
Sonia was ticked off.
"Well, sorry if you're new to our work. Other than your made-up story of this Soul Reaper business. And that outfit, is like you're in a cosplay of some kind."
"This is real! And how do I know this Belmont business to the vampire Dracula thing is all real? I thought it was a Universal Studio Monster Movie classic type of film!"
Now the two were going to be at each other's throats in this type of argument of theirs.
"It's real!" Sonia said in Ichigo's face in anger.
"So is mine!" and him doing it back at her.
Too loud to be yelling at each other's faces.
"Ouch…! Too loud…!"
After fixing both of their eardrums…
"Well, Ichigo, if that's your real name…If you won't listen to reason from my words, then I'll just make you believe I'm the real deal than your thing!" she gets ready to fight.
"(Oh, great.)" Ichigo gets his Zangetsu out as well. "Oh, yeah!? Well, that goes the same thing with me too! And don't think I'll go easy on you just because you're a girl!"
"Ha! I wasn't planning to anyways. I have powers from within me of a Belmont to see and hear things."
"Makes sense to me. So let me show you on what happens when you get on my bad side…Shall we?"
Makes sense for both Alucard and Sonia to do the rest to be seeing and hearing things the same thing just like Ichigo and the others having this type of gift. So those two were about to fight against each other, as Orihime arrives to watch the whole thing to go down. Oh, boy…
"(Ichigo? Oh, no. This looks bad.)" she started to worry.
Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Sonia Belmont. From a half human/Hollow/Soul Reaper against a human of the Belmont clan to go head to head from deep in the woods, for only one could win to prove a point on what was real, but they both are…So who will win and who will fall before Uryu, Chad, and Kon could get to the forest area? And where was Alucard at? From whips, swords, items, skills, and powers for those two to have on what it takes to fight from monsters and Hollows.
"Ready?" Ichigo asks her.
"I am." she answers back.
The two got set, guards up, stands up, and says this at the same time…
"Then let's do this!"
Here we go! Liking it so far to see more in the future? Let me know with more to come, leave nice reviews please. :D
