Bleach – The Heart of the Matter
By Tayla Drago
A battle to be going on in a bowling/arcade/restaurant for many lives were in grave danger, even the B-Last Band members and crew people for Alucard to fight through the Lillie's vines to try draining them. Same with Urahara, Tessai, Yoruichi, Jinta, Ururu, Ririn, Kurodo, and Noba to do the same back outside; along with Sonia, Hayame, and Kon 'in Ichigo's body' to stop the rest back inside the building. So many vines of this deadly flower monster who works for Dracula! As for the other six saving the lives into hiding to face against Dracula's six powerful monster armies now 'well seven once since Urahara beaten Executioner' for these matches I'll try to make them a bit short, okay? There almost like the boss fights in Castlevania Legends from the Game Boy game.
Second round was about to begin for it was Ichigo's turn to go up against on the bowling grounds and such with Death Dragon 'for he was huge'! For him to be all powered up thanks to the Belmont thing, to have many Zanpaktos which were all part shadow power to appear and to control by hand to keep his guard up. This won't be an easy fight to face against a dragon who's already dead as a lively type of zombie from which Dracula made.
This dragon was killed by Dracula himself in his early years to send a message that he, as the "King of the Dragons", had arrived. Dracula granted it new life to be a part of his own army. The dragon is huge and only its front half is shown onscreen. Its fire-breathing ability is ever-present, but it chooses to spit individual flame blasts sporadically as it moves its head up and down between three possible positions to keep anyone guessing while moving. Like other bosses its size, it likes to crash into things using its head to make debris fall from the ceiling to further disrupt to anyone's movements.
"Ah…you must be the half human, Soul Reaper, and something of some Hollow you are, Ichigo Kurosaki." Death Dragon said to be breathing down on Ichigo. "I've learn so much about you for us to be facing off against one another…"
From green-like smoke he was making to be coming from the dead of a dragon's big nose and on Ichigo.
"Geeze ugly, you ever heard of a breath mint?" he covers his mouth. "So, you want to fight with me I see. Just don't think I will back down from the likes of you because you look scary or big. I've face bigger things a few times already!" Ichigo gets his new powers good to go with his Zangetsu all set to go with it.
"You think the bigger I am, the harder I fall? How cute. But when I'm done with you, I'll have a good prize of a corpse to add to my collection when I'm finish you off, boy! Let's go!"
With Death Dragon stomping around the grounds to try crushing Ichigo with his giant feet, for him to dodge, move away, and duck in time to almost have his komodo caught to cut some of it off. Almost became a pancake there! For the dragon uses his tail to grab hold of Ichigo and for him to swing his way out of there; to get on top of the lamp lights to out run Death Dragon, to make the monster jump up in the air a little to cause the grounds to shake with lots of things to fall on top of him. Run for it, Ichigo!
"Crap! Stop trying to kill me with falling parts from the ceiling tops!" he said while running away in time to cut the rest into ashes to then catch his breath. "What the hell do you think I am, a rat?!"
No, just his twisted way of having fun to get things he likes to keep that are dead! The Death Dragon was still simple in battle 'big or not', Ichigo just must not touch the fireballs from he spits out by dodging a lot, and to be very careful when it shakes the grounds because slow-falling platforms were trying to smash him. As the dragon spits out fire balls close to the ground, Ichigo jumps over it before it almost hit him even while crouching all at once. Nice!
"I'm starting to have lots of fun…Now then, let's make this battle a bit more expert harder mode next."
Death Dragon then creates lots of smoke to surround Ichigo in to make his move to use a strike attack on him, hard to see and hear where your enemy is because of it. Good thing Ichigo keeps his guard up to be in the middle from the surround green smoke for it wasn't deadly to breath in out, it's the monster you need to worry about.
"You think a smoke show will hide yourself from me? I can feel you out a mile away if that's what is going to be." he said to then feeling out lots of fire bursting next to him out of nowhere. "Ah! (Fire…? Showing up out of nowhere?)" Ichigo tries not to get burned up. "Where are they coming from?!"
Seems like Death Dragon had a lot more from him to unleash on Ichigo to for him to have trouble avoiding the fire, to come from the smoke.
"Hurts doesn't it, Soul Reaper? I'll keep burning, crushing, and hitting you with my tail until you're dead for me to take home!"
Crap! Ichigo fights his way from inside of the smoke of fire attacks, tail whipping, things falling from him, and he can't find the monster anywhere to get out of at all. So much to getting burned a lot more than not getting hit or crushed, or even stepped on! Ichigo had to think of something to do to save Sonia and the others, the many lives who were in danger by Dracula and his goons! He made a promise from back then…
When he was younger, Ichigo considered his mother to be the center of his world, always smiling when he was with Masaki and regularly holding her hand. Despite crying whenever he lost in a match at the dojo he attended, Ichigo started to smile again as soon as he saw Masaki when she came to pick him up. At a very young age, Ichigo heard his father saying his name means 'to protect one thing', which instilled in him a desire to protect his mother. When his sisters were born, he began attending a dojo for the sake of protecting them. Since then, the number of people he wishes to protect has continued to grow, causing Ichigo to risk his life to protect both the people close to him and complete strangers.
As a teenager, Ichigo is stubborn, short-tempered, strong-willed, and impulsive. Despite claiming not to care about what other people think about him, he attempts to maintain a detached and 'cool' image. He generally keeps his face set in a near-permanent scowl, with his eyebrows drawn together. His outspoken, hot-headed demeanor is a trait Ichigo himself has acknowledged, and if somebody picks a fight with him, he cannot help fighting back. He coldly refers to his teachers as 'instructors'. He is genuinely compassionate and empathetic towards others, promising to bring a Plus flowers and a toy plane, or soothing others when they become upset.
Ichigo is a capable student, ranked 23rd in his year at school, who studies regularly and does not neglect his schoolwork. He works as hard as he does to overcome the misconceptions many have about him based on his hair color and fighting. Ichigo hates fortune telling, horoscopes, feng shui, psychics, and anyone whose trade involves taking money from people for things they cannot see. He has difficulty remembering people's faces and names. Ichigo becomes extremely shy and uncomfortable around nude or immodestly dressed women, a fact both Yoruichi Shihōin and Rangiku Matsumoto have teased him for. Ichigo is often disrespectful when talking to those older than himself, calling Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto 'gramps' and referring to several of the Shinigami captains by their given names without using honorifics. For a tough guy like Ichigo is, he is also a kind-hearted person…
With one shot left for Ichigo did see from the smoke around him was fire to set it off in seconds. One spark would do the trick. So he gives it a shot to use Death Dragon's tail to boost him in the air, and the rest from falling lamp parts, and then finally for a fire blast to come at him…Ichigo swings it back at the monster with his Zanpakto of the many shadows to power it up with his fire instead; to finally using his other attack to give Death Dragon a good hit to set off the fireworks with one attack to make it a powerful hit.
"Light it up, because you'll be on fire...you ugly dragon!" Ichigo fires away. "Getsuga Tensho!"
One hit sets off the smoke to explode at Death Dragon's face to also destroy his smoke to fade away.
"What?! No!" the dragon cries out in shock.
Well, that got rid of the smoke to show Death Dragon to get push back from the blast to try flying away, only for more parts to come flying down to tangle him up. Nice work, Ichigo! Then he walks up to him to use another piece of the ceiling parts to shove right into the undead monster's mouth to have trouble using the fire blast to push back inside of his body to burn up for the smoke to spread out of his rotten body now.
"Wow, I didn't think it would work…Or destroy more of his decayed body so easily, but it did." he said. "That will teach ya!"
Seems like Death Dragon's own fire was destroying his other body not to burn to nothing but ashes all over the floor, to slowly be dying for good this time.
"Clever, Soul Reaper, you've beaten me by my own attack…twice now." he said while slowly fading away. "You seem strong to aid Alucard and the Belmont woman to stop Lord Dracula this way…Such odd powers to be so different for a strange human like yourself."
True, to still be unknown of the Belmont powers Ichigo has gotten from Sonia to help him overcome his fear from the spider monster that time.
"I don't know about being smart to stop freaks like you, I call it luck. The point is...I've stopped you." Ichigo said to point his sword out. "You were good only to be stopped in the end, like your other pals will be from my other friends who are next."
For Death Dragon to know already…he closes his eyes to think of one thing to know that he leaves the rest for the others and Dracula to complete with the task at hand.
"So it would seem. Well done, Soul Reaper, no more corpse collections anymore for me since I'm done…A good time I had to serve Lord Dracula as much as I could. Just remember this…You all may have the power to stop us, but never our Lord to soon bring darkness to this world. He will. So be warned on what's to come yet for the other vampires to take over your kind, from the curse will never end." Death Dragon laughs a little. "Yes now, be very warned…"
And from there, Death Dragon head was nothing but a skull now for his entire body was ashes all over the room. This makes two to be four more to beat and a giant plant-like monster. Ichigo was a bit tired to still try fighting on still, to see Chad a bit beaten up from his battle he just had, so Ichigo checks on his friend's conditions – while having a sign to say 'strike' from making lots of explosions set off from a lot of pins were all knock down. Cool!
"Chad!" he runs to his friend's side. "Are you okay? You got stabbed a lot. Ah, man…!"
He seems to be feeling a bit better right now.
"Ichigo…Seems like you've fought in your battle too only to get a bit burned up." said Chad. "Still, we can't rest. We got to stop the other monsters."
Ichigo has got Chad's back to do just so and that's by staying close together on this one to fight for anything else if they must.
"And we will by doing this together. (Sonia needs us. I owe her a lot for helping us out by getting this far with new powers, and saving me from my fear of spiders.)" Ichigo to lift Chad up to keep on going. "We're a team after all, Chad, we will end this nightmare tonight."
And hopefully real soon. For Sonia did aid Ichigo stop the spiders, save his friends from Dracula's spider demons who almost tried to take over the school, and had some new powers to use to save the day 'besides his Hollow self-helped him out a little'. Bugs, I hate some of them even though it's hard to face your fears…you must try to have the courage to win. For Ichigo Kurosaki doesn't give up. That's Ichigo for you and with four more of Dracula's top solider monsters must be stopped, how will they get out of this nightmare? More to come next time.
