Bleach – The Heart of the Matter
By Tayla Drago
I guess we'll be taking a little break from the Soul Society for a bit, as Sonia continues with her training, fighting off from the curse, taking care of the egg, hanging out with her friends, her uncle Yamamoto, and her lover Ukitake. So far, the egg was warming up very well…As we as seeing how Ichigo and the others were doing back in the World of the Living. For training hard, every day until the battle to soon start: Ichigo, Rukia, Renji, Orihime 'with her Six Six Princess friends', Chad, Uryu, Hayame 'for them to be in love', Kon, Ririn, Kurodo, Noba, Urahara, Yoruichi, Tessai, Jinta, Ururu, George, Furio, Maria, and Howey. They were all doing well with some of their Belmont powers, weapons, and other to upgrade as the Mayor aids them with the other villagers. And a lot more thanks to Master Keigo Shu's training to be pay off for the others to give it their all.
So far, so good if I do say so myself about them to see Sonia real soon. As well as stop Dracula, the curse to finally come to an end, the other monsters, save Richard, and stopping Alucard. Little at a time…Besides stopping Dracula's other demons, there were some good ones likes wondering ghosts for some to be around the Belmont Village, for one strange girl with strange powers protects one little boy from a Hollow to stop it with…her beam-like blast from her hands? Who was she? She goes by, Carrie Fernandez who was a fighter to stop Dracula, but who are the Fernandez you may ask?
Carrie Fernandez, a descendant of the powerful witch Sypha Belnades, was born in 1840 into a family of Spanish immigrants who were traveling through Eastern Europe. The patriarch of the Fernandez clan fell under the influence of Dracula. They were slowly wiped out through him or by the people who feared them. Many were executed for showing talents of witchcraft (including Carrie's parents). That memory stayed with her and led her to grow bitter toward adults and God. Though she became an orphan, she was adopted by a kind adoptive mother. Her strange talents came to her foster mother's attention and a search through records uncovered her link to the Fernandez family. As Dracula's baleful influence once again permeated Europe, the people of Wallachia grew uneasy and fearful. Dracula's minions had begun to send waves of forces into nearby villages. When they came to Carrie's village, the girl's adoptive mother selflessly protected her and was killed in the process. Carrie's anguish upon witnessing her mother's death awakened her latent magic powers, allowing her to destroy the creatures and evade capture. Embittered and disillusioned by the wanton murder of her foster mother, as well as the murder of her original parents, Carrie turned her back completely on God and adults. Two years later, after hearing rumors about Dracula was back, Carrie intrepidly traveled to Dracula's stronghold. During her travel, there were two holy knights from back then traveling too that she meets up with, Henry Oldrey and Reinhardt Schneider (look up on these two if you want to learn more), and she joined them in their quest to stop Dracula, having resolved to use her magic powers to vanquish him and his minions, and thus destroy his evil. Carrie began her quest vowing that to this present day many centuries later…
"Whatever awaits, I have no regrets!"
Brave girl…so how is Carrie still alive in today's day? Hmm…a look alike ancestor or something? For the children to come out of hiding for the boy to introduce to a new hero around the village and a friend for them to play with. She was both strong and sweet that's for sure. For this girl was being watched by three enemies seeing their target, bet they work for Dracula, they were three women and one giant monster.
"(At long last, I've found you to be useful for Lord Dracula…)" the strange woman turns to her two other helpers. "You, use those new powers of yours wisely under my orders to have that girl by any means." she talks to the monster next. "And you, kill anyone who stands in our way. Gather their blood and souls afterwards. We shall attack tomorrow when the children are playing with the young Fernandez. So be ready."
A witch, a strange vampire girl with magic powers, and a giant Golem. Looks like from the video game, Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. The golem was conceived long ago in Jewish folklore. During the Middle Ages, it was a symbol of one's own great holiness and power to create a golem, and many prominent rabbis were rumored to have created many golems. A golem is built from the dust of the earth, much like how God made Adam. There are multiple ways to activate a golem: By inscribing one of the many names of God onto its forehead. By inscribing one of the many names of God on a slip of paper and placing it in the golem's mouth. By inscribing a specific religious command using one's own blood on calfskin and placing it into its mouth. By inscribing the Hebrew word emet ('truth') on its forehead. It is always the wisest decision to never give the golem the ability to speak. If it can speak, then the golem is given a soul; and if it is given a soul, the Golem becomes anarchistic and cunning, in a sense. The golem becomes a wicked, foul creature. Another good idea is to always allow the golem to rest on the Sabbath (Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jews, Sunday for Christians), or else the golem will go berserk and become destructive of everything around it. If either one of these mistakes are made, or if for any other reason, there are also a few ways meant to deactivate the Golem. If activated using the word emet, one must erase the 'e' to form the word met ('death'). If activated using the calfskin parchment, the parchment must be removed from its mouth. If activated using the slip of paper, the paper must be removed and destroyed. In all definitions, a golem is meant to be a servant to the one who created it. While there are many forms of golems throughout Castlevania, they all really stay true to the original myths surrounding it.
But who were the other two girls? And what do they want with Carrie? The next morning for Rukia was picking up something from her Soul Pager on some Hollows that were getting killed from a spirit to be wondering around the village lately, looks like there will be some work before resting and training again.
"(My Soul Pager's going off…But I don't feel out any Hollows, but a ghost. Yes. To take them all out?)" looking around to see everyone else was training or resting. "The others seem to be working hard or feel very tired. I guess I'll have to find out, with someone else to help me who's not one of them two.)" Rukia goes to find Ichigo to wake up from his long 12-hour nap as hard as she could. "Ichigo? Get up, Ichigo. We got ourselves a ghost who's killing Hollows for us. Let's go check it out together while you had your break, come on."
Ichigo just moves around in his bed to be talking in his sleep, for this was getting to Rukia to find this to be very annoying.
"Not now, sleeping…come back later…"
Rukia let Ichigo had it with a good kicking and screaming to get him out of bed.
"ICHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGO!"
Nice one! This made him scream, to get kicked, and pushed off the bed to get Ichigo up now.
"Ouch!" he said in pain. "Rukia? What the hell did you wake me up for?!"
"It's almost noon and everyone's already awake but you!" she answers back.
"But I did so many things all day yesterday! Don't we deserve a little break?" ask Ichigo to see Rukia's Soul Pager going off. "Wait, you said some type of ghost was killing Hollows? Really?"
Finally, Ichigo was paying attention.
"Yes, really."
"But at a time like this?" he asks her again.
Let me put it out in good terms here: Hollows do come out from time to time, however due to Dracula's powers and his other demons are overpowering them to come out less, for some living things are stopping them. But a ghost besides Soul Reapers? Now that's odd. For Rukia doesn't get it to let Ichigo know about that part.
"Look, it is rather odd since Dracula is release to stopping him, I guess the Hollows are scared to hide out a little as some villagers are the same. Some of the kids have been playing around somewhere in those woods." Rukia shows Ichigo from outside of the window. "They say a human girl with powers of a Fernandez has been spotted in the past few weeks. Those are like good wickens who are opposite to the witches for they use their powers against evil; from firing beams, rings, knives, holy water, cross throwing, and such are the young girls the strongest ones." Rukia explains to her partner. "I never thought I would see another one today in person. I feel as if this one out during the war and event to be going on."
For Rukia to explain to Ichigo on what the Fernandez family were, he read a few in his history class back at his high school to know a little and from Maria too for her to tell the others about it a few days ago.
"Oh, yeah…kick ass. The real Fernandez girl." he gets himself up to eat, shower, get dress, and get to work. "Alright, give me a second to freshen up. And the others?"
"Let's leave this task to you and me." Rukia said. "I think the others need a break than we need to work from time to time. I told Maria and she with Howey will help us out if there's trouble, we should be good for now. Like when we first met, huh? Good times…"
For the first time they meant to becoming partners, friends, and a brother and sister type of bounding, it's good for them to work so well together. And their Belmont powers too. Ichigo understood to get everything done in time within thirty minutes for him and Rukia to place from a human body to a Gigai to become Soul Reapers and get to work right away.
"It sure does." said Ichigo to be all ready to go. "(Good times back then…) Okay, Rukia, lead the way and I'll follow."
Cool! Another Rukia and Ichigo team up type of chapter/episode for today here. As Maria sees them off to have Howey to fly around to keep an eye on the two 'and some other birds', the hunt starts now of the ghost and Carrie as well. The Hollows were all taken care of 'for now' to see who was stopping them all comes next; going deeper within the woods to follow the trail where the ghost was coming from only to see a child to be getting a ball as Rukia and Ichigo come across a lot of other children to be playing with some girl to show up out of nowhere 'Carrie herself'. Feeling out her that Rukia could tell she was a Fernandez before Ichigo could sense out next. There was no danger to be happening but for all of them to be having fun.
"Ichigo, are you seeing this?" Rukia whispers to him.
"Is it the girl who's having odd powers really another Fernandez?" he asked. "I thought there weren't any more but during another Dracula war from long ago."
Seems like Carrie had some powers to still be a normal looking fourteen-year-old girl to have fun with the kids. From the Soul Pager to be going off, Rukia doesn't see any more Hollows or the ghosts who stopped them all. Hmm…so weird.
"Well, she is one. Just doesn't pose as a threat. With no more Hollows around for now and the ghost to be nowhere, I am picking up the demons to be wondering around."
Only one thing to guess on who they were for Ichigo.
"Let me guess…more of Dracula's baddies? How many are there?"
Rukia double checks to be sure.
"One…Two…Three…" she makes sure of it. "Three from the looks of it, but they do seem powerful. We have to be on our guard to get these kids out of here and that girl."
Before the two of them could do anything, a little girl sees them hiding. Wait? A human like a child can see and hear Rukia and Ichigo as Soul Reapers? For her to scream for Carrie to race to her friend's side to have the other kids to worry 'for them to see as well', looks like they have some powers of sensing as Carrie has it more to seeing them the most to keep them all safe. She doesn't know who Soul Reapers are just yet.
"Crap! We've been spotted." Ichigo panics.
Carrie gets her weapon and powers up at Rukia and Ichigo while getting the children to hide behind her.
"Children, stay behind me. Halt! Who goes there?!" she demands to know. "Show yourselves! If you work for Dracula, then prepare to die!"
Rukia and Ichigo come out with their hands out to prove to Carrie they're on her side to bring no harm to anymore. That's one way to show who's not the enemy at least, even around the children who couldn't fight but to sense things.
"Sorry, my friend didn't mean to scare you." said Rukia.
"Hey!" this angers Ichigo to take the blame for nothing. "I didn't-!" she steps on his foot to feel the pain. "Ouch!"
Well, that shut him up. From Ichigo's silly noises to make the children start laughing to be happy that they were friendly enough to be trusted.
"Guess the kids like your orange friend."
Carrie smiled to see that they were fine for the other children to have a look at the two Soul Reapers to be amazed of some type of super heroes to them. Looking happy to want to be one, like Carrie was. They go off asking question like: 'Are you two some type of super heroes?' 'Are you friends with Ms. Fernandez?' 'What kind of super powers do you two have?', and so on…Ichigo finds this annoying to still be caring to keep the kids calm by acting type.
"Slow down, you bunch of ankle biters. (I'm surprise they can see and hear us like this…)" surprises Ichigo. "Then keep a secret from your parents who are not from the Belmont Village. We're Soul Reapers. My friend Rukia is, I'm a substitute one, Ichigo Kurosaki."
The children understood for those to keep a secret for super heroes like them. From Ichigo, then Rukia introduce herself to Carrie.
"Allow us to introduce ourselves. I'm Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper who comes from the Soul Society. We stop Hollows to save the souls also known as Wholes, as well as stopping Dracula too for a friend of ours, Sonia Yamamoto Belmont." she said. "Ichigo's a human with Soul Reaper powers who aids his home here. And you're a Fernandez, am I correct? Are you one of the last ones?"
Carrie hears the word Dracula to see that both Ichigo and Rukia were on her side to be fighting against the Prince of Darkness and to finally tell the others on who she was to dress up old, and still had some Fernandez blood with her.
"Enemies to Dracula just like me? I see…I heard about the Soul Reapers from long ago, I just never thought I would never see one…or two until now. Amazing…" she said. "And yes, the last Fernandez alive, I am Carrie. Please to meet with you two, Rukia and Ichigo. What can I do for you guys?"
Now it was time to get down to business for Ichigo and Rukia to learn about Carrie and alert her and the kids of the danger to be coming, three times the trouble that is.
"We're here to alert all of you to get out of this area. We're here to help." explained Rukia. "If you don't, one of Dracula's three monsters will arrive to kill or take all of the children away. Some of them have gone missing while the adults have been finding them all dead. I thought to be the Hollows doing for a ghost stopped them, only to have three demons to have something to do with the children's disappearance. Carrie, answer us this. Have you felt it out to see this been happening lately?"
Carrie then looked serious to find the missing children to feel out another family member of her kind with the two enemies. Really…? She does explain who the two monsters, leaving the last one to still be unknown.
"Yes…I'm here to protect these kids to find the other ones. I…I feel out another Fernandez, but she's not alive to be in some evil spell done by Dracula. The other two though I saw them once to learn of a Golem. I think you've already heard about those things, and its master who's a witch that serves Count Dracula, she goes by the name of Actrise." she sees that the other two know about a Golem and then explains all about the witch. "Actrise is a woman whose ambition lies in power and beauty, her own naturally. To fulfill her wishes, Actrise pledged herself to Dracula's service by slaying 100 children, among which was her own daughter. She uses her dark magic to summon crystal shards to impale her opponent. She's not to be mess with."
Sounded serious for Actrise to do that to her own daughter, so mess up! And to the rest of the missing children, that's ten times worse. For Carrie to learn about the first two enemies to also learn more of her other family of the Fernandez 'to be under Dracula's curse like Sonia is a little and mind controlled on Richard Belmont; Ichigo sees that this type of enemy was a monster to not call herself a mother for having her own daughter get sacrifice for Dracula. I know, right? Rukia, Carrie, and the other children see Ichigo make his hand into a fist from the anger he was in.
"Ichigo?"
"Is your partner okay?" Carrie asks Rukia.
Nope, it doesn't look like to be both sad and mad.
"Damn…a witch who kills children for that bastard Dracula…And to her own daughter…?!" he cuts a rock with his shadow-like Zanpakto's powers of a Belmont. "Damn! Having people who serves a monster like him isn't human but the real demons themselves…! How could he do this?! I…I won't allow Dracula to beat us. Not like this!"
Those words touch both Rukia and Carrie's hearts to hear of Ichigo's kindness for the children to be amazed on what they were hearing to have real super heroes to come to their rescues.
"Ichigo… (I know how you feel, believe me.)" she then senses something to alert Ichigo for the danger to be drawing in. "The demons…Ichigo! Brace yourself! They're coming!"
From a strong punch coming in from above done by a Golem for Rukia to use a Kido move to create a shield to save the children in time, Carrie fires another blast attack too on another one to be a crystal form, and Ichigo blocking some type of crystals to cut some down. A close call for the children were scared to see the enemies – Actrise, Golem, and another Fernandez girl 'who's under Dracula's spell to be bitten and cursed to serve him' make their appearances as Carrie tells the children to hide behind them.
"(They're here…) Quickly, children, get behind the bushes and stay put."
They do so right away for Actrise to be giggling to her sick pleasures of carrying out the job for Dracula to capture the children, kill anyone for their blood and souls, and bring Carrie alive as well…Wait, what?! That too?
"Ah, the two Soul Reapers who are the enemies to Lord Dracula. I see you have met with the young Carrie Fernandez and the children. Just what I needed." she said. "I too have another Fernandez on my side, the cousin of yours, my dear."
Oh, no…Shocking to hear Carrie had a cousin, Carrie's Cousin with no name to be a vampire now with dangerous powers. She doesn't speak as much, she has the powers like Carrie to a bit of Actrise, and a vampire to be floating in midair.
"Wait…my cousin…?!" shock Carrie.
"Cousin?" same with Rukia and Ichigo.
Seems like it for Actrise fires another blast from her wand for Carrie to shoot another beam to destroy her crystal attack just in time. For Carrie's Cousin to become Dracula's servant, and it was sad how her life came to a sudden end afterwards, to really be all vampires but Richard, almost, and Sonia trying to fight back.
Tayla: All I know is this about Carrie's Cousin as a Fernandez Warrior - Camilla Fernandez was Carrie's cousin, who was captured during her assault on Dracula's Castle. The evil witch Actrise had her made a vampire and used her as an obstacle to Carrie's quest. Since a cure to her vampirism was not an option, Carrie was left with no alternative but to destroy her turned cousin.
"Is that all you got? You silly girl. She was partners with Richard Belmont a while ago to stop Lord Dracula, but we stopped them both, use their powers, and the rest…brought our lord back to life afterwards to make good use on our enemies. Worked like a charm." explained Actrise. "And what better than to have this young woman to become a beautiful vampire warrior, not a beautiful as I am but close. With your little friends and your powers to gather for Lord Dracula to sacrifice, he'll become a God to this world real soon. With one Fernandez on my side, we just need one more to have for our lord, you'll at least die as a hero." the evil witch laughs.
Carrie was too worried for her cousin to really be under Dracula's spell to reflect other attacks from her to almost hitting the kids. So mess up! Now Ichigo and Rukia step in to defend them all against the three.
"Enough!" Ichigo gets his Zanpakto out. "If you want these kids and Carrie, then you have to get through us first."
"We're here to stop you and Dracula in the name of Sonia Yamamoto Belmont herself!" and Rukia with her weapon out too.
Actrise didn't get scared at all but to laugh for her sick and twisted ways, knowing on how she was going to win to have some backup to carry out the plan. I don't like where this is going at all. Not one bit.
"Don't you two worry, I got other things to do than to play. But Golem would play with you as Cousin here and I will play with the children and Carrie to take with us. We'll be good to them…Oh, Golem, sweetie. Go play with the Soul Reapers! Let us ladies do the rest of work!" she gives the demon a command. "And don't let them get in our way!"
Golem goes hand to hand in battle for Rukia and Ichigo to use their Belmont skills against the giant rock, as it tries to block their path of no getting to the children or to Carrie at all. This one will be hard to crack open. 'And I don't mean that as a joke'. With them fighting and Carrie holding off her cousin to have a blast power type of battle to happen for them two were fast as Carrie fights back for the children.
"Ms. Carrie…?" one child asks her.
"Run, children! Get out of here from the bad guys now! We'll save you all! (And fight back, even if that's my cousin who's now a vampire, I have no choice!)"
And so, they do just that to run as fast as they could without looking back and to be scared to scream for their lives. Those poor innocent children…With Carrie fighting against her long gone Cousin by fighting against her from blast and crystal one attacks, ring hits, lighting bolts and such; allows Actrise to float by to get the children by using her spell to put them all to sleep and then trapping them all within statue-like crystal forms. No! Making Carrie worried to fire a blast at her own cousin to try saving the children in time…This girl was good. For Ichigo to try using his shadow swords to push the Golem down a bit with every hit to keep on standing, and Rukia to avoid the punches to get her rob almost caught to break free; she freezes up the rock-like monster with her ice skating moves to use her attack as well cutting the Golem in two.
"Stand back, Ichigo. I'll handle the rest." she uses her moves. "I hope you in enjoy our little game, but play time's over, rocky. Sugi no mai, Hakuren! (Next Dance, White Ripple!)"
From Golem to be cover up in ice to get cut down to pieces by Rukia's doing, Ichigo destroys its arm to fall apart to stop one demon.
"Nice move, Rukia!" he said. "Come on, I think Carrie needs our-!" Ichigo stops to sense something coming from Golem again. "What?!"
Rukia senses it too for the danger to be coming back up…
"But I destroyed it…! That's impossible!" she said in shock.
Same with Carrie to worry about the children to be seeing one crystal shard put a frog to shatter in two to break and die.
"Ichigo! Rukia! Save the children!" she kept on firing at her cousin. "I can't stop my late cousin for much longer!"
As Carrie's Cousin overpowers Carrie to have something go through her to miss, she trips to get capture by her. As Golem comes back up 'for one arm to be missing' and something to be glowing from the inside of it to also capture both Rukia and Ichigo to both get trapped in a rock cage it made when it punches the ground. With them trap now with no way out for Golem to keep Ichigo and Rukia stuck from its powers to go haywire now to fight with one arm missing; Carrie was trapped for her Cousin to use a crystal powers to seal hers to be absorbed next.
"Crap!" Ichigo tries cutting the rocks but it was too strong. "I can't break free, damn it!"
"Carrie! Get out of there!" Rukia tells her.
But neither of the three couldn't for Carrie was trapped and all of the children to be out of it in a deep sleep spell by Actrise doing…This was bad.
"Rukia! Ichigo!" Carrie had trouble breaking free. "I…can't get out…!" she then sees herself turning invisible for some strange reason. "Huh? Why am I fading in and out a lot lately?"
Good question, what gives? For Actrise was proud of her two other henchmen to tell them to keep an eye on things 'only for Howey to fly back to get some help right away' and fast. Well, Actrise drops a bomb to tell the most shocking truth of Carrie on what her body was fading a lot, Rukia to feel out a ghost, and why other kids had powers to see, hear, and sense spirits like she is.
"Good work, you two. Now Golem, watch over these two and then you can play again. Funny thing about these guys, they can always put themselves back together again when they fall apart." she said. "And for a cousin to take out another one who's nothing more than a ghost with magical powers, and to be wondering around to still be fighting on other things thinking that you're still alive, huh? Your spirit is to offer us some power for Lord Dracula, my dear, but you're long gone in this world to have no more Fernandez left on Earth. One dead and the other one being…the undead all thanks to me."
For Carrie to hear that part to be true as she had trouble remember on how she died, but had a long Soul Chain on her chest with no body. Sad thing when someone dies before they even know of it, it's hard to remember how you died.
"(No…! Impossible!)"
With Carrie feeling upset, Rukia gets it now.
"Wait, that's why you're turning invisible a lot for us to see you still, Carrie. You're a ghost. Dead. For my Soul Pager was going off and the children to like a friendly ghost like you are." she said. "This explains how you're still wondering around to kill Hollows from left and right."
All of it and Carrie still had trouble to remember. Not good for Actrise to step up the spell to kill the children and Carrie to gather the power and souls for Dracula with some blood from Rukia and Ichigo to be next, as she begins making a spell from the ground of a symbol to start things off.
"Now, now, you'll become power for Lord Dracula once we're done with you and your friends, my dear. This spell takes time to step up. A big of Earth's ground, some crystals here and there, some blood of a virgin vampire such as your cousin, a Fernandez powers with the rings, and the charging them up for me to do the rest." she starts things up with her magic. "And you wish to know how you were killed, Carrie? And you didn't notice it either. Well, I would thank my dear old friend Puppet Master when I made him…you were a victim to search for Lord Dracula to have him dead, allowing me to have my monster find, kill, and turn you into a doll…but sadly your soul escaped for Lord Dracula said that he wishes to have you alive to have power the way I did to the other one-hundred children with my daughter a few months back, that's right. And it felt so good. Just finding you while completing with the task wasn't easy, but with some help from your Cousin, it made things worth the fun. And Golem to be my protection. Sadly, the Belmont Village won't allow me to get their kids but for them to come out to you for me to have, and it worked, didn't it? I choose beauty to stay younger forever over my daughter, the other children, and so much to have it all for anyone who stands in the way will die by my hands. Like Puppet Master had his faith to end, I'm glad he killed some of the women, like the bird girl and Sonia will be next. For I'm the prettiest one of all, not them! Or anyone else either."
How sickening is this woman? All of this to keep on doing her job, for Carrie to slowly remembers when Actrise told the story and heard rumors of her cousin's fates. Sad and gross to see, but it did. Now like Actrise once human child was with the other kids, they too will be killed next. For Actrise, she only cares about herself to have power and loves her looks to stay young forever. Upsetting Rukia after hearing the whole thing, Ichigo tries to use all his powers to get out of Golem's trap, and still couldn't. Nor could Rukia either.
"Why…? How could you do that to your own daughter…?!" ask Ichigo to get mad. "Why choose yourself over your own family?"
"Excuse me, young man?" Actrise mocks him. "What was that? I couldn't hear your mumbling over your anger problem. Care to repeat those words to me again…?"
With Actrise banding the rocks by using her wand, Ichigo spits in her face to be disgusted for him to show the bad witch who's boss.
"I said you're not human anymore to sell your soul for Dracula to keep your looks to kill innocent children! And killing Carrie and her cousin…you make sick to my stomach than any Hollow I've ever face!"
Actrise hating being spit on, she gives Golem another order…
"Why you little, brat! Golem, here's another game to play with these two…!" she calms down while talking. "Playdoh. Turn these two into pancakes and gather their blood for me while I begin the magic right away. And you, woman…" she turns to Carrie's Cousin next. "If your cousin tries to escape, hold her down for me thank you."
With Cousin grabbing hold of Carrie by the neck to make sure she's stays put and Golem begins to slowly pushing the rock down on Ichigo and Rukia…for them to be holding on to dear life to keep the rock up…Actrise begins to light things up to have the power she wants from the children and Carrie.
"The children, no!" upset Carrie for she couldn't break free. "Do something, you two!"
Well, they kind of had their hands full right now!
"Ichigo! Keep pushing!" Rukia said.
"I'm…trying to...!" said Ichigo. "Where's some back up when you really need one?!"
For the crystals to kill the children trap in the it to a deep sleep and Carrie to be become the powerful life, how will the three get out of this one…? For something does come down on Carrie's Cousin's face to let Carrie go free to make her fire a blast to stop Actrise to free herself in time which causes the spell to break for the crystal to break free to save the kids; and another crystal to break on Golem to stop, allowing for both Rukia and Ichigo to push the rock back up to get themselves out to the cage in time. For Ichigo fires off a warning shot to stop the three mix in with his Belmont powers.
"Now's our chance!" said Rukia.
"Payback time…Bankai! Tensa Zangetsu!"
Fires a blast to keep Actrise, Carrie's Cousin, and Golem blinded to see anything for a few seconds, allowing Carrie to float and fade away from them in time.
"Thanks for saving me, Ichigo and Rukia. Let's go save the children next."
"I got them." Maria said for her and Howey to appear in time to save all the children for the wolves to defend them right away from the three enemies as a pack by Maria's orders of her spell.
"Maria? Howey?" surprised Ichigo.
Two more heroes have come to the rescue! Yeah!
"Hello, Ichigo. Rukia. I felt a ghost nearby for the children to go missing thanks to Howey and for us to come and help you out. For shame to have a witch to do something like this and to her own daughter, how dare you!"
Howey screeches in anger at the three demons since the planning was destroyed to have the children and Carrie saved to stop them next. For Actrise to be angrier now for her plans to be ruined, to take her anger on the four to complete with the task one way or another.
"Grrr…! That's it! I will get this done by any means! Woman, bring me the girl Carrie back to me…! Golem, go play rough on those two girls! Go!" said the witch to have her eyes set on Ichigo to use her crystal shards at his face. Hitting his hand and getting a cut on his cheek bone was a close call to be a warning shot so far. "Lucky move, boy. Once I'm finished with you, I will get those children back to complete with Lord Dracula's mission. Now shall you dance with me, the most beautiful witch of all?"
Now it was fighting time. As Ichigo shows his Zangetsu at Actrise to tell Maria, Carrie, Howey, and Rukia on what they needed to do.
"You want to play, ugly? Then you got it." he tells the other girls. "Rukia, keep Carrie safe with you to stop her cousin, put her out of her misery to not be controlled by Dracula anymore."
Maria and Howey understood to go charging at Golem to give it everything it has. As Rukia does her part to aid Carrie.
"On it." she says to get Carrie going for her to fight on her side. "Carrie, stay with me. I know losing your cousin is a lost and your death too. But we can't let these slow us down, at least fight for the children and we'll deal with the problem afterwards." Rukia said to her. "Please…trust me…trust us…"
Seems Carrie must now. Clearing her mind to see there were two good lives to have them gone now, and the children to be talking in their sleep - saying they still care for her as their friend. Things to say like: 'Don't give up.', 'Please fight back.', 'You can do it, Ms. Carrie.', and so much more. For Carrie's Cousin to approach to her again, she uses her rings to push her back and then joins with Rukia.
"Then let's fight for the children! (Ichigo, give this Actrise a good beating for me.)"
With two fights to be happening, so did Ichigo against Actrise to hate when he calls her ugly and such.
"Ugly…? Me?! I'll show you ugly once I turn you into a crystal and then…see you shattered! By my own beautiful hands." said Actrise. "You think you know about family to use for power and to have something of beauty to love forever, do you? Then I'll prove you wrong in battle, boy, whenever you're ready."
"Then I won't hold anything back to prove you're…wrong!" he powers up as well.
Once more before the battle could start off 'and since the children were well guarded and still fast asleep', Maria and Howey begin to power up for their Belmont powers too after training together – this should be fun.
"Ready, Howey? Let's do this." she powers up with her friend to begin to battle. "Power of the four sisters of Renards, Maria Renard and her friend Howey the Owl! Powers from within! Activate!"
Having the power of all the animals to turn to and Howey to become a type of white light of a phoenix bird, they were ready to go up against Golem 'and for Rukia and Ichigo to like their powers'.
"Show that rock thing who's boss, you two!" Ichigo cheered them on.
And…here we go! Maria goes into her hawk form to confuse Golem to be throwing his long rock punches to stretch out a lot and pull right back to its body to have one over and over, leaving Howey to cut it down with his becks and claws many times, leaving Maria to become an octopus to trap the Golem to remove the legs next to get destroyed from Howey's light beam blast; leaving its body and one more arm left to keep on punching the ground to trap Maria to go as a rabbit and then a cheetah in time to see a red stone in it to keep on recovering, as Maria goes to a snake to pull that out to trick Golem to try chaining her, but it chains itself up instead, allowing her to go as a elephant next to get crushed. Also for Howey to use his wings to break the stone apart for it to die to be nothing left but ashes now. Good work! Once Maria and Howey had their powers go down 'until next time' for them to be hugging each other.
"We did it, Howey!" she said with joy. "Well, done. Now let's go aid the children while we wait for the others to be done. (I can't wait to show my new powers to Sonia later, and to Richard …when he's saved soon.)"
And he will too, Maria, don't you worry. Now it was time for Rukia and Carrie 'to be able to be herself for now and fought back', to fight against her Cousin for this one can't be saved by the curse, but to be set free in spirit. It's the least she can do to save the children and in her family name.
"Come on! I'm not afraid of you! I'm scared of dying to not save my friends to be out the danger, and I'll accept my fate just to see the enemies to Dracula go down!" said Carrie to firing some blasts first. "Rukia, cover me!"
She understood to see Carrie to be herself right now to not worry about her staying as a ghost, in fact…every lighting blast her Cousin fires at goes through her body gives her an upper hand to fire back, and use her ring weapons to bring in the hurt. Also, to destroy her own crystal-like shields too little at a time. To create a mist type of attack to fire at Carrie to be hard to move away with more lightning bolts moving in fast! So now, Rukia steps in to stop the two attacks as one of her own.
"Bakudo! Number 39, Enkōsen (Circle Lock Fan!)" she gets the mist and lighting blast to use her ice moves to freeze Cousin's arm with the wand to be useless. "Carrie, it's all you now!"
For Cousin to try flying away from Rukia and Carrie to give chase to hit her with more beam blasts repeatedly to weaken her to fall, and then she does it…turning into a ghost again, Carrie reaches her arm out with her rings to stab her own cousin with it, right into her heart! It was the only way to set her free from being a vampire forever for the curse to take in to stop her bad self for good.
"I'm sorry…" Carrie said in sadness.
For her to see her Cousin was saved to change back to then be disappearing too for Rukia to witness the whole thing herself, the Fernandez says these last words before she leaves the World of the Living…
"Thank you, Carrie."
And that was it. A bright shine of light to appear, to slowly fade away after that for Carrie's Cousin was free and her soul to move on at last. As Rukia felt bad for her to try to say something.
"Carrie, are you going to be okay? You've been through a lot today." she asked.
Well, from remembering how Carrie died, to help the children, to be fighting back, wanting Dracula to be defeated, and such to see her cousin die first for her to be wondering soul, she wasn't scared anymore. But instead, Carrie rather happy. To have one thing left in her cousin was a scarf to hold on to and to treasure it forever.
"It's fine…I remember what happened to me, Rukia. I see why Ichigo's mad at that witch, and I wish to aid your friend Sonia in the Soul Society. If I'm dead, I can least say goodbye to my friends to see them safe and sound." said Carrie. "And for my Cousin, she'll live on within me now when I move on. I may have been adopted with a different Mother, but I love her enough to care for anyone in my family the same or different. I wish I could've stopped Dracula with you, but there's no other way around it, huh?"
Rukia checks on Carrie's Soul Chain.
"I'm afraid so. You may have your chain, but your body is now an old doll handmade, you have to move on or the next month, because if you don't...you will become a Hollow."
"I see…" Carrie said. "But I wish to see Actrise defeated first."
She was right, sad way for Carrie's journey to come to an end but it was true…She gets it, only for them, Maria, Howey, and the children to be waking up to see Ichigo and Actrise to fight off at the last two. Using crystals to shield herself, to shoot out more of them to hit Ichigo with to try using his shadow blades to destroy all of them at a time as he was fast; as Ichigo tries to cut the shield down and then at Actrise to get hit to use her other blast attacks to stop him. Almost getting stabbed again to cut the rest of them down and Actrise shield in time before she could hide herself, Ichigo had an idea to run up to her next to strike back.
"Hey, ugly, I meant to do this to your face besides spit on it. Like your crystal, it's very sharp!" Ichigo throws one at Actrise face to get hit in the eye.
In pain, she drops her wand for Ichigo to cut that in two and it's now destroyed and her last shard turns against Actrise to give her deep cuts in seconds all over her body. That had to hurt! Nice one, Ichigo! With her bleeding out, her magic powers were gone, and her wand gave out all the magical powers, she becomes weak to turn ugly from her face and was dying slowly. I guess from having the powers given by Dracula has some down side to it, huh? Well, it did. Serves her right too.
"Ah…No…!" she sees herself in the reflection of her shard of her looking ugly. "No! My face! My beautiful face!" slowly dying to say these last words next of her failure. "It can't be! You've defeated me! You, a boy with Soul Reaper powers! Me! Me! Forgive me, Lord Dracula! I died in an ugly defeat!"
From one flash of light, turns Actrise into a crystal and then, fades away. A nice way of winning for the children to be cheering with joy to dance with Carrie with her as she was very happy too. As Maria, Howey, and Rukia sees how well the battle was to winning it in the end and for Ichigo, it was another victory to slowly stop Dracula next.
"Actrise, you're nothing but a child. And going out in style, looks don't matter to me or should anyone else." he said. "Rest in pieces in hell for all I care." Ichigo waves to Carrie next and the others next. "Carrie, nice job. And Maria, you and Howey have a very cool Belmont powers of your own."
This made them happy and the kids liking Ichigo to go all over him to be acting rough on him a bit too much to still care deep down. Aw, what a caring guy. As Carrie says her goodbyes to be sad of crying, hugging, and saying not to go, Carrie says this to all of them to give them all little rings of her own.
"Listen, my little friends. I know it's sad to see me leave because I'm a ghost type of super hero, but with these rings…it'll protect you to always see me every day. Just dream happy thoughts and to play nice around the village. Alright?" she said. "No more running off. You all have each other to always have fun and there are more super heroes like me to help out. Like Ichigo, Rukia, and Maria. They'll always be there for all of you." Carrie hugs all the kids. "No matter what, I'll be watching everyone in spirit."
For the kids to cry to then get happy to see that they'll always remember Carrie forever to smile to say things like: 'OK!', 'Sure thing.', and 'We'll miss you.'
"Ms. Carrie, we'll be good." said a little boy.
"We promise to rely on your other upper hero friends for now on." and a little girl.
Carrie nodded to Maria and Howey to make sure that the children will be just fine. And for Howey and Maria's other animals' friends will make sure of it.
"Be good in the Soul Society, Carrie. And tell Sonia we said hi when you see her please."
"I will." Carrie said to Maria. "Ichigo. Rukia. Please stop Dracula for me, by any means for me to aid your friend in the other world, do the same in this one. And thank you for showing me I had a good life of living to help the kids out after stopping the other three so far. And with this scarf, I'll have my cousin to remember her by."
"And stop the curse too. We will, we have two friends to save." Rukia said. "Everything's going to be fine, Carrie, good luck to you."
For Carrie to shake hands with Rukia and then Ichigo for him to perform the Konso for her to close her eyes to have her spirit go from the World of the Living and in to the Soul Society. This was it…All the children wave and say goodbye to their friend for her to do the same and was ready to go now.
"See you later, Carrie, you were great today. And we'll be seeing you at the Soul Society real soon to fight with Dracula. Take care."
"I will, Ichigo." she said. "(I'm ready. Let's go, my Cousin.)"
"Now to perform the Konso." Ichigo does it to Carrie in seconds.
And with that, there goes Carrie's spirit to be saved and into the Soul Society of the Rukon District to make herself feel right at home. Meeting with new people there, they help her out by making her feel more at home. Cool. As Maria and Howey get the children back home to each village and well protected for Maria's animal friends to keep them all safe and to still play together from then on out; allowing Ichigo and Rukia to go back to the Belmont Village next to rest, train, and hang out with everyone else to finish the war to soon come against Dracula real soon. For their friendship to fight for family, siblings, and the ones they love – Ichigo with Orihime and Rukia with Renji.
"Talk about a long battle yet again, huh Ichigo?" she said to her partner.
"Yeah, I know." Ichigo answers back. "We got those we're fighting for. Even to the ones we love. Like you and Renji…"
Rukia's face turns red and Ichigo said that to her, for she does have feelings for Renji without admitting it. Oh, boy…
"Hey! Ichigo!"
"What? I'm just telling you the truth." he has done it now.
"Well, I guess I would say the same for you and Orihime too." she said back. "I already know you have feelings for her…"
And the fight happens again…
"Watch it, Rukia!" he was blushing. "That's none of your damn business!"
"Then you should know it's none of yours either!" and so was Rukia. "So keep your feelings to yourself!"
"You do the same if you know what's go for you!"
With Maria and Howey both looked at each other to then go back with the others 'while both Rukia and Ichigo to be glaring at each other over nothing of them liking someone', it soon ends when Orihime calls out for her boyfriend. Hope to soon be one for Ichigo and Orihime are so cute together.
"Ichigo!" she calls him out. "Come on, let's do some more training together!"
Same with Renji who's calling out to Rukia.
"You up for a warm up, Rukia?" he asked. "I want to test out my Belmont powers some more."
And with the two of Rukia and Ichigo's friendship/brother and sister caring for them to have, they still like each other to drop the subject. Seeing Orihime and Renji and their friends, was enough to do what needs to be done by working together 'like they always do' and what they've done today for Carrie.
"Hey, Rukia…"
"Ichigo…"
The two tried to say something, but couldn't…only to laugh and then getting back to everyone else to rest, train, have fun, even with them to the ones they're in love with, and talk about on what they've did today. Those two are good as best friends, aren't they? They sure are…from the very beginning that started it all – to slowly becoming friends to owe each other on things to be the best team ever.
"You know what, Rukia, for some Soul Reaper I first met to be odd sometimes, you're still alright to me." he said.
"Yeah, yeah, same with you too, Ichigo." Rukia said back. "You're very strange for a human with powers, to be use for good."
And more to come next time to get back to Sonia back in the Soul Society next time, Ichigo and the others won't be back for a while. Maybe from time to time, promise…So, yeah! :D
