A weekly update? dear me what have i become?
Anyway everything'll be explained this chapter regarding the last chapter
Again I don't own bleach but i do own Rosie's character. Nor do I own the head captains.
"Head captain of squad 3. Jack the ripper." The now named figure spoke, teeth in a feral, predatory grin.
The mans aura reaking of darkness and would have struck fear into less weak will and determination
"Hang on a minute, you're dead and only recently so in comparison to how long ago all these events happened, you can't have been a head captain they were many years before you're time." Yoruichi questioned, her years in the human world had educated her on prominent figures of the past and as the former head of punishment and the tracking of criminals, Ripper in his time was the most notorious serial killer of his age made even more famous for the fact that he was never captured and only his nickname was known.
"Oh but he is, as are we all" a new voice spoke from behind the head captain.
Out stepped a man of average height and of what appeared to be chinese descent, he had black hair cut cut short and a yellow and black jumpsuit with a zanpakuto strapped to his waist. topped off again by the purple and white haori.
"Bruce lee. head captain of squad 2, pleasure to meet you all I must say." the man spoke, bowing to the group as they in turn bowed back.
"But you're both dead...how?" Tatsuki spoke, confusion obvious in her voice. Tatsuki being a martial artist knew Lee much in the same way Yoruichi knew of Jack the ripper, he was a legend of martial arts and being able to play table tennis with a set of nunchucks all ways being ahead of his opponents be it in the game he played as a novelty or as his true profession martial arts.
"I shall leave the explanation to the head captain of squad 1 young ones." the head captain of the second stepped forward, towards the group before turning to his fellow captain.
"send them to Shakespeare first?"
"W-W-William Shakespeare is here?" he questioned, it must be a joke there's no way his hero was here.
"Who else bright spark?" Jack shot back at the carrot top, grin ever-present on his face.
The news sent Ichigo into a bit of a sleep for a while (read as he's fainted) prompting tatsuki to facepalm at her brothers stupidity. "You certain we're related Yoruichi?" she asked the fountain of all withheld knowledge.
"I mean i was there for the birth so-"
"Okay I get the picture stop!" Tatsuki interrupted before she had to hear anymore prompting a snicker out of the purple haired heiress.
Back with the two captains who were still confused at the sight before them of Ichigo just fainting on them.
"hey why's he fainted Lee, you knock him out or something?" the ripper questioned his ally having no idea what had happened to make the boy faint
"I believe he may have been a fan of the bards work whilst he had his stay in the human world old friend" Lee responded turning to glance at Tatsuki's blush and Yoruichi's snicker whilst Rosie still looked scared that her superiors would punish her for allowing the group inside the castle.
"eurgh he's one of those kind of people. Well lets get him to the main chamber's, I'm certain the group will want to see him after all the trouble he's caused, come on Bruce grab his legs and throw him over my back."
This little episode gave yoruichi a chance to take in where they actually were, it appeared to be in the centre of los Nochas in Aizen's main hall, she had seen it when looking for potential surviving arancar but had had no such luck in finding any, the throne itself had been completely destroyed at some stage and the table that the espada had been seated at had been broken in two.
With absolutely no effort, the head captain of the second division flung the downed Substitute over his allies shoulder and walked towards the three girls.
"We're now going to head captains meeting, you are more than welcome to join otherwise i will have Rosie-chan take you to you're rooms" he spoke a small grin forming on his face as the three girls just about clocked that-
"you knew we were coming?" All three spoke at once although the two seemingly older girls was said as more of a question and the youngest's was more a fact.
"Why of course." he spoke still smiling "How else would we have known to be waiting here for you?"
"But then why did I end up letting us out off the portal in the oubliet Lee-sama?" Rosie asked her top-hat taken off Her head and instead pushed against her chest letting her brown her fall down in curls.
"Oh there has been security issue's around all of the realms recently youngling as you must be aware with the Quincies threatening to attack so anyone who tried to open a portal in or near the palace was placed in one of the traps around the whole complex."
The three girls followed the head captain's and eventually found themselves at a door, the strange thing about that though was the fact that the door was to the outside, there was a window right next to it and there was only the sunlight of Los Nochas, that is until they opened it.
Inside the door was a beautiful grand stair case, draped in read carpet whilst the bannisters either side were made from bright marble. hanging down from the rooftops were banners in red and gold with a logo of a lighting bolt in red and blue. the roof itself was adorned in brilliantly dazzling patterns and colours beyond your wildest imaginations, and atop the staircase were a set of black doors. Gold painted on top of it, but even the purest of colours couldn't hide the darkness that door was radiating, as the two head captains walked towards it, tatsuki's nervous side got the better of her.
"Rosie what's behind that door?" she asked the young girl.
The young assistant looked up to the older girl and spoke calmly "Don't worry it's just the meeting hall." her smile present on her face.
As they walked through the door, the whole room looked completely contrasting to the extravagence of the entrence hall, yet all the bit as stunning, the room was adorned in bookshelves and in the centre stood a table covered in maps and empty glass goblets. the ceiling had a chandelier hanging from it and on the otherside of the room there was a window looking out over the sands of hueco mundo. The room was absolutely staggering and gave a warm cosy feel.
"The captains'll be here soon." Jack spoke before setting Ichigo down on the floor. and taking his place next to Bruce around the table.
"-I'm sorry Logan but that's the best that i can do" new voices spoke ass they approached the door
"oh come on goosie you know your herbal stuff is great and it helps keep me and jack calm." the doors opened to reveal two new captains haori present as always but one was significantly shorter than the other, glasses on his brown face, no hair and wearing nothing but a robe under his haori and some sandles. The other wore a vest under his haori, cigare in his mouth with 5 O'clock shadow and a killer black haircut.
"So you three are why we're here? great, heya short stuff." the cigare smoking man spoke, the last comment directed at Rosie.
"im not short tell him Ghandi" Rosie whinned to the other head captain.
"well the wolverine is right you are a bit on the short side young Rosie, but one day you'll grow as tall as miss Marilyn herself" the spectacled man comforted the younger girl.
"Speak of the devil and she shall appear" Wolverine spoke up as the aforementioned Marilyn appeared followed by all the other captains. The two conscious arrivals were stunned at who they were seeing, eventually 12 of the captains had appeared and they were waiting on the last one.
"Right you lot I know it's short notice but we need to be aware of the current situation in soul society a voice spoke up as he appeared from one of the book cases seemingly out of nowhere. Yoruichi and tastuki had dragged ichigo behind Bruce and Jack waiting for him to awaken.
"wake up strawberry!" tatsuki yelled before slapping her brother, sending him jolting up into the air with a yell.
"what the hell guys why!" ichigo bellowed back before realising where he was.
"come forward Kurosaki" the new captain spoke.
Ichigo did as he was told not daring to get on the bad side of these head captains.
"for the benefit of our guests, captains please give your name and squad" the authoritive captain spoke once more.
"Bruce Lee squad 2" the man from before spoke stepping forward before taking his spot once again.
"Jack the Ripper, squad 3" The hat adorned man from earlier did the same.
"Florence Nightingale, squad 4." a woman dressed in black, plus the haori, waved her hand getting the attention of the three, looking aged and weathered before again taking her place back in the circle of captains.
"Marilyn Monroe, Squad 5" a woman in a flowing white dress with no haori stepped forward with beautiful blond hair and red lips, whilst blowing a kiss at ichigo causing the young soul reaper to let his face turn bright red, ensighting a few chuckles from those present.
"Isaac Newton, squad 6" a man with long curly hair in typical Stuart aristocratic clothing stepped forward, purple Haori present.
"Logan, squad 7" the cigarre smoking an from earlier stepped forward before putting out the object on the table, earning some annoyed looks from the apparent elder captains.
"Hannibal Lector, squad 8" a man who looked very reminiscent of Anthony Hopkins stepped forward with his haori on, looking like old man yamamoto without a beard.
"William Shakespeare, squad 9" the bard stepped forward moustache adorning his face and haori draped over his Elizabethan atire. At him speaking up Ichigo looked in awe his hero was there in the flesh right in front of him, 'This better not be some fucked up dream' he thought to himself
"Freddie Mercury, squad 10" a man in a yellow jacket stepped forward with large, prominent teeth, and an enormous moustache, especially when compared to Shakespeare, he held his zanpakuto in his hand as opposed to having it at his waste.
"Leonidas, Squad 11" a man with a glorious beard moved passed the squad 10 head captain, barely dressed, in nothing but some leather underpants and his haori. A zanpakuto hung on his back looking more intimidating then even the captain of the third.
"Dr Frankenstein, 12th division" an man in a lab coat responded choosing not to move towards the boy and instead nodded.
"Mahatma Ghandi, squad 13 head captain young one." the old, spectacled man from earlier greeted the young boy, with ichigo waving back in response.
Finally the man at the head of the table stepped forward out of the dark, the light touching his stubble and long hair. "Aragorn, head captain of squad 1, chief adviser to the soul king."
With the way things were going Ichigo had expected him to have been the strongest, the loyalty the other captains looked at I'm with made him seem like he had been the one they rallied around to flee here.
Suddenly at the wave of said captains hand a series of chairs emerged from nothing, one for everyone in the room, the captains all took their seats in a circle around the table with four seats for the only ones who weren't head captains to sit opposite Aragorn, and in between Newton and Logan.
An eerie silence had draped the room as if someone was waiting for a signal to go.
"Lord Aragorn" Lee spoke up breaking the deafening silence in the room.
"Yes Lee?" the man spoke turning his head to the taicho to his left his beard catching the light of the pipe in his hand that the group had yet to notice.
"well I told these that when they got here they would be given a history lesson on a certain event that soul society had 'failed to inform them of'" He asked the most authoritive taicho
Aragorn nodded signaling with his hand for lee to instruct them of the past.
"Well I guess by now you are aware that we are all former head captains of the thirteen court guard squads and that we fled here after a certain event happened." lee started.
The floor was his and the three guests were hanging on his every word.
"When we fled here we got bored and placed ourselves into the living world through different forms, unfortunatly we didn't realise that we would either have to die in the real world to get back here or if we placed ourselves in to fiction, be recognised by millions."
"Wait a minute, so your telling me that all 13 of you are known from the living world?" Ichigo queried the head captain's
"Yes young one, we needed to occupy our time somehow and so we decided to help the human world in our different ways. By now i assume the soul society told you what they believe happened?" Nightingale asked from her seat, looking like an older version of the current captain of the fourth with her smile.
Ichigo and tatsuki shook there heads in the negative causing yoruichi to groan and turn to the other two.
"The official reports state that these thirteen murdered the soul king and fled to the living world to escape punishment." she spoke eyes closed as if disgusted by their very presence in this room, the people meant to be his friends and allies and instead they killed him.
"well 14 technically but that's not the point the question we would like answered is why we should take you to the rest of us?" Jack spoke up asking his fellow captains, clearly irate at the fact that these children had still not grasped the concept.
"Because if you don't soul society will be raised to the ground by the Quincies, we're here searching for your help please the safety of all three world's is at stake here." Ichigo pleaded with the Captains.
"You will speak when you are told to do so insolent worm!" Leonidas roared at the boy, you've barely earned the right to sit at the table and yet you squander it by speaking out of turn.
"Easy leonidas, jack didn't exactly show that he was asking the rest of us that question, i assume that young Kurosaki-kun was in fact under the assumption that the question was for him ne?" Freddie intervened allowing for ichigo to save his neck from the rage of a head captain of the eleventh. If kenpachi was bad this guy was going to be the epitome of a devil.
"Yeah of course Mercury-san" Ichigo spoke fear creeping into his voice but levelling out towards the end. "My apologies Leonidas-Taicho" he nodded towards the captain achieving only a grunt of acknowledgement from the captain, much better than his head being mounted on his wall.
Suddenly a woman in white casual dress with long black hair burst into the meeting room startling all present and made the previously nearly closed eyes of Aragorn burst open.
"Queen Sarah what is it?" The leader of the group asked panic in her voice.
To say that those who weren't in the know were confused would be an understatement, they were baffled, a Queen?
"She must have been the fourteenth member that Jack was on about" Ichigo whispered to the two girls either side of him. eEticing nods from the pair but a chuckle from the girl that overheard them.
"Silly's Sarah isn't the one who helped kill the soul king." Rosie giggled to herself, "Sarah came with them because she couldn't be seen after what they did."
"He's died aragorn he's finally died." Sarah spoke tears streaming down her face.
In a burst of intense shunpo the captain of the tenth had placed his arms on the queen's shoulders "Are you sure Sarah?" Freddie asked hope in his eyes.
"Yes Freddie he's back." she spoke throwing herself into his chest. the whole table looked toward their leader for guidance.
"Everyone to the royal chambers immediately" The head-captain of the first ordered in a clear instructive voice. "You three as well, you are of interest to me and therefore will need to see this." he instructed the guests. they only nodded and got up like the other taicho's and started to leave the room.
Rosie also motioned to leave with the group, before a thin pale hand grabbed her collar, not too tight but enough to stop her running away.
"Now my assistant where did you get to?" the Head captain of the ninth division queried.
"i saw them through one of your book on the future and waited for them...are you proud of me sir?" she asked her master with hopeful yet scared eyes.
Shakespeare only smiled at this and ruffled the girls hair "of course young one, I'm never not, but you need to go back to the library, wait for me there and don't get into anymore trouble with Jack and Bruce okay?"
"Yes daddy" she jumped up and gave him a kiss before dissappearing from sight.
"Daddy?" Tatsuki quizzed the captain.
"Adopted but i love her like my own flesh and blood" the captain spoke, pride in his voice at having someone to call his family in this accursed afterlife.
*line break*
As everyone began to arrive at the door to the chambers, tatsuki in ichigo's arms still, this however drew a question from Tatsuki.
"Ichigo?"
"Yeah Tats? what do you need ?" he responded not knowing what she would ask next anymore.
"If you were so powerful you couldn't go back to the human world then how on earth am i not disintegrating in your arms or something?" she pondered confussed as to that Kyoraku guys words.
" I believe i can answer that." the Dr piped up from the door "This Haori is made of a similar substance to our own haori's, it allows for your riryoku to become harmless to people around you, otherwise she would not have been able to be in our presence either, nor would your friend even if she is powerful, she too would have been torn apart by yours and our riryoku."
This new piece of info shocked the trio, that these peoples spirit energy would not only have killed tatsuki but yoruichi as well. Just how powerful were they, or more importantly to the others how powerful was ichigo?
"You may enter" the queen spoke breaking the groups train of thought.
Single file, and in captain order they entered the room, with Yoruichi, Tatsuki and Ichigo entering last.
(Play Lazarus by David Bowie)
The sight before the trio amazed them. the room was enormous, yet it seemed the right size. it was beautifully adorned in the style of a Russian palace, with golden guilded everything, the whole room looked like a large blue and gold Fabergé egg with the styling of a palace, yet it didn't seem too much, it looked like it was again just right, almost magical.
It was then that they noticed the bed. the bed in comparison was simple it was a double sized one with a pink spread over the top of it with a figure lying in the middle, with bandages over his eyes with little buttons sown on. He had grey hair in the style of a long mohawk, and slowly rose to a sitting position.
He slowly removed the bandages and let his off coloured eyes shine to the group. Shocking those present who weren't head captains.
"Look up here, Im in heaven"