Hey guys, Flipkicks here and bring you a new chapter for The Reaper of Beacon, thank you guys for checking out the story and sorry for not updating as much but I've been writing chapters for my other stories and for some reason, it was in the back of my mind to update the previous chapter.
I will be explaining Ichigo's background as a Soul Reaper and Quincy later in the later chapters of the story.
I do not own neither of these series mentioned.
The Reaper's Past
Flashback, Unknown
A young teen has been walking for the past couple of hours nonstop. Breathing heavily and panting heavily as well, the young teen finally collapses from pure exhaustion face down on the ground. A few more hours have passed as the field was now completely covered in snow as well covering the young teen in the snow. Once he finally awakens, he asks to himself,
'W-where am I?' A young teen looks at his surroundings and sees a forest behind him, covered in the white clear snow. He looks at his right forearm to see the arm glowing; signaling him that he must have went berserk. 'Not again...'
He begins to stand up slowly and holds onto his right forearm and begins to walk through the snow, where he sees a grave covered in snow. That got the young boys attention as he walks closer to the gravestone and kneels in front of the gravestone with a rose as the main symbol. He begins whipping away the snow as he sees a name written on the bottom.
Here lies Summer Rose. Mother, proud Huntress.
'Summer...Rose?' He heard the name during his years at Signal Academy and knows that she was one of his teacher's 'mistresses' as he calls it. He begins to shiver from the coldness after being out here for so long and tries to warm himself by quickly rubbing his hands on his forearms.
His right forearm begins to glow white for some reason as his instincts were telling him to touch the rose symbol with his hand, to which he obeys and touches the rose symbol with his right hand. He then sees memories of Summer Rose; from becoming a Huntress with her friends, to the birth of her daughter and seeing the birth of her step-daughter. His hand begins to shake, probably from the cold but instead of feeling the sheer coldness, he feels the warmest of being with a mother for some reason, like a mother holding onto her baby or so.
"So...you must be Glynda Goodwitch's godson?" The young teen looks around to hear where the voice came from.
"Who's there?" He shouted out to the voice.
"I'm in your head silly..." The voice in his head chuckles. "My name is Summer Rose. It is nice to meet you Ichigo Kurosaki."
'Wait how do you know my name?' The boy known as Ichigo Kurosaki asks the voice known as Summer Rose.
"When you touched my gravestone; my mind instantly came to be when you're right hand touched the rose symbol. I got to see who you are through your memories just like you got a look into mine." Summer replies to young Ichigo, who is still beyond confused with the way his right forearm is.
'This damn thing drives me crazy though.' Ichigo said to Summer, who chuckles from the young teen's annoyance of his arm.
"You only awaken part of your Semblance Ichigo. Your right arm has taken other properties based on your heritage of being a Soul Reaper."
'I take it that you had seen my parents from my birth huh?' She of course nods her head inside his mind, 'Guess that you are fully now a part of me now huh?'
"That I am. I'll be one of your 'teachers' in a sense. I'll be letting you gain access to my fighting style but in return you'll have to come up with a fighting style that fits you and your heritage."
'I hope you know what you are doing Miss Rose...'
"I raised 2 daughters Ichigo. I think I know how to raise a child and how to teach a student of my significant other." Summer replies with a smile on her face as Ichigo can feel her hand touch his hair. "I know your path ahead is going to be a dangerous one as I can feel something dangerous in your heart that might want to take over your mind. I'll do whatever it takes to make sure that your mind, body and soul are ready for whatever it takes to make sure that nothing happens to you.'
'Why a sudden interest in making me prepared for what it seems to be inevitable?' He questions the woman in his mind.
"Because I know that you want to see Glynda again and you want to know more of your heritage Ichigo. It's called Mother's Intuition." Ichigo only chuckles a bit from her comment.
'If you say so, Miss Rose.'
Few Months Later
After a few months of training under Summer Rose, Ichigo has been living up to her expectations and surprising with her as well. While he may not be able to manifest the sword that his father or anyone related to his bloodline but he was able to 'hear' the voice of his Zanpakuto but he cannot hear the name.
During his training with Summer, Ichigo has learned how to hunt in the wild and live off the land itself from the fruits and berries and some of the wild animals that were in the land. She was amazed to see the skills he learn from her significant other and she would of course learn more about Ichigo and his past from their interactions and sees the reasons as to why he went missing for the past several years; he has been searching about anything related to his bloodline of the Soul Reapers and Quincy's.
She grew fond of the young orange haired pre-teen and felt that he was a son to her from her interactions and her motherly instincts and Ichigo actually missed his time with his godmother Glynda but there was something clouding into his mind and something dark is growing in him and Summer senses that.
Right now, Ichigo is currently asleep but there was something in his mind that has been talking to him in his sleep.
"Ichigo..." She tries to call out to him but couldn't due to Ichigo hearing another voice,
"You don't need Summer Rose, Ichigo Kurosaki..."
'You're wrong...I...' Ichigo said in his head, somewhat doubtful in his tone.
'You don't need her Ichigo. All she is doing is making you weak and with becoming weak you will never be able to strive in becoming powerful. But I can make you powerful, I can make you strong, I can give you that power but you have to do something in return.'
'….'
"In order to gain this power I need be in control of this body. I can give anything that your heart desires if you just….LET! ME! IN!"
For the past 5 minutes, Summer Rose has been trying to contact Ichigo with no such luck. She has been increasingly getting worried that this dark presence that somehow keeps her away from connecting to Ichigo spiritually. Lately this dark presence has been getting stronger and it seems to be trying to consume Ichigo and seems to be succeeding as more and more darkness surrounds him. At this point she is getting desperate to the point that may have to sacrifice her soul in order to purify whatever this taint is but will cost her soul to forcibly move on to the next life leaving Ichigo all alone.
'That will be quite enough out of you wretched beast. BEGONE!'
It seems that fate was once again interfered and another presence stronger then the dark presence manages to remove it from existence. The dark being tried to keep itself rooted to the boy but all effort seem for naught so in one desperate move it left a small fragment of itself to latch onto the boy before it was full expelled.
This other presence knew of the fragment that the dark being left behind but instead of destroying it he decided to contain it and hopefully that when the boy gets stronger he will be able to harness the power of the dark being. He knew it will get stronger as well but he will be there to stop it again and this destroy it completely next time around.
He turns around to see that Ichigo is currently unconscienced. Knowing that the boy is safe he focus his attention out in the opening.
'You can come out now Summer Rose; I have no intentions in harming you or the boy.'
Not even a second later Summer Rose appears and rushes towards Ichigo to check his condition. After a few minutes of evaluating seeing that Ichigo will be fine she lets out a sign of relief before turning her attention to the other being that saved Ichigo from possibly being controlled.
'Whoever you are I thank you for saving Ichigo. If you did not show up just now I would have been forced to sacrifice the remaining time I have in this plain of existence to purify whatever that thing was and be put to rest leaving Ichigo behind all alone. I know I don't have much time left but I want to cherish as much I can with Ichigo and hopefully train him more so he can be ready for whatever he faces to come.'
'Don't presume that what I did was for you. I only did this is because I only want to protect to boy and only him. Everything else has no concern for to me what so ever.'
Despite the harshness of the beings words were, Summer rose could not help but smile knowing that is someone else here to be able to keep Ichigo when she passes on.
'Even still I thank you for your help. If you don't mind, can I least know you get your name?'
The being just stared at Summer and Summer stared back. Neither one said anything to each other and what seems too been hours that passed by but actuality just mere minutes that has passed that being finally spoke.
'I don't have a name. No that is completely inaccurate since I do have a name. If you want to know you address me as (BLANK) for now. Only the boy may know of my true name for he is the only one that is allowed when the time comes.'
'I understand (BLANK). For now, I want you to advise me for his bloodline that of a Soul Reaper and the Quincy. I know he can't hear you just yet but I want to help him out just like how you want to help him out in the near future.'
The other being nods his head and vanishes from thin air, leaving the former Huntress with her 'son'. She smiles down at her 'son' and touches his hair with her ghostly left hand.
'You'll have obstacles in your journey; facing the Grimm, evil forces and battling the darkness inside your heart but I know that you'll need help conquering those demons on this journey of yours.' She said to herself a bit sadly, 'Maybe on this journey of yours; you'll encounter my daughters and perhaps they can shed some light in you.'
And that ends the chapter guys, sorry for the long awaited chapter 3. Once again, I've been facing a writers block on this story. I have to thank Animecollecter for helping me out on this chapter.
Since I've been on the writers block, I thought of having Summer Rose be a part in this story as Ichigo's teacher and a second mother figure for him as well. She will only appear as a ghost in Ichigo's mind.
I hope you guys like this chapter, please let me know on what you thought of the chapter and as always, I'll talk to you all later.