Chapter 8 – Rise and shine your light, HIDORAGON

Usaitar jumped back just in time before the black box formed.

'Such high spiritual pressure, who is it?' he said looking behind him. Haruka was calmly advancing towards him.

'Leave my friends alone.' she shouted. She moved her right hand and pointed two fingers at Usaitar, 'Hado number 89, Burning Darkness' a circle of black flames appeared around Usaitar and closed in around him. Usaitar just barely managed to get away, even still, a bit of the flames did catch him and burnt his right leg a bit. Haruka instantly flash stepped next to the three bodies on the ground.

'Dammit, I didn't make it back in time.' She looked rather angry with herself, 'Don't worry guys, I'll get you back to safety. I promise.' She straightened up and looked at Usaitar. 'Well, it's been a while since I had to use my powers. Consider yourself lucky to be able to witness them.' She charged with incredible speed and shot at Usaitar with the speed of a jet, and hit Usaitar, who blocked, with the force of a cannon. Even if it was fist against sword, Usaitar was still easily knocked back a few tens of meters.

'Such power, from a mere unranked soul reaper? This is impossible,' said Usaitar looking rather shocked.

'I chose to be unranked so no one finds out my strength. I've always been a modest girl. I've never liked being above everyone else, it's lonely at the top. Only these three didn't care about my power. The only reason I'll use my strength is for my friends. Now that you've hurt them, I cannot forgive you. You will perish.' When she was saying that a golden mass of spiritual pressure was building up around her and it's strength kept going up.

'This is insane, how can you, a little girl have so much power,' asked Usaitar sill looking shocked.

'Hmph, people will always judge on size and appearances, don't they. Don't underestimate anyone, because that will be your downfall.' She moved so fast again that Usaitar didn't see it coming and was kicked up into the air. Haruka followed the attack and jumped up into the air as well and kicked Usaitar straight back down. He smashed into the ground with a big crash

'Looks like I won't even need my sword,' said Haruka, 'let's finish this off quickly, I have friends who need me.' She shot down at Usaitar with a punch at high speed. Usaitar just dodged by an inch. The ground shook violently because of the velocity and power of the punch causing an earthquake.

'Grrrr…' Usaitar stood up and looked angry, 'Obliterate. DESTRUCTION OF PARADISE,' the huge wave of spiritual energy erupted once again. Haruka smiled at the incoming mass of spiritual pressure, it went past her and didn't bother her in the slightest.

'Ah, now that's a lovely breeze,' said Haruka calmly letting the spiritual pressure blow her hair behind her. She then moved to him with extreme speed and punched him right in the stomach. There was a sickening sound and Usaitar was blasted back into the trees he flew straight into a tree and went through it. The tree collapsed and Usaitar looked unconscious.

'It's time to finish this, Hado number 85, Black Shot of Heaven.' She pointed one finger at Usaitar and a black round globe shaped object shot out of her finger. It hit Usaitar and blew up in a massive explosion. Then out of nowhere, Usaitar appeared from behind Haruka.

'Ha, don't let your guard down,' he whispered and stabbed with his sword.

'I don't,' she said immediately drawing her sword and blocking the attack. 'How typical, looks like I'll have to use my sword then.' She slashed. Usaitar blocked but was thrown back due to the sheer force of the attack.

'Grrrr… I never wanted to do this, but you gave me no choice, AARRGGHHH,' he screamed out releasing all of his spiritual power. A few seconds or so after many shockwaves he stopped, having reached his maximum power. 'Now I am ten times more powerful and faster. Try and dodge this,' he instantly vanished and slashed at Haruka. She quickly blocked but she was thrown back this time. She was about to hit a tree but she held out her hand and stopped just before hitting the tree. Usaitar took this chance to launch another attack. Haruka instantaneous flash stepped away to some distance.

'I never thought I'd have to do this. However, I must save my friends.' She held out her sword in front of her. 'Brighten the Darkness.' A gigantic amount of spiritual pressure exploded from her creating a huge tornado and she's in the middle of it. 'Hidoragon.' The spiritual pressure blasted out and uprooted a few trees, forcing Usaitar to kneel down in defence of the pressure. The guard changed to a dragon's head, the blade and the handle grew five centimetres longer, and everything turned red.

She grabbed the sword with two hands, 'You're done.' She pointed her sword at Usaitar, 'shiraenkouya.' You could see massive amounts of spirit particles all gathering into the guard of her blade. A second later a white arrow shaped object shot from the guard of the blade and aimed straight for Usaitar.

'NOOOOOOOOOOOO,' he screamed before 'BOOM' the arrow hit with such velocity that all trees next to him were instantly disintegrated.

'That's that,' she said her sword returned to normal. The dust cleared to reveal a massive crater at where the attack hit, Usaitar was in the middle drenched in blood lying on his back panting heavily, but still alive. 'So I see, using your own spiritual pressure you shielded yourself from most of the damage. How clever I must say.' She walked towards him looking to do the finishing blow.

But then, 'is it over?' a voice asked behind her appearing out of no where

She instantly turned round holding her sword up in defence but when she saw it was Ratiasu she lowered it. 'How? What? You? How are you standing up?' She rubbed her eyes and looked again, 'Weren't you unconscious a second ago? And now you're just walking around like nothing's happened. What happened to your injuries?' she asked looking bewildered but happy.

'Well I never did get around telling everyone about my bankai's third ability did I? To put is simply, after I am defeated and my bankai reverts back to my normal sword it'll heal me slowly. After ten minutes, I should be fully healed like nothing's happened. And your battle sure looked like it lasted longer than ten minutes.'

'How's the other two then?' asked Haruka looking relieved.

'Don't worry, they'll be just fine, I've already closed up their wounds they just need some rest now.'

'That's good to hear.'

Ratiasu walked over to the massive crater and looked at Usaitar with disgust.

'You, I know I've met you somewhere before, what is your real name?' asked Usaitar still in bad shape.

'My name is Ratiasu, but what's it to you?' she said in a fierce tone.

'You are Ratiasu? I've searched all this time and it was you?' he said after that he went out into a fit of laughter. 'I guess I should've asked for your name first before fighting.' He laughed again.

'What's so funny?' she asked looking a little confused.

'You were the only one who stood between me and my ultimate power? And you were standing right before my eyes. How could I have not noticed?' said Usaitar laughing once more.

'What are you talking about?' asked Ratiasu.

'Guess you weren't there at that meeting then. To put it plainly, I'm your twin brother.'

'You what? That's not true. I don't have siblings'

'Oh you do. And I can prove it as well, try spelling your name backwards.' He said with a smirk on his face.

'Usaitar,' Ratiasu whispered looking more shocked than ever, with her eyes widened

'That's right, Ratiasu to Usaitar, you don't forget these things you see. It's the sign that we are siblings.'

'No, this can't be true, I'm not a brother of a villain,' cried Ratiasu in complete denial.

'Hey back off,' shouted Haruka standing between Ratiasu and Usaitar.

'You. You have power, what have you been known by? I have a feeling that our paths have crossed before.' asked Usaitar to Haruka, looking intrigued.

'Known by? That does ring a bell. Once, years ago someone used to call me 'The White Dragon Princess' but I had no idea what that was about so I tried to forget but I couldn't.'

'Ha, so you are the princess? I had two of them in front of me and I didn't even notice, guess I really am foolish.'

'You're not foolish, you're useless,' said a voice from behind the trees.

'Hisaigo? You were watching this?' said Usaitar.

'Of course, I needed their souls after all and I was going to collect them as well if you didn't mess things up,' said Hisaigo coolly walking towards them. He looked straight at Ratiasu, 'I'm sorry to break this to you, but you really are his twin sister, the one who had the incredible speed. The queen if you will. But looks like Usaitar here won't be getting that last sword piece he wants so much.'

'Wait, what are you saying?' asked Usaitar looking terrified still lying on the ground.

'I'm saying, I have no further use for you, so you are not needed,' he vanished appearing next to Usaitar stabbing him straight through where his heart is.

There was a high-pitched scream and Usaitar slowly disappeared, 'I'll be back to get what's mine, you just wait, sister.' And he evaporated into dust.

'Wait didn't you disappear?' asked Haruka staying calm, staring at Hisaigo

'I did, only to prepare for this, you see what I desire is to rule over soul society, and to do that I need to kill the king. But to get to him, I need either the key, or the fourth release of a sword.'

'A fourth release?' Haruka sounded unsurprised however.

'Yes there's an even more powerful release then bankai. But the only way to obtain that is to absorb everyone's soul who's a soul reaper. You four and some others are the only ones remaining. Although there is a simpler way, which is to find the three dragons, The Master, Queen and Princess. But I don't know who they are yet so, I'm going with my way first.' He paused. 'Here's a little something you should know. My sword has a second ability. Whoever I cut with it will be under my complete control. And now currently everyone is under my control, I won't absorb their souls just yet, I need a full set. So give me your souls peacefully and I'll promise you a quick and painless death.'

'You don't scare me,' shouted Haruka.

'Then I will make you learn to fear me.' He quickly raise his hand and a ball of fire shot towards Haruka.

'Hado number ninety, black coffin,' shouted Haruka who just made it on time and was able to contain the fire attack.

'Not good enough,' said Hisaigo. He clicked his finger and the black box burst open, the impact blew both Haruka and Ratiasu off their feet.

'Grr… such power,' thought Haruka. She expertly landed next Hikari. 'Grab Ket and leave, I'll be right behind you, don't go to the underground base, it has already been taken over by him. I will be right behind you to give directions.'

'Big words.' said Hisaigo smiling.

'Run Terri,' screamed Haruka. Ratiasu had a moment's hesitation which was just enough for Hisaigo to flash step in front of her.

'MOVE,' screamed Haruka.

'Looks like you're first,' said Hisaigo raising his hand once more.

But before he was able to do anything a voice behind him screamed, 'next dance, white ripple.' A massive wave of ice came flying in and froze Hisaigo solid.

'Let's move it, he's too strong. We need to hide and regroup,' shouted Rukia jumping in from the skies. Haruka grabbed Hikari and flash stepped away followed closely behind by Ratiasu carrying Ketu and lastly came Rukia.

'Where are we going?' asked Ratiasu.

'To our new base, we will launch a counter-attack against Hisaigo when we are ready. But first we need to regroup and see how many people escaped after Hisaigo attacked.' said Haruka. She carried on moving, out of seireitei, into the hills and further away.

The ice cracked and burst open. Hisaigo stood there looking annoyed and wiping himself of ice. 'Well that was troublesome. I will have you though. I will rule over soul society. And not even the Dragons will be able to stop me,' he stood there and laughed, like a maniac.

End of part 1

Starting part 2 now, should be up next week Wednesday or Thursday, hope that isn't too long for everyone to wait.