Ichigo lay on the ground in a pool of his own blood watching Rukia and her brother step through the doors to the Soul Society.

'No. I'm dying. Chad. Ishida. Rukia.' he thought as his vision started to go black. The last thing he heard before he passed into unconsciousness was a bestial roar.

Chad was slowly starting to stand holding the cut on his side where the the Shinigami lieutenant had cut him. He checked to make sure the Quincy wasn't dying. Relieved that Ishida wasn't in any danger Chad looked over to his best friend. His orange hair was stained with blood and the amount on the ground was most certainly mortal. He started to walk over when a pulse made him stumble back to his knees. Light and wind disoriented the young spanish man. When he regained his senses he looked over to see Ichigo on his hands and knees with a white mask on his face, his clothes were shredded from the waist up. He jerked forwards as horns shot out of his forehead. Chad could only stare in curiosity and fear as Ichigo stood, hunched over and shaking. He jerked back arching his back out as his hair quickly grew down to his waist. Then it roared. The roar shook the earth and the dust in the air was visible as the power Ichigo released stopped everything.

Chad stood and walked over to the now still orange haired man. He reached his hand out to touch Ichigo's shoulder but a hand shot up and grabbed his wrist, breaking it. Ichigo's other hand shot out and grabbed Chad by the head. The pressure left Chad's wrist as Ichigo let go but he soon found himself being picked up by his head. Ichigo roared and started charging a ball of energy between his horns. Suddenly Ichigo's eyes flashed. The energy died down and Chad found himself on his feet once again. Ichigo took a few steps away and grabbed the air with both hands. He pulled his arms apart and the air ripped open leaving a black tear. Ichigo simply walked into the tear and disappeared.

Chad ran towards the hole in the air and grabbed its edge just as it closed. He tried to pull it apart but the hole kept closing.

'I can't lose him. I can't leave Ichigo. He needs me. He needs someone.'

The hole suddenly stopped closing. It was about the size of a basket ball. Suddenly Chad's shoulder started leaking a white goo. It ran down his arm and started to congeal. It slowly hardened and formed an armored bone like cover over his arm. He started pushing as hard as he could against the walls of the hole until it was about as big as a windshield. He was about to pull it open and step through when he suddenly felt very tired. The hole stopped opening. Then it closed about two inches. Chad looked on surprised by the sudden reversal. Then it started to close rapidly. Chad stopped it after about another 6 inches but when he did a piece of the armor on his arm chipped off. He held the hole stationary but he needed to get it bigger if he wanted to go through. He was to tired to push though. He dug his heels into the ground leveraged himself up on his toes and tried to push with all his might. The hole opened an inch, then another. However cracks started appearing in the bone around Chad's arm. He got it another 3 inches before his arms were covered in cracks. Suddenly the armor shattered and the hole closed around Chad's hands like they weren't there. He fell to his knees and looked at the space where his friend had disappeared.

'Ichigo, what was that. it was still Ichigo though.'

Then he suddenly pitched face first onto the pavement.


A hollow stood on a boulder looking down at the desert. It stood about 6'7 with orange hair down to it's waist. It appeared was humanoid with long nails. It had horns sprouting from his head and the remnants of a black robe hanging from its waist. A large lizard like hollow started to creep up the boulder behind the orange haired hollow. It jumped forward intent on snatching the horned hollow unaware. Suddenly the one with orange hair stomped back on the Lizard hollows head and crushed it, cracking the boulder as well. The hollow leaned over and grabbed the crushed lizard and quickly devoured it.

The hollow was still hungry. It wanted more, and it smelled more, not far away in a cave he could tell. Suddenly the air around it distorted as a red aura shot out and destroyed what was left of the boulder, as well as the outcropping around him. Then the Ichigo was gone.


The hollow that had once been Ichigo stood in a cave. The walls were cracked and burned. The whole room was covered in splashes of blood. Ichigo himself stood with one foot pinning a large catlike hollow to the floor while he snapped the neck of another. The so far uneaten parts of a dozen or so more like them lay scattered about to be taken care of very soon. Ichigo bit into the face of the hollow in his hands and threw it against the wall with bone crushing force. He looked down at the hollow he had pinned to the floor by his head and slammed his horns down into it impaling down through it and into the ground. These would satisfy him. For now.

Ichigo started devouring the rest of his feast. He jerked up holding a leg in his hands, pieces of its flesh still hanging from his mouth. Ichigo looked into the darkness in the corner of the room. Whatever it was made a noise again. Ichigo dropped the limb and walked over staring into the shadow. Suddenly he saw movement and with lightning fast moves that were unseen by the normal eye he pushed his hand through whatever it was and pulled it to him. When he observed the body on his hand closer he found a small hollow that looked humanoid with what looked like a saber tooth tiger skull on its shoulder. If it had been human it would have been no more than 8 or 9.

"Why" It asked

Ichigo just looked at it for a second before roaring and crushing its wind pipe.


Ichigo stood on top of a mountain and looked down on a village of hollows nestled at the foot. His hunger was still unsated. Indeed with each bite he found himself hungering more. His chest burned. It needed food. After the first pack of hollows he had eaten another, then another, then two. This had continued till he had destroyed and devoured two dozen such groups of similar size. He had just found this large grouping of food. He could feel their deliciousness. A few felt especially tasty. Surely one of them would end his hunger. Or maybe all of them just in case. The roar he let loose shook the ground for miles. It started landslides and shook the trees from the very ground. He let loose a burst of his power and the overlook he stood on turned to glass under the power. He dropped to down with his hands on the edge of the cliff. He pushed off with all his might propelling himself off like a rocket towards the town and sending the mountain top flying back.