Menos Grande

Sakura's P.O.V

I am flying through the air with my FLY Card which means I have wings on my back and my staff in my hand. Ichigo is next to me jumping across the sky. Li and Renji are on the ground patrolling while Ichigo and I are in the sky. "You're flying too." I said trying to break the silence.

"I am not flying." Ichigo faced me. "Soul Reapers can stand on the sky."

"I forgot." I said. We have been patrolling from the sky for about an hour now. "I'm glad there aren't any hollows…so far."

"Hollows aren't too bad to face." Ichigo commented looking straight ahead. We are looking forward and notice that the sky is looking strange. "Isn't that the garganta?"

"Didn't you say that was the way hollows came through to the…World of the Living, was it?" I wanted to confirm.

"Yeah, but that's not what worries me." Ichigo said. "What worries me is that that's a Menos Grande."

"Didn't you say that is the biggest hollow of them all?" I ask.

"That's right." Ichigo replied.

"I'm going to call Li to see where he's at." I said. I pull out my cell phone and dial his number.

"You see what I see Sakura?" Li asked on his end of the phone.

"Exactly. I was wondering where you are." I said.

"Renji and I are at Penguin Park." Li answered. "That's where the Menos Grande is."

"We'll be there soon." I told Li. I hang up my phone and put it in my pocket. "We need to head over to the park, Ichigo. That's where the Menos is."

"Then let's go." Ichigo said.

We start diving down to the park. "Sorry we didn't come here sooner. We couldn't locate the Menos." I said as we land next to Li in the park.

"That thing is huge." Li told us. "I was hoping we wouldn't have to face one of these things."

"Even Ichigo has faced one before." Renji told Li.

"Really?" Li questioned. "I'm surprised he made it out alive."

"It wasn't easy fighting that thing." Ichigo started to get mad and put his hand in a fist in front of his face.

"Look, we have to concentrate on that Menos before it goes out into town." Renji reminded us.

"Right," Ichigo said while putting his hand off to his side.

"Roar, Zabimaru!" Renji yelled as his Zanpaku-to went into shikai form. Renji has his Zanpaku-to at the ready.

"I guess I should get serious to." Li said as he pulled out his sword.

"Same with me." I added. "But what card would work on this hollow?"

"Maybe an elemental card?" Li suggested.

"Fiery might work." I told Li. I pulled out the FIERY card.

"Getsuga Tensho!" Ichigo yelled out his attack. A blue light came from his Zanpaku-to. It hit the hollow but had no effect at all.

"Looks like that didn't work, Soul Reaper." Li told Ichigo.

"Why you little…" Ichigo said getting irritated.

"It's my turn now." Renji said. "Roar Zabimaru!" Renji extended his Zanpaku-to and hit the Menos although the Menos hit Renji with his big arm, with that Renji went flying to the ground. "This Menos is tough." Renji said while standing up.

Li pulls out a paper and puts it on his sword. "Raitei Shourai!" Li yelled and lightning hit the hollow.

"That didn't do much." Ichigo said to Li.

"It's a Menos so of course it'll take a lot to kill it." Li reminded Ichigo.

I have the FIERY card in front of me. "Help us take down this Menos Grande! Fiery!" I commanded as my staff touched the card. The FIERY started coming out of the card and headed towards the Menos. The fire hit the Menos and came back to me in card form.

"Good job Sakura." Li commented. "The FIERY card was able to burn the Menos a little bit."

"Yeah, but not enough to kill it." I told Li.

"At least you gave it some damage." Renji said. "Maybe you should try that card again."

"Something feels strange about this Menos." I said. "I wonder why your attack s aren't working when mine are."

"She does have a point." Kisuke came from behind.

"When did you come here?" Ichigo asked.

"Just when this girl released her fire." Kisuke responded. "But your attacks should work as well."

"Should we go into bankai form?" Ichigo asked.

"That might do it." Kisuke said.

"Alright then, bankai Tensa Zangetsu!" Ichigo said. He is now into bankai form. "Eat this Menos." Ichigo jumps in the air. "Getsuga Tensho!" Ichigo yells out his attack and then lands.

"That helped a little bit." Renji said. "Then I should go into bankai form too. Bankai, Hihio Zabimaru." Renji is now in bankai form. Renji moves Zabimaru and lets out a red blast from Zabimaru's mouth.

"That didn't do much either." Li said.

"Why won't any of our attacks have much effect?" I question.

"It's a Menos so it'll take much more to kill it." Kisuke said.

"I wonder…what if it is magic and not a real Menos." I told everyone.

"It does feel a little off from being a regular Menos." Kisuke said.

"But how can that Menos be magic?" Ichigo asked.

"Maybe it absorbed some of your guys' magic." Kisuke said. "This town, of course, does not get many hollows so I wouldn't be a bit surprised."

"So only Sakura and the kid can defeat this Menos?" Ichigo question.

"It would seem so." Kisuke replied.

"So going into bankai was a total waste?" Ichigo complained.

"I guess so." Renji said. Renji undoes his bankai and so does Ichigo.

"Let's finish this." Li said.

"Right," I added. I pull out the FIERY card again. "FIERY!" The FIERY card goes after the Menos once again and this time burns it a lot. FIERY comes back to me in card form, I catch it, and put it in my pocket.

The Menos falls down. "Sakura, do you think you could capture this Menos?" Li asked.

"Capture it like my cards?" I want to make sure I was hearing Li right.

"Yeah, it might work since that Menos absorbed our magic but then again it isn't a card so I don't know if it'll work." Li responded.

"I'll try it." I said. "Return!" I placed my staff in front of the Menos and it became a card just like Li suggested it might. I grabbed it when it came in front of me. "That's strange to be able to catch something other than a Clow Card."

"Yeah," Li said. "Hurry up and right your name on it so you can command it later."

"Right," I said while nodding. I pull out a pen from my pocket and right my name down under the Menos' picture.

"So now you can control that Menos?" Renji asked.

"Yep," I told him.

"That's amazing." Renji said. "But I wouldn't go telling Captain Kurosutchi about that. He might turn you into an experiment."

"Hopefully we don't have to run into him then." Li said.