After a few months we were about to leave empire city when the beast struck.

"I've got him" Cole said. He managed to defeat the beast but was drained. We rescued him and ran. The beast just put himself back together and destroyed the rest of empire city. Zeke and Cole began working on a badass 2 pronged weapon Zeke called the amp

"Hey, ripka, can I copy that?" I asked.

"Yes, you just have to fight it." Ripka answered

"hey Cole how about some training before you need to use your amp?" I asked

"Sure" he replied. So we battled, after clashing weapons 3 times, ripka told me he was ready and all I had to do was yell copycat, amp,(or copycat and the weapons name while holding ripka in the same position as the person was when they summon their swords.) I then jumped back and yelled "copycat, amp!" Ripka then rounded out, the handle extended and the blade split into two prongs.

"What the hell." Cole yelled as I disarmed him and pinned him to the wall with both prongs next to his neck. I let go and ripka went back to normal.

"That was awesome! Can all those swords do that?" Zeke asked

"No, every zanpakto is different. They usually have two forms but not my zanpakto. He, instead can use others." I replied.

"Wait, he?" Zeke and Cole asked at the same time

"Yes, he, zanpaktos have a special kind of spirit in them." I said

"That explains why you talk to your sword." Cole said.

The next day we woke to find one of the crew members had died. Me, Zeke and Cole were walking on the deck, i checked my phone and they froze, I looked up and there was that crew member. This meant Cole and Zeke could see ghost. I approached the crew member, pulled out ripka, and raised him high.

"No Don't!" The crew member yelled

"Bouked he's already dead." Cole said

I brought the handle down on the ghosts head and pulled it off, a symbol appeared on his forehead and he turned into a black butterfly with pink spots. He was off to peace in the soul society.

"Whoa." Cole and Zeke reacted.

"This is why I have ripka, this and one other reason. Let's just hope I don't have to face that reason."

"What's that orange shroud next to you?" Cole asked.

"That's probably ripka, he should come into focus." I said, and then as if on cue I felt one of his tails brush up on me, Cole and Zeke's mouths hung open.

"What, I never said that spirit had to be human." I said

When we reached new Marais, a city in Louisiana. We had to take a smaller boat because the town was living under the fear of the local militia, well sadly, we're not here to free them. We made our way through the checkpoints until we came across a bridge in the up position.

"Cole, you have to power up the generator to lower the bridge, but be careful not to overload it, it could explode." Que said

Que was a NSA agent who, I believe, came to us secretly. We proceeded to blow it up. Que got mad but that didn't matter. When we got to the mainland we found that the guy who can help Cole was in trouble, and that the militia had one of the power cores Cole needed to "fight" the beast.

"Cole, go get the core, I'll help dr. Wolf." I said

Right before I got there, the lab exploded. I saw a pole with an electric box on the base. I grabbed the pole and it suddenly launched me up. By the time I got to the roof Cole was talking to wolf, he took the core and shocked it. Lightning shot from his arms and legs, and he passed out. I decided to go try to setup a saferoof with Zeke, Zeke then headed back to get Cole and found out that wolf was taken. So we had to pass the time while Quo tried to find him.

Quo suggested to ask Bertrand, the leader of the militia, to release wolf. When we got into the crowd he started preaching hate to conduits, then someone behind me pointed to the top of the building and shouted, "look, freaks!"

Standing there was a human with a mandible like mouth, and cutter arms. Bertrand whispered something to the militia soldiers and they opened fire.

Me and Cole jumped on the stage and fought the "crocodile freaks," I was getting good with ripka.

"Cole, follow Bertrand." I said. "I'll handle these guys."

"There's something weird about these guys." ripka said.

"You're right." I responded. "It feels like they are mutants, not human-made, but conduit-made."

"Can you feel it, the little bit of hollow in them?" ripka asked.

"Yes, it's faint, but it's there" I replied

Soon after that night, Quo found a guy assigned to watch wolf, and we had to follow him. When we got to the house where wolf was held, I told Cole to stay while I destroyed the roadblocks. As I approached the last roadblock it exploded. When I got there another mutant, this time more bug than human, came up from the ground.

"Whooooo, you're ugly, let me fix that!" I shouted.

It charged at me, I slid under, cut its foreleg off, and launched a sticky grenade at it's ass, and posed with a clenched fist as it exploded.

"Alright, I'm coming back."

I got on the back of a militia truck and drove, we later crashed into Bertrand's semi, Quo was alive but captured, and wolf was dead, I passed out.

When I awoke I was in some chamber, my arms chained to the wall, to tight to move, quo was hung by her arms, tubes running into them, and Bertrand was there.

"Where am I, where's my sword?" I yelled

"Well, I guess I'll tell you, but just because you're never getting out." Bertrand replied. "You're under the old plantation house, and you're sword is on that table." He pointed at a table across the room. "But do you honestly think we would let you have it after what happened in empire city?"

I chuckled. "I didn't need that sword to do that." I said.

I focused and reishi formed at my forehead, Bertrand had a face of shock. My mask formed, I broke the chains, and flash stepped to ripka.

"Shoot him, shoot him!" Bertrand commanded. I simply made a shield of electricity, caught the bullets, and flung them back. That move fell each solder.

I grabbed quo and took off. Quo was ice cold. There was a war outside, there was Cole and a female conduit.

"Cole let's go!" I shouted.

"Who the hell is that Cole?" The female conduit asked.

"The real demon of empire city." Cole replied.

We got on the truck and I took off my mask.

"Your eyes were just black with orange irises that time" Cole said

"When I killed Kessler, I was possessed." I replied

Soon after we went and saved a girl who turned out to be the daughter of the leader of a group of rebels, how we found her looked like a sacrifice. A armored mutant that looked like a monkey only it had no face, just a mouth, appeared. It had a weak point, ran towards it slid under the mouth and slashed its throat with a well placed getsugatensho, I rolled out from under it just before it collapsed.

The rebels joined us, with them, we found the place where Bertrand was hiding, and a conduit power swapper.

Cole wanted to swap, I didn't, but we fought them anyway, as Bertrand was leaving Cole hit his helicopter with a bolt. It went down.

We went to the crash zone, and a giant bug started to crash through the street across from it

"What, impossible!" Ripka shouted

"What is it?" I asked.

"That's Bertrand but he's a hollow." Ripka replied

I smiled, I jumped, higher than I knew I could, and slashed down. The bug was gone, Bertrand was there, but was transparent. A giant wooden gate with a giant two torso skeleton appeared behind him, it opened and a giant sword came out of it and pierced him, he was sent to hell.

Author's notes: well that's the end of the chapter