Biggest Update yet! I spent all day (after the other one) writing this one, and coming up with ideas. Enjoy :D
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Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Day, 2 Hours, 50 Minutes, 53 Seconds...
Ichigo finally came to the scene of the area where the building had collapsed, carrying Nel with him. He couldn't really leave her there, or she'd threaten to cry, causing the girls to see what was wrong, and she would blame it on Ichigo. Luckily for him though, she had her hood on so no one saw the bone on her head. He was also carrying his backpack with Kaizo inside it, in case it was needed to change in this situation. There were alot of people gathered around, all looking at the destroyed building. They were talking amongst themselves about how the building could've crashed without any impact marks and such, but none of them knew what was going on. Nel was surprised by the amount of people that were there. She hasn't been to the human world before, and didn't know there were so many.
"Wow, look at da wubble." Nel said, surprised at the destoryed building. "What do you fink Itzygo?...Itzygo?" Nel asked, trying to get his attention.
Ichigo just kept looking at the building. He kept thinking to himself how this was possible. There were no marks, no signs of being impacted, nothing. He looked around to the gossiping people, trying to see if they knew anything useful. But, not to his surprise, none of them had any useful knowledge. But, as he searched, his eyes shot out at what he saw: In the middle of the crowd on the other side of the building, he saw Geddon, glaring right back at him. He finally realized that whatever it was that caused the building to collapse, it was because of her.
"Itzygo?" Nel said again louder, trying to get him to pay attention. Ichigo just ignored her, still in thought on a number of things, mostly though, who the heck Geddon is, and how she demolished an entire building without a single mark.
"Itzygo!" Nel said, this time roughly pulling his hair. Ichigo screamed a bit, losing focus on Geddon. He struggled a bit before finally being able to reach for Nel, pulling him off his back.
"What the hell was that for?" Ichigo shouted. The people around him started to stare. It wasn't very natural to see a teenager yelling at a three year old looking girl. It took him a few seconds before he realized how stupid he just acted. He gave Nel a nervous eye twitch as he saw her grow an evil smile.
"What do you want?" He whispered to her irritated.
"Well fwirst off, why'd are you bein so root? I askeded you liked fwey times, and you'd hadn't answoed me."
"I was looking at someone I met earliar..."
"And now if you'd wadda make dis up to me, you'd have ta get me some of da weird froden swilly things." Nel replied. Ichigo looked at her confused.
"What?" He asked, confused.
'"Da wice ceam." Nel said happily, pointing to someone who licking ice cream from a cone. Ichigo looked at her very annoyed.
"Why the hell would I..." Ichigo started. Before he could finish his sentence though, he saw tears starting to fill Nel's eyes. He realized what she was going to do if she didn't get ice cream. Knowing how bad it would make him look in puplic if they saw him making a little girl cry...let's just say it wouldn't end well. Ichigo sighed before he replied.
"Fine, I'll buy some stupid ice cream. Just stop crying, got it." Ichigo said, putting her on his back again. Nel cheered in delight, seeing how she was going to get ice cream for the first time. Ichigo looked back to see if Geddon was still there, but grew disoppointed when he saw she was gone.
Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Hour, 39 Minutes, 21 Seconds...
As Rukia looked through Ichigo's room, there was no trace of her anywhere. She couldn't even tell when the last time he was in his room. All the while, Renji and Byakuya were waiting for her to finish up her investigation. Rukia was still in disbelief though about all the recent problems being Ichigo's fault. She knew Ichigo. Even though he had strong spiritual energies, she knew that he was full of kindness, and considered being someone who is causing trouble for everyone is hard to believe.
"Hey, hurry up in there will ya?" Renji said, looking through the window. They both looked surprised as they heard the door open, but knew that in their spiritual forms, they can't be see in normal circumstances. It was Yuzu, coming in to pick up anything that broke during the earthquake. Renji hid behind the window again, just to be safe. Rukia held still, knowing that even though Yuzu couldn't see spiritual beings as good as her sister, she could still see some small shade of them. She grew surprised however as Yuzu looked right at her.
"Oh! Hi Rukia. What are you doing here?" She asked, politely. Rukia didn't reply. She was stunned at the sudden scenario. She was in deisbelief as to how she was able to see her in her spiritual form. Yuzu then shifted her gaze to Rukia's outfit.
"What's with the Samurai robe?" Yuzu asked. Rukia suddenly snapped back into reality, quickly thinking of an excuse.
"Oh...umm...I uh...I'm...going to an...Anime Convention!" Rukia said, hesitantly. She rubbed the back of her head nervously, as to whether or not Yuzu would buy it. though remained the question. Every second that Yuzu looked at Rukia curiously, felt like an eternity to Rukia. Yuzu just smiled a few seconds later.
"Well have fun then. If you see Ichigo tell him that we're pretty much eating whatever's around." Yuzu said, as she started picking up some of the broken items, throwing them in the trash. Rukia felt tremendously reflieved at this, as she started going out the window. Yuzu looked at her strangely, wondering why she decided to jump out the window. She shrugged it off though, knowing how many crazy friends Ichigo does have.
Unknown to her, Rukia was actually on the rooftop with Renji. Rukia was still in a bit of shock that Yuzu actually managed to see her. Renji, even though he didn't see it, heard the conversation, and he pretty much figured out the rest about Yuzu seeing her.
"Mind explaining to me how she saw you?" Renji asked. Rukia just shook her head.
"I have absolutely no idea, but if her spiritual energy is increasing, then Ichigo must be involved somehow..." Rukia said, turning her head a bit. She didn't want to believe it, but all evidence shows that Ichigo's appearance around his other friends, they recieved spiritual energy as well. Rukia just shook off these feelings as she stood.
"C'mon, we should find Ichigo quickly." She said, ready to run into the city. She stopped though at what she just realized.
"Wait, where's Byakuya?" Rukia asked.
"He already went into the... Oh shit!" Renji yelled, looking back at the tall buildings. "He doesn't know we can be seen, does he?!" Renji asked. They both took chase into the city, not asking another question. They knew if they didn't warn Byakuya, it'll cause problems between the Soul Society and the Human World...
Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Day, 32 Minutes, 41 Seconds....
Among the city, the sun was setting over the earth, creating the pinkish array of light colors in the sky.
Ichigo grunted to himself as they finally came to an ice cream stand in the city. He realized he had two problems to deal with currently. The first one was Geddon and the fact she destroyed a building. The second one was the fact he was stuck with Nel, whether she liked it or not. Luckily for him, even though he was still annoyed, Nel was too busy sightseeing all the great things she saw there.
"What flavor do you want?" Ichigo asked, looking back at Nel.
"What kind are dare?" Nel asked, never having ice cream before.
"Vanilla and Chocolate." Ichigo replied. Nel looked away for a moment in thought before making a decision.
"Vinilla!" Nel said, cheerfully. After they got the ice cream, they found a table to sit at. As Nel ate the ice cream, which she found was really good, Ichigo stared at her strangely. Nel was a bit confused for a bit before looking at her ice cream and back at Ichigo.
"Want some Itzygo?" Nel asked, holding her ice cream out. Ichigo smiled a bit, shaking his head no.
"I got a question for you." Ichigo started.
"What is it?"
"How did you get here to begin with?" Nel opened her mouth about to say something, but a bit of drool came out before she closed her mouth agian, wiping the drool off and putting her other hand up to her mouth thinking.
"Umm I dunno. Fwirst ting I knowed, is dat my brudders are gone. Den, someone camed up behind me..." Nel stopped for a moment, thinking again. "And dats it." Nel said. Ichigo looked surprised. It was clear to him after a few moments that she turned into her adult form, but as to what caused it or the reason still questioned him. His eyes widened though as he heard someone behind him. The voice was very familiar.
"One strawberry cone please." Geddon said, paying the cashier. She started enjoying the sweet tasting ice cream, walking towards a table, before seeing Ichigo who was looking back at her. She gave him an evil look for a bit. Her eyes widened though as she saw Nel sitting with him. She grunted a bit before walking over to his table. Nel looked as she saw Ichigo starting to grunt a bit. When she looked in the same direction, seeing the other girl, she looked confused.
"Who'd dat?" Nel asked as Geddon took a seat inbetween Nel and Ichigo.
"That's what I'd like to know..." Ichigo said, still mad at the fact she was sitting with them, even though she knew that they were both mad at each other.
"I'm Geddon sweetie." She said, looking at Nel. Nel looked surprisingly at the cone.
"What flavior is dat?" Nel asked.
"Strawberry." While the two of them talked, Ichigo looked at her surprised. He always thought she was cold and bitter hearted, but she talked to Nel like an average person would. He couldn't tell if she was being serious or being a really good actor. Mabey it was because they have the same colored hair? Ichigo asked himself.
"Hey! Itzygo you said dat dare were only two flaviors!" Nel complained.
"I forgot OK?!" Ichigo stammered. He grew nervous as he saw Nel with a bit of watery eyes. Ichigo gave Geddon a bitter look at the fact she caused Nel to start crying. He looked at Geddon surprised though as she raised her ice cream out to Nel.
"Here, you can have mine." Geddon said, handing her the strawberry cone that was originally her's. Nel grew a big smile on her face.
"Dank you." Nel said, as she started licking the vanilla and strawberry icecream. Geddon just smiled as she watched Nel eat the ice cream. She shifted her gaze to Ichigo with a less appealing smile.
"Why do you keep following me?" Geddon whispered to Ichigo.
"I'm not following you all the time, it was just couinsidences. But because of it, you apparently seem to be related to everything that's going on around here. Explain that." Ichogo commanded practically. Right before Geddon replied though, they heard Nel starting to complain. As they looked back, both of her cones were half gone, and the she was rubbing her head frantically with her knuckles.
"Owie owie owie!" She complained. "Why does my bwain hurt?" She asked.
"It's called Brain freeze, you get it from eating ice cream too fast." Ichigo replied. Nel dropped the ice cream cones onto the ground and started to rub her head with her hands.
"Pwease make it stop! Pwease!" Nel begged. Geddon just looked at her for a few seconds before sighing. She looked around to see if there were any witnesses, and luckly no one else was around. It was getting dark which meant most people would be home by then.
"Ok, I can help then. Just need to remove this hood..." Geddon started, grabbing the top of Nel's tunic.
"No wait!" Ichigo said, trying to stop her. It was too late though, as she had already pulled back the hood, revealing Nel's skull. Ichigo began to worry as he saw Geddon's eyebrow grow slightly.
"Owie...Pwease hurry." Nel complained, shaking her head a bit from how much it hurt. After Geddon looked around again, her hand started to glow, as a yellow ominous light shined from it. Placing on Nel's forehead, Ichigo heard Geddon murmuring something to herself, using her other hand to form a hand sign, placing two finger tips pointed up in front of her face. In a quick flash, light illuminated around Geddon's glowing hand, and vanished after a few seconds. When the light cleared, Ichigo looked back at Nel who seemed to have her head down.
"Nel?" He started, wondering if she was ok. He started to glare back at Geddon, wondering what she did to her.
"Just watch." Geddon said, as if reading Ichigo's mind. As he looked back, Nel raised her head up, looking at her forehead. She started to chuckle a bit after.
"It's beddur." Nel cheered. Ichigo sighed a bit, not because Nel was fine, but because Geddon didn't hurt her. As he looked back, he saw Geddon sighing in relief. Even though he had so many reasons to be mad at her, for helping him with something simple as this, he just couldn't argue with anything.
"Thank you." He said softly. Geddon looked at him surprised a bit that he was actually thankful, but suddenly screamed a bit as she started to squeeze her shoulder harshly. Ichigo looked at her worried.
"What's wrong?" He asked. At that moment, an earthquake was shaking the entire city. Nel jumped onto Ichigo in fear, scared of what was happening. After a few seconds, Geddon took a gasp as she breathed heavily. Simultaneously, the earthquake finally sub sidded. Ichigo looked around, seeing the city lights flikering off and on. He looked back at Geddon before he finally realized something.
"You..." Ichigo started. Geddon looked at him worried, knowing that he caught her in the act. "You're not doing this on purpose, are you?" He asked, setting Nel down on the chair next to him. Geddon just looked to the side.
"Ichigo...I..." Geddon started. Out of nowhere, a stream of cherry blossoms started charged toward where Geddon and the other's were standing. As the blossoms returned to their origin, Byakuya looked around. Off to the distance, he saw Ichigo standing, holding Geddon and his body by the shoulder, and carrying Nel in the other arm. Ichigo was in his shinigami form, glaring back at Byakuya who seemed to care little that he dodged out of the way.
"Byakuya! What the hell are you doing!?" Ichigo stammered. Geddon stood as she realized she was quickly carried by Ichigo, who saved her from Byakuya's attack. Ichigo looked back at Nel who appeared to be terrified at what just happened.
"What was dat?" She asked. To her, all she saw was a pink flash and then next thing she knew they were somewhere else. Ichigo knew whatever was going on, Byakuya wasn't in the mood for talking. He made a quick decision on what to do, in case things get bad.
"Geddon." Ichigo said, getting her attention. Geddon looked at him, questionably. She quickly grabbed Nel who was thrown to her. Nel and Geddon both looked at each other, confused before looking back at Ichigo.
"What are you..." Geddon started.
"Take Nel and my body, and get out of here." Nel looked at him with watery eyes at what he said.
"No! Itzygo!" Nel started, sadly.
"Ichigo..." Geddon started. Ichigo just gave her a smirk as he turned around, facing Byakuya.
"Relax, I'll be fine." He said, giving her a thumbs up. Geddon was going to say something, but knew that Ichigo made his decision and wasn't about to give up on it. Nodding, she quickly held onto Nel tightly and took off running with Kaizo not that far behind. Nel looked back over Geddon's shoulder, with tears running down her face.
"Itzygo!" She screamed, seeing Ichigo moving father away by the second. Ichigo looked back as he saw Geddon and the others running until they were out of sight. He looked back at where Byakuya was before he saw Byakuya disappeared. He looked everwhere around him, but didn't even feel a trace of riatsu near him. His eye's went wide though as he knew where he was.
Gedoon just continued to run away like Ichigo told her. She felt like she couldn't run now. It wasn't because not only her, but Nel wanted to go back as well, but because he was closer than anyone before to finding out what was wrong with her. Even when she looked back with Kaizo not that far behind, she knew that she couldn't stop, even if she wanted too. She saw Kaizo's expression growing to fear though as they kept walking. She quickly looked back in front of her, only to see Byakuya standing in front of her. She stopped quickly, a few yards away. Nel saw too, still with tears rolling down her face.
"W-W-What do you want?" Geddon asked nervously, holding on to Nel with a tighter grip. Byakuya just sighed as he took out his sword, pointing it down towards the ground.
"Scatter." He said. Geddon and Nel looked in fear as they saw the sword turning into what appeared to be Cherry Blossoms. Behind them, they heard Ichigo running towards them, with his Zanbato in his hand.
"Get out of the way!" He yelled. In a quick second, half the stream of Cherry Blossom attacked Ichigo. Ichigo, with his sword still in it's basic form, used his strength to block the oncoming attack, but saw that it kept coming one after another. He saw the other half of the stream heading straight towards Nel and Geddon. Geddon turned around, not wanting Nel to get hurt.
"No!" Ichigo shouted, seeing how he couldn't make it towards them in time. As for Geddon and Nel, they closed their eyes in fear, awaiting their on coming death. Nel screamed as she heard an oncoming clash from the attack.......