Countdown To The End Of The World: 20 Seconds...

Nel moaned a bit in her sleep. She had no idea where she was, but it was awful. Everywhere she looked, she saw fire burning on buildings, and parts of the ground torn apart. Off to the side though, she heard what she thought was fighting. As she looked, she gasped. She saw Ichigo fighting someone, but he never met him before, and there wasn't any actual figure. Ichigo's fighter was complete dark and red, and it's eyes were burning with crimson fire.

"Itzygo..." Nel said quietly. But she found out that she couldn't move. She couldn't even speak that loud. She didn't know what was going on. Her eyes widened though as she heard Ichigo scream. She gasped as she saw that Ichigo's opponet had pierced Ichigo through his chest, with a giant sword. Nel could easily feel the tear's rolling down her face, as she saw Ichigo slowly fall to the ground, dead. Her gaze shifted to fear as she saw the killer coming up to her, holding his blood covered sword. It was giving Nel a creepy grin.

"And now, the balance shall be destroyed..." It said, raising his sword in stabbing motion. The last thing Nel saw was the stranger thrusting it's sword right toward Nel, before she woke up screaming.

Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 0 Days, 10 Hours, 39 Minutes, 8 Seconds...

As she looked around, she had no idea where she was. She had tears in her eyes, and whereever she was she had no idea where anyone was, all she knew is that it was dark. Even with tears rolling down her face, she saw someone walking towards her. She covered her face, not wanting her dream to become a reality.

"Nel?" The stranger asked. Nel removed her hands from her face, realizing who's voice it was. When she looked, the stranger had her hand out, and formed a strange glowing yellow orb in her hand, lighting the area. Nel smiled a bit as she saw an old friend.

"Gedden!" Nel cheered, jumping up hugging her. Geddon was a bit surprise, but given what happened last time before she woke up, and the screaming during her sleep, she wasn't surprised. Geddon just hugged her back with her other hand, seeing how she was using her other arm to light up the room. What she didn't know though is if she knew Geddon took her.

"It's great to see you too Nel." Gedden replied.

"Where's Itzygo?" Nel asked, looking around the room. It seemed to be just a plain old bedroom. Just an average bed, dware, tv, and closet. She was a bit confused, seeing how she has never been here before. She looked as she saw Geddon sighing, sitting next to her.

"Look, Nel, I don't want you to be around Ichigo anymore. Not unless I know where you are, got it?" Geddon said. Nel was confused. She was going to ask what she meant before she heard a knock on the door.

"Oh shit!" Geddon whispered to herself. Nel looked at her, curiously. Next thing she knew, Geddon pulled her by the arm, over to the closet. She quickly opened it up, pushing Nel inside. "Stay in here for a minute." Geddon said, closing the closet door. Nel was freaked out. It wasn't just Geddon's additude, but because of her fear of the dark.

"Come in." Geddon said, on her bed. Through little cracks in the closet, Nel looked as she saw Geddon on the bed. Her eyes shifted to the right as she heard someone coming in from the door. Her eyes widened a bit as she saw it was Geddon's brother.

"Oh, hi Myatsu." Geddon said. "What are you doing here." Nel's eyes went to fear as she saw Myatsu grab Geddon by the throat tightly.

"What did I tell you yesterday? Every time you go outside, you blow our chances of being discovered. Do you want everything we worked towards to be ruined?" Myatsu shouted. Even though she could still see, tears of fear were starting to roll down her eyes.

"N-N-No brother...It's just that holding it in starts hurting every now and then..." Geddon said. She coughed in between seeing how it was a bit hard to breath. "And the last thing... I want... is for this building to...be destroyed." She said.

"Then do it somewhere closer. And I swear if it turns out your not telling the truth to me about not knowing where the arracnar ..." Myatsu started saying, catching Nel's attention. When she looked back again, she saw Myatsu dropping Geddon, and channling his powerinto the shape of a silver sphere. Aiming it at the wall, Myatsu released the energy, creating a giant hole in the wall. Nel studdered a bit in fear, but closed her mouth right after, realizing she just made a mistake. Her eyes went blank though as she saw Myatsu looking at the closet. Geddon looked as well, with terrified eyes. Nel felt tears rolling down her eyes as Myatsu kept starring at it, making her heart throb faster and just looked back at Geddon.

"Y-Yes brother..." Geddon replied, studdering. Myatsu dropped her, seeing that he had made his point, leaving the room. Geddon sighed in relief as she looked back at the closet, quickly opening it. She saw Nel with a lot of tears rolling down her eyes, crying. Geddon kneeled down to her highet, putting her arm on Nel's shoulder.

"I'm really sorry Nel. I promise I'll get you back to Ichigo, just as soon as I can figure out what to do." She said. Nel was still crying though. She knew perfectly what Myatsu was planning to do with her, even though the question, 'why' remained unanswered. She didnd't do anything wrong to him, in fact she barely even knew him. Yet he know's her really well, as well as Geddon, before they even seemed to met. Nel just sniffled.

"Itzygo..." She said quietly. She ran up to Nel, hugging her. She was terrified of the situation she was in, but knew most of all that Ichigo was the only one who could help her. "I want Itzygo back..." She said, tears still rolling down her cheek.

Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 0 Days, 7 Hours, 51 Minutes, 58 Seconds...

It has been seven hours now since Geddon took Nel. Ichigo was beginning to worry as the sun began to go down. They had no traces to follow her by though. Ichigo had all his friends helping him, but even with their help they couldn't find them. They visited every place they had been too before, every place Nel or Geddon may have wanted to go, and even concentrated on the Geddon's or Nel's riatsu, but to no result. By the time they all regrouped, they were at the same place they met before: behind the school.

"Did you find anything?" Ichigo asked. He looked irritated as no one said a thing. He clenched his fist in anger, keeping the rest of his anger in.

"I'm sorry Ichigo. It's like she just vanished." Orihime said.

"It doesn't make any sense though. As to how one could disappear without a trace of riatsu is strange." Rukia mentioned. Everyone's expression gasped a bit though, as they felt a powerful spiritual pressure surrounding them. Orihime fell to her knees, just trying to stay up.

"What's going on?" She asked, trying to get back up. After a few moments of looking around, Ishida saw the source on top of the school building.

"Up there!" He yelled. The others expressioon went to surprised as they saw Myatsu on the school. Ichigo began to grow in anger. He was the brother of the one who kidnapped Nel, and possibly the one who planned it in the first place. He quickly changed into his spiritual form, not caring about his body that just fell to the ground.

"Where's Nel?!" Ichgo stammered. The others looked as they could see immense spiritual pressure surrounding Ichigo. Ast they looked back, Myatsu just simply smirked as he started hovering, slowly descending to the ground. The closer he got, the larger the spiritual pressure felt to Ichigo's friends. By the time Myatsu was on the ground, to Ichigo's friends it felt like a thousand pounds were put on them.

"Calm down Ichigo, I am not here to fight. I am also looking for the one call 'Nel'." Myatsu replied. Ichigo looked at him curiously.

"Why the hell should I trust you?" Ichigo stammered, tightening his grip on his Zenpatou. Myatsu just chuckled to himself.

"Becuase, Ichigo was it? Nel is the only one who can save my sister from a terrible fate." Myatsu replied. Ichigo looked at him curious as he realized something.

"How the hell do you know my name?"

"My sister has told me many things about you. She told me how you saved her...or at least tried to from Byakuya, how you were watching over a child arracnar, and how you did give her unnecessary protection from the hollow she met." Myatsu replied. Everyone looked at him surprised. They didn't know he had learned so much from his sister. Ichigo was starting to grow in anger though. He felt like he was just being used, not knowing what was going on or who he could trust. He was starting to trust Geddon, and right when she seemed friendly, she betrayed him. But he also cared about Nel. As to what Geddon's intentions were about remained a mystery, but if Nel was involed it couldn't be good. Ichigo grunted seeing as he had no choice but to cooperate for the time being.

"What's the plan then?" He asked.

"My sister is growing uncontrollable amounts of spiritual energy, although from your first encounter with her, I believe you already know that." Myatsu replied. "She is...or at least, we are, also hollows." Everyone's eyes widened as he said this. Ishida was right, they were hollows. But even then it still seemed somewhat off about them being just regular hollows. "Like most hollows, she does have a Cero blast, but the problem is that it can have disasterous results if used out in the open. Last time, it destoryed part of a city."

"Wait a minute, hollows don't actually have siblings, remember?" Ishida commented, reminding them. Myatsu shook his head.

"True, most don't. However, a hollow's soul is dominant over that of the others, it will take appearance of that form. And therefore, she looks just like my sister when we died." Ichigo kept quiet to himself for a moment before looking back at Myatsu.

"So let me guess, you want Nel in order too..." Ichigo started, seeing the idea in his plan.

"Correct. Nel is the only arracnar that we know of that can send Cero blasts back, but due to her size, in a much smaller, safer quanity." Myatsu replied.

"And what if we refuse?" Ichigo started, seeing if this guy was really up to something.

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice, Ichigo. You've seen what happened because of my sisters "uncontrolled powers". It affects the entire world. And unless a large enough portion of her power is drained, in at a matter of days, her power will end up destroying the planet..." Myatsu said, causing everyone's eyes to go blank.

Destroy the world? Rukia thought to herself. What kind of hollow would be strong enough to destroy the world? And why are these two the only hollows anyone can find at the time? Even with these thoughts, Rukia's gazed turned to Ichigo. She could tell easily that he was really mad about the whole ordeal.

"...no..." Ichigo said, everyone looked at him surprised, including Myatsu.

"Don't you understand? If the world is destroyed, it'll destroy the balance between here and the soul society as well as destroying it." Myatsu stated. Rukia looked at Myatsu shocked. She now understood Byakuya's strange behavior, as well as his reason for wanting to kill her, even though she couldn't agree with it. Ichigo shot a glare out at Myatsu, raising his sword to his face, makin Myatsu flinch a bit.

"Why should we trust you? It was your sister who took her in the first place!" Ichigo shouted. Myatsu looked surprised at Ichigo's statement, before suddenly remembering the weird noise he thought he heard in Geddon's closet. He realized he wasn't just halucinating after all. He grew a slight grin as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Very well then, if what you say is true, let's go pay a visit to my sister..." Myatsu said, before being interrupted by Renji.

"We can't genius. We don't know why but everytime we try to sense her riatsu, we can't. It's like she doesn't exist." He said.

"Well it must be fortunate that I can. I spent alot of time with her after returning to our original form." Myatsu said. "And by my guess..." He started, looking at the watch on his wrist. " we should be able to follow her right about..."

Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 0 Days, 6 Hours, 29 Minutes, 32 Seconds...

As Geddon looked around cautiously, carrying Nel on her back, making sure that Myatsu was out of sight. Even if Nel heard what was going on, she doubted Nel knew what his true plan was. Either way though, she knew that she had to get Nel out of there, and knew that every second counted. She nodded her head as she was positive Myatsu was nowhere in sight. They had been running for a few minutes at the time, and she was sure that they would be fine for the time being. That was until her shoulder started to hurt.

She stopped a bit as her shoulder felt like it was being ripped open from the outside. She fell to her knees in pain. Luckily, Nel jumped in time just as Geddon let go.

"What's wuong?" Nel asked, seeing her in pain. She was startled as she started to feel the earth shake beneath her feet, causing her to fall on her back. As Nel leaned up, she still saw Geddon screaming, as the pain increased. She felt the earth shaking more and more violent as the ground beneath her began to split. When she looked, she gasped as the floor began to spread apart, seeing a bottomless pit. Nel stood as she tried to run away, but another tremore ran through the ground, making her fall back again, into the giant pit. She barely managed to react in time to grab onto the edges of the ground. She struggled a bit as the tremors continued.

"Gedden!" She cried, still struggling to stay on. Geddon opened her eyes in fear, as she heard Nel who was dangling over the seemingly bottomless pit. Even with the immense pain, she ran over as fast as she could, seeing that Nel was hanging on for her dear life. Nel began to fall as the quake mad her lose grip of the edge. Right when she started falling, Geddon grabbed her hand, even with the pain she was feeling, and the earthquake.

"I...I got you..." Geddon said, her arm shaking a bit from the pain she was feeling. She tried as hard as she could to pull her up, but as she got to her feet, the ground began to rise again, causing her to lose grip of Nel. She watched, terrified as Nel began to fall. Nel screamed as she was having a de sha vue moment from before. She closed her eyes, not wanting to see what would happen next.

"Nel!" Geddon screamed. Out of nowhere, a quick flash of speed picked grabbed Nel. Geddon looked in disbelief, not believing the incredible speed she was seeing. She looked around, wondering where Nel was, until she saw Ichigo in his spirit form a few feet away, holding Nel. Nel looked at him, with a smile, happy to see him again. Ichigo gave her a slight grin before glaring back at Geddon.

"Why did you kidnap Nel?" Ichigo shouted, with a terrifying noise Nel never heard before. It scared her a bit. Geddon looked with a sad face as well, knowing that she didn'y explain the situation before.

"Listen Ichigo, you have got to get Nel out of here." Geddon said, looking around. Ichigo looked at her, confused.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"Ichigo!" Rukia said, running up behind him. She sighed as she saw Nel.

"Where are the others?" He asked. Rukia turned her head with a bit of a sad look on her face. Ichigo looked at her a bit confused. "What's going on?"

"Ichigo, they're looking for the people who live here. Everyone from town is missing." Rukia said, causing Ichigo to look at her surprised.

"What? How is that possible?"

"I don't know. Ever since the summer started, everyone has been disappearing, little by little. And the disappearance is starting to spread too." Rukia said. Ichigo's eyes widened as he said this.

"Shit!" Ichigo said, starting to run, still holding Nel.

"Wait, where are you going?" Rukia asked. She never got a reply though, as Ichigo was already out of sight. She looked back at Geddon who seemed to have a disoppointed look on her face.

"Why is it you're doing this Geddon? I can tell you're hiding something." Geddon just kept quiet to herself as she looked away. She didn't want to tell what was happenening, but at this point she didn't have a choice.

Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 0 Days, 6 Hours, 12 Minutes, 49 Seconds...

Ichigo just kept focusing on running. He can't believe how dumb it has been to realize that people have been missing every now and then. Even with the fact not everyone is litterally gone, but seeing how these strange things have been happening, he doesn't know what to expect. He started to leave his thoughts though as he heard moaning. When he looked down, he grew a freaked out face a bit, realizing he forgot he was still carrying Nel, who appeared to have a somewhat blue face.

"Gah! Sorry!" He said, stopping for a moment, and lessening his grip. Nel coughed a bit as she finally could breath again.

"Itzygo you butthead!" Nel yelled, still breathing hard. Ichigo grew irritated as his eyes twitched, wondering if lessening his grip was a good idea. She shook her head, as she took her last big breath. "Why are you mad at Gedden?" Ichigo looked annoyed and confused at the fact she couldn't understand it.

"Why? Did you forget everything that just happened? She Kidnapped you!" Ichigo yelled, as he started running again.

"But she saved me too." Nel complained, seeing how Ichigo wasn't going to listen. "Her brother..." Nel started, before Ichigo interrupted.

"Geddon's brother is the one who showed us where you were before." Ichigo said. It was night by the time he came to his house's street. He looked shocked though, seeing part of his house was broken down.

"W-What the hell? Yuzu, Karin, dad!" Ichigo shouted, running to his house...

Meanwhile Byakuya walked through the empty corridors, past the giant pillars. He knew what he wanted to find out, but finding it out in the archives proved useless, seeing how they didn't give him the information he needed. He did, however, have one other backup plan for someone who should surely know this data. As far as he saw it, either Mayuri had it, or no one did. He finally came to the giant metal doors that locked the room. Next to it, an eye scanner was shown. He placed his eye in front of the scanner as it read his DNA. There was a few seconds of it beeping before it opened the door.

"Ah, if it isn't my old friend." Mayuri said, as he typed into the giant computer he had. As Byakuya looked, it seemed to be the data of the spiritual energy found on Earth. "I take it you're here for something, requiring my assistance?" Byakuya just continued looking at the computer for a bit before looking back at Mayuri.

"I want to know about the disappearances of the hollows in Menos Forest."

"Ah yes, I was working on the while figuring out how to stop the growth of the spiritual pressure. Unfortunately, I can't find any..."humane" solutions..." Mayuri said, sighing disoppointingly. "However, I have noticed something rather interesting..." Mayuri said, typing something into his computer. As Byakuya watched, he was seeing what appeared to be a picture of the data from Earth, and what seemed to be hollow DNA.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Well, apparently, the hollows started disappearing the same time this energy build up started. As I looked into this later, using all the data I had provided, I have concluded whatever the reason for the disappearance is somehow related to the energy build up." Mayuri said, looking at Byakuya. He noticed Byakuya was in a trance-like state for a few seconds, still looking up at the data.

"Is there any other data?" Byakuya asked, still looking sternly on the data.

"Well, my only assumption is that somehow these hollows are gathering, but they aren't gathering in the normal way of merging together. Something is causing them to be absorbed, and at a critical rate..." Mayuri started, before being interrupted by Byakuya.

"Look up the spiritual energy for a girl on Earth named Geddon." Byakuya commanded. Mayuri looked at him confused, since his computer wasn't used for some hiding game. But a stern look given by Byakuya made him think otherwise. He started typing info into his computer, until he found a picture of the girl. It was deffinately her, green hair and all.

"Well...she's cute. Let's see now, if I simply typed this, and ran that...it should give us info on her spiritual..." Mayuri said. As he clicked on the last button though, the computer immediately started to whir and buzz, as electrical sparks could be seen going around it. "Wha? How is this possible? It's going hay wire..." Mayuri stammered, trying to stop the computer. In a quick flash, the computer exloaded, enveloping the entire room in bursting flames. The embers burned as Byakuya, who was holding Mayuri by the shoulder, looked.

"Ahh! All my data! All my sweet sweet blue prints and data..." Mayuri said, shocked at the situation. Byakuya looked at it, unsurprised. "Apparently, the data just didn't stop growing, and the spiritual pressure affecting it will be tremendous! It also showed that the only hollow left around is the arracnar Nel. If it keeps going like this...everything will be destroyed..." Mayuri said, still looking at the fire. Byakuya closed his eyes as he sighed, as he walked away. He knew what he would have to do if he was going to save the Earth: Kill Geddon.

Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 0 Days, 5 Hours, 49 Minutes, 12 Seconds...

Ichigo couldn't believe what he saw. Part of the house was completely destroyed. But it didn't make any sense to him. There were no hollows, and everything else was fine. How there could be a hollow without anyone noticing was completely strange to him. As he saw the inside of the house from the giant hole, he couldn't believe what he was seeing: Myatsu with his sword out, looking at his family.

"W-W-What are you? What do you want?" Yuzu said, scared. Myatsu just grinned as he took a step foward. Out of nowhere, their dad came in, charging at Myatsu, jumping in the air for a leaping kick.

"Fear the power of my foot! Hiyaaaaaa!" His dad screamed. Myatsu simply steped to the side as his dad went crashing into the wall. "...well played..." he moaned as he slid against the wall, passing out.

"Dad!" Karin and Yuzu screamed, although they weren't really surprised he was beaten. They looked in fear though as they saw Myatsu walking toward them. They both bumped into the back of a wall though, trying to get away. Their eyes widened as they saw Myatsu raise his sword. They both screamed in fear as they saw the the blade coming down.

Unexpectedly, and out of nowhere, Ichigo rushed at Myatsu, slamming him to the wall, with his sword near his Myatsu's neck. Yuzu and Karin were both kinda shocked. They had no idea their brother had such speed, much less power. What shocked them more though was the skull on Nel's head.

"I-I-Ichigo?" Yuzu said, hesitantly, not knowing if it was truely him or not. Ichigo looked back at them with a smile.

"You two ok?" Ichigo asked. The two of them hesitantly nodded. "Take dad and get out of here. Look for my friends if you see them." Ichigo said, looking back at Myatsu with a stern look. Even though they had no idea what was going on, they rather be somewhere else than here. It didn't take them long to get up, grab dad, and go, seeing how they wanted to get as far away as possible. Nel looked back at them with a curious look before looking at Ichigo.

"Are you sure dat was a good idea? Dey know your secwet now." Nel asked, knowing how he's been trying to keep it secret for awhile. Ichigo just nodded.

"They would need to find out sooner or later, although I'm not in the mood for details..." Ichigo said, looking back at Myatsu with an angry expression. Myatsu just had a plain oold expression the entire time before he started grinning.

"Hey there Ichigo, I wasn't expecting you." Myatsu said, sarcastically.

"Shut up! You used me from the start. You were trying to kill my family!" Ichigo shouted. Myatsu just chuckled to himself.

"Oh, I assure you it wasn't just your family I plan to kill." Myatsu said, shifting his gaze towards Nel, who was behind Ichigo. Nel looked at him in fear, knowing what Geddon said was true. Ichigo looked back at Nel, seeing the fear from her eyes. It angered him as Ichigo pushed Myatsu against the wall tighter.

"I won't let you lay a finger on her!" Ichigo shouted. Myatsu just laughed again.

"I find it amusing when people make promieses they can't keep." Myatsu said. His eyes started to change to a color of silver. At the same time, a silver aura began to grow immensely, pushing Ichigo away at immense power. When Ichigo looked back, he saw Nel was still on his back, heading first into the wall. He quickly grabbed Nel, turning around, letting the seemingly endless buildings crash into him instead of Nel. After what seemed like the fifth wall, Ichigo landed on the ground, with Nel on his stomach.

"Itzygo!" Nel said worried. Ichigo just leaned up a bit, shaking his head. He smiled as he looked down seeing Nel.

"Are you ok?" He asked. Nel just sniffled as she nodded. Ichigo suddenly saw the immense silver blast that was headed for them. Still holding Nel, he got up quickly, blocking the attack with his Zanbato. The blast pushed Ichigo, even with the sheild, making it easy to see the dirt as Ichigo was pushed back. As the dust completely cleared, Ichigo saw Myatsu walking out of the building.

"I hope you know what you're doing, because I'll make sure anyone who tries to interfere with my plan dies..." Myatsu said, taking out his sword. The sword seemed to be angled, with a large blade. Ichigo just smirked.

"I'm only going to say this one more time." Ichigo said, putting Nel on his back. "I won't let you hurt Nel!"