Chapter 11

The Wind,

The Predator

And the Blind

Starrk started everything off with raising his gun and said "Cero." and a small red beam tore through the air and slammed into Ichigo.

Ichigo regained his footing, only for him to jump away when he heard "Shoot to Kill, Shinso (Japanese:Divine Spear)!" and a Gin's sword had extended and began to make it's way to Ichigo, intending to kill him.

Ichigo began to focus his on Gin when suddenly he felt Tōsen presence above him as he said "Smash his Limbs, Suzumushi Nishiki, Benihiko (Japanese:Cricket 2nd Movement, Crimson Flying Locusts)." and a rain of long slender needles fell towards Ichigo, who in response shunpo a distance away.

Ichigo was panting at the stress of fighting three on one.

Tōsen, Gin and Starrk then appeared around Ichigo once more in a triangle formation.

"What's wrong Ichigo, to much for you already?" Gin ask, while teasing Ichigo.

Only for Ichigo to respond, "Not even close!" and started to spin around as he yelled "Getsuga Tensho!" And a full circle of his signature move.

Tōsen, Gin moved above the blast, while Starrk stood where he was at, and took the hit head on. When the move hit him, the thing cut right through him, but he received no damage.

Ichigo was surprise for a moment, but he glared at Starrk.

Starrk noticed this and said "So you noticed. Thanks to the power of Los Lobos, my form has the ability of not only manipulating air around me, but turning myself into a dense amount of air join together." Stark explained his power.

Ichigo wasn't to shocked by this, it was just like Barragan's Earth power, except their was nothing to hit. Even learning this, he knew Starrk wasn't the main problem.

Gin began to take advantage of Ichigo distraction and said "Shoot to Kill, Shinso!"

Ichigo responded by spinning around and flinging his sword to intercept the blade and change the course of the blade.

Ichigo then saw Tōsen taking a direct assault and attempted to stab Ichigo with his sword.

Ichigo and Tōsen then grinded their sword together. Then Tōsen spoke to Ichigo "We will not allow you to pass monster."

Ichigo snorted "I'm a monster. Look who talking." Both him and Tōsen then jumped back.

Tōsen then yelled "What's that suppose to me?!"

Ichigo then said "You don't think I can see the blood that stain your soul, all the lives you stole because of you so called righteous belief, and the live your going to steal even if you say they are for the path of justice. You are no better then the liars and murderers you swore yourself to hate and despise."

Tōsen then charge at Ichigo, full of rage "How dare you accuse me of being a such a despicable thing!"

Ichigo swung his own sword to meet Tōsen's sword and then said "Getsuga Tenshō." the attack slammed into Tōsen and Ichigo then diverted his attention to Gin and Stark.

Gin began to saying "Shoot to Kill, Shinso." and the blade extended.

Starrk then said "Balazo Doble (Spanish:Double Shot)." and two cero-like bullets blasted out of the guns and Ichigo moved away at top speed to avoid both attacks.

Then Tōsen appeared behind Ichigo and prepared his strike without hesitation.

Ichigo tried to intercept the incoming blade, but he wasn't fast enough.

Tōsen then thought 'Yes!'

Suddenly a white and blue figure rammed into Tōsen and slammed him into the wall and slapped his Sword with his own sword.

The figure had a well built body with an open white jacket and hamaka pants. He had wild electric blue hair. In his hand he held a sword with a guard that was shaped as a crocked S.

Everyone recognized the figure "Grimmjow!?"

Grimmjow grin, which showed off his pointed teeth "Nice to see you, Tōsen." Grimmjow then gripped Tōsen neck and threw him into across the desert plain.

Grimmjow then jumped next to Ichigo facing him.

Grimmjow then spoke "Don't think I'm helping you, I just want payback. Then I'm going to kill you." he spoke with voice promising death.

Ichigo shrugged it by saying "After I'm done with Aizen and Blackheart, we will have our rematch."

Grimmjow nodded, unfazed by the new power shown.

Grimmjow and Ichigo then split and headed toward their chosen opponents.

With Grimmjow heading to fight Tōsen and Ichigo heading towards Gin and Starrk.

Grimmjow had ran strait into Tōsen. When they met, they crossed swords.

"How dare you return here, just to cause mindless destruction Grimmjow!" Tōsen spoke with fury noted in his voice.

This didn't bother Grimmjow as he responded "Mindless destruction? I'm just here to settle a couple of scores…" Grimmjow then gathered energy in to his fist and continued. "…starting with you." and fired a cero at Tōsen to start their fight.

Ichigo also started his fight off with slashing and trying to ware both Gin and Stark out. Ichigo then started to spin around and yelled "Getsuga Tenshō." and his attack only met the same results as last time, only the attack came closer to hitting Gin.

Gin observed the damage done to his uniform "It looks like…" he then pulled his arm out of his robes and continued "…I'm going to have to get serious."

Gin then took his sword and stabbed his arm. He then said "Bankai…" The sword then began to receded into his arm and slowly his body started to turn grey. When his entire body was grey he said "Douken Shinso (Japanese:Body Blade Divine Spear)."

Ichigo when to attack Gin and slashed vertically. Only for Gin to move his arm to intercept the blade. The arm took the damage with little effect which shocked Ichigo.

Gin grinned and said "Why so shocked, What did you think My bankai could do." Gin flung his arm and forced Ichigo to step away. "My bankai ability is known as Ikkoku (Japanese:Stubborn). This ability turn me into a human sword so I can do things like…" Gin stretched his arm out "…this." and his fingers extended and shot at Ichigo like spears.

Ichigo narrowly dodge. He then began to get his footing only for Stark to appear behind him. "Balazo Doble." Starrk fired another round of bullets was fired at Ichigo.

Grimmjow and Tōsen were fighting with Grimmjow easily schooling Tōsen

"What the hell the matter with you! You keep nagging on about how your going o kill me for peace, or the name of justice. How you were going to eliminate me to bring justice to this so-called 'World of Peace.' Truth be told your really pathetic." Grimmjow spoke disappointed.

Tōsen got up from his thrash and spoke "If the monster like you wants to die in battle…" He then pointed his sword towards the skies and position his hand over the ring on his sword "… then death shall be your fate." The ring started to spin and grow in to a even bigger ring.

Tōsen then said "Bankai." The ring multiplied by ten and spread out. They then formed a massive dome as he said "Suzumushi Tsuishiki, Enma Kōrogi (Japanese:Cricket Final Form, Devil Cricket)."

Grimmjow saw the dome forming for a moment and then he didn't see, hear, or even smelled anything.

Tōsen spoke "It seems as you got your wish Grimmjow, you all was wanted to fight me. Now let see if you can escape the spell of Suzumushi Tsuishiki, Enma Kōrogi, Mumyō (Japanese:Ignorance)." Tōsen then approached Grimmjow slowly and slashed his shoulder.

"Of course, your unfortunate to challenge a bankai that deprives it's victim's senses." Tōsen explain, despite his opponent's inability to hear him.

Grimmjow, himself, knew he was in trouble. Because he couldn't find where Tōsen was. It was like he was hopping around just slowly killing him with a simple slice in random directions.

'Damn, what the hell am I suppose to do If I can't find him!' Grimmjow thought

Ichigo wasn't fairing much better with both Gin and Starrk making sure that his attention was focusing on the other.

Gin had kept his distance at a minimal, making his tactics close combat. Starrk was making sure to strike at a distance to keep shooting Ichigo to make sure that Ichigo stayed close to Gin, not given him an ounces of breath.

Ichigo then grabbed the chain at the end of his sword and whipped in around Gin's arm and threw him towards Starrk. Starrk just phased through Gin and readied his guns for another attack. Only Ichigo to whip his chain to disperse him and disrupt his action.

Gin recovered from the attack and position his arms behind him and thrust forward and his fingers became spears.

Ichigo dodge the spear and then yelled "Getsuga Tenshō!" And the attack hit Gin head on and cut his arm off, but cut right through Stark.

Gin eyed the decapitated arm and said "My, my that won't do…" Suddenly the stump of the forearm was growing and formed a new arm. "…that won't do at all."

Suddenly four arms pop out f Gin's shoulders and armpits. Then Gin said "Mubusou Akki (Japanese:Six Armed Demon)."

Gin then position his arms in front of him and said "Muyari no Sendo (Japanese:Six Spears of Death)." and his six arms extended and formed spear like heads.

Ichigo deflected all six spears and the senses Starrk behind him and makes a quick elbowed him in the gut, and to his surprise, actually did some damage as Starrk shot backwards.

Ichigo then focus his attention on the knock down Stark. He then lit the chain on fire and whipped it at Starrk.

Starrk saw the chain whip at him and moved out of the way before the chain hit him.

"So that's your weakness." Ichigo said getting Stark's attention "Your power can turn you into air or into a solid person at will, but it needs a few second for it to work. You can't phase through the blows if you enemy keeps hammering you, can you?"

Starrk replied "Yes that true, but…" The wind around Starrk started to swirl around Stark, slowly growing faster. Then Starrk said "…that's not all I can do. Ráfaga (Spanish:Gust)." and the wind fired at Ichigo. The Wind span around like a huge tornado

Ichigo dodge each of the attack, but when one was about to hit him dead on he yell "Getsuga Tenshō!" and the two attacks collided and neutralized each other.

Ichigo then charge at Starrk with his Sword arm and struck quickly before Starrk had time to change into air.

Starrk block the sword with his guns and then focus his Power into his body and phase through Ichigo and got to a distance and resumed his old tactic as he said "Balazo Doble." and his guns fired another round of bullets.

Ichigo dodge all the bullets and landed safely on the ground. He suddenly felt the ground shake and knew something big was going to happen.

Grimmjow was fairing better now than before.

He may have lost his ability to see, hear, smell, or even detect reishi, but that didn't mean that he couldn't live off of felling the blade. As soon as the blade started to sink into flesh, he dodge the other way. Even then this wasn't enough for him. He needed to take him down if he hope to get out of this bankai, he need to hit Tōsen dead on if he wanted out.

Grimmjow then thought 'How am I going to hit Tōsen good enough to release his bankai if I can't find him. What am suppose to do jump around?' Grimmjow paused at that thought and then thought 'Wait! That's it!' Grimmjow then grinned as he ran his left hand over the blade and yelled "GRIND, PANTERA (Spanish:Panther; Japanese:Panther King)!"

Grimmjow's resurrección looked like a humanoid cat, with a white body, claws, and tail, his blue hair extended to his legs, while his eye and ear became cat-like.

Grimmjow then yelled "Hey Tōsen I know you can hear me…!"

Tōsen stood his ground as he thought 'What's he up to?'

Grimmjow continued "… Your dead now." And with that he launch himself in a random direction and crashed into the wall. He then turned around and flung toward where, by lucky chance, Tōsen was.

Tōsen, shocked by the change of tactic, quickly ran the other way to avoid getting crushed.

Grimmjow kept flying around random direction hoping sooner or later Tōsen would screw up and get hit.

Tōsen was putting his speed to the limit. Grimmjow's speed was even with his, if not fast, but the real problem was his movements, they were unpredictable.

Tōsen finally lost track of Grimmjow, and was caught off guard as Grimmjow nailed him in the back with his hardened body. The force of the attack cause Tōsen to lose his grip on the bankai and it dispelled itself.

Grimmjow's senses returned to him and saw Tōsen trying to caught his breath. Grimmjow then ran towards Tōsen and punched him in the gut and said "That was for my left arm."

Grimmjow then stood in front of the exhausted Tōsen, put his left hand in front of Tōsen's face and said "This is just because you're so annoying." He began to charge his cero up to blow Tōsen's face clean off.

Suddenly a small blast of energy his Grimmjow's arm knocking away his arm. He recognized the attack as the Bala (Spanish:Bullet; Japanese:Hollow Bullet).

Grimmjow and Tōsen then look to see Wonderweiss Margera, a blond hair boy, with freckles, a clown-like tiara mask fragment on his forehead, and looked like he was gazing at the sky, most off the time.

Suddenly Wonderweiss used the Sonído and quickly grabbed Tōsen and left the area with him.

Grimmjow growled at the lost of his opponent, but he knew he could pick him off later.

Ichigo on the other hand was preparing for anything.

He jumped into the air as soon as he heard "Nenten Kanemori (Japanese:Twisting Metal Forest)." and thousands upon thousands rapidly grew out of the ground.

Ichigo landed safely on the ground. Only to meet another sword to sprout out of the ground and swing itself around, trying to cut him in half.

Ichigo cut the blade, and dodge the other blades swinging themselves at him.

Ichigo jumped into the air and spotted Gin in the enter of the silver forest, with his arms and legs extended and dug into the ground.

Ichigo launched himself at the location were Gin was and yelled "Getsuga Tenshō." and the black crescent energy began to race at Gin.

Gin saw the attack coming, and then a few of the blades thrust towards him and intercepted the attack.

Ichigo hit the shield no longer then when his attack hit. Ichigo swung his sword to crack the shield with a successful blow. The shield shattered with contact and Gin forced a few of his words to wrap themselves around Ichigo's sword to cease its advance. When the sword stopped Gin then had a few sword wrap around Ichigo's waist, arms, legs, and neck.

"Well Ichigo I must say I'm for once I'm impress Ichigo. You force me to reveal my greatest technique, as well as coming this far, but in the end…" Gin's sword suddenly moved towards Ichigo in every direction "…but this is the end."

Flames began to pour out of Ichigo's body as he yelled "Guess again!" Gin's eye were lightly hit by the flames, his distraction cause the blades to retract, giving Ichigo enough room to spin around and yell "Shinkirou Kien!" When the flames hit the blades and Gin they began to melt.

Gin began to panic "NO, NO, NO, NOOO!!" Gin's voice faded as he melted into a pile of silver sludge, and a few second later the sludge formed into Gin's true form. Gin laid on the sand with his melted sword on his left arm.

Ichigo stared into the remains of the former enemy and spoke "Good riddance."

Suddenly a Cero was launched and headed strait at Ichigo. Ichigo dodge, knowing the cero belong to Stark, and fired his Getsuga Tenshō in the direction of the cero.

Starrk himself dodge the attack and landed on the sand. "Now that Gin's out of the way, your attention will be focus on me I'm guessing."

Ichigo nodded to his opponent.

Starrk understood and pointed his gun at Ichigo and fired it.

Ichigo easily cut the blast in half and avoided damage. "It seems that through your guns, you fire ceros, am I right?"

Starrk said "Yeah, that's about all they can do…" He position his right gun and charge it up "…and this. Cero Metralleta (Spanish:Sub-Machine Gun Zero; Japanese:Infinite Ammunition Hollow Flash)." and over a dozens of ceros started to shot out and headed strait for Ichigo.

Ichigo tried to run away from the ceros by dodging to the left. The ceros somehow change course and flew strait where he was again.

Ichigo was running left and right to avoid the blast. Finally he got tired of running and swung his sword as he yelled "Getsuga Tenshō!" and tired to neutralize the ceros.

The Ceros then scatter to avoid the attack and moved in on Ichigo indifferent direction.

Ichigo began to jump all around the place to avoid the ceros from hitting him. He kept to the ground to make sure that if a cero was close enough, he would dodge the last second and the cero would collide into the ground.

Ichigo then only had one more cero to deal with. He let it get close and yelled "Getsuga Tenshō." and negated the cero.

Starrk stood away and watched as each of his ceros get destroyed. Starrk prepared another round of ceros, Ichigo attacked him before he got the chance.

Starrk blocked the sword with his guns and then jumped away. He aimed both of his gun and said "Cero Metralleta Doble (Spanish:Double Sub-Machine Gun Zero)." and twice as many of his ceros fired at Ichigo.

Ichigo was already on the run from all the ceros. Ichigo repeated his previous plan and manage to get rid of most of the ceros. Starrk on the other hand had improved his timing and control over the cero's course.

Ichigo still on the run, quickly spun around and launched his Getsuga Tenshō to try and neutralize the ceros. Only for the ceros to spread out and direct in different direction.

Ichigo began to twist and stir his body in random directions, slashing and whipping every cero that came at him with his chain and sword.

Ichigo finally calmed down when he felt no more ceros present. He eyed Starrk pointing his gun at him again and fired another cero. Ichigo prepared to cut the cero, but was surprised when the cero altered its course and ran around him and then circled around to come at him again. Ichigo face the cero and prepared to strike. Suddenly Ichigo sensed another cero coming from behind and got distracted. He cut the cero behind him, but got served a direct hit from his back.

The cero colliding with his back forced him forward to Starrk's feet. Ichigo, painfully lifted his head to face Starrk.

Starrk looked down at his opponent. He then said "You did well." and pointed his gun in his left hand at Ichigo. Before Starrk could fire his gun, Ichigo swung his arm forward, and with a small spark of fire, hit Starrk in the face. This caused Starrk to throw his gun in his right hand away while rubbing his eyes out.

Ichigo used this moment to pull himself together and jumped back up. Ichigo then whipped his chain around Starrk's Body, before he had time to turn into air. Ichigo then lifted Starrk up off the ground and swung him around. He then unleashed the Chain and let Starrk fling forward and hit the sand.

Ichigo twirled his sword around his hand before he yelled "Getsuga Tenshō!" and the attack slammed into Starrk, delivering more damage, and the sand stirred, preventing Ichigo from seeing the damage. When the dust settled, he saw Starrk laying face down with wounds on his back.

Ichigo thought that was the end of Starrk, he got his bike, headed towards the gates and opened the doors.

He started to ride through the gates and noticed a single path lit, while the another two paths were dark. Deciding to be careful, he took the lit path.

Ichigo walked down the path for about ten minutes or so. When the path ended in to a large, octagon-shaped room with very opened windows, with two doors, one he just came out of, and another door on the other side of the room.

Ichigo then noticed a lone figure laying in the middle of the room. Ichigo already recognized the figure as Orihime and rushed to her side.

Ichigo returned to his normal form and placed his hand on Orihime's neck to check her pulse. He felt one and sigh in relief at her condition. Orihime's body stared to stir and Ichigo heard a groan.

Orihime started to open her eye and saw Ichigo staring down at her. Ichigo then spoke to the half awoken Orihime "Hey Orihime, you ok!" Orihime slowly got up and looked around.

"Hey be careful." Ichigo spoke to Orihime trying to calm her down a little. Orihime somewhat blushed as Ichigo's hand rested on her shoulder to keep her still.

Orihime began to turn her head towards Ichigo and smiled as she said "Yes, thank you."

Ichigo nodded and said "That's good."

Suddenly a gust of wind hit Ichigo square in the chest and he flew strait into the wall.

Ichigo regained his senses and saw Starrk in the middle of the room, floating in the air.

"You caught me off guard with that assault Ichigo…" Starrk's energy began to rise at an alarming rate. "…but, just to let you know, I'm serious." and wind began to spiral around Starrk.

When the wind settled, Starrk now looked like his old form, but with a few noticeable changes. First, his jacket had turned into a black Trent coat that clanged to his arm, instead of hanging loosely, but it kept the old coats original design. Second, his hand and feet grew sharp claw-like nails. Third, he now wore a visor. The final notice able feature was that his guns disappeared, but in their place, five gun barrels were attached around both of his wrist

Starrk then spoke "Resurrección: Segunda Etapa, Los Lobos del Viento (Spanish:The Wind Wolves)."

Ichigo activated his Ghost Rider form just before Starrk said "Hoz del Viento (Spanish:Wind Sickles)" and a barrage of crescent-shape wind formed and flew at Ichigo.

Ichigo ran away from the direction of the attack and shouted "Getsuga Tenshō!" and the force of the attack hit Starrk.

Ichigo, while his opponent was down, ran over to Orihime. "Orihime You need to get out of here, Now!"

Orihime was reluctant, but neither the less, complied with Ichigo's demand and ran away from that area, but no to far, so she can see what was going on.

Ichigo then eyed Starrk and ran at him. Ichigo's Sword crossed with Starrk's barrels guns.

Starrk pushed Ichigo away, and in that moment, Starrk pointed both of his arms at Ichigo and said "Cañón Airear Gemelo (Spanish:Twin Air Cannon)." A barrage of ball made of dense air, as large as a cannon ball, fired towards Ichigo.

Ichigo cut through each of the cannon balls and jumped towards Starrk and slashed at the opposing Arrancar. Only for Starrk to evade the attack and jump a distance. He then landed on the floor and said "Don't get me wrong, I'm impressed that you made me go this far in a fight, but so far your doing nothing to finish this fight." Starrk informed his opponent.

Ichigo glared at his opponent and replied "What do you want me to do Starrk?"

Starrk groaned and said "I want you to go all out. I'm going to make you pay for making me go through a pain in the ass release." Starrk explain so bluntly.

Ichigo's body suddenly started to pour fire out and shouted "Very well…" Ichigo started to spin around and the flames grew larger until Ichigo shouted "Shinkirou Kien!" and the gigantic black fire exploded.

Starrk saw the flames coming at him and spoke "Vigilar Ciclón (Spanish:Cyclone Guard)" and Starrk was encased by a swirling ball of air. When the flames made contact with the shield, they disperse.

Ichigo looked shocked.

Starrk saw the looked and said "Why so shocked? I saw that technique before and I know how it works. When the attack is release the flames coming from the attack are a mere distraction. The real propose of the move is for your opponent to breath the smoke coming off the flames. Once the victim inhales that smoke, the flame's energy remain reignite and cause the body to burn from the inside out." Starrk explain.

Ichigo was shocked by Starrks intelligent, and examinations skill. He not only figured out how his move worked, but only seeing it done once.

"Now your probably wondering how I disable your attack. The answer is simple, Fire need air to live, my Vigilar Ciclón removed all the air available for it to survive. I also filtered out the smoke and spread it so thin it won't bother me." Starrk explained.

Ichigo decide to point something out. "That my be true, but you didn't think I noticed that my attack have been landing on you. Meaning your phasing ability is gone now, Am I right?" Ichigo spoke.

Starrk nodded and said "That's correct, but that a small sacrifice for my power."

The air around Ichigo and Starrk suddenly started to pick up.

Starrk then spoke "Lets finish this in one blow, and pray to god you don't survive this. Sierpe Vórtice (Spanish:Vortex Snake)." and a huge tornado began to form and the tip of the funnel began to bend and the wide end of the tornado began to chase Ichigo.

Ichigo jumped out of the way of the tornado, only for it to alter it's course and twist itself to capture him. Ichigo kept running in random direction, hoping for Starrk to run out of energy and the tornado to dispel.

The tornado whirl around at Ichigo again, and Ichigo dodge it at he last second. Suddenly a big lump in the tornado formed, it formed into a whip and caress itself around Ichigo's leg and dragged him into the tornado.

When Ichigo was completely consumed by the tornado, the raging winds inside the threw Ichigo around like a rag doll. Finally Starrk appeared in the tornado and raised his hands and the air between the walls of the tornado was cut off, leaving the inside of the cyclone calm, but the wind that cause the tornado still raged. Both Ichigo and Starrk just stood where they were, floated.

Suddenly, Ichigo felt something slash across his back. He turned himself in the direction of the attack, only for him to feel the same thing on his back and front, but he had let to see what was attacking him.

Starrk watched as his opponent tried desperately to figure out was going on and decided to answer his unsaid question "Your wondering…" Ichigo spun around and looked at Starrk, "…What's attacking you, are you not?"

Ichigo didn't answer, but Starrk knew he wanted to know and spoke "This tornado acts as not only a vortex trapping my enemy in, but the winds act like blades, allowing me to strike you without me having to lift a finger."

Ichigo thought 'In other words, he can just stand their and watch me suffer. Huh cheerier guy.'

Ichigo ignored the pain form the wind and focus as much energy as he could in the his sword and yelled "Getsuga Tenshō!"

The attack was fired at Starrk, but Starrk's vigilar ciclón was already up at full power. When the attacks met, they neutralized each other and the wind stirred and caused Starrk's sight to blur out of order.

Starrk didn't move from his spot even with his sight gone for a moment. Then, after his sight returned to him, he saw Ichigo flying in the air towards him at an alarming pace.

Starrk barely had time to launch his attack when his barrel guns met Ichigo's Sword.

Ichigo then yelled "Getsuga Tenshō!" and the black energy nailed Starrk at point-blank range and he slammed into the wall of the tornado, but Starrk didn't phase through it.

Starrk readied himself once more, in time to block Ichigo's sword with his barrel guns. He then pointed his free hand and said "Cañón Airear (Spanish: Air Cannon)."

The blast sent Ichigo at the base of the tornado. He groaned as he got up and then lifted his head to see Starrk still in mid-air.

Starrk then thrust the palm of his hand at Ichigo and the wall of the tornado formed snake-like arms that flew and wrapped themselves around Ichigo's body, restraining him.

Starrk then thrust his other hand and spoke "Muerte del Descendiente(Spanish: Descending Death)" and the walls of the tornado drove inward and slammed into Ichigo.

Ichigo felt the wind that descended upon him. The wind was so heavy that it felt like he was being repeatedly pummeled by thousands of huge fist, but the wind still managed to leave think cuts deep enough to kill a normal man.

Ichigo, even through all this did not scream. The pain in his body was to intense to allow him to shout in agony.

After the Tornado had finished using up all the wind it had. Ichigo was found face down in his human form.

Starrk eyed his fallen adversary. He drifted down to Where Ichigo laid. He saw that Ichigo was bleeding severely, his clothes were shredded, and breathing hard. No doubt because of the last attack. He also noticed a small perfectly round hole in the center of his chest, which was abnormal, but figured it was cause by the attack.

Starrk decided to end it. "For making this far, a quick death is a proper reward for you." Starrk said as kicked Ichigo's sword away and pointed his barrel gun at Ichigo and began to charge with reiryoku.

Just as he was about to fire both Ichigo and Starrk heard a voice "Santen Kesshun (Japanese:Three Sacred Links Shield)! I Reject" and a yellow, triangle shaped shield appeared in between a Ichigo and Starrk.

The attack Starrk had already fired hit the shield and blew him back because of the force. Starrk whirled his head around and saw Orihime no more the two yards.

"I won't let you hurt Kurosaki-kun." Orihime spoke in a strain voice, but no less confident.

Starrk, in response thrust his hand forward and a gust of wind plowed into Orihime and threw her lightly into the wall.

Starrk rose from his spot and face Orihime as he walked back towards Ichigo.

Starrk was interrupted once more by a shield appearing around and all of Ichigo's wounds were closing up.

Starrk whirled his head to Orihime once more and spoke "Why are you interfering in my fight?"

Orihime didn't answer, but kept her complete attention on Ichigo and hoped for the best results. Her attention was interrupted, and her shield disappeared, when Starrk grabbed her by the throat and force to look at Starrk.

"Why do you continue to help him even when you know he going to die?" Starrk asked with even more irritation from being ignored.

"Because he won't die! He promised…!" Orihime was interrupted by Starrk.

"That he would protect you, save you and all of your dear ones?" Starrk finished her sentence and continued "Those such thought may have gotten him this far, but do you honestly think that means he's stronger then me?"

Orihime stared at Starrk confused by Starrk meant.

Starrk saw this and explained "What make a creature strong isn't who he's with, how much he has, or what he has. A warrior, a true warrior can only ascend to a greater heights by walking on his own two feet, by pushing the limits by himself with his own two hands. Only a man can become the strongest when he stands alone with his own might his own power." Starrk then threw Orihime to the ground and said to her "Of course you wouldn't know of such pride."

Starrk then turned toward Ichigo and walked over toward him.

His steady pace once more interrupted by the presence of a shield, no doubts Orihime's.

He quickly twisted his body around and thrust his hand forward to repel Orihime to the wall with a blast of Wind "Stand down. It's not my job to kill you, but if you continue to precede against me, I will maim your arms and legs Orihime-san." Starrk spoke hoping the threat would cool her off.

Orihime refused to listen and prepared to fire up her only offensive move. She then yelled "Koten Zanshun (Japanese:Solitary Sacred Cutting Shield)! I Re…!" here attempt to attack was interrupted by Starrk, who appeared before her and threw his fist in to her stomach and let her fall.

Ichigo, even through all the pain he felt, still felt Orihime's presence, and he could tell that Orihime was trying to fight, but badly losing.

Ichigo tried to get up, but his arms and legs would not obey him. He felt Orihime's pain hit him once more. He thought 'No, no, no! I… I can't… I can't die here! Not like this! They need me…, they need me… to…to…Pro…tect them. I want to win! I WANT TO WIN!' as Ichigo spoke in his mind, his vision blacken.

Starrk had looked down upon the keenly prisoner and thought 'That should keep her down.' As soon as he finished that thought, a sudden burst of energy.

Starrk turned his head toward the source of the energy and saw Ichigo's corpus going through some drastic changes.

First his hair grew longer and his hand gripped the ground before getting up. Once he was up his entire form was revealed to look like a human's, but his head was completely covered by a mask that resembled a human skull with a few decorative curved line going vertical with the mask. The mask also had a pair of long horns that cured outward about two feet. The eye hole of the mask was dark, refusing to show Ichigo's eyes. The hole in Ichigo's chest had grown and a few horizontal stripes appeared around the hole. The finally feature on Ichigo that was notices that what was left of Ichigo's cloths were dangled off of his arms and back.

Orihime looked up to see Ichigo's new form, but shown both shock and horror at Ichigo now living form and new appearance.

Starrk stood where he was in surprise by his fallen victim new power, it was strong, but the appearance look like it resembles an Arrancar.

They then saw the Monster raise his hand in the direction of his sword and the sword literally flew into his hand. The Monster had disappeared and reappeared in front of Starrk, his sword descending on Starrk's head.

Starrk quickly jumped back and thrust his hand forward to send a current of wind to throw Ichigo back.

The monster stood his ground and stood his ground against the wind and vanished form everyone's sight once more.

Starrk quickly whirled around to see the monster behind him again and thought 'This isn't Shunpo, that was the Sonído! But how…' his thought were interrupted by Ichigo bring his sword in an attempt to stab Starrk. Starrk intercepted the blade with his gun, jumped away, then pointed his two gun and yelled "Cañón Airear Gemelo!" and multiple transparent cannon ball fired at Ichigo.

The Monster stood perfectly sit and crouched forward and a small dark red ball appeared in the center of his horns and then it fired into a large red cero aiming at both the cannon balls and Starrk.

The cero neutralized the cannon balls and the remaining energy hit Starrk, who was trying to jump away from the attack, left arm and completely blown it off.

Starrk landed on the ground on his back and his remaining arm tried to stop the wound from bleeding. He then felt a foot on his arm, he then look to see the monstrous form of Ichigo looking down at him, charging up another cero between his horns.

Starrk saw this with horror present in his eye. He tried to struggle to free himself, but Ichigo foot was planted firmly on him.

As the monster was about to fire the cero, both he and Starrk heard a voice that said "STOOOOPPP!!!" Starrk head turn in the direction of the voice and saw Orihime running at the monster.

The monster on the other hand raised his head and the cero fired in the distance, beyond the horizon, then felt something hug him around his abdominals.

Orihime was horrified about what Ichigo had become and even more at what he was doing. Even though all this, she knew she was to blame for all this. He only wanted to protect her, save her, save everyone. Now that wish was granted, but he could control the power, he acted like a monster because of her, and she knew that she was possible the only to stop him.

That way she ran at him, hoping to hear her pleas, hoping he would go back.

She hugged him and spoke tearfully to the monster "Please Ichigo, please stop."

The monster raised his right hand and brought it to Orihime's cheek and her mumbled in a low voice "O…Ori…Orihime…" the Monster spoke and suddenly began to jerk around, losing his grip on his sword and Orihime and bring them to his mask, trying to break it off.

His step back away from everyone and began to tear off his mask starting with the horns. He manage to rip both of them off completely and the rest of the mask followed. Revealing Ichigo original form, with the hole in Ichigo's chest closing up with a bubbling substance flowing out and then flatting out to look like his chest.

Starrk saw this and thought 'Instant regeneration!'

Ichigo breathing was swallow and rapid, but he still manage to stand on his two feet. Ichigo began to wonder around and he saw Starrk laying on his back, trying to use his good arm to get up.

Starrk finally manage to sit up and place himself on the remains of a wall and spoke to Ichigo "Looks like you won after all, Ichigo."

Ichigo turn his head to Starrk and spoke "NO! That wasn't how it was suppose to happen! I was suppose to fight and beat you. Nothing was suppose to interfere."

Starrk was confused by what he meant and said "Interfere? What that suppose to mean, that was your power, or you instinct to be more precise."

"No that was… my instinct?" Ichigo questioned Starrk.

Starrk grin and he said "Yes even though you weren't awake, it was no don't you and you power used at their fullest." Starrk explained

Ichigo still was convinced "But that not what I want! Our fight not over."

Starrk then said "It is over, neither of us can fight anymore, and I have no desire to fight anymore."

Ichigo stood looking at Starrk in disbelief and shouted "What do you mean no desire to fight! We…"

"Done our fair share of fighting and now I need to rest." Starrk interrupted Ichigo and began to focus of the wounds. Which have began to seal up and his missing arm grew back.

Ichigo starred at Starrk in disbelief. "Why are you sawing you can't fight if your Healing up!"

Starrk answered "Because most Arrancar, exchange regeneration powers for more strength when they become Arrancars, but to those who keep that power are able to regrow any part of our body as long as it not internal organs or our head. But when I usual heal up to this degree It takes up a lot of energy and…" Starrk let out a yawn and his form began to recede and transform back into Lilynette, who head was resting on Starrk lap, while Starrk stretch and finished "…Sleepy." With that he shut his eye and began to lightly snore.

Before Ichigo could protest, he stopped himself and shrugged as he said "Forget it." He turned to Orihime and said "Orihime…" he caught her attention "…Thank you."

Orihime smiled and said "Your welcome."

Ichigo then looked at the door in the room and proceeded to walk towards it.

Orihime watch as Ichigo left her, but saw Ichigo pause for a second and heard him say "Orihime I want you to get back to everyone else quickly, take my bike…" Ichigo hand then ran through the motorcycle and it charged up "…An get back to everyone else and stay with them. I going to fight Aizen I don't want anyone to follow me."

Before Orihime could protest Ichigo had already walked through the door and vanished. She stood their looking down at his disappearance, but neither the less followed his instructions and got on the bike.

The bike noticed her presence and began to rev up and drove in the directions it master had left him.

Orihime took one last look at where Ichigo had left and spoke "Please Kurosaki-kun, be safe." and faced forward and gripped the bike as it began to speed up.

With Ichigo

Ichigo walked through the palace with his path lighten for him. He though that Aizen was expecting him and kept his guard up.

Finally, a door appeared before him and he kicked it opened and walked in.

Sure enough, Aizen was in the room, sitting in a chair, that was surly used as a throne for him, sitting calmly despite the presence of an enemy.

Aizen looked at Ichigo and said "Well Kurosaki-san, what do I own this pleasant surprise to."

Ichigo glared at the traitor of the Soul Society and said "Aizen, your reign of terror ends now.

Finally the Elventh chapter is here!

I sorry about the delay, but it's getting harder to write this thing.
I hope you bare with me and see you next time.

Bye