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Chapter Six: Posessed
"Let's go."
"Hai!"
With that we all sprinted towards the large castle.
"We'll need to split into two groups." Toushiro said as he lead his lieutenant and the two seated officers of 11th division. Seeing as how there was an equal number of people, I nodded in agreement and shifted over towards Ichigo, Rukia and Renji who were sprinting behind me.
"Yeah, we'll cover more ground that way." I agreed. "Rukia, Renji, Ichigo. We'll head to the other side."
"Yosh!"
"Reimei." I glanced over at the call of my name and found it was Toushiro, side glancing me with worry evident in his eyes. I smiled a bit to reassure him.
"I'll be fine." I replied back. He eyed me a little longer before nodding his head. I turned my gaze back to the front. "Let's go!" With that, my team and I flashstepped to the other side. Finding a pathway that lead up to the tower was easy enough but climbing the entire thing was another story. The four of us continued to run along the path, swirling up higher and higher but we were still nowhere near the top.
"What is that?!" exclaimed Ichigo. Slowly coming into view was a massive structure of some sort, floating in mid air with what appeared to be long arms stretched out on either side. In the middle of it was a massive flame. Right at that moment, whatever that thing was released a fire ball from its mouth.
'It's one of Kusaka's arrancer lacky.'
I stared wide eye, "Eh? Her?!"
"Leave her to me!"
"Hey!"
"Howl, Zabimaru!" Jumping in front, Renji had managed to slice the incoming fire ball in half but the two rounded back and struck him from behind.
"Renji!"
As the smoke cleared, Renji was already in his bankai form and had created a shield using the large skeletone of his zanpakuto.
"Nothing's going to happen if you just stand there!" Whipping Zabimaru upwards, the long snake-like skeleton had grasped ledge of the top of the floating castle. "Use Zabimaru as a ladder and get up there!"
"Alright!"
"I'll meet you guys up there then!" I said before taking out Tsumetai Kaze. "Bankai! Aiiro Soten no Tsumetai Kaze!" Going into bankai, my outfit dissolved and was replaced by the blue kimono like outfit. Crouching down, I jumped upwards as feathery ice wings erupted from my back, propelling me upwards. A roar erupted in the air as I glanced up, a hollow was heading right towards me.
"Kamaitachi!" Swiping my sword, a strong gust of wind erupted, slicing the hollow in half. Just as it was about to dissolve, it reformed itself and looked as if it hasn't be harmed in any way. My eyes widened.
"What the-?!"
'It regenerated itself so quickly!'
'Heads up kid!'
Tearing my attention from the conversation, I found myself staring at about a dozen hollows all heading towards me. I stopped in mid flight and raised my sword.
"Daikamaitachi!"
Sending out a massive wind current proved to be useless as the hollows kept regenerating themselves. I gritted my teeth, clearly frustrated at how I'm suppose to get to the top if they kept blocking my path. What was more frustrating was that there was more every minute I wasted staying in the same spot. I was in a pinch and I didn't like it. Looking around, I tried to find some way to avoid the hollows and get to the top faster. I darted forward, rounding a corner where it was much clearer and started to head upwards again. Just when I was nearing the top, a sudden explosion erupted from beside me, causing me to fly back from the force. I caught myself just in time to see another one of the massive, floating monster except instead of fire for it's core, it was electricity.
"It's that other arrancer lacky." I seethed, readying my zanpakuto as another electric ball of energy headed towards my way.
"Kyouton: Tsubame Fubuki!" Ice spilled out from the tip of my sword and immediately became a hord of swallows. They rushed forward and collided with the electric energy, sending back a slight shockwave from the impact. The smoke from the attack was enough for me to quickly fly upwards. I almost gloated when I saw the edge of the top of the castle.
"I finally made it!"
No sooner had I touched down on the ground, took a quick glance around and seeing that half of Seireitei was on top of the platform all along, I was knocked off my feet by an energy blast. I tumbled towards the ground and doing a barrel roll, managed to get most of my bearings without falling over the edge.
'Can I not take a break around here?!' I got up hastily, gripping my sword. Standing in front of me was a hollow that looked like a lizard about the size of a lion with two tails and the signature hollow mask.
"So you're the one that took a cheap shot at me...."I muttered under my breath, poising my sword towards the lizard. "Get out of my way! Kamaitachi!" I swiped my sword and the large gust of wind whirled towards the lizard. To my surprise, the lizard vanished and reappeared a few metres in front of me. It gave a roar, bearing it's teeth and fanned out the neck frill it had. I flashstepped away to put distance between myself and the hollow but it followed me, matching my speed.
"It's fast!" I jumped back again but it still followed me. Just when it was about to strike me head on, it disappeared from in front of me before I could raise my sword. I gasped as a force whipped me at my ribs, sending me hurdling towards a pile of debris. Once the smoke cleared, I saw the hollow standing not to far from me, observing me through its mask with its tails swishing about. It was then I realized that the two tails weren't just tails, they had heads with teeth.
'What kind of monster is this...?!'
'An ugly one...'
I clenched my teeth, forcing myself to stand despite the gash I had on my side now. I have had enough of this thing. Raising Tsumetai Kaze, I thrusted the sword deep into the ground in front of me. "Hyouton: Hyouro!" Ice started to form at the crack on the ground and traveled towards the hollow. Once it surrounded the monster, ice pillars shot up, trapping it. The hollow gave a roar of anger and I took my chance. Rushing forward I brought my sword up and slashed down on the hollow. Before my blade could reach, one of its tails shot out and caught my blade between its teeth.
"You!" I cursed and tried to rip free from its grasp. I twisted my zanpakuto and managed to aim the blade to slice the head of the tail. Blood gushed out on contact, staining my white haori. I was surprised that I actually managed to kill something without having itself regenerate. Suddenly, a red glow brought my attention back to the front of the hollow. While being trapped in the ice prison, it started to buil a cero and was just about ready to fire.
"Shimatta!" I flashstepped out of the way just as a red beam shot past my head. The only thing it did manage to get was the sleeve of my shinigami outfit. I tore the smoking fabric off as it was just hanging by a couple of threads and turned my attention back to the hollow.
"How interesting...." It suddenly hissed, taking me by surprise.
"So you can talk..." I said more to myself then the hollow. It swished its remaining tail, breaking away the ice pillars. It turned its body to face me, its neck frill slightly fanned out.
"You're powers are incredibly tempting to take, as I have not had a decent meal since coming to this world...." It reared up on its hind legs, snarling and hissing at the same time. "No wonder Aizen-sama wanted you to join him, such pity now that he has no use of you."
I gripped my zanpakuto harder; this hollow knew about my involvement with Aizen? I glared at the hollow though I couldn't see its eyes. I refused to talk to this thing.
'Why don't we just finish this pathetic reptile already?'
'Yes, I feel that Toushiro and Ichigo are just about ready to finish off Kusaka. Perhaps that might explain why you easily sliced its tail off without it regenerating again. We can get rid of him for good now.'
'I see, then I'll do just that!' I thought, smirking at the news. I reached up and pulled out Tsukuyomi with my free hand.
"Bankai, Akai Tsukuyomi!" Once again, my outfit dissolved into a much darker coloured kimono. Raising both swords, I overlapped them with each other. "Prepare to sent back to where you came from, hollow. Hyouton: Kokuryuu Boufuusetsu!!" A stream of ice and dark energy flowed out from both of my zanpakuto, merging together to form the black ice dragon. The hollow in front of me turned its gaze from the dragon flying upwards to me, glaring furiously.
"You bastard!" It hissed. "Do you think a mere ice dragon can defeat me?!" Opening its mouth, a cero started to gather itself, growing larger by the second. Just then, the large ice dragon appeared in front of me and headed straight towards the hollow. Giving out a roar, the ice dragon collided head on with the hollow, causing it to release the cero attack towards me before being encased by ice. I managed to barrel roll out of the way just in time. I moaned inwardly to myself as I got up from the ground, my body aching all over the place and brushed a few bits of dirt off of my clothes.
"Is it over...?" I asked myself, turning my gaze towards the direction of the massive pile of black ice. It remained lifeless as the ice started to melt, steaming off black mist as it did. I sighed in relief; it was finally dead.
'I wonder if Toushiro has finished his battle...' I glanced over to the ice tower situated in the middle of platform. Squinting my eyes, I could see Toushiro's ice dragon attacking Kusaka's dragon form. 'Looks like he can manage on his own....' I closed my eyes, a smile creeping on my lips.
"Yogata..." I turned away and slowly started to walk off in a random direction, hoping I would run into someone.
'REIMEI LOOK OUT!' I whipped my head around and caught a glimpse at a rising dark aura from the the pile of melting ice.
"You think you can defeat me?! Shinigami?!" a hissing voice snarled loudly before the mysterious dark aura flew head on towards me at great speed.
"What the-?!"
Too shocked to move, I soon found myself engulfed in darkness.
Oh noooooo!! What happens?? :O Well, the hollow did another cheap move on Reimei. It possessed her D: What will happen?? R&R! XD