Bleach: little bee, big changes

by silverknight12

Soifon was lost after Yoruichi left, so with a suggestion given to her from her zanpaktou she decides to leave soul society and find herself and what she finds on her journey will change her forever. Soifon x woman, she's not an OC. Story possess an OC who plays a strong part in the story.

7. A Queen Bee's Freedom

Chapter 7 this is my longest chapter yet I was thinking to cut it off at some other point but decided to keep going until I felt I hit the right cut of point.

This chapter has lengthy fight scene and it is my first true attempt at doing one so sorry if it is not up to some standards.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or any of its original characters.

"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Zanpaktou speaking"

"Zanpaktou thinking"

'Zanpaktou/Kido techniques/Hollow attacks/Quincy attacks'

Standing before the group on Sokyoku hill watching everyone with keen but unseeable eyes was a Vasto Lorde, a being who has reached what is thought to be the peek of a hollows evolution. It is said only a few could ever reached this level and that some on this level can be even stronger than captains, but it is rare any like them even appear outside Hueco Mundo.

This Vasto Lorde was not alone, behind the wolf like hollow stood ten Adjuchas varying in size and looks. These Adjuchas were clearly on a different level to the ones from before, their spiritual pressures bore a lot more power and control. The common size amongst them was big but not hulking like the previous bunch, there were some that were down to nearly the height of the Vasto Lorde. Any that were below the Vasto Lorde's height where very animal like in form like the Aye Aye like hollow that was peeking over the Vasto Lorde's right shoulder.

The Aye Aye like hollow only seemed to be bigger than the size of a normal adult males hand, it wore a mask that look very much like an Aye Aye, it had a pair of ears coming out of the top sides of the it's mask, the mask had two deep black lines circling the eye holes of the mask which only served to highlight it already piercing stare more. The reason the stare was even piecing to begin with was because the hollow eyes were almost exactly like that an actual aye aye's with the difference being that the iris's where a bright purple colour; which only made it look more creepy. The little hollows body was a lot like any aye aye, it's hands and feet possess the form it just didn't possess much hair manly just having purple skin showing.

Haelen, Yoruichi and the group in the barrier looked on with growing nerves at the large group of strong hollows. Sure on their own not one of those Adjuchas could even hope to beat either of the captain level soul reapers guarding the barrier, but as a large group lead by a Vasto Lorde they may just have a shot at it.

Sniffing the air the wolf like leader of the hollows took a few short steps forward "well I must say this place seems like it has seen it's fair share of battles" commented the Vasto Lorde taking in the damage surrounding of the hill, seeing various fissures, broken ground and small craters. After taking in his surrounding the wolf began to sniff the air, lightly growling in delight "well once you get past that pungent smell in the air, there are some really excellent smelling spiritual energies, especially that one that smells so sweet, wouldn't you say Aye?"commented the wolf turning his head slightly to look at the small hollow hanging on his shoulder that squeaked happily as are as response. The small hollow response seemed to make the wolf chuckle and make him only comment back with "indeed" before turning back to the slightly confused soul reapers.

Within the Barrier Ichigo and Byakuya were still recovering and the rest of the group where in no better state to fight either. Ichigo was beginning to get frustrated with not being able to help "Orihime can you speed this up? Haelen and well it is Haelen right?"paused Ichigo to ask Rukia for confirmation on if he was correct, who nodded in response "yeah, Haelen and Yoruichi look like they are really going to need some backup" stated Ichigo feeling very worried for the pair.

Orihime looked at Ichigo sadly before shaking her head "I wish I could but it seems with how strong you and Byakuya.." "captain Kuchiki" corrected said captain to the red headed healer "um right hehe captain Kuchiki heh" corrected Orihime nervously before continuing on with her point "okay um as I was saying you two seem be more hard to heal than those weaker than you and given how wounded you both where, and how drained you both are it's gonna take me sometime, plus with Renji also now being healed alongside you both it's gonna take even more time, um sorry Ichigo" explained Orihime, sounding and looking very sorry for not being abal to do more.

Ichigo look up at Orihime with a disheartened expression but then smiled up at her "don't get so down Orihime you're doing all you can and you're taking on quite the burden healing all of us at same time" this statement seemed to uplift her spirits and make her smile again despite the situation "and beside am sure they will be fine against those big hollows, it's the small one am worried about" stated Ichigo narrowing his brow at the thought of it.

Orihime looked at him confused on why he would find that one the most threatening "you mean the aye aye looking one, I don't see why you find that little thing so scary, I think that the wolf looking one is the most threatening looking one of them all" said Orihime closing her eyes and nodding to herself, if she had her eyes open she would have seen Ichigo looking at her with a stupefied look.

Before Ichigo could correct Orihime on her misunderstanding he was cut of by Ishida "yeah Ichigo why would you find that little hollow at all that threatening with it riding on the shoulder of the wolf hollow, it clearly shows that it is relying on the him for protection" lectured Uryu professionally and coolly while readjusting his glasses with his middle finger.

Ichigo who was now feeling pretty pissted at the Quincy and was about ready to bite back but again was stopped in his tracks when Rukia decided to add her 2 cents "honestly Ichigo I thought you would be able to tell the difference between at stronger hollow and a weaker hollow by now given how strong you have gotten now, but I guess it was wishful thinking" commented Rukia with utter disappointment in her voice.

At the last comment Ichigo decided to give up on any retaliation and lie back down and let himself get healed "I was freaking talking about the wolf hollow damn it!" thought Ichigo with total frustration, before huffing as an outward response.

Within the barrier that was containing Soifon who was still in the process of releasing herself from her suit. She could sense the arrival of the new stronger hollows and was growing worried for both her father and old mentor but she was still confident that they could beat them or hold out until she was free. The one she was most worried about was her dad, his suit greatly limited him and if he got forced into a close quarters battle for too long or forced to keep moving too fast for too long it would it would begin to exhaust him. "not long now I can feel it am almost free" she thought with renewed glee.

"You sure are queen I can see the seals breaking apart from in here, I can also feel my own strength returning alongside yours in no time you will be able to wield me outside of your inner world once again" chirped Suzumebachi with vigour. The truth is like Haelen, Soifon's Zanpakuto also got bound with the suit, he commented that for some reason any time he makes a suit that is also given the added feature of converting one's spirit energy the Zanpaktou just seems to get sealed away into the soul reaper. He said it might have something to do with trying to avoid the nature changing since Zanpakutos are literally built for battle, so they would not benefit from it since they don't really age unlike their soul reapers.

"yeah I'm really excited that I will finally be able to wield you again, wielding you our inner world is good for keeping my skill with you sharp, but it's just not the same as using you for real, there's just this intimacy missing"commented Soifon to her Zanpaktou thoughtfully.

Suzumebachi giggled at the comment "am not surprised that you noticed the difference given our bond, well inside the inner world I could make countless copies of my weapon for you to wield but in the end those won't be really me they will only be my weapon form, but outside you only have one and that one is me truly"spoke the sword spirit sounding proud of her wielder for noticing the subtle difference between her copies and the real her.

Soifon let a little laugh escape her, she had a feeling it would be something like that "yeah no surprise when I was wielding the copies I thought they lacked a certain shine to them" stated the young ex-lieutenant to her Zanpaktou with humor lacing her voice.

Suzumebachi giggled at the comment "oh! Soifon stop with comments like that you're gonna make me blush! oh but then again I suppose it's true you can't really just simply copy all my beauty!" replied the bee like spirit, giving off a mock protest before going on to supporting the stroking of her own ego.

Soifon gave a small laugh at her sword spirits behaviour before going to back refocus on the freeing of herself as it was nearing it's final stages.

Back outside Haelen and Yoruichi where staring the gang of hollows down with looks that seemed to be trying to light the very ground they stand on up in flames, Haelen was managing the look by having his silver lenses glow brighter.

The Wolf hollow seeing this whistled tauntingly in response to the intense glares, not at all fazed by them "well seems my company is not welcomed if those looks are anything to go by haha" pointed out the wolf sounding amused which got him some laughs from his fellow hollows and a little squeaky laugh from Aye.

Yoruichi frowned at the wolf she could clearly tell that this one was not just stronger than the rest but smarter too, and more level headed to top. She wondered if it was easily triggered to anger like most hollows "yep you sure aren't, this is really a soul reaper only party so maybe you could have your little followers over their go throw you a bone to keep you entertained" replied Yoruichi trying to further taunt the target of her jab by putting on her famous cattish smirk.

All the hollows began growling and hissing at the dark skinned woman for her mockery and some where about ready to attack her, but were halted when the wolf raised his right clawed hand effectively stopping them "oh come on, you all aren't going to get all touchy over one little comment like that are you, she is just trying to provoke us into attacking blindly" lectured the hollow in unwavering calm.

Yoruichi did not show any outside reaction to the failure of her idea but was inwardly tense "yep, this hollow is different to others, he is more emotionally level and smarter because of it, but it is nothing like the hollow Kisuke describe, it's not mindless, but just because it's a Vasto Lorde does not mean it's unkillable or capable of killing a captain" thought Yoruichi slipping into a battle stance ready for any attack. She wasn't feeling too bad from the days battles so far just a little sore in place nothing she couldn't handle.

The wolf hollow folded his clawed arms tapping one of his clawed fingers against his bone like armour "okay so this is how it's gonna work" he spoke up getting everyone of his hollows attention and that of the hills other occupants "you lot can take the woman but the gimp is mine" ordered the Vasto Lorde in all seriousness despite the term he used to identify Haelen.

Haelen who heard the name wasn't really fazed by it, but he was ready to smack Yoruichi up side the head for her failure to hold in her snickering at him "uugg, oh well I guess this is what I get for designing it to look this way, but I wasn't thinking that maybe one day suits similar to this would be made and used for such acts, maybe this suit is more cursed than I first thought" mused Haelen lettering out and exasperated sigh.

One of the wolf's followers who was not sure of the set up stepped forward "um my Alpher sir um are you sure you don't want any of us to fight alongside you? it could save us some time and we could sooner move on to devouring those who are inside that box over their" suggested one of the Adjuchas class hollow.

The wolf like hollow shook his head also making his spiky long mane sway roughly with his movements "that's why I'm gonna fight alone and you lot can take out the woman and then go on for the ones in the barrier and eat to your hea- well your content" he explained catching himself on the slip up on hearts "just leave whatever is making that sweet smelling spiritual pressure for me and if any of you get the bright idea about trying to take a bite out of that one..well just know I want be hhhappy" warned the Alpha adding a will crushing tone at the end.

All the hollows in a single synchronized move each took a step back from their leader and said nothing. The Vasto Lorde hummed in satisfaction and knew none of them would dare defy his command after that "well since their is nothing left why don't we get started my pack, you all have your prey and I have mine" he turned his head to look at his pack as he calls them, who had yet to move "well what are you waiting for? shoo" he ordered with a bored tone at his packs hesitation.

After the wolfs final order the pack as a collective roared and began their charge at the two guarding soul reapers as they charged they all began zoning in on Yoruichi. Yoruichi who heard the wolfs command knew they were coming after her, she came to a quick decision on what action to take "Haelen their coming after me I will lead them away, it wouldn't be a good idea for me to fight them out in the open like this and so close to the barrier" said Yoruichi explaining her plan to the masked man.

Haelen saw her point and knew she was right, it was the best cause of action and he wouldn't be able to back her up anyway with this Vasto Lorde after him "right, good luck Yoruichi" he spoke wishing her luck before he watched as she began to lead the pack of hollows away into the forest area of the hill.

All but one hollow gave chase to the dark skinned goddess. This hollow was showing the same signs of being rabid as the previous batch, as it was nearing Haelen, he was more than ready to put it down, but the hollow was stopped and quickly found itself cut into pieces and was dead before it could even realize what just happened to it.

Haelen stud their baffled on what just happened he didn't see what did it but he had a guess on what did though. As the hollows falling parts dissolved away into light blue particles, it began to reveal the culprit like the pulling back of grand curtain that the one who had slain the hollow was none other than it's pack leader the wolf.

Haelen stud they not letting his guard down after that display of great speed he would have to keep his senses razor sharp or risk falling prey to the hollows speed "well I wouldn't have taken you for a kill your own men for disobeying you once kinda guy" commented Haelen in a humoured tone not really feeling anything for the quick but gruesome kill he just saw.

Wolf like hollow humph at that comment "I'm not, but you and me both know what was happening to him was the same as what was happening to those previous Adjuchas, I know it would have been impossible or would have taken too long to snap him out of whatever state he was in" explained the Alpha not really sounding sad or remorseful about killing one of his own.

"Oh so you were present for that, why didn't you decide to help them? or team up? you're a Vasto Lorde am sure they would have followed you give your strength" asked Haelen feeling curious and also looking to buy more time for Soifon and the others.

The Vasto Lorde seemed to have not caught on to Haelens plan yet and decided to answer the masked man's question "they were not a part of my pack so why should I help them and besides if did that we would having to share the prey with them and am not for sharing with other packs" he stated simple and with distaste at the mention of sharing with other packs. After answering Haelen question the wolf gained a question of his own "so may I ask the name of the one I prey on today?" asked the wolf with eager malice beginning to beginning to seep in his tone.

Haelen clearly hearing the intent in his voice was not fazed by it, he had faced much worse in his time and he was not going to be intimidated by the likes of this hollow "Vasto Lordes for the most part are overrated anyway" "well since you asked so nicely my name is Haelen Bennet and may I ask your name? or am I gonna have to start calling you dog breath?" asked Haelen while getting payback for the gimp comment awhile back.

The only sign Haelen got of his comment having any impact was a slight twitch from one of the razor fingers of the hollows left hand "hum well sure why not" the wolf spoke with a voice carrying what sounded like abit of restrained anger.

"ahh maybe he isn't as totally in control of his emotions as he was letting us believe, but he is still pretty good for a hollow, most by now would usually call for my head after a jab like that" observed Haelen studying the hollows body language, changes in tones of voice and the fluctuations in it's spiritual pressure carefully.

The hollow parted it's clawed arm and now stud their in a open pose "I am Sapher Wolfinspine, a Vasto Lorde of Hueco Mundo and the one who will dethrone Barragan and after that I will become the true Alpha that I was destined to be!" declared the now identified Sapher with pride and determination flooding his voice with a clear thirst for power rapping it all up together.

Haelen inwardly sighed at hearing the hollows life goal "huuuh typical, a hollow who has reached the near pinnacle of their evolution and yet thirsts more, what is the point of ruling Hueco Mundo? it's nothing but empty desert, oh well I guess the name suits him I guess, but I could just as easily nickname him stereotype hollow 562" thought the masked soul reaper not at all impressed with the hollow's cliche ambition "but ehh can't blame him there really isn't much to do there except for fight,eat or rule...or spend all day staring at that eternal moon" recalled Haelen remembering the short list of things that their was to do in Hueco Mundo "though I wonder why it is always crescent?"he thought picturing the always crescent moon of that empty dessert.

After coming out his musing Haelen thought it good to give a reply in order to keep his plan going for as long as possible "ahh what a fitting name, did you make it yourself? or is what you were called when you where human?" asked Haelen making sure to make himself sound as interested as possible.

Right now Sapher was getting suspicious of the masked man "ok it's one thing to asked my name but to want such detail doesn't seem appropriate for a situation like this, what's he up too?" studied the wolf like hollow. Sapher decided to start taking in his surrounding once more and started focusing in on the barrier again and noticed that the soul reapers were getting healed and noticed an intense bright light coming out of the top of box behind the one protecting the injured occupants. After seeing all of that it clicked "wait he had been trying to stall me, well enough of that! time to kill" and with no more desire to talk Sapher began his attack on his prey.

Sapher in a sudden burst of speed shot himself towards Haelen with his left clawed hand drawn back, upon being close enough to his target Sapher swipe his hand at his targets mask head aiming slice it off into multiple piece.

Reaction in time Haelen lowered his body and let the claw sail over head but he had to quickly jump back in order to avoid the second lower swing from Saphers other claw. Haelen was not given room to breath though because Sapher charged again with the goal of dealing a double hit on his torso. Waiting until the last moment Haelen side flips over the lethal double cross swipe and land on the ground directly left to Sapher and lands a strong punch on the wolfs face.

When the punch hit Sapher and Haelen both did not move with Haelen fist still connected with the hollow's wolf masked face "heh not bad you got me there but I must say am a bit disappointed, I thought your strike would have a bit more bite than this" Sapher turned his head to be face to face with his opponent "oh well I guess you can't have it all in a single OPPONENT!" roared Sapher as he attempted to claw at Haelen's gut with his left who just managed to quickly hop back and avoid the swipe at his abdomen.

Haelen continued to back pedal away from Sapher in order to gain more distance. After coming to a stop and seeing that Sapher had yet to make a move the black clad man began to evaluate his current state "what the hell? am sure that hit should have more of an effect than that" Haelen began to notice he was breathing a bit harder than he should be "am really beginning to get tired already? damn this could be a serious problem, it seems hand to… um claws isn't going prove any form of effective, time to change tactics" with that thought set Haelen raised both his lazily opened hands above his head, they began to glow with his silver energy, he then quickly brought his arms back down and in both of his hands where a pair of silver energy blades formed from his spiritual energy.

Sapher was caught briefly by surprise with the appearance of the blades convinced that the man would not have any weapons on him. Haelen who predicted the move would have the hollow by surprise flashed stepped behind Sapher and aimed to behead him with a horizontal strike.

Sapher reacted and turned around in time too blocked the left blade with his right claw positioned vertically. Not wasting a second Haelen aimed his right sword and he went to spear Sapher through the throat but the wolf just manage knock the strike lower with his other claw and away from his neck and instead hit him in his chest. When the blade hit Saphers chest there was no blood, no cut only a slight crack on his armour with the blade unable to push any further, seeing this Sapher bust out in hysterical laughter.

Haelen was completely horrified by the sight of seeing his blade doing no damage it was a clear cut sign that his attacks were growing weaker and he was beginning to feel fatigue seeping into him "no! Soifon still needs more time" he reminded himself and quickly pushed all thought of his condition to the back of his mind and deciding to ignore them.

Sapher who was done with his bout of laughter batted away the blade that was still on his chest that created a small trail sparks on his armour as it scraped of and then followed up and delivered a powerful kick at Haelens chest, who was unable to react fast enough to dodge it and was winded and sent flying back some distance skidding on the ground when he made impact before eventually coming to a rough dusty stop.

Haelen who was now in an even worse state thanks to the kick he just received, shackley getting back up taking in deep breaths in order to get his lungs back into rhythm. Haelen was not doing good today on top of his stamina quickly fading and in turn making his strikes lack any true impact he was becoming left with using them as more of just a means for defence. He was becoming left with using kidos on this hollow and the only ones that would stand any shot of being effective would be the higher level ones and those would be taxing on his current reserves.

Sapher lazily stood in the same spot where he had kicked Haelen from and faced him not really looking interested any more given his bored body language "you know what this is getting boring, I thought you would be more of a challenge than this, maybe I should have taken on the woman and let my pack have you since you're so utterly weak!" stated Sapher spouting out insult after insult sound very disappointed and angry "you know what am done with this if this is all you've got then I see no reason for any hollow to eat you, so say goodbye!" and with that final comment the wolfs mask's jaw snapped open and in between it's snouts front teeth was a quickly forming dark blue Cero.

Everyone in the barrier seeing this we're quickly growing panic and worried for the masked man, but they were still in no position to do anything about it.

Seeing the Cero forming and feeling just how powerful it was growing Haelen saw a great big opportunity "ok this is going to be difficult but I hope it will hold together"expelling the two energy blades he had managed to hold on to, Haelen started putting his hands together with his two inner index finger folded over each and his pinky's and first index finger's staying erect.

Sapher who had become too filled with bloodlust and a sense of dominance over this fight to even notice or care about Haelens current movements had now finished his Cero "NOW DIE WEAKLING!" roared a blood thirsty Sapher before firing of the intense powerful dark blue beam of energy at his awaiting target.

"HAELEN!" shouted a terrified Rukia and a now conscious but still unable to move Renji who were watching in sheer horror as the Cero began closing in on the black clad man so fast that the suction power was lifting up dust from the ground.

When the beam was just about upon him, Haelen then enacted his plan and pointed his clasped hands in front of him and exclaimed 'Bunkatsu hakai no tonneru!'. Before him appeared the same blue cylinder except this time the number of exit tubes was four and they all pointed in the same direction.

When the Cero hit the entrance of tube it flowed straight in but the power of the beam was making cracks appear on the kido and began making it rattle from the strain of trying to the power contained, Haelen was struggling to hold the spell together and was grunting under the strain on his body. Luckily the spell held together long enough to fire the Cero back out, straight at Sapher.

Sapher was frozen in shock as the four separate beams merge together and reformed back into a full Cero. When the beam struck Saphers location it created a big explosion coloured with dark bright blue patches and lifted up and created a big smoke cloud which covered the area around where the hollow was standing. Haelen had to steady himself in order to not be knock over by the initial shock wave, it was pretty hard to do given how tired he was getting and how hazy his vision was growing at times plus to top it his sense of balance was failing him abit. Haelen answer to his problem was to smack himself in the face really, really hard 'SMACK!' suddenly everything began to focused at on his vision part "well glad that worked".

Haelen watched the smoke cloud carefully for any signs of movement and kept his sense sharp for any spikes in spirit energy. As time went past the masked man began to grow a bit hopeful "did it finish him?" but sadly lady luck was not on his side today.

Laughter could begin to be heard coming from the dust cloud completely crushing Haelens hopes that he dealt a good blow to the armoured wolf. As the smoke cloud began to drift away thanks to a small gust of wind, Sapher began to come back into view. He was showing some new cracks to his armour and even some small lines of freshly streaming blood from a few of those crack, further he was sporting some burns on areas of his body but due to his armour he most likely doesn't know that they are even their. Other than those injuries he doesn't look to be in much of a bad condition even though he was in the centre of the intense explosion; showing just how tough that armour truly must be.

As Haelen observed the hollow he noticed that something had changed. Gone where the hollows pair of claws now in their place where two twin blades taking the place of both his hands and forearms and extending for twice that length, coloured as white as his armour with the exception of its blade edge which gleamed light blue.

Sapher was panting a little but not heavily he was a bit surprised that he received that much damage from his own attack "good thing I was able form mycuchillas lobo duales in time or I could have suffered more damage". After that first thought Sapher moved his gaze to one of wounds on his right arms"but still I shouldn't have taken this much damage from my own attack so maybe he increased it's power somehow, oh well doesn't matter I won't let it happen again" resolved the wolf.

Sapher turned back to look at a now heavily panting Haelen "well you look beat do you maybe want to take nap, I would be more than willing to let you do that while I go and feast on the source of that delicious smelling spiritual energy" mocked Sapher feeling pretty confident that this fight was done given the sight of Haelen supporting himself on one knee.

Haelen tensed at his words and felt his anger begin to rise "this bastard is threatening to eat my daughter, I won't let him harm my little girl, he wants her it will be over my cold dead body!" thought Haelen with renewed courage he put the feeling of his burning muscles, fatigue and emptying spiritual energy away at the back of his head once again.

If this was it, if this was the day he died he would not die a man who failed to protect his daughter, he would not die a coward who just gave up because of few a burning muscles and fatigue, he had fought many battle, seen many die and had taken many lives, not for the sake of purifying, he was not someone who would just kill over and give up like this not when someone so close to his heart needed him to be strong.

With all his will and might he stood back on his feet refusing to shake even a little, refusing to let even a shaky breath escape or enter his burning lungs weakness was not something he would let show. Once standing at full height Haelen once again created a pair of silver blades "you will not be getting inside that barrier I will not let you lay a claw on my daughter" declared Haelen with a voice carrying his unwavering will and undertone of anger towards the wolf.

The wolf laughed before replying back "oh so that's you're pup producing that mouth watering spiritual energy oh that just makes it so-much-better" stated Sapher in malicious excitement "you know I have an idea on how to make my meal so much more better am going to beat you until you can fight no more and make-you-watch as I devour her" threatened Sapher uncovering the more darker sadistic side of himself.

Haelen did not speak and did not outwardly react to the threat but inwardly he was fuming, he was going make this bastard pay for his threats towards his little girl and for saying he would make him watch her death helplessly.

Sapher tilted his head to left slightly clearly amused about something "what? not going to speak?" he asked getting no reply "ok suit yourself but that means this is all just going to end sooner" he stated nonchalantly before going in for the attack.

Sapher leaped forward towards Haelen at incredible speeds drew both bladed arms above his head and gave a roar before swinging his arms down with the goal cleanly slicing both of his opponent's arms off his body. Reacting quicker than he should have been in his condition Haelen crossed his arms and blades and stopped the powerful downward swing which made his knees buckle under the powerful pressure then furthermore break the ground beneath his feet. In a feat of surprising strength he pushed up with his whole body and uncrossed his blade to give extra snap as he parried Saphers blades away from himself and leaving his wolf faced oppenent standing wide open.

Not wasting a second Haelen swung down both his blades with all the strength he could muster and landed on both of Saphers shoulders and chest but Haelen knew that his strike wouldn't truly cut through the hollow's Hierro (meaning steel skin).

As Sapher (who was not really fazed by the attack was just about ready to laugh at the sight of the pathetic attempt) was getting ready to do a cross strike at Healens neck in a move to not really kill him but make him suffer blood loss so he will be too weakened to move "because I did promise I would make him watch" he thought smugly seeing his victory in sight. Sapher halted in his attack when he saw the silver blades turn azura blue and begin to move like fire, he was even beginning to feel some heat come from them.

Haelen quickly repositioned the blue blades so that they were forming an X on Saphers chest and then swung the blades while calling out 'Hado 73 Soren Sokatsui!' after that the twin blades in his hands exploded into blue flames which washed over the Vasto Lorde at point blank and completely engulfing him. The blue flames continued to spread out for a good area even shooting of the edge of hill and continuing to give of bright blue light for a few second before dying to down.

Rukia who along with everyone else who new of that Hado just couldn't believe what the black clad man just did "h-how?" stuttered out Rukia "how did he do that? h-he managed to perform a level 70 Hado in such away I had never seen before" she spoke in utter amazement.

Byakuya could clearly hear his sisters awe and decided to speak up "no surprise really after his displays so far we should have been wary of any new surprise techniques, but I do agree I myself have never seen that spell used that way before, really quite..innovative" commented Byakuya giving praise to the man who was not their to hear it.

Rukia was surprised to hear her brother give praise to anyone and a stranger at that but she just took it as confirmation that what she had just seen was something never before witnessed by even a captain.

As the smoke began to clear Haelen began to feel a furious and violent rise in spiritual energy coming from with in the dust fog. As the rise was happening Haelen could see that the change in wind caused by it was beginning to disperse the dust away in all directions.

Their now visible within smoke and shrouded in dark blue aura of spiritual energy coming was Sapher, panting hard this time with new cracks to his armour and even some to his mask that was missing one of its left k9's, some blood dripping from the new cracks, but what injury really stood out was the big jagged X like crack on his upper torso that was leaking the most blood and had bits chipping and fall off reveal dark blue skin which was burned in places underneath.

Sapher was growling and shaking with what could only be guessed as uncontrollable rage. As if to emphasize his anger he howled, not a blood curdling screech or a monstrous roar but a howl, a wolf howl which only went to reinforce his persona. While Sapher was howling to the sky he was releasing a huge amount of uncontrolled and unfocused spiritual pressure, releasing a shock wave that carried some tendrils of his dark blue spirit energy along with.

Haelen was not fazed by the display of power and kept his focus solely on the werewolf from Hueco Mundo. Haelen saw Sapher was now done howling, Sapher immediately snapped his head to look at the source of his rage and suddenly disappeared from Haelen sight leaving a doom sound echoing in air. The mask man was shocked at seeing the new level of speed from the Vasto Lorde.

Before Haelen could even react the wolf had appeared before him and gave him an upwards kick to the chin so hard it sent him rocketing up into the air. While suspended in the air Sapher again appeared behind Haelen in a sonido and kick hard in the middle of his back making Haelen grunt in pain and sending him flying forward. Performing a third Sonido Sapher appeared above where Haelen would interline with him and started charging a Cero and when he was in line he unleashed it mercilessly upon his target 'Cero!'.

When the Cero hit, it engulfed Haelen and looked to have met some resistance at first but that ended and the beam pushed through sending its target down to hills surface with intense force.

Everyone in the barrier stared in shock at seeing Haelen getting pelted around and their looked turned to fright when they saw him get swallowed up by the Cero "d-do you think he's dead?" asked Chad to anyone.

"I hope not because if he is then where next" replied Uryuu in a cool tone but had his calm demeanour ruined by the drops of sweat rolling down his brow.

Everyone tensed when they saw the wolf hollow land on the ground between the barrier and the smoking crater that it's Cero shot Haelen into. Everything was dead silent as the hollow just gazed at the barrier making everyone tense further.

Sapher turned his head slightly in the direction of the smoking crater "well I guess you're done, not even you were able to avoid that one and I made sure of it, you were an annoying fight in the end but you did do me one favour.." he paused and started walking forward at a leisurely pace "YOU HELPED ME WORK UP MY APPETITE! HAHAHA" he roared continuing to laugh maniacally as he approached the barrier "time to eat daddy's pup" he thought with sick humour.

Sapher was stop in his movement when something impacted with the back of his blue mane covered head. Sapher turned around to see what hit him and saw it was a rock that looked to be burnt and smoking "where do you think your going" spoke tired sounding voice coming from the still smoking crater.

The voice made Sapher growl in frustration "grrr I can't believe it how is he even alive? let alone able to move? " thought the wolf like hollow to himself. Sapher stared into the dust cloud covering the crater and saw Haelen's figure approaching from the dust and what seemed to be silver light shining around sections of him.

When Haelen stepped out of the smoke everyone eyes shot open as wide a dinner plates. Haelen was clearly hurt by the Cero, sections of his suit were damaged but their was no blood bleeding through those torn areas, what was flowing out was think silver spiritual stuff was barely transparent and was covering up what was ever under the suit. The masked man took a deep painful breath to calm down his spiritual energy for a moment and when he did his energy shifted to it's soft green colour and the broken sections of his suit began to close up and rebuild themselves, no one interrupted they were still trying to wrap their heads around what they were seeing before them.

Renji was looking at the sight when something began to click "hey Rukia" called the redhead to his old friend who manage to pull her gaze away to turn to look at her recovering friend "do you think this what he meant?" he asked thinking she might pick up on what he was referring too, but she just looked at him confused "when he said he couldn't simply take that suit off" he explained and watched as realization struck her.

Rukia turned back to the two masked fighters and stared for moment "yeah I think so, and I think that amount was just the tip of the iceberg" she stated her tone showed no real clear feeling on the matter "the real question is how big is that iceberg?" where her final thought before refocusing on the two masked opponents.

Once the rips in his suit were patched up the green lines and lenses of his suit returned to silver showing that in turn so did his spirit energy meaning he was ready to start fighting once again kind of "man I feel like i'm gonna kill over at any second" he thought grimly to himself until an image of Soifon flashed through his mind and he felt his will to fight renew for the "3rd 4th fourth time, geez it's hard to keep count when you're getting smacked around like a pinball haha ow! hurts to laugh!" he briefly mused to himself before taking a shaky stance.

Sapher watched baffled on how this man was standing he was clearly weak, his physical strength, attack power where not much to talk about, he could barely go two minutes without needing a breather and his endurance was lousy "so how is he getting back up?!" thought the wolf trying to make sense of it. Sapher decided to ignore all that in favour of focusing on killing this "nuisance" once and for all.

Haelen could feel the wolfs frustration with his stubbornness and smirked under his mask "I wonder how my smirk would compare with Soibees? well better live so I can find out" he thought like it was a more simpler task than it would be. "Well what do you have to say Sapher? have I been a challenging enough opponent so far?" he asked tauntingly and with clear soreness in each of his words.

Sapher growled and bit back at him "challenging? no! you're more like a fucking cockroach! I crush you once you get back up! I do it again! you still get up!" he yell out before seeming to calming down before taking a more low threatening tone"but I wonder if you will continue to live like a cockroach after I remove your head!" seethed out Sapher. He rushed the masked man and swung his right bladed arm at Haelens neck seeking to slice open his throat, completely discarding the desire to make the mask man watch him as he eats his daughter and now just wanting to make him a corpse.

Haelen ducked under the strike and was forced to duck lower in order to avoid the second attempt at his throat from Saphers left blade. Haelen saw the blue gleam of Saphers razor sharp arm swords coming down towards him with the intent of running him through, moving as quick as possible despite his body's protest Haelen was able to avoid the attempted impaling and saw Saphers blades cut deep into the ground, getting them stuck into the stone surface.

Haelen taking advantage of Saphers mistake pointed his finger right index finger at Saphers head and gave a sharp a whistled, effectively making him look up at Haelen; big mistake 'Hado 4 Byakurai' he called out before shooting out a pale stream of lightning right into the left eye hole of Saphers mask. Haelen saw he hit right on target when the Vasto Lorde reeled back howling in pain, it's left arm shirting back in a claw and was being used to cover the left eye hole in a futile use to stem the blood streaming out.

Haelen tried to better use of his advantage but at this point all he could manage was firing off a 'Hado 31 Shakkaho' but sadly he missed due to his vision beginning to get hazy and the ball of red hot energy went flying of in some random direction of the hill.

Haelen began seeing his vision beginning to darken and was seeing multiple fuzzy copies of the same thing. Being a man who knew when to be stubborn he knew he had more in him "NO! I refuse to fall now not when I have so much to make up for, not when my daughter needs me to fight!" with a roar Haelen created a small silver dagger made of his spirit energy in his right hand which turned into Sokatsui flames which he then used to stab into his left shoulder.

Haelen felt as the blade pierced his suit and felt something comparable to pain, it wasn't really pain not true pain that is, his skin wasn't getting hurt or even touched but it was real enough to give him enough of the adrenalin rush he needed and the burning flames of the blade helped make that feeling more intense.

Haelen now feeling his senses returning to him, he readied himself and saw that Sapher too was now coming back to grips with himself. Looking over too Haelen with his shaky hand leaving and uncovering the left eye hole of his mask (which now shows it to look like it was crying a small river of blood) Saphers left arm transformed back into being a blade. Pushing down the pain and utter rage for now Sapher finally found the words to string a sentence "so..guh! you manage to break my armour, use my own Cero against me and damage one of my eyes you have anything to say to that before you die!" bit out Sapher about ready to end this.

Haelen stud thinking up something to say"what would Soifon say at a time like this ooh I got it" he thought snapping his fingers in success "yeah bullseye bitch" taunted Haelen getting ready for what he would know was going to be his last round with the now one eyed armoured wolf.

Sapher was now visibly shaking with anger, with his head held low "bullseye" he said first quiet but with a menacing tone "bitch!" he said second this time packing a bit more force, suddenly Saphers head snapped back up his one good eye shinning through the darkness of the socket in a cerulean blue colour, showing his unseething rage. "I WILL SHOW YOU WHO'S THE BITCH!" he howled before performing a sonido to appear in the air above his masked opponent and began rapidly twisting around until he looked like nothing but a blur of white and dark blue. Suddenly the blades of his arms began glowing a light blue giving a neon blue ring to the small twister that was Sapher, the sight set Haelen's alarms off immediately.

Continuing to spin Sapher called out 'Lobo Lluvia Cuchilla (Wolf Blade Rain)' and not even a millisecond after dozens of small blue razor sharp arcs of energy began raining down towards Haelen at frightening speeds forcing him to begin flash stepping out of the way. "Hahaha run all you like I can keep moving like this all day but you can't, I know you will tire out eventually!" stated the still spinning Sapher sounding really confident in himself.

Haelen was grunting from strain with every flash step, it felt like everyone of his muscles was screaming at him from a bed of fire; and not the good kind wink,wink nudge, nudge. Now on probably his twentieth something flash step Haelen was working rapidly to think up an effective counter "got it!" he cheered.

Push down the pain Haelen began focusing on reciting the incantation to the kido he had just selected "forge from water, find peace, become still and show thea who looks at you their face, reflect and return to them their deeds!" as Haelen was reciting the incantation a sphere of water formed and was floating in between his palms, when he finished the incantation the water began losing its transparency and started looking like liquid mirror ball.

Haelen came to a stop and pushed his arms out in front of him, opened up his palm up to reveal the liquid sphere and called out 'Shōsho Mizu Mirā o Modoshimasu (Deed Returning Water Mirror)' and with that the mirror ball transformed into a flat round mirror which is about four feet in diameter, it was floating in front of Haelen's outstretched hands and was floating about 2 feet off the ground.

Because of his non stop spinning Sapher failed to notice his masked opponents kido, he had been tracking him be following his spiritual pressure as best as he could. When Haelen stopped he assumed it was due to him finally becoming exhausted so that why he was now doubling his attack; another big mistake.

When the razor sharp waves of energy made connection with the mirror they didn't break it, or bounce off in some random direction, no they sank into the mirror like it was a deep puddle leaving barely a ripple after. One after an other energy wave after energy wave fell in, Haelen was grunting from the effort of making sure the spell didn't fall apart too soon. Haelen finally saw his opening when he noticed that Sapher had stopped his assaulted and was beginning to stop spinning.

Not willing to give the wolf man a moment to figure out what he was planning Haelen called out 'Han'ei Modoshimasu (Returning Reflect)' which started unleashing all the energy blades that fell into the mirror, straight back to the to one who unleashed them in the first place.

Now coming to a halt and ready to look at his handy work Sapher was not greeted by the beaten dead body of one Haelen Bennet but instead by dozen upon dozen of his own 'Lobo Lluvia Cuchilla' "oh fuck me" was what Sapher thought before getting bombarded by the endless swarm of his own technique.

Blade after agonizing blade smashed into the unfortunate hollows armoured body breaking and chipping away at it, the area in which his armour was already damage got smashed away entirely leaving the hollows blue skin now exposed to the cutting power of his own attack, cutting and drawing blood. When the wave of razor death finally ended Sapher stood their twitching in pain with his swords put in a guard position covering his face and chest as best as possible. Blood was leaking out of various cuts/cracks all around his beaten body dripping to the dusty floor, bits of armour where falling and hitting the ground like plaster, he was panting heavily for air and was letting deep angry growls out with each exhale.

As the wolf began to let its blade down with painful grunts as he moved he began to think over what just happened "again! again this bastard used my own attack against me! I will not stand for this, am gonna end that gimp fucker now!" resolved the wolf.

Haelen fell down onto one knee his head held low staring at the ground breathing in as much precious air as possible. He knew this was it, that last technique was the last trump card he could pull out and all those flash steps and quick moving around had taken it out of him, if those blades hadn't finished off Sapher he would have too hope he could at least put up a defence. "Given that I can still feel his spiritual pressure I know I haven't finished him off, damn it! I thought Soifon would be done by now but the process is taking longer than I first thought " he cursed his luck.

Upon seeing Haelen all Sapher saw was red, fueled by anger and plenty of blood lust he charged straight at Haelen like a wild animal barking and howling as he approached his weakened prey. As Sapher approached Haelen he crossed his bladed arms low and before he knew it he was already upon his prey.

Haelen having no strength to move out of the way fast enough summon up two silver energy blades as quick as possible and put them in a cross guard. Sadly given his weakened state the blades where now too fragile and shattered into thousands of pieces when Sapher performed the double upward strike. The attack gave two large cuts on the black clad man's torso, crossing over each other making an X mark simlar to Saphers which began leaking thick silver energy, the attack was strong enough to lift him high up of the ground and some stories into the air.

Seeing his opponent in a valuable position Sapher followed up his attack by leaping up after him and appeared over him and gave him a double dropkick to the gut, and sent him propelling right down to the ground making velocity rings upon descent. The ground smashed apart upon when the mask man made impact. Everything was a blur and his mind was filled with fog, he was brought back to his senses when he felt both his forearms in stinging pain and unable to move them.

Haelen looked to his left arm, he saw a familiar blue edge blade stabbed into the limb and was keeping it pinned, when he looked to the his right he saw same thing happening. Haelen finally looked up and saw that Sapher was on top of him staring at him with his good eye; some of the blood from his damaged eye was dripping out and landing on Haelens black masked covered face.

"You know what really annoys me out of all this, all the damage you have taken you have not once shed a drop of your own blood, all that comes out is this weird spiritual energy" commented Sapher sounding really disappointed. Sapher twisted the left blade deeper into Haelens right arm electing a pained grunt from the man "but it does seem you feel pain I guess that something at least" said the wolf hollow sounding a little pleased now "now I wonder if I was to dig deep enough would I strike blood...why don't we find out" thought Sapher out loud making sure his victim heard him.

Haelen tensed at Sapher words, knowing where this was going. Haelen was now in a position where he could do nothing for himself this time, he has lost mobility, any means to attack or defend he was now at Sapher very mercy. But even with Sapher having him in this position he was not going to cower, he was not going to beg or plead for his life he would not give such a merciless creature like this the satisfaction of seeing him plead, if he dies now he will face it without a cry and without fear.

Sapher looked at the man at his mercy laughing "what? are you not going to beg for your life?" he asked but got no response from the man just dead silence. The wolf man hist at his silence and twist one of his blade again but this time Haelen didn't grunt in pain either, this silence just served to infuriate the sadistic Vasto Lorde who was not enjoying having his fun ruined by Haelen's lack of participation.

Seeing he was not going to get any response or reaction from his prey Sapher saw no reason to drag this out any longer "fine then be that way I was tired of this drawn out fight any way, you stud no chance against the Alpha" and with those words the jaws of Saphers mask snapped open and he began charging a Cero aimed to blow Haelens head clean off.

Seeing his end approaching Haelens heart began to fill with remorse "am sorry Soifon dad failed again, for the hundredth time in his life he has failed, failed to make everything up to the woman he gave his heart too, failed to help those children see a better way of using their gifts, failed when making this suit and now I failed you, I hope you can forgive me my little bee" and with that Haelen sucked in his breath and readied himself for death, again.

As everyone watched this scene play out everyone was going nuts, Rukia was screaming to Haelen and banging on the barrier, a now recovered Renji was about to release Zabimaru and Ichigo who was also now recovered enough to fight was trying to break the barrier with Zangetsu but his hits we're not breaking it anywhere near fast enough.

Time slowed down for everyone as Sapher was nearly done charging his Cero. Sapher was about ready to fire when he suddenly felt an incredible deadly spiritual pressure focused on him, on instinct he aborted his current task to face what was even behind him. Pulling out his blades from Haelen arms and quickly standing and turning around werewolf was expecting to be faced with a new more terrifying foe.

What he got was the scene of both barriers falling apart into pieces and dissolving away into nothing. The occupants of the first barrier all looked around as if confused on how it broke, Ichigo looked at his blade scratching his head thinking maybe he did it. Sapher attention was taken away from the confused group when his ears picked up the sound of metal clanking together behind him.

Turning his head to see the source of the sound, Sapher first noticed that Haelen was now gone from underneath him "how? when?" was his thoughts as he continued to look around for his missing prey. Not a second later he saw Haelen someways away from him being tended to by a woman who had him laying down on the ground and kneeling over him, Sapher couldn't see her face because she had her back to him.

Sapher was about to make a charge for the foolish girl who dare have her back to him but was stopped when her voice spoke out, sounding like ice given the power to speak "I wouldn't move if I was you" she spoke out making Sapher tense twitch, his instinct screaming to him to run and run fast.

Sapher was not willing to let it be known that he was feeling intimidated by the girl, he was the proud Alpha after all "oh yeah and whys that?" he said trying to put on his best bravado and was about to get ready to pounce.

As Sapher was turning his body around the woman spoke again "because if you do you're going to open that cut I gave you" she reveal.

True to her word all of Saphers left side exploded in a fountain of blood revealing a smooth, clean cut going through his armour and straight into his skin and muscle, there was no sign of resistance from his armor whatsoever. Sapher fell on his knees his right hand turning back into a claw, while his other that was still in blade form was being forced into the ground in order keep him from falling forward. He placed his clawed hand over his wound in order to try and stem the flow of his crimson life source "how! when! I didn't see her cut, I didn't even feel it! impossible this can't be real! no one that's fast and nobody can just cut through my armour like that!" thought Sapher frantically trying to find reason to how this all happened.

Everyone who was still in the falling remains of the once proud barrier stared on at the scene totally confused on what just happened one minute the barrier was holding strong, the next it just shattered away like glass, next thing they notice is Haelen a safe distance away from Sapher and is being tented too by a woman and then watched as Saphers left side just explode in blood.

Everyone took a moment to look at what they could see of the girl and could see she had porcelain white skin, was wearing 2nd division styled pants and black chinese shoes, her arms were out of sight due to them being in front of her, what else could be seen from everyones limited view of her was that she has straight waist long black hair possessing blue highlight here and their being shown by the light. Below where her hair length stopped kept vercallily tied to the back of her waist was the girl sealed zanpaktou in it's sheath, the sword seemed to be half the length of the standard length, the sheath was blue and possess some gold decoration at the bottom of the sheath, the handle was yellow and with a dull golden diamond design and the guard was a similar dull gold.

Haelen began to come to when he felt a warm and pleasant sensation filling and soothing his aching body, when he looked at the blurry figure healing him he didn't need to see who it was to know who was healing him "looks like I manage to avoid adding one more failure to my list wouldn't you say.." he said adjusting his head to look the woman straight in her eyes "Soifon" he said revealing the woman healing him to be the now fully free Soifon Bennet; she took his last sometime ago seeing as she was his daughter and felt it would help her bond with him better.

The fully released Soifon was much different to her younger self, her previous height of 4,11 was now 5,3, she still had the fringe of her hair kept in a hime style, her hair also possessed two unique braids on the side of her head helping frame her face, they were wrapped in white bandages with end of her braids being tied around two small golden rings, she also had some more shorter and more spiker looking strands of hair coming in from under the braids. Her body was showing to be much more healthier and stronger given the new hight and much more toned muscles, she now possessed more of a feminine figure, possessing nice but modest curves that were still very attractive, her previous flat chest was now C bordering D but not quite there and the cloth around her chest seemed to have adjusted it to fit the wearers new growth. Though out of all her changes the one that was the most sharp and prominent was her eyes, gone was their dull smoky grey replaced by a colour that could only be compared to liquid silver, shinning warmly and brightly down at Haelen making him smile under his mask at seeing them once again.

Soifon focused on healing her father not bothering to think about the injured Sapher behind her who was glaring daggers into her "dad you're not a failure, yes not everything has gone how you would have hoped it to, but that doesn't make you a failure and besides you have done a lot of great things you are the furthest thing from a failure that I know" she spoke to him softly and warmly smiling down at him.

Haelen sighed thankful for her words that up lifted his spirits "thanks I needed that" spoke Haelen letting his spiritual energy shift back to green in order to help the healing kaido Soifon was using on him work smoother and quicker.

"well well looks like someone got their ass handed to them" come a mocking voice. When everyone with the exception of Soifon and Haelen turned to look who it was, it showed to be Yoruichi standing there arms folded, cat like grin in place, eyes sparkling with amusement at seeing the Vasto Lorde in such a bang up state.

Sapher began struggling on to his feet and growling at while doing it Yoruichi for her comment. The wolf from Hauco Mundo knew if he stayed here he would surely die and given the fact that Yoruichi was here with nothing but a few extra dirt marks clearly told him that his pack was now dead. Thinking quickly he used his clawed hand and swiped at the air in front of him creating a deep black tear and before anyone could do anything to stop him he rushed into the tear screaming "he would have his revenge" and after that the tear closed with Sapher Wolfinspine only leaving behind a small pool of his drying blood.

Seeing that the Vasto Lorde had escaped Yoruichi scoffed "fine run away with your tail between your legs" she quipped before she started taking in her surroundings of the hill turned war zone. The large hill had definitely seen better days, their was new craters some still smoking and new fissures in the ground. The barrier was gone "which must mean Soifon out!" realized cat goddess scanning the hill until her gaze landed on the grown up form of Soifon's back.

Yoruichi was both excited and nervous to see how much her old prodigy must have changed just from seeing her back she could tell she had changed, plus she knew it was Soifon given that she recognized her energy signature, even though she was keeping it incredibly well masked to the point that most wouldn't even pick it up. As Yoruichi slowly and quietly approach the clearly focused girl, the dark skinned woman saw that Haelen spotted her and he gave Soifon a nudge and pointed and brought Yoruichi to her attention.

When Yoruichi saw Soifon turned around to face her she stood in shock at how the young girl had changed "she looks so different, I guess she is no longer my little bee any more" she thought proudly at seeing the little student she once was now a full grown woman "wow her eye have changed how does that work?" noticed Yoruichi curious on how her eyes had changed colour.

Soifon upon seeing Yoruichi shocked face laughed, it was so rare for anything to ever shock the goddess of flash or catch her by surprise so seeing this was quite satisfying for the young now silver eye girl "what's wrong Yoruichi cat got your tongue?" joked Soifon wearing a smirk like it was second nature and eliciting a pained laugh from Haelen "still hurts to laugh" he thought briefly.

After coming out of her stupor Yoruichi quickly composed herself putting her grin back and waltzed over to the pair "well you're dad was not kidding when he said the real you looked pretty different, you definitely look...stronger" complimented Yoruichi scanning over Soifon with keen cat like eyes trying to size up her old students strength but was coming up with only speculation on what level it could be.

Soifon smiled at the compliment received from her old mentor and love interest "well its nice but it would have been better if she said I both looked stronger and sexier" she thought to herself dreamy "maybe she will say that when I confess to her, that's if she accepts and returns my feelings" she thought to herself feeling a bit anxious about confessing her feelings,but not enough to put her off the thought of following through with the confession.

Yoruichi smiled grew further when she saw her old students smile it was very rare she would even see her smile she was usually always frowning or scowling with a face like stone in the past, or she was blushing when Yoruichi teased her but it was rare for her to smile. Yoruichi could count only two times when she truly smiled one was when she awakened her Zanpaktou and the 2nd was when she was made her lieutenant. She grew curious when Soifons expression turned to thought and her eyes become a bit zoned out.

Soifon spotting Yoruichi questioning gaze started thinking up something that would halt any questions she may have "so Yoruichi hows Kisuke been, still the same unmotivated lazy ass I remember?" she asked smirking at the memory of the joyful scientist.

Yoruichi stood shocked at hearing Soifon speak Kisukes name without any tone of bitterness and filed away any questions on that for later in favour of answering her question "oh yeah he's good, he owns his own little candy shop, it sells normal candy and candy that will um benefit the soul, Tessie lives with him and so does some children android things, he lives in city called Karakura town, and yeah he is still the lazy ass you remember" updated Yoruichi getting uncertain about how to describe the children he lives with.

Soifon stared at Yoruichi for a second processing the information before giving a reply "candy huh? you would think with how he had it in his head that he was some sort of fashion god he would have tried opening a tailor shop or a fashion studio or something along those lines" commented Soifon reflection on some of his choice in clothing and shivered. His only remotely tolerable choice of wardrobe was that stipped bucket hat he talked of making one day.

Yoruichi bust out laughing at that comment "actually you're not wrong he did about 80 years ago but he got really bad reviews and was shut down due to it his clothes being seen as a literal insult to senses" revealed Yoruichi with a toothy grin on her face as she gave a brief summary of what happened.

The young porcelain skinned girl stared at the cat woman for a few seconds before adorning a grin and breaking down laughing and losing focus on her Kaido, then falling on her side clutching her ribs at she continued to laugh uncontrollably " th-that is haha hilariously un-ha-unfortunate haha" she stated in between laughs.

Haelen was also laughing alongside her but stopped in between laughs due to it still hurting to laugh "hehehe ow hehe ow hehe ow" something like that.

After coming down from their laughing fit Soifon went back to Healing her still pretty banged up dad, while Yoruichi watched her go to work pretty impressed by Soi's skill at healing "so dad I guess you're up next how you feeling about finally getting out of that thing?" asked Soifon curious to hear her dad's response.

The masked man turned to his head to looked at his daughter "well it's quiet hard to explain, excited, anxious something in between, I have been in this suit for so long it almost hard to remember what I look like, it's been so long since I have truly physically felt anything, hell even today the pain I felt was manufacture, for all the time I have been in this suit I have not enjoyed the pleasures of touch, what ever I eat lacks taste, I haven't smelt anything in a long time, even my sight lacks colour at times, this suit is a curse of a creation and I will be glad to get rid of it" he said talking bitterly about the suit and sounding relief by the mention of being able to strip himself of it.

Soifon looked at her father feeling compassion for the how much his suit took from him, he told her long ago if he had realized his mistakes on his model sooner he would have never put it on and that he was glad she and no one else would have to go through what he was.

Taking a deep breath Haelen released a more peaceful sigh "but hey it won't be like that for much longer, finally I will be able to walk around again with my sense free and no longer looking like something that belongs in a sadist's dungeon" he stated humorously.

Soifon lightly snickered a little at her father's statement on his suit "yeah it would be nice if you could now avoid those comments on your appearance and it will be great to finally see that face of yours, the last hundred years had been killing me on trying to construct a good mental image of you!" exclaimed Soifon exasperatedly, rolling her eyes along with.

Yoruichi who heard this was surprised to hear that Soifon herself didn't know what he looks like. It made her wonder further on how this man who had not even shown her old student/lieutenant his face manage to gain such trust from her, it baffled Yoruichi to no end, but she decided to keep her thoughts silent.

Haelen now started feeling to be in a much better state, the burning in his muscles, and lungs was gone, his ability to see straight was stable and anything further was also better "ok soibee I think am good enough to get started" he revealed to Soi beginning to bring himself up off the ground only feeling a little light head but that cleared up quickly.

Soifon gain and exited grin at hearing this "finally it's time to see the man under the mask" she nodded and got up on her feet "so what barrier I am building for you dad?" asked Soifon as she was dusting off her pants.

Haelen thought for a second "am going to need three Tetsu Ryū Kējihausu ( Iron Dragon Cade House) stacked inside of each other with a chimney vent running through them to safely vent out all the built up energy locked within my suit" ordered Haelen giving specific orders "please" he finished making sure not to forget his manner, even if she was his daughter.

Soifon whistled at his order "really it's gonna be that bad huh?" he nodded to her "okay then do you want it drop in on you or do want some doors?" she asked.

Haelen turned to her "dropped in, no doors" he said simple.

Soifon nodded and walked over to the area where the previous barrier once stud and saw that the group that was in the barrier had yet to really move from the spot. Soifon started waving her arms in a 'move out of the way god damn it manner' "ok people get out of the way because this spot is gonna become ground zero for release number 2! and it's going be a show to remember, but not one of you is going to want to be in the middle off it!" she called out setting alarms off in everyone's head as they moved behind her seeing it as the safes place.

Renji who was now fully recovered who was not as surprised by the girls change in appearance due to not seeing what she looked like before hand, saw this an opportunity to get some info on just how dangerous Haelen exit from his suit might actually be "so um Soifon right?" he got a nod "just out of curiosity exactly eh how dangerous would Haelen stripping out of that thing be?" he asked nervous about what her answer would be.

Soifon folded her and started tapping her right foot in thought "well if you take into account of about over 900 years worth of built up unvented excess captain level spiritual energy all kept within the deep levels of the suit." revealed Soifon firstly, just that first bit had people stepping back in awe and fear "then the part of it all being kept under constant rising pressure so am sure that wouldn't make thing any more easy, and if he didn't go through all the stage of release in order he could wind up levelling from here.." she explained pointing to the ground and then to the first division "to or past the first division in about roughly that radius, then their would be the shock wave but that would be too unpredictable to work out" she said not sounding worried at all by the thought of he dad turning in a bomb.

Everyone visibly paled at the girls nonchalant description on the possible disaster that could ensure if one thing goes wrong. Everyone's head snapped to Haelen who was walking past and waving at them before passing Soifon. They all looked at him like a bomb ready to go off; well technically he was.

Byakuya hand slowly began to twitch toward his sword and his eyes hard and locked on the black clad man not willing to blink"that mans to much of a danger he can't be allowed to attempt to get free or he could destroy too much if he slips up" no one seemed to notice and as Byakuya was about to make his move he was stopped by a heavy as hell spiritual pressure slamming down on him making him stop in any of his advances, the feeling could only be described as a thousand swords washing over and piecing into him.

When the Kuchiki head looked up he saw that no one else seemed to notice what was happening to him or even at all sensed it, it made no sense how could no one pick up on this insane energy it was as if it was all just solely focused on him. When Byakuya looked around he found his gaze met with Soifons who was looking at him with cold silver eyes that spoke to him a clear message 'try it and see what happens' with the message received Byakuya dismissed all thoughts of stopping Haelen; he saw no point in being healed to only just need it again shortly after.

Seeing Byakuya's submission Soifon let up on her pressure but still kept enough on him to keep him reminded that he was now on her radar. Turning back to her dad who was waiting patiently to get started "ok dad you ready?" she asked.

"Ready when you are" was his reply, but it was filled with clear cut vigour and impactions to get started.

"Okay then" she said before pounding her fists together and getting into a firm stance, she then out stretched her arms in front of her with her close fists still touching but stopped for a second when she realized something "um does anyone have my haori?" she asked a little concerned on what happened to it since she last remember giving it to her dad and he doesn't seem to have it in his person.

"I have it" came the deep monotone voice of Chad who walked upto Soifon and handed her back her black and gold haori, which she proceeded to place back on herself and retie the yellow obi back around herself waist and finaly place he sword on her lower back as well.

Soifon looked up so she could make eye contact with the giant that was nicknamed Chad "thanks" she said simply and got a simple nod in return before he walk back over to his group. Soifon went back to her work and took her previous stance"O yea dragon of iron, blacksmith of metal, beat once, twist twice, imprison and house in box of strong beastly iron, fall and capture thigh prisoner" Soifon then lifter her fist to the sky, with her fist now glowing with black smokey spiritual energy 'Tetsu Ryū Kējihausu!' she called.

After calling out the name of the technique the black energy that surrounded her fists shot up into the air and out of everyone's sight. After a couple seconds people began to get confused on what was supposed to happen.

"um hey wasn't some..thing… surrr...oooh" said Ichigo who was going to question, but was cut of by the screaming sound of something falling and looked up to see a large box falling out of the sky with two other follow along with.

In a few short second the first box landed over Haelen but not before black masked man could give a quick final wave goodbye. The box landed hard enough to create a few tremors making a few members of the group nearly lose their footing.

The box was about 20 feet in width and height on all sides, it looked to made of dull coloured iron and had on top a metal roof with the corners of the roof taking the shape of dragon claws, they looked to be clawing into the walls of the box almost like they were grabbing on, the top centre of the roof had a metal circle tube sticking out which was about 3 feet in radius and standing for about 5 feet. After that box feel another bigger version of it fell over the first one and after that a third and even bigger one fell over the second, the difference with the third one was it possess a chimney shaped like a western dragons head with its maw open wide like it was ready to breath fire.

Everyone present stared in awe at the now 30 foot masterpiece of a barrier, it looked like it could take any kind of punishment imaginable, it looked like something even Kenpachi Zaraki would have to spend a few days at full power smashing out off.

Yoruichi looked at Soifon awed that she was capable of making such Barrier so quickly and without showing any effort "I-I can't believe it, in just a hundred years she is able to pull of making something of this magnitude and not even look or seem winded, what is this spell? I have never heard of it before" observed an amazed Yoruichi who was not alone in her thoughts.

Soifon stared satisfied with the barriers quality and seeing their where no faults in its structure "well seems all is ready" she then turned to face the group "ok everyone you are all going to want to stay on guard, don't worry about protecting this barrier nothing getting into that, but what comes out is gonna attract some serious hollows, if you dont want to stay that's fine I won't hold any grudges, if you do stay and fight that would be appreciated". Nobody looked liked they were ready to pack up and leave, one thought entered Soifons head "if you have no where to go but can't fight raise your hands?" she asked and the hands of Uryuu, Orihime, Ganju, Rukia raised theirs into the air making her see that not everyone in front of her was battle ready "ok then I will erect a protective barrier for you all" Soifon proclaimed and went of to start making the new Barrier.

Inside the triple layered iron barrier Haelen was sitting crossed leg with his arms spread out and the tips of his finger and thumbs inflamed with his silver spirit energy. He was breathing in and out deeply in rhythm as if mentally preparing himself "ok you bastard of suit kiss your ass goodbye, well I guess that would technically be my ass...ah whatever fuck you anmyway" thought Haelen deciding to just end his over thinking of the situation and just slam and dig his silver covered fingers into the black material of his chest. After the fingers made contact not a seconds later Haelen exploded in spiritual energy that filled the entire box in in less than a second flat.

Outside the box Soifon was done letting everyone into the new barrier when she saw the dragon styled chimney on the iron barrier now breathing out silver energy "so he's started, I cant wait to see your face, dad" she thought smiling at the thought.

And so the masked man begins to tear away the curse made by his own hands.

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Soifon stopped for a moment to have one last thought "with the amount of spiritual pressure he will releasing it will be a like a great big announcement that he's is back, so that means this lover of his will know he's back as well, eh he probably planned on it" she assumed letting the thought go.

Haelen at that time "oh shit! I forgot to take into account that she will probably recognize my spiritual pressure, I seriously hope she doesn't try to kill me" he thought sweating a little under his now beginning to peel away mask.

End of Chapter 7

Dual Lobo Cuchillas meaning Dual Wolf Blades . Sapher can turn his claws in two twin blades identical in colour to his armour except for the razor edges that gleamed blue, the swords become his forearm and hands and extend for twice the length. These blades are much strong and sharper than his claws and he has shown the ability to change one limb back to a claw while keeping the other in it's blade form.

lobo lluvia cuchilla meaning Wolf Blade Rain. A technique used by the Vasto Lorde named Sapher Wolfenspine. Sapher uses his Dual Lobo Cuchillas byspinning around and charges his blades with his spitual energy and fires of small rapid but deadly sharp arcs of spitual energy at his oppenent. He has stated that he can do this technique for long periouds of time. While using this move he has to track his oppent by following their spirtual pressure.

Shōsho mizu mirā o modoshimasu meaning Deed Returning Water Mirror, the release call of this technique is Han'ei Modoshimasu meaning Returning Reflect . This techique forms water like spere which changes into a liques mirror ball, the ball becomes a mirror like puddle which can be surpened in front and centre of where the user places their hands. The techniqu catches and contains an enmies attack and sends it back at the attack or at who even else the user decides to target it at. The attack will follow a mirror replica of the path they took getting to the mirror. The chant for this is "forge from water, find peace, become still and show thea who looks at you their face, reflect and return to them their deeds!".

Tetsu Ryū Kējihausu meaning Iron Dragon Cade House . This technique creates varieing sized barriers that looked to be made of iron. They can be modified to have other functioning features like chimneys and doors and can have other bigger version fitted over to have them layed over each other. The chant for this is "O yea dragon of iron, blacksmith of metal, beat once, twist twice, imprison and house in box of strong beastly iron, fall and capture thigh prisoner".

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