So yeah I was suppose to have this out on Saturday but failed to have it done, kept getting lost in thought about plot points and future ideas and blah blah, plus I didn't think I had it right so I put more time aside to look over it a few more times. So anyway I just want to say forget Saturdays am awful at keeping schedule like IIIIII or any other organized fanfic author sorry people. Sorry for any grammar and spelling you may find in this chapter also.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or any of its original characters, though if I did I would have Soifon appearing more often and have Haelen be a real character too.
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Zanpaktou speaking"
"Zanpaktou thinking"
'Zanpaktou/Kido techniques/Hollow attacks/Quincy attacks'
Soifon was looking up at the approaching swarm of corrupted souls, she was sure they were approaching at a fairly fast pace but in her eyes it was like they were descending at a snail's pace. "Huhhh all this waiting is as boring as hell but at least they will make good test dummies for me, plus it appears that the scent of dad's spiritual energy has them all nice and riled up" evaluated the silver eyed woman, a small eager smirk beginning to form on her lips, her eyes briefly flashing bright yellow with her contained power, her heart beat rising and the blood in her veins beginning to boil with barely held back excitement.
Sometime ago elsewhere Kenpachi and Yachiru
Ever since the population of Hueco Mundo began their attack the squad 11's captain had been doing what he does best, attacking anything that remotely looked like it was gonna be a good fight….with vigour included. So far Zaraki had stacked a kill count that was probably somewhere in the 2 to 3 hundreds margin and that was with him going what he like to call easy. Any hollow that did make it to actually biting him found itself with broken teeth and shortly after a crushed mask due to his spiritual pressure being just so joyfully overwhelming; oh he just loved being him.
Despite them all being weaklings and easy kills to the eye patch wearing man he was not necessarily having a bad time he was still enjoying himself, it was all starting to become a pretty good work out for him hell there was even enough of the masked pests to let Yachiru play with as well, the little pinket was having a great time with her new masked playmates. To Zaraki this is all a win, win situation in his books, he got to fight...more like slaughter to his heart's content and Yachiru didn't have to just stay back and cheer while he had all the fun, she hadn't been getting enough training lately in his opinion it's been all sweets, toys and causing him headaches with her poor navigation skills.
He was relieved to see that Yachiru like him was making short work of any hollow that came her way showing him that she hadn't been slacking off in practice as much as he had been assuming that she must have been. Plus she doesn't seem to be finding them to be that challenging either evident by the fact that she hasn't even released her Zanpaktou, which was without a doubt the weirdest thing that Zaraki had ever seen before "one looked like a hollow while the other looked like a giant stuffed toy"recalled the eye patched man briefly.
Kenpachi saw another salivating target staring at him with deep blood thirsty eyes which just served to make the battle manic grin in joy, the Captains grin grew to the point where he looked like he was possessed by a wild animal or some kind of demon. "Oh? what is it? you want some Kenpachi steak! well come and get it then! don't just stand there drooling like a retarded puppy! and get over here and fight me! HAHAHAA!" he roared out laughing manically as he and the hollow charged each other with the resulting collision sending the much weaker beast flying into a building and out the other end, and straight into another where it finally stopped.
Kenpachi huffed in the direction he sent the masked creature flying feeling greatly unimpressed, right now he just wished either a new horde would appear or at least some much higher level hollows because this was now beginning to get boring especially since he had already cut down most of his horde. Kenpachi turned into the direction Yachiru was in "hey Yachiru mind shari…..oh never mind" the eye patch man began cutting himself off when he saw that Yachiru was currently eating and enjoying some of her sweets on top of the corpse of her final hollow meaning that as of now there was no more hollows for them to fight; unless that one the bloodthirsty captain sent rocketing through two buildings was by any slither of a chance still breathing, highly unlikely.
Kenpachi sighed, his high from battle now beginning to fall, his increased heart rate now beginning to return to it's dull calm rhythm, the sweat gained now beginning to cool off but at least he had the sore feeling in his muscles earned from the fight to enjoy a sign to him that he at least had a decent workout. Kenpachi was brought out of his small basking by his kid of a lieutenant landing and taking her place on left his shoulder "hey Kenny since their aren't any more playmates here want to go see if their are any more at our Barracks" Yachiru suggested making Kenpachi grin like a mad...no ummm well much just like himself only a little more madder than usual. She was right if their weren't any currently here there had to be more in other areas of the Seireitei and he supposed he should go and do something about his Barracks.
It wasn't like his Barracks where that big of a deal, after all they were mainly being held together these days by loose nails, plywood and some spare tissue paper, nor did he care about the safety of his men "if their real warriors they can fend for themselves and enjoy it at the same time if not then they will die here today weak, pathetic and forgotten the strong survive to live to fight another day and the weak die to make space for the strong to grow even stronger" Kenpachi thought seriously. By the end of the day he was expecting to see the strong of his squad still standing and telling of how many hollows they killed and how much they loved it, because today should be like Christmas for any proud member of squad 11, a squad that lives by one word FIGHT!. So with no further thoughts needed Kenpachi shot off in the direction that Yachiru suggested; not really taking into consideration his lieutenant's navigation skills still equalling to that of a smashed up compass.
Current time Aizen's group and Yamamoto
The fight with the ancient captain has been going as expected rough god damn rough, the old captains years of sheer battle experience, iron will and overwhelming power topped with the widespread offensive capabilities of his Ryujin Jakka where making him an impossible opponent to take down smoothly. Even with all four of them and the massive advantage of Yamamoto being under Aizen's Kyoka Suigetsu hypnosis effects they had still only been able to land a few cut and barely even what could be called stabs on the old man, but the wounds weredoing next to nothing but irritating the battle hardened captain like they where more of an annoying itch than injury's to him.
Yamamoto had swiftly adapted to his current situation and has been fighting using broad attacks in any area he feels his opponent would likely attack from or where he sensed their spiritual signature was at. Being the Head captain he has made sure to familiarise himself with every current captains individual spiritual energy, luckily with his years of shear battle experience Yamamoto has learned to use all his senses in battle effectively even the one most forgotten in the heat of it, sensing. He has discovered that Aizen's Zanpakuto cannot control that 6th sense that all spiritually aware beings possessed, it came as no surprise to the old man the feeling of spiritual energy is simply just too complex and always shifting.
The old captain suddenly began to chuckle in what sounded to be amusement, his laugh seemed to make Aizen release his current hypnosis on Yama revealing all the rogue captains in varying states of being, all had some singeing to their clothes along with some dirt scuffs in places, finally Gin and Tosen showed to be bleeding in places because they failed to react in time to avoid an instinctive counter from the old man. Aizen stepped forward a few paces in a calm and collected manner "care to share what is so amusing head captain Yamamoto" the head traitor asked in a cool tone of voice not sounding all that worried by the hold up in their escape of the Court of Pure Souls.
Yamamoto turned his gaze over to look Aizen in the eyes, Yama's anger appearing to have lessened greatly since the fights beginning "I was just wondering if you used that Zanpaktou of yours to make it seem that you were all actually captain level material" taunted the head captain chuckling lightly at the end. The four traitor all seemed to frown at the statement not liking at all that they were having their capabilities mocked so openly, it was being made even worse by the fact that they were supposed to have the advantage here and yet still they were making little progress with bringing the mighty captain anywhere near were close to his knees, hell he didn't even appear to be the least bit winded.
Aizen glared at the head captain, with his grip on his sword tightening just a tad "I suggest you don't get ahead of yourself nor should you underestimate use, it could be your undoing Yamamoto" Aizen retorted threateningly while lifting his sword up higher so that the tip of the blade was eye level and pointing directly at the head captain.
The head captain huffed dismissively at that "well if you want me to start taking you all seriously then start giving me a reason" dared Yamamoto as he flared up his searing spiritual pressure on his four opponents making Tousen and Kagami stumble and tense while Aizen and Gin appeared unaffected.
Aizen's eyes narrowed now realizing that the man himself was just as much of threat as his Zanpaktou was, now knowing this Aizen sees that their current focus cannot be to kill the head captain but to get away from him, the task of bringing him down would take far too much time and effort that they could not afford to spare. Aizen and the other traitor got into their battle stances with the old captain also getting back into his "you better start upping your game whelps or am going to turn you all in to ashes before the next hour" mocked Yamamoto before he sent out a large wave of searing flames at the four traitors.
Back at the Sokyoku Hill
Currently in time everyone was fighting the new masked horde, Byakuya was getting the largest kill count with his Bankai beings able to swarm over large numbers of hollow like a pink tsunami of razor blades, while furthermore being capable of attacking from all kinds of different angles at the same time leaving them all no room to run. Ichigo was using his greatly increased speed that his Bankai grants him to swiftly cut his way through the masked beasts before they even had time to register what happened to them. Renji was mainly using this time to get a hang of his Bankai since he learned a hard lesson in his earlier fight with Byakuya, that he needed to train in the use of his Hiho Zabimaru or else he could seriously put himself and those around him at risk if he couldn't properly control it.
Chad himself was also gaining some useful experience with using his empowered right arm and was learning that when he had it active he could move much more faster, he was also getting this strange feeling from his arm every time he put down one of the corrupted souls as if their presence was somehow affecting him in away he just couldn't understand. As more and more hollows kept coming that feeling in Chad just kept on growing, his power was feeling like it was becoming unstable, no more like it was becoming excited and happy and that was greatly worrying friendly giant of a man "after all this is done I think I'm gonna need to talk to Mr Urahara about this, see if he knows anything about it" thought Chad making a mental note.
Yoruichi was making short work of her targets by using her superior speed, reflexes, agility, strength and overall skill to kill every hollow that dared attack her or just unlucky enough to find themselves in her sight. Soifon was currently doing the same thing as Yoruichi but she was mainly doing it to test her new strength, she was finding that the strength of her hits were now on a whole new level of damaging furthermore her speed and reflexes were astounding even to her, she was having some problems getting use to this new level of speed she possessed but she was quickly getting the hang of it, other than those small problems she was having a blast.
Everyone was spread out in different areas of the hill, Byakuya was in the middle allowing him to better and more safely use his Bankai and furthermore allowing him access to a larger space to work in. Ichigo along with Chad where staying near the Barrier that was protecting, Orihime, Rukia, Uryu and Ganju, the pair wanted to make extra sure nothing bad happened to them. Renji was near the tip of the hill furthest away from everyone because he wanted to be a good distance away from people in case he lost control of his Bankai and doesn't want to risk hurting anyone with it. Yoruichi was off in the forest area again finding that environment best suited to her style and while there she was at a safe distance to use her Shunko without having to worry about hurting anyone.
Soifon in the meantime was near her father's Barrier growing more and more thrilled with every burst of spiritual energy that ruptured forth and every new crack that formed, the time was growing nearer and nearer. Soon she would be able to meet the man who had been caring for her, who trained her, helped her grow stronger in both body and mind, the man who had shown her a father's love for over a hundred years she would finally be able to meet him face to face. She was feeling so many uncontrollable emotions right now ecstatic, impatient, anxious, happy, nervous, tense. Her mind was also suddenly on overdrive trying to paint an image of him, she hadn't really tried thinking up a mental image of him in a along time, but now her mind couldn't seem to stop thinking about it but every time it did make one up it just didn't seem right and it continued to frustrate the haori wearing woman. Apart of her just wanted to rip open that Barrier and see if his god damn mask had finally disappeared, but she controlled and restrained herself from going through with such an idiotic urge that would only cause destruction that would most likely kill both her and everyone else within a large varying radius.
Soifon was brought out of her thought by the feeling of a hollow coming up from behind her, she swiftly evaded at the last second and positioned herself above the hollow and gracefully flipped over it's head and smoothly landing on it's shoulders, she then wrapped her legs around it's neck with literal suffocating strength and put both her hands on opposite sides of it's head and finally in one swift move twisted it's head a full 180 degrees around releasing a cringe worthy crack and coming face to face with it's end before the light died from it's eyes. Soifon hopped of the now deceased 12 foot humanoid hollows before it's dissolving corpse could hit the ground, she instantly found herself under attack again by multiple hollows but it was nothing she couldn't handle. She lazily step to the side as a big bulky hollow triad to pound her into the ground with a sluggish downward palm, to which the silver eyed girl replied with by zipped up to it's right shoulder and using her hands to give herself leverage as she kneed it in the back of the neck with such force that its neck was instantly shattered and broken, all this happening before the hulking masked creature could even pick back up it's hand.
As the dead and completely neck broken hallows corpse was falling forward Soifon used the new angle to get back on her feet and leap over the swipe that was attempted by a new hollow that was armed with razor sharp claws, while in the air Soifon nimbly adjusted her body's angle in order to avoid getting speared through by a mosquito looking hollow that tried hitting her with it's needle like nose "it most likely possess some ability that allows it to drain me of my spiritual energy if it stabs me with it's nose" studied the ex-lieutenant. Soifon landed on the ground and was forced to cartwheel to the side in order to yet again avoid the masked bug that was already succeeding in bugging her.
Deciding to do some exterminating first before going to clip some nails, the porcelain skinned woman felt the insects approach behind her and without ever looking she threw her arm back with its palm open and whispered 'Hado 33 Sōkatsui' in a cool tone. What resulted after that though surprised everyone even herself when she fired off the burst of cerulean flames they did not just wipe out her intended target but continued on past and into other unfortunate hollows beyond, the blue flames possible even would have hit Byakuya if said captain didn't erect a shield with his cherry blossom blades in time.
The clawed hollow that was attacking Soifon was knocked out of it's ravenous state by the unintentional display of sheer blood chilling power and instantly started fleeing for it's life, it's instincts screaming to it to run and hide and pray she doesn't find him. Everyone on the hill including the hollows freezed in their movements and all turned, their eyes following the wide smoking corpse littered path that ended at Soifon just standing there, looking pretty amazed at what she had just done. "D-Did I do that? with just one spell? no incantation included either" she mused amazed at herself, after coming to terms with this new discovery on her abilities her expression of astonishment became replaced with a proud toothy grin "oh yeah I'm liking this already" she stated to herself. She was wondering just exactly how much more powerful all her other spells had become from her new rise in overall strength.
Ichigo was amazed by the intensity displayed by that one single spell, he'd seen kido done on multiple accounts throughout today and other times before in the past, but never to such a level of intensity like he had just witnessed. Everyone else on the hill were also sharing the substitute shinigami's thoughts all equally amazed and slightly frightened by what else this woman could now possible do with this new level of unknown power. Byakuya's frown deepened at the display "if I didn't have my Bankai at the ready that blast could have seriously have done some damage to me, I better keep my eye on her from now on in case she has another slip up like that" mentally noted the Kuchiki.
Soifon noted that she had better first get a good feel and understanding for her new spiritual power before she decided on using any of the higher level kido's yet since it was crystal clear to her that their potency was now greater than before, but she does not know yet of just how powerful they might be right now than before. The ex-lieutenant looked forward and looked on dumb struck on how all the hollows on the hill when now looking at her with dropped jaws and rivers of drool pouring out off their mouths, almost as they where more love struck than hungry "oh so that how it is huh" she sighed out and began drawing her sealed Zanpaktou all the while an almost bloodthirsty smirk formed on her face, she then held her sword out in front of her the sun gleaming on its razor edge "well? what you waiting for? am not just gonna feed myself to you all" the sword wielding woman said in her most goading tone.
"RAAAARR!" was all the hollows replied with as a they began their charging at the battle ready soul reaper. The hollow at the head of the pack leaped through the air and began to descend down upon bluish haired woman it's tongue hanging out of it's mouth and it's target never losing her smile as it came into reach of her, it was only mere millimetres away from biting down on her when she suddenly disappeared. The next instant later it felt searing pain running through every fibre of it's being like it's blood had become fuel that was now on fire in it's veins. On the outside everyone was witness to the sight of a Hollow suddenly becoming shrouded in a aura of what seemed like blue fire, not like those of Sokatsui these ones just suddenly appear like they came from within the corrupted soul. What was stranger was that it happened not even half a second after Soifon cut into after performing a flash step which no one but a few could barely seem to follow, but then lost sight of her after she performed another straight afterwards.
Soifon appeared at the very top of one of the tree at the edge of the forest observing what happened to the hollow she had just cut down, watching how it's body disappeared in mere seconds after she did reappeared. She smirked proudly at the sight "that more like it.." she began saying loud enough to gain everyone's attention now turning to her new position "it's good to see my connection with you Suzumebachi is as strong as ever" she said to her blade that glowed briefly in a yellow shine. Soifon giggled like she had just been told something funny, while every whole soul guessed she must be talking to her Zanpaktou but we're still finding the sudden outburst somewhat unnerving "okay okay enough we need to stay focus on the masked pains in the ass below" she said still talking to her sword.
Soifon returned her intense silver gaze to down below all amusement and signs of affection replaced by a gaze that would scare the colours out of a rainbow while her threatening smirk made a full blown comeback. The ex-member of squad 2 readied herself and leaned down getting readied to pounce, her hair and the cape of her coat both being pushed gentle by the breeze. In less than a moment she kicked on the tree and was upon her first target before it had time to even notice the horizontal swing that slashed it's head into two separate piece, like the one before him he too ignited in a shroud of blue fire.
Soifon landed in a small empty space amongst the horde she was surrounded by hollows on all sides but only continued to smirk, one hollow in front of her charge at her and when it came in reach of her she flick her wrist and it found itself burning away in blue flames a large gushing cut on it's chest and one missing and dissolving arm marking the path where she attacked. Another hollow tried attaching her from behind going to bite her legs off but found it self biting nothing but air, while Soifon was above it in the air upside down where she then ran her gleaming blade right through it's head and out under it's jaw to which it then instantly began dispersing away in blue flames.
Two more tried attacking at the same time but the result was her avoiding their snail pace attacks and just needing to cut them once and then watch as they burst into blue flames and disappear into nothingness. After sometime of the same rinse and repeat act which just resulted in more and more purified hollows and not even a scuff mark on Soifon the mask waring souls seemed to get the message that this one was way beyond their weight class, and all of them just left to go and try their luck with the other occupants of the hill. Soifon huffed at this "their brains may be out of it, but at least their instincts have decent judgement of the situation, even if it was a little late into the game for some of the poor suckers" she commented as she looked over at the last hollow she cut down that was already now gone.
Suzumebachi giggled at that comment "yeah they should have figure out sooner they didn't stand a chance here, but if some of them just realized sooner they may still be with us today" added the spirit trying to sound heart broken about it all even adding some fake weeping in for effect.
Soifon hummed and smiled at the melodrama of her sword spirit as she began making her way back over to the area with her father's Barrier seeing a few dead hollows that were brave enough to try and get near. She wasn't worried about the others she was more than confident that this horde wouldn't be enough to kill any of them or even harm them that much. Soifon sheathed Suzumebachi not seeing her assistance needed as of now. As Soifon neared the silver lit box she decided to take a seat in front of it just watching the almost tornado of silver that now surrounded the iron box along, with the chimney now looking like a geyser of silver water. As she watched Soifon's mind began to wonder back further and further into her past like she was falling into a trance of memories
100 plus years ago dragons mouth
"Just this way Soifon" Haelen said as Soifon who was still under developed and still wearing her tattered stealth force uniform fallowed him to the mess hall, as he called it. They where nearing the building that looked like the eating hall, the building had the look of a well kept medieval tavern, it possessed a hanging side that held a crest of a shield holding two knight blades, one a deep black and the other a pure white, while on the shield their was fiery red dragon painted onto the shield. Soifon stopped in her track as her new father lifted up his black clad hand and halted her.
Soifon looked at her dad confused on why the sudden halting "what is it?" she asked simply arching a dark eyebrow.
Haelen turned around to face Soifon with an air of curiosity around him "Soifon my dear may I asked you something?" he asked and got a go ahead shake of the head "have you achieved Bankai?" after he asked that Soifon seemed to tense and look over to the side seeming embarrassed by the question on Bankai.
She continued to look anywhere but the man she was talking with her cheeks gently reddening as she thought of her Bankai "maybe, do you?" she responded in a slight stubbornness that would be more expected of a child than a young adult soul like Soifon.
Haelen hummed at that question and shrugged "um yeah I do" he answered in a carefree tone "so come on tell me I promise I won't tell anyone, not like there is anyone to tell in the first place but I still promise" he pressed on playfully, leaning in closer to Soifon invading her personal space.
Soifon growled in annoyance at the invader but still refused to look him in his green lenses as she spoke "I do…..but...it's embarrassing it goes against my principles!" exclaimed Soifon sounding frustrated by the mention of her ultimate weapon as she suddenly covered her face with her hands.
Haelen hummed at this and stud backup at full height and chuckled heartly at his little girls reaction finding it deeply cute "haha okay I see but can I still see it my little Soi bee please?" he asked eyeing the sword on his daughters back, as he put his hand together in a begging gesture.
Soi looked at her masked father through parted fingers and was about ready to refuse, but stopped and thought to herself why she shouldn't, it was only them both their was no one else who was gonna see her monstrosity of a Bankai and he was her dad now so he shouldn't make fun of her for it. "Um okay, but don't laugh when I do okay?!" she shouted out at her father all red in the face to the point that it looked like she was ready to start letting out steam. Haelen's reply to this was him placing his hand over his heart and saying he swares while trying to resist hugging the life out of her by how adorable she looked right now all flustered and stuff.
Soifon took in a deep gulp of the clean cool fresh air of dragons mouth regaining her composure while also letting the heat emanating from her face cool down. Once she had calmed down Soifon drew her sealed Suzumebachi holding her in front of herself in a horizontal position and gently stroking her hand over the flat of the blade while calling out 'sting all enemies to death, Suzumebachi' then a yellowish red glow began emitting from the blade. After the light died down the sword was gone and replaced by a gold and hornet patterned gauntlet that was covering half her right forearm, along with her middle finger being armed with a beautiful but deadly looking stinger that was twice the length of said armed finger. Soifon looked at her Shikai and smiled in pride at it, she loved her Suzumebachi she was beautiful as well as extremely deadly "this is Suzumebachi my Zanpaktou" introduced Soifon while holding her right arm up to allow her father a better look at her in all it's glory.
Haelen hummed sounding impressed and step forward and took the hand that was armed into his own gloved ones and began touching the gold metal of Suzumebachi gently "quite a breathtaking Zanpaktou if I say so myself" The black clad father complimented completely genuine as he did.
Inside Soifon innerworld said spirit was flying around girlishly laughing, blushing and looking to be glowing brighter than usual "stop! stop! with all the compliments you two it's embarrassing geez! there's only so much a girl can take! I know I'm utterly irresistible and perfectly gorgeous in every way but you don't have to keep telling me! though I guess it's impossible to stop you when I look like this so I can't blame you for it I guess!" exaggerated the bee/wasp like sword spirit as she continued to zip around uncontrollably.
Soifon sighed exasperatedly at hearing Suzumebachi knowing that this had just increased her swords ever growing ego but never growing height, but it really didn't bother Soifon too much she found it rather amusing most of the time, if things did get out of hand she always had those pans she could drop in on the bee spirit and knock some sense back into her. "thanks, oh and she appreciates your compliment by the" informed Soifon in humoured tone.
The masked man laughed at hearing this "well tell her she's welcome" he said kindly to which Soi nodded "so before you show me your Bankai why don't you tell me a little of what your Suzumebachi can do Soi bee" Haelen suggested curious on the abilities of her Shikai.
Soifon smirked at that "well Suzumebachi here is a two shot certain death dealer" summarized dull grey eyed girl, "two shot death dealer?" repeated Haelen with his head slightly cocked to one side. Soi nodded her proud smirk never wavering "yeah, when Suzumebachi stings someone once it leaves a mark kinda like a target for me to hit and if I strike that target or any other target again it mixes the first compound of this poison which is in the mark, with the second compound that gets added during the second strike and then death is certain when the poison is unleashed" she explained in a chirpy tone of voice which should be out of place when talking of certain death.
Haelen whistled at this information "that really is some fearsome ability just how much deadlier could you get" "so anything else your little death dealer can do?" Haelen inquired .
Soifon nodded "yeah she can cleanse other poisons from body within reason of course, like back in that forest if it wasn't for that ability I would probably be dead right now" answered Soifon sighing in relief as she did and mentally thanked Suzumebachi who just waved it off as no big deal.
"Well I must say you have a very impressive Shikai Soi, now may I see your Bankai next?" asked Haelen. Soifon tensed and blushed out of embarrassment again she was still feeling very anxious about showing her Bankai, especially after showing just how epic her Shikai was. She didn't think her Bankai was useless to her far from it in fact, it just went against what she represented, it went against her style it was easily the complete polar opposite to her Shikai.
Still despite her feelings of worry on this she decided to suck it up and show him her shame, she began charging and gathering her spiritual energies enough so that she was even emitting an aura of sunny yellow 'Bankai'. After that word was spoken Soifon became obscured by a pillar of bluish white energy that shot straight up into the air in a narrow beam, the release of energy began creating strong air currents that were blowing away whatever wasn't held down enough to withstand the force of the gales generated by the release of Soi's Bankai.
Haelen stud unmoved in the slightest by the release of power,he was impressed though by the release of spiritual energy from his new daughter "must be at least low captain" he studied, watching as the spiritual energy began dying down. Haelen was surpised when all the energy finally dispersed and he could finally get a look at Soifon's Bankai.
'Jakuho Raikoben'muttered out Soifon as she now stud with a massive missile like Bankai that was actually twice the size of her in height, gold in colour and carrying Suzumebachi's pattern on the missile, the launcher fit around the missile and possessed a section which looked to guard Soifon herself and also appearing to work a dual function on helping her also aim the huge weapon. Soifon rested the front of the missile on the ground so she wouldn't have to lift it up, while Soifon herself looked off to one side still clearly embarrassed about her Bankai "so what do you think, not what you were expecting huh?" the dull grey eyed girl asked sarcastically while kicking at the ground.
The masked father walked a few steps closer observing the weapon for a few seconds before speaking "when I think about it now it makes sense that your Bankai would be something like this" mused Haelen. Soifon's head snapped up to face her father looking on speechless but questioningly, Haelen turned to look at her and saw her silent question "well look at it this way your Shikai can kill with silence and subtlety and well this big thing here is clearly intended to hit hard and destroy what can't be killed swiftly" Haelen explained in an upbeat tone as he tapped the missile lightly.
Soifon looked at her Bankai now beginning to see it in a new light for once, he was right it could do that it was after all intense mass destruction in compact and their was always gonna be an opponent out their who would be too much to simple sting, cut or punch to death like she usually does, so hitting them hard might well be her only option in the end. Soifon sighed at seeing her Bankai really was the polar opposite to her Shikai but in a way it was a good thing, they picked up each others slack in a sense, where one couldn't do the job of defeating her enemy the other might just, above being a nimble silent killer an assassin is always ready for anything.
Soifon released her Bankai which began to shrink down and down in a bright light until it was back to being a plain sword "thanks dad, I was always a little insecure about my Bankai" Soifon said in meek tone a she looked down and rubs her right arm with her free hand. It was the first time she ever got any positive reinforcement on her Bankai, which isn't a surprise for someone who hadn't seen another soul for over 5 years till now.
Haelen chuckled at Soifon's cute behaviour and began rubbing her head affectionately "don't be ashamed of your Bankai, it's clearly how it is because it is purposely meant to oppose your Shikai's abilities, but also..." began Haelen pausing for a moment looking like he was thinking. Soifon looked up at her dad through the parting of her bangs confused on why he stopped "well what?" she asked sounding like she was quickly growing impatient and annoyed "well given how your body is...lets say incomplete that could also reflect on your zanpaktou as a whole making it also just as incomplete" informed Haelen as he took his hand off Soifon's head of hair.
Soifon stared up at her masked father looking thunderstruck at the idea that he Zanpaktou could be just as under developed as herself, she never thought that the effects of the neglect on her body could carry over to her Suzumebachi but with how her father explained it, it made sense. A zanpaktou was the power of a soul reaper manifested and in turn is like a sort of reflection of one's self, so if Soifon was incomplete/underdeveloped her Zanpaktou was also bound to suffer from it "maybe that explains why Suzumebachi is so very tiny" mused Soifon who got shouts of protests from said bee like spirit.
Soifon was brought out of her thought by Haelen "but we will see if that's really the case once we fix that body of yours, now come along" ordered Haelen as he started walking once again in the direction of the tavern styled mess hall. Soifon quickly registered the action and hurried to catch up with her father.
As they neared their desired destination Soifon turned to her father "hey Dad since you've seen my Shikai and Bankai can you show me yours now?" she asked eagerness in her tone while they continued to walk on.
Haelen began laughing sheepishly while rubbing the back of his neck in an equaly nervous gesture "well about that…."
Flashback end
Soifon smiled at the memory, that was the start of it all. She still had trouble calling him dad or father but she was already getting used to it by the end of that very day. She showed him her Bankai and he didn't make fun of it but instead saw it in a way Soifon failed to do, making her appreciate her oversize Bankai more than she ever did before "above being subtle and stealthy an assassin should always be prepared for anything" though Soifon to herself, a line she had repeated to herself over the years. Soi then let herself delve back into her memories and let her mind wonder back to that same day at the mess hall back home.
Flashback over 100 years ago Dragons mouth Mess Hall
When they got into the mess hall Soifon was introduced to a huge table full of what looked to be hot freshly cooked meals. The room was fairly large about twenty or so metres in length and about half and a plus that in width, with hard smooth wooden flooring, windows that let plenty of natural light in but with light also being produced by what seemed to be floating balls of light hovering around by the ceiling; Soifon made a mental note to ask about those later. The tavern also seemed to possess a bar on on the right hands side someways down the mess hall, down by the far end of the hall their was a fire place currently unlit that possess a pair of grand and comfy looking leather cushioned chairs both pointed at the fair and on top of fancy looking carpet.
The walls of the tavern where not left bare their where again some paintings, some of warrior fight beasts the likes of which Soifon does not recognize. Their was one of Shinigami battling hollows and an another of Shinigami fighting people clad in white to which she guessed must be the Quincys if the bows made of reishi was any guess, but other than those the rest where a mystery to the young soul. The walls also had decoratory weapon mounted on them along with animal heads and skins some of animals she had seen on her trip here before passing out in the poison forest; but Soifon did note how strange it was that they where still their considering the fact that the remains of dead soul should have dissolved away into reishi by now.
After she was done soaking in her surroundings she began wondering to herself how all these freshly prepared looking dishes where here if Haelen was supposed to be the only one living in Dragons mouth, she hadn't felt any other signatures apart from her own and her father all day. "Time manipulation" Haelen spoke out next to Soifon, she looked at him confused "time moves at a much slower pace in this one room thanks to a time Kido of my own creation" explained Haelen as he moved over to the other side of the room.
Soifon was astonished to hear this but was wondering how this was even possible, she had heard of Kidos that could do such things with time and space but they took someone of both incredible skill and power to pull them off without harming themselves or other in the process. Soifon moved over to one of the mess halls windows and looked outside to see everything moving way too fast, the sun was moving across the sky and was already looking to be entering late afternoon, the sight of it all was already making Soifon feel dizzy and sick to her stomach. "Yeah this room can be really disorienting to your perception of time, that's why I have no clocks in these sorts of rooms" Haelen comment while he was on the other side of the room and looked to interacting with some glowing marking on one of the walls, while close to the painting of the battle between hollows and soul reapers "and their" he declared, after he said that the markings seemed to changed colour from a light blue to a neutral white.
Soifon felt like the air in the room changed and altered in some way but was relieved as she felt the slightly sick feeling in her disappear. She turned to look back out the window and saw that the speed in which the day was moving at had now returned to normal and sighed in relief at the now normal sight, though the light outside was now bathed in the orange light of later afternoon. Soifon turned to look over at her father who was walking over to her "so time moves slower in this room huh?" she asked and got a nod "why?" she asked curious on why someone would decide to manipulate time in a mess hall of all place.
"It's rather simple really, it was so I could keep my meals fresh" Healen answered nonchalantly.
Soifon looked perplexed at that response "so you could keep your meals fresh?" she repeated dumbly, she was at least expecting a slightly bigger reason than that for someone to just start and go messing with the fabric of time and possibly space. Haelen nodded "doesn't that seem like quite a small reason to be doing something like this?" she asked critically and she leaned to one side with a cocked black eyebrow.
Haelen laugh at that question "I know it must, but I really only have it as an added function for times like now" he said gesturing to the all the food on the table, to which Soifon stared at confused. The petite woman gazed over at her father with a silent question hanging in the air "if you don't get what I mean yet let me tell, you..." he then pointed at her " you are going to eat all of that" he finished pointing back at the long and very large dinning table of hot varying meals.
Soifon visibly paled at the ridiculous prospect of eating all that, their was no way in her mind she could possible take in even a tenth of what was on that table, hell she could get full from just eating a couple of fishes and some fruit so there was no way in heaven, earth or the muken that she could do what he was asking of her. She turned to her father with a determined and annoyed scowl on her face cute face "you gotta be joking right!? their is no way am eating all that! you have got to be out of your mind! I….meeean... cooo eh oh" Soifon rant died in her throat as the air around her dad shifted from warm, kind and gentle to cold, sinister and down right terrifying.
"Now Soifon my sweet it would be deeply rude of you if you didn't at least trrryy, I slaved for hours to prepare this for especially you and it's all for your own benefit so please do rethink" Haelen said in an overly polite tone while a deadly aura just hovered over him like a deep dark shadow of ominous death.
Every nerve in Soi's body was screaming at her to obey out of the fear that if she didn't something from the darkest corners hell would emerge and introduce her to hell's ever darker corners. Soifon who was currently having a cold sweat and nodded while laughing nervously "yeah you're right how r-rude of me 'gulp!' I d-didn't think of it that way, sorry dad" she said as she stiffly walk over to the table trying as hard as possible to keep as much composure in her steps as she could. After sitting down the air in the room seemed to returned to it's normal temperature "did that really alter the temperature of the room, and what is that anyway? was it like a manifestation of his sheer will power or killing desire, is that what Captain Unohana uses to scare people into doing her bidding because the descriptions sound right" she thought amazed and was now beginning to wonder if she could learn how to do that, what's a better way to intimidate your foes than to make them think they were staring into an endless abyss of pain and despair. After that though, multiple individuals in bother Soul Society and Hueco Mundo sneezed simultaneously, strangely enough Haelen himself didn't sneeze.
So Soifon began eating the meal made for her by Haelen which where only one word delicious!, funny thing is when she started she found herself not being satisfied with the paced she started at and began eating faster and faster and faster still until she was scoffing everything down like she hadn't eaten in years. Haelen sat down at the table too, not to eat the food but to just watch and observe and see what happens, he was making Soi eats this much food to see how her body would react to it.
He remembered Soifons earlier mention about her reserves of spiritual energy growing after her first meal, back when after she woke up. After learning that Soifon had been deeply malnourished nearly all her life Haelen came up with the simple idea that all Soifon must need to fix her body's current weak condition was a lot of highly powerful and nutritious food. This food was deeply special in the way that it was both full of pure reishi, lively spiritual energies and high amounts of nutrients, it was perfect for any spiritual aware being he himself beliefs even hollows would most likely want the stuff above most normal souls if they had the option.
As Haelen watched on he started noticing changes beginning to happen in Soi's appearance, her lightly tanned skin tone was beginning to become lighter and smoother looking, and the pigmentation of her eyes where beginning to brighten up from dull grey to a lighter colour that was looking almost close to silver. But what was standing out most to the masked man was his daughter spiritual energy it was rising at an incredible rate and she was only four tenths through with her feast "incredible I was right, she is now differently at a solid captain level and still climbing" the masked man thought in total astonishment.
Soifon couldn't believe her current appetite, it didn't seem to matter how much she ate it kept feeling like she could eat more and more but every time she did eat more it felt like it never made it to her stomach and just disappeared halfway down her throat. Soifon was feeling worried by this it wasn't normal "what the hells going on here it's like I've got the appetite of a hollow right now" she thought to herself as she grabbed a meat leg of something and started tearing her way through it with ease.
After about an hour of this we find Soifon laying down on the table looking tired but satisfied, all the food gone disappeared down in the abyss that was the petite girls stomach. The young girl was currently glowing in light sunny aura "so are you gonna tell me exactly what came over me just then huh dad?" asked the tired girl in an equally tired voice as she looked up at the ceiling and pretty balls of light. The light outside nearly all but gone with the sun nearly completely set with only a few rays of orange light making their way over the distant mountains.
Haelen came over and took the seat that was on his daughter's left side and sat forward with his black and green marked material arms resting crossed on the table "well it's simply really, it goes back to what I said about our first step being to go and fix your body, this…" he gestured to all the empty plates and dishes "what you just did was for that purpose and it's seems to have been a resounding success, you reacted how I guessed would, you went on a feeding frenzy cause your body was burning up all the food you ate near instantly because it was already putting it to work in fixing and repairing all the long term damage your body has sustained from neglect" explained Haelen in a kind gentle tone as he rubbed Soifon's head in affectionate way to which she didn't protests to, both a mixture of not having the strength too and finding it relaxing.
Soifon continued to look up at the ceiling and floating lights of the place processing what her new dad had just told her "so what does all that now mean for me?" she asked wondering if their was anything she had to worry about. She felt her body was growing more tired while her vision got blurry ever once and a while, she could feel her body was somehow changing the more she grew closer to sleep.
"What it means right now dear if that you need some rest" Haelen affectionately said but with clear finality as he began picking Soifon up off from the table without struggle from the latter, he then set her on her feet for a second so he could get her in a secure position on his back. The green lensed man had the young soul safely on his back and was already to go "so you ready to head off Soi-bee…." he asked but got no reply, he got his answer on why she was silent when he looked back and saw Soifon was already sound asleep with a gentle peaceful smile on her face as she laid her head on his shoulder while she was now glowing in an ever brighter aura of sunny yellow. "Sleep well my little Soi-bee" whispered Haelen to the sleeping girl as he began walking out of the Tavern not forgetting to pick up the sheathed and sealed blade of Suzumebachi that was by the table.
Flashback end
Soi smiled at the memory of how she just peacefully fell asleep on her dad's back, she felt perfectly safe there and when she was there she felt her guard just melted away, and her conscious fall into the most peaceful sleep she had ever had since her brothers were alive. She also remembered all the stories her father told her about those paintings back at the tavern in Dragons mouth, they amazed even her to no end and some even she found nearly too amazing to believe. She remember her surprise when she woke up the next day after her eating frenzy, she barely even recognized herself she turned out looking how she does today minus the awesome braids and much longer hair.
Soifon was annoyingly brought out of her reminiscing by the presence of three spiritual pressures appearing behind her and felt to be trying in a pathic attempt to sneak up on her, though to give credit they were at least showing to be relatively well coordinated. Soifon stud up and looked over her shoulder and saw either three pretty unique hollows or a strange group of hollows; she couldn't decide on which they were, plus she could feel this bickering air looming over them.
One hollow looked to resemble a deer, one was somehow managing to look like a sophisticated and fancy snake and the third and final one looked like a bear mixed with a lion that also spent some years in ancient Egypt, yeah that one stood out the most to Soifon. As the soul reaper observed her new enemies she could tell from their spiritual pressure that they were all female and very, very consumed by that ravenous hunger of today; there was the question in her head on how the deer like hollow was planning on eating anything when it's mask appeared to have no function of opening.
Soifon looked the three female hollows up and down sizing them up, they looked fairly strong for adjustas plus the way they moved suggested that they were familiar with each other too and would also explain why they were splitting up and positioning themselves around her. Soifon stud looking neutral as they moved around her the lion standing in front of her and the other two remaining in her blind spots behind her.
Once they were in position the lion charge in at her first and pounced at her, at the last second Soifon leaped into the air with a forward somersault flip to add more force to the double drop kick she landed on the lions head, when the kick landed the lion was sent to the floor face first with unbelievable force kicking up a big dust cloud which obscured Soifon and her opponent from view of the other two masked souls, all this happened too quick for the others to react. The snake and the deer kept scanning the dust for any sign of movement, the snake spotted a shadow and immediately sprung into action but when it was just about to bite down on the shadow it vanished and shortly after was followed by an immense pain to which everything then went black for the snake.
When the dust dispersed it pulled back to show the snake and the lion both knocked out and piled on top of each other with Soifon sitting and looking pretty relaxed on top of their piled up bodies "well that was easy, so my deer you next?" the silver eyed woman commented before turning and smirking dangerously at the deer hollow even going as far as to let a some of her spiritual pressure fall on the last conscious member of the trio.
Soifon didn't even have to move from her spot as the hollow quickly fell down onto all four of it's knees the cloud of hunger in it's mind washing away due to the overwhelming power she was currently being put under, snapping her out of her trance "thi-this is insane this woman has more power than mistress b-but what's worse I think this is only the surface of it, Mila and Sung Sun are already knocked out when? how? I didn't even notice, wha-what am I gonna do? what can I do? I can't even move, I can barely even breathe let alone move, I feel like I'm being stabbed repeatedly in every part of my body this is so painful" "please" she whimpered out in barely noticeable whisper. After she did she felt the spiritual pressure begin to lighten up a bit enough so she could now breath properly and look up at the woman who was now standing in front of her before she even noticed.
Soifon looked down at the deer with a neutral gaze "I'm sorry did you say something?" asked Soifon who came in closer after hearing the hollow say something she couldn't make out.
The deer was breathing heavy while still being under the silver eyed womans powerful spiritual pressure "please don't kill me, I don't want to die" said the deer fear and despair clear in her voice and her brown eyes carrying unshed tears.
Soifon hummed at that "don't kill you, huh?" Soi repeated and gestured behind her "and what of them you don't mind if I kill them hummm?" she asked in an uncaring tone of voice, but was really interested to hear the hollow response to this.
The deer shook her head "no no you can have them I promise I won't put up a fight!" responded the deer cowing away, far too scared to put up any form of a fight but was currently feeling like trash at giving up her comrades in the wake of this soul reapers dominating presence.
Soifon eyes narrowed in disgust at hearing this while she sighed "humm how disappointing.." she began as she drew her blade her spiritual pressure hammering back down again on the helpless deer like a rain of daggers, she positioned her blade and herself in a thrusting stance still looking the hollow in her deeply terrified brown eyes as she did "I was hoping for something more heartwarming than that, but don't worry I will let your friends go, you on the other hand will die here..." she declared, making the hollows eye widened in further terror at hearing her death being declared flat out "they will be better off without a coward like ready to abandon them when things get rough" stated Soifon in a steel tone. Soi watched as the deer's head fell in clear shame for her actions "I would feel bad purifying you without first knowing your name adjusta" Soi spoke out in solemn tone.
The deer hollow continued to look down feeling deeply disgusted with herself, she felt like the worst trash for doing what she just tried to do, for giving into her fear, yes the woman was powerful no doubt in hell about that but that was no excuse for her trying to sacrifice her own sisters just to save her own hide "mistress would never do that to us not in million years" she thought to her shame in herself only growing sinking in deeper at that thought. "Emilou Apacci" revealed the deer, accepting her fate no longer seeing any worth in herself living after how much shame she'd just been soaked in after only a few mere minutes.
Soifon readied her strike but not before saying "well I wish you a safe journey into the next life Emilou Apacci" the powerful woman stated before going in for the kill, Apacci closed her eyes waiting for the end to come. CLANK! was what was heard throughout the air, Apacci opened one of her brown eyes to see what had happened, upon seeing what had stopped the blade that was suppose to finish her, caused Apacci's brown eyes to shoot wide open in both shock and joy "Mistress Halibel!" she called out the surpise, joy and hope in her eye's all also clear in her voice.
Standing between both Soifon's blade and the pinned form of Apacci in a kneeling position was a Vasto Lorde class hollow going by the name of Tier Halibel. She possessed a mop of messy spiky blonde hair which had two bangs that fell in an x shape over the bridge of her nose, along with an impressive figure and a well endowed chest "I think those things are in the same league as kukaku's" noted Soifon briefly in a moment of complete amazement as she fought with herself not to drool. Her hollow armour was covering everything in a blue and white colour scheme, and her persona seemed to becoming off as that of a shark "and I wouldn't mind getting a bite of..." (save it after I'm done describing her) "puff! fine Silver" the outfit covered everything except for her eyes which showed tanned skin, beautiful intense forest green eyes with framed with unique blonde eyelashes. Her mask covered her mouth and forehead and had what appeared to be a long shark spine plus tail attached to the back that reached down to her ankles. on her legs appeared to be hip high boots made of the same bone material along with armour on both her shoulders with each possessing a shark fin styled spike, on her left arm forearm was a slim looking gauntlet that fit perfectly around her arm with a black material covering her hand like glove. Attached to her right arm was a long double edged blade made of the same bone material that looked very similar to a surfboard, and finally her hollow hole appearing on her abdomen where her womb would be located.
Teir was looking into Soifons cold silver eyes, showing barely contained fury that was burning just below the surface of her green orbs "you will pay for this Soul Reaper!" bit out the shark sounding a lot calmer than she clearly was.
A second Vasto Lorde has shown its mask and was baring it's jaws out our Queen of Hornet's Bee's.
End of Chapter
So that the end of the Chapter I know their was not much hardcore action but their was no way that low level hollows like those where going to give any captain level worth their weight trouble, but I hope the action that was shown was satisfactory enough.
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OH and ALSO could someone explain to what in the hell a BETA is seen the word thrown around but never thought to look in to, and also how do I get one it seem like their useful in someway for improving chapters if am not mistaken.
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