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Ch 2: Sira
(New Karakura, Military Sector; 9:00 p.m.)
That night a train carrying men and supplies arrived from the western sector of the Alliance. Most of the well qualified and highly trained cadets; who would become part of the elite legion of the Alliance; were trained there. Pushed to their limits, coating in sweat and trained to survive the most hazardous of operations they would become a force to be reckoned like no other. They were more than just elites, they were extremely versatile, and were often assigned to other sectors ranging from patrolling the streets to the army to intelligence. Men and Women all hopped off the train and amongst all of them was a very quiet, observant dark-skinned emo hair patterned, who had a scar running down her neck. She was very bony had straight hair that would reach her shoulders but had it tied into one ponytail. She adorned a predominantly black top that had a white outline to it with her jeans following the same pattern wearing white shoes She was assigned to Alliance Intelligence. She may not look like an intelligence agent but most people were often fooled by her physical appearance. She was powerful and intelligent, which is why she volunteered to serve with Intelligence. Enlisted at the age of 15 and now 17 in the Alliance elite made her rare in terms of what one person would accomplish. She walked into the base and put her duffle bag down on her bed. All the elites had rooms of their own. She layed down on her bed and wanted to get some rest and drifted to sleep. But not for long, she knew her personal wrist communicator was going to ring in an hour or so. She knew something always had to be done.
(10:00 p.m.)
As she predicted it rang. Instantly opening her eyes and answering it. She turned it on and it was the head of government Ulquiorra Cifer. "Hello agent."
"Prime Minister Cifer," she replied and saluted.
"No need for the solute agent Sira," she eased back down at his gentle voice. "I hope I didn't disturb your sleep."
"As an agent you barely have time to rest as long as there is work that is needed to be done an agent must always be ready."
Ulquiorra put his hand under his chin "Your old teachers and trainers spoke highly of you. They told me I should prowess from someone such as you. But pleasantries aside I have a job for you."
"You have my full attention," Sira said.
"Guardian Kurosaki is going on a recruitment mission and he request that I assign an agent to to accompany him. Today's your lucky day," Ulquiorra said.
Sira was a bit put off by this. Many others have heard rumors that Ichigo was the most powerful person the Alliance has ever seen. She knew he could hold his own no doubt in her mind. But why was she chosen? "I'm honored minister but why would be want someone like me join him on a simple mission of recruitment?"
"He might have a task for someone special like yourself. He hasn't told me why. Head to Karakura Town and meet him there. Any questions?," he asked her.
"I'll won't keep him waiting," Sira said.
"Good luck," Sira turned off her wrist comm. She went over to her bag and pulled out her waterproof coat that went to her legs. It had the Alliance Insignia on it. She put on her black leather boots and went to Karakura town.
(Karakura Town)
Sira arrived in Karaura park next to a streetlight. She calmed her mind and listened to her surrounding to make sure she wasn't being followed. She had to be extra careful and keep her presence suppressed. Rogue hollows come often this time of the day. Not to mention that the Soul Society is very active this time of the dying day. Five minutes later she picked up Ichigo's power and walked casually towards him through the streets. He was sitting at the cafe that stayed open late at night. Cafe's in Karakura stay open for mainly people commuting and business matters, so they actually kept the streets lit and a good amount of people walking through the streets making it the perfect cover so she could just casually blend in so no one would recognize her.
"Guardian Kurosaki," she said getting his attention causing him to look at her. He gestured her to sit down across from him and passed another cup of coffee over to her, which Sira accepted and sipped out of.
"Glad you could make. I hope your night is going well," Ichigo said to him.
"All is well.," a period of brief silence followed as the two of them looked each other dead in they eye. Sira used her trained eyes to analyze what Ichigo was saying through his eyes. After finishing her analysis Sira took another sip of her coffee. "You have special job for me sir?"
"You catch on fast," Ichigo chuckled. "I'll just cut right to it. There is a strange power surging through here and I need your help to track it."
"What kind of power are we talking about?" Sira asked him.
"The kind of power that is undefinable. I just felt recently can you?"
Sira opened up her sense to everything around her to the fullest extent. She felt it a little and it was ominous. "Undefinable but ominous. Where do you suggest we start?"
"Correction it's where you are going to start. I'm assigning you on this mission alone. I hope you don't mind," Ichigo said.
Sira smirked and applied logic to her next sentence "Not at all. Keeps me from being bored, keeps this quiet while the hollows and shinigami are busy they'll be too busy to suspect a thing. It's a straight win for us."
"Glad to see you agree," Ichigo smiled at her confidence. "Then you better get going contact me when you find anything. Take this earpiece with you just in case someone is watching. Be careful." he finished as Sira stuck the earpiece in her ear.
Sira stood up and walked off into the night to complete her task, while Ichigo on the other hand was busy being in thought. 'You don't have to do everything on your own Ichigo' he thought back to Uryu's words. 'You're right," he admitted in his thoughts. 'Let's see what this agent can do.'
Sira wasted no time making her way to the strange disturbance and as she got closer she felt it weigh her down even more. Whatever it was it was strong. She stopped for a moment when she sensed something nearby. It was moving, closing in fast from the front of her. A gillian that looked like it had veins coming from it's mask ready to strike at her as she conjured a purple blade with her magic and with no effort killed it instantly. 'Something wasn't right with that Gillian. It looked sick' she got closer and examined it further. She picked up one of its veins and held it closer. The vein was pulsating even though the Gillian was dead. She felt the same ominous energy radiating from it. She decided to scan it for further analysis back home. 'I'd better contact Ichigo'.
She pressed the button on her earpiece "Guardian sir come in."
"I hear you agent did you find the source?"
"No sir, but I found a Gillian. It looked different."
Ichigo cocked his brow "How so?"
"It looked sick or infected. I don't know but I felt the same presence running off of it. I did a scn on it I'm sending it to you now."
Ichigo looked at the scan he received from Sira. He looked kind of spooked by the image he saw. Sick was an understatement according to him. "This is disturbing. Proceed with your mission agent. I'll keep looking at this."
Sira disposed of the Gillians body so no trace of it was left. Leaving it there would only generate unwanted attention. She kept going until she stopped at a train station. 'It's that presence again,' she thought. The next thing she knew there were more hollows surrounding her location. 'Shit. I have to kill these guys fast.' She made no effort to dispatch of the unworthy adversaries that tried to kill her. She got a closer look at them. The veins of the hollows popped out. The sick look on most of them as she was fighting them. She contacted Ichigo again
"Yeah let me know what you. Oh hold on Kisuke," Ichigo swapped comm channels. "Yes agent." he said.
"I found more hollows. All of them sick like that Gillian I showed you. That power keeps getting stronger."
"This is not good. Get as many scans as you need to. I'll be there in a moment." Ichigo showed up a minute or two after examining the corpses of hollows before him. He looked even more grossed out than Sira did. "I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight after this."
"What the the Great Guardian can't handle a few corpses?," she mocked
"Only when the veins are not horribly disfigured!," Ichigo defended himself
"That power is growing stronger the closer we get to it."
"Yeah and whatever it is it's infecting hollows," Ichigo walked forward closer to the source and Sira followed next to him.
"Something doesn't add up. If this power is great why couldn't the shinigami sense it? Wouldn't they have been able to detect it by now?"
"Yeah you're right about one thing they would've been able to now. But if I had to take a wild guess… it's because only hollows could sense it. That's just my theory though."
"Your theory sounds correct look over there in the water," Sira pointed to a red glowing object in the water underneath the bridge. They stayed back and observed as a gillian walked towards it. They witnessed the horrific transformation of the gillian being infected. What the hell was that they thought. Ichigo killed the gillian before it got far.
Sira and Ichigo walked over to the glowing object but were halted by Kisuke's arrival.
"Wait don't touch it!," he cried.
"What is it Kisuke?" Ichigo turned to him. He watched as Kisuke pulled out a special containment unit. He opened it and scooped the object out of the water. Urahara was shocked to see the object he had just picked up. "Kisuke what is that thing? EARTH TO KISUKE!," Ichigo said.
"This is an oken," he replied.
"What is an oken?," Ichigo asked.
"A key to the Soul Palace," a dead silence descended upon them at what Kisuke just told them.
"Did you say…" Sira was about to ask until more Spiritual pressures began to close in on them. "We need to go…,"
Luckily they the three of them slipped out from under the Gotei 13's noses. Toshiro arrived just in time to to miss them exit.
"Damn it. We're too late," Toshiro felt the faintest of potent spiritual pressure and it just slipped away.
(New Karakura; Military Headquarters)
They luckily made it back before being detected. That was close. Way too close for comfort.
"That was an interesting night we had." Ichigo said.
"Indeed. I'm taking this Oken and locking it up in my lab for further analysis. I'll catch you later Ichigo.," Kisuke said as he began to walk away.
"I'm calling a meeting later Kisuke. I expect to see you there this time. After tonight 'everyone' needs to be there," Ichigo said.
"Don't worry I'll be there this time," Urahara said waving his arms.
Ichigo turned his attention to Sira who stood there and yawned. Ichigo felt like she felt enough excitement for tonight. She had done a good job in his opinion. He was glad Ulquiorra assigned her to join him. "You can go get some rest. You did a job well done uhhh…"
"Sira," he answered for him.
"Sira. I'll remember that. I actually want you to attend the meeting this evening. After what you witnessed tonight. You deserve a chance to weigh in on this matter."
Sira yawned again "I'll be there," Ichigo nodded at her answer.
"Well see you then Sira," Ichigo went off to retire for tonight. Sira went over to the her room and looked at the time it was one o'clock. Not even bothering to get into her pajamas she just curled up into the covers and went to sleep. She was going to sleep in until then.
So what do you guys think of my OC and the Oken mythos I created? I actually enjoyed writing this chapter so I hope you guys enjoyed. Some dark horrific magic went down and if you were as creeped out as I was let me know. As always feel free to Private Message me and leave a review. I have college so I won't be able to work on fanfiction for a while. So any feedback would be most appreciated.
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