The Emerald Forest Part 2


The platforms that the first-year students were launched from had a surprising amount of force behind them, the fact that the contraption was able to launch a human being from a cliffside with enough force to actually keep them in the air for a considerable amount of time but this was proven further.

"Birdy no!", Ruby shouted this as she completely obliterated a black bird, that had the misfortune of being in the air at the time, upon her descend into the Emerald Forest. The other students handled their landing in a number of different ways for example: Lie Ren used his Storm Flower's blades to spiral around a tree before landing safely on the ground and then there was Jaune...he was pinned to a tree by Pyrrah Nikos' Miló in it's javelin form; now,whilst falling at high speeds, it was Ichigo's turn to form a landing strategy.

'Damn it! Come on, think, think!', at this point he was practically screaming at his brain to go into overdrive in hopes of hatching an efficient landing strategy then it hit him.

'Zangetsu, there is cloth wrapped around its handle!', without a second a thought Ichigo lifted the blade from his back and then grasping the cloth hanging from the handle, he proceeded to swing the blade back and forth before it picked up some momentum and began to spin.


"Damn, that killed my calfs," Ichigo tugged at the cloth with all of his might in order to unlodge Zangetsu from the tree trunk in was currently stuck in.

"That could've gone a whole lot better...then again it could have gone worse," he began to mentally kick himself for using that landing strategy, the force of his descent and the strain it put on his hands and legs was enough to make him regret his decision of throwing his blade at a tree.

"Hope the others are doing alright, 'cause this already turning out to be a huge pain in the ass for me," resting Zangetsu on his shoulder, he began to move forward.


His temper was running extremely short at the moment, his little search for a familiar face has gone on for about 10 minutes now...with no progress.

"Rukia! Tatsuki! Orihime! Anyone?!", there was some rustling in the bushes followed by glaring red eyes and growling.

"You've gotta be kidding," a small Beowolf lunged from the bushes however its strike didn't quite reach Ichigo seeing as Zangetsu intercepted the creature in mid-air, cleaving in half.

"Alright who's next?", he yelled at the pack with confidence as they emerged from the bushes with less than friendly intentions.


The scenery of the Emerald Forest is simply breathtaking, in all honesty it would be a great place to relax...well if there wasn't Grimm lurking around every corner. Rukia let out a sigh as she continued to march forward.

"Such a shame," she brushed off her previous thoughts of the forest and focused on the task at hand.

"Ozpin said the temple was on the northern end of the forest, so, it can't be much further from he-," she was cut off by a glowing blue crescent of aura tearing through a few trees along with a familiar voice letting out a triumphant shout.

"Next time you bastards should just stay outta the way!", no doubt about it, Ichigo is close by. Rukia picked up the pace a bit as she headed towards the direction of his shout; she quickly caught a glimpse of some bright orange hair.

"Ichigo, over here!", she yelled as loud as she could which seemed to work absurdly well, seeing as she quickly got a response.

"Rukia is that you?!", it was in this moment that Rukia realized how dumb he could be at times.

"What do you think!", her sassy reply caused Ichigo to scoff as he walked towards her.

"Sorry, I just had to make sure that I didn't discover some new species of short creatures that could talk," his face had a prideful smirk on it as Rukia let out a groan that signaled how annoyed the previous statement made her.

"Just shut up and follow me. We shouldn't be too far from the temple now," Ichigo followed as she began to walk.

"About how long should it be until we get there?"

"I'd guess around five to ten minutes," Ichigo groaned as the kept on walking.

"Any way we could cut back on the time?", he asked in hopes of her actually having a shortcut or something, at the moment he had dealt with all the wildlife he could handle and just wanted to get out of this damn forest.

"Quit your complaining. It isn't that far away."

"Oh bite me, you angry midget," she turned around and childishly stuck her tongue out at him.


"We there yet?", Ichigo asked impatiently as Rukia groaned.

"We've only been walking for five minutes! I said it could take up to ten minutes fool."

"Don't call me a fool you damn midget," she chuckled at his insult as she turned her head towards him with a spiteful look on her face.

"Can't you think of anything better than 'midget'? Or are you that unoriginal carrot top?"

"Didn't you contradict yourself right there? I mean you've called me 'carrot top' at least as many times as I've called you a midget if not more."

"Oh will you just shut up!", the orange haired teen shrugged and just marched forward until Rukia stopped dead in her tracks and put her arm out.

"Did you hear that?", listening closely, Ichigo could hear the bushes rustle.

"Yea, I do," he brought Zangetsu in front of him as he grasped it with both of his hand before getting into a defensive stance.

"It's big, if I had to guess I'd say it's an Ursa," Rukia quickly drew the katana she had strapped her hip before her eyes began to dart around in an attempt to find the creature that was coming towards them.

"Rukia!", her eyes snapped to the left as she saw blade coming towards her. Bringing the blade of katana up to her face as the sword like blade made contact, the force pushing her back a few feet as she looked up at the grotesque creature. This thing before them was not like any other Grimm that has been documented, it was far too human like in appearance if you could even use the term human in this scenario. The torso of this said Grimm was almost identical to a thinner human...if they were cover in an exoskeleton and had arms that went down to their ankles. It let out a distorted, high-pitched roar as its sickly thin fingers tightened around the short sword that was in its grasp.

"Hope you're ready for this," Rukia clutched her blade tightly as Ichigo spoke those words.

"Of course I am. Now dance Sode no Shirayuki!", frost covered the blade before revealing the pure white blade. Ichigo smirked as he glared at their opponent.

"Alright, let's go!"


The pair were panting heavily as they attempted to catch their breathe, it was way too strong, Grimm like this were supposed to be outside of the walls away from civilization but somehow this one was in the Emerald Forest just outside of Beacon.

"What the hell is up with that thing?", Ichigo was amazed by the Grimm's durability which caused half of their attacks to have little to no effect at all.

"I-I have no idea. I just hope the wall is going to hold up," the wall she spoke of was a giant formation of ice Rukia had created with the use of her semblance and the dust in her sword in order to distance themselves from the creature that lurked on the other side.

"No point in sitting around anymore. That thing could bust that thing down any minute now, so, our best bet is to be ready to fight," using Zangetsu to support himself as he stood up, Ichigo put himself into a combat stance in anticipation of the Grimm breaking through.

"You know you're insane sometimes...but, I suppose you're right," she stood up before bringing Sode no Shirayuki to a kendo stance. The pair sat there for a good minute or so before there was an audible crack as the ice began to break.

"Here it comes!", Rukia shouted as she put on a death grip on her sword.

"Alright, I've had enough of this asshole!", in a quick motion, Ichigo pointed his blade at the Grimm as it barreled through the barrier. He grabbed his wrist as his blade began to glow blue.

"Bankai!"


AN: Alright there it is! Chapter 3...with a cliffhanger. And before anyone asks the question, I will explain how Shikai and Bankai works in this story. Now then see ya guys next time!