Sorry for not updating for a while. I made this chapter extra long, so please enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don´t own Bleach (even if I wished I was) But luckily I own Ryushiro
Dark Ice
Chapter 9: Amusement at the Amusement Park
by Shadow Typhoon
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Hitsugaya was staring at the beautiful sky. He saw a bird, flying alone above everything. A free bird. He wanted to be free too. He wanted to forget all the pain, sorrow, anger and hatred. And the loneliness and the unexplained pain. A pain which came from inside him. He wanted to forget everything and walk away. He sighed and looked away. It would never happen, never.
Ulquiorra was standing behind Hitsugaya, was staring into something no one could see. Grimmjow was taking a nap, lying on his back. He was snoring, and the snoring vibrated into the air. A small bubble was coming in and out of his nose. Szayel was taking notes on Ichigo´s condition, ignoring everything around him.
Suddenly a butterfly came flying. The butterfly looked like a hell´s moth, but in opposite colors.
"Congratulations on the successful mission. You have all done good, especially you, Hitsugaya. You didn´t disappoint me, so I have decided to give a gift to you."
Hitsugaya, Ulquiorra and Szayel were speechless, while Grimmjow was peacefully slept.
"Grimmjow! Wake up!" Aizen roared.
Grimmjow got up, blinked, gaped and looked around himself.
"What happened?"
"Thank you Grimmjow, for your attention. Now let us continue. As I was saying, I wanted to give you all a gift. I have decided to arrange you a trip to…the amusement park!
Ichigo groaned and slowly opened his eyes. At first, the light blinded him, but he got used to it. He tried to get up, but when the pain washed over him, he gave up and laid still.
"Are you okay Ichigo?"
Rukia was looking at him, worry clearly painted on her face.
"What-what happened?"
"You fought Hitsugaya, have you forgot that? You were severally wounded."
Oh yeah, now he remembered. Everything… the expression on Hitsugaya´s face, the blood, the light's reflection on the tip of Hyourinmaru´s blade, the ice hollow mask on Hitsugaya´s face… Wait a second! Hollow Mask?
"Did you see the hollow mask?" he asked Rukia, got up and shook her back and forth.
"What hollow mask, idiot? What do you mean?"
"You didn´t see it?"
"We were too busy with fighting the other espada. And there were a lot of smoke, damp and dust covering you, so we didn´t see anything at all. So what do you mean with hollow mask?"
"Nothing, nothing at all." Ichigo was deep in thoughts. Hitsugaya had clearly achieved hollow powers, so he now was a vizard. He didn´t know what to say, so he decided not to say anything at all.
Rukia was not convinced, but she dropped the subject. Ichigo saw Renji sitting in an armchair and all of the other shinigami resting. But he couldn´t see Matsumoto.
"Where´s Matsumoto?"
"She is outside thinking. The whole thing with Hitsugaya is messing up her emotions. She doesn´t know what to do." Rukia answered. She was worried for her big chested friend, who was clearly in pain.
Matsumoto was standing outside, the wind was calming her. She thought of Hitsugaya. Her heart was shattered in thousands of pieces, which could never be mended again. Tears began rolling down her eyes, dripping on the ground. She didn´t know what to do. She was broken when Gin had left her and had healed again. But now she was broken again, and she wasn´t sure if she could heal this time.
She heard a sound behind her. She wiped the tears away and smiled. She didn´t want them to know, how bad she was feeling.
Renji stood in the door opening.
"Urahara has something to say. He wants to see us all." Renji said with his arms crossed over his chest. He was also worried for Matsumoto. He knew how she felt.
"I´m coming now" Matsumoto chirped and walked inside. Renji followed her and they joined the others. Urahara was standing in front of everyone.
"I have something important to say, so you should listen carefully. Since you all seem depressed I have arranged a trip for all of you. You are all going to the…amusement park!
"What! Amusement part? Are you serious", Grimmjow spat out. He was very surprised.
"Of cause I´m serious. Why shouldn´t I? I´m completely sane, but I can´t say the same about some of you."
A very tense silence followed his remark.
"Hrm", Aizen coughed, "you are all going later today. I´m sending you some special gigai´s which works on arrancar´s as well. They will soon be here. So please enjoy yourselves. I have arranged ticket´s and transport as well. Oh, and yeah, this are orders, so you can´t disobey me. Good luck"
The butterfly flew away and left Hitsugaya and the espada speechless. They looked at each other and saw that they were all equally surprised.
"Amusement Park? What the hell happened to Aizen? "Grimmjow growled.
Suddenly, from the thin air, some gigai´s fell from the sky atop the surprised espada.
"What the hell happened?" Szayel asked.
"It seems to our gigai's have arrived" Ulquiorra said with hint of surprise in his voice.
They all entered their gigai's, which looked almost themselves. Only with some differences. The blue colors around Grimmjow´s eyes were gone as well as the part of his hollow mask. Ulquiorra´s hollow helmet was gone, as well as his black tear marks running down his cheeks. His skin wasn´t as pale as well, with some more colors. Only Hitsugaya and Szayel looked the same. But their tattoos were still intact.
"Maybe he wanted us to remember our positions" Hitsugaya said.
Ulquiorra wore a pair of black jeans, a silver belt and a black t-shirt with a skull imprinted on it. Very emo alike. Grimmjow also wore a pair of black jeans and with a dark blue t-shirt with an imprinted middle finger (you know what that means). Szayel wore blue jeans with a purple t-shirt with a broken heart imprinted on it and Hitsugaya wore his usual gigai clothes.
In Hitsugaya´s pocket they found tickets and a paper. On the paper there was written the time for their cab to come. Now they just had to wait…
"What! Are we going to the amusement park? Are you insane?" Renji asked.
"I am completely sane, if that´s what you are worried for. I just thought, that you all needed a break from all this" Urahara answered while looking at Matsumoto.
"Then you will probably forget all you problems."
They all saw the logic in this statement, so they agreed to go to the amusement park. They got their gigai´s and got ready. They all jumped on a bus and were on their way to the amusement park.
03:00 PM
"So this is an amusement park" Szayel said while stepping out of the cab. They thanked the driver and walked to the entrance.
"Maybe we really do need this, as refreshment." Grimmjow said. "I´m sure it will be fun"
"Yeah, what would people not think when they saw us. An emo, a rebel, a scientist/ weird nerd and a white haired kid. Yeah, I´m sure this will be normal." Szayel muttered while looking at the others. Ulquiorra wasn´t focused on anything, but looking in the thin air. Grimmjow was cleaning his ear with a finger and Hitsugaya was checking his cell phone for any hollow´s nearby. Yeah, this was very normal. "
"Mummy, why does the man have blue hair? And why does the kid have white hair, or is it silver? Has he bleached it? And that guy in black looks scary. And I don´t like the pink haired guy" a little girl said while holding a mum´s hand.
"Just ignore them, they aren´t dangerous" her mum said while looking at them with disgust in her eyes.
What a wonderful start.
03:10 PM
"So we are finally here. I always wanted to see an amusement park with my own eyes. I hope they have some chappy toys as prizes." Rukia said.
"Urahara gave us some ticket´s, so we don´t have to pay an entrance fee. Let´s go" Ichigo said. He was still covered by bandages, but the bandages couldn´t be seen because his clothes covered them.
They walked over to the entrance and gave the ticket´s. Then they walked inside. They just passed by a store with candy and missed to see the espada and Hitsugaya in the inside. Grimmjow and Szayel were fighting over some candy floss, while Hitsugaya and Ulquiorra tried to hold them back. The shopkeeper was looking at them with an anime sweat drop on the back of his head. He haven´t seen such a violent fight for some candy, not even 5-year old kids behaved like Grimmjow and Szayel did. In the end they bought 2 candy floss ´to both Grimmjow and Szayel, so they were satisfied. Grimmjow tore the candy floss´s apart, while Szayel actually took his time to analyze the candy floss, before he ate them himself. He wanted to make candy floss by himself in his lab when they came back to Las Noches.
After eating the candy floss, they decided to try the demon one of the wildest rides in the entire amusement park. They stood in the line and waited for their turn…
03:25 PM
The shinigami gang had wandered aimlessly for 15 minutes. The map weren´t of much use, since Renji had toured it apart, since he couldn´t read it.
Matsumoto was getting more and more depressed the more she thought of her former captain. She sighed and looked at the others. They seemed annoyed at Renji and didn´t have time to look at her. So then she decided not to make her friends depressed. She had her problems and it shouldn´t include her friends.
They came past the demon, and Matsumoto decided to try it out.
"Guy´s, let´s try this one" she said and ran towards it, so the others had to follow. The lined up and waited. If they had looked around themselves before, they would have seen the espada and Hitsugaya also standing in the line, just further away. Matsumoto and the others came to the end of the line and they jumped on the ride. Hitsugaya and the others were sitting behind them, and they didn´t notice the shinigami in front of them, since the gap in between them were filled with people.
The ride started. It went up and up and then finally reached the top. Then it went down, in loops, up again. It went so fast, that they didn´t have the time to think of anything. Not even, that this was freakin´wild. They all got out of it and walked around with trembling legs, and I mean, all of them. Ishida then started to vomit in a trashcan and many others followed. It was like a chorus of vomiting sounds.
They all continued their journey through the amusement park without seeing each other. They tried lots of rides and they really enjoyed themselves (even Ulquiorra).
20:59 PM
But then it happened. The espada´s saw the shinigami´s. They all had decided to visit the mirror house at the same time. So it just had to happen.
"Isn´t that the shinigami's?" Szayel was the first one to see them. But not actually them, but their mirror reflection. They were in each corner of the mirror house.
"Yes, now I can finally kick the brat´s ass" Grimmjow said and licked his lips.
"We can´t." Hitsugaya said with his arms crossed.
"Why not?" Grimmjow asked, malice gleaming in his eyes.
"Cause we aren´t allowed to get out of the gigai's, before we are out of the amusement park. I was written on Aizen´s note. You know what will happen if we disobey."
Grimmjow growled, but could do nothing.
"How are we going to come out of here, without the shinigami´s knowing?" Szayel asked.
"We´ll have to sneak" Ulquiorra said.
And so they sneaked. They ran into some Goths wearing some capes. So they knocked them unconscious and stole their capes. When they came to the finish line, the shinigami was already there. So they had to run. Very fast.
"What was that?" asked Rukia, when four blurs had passed them.
"I don´t know" said Ichigo and they all shrugged and went out.
It was getting late, so they all decided to go home. They went out, jumped on the nearest bus and was on their way home.
01:30 AM
"Is everything clear" asked Szayel. "My legs are getting numb. I think we have been hiding here for hours now"
"Who got the stupid idea of hiding in the vending machine?" Grimmjow asked furiously.
"Not me" they all chorused.
They all looked at each other, confused. Then who said to them, that they should hide in the vending machine, until the shinigami was gone?
I Hueco Mondo, Aizen was laughing like a madman. He had pulled such a prank on the espada and Hitsugaya. He had talked to them through the hell butterfly (Aizen´s version of the hell moth). What a joke. His laughter could be heard in whole Hueco Mondo, and all the weaker hollows were shivering in their sleep.
"Can we go out now?" Hitsugaya asked. He was seriously mad now.
They all climbed outside and made their way towards the entrance. No human was in sight.
"This very mysterious" Ulquiorra said.
When they finally came to the entrance, it was locked. The whole amusement park was locked. And the espada had been forgotten.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
The espada had to suffer until the amusement park opened again.
Thank you for reading my story. Please review. I will update soon, within a week, since I´ll have holiday by the end of this week.
So until then, have sweet dreams.
See ya
Shadow Typhoon