Hello, It´s Shadow Typhoon. This is the new chapter. I´m so sorry that I didn´t update sooner, but I was so lazy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, even if I wished for it. But I do own Ryushiro, which actually means White dragon.

Dark Ice

Chapter 15: The Final Fight

by Shadow Typhoon

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"Soar upon the burning sky, Hyourinmaru!"

Hyourinmaru raised above all the inhabitants of Hueco Mondo and roared. It was engulfed in blue white flames, which were spiraling around it. Suddenly it dived and went straight against Aizen. Aizen was just standing calmly and waited for Hyourinmaru to come close to him. Suddenly he drew his zanpukatou and divided Hyourinmaru into two different pieces. Then Hyourinmaru vaporized.

Hitsugaya was shocked. He didn´t think that Aizen would be that strong! His new shikai was stronger than his usual shikai, it was supposed to do damage! But of cause he had forgotten, how strong Aizen was. Damn, I shouldn´t had underestimated him! He thought.

Suddenly Tousen was in front of him, and almost stabbed though his abdomen, if Hitsugaya hadn´t dodged. Grimmjow urged forward, eager to help. He wanted to taste the blood on his lips.

He lashed forward and tried to slice Tousen, but Tousen gracefully dodged. Grimmjow and Tousen then proceeded to move in super fast speed, so only the trained eye could see them.

Meanwhile Hitsugaya looked back to see Aizen talking quietly with Ichimaru. Ichimaru was now smiling even creepier than before. Then Ichimaru suddenly disappeared. Hitsugaya looked around, but he couldn´t see him. That wasn´t a good sign. Aizen and Ichimaru were up to something.

Ulquiorra looked around, hoping to see Ichimaru, but failed. He never liked that man, and he never wanted to. He always smiled! And Ulquiorra had always despised smiling people.

Suddenly he felt numb. He tried to move his face, but couldn´t. He then tried to wriggle his toes, but that didn´t work either. Now Ulquiorra would have frowned deeper, if he wasn´t frozen on the spot. Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the other espada in the same state as himself.

Hitsugaya paused, feeling that something was wrong. He looked behind himself and saw all the arrancar, espada and hollows stand frozen on their spot. He frowned. This was probably Ichimaru´s work.

"I see that you have finally noticed it." Aizen said smugly. "I created a special machine which could freeze any hollow, arrancar or espada in a radius of 1 kilometer. But since you are a special case, I suppose it doesn´t work on you" Aizen had always been proud of his creations, but you could never be too suspicious.

"I knew that some of my creations would be rebellious, so I designed this machine so that I could control them, or paralyze them so that I could discard them."

Hitsugaya now fully understood Aizen´s plan. When he had paralyzed the arrancar, espada and hollows, Hitsugaya would stand alone against the three traitors. Which wasn´t so good.

Aizen motioned to Ichimaru and Tousen and they retreated. The flash stepped to the other end of the hall. Aizen wanted to play with his prey. Like the last time where he had stabbed Hitsugaya, while Hitsugaya was in his hypnosis.

Hitsugaya knew that his flame shikai wouldn´t work, and he didn´t have any other stronger attack.

"Hey, wake up idiot. Don´t lose your hope so easily. You have backup, which includes me as well, something you probably forgot." Ryushiro said angrily. He didn´t like the turn of events in front of him. Now Aizen had the upper hand.

"You could use a synchronization of your shinigami and hollow powers. Before, while fighting Ichigo, you only used 20% of your hollow powers and 80% of your shinigami powers. You have to use a fifty of your hollow powers and a fifty of your shinigami powers, if you want to win. Hyourinmaru advised.

Hitsugaya nodded. He hadn´t thought of that before. Then he tried again.

"Soar upon the burning sky, Hyourinmaru!" Hitsugaya roared. Hyourinmaru erupted from the tip of the blade and rose again. But this time it was different. Now flames were engulfing Hitsugaya as well.

When the flames disappeared, you could see him again. The ice hollow mask was now again covering his face. It was exactly like the last time he had used his hollow powers, but he seemed more controlled. His eyes were calm and he waited for the impact.

Hyourinmaru flew against Aizen. Aizen just raised his zanpukatou and cut through it again, which caused a lot of steam to appear. When the steam disappeared, Aizen stood and smirked, looking completely unharmed. But if you looked closer, you could see a crack in Kyoka Suigetsu. Aizen saw this and frowned. He hadn´t anticipated that. It seemed to that Hitsugaya had gotten stronger.

"What a pleasant surprise, Hitsugaya- kun. You have gotten stronger. That way, we can play a little longer than I thought."

Hitsugaya didn´t like the tone of his voice. It seemed that this was only a game for Aizen. He wasn´t that weak, was he? He knew that Aizen was extremely strong. But how strong? He didn´t know.

His eye´s flicked around, trying to find something, anything, which could give him an advantage. He wouldn´t give up without a fight.

Suddenly his surroundings started to blur and sway. Hitsugaya felt giddy and felt to his knees. Now the surroundings were something entirely different. He was once again standing in front of Hinamori with her zanpukatou pointed at his neck. It was the night when Hinamori had thought that he had killed Aizen. Tears were streaming from her face and she was gripping the hilt tightly. Then something happened, something which didn´t happen before. Blood started to drip from Hinamori´s eyes, making it look like she cried blood. Various and random wounds appeared on her body, stained her shinigami uniform.

Hitsugaya´s eyes widened. What was happening? This wasn´t not supposed to happen. This didn´t happen the last time!

"Why did you do this to me?" Hinamori said, eyes filled with hatred and malice. "It´s all your fault!"

"You killed Aizen! What did he do to anger you? He didn´t deserve it!"

Hitsugaya wanted to reply, saying that Aizen was evil, and he hadn´t killed him. Yet, he hoped. But no sound came over his lips. He almost choked on his voice.

Suddenly Matsumoto appeared. Hinamori turned into dust and flew away with the wind. Matsumoto also looked at Hitsugaya with hatred in her eyes. But there were also sorrow. Her clothes were filled with ash and her hair was dirty.

"Why did you leave me?! I didn´t deserve it!" Matsumoto said with a low voice. It was hard to hear her voice, since It wasn´t raised above a whisper.

The entire background was now colored in black and white with grey shades. Everything seemed to be out of order. Hitsugaya became disorientated.

Hitsugaya´s eyes widened again. Corpses were surrounding him. Renji was laying face down. Kurosaki´s heart was ripped out. All of the other shinigami he knew, including his own squad, were dead. They all had emotionless empty eyes. Dead eyes. Suddenly they all stirred. They got up, living dead, and surrounded him.

"Why did you leave us behind? It´s your fault! Your fault!" they said.

Hitsugaya fell down on his knees and clutched his head. He tried to scream, but the scream never came past his lips.

What had he done? It was his fault! His fault!

"Idiot, this is only an illusion. Wake up!" It was Ryushiro.

"They are all dead, and it´s my fault" Hitsugaya whimpered.

"Young one, you have to wake up" Hyourinmaru growled. It was incredibly angry at this moment.

"It´s because of me that they are dead!" Hitsugaya was also getting angry. They didn´t understand. All his friends were dead. Now he had nothing to fight for.

"Hitsugaya Toushiro, this is the last time I´m saying this!" Hyourinmaru roared.

Suddenly Hitsugaya found himself in his mindscape. The sky was cloudy; it seemed that it would storm any moment.

"Are you out of your mind? Aizen is toying with your mind, and you can´t see it! And you call yourself a prodigy!" Ryushiro said with his hands on his hips.

"But…" Hitsugaya started.

"No buts! We have no time for this nonsense! If we have to defeat Aizen, Ichimaru and Tousen, we have to act fast. You haven´t yet learned the Ice Flame Bankai. It is our final hope." Hyourinmaru growled, it´s crimson eyes blazing with an inner fire.

"What do I have to do…?" Hitsugaya started, but then his vision became blurry. The whole mindscape started to ripple.

"Concentrate, idiot! We can´t keep you here forever, Aizen will soon pull you back!" Ryushiro replied harshly. He wasn´t the most patient type of person.

"Fine! I´ll try!" Hitsugaya closed his eyes and concentrated. He found his inner core, the root of his powers. He saw it as a light blue diamond, it shone before his eyes.

"Now I´ll just have to do like the other time I achieved bankai", Hitsugaya thought. He concentrated even deeper and felt his power spread to his entire body. His body tingled and began to shine in a light blue aura. "And now to the incarnation".

It wasn´t this easy to achieve your bankai, but since Hitsugaya already had achieved his other bankai, it was easy for him. But it required great energy. The words came naturally to him. After all, they had been a part of his entire life. He just didn´t know them. The words came out of his mouth:

"Kuro Hyourinhimaru" Hitsugaya whispered. (AN: it means Dark Ice Fire Ring, I think. I´m not fully sure. Do you like it?).

Hyourinmaru changed appearance. On the left side of its face, it gained a hollow mask, similar to Hitsugaya´s hollow mask. Hyourinmaru´s hollow mask only covered the left side and not the right side. The hollow mask resembled a dragon and looked like a natural part of Hyourinmaru. It was a darker blue color than its scales.

The ice, which was between Hyourinmaru´s body and its wings, became pure black. The spikes on Hyourinmaru´s back became a very dark shade of blue, almost black. Hyourinmaru´s left eye became hollow yellow/golden, while the right eye remained red.

Hyourinmaru also gained some sort of armor. On its right side, from a little lower than its head to a little under its wings, it gained an ocean blue armor. It only wore this armor on its right side. Its wings became a little darker shade than normally, but otherwise the rest of Hyourinmaru remained the same.

Hitsugaya opened his eyes. He was in one of Aizen´s illusions again. He closed his eyes and concentrated again. The illusion shattered. He was now standing in Aizen´s hall again. But he had changed as well.

Hitsugaya had his wings, just like before. But they were a dark shade of blue. Hitsugaya´s face was covered with a hollow mask, just like his fight against Kurosaki Ichigo. His left arm was incased in ice, just like with the regular bankai. Just that the ice was almost black, but you could see through it.

Hitsugaya smirked. His eyes were shining, the same color as his reiatsu. He glared at Ichimaru and Tousen. Tousen seemed afraid of him. They probably didn´t expect that. Now to use some of his new techniques.

"Kuroaisu Inferuno" Hitsugaya said softly. (AN: it means Dark/Black Ice Inferno.) Hyourinmaru sprouted out of the tip of the blade. It roared, it had taken its new form. It growled and roared again. This time much stronger. The whole hall was set on fire. The Ice Fire didn´t hurt Hitsugaya´s allies, but burned everything else to crisps. When the fire was gone, Hitsugaya could see dust at where Tousen stood before.

"One down, two to go" he said smirking. Ichimaru had finally lost his irritating smile. Ichimaru looked wounded too. Heavily wounded. Hitsugaya sprinted forward and slashed at Ichimaru. He hadn´t time to escape, so he was killed instantly. Hitsugaya had also gained even more speed with the new bankai.

"And now the last one" Aizen didn´t look harmed, but looks could deceive.

"My my, you have gotten stronger. Should we end this?"

"With pleasure. Oh, and your illusions doesn´t work on me anymore" Hitsugaya added, smirking at Aizen´s somehow grim expression.

Hitsugaya knew that even without the illusions, Aizen was still strong. So he had no time to play. He had to use another new technique.

"Amatsu Chiseichuu" (AN: it means Heavenly Blood Control). Suddenly Aizen jerked forward and stumbled over his feat.

"What did you do?" Aizen asked. He hadn´t moved on his own will.

"I´m controlling your blood flow, making me able to control your movement. Simply, I can make you do anything I wants"

"But I´m not evil, so there´s no need to humiliate you further" Hitsugaya added. He was lying. He didn´t have the time to play with Aizen, since he almost had no reiatsu left.

"Die" Hitsugaya said looking Aizen directly in his eyes.

Aizen stood up and unsheathed Kyoka Suigetsu. Then he placed the tip before Aizen´s heart.

"Goodbye"

Aizen stabbed himself in the heart, killing him instantly. He fell down, his eyes dull.

Hitsugaya also fell. He had no more reiatsu. It always took a lot reiatsu to achieve a new bankai. Hitsugaya closed his eyes. Then everything became black...

I´m so sorry for not updating for a whole month. I was just so lazy. But that´s not an excuse. Please accept my humble apology.

Anyway, don´t stop reading my story. Just because that Aizen is dead, it doesn´t mean that the story is boring. I know, maybe I made Hitsugaya too strong, but I couldn´t resist it. Of cause there are others who are stronger than him, you´ll see. And sorry for making him seem so weak before that. But I had to.

I have good news. I´ve already planned two sequels. So you´ll see people who are stronger than Hitsugaya. But I´ll only begin after I´ve written this one and Dark Angel finish.

Hey, have you seen the poster to the movie "Operation Valkyrie" or just "Valkyrie". Tom Cruise looks just like Roy Mustang from Full metal Alchemist. They have both dark hair, they are both colonels, they are both planning a treason, and they both have an eye patch. Well, Roy Mustang has an eye patch in the end of the anime and not in the beginning. But still, they look so much alike. The first thing I thought when I saw the poster was: Tom Cruise looks like Roy Mustang! Wow! And then some seconds after: It's hilarious!

Until next time, have sweet dreams.

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