Chapter 8:
Ichigo's POV
Shortly after the meeting Rukia, Renji, Axel, Kisuke, and I are sitting in a circle in the Hall Of Empty Melodies. Xemnas had told us to figure out the preparations while he decided on whom to send. Whoever was being sent, had to fight very well to even be a match against the espada, good enough to kick Grimmjow's a**. Renji had wondered why they just couldn't use soul reapers instead of Nobodies. "Because it would give more to worry about for the Soul Society," He had replied. Of course, everything is for the Soul Society.
"Well, if we're heading to the Las Noches Palace…" Kisuke started taking out something from behind his back. "We'll need to know our way around," He finished as he rolled out a large piece of blue paper on the ground.
Rukia gasped in shock. On the blue paper were the blueprints to Las Noches! I raised and eyebrow in confused and met Kisuke's eyes. He had that devious little smile on his face and an amused look in his eyes.
"I'm not even going to ask where you got these," I told Kisuke as I flashed a confused glance.
"Good, 'cause I'm not tellin' ya," He replied.
"You stole them from Aizen, didn't you?" I concluded quickly.
"How'd you know!" He panicked. "I mean no," He 'corrected' quickly pulling himself together.
Renji rolled his eyes as if he were board, which he probably was. Kisuke cleared his throat and his expression turned serious.
"If we want to sneak to Hueco Mundo the only way is the break down a small portion of this wall here," He began explaining as he pointed to a wall on the North side of the building. "The wall's weakest point is here," He circled part of the wall with his finger. "So you most likely won't be detected if you sneak in through there,"
"I would do quite the opposite actually," I heard voice comment behind me.
I turned around and almost jump out of my skin. Leaning over my shoulder is a man with overly long blonde hair and freaky-looking green eyes. He looks like he's studying the blueprint with a lot of interest. Axel raised an eyebrow.
"Vexen, what are you doing here? Did Xemnas choose you to join us?" He asked.
"No, I was told by Xemnas to get Zexion and Demyx and bring them here," Vexen replied, still looking at the blueprints.
"If you ask me its plain stupid to in through the front door. You'll obviously get pwned if you just walk in," Another voice commented.
I turned around and saw two other guys. One had blue hair with a bang hanging over the left side of his face and blue eyes. It was the same guy who was reading the book at the meeting but now he didn't have his nose buried in a book and he looked at board as hell. His name is…Zexion, I think? The other member that stood next to him had spiky blonde hair, which looked like a Mohawk in the front but then turned into a mullet in the back, and eyes the color of the sea.
"You must this Ichigo kid I've heard about," The blonde one, whom I assumed to be Demyx, told me as he sat next to me and Zexion took a seat next to Rukia.
There were a couple moments of awkward silence before Axel broke the peace.
"Where did you get the idea of going in through the most obvious place they could think of?" Axel wondered.
"No one looks in the most obvious place," Vexen replied. "Think of it, whenever you're looking for something you check the places where you're least likely to find it. Then when you look in the most obvious place it's there," He explained.
"According to your reasoning, wouldn't they ambush us?" I wondered.
"You would probably have just enough time to walk in and go up this staircase, which lead to…this hallway here," He pointed out, tracing the path on the blueprints with his finger.
"You're insane," I thought out loud.
"He's right," Kisuke told us. "Nobody looks in the obvious place. Like I have a secret stash of Skittles and Reeses hidden under my bed,"
All of us flashed him confused and some-what-surprised stares. Kisuke gulped and looked from side to side.
"Did I just say that out loud?" He asked us. (Author: Poor Kisuke )
He just keeps getting crazier and crazier. I thought to myself.
"So, do we have a plan yet?" Demyx wondered.
"Not really," Renji answered. "We have Kisuke's plan of breaking down a portion of the weakest wall and we have Vexen's plan of going through the front door and going through this hallway," Renji explained.
"Both plans have their advantages and disadvantages," Rukia pointed out. "If we use Kisuke's plan we'll be more likely to run into the espada but it won't take us as long to get to the prisoner hold…here," She pointed to a small box in the upper part of the place. "If we use Vexen's we won't run much but it'll take us longer to get to Roxas,"
"But either way there will at least some guards guarding the prison hold," Zexion pointed out.
I put my hand under my chin and think to myself. What if we can somehow make a detour? We could go through the front door, take the left staircase and head through some of the older passages and get to the prisoner hold. But there's no guarantee we won't run into anything. If only I knew more about Roxas to could guess how heavily they guarded the place. The espada knows we'll come after Roxas, meaning we're going to run into at least some of them, possibly even Grimmjow.
"The espada know we're coming no matter what," I told everyone. "But the question is how heavily they're guarding the place. If they we're coming they're going to use the espada to guard the prison hold. I say we should go through the front door and see what happens from there," I thought out loud.
Renji nodded towards me. "Kisuke, when we do go to Hueco Mundo, can we use those blue prints of yours?" He asked.
"Sure, just return it to me in mint conation," He replied, rolling up the blue prints.
"So we just go through the most obvious place we can think of and go from there?" Demyx confirmed. "That spells suicide in every possible way,"
"Crazy as it is, it might just work," Vexen commented as he left the room.
"Is he always that much of a nutcase?" I wondered.
"You haven't seen Saix in moonlight," Zexion said to me.
"Be forewarned," Kisuke warned us. "Hueco Mundo tends to get very cold, bring a warm cloak. Our enemies are extremely powerful, bring any thing that can boost your magic or enhance your weapons. They're probably five times stronger then the toughest heartless you've ever fought. Don't get careless…and fight with everything you got!" Kisuke exclaimed.
Later that same day…
Kisuke led us to the basement of his shop. Zexion, Axel, and Demyx were gazing around in shock and confusion. I could almost hear their thoughts: this is a basement?! I remember having those same thoughts when I was first down here. He led us to the very back of it where two large poles of wood stood on both sides of a rock formation. It looked like the gateway to somewhere foreign, like Hueco Mundo. Kisuke leaped on top of one of the poles and looked down at us.
"Are you guys ready?" He asked us.
"Almost forgot," Renji said to himself tossing Axel, Zexion, and Demyx a pale brown cloak. "You might want these it does get pretty cold in Hueco Mundo," He told them.
The three of them slipped their cloaks on over their coats and Axel gave a thumbs-up to Kisuke. Kisuke nodded towards them and pulled out a cane he kneeled on the wooden beam and began chanting some kind of ancient chant (It was that chant he used to open the portal in episode 143). His cane began to glow light blue and it spread like tree sap running down a tree. It continued to spread until the entire wooden beam was cloaked in a pale blue light. Suddenly, a blue beam shot out from the beam Kisuke was sitting and spread to the other one! Within a matter of seconds a black line appeared and stretched into what look like a black hole.
"Good luck!" Kisuke called to us as we leaped into the portal.
"Roxas, hold on…I'm coming," I heard Axel whisper to himself as the portal closed behind us.