"The Dragon and the Angel"
By: Moon ice
Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror
Rating: T
Characters: Gin, Toshiro, Rangiku, Aizen, and other people
Chapter 2: The gap between us.
After the great rupture of spirit energy had impacted Toshiro, a huge cloud of dust was left from the destruction. The dimension that the blast was fired in was still altered. Out of this though, only Gin stood unmoved. As the lavender white-haired man removed his hollow mask he observed his work with a sense of pride. "Now that little boy is how you kill someone." Gin said while descending back onto the ground. "I almost can't believe I saw you as a worthy opponent. Aizen was right about not only you but also the rest of those shinigami. You're as worthless and pathetic as Momo but saying that you were more pathetic would be a lie. Still I can help but ask why you would go to such lengths to protect a girl, who even now still adores Aizen. Well what's done is done and now you're done in little boy."
When Gin finished he began to walk away from the still lingering cloud of debris with his still peculiar smile on his face. But before Gin could disappear from the scene, a sudden burst of reiatsu had surfaced. Despite this Gin was still unmoved and looked for where the source of this energy was. "Well isn't this interesting! Now I wonder what this could be." Gin wanted to continue but was cut short by the great dissipating of the dust cloud that Toshiro was buried in along with the damage from Gin's attack. Once the dust cloud was gone, it was replaced by icy cold reiatsu rising up to the surface. "This could be that spineless chibi captain that I made short work of earlier." Gin said to himself.
Once the reiatsu was stable, the clearness had finally revealed that it was indeed Toshiro Hitsugaya. But Toshiro's physical appearance and spirit energy had been mysteriously transformed. Although parts of the boy's outfit were torn and destroyed, his body did not have a single scratch on it. Instead his hands had become claws and his arms were decorated with hieroglyphic tattoos that resembled dragons. The pupils of Toshiro's aqua marine colored eyes had become feral shaped and the eye color itself turned into a deep shade of emerald. Fangs spout out of the left and right sides of the white-haired captain's mouth. And to top it all off an icy aurora was surrounding him.
"You like what you see Ichimaru?" The white captain asked in a voice that seemed to sound like two people speaking at the same time. "What is this now? Your zanpakuto is still sealed but for some reason you have twice as much reiatsu then before. So tell me young boy, what is your secret?" Gin asked." "Well it isn't any surprise you do not know about this technique because I'm the one who invented it. It's a combination of both shunko and my very own technique, Dragon Rejuvenation. Even though I wasn't able to completely learn shunko from Yoruichi, I made that fault up by mastering the Dragon Rejuvenation technique, thus creating the Ice Rebirth move" Toshiro explained. "That move of yours is impressive but it will do you no good in this battle. Shunko is a mix of kido and fast movements but I can counter that with ease. Allow me to show you how." Gin concluded his comments and used an almost untraceable shunpo to get behind and sidekick Toshiro. Hitsugaya dodged it and countered by releasing a similar jab that he did to Gin earlier but this time it was executed with greater speed. Gin quickly dodged this and attempted to grab Toshiro's arm in order to toss him into the air. When he seemed to get a hold on Hitsugaya's arm something very strange happened. Not only did Toshiro's arm dissipate into snow but also so did his entire body.
"Where did you go brat?" Gin asked while searching for any trace of the young captain. Suddenly Toshiro used shunpo to quickly appear on the right side of Gin. "Here I am you son of a bitch!" Toshiro yelled while kicking Gin in the head and sent him flying through five mountains while a stream of ice and reiatsu followed. Before the white-haired boy knew it Gin had escaped from the icy avalanche with once again minimum scratches. He now was in the air and prepared to charge at Toshiro with the same burst of reiatsu that the young boy himself was using. But before he was able to do so Toshiro had appeared in from of him at almost light speed and delivered an ice bolt directly in front of him.
When Hitsugaya's attack hit Gin a giant glacier was sent flying into grounds far away. Before the frozen package was impacted on the ground a burst of energy created by Gin broke the icy prison and made tons of ice daggers fly towards their creator. When the chunks of ice appeared to hit their target, Gin began to use a kido. "Hado 63 Ra…" Toshiro neutralizing his energy from behind cut Gin's chant short. His claws were absorbing the energy Gin had been storing in order to use the spell. "Allow me to finish that Ichimaru, Raikoho!" A great blast of fire and lightning was fired from Toshiro's left hand and hitting Gin. Almost instantly after, thought Gin had deflected the remaining energy from the blast and sent it shooting into the ground below the two of them. Gin then countered by kicking the white-haired boy. Toshiro blocked this and charged up energy into his fists.
Soon Gin found himself dodging and blocking flurries of icy punches and kicks that were meant to kill. After a while Ichimaru was bored with being on the defensive and started to going on the attack with a gamut of punches and kicks to equally match Toshiro's. Despite how Gin tried to keep up with the speed of Toshiro's altered shunko, he found that it was impossible and ended up falling victim to Hitsugaya's "cryo claw" attack which if it weren't for him being forced back by a previous kick would have caused some more unnecessary damage. Gin had gotten a few scratches and his right hand was leaking blood. " Well it seems you have proven you're worthy little boy but that was just the appetizer. If you aren't ready for the main course then I'm going to eat you for desert. Gin then bandaged his right hand and then pulled out his zanpakuto and said, "Get ready for round two!"
Even thought at that point Toshiro had the upper hand in the fight, elsewhere a horrible fate had fallen upon the young-boy's missing companions. Although he could not sense it at the time, the runaway shinigami were at the mercy of none other than Nnoitra, the strong and bloodthirsty no#5 espada. "DIE BITCHES!" Yelled the furious arrancar as he smacked Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Rangiku with his gigantic zanpakuto. "MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT BASTARD TOSEN WITH HIS DOPEY ARRANCAR PET STOLE MY FIGHT WITH THAT SHINIGAMI! AND ON TOP OF THAT HE LEAVES ME WITH THESE GAY ASS BITCHES! THERE"S NOTHING BUT TRASH HERE AND I'M SERIOUSLY PISSED." The angered espada continued to complain while the shinigami had tried desperately to get up. "Who are you calling a bitch weirdo?" Rangiku had asked while coughing up mass amounts of blood. "Who am I calling weirdo? Look at you guys. There's a bald guy, a fag, and you, the chick that even though has bigger boobs that Pet Sama, is still a weakling compared to her.
"Who are you calling bald?" Ikkaku shouted while picking up his nearly destroyed Ryumon Houzukemaru. (A/N: I'm bad at spelling) Nnoitra saw this an immediately slashed through Ikkaku's bankai which caused serious damage to Ikkaku also. Yumichika saw this and used his zanpakuto to try and drain Nnoitra's spirit energy. "I've got you now!" Yumichika said. "Matsumoto take him out!" Rangiku then used Haienko and went at the espada with all her power. "You shinigami are really nothing but shit!" Nnoitra said while not only breaking Yumichica's zanpaukto's grasp but also had grabbed the guard of Haienko and smashed it under his hand. Rangiku could only watch in horror as she saw Nnoitra break her zanpakuto and the force of Yumichika's destroyed zanpakuto pushing him back into the ground.
At this point the three shinigami were already corpses that for some reason were still breathing. "Aw c'mon will you people just die already!" Nnoitra shouted while getting ready to deliver the finishing blow. The still angry espada grabbed his zanpakuto and threw it at Yumichika, in turn slamming him into the ground and now the only thing keeping his two halves whole. He then proceeded to where Rangiku was and dragged her up to her feet by grasping one of her breasts. The squad ten lieutenant screamed in agony as she felt pain from not only the wounds but from the pressure that Nnoitra was putting on her mound. At that point he began to undress her using his free hand while occasionally swatting back any parts that resisted until Rangiku was finally nude. Then in the valley of Las Noches the only thing that the wounded squad eleven seated officers could do was hearing Matsumoto's screams and the laughter of the espada raping her.
Back at the fight between Ichimaru and Hitsugaya, the two powerhouses began to class between one another. Hitsugaya was making full use of Hyourimaru's new abilities under the effects of the "Ice Rebirth" technique such as the essential ice beam he was able to fire from the dragon's mouth. Gin on the other hand was using Shinso to block the ice at long ranges while using a series of spells to combat some of Hitsugaya's other attacks. Toshiro had tried to use another ice beam while Gin used his zanpakuto but it was actually a trap that he fell for. The instant that Toshiro tried to attack Gin with his strong freezing light, Ichimaru had countered it by somehow focusing his reiatsu to a point where the blast was negated. As the long tongue came at Toshiro, the young captain had used his sword to block it. Although he thought he dodged a bullet, Hitsugaya actually put himself in the line of fire. "Well it seems that I can finally reveal the secrets of my zanpakuto. The amount I show you however depends on how long you survive which will not be for long."
Gin said while stopping Shinso's advancement. "What's happening? Why did his zanpakuto stop?" Toshiro mentally asked himself. Stay there, stay there and die! Suddenly the Shinso blade that was still at the time being prevented from piercing the white-haired boy's heart began to emit both enormous energy and a blinding light. "Shinso, Divine Blade Tree!" Gin cried and spread dozens of multiple Shinso blades out from the main blade like tree braches. The shining blades began to slice everything in their path including the mountains and the unsuspecting captain. Toshiro felt the blades slice through his flesh and his own zanpakuto. Once the blades were finished with their destruction, their numbers went back to just the single long blade being pierced into the young captain's core.
Instead of making his blade recede back to it's normal size, the lavender white-haired man savored the moment of delivering the fatal blow to Toshiro Hitsugaya. "You did we to survive this long chibi captain. You survived my gran rey cero in vizard form and were able to come back with your very own unique move. But this is where your life ends. It's like the biblical story of the "Dragon and the Angel" where both were of the same class, only differing in their opinions of power. This difference determined the gap of power each one had. As an end result the angel was able to make the gap of power a positive advantage for him and thus send the dragon plummeting into the inferno. You see I am the angel protecting Aizen's sanctum and you are the dragon that must be cast out. Goodbye Toshiro Hitsugaya, I will not see you again" With that Gin recalled Shinso and had it return to it's sealed form.
As soon as the endless tongue had left the captain's body a hand shot out and grabbed the blade, in turn halting it's return to its master. "Who said we were done Gin?" Toshiro asked while still grasping on to the zanpakuto's long tongue. "After all, we're just getting started." "How did you survive? You're not even supposed to be breathing. My zanpakuto pierced your left lung and heart directly and your body is beyond recovery. So how did you do it? Tell me!" Gin demanded while giving the still living Hitsugaya a look of anger and confusion. "Have you forgotten already Gin? I'm still under the effects of my "Ice Rebirth" technique. Toshiro said as water mysteriously began to be collected into his body. "What does that free tattoo thing have to do with any of this?" Gin asked now angered even more. "It's simply the added effects of my Dragon Rejuvenation. The name doesn't have rejuvenation in it just for an extended title." Toshiro replied.
"Will you answer my question though boy?" Gin asked now furious because he was still in the dark as to why the captain survived and on top of that what were the full powers of this new blend of shunko. "Since you asked I might as well tell you Gin. Toshiro answered. As long as my conscience along with a small amount of reiatsu remains, I can absorb as mush water in the atmosphere I want to regenerate any wound no matter how fatal it may be. But normally since Hueco Mundo has scarce water I've used an alternative solution, by turning the vast amounts of spirit particles in Hueco Mundo into water vapor. In other words Ichimaru, as long as I use this technique. I'm immune to death in battle."
With that Toshiro began to use the water he collected and started to reconstruct the damaged and skewered limbs that were the result of Gin's zanpakuto. In less than an hour, the young boy had completely restored not only his destroyed limbs but also the transformation from his "Ice Rebirth". Gin had watched in silence as now Hyourimaru began to be repaired. Then finally when Hitsugaya was done, the lavender white-haired shinigami's smile appeared on his face now wider than before. "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! And I thought you were done in. In a weird way I'm actually happy you survived. If we're done now Shiro-Chan, let's finally reveal who's on the brighter side of this power gap." Gin said while getting in a striking position with his zanpakuto.
Toshiro saw this and quickly got into his offensive position with Hyourimaru in his hand. Toshiro who was in the sky had looked at Gin who was on the disfigured ground. There the two opponents stared at each other. Finally the two let out a battle cry and launched themselves towards each other with a gigantic burst of reiatsu. As they were charging at each other both Ichimaru and Hitsugaya shouted in union, "LET'S FIGHT!" And with that the two shinigami and their zanpakuto had collided with one another and created an explosion that filled the whole area with destruction.
End chapter.
A/N: I know I said that I wouldn't be in for a while but I just had to update this chapter to now one of my favorite pieces of work. I'm sorry if the end of the chapter isn't what you expected but still I hoped you liked it.