The Dragon and the Angel
By: Moonice
Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror
Rating: T
Characters: Toshiro, Gin, Rangiku, Aizen and other people.
Chapter 3: Death by light
In the skies of Las Noches under the artificial sun, the two shinigami continued to clash at each other. Toshiro was using Hyourimaru to try and freeze Gin as he did before in the soul society. Unfortunately Gin was evading all of Hitsugaya's offensive attacks. Toshiro had then used shunpo to get some distance from Ichimaru and began summoning ice dragons from his blade. Gin saw this and instead of eluding the ice attack he just stayed right where he was. Once the ice dragon came at Ichimaru, he destroyed the ice by just smacking it with his right hand. As the ice cleared Gin saw that destroying the ice dragon was just a form of decepsion as a charging Toshiro with hyourimaru at hand was coming. At that point Gin drew Shinso and activated the endless blade tongue. The blade was so fast that Hitsugaya couldn't even dodge it and ened up having the upper right side of his body pierced through. Once the blade retreated back to Gin Toshiro began to regenerate the damaged organs and flesh while still charging at Gin.
When Toshiro finally got to Ichimaru, Gin had dodged his blade but now before taking a intermidiate hit from the ie zanpakuto. Then Gin once again used his "memei ken ki" technique( A/N: Although my japanesse isn't that good, that was supposed to mean Divine Blade Tree.) while behind Hitsugaya in order to finish the fight. As the Shinso blades began to divide, Toshiro summoned and ice dragon and wrapped it around him as a shield. The icy shield began to deflect the incoming blades and send them scattering across the mountain vallies, slicing everything that they touched. When the blades stopped, Toshiro removed the ice shield from him and launched another ice dragon at Gin. The former squad 3 captain then made his zanpakuto retreat to its noraml size in oredr to get away from the attack. But the moment his blade returned it was too late to dodge the icy attack and as a result Ichimaru was frozen into a glacier by Hyourimaru. Once Gin was frozen, Toshiro had gripped his sword and prepared to finish him off. Toshiro had then went on the offensive and charged at the frozen Ichimaru with full force.
Suddenly before Toshiro could impale him, a powerful burst of reiatsu came from the glacier. Then the energy emitting from it was so strong that it made the icy prison shatter; revealing a virtually unharmed Gin. The ice shards began to scatter across the sky and rain down on an unsuspecting Hitsugaya. The shower had caused considerable damage to the young captain but he was still able to recover from the damage and once again head for the attack. As he saw Ichimaru, Toshiro noticed that his smile had grew wider. Angered by this Toshiro had summoned another ice dragon. Instead of just slamming tons of ice at him, Toshiro had made this ice dragon use a powerful and recently learned aisuketa that shot at Gin. The strong beam of light that was heading for Gin seemed to gain more power as it traveled outward. Before the attack hit, Gin had grabbed his zanpakuto and shot a endless blade tongue at the beam. When the two forces colided, a giant clash of energy was created. The light from the ice beam was being deflected by the long blade while the blade was being frozen by the ice beam. After the attack were executed, the two shinigami had charged at each other and clashed swords.
The two started clashing in the sky where one person was attacking with strong force while the other was defending against it. After a while, the two captain landed on the ground and stood in a face-off between each other. Ther they stood and looked at each other eye to eye. "Well hasn't this been troublesome. Gin stated. "You don't even know yet Ichimaru." Toshiro replied. " This is getting a little boring now little boy. I want to make this interesting and for that to happen I'm going to need you to use bankai." Gin requested. "Why would I waste my bankai on some traitor like you?" Toshiro asked. "Because of the simple fact that you won't be able to kill me with just you pathetic shikai." Gin replied. After those brief words the two then pushed back from each other. Hitsugaya then got even more distant from his enemy and summoned yet another ice dragon at Gin. Gin dodged the attack by using shunpo and used his Shinso blade once again to attack the young captain. Toshiro fortunately had enough time to block the blade using his own zanpakuto. When Gin's attack was finished, Toshiro had grabbed the long blade with one of his arms and began sending a stream of freezing reiatsu thought the blade, heading straight for Ichimaru. Just before the ice wave could hit, Ichimaru grabbed the hilt of his zanpakuto with his free left hand and sent a powerful burst of energy though the blade.
With that Ichimaru's Shinso began to emit a extremely powerful energy along with a blinding light that not only nuetralized the ice wave Hitsugaya was sending, but also began to break through the small defense that Toshiro was keeping up with his blade. Toshiro then grabbed Hyourimaru and evaded the strong light beam that the enlonged blade had transformed into. When Toshiro got enough distance from Gin's attack he took a strong stance and held his zanpakuto with both hands. Gin had already knew what the young captain was going to do next and retract the light beam back into a blade before activating his Memei Ken Ki to counter Toshiro's upcoming technique. The hundreds of long branch like Shinso blades came at the young captain with increasing speed threatening to pierce though his flesh. Then at that very moment, Toshiro shouted, "Bankai!". The tatoos, fangs and other extensions that came from the aisukousei began to disappear and were replaced by a strong burst of icy reiatsu. The incoming blades from Shinso began to freeze up. Ichimaru had then retracted the remaining blades before the immense energy froze him as well. Once the blade was back to it's original size Gin had used shunpo to get away from the strong activation of Hitsugaya's bankai. Also Ichimaru couldn't help but notice that Toshiro's bankai activation was at least 10x stronger than when he had released it to try and fight Aizen.
"Something different about this boy's reiatsu. So did he actually master his underdeveloped bankai in the time span of what, four months. Well at least he took my advice on activating his bankai to use against me, because he's going to need it in order to even put a scratch on me." The reiatsu had rose up into the air blocking out the artificial sun in Las Noches reverting it back into the familiar but more colder night that the dark hollow world was know for. The energy was so strong that it had actually began to create a lightning like aura around the ice creating light. The area around Hyourimaru's bankai had became a frozen wasteland. The strong release had finally ended revealing Hitsugaya once more. "Daiguren Hyourimaru!" Toshiro shouted. Even the name of the bankai was constant, some of the old features of Daiguren Hyourimaru were gone and replaced with new features. The flowers were no longer floating above Toshiro but instead was transformed into a necklace that was worn over Toshiro's new attire. The wings were now in a bat like shape and the dragon head that covered his right arm was now a shoulder guard. Toshiro also wore clawed gloves on both of his hands instead of his entire arm. Toshiro wore a short sleeved blue haroi accompaned with a silver sash worn on his waist. Toshiro's feet were still covered in ice tallons but his zanpakuto was now covered in a layer of ice.
The young captain took one step foreward cracking some of the ice beneath his feet. He then waved his ice blade in front of a distant Ichimaru. " Gin! I'm going to end this now! You tried to killed Momo and hurt Rangiku even more. I swear I'm going to kill you or die trying." Ichimaru had then used shunpo to appear on just a few feet from Toshiro. "How can you say I hurt Rangiku? I've never once tried to fight her. Probably one of those arrancar are doing worse to her than anything that I could ever imagine doing to her." Gin stated while redrawing his zanpakuto. "And you call a prolonged case of heart brokeness thanks to you nothing. You really are sick you know that Gin!" Toshiro stated. " Well then lets get this started Toshiro." Gin said while taking his stance. "You mean let's end this!" Toshiro added before charging at Gin. Ichimaru knew that if he got stabbed by that thing he would be frozen instantly. Despite this, he also wanted to drag out the fight as much as he possibly could before coming to a boring close. With that Gin activated Shinso and generated a long blade. Toshiro flew into the air and dodged the blade. Toshiro then used his zanpakuto to create large ice pillars surrounding Gin. Ichimaru quickly redrew his long blade and escaped from the incoming ice prison. Even though he had narrowly escaped being frozen , he still kept his peculiar grin. While in mid air the lavender-white haired man had asked, "Where did the bankai upgrade come from? Even though your a natural talent, not even you could complete that bankai of yours in the time span of three to four months."
Toshiro had heard what Gin had just said and couldn't help that Ichimaru had also noticed Daiguren Hyourimaru's appearance change. After shattering the failed ice prison, Hitsugaya flew near to where Gin had now landed. Once getting close enough to give a proper reply but still at a distance where he would be able to defend against a sneak attack from Gin if he had one. "So you've notice my bankai's change and your probably wondered how I mastered my incomplete and intamed zanpakuto. Well Ichimaru, the truth of the matter is that I never mastered it but I did take a little proactive shortcut. You might have thought that the "aisukousei" effects dispappeared the moment I activated bankai when actually it hepled me release more energy to fully construct the powers and abilities of Hyourimaru and use them to their fullest. Normally it would have taken me over a century becasue of my age but I see my move as sort of a shortcut. Now does that answer any questions that you have?" Toshiro had then gotten back on the offensive and ready to attack Gin. "Sheesh, I just asked how you weere able to change your bankai's appearance, I didn't want a whole lesson." Ichimaru replied before going at Histugaya again.
Ichimaru had stuck to his strategy of playing with Toshiro until things got out of hand. They had clashed a little, and Gin was obviously having trouble physically beating Toshiro while using his bankai. Then again the fight wouldn't be any fun if Gin didn't have any trouble fighting his opponents, especially if one of those opponents happened to be a captain. Gin had fired Shinso's ranpuketa technique at Toshiro and tried to get a solid hit with his light beam. Unfortunately for him, Toshiro had eveaded the beam once more and was now preparing his own attack. The dragon head that was on his right shoulder had covered his entire right arm. The head had also engulfed the frozen zanpakuto that he was formerly wielding and started to charge up a glowing blue light from it's mouth. Toshiro had then raised his right arm into the air to collect more moisture, which was difficult to do since Hueco Mundo doesn't have water in the atmosphere and Toshiro had to literally turn the spirit particles into water. Slowly, a dense current of cold air was being created and pulled into the ice dragon's mouth. Gin had saw this and thought it would be good to see just how powerful the legendary Hyourimaru actually was. The large orb that was forming in the dragon's mouth had now began to glow white and give off a small blue lightning aura around it. Once the current of bilzzard like air had stopped being asorbed by the dragon's head, Toshiro had moved his arm in the direction where Gin was. Ichimaru had also redied Shinso to attack on comand.
Toshiro had absorbed the ball of energy once more but only for a short time. When the mouth reopenned Toshiro had shouted, "Ryushottogan!" Almost instantly after a giant ball of light was fired at Gin freezing the air that it touched along with it. Despite this Ichimaru didn't feel a tinge of fear and a split second before the blast hit, Ichiamura had used shunpo. The blast of fozen reiatsu was gigantic almost rivalling the cero Gin had dome previously but surpassing it by freezing up the destroyed and desolate landscape once covered with mountains. Toshiro was glad that his attack was a success, but he had a feeling that the fight was far from over. All of the sudden Gin appeared behind Toshiro and stabbed him with the long Shinso blade. Toshiro's eyes grew wide as he saw blood spurred from the wound Ichimaru had inflicted on him. Gin only smile at the fact that he had been able to outwit and fend off Toshiro Hitsugaya without even releasing half of his power. "Well isn't this pathetic? Your beat and I didn't even use bankai yet." Gin said while retracting his long blade. "Who said I was beat?" Toshiro got out. Gin had then saw that the wound that he had inflicted on Toshiro had began to heal. Also the dragon head had reverted back to a shoulder guard, putting the frozen blade back into his right hand where it previously was. Toshiro then used a quick shunpo, that was surprisingly fast for him, to get behind Gin. Once he was at a resonable position, he tried to impale Gin. Before Ichimaru had time to react, he was stabbed with Hyourimaru adnd quickly began to freeze up.
"Well isn't this pathetic?" Toshiro said as he kept the blade plungged into the freezing former captain. "Your right, this is a bad situation. I can't play with ya anymore." Gin said with the little strenght his freezing lungs were giving him. "Go to hell!" Toshiro shouted. "Sorry Toshiro, but as they say all good things must come to and end.' Gin said in barely a whisper. The next thing Gin did had surprised Hitsugaya in the most misfortunate way he could ever imagine. The words that Ichimaru spoke may have just filled the young captain with more fright that anything he could ever think off. Those word that came from the nearly frozen Ichimaru were, "Bankai!" Suddenly the frozen limbs and insides of Ichimaru began to thaw out along with his entire body now beginning to glow a flash of brilliant silver. Shinso had also disappeared from Ichimaru's hands into a diminishing light ray. Before Toshiro could react to Gin's release, he found himself being forcefully being pushed back by a spiritual force, that in his opinion, made the imfamous squad 6 captain look like a common officer who didn't even know the name of his zanpakuto. Toshiro was sent crashing into the ground from the force of the release a saw that the entire area was filled with Gin's reiatsu. Let alone trying getting up to his feet, Hitsugaya found it hard staying concious from the overbaring energy coming from the release of Ichimaru's bankai.
When Toshiro finally managed to get to his feet, he saw that there was now a giant radiant sphere of energy surrounded by strong lightning arcs scattering across the entire sky. The minature iceland that Toshiro created from his bankai and the attacks he had previously performed had now been completely shattered from the strong lightning arc spurring from their radiant source of energy. All the young capatin could do was watch the detsructive release of a unknown bankai. Then with a great boom, The sphere had disperced into a short ranged energy wave thatdestroyed everything in it's path, even the air itself. Toshiro had unfoutrunately been in the energy wave's radius and had tried to made the strongest ice shield he could possibly create with his wings. He found himself struggling to regenerate the breaking and shattering ice created from the blast. Once it was finally over, Toshiro had disarmmed the ice shield that his wings were making and returned them back to their previous for. "Great! Just great! Thanks to you I have to deal with this. What kind of cruel master puts his zanpakuto into the hands of doom knowing that it will be obliterated from all existance? Seriously you could have just let Ukitake come and do this for you but no, you just had to save your lieutenant." Hyourimaru said to Toshiro, knowing even without an explaination of Gin's bankai that they were screwed. "You wait until now to doubt our power. Even if we get beat you should at least stand by you master and help me wipe that smile off his face." Toshiro mentally said to the zanpakuto. "I'm not doubting our power, I'm just saying that he has more power than we do and you know that." Hyourimaru replied back.
"Well looks like we'll just have to do our best to fight him off." Toshiro mentally said again to the ice zanpakuto spirit. "What do you mean do our best? You just felt how strong the guy was just by releasing his bankai, and F.Y.I he has frikin hollow powers." The ice zanpakuto angrily stated back to his master. "You got a point there. But still does it look like we can run anywhere? In case you didn't know we're in Las Noches and could get jumped on by some on duty arrancar or even worse, a vasto lorde." Toshiro added. "I'd rather get beat up by a vasto than have to deal with a captain-class vizard who just released his bankai!" Hyourimaru stated now mentally yelling at his wielder. Before Toshiro could say anything back to his zanpakuto a burst of reiatsu appeared followed by a blinding light. Toshiro then saw in the sky none other than Gin Ichimaru with a completely different appearance. Gin's coat was replaced with a long sleeved white haroi with a golden sash on the waste in contrast to the silver one Toshiro was wearing. Over his ead seem to be a white halo with an all around eye pattern design engraved in it. Three pairs of metallic designed wings sprouted from his back and were emitting light from each of them. In his right hand, instead of a zanpakuto, he held a glowing spear with another spear-head at the end, which was being gripped from the middle that still had the design of a zanpakuto hilt from his shikai. On his feet Gin wore silver shoes with energy wings being emitted from the ankles. Then, Gin's smile had turned into a serious expression. His closed eye lids had now openned revealing his bloor red irisis. Toshiro looked at the transfromed Ichimaru with shock and a tinge of fear. Finally after being silent for so long Gin finally said, "Behold Toshiro Hitsugaya! This is your reward for being so fun during this time as well as your end. This is what true power is; my true power; feel honored since you are the only person except for Aizen to ever see my bankai, "Tenshi Shinso!"
End Chapter
A/N: Well I finally got chapter three out. I know these types of stories aren't popular but this is just my vision of how their fight should go. I tried putting some japanese into this story and I probably didn't get most of them right, then again it would have been boring to just leave the english names of the techniques they use. I might not update this story or any other story I've written for quite a while. I'll list the attempts of japanese I used in the story. Oh and one more thing, sorry for the Toshiro bashing I did in this chaptaer.
Japanese to English(sort of)
Ryushottogan: Dragon shotgun
Rapukenta: Light beam
AisuKousei: Ice rebirth
Tenshi Shinso: Angel's Sacred Spear
Aisuketa: Ice beam