Once the battling portions have begun, all point of view will be in third person
We ran across the desert that laid out in front of us in Hueco Mundo. Just a vast land of sand was all that I could see, never shrinking as we ran. An ominous feeling stayed around the group, keeping us on our toes.
"What's that?" yelled Ichigo as he pointed to a bright red light that appeared just kilometres away. Directing our attention to the light, a grand sand castle was being made out to our eyes and we stared at it in bewilderment.
"That's where they must be hiding," said Uryu as he pushes up his glasses as Chad nodded, agreeing with the comment.
The journey will be long, extremely long. We continued to run across the sand and to my surprise, no hollows interfered with us. Something has to be going on here, this place is swarming with hollows, so why aren't any after us? Why can't I shake this ominous feeling from the air?
The run to the sand castle was much too eerie and quiet. Nothing came and stopped us, nothing. There wasn't even anyone standing guard, which was concerning since the enemy should be worried about our arrival. Do they think that they're steong enough to handle us on their own or something?
As the thoughts passed through my head, we made it to the entrance of the palatial chateau, looking up at the seemingly glorious looking door.
"Wow, that door sure is big," commented Captain Kyoraku. I walked up to the door and pushed it open without much trouble, causing it to creak considerably as if no one was home.
"Take precautions Haya," said father, giving me a stern and worried look. Geez, I was only opening the door.
Stepping inside, there was a large room with five passage ways that could lead to who know where. The halls seemed fairly long and it seemed like it would take forever to scout the place.
"Let's split up into five groups. That way, we'll be able to go down each one," said Ichigo, solving the problem in my head. Everyone picked a passage way to go through after chosing their group members.
Yugana, Kyoto and I took the one on the far left, then Captain Hitsugaya and Hisagi took the one next to us. Ichigo, Uryu and Chad went into the centre passageway, father and Renji took the next one on the right and Captain Kyoraku and Nanao took the far right passageway. With a quick promise to come back alive, we split and ran down our respective halls, not knowing what was to come.
Haya Kuchiki, Yugana Sizushima and Kyoto Ukitake VS Sachi
Sprinting down the passageway, Haya, Yugana and Kyoto were sticking close to each other, using all of their senses to stay on point for an oncomimg attack. Silence reigned over the group, only being broken when they were greeted by a long spiralling staircase that went down low into the ground.
"W-We're not a-actually going t-to go down there r-right?" stuttered Kyoto. Haya and Yugana looked at him with a look of confusion.
"You're not scared of heights are you?" asked Yugana. The way that Kyoto was looking down the staircase only gave Yugana what she needed to know. Grabbing one of his arms, they walked down the staircase with Haya in front with her Zanpukuto unsheathed.
"H-How much longer?" asked Kyoto as he held tightly onto Yugana's arm.
"Not much further," reasurred Haya. But the truth was, there was at least a hundred and fifty metres until they hit the bottom, but she didn't want to make Kyoto too scared to where he wouldn't be able to fight.
As they got closer, sounds of someone sharpening something could be heard, rattling their bones and causing all of them to shiver in feae. The sound seemed to shake their very core, but they kept going forward. Slowing their pace, they quietly walked down the last few steps.
"There's no need to hide, Soul Reapers. I know you're there," said a familiar little boy's voice.
"So you noticed our presence, huh, Sachi?" Haya asked as she walked right into the room without looking around for any ambushes., knowing that Sachi would be alone.
Entering the room, Sachi sat on a much too large throne while sharpening all of his knives. He looked down in them as he did, causing the effect to be more threatening than it already was. They were placed out in neat colour coordinated piles of red, blue, and black.
"Why are you doing this, Sachi?" asked Kyoto who had recovered from his little scare of heights and moving away from Yugana.
Sachi looked at him with a straight face, his head tilting a bit. He gave an innocent look, smiling alowly down at them before gigfling. Soon, his smile gained a creepy look and feel to it and his giggles became full blown evil laughter. Throwing his head back and placing his hands on his stomach, he continued to laugh, leaving the small group of shinigami baffled and confused. That went on for quite a while before he stopped and put on a devilish grin.
"Why am I doing this? Well, it's because of you guys always getting the glory! I was thinking, why do the good guys always win? I mean there's nothing wrong with that but if I join the bad guy's team, they will be my good guys and the good guys will be my bad guys! Thus allowing for my new family to win againt you, the evil doers to what we belive in!" laughed Sachi. The three Soul Reaper's sweatdropped.
"Go to school," they said at the same time.
"Oh you wish," grinned Sachi as he picked up the newly sharpened knives and began throwing them at us.
Yugana and Kyoto quickly unsheathed their Zanpukuto and deflected a few knives before they made contact with their bodies. Yugana sprinted left while Haya sprinted to the right with Kyoto running down the middle. Raising their Zanpukuto that slashed down on Sachi.
Sachi narrowly dodged Yugana and Haya's attack by jumping back. When he landed on the ground, he didn't have enough time to jump out of the way from Kyoto's incoming zanpakuto. He moved his face back as much as he could, but Kyoto's attack landed a slash on his forehead before he could back out of harms way.
"You guys are really naive," smiled Sachi with blood dripping down his face. He reached into his new black leather jacket and pulled out a knife with a purple handle. Lifting it up, he stabbed himself in the leg.
"What are you doing? Are you crazy?!" screamed Yugana with a horrific expression, her grip on her zanpakuto loosening slightly. It wasn't just her that had that expression, Haya and Kyoto did too. The three watched as Sachi's small limp body fell to the ground like a rag doll. It couldn't be that easy to beat him. More importantly, he couldn't have killed himself unless he had a plan in mind.
A bright blinding light shined through Sachi as he begins to rise upwards. All his wounds from before were healing, even past scars that appeared around his hands were healing too. Sachi looked at the three Soul Reapers with a murderous smirk.
"The purple handled knife allows me to revive someone from the brink of death. I only have three of theses. Now only two," informed Sachi as his feet touched the ground once again. Kyoto gritted his teeth as he turned his Zanpukuto so that the tip of the sword faced the ground.
"Rage, Tora no Hikari!" he yelled as a bolt of lightning struck his Zanpukuto, turning it into an electric scythe.
"It's my dream weapon!" smiled Sachi with wide eyes.
Smiling, Kyoto started to spin his scythe around him quickly.
"Shogeki no Arashi!" he yelled as tornado started to form around him with lightning sparking around. Soon the tornado was so opaque, you can't see inside nor hear. Kyoto expanded the tornado so the two girls could be inside too.
"Anyone got a plan?" asked Kyoto, forgetting to think ahead before locking everyone inside the powers of his zanpakuto. Haya looked back at him and nodded.
"How about I be the distraction and Kyoto attacks. Yugana, since your Shikai and be both long distance and short ranged, you can back us up," Haya suggested.
"No offence Haya, but your plan sucks," Kyoto stated bluntly. Sighing, Haya shrugged her shoulders.
"That's the best I got and I'm sure you and Yugana will be able to work with each other," admitted Haya.
"Fine let's do this plan It's not like we have a choice, and i know your father is going to kill us if we let you get hurt," Yugana replied disdainfully. "Kyoto, you obviously can't keep that up forever," stated Yugana, waving to the swirling tornado around them. Kyoto broke the tornado and both Haya and Yugana unlocked their Shikai.
"Search and Destroy, Sagi no Umi!" Yugana shouted.
"Rise, Karashimo!" shouted Haya at the same time. The room was eerily quiet aside from the panting from the Soul Reapers and Sachi. Getting a better grip on her Zanpukuto, Haya closed her eyes in thought to think about what move would be appropriate to use as a distraction against Sachi. Meanwhile, Yugana and Kyoto waited in the back for Haya to make her move.
"What are you guys going to do?" Sachi said to himself as he juggles four knives with one hand while twirling another one with his other hand, clearly bored with himself and gaining a bored expression.
Exhaling, Haya flash stepped out of sight. Sachi stopped playing with his knives, quickly standing on guard. Then Haya appeared in the air with her Zanpukuto extended out in front of her, reading her first attack.
"Kotta Nisshoku!" yelled Haya as she swung her sword. The frost broke off her blade and turned into icy raven feather that shot at Sachi with lightning speed.
Smirking, Sachi dodged the feathers without problem, only to feel a sharp stinging on his side, causing him to grit his teeth.
"This is too eas- what?! How?!" Sachi shouted as he spotted a tiny feather on the left side of his torso.
Yugana quickly swung her Zanpuktuo in a semi circle in front of her. "Tengoku no Piasa!" A shot of water flew from her zanpakuto, quickly surrounding Sachi in a hollow circle dome of quickly swirling water.
"Touch that water and you'll be dead!" smirked Yugana. But Sachi didn't back down. Reaching into his hoodie, he took out three blue knives. Holding each one between his fingers, he threw them up, allowing them to easily pass through the water dome. The knives fell at an arc to where each knife fell in front of each Soul Reaper.
"Stay back! Those knives can summon Hollows!" ordered Kyoto when he noticed the familiar reiatsu of hollow bait coming from each one. The three of them jumped back to avoid the swarm of hollows as garganta opened almlst immediately.
"Slay them, my minions!" demanded Sachi, pointing towarcs the soul reapers as the dome of water dissappeared from around him. The hollows charged at the three with incredible speed, aurprising the three friends with the force they applied. They weren't Menos, but they were strong and seemed near evolving to a Menos. Maybe it's because they're inside their home realm and their strengths just got boosted. Whatever it is, it wasn't good.
"Argh," grunted Haya as four hollows came at her, causing her to grit her teeth. Gathering up Spiritual Energy, she released it into the air, making the four hollows freeze up and shatter.
"We need a way to close the gateway somehow," shouted Yugana as she attacked her army of hollows with quick precision.
Chuckling to himself, Sachi skipped around the room while humming a cheerful tune.
"I can't wait to bury you!" smiled Sachi.
'This boy is mental,' thought the team of soul reapers, as they fought.
As more Hollows filed into the room, Haya, Yugana and Kyoto tried to find a way to stop them from coming in. Dodging their attacks left and right, the Soul Reapers were gradually becoming more and more exhausted.
"Is that all you guys got?" teased Sachi in a playful tone.
He seemed to be enjoying this sight of his enemies falling behind in their battles. After all, which kid doesn't enjoy being the upperhand?
"Actually, I got one more trick," panted Yugana who just slashed a Hollow.
"Umi No Shirei-Kan, Sagi No Umi!" yelled Yugana as an ocean erupted from her Shikai, splashing around everyone and onto the hollows. The water seemed to disintegrate all the Hollows in the room, using a kidou based attack and melting through them like acid.
'What a dangerous Zanpukuto,' Haya and Kyoto thought as they watched in amazement.
"NO! MY HOLLOWS!" cried Sachi as he looked around in disdain and anger.
Haya glances at her Zanpukuto, seeing the raven feather at the end of the hilt crumble it's last bit as her sword went back to it's sealed form.
"I'm at my limit," mumbled Haya as she see's Yugana's and Kyoto's zanpakuto being sealed on command by their weilders.
"This is the end of the line Sachi, any last words?" Kyoto said confidently as the three advance on Sachi. Sachi reached into his jacket only to feel that he used up all his knives in his attacks.
"It can't be," said Sachi as the three struck at him. They slashed at him, injuring him but not enough to kill him.
Sachi fell to the ground with a cry of pain as blood erupted from his stomach and his arms. Yugana quickly bound him in kidou, picking up the struggling boy and nodding at her friends.
They quickly made their way towards the staircase, racing up and hoping to meet up with the rest of the group.
Their battle has finally been finished, and hopefully the rest of them are finished too