Rukia's duel against Aaroniero was not going well. She had her Snowflake Crystal shield at 2300def points. She had 2100Lp but they were dropping fast. Aaroniero had his Gluttony Leech that absorbed her swan at 1600atk points and two Gluttony Slugs that were draining Rukia's life points. Aaroniero still had all of his.

"If I were you Rukia, I do something quickly. You're life points are just about up." Aaroniero said.

"We'll see about that. It's my turn." Rukia said.

"Since it is, my slugs will drain 600 points from you." Aaroniero said. Those slugs fed off Rukia's points and her energy was being drained with her having 1500LP now.

'I've got to get these slugs off the field, but I still have that leech to worry about. If I attack it, my monster will be devoured and it will gain its power.' Rukia thought. She drew her card and saw that it was just what she needed. "I summon my Snow White Dancer in defense mode." A woman with blue hair and a white dress came up with 200def points.

"What good will that monster do?" Aaroniero said.

"You're about to find out. I can sacrifice it to destroy all cards in the spell and trap card zones, even if they're monsters." Rukia said. The dancer was destroyed and created a gust of wind that destroyed the slugs and cleared the field of Rukia's Snow White Land spell. Since Rukia's monster was also equipped to Aaroniero's it was released and destroyed with its going to zero.

"So you managed to save your life points, but in the process, you abled us to use our spell and trap cards again." Aaroniero said.

"I know. I set two face downs and end my turn." Rukia said.

"My move. I'll use my spell, Rejection System. This brings back the last monster that was destroyed and that would be my slug." Aaroniero said and his slug came back with no attack points. "Don't worry, its ability only works when it's normal summoned. My normal summon will be my Gluttony Starfish." A starfish that looked like an intestine came up and had no points either.

"You just triggered my trap. It's called Water Hazard." Rukia said. "This trap will deal you 500 points of damage for each water monster on the field and there are four." Slashes of water shot out of the card and slashed against Aaroniero and he lost half of his life points. One hit even knocked his mask off. Underneath it was a shock to Rukia. He had a glass head with two heads floating in some sort of red water.

"I guess that's it."

"Now you see us for who we really are. You better not say anything about our faces."

"What are you? Are you some kind of monster?" Rukia said.

"As we told you before, we are Aaroniero."

"That doesn't explain anything." Rukia said.

"We could explain this, but we much rather use our time to destroy you. It's still our turn."

"We unite our water attribute, level four Gluttony Leech, level two slug, and level three starfish." All three of his monsters turned blue energy and merged together. "We unite summon Glotoneria." A giant purple blob with mouths rose out of the ground and had 2900atk points.

"What is that blob?" Rukia said.

"Glotoneria, our best monster."

"Watch it in action as we use its special ability. If we use one unite unit, it can equip to a monster in either of our graveyards and gain its abilities." The blob ate one of the units and stretched out a tongue into a black hole. "We equip it with our Gluttony Starfish." It pulled out the starfish and ate it.

"Your monster is as disgusting as you look." Rukia said.

"We told you not to speak of our faces."

"Glotoneria, attack her shield with Devour Rejection." The blob opened both mouths and shot out a green liquid that flooded the field and destroyed Rukia's monster.

"Gross." Rukia complained.

"That will end my turn." Aaroniero said.

"I better turn this around or I'm going to end up as the next thing that freak devours." Rukia said.

….

Orihime

Orihime had to stay back because Kisuke needed to talk to her. After they had the talk, Orihime headed out to find her friends, but she kept thinking about the talk she had with him.

…

Flashback

"Orihime, I know this might be hard for you, but I need you to stay as far from this fight as possible." Kisuke said.

"What?" Orihime said.

"I know you want to help, but you don't have the dueling experience needed in this battle." Kisuke said.

"But I dueled against Miss Unohana and been behind Ichigo in all of his duels." Orihime said.

"I know, but we're looking at a battle that could take place over the whole city." Kisuke said. "You just ended in a draw against Unohana and she isn't much of a fighter to begin with. We're going to need full power and skilled duelists in this fight and I'm afraid that just isn't you. You only get in the way and we need the least amount of casualties as possible." Orihime felt offended, but she didn't want to be that to her friends.

"I understand." Orihime said as she got up and left.

End of Flashback

…

Orihime just wanted to see if her friends were okay right now and after that, she would leave to try and stay out of this fight.

"Where are they? I need to find them before anything happens." Orihime said.

"It would be smarter to worry about yourself." Orihime looked around for that voice and saw a black opening was forming and the person on the other side was Ulquiorra. Orihime recognized her from when Ichigo dueled Yammy. "Don't try to run. You have no rights. You have no chance of even fighting back. I'm only going to say this one time. Come with me."

…..

Rukia

Rukia took her turn, but she was struggling to catch up with Aaroniero.

"Here goes." Rukia said. "I play my spell, Droplet Snow. This spell allows me to have two Droplet Snow tokens." Two raindrops carrying some ice came on the field and has 1000atk points. "I'm also going to summon my Snow White Dolphin!" A white dolphin jumped out with 800atk points. "Now, I unite my water attribute, level two tokens with my level three Snow White Dolphin." All three of them became blue energy and united. "I unite summon Sode no Shirayuki." Sode no Shirakyuki came on the field with 2400atk points.

"That monster isn't strong enough to stop us."

"That'll change. I use her special ability. If I use one unite unit, your monster loses all of its attack points." Rukia said. One of the units went to her hands and Sode no Shirayuki blew frost on Glotoneria and its points dropped to zero. "Attack! First Dance: Ice Pillar." Sode no Shirayuki formed a pillar of ice around Glotoneria, but it wasn't destroyed and Aaroniero didn't take damage. "Why didn't that work?"

"Remember when we equipped our Gluttony Starfish on Glotoneria?"

"That meant that it gained its abilities. We take no damage and our monster survives. It also gains 500atk points." Glotoneria's points went to 500.

"I have no choice, but to end my turn." Rukia said and Glotoneria's points went to 3400.

"You're done for!"

"Glotoneria, attack and destroy Sode No Shirayuki with Devour Rejection." Glotoneria unleashed the green liquid and Rukia's monster got hit with Rukia's points dropping to 500, but Sode no Shirayuki was able to survive.

"What is this?"

"How was she able to survive that attack?"

"It's the ability of my Snow White dolphin. When used in a summoning, the monster that used it for a summoning survives all attacks." Rukia said. "You and I are in the same position now. Neither of our monsters can be destroyed."

"Maybe, but not for long."

"You'll still be dealt damage and we won't take any."

"We place one face down and end my turn."

"It's my turn." Rukia said. 'I'll have to switch my Sode no Shirayuki to defense mode." She whispered.

"Just one moment."

"We activate our face down. It's called Dark Battle Hunger."

"Now, you have to attack us or will be dealt 1000 points and if you switch your monster in defense mode, it'll be destroyed in an instant."

'This is my last chance to turn this around.' Rukia thought as she looked at the cards in her hand. 'There's got to be something I can do.'

"Admit defeat. You are outmatched."

"Never." Rukia said and considered her options. She can't afford to lose this, but she didn't know what to do until she spotted a card in her hand that can help her. "That's it! I'm activating the spell, Unity Unleashed."

"Unity Unleashed?"

"Thanks to this, Sode no Shirayuki loses all of her unite units and you lose 200LP for each one." Rukia said and both of them were shot at Arroniero and his points dropped to 1600.

"That won't save you and you lost your monster's ability."

"Not really. She has another ability." Rukia said. "When she loses all of her unite units, she can destroy your entire field." Arroniero wasn't expecting that. "Second Dance: Avalanche." Her monster created an avalanche and Aaroniero's field was cleared. "This is the end of the line for you. Sode no Shirayuki, attack him directly!" Sode no Shirayuki attacked with a cold wind and Arroneiro lost all of his life points.

"This can't be happening!"

"Help us Lord Aizen!" His calls weren't answered as he was blown back and the glass for his heads was shattered as he hit the ground.

"That's one down." Rukia said, but the entire duel just hit her as she just felt how exhausted she was and fell to her knees. "I did my best, guys. Be careful because each of them are dangerous."

…..

Ichigo

Ichigo continued his search for the enemy, but they weren't anywhere. He was ready to call it quits.

"I've finally caught up to you." Ichigo looked ahead of him and saw that Grimmjow was right there.

"Grimmjow!" Ichigo said.

"So you remember my name. That's good. Now, we can finish what we started." Grimmjow said.