Renji was doing some training of his own in the woods for when the next dueled arrived. Everyone else has taken part and he's going to take part the next time Aizen or his creeps attack him or his friends.
"There you are." He looked over and saw Rukia with Byakuya.
"Rukia? What are you doing here?" Renji said.
"Ichigo told us you were doing some training. I thought you could use a training buddy." Rukia said.
"What about you Byakuya?" Renji said.
"I need to do some training myself. Aizen has powerful allies on his side." Byakuya said.
"I guess a little company wouldn't hurt." Renji said and the three of them started to train together. While they were training, another one of the black passages opened up and another one of Aizen's duelists came through. It was a bald man that had skull earrings and had distant look in his yellow eyes.
"I can already feel the presence of my enemies." Renji and Byakuya continued their training, but Byakuya proved to handle the challenges more easily than Renji could.
"Man! Your brother is something else, Rukia." Renji said.
"I know. He devotes himself to his work and casts out all distractions." Rukia said.
"Well, he might be amazing, but I'll surpass this guy." Renji said.
"Don't be silly. No offense, but you wouldn't last long against my brother." Rukia said. "No offense, but he beat you more easily than those two guys that Mayuri and Kenpachi defeated."
"By the way, what did the Soul Society do with those two?" Renji said.
"They're being held as prisoner until we get information we need from them, but neither of them will talk." Rukia said.
"Renji, stay on guard. We're about to have some company." Byakuya said. All of them looked further down the forest and saw the same man from before came down to them.
"It would seem I have found my enemies."
"Who are you?" Byakuya said.
"My name is Zommari Rureaux. I am a fellow servant of Aizen. I came here to avenge the comrades that you have defeated."
"Another one of them? These guys are like roaches." Renji said. "As soon as we take one down, another one of them shows up."
"So you came for the purpose of freeing the two we hold prisoner and to revenge the one that this young lady has defeated?" Byakuya said.
"I'm going to finish what they started. When I'm done, I will go and free them." Zommari said. "Lord Aizen is about to attack and he must have all of his forces. I will do him this favor by eliminating you."
"That isn't going to happen. Byakuya, let's take this guy down." Renji said.
"Are you implying that I might need help?" Byakuya said.
"It does not matter to me. I will gladly take the both of you on." Zommari said.
"Then let's rock and roll." Renji said. All three of them placed on their duel disks and activated them.
"Let's duel!" All three of them said.
"It is only fair that I start out with 8000LP since I am against two, but no attacking on any of our first turns." Zommari said.
"That is fair." Byakuya said.
"Let's just do this." Renji said. The terms were agreed. Renji and Byakuya had 4000LP and Zommari has 8000.
"I'll go first." Renji said and drew his card. "I'll start this duel with my Burning Gorilla in attack mode." A gorilla with red fur came on the field and had 1800atk points. "I'll place one face down and end my turn."
"I shall go." Byakuya said. "I shall summon my Cherry Blossom Benita." A woman in red samurai clothing and had red hair came on the field with 1500atk points. "When she is summoned, I am able to summon my Sakura Selena." Another woman that was in pink came on the field with 1500atk points as well. "I shall place a face down of my own and end my turn."
"I shall have my turn." Zommari said. "I activate the Sea Eye spell. This gives me three Sea Eye tokens." Three sea urchins with eyes came on the field and had no attack points. "I'm also going to summon my Eye Sight." An eyeball came on the field and had no attack points either.
"This can't be good." Renji said.
"It isn't. All those monsters can lead up to one thing." Rukia said.
"I unite my water attribute, level two tokens with my level one Eye Sight." Zommari said. All four monsters became blue energy and formed together. "I unite summon my Brujeria." His monster had the lower half of his body pink and shaped like a pumpkin and the top half was white and had yellow eyes all over his body and it had 2200atk points.
"What is that thing suppose to be? It almost looks like some sort of ballet dancer." Renji said.
"There's more. I use Brujeria's special ability." Zommari said. "I use three unite units so that I can take control of your monsters for each one." Each of the three units went into one of the eyes and lit up. Sun like markings formed on their monsters and they went over to his field.
"You've got to be kidding. He can take control of any of our monsters?" Renji said.
"Calm down. He can only do that one more time since he only has one available space left and only one unite unit." Rukia said.
"I have a feeling he knows a way to make sure that isn't a problem." Byakuya said.
"I place one face down to end my turn." Zommari said.
"It's back to me." Renji said and drew his card.
"I will stop you for a moment." Zommari said. "I activate the Enlightened Eye. I can only use this trap when I have a unite monster on the field. Now, at the start of each of my turn, my Brujueria will gain one unite unit."
"Byakuya was right. He found a way to make sure his monster has plenty of unite units." Rukia said.
"I don't care. I'll find some way to take that monster down." Renji said. 'Of course that's easier said than done. My face down is Flickering Fire. I can use this trap to block his attacks, but it doesn't work if he has a fire attribute of his own and I need a fire attribute on my field. I got to get my own gorilla off the field.' He thought.
"Renji, the key to winning this battle is Brujeria. It must be removed." Byakuya said.
"I know that, but there's nothing we can do about that." Renji said. "We'll just have to hold out until we do and I have the thing. I summon my Flame Cobra." His red cobra came on the field and had 1400atk points. "I'm also going to use my Spark Ignition. This spell card will make sure my monster is 100 points stronger than the one it attacks. Take out Burning Gorilla." His cobra went to attack and its points went to 1900. It coiled around Burning Gorilla and destroyed it and Zommari has 7900LP.
"If that's all you can do, you don't stand a chance against me." Zommari said.
"Don't act like you already won." Renji said.
"That was careless." Byakuya said.
"Renji, do what my brother says." Rukia said.
"I know what I'm doing. It's your turn, Byakuya." Renji said.
"You fool. You left your monster defenseless against our enemy's ability." Byakuya said. "I can't clean up your mistakes."
"Will you just go?" Renji said.
"I'll end this quickly." Byakuya said. "I activate my Sakura Bloom. This will give me two Sakura Trees." His two trees rose on the field 0def points. "Now, I unite my level four, fire attribute tokens." Both of them became red energy and formed together. "I unite summon Senbonzakura." His best monster came on the field and had 3000atk points. "Senbonzakura, attack his Brujeria with Scattering Petal Blade." His monster unleashed multiple petals from his blade.
"Is that all you can do?" Zommari said. Selena stepped in the way of the attack and was destroyed with Zommari's points going to 6400.
"What just happened?" Renji said.
"It's another ability of Brujeria. Any monster that is under his control takes the attack for him." Brujeria said.
"Then we've got to clear the field before we can destroy that freak show." Renji said.
"I will leave that to you while I handle his Brujeria." Byakuya said.
"You're leaving me to clean up this mess?" Renji said.
'This is not going to go well. If Renji doesn't start working with Byakuya, he won't make it out of here.' Rukia said.
"It is your turn." Byakuya said.
"Here goes. Since it's the start of my next turn, my Enlightened Eye activates. Another unite unit comes to Brujeria." Zommari said and a unite unit left the trap and went to his monster. "I shall use those two unite units to take control both of your monsters." Both units went to another set of eyes. First was Renjis snake and it went over.
"No!" Renji said.
"Renji is left defenseless and so is my brother." Rukia said, but Senbonzakura remained where it was.
"Did you really think I would let you take control of my most prized monster?" Byakuya said as he showed his face down. "You triggered my face down. It's known as Screen Wall. This trap protects my monster from the effects of your monster's ability."
"You might have saved your monster, but your partner is left defenseless." Zommari said. "Flame Cobra and Cherry Blossom Benita, attack him directly." Both monsters attacked and knocked Renji down and his life points dropped to 1100.
"Renji!" Rukia shouted.
"I'm okay." Renji said.
"You're lucky. My Brujeria cannot attack on the same turn from when his ability is used. That's a side effect of his." Zommari said. "I shall end my turn here."
"Renji, you must clear the field of the monsters he took from us. I cannot win this if you don't." Byakuya said.
"I'm not your clean up boy." Renji said.
"Renji, just do what he says." Rukia said. "If you don't, you'll be taken out in the next turn." Renji thought about it and she's right. Besides, if Rukia thinks he should, he should.
"Alright. I'll see what I can do." Renji said and drew his card and looked that he got a spell. "Okay, what do I have to work with?" He said as he looked into his hand. "That might actually work."
"Make your final move." Zommari said.
"This will be final move that gives us the win." Renji said. "I'm going to summon my Twin Ember Snake." A snake with two heads on both ends came up with 1800atk points. "Next comes his ability. It can be used as two monsters for a unite summoning and can have two different levels."
"Two different levels?" Zommari said.
"I'll unite my fire attribute, level four and three Twin Ember Snake." Renji said. His snake split into two different red energies and merged together. "I unite summon Zabimaru." His white monkey with a snake tail came and had 2400atk points. "I'm not stopping there. Go, unitetion evolution!" The vortex opened on the field and Zabimaru went through. "Appear, Zabimaru Serpent." The giant skeletal snake rose on the field and had 2400atk points.
"An impressive monster, but futile." Zommari said.
"Just shut it and watch. I'm playing Monster Reborn to bring back Zabimaru." Renji said and his monkey came back. "Zabimaru, attack with Baboon Snake Fury." Zabimaru charged in and tackled Flame Cobra and Zommari lost his points to 5400. "Zabimaru Serpent, your turn with Baboon King Cannon." The serpent fired the red blast and destroyed Belina and Zommari was left with 4500. "Before I end my turn, I'll use Zabimaru Serpent's ability. If I use one unite unit, your monster loses 500atk points and you lose half of your life points." His serpent swallowed the unit and fired energy spikes that pierced them both. Zommari had 2250LP and Brujeria had 1700atk points. "That's it."
"You wasted your chance to finish this." Zommari said.
"That's not the plan. Go for it, Byakuya." Renji said.
"Right." Byakuya said. "Unitetion evolution!" The vortex reopened with Senbonzakura going in. "Rise, Senonzakura Vibrant." Senbonzakura was covered in pink with its eyes glowing red and millions of petals flowing around it with 3000atk points. "I use his special ability. One unite unit will destroy your monster and you lose 1000LP." One unit went to the chest and the petals attacked. Brujeria was destroyed and Zommari had 1250LP.
"No. This can't be." Zommari said.
"It is. End this, Senbonzakura Vibrant." Byakuya said and his monster had all the monsters attack and blasted Zommari and his points dropped to zero.
"Long live Lord Azien!" Zommari chanted before he lost consciousness.
"Nice work." Rukia said.
"Thanks. You really are an amazing duelist, Byakuya." Renji said.
"Thank you for your kind words, but we must get word to the Soul Society as well as your comrades." Byakuya said. "If what he says is true, Aizen will be making his move."