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Ichigo still couldn't believe what Kokuto did just a moment ago. Why would he kill himself just to get rid of the other two Sinners?

"I hope you haven't forgotten about me!" Shuren's voice exclaimed from atop one of the columns.

Ichigo tried to get up as quickly as possible before Shuren shot a fireball at him, but he slipped and fell, and Shuren fired. Luckily the attack was blocked by Brielle. She blocked it with her sword that is being covered by dark energy that she fires right back at Shuren. Ichigo got up with a little more grace than he did last time now that he doesn't have to worry about becoming Swiss cheese.

Brielle turned to face Ichigo and asks, "You okay?"

Ichigo nodded his head. "Yeah, thanks for backing me up," he replied.

The two of them turn back to face Shuren. He was on a different pillar, because the last one got destroyed, and he was holding a hand to his chest; there was a nice gash there that was made from the Dark Crescent attack that Brielle fired at him not too long ago.

Ichigo can feel a wave of pure hatred and murderous intent coming from their enemy, and it was aimed at Brielle. {Good job, you made him so furious that he wants to kill you in the most painful way possible,} Ichigo said.

{Oh, good, because I'm bored; maybe things will be more fun now,} Brielle replied with a smirk forming on her face. Ichigo just shook his head at her in disbelief.

Shuren starts to create more fireballs and aims them at Brielle. While she's blocking them, Ichigo shunpos over to the left side of the sinner and fires a powerful Getsuga Jujisho. Shuren was able to dodge it, but barely.

A wicked smirk started to appear on Shuren's face. "Yes… that's the power that we're looking for!" he shouted. "Now, use that power to destroy the gates!" He aimed another fireball at Ichigo, but he dodged it and swung his Zanpakuto at the sinner's face. Shuren blocked it with a sword made of flames, but since he had his focus on Ichigo he didn't notice that a whip made out of a vine with thorns coming up and grabbing him on the leg; he did once the thorns pierced into him though. He felt white hot, burning pain coming from his leg, so he looked down to see that the vine that grabbed him is purple in color, which means that it's poisonous. He realized that he was correct when the burning pain started to spread throughout his leg up to his body. He was about to look and see where it came from, but he didn't get the time to, because the vine pulls him down and throws him toward the lava pit. Right before he lands in the pit, he saw that the whip was made by Brielle.

After Shuren died from the lava, Ichigo landed a little ways away from Brielle, and looks at her. "He should not have made the mistake of forgetting you. He may have lived longer," he said with some humor.

Brielle chuckled, "Tell me about it."

What happened next was too fast for either Brielle or Ichigo to keep up with. A sword came flying out of nowhere and stabbed Ichigo right in the chest. Both their eyes widened in shock once they notice the sword. Ichigo fell onto his side, and Brielle shouted, "ICHI!" She was about to run up to him, but Kokuto appeared, walking toward him.

Kokuto looks down at Ichigo. "That must have hurt. Are you alright?" Ichigo was too shocked to say anything, but Brielle wasn't since she knew something like this was going to happen, all this was doing to her was making her turn red from anger. Kokuto pulled the blade out of Ichigo's chest, making him whimper. "Oh, stop, that wound should be nothing to you," he said mockingly, and stabbed the sword into the ground by Ichigo's head.

Brielle started to move, but Kokuto says, "If you come any closer, then I'll kill him right here, right now." She stopped moving, but didn't stop glaring daggers.

Ichigo stares at Kokuto and asks, "Why…?"

Kokuto brings his attention back to Ichigo, but keeps an ear out for Brielle's movements. "Why…? I wanted to see how you would react. Brielle's was a bit of a disappointment, but yours was worth it," he explained with an evil smile.

Brielle was still glaring daggers, but she noticed something from within side herself. 'Darn, I'm running out of spirit energy. I need to turn back into a dragon before I do or I won't be able to turn back into a human for a week,' she mused. She looked around to see where she could turn and rest to regain her energy, and the pillars were the only thing that looked like they were closest and safest spot for her. Before Brielle moved to go there, she, Ichigo, and Kokuto heard bubbling lava and a slat. They turn to see that Shuren is being revived. Brielle realized that Kokuto is now too focused on Shuren, and said sinner is making quite a bit of noise, so she uses this moment to move. She uses Shadow Travel to get to the closest pillar to hide behind, and turn back into her true form and lie down on her side, so she can restore her reiatsu faster.

Ichigo noticed that Brielle left, but can still feel her behind the pillar. {What are you doing?}

{Almost ran out of reiatsu.} That was all Ichigo got from her, but he knew what she meant. She couldn't talk through telepathy, because that takes up spirit energy, and she's trying to regain it.

{Well, be quick about it,} he told her, and then glares back at Kokuto, who was stabbing at Shuren to stop him from coming back. "You're a traitor," he growled.

Behind the pillar Brielle starts laughing, but as quietly as she possibly can. "You idiot, you should have seen that coming," she mumbled.

Kokuto turned back to look at Ichigo. "A traitor, you say?" He chuckled, "Everything went according to plan."

Ichigo got up on his elbows. "What about your sister? Was that a lie too?!" he demanded.

Kokuto's face turned serious. "That story was completely true. I did have a sister, but she was murdered when she shouldn't have." Ichigo and Brielle can hear the anger that was slowly coming into his voice.

Kokuto turned back to the pile of lava that was still moving. "Huh?" He returned to stabbing at it. "Will you just stay dead?!" he angrily said, but started talking to Ichigo again while stabbing. "I looked for the ones that killed her, and once I found them I started killing them. At the time it felt good, but it didn't stop the pain that I felt for losing her! I knew that she wasn't coming back!" He stopped stabbing the lava and turned to Ichigo while ripping the cloth off his face. "I knew that the only way to get revenge was to make everyone feel the same pain that I had!" He was panting once he ripped the last bit off. "Is that so wrong?" He looked Ichigo in the eye. "Is it so wrong that I had to be condemned to Hell for all eternity?!" he demanded.

Neither Ichigo nor Brielle knew what to say to that. They can kind of see why Kokuto did it, but he went too far by kill innocent people that had nothing to do with his sister's death.

"Ichigo!" voices shouted. Ichigo turned to see that Rukia, Renji, and Uryu were all running toward him.

"No, stay back!" Ichigo shouted.

Kokuto want and cut down Rukia first. "Rukia!" Renji shouted worriedly, but he got cut down next.

"So, you were with them after all!" Uryu exclaimed while firing an arrow, but he missed, and Kokuto cut him down as well.

Brielle believes that now's a good time to start fighting, so she uses Shadow Travel again to get behind Kokuto since his shadow was behind him and jump out while clamping her jaws on the back of his neck only to swing him back and slamming him into the ground. "You're dealing with me now," she said with a deathly calm voice.

Kokuto looked up in both surprise and fear.

TBC

I'll say this now: Kokuto didn't know that Brielle was the Dark Dragon. Every sinner is aware of her existence, because World of Darkness and Hell are like best buddies. If a human went against the laws of nature and human laws, they would go to the World of Darkness to regret going against nature, and then get sent to Hell by the Darkling (Dark Brings). So, that's why Kokuto is showing fear right now, but he doesn't know that that's Brielle. By the way, I'm thinking of changing Darkness's human name, since it's my real name. Even though she is a darker form of me, I don't think she should have my name. What do you guys think? There is another reason why I want to change it, and that's because I'm writing a book with her in it. So, see where I'm coming from? If you know a name that would fit her better, please tell me. :)

Ichi: You want to change the human name?

Enj/Dark: Yes, I can't have that name if I'm writing a book and it says that Brielle is the author as well as one of the main characters.

Ichi: Good point.

Enj/Dark: Please review! ^-^