Chapter 41: Fight at the Bridge part 3
Meanwhile, back at Talim's house, Will, Allen, Lenalee, Wall-E and Toph are sitting at the house stairways until Saber walks out of the house. She has dressed back into her dark blue dress and silver armor.
"What is it, Saber?" Allen asked as he and the others turn to her.
"It's been a while since Ricky and the others left. I'm sort of worried so I'm going to the bridge as well to help Ichigo." Saber said.
Toph snorted as she folds her arms. "Why should you help him? He's soooo good that he can take care of himself. He doesn't need help."
"Yes. But just because someone is tough and strong does not mean he doesn't need any help and allies." Lenalee said.
"Alright, then we're all going too." Allen said as he stood up.
"Thanks guys. Let's go." Saber nods her head.
Back at the bridge, Grimmjow breathes heavily as he fell to the ground on his knees. His fight with Rukia has apparently made him extremely tired and looks like he's unable to continue.
"Had enough? I believe this is the part of the fight where you accept defeat." Rukia said.
"No! I'm not done!" Grimmjow yelled as he creates two orbs of energy with his hands. He got up and yells and he runs up to Rukia, but suddenly, Ichigo went over to him and punched him in the stomach, sending him stumbling through the ground.
"Fool. A true fighter always fails with honor. And a life without failure is a life without experience." Ichigo said to Grimmjow. Grimmjow widens his eyes as he heard those words.
"Thanks, Ichigo." Rukia said as she walks up to Ichigo.
Ichigo turns to Rukia and smiled. "So do you. I guess you really are…a true hero." Rukia smiled as Ichigo said that.
Grimmjow closed his eyes in defeat. "I'm sorry that I've failed you…Soi Fon." But then, he snaps his eyes open when he, Ichigo and Rukia heard Ricky's yell.
"What was that?" Ichigo asked. "And the energy I suddenly felt inside me is…dark."
Rukia gasps in shock. "Ricky!"
Saber suddenly yells as she fell on her knees and clutches her head in pain. Allen, Lenalee, Will, Toph and Wall-E turned around alarmed.
"Saber!" Allen yelled as he runs over to her. "Are you alright?"
"No…" Saber said. "It can't be!"
Ricky swings his flaming sword at Soi Fon. Soi Fon blocks it but she was knocked back by the force of the blow. Ricky rushed in with an overhead strike and Soi Fon lifted her sword up horizontally and blocked. The two pushed against each other with all their strength each one trying to overpower the other.
"I'll kill you!" Ricky yelled.
Soi Fon kicks Ricky's stomach, making him back away. She quickly stood up and swings her sword at Ricky and Ricky easily blocked it. Ricky then quickly swings his sword and slashed Soi Fon across her stomach. Soi Fon yells in pain and agony.
"Soi Fon!" Grimmjow cried.
Soi Fon sustains her injuries and she creates a ball of energy with her left hand. She throws it at Ricky and he swings his sword and easily deflects it. Ricky then yelled, "Now take this! INFERNO!" He swings his sword four times and four huge waves of fire rushes over to Soi Fon. Soi Fon blocks the first one but the second wave hits her right shoulder and the third wave hits her leg. Soi Fon fell on one knee and the fourth wave of fire hits her in the chest, knocking her back.
Soi Fon panted. She now has burns in multiple places on her body and she looks up at Ricky in fright.
"Please…stop!" Soi Fon begged. Ricky walks up to her and looks down at her angrily.
"Never. Now…" Ricky holds his sword up, ready to finish her. "Time to finish this!"
"Tsugi No Mai Hakuren!" Rukia yells and she shot a blast of ice at Ricky. Ricky yelps as his entire body gets frozen and the fire on his sword is extinguished. She leaps over to him and yells angrily, "What do you think you're doing! She's defeated so stop your fighting!"
Ricky's eyes turn back to normal and he looks stunned. He looks down at Soi Fon, who now has tears forming in her eyes.
"Please…stop." Soi Fon choked.
"What…what have I done?" Ricky said before turning his head away in shame. Rukia sighed and hits the ice with the hilt of her zanpakuto. The ice then breaks and scatters onto the ground, freeing Ricky. Ricky lowers his sword and puts it away.
Soi Fon then collapsed onto the ground, wailing. Ricky walks up and kneels down to her. "I'm sorry."
"I…I never meant to do this…to your friend. It's just that…I had no choice." Soi Fon sobbed. "Grimmjow is my master…and I had to obey him. Because he's all I had after the death of my parents."
"What? Your parents died too?" Ricky asked, widening his eyes.
"My…entire life is destroyed…after my father discovered that I was a Coordinator." Soi Fon continued.
Flashback
Japan, 3930
We now see Soi Fon's village. Despite the end of the civil war, many Japanese villages, including Soi Fon's, were destroyed and the villagers are still trying to fix the damages.
"Shortly after the civil war between Coordinators and Naturals ended, some Naturals still hate the Coordinators as the civil war has left behind huge damage to our country. We all just wanted to settled down peacefully after the war ended, but the hate between the two races remained."
We see a seven-year old Soi Fon, who is smaller and has shorter hair back then, watching the fishes swim in the lake. She laughed as her father and mother were standing behind her. "Look mommy and daddy, fishes!" She laughed. Her parents simply smile.
"My father was a Natural while my mother is a Coordinator. My father doesn't know that my mother is a Coordinator and she kept her race a secret from my father. They both got married happily and my mother told me that the day of my birth was their most happiest moment of their lives. But one day…"
The next day, at her house's garden, Soi Fon was helping her mother watering the plants when suddenly, she saw a butterfly on one of the flowers. Soi Fon giggled as she puts away her watering can so that she can touch the butterfly. But suddenly, she widens her eyes as suddenly, a ball of energy formed at the tip of her finger. The butterfly quickly flies away.
"What is it, Soi Fon?" Her mother asked as she turns to her. But she gasps in shock. Soi Fon screams as the ball of energy grows bigger and she accidentally shoots the ball of energy at the flowers, igniting them in flames.
"Mom!" Soi Fon cried. Her mother then walks over to her and slaps her face. "Mom! I really don't know this is going to happen!"
"I know! And don't you ever do it again!" Her mother cried. She hugs her daughter tightly and sobs on her shoulder.
"Mom, I'm sorry…" Soi Fon said as tears formed in her eyes. She hugs her mother back. But unknown to both of them, her father was standing a few metres away from them and saw the whole thing. He narrows his eyes angrily and clenches his fist tightly.
"That was the day when my mother's secret has exposed. My father found out that she was a Coordinator and I was born with her blood."
The next day
Soi Fon's house
Soi Fon screams in horror as she watches her father stabs his knife into her mother's chest.
"How dare you kept your secret from me all these years?!" Her father yelled at her mother.
"I'm…sorry." Soi Fon's mother said as tears rolled down her cheeks freely. Her eyes shut and her head slumped to the side. Soi Fon's father then tosses his wife's body away and Soi Fon crawls over to her mother's body while wailing.
"Mom! Wake up! Please!" Soi Fon cried. She gasps as her father walks over to her.
"Now, it's your turn." Her father growled.
"NO!" Soi Fon cried as she covers herself. But then, two balls of energy formed in her hands and her father widens his eyes in shock.
"What the-" That was all Soi Fon's father said before Soi Fon shot the balls of energy at her father, killing her and setting her house on fire.
"After the death of my father, I realized that I have no right to stay in my village any longer. So I left my village, without a home or family."
Soi Fon sobbed as she slowly walks away from her house, now engulfed with flames.
A few days later, it was snowing heavily and Soi Fon shivered violently as she sat next to a tree. She has nothing to cover herself with, nothing to eat or drink. She also has no one to look up to. She can only depend on herself.
She then looked up when she heard footsteps. She saw a 10-year old Grimmjow walking up to her. Grimmjow was dressed in a trench coat.
"What are you doing here?" Grimmjow asked Soi Fon.
"Waiting for the snow to stop. Then, I can continue looking for food to eat." Soi Fon said.
Grimmjow sighed. "You're a Coordinator. And you were abandoned and shunned by people around you, right?" Soi Fon nods her head. "So am I."
"Listen, I need someone to be my friend. It's been a while since I had someone with me." Soi Fon said. "I had no family. My father even tried to kill me when he discovered that I'm a Coordinator. Will you be my friend?"
Grimmjow nods his head. "Very well. We're be friends, alright? And we will only have each other from now on."
Soi Fon smiled sadly and nods her head.
"Since then, I only have Grimmjow in my life. We learnt to fight and defend ourselves in order to survive. And from time to time, Grimmjow became more like a brother to me."
Soi Fon spotted a rabbit while hiding behind a bush. She quickly jumps out of the bush and tries to catch the rabbit. But the rabbit hopped away before Soi Fon lands on the ground. Soi Fon felt sad that she failed to catch the rabbit.
Then, she looked up and sees Grimmjow walking up to her while holding the rabbit in his hand by its ears. Grimmjow's lips twitched as if he's smiling while Soi Fon smiled back at him.
Soi Fon and Grimmjow, now both teenagers, sit together on a hill while looking up the sky.
"I'm really glad I have someone like you to take care of me since my parents abandon me." Soi Fon said to Grimmjow softly.
"No problem." Grimmjow replied. Soi Fon turns back to the sky and smiled.
End of Flashback
"And that is why I live to serve Grimmjow. Till the end." Soi Fon finished as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"Soi Fon…" Grimmjow uttered after listening what his servant said.
"She's just like me…I lost someone I love, but at least had a friend." Ricky whispered sadly.
Soi Fon looked up at Ricky. "Templar…I have a favor to ask you."
"What is it?"
"I…I want you to kill me."
"What?! Why?" Rukia asked.
"Because I've failed my master."
"NO!" Grimmjow yelled. Ichigo turned to him. "Soi Fon…don't do this, not after all we've been through."
Soi Fon widens her eyes. "Ma-Master?"
"He's right, Soi Fon." Ricky said. "I can't just kill you just because you fail."
"Then let me do the honors." A man said. The man holds up his pistol and shot Soi Fon's back. Ricky, Rukia, ichigo and Grimmjow gasped in shock.
"SOI FON!" Grimmjow yelled. He, Ricky, Rukia and Ichigo watched in shock as Soi Fon slumped onto the ground. Ricky and Rukia then looked up and glared at the man who shot her. The man was none other than Sosuke Aizen. And behind him are hundreds of Faction soldiers, aiming their rifles at them.
"All failures like her and Grimmjow need to be kill, for they have no more purposes." Aizen smiled evilly as he puts away his pistol. He then draws out his sword and cackled evilly.
"You monster!" Grimmjow yelled.
"Damn you." Ichigo growled as he holds up his Zangetsu sword. Ricky and Rukia hold up their weapons as well.
"So, you guys wish to fight me and my men. Very well. You guys will be finished in no time because I have a hundred men and there's only four of you!" Aizen said.
"Make that five." A familiar voice said. Ricky gasps in shock. Could it be?
He turns around and sees someone who he never thought he will see him alive again.
"Ben!" He yelled happily. Ben smirked and gets into his fighting stance.
"Good to see you again, Ricky. And I heard everything you said. Thanks." Ben smiled. Ricky smiled back and nods his head.
Then, Talim turns around and sees Saber, Lenalee, Allen, Will, Toph and Wall-E walk pass her and walks over to Ricky, Ben, Ichigo, Rukia and Grimmjow.
"We're here to help, Ricky." Allen said.
"And so are we." Yamamoto said. Rukia and Ichigo turn their heads and see Yamamoto, Renji and several other shinigamis standing behind Aizen and his troops and drawing out their zanpakutos.
"Yamamoto." Ichigo said.
Aizen narrows his eyes. "No. You will never defeat me!"
END OF CHAPTER
DW64: And I shall end the chapter here. In the next chapter, it's the battle between Ricky's group and the shinigamis versus the Faction! Stay tune and read and review!