Disclaimer: i don't own bleach or the characters, i only own my OCs.
Sorry its taken me so long to update, i havent had a lot of time for typing lately.
Chapter 3
When Kyoko woke up she found herself starring up at a night sky full of stars, the full moon hung over a sparkling dark ocean and cast silver light across the world. The ground could not be seen because it was covered by a crimson mist that swirled and flowed around tall black rock platforms, one of which she was lying on. She rolled to her feet and looked around, taking in the view of her inner world.
"Okay Amaya, why'd ya call me here?" Kyoko asked as she felt a presence materialise on one of the rocks behind her.
"I need to talk to you" her zanpakto said as the spirit settled on the rock, the red and black scales of her long, forked tail glittered in the silver light as she wrapped in around herself, masterfully avoiding the studded spikes that ran along each side. Kyoko was accustomed to Amaya's voice after the many years that they had been together, but anyone else would have been unnerved by the adult voice coming out of the child's mouth. Her appearance was made even more mysterious by the red bangs that covered most of her face, including her eyes, and the way that her short hair grew in three red spike shapes on each side of her head.
"Aren't you going to make yourself comfortable?" Amaya asked as Kyoko continued to stand and started fidgeting. "This is your world after all, or is your unease about Sousuke Aizen preventing you from relaxing even here?"
"I don't know what's happenin'. I've never liked the guy but, somethin's changed, somethin' about his spirit energy, and to add ta everthin' it feels like somethin' is about ta happen."
"Why don't you talk to Shinji about it?" Amaya asked as she learned forwards, a clinking sound on the rock announced the presence of what must have been large claws. It was impossible to tell because her hands and feet were completely obscured by the long sleeves and legs of her dark brown outfit.
"I don't know" Kyoko said as she put her head in her hands. "I don't have any proof, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who has noticed such small differences, but for all I know I could just be bein' paranoid."
"Paranoid enough not to sleep for a week?"
"It wouldn't surprise me" Kyoko replied as she opened her brown eyes and looked at Amaya. "You're right, I'm gunna go and talk ta Shinji... Wait, there's somethin'... Shinji said somethin' just before I went ta bed; it made me feel really uncomfortable... Oh no." A sharp wind tore at them as realisation came to her, causing Kyoko's hair to whip around her face and Amaya's black scarf and waist cape to fan out. "Haruki..."
OOO
"Midori!" Haruki cried as the last member of his team was thrown across the clearing and smashed with a sickening crunch into a tree, her body feel limply to the ground, dead."You'll pay for that!" Haruki hissed as pain sprang up his left arm, where the hollow had opened a gaping wound in its attempt to rip the limb from his body.
When he and the five other members of his team had found the hollow at dusk they had been surprised at what they found. It looked like a huge mound of purple sludge that rose out of the ground, its mask a mere white disc with a narrow eye slit. It hadn't looked very powerful but they approached it with caution all the same. The hollow had remained stationary as they moved up to it, unaware that it was in danger, the team from squad ten began to let their guard down.
That's when Goro trod on one of the black veins that spread out across the clearing from the main hollow. A cavernous mouth opened up in the sludge and dozens of smaller hollows came pouring out, they resembled foxes made of the same substance as the mother hollow. They weren't very powerful individually, but their true power lay in their numbers. They immediately fell on Goro, the over-large fangs protruding from their circular masks making short work of him. He hadn't even had the chance to draw his sword.
The five Soul Reapers that remained immediately sprang into action, eager to avenge their fallen comrade, but for every one of the monsters that they cut down two more appeared in their place. It hadn't taken long for Akio, Asa and Hide to be worn down and soon Haruki and Midori were the only ones left. Now Haruki was facing down a small army of the creatures alone.
Haruki backed away from the putrid creatures, a look of desolation on his face.
"I'm not going to get out of here" he said quietly to himself as the slathering beasts stalked towards him.
"What are you doing?!!! Release me already you fool!!! Or do you want to be torn to pieces?!!!" No matter how harsh they sounded, his zanpakto's words steadied him immediately; he raised his sword and faced the mass before him.
"Rip through the earth and the skies, Akuma no gekitotsu." His sword glowed green as it transformed, seconds later he was holding a hilt with the same curved design as the guard in its sealed form. A long, thin blade extended from each end of the hilt, the blades curved into the vague shape of a bow and the ends took a strange zigzag shape. The steel blades glistened with a green sheen as Haruki twirled the weapon at his side, the whirlwind that the movement created picked up rocks and soil from the ground, adding lethal projectiles to his weaponry.
"I'm not dying here," he assured himself as he swung the weapon around and sent the first line of foes flying.
OOO
Kyoko moved as fast as she could through the trees, she had felt Haruki release his zanpakto and knew that if she didn't get there soon he wouldn't last much longer. She stopped in the undergrowth surrounding the clearing and peered through; she felt her heart drop into her stomach when she saw her Lieutenant fighting the hordes of monsters alone. He was being torn to shreds and it was clear that he wouldn't be able to stand much more.
"Kuma" Kyoko said as the wolf stopped beside her, panting slightly from the unexpected sprint. "Take out the big hollow, that's where all the small ones are comin' from; I'll distract them while you take it from behind." Kuma nodded in agreement. A blood curdling scream ripped across the clearing as one of the hollows pounced on Haruki and raked its razor sharp claws down the right side of his face.
Kyoko was beside him in seconds, she grabbed the fox by its mask and ripped it away, and it smashed into a tree and disintegrated as another took its place.
"C-Cap...Tain..."
"Haruki, don't ya dare die on me Lieutenant" Kyoko said as he slumped down at her feet. It took all of the will power that she had not to turn her back on the enemy and look after him. She saw Kuma crawling on his belly towards the mound, narrowly avoiding the black veins that would alert the guards to the danger. She drew her short-sword and held it above her head, she held the hilt with one hand and the three linked rings connected to her sword by a black tassel in the other.
"Strike," the clearing filled with red light as her zanpakto began to shimmer and tendrils of black shadows began streaming from the tassel, "Amaya." The tassel transformed into a long link chain, and connected to the chain was a long knife; at the other end of the chain was a blade slightly longer than the sealed form of the sword and twice as thick. The blade was in the shape of a dragon's wing and forked into two blades at the tips, the silver guard had taken on a looping design with two small silver dragon wings framing the blade.
"Crimson Flare" Kyoko hissed, the blade exploded with red fire and the front foxes pulled back in hesitation, "what's wrong?" Kyoko grinned "scared?" With a deafening roar they surged towards her, fangs glinting in the red light.
It seemed like an eternity, they kept piling in over their dead companions, an endless flow. It wasn't long before Kyoko was cover in slashes, mainly on her arms and hands. She didn't see the hollow as it swung its clawed paw out, the blood in her eye from a wound on her forehead blocked her vision; the claw ripped across her stomach and forced her to her knees. The hollows yowled in anticipation.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!!!"
"Calm down, focus, Kuma is almost there, you just have to hold out a bit longer." As Amaya's calm words flowed through her mind the blade of the knife wreathed with dark shadows.
"Amaya, I can't control this attack yet! It could kill all of us outright!"
"No time to argue" Amaya snapped, uncharacteristically sharp, as one of the hollows raised its claws above her head, "Trust me."
The claw was stopped in its tracks as a thick tendril of shadows wrapped around the arm of the hollow.
"Sorry hollow, but I'm not going to let my officers have died for nothing." Kyoko took a deep breath before release the rest of the shadows from the knife. "Shadow Strand." She struggled to her feet as the shadows entangled her enemies; she had found that this technique was easier to control while standing.
"Amaya, you're in big trouble if I end up killing us all with this."
"Concerntrate." Kyoko focused intently; when she was curtain that the only ones that would be hit were the hollows she completed the attack.
"Impale." Dozens more spears of darkness exploded from the shadows, piercing the hollows and reducing them to dust, there was a horrifying shriek, as the dust cleared Kyoko saw the main hollow crumbling to nothingness. Kuma stood triumphantly in its place, scratched and bruised but otherwise unharmed. Relief flooded through her, but that small lapse of concentration was all that was needed for one of the few remaining spears to shot off and embed itself deep in her left shoulder.
Kyoko cursed and dropped her knife; with the contact gone the shadows turned to mist and spread out through the trees. She sheathed her sword and fell to her knees again no longer having the energy to stand up, Kuma was at her side in an instant, and he supported her weight as she crawled over to Haruki. He was breathing haggardly and his eye was distant, he would be incredibly lucky to still have the other eye, if the three deep slashes down his face were anything to go by. Kyoko reached her hands out and steadied herself, feeling the energy move from her body into her hands, and the into Haruki as she began to heal his wounds. She was practically useless at normal kido; but she hadn't been the third seated officer of the fourth division for nothing.
Kuma grunted and pressed his nose against her head, determined to make his message perfectly clear.
"Heal yourself first dumbass."
"Not enough time" Kyoko replied, turning her head to get his nose away from her face, she couldn't afford any distractions. "If I don't help him now he'll die."
"You'll be no good ta him if ya dead" Kuma continued.
"Shut up, just run back to Seireitei and get help, get Captain Unohana."
"I'm not leaving ya here alone! What if there're more hollows around?!"
"Go now!" Kyoko snarled. Kuma whined in frustration, torn between protecting his friends and getting help. With a snap of his jaws he spun on his heels and sprinted back the way they had come. "Hold on Haruki" Kyoko talked to him through gritted teeth her injuries and the healing draining her energy quickly.
Kyoko snapped away from her Lieutenant and retched violently, spitting out blood and bile she tried to struggle back. The world started revolving around her and the ground rushed to meet her head.
Everything went black.
I'm not sure if the fight scene got a bit too muddled again or not, anyone have any tips on how i could make it a bit clearer?
Kuma finally talks 0.o mwhahahahaaaaaaaa i leave you on a cliff-hanger!!!!!
Chapter 4 is going ta be the last chapter of this story, so what would u guys like ta read next.
option 1) more of Kyoko in the TBTP arc
option 2) Kyoko in the Main Bleach timeline
option 3) a story with my new arrancar OC (this story will definitely be GrimmjowxOC and will probably be a lot darker as well, just cause its easier ta write that kinda story with the hollows.)
P.S this will be done eventually and the OC is going to inherit Yachiru's terrible nickname making, so if anyone has any ideas 4 that i would luv to hear them.
Pls review!!!