Chapter 7: New School?
"Well, I can't actually teach you personally, Hermoine," Ichigo said as he reached the end of his long letter. Hermoine, who sat in front of him in his office, looked down. He saw her expression and smiled. "Don't worry. It's only another school..."
Harry and Ron, who sat right and left of Hermoine, gulped. Surely she would drag them to there.
Few days ago, after the Battle of Demon Bridge, Hermoine had courageously walked up to Ichigo who had no mask. The students and the staff alike praised her for her courage, for maskless Professor Black was as evilly ominous, subtly threatening, and dangerous looking as his last name might suggest to those who had not faced him. To be exact, the students considered his lessons to be worse than his name. The staff thought the tattoos of curse did more than his lessons.
Hermoine had again walked up to Professor Ichigo to keep him uphold his promise to teach her the ways to subjugate demons.
"And seeing as you will meet them more often, I highly recommend," he stretched the last word, pausing for a while after as he finished the letter and slid it into a white envelope. "That you two, Ron and Harry, also go to this new school. Don't worry though," he said with a smile. "The studying is only hard as normal school. There's no potions to make or things like that. Only ... a lot of memorization."
Ron immediately groaned as he sagged a little in his chair.
Ichigo chuckled.
"Well, if this letter," Ichigo said as he waved the white envelope above his head with his fingers. "Gives me a good reply, you will all have a nice faculty to do a lot of the new materials. But on the other hand, if this letter does not bring any favorable ... reaction, then pray to the Almighty -your God, Hermoine- that my Defense Against Dark Arts were easy before you take any of my Exorcism classes."
After the trio left, it was Dumbledore and McGonagal that came into his office next.
"What?" he asked nonchalantly.
McGonagall flinched. To her, Ichigo was still ... danger and evil looking with all of the slim width-ed tattoos that covered all of his skin.
To Dumbledore, however, the tattoo only looked as menacing as a scared cat did. After all, he had known what it truly did to Ichigo.
"You can be at ease, Professor. We're only looking for a elixir of youth."
Ichigo raised an eyebrow. "You're kidding me right?"
"We are not. And we know that you know how to make one."
Ichigo seemed to contemplate this seriously as the two in front of him sat down on the chairs left by the trio.
"Well?"
"You do know that while I may help you, I won't help you at the same time."
"Please, elaborate."
Ichigo straightened himself.
"You are not the first one to come to me for help regarding the elixir, Headmaster. You see when I first learned of how to make it-"
When McGonagall and Dumbledore left Ichigo's office, they had to consider that visit to be perhaps one of the most frightening.
"I guess we better start looking for those ingredients," Dumbledore said as he held up the paper that had the list of ingredients for a elixir of life.
-W-
Fujimoto sighed. The student-wizards that they promised to teach were late. He guessed that it had to be with the airport's late departure from Los Angelos, where the students had to switch the plane. He didn't know how the planes themselves worked, but that was not his concern. When he had heard that the plane had suffered issues, he become concerned that the plane will further suffer issues, which would endanger the students. The late timing didn't help that concern as well.
"Flight 207-" Fujimoto heard the announcer began and grinned. That was the plane that the students were in. "-Will be arriving shortly. Flight 112 has been canceled." Then the announcer went onto relaying the message in at least four different languages. Actually three, since the announcer spoke two different Chinese.
So he and Yukio, the only Okamura twin as of the moment that was training to be a Exorcist, went towards the exit to meet the students.
Just as they reached the gate where the people were coming out of with all their luggage, they saw three young teenagers, all about Yukio's age. Fujimoto guessed that they were the ones that the Immortal had sent and raised the sign that he had prepared as soon as he heard that he was going to be picking the students up.
'Harry Potter' the sign read.
The trio saw the sign and approached the two.
"Hello," Yukio began in English and the wizards gave him their attention. "Welcome to the Japanese."
"H-Hello," Ron began. "You know how to speak English?"
Yukio nodded slightly with a smile. "In Asian schools, public or private, English is a mandatory subject. Which will also be your class as well as Japanese..."
Ron groaned.
"What else will there be? The classes?" Hermoine asked. She and Yukio began to go right off, talking about classes and such.
Harry and Ron, on the other hand, requested to be shown to their new dorm. And with that, everyone split up, either to talk or explore their new place of learning and shelter.
-W-
"Exorcist Tyler Isshin Stanford, please stand before the Grigory."
The said man looked about before he did so, climbing up the stairs and unto the witness's stand in front of entire Vatican plus Grigory and other highly placed officials from all over the world.
"You say that you have information about this new ally of ours that needs to be heard?" the judge asked. "Perhaps your accusation?"
Isshin nodded.
"He is no different than the demons that he claims to fight against."
"Explain..." the judge said.
"I am Tyler Isshin Stanford, the head of the True Cross Order's Global Intelligence Network's CEO. It has been few years that my agency has come to know this Immortal. But we've never met him face to face.
"Until now," Isshin said as two of his agents brought out a hologram projector. They placed the projector on either side of the witness stand and as soon as they pressed the start button, the two holograms projected a screen midair.
It showed Hogwarts.
"As were we aware of the Wizarding World..."
Multiple heads of state flinched.
Especially the head from Great Britain.
"We've known about the Wizarding World for perhaps a millenia, thanks to some of their rather not indiscreet activities from World War II. As such, we always had multiple agents keeping on eye out for their schools and their ministries, where they are most concentrated.
"At Hogwarts, one of their schools, there was a demon invasion..."
The screen showed a fairly sized army of demons. The camera that must have been filming this scene zoomed into the army, showing the gruesome details of disfigured souls and hatred. The army slowly made their way towards Hogwarts, killing anyone and anything that stood on their path.
"Unlike the Blue Night all those years ago, this invasion seemed to be a it more brutal, and intended to create as much casualty as possible," Isshin commented as the camera zoomed in further just in time for a long clawed to severed a wizard's head cleanly from the body. Some of the council's members gagged at the uncensored gore and blood. 'It was intended anyway..' Isshin thought as he watched the film with cold eyes.
Then a figure appeared when the demons reached the front gate.
He killed the demon in front of the charge.
The camera zoomed in further.
"From the description of this man, we can only assume that he is the Father, the Immortal. The Cursed as many of us began to put him as...But please, watch what happens."
The audience before him almost leaned in, expecting something big occur immediately or soon at any rate.
The film, which -up to now- only gave low quality sound of the rumling demon army and few nearby screams, began to give the audience a very clear sound.
The sound came across to them as a very clear voice of a young man.
"Getsuga ... Tensho!"
Suddenly, everything in the screen bloated out in bleak darkness, but there was a pause between the words spoken, actions of the figures in the film, and the later darkness to show the Grigory and the council that it had been the Immortal who shouted that. But though the voice was clear -despite the fact that it shouldn't be- it was at the same time distorted.
When the darkness slowly receded, the audience before Isshin gasped at the horror before them.
The camera slowly swiveled by the broken corpses of the monsters before the Immortal.
Burned.
Mangled.
Distorted beyond comparison.
All by the black fire of the Immortal.
The demons fought on, but the council began to protest.
Turn it off!
It's sick!
Monsters...
I feel .. bad for them.
Isshin complied. Though he expected some disgusted to be displayed towards the destructive power of the Immortal, he hadn't expected such an outright protest.
"The Immortal, in my honest opinion, is just another powerful being. No where near God, but on a par with Satan... But unlike Satan and his generals, he is a physical being that lives right next to us." Then he began to speak the truth about what he felt. "He is too dangerous, my fellow ladies and gentlemen. We may use demons and wield them, but even we cannot suffer such massacre.
"And have you noticed the faces of the demons?
"For those of us who fought demons for a very long time, we know that they can make human expressions as well as those beyond ours.
"They were charging in fear, ladies and gentlemen. And that makes this man even more dangerous.
"No demon ever fears another being aside from God and its fellows.
"It feared him, like it feared God, but most likely on a scale drastically less than the fear towards God...
"But this is my accusation: he is too powerful. He is too demonic. He is nothing like us. He is more like a demon with his power and cruelty," he said as he turned on the holograms once more, right in time to see Ichigo slice off a demon's head and crush another's head. He quickly turned it off. It was ... strain for him as well, watching all the carnage.
The Grigory, the least disgusted of the council members, sighed. The one in the center leaned in.
"We have heard your accusation. And we will consider deeply in light of the evidence that we have just watched. Then now, let us pray. Pray in hope that this 'demon' as your have accused him of being, does not act like one towards humans."
-W-
Back at the London Branch
"Oh, so that's why you evaded me..." Yao said with a look of sudden understanding. Like the one we all make when we realize how easy we can solve a math problem after it had plagued us for ... a long time.
The girl in front of him nodded.
"B-But..."
"Hmm?"
"Why do we have to be in this position?"
Yao looked about.
They were still in her room and he had forced his head on top of her lap while he laid down on the bed.
"Because I like it like this..."
"You're ... rude aren't you?"
He grinned. "I may be rude but ladies like me nonetheless."
"Then am I first to not?"
"No. But the first to tremble, perhaps."
She blushed. "You're scary looking!"
He sat up and protested. "No I'm not!"
She looked at him.
"Sharp teeth. Red eyes. Gangster clothes?"
Yao looked about himself.
True. He had sharp teeth, red eyes, and gangster clothes.
"You look more like a ..."
And the two babbled, bickered, and laughed on and on and on.
-W-
While everyone was either having fun or exploring new places, Ichigo was stuck in Hogwarts.
He was to stay here for another three months, as the contract between him and the headmaster dictated.
But he only came here because of Harry (as in he wanted to keep the guy safe until the benefit was good enough to "harvest..."). Without Harry and his trio, there was no reason for him to stay here. Train the wizards here to protect themselves against demons? Sure, but the demons would only attack if he was here.
If he really wanted to get out of the place, he could have just walked out; no one was strong enough to stop him, even Dumbledore.
...
...
...
Should he?
...
Naw. He had his share of fun here, like bashing Malfoy.
"Oi, Malfoy! Stop bickering like a girl and get over here!"
The class laughed while a very tomato faced Malfoy slowly walked up to the front to face off another Slytherin student.
"Nothing fatal. Of course, if you like, you can always bleed 'em a bit," Ichigo said sarcastically but with a tone of seriousness that left the two sparring Slytherins feeling as if it was actually allowed. "Go!"
And thus ends the first trouble.
And now ... the second trouble arises from Isshin and his anti-Immortal campaigns.
To some of the questions given to me (not necessarily in full question):
1. Did other Bleach characters survive?
1 A. No. They are just their alternate versions.
2. Will Byakuya appear?
2 A. Yes. But there is a idea floating around in m head that Byakuya should be a girl... go to deviantart if you want to know how fem Byakuya looks like.
3. Will Ichigo be normal later.
3 A. Of course naw...