Here is the third chapter in Hell On Earth - Extended version! Enjoy and please review.
3: "I'M BACK!!!"
A lone shinigami stood on a rooftop scanning the town for any signs of danger. The man had a thick, bushy brown afro and small eyes. His name, Zennosuke Kurumadani, the soul reaper assigned to Karakura town.
He felt an unnerving presence...A reiatsu the likes of which he had never felt before. He had been tracking it's movements for some time. The strange being had recently been at the local junior high school and had now moved along to a small neighbourhood where Zennosuke now stood.
He cast his gaze over the empty streets and felt a bead of sweat sliding down his forehead. He couldn't concentrate because of its irritating sensation and so he wiped it away with the back of his hand. He returned to his work but the presence was suddenly gone.
A low rumble to his left alerted him.
IT'S THEM!!! He thought terrified.
He turned to face a monster unlike any other. It was a winged hollow with dull grey skin which was hairless except for a few patches on his torso where thick, coarse hair grew. It only had three long toes on each foot, all ending in wicked talons. Its mask was bone white excluding the jagged red markings around its mouth. The mask itself was familiar...It almost looked similar to one of the hollows killed a few months ago, but not identical.
It's skeletal, bat-like wings stretched out and the beast growled at him. "Hmm. You're not the shinigami I'm after. But you'll be a good appetiser mwahahahahahahah!!!!!"
The hollow disappeared from Zennosuke's sight in the blink of an eye.
Was that Shunpo?!
The hollow reappeared right in front of him. It swung its arm in a horizontal arc, aiming for his head, but Zennosuke jumped out of harms way...Or so he thought. He never even noticed the second hollow, a ghastly 3-headed dog. Tar-like saliva dripped from its jaws as it roared.
Zennosuke tried to flee but the dog moved with incredible speed and sank its huge fangs into his arm. He cried out in agony and tried to hack the beast's head to pieces, but one of the other heads took the chance to attack. This one clamped its jaws down on his sword arm, effectively disarming him and sealing the unfortunate shinigami's fate.
The first hollow approached the defeated man with a venomous grin on his fleshless face. He had produced a sword and brought it down on his head...
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPATMENT – SEIREITEI
"W-what, h-he's dead." The shocked words fell from the lips of one of the researchers. He somewhat resembled a frog with hideous green flesh and bulbous eyes. Even odder, however was the lever protruding from his head.
"Who's dead?" Asked Akon, a horned man and lead researcher.
"Zennosuke! He fought something...but....but"
"Hurry up, spit it out!!" Akon was getting annoyed. "Say it!!!"
"W-w-we d-didn't detect it at all! It never appeared on our scanners so we can't track it or find it or anything!"
"Damn! Send a warning to all shinigami in the area!" Akon commanded.
"Yes sir!" The toad-man set to work.
Meanwhile, Akon's small eyes stared off into space. "Let's only hope we aren't too late..."
Rukia strolled down a narrow street with her shoulders slumped. She was in a sour mood for being abandoned.
"Damn Ichigo. Ran off early. Now how am I supposed to go inside without getting noticed? It was hard enough to convince his family I was leaving forever. If they see me again I won't be able to sleep in the closet."
She cursed and kicked a stone far up the rode. She was about to whine to herself again when a loud beeping interrupted.
She reached down her top and pulled out what looked like a mobile phone, but was actually a device used to track hollows. As soon as she studied the device the beeping stopped. Rukia shrugged.
"Hmmm, it disappeared, Ichigo must have gotten it."
She noticed something lying in the gutter further ahead. She couldn't make out any details from her distance so she ran up to it for a closer inspection. As she neared it, she stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes were glued to the thing left in the gutter.
"Wha...What is this?!" She stared in horror at the upper half of a corpse...In a black kimono!
She dropped to her knees and studied the body. A large chunk of the torso and an arm had appeared to have been bitten off; in fact several teeth were still embedded in his skin. Worst of all, the head of the poor victim had been split open like a melon spilling its nauseating contents into the gutter.
Rukia grasped her stomach and tried to hold down her last meal, but the mutilated corpse was too much. She emptied the contents of her stomach and once she was finished she sat back and hugged herself, shivering from something far worse from cold.
"Oh yeah sorry, I forgot to clean up!" Rasped a hauntingly familiar voice. It was like an echo of the past, though Rukia knew she wasn't imagining things. She slowly looked up into a face she never wanted to, or expected to see again...
"Hahahahaha, looks like a reunion little soul reaper, hahahahahaha!!!!!!" The monster was standing on a rooftop just above her. He grinned while sending a ferocious glare at his new visitor.
"Sh-sh Shrieker!!?"
"Oh how sweet, you remembered my name...But, did you also remember that you were the bitch who sent me to hell!!!!!!!"
The beast swooped down fangs bared.
Rukia struggled to stand, her body wouldn't respond. She was so terrified that every bone, every muscle stiffened to the point of paralysis. All her body allowed her to do was scream!
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