Chapter 2
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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Zanpaku-to talking"
'Zanpaku-to thinking'
"Hollow talking in the world of the living"
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When the giant of a man, Kenpachi struck the killing blow, Nnoitora's eyes flicker over to where Ivy was standing protecting Orihime from the force of their blows, she saw an emotion that she could not identify in his eyes before he fell backwards on the sand. Suddenly, Ivy was aware of something wet on her face, lifting a hand and wiping away whatever it was. It turned out to her own tears, she was crying. But why?
"Well, are you going to try and kill me for revenge, woman?" Kenpachi asked her as he turned to face, expecting another fight.
"No, sir," Ivy honestly and truthfully responded, surprising everyone around her.
"Why the hell not, the bastard was your master. You're loyal to him," Ichigo demanded as Kenpachi broke the shield that Orihime made by just stomping on it with his foot.
"You're wrong deputy soul reaper Ichigo. I was loyal to him out of fear. If it was not for him, I will be still in England, going to school, hanging out with my friends, not knowing what was happening here. You see, he kidnapped me while I was serving detention for my power. For little over six years, I served him with no hope of returning to my home, but now I do have that hope and a chance of freedom, thanks to you, deputy soul reaper Ichigo and to you, Kenpachi Zaraki," Ivy explained to them, so they would understand why she is not going for revenge for her fallen master.
"Woman, come and heal me," Kenpachi demanded of Orihime.
"Oh… okay," Orihime said as she made her way to Kenpachi, only to get half way before Stark appeared behind her, apologized and disappeared with her.
"Soul reaper Ichigo, I can lead you to where Orihime is," Ivy told him. She was sick and tired of all of this fighting, plus if leading Ichigo meant that she would have the chance to escape and kill that bastard, Barragan. She would take it.
"Lead the way, um…? What is your name?" Ichigo asked as he finally realized that he did not know this woman's name.
"Potter, Ivy. At your service, deputy soul reaper Ichigo. Please follow me and be ready to fight your way in as its heavy guard by those skull freaks," Ivy told him as she began leading the way.
"Skull freaks?" Ichigo questioned.
"They're the Exequias, their leader is Rudobon. Their duty is take care of those who have been defeated by outside forces and deem weak and also take care of invaders like you and your friends. But don't worry, I will help you fight them, but know this once you reach Orihime and if there is a portal to the world of the living. I'm leaving after I take care of some business." Ivy explained. Ichigo nodded as he did understand what she was saying.
Sure enough, the Exequias were blocking their way inside the tower, but thanks to the friends of Ichigo, they made it inside the tower and made their way to the top floor.
"So, Ulquiorra back so soon?" Ivy mockingly asked the Espada.
Ulquiorra just stared at her, before saying in a monotone voice, "I see that you became a traitor, Potter."
Ivy glared and snapped, "You know about my situation, Ulquiorra or have you forgotten. I bet that if you were me and had emotions, you would be doing the same thing as I am."
"Probably," Ulquiorra said. "Just to let you know, Nnoitora and Tesra are not dead, but they are close to it. If they live, they will hunt you down for your actions. I will let you leave, I guess."
Ivy paled at the news, but responded, "Even though we are enemies, thanks for the tip. I will keep my eyes out in the future, but I pray to Kami –Sama that they will die."
"Good luck, traitor Potter," Ulquiorra said, before turning back to Ichigo. What he did not realized that Ivy was distracting him, so the deputy soul reaper would rest up and gained back some of his energy. He would need it if he is going to do what she thinks that he is going to do.
"Good luck, Ichigo. I hope that we can meet one day in the world of the living." Ivy called out before stepping through the portal. It would be great if she had the ability to open up one these things.
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About a good foot away from the portal, Ivy whispered, "Bankai."
Even though her Zanpaku-to was strapped to her back, it disappeared. If one would look closer they would see invisible heat being absorbed into Ivy's back. Ivy knew once she steps into the world of the living, she would have only a few second to perform her task, before anyone could stop her.
Taking a deep breath, Ivy used shunpo and appeared behind Barragan and his throne. She plunged her magma fist right into the old geezer's heart.
"KING BARRAGAN!" One of the remaining two so called subjects cried out as they watched Barragan turn into dust and fade from existence. The old geezer did not even know what had hit him. The soul reapers and the remaining hollows were staring at her in shock as they could not believe their eyes at what they were seeing. The Head Captain just merely raised an eyebrow as he recognized who she was from the description of her from Avalon as he read her file, all of those years ago.
"You," The short one exclaimed in disbelief. "You're Potter, Ivy. One of the Fracciones that belong to Nnoitora. You killed our king, why? Did Nnoitora order you to do it?"
"No, no one ordered me to do anything. Nnoitora was defeated and hopefully will be dead soon. I am just merely helping out the soul reapers." Ivy explained.
"Helping out the soul reapers, why!" This time it was Captain Soi-Fon demanded.
Ivy chuckled as she answered, "Because Aizen is going to upset the balance of things. Upsetting the balance will cause large amounts of chaos and people will died even though its not their time to."
"Its good to see you alive, Potter," The Head Captain finally spoke up, shocking not only his soul reapers, but the rest of the hollows as well.
Ivy tilted her head to the side, and asked, "How do you know my name, jiji? Or better yet, who I am?"
"Of course, I had received your file from Avalon and I know about a Vasto Lord kidnapping you. It will be good news to your friends when you return," Yamamoto explained.
"Yeah, it will be jiji. I knew that I should have come here sooner." Ivy stated, making Yamamoto raise an eyebrow in question.
"I never knew that your Captain over there, is so handsome," Ivy pointed to Captain Ukitake, who was blushing like there was no tomorrow. He really did believe that Ivy was very beautiful herself. Shunsui was smiling as he finally got some teasing material for him to use on Ukitake. "See you later, jiji, and good luck with the war!"
Ivy shunpo and gave Yamamoto a hug, surprising him and then used flash step and gave Ukitake a kiss on the cheek. Before starting her long journey west towards England, which will probably take about six months to reach as she would have to stop and rest more often and steal food as she cannot absorb any Hollow spiritual pressure anymore.
"Looks like you finally got yourself a girlfriend, Jushiro," Shunsui teased his long time best friend, who was blushing like ever before and trying to stutter out a denial. "Don't worry, Jushiro, I'm sure that we can visit her after the war and if the old man would let us."
All that Jushiro Ukitake could do was groan at what his best friend was saying. He knew that Shunsui will never let up until he found a good woman to settle down with, but what woman would want a sickly man like him. Potter would probably leave and never want anything to do with him, once she finds out that he is sick.
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Six months later…
Ivy was finally in England was only about 400 miles away from Hogwarts. Somewhere in France, she had to break into a house; luckily the people who own it were away on vacation. She took a shower and got clean and thankfully the woman who lives in the house was the same size as Ivy in everything. She kept her hair the same, most of her hair was cut very short, but there were about six small bunches of hair that went down to her waist that she braided.
As she made her way to Hogwarts, something caught her eye. She decided to go closer to investigate what it was. The aura around the graveyard was nasty, worse than any Hollow that she met including her former master Nnoitora. When she got closer, she saw someone tied to a statue, bloody. It only took a few seconds to recognize who it was. It was Cedric Diggory, the Hufflepuff seeker. He did not look so good, too pale. He must have lost a lot of blood.
The snake/man hybrid was pointing a bone white wand at him and started to say, "Avada…"
Ivy used shunpo to get in between Cedric and the creepy thing and shield herself with her spiritual pressure in time to block the sickly green light.
"What the…" The thing said before he caught a glimpse of a lightning bolt scar on her forehead.
"POTTER!" It screamed.
Ivy tilted her head and asked, "Do I know you?"
"I'm the Dark Lord, Lord Voldemort, Potter," He shouted at her.
"Wow, you're uglier than my former master. Get a wig," Ivy mocked. With a swift movement of the hand, the ropes that tied cried to the statue were cut and now, he was over Ivy's shoulder.
"See you later, ugly," With that Ivy used flash step to continue her journey to Hogwarts.
"You know that you should not have left that thing alive," Akainu finally spoke up after a few years of silence.
'I had no choice to, Cedric comes first. You know that I did the right thing, Akainu. So let it go,' Ivy thought to her Zanpaku-to, who in turn went quiet.
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After Ivy was sure that they were far enough from the crazy insane thing, she set Cedric down on the gone and began trying to heal him the best she knew how. Well, at least to stop the bleeding. After ten minutes, she had successfully stopped the bleeding.
"Ugh… what happened? Who?" Cedric muttered when his vision returned to him and he saw the woman standing over him, looking at his wounds. It took him a few minutes before he realized who the woman was and that was after a breeze moved her bangs for him to see the famous scar on her forehead.
"Ivy Potter, is that really you?" Cedric asked as he could not believe it. But she looks way older than fourteen.
"Yeah, its me. And about my appearance, lets just say, that time moved twice as fast than normal. Its good to see you awake. I did my best at healing you, I also stopped the bleeding." Ivy explained as she handed him a bottle of water to drink from.
After he finished the bottle, he asked, "Where are we?"
"About 300 miles from Hogwarts, if I am right. We will arrive at school in the early morning. I need to rest for a few hours to regain some of my energy. Go to sleep, Cedric, I will keep watch," Ivy said in a serious tone.
"What about you? Don't you need sleep?" Cedric asked as he was trying to fight the need to sleep.
"No, lost the ability to sleep years ago. Just go to sleep, Cedric," Ivy said as she watched him lose his battle with sleep.
"You don't know how lucky you are that you can sleep, Cedric. I am envious of you and your ability to dream," Ivy muttered as she stared at the stars in the sky. There were different from the ones in the Hollow world, they were more cheerful and bright.
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Ivy woke Cedric up after about four hours of sleep, she wanted to let him get more sleep, but her need to get on moving was greater. As they were traveling, Cedric brought her update on things that happened while she was gone. She almost had dropped Cedric when he told her that she had a godfather that was recently freed from prison for crimes that he did not commit.
Finally, the castle was in full view and Ivy landed on the tallest tower and she let Cedric guide her to the hospital wing where Madam Pomfry was.
Kicking in the doors, Ivy called out, "Madam Pomfry, I brought you a gift that you will love!"
Cedric chuckled as the nurse raced out of her office to see a literally white young woman placing Cedric on one of the beds. The young woman turned around and that aloud Madam Pomfry to fully see that famous scar.
"Impossible…" Madam Pomfry muttered before fainting in shock.
Ivy face palmed at what happened while Cedric was laughing his ass off at the site of a dragon like nurse fainting. Looking around, Ivy spotted a pitcher of water and poured it on the nurse.
"Sorry about that, Madam Pomfry. But I needed to wake you up, so you can heal Cedric. I did the best that I could when healing him, but I only could stop the bleeding," Ivy explained.
"That's alright, Ms. Potter. But I will be checking you out after I am finished with Mr. Diggory. I want to be the first to thank you for bringing him back to us alive," Madam Pomfry apologized before going after Cedric and his injuries.
While waiting for the nurse to get done, she sensed a presence outside the door. Sticking her head out the door, she saw it was just Peeves. Suddenly, an idea made itself known in her head.
"Yo, Peeves, got a chaos creating job for you," Ivy sung and she could hear two people behind her groan.
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It was very depressing in the Great Hall for breakfast; no one was talking or even looking at each other. The one other time that the Great Hall was like this was when Ivy Potter was kidnapped. Professor Snape was just picking at his food as several hours before he came back from the death eater meeting with the news that Potter had shown up and took Cedric with. It was a cause for the Headmaster to hope, but it was little. As the Dark Lord could be lying to him.
Suddenly, Peeves burst through the doors and stopped in front of the Headmaster and saluted. Peeves exclaimed, "I have a message for the master head from Potter and Diggory, they are back and in the hospital wing. Only the Professors can visit, the rest must stay away."
With that Peeves flew out of the Great Hall, leaving behind only silence, but chaos erupted. The Headmaster finally got everyone to quiet down.
"Everyone is to stay here. Professors McGonagall and Snape will join me to see if this is true. I want to find no one anywhere near the hospital wing, until I say so," The Headmaster commanded before exiting the Great Hall with the two professors behind him.
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The professors were outside the hospital wing when they heard a female yelp and an exclaimed, "Watch where you put that wand of yours, Madam!"
A male laughter filled the room and the three professors made their way into the room, to see a glaring older…way older Ivy Potter and a laughing Cedric Diggory.
"Shut it, Diggory," Potter snarled.
"That is enough, both of you. At your age, you should know better than to behave like a bunch of children," Madam Pomfry scolded both of them.
"Sorry, Madam Pomfry," Both Cedric and Ivy said at the same time. But one can hear the snickering from Cedric.
Ivy looked at the professors, smiling widely, and exclaimed, "Hello, professors! Nice day outside. Its so good to see you all looking so very healthy!"
Cedric could not hold it in any longer and began laughing harder than before at the expressions on the professors' faces.
Professor McGonagall could not help it as she ran up to Ivy and hugged her with all of her might. She was afraid that seeing Ivy Potter here was just a dream and that it was not real. McGonagall even began sobbing on Ivy's shoulder uncontrollably.
"Its alright, Professor. I'm real, I swear it. I'm not going anywhere if I had a say in it," Ivy said quietly as she hugged the Professor back. The hug felt awkward as it was the first hug in years that she had. That fact made her sad at how her life turned out to be.
"Its good to have you back, Ms. Potter," Headmaster said cheerfully. Ivy could see tears of joy running down the Headmaster's face.
"Its good to be, Headmaster. I will explain everything later on in your office, if that is alright with you?" Ivy asked and receiving a nod in return.
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In the Hollow world…
An eye opened and looked around. Finding one other being around, it looked around for the other.
"Tesra?" Nnoitora spoke up.
"Yes, sir," Tesra responded.
"Where is that woman?" Nnoitora asked, but he already knew the answer.
"Gone back to England, sir. Are we going to retrieve her, sir?" Tesra asked not knowing what Nnoitora was going to do next.
The image of her face with tears running do it popped into his mind, he answered, "No, we're not. If she needs to find us, she will know where to look. But we will check up on her at least once a month to make sure that she is alright. Whether or not she is with us, she is still part of our group and we take care of our own. Got that, Tesra?"
"Yes, sir," was the reply.
Standing up, Nnoitora and Tesra went back to traveling the sands of Hueco Mundo.
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