Chapter 13: Gate + Vampire

As the masked man was about to attack, a new voice yelled out, "ROAR, ZABIMARU!" Then a giant snake skeleton-like whip appeared, causing the masked man move out of the way as Renji arrived at the battlefield with his bankai active.

"Renji!" Ichigo called out surprised to see his friend.

"Are you okay, Ichigo?" Renji asked.

"Yeah, I'm okay."

"Oh, great," the chubby masked man said, "The Soul Reaper is here. That's going to be a problem."

Renji looks up, sees the masked men and said, "Those guys…"

"You know them?" Ichigo asked.

"Yeah, things are starting to get out of hand. You might not have noticed it because of their presence but just now, the same Spirit Energy appeared elsewhere."

"What?"

"It's at the Kurosaki Clinic, your home." Ichigo and Moka's eyes widen when they heard that. "Rukia is already there, I doubt…"

"YUZU AND KARIN ARE IN DANGER!"

"Ichigo, we'll take over from here!"

"Right!"

Ichigo jumped off the roof of the school and headed straight for his family's clinic and Moka followed soon after.

"Where are you two going?" The chubby masked man asked as he was to follow them but was stopped by Uryu'a arrows and Mizore's ice kunai.

The masked man with the blade was about to go after Ichigo and Moka as well until…

"ROAR, ZABIMARU!" Renji used his snake-skeleton whip at stop the masked swordsman but his muscular ally appeared in front of him and took the bow, crashing into the roof of the school. The distractions help Ichigo and Moka escape and head for the Kurosaki Clinic.

"Damn it!" The chubby masked man cursed. "They got away."

Ichigo looked behind him and saw Moka following him to his house. "Why are you following me?"

"Don't act so tough, you idiot." Moka barked back, "Besides, I know what you're facing."

Along the debris on the school roof, the muscular masked man grabbed Zabimaru and reeled in Renji. As the lieutenant was being pulled in, the masked man met Renji half-way knocked him violently to the ground below.

"Meet your doom!" The swordsman yelled as he was about to deliver the final blow to Renji. But he was stopped by Uryu's arrows and Mizore's ice spears. The masked man blocked most the arrows and spears until one of Uryu's arrows hit him in the face, destroying his mask. The chubby masked man looked and the mask of his comrade being destroyed.

"What are you doing, you idiot?!" he shouted, appearing in front of his partner. "Put your mask back on!"

It was too late, chains started to appear all over the swordsman's body as objects that weren't nailed down were getting up by a strong wind as if a tornado was coming.

"What's going on?" Uryu asked, looking at the sky, wondering what was happening. Chad, Kurumu, Kokoa, Ruby, and Mizore looked the sky, not knowing what's going on as well.

Then all of the sudden, the same mysterious door with the two skeletons appeared from out of nowhere and began to open

Renji's eyes widen, since he's the only of the group that knows what's going on. "That's…the Hell's Gate?"

The chain connected to the other side of the gate began to move and to the swordsman, reeling him towards the gate while a giant blade started to come out of it.

"Stop, stop this!" The swordsman pleaded. "SAVE ME!"

The huge bladed pierced through the swordsman, dragging him to the other side as the gates began to closed. Then, the mysterious gate vanished into thin air along with the swordsman.

"Ruby!" Kurumu called. "What's going on here?"

"I…I don't know." Ruby said. "But if it is what I think it is, it's probably worse than what I first though."

"What the hell happened?" Uryu asked, still looking at the sky.

"LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" the chubby masked man to the masked man with the muscles.

"Oh, no you don't!" Kokoa shouted as her and Kurumu appeared behind the masked men but they disappeared before the girls could strike.

"Damn it, they're gone." Kurumu said, frustrated as Kokoa landed next to Uryu.

"That's just great." Kokoa said. "Just I was going teach those bastards their place, they run off like cowards."

As for where the masked men came from, that's been answered. But it stirred up more questions. Who are they? Why are they in the World of the Living? And what information does Moka have about these masked men? All will be answered next time…

I know this chapter is short, sorry about that. I rewriting my second challenge and it will come out on 10/14/12. Please R&R. Oh, and spoiler alert if you have yet see the fourth Bleach movie, Kokuto appears next chapter.