Chapter 17: Island Battle + Vampire

Ichigo and the others continued to follow Kokuto through the entrance of Hell, trying to avoid anymoe attention than they already got until they reached a dead end.

"Hey, there's no way us to get across!" Ichigo shouted.

"Everybody get ready to jump!" Kokuto shouted to the group. Once everyone gotten to the end of the pathway, they all jumped into a portal that led them into another part of Hell. This part looks like it's mostly water with flowered-shaped islands. They landed on both feet and started look around the new area.

"This is strange, where are we?" Uryu asked while observing the area.

"Your guess is as good as mine, Quincy." Moka answered.

Renji walked up to a huge tower with the skeleton of the monsters they just fought. "Maybe, it's a graveyard of those big guards." He answered.

"Where's Yuzu?" Ichigo asked.

"She's not here." A new voice said, shocking everybody. They turned to the direction of that voice and saw the same masked men that attacked in the World of the Living

"HAND HER OVER RIGHT NOW!" Ichigo demanded.

"Easy daring, I'll give what you want! Whoopie!" the chubby masked man shouted as he fell from the sky trying to squish Ichigo but he dodged him and the masked man crashed through the skeleton to the ground below. "We can accommodate you. You scratch our back and we'll scratch yours."

"You must be crazy." Renji said to the chubby man as Rukia ran up to Ichigo.

"We can start this better without these uncomfortable cloaks." The chubby guy removed his mask and cloak and showed true form. "My name is Taikon and it's very nice to meet you."

The man with the tentacles and his muscular comrade did the same thing and revealed their forms. "I go by the name, Gunjo." Said the man with the tentacles.

"I'm Garogai." The muscular guy said. "Welcome to Hell!"

"That welcome is conditional. The uninvited ones should leave this place immediately."

Ichigo gritted his teeth and charged in to start the battle. "GIVE ME BACK MY SISTER!" he yelled as he fired a fierce Getsuga Tensho at Taikon. Then Garogai jumped into the battlefield along with Gunjo and Gunjo charged to attack Ichigo.

"On guard!" he said lashed his tentacle like whips at Ichigo but it was stopped by Renji.

"ROAR, ZABIMARU!" Renji lashed his shikai at Gunjo who in turn dodged it. Then Taikon appeared behind Ichigo and Renji, but he got shot down and kicked in the face by Uryu and Moka.

Uryu and Moka's eyes widen when Taikon gotten to his feet, unaffected by the attacks. Then a mouth on Taikon's side and it devoured Uryu's arrows. "That was very yummy." Taikon said with a smirked on his face.

Renji narrowed his eyes as Rukia shouted to him, "Head's up, Renji! HADO #33: SOKATSUI!" Rukia fired her kido blast at Taikon but it was devoured as well. Taikon laughed and fired the blast back at them. Then Garogai appeared flatten Uryu, but Uryu used his Hirenkyaku to dodge it.

"Be careful, their powers without their cloak are much greater they were in the World of the Living." Kokuto warned.

"You're kidding." Uryu said before Garogai appeared destroyed the area they were standing on. On another of that island, Ichigo was being chased by Gunjo before Gunjo was hit Rukia's kido. Then Taikon grew more mouths on his body and shot down the whole of the island Ichigo was on. Ichigo and Rukia were jumped from platform to platform below to avoid the falling debris. All of the sudden Garogai jumped of the water with one of the platform on his shoulders and threw it back in the water to create a tidal wave.

Rukia quickly activated her shikai and stabbed four holes on the ground she was standing on. "TSUGI NO MAI! HAKUREN!" She pointed her zanpakuto at the wave and immediately turned it to ice. That ice was then broken when Gunjo shot out of the ice and speared Ichigo back into island as those began their clash and Uryu and Moka continue their fight with Taikon.

"ICHIGO!" Rukia yelled to see if he was okay then her attention back to the oncoming Garogai who fired at Rukia. Rukia dodged the attack and Garogai charged at her again before getting hit by Rukia's kido and getting the island. On the island, which is now a battlefield, the battles are still continuing.

"GETSUGA…" Ichigo shouted before his hollow mask appeared on its own. "…TENSHO!" Ichigo fired his strongest attack and tower that in the middle of the island before out of the smoke to where Kokuto is.

"Ichigo, your sister is still pretty far down the road." Kokuto said as Rukia appeared.

"How far?" Ichigo asked.

"Don't worry about it." Renji said. "Just leave these guys to us and go."

"If you stay here, you'll just get our way." Uryu added.

"What the hell do you mean?" Ichigo protested, and then Rukia put out her hand.

"It's better to let Renji and Uryu handle this." Rukia said. "Come on, let's go."

Ichigo looked at Rukia and remembered the task at hand. "Alright then, Rukia, Kokuto, Moka, let's go."

"I'm staying to help Uryu and Renji." Moka said.

"Why?" Rukia asked.

"Let's just say water and vampires don't mix well. Water is a vampire's No. 1 weakness."

"Don't worry about it." Ichigo said. "You just hang on tight to me and you'll be okay, trust me."

"And how would that help, you dope? Even if I hang on to you a child, it wouldn't make much of a difference!" Then Ichigo picked up Moka and put her over his shoulder. "Put me down this instant!"

"Look I'm going to argue with you on this! We don't have for a debate here, so let's go!" Kokuto then jumped into the water with Ichigo, with Moka on his shoulders, and Rukia behind him. As they jumped of the island, Gunjo appeared.

"Where do you think you're going?" he said as he lashed his tentacles at the three but Rukia blocked the attack, allowing Ichigo and Moka to proceed.

"I got to get pass him quickly." Rukia said to herself as Gunjo attacked her again.

Meanwhile, Uryu confronts Takion.

"So you decided take me on directly." Takion said to the Quincy. "Is that your plan? I presume you must have some kind of death wish."

"No, it's the opposite." Uryu said. "I've thought about it and I've concluded that my pride as Quincy won't allow me to lose twice to the same adversary." Then the battle between those two began as Garogai looked on and then turned his attention to Renji.

Renji lifted his zanpakuto and said, "BANKAI! HIHIO ZABIMARU!" Smoke surrounds Renji as he activates his bankai. "I owe big guy. Do you remember last battle?" Garogan narrowed his eyes at Renji. "THIS TIME I'LL TEACH YOU A LESSON!"

To be continued…

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