Chapter 16
"I want everyone to stand back!" I ordered and Captain Ukitake waved all mobile squad members back away before I pulled out my Zanpakuto and pointed it to the sky. "Save these souls, Akuma no Pureitaimu."
My sword was enveloped in a dark purple smoke before it lengthened greatly, high above my head and took the form of a scythe. The smoke disappeared to reveal me holding a long glistening black handle. At the bottom was a silver swirl connecting to a reddish pink rose with a thick silver chain dangling from it with a silver crucifix the size of my hand hanging off it with a reddish pink stone embedded in the centre.
On the other end was another silver streak swirling up the spine to come to a large assortment of reddish pink roses with thorned vines, skulls and other skeletal parts before it branched out in a large red onyx blade that arched over my head.
I banged the bottom to the ground and a wave of black smoke enveloped all the critically wounded and dead. I felt the faint spiritual energies become stronger and the ones that had disappeared merely ignited once again before the smoke fell off the Sokyoku Hill cliff and began to repair the damage across the Soul Society that the portal had caused.
"What a truly amazing gift. And to execute a move so powerful without calling its name is incredible!" Ukitake declared and I grinned.
"Great power is expected of the Dark Queen, Ukitake. If it were not for Kane, my power would be so pure, it would be classified as corrupt. He's balanced me out and I thank him." I said calmly and the smoke dissipated before Soul Reapers began to move.
Ukitake stood beside me, his mouth open along with Ichigo's.
"I am the Dark Queen. The Harbinger of Death and a giver of life. Those who are not guilty are relieved and those who are not innocent are punished. Rest in peace, Akuma no Pureitaimu."
"You're different, Seika." Ichigo said and I looked at him after sheathing my Zanpakuto.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
"It depends. You seem... older. More wiser than the Seika that I remember."
I cupped his face in my hands and tilted his head up to me.
"I hate being older because we don't work on the same wavelength anymore. It sucks." I pouted and he smiled.
"There's the Seika I remember." He grinned and I hugged him.