The large green explosion knocked Chad off his feet. The air around him was whipping around like a storm, and a large cloud of dust obscured the arrancar. Chad had felt her reiatsu spike just before the explosion, but now he couldn't feel anything at all. As he slowly climbed to his feet, he knew that he wouldn't be able to continue this fight for long. He had allowed Yeltz to get in too many hits, and that was before she had activated her Resurrección.

Before the dust had even settled, Chad felt the massive pressure of her reiatsu. He winced as the reiatsu crushed him, but he didn't fall. Looking at the dust cloud, he could see Yeltz's new form coming into view. A massive shark stood where Yeltz had once been. Its massive, bone-white body was covered in strange tribal etchings and designs. Its small, beady black eye-holes were hollow, and its gills exhaled hot steam. On its upper sides were long, robotic arms that had balls for elbows. The hand, which was as big as Chad's body, was like a large gauntlet, and on the wrists were crescent serrated white blades. On the shark's underside were two short legs with balls for knees and large round feet. As the shark lifted its body, its hollow hole was visible on its belly. The shark opened its mouth with a hiss, and behind the rows of teeth was a grinning face.

"Impressive, innit?" Yeltz said, her large shark body slowly moving forward. With each step the ground around them trembled slightly. "This, Chad, is mah true form." Her fingers flexed with a squeak, and her shark body shuddered. "It's been a while since I've hadta use this. I might be a lil' bit rusty."

"El Directo!" A blue comet of energy blazed towards Yeltz. The shark's mouth opened wide, and Yeltz grinned madly. Small green particles began to cluster together into a glowing green orb in front of Yeltz, and out from the orb shot a massive blast of energy. The Cero tore through Chad's blast like fire through a tissue, and Chad threw up both arms in defense as the green blast engulfed him in a blinding inferno. Chad wasn't sure how long he was airborne, but when he finally realized that he had hit the ground he found himself lying in a crater in the side of a small building far away from where he had been. His clothes were singed, and his ears were ringing. He shakily got to his feet, trying to feel the arrancar's position. There was a loud buzzing sound, and then Chad felt the crushing reiatsu of his opponent. He turned around sharply, but wasn't fast enough to block the massive fist that crushed his stomach. The blow would have sent him flying, but Yeltz grabbed him by the leg and slammed him into the concrete. Chad struggled to get up, but a heavy foot smashed him back to the ground. Two large fingers gripped the side of his head and pulled it up painfully so that Chad was staring straight into the mouth of the shark at Yeltz's face.

"Have ya reached yer limits already, Chad?" Yeltz asked, sounding disappointed. "I haven't even used a quarter of mah strength yet." She let his head drop, and the pressure of her heel was lifted from Chad's back. He felt a brief moment or respite, and then his body was pounded deeper into the ground by a strong stomp. And then another. And another. Chad's body was almost becoming numb to the pain by the time the assault finally ceased. He felt as though he was watching from a distance as his crumbled body was picked up by the great shark arrancar, and was thrown back into the ground. He was no longer a part of his body, just a spectator to the battle. Yeltz picked him up again. "Pathetic," she said with a sigh. "We were havin' so much fun a minute ago, too. Now you know why I don't use this form so much." She held Chad by his arm and let his body dangle in front of the shark's open maw as her Cero began to charge again. "Battle's end too damn quickly."

"Koten Zanshun: I reject!" A bolt of light slammed into the arrancar, knocking her off her feet and releasing her grip on Chad. They both fell hard on the ground, with Chad falling on his face.

Chad couldn't move, but he already knew who had launched the attack without seeing them. "Ori…hime…" he mumbled, barely louder than a whisper.

"Chad! Chad, are you alright?" Orihime called to her friend. She was at his side in an instant. She turned him on his back and assessed the damage. "Chad, you're barely alive! I'm glad I got here when I did."

"Ori…hime…" Chad wanted to shout, but he could barely even manage his low grumblings. "Need to… run… Too powerful…"

"Don't worry, I've got you," Orihime cradled Chad's head in her lap as her hairpins began to glow again.

The two were interrupted by a roar as the massive arrancar stood up. Other than a slight sing on the arrancar's side, she looked completely unscathed. "That surprised me, I'll give ya that," Yeltz said with a scowl. "But you're gonna have to do a lot better'n that if you plan on winnin'." She pulled back a large fist.

"Orihime… run…!" Chad rasped, more urgency in his voice. He tried to move but still couldn't.

"I won't leave you here," Orihime said back. "I'll protect you! Santen Kesshun: I reject!" With a flash, a wall of light formed between the two and the arrancar.

"It won't… hold…!" Chad tried to scream, but only managed a hoarse cough. As Yeltz's fist rushed at the two children, they were suddenly pulled aside by an unknown force. The arrancar's punch shattered through the shield with ease and left a crater where Chad and Orihime had been.

"What the-?!" the arrancar started, but then she was hit in the side by a barrage of explosions which knocked her off balance.

"Thank goodness I got here in time!" a familiar figure said with a huff as he knelt down to set Chad and Orihime down a few yards away from the danger.

"Oh, Mr. Tessai, th-thank you," Orihime stammered, clearly surprised the two of them were still alive.

"I've been monitoring everyone's battles since they began," the large man said. "I just wanted to make sure everyone would be okay."

From behind them, Yeltz got to her feet again. "All these pests appearin' out of nowhere… It's startin' t' piss me off!" As another barrage of what Chad now saw were missiles impacted Yeltz's side, he also saw Jinta appear with his signature kanabō and slam the large shark in the head. Ururu landed on a rooftop nearby carrying her shoulder cannon and fired off more missiles.

Tessai stood up, and turned to face the battle. "Ms. Inoue, please tend to Mr. Sado's injuries. We will buy you some time!" Tessai swiftly moved to the rooftop next to Ururu just as Jinta also arrived. As the smoke cleared, it was clear that the two children's attacks had done nothing more than enrage the large arrancar.

"Alright, I've had a good laugh from yer 'attacks' now, but it's time t' end this," the arrancar opened its large shark mouth and began charging a Cero at the three shop workers. Ururu fired off a volley of missiles, but they didn't even faze Yeltz.

Just as the shark beast was about to fire the blast, Tessai formed a handsign. "Bakudō #99, Number 1. Kin!" Large swathes of black fabric wrapped around the arrancar's body, tying her arms up behind her back and twisting her legs together. The fabric also wrapped the shark's mouth shut, causing the Cero to detonate inside of the arrancar's shark body. Large metal stakes pinned the fabric to the ground, and caused Yeltz to come crashing down. Tessai turned to Orihime and Chad. "This will only hold it for a moment. Hurry!"

"Yes!" Orihime called back. She set Chad's head down and extended her arms over his body. "Sōten Kisshun: I reject." A large orb of light engulfed Chad's entire body as Orihime began to heal him. He could feel his bones mending themselves, the blood that had spilled into his chest cavity returning to his fixed arteries, and the burns and bruised shrinking until they were gone entirely. Chad's clothes were even returning to the way they had been before he had begun his battle with Yeltz.

Chad sat up, feeling completely rejuvenated. "Thank you, Orihime," he said with a smile.

"Of course," she smiled back.

Chad got to his feet just as Yeltz had torn away at the last cloth keeping her arm tethered to the ground. She reached for her shark mouth with both hand and ripped away the fabric keeping it shut. It opened with a hiss as black smoke expelled from it to reveal the charred face of a woman. "Now yer dead," she snarled, balling both large hands into fists.

"YELTZ!" Chad's voice boomed. The arrancar looked surprised, as though she had forgotten Chad was even there. "Leave them alone. This is our fight."

"Chad! Ya look good as new," she said, smiling. She turned away from the shop workers to face her original foe. "I'm glad t' see that, I really am. I don't even care how it happened, neither. I'm just glad we can have a good battle again." Her arms flexed with a creak, and she bent her knees. "Get ready. I'm not gonna go easy on ya."

"Mr. Tessai, take Orihime and the others and get somewhere safe. I'll handle this from here," Chad shouted. His eyes went wide as he realized what was happening. He shoved Orihime to the side. "Orihime, move!"

The arrancar's arms and legs folded into its body so that its feet and the blades on its wrists resembled fins and it looked more or less like an actual, but much larger, shark. Its mouth was wide open, and Yeltz had a crazed look on her face. "Caza Sangre!" The shark swam through the air faster than one would expect something of that size to move, and grabbed Chad in its jaws as it passed. Chad held the shark's mouth open with his arms, but it was taking all his strength just to do that. They slammed into a building, and Chad went flying out of the sharks mouth and landed on his feet a few yards away. The arrancar's arms and legs emerged from its body. Chad realized they were in a dimly-lit parking garage that had no windows save for the large hole the two had entered from. "I'm real pleased ya got yer strength back, Chad," Yeltz said again. "Now I can really show ya this body's powers." One of her fin-blades began to glow faintly. "Fosa del Mar!" Swinging her wrist upward, a large surge of energy erupted forth, sliding on the ground towards Chad. He rolled out of harm's way, then turned to see the wave of energy had left a deep trench in the ground where it had cut through.

Chad turned back to his opponent just in time to find her right on him, a massive fist raised over his head. He darted forward, just missing the crushing punch, and then pulled back his left arm. "La—" Energy began to spark around his fist, and he leapt into the air. "—Muerte!" His fist swung forward, his punch aimed at the shark's side. A large hand intercepted the attack, and Chad's fist impacted with a loud crack and an explosion of energy. When the smoke cleared, Yeltz looked completely uninjured. The energy around Chad's arm fizzled for a moment, and then it was gone. "What…?"

"That's not gonna work like it used to, Chad," The arrancar gripped Chad's fist in hers and slammed him hard on the ground. "My new skin's basic'lly indestructible."

She went to stomp him again, but this time he rolled over and threw a punch with his right arm. "El Directo!" The blast hit Yeltz's foot and lifted her off the ground for a moment before she came crashing down. Chad took the opportunity to get up and sprint away from her into the darkness of the parking garage. He needed to take a moment to think up a new strategy. His attacks weren't working on her new form, and although he was back to full strength if he didn't figure something out soon he knew that he would still lose.

Chad ran up to the second level of the garage, which was full of cars. He ducked behind a large van, and waited to catch his breath. Before long, he could hear the heavy footsteps of the arrancar. "Chad, ya can't hide from a shark," he heard a distant voice calling. He heard a far off crunch, and then he saw what used to be a car fly by and smash into a row of cars just across from him. "I've already gotten a whiff of yer blood. I don't need to see ya to find ya." Chad's body had been healed, but already he was bleeding again from new wounds. He touched his forehead and looked at his hand. Even in the dim light, he could see the dark liquid on his palm. He wiped it on the van absently, and then he had an idea. He took a deep breath, and then he carefully peeked around the back of the car. He could see the large hulking figure getting closer, but she was still moving relatively slow. She loves this, Chad thought to himself grimly. She lives for the hunt. Patting the van one last time with a bloodied palm, Chad darted forward as quickly and silently as he could. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't as quiet as he thought, and Yeltz immediately turned in his direction. "Aleta Serrucho!" The fin-blades on both of her wrists began to glow, and she slashed them forward. Two whirling crescents of energy emitted from both blades and spun towards Chad at high speed. Luckily, the attack was only aimed in Chad's direction, and not Chad himself, so he was able to easily avoid them as he made his way to the other row of cars. One of the crescent energy blades tore into the car Chad had been near previously, while the other sliced through a far-off wall. Chad touched his forehead again, and wiped the fresh blood on the car he was now next to. He carefully rolled over the hood of that car, making sure not to set off the alarm, and then he wiped more blood on the other cars around him. He kept doing this as he went down the row, every now and then switching rows, until the majority of the cars on that level had his blood on them. He could hear Yeltz chuckling, the sound echoing off the walls of the garage. "Clever little fish, ain't ya," she said, then, "Fosa del Mar!" The attack tore through a row of cars behind Chad like they were nothing. He could hear the arrancar smashing up cars and throwing them about in an attempt to flush Chad out. She'll bring the whole building down on us! Chad realized as Yeltz released a Cero blast that narrowly missed the car Chad was taking shelter behind. Chad stood up, lifted the car he was hiding behind, and tossed it at Yeltz. She grabbed it in her shark jaws and chomped it to smithereens in a matter of seconds, but it still gave Chad a chance to move to the third level of the garage.

Before he even had a chance to inspect his surroundings, there was a rumble below his feet. The ground below him exploded as the massive shark tore through and bit into Chad's side. "Caza Sangre!" The two of them broke through floor after floor until they sprung through the top onto the roof. Yeltz released her grip on Chad, and he fell to the ground. He was bleeding from multiple bite wounds, but he still managed to get to his feet. The shark opened its mouth wide so that Chad could see the arrancar's face. Yeltz was grinning wide, and the whites of her eyes were getting smaller as her pupils enlarged. She was licking blood off her cheek. "Delicious," she screeched. She took a step forward, and Chad shakily took a step back. "Chad, I'm gonna really enjoy devourin' you." She rushed forward at him, shark jaws wide. Chad wanted to run, wanted to just jump back down into the building and hide again, but something kept his feet planted. Wait for the right moment, a voice whispered. Strike her when she's vulnerable. She has a weak point. As the massive arrancar descended upon Chad, he had a sudden moment of clarity. "Her weak point," he said aloud. He clenched his left fist tight. "La Muerte!" His fist slammed into Yeltz's face just before the shark's jaws closed around him. She cried out in pain as she recoiled back, he arms clawing at the air in front of her face.

Chad jumped back and then fell to a knee from exhaustion. His wounds were bleeding more than he had initially been aware of, but he didn't care. His attack had worked. The arrancar roared, and then faced Chad. Yeltz's eyes were wide, and her nose was broken and bleeding. "Still got some fight in ya, eh?!" she snarled. She swung a blade at Chad, and although he dodged it still sliced into his left arm. She swung wildly at Chad, who avoided the brunt of all her attacks but still sustained a few minor cuts along his body. He could tell that she was going into a frenzy again, just as she had done before she transformed. She likes spilling blood, but doesn't like when her own comes out…

As she roared at him again, he threw a right-handed punch into her mouth. "El Directo!" The shark devoured the blast and fell backwards in pain. Chad had to take advantage of her madness while he could. He ran forward, both fists pulled back at his sides. He pounced at Yeltz, ready to deliver another blow. "La Muerte!" The shark's jaws shut abruptly, and Chad's fist impacted uselessly against its teeth.

"No more…" the arrancar muttered bitterly, and then it swatted a large hand at Chad. He flew sideways and landed hard on his arm as the arrancar got to her feet. Her fins began to glow. "Aleta Serrucho!" She swung her blades at Chad furiously, releasing dozens of the spinning crescent blades in his direction. Even blocking the attacks with his shield arm, they still left cuts that got deeper and more numerous as he continued to rough the storm. Chad knew he had to get the shark to open its jaws again, and the only way he knew how to get Yeltz's attention was to spill his own blood. Holding his shield arm in front of him, he ran forward, each crescent blade stinging on impact. He could see the shark's jaws slowly opening as he got closer and closer. She can't resist, he knew, pulling back his left fist. She has to have another taste. The shark's jaws were wide by the time Chad was right up on the arrancar. His fist sparked with energy. "La Mue-!"

"Enough!" the arrancar slammed a fist down on top of Chad, squashing him on the ground. Yeltz picked up Chad in a large fist and began squeezing him tightly. He let out a shriek of pain as he felt his bones grind together. "I've had just about all I can take of you…" the arrancar said angrily, squeezing the boy harder. She was no longer enjoying the battle, which was bad for Chad. She threw him down on the ground, and smashed an open palm on his back. Chad felt like he was back to where he started at the beginning of his battle with her transformed state. His body was broken, and he was about to die. The large shark picked him up again, and brought his face close to hers. "It's been fun," she whispered to him, her pupils piercing black dots filled with rage, "but now I havta kill you." She tossed his body high into the air above her. "I'll char ya alive and then gobble up the remains!" she yelled as her Cero began to charge.

Chad was barely conscious as his body flipped through the air. He closed his eyes as he let his mind wander. He thought about his weakness, and how he was unable to defeat his opponent. He thought about how he would die soon, and finally be reunited with his abuelo. He thought about how he let down his friends, and how this monster would go after them next. My friends… It wasn't just about Chad. His friends were already off fighting their own battles; they didn't have time to clean up his mess. He had to finish this here, to protect his friends. To protect Ichigo… He thought back to the time when he had first met Ichigo. They had made a promise to each other that day. "You hit for my sake," Ichigo had said to him, "and I'll hit for yours."

Chad's eyes snapped open, and he righted himself in midair. "Yeltz," he shouted down at the arrancar, "I can't lose here. This isn't just about me. I have to win for those I want to protect… I have to win for my friends!"

Domino Yeltz Boone cackled wildly. "S'a lil' late fer that, don'tcha think?!" Her Cero was almost fully charged at this point.

Chad clasped his two hands together in a large fist above his head. This would be his final attack, win or lose. He mustered all the strength he had left into his two arms. Abuelo, please, lend me the strength to protect my friends! Yeltz's Cero exploded through the sky, heading straight for Chad. Chad's entire body began to glow blue with energy. He could feel power coursing through him, power he didn't know he had, power he never thought he could possibly muster. Thank you, Abuelo… "Brazos Gemelas del Guerrero: Gran Juicio!" He swung his arms down into the Cero, and the two collided with a great flash. At first it seemed like the two would hold each other in the air, but then Chad began to tear through Yeltz's Cero.

"I-Impossible!" the arrancar shrieked.

As Chad got closer to Yeltz, he raised his arms again. "This is it!" he cried, and then slammed his fists down onto Yeltz's exposed face. There was a great explosion, and the entire parking garage collapsed with a great heave.

When the dust and debris finally began to settle, Chad was standing, battered and bloody but triumphant, over Yeltz. Yeltz's shark body had broken off her, and she was left back in her original form. "I can't believe… I lost… To a human…" She mumbled weakly, before her body began to crumple into dust and blow away in the wind.

Chad stood for a moment breathing heavily, and then fell to his knees. He has reached his limit. But it didn't matter to him at all. "I won," he whispered to himself. His bones ached, his body was bruised, and he had bled out almost completely, but he had won. He let out a great sigh, and then fell face-first onto the ground.

Hi everybody! BlackShenlong here, finally giving you part 2 of Chad's epic battle against the arrancar. Sorry it took so long to get here, but I finally got it done. I plan to start writing more frequently, as I'd like to get this fanfic done so I can focus on my other writings/possibly begin work on another Bleach fanfic. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Please feel free to leave feedback and let me know what you thought. I'll give you guys the translations of all the attacks I made up as well. Since arrancars and Chad typically name their attacks in Spanish, I did the same with all of mine:

Caza Sangre - Blood Hunt

Fosa del Mar - Sea Trench

Aleta Serrucho - Saw Fin

Brazos Gemelas del Guerrero: Gran Juicio - Twin Arms of the Warrior: Great Judgement

and finally Jaquetón Blanco, which means Great White.

Thanks again to all my readers! I couldn't keep writing this if I didn't know I had people out there who enjoyed the story I was telling. Thank you for all your support!