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Chapter 27
War is Declared
Ichigo pushed the creature back, it stumbled back however quickly regained it's senses and slowly walked towards him dragging it's heavy sword.
"Ha, your so slow, that's what you get for carrying a sword like that" said Ichigo.
"You're one to talk" said Lucas.
The creature then grabbed it's large knife with two hands and ran at Ichigo and delivered a swift strike, Ichigo just managed to block it but then the creature punched him to the side. Ichigo recovered as the creature marched towards him.
"Didn't expect that, you guys go help everyone I'll handle this thing" said Ichigo.
Lucas and Maria agreed and help everyone else fight off the Hollows and Hexes, Lucas jumped into the fight taking out several Hollows, Maria covered his back and protected him from the Hollows that tried to kill him. Mir was in a fist fight with a Hex, the two had been going at it for a while and in the end Mir managed to punch straight through the Hex's head killing it. Train shot down Hollows while Renji cleared the area around him of Hexes, Aigis guarded Renji who was too busy to notice a Hollow that was about to attack him, luckily she defeated this Hollow before it could cause any harm to anyone. Mint was under the protection of Flynn, Mint was using her cannons to blast Hollows out of the sky but she was completely vulnerable to the ones on the ground which Flynn had to protect her from. He found it difficult as he was on his own surrounded by enemies as far as the eye could see, he slashed through them as best as he could, he unleashed a wave of energy from his sword which destroyed a large amount of enemies but in the end there were too many for him to handle. He was nearing defeat when Maria jumped in and saved his life, Lucas appeared and took out a whole row of enemies giving Flynn enough time to casting a spell over Mint.
"A shield spell, it should protect you from any danger" said Flynn.
"Got it" said Mint.
"Okay, time I got serious, show yourself Yojimbo" said Flynn.
A warrior clad in samurai like armour then appeared beside Flynn, with him was a odd looking dog like creature, Flynn gazed up at the man.
"Flynn called out his summon" said Lucas surprised.
Yojimbo held out his hand as if expecting something from them.
"Give me money and I will fight for you" said Yojimbo.
The three nearly collapsed, Lucas face palmed while Flynn stared at the summon in shock.
"Oh great...another idiot, what a useless summon" said Lucas.
"Greedy git...oh whatever" said Maria as she pulled out her purse.
"Got any money Lucas?" asked Flynn.
"You have got to be kidding me" said Lucas.
Lucas reached into his pocket and gave Yojimbo some money, Maria also gave him money, around fifty pound or so, Yojimbo looked at the money before sighing and looking at the enemy.
"Very well I shall take this chicken feed but do not expect the full cooperation of a warrior" said Yojimbo.
"Some warrior" said Lucas.
Yojimbo raised his blade and delivered a swift strike cutting through nearly fifty enemies, each one fell to the ground dead, the power of Yojimbo was amazing.
"Good useless summon...keep it up" said Lucas.
"Now everyone has called their summon...except me, if I have advanced to the next level then I should be able to" thought Maria.
Maria and Lucas cut through the enemies together, making sure all if their friends were still alive, Mir was holding her own against the Hollows thanks to the new powers Lucas
had managed to give her, Sakura was using a fire like card to defeat her enemies while Syaoran backed her up using his sword, he had entered his Pact form and began to decimate the enemy. Amu was fighting several Hexes with the help of Train and Aigis, together they kept the enemies back and held their own. Snow and Lyner were pushed back to back on a bridge, they fought all the enemies that came their way but they seemed close to defeat. Snow entered his Pact and Lyner summoned Odin but it still wasn't enough, Lucas decided to lend them a hand while Maria helped Etna and Shelke who were fighting a huge Hollow that had appeared. Lucas cut through to the two of them and together the three of them fought back causing a considerable loss in their numbers. Lucas slashed and cut through as many he could, when one came from behind and pinned him to the ground. Lucas shook the creature off and dodged and attack which would have split his head in two, a Hollow charged at him, he kicked it aside and chopped off the head on another Hollow, when that Hollow attacked again Lucas cut through it chopping the Hollow into two pieces. Sakura and Syaoran were in trouble, Syaoran was exhausted and was nearing defeat but their was no one to help him. Sakura grabbed him and pulled him away from the enemies, eventually they both collapsed due to exhaustion.
"I have to do it...or else we'll lose, I won't let that happen again" thought Sakura.
Sakura stood up and faced the army of enemies that were coming at her.
"Gauntlet of power I call you to obey your master, I call the Gauntlet who has made me it's host, I name thee Phoenix master of life, I evoke the pact of Chao Lingshen" said Sakura.
A green flame then appeared on Sakura's gauntlet; in it was the faint image of Lingshen and soon a female voice began to speak.
"Do you accept Lingshen?" asked the voice.
"Of course, finally" said Lingshen's voice.
"Very well, pact accepted" said the voice.
"Evoking pact Lingshen" said Sakura.
Sakura evoked her Pact and transformed, she now wore a odd looking battle suit, it was black and white and mainly suitable for combat, she had black boots and white trousers with a black and white top with the words Chao Bao Zi on them. Sakura's star wand and evolved to look more like staff, it had a long energy current going down it had had almost doubled in size. Her mask was that of a woman but it had several numbers over it along with dates and notes scribbled over it, her mask was in half of course. Sakura waved her hands and several small objects that looked a lot like bullets appeared surrounding her. She clicked her figures and the bullets tore through the Hollows taking out all of the enemies that were surrounding them. Lyner cut a Hollow in two and then kicked it's lifeless body off the bridge, Snow smashed through several Hollows at once killing hundreds of them. Lucas was fighting off as many Hollows as he could when suddenly a red whip appeared out of no where and wrapped itself around Lucas' neck. Lucas struggled to get it off as it got tighter and tighter around his neck, Lyner noticed it and rushed to help but the whip flipped Lucas over the bridge and into the water. It was trying to drown him, it was like two hands had grabbed his throat and were trying to choke the life out of him. Lucas with his free hand tried to pull the whip off, with his sword he tried to cut it off but he couldn't, he couldn't even see it or move his arms. Something was moving in the water trying to get him, it slowly came closer and closer as Lucas began to close his eyes. But then something cut through the whip and jumped into the water. A person grabbed Lucas' arm, Lucas did his best to grab a hold of this person but he couldn't even breath, he couldn't even see who it was he was grabbing. Lucas was then pulled out of the water, picked up and taken to the shore. Lucas looked up at the person as she but him on the ground, it was a woman, someone who he had never met before.
"Are you okay?" asked the woman.
"Yes..I'm fine" said Lucas.
"Good, now where did that attack come from, the assailant is still here somewhere" said the woman.
Another whip appeared but the woman quickly dodged it, another one appeared but again she dodged it, she smiled as two red whips tried to attack her and failed miserably. Ichigo was battling the large monster and seemed to be having trouble with it despite it being just a normal human with a helmet.
"Damn it, Getsuga Tensho" said Ichigo.
He shot a beam of energy at the monster but the creature smacked it away with a wave of his hand and slowly moved towards Ichigo with it's long sword at the ready.
"Damn it, how can this Pyramid Head thing be so strong, it's just a guy with a helmet and it's incredibly slow too" said Ichigo.
Ichigo moved back however Pyramid Head quickly disappeared and then reappear behind Ichigo, if Ichigo had not reacted fast enough he would have lost his arm, however he managed to get away with a few scraped even so the Pyramid Head grabbed Ichigo and then threw him into a wall.
"Damn it, looks like I've got no choice" said Ichigo.
Ichigo got up and put his feat firmly on the ground, he then pointed his sword at the Pyramid Head and placed both of his hands firmly on the handle, the Pyramid Head just slowly walked toward Ichigo, dragging it's large sword.
"Ban..." said Ichigo.
Then someone shot a rocket at the Pyramid Head creature causing a large explosion, Ichigo then sensed the presence of someone very familiar, he looked behind him and there standing on the roof was a man in a hat and clogs with an waling stick as well as a young black haired girl carrying a rocket launcher and a red haired boy with a large bat.
"Hey there Ichigo" said the man.
"Urahara, what are you doing here?" asked Ichgio.
"Well I thought I'd come give you a hand, you seem to be having some trouble" said Urahara.
"What the hell" said the boy.
Ichigo then focused on Pyramid Head again, it swatted away the smoke and slowly moved forward without a scratch even though it had been a direct hit.
"Ururu hit that thing straight on, there is no way it could have survived that" said the boy.
"But Jinta, is that even a Hollow?" asked the girl who was called Ururu.
"Ichigo, go help your friends, they need it, we'll handle him" said Urahara.
"Got it" said Ichigo.
Ichigo waited for Urahara to attack Pyramid Head before running off to help Renji who had transformed his sword into a large skinless snake to deal with the Hexes. Ichigo covered his back as Hollows surrounded Renji, Ichigo cut through them and together with Renji focused on taking them down. Urahara was in the meantime fighting a foe that he found most odd, it wasn't a Hollow or anything to do with them but it still belonged in the spirit world. Urahara found it disturbing how the creature seemed to not only deflecting spirit energy but also absorbing it. With his sword drawn he crossed blades with the creature, however it quickly tried to use it's fists to attack resulting in Urahara having to dodge the attack.
"Ururu, Jinta, leave him to me, it's not safe for you to be anywhere near him" said Urahara.
"What...well what the hell are we supposed to do" said Jinta.
"Go deal with the Hollows" said Urahara as he dodged a swing from the creature's sword.
"Ugh...okay fine" said Jinta.
The two ran off taking down as many Hollows as they could while Urahara wondered how an opponent who was so slow could be so strong. Mir punched her fist through the head of a Hollow while Maria protected her from several Hexes, decapitating them with her Chain of Fate . Yojimbo and Flynn we chopping through several Hexes, cutting down all those in their path, it seemed that all those that crossed Yojimbo's path met a swift end, but it wasn't good for Flynn whose pocket was slowly getting lighter and lighter. Mint was blasting through several Hollows while defending herself with her shield. Both Lyner and Snow were busy fighting an onslaught of Hollows while Aigis executed several Hollows by shooting them to death, Train reloaded and rejoined the fight. Sakura projected the worn out Syaoran with all her power Shelke calmly beheaded several Hollows and Hexes. Amu held her own in her Dia form, Pan, Joy along with the three other Shugo Charas hid in her backpack cheering her on. Meanwhile Lucas was back on his feet and watched as the dark tanned woman before him grabbed one of the whips and pulled it's owner out of hiding. It was Myotismon, he was the one who had tried to drown Lucas in the river and had failed thanks to the woman's help.
"So finally I got you to come out" said the woman.
"What a powerful creature, clearly you are not human, tell me what is your name?" asked Myotismon.
"Yoruichi Shihouin, and you are?" asked the woman.
"I am Myotismon, ruler of the digital world" he said proudly.
"Yoruichi, he is a coward who attacks from a distance so if his enemy gets the upper hand he can get away, thank you for your help now is your would please shut this guy up" said Lucas.
"Sure thing kid, what's your name?" asked Yoruichi.
"My name is Lucas" he said.
Lucas quickly drew his sword and blocked an attack as Alexei appeared and rammed into Lucas with his own sword.
"You should focus on keeping yourself alive" said Alexei.
Lucas dodged Alexei's next attacked and countered only to miss completely due to Alexei suddenly vanishing and then reappearing behind him. Lucas only had seconds to stop a blow that would have killed him, Alexei smiled as Lucas blocked his attack.
"A trick I learned from our Lord Murder, it seems you have improved since you first fought him, both Michel and Eric will be pleased" said Alexei.
"Less talk more of me kicking your ass" said Lucas.
Lucas delivered a powerful attack but Alexei dodged the attack yet again leaving Lucas on guard waiting for Alexei to attack. Meanwhile Yoruichi tried to close the gap between her and Myotismon to rob him of his advantage, it wasn't easy with him jumping around so much however he was no match for her. Yoruichi managed to appear behind him and tapped him on the back two times, a black ink like butterfly tattoo appeared on his back as Yoruichi smiled.
"What is that?" asked Myotismon.
"My special ability if you will, it's called Shunko, now your body is incapable of movement, you'll be dead soon" said Yoruichi.
"Don't mess with me" said Myotismon.
He then attacked her with a whip, this attack caught Yoruichi off guard and she was just able to evade the attack.
"I'm a Digimon, such things do not effect me" said Myotismon.
Yoruichi was surprised by this but continued to fight as Lucas fought against the teleporting Alexei. While this happened Murder, who was floating in the sky, watched the commotion down below with Eric and Michel by his side, he had an emotionless look on his face and seemed to be waiting for something.
"Damn it, where are they" said Murder.
"My lord always has been impatient" said Michel.
"This is just annoying, I have to watch these vulgar commoners defend themselves and their not even putting up a fight that would remotely put a smile on my face, the fools have yet to even notice our presence" said Murder.
Eric then noticed a light in the distance, it approached them like a rocket causing Eric to put is hand on his sword, ready to draw it if need be.
"Something has noticed us, now are you interested my lord?" asked Eric.
"Hmm...maybe, let us see who is foolish to approach me in such a fashion" said Murder.
The light stopped in front of the three, the three looked at it as it suddenly formed into the shape of a girl, soon Project H floated in front of them.
"What's up ass holes" said Project H.
"Well if it isn't the Maiden of Damnation, so like many before us you now curse us with your presence" said Eric.
"Project H, a being of my design and the other half, to think it has progressed so far that it could even be able to match Eric in a fight but the first half is still so far behind" said Michel.
"Michel, as full of bullshit as ever and Eric, I see you're still a meat head" said Project H.
"Watch your tongue foul witch" said Eric.
"Oh well that really hurt, I've been travelling on my own now for god knows how many years, possibly more then one million years, in that life time I have been called worst things then that, is that the best you can come up with, you disappoint me" said Project H.
"I see you haven't changed much, as foul; mouthed as ever just like your other half" said Michel.
"What do you want Project H, I am very busy so speak your mind then get out of my sight" said Murder.
"Well Lord Murder, I an wondering what it is you are doing here" said Project H.
"Simple, I'm going to bring my sister home, I plan to help my older brother and make the three of us whole again" said Murder.
"So what is with the Hollows and the Hexes, even those fools that you have duped into helping you are here, why?" asked Project H.
"Why what?" asked Murder.
"Why do you even need them, I thought you would have gotten the Order of Chaos to mobilise by now, all twenty one Arcana ranked members of the order should have awakened by now" said Project H.
"Oh so you do have all of your memories from last time, I had wondered but I suppose that is why you are trying so hard this time, if I remember correctly you used to be a member of the Order too, what rank were you again?" asked Michel.
"The Hanged Man, which is how I got so much wisdom over the ages and how I managed to tip the scales" said Project H.
"Well the Order were not needed last time nor will they be needed this time, I doubt you'll ever see any of them so your desire to kill us all is sadly never going to happen" said Murder.
"Your presence here is a deceleration of war, war with the entire universe, I can't let this stand" said Project H.
"Oh you have changed a bit, when you defected to the other side, the stupid side you became a lot more boring" said Eric.
"You give yourself too much credit, you could never best Eric in a duel let alone all of us together" said Michel.
"Leave her be, there is nothing she can do to stop this little game now, we all know how it will end" said Murder.
"Don't tell me how this game will end, I may end up surprising you, I have a few trump cards all ready and in place" said Project H.
"Lucas Murphy will not stop us, true this game is not over yet but you know don't you, you have his hour glass don't you, his time is running short and when he goes it will continue as planned" said Murder.
"Well let's just see how it goes now shall we" said Project H.
"You do know that this time is the last time, you can't go back anymore we won't be stopped, not this time" said Murder.
"I know, whoever wins this time wins for real, that's why I've decided to get serious" said Project H.
Two Daleks then appeared next to Murder, Murder looked at them curiously as several Daleks joined the battle, they fired at Ichigo causing him to block the beams with his sword which redirected them at the Daleks blowing them up. Lucas noticed the Daleks and then spotted Murder in the air with Michel and Eric.
"Well at least we know for certain that they are behind this" said Lucas as he blocked another one of Alexei's attacks.
Murder took out a phone and then dialled a number, it rang as Murder looked at the battle ground and smirked.
"Talk to me Yagami, what is the status?" asked Murder.
"It is all prepared just as you instructed" said Light on the phone.
"Davros sent us to tell you he had finished it" said one of the Daleks.
"Finished what?" questioned Project H.
"A little Trump card of mine" said Murder.
"Pull everyone out now" said Michel.
It was too late for this command however, Ichigo and everyone else started to hear this insane laughter, Murder moved out of the way quickly as something fell from the sky like a rocket. Ichigo looked up and watched as a large man with an eye patch, ragged clothes and a serrated sword fell form the sky laughing as he fell. On his back was a little girl with pink hair who was laughing with him, he fell to the ground and Ichigo jumped out of the way as the force of him landing cause what could be described as an earthquake sending thousands of Hollows flying through the sky. As Ichigo got up off the ground he looked at the man as he began to tear through the army all by himself.
"Kenpachi and Yachiru" said Ichigo.
"Hey there Ichigo, stay alive till after I'm finished so I can be the one to kill you" said the man.
The odd man ran off into a crowd of Hollows slaughtering them as the came at him, no matter what injury the man got he continued to fight killing all enemies that crossed his path. Ichigo then watched as several soul reapers appeared and took out the Hollows, Yoruichi continued to fight Myotismon when a flower petal fell from the sky and cut his cheek
"What the hell" said Myotismon.
"Foul creature, when you pass from this world to the next you should feel honoured that you fell to my Bankai" said a voice.
Myotismon and Yoruichi looked up at a man with long black hair and a cold expression on his face, he held out his sword in front of his face.
"Byakuya" said Yoruichi.
"Who the hell is that" said Lucas as he punched Alexei in the face sending him flying into the lake.
Yoruichi jumped out of the way as Myotismon stood there looking at Byakuya. Yoruichi then appeared at Lucas' side while watching as the man dropped his sword and it disappeared.
"Who is that?" asked Lucas.
"Byakuya Kuchiki, captain of squad six" said Yoruichi.
"Scatter Senbonzakura Kageyoshi" said Byakuya.
Several huge blades then appeared out of the ground all around Myotismon, the blades turned into flower petals and enveloped Myotismon. Lucas heard Myotismon scream and as the flower petals disappeared he saw that nothing remained of Myotismon. Byakuya put away his sword and then appeared in front of Lucas in a flash, he seemed to be able to quickly appear and disappear like lightning.
"You love to show off don't you" said Yoruichi.
"Who is this" said Byakuya.
His gaze was fixated on Lucas, no matter what he didn't take his eyes of him.
"My name is Lucas, Lucas Murphy" he said.
Byakuya looked at Lucas for a second before coldly averting his gaze and walking off into the distance.
"What's his problem" said Lucas.
"Don't let it get to you, he's like that with everyone" said Yoruichi.
Meanwhile Maria was fighting through several Hollows, she didn't notice one sneak up behind her and by the time she did it was too late, the creature struck but suddenly stopped. Maria took on look at the creature and suddenly the Hollow's head fell to the ground, she then felt someone behind her, she turned round to see an a woman in a white coat, she only had one arm as the other appeared to have been cut off and she was dressed in a somewhat ninja like fashion.
Don't let your guard down if you do then it will be nothing but a swift end for you said the woman.
"Thanks but who are you?" asked Maria.
"My name is Captain Soi Fon" said the woman as she easily defeated several Hollows.
Lucas ran through the battle field noticing that several allies had joined them, Rukia was decapitating Hollows while Chad smashed their skulls in and Uryu shot them down with his arrows. Lucas noticed Byakuya and a large man with a small girl on his back chopping down Hollows. Lucas stopped as he was surrounded by Hollows, he prepared to fight as Ichigo and Renji jumped into the fight with him and backed him up.
"Looks like backup finally arrived" said Renji.
"Well that's great but why did they have to send Kenpachi and Byakuya" said Ichigo.
"Focus you tow, it isn't over yet" said Lucas.
Just at that second ice shot down from the sky and killed all of the Hollows that were surrounding them, Lucas looked for the source of the ice when a little kid who was missing an arm and a older woman with long blond hair appeared in front of them.
"Now where on earth did all these Hollows come from" said the boy.
"Hey it's Toshiro and Rangiku" said Ichigo.
"That's Captain Hitsugaya" said the young boy.
"What's up Ichigo" said the woman who was named Rangiku.
"Friends of yours?" asked Lucas.
"Their Soul Reapers from the Soul Society" said Renji.
"Who is this?" asked Rangiku.
"His name is Lucas, he's a Gauntlet user or something, he was helping us out" said Ichigo.
"A Gauntlet user, well do you intend to make a Pact with anyone here, Lucas?" asked Hitsugaya.
"A Pact?" questioned Renji.
After having some questions brought up Lucas began to tell Ichigo and the others about Pacts, which of course led to more questions such as what the gauntlet was which led to even more questions such as where it came from and in the end Lucas ended up telling them the whole damn story.
"I see, well that's interesting, so that being in the sky is the one behind this?" asked Hitsugaya.
"Yes but I wonder what it is he is doing here" said Lucas.
At this time Alexei and managed to get out of the river, with rage in his eyes he scouted for Lucas and when he found him he prepared to attack only to be told to stop. He turned round to see Eric behind him.
"That is enough" said Eric.
"That brat has it coming" said Alexei.
"Two things Alexei, you are no where near strong enough to put Lucas down for good and if anyone is going to rip that boy to shreds it's going to be me" said Eric.
"So what now?" asked Alexei.
"Pull back, we have their attention now" said Eric.
Alexei nodded and the two of them vanished everyone looked on with confused as their enemies retreated, they just vanished into thin air leaving nothing behind. Pyramid Head remained but after being struck through the heart and then looking around he just pulled Urahara's sword out of him, picked up his sword and slaked off before disappearing. Everyone was confused, they wondered why they had just given up, everyone regrouped as they felt that something bad was about to happen.
"Don't tell me that was it" said Kenpachi.
"Something is wrong, they outnumbered us so why leave" said Aigis.
"Maybe the whole attack wasn't to destroy this town, maybe it had another purpose" said Rukia.
"What?" questioned Snow.
"Well let's think about this, if you cause a ruckus in town what do you get?" asked Mint.
"…..Us" said Yoruichi.
"You're right, you get Soul Reapers which means that..." said Train.
"It's not an attack, it's a trap" said Hitsugaya.
Murder then appeared before them and laughed joyfully, his laughter was like the screams of thousands of innocent children, nothing could compare to the evil in his voice.
"Thank you Soul Reapers and human fools, thank you so much" said Murder.
"Murder, everyone careful, he is the one we're after and he is a lot more powerful then he looks" said Mir.
"Scatter Senbonzakura" said Byakuya.
Byakuya turned his sword into flower petals and launched them at Murder, they engulfed Murder but he just sighed and with a wave of his hand he made them fall harmlessly to the floor without a scratch on him. Byakuya was shocked as his sword returned to normal, Kenpachi smiled as he drew his sword and tried to strike Murder, however Murder caught the sword in with his bare hand and using it he threw Kenpachi through a wall. Everyone else moved to attack but Lucas and the others managed to get them to not attack Murder in order to prevent mass slaughter.
"What the hell are you doing here?" asked Amu.
"So slow, I coordinated the attack to get the Soul Reapers to show up and at last you came, it took me a while to ensure everything went accordingly" said Murder.
"You set everything up, why, why do you need Soul Reapers?" asked Uryu.
"Ha-ha I don't need Soul Reapers per say, I need them to just go and come between this world" said Murder.
A light then shined in the distance, a large red energy beam then shot up into the sky and began to rip the sky in two, soon in the sky another town appeared but it was different, it looked like something from old Japan. Murder laughed as the Soul Reapers stared up at the sky in surprise.
"What the hell?" questioned Lucas.
"That's the Soul Society, what on earth is it doing up there" said Ichigo.
"I see, your plan was to use us as a conductor to open up a portal between the two worlds, you knew that we would have to intervene if a Hollow invasion happened which is why you caused it" said Byakuya.
"Clever but what's to stop us from kicking the crap out of you now" said Kenpachi.
"Wait, something is not right" said Shelke.
"I agree, why would they want to open up a portal, what does Murder gain from this" said Mint.
"...does it matter, we just have to defeat him" said Jinta.
"Do you really think you can, your welcome to try but don't feel too hurt when you fall" said Murder.
"Everyone combine your attacks, attack at once, it's the only way we might be able to damage him" said Maria.
Everyone prepared their attacks as Murder smiled, they all attacked him at once but he just waved his hand, a high current of power stopped all of them in their tracks. Lucas kept his eyes on Murder who suddenly disappeared and then reappeared in-front of him. Murder simply flicked his head and Lucas went flying backwards with a great deal of force . Murder then proceeded to knock everyone down to the floor, no one was able to land a hit on him. Ichigo and Lucas managed to pull themselves up off the ground ready to try again, Ichigo pointed his sword at Murder.
"BANKAI!" shouted Ichigo.
Suddenly Ichigo became enshrouded in a layer of smoke and when he emerged he was holding a different sword a wore a somewhat different attire.
"Tensa-Zangetsu" said Ichigo.
"Zangetsu?" questioned Lucas.
Maria and Mir managed to get back up followed by Byakuya, Kenpachi, Urahara, Yoruichi, Aigis, Snow and Train, Lyner and Sakura tended to all those who had been hit badly by Murder as everyone else prepared to fight.
"Listen, I might be able to hurt him at least, but I need time to prepare the attack so you guys need to protect me until then" said Mir.
"Got it just do your best Mir" said Lucas.
Mir started to sing a song as everyone charged at Murder, Ichigo and Lucas were first, with their equal speed they slashed at Murder with their swords but he simply blocked all of their sword blows with his bare hands. Ichigo shot out a Getsuga Tensho at Murder who deflected it but because of this Kenpachi managed go run his sword through Murder. Murder tried to dodge and succeeded however he was hurt by Kenpachi due to him leaving a large cut on his side. Murder's blood was not like the blood of a human, it was black and almost oil like, it stuck to everything it touched. Urahara transformed his sword into a different form as well and then trapped Murder in an net of purple energy, Murder tried to dodge it but failed to, Murder then proceeded to try to cut out of the net but Urahara activated something called Hiasobi Benihime Juzutsunagi causing the net to explode on Murder. Everyone waited as the smoke cleared, Murder's silhouette stood in the smoke, Lucas and Ichigo took this chance and charged at Murder and managed to run him through with their swords, Murder grunted as Ichigo and Lucas backed off, pulling their swords out of his chest. While he was distracted with Lucas and Ichigo, Kenpachi and Byakuya rammed their swords into his back before quickly pulling out. Murder now fuming with rage at the large amount of damage he had sustained focused on Byakuya and Kenpachi only to see Train aiming at him. Murder quickly used his hands to deflect Train's bullets as the Black Cat opened fire however this was a distraction for Maria to once again stabbed Murder, this time close to his heart, she quickly pulled out and allowed Aigis and Snow to smack Murder into a wall. Everyone prepared as the dust cleared and Murder started to laugh at them within the large hole in the wall his body had made.
"Ha-ha, well Lucas and co, you have improved a bit, I must admit that I wasn't focused as I thought that I would be kind and kill you with only a quarter of my power" said Murder .
He then smacked his hand on his chest and suddenly his body began to regenerate and heal itself, everyone was shocked by this, all of the damage they had done to Murder was dissolving away.
"I am the kindest of my kin, murder always is but now I am going to crush all hope you have remaining of living through this day" said Murder.
Murder then disappeared and reappeared in front of Maria, Maria felt a sharp pain as she looked down and saw that she was bleeding, a small spot on her chest was bleeding and her clothes looked like they had been ripped by something invisible, when she looked back up she saw Ichigo and Lucas holding back Murder. They had grabbed both of his hands and were trying desperately to hold him back. Maria realised that if it wasn't for there intervention she would have been ripped apart.
"Damn this bastard is fast" said Ichigo.
"Maria, are you alright?" asked Lucas.
"I'm fine, he only grazed me" said Maria.
"For now" said Murder.
Murder broke out of their grip and then span his legs round like a windmill kicking Lucas and Ichigo into a wall. Maria tried to attack him but he quickly turned round and within seconds he was just a breath away from her face. Murder then simply slapped Maria across the area, the force of the attack sent her flying backwards, she tried to stop but all this did was nearly break her legs, she headed for a building at which time Flynn who had recovered caught her and managed to make her stop before she went smack into the building, however doing this broke several of his ribs and after catching her he fell to the ground in pain as Sakura rushed over to Maria and Flynn to heal them. Kenpachi, Byakuya and all of those who had recovered attacked Murder only to be swiftly repelled by some kind of barrier. Lucas and Ichigo recovered and attacked which resulted in Murder blocking there attacks with his bare hands.
"Is that really the best you can muster up, no matter how, when or where you cut I will always regenerate, I am eternal" said Murder.
A gun then fired, a bullet whizzed through the area and went straight through both of Murders kneecaps causing him to fall to the ground. Train had laid low, waiting for his chance to strike however Murder began to regenerate which caused Lucas and Ichigo to cut off his arms and legs and slice them into three pieces each.
"It's ready, everyone get away from him" said Mir.
Lucas and the others backed off from Murder as he began to regenerate. Mir finished her song as Murder looked at her in fear, he needed to regenerate quicker.
"Now , finish this Harmonius" said Mir.
A wave of energy fell from the sky, everyone got away quickly enough to see Murder's body being barraged with continues magical beams. The beams ended with Murder in pieces, Murder's body slowly began to put itself back together and as his head reformed it gazed up as a large meteor of magical energy. Murder closed it's eyes and waited for it's inevitable end when suddenly Mir's attack stopped in mid air. Murder opened his eyes and smiled, everyone wondered what was going on. The attack then disappeared as if it had been crushed out of existence, then a voice filled the air, a cold and calculate female voice.
"Brother dearest, must you play such silly games with these pitiful souls" said the voice.
"Sister, at last you awaken" said Murder.
"Now war begins and Despair will rain over all, at last the ending to the eternal game that order and chaos has played, the war of opinions has began again, welcome foolish humans to the new Gauntlet wars" said the voice.
Everyone gazed up at the sky as a humanoid silhouette appeared between the rift of the world of the living and the Soul Society, the second lord reveals herself to the world.
Aftermath
Hello I'm joy
And I'm Project H and this is the aftermath
First off, the author would like to apologise for the long wait
He said he's sorry and all
Anyway he promises to bring out new chapters whenever he can
So then on to the riddle the answer is an onion, easy huh.
Now this chapters riddle is a woman has 7 children half of them are boys how can this be possible?
See you next time