Chapter 2: Do You Want To Know The Name (Part 2)
Written and Edited By: Ethorthebayleef and MSLMGamer
It was shocking, to say the least when Kirei Kotomine and Shinji Matou heard that their ace in the hole of a servant was not only beaten but beaten so easily. Kirei expected him to get beaten by SOMEONE, that was the nature of all fighters after all. But to be beaten in only three swift strikes and the man he was fighting was moving faster than Gilgamesh could even track… for the first strike at the least.
There was something that Kirei thought was off about the whole thing. How calculated to leave a corpse behind in order to make Gilgamesh think that he had won the engagement before he was proven to be massively wrong? But the whole thing was just too… perfect. Where did the body come from? How fast was he going? What did he want with the grail? There were so many questions that needed to be answered… but not enough details to fill out an entire conclusion.
"Tell me again Gilgamesh, what did you actually see?"
"I told you 100 times already Kotomine!" seethed Gilgamesh, "He moved faster than my eye could track and I mistook what was a body for what could have been twigs on the ground or something! THAT. IS. ALL. IT. WAS!"
"But what if it was twigs on the ground?" asked Kirei
"Are you messing with me mongrel?! I. Saw. What. I. SAW IT! I know what he did! He moved fast enough to avoid my attack and he moved faster than a Lancer to do it! He had to have! There is no way a warrior would be cowardly enough to use tricks in order to fight when I am right in front of him!" said Gilgamesh, "I am the KING of damn Heroes! There is no way ANYONE can fight with tricks against me without getting smitten!"
"If that man was able to attack you without provocation, He must not be 'honorable.' Have you ever thought about that?" asked Kirei, "But if someone like that is out there… and someone like that has the Holy Grail's catalyst… then we might need to keep a close friendship with Rin and her friends for the foreseeable future."
"WHAT!" Shouted Gilgamesh.
"If he was able to stop you… there might be others that are able to do the same either under his command or those he works for." said Kirei to Gilgamesh before turning his head in the direction of the window before saying, "Is THIS what you felt… when you fought Aizen the first time?"
"WHAT! That God-forsaken bastard IS HERE?! I WILL KILL THAT BITCH WHERE HE STANDS FOR HIS INSOLENCE!" said Gilgamesh before jumping out the window and running toward who he thought was Sosuke Aizen.
Kirei stood at the window, he slightly thought it was smart to bind the one who they both thought was Aizen… but the power he felt was NOTHING like any servant… and nothing like Gilgamesh had described what he felt from Aizen. The pressure they felt was like a 500-ton brick was set upon their shoulders, heavy, and the one who held this type of power must have been stronger than the grail itself in terms of oppressive presence… so why did it belong to a thuggish child? The teenage boy in a black shihakusho with a red chain-like thing hung over his shoulder and a set of bandages wrapped around his right arm… sure he was bound in chains but that was beside the point here. His hair was orange, neon orange if he had to fully place the color, and his eyes, at least from what he could tell, were brown… other than the eyes, everything was screaming in Kirei's ears that this was not Aizen… it was someone that felt like a much bigger threat to them.
"SOSUKE AIZEN! YOU WILL DIE FOR WHAT YOU DID TO ME! PREPARE TO DIE YOU, BASTARD!" Shouted Gilgamesh before letting forth a flurry of swords… what they both saw shocked Kirei to his core… Kirei saw the teen's mouth move… and for a split second a flare of energy erupted and everything Gilgamesh had done was undone in an instant. It looked as if he blocked it with the flared pressure itself… Kirei left soon after that display of power, he had to at this point, he needed the others within the mansion to be alive for as long as they could get the grail back if THAT was an enemy.
Gilgamesh however was not so lucky to get the chance to run from Ichigo Kurosaki, Because he was already right on top of him with the cleaver in his hand about to cleave him in two. Gilgamesh attempted to block the blade with one flung from behind Ichigo himself, and the blade hit, knocking the cleaver out of Ichigo's hand- only for Ichigo to then use the momentum of the blade's bandages to be used to be a swing toward Gilgamesh. The hilt of the cleaver bashed into his side, and With the sword launched into it in order to change its trajectory enough to make a difference, as that was happening Ichigo was already in front of Gilgamesh with a haymaker launched toward his jaw. It landed, as well as many more punches that Ichigo could land before Ichigo kicked Gilgamesh into a nearby tree, when Gil connected with the trunk of the tree, Ichigo was right behind him with his sword bathed in pure blue light, Ichigo swung it only for Gilgamesh to dodge the strike. Gilgamesh tried to straighten himself, and that is when he saw Ichigo with a sword in hand about to, from what he could tell, launch a power-boosted attack.
"GETSUGA TENSHO!"
Ichigo brought down the blade as he said that flinging a stream of spiritual power toward Gilgamesh… it was a miracle that he was able to dodge. Gilgamesh looked behind him to see a part of the wall entirely destroyed by the attack itself.
"I guess you are fast for a scrawny little punk." said Ichigo, "Run back to your mommy! You're tired and you won't last another blow!"
"I WON'T BACK DOWN UNLESS YOU GO FULL POWER! I SAW WHAT YOU DID! YOU ARE NOT FIGHTING ME AT YOUR BEST! FIGHT ME USING KYOKA SUIGETSU!"
"You still think I am Aizen huh… fine then, I guess if that is what will prove to you I am not that bastard… I might as well go full power, as long as you got something to match it."
Ichigo widened his stance as the Bandages on his right arm began to unwrap and float around Ichigo's whole being, he put his sword in front of his body before looking directly into Gilgamesh's Eyes, Ichigo's own eyes turning gold for a split second… and that is when he shouted it.
"BANKAI! TENSA ZANGETSU!"
A flurry of pressure pressed down upon the world as he said that and an aura of golden light erupted around him in utter glory, hell Gilgamesh could almost hear music playing as everything was going on. And when the light settled, he could see Ichigo in his Bankai form glory. A long flowing black trench coat that fits over his form almost perfectly, The coat was frayed but that did not detract from the somehow regal glory of it. The Hakama pants stayed the same but the sword… that is what changed the most, the blade was now shorter, like the size of a Tachi Katana, it was pure black with a few jagged points at the back of the blade and a hand guard that was shaped in a strange way.
"You said to fight you at full power, I just mastered this not too long ago. You won't survive if you don't bring out a sword of yours that is able to block a strike." said Ichigo, "You have one second to do that. And you just lost it by gawking at me again."
Ichigo in an instant, almost as if teleporting, appeared in front of Gilgamesh and slashed him right across the chest… ending the fight in a split second.
"You hesitated, you're lucky I have enough mercy in my heart to not kill you. Learn from this and get stronger Goldy… or else you will die," said Ichigo before turning and running toward the part of the wall he annihilated with his Shikai-powered Getsuga Tensho. "Let's see if the others that are present are willing to give me a better fight than you did."
(Meanwhile: Karakura Town)
"Kaname, did you get it?" asked Aizen
"Of course Aizen-Sama." said Kaname Tosen, "I was in and out before anyone could notice that he was gone."
"Very good." said Aizen, "And to you, Gin, did you get what we needed?"
"Lots of black candles and goat blood to summon whatever demon you plan to feed to the Hogyoku, then no. If it is the other thing, then yes," said Gin Ichimaru
"Good… then let us begin." said Aizen, "Let us summon the Holy Grail…"
The rest was a whisper, as Tosen set a body down, it was the body of a teenage boy… with orange hair. The human body of Ichigo Kurosaki.