'Look out!' the soul reaper cried, shoving Scott to one side as the mouth bit down. Scott could only watch, horrified, as the Hollow pulled back with the girl crouched between its teeth.

'I may have stepped in too far,' she mused aloud as she tried her hardest to keep the Hollow from swallowing her. She ignored the blood on the side of her face from where the teeth had caught her and put all her effort in using her sword to prevent the mouth closing.

'You keep your hands off of him!' she finally yelled defiantly as she managed to free her blade and slice at the Hollow's mouth. It pulled back, dropping her to the floor, and pulling its head back into its body with a shake.

The Hollow ran forward and so did the girl, Scott still merely a bystander in something he didn't understand. He wanted to help but he didn't know how.

The girl ran between the Hollow's legs as it punched the ground trying to get at her, and from behind she leapt an amazing height with her sword drawn in an attempt to stab its head.

Big mistake.

Standing upright quickly, the hollow headbutted the girl and then plucked her out of the sky before she could react. It had somehow managed to turn its head around so that now it was facing the girl and had its back to Scott.

It brought her up until she was level with its face, opened its mouth and let out a sound like a roar. Out of the open maw came a bright white-blue light and it was pulling at the soul reaper.

With a grimace the girl shot out her free hand and a pulse of light hit the Hollow, throwing it back quite a distance. It dropped the girl and she landed awkwardly, bouncing off a nearby vehicle. Scott rushed to her side.

She was crumpled over on her side, panting. Scott knelt in front of her, wanting to look her over but unsure in the circumstances that it would be acceptable to do so.

'Are you alright?' he asked.

'It got my good arm,' she replied. She struggled to move, her next words chilling Scott to his core.

'If I can't stop it our souls are lost.'

'Is there a way?'

'There is one way.'

'What is it?'

She looked at Scott.

'You become a Reaper.'