Outside the Urahara Shop, 1999
A blue haired 13-year-old boy with green eyes and peach skin who wears a Dragon Ball Z shirt, and blue shorts dodges a punch aimed at his face by a 12-year-old girl with a perpetual blush on her cheeks who wears a white t-shirt with the Urahara Shop logo in pink shorts.
Boy: Come on, Ururu, you can move faster than that
Ururu starts panting "I'm trying, Kuraun..." She sets her hands on her knees "But you're so much faster and have much more endurance..." She takes a deep breath "...than I do"
Kuraun chuckles "All right then, take five." He says with a smirk
Ururu shakes her head "No, I can still--"
Kuraun wags a finger "Nope, go take a break. I don't want you collapsing from exhaustion." He points to the side "Go sit down"
Ururu sighs "Yes, big brother"
As she walks off, Kuraun tilts his head to evade a punch from a nine-year-old red headed boy wearing a black shirt and red shorts, who he flips over his shoulder
Kuraun: Nice try, Jinta
Jinta pouts at the older boy "I almost had you that time!"
Kuraun nods with a smirk "Always so eager to join in"
Jinta sits up "I'm more than ready to join in! Why won't you guys let me?" He asks with an irritated gaze
Kuraun pats his head "Just one more year and you can train, Jinta"
Jinta crosses his arms "You'll be focusing on practicing with your Zanpakutō in a year"
Kuraun: But I'll still make time to train with you and Ururu. Don't worry
Jinta looks away from him "I'm not worried"
Kuraun smirks "Uh huh"
???: Speaking of Zanpakutō training!
Enter, Tessai and Urahara
Kuraun: Kisuke, Tessai
Kisuke holds out a katana
Kuraun gasps as he looks at the sword with stars in his eyes "Is that my Zanpakutō?" He asks excitedly
Kisuke: That's right
Kuraun starts smiling like a kid on Christmas day as he reaches for it
Kisuke pulls it back "Ah, not so fast. You get this Zanpakutō when it's time for you to learn Zanjutsu"
Kuraun groans
Kisuke: Don't worry, not too long now. In the meantime, Tessai and I think it's time to tell you a little story surrounding this weapon
Jinta: What kind of story?
Kisuke: A story not unlike one what most people are actually quite familiar with
London, 2 Years Later
A 15-year-old Kuraun walks around wearing a blue adidas track suit, red sneakers, and a white t-shirt. Equipped with a duffel bag, he talks to the locals
Kuraun: So, it doesn't sound familiar to you at all?
Bystander: Nope, sorry
The teen sighs "Ok, thanks anyway"
The bystander walks off
I wonder how Master Kisuke's treating that new guy* Kuraun thinks
Karakura Town, Japan: Urahara Shop; 6:00 am
"Why the hell am I carrying this junk anyway?" Asks a tall light skinned red dreaded headed Blasian boy wearing a school uniform
"You should be thanking me, Akio. Those spindly arms need the exercise." States his boss, Kisuke Urahara, who waves a handheld fan at the boy
Akio scowls at him "MY ARMS ARE ANYTHING BUT SPINDLY!!!"
Kisuke: I'd hurry with those boxes if I were you. Assuming you wanna get to school on time
Akio accidentally drops the boxes on himself "Yes, sir"
Kisuke walks off as Akio wonders *How does that blue haired bastard Kuraun deal with this?*
Sinabro Restaurant, London; 7:30 pm
Kuraun bites into a muffin while reading a newspaper that mentions stuff about controversy with the Royal Family, a fencer losing by technicality, and other stuff "KFC closed down?" He shrugs "At least they still have Nando's." He sips some tea
A young couple walks into the café
Woman: Are you serious?
Man: I swear, and it was the most mental thing we've ever seen! It was right in the middle of Misty Lake. It was like some kind of big monster ting!
Kuraun looks up from his newspaper
Woman: What were you guys doing at Misty Lake?
Man: We just wanted to see if it was as beautiful as they say
The woman gives him a skeptical look "And you saw a monster?"
Man: Yes, and it was nuts!
Kuraun puts the paper down and walks over to the couple as they sit at a table
Woman: Yeah, right
Man: I swear--
Kuraun: Excuse me
The couple looks up at him
Kuraun: I couldn't help but overhear, but did you say you saw a monster somewhere?
Man: Yeah, in the Misty Lake. Why?
Kuraun: Would you mind telling me where that is?
Battersea Park: All Weather Sports Ground
On the football field is a dark skinned teen girl with lavender hair with violet tips braided into a high ponytail. She wears a purple tracksuit with yellow stripes on the sleeves that leaves some of her belly exposed and rose sports shoes with white stripes and gray soles. The bottom of her shirt and the waist of her pants have rose trim, while the latter has yellow and rose stripes down each side
Across from her is a slender, beautiful young girl with fair complexion and magenta hair wearing a black and white tracksuit and guarding the goal
"Whenever you're ready, Clementine!" She shouts
The dark skinned girl, now known as Clementine smirks "Don't get mad if you don't catch it, Angel!" Clementine kicks the football
Angel jumps to the side and grabs it before it can hit the net earning a clap from Clementine
Angel walks over to the girl "Thanks again for helping me practice"
Clementine sighs "No problem, I needed to keep my mind occupied anyway"
Angel puts a hand on Clementine's shoulder "Hey, I get it, losing sucks, but I promise you, there's always a victory on the horizon"
Clementine smiles at her friend "How I envy your optimism." She looks up to the sky "It's gotten pretty late. We should probably leave before the grounds close"
Angel frowns "Aw, what? But, the grounds close at 10, we still have a couple hours left. Come on, Clem"
Clem rolls her eyes with a smirk "Okay, fine, but if my parents get concerned, you'll have to take the fall"
Angel: Deal
Meanwhile, near the Neasden Recreation Ground, is a lake that people rarely visit despite its beauty
Brent Reservoir, AKA The Misty Lake; 8:30 p.m.
Kuraun walks through the forest opening and finds the lake "So, where's this monster they were talking about?" After a bit more walking, he finds himself standing before a stone ledge "What is that?" He climbs up to the ledge and finds a rapier embedded into it "Could this be...?" He grabs the handle and pulls on it, freeing the blade from its prison "So this is one of the Sacred Swords? Not at all what I was expecting." He sticks it into his duffel bag and walks off
Suddenly, bubbles start rising from the water
Kuraun stops and turns around just in time to see a giant figure rising from the water "Aw, shit"
Karakura High School, 7:20 am
Akio walks through the gates over to the class seating board in front of the building, spotting two guys, one of which is on the ground in tears. He walks up to the pair of them
Akio: Is he all right?
The one with dark hair looks up at him and says "Oh, he's fine"
The other guy sits up, freaking out "No I'm not! Kurosaki Ichigo and Sado Yasutora are in our class!" He plants his face into the ground
The dark haired one faces Akio "Where are my manners? I'm Kojima Mizurio." He points to his friend "This is Asano Keigo. We're in Class 1-3"
Akio smiles "Chikara Akio, good to meet y--"
CRASH
4 students crash through the wall of the school, 2 of them being punched and kicked respectively by the other two
Keigo freaks out even worse than before "NO! NO! IT'S CHAD AND ICHIGOOOOOOO!!!"
A bunch of delinquents walk out of the hole and into the field, quickly surrounding Chad and Ichigo, causing Keigo to freak out even worse, if even possible
Then the leader makes an appearance "Chad and Ichigo running away like two scared rabbits" He says
Keigo: ŌSHIMA REIICHI FROM TOGATA JUNIOR HIGH!!!!
Mizuiro: Hey, Keigo, how is it that you're so well informed of these juvenile delinquents?
Akio: Is he always like this?
Mizuiro: He'll get even worse once he realizes all these names are on our class roster
Reiichi looks over at Keigo "What's your problem? You a friend of Ichigo's or somethin?"
Keigo: NONONONO, NOT ME! I've never seen or met the guy before today, HONESTLYYYYY!!
By the time Keigo finished that statement, Mizuiro and Akio walked up to Ichigo and Sado, introducing themselves, and at this point, Keigo may have just peed his pants. Doesn't help that he's getting attacked by Ōshima
Akio: That guy is not gonna last a day here if this is what he's gonna be like. He's probably not that smart either, is he?
Mizuiro: While he doesn't do too well in school, he's actually a pretty smart guy. He's also honest, likable, loyal, what can I say, he's 100 times better than me
Akio: I'll hold you to that
Ichigo: Woah, you're incredible. I mean, for someone to have so many nice things to say about his friend, that's pretty rare nowadays
He unzips his jacket and asks "Mizuiro, how are you at making up excuses?"
Mizuiro, with a straight face, replies "I'm so good, it's sick"
Ichigo: Alright then, you got 5 minutes to come up with something creative. Cause we're gonna need a story to keep us all from getting suspended for rescuing your friend Keigo
Ichigo and Chad charge in to battle the bullies
Akio smirks and takes off his jacket, handing it to Mizuiro "Hold this for me!" He cracks his knuckles "Save some for me! I've been itching for some excitement all morning!" He runs into the fray
Battersea Park; 9:27 p.m.
Clem and Angel are packing their things
Angel: I can feel it, Clem, I'm gonna be the best football player in our year
Clem chuckles "Well, I wish you luck in that endeavor. Just don't let it go to your head"
Angel scoffs "As if I'd ever"
Rumble
Angel looks around in confusion "Did you hear that?"
Clem: I felt that
Rumble
Angel grabs her bags "Let's check it out"
Clem lets out an incredulous gasp "Let's what?"
Angel runs off
Clem rolls her eyes and reluctantly follows "Wait up!"
The two girls run out of the locker room to find craters and debris littering the park
Angel: Holy shit
Clem grabs her arm "We should go"
A crater forms in front of them as a shockwave blows them back, causing them to hit a wall
Clem shakes her head and rises up first, looking around for the cause of the sudden action, only to find nothing. She looks to her left and finds Angel still on the ground
Clem stands and walks over to her friend "Angel?" She kneels and shakes her "Hey, you ok?"
The fallen girl groans and looks up at her friend "What happened?"
Clem looks around "I don't know, but we should probably leave before it happens again"
Angel nods
Suddenly Clem goes flying into another wall face first before Angie starts floating in the air, whimpering in fear
Clementine now lays on her back with a bloody head and blurry vision. She looks around and sees some type of massive illusion holding someone up with a tentacle... or tail? Her eyes close
She opens her eyes and sees someone with blue hair placing her on the ground in another area, before that person rushes off with a sword in hand. Her eyes close again
"Awaken, young warrior" A feminine voice calls out "Awaken and fulfill your destiny"
Clementine opens her eyes and sees a duffel bag land in front of her, with a rapier rolling out
"Grab the sword. Fulfill your destiny"
Clementine can't help but think *What is this? Who's speaking?*
"All will be revealed in time. First, you must grab the sword"
Clementine reaches toward the sword, just barely poking it. She sighs and crawls closer to the blade, finally managing to grab it by the hilt
Meanwhile
Kuraun lands on a bench aiming his sword at the attacker, which is revealed to be a full blown dragon. The dragon roars at Kuraun, who just stares in response
Kuraun: That's it, keep roaring
He gets into a dueling stance "I'm still standing!"
The dragon lifts an arm up. Kuraun jumps out of the way of a stomp that would've surely crushed him. He strikes the attacking arm and gets a decent cut in, causing the dragon to roar again, this time in pain
Kuraun jumps back "Need to find a weak spot of some kind." His eyes look over the dragon, stopping at the crystal on its nose "Let's try that"
The dragon stares at him with a menacing growl before raising its head high
Kuraun stares at the dragon in confusion, which quickly turns into shock as the dragon thrusts its chin down at him, causing him to jump out of the way
Kuraun: Come on then!
The dragon roars at him and attempts to grab him with its right paw, which Kuraun stabs
Kuraun: I won't be defeated so easily!
He pulls his sword out as the dragon raises its arm and swings it around, eventually throwing it into the air and launching someone as well
Kuraun: What?
He jumps from the paw and dodges an incoming stomp. He then launches himself at the dragon and slices its face
The dragon roars and shakes its head before preparing to stomp again
Suddenly, Clementine barrels from the air and stabs into the dragon's crystal with her sword
The dragon roars in pain before fading away into sparks of light
Kuraun catches Clementine in his arms
Kuraun: You alright?
Clementine pants "Yeah, thanks"
Kuraun looks down at Clem's hands and gasps "You wield it"
Clem holds up the blade "What? This rapier?"
Kuraun places her down "Not just any rapier. It's supposed to be a Sacred Sword, wielded only by someone considered worthy"
Clementine raises a brow "Right... Anyway, what was with the dragon?"
Kuraun: Guardian of the Misty Lake, and that blade
Clementine's eyes widen "The Misty Lake?! No one goes there! Not unless they want to go missing!"
Kuraun: Well, I went there, and that's how I got that sword, which clearly did not sit right with the dragon
Clem looks down at the rapier
Kuraun: Anyway, we should get going
Clem: What are you on about?
Kuraun: A Sacred Sword has selected you as its bearer, so now I need you to come with me to Japan to--
Clementine: Hold on, Japan?
She shakes her head "No, nope. If you want the sword, you can have it, but I have no business... going to..." She faints
Umlilo Manor: The Next Day
Clementine wakes up in her bedroom with a gasp before looking around in disbelief, seeing purple all around her, a computer nearby next to a bookshelf, and a Flatscreen TV in front of her bed. One second, she's fighting a dragon with some blue haired guy, and the next, she's in her bed
Clem: *What the fuck?*
She gets out of her bed and walks to the bathroom. She looks in her mirror and sees no sign of injury, not even a bruise. *Must've been a dream* She walks out and finds something sticking out of the bottom of her bed, a hilt of some kind "What?" She bends down and grabs it. When she pulls it out, she sees that it's *The sword from the fight!* That's when she realizes *It wasn't a dream!*
Knock Knock
???: Mistress Clementine?
Clementine throws the sword back under the bed and walks to the bedroom door "Yes, Alfred?"
Alfred: Breakfast is almost ready. Your father awaits you downstairs
Clementine: Thank you, Alfred
Alfred: Of course
He walks off
Clem runs back over to her bed and takes the sword back out, gazing over it "Hmm"
Kitchen
Clem walks down and finds her father chatting away on the phone "Good morning, father"
Her father greets her "Clementine, good morning. How did you sleep, dear?"
Clementine takes a seat "Fairly well. Where's Mother?"
Mother: Right here!
Clementine is brought into a hug by a dark-skinned purple haired woman
Alfred: Energetic even straight out of bed, Lady Yoruichi?
Yoruichi: You bet!
She headlocks the younger girl, despite being three inches shorter "How's my favorite daughter?"
Clementine breaks out of Yoruichi's grip "I'm sure I have steep competition. Why are you still in your pajamas?"
Yoruichi: I wanted to sleep in, but your father wasn't having it, so he sent Alfred to force me out my bed. Thanks for that, by the way, Charles
Charles evades her gaze with a nervous look "I just told him to wake you up"
Yoruichi scowls at him "Mhm"
Charles: Anywho, your mother and I are going to be handling some business today, and might be home late. That being said, don't think that means you're to slow down on dance practice
Clem: I'd never
Yoruichi: We know you wouldn't, but you know your father likes to remind you
Urahara Shop
Kuraun walks in and finds Ururu sweeping the floor
Kuraun: Hey, Ururu!
Ururu looks up at him with a small smile "Kuraun, welcome back. How was England?"
Kuraun: It was interesting, and oddly enough almost exactly how Master Kisuke described it
A figure jumps up from behind him and attempts to punch Kuraun, but the latter moves his head out the way, and grabs the fist
Kuraun chuckles "Nice try, Jinta." He places the boy on the ground
Jinta: I'm gonna get you one of these days!
Kuraun chuckles "Sure, kid." He walks off
Ururu turns to Jinta "Why do you always try to catch him off guard? It's very unlikely you'll ever succeed"
Jinta scowls at her with a throbbing vein in his head
Kuraun: Jinta, don't make me go back in there!
The boy backs down
Ururu giggles and walks off to do something else while Jinta growls with irritation
In another room is a man wearing a green cloak, a green and white striped hat, a cane, and clogs
Kuraun: Master Kisuke
The man, Kisuke Urahara, sits on his knees on a pillow at a table "Now, Kuraun, you know there's no need for formalities. Just Kisuke is fine" He takes a sip of tea as Kuraun sits across from him "So, how was England?" He pours another cup
Kuraun: It was interesting, and almost exactly like you described it
He takes the cup and sips the tea
Kisuke: Any luck on finding the you-know-what?
Kuraun: Not just the it, but also the who
Kisuke hums "Impressive. So where are they?"
Kuraun: That's the thing, she's still in England. I ran into a dragon during my search which caused a lot of damage. If not for her, fighting the thing would've taken a lot longer
Kisuke raises a brow "Are you saying she helped you beat a dragon?"
Kuraun shrugs "More or less. I also let her keep the sword just to see what happens later"
Kisuke: I see. In that case, I'll see if we can have her monitored for a bit. Maybe she'll make some progress with the sword
Kuraun sips more of his tea "Guess I'll get back to training then, in that case"
Kisuke puts a hand out "Stop right there, what you're actually gonna be doing is relaxing. You've had enough action for one day, plus it's a school night"
Kuraun: But--
Kisuke: No buts, go take some time to relax. That's an order
Kuraun sighs "Ok, fine" He drinks the rest of his tea and stands up
Kisuke: We'll pick training back up during the weekend
Kuraun nods and walks out of the room as Tessai walks in
Tessai: Shall I?
Kisuke shrugs "I don't see why not?"
Elsewhere
As a large cloud moves across the sky of the Human World, a royal procession takes place inside, with guards walking next to carts and musicians playing instruments. While a carriage being carried by several men moves past, Lieutenant Matsumoto Rangiku of the 13 Court Guard Squads of the Soul Society appears before three unseated Shinigami and asks them for a status report
Unnamed Soul Reaper: Nothing out of the ordinary
Rangiku: This is an important assignment, don't let your guard down
Soul Reapers: Yes, ma'am
Unnamed Soul Reaper 2: Just to clarify, what is the Ōin? They demanded top security, yet they're being so conspicuous. We don't even know the details about it
Rangiku: It's a treasure of the Royal Family. It's forbidden for anyone not of royalty to lay eyes upon it. The knowledge of this coveted treasure has been kept from the public, we don't even have the rights to know its abilities, nor how to use it, and every few years it's taken into safekeeping. This is a mission that was entrusted to Squad 10. With the Captain at a meeting, I'm in charge, so don't let your guard down and keep a careful wat--
Suddenly, one of the carriages gets struck by a dark wave of energy
Rangiku: Defend!
Soul Reapers: Yes, ma'am!
They head off to do battle with whoever decided to attack, but they're quickly dog walked by more powerful dark attacks
Rangiku flies in, but is kicked away by a woman in knight's armor, covered in a dark aura
"Who are you?!" She asks as she takes out her Zanpakuto
Knight: Who I am does not matter to you, for you shall be too dead to learn
She charges Rangiku
To Be Continued