Chapter 26: Inner battle rages on

Inside Mitch's fiery hell ridden spirit world the battle against his inner hollow and on as both had activated their bankai's and were trading colossal blows as the entire world quaked under the power of their strikes. "Haha you're so pathetic without my powers you'll never defeat me" Ashura taunted Mitch as they clashed blade's together as fiery hot sparks leapt off their zanpakuto's.

Touching the tip of his zanpukto Mitch began to chant a kido spell as Ashura went to leap away only to find his zanpakuto was locked tightly with Mitch's as he finished chanting "Destructive Art 11: Tsuzrui Raiden". A huge bolt of lightning passed from his palm as it went through his blade and leapt onto Ashura's before electrocuting the giant hollow as he reeled back from the shock. Using this moment Mitch extended his palm out and started chanting another spell "Frozen winter tundra lock my enemies in your icy prison, Binding Art 33: Prison of Ice" an icy gust of wind erupted from Mitch's hands surrounding Ashura as prisons of ice formed around his arms, legs and chest freezing him in place.

"God dammit what sort of trickery is this!" Ashura roared in anger as Mitch just grinned "No trickery just some kido, pity you hollows can't use them as you've only got your crappy cero and bala attack". "Ahhh but how wrong you are I have one more move you never quite knew about" Ashura smiled as his right hand began to glow a black colour as Mitch recognized it was his usual cero blast but all of a sudden his left hand began to glow a black colour before he locked both hands together "DUAL CERO!"

The two cero blasts combined into one giant black blast as it erupted from both palms shattering the ice prison and engulfing Mitch as it exploded sending a gale forced wind sweeping across the world and nearly ripping the flaming tree's out of the ground.

Auron had only been in the ring for 3 minutes and was already noticing how rapidly Mitch was going through his hollowfication. Not only had his mask formed but both his arms and upper torso were now completely hollowfied as it started to spread down to his lower torso while his hollow hole was located directly on his heart.
His reiatsu seemed to fluctuate as he was growing stronger and stronger as time wore on "I see now I'll have to release my zanpakuto to stay alive" Auron muttered as he raised his giant blade up high as he roared "BANISH MASAMUNE" a bright white light enveloped the blade it began to twist and morph.

When the light had cleared Masamune had changed drastically, the sword was far more regale looking as the hilt grew straight up and then had diagonal spikes on either side while extending down to the bottom of the blade as the handle itself was attached to a circle that connected up to the hilt.
The handle was wrapped by a maroon hanging tassel that hung off at the bottom of the blade while the tip of the blade had parted leaving a circle in the middle as it arced up to have two points on either side of the hole creating a pronged like tip. The blade slowly curved halfway down and then jutted out slightly and continued in until it reached the hilt. The black drake now glowed a dark black colour in the middle of the blade as he swung Masamune down a purple orb shooting out and crashing into the hollow.

Leaping out of the smoke seemingly unaffected the hollow swung Ashura down towards Auron who grabbed the blade with his hand and then slashed across Mitch's chest as he instantly healed the wound and leapt back roaring in anger at how he failed to hurt his foe. "You're probably wondering why you're so weak now is that? Well, this is my zanpakuto's ability these orbs I shoot out can reduce either your defense, speed or strength making you far more vulnerable and weaker".

Swinging Masamune up onto his shoulder Auron grinned as the hollow roared in anger and fired off a bala blast that crashed into the shinigami who managed to avoid it using shunpo. "Even with that strength reduction he's still getting stronger at such a rapid rate just how much did my son grow in the time I left him" Auron thought to himself as he parried away a vicious strike that nearly took off his head while Shinji who was sitting outside the barrier stood up and unsheathed his zanpukto readying himself for his turn against the hollow.