{JWP} Day 1 (NO COMMETS PLZ)

[Shdo]

Shadow ran through the research and development institution corridors, his pursuers were behind him ordering him to stop and the illegal portal would close in less than a minute.
Then, finally he reached the institution doors; he opened them and looked at the portal, his salvation. "Stop!" the guards yelled at him, "return the object right now!" he could only answer with a laugh.

"Why should I do that? My freedom is right here," he walked to the opened portal when one of the guards attacked from behind only to be cut in two, a mere guard couldn’t handle the 3rd division 3rd seat officer.

"what have you done? This is murder!" the guards were correct.

"yes, and this is mass murder," he pulled a device from his sleeve, a remote control, and pressed it. An explosion shook sereitei as the control tower that allowed all connection between the worlds exploded, killing everyone inside. He entered the portal that closed behind him, the last portal for the next days.


On top of a old building roof in the real world an unstable portal opened, shadow walked through it and entered the real world when the portal became too unstable and exploded, blowing the building roof. The explosion covered shadow with rubbles from the building.
After 2 minutes he was able to get out, "well I knew it would happen," he looked at his dirty cloths "I need a new outfit…maybe a gigai as well..."


In the night darkness a dark soul went to look for a gigai before moving to the second phase of his mission


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Reich was laying on the rooftop of a nearby residential building as the explosion went off. He rolled out of the way and covered himself with the collar of his jacket as he curiously watched the explosion in the calm night sky grow... "What the heck was that?" he mumbled to himself. Reich decided to get a closer look, going down the fire-escape and making his way to his motor-cycle as he revs his engine roughly, purposely waking up the nearby residents as he grins, driving towards the explosion...


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"Huh? what was that just now??" Mello can feel something was not right the moment she saw the explosion not too far from where she was squatting- under a tree...observing the ants doing their stuff. Today was another day of her usual routine to patrol around the neighborhood. She stood up, brushed her hair a bit then went off towards the area of explosion. "Man...This box is heavy..."


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"Now this is the life," Luv said, as she dipped into the warmth of the bubble bath, the water caressing her well toned body, from the tip of her toes, to the top of voluptuous breasts. She finally had some time to relax, and she wasn't about to let that opportunity go. She never thought she was going to be so tired after a day of shopping, but at least she found everything she sought to buy.

She could already feel her eyes closing and could feel the state of relaxation all over her body. This was too good of a feeling. Suddenly, a loud explosion shattered her state of tranquility. Her eyes burst open, the light in the bathroom stinging them for a second, until they re-adjusted to her surroundings. "I swear! Every damn time I want to relax something happens." She stood up from her bath, now with a very annoyed look plastered on her face. "What now?" she asked herself, she walked to the nearest window to investigate the source of the loud noise, she could see a dark cloud of rubble not far from her apartment, it seemed that the explosion had shaken the whole city awake. The dust of the explosion was already settling. "Hmmm, maybe I should go check this out, it looks very promising, besides, the others will probably be there too."

She took a towel from the nearest rack and wrapped it around her petite body.
"Just when I thought I was going to have some time to relax....." She walked out of the bathroom into her room. She quickly grabbed her leather one piece suit and slipped into it. She gave her hair a quick fix, content with how she looked, she headed out the door. "This better be worth it, I need some beauty sleep," she mumbles to herself as she headed for her BMW. It wouldn't take her long to get to her destination.


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It is a nice day. The sunlight is warm and the birds are chirping peacefully. A lot of people gather in the traditional market, to buy things to cook or just chitchatting. Someone unfamiliar enters the market. It's shinn. He has been wandering for a few days and he seems to be too tired to continue his journey. It's such a lively market that he's never seen before. There are so many people there. It makes him feel safe being with a lot of people. He wants to just blend in and forget everything that happened recently. He yawns and closes his eyes. Suddenly it becomes so quiet. The talking stops and the birds stop chirping. Shinn opens his eyes and find out that the whole market is covered in blood. The birds are dead. Heads are everywhere and some internal organs are scattered in the street. It happens... again..

Suddenly, a huge explosion is heard. Shinn opens his eyes. It was a dream. A dream he can't remember which part is true. A dream that always haunts him all the time.


He is totally awake now, and he is curious of what is happening. He runs toward the source of the huge sounds. While running, he feels that some people are heading that way too.
"Damn!" he curses, and then he stops running and walk away.
"I hate crowds!"


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Raiy stabed his Sword trough the mask of the big Snake-like Hollow, "You are the 5th Hollow in 3 days!" he said as the Hollow fell on the ground. The Shinigami put his sword back into the scabbard on his back, while his opponent dissolved into spirit particles. "...belive me, he said, there are almost no Hollows, nothing to do for you, it would be the perfect town for you to protect...As If!damn you Kyōraku!" Raiy mumbled to himself, while going down the street to the central...

It was about a month ago that the Captain of Squad 8, Shunsui Kyōraku, sent him here, to become the guardian Shinigami of this town, usually Raiy hates such Guradian-Missions in the real world, mostly because they shouldn't be done by seated officers like him...
"Stuff it! As long as this Hollows are easy to kill, this is quiet beara-" but he couldn't finish his sentence, because suddenly he saw the flashing light of a big explosion about 2 kilometers away from him. "What the...?" Raiy jumped on a red house top on his right side, so he would have a better view, but it was to far away to say what that explosion was, "Damn it! so much for: "this mission is bearable!" If i get my hands on you, Kyōraku!!" and with this words the young Shinigami ran as fast as he could towards the explosion...


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After what seemed like an eternity, the school bell finally rang in all its horrible, screeching glory and school was over. It was a Friday, and so when class was dismissed, the students rushed out of the high school like a herd of stampeding elephants for their weekend activities. Many of them were going to Stephanie’s party; the few that weren’t were going to the beach or hanging out at the Tiergarten. But there was one exception, and that was Edna. Though normally Edna would spend her weekends at parties and her friend’s houses, this weekend was different. There had been some odd rumors about a haunting in a European county, and Edna, at the behest of her Aunt Celia was taking the train there to investigate.

You see, Edna was not a regular human. She was a Quincy, a group of spiritually aware archers who used spiritual energy, reiatsu, to combat corrupted souls, also known as hollows. She had learned the art of the Quincy from her aunt after she discovered Edna was spiritually aware. (Edna could see the souls of humans walking around the city.) Though Edna was happy that she was given this special gift, it was a heavy burden and a source of guilt. It really took away time from her education and free time to hunt hollows, and she wasn’t even skilled with the trademark of the Quincy: the bow. She could scarcely hit a target from 100 yards away; much less a rampaging hollow. But still, Edna had made up her mind to hunt hollows regardless of her faults; it was her duty, her God-given mission. She would slowly rid the earth of evil and save the souls of the dead from corruption.

After Edna got back to her house, she packed her things for the weekend trip. Clothes, check. Wallet, check. Cell phone, check. Gintō, check. Edna smiled, then packed up, kissed her aunt goodbye and left for the train out of Berlin.


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Raiy was jumping from roof to roof and heading towards the place, where he saw the big explosion, thanks to his good Shunpo, he didn't take long...
The first thing Raiy saw was the half destroyed roof in front of him, "Looks like this was caused by an instable mass of Spirit Energy." He said after analysing the damage the building took and the great amount of Spirit energy in the air around.
Then Raiy felt the Reiatsu of someone, not far away, he jumped on the next roof, gladly there were lots of Houses on both sides of the big street, so he could simply jump and run on the roofs without difficulty, thus the young Shinigami head towards the source of reiatsu, "Definitely a Shinigami...this is becoming really annoying!" he mumbled to himself.
After a few minutes he finally saw someone walking down the street below him, Raiy recognized the Shinigami immediately, "Shadow...!" he said, so that the other person would notice him...


Shadow walked in the streets of the city, looking for some clues to where he is when someone yelled his name. shadow turned to look at the source. it was a shinigami on top of a roof of one of the buildings, "hmm, maybe he is the local shinigami?" shadow started to Shunpo towards the shinigami.


Shadow was a respectable officer with a friendly character, or so at least he presented himself for years, a charade to fool others into thinking he was friendly, he learned that from the greatest master of lies, Aizen. "thanks god I found you…Raiy right? From the 8th division? I have grave news…sereitei was attacked, dozens are dead."


Now that the Shinigami was standing in front of him, he definitely recognized the 3rd Seat of Squad 3, Shadow...
"Sereitei was attacked...?" Raiy asked "Then what are you doing here?"
He looked at the Shinigami and wasn't sure what to think of him, he didn't talk very much to the people from Squad 3, especially not to Shadow, so he didn't know how he should assess him.
The only thing he knew, was that he already cursed the day captain Kyōraku sent him to this town.


"I was getting to that, the attack wasn’t from outside but from within sereitei," shadow friendly smile turned into a serious face to express the severity of the situation, it was important to play the cards right, "a scientist called Ren used a device called MRA to blow up the communication tower between the worlds, if you check your spirit phone you will see you cant contact the gotei," that was true, after all the connection was severed for at least several days, "I was able to follow him in the portal he made to escape to the real world…its seems that his destination was this city, but there is a much graver problem…he have more MRA's with him and its possible he is planning to use them in this city as well…thousands would die if I won't stop him, including both you and me," Shadow patted his dusty cloths waiting for reply.


Raiy folded his arms behind his head and ordered his toughts, someone attacked Sereitei...well that was certainly very weird.
"Well I don't know anyone called Ren, but if you say so..." Raiy heard a few things about Shadow, he seemed to be a very kind person, "So you say this Ren is trying to blow up something in this town and you followed him here? But for someone who is chasing a criminal and utterly dangerous Traitor, you are walking down this street quiet slowly and you seem way to relaxed..."
Raiy didn't know if Shadow was lying or not, on the one hand he was a Shinigami and seated officer, so he should be trustworthy, but on the other hand he didn't knew him and Raiy was always careful with people he didn't knew...


shadow lowered his look and started to blush, then raised his head fast gave a big smile while scratching his head laughing "hahaha, you see its a little embarrassing but i don't even know where i am...here i am a third seat officer and i don't even know where to look for my target, i didn't even saw his face so i don't know how look like, only that he is shorter then me..." shadow knew he have to play the game as best as he can to avoid pointless bloodshed.
"you see, i really don't know what is my next move right now, i just jumped to the portal and the explosion got me all messed up, i mean just look at my cloths! damn illegal portal! exploded just as i passed it, Ren used it to ran away while i got buried in rubble, my ears still ringing."


shadow knew he need something else to make this story sound more realistic so he put his hand on reiy shoulder, approached him and whispered "could you keep this between us? if Gin will hear that, he will send me to do some manual job somewhere or even worse...guard duty in the real world...eh...sorry," Shadow played his game, he gave himself the image of a clumsy kind officer, now the only question is if reiy would bite it.


Raiy sighed "No I won't tell him anything..." he couldn't avoid smiling; this whole situation was very weird. This Shinigami was the 3rd Seat of Squad 3? He seemed a little bit clumsy and somehow planless, normally the 3rd seat officer should be a quiet powerful. Even if Raiy still didn't fully thrust him, he was right; his Cell phone couldn't connect to Soul Society.
"So what do you expect me to do now?" Raiy asked after considering few facts he got.


"well couple of things, i need to contact someone who can sell me gigais and stuff it might take sometime to find this Ren and secondly look for anyone who might have an MRA," Shadow thought that reiy asks too many questions but was relived that at least he managed to fool him this far but its clear that staying together would only hinder Shadow plans.


"as for Ren himself, all i know is that he is short, smart, and look weird...you know 12th division specialist, i suggest you look for him on your own so that we cover as much ground as possible and if you find something you can contact me with this," he gave reiy a small device that resembled a cellphone, "this will allow us to talk with one another as long as we both have one of those, call me the gadget man."


shadow smiled. inside his head a maniacal laugh was heard.


Raiy looked at the device, "Well unfortunatly i doubt i will be able to help you, I am here because Kyōraku insisted, but my mission is just to kill those stupid and incredibly anyoing Hollows..." with this words he turned around and made a few steps away from Shadow, "I don't really care about the problems of Soul Society..." Raiy continued walking, he still wasn't sure what to think of Shadow, but he knew that he would unfortunately cross his paths sooner or later...


"oh, that is really disappointing," shadow turned away from reiy smiling, he knew that even making someone neutral is as good as killing them, they are irrelevant.


shadow started to shunpo away from the building roofs looking for some high place where he will be able to watch and think about his next move.


Raiy watched Shadow leave and again he couldn't avoid smiling a little...now he knew that he was hiding something...this whole story was to suspicious if he really chased this Ren guy offhanded into the real world, without any preparation, like he said, then why did he have this devices with him, they are nothing a Shinigami just carries with him...there were to many inconsistencies in this story.
At the moment Raiy only new one thing, Shadow was an excellent liar, but he still didn't new how much of his story was true...

[Shdo]

Groaning as he tried sit up, Seraf brushed off the ruble from his cloths. Once his vision cleared, he noticed he was alone. What am I doing here, he thought to himself. With consciousness, memory came flooding back.


The alarm was sounding loudly. It was his duty to protects the artifacts stored here. Before he knew it, Seraf was running with a group of other guards, one was his friend Hasan.
"What's the situation?" Seraf asked.
"There was an intruder in one of the vaults, we don't know his identity, but from how quick he killed the first guards to respond tells us he has to be as powerful as a seated officer."
Seraf didn't respond because at that moment a guard yelled "Stop, return the object right now!"
The intruder was standing in front of an illegally opened portal. He responded with a grin, "Why should I do that? My freedom is right here."
With curse Hasan lunged at the man, and he was cleanly cut in too. Horrified Seraf screamed "What have you done? This is murder!" The mans reply was muffled for at that instant a huge explosion rocked the institution, flinging many guards to the ground. Seraf watched the man step through the portal and without thought used his Shunpo to enter the portal right before it closed. The man was standing there looking at what was grasped in his hand.
With once swift motion Seraf had his sword unsheathed and the blade swinging down to deliver a killing stroke. But at same time the portal exploded sending Seraf flying. Unconscious he was covered in the rubble.


With that realization he jumped up and started to scan the area, but try as he might he couldn't find trace of the intruder. Even when he tried to sense his spirit power, he could only find a faint trace. When he tried to use his communicator he found that the signal wasn't going through. A sigh escaped his lips, looks like he wasn't getting any help for a while. With careful steps Seraf walked to the edge of the building, already a crowd was surrounding the building.
"I gotta get out of here" he mumbled. With a stumble he jumped from rooftop to rooftop in hopes of finding some trace of his perpetrator.

[Shdo]

This is weird... Lifting her left hand which then landed on her chest, where her heart beat rapidly. The explosion had troubled Mello’s mind, one thing that she had not experienced for a while after her arrival in the real world. However she found it to be exhilarating and started to foreshadow an episode of events, like being able to promote her gadgets and other stuff that were locked in a mini wooden closet strapped on her back to the special people who she was sure to meet if she can head there quick.


Smiling to herself, Mello imagined the happy faces her customers would make when they discovered that she was a reliable merchant, although, there was a time when she had mistakenly given a chappy brand mod-soul to a shinigami who had asked for an ordinary soul candy and God knew how it turned out to be.


“Shouldn’t be that far...hhmph!” she motivated herself. Walking in a fast pace on her flip flops was pretty slippery *sigh* “I should buy myself a pair of snickers next time,” she mumbled silently. A couple of minutes later, Mello finally arrived on the main road, only dim lights covered the wet ground, thanks to the full moon. There were not many cars passing by since it was already mid-night. Fastening her mini wooden closet by gripping on the straps with both of her hands, Mello was ready to shunpo, when suddenly a speeding shiny black car was heading towards her direction and honking non-stop crazily. Mello turned to see who it was and she sighed again,“ Oh shoot. I forgot that i gave her a phone call...”


Usually at this time, she would be taking her beauty sleep, but because of that damn explosion, she was now on her way to investigate. As she sped off in her BMW, her cell phone began to ring.


"Oiy........,' she knew exactly who it was"Hi Mellow, whats up?"


She already had a feeling as to the nature of the phone call. That explosion must have gotten every shinigami in the city on high alert. She knew something was terribly wrong since she had tried to contact Soul Society, but it seemed like the lines were down. She couldn't help but wonder what the hell is going on.
She listened to the other shinigami on the line, it seemed that not even Mellow knew what was going on. She could hear Mollow's worried voice over the phone. Mellow was such a great person, she was the one that had provided her with the gigai. It was amazing how it resembled her in every single way.


"Mellow, how about I pick you up and we can investigate together?" She had no problem giving the girl a ride.


"I'll be there in less than five minutes. Bye."


With that she stepped harder on the gas of her BMW, so that she could go pick up her friend. Who would have thought that Luv would have any friends, true.. she wasn't too close with anyone, but Mellow was different. She knew how to accept Luv just the way she was, maybe thats why Luv treasured her as a friend. She knew that if anyone were to mess with Mellow, she would make them pay.


As she drove through the already dimmed street, she could already see Mellow on the side of the main road.


HONK! HONK! HONK! That should get her attention......


"Yup...it's her alright," a smile curved on Mello's face, but she was careful to not look that happy with Luv's presence, afraid that Luv would jump on her like she usually did, and Mello's hand crept slowly to her zanpakutou with the thought of that. Luv was a friend, one that Mello never thought of having because of her random and wild characteristics. Mello adored that quality of hers, qualities that she herself did not have.


The car stopped right in front of Mello and she stared at Luv, "Oh my, you are quick to arrive, Luv" she teased Luv and waited for her reaction. But before Luv could reply anything, Mello helped herself, getting into the car. *BMW* Her eyes sparkled like a kid getting her christmas present.


Luv's face a faulted. She was about to tell Mello to get in, but Mello had already made herself comfortable.


"Oh...Mellow...please oh please make yourself comfortable....." Luv said sarcastically, as the girl was already putting on her seat belt. "She looks like she's never ridden a damn car before" Luv whispered to herself, low enough so that Mello couldn't hear.


Luv was about to ask Mellow about what she knew, when Mellow turned up the stereo on full blast. *How annoying*


"Mello......can you please get serious here....we gotta go find out whats going on," She yelled out over the loud Kiss song. Luv stepped on the gas, they would be there in no time.


"So, do you know whats going on Mello?"


She knew Mello was one of the smartest persons from Soul Society, and if Mello didn't know, then no one would.


Nice car..Mello seemed to sense Luv talking to her but she was too mesmerized with the bling bling CD player, that she ignored her completely. Then one question from Luv shook her from her little day-dreaming.


"So, do you know whats going on Mello?" asked Luv.


Trying to keep her cool, Mello tried to suppress her clueless face. "Hmm, there was an explosion not too far from here. I'm not sure about this, but i can sense a reaitsu. It was very weak at first...but it's getting stronger now. Can u feel that Luv?" she projected her voice in a low volume, unsure if Luv could hear her. All she can do right now was to hold on tight to her seat because the car was speeding fast towards their destination.


"Yeah.... I can feel it. Whomever it is, sure is powerful. Lets just hope is a friend, and not a new enemy," Luv answers back.


So Mello doesn't know whats going on either, that was surprising. Who the hell was heading their way? This was turning out to be a most interesting evening.


"Mel, make sure you're ready, in case who ever it is isn't friendly," Luv told her friend, who seemed to have a worried look on her face.


With that, the car sped off.....


"I dunno Luv...I'm afraid that the person might not be a friend at all. An explosion? It's been a while since anything bizarre happened here," replying to Luv while she was staring into the night through the side window.


It was dark, and wet. Not a good omen for Mello, even though she loved the mysterious feeling...she did not think tonight will be that good for both of them. We are getting near...she can feel it. Her heart beat faster and she looked at Luv if she was feeling the same thing too. Somehow, Mellow can sense a bit of an unstable reaitsu nearby...she shook her head, it might be just another trick her sleepy head played on her.


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The train slowly pulled into the small town and came to a clumsy halt at the end of the tracks. The jolt was enough to waken the sleeping Edna, who had been sleeping quite soundly through the seven hour train ride. Edna slowly got up, grabbed her bags and walked off the train into the town. It was a sad, dreary little town; the nearby buildings were in a state of gradual decay and hardly anybody was walking around on the streets. The rainy, overcast weather didn’t help the mood either, and Edna found herself wishing for an umbrella. Hopefully, the investigation would be over quickly and she could get back to Berlin before the weekend was out. With these thoughts in mind, Edna smiled and exited from the station with purpose.
Luckily, it wasn’t very hard to find the house. Although most of the houses in the town were dilapidated, the haunted house wasn’t even much of a house to begin with. The roof had sunk in, the windows were all broken, and the front porch was almost completely rotten. But there was definitely a faint reiatsu coming from inside, and she had to investigate. Edna clambered over the porch and, after finding the door locked tight, crawled through one of the broken windows. What she saw inside surprised her. While the outside of the house may have been frightening, the inside was somewhat warm and cozy. There was a reproduction of a Monet hanging on the wall, vibrant flowers in a vase on the coffee table, and a doll sitting in the corner. It was hard to believe such a comforting place could be haunted, but the faint reiatsu was stronger inside the house. Edna walked deeper inside the house, her right hand hovering over the gintō in her bag. A hollow could strike at any moment, and she had to be prepared. Edna entered the kitchen of the house, which was also in strikingly pristine condition, except for an odor coming from the refrigerator. It was probably just rotting food, but Edna decided to investigate anyway. She opened the refrigerator. Two baleful eyes stared out at her, and the white teeth of the beast inside gnashed together in excitement. Edna’s left eye opened wide. “Shit! A hollow?” she thought, running down the corridor and pulling out a silver tube with a tiny yellow cross etched in the center. Her face changed; her eyes became slanted, and her mouth became fixed in a permanent frown. The hollow leaped from its icy enclosure, eyes ablaze with hunger. It obviously hadn’t had a meal for days, and it was hungry. But Edna was prepared, and she raised the silver tube high above her head. “Sorry, hollow; I’ve got to cleanse you!” Edna shouted with zeal. “Stern Kardinal!” Edna threw the tube at the hollow’s feet, and it exploded in a miraculous blaze of yellow fire. The hollow retreated in shock; it hadn’t expected its prey to retaliate. But nevertheless, it had to eat. This prey would pay for its rebellion. The hollow opened its mouth and a dim, small red light began to grow from the depths of its body. Edna rolled under a nearby table and produced another silver tube from her bag as the hollow’s weak cero burned a hole through where her head used to be. “Accept your fate, hollow!” Edna said. “I can’t let you harm innocent souls; you’ve got to die.” Another tube flew at the hollow, but this time, the hollow was not so quick to dodge. The yellow flames licked its face, and it came away with a large burn mark on its convoluted white mask. The hollow was having second thoughts; perhaps this prey wasn’t worth the trouble. Still, it was incredibly hungry and it had to eat or perish. It charged towards Edna, who by this time had yet another silver tube in hand. “Blutiger Kardinal” she whispered, and she crushed the tube between her hands. Edna’s hands grew larger and took on a crimson color. The hollow was puzzled by this turn of events, but it was not deterred; its jaws were just meters away from the prey’s face. It grinned as it got closer, closer, and then… Suddenly, the hollow stopped centimeters away from the prey’s face. It looked down, and saw the prey’s right hand ripping through its chest. It howled in pain; this prey was too much for it. Edna frowned, sighed, and simply whispered, “Goodbye, hollow.” With her free left hand, Edna reached into her bag, withdrew a tube, and stuffed it down the hollow’s mouth and kicked it away from her as its body burst into a shower of yellow flames. The hollow shrieked, writhed, and then was still. Its body slowly melted away, and soon there was nothing left but a charred mark on the floor of the kitchen. Edna breathed a sigh of relief, and the crimson rock covering her hands crumbled and fell away to the ground. The faint reiatsu faded, and the job was done. But then, Edna felt somebody or something else’s reiatsu close by. Another hollow? It was impossible to tell; but whatever it was, she had to investigate. Edna ran in the direction of the reiatsu, and produced more silver tubes from her bag. The job was not quite done yet.


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Finally, Luv and Mello reached their destination. They could already see the crowd of people gathered arond the scene of the explosion. It was incredible, a chaotic scene to say the least. There was debris everywhere, the cloud of smoke had left dust in various cars and buildings. It looked like a damn bomb had gone off.


Luv got off the car and walked towards the scene. The police was already there, so she knew it wouldn't be possible to get too close. She could see what remained of the building, but could not see any shinigami around. Though, she could still sense someone had been there, not too long ago.


"I can feel someone's fading rautsu... whoever it was is long gone now..." she said to herself. "I need to find out what people saw or heard."


Lucky for Luv, there were five men gathered about three meters from her. This was her seductive power came to play. She started walking towards the group of men, making sure she swayed her curvacious hips just enough to capture the attention of some other on lookers. Luv could feel the eyes on her, and she loved it. As she reached the group, she put on her sweetest smile and tapped one of the men's shoulder. Needless to say, when he turned around to see who tapped him, his jaw dropped to the floor.


"Hey handsome, is there any way you can tell me what happened here?" Luv asked seductively. The group of men just stood there with their mouth wide open. "What the hell, are this guys idiots or what? Hurry up and answer before I rip your damn tongues out," Luv thought to herself, already annoyed that the men couldn' t do anything but stare.


Finally after a couple minutes, one of them spoke. "Ummm, well what do we get in return miss," he said nervously, while scratching his head.


Luv walked towards him seductively, making sure she kept eye contact with him the whole time. There was no way in hell that some idiot guy was going to leave her in the dark about this. When she reached him, she got close enough to the point that he could feel her hot breath on his cheek.


She leaned forward and whispered in his ear,"listen... if you tell me what I want to know, I'll give you something you want in return," she said seductively. She put her hand on his hip, just to emphisize her point. She saw as the man started to blush. Yeah, she would give him what he deserves alright. Humans were so damn pothetic. This idiot wouldn't be able to even get a kiss from her with his allowance. Luv doesn't bother with man who don't make at least a million a year. She was way too good for that. She had way too much pride to be involved with a pitiful low class men.


"Well....ummm...we don't really know what happened, we think that a gas line must of had a leak, and somehow exploded." He said.


A gas line? That what they thought. Wow, humans were stupid. Luv could still feel the riatsu, only now that she was closer she felt three different ones. Who ever they belonged to though, she could not tell. She was sure that the explosion was no accident, but who would want to do this? Why would they want to do it?


"Is that all you know?" she asked the still nervous men.


"Umm...yeah...there is no evidence that this was a bomb or anything like that, it was just an accident,"he replied.


Luv didn't even bother to say thanks. She just walked away towards her car. She needed to find out whos riatsu that was, she had no time to waste here.


"Wait!" the men screamed for her to stop,"umm, wheres my end of the deal?"


As soon as those words came out of his mouth, she turned around and punched him straight on his jaw. Leaving the poor guy unconscious on the floor. She turned around and walked away once more. She could already hear the other guys trying to help their fallen comrade.


"Now, where the hell is Mello?" she asked herself. She needed to drop her off, and start looking for clues.


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Reich leans forward as he drives faster down the highway, feeling the wind blowing through his hair as he watches the smoke and dust dispersing slowly off into the distance. The sound of the wind beats at his face as he flies off the exit ramp, nearly losing his balance as he uses the length of the block to slow down. Reich hides his bike in a nearby alley and covers it up.


Slowly he climbs up the fire escape, feeling the moisture on the ladder from earlier in the day. The chipped paint cracking under the grip of his palm as they float down to the ground below. Reich takes a deep breath when he gets a few floors above the ground and makes his way to the corner towards the crowds.


Years of hunting Hollows and, on ocassion, Shinigami, have caused him to know this city like the back of his hand. Reich comes to the corner, dropping down a ladder to the second floor as he croutches down. "Haha, wonder what the heck that guy did to this chick...", he thinks to himself as he grins, watching the display as freezes his movements, several paint chips falling to the ground below as he holds his breath.


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Shadow climbed on top of the highest building he could find, from here he could see the entire town, "100,000 residents...that means there are several schools..." at the moment shadow had no morals what-so-ever but he knew many others had so he checked his gear before he moved to the nearest school\hospital\shelter for abused animals. he had couple of big bombs capable of destroying a building, 10 grenades, 10 flash bombs, 1 communication device that could contact the other local shinigami, one mega controller for all this bombs, 1 mysterious item that Aizen wanted and the most valuable item he had, the MB controller, the item that allowed him to keep his sanity in the cost of insanity.


"and so it begins," his first target is the nearest hospital, he would plant one of his bombs there in case he will need hostages, the second bomb was placed on the tall water tower of the hospital, in case of need this tower would be destroyed just to prove how much shadow can be serious.


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Raiy finally reached his apartment in the 3rd floor, he left the window open this afternoon, so he could enter again. His gigai was still lying on the bed, "Well I guess that's enough for today..." Raiy said and slipped into his Gigai, he passed by the mirror and noticed, that he really did look like a teenager in this clothes...
Then Raiy went to the living room of the big apartment, usually the guardian Shinigami gets little and cheap places to live, but since Raiy insisted they gave him this one...
He switched-on the News and saw the place where he was about 15 minutes ago, the reporter told something about a gas explosion, just as expected, but there was someone else, who drew Raiy's attention, a young Woman who was talking to a man and then punching him in the face, she was different from the other people standing there, she was more analyzing the place, as if she could feel the reiatsu, maybe a Shinigami? That was Raiy's first thought, but he couldn't see her face, due to the bad quality...
Then he switched-off the TV again and laid down on the big couch. He was thinking about Shadow, was it true what he said? But he was certainly hiding something...did Soul Society told him to do so? and most of all: "Wait until I'm back in Soul Society, I will punch every flower from your stupid cape, Kyouraku! Why do I always have to get the stupid missions? like the damn Adjuchas last month?!" Raiy said to himself, "Oh yeah, because you believe in my skills...I will show you in what I believe, when we next meet...!"
But Raiy knew, he couldn't change it, he was trapped in the real world and it looks like he would have lots of trouble here...


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[Shdo]

Shinn leaned on the wall of a building that looked like an office. He had walked away before, since he didn't like too many people. That many strong people surely could take care of that explosion thing themselves. But he stayed at the distance that he could feel their reiatsus and focused on his senses. At least if they did a fight or something chaotic he would know right away because of the increase of their reiatsu and he wouldn't be so late to save people around. Afterall, he wanted to help people to lessen his guilty feeling. It seemed that nothing bad happened. The first three reiatsus had left that explosion site while the other three who had come later were around that site for some time.
He felt relieved. 6 people with such amount of reiatsu could create something. As much as he know, people with high reiatsu were dangerous for people, although he knew no such person other than himself.


The other reiatsus suddenly appeared. "Hollows! There are so many! One, two, three.. " He wasn't sure how many there were, but it was clear that there were more than two hollows. The gathering of the strong reiatsus seemed to attract them.
He sensed something else. Again, another strong reiatsu. "What the heck is this city?"
It seemed that this one was fighting with one of the hollow, judging from the location and the intensity of reiatsu the hollow and that human emitted. It didn't seem like they tried to suppress it, so they must be fighting.


Shinn started sonido-ing. 'It seems that that person can take care of hollows around that area' was what he thought. So, although he wasn't sure if there were only one hollow around that person or not, he dashed toward another location, tried to kill the other hollows. 'This is the most effective way to save more people', he tought. He transformed his right hand right away to make the hollow hunt him instead of killing people and continue sonido-ing.


It took him five minutes to arrive at the hollow's location, a parking area. The other hollow was 1 kilometres from that place. The hollow seemed to have been waiting for him.
The hollow was big, with ape-looking body. But the mask seemed like a grasshopper's face. It started dashing toward shinn and swang it's big hand, only to be stopped easily by shinn, blocking with his hollowish right arm. "Small shrimp" he said. "I'll finish this one fast!"
He backed off quickly and before the hollow could make a defensive stance, he did sonido. A dashing sonido. He ran directly to the hollow's face and stabbed the mask with his sword-like claw without stopping.
"One's down!" The hollow disappeared slowly.


But the second hollow has arrived behind him. This one seems tough. It has the form of a human-sized dinosaur but there are six tentacles on his back, taking the place of a tail. The mask is black and it has two sharp horns. The hollow swang one of its 'tail' without turning back. The tentacle lengthen and swang like crazy.
Shinn dodged, only to be hit by another tentacle. His movements were read!


His body was tossed away. He stabbed the ground to stop his movement, but suddenly realized what was behind him. The main body!


The hollow attacked with it's claws. Shinn got a clean hit, he was thrown away again and had his back cut deeply.
"AAACK!!" he screamed while his body flew toward a parking truck. He hit the truck and turned it to priceless thing.
The hollow didn't do a thing, it also got cut a bit in the face.
The hollow roar angrily.


Shinn tried to get up and soon, did sonido to escape. He was thinking of a way to defeat it. Of course, it chased him.


He tried to shoot cone shaped bullets from the back of his hand, but the hollow blocked them all with its tentacles. It seems that its of no use afterall. He ran again and repeated the same action. This time he shot 6 consecutive bullets. The hollow blocked it again. This time he did sonido toward the hollow's mask right after the hollow blocked his bullet, caught it offguard. He tried to stab its head, but failed and stabbed it's left arm. The creature screamed. It tried to slash shinn with its right claws.
Shinn quickly transformed his right arm to normal arm to enable him transform his left arm. He succeed, and blocked the attack with his now-hollowish left arm. The hollow didn't stop and slashed him with the claw of its now-free left arm.


Shinn got a deep cut in his stomach and was sent flying.


All those damages were for just one stab. If this continued, he will most likely die.


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Pushing her way through the crowd and noisy reporters, Mello headed a bit further from the crowd and was unaware that she had left Luv right after they got out of the car. Still fastening her hands to the straps on her shoulder, she walked slowly as if she was enjoying a beautiful view of the full moon...except that the air was filled with distasteful dusts.


She covered her nose and mouth by pulling the hood of her sweat shirt and continued walking towards the building **soft whistle**... What was that? Mello’s eyes searched for the source of the sound. She swore she did hear someone or something whistled just now, but still uncertain of herself. A coward as she may be, Mello had this odd urging sensation when she was looking straight at the ruined building. Drove by her curiosity, she entered the ruined building. It was too dark in there, so Mello took off her mini closet and squatted down. She took out a bright pink Chappy flashlight and shone her path and continued looking for something that she herself was not sure of.


Rubbles were seen everywhere, bits of bricks coated the ground and she had to slip in any available holes in order to move from one room to another, since the doors did not seem to be visible anymore. After minutes of roaming around the ground floor of the building, Mello gave up. The scant reaitsu that she sensed a while back was slowly fading making it useless to look for further sign of whatever being in there. Guess my hearing had failed me ...she thought to herself recalling the whistle she heard before entering the building. “And no one want my stuff...,” disappointed with tonight’s outcome, she kicked a small rock, but tripped and fell face down as a result.


She groaned because of the pain felt on her face and stood up clumsily. Something caught her attention. A piece of torn black cloth wrapped her right ankle. Wait. It’s a piece of shinigami cloth to be precise. “So it was a shinigami..” Mello whispered silently. Well, tonight isn’t wasted at all- she thought while taking a deep breath and stuffed the cloth in her sweat shirt pocket, heading down to the crowd.


At the explosion scene, Mello passed by a guy who looked pretty beaten up, she spotted a shed of blood on his jaw. The guy saw her and shouted “What are u staring at kid?!” Sickened by the man’s attitude, Mello ran quickly towards Luv’s car only to find her sleeping with her head on the steering wheel.


It felt so good to finally be home. She opened up the front door and walked in to the living room. Luv was not a women of bad taste. Her living room was that of a person with money. Everything from leather couches, to big screen televisions, to video consoles adorned the living room. She made her way past the living room and into the hallway, her destination her room. As soon as she entered, she started to undress herself. As much as she loved her leather outfits, she liked being in the nude a lot more. It didn't matter to her that the blinds were open, she didn't care that the room was about sixty degrees because she hadn't turned off the air conditioner, and she didn't care if the whole World would see her in nothing but her bare skin, on the contrary, she would love it.


After the little incident at the explosion site, Luv had searched for Mello but was unable to find her. Finally she had decided to wait for her in the car. She was sure Mello wouldn't leave without her. It seemed it took a while for Mello to come back to the car, because Luv fell sleep while waiting. She herself was surprised when she felt Mello shake her a bit to wake her up. I guess she was more tired then she thought. Finally, after that most enbarrasing scenerio, Luv started the car and drove away from the chaotic scene. Luv had dropped Mello off at her house, Mello had been unusually quiet on the ride back, but Luv decided to just let the girl be, they were both tired and they both needed to rest.


There had been an awkward silence between them, but neither girl did anything to make that silence disappear. But something was still bothering Luv, for some reason, she could feel that Mello was hiding something...but what? She cared for Mello a lot, but if she finds out that her suspicions are right, Mello is going to need a damn doctor to put her back together.


Luv walked to her bed and laid down. The feathery covers acting like cushions to her naked body. She quickly grabbed her remote control from the night stand and turned on the TV., the news were on, maybe they had some information about the explosion. It seemed like they didn't know anything either. Too bad...it seemed like those humans get more stupid each passing day. She was about to turn off the T.V. when something caught her eyes...


"In other news, police are still trying to figure out where the young lady who punched Afrain Kinochi and left him unconscious could be. No charges will be filed, but the police want to know if he himself committed any type of crime...."


Luv's eyes widened as she saw herself punching a man. Those stupid humans had recorded her assault on that idiot. "Great, just what I need, some damn publicity" she said, turning off the TV. and sending the remote control flying across the room.


"I can't afford to have humans bothering me now, I need to find out who's riautsu it was that I felt." She told herself. She had been feeling uneasy since tonight's events. She had to rest, tomorrow she would be meeting with a client. Probably another assassination job. He was most likely going to ask her to kill another member of his rival gang...oh..well, money was money. It didn't matter how you obtained it, it only mattered that you had it. With that thought, Luv went into a sweet slumber, excited to see what tomorrow would bring.....


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Seraf Moichi was losing energy and fast, he hadn't slept since his shift started two days ago.
What was i thinking? Taking someone else's shift, this could be there problem. And of course none of my transmissions are getting to Soul Society.
He continued to jump from building to building, hoping to catch any trace of his perpetrators reiatsu, but to no avail. He could still remember it, it was chaotic almost. If he could only find a fresh lead. His perpetrator obviously knows how to suppress his power. With a sigh he made a extra long jump, only to find he didn't have the right footing, and crashed onto a roof, making a most horrible racket.


Luv was in heaven. She was surrounded by sexy men in only their thongs, and they all wanted her. Each was offering her riches beyond belief to have her. Wow, this was good. Who should she pick....mmmmmmmmm I pick........


"What the fuck is that?" Luv awoke startled. She had heard a loud noise coming from the roof. She quickly got off bed and put on a robe. She was going to go and find out who the hell was up there. She didn't bother to turn into her shinigami for, it most likely was a cat, but she had to make sure. Her profession was dangerous, and she had killed plenty of humans in her lifetime, there was sure to be someone out there looking for revenge. She walked toward her bedroom window, opened it, and started to climb out. It was simple enough, her luxury apartment was on the third floor, and the roof wasn't that high from the window. Luv could feel the chilled air on her face. Maybe she should have worn some descent clothes, her butt cheeks felt like ice now. Oh well.........it was too late for that. As she jumped on to the roof, she saw the source of the noise. It was a man, he seemed to be a shinigami. Luv couldn't help but to smirk. This was certainly turning out to be one eventful day.


With a groan Seraf sat up, he was getting sick of the human world already, all these machines and gizmo's, making the most horrible racket. He jumped up with a start as he noticed the beautiful woman standing there.
With a sigh of relief he said "Only a human."
Dusting off his cloths, he walked by her without a thought, humans can't see Shinigami's anyways.
Boy did he get a surprise.


Luv was surprised that the man hadn't really noticed her. He was dusting himself off, and trying to get back up on his feet. He was a shinigami alright... but what the hell was he doing here? She could sense his riatsu, it was the same as the one she felt at the explosion site. She crossed her hands over her chest, as he neared her, he had better have a good explanation, or she would dice him in half on this roof. She was expecting him to say something, but he was acting as if she wasn't even there. As he got a bit closer, Luv could see his features a lot better.


As the man finally got on his feet and started walking in her direction, Luv noticed that he was only a couple inches taller than her. He had sandy blonde hair and what seemed green or maybe hazel eyes. Even though he was fully clothed, she could make out some muscle underneath. She noticed he had a scar on the right side of his face, maybe a battle scar, but other than that minor defect, he seemed very attractive. With the moon shining on him just right, he almost seemed Godly.


“Why the hell is he not saying anything?” she asked herself, soon the man was a mere foot from her, getting closer, but instead of stopping, he continued to walk past her.


“Where the hell do you think your going?” She burst out, grabbing a hold of his wrist. Giving him a deadly glare.


Who the hell does he think he is, ignoring her like if she was nothing. It seemed that just because he had good looks, didn't mean he was educated. How dare he ignore her, didn't he know that Hakubi Luv doesn't get ignored...........


Shock, total incomprehensible shock, thats all Seraf was feeling! This woman just grabbed him. If looks could kill, the stare she was giving him right now should drop him dead. Wait, he concentrated a little, and he was given another shock, this woman wasn't human at all. She had power, equal to if not greater than his own. Well this would teach him for not paying attention to reiatsu.
Then he noticed she was still holding him, and how close their bodies were. Color rushed to his face instantly, and stayed there even as he pulled away. He cleared his throat "Um....Hello, forgive my earlier rudeness, i wasn't aware that you were a shinigami....."


Luv could see his shocked expression. Was he really that shocked that she had grabbed him? She noticed how close they were, if she didn't know any better, she could have sworn he was blushing, but maybe it was just her mind playing tricks.


The man pulled away from her grasp, even though he did, Luv could still see a faint shade of pink on his face.


“Forgive my earlier rudeness... I wasn't aware that you were a shinigami...” he said to her. She was actually shocked to hear his voice. It was very sensual, she liked it, and liked him even more.


“How could you not know that I was a shinigami? Can't you sense my reiatsu?” She asked the young man in front of her.


She didn't even let him answer before continuing. “Who the hell are you, and what are you doing on my rooftop, I don't think I have ever seen you around."


Who could he be? She could sense that he was very powerful, maybe even powerful enough to match her strength, but she had never seen him before. She knew this guy would know what happened at the explosion site, and he had better tell her, or else she would make sure she ripped his tongue out and then made him chew it.


He was taken aback at her forward personality, and the forcefulness she exerted. He smiled a little.
"My name is Seraf, Seraf Moichi, I am a shinigami on an unofficial mission from Soul Society. I can't disclose the whole situation, but i can give you some information, and perhaps you could help me. I am chasing a rogue shinigami who stole something from the Research and Development Institution, I followed him through an illegal portal. But before i could even capture him, the portal exploded and i lost consciousness. I have been jumping from building to building in hopes of finding traced of his unique reiatsu. As for why i didn't sense you reiatsu..." Seraf put on his best winning smile "Well I was not paying attention, and I figured you for only a human woman." He laughed a little to cover up how nervous she made him.


Luv was relieved to find out he could talk. For a minute there, she thought he was mute. So his name was Seraf. He was very handsome. He seemed a little shy and nervous around her, but she wasn't surprised, she had that affect on all men, no matter what age or race they were. She stood there and listened to his explanation. So it was his reiatsu that she had felt earlier in the evening. Wonderful, at least now she knew what the hell was going on.


Luv walked towards him and got closer, she felt her robe was becoming lose, but she didn't bother to tie it tighter, she just let it be. She would let him see what he could have if he played his cards right. She got close enough to the point that she could feel the heat radiating from him.....


“So, you thought I was only a pathetic human huh?” she stated more than asking, “I don't blame you. I didn't bother to change into my shinigami form since I thought it was a cat.” She looked at the man closely, trying to see if there was anything in his face that could show her if he was lying, but it seemed he was being honest. Wait.....was he blushing, she laughed inwardly.


“How about you come inside my apartment and we can....ummmm..........talk about it more? Plus, you seem a bit tired, you can rest, after all, my apartment has a spare room.”


He backed away some more, he wasn't all that comfortable with her being that close, her robe was practically falling off, it hugged her hips so closely, her figure was great. Perhaps going to her apartment wouldn't be a good idea, but the offer of a bed was tempting, also tempting was being in the presence of a beautiful woman, maybe even some decent conversation he looked at her face again, it was a look of impatience....perhaps not.
With a shrug and a smile he said "I would love to get out of the cold, and perhaps I will accept your invitation of a guest room. Thank you. What is your name?


Luv was glad that he had accepted her invitation. She had noticed how he had backed away from her, he was nervous, but Luv didn't blame him. She was, after all, one of the most beautiful souls out there. She caught him looking at her body, but didn't say anything.


“Sorry...... how rude of me.....my name is Luv, Hakubi Luv, come with me, I'll make some tea and we can talk some more,” with that, she grabbed his hand and dragged him along. She was getting cold, and she could feel her body was starting to shake because of it, or maybe it was because of him.....


She didn't know much about him, but could tell he was no threat to her, at least not at this point. It had been a while since she had a man in her apartment, it had been a while since she had a man period.


'All I want is a family Luv, can't you understand that?'


'Well, I told you before, I'm not ready, if you want one so bad, go look for someone else!' she screamed back at the man.


Luv shook her head to make those awful memories disappear. This wasn't the time or place to start remembering a past that was no longer important.


He stared at the apartment, it was nice, very nice. This...Luv must be very rich. He turned to stare at her, she was leaning over the stove...more than was necessary he could tell. She dropped a spoon on the floor and bent over to pick it up. Shocked he quickly turned away, she was toying with him....that made him smile a little. He stretched, looking at the ceiling to avoid looking at Luv. He quickly put his arms down again, the smile left his face replacing it was a frown. He needed a shower.
"So what do you do for a living?"


She was in the kitchen, trying to find a kettle. She could feel that Seraf's eyes were on her, and that's exactly where she wanted them. She dropped on spoon on purpose, she bent down to pick it up, she knew he wasn't as out going as her, but she loved to make him fluster.


“So what do you do for a living?” Seraf asked her.


Luv walked to the dining area with two cups of tea on hand. Should she really tell him what her profession was? Could he be trustworthy....


“Well, I am a hit women.” she answered, as if it wasn't that much of a big deal. She could already see his shocked expression. He looked so cute like that, maybe she could show him other things that would shock him. Oh... how she loved to toy with him....


Could she be serious, he thought. Well if she is then this is perfect. He took the tea from Luv and peered into it, you could never tell with these mercenary types, hoping it wasn't drugged or poisoned, he took a sip. It was good, and it heated his system right away, making the leaching cold leave. He smiled. Well it was worth a shot.
"So if you are a hit woman, I would like to acquire your services. I can pay you, i suppose it depends though on your pricing. I am looking for the rogue shinigami that came here. I want your help finding him. Interested?"


What the hell? He wanted her services?


Luv couldn't believe that he wanted her to help him look for this other men. He seemed serious, and seemed eager to find who ever it was that had caused that explosion. Why did he care so much? Was Soul Society that important to him?


Luv was an expert in finding people, she could find a needle in a haystack if the pay was right, but how much could Seraf afford to pay her? After all, she could tell that he wasn't used to luxuries by the way he was in awe when he saw her apartment. Then again, maybe he was just a simple man.


“I would be more than happy to help you. Tomorrow I have a little job to take care of, but I am available for the next couple of months.” Luv answered the other shinigami, who was already sipping down his tea.


“Before we talk about my price, how about you get yourself comfortable, go ahead and take a shower and rest. The guest room is down the hall, third door on your right, it has a bathroom, so you can freshen up,” she told him. “ I am going to bed, “Have a good night. If you get too lonely, my bedroom is right next to yours, I can assure you that you won't regret it.....” she finished seductively.


She walked toward her bedroom, swaying her hips just a bit more than necessary. She never mixed business with pleasure, but for him, she could make an exception. Tomorrow she could get to learn more about him, but for now.... she needed some beauty sleep.


He smiled a bit. Well at least he knew that she would help him, if he could afford it. She was wondering the same thing, if he could afford it. Her suggestion though, it was very tempting.
"thanks for the offer, Luv. I think i will take a shower."
Hmm maybe ill tease her a little, right now. He began to strip out of his cloths right there in the middle of the room. But thought better of it and went straight into the bathroom with a slight blush on his face. While the water streamed over his head and body he thought of the options available to him now. There weren't many.
Crap i forgot to ask her about finding a gigai, oh well, i'll talk to her about it tomorrow. He forgot himself a while as he just stood there, enjoying the hot water, feeling the cramps leaving his muscles he didnt even know where tense.
He stepped out of the shower and put a towel around his waste. He considered joining Luv in her bedroom, he weighed the advantages. With a sigh he walked into the guest bedroom and shut the door. He lay on the bed for a while till sleep found him.


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The source of the reiatsu couldn’t be far off; Edna could feel it growing in intensity as she ran through the kitchen to the house’s small vegetable garden in back. She leaped over the rotten cabbages and corn stalks; it was almost like the reiatsu was pulling her in. Edna felt intoxicated by it; it was like nothing she had ever experienced before. She squeezed through a small hole in the chipped white fence surrounding the house’s garden, and emerged into an alley. The alley was almost more of a sad sight than the house; month-old trash and debris piled high, puddles of murky water sitting in the road, and newspapers flying about like tumbleweeds. Edna had no time to linger, though; she kept on running towards the source of the spiritual pressure. She ran down the twisted course of the alley until she came upon an ancient relic of a church. Though it looked abandoned, it had to be the source of the strange reiatsu. There were no other buildings around, and Edna had a gut feeling whatever she was looking for was in that church. She ran up to the front gate of the church and knocked. There was no reply, but Edna knew she had to get in somehow. She had no other choice. Edna backed up, retrieved a silver tube from her bag, and threw it at the door. The tube exploded in a large explosion of yellow flames, and the door disintegrated into iron dust.

Edna slowly walked through the gate, being wary of any more surprise hollow attacks. She didn’t have very many silver tubes left, and if the reiatsu turned out to belong to an enemy, she wanted to have the advantage of stealth. The inside of the church wasn’t anything special; though someone had obviously been taking care of the place. The benches were spotless, the candles were lit, and a Bible was open at the altar at the back of the church. Suddenly, Edna heard footsteps coming from the stairwell to the right of her. She reached into her bag, fingering her silver tubes for the incoming attack. The footsteps got closer, and then…an old, withered priest came shuffling up the steps. He seemed quite surprised to see Edna, and even seemed terrified at her. But that was most likely because of the frown set on her face and her threatening stance. Edna backed off a little; though the reiatsu was coming from him, he seemed like a regular human. There was absolutely nothing abnormal about him. The old man backed up a little bit, and managed to regain some of his composure.

“Hallo. Suchen sie nach etwas, meiner dame?” he questioned. He did seem normal enough, Edna thought; she could probably trust him.

“Nicht wirklich; Ich bin gerecht, jemand suchend, das ich konnte in diesem gebäude sein dachte” she replied.

“Ah” the priest said. “Es gab einen herrn, der früh hereinkam; er sagte, daß er vom Himmel war und er das verschwinden eines kleinen mädchens nachforschte. Er war wütender, armer gefährte.” Edna’s eyes lit up. That sounded an awful lot like a shinigami; could one of their kind be the cause of the reiatsu? No, a shinigami couldn’t possibly be here; though the mention of the missing girl piqued her interest. The strange reiatsu fading away though; it felt like it was moving away from her location. She had to keep on moving.

“Danke für Ihre hilfe, und traurig über die tür” Edna said to the priest as she walked away towards the entrance of the church.

“Es ist fein... Quincy” replied the priest in a suddenly cold voice. Edna turned around just in time to see the blade of the priest’s concealed sword shooting towards her. She rolled to the ground and reached into her bag. The priest began to laugh, and his wrinkled features melted away into blue liquid until a smaller, younger man stood before her. His skin was snow white, and he almost looked like a corpse. The man’s eyes were icy blue, as were his fingernails, and he was completely bald. But perhaps the most striking features of the man before Edna were the hole in his chest and the bone-like carapace positioned over his right arm. It was like he was some twisted combination of hollow and human; Edna could do nothing but stare in horror at the short, pale thing in front of her. “Sie wundern vermutlich, sich wem ich... gut, dadurch, daß Fall, ich Cinico Culoko sind, ein Soldat des Vermögens füehle” the thing said. “Prepare to be crushed.” Edna’s eyes opened wide as the thing charged towards her with its menacing sword in hand.


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Shadow spent the first night in a school building, he meditated into the night, levitating himself 1 foot above the ground while reciting mantras, "כתר, מלכות, חסד, בינה..."suddenly a voice disturbed him, he opened his eyes and in front of him sat a hollow, he recognized that hollow, "diegra…"

The hollow was happy and started to jump around, "I found you! I found you! I'll get a reward for finding you! You know how much Aizen is annoyed that you haven't done your part of the deal? Common lets go, ill open a garganta and get you out of here," the hollow started to turn around still happy and jolly for his would be reward. He was really surprised when that reward had come sooner than expected in the form of a silver Zanpakutou thrust into his chest, "wh…why?" the hollow asked with confused eyes as he looked into shadow eyes.

A pair of cold icy blue eyes looked down on him, "I still have something to do here…I can't leave yet, you are but a victim of circumstances," the hollow disappeared into a cloud of spirit particles and shadow returned to levitate above the ground reciting his mantras, "נצח, דעת, גבורה, מלכות..."


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Reich began to regret his decision of coming to see what this explosion was all about... Clearly Shinigami were involved as he traveled across the fire escapes of local buildings, scouting for people involved. The day turned to night as he finally decided to head back, having nothing to show for his endeavors as he shook his head up at the crescent moon.


He started to climb down the ladder and head for his bike something caught his attention... The cries of a Hollow, and another weakening reiatsu. Maybe he'll be able to have some fun afterall... Getting to see a Shinigami defeated by a Hollow and leeching an easy kill would conclude the evening as being fairly amusing.


Reich hopped on his bike and reved his engine faster than usual, speeding down the alley-ways for only about two and a half blocks as he slid sideways and hopped off, taking the key out and hooking it onto his chain as he jumps up onto a dumpster. There we go... This Hollow had a pretty massive reiatsu, arguably higher than the Gillian he saw a few years back.


He opened his eyes wide as he notices the Hollow's enemy isn't even a Shinigami... This person would definitely be worth some human interaction... Sparing his life wouldn't be entirely regretable...


Reich runs across the top of the dumpsters, caving in the top of each of them as he jumps to the ledge of a window and drops his trench coat to the ground, leaving him in nothing but a tank-top and jeans as he rips a Quincy Cross off of his chain and forms a bow, firing a barrage of arrows at the Hollows swinging tentacle as it swings at this strange person, pinning it's arm to the wall.


shinn fell on the street. The last cut in his stomach was quite deep. He gasped and puked some blood. The hollow didn't stop with just that. It swang its tentacle again. Shinn could hardly stand up. He really couldn't stop this attack.


Suddenly a barrage of arrows appeared and hit the hollow's arm. It was pinned at the wall. The hollow roared.
Shinn backed off quickly to keep some distance from the hollow. He shot his bullets at the hollow. The hollow was distracted that it forgot about shinn. He blocked the bullets too late that he was hit by one of them at the stomach.
Shinn gasped. He tried to see where these arrows came from. There, a man was standing, bringing something seemed to be a bow. He didn't know what that man was, but maybe he was something some hollow called as shinigami.
Although he still didn't know who or what that person was, he shouted at him, while he still gasped.
"Get lost! Don't interfere! This one's my prey!"


Reich could only chuckle to himself at the words of the injured combatant as he jumped from wall to wall along to alley-way, firing arrows at the Hollow. Chips of brick and dust floated to the ground with every relay he made, firing arrows but surprisingly, all were blocked by the Hollow's ability to harden its skin like a shield at will. Reich was definitely above average as far as Quincy's went... Even though he loved close-range combat as well, this wasn't an enemy he was about to arm-wrestle.


He finally lost his footing as the Hollow thrashed against both walls, causing the bricks to crash down. Reich somersaulted backwards as he could feel the pointy chips of brick poke at his flesh as he stumbled back to his feet. The Hollow was very close now, lifting its arms, ready to crash them down on Reich.


Reich knew it was a long-shot, but he tried to focus and use Hirenkyaku... No use! He crashed right into the Hollow's leg, feel ashamed and embarassed that the other combantant may have witnessed this, he rips the chain off his neck and pierces something into the Hollow's under-side, rolling back as it readies another attack, the moonlight outlining the beast as Reich wonders if this was such a great idea...


Shinn stared coldly at Reich, who was battling the hollow. It's not that he didn't need help, but he was still afraid that he would injure people as he did in the past. He really had to keep this person away. He shot several bullets again, this time at both reich and the hollow.


Reich rolls out of the way as he's grazed by several shots from the other combatant as jumps to his feet and grabs a Silver Tube from his back pocket. He drops it a few feet away from him and continues running to it, crushing it under his boot as he rips another Quincy Cross off of his dog-tags and pins it into the cement between two bricks.


"Don't worry buddy, you'll have your turn too!", he calls out to Shinn, mockingly, as the Hollow drops it's jaw, detatching it, like a snake as it dives for him. "Schultz!" Suddently a Quincy's bow appears on the underside of the Hollow as well as on the wall. The hollow flails about wildly as arrows are shot into its body from beneath, the side, and dead-on from Reich himself as it charges at him viciously. Reich runs back, hitting his ribcage hard on the cold steel of a dumpster as he twirls away from it, kicking a broken glass bottle and losing his footing as he falls onto his back with a thud. The hollow pierces a tentacle through his gut and lifts him into the air.


"Damn! I've told you to get lost!" He ran wildly to the hollow as it swang another tentacle at Shinn. He blocked it with his right arm instead of avoiding, learning from his past mistake. He grabbed that tentacle with his right hand as he transformed the right arm into normal arm and his left arm into hollowish arm. He cut one tentacle's tip as another one hit him. As expected, the hollow's movements were less coordinated since it couldn't focus, having two enemies around. Still, he was thrown to a wall. He kicked the wall and forcefully used another sonido, trying to free reich. He managed to cut the tip of the tentacle that stabbed reich, but then, he shortened his claw-sword and tried to punch reich away with his right hollowish arm.


Reich nurses his open wound as he bleeds heavily from the punch, getting sent through the air as he slides back on one knee. He takes another Silver Tube out of his back pocket with one hand as he holds it in his mouth, allowing this human or whatever he is to keep the Hollow busy. Reich rips the last few Quincy Crosses off his dog-tags and throws them into the air, biting down on the Silver Tube as he tastes the alminum and sulfur, knowing he's gonna have this aftertaste for a while, as he spits it to the floor.


"Schultz...", he murmers, as the Crosses all glow in the air, spinning randomly as they fire wildly like a machine-gun. Reich leans against the back of the dumpster as the arrows shoot in all directions, painting the Hollow's huge body, and probably hitting Shinn as well as they scatter...


Reich tries to stand up... Taking a deep breath as he gasps for air from the sudden movement... He holds his stomach tighter as he drops back down, planning his next move.


Blood poured from the wound on Shinn's stomach. He was reckless. Doing sonido with such a wound really was stupid. He gasped hardly, and kneeled as he felt intense pain. The man he punched seemed to do something. Whatever it is, he couldn't do a thing about it. An abundant amount of arrow suddenly appeared. He protected his head and his chest with his hollow arm. Not good enough but at least it would lessen the damage. The arrows hit him violently. Some of them are blocked while the others hit the left region of his stomach and both of his thigh. He tried to shoot some arrows to create an explosion. At least it damaged him less and could blow another arrows away, increasing his defense. He succeed, but now he really was a mess. The hollow swing its tentacles wildly. The tip of its tentacles received the most damage, but it could block most of the arrows. Still, some arrows hit it. Its stomach, thigh and left arm were hit by 3 arrows. While his mask seemed to get a scratch. The hollow roared painfully. It charged at Shinn who was trying to get up and stabbed his stomach wound with its claws. Shinn grabbed the hollow's arm with both of his arm, stopped the claw from advancing deeper. The hollow continued charging that Shinn was pushed backward and hit a wall. Still pushing its claw, it opened its mouth. It tried to eat shinn's head.


Reich reached for more Silver Tubes, patting the stitching on his jeans as he realizes he's lost them. The hollow cried out, defeaning Reich as he struggles to stay balanced on two feet. "There they are...", He thinks to himself, as he sees several Silver Tubes over near Shinn. Reich lifts his bow and charges at the Hollow as it opens its mouth, about to feast on it's victim as he realizes he may need to keep him alive in order for himself to survive as well, firing several arrows into the Hollow as he awkwardly Hirenkyakyu's into the Hollow's body, tackling it into the brick wall.


"This is it!" The rare chance suddenly came. Shinn was awkwardly weak but the chance would never happen anymore. Forcing his torn up body, he used sonido as Reich blocked the hollow's sight. He attacked with his right arm's claw-sword, just barely beside Reich's cheek. The hollow was shocked. It moved its head but it was too late. It got a huge scratch on its left cheek. Shinn switched his hollow hand. He turned the right arm to normal arm and his left arm to hollow arm. He stabbed the hollow's neck with the sword-claw of his left hollow arm, fixating it to the wall..


Blood splattered everywhere as the hollow roared hopelessly.
The source of most of the blood wasn't the hollow's body, though.
Shinn grinned as he felt dizzy because of the blood loss.
"End... this..! Shinigami!" he said as he still thought that Reich was a shinigami.


Reich turned his head as some of Shinn's blood splattered his face and arms after making his move, picking up several of his Silver Tubes scattered along the ground. He activates four of the tubes as the Hollow trashes about, leaking blood. Arrows and dents having painted it's body with blood, the Hollow crashes into the wall, collapsing part of the wall on itself. "Heizen!", He yells as the four tubes create a large rectangular beam, stretching itself in size for a moment before firing almost instantly into the hollow, cutting a rectangle through it's body as blood splashes out, as if a clog was holding back a flood...


Reich stutters back, bumping into the wall as he nurses his stomach, couching as he grins to himself having heard himself be refered to as a Shinigami. "Maybe this isn't the time for questioning...", Reich thinks to himself as he makes brief eye-contact with other fighter, putting his jacket on as he takes off towards his bike...


The battle was finally over. It was good that it ended this way. A little longer battle might kill him. And he was glad he could control himself until the very end. The grin actually indicated that his blood thirsty nature had started to surface. He walked toward the wall and leaned on it. He gasped although he was trying to stabilize his breathing. He looked at Reich, who walked toward his bike and started to walk away himself. He turned back once and shouted, "Hey! I really hate to admit it, but i owe you this one. I'll repay this later". Not interested to whatever answer Reich might say, Shinn walked away, while Reich went toward his bike. It's been a very tough day.

[Shdo]

Blutiger Kardinal!” Edna shouted as she crushed the silver tube between her hands. The hollow-human hybrid was almost upon her, but Edna had regained her composure. She would not be killed by this imposter, and as she stood up, her hands became rock-hard and took on a crimson shade. She put her hands in front of her, and her face became a blank slate, devoid of emotion.


“I’m going to gut you on my blade, Quincy!” the creature shrieked as its blade shot into Edna’s outstretched palm. But the blade did not pierce her skin. Instead, it just clanged off her hand like steel thrown against steel.


“You cannot cut my hands, imposter. Your blade is useless against them.” Edna grabbed the creature’s blade, and used it to pull the imposter towards her, with her hand pulling back for a massive punch. The creature knew what was coming, and it howled as the impenetrable first of Edna collided with its stomach, sending it backwards into the stairwell. But the creature was far from dead. Though it had been injured by Edna’s punch, it got back up on its feet quickly. It cracked its knuckles, and walked out of the stairwell towards Edna with one hand behind its back.


“Guess I underestimated you, Quincy. That ability of yours is pretty useful.” It grinned, revealing yellowed teeth and a thin blue tongue. “But let’s see how it does against a cero!” The thing pulled out the hand it had been hiding behind its back to reveal a ball of glowing red energy, much larger than the one the hollow in the abandoned house had shot at her. If that hit her, she was dead for sure. Edna was not daunted though, and reaching into her bag, drew out a silver tube with a moon engraved in the center. “Mond Kardinal!” she shouted as she threw the silver tube to the ground. Suddenly, everything turned pitch-black. The candles that had illuminated the church were blown out, and something covered up the windows that brought in light from outside. There was nothing but darkness. The hybrid paused for a moment. Whatever the Quincy had done, it had been effective. It could not see a thing. But, it still could hear, and the heavy breathing of the Quincy girl was all it needed to know where to aim the cero.


“I can’t see you, Quincy, but I can still hear you! Cero!” it shrieked, and a ray of red energy pulverized the area where Edna was located. Edna almost screamed from the pain she felt when the cero grazed her arm, but if she made any more sound, the thing would know right where she was. If she could just hold out for five minutes, she would be fine. But until then, she couldn’t make any sound at all.


The breathing stopped. Though the creature couldn’t see anything, it knew the cero had hit its target. The smell of burnt flesh reached its nose, and a smile crept across the face of the creature. Most likely the only thing left of that Quincy was her torso. But, it had better investigate and make sure the girl was dead. It didn’t want to leave the job undone.


Meanwhile, Edna lay as still as possible, fingering a different silver tube with a sun engraved in the center. Just one more minute, and this abomination would be finished..


So the Quincy was alive after all. It was a hardy little human; but no matter. In seconds it would be reduced to ashes. “So you were alive? I would congratulate you for surviving my cero, but there’s no use in praising those who are about to die.” It reached for Edna’s collar, and picked her up and held her above the ground. “This time” it said in a menacing voice, “I’m going to make sure that there’s nothing left of that beautiful face of yours.” It held its free hand up to Edna’s face and began charging another massive cero.

The cero was so close to her face Edna felt like she was being burned alive. As it grew in size, Edna suddenly realized the time limit was up. She dropped the silver tube in her hand, and as it collided with the ground, she shut her eyes tightly. A brilliant flash of light erupted from the tube, and the darkness that had surrounded the area dissipated before the growing light.

The thing dropped Edna to the ground, blinded by the flash of light. It stumbled around blindly, knocking over one of the candle stands, all the while screeching in pain. Though it attempted to open its eyes, everything was too bright and it instantly shut them tight again. That damn Quincy girl had blinded it, and it fell to its knees, searching blindly for Edna. “YOU..you..BITCH! I’LL CARVE OUT YOUR EYES!” it shrieked.

Edna lay perfectly still on the ground, knowing that if she made a sound, the creature would find her. She only had two silver tubes left, and she knew she couldn’t fight the creature, especially if it had some kind of special attack. She knew she had to retreat. Besides, the thing was only blinded momentarily, and once it regained its sight, Edna was doomed. Slowly, and as quietly as she could, Edna got to her feet. The crimson rock covering her hands fell away, and Edna turned and began to run.
The thing immediately took notice; the Quincy was running, and though it knew what direction she was running in, without sight it was useless trying to chase her. Even if it could charge up a cero and fire it in her direction, it would probably miss. It was best for now to wait in the church under the guise of the old priest and let its eyes heal. Though it badly wanted to impale the Quincy on its sword, that would have to wait. All things would come in good time.



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It was Grey’s 14th birthday. He was celebrating at a big house with his family and friends. It was a different party than the usual, this kid used to just invite a few friends and go to a dinner or to his house, but this time he had invited all of them, even those who he rarely talked to. “The party was so cool” was what everyone was thinking. A television, 3 consoles and 5 computers, a ping-pong table and different types of music to match everyone’s style, and most important of all, they were with their friends and enjoying a whole night with them. If it kept going like that, it would undoubtedly be one of the if not THE best party of the year. The house was in the forest, Grey had rented it there so neighbors wouldn’t whine about the noise. Inês, his childhood friend invited him to go outside for sometime, it was too noisy inside and she wanted to be alone with him. Grey suspected that she loved him, but he wasn’t sure about his feelings for her. A sound of something cracking is heard. “Grrr, they broke something” thought Grey, but it was already expectable that it would happen. But he was incorrect, the same sound is heard, and this scares the would-be couple, who start looking to every direction. Grey sees a shadow in the woods, a huge shadow… A monster. He had never seen anything like that. The lights in the house shut down, and a scream from some of the girls is heard. Everyone was looking trough the windows for the moon light… They kept laughing, talking, all relaxed. “What the… RUN! What are you doing?” His friends and family kept calm like nothing was happening… “Can’t they see him?” Watching from far, Grey saw the monster pulling his arm back… Getting ready to destroy the house.
NO! – Shouted grey. Everyone looked at him, the monster was almost hitting the house… Grey holds Inês and turns her, not being able to see what had happened. The monster looks at them next. In a low and scared voice, Inês asks her friend what is going on, but he replies saying that he wished to know too. Grey holds her hand and they run inside the house… Where they saw their friends, family… Dead… Bleeding all over.
"Fath… Moth… Ped… Lu…", he tried, but he couldn’t finish the words… All that horror…
Grey turns, being able to see the monster directly. Horror was the expected reaction for Grey to have… But no… Anger… Was the only thing that lived within him. However, all the courage falls down when the monster tries to attack Grey, who grabs Inês and start running. They were in the kitchen. Suddenly, thanks to the generator, the lights come up again and the micro-wave was making popcorn. The monster mouth opened, like if trying to talk. "So you can see me, surprising", it said, Inês asked what that was when she heard it, making the monster even more fascinated, that's what his words proved "Oh... She can hear me? That's also incredible!".
Grey tells Inês to run, who replies saying that she won't leave him, but is interrupted as grey pushes her outside and close the door, shouting at her to run. Afterwards, he picks a jar and throws it at the enemy. The monster starts to make fun of him, the jar didn't had any effect, he asks the kid what was that for, and he replies saying it was to buy time. After saying that, he looks at the micro-wave… The popcorn starts to fall on the monster, giving Grey some time to run. Fleeing from another way, he sees Inês, crying.
The monster didn't shut up, "Cheap trick! But I will get you both anyway, DIE".
Something appears in his hand… Fire…
Grey throws himself to the side, trying to avoid the attack… But the attack wasn’t sent at him. He looks to his left… And there was Inês, screaming as she burned to death. Grey couldn’t stand such a vision and faints saying
"It is all… my… faul…"


Raiy woke up because of a loud noise next to him he looked around and noticed that he must have felt asleep on the couch. He searched for the source of this irritating noise, it was his cell phone. “Of course…what else…?” he said, took the phone and opened it; he saw a map of this city and a blinking red light. Raiy jumped up, A Hollow!
“Why the heck do these guys have to appear in the middle of the night?!” he said while opening the window, he left his Gigai, jumped out and suddenly felt more spiritual energy all over the town, “oh my god…where did you sent me, Kyoraku??” and once again he ran towards a source of reiatsu, it shouldn’t be a strong hollow and no match for the 4th Seat of Squad 8…at least he hoped so.
After a few minutes Raiy reached a big house, “Oh no…” he said after seeing dead people all over the pace, he entered the house and ran into the kitchen, where he felt the reiatsu of the hollow. He saw a young boy standing right in front of it and just a few meter away another dead girl.
The Monkey-Like hollow didn’t seem to have noticed Raiy, he focused on the boy, who was standing before him, and raised his claw to attack, but the young Shinigami was faster, he pointed a finger at the Hollow’s raising arm and said: “Way of destruction, number 4, White lightning!” and then a bolt of lighting penetrated the arm, with a loud scream the creature turned around. “Who are you? A....Shinigami?” it asked, Raiy sighted and answered with and irritated undertone: “Yes indeed, a Shinigami, and don’t you have anything better to do then getting on my nerves!!?”
The Hollow looked at him, as if he didn’t know what to say, but then he raised his voice again: “I will KILL YOU!” and with this words it opened its mouth and fired a red Cero blast at Raiy, but the Shinigami drew hi Zanpakuto and blocked the cero, even tough he was thrown back against a wall. “Ok…that hurt, you know?“ he said, the Hollow didn’t answer, instead he jumped towards Raiy to hit him with both claws at once, but this time the Shinigami used Shunpo, avoided the hit and appeared behind it cutting through the hollow’s shoulder, once again it screamed. Raiy sighed “My, my you don’t really think you can beat a seated officer, do you?” and again his opponent opened his mouth to fire a cero, Raiy dodged it, with a jump, but the Hollow was faster and hit him with his claw, fortunately Raiy could raise his Sword to block the hit, however he was thrown back again.
“Ok that is definitely becoming annoying…” he said and pointed his sword at the Hollow, “Well, guess I’m going to end this now…I’ll show you my Zanpakuto’s true power…”. The hollow knew what would happen and it seemed that it was thinking if he should fight a Shinigami in Shikai just to eat 2 more souls, then he turned around, opened a passageway to Huerco Mundo and disappeared with the words “This isn’t over jet Shinigami!”
Raiy smiled “I can’t believe this works every time…as if I would use my Shikai on someone that weak…” he said and put his Sword back into scabbard on his back.


“Something just hit flesh. Something just got hit against a wall. Something…” Grey wakes up, he had heard the sounds of the previous battle but he thought it was just a dream… A DREAM! Everything was a dream, so he hoped…But all the hope is ruined when he sees the body of Inês. He gets up and starts moving to her body, trying to hold his tears. He kneels before his childhood friend, and grabs her hair. He looks at the house after, he couldn’t hold it anymore, and tears start to slowly fall down his face. He tries to clean them, but the only result he got was his lens falling. “If I hadn’t invited them, if the house wasn’t in this place, if I hadn’t separated myself from her, If I…” Grey is interrupted as he hears a strange sound, like if something was opening. He was without lens so his vision was disrupted, he couldn’t tell what it was but he saw something dark in the distance… it looked like, a portal. Something huge was coming out, could it be… the monster? Grey questioned himself, but the doubt is removed as he hears it speaking… It was that voice… “If I? Hell, it’s not your fault, I’m just TOO STRONG” Something starts to form in its mouth... A red/dark ball. A glimpse of fear is felt by Grey, but is soon vanished as he remembers what had happened to those who he cared for... Lust for revenge, was the only thing that Grey felt.


Raiy was sitting on a roof near the house where he just scared the hollow off, he thought it wouldn’t be worthwhile going back to sleep, because there would certainly appear another hollow, only to annoy him.
The young Shinigami was looking at the big, full moon and thinking about the boy, whose life he saved…what will he do now? It looks like his family and friends are dead...killed by a Hollow…just like his own.
Then he suddenly felt the Reiatsu again, he jumped up as quickly as he could and ran to the House again. “Damn it! This hollow is persistent!” after a few minutes he was there, again, he saw the dead people and ran once more into the big house and there he was the huge Monkey-like creature, in front of him, the Boy, he saved about an hour ago. Then the Hollow opened his mouth, formed a huge cero blast and fired it towards the boy, it was so fast that Raiy had no time to do something aga9inst it, so he used Shunpo and appeared in front of the hollows mouth, so that he would intercept the cero. Raiy was directly hit, catapulted back, broke-through a huge wall and finally landed outside…


Grey was seeing everything distorted, but he saw a black figure blocking the monster's attack. Presuming that he was his savior, he rushes to his aid. He found him under a few debris, he looked injured but sill conscious. It was odd, but Grey knew that this guy was the one who saved him the first time. It is like he had felt his presence before. The injured person noticed him but got surprised as something really not expectable happened… Grey picked his sword and started to run towards the monster.


Raiy was surprised that this human could see him…he really must have lots of spiritual energy, but he was even more surprised when the boy took his Zanpakuto and ran towards the Hollow, “What do you think you are doing, kid?!!” he asked as the hollow raised his giant claw, Raiy stood up again, even thought his body was hit by a strong cero it wasn’t injured badly, he used Shunpo again and appeared next to the boy, he pushed him back so that the hollow wouldn’t hit him, but instead Raiy was cut by the big Claw and was catapulted a second time outside, “Ok this definitely hurt…” he said sarcastically, but he knew that this was a critical hit, Raiy couldn’t even stand up…
What should he do? Was this the end? Killed by a Hollow? “Oh no…I won’t be killed by an ugly thing like you…” and the he stretched his arm towards the Hollow and used a Spell with his remaining Reiatsu: “Way of binding, number 9… Strike!“ and then the Hollow was engulfed with a red light and paralized, but Raiy knew it wouldn’t last long. His last hope was the boy, who was standing a few meters away, he knew what he was about do was illegal, but the Shinigami had no choice. “Hey you, kid! This stupid creature is about to kill us, so if you want to live come here…”


Once more Grey had a glimpse of fear, but it vanished it had to vanish, destroy that beast was the only thing he wanted. However, he couldn’t raise the sword to stop the monster’s attack, it is like the sword was rejecting to obey him. All the hope is lost as the gigantic claw is reaching his body, but suddenly, he is saved by the same person, who got critically injured once more by doing so. “Why is he risking so much to protect me?” Thought grey. He notices his savior hands glowing red, and after noticing him mumbling some words, the monster gets immobilized by a beam of red light. “Hey you, kid! This stupid creature is about to kill us, so if you want to live come here…” Live? What life was there to live…? He had nothing, but maybe he should do what the black-dressed person, said, maybe he could fulfil his wish… Revenge…
"There’s no life for me, but there is something that I still witness… *Looking at the monster and with a deep breath*… the desire for revenge. What should I do?"


Raiy coughed, took 3 pills out of his pocked and swallowed them, I hope this healing-pills work as good as that 4th Squad girl said he thought, then the boy was finally coming “ok kid…listen to me…we haven’t much time…since you can see me you have…enough spirit energy, don’t ask what that is,…so there is one…possibility: I can give you the half of my power…then you’ll be able to kill it…at least I hope so…” he coughed again, but the pain he felt all over his chest wasn’t as horrible as 2 minutes ago.
He looked at the hollow and it started moving slowly, it would soon break the spell, “good…” Raiy started again, but still coughing “First, give me back my sword!” with this sentence he took his Zanpakuto from the boy, “…never touch that again, without my authorization, got it?”
Raiy slowly felt that the healing pills where having effect, he shouldn’t have taken 3 of them, because of the side effects he knew that, but he also had to regain some reiatsu fast.
“look if I stab my Sword thru your chest, I can transfer some my powers to you…don’t worry it won’t hurt or something…this is our only chance to survive this…” so the wounded Shinigami raised his sword to the Boy’s chest, oh man, I hope that works. “I forgot…my name is Raiy, Raiy Dasc…”


“What if it doesn’t wor… No. He did everything to protect me, I have to trust him”. After looking once more at the monster. “I will do everything!” He thought. Holding the other guy’s sword, he said the words.
“And mine… my name is… Grey… Grey Perestrelo!” With this he stabs the sword trough his chest. A huge blast occurs, making their enemy fall back a bit. The dust disappears, and there was Grey, in black robes and with a sword in his hand. The monster tries to attack, attempting to punch, but the new-born Shinigami easily parries the attack with his sword, and swings it up, cutting the monster’s fist. Pain is shown by the cries and screams of the monster, and suddenly Raiy appears at it’s front, attempting to destroy the monster. Grey is surprised and shouts the word: “WAIT!”


Raiy looked at Grey, the boy- no the Shinigami, who was now fighting the Hollow, he did really believed it would work, but it seems like this kid really has Shinigami powers.
Raiy noticed the effect of the pills and stood up and slowly the Pain was vanishing, he knew that it was only temporarily and that he later would have to suffer the side effects of an overdose. Raiy followed the movements of the new Shinigami very carefully, they were not bad, but when he threw the hollow back, Raiy tought it would be better to help, he took the recovered reiatsu and appeared before the hollow, to deliver the finishing blow, as he heard Grey’s voice “WAIT!” the young Shinigami stopped immediately and turned around.
The Hollow took his chance and raised his claw as quick as he could, to hit Raiy once again. He wanted to use Shunpo, but he couldn’t, he was still too weak…


The monster used the distraction of Grey’s shout in order to raise his claw and attack Raiy, however, Grey was faster and blocked it. “Please… I need to do this”, he looks once more at Inês dead body, and made a sad face, “Please… Let me do it alone”. After saying so, he grabbed Raiy and failed back with a jump, waiting for his answer.


Raiy looked at Grey, normally he wouldn’t let him fight alone, but since he was hurt so badly, that he maybe just had enough power to escape…at least he hoped so. However he knew this “kid” just wanted revenge and he knew how it feels to be left alone, only feeling the wish for revenge. “Do what you have to do, kid…but do not let your emotions overcome you, because if…If that happens you will loose…” and then Raiy felt on his knees breathing heavily, but the pain in his chest was better, which means he should be able to move again soon, but for now the only thing he could do was watching and hoping this kid kills the hollow…


Grey was glad that Raiy understood him, and got ready to fight. He attracted his enemy to some distance from the hurt comrade, so he wouldn’t get hurt. They both charge at each other, the monster attempting to punch but Grey easily dodges his attack by moving his face to the left. He attempts to cut the monster’s wrist but the monster reacted fast and avoided it. The young Shinigami puts his sword high above his head and attempts to slice the monster, but again the monster evades his attack. Both jump back and the monster starts firing that destructive red ball from before, but Grey jumps in and tries to slash him, seeing there was no other chance the monster blocks his sword with his open hand. Blood spurs out of it, and even more spur when Grey swings his sword down, almost cutting that big hand in an half. The monster, using his hurt hand starts charging what seemed to be a fire ball. “Too slow!” said Grey in a silent voice, like if talking to himself, and as the monster notices he had already lost everything from his elbow. Some blood jumps to Grey’s face, but he ignores it. “Don’t get cocky!” said the monster, and after saying so he used hes tail and stroke Grey’s face, making him fly and hit the ground. At his front, the monster was already charging a fire ball, Grey couldn't avoid it, but he could avoid it's damage, that's what he thought. In answer to his thought, he slashed the earth and covered his eyes, making dust appear at his front that blocked much of the fire. Grey still got burned in several places, but if he had been directly hit he'd probably die. He gets up but is punched right in the face afterwards, the monster's hand being bigger than his head. This blow made him fly at such a force against a tree and even made it fall down. Breathing hard, Grey tries to charge once more, but hesitates as he notices that the monster’s left hand was charging another fire ball, and his mouth was charging that massive destructive red ball…


Raiy stood up again, when he saw that Hollow casting a cero and a fireball at the same time, at this rate he would kill Grey almost instantly “Damn it! I knew this would happen…” he said and with his regained reiatsu Raiy jumped over to Grey grabbed him and used Shunpo to get away as fast as he could, they had no chance against this Hollow right now, but he knew this wouldn’t be the end.
After a minute Raiy stopped just a few meters from his apartment away, “well…that was close…” he said and noticed that he was sweating, this few Flash Steps exhausted him to much. He wanted to talk to the young Boy…or Shinigami…but he noticed that he was unconscious, so he took Grey into his apartment and put him on his bed, so he could rest, after all he had a really hard day, he thought
After that Raiy wanted to lie down on the couch, but unfortunately the side effects of the pills he took seemed to appear in form of stomach pain. “Oh my god…” Raiy said as he suddenly felt the pain, but the only thing he could do was slipping into his Gigai, lying down on the couch and after cursing “that stupid 4th squad wanna-be Shinigami” for not telling what the side effects were, he finally fell asleep…