Invasion of Huecco Mundo

"What…" I say looking up from Soi-fon's face into Shinobu's eyes. "And thats not all. Many others died as well in Hueco Mundo." this time Giyu chimed in. "But how? With 2 squads how could something like this happened!?" I ask confused.

"We were ambushed by 2 arrancars." Soi-fon said speaking up. Looking down at her angry expression caused my heart to ache from the pain in her eyes.

"Let's go to my squads barracks. We will count our losses there." I say walking off, leading the group of 3, including her lieutenant Omeda.

Once we arrived, I dismissed Shinobu to tend to those who could be injured still and brought Giyu and Soi-fon into my office. "So…how many died?" I say sighing into my seat. "43 people. Most of them being lower rank. They died instantly from the ambush sadly." Soi fon says slouching into the seat.

"Kairu died protecting the others… But at least we got some information on them." Giyu says with stress marks under his eyes. "For starters they are apart of a large group working under Aizen. There are at least 9 others on par or even stronger than him!" Giyu says reading off the report in his hands.

"Aizen that bastard…" I grumble, clenching the hilt of my zanpakto. "And the abilities of the arrancars. They have hardened skin, the ability to shoot ceros. High speed mobility similar to our shunpo and most importantly explosive strength."

"The worst part is, I couldn't protect anyone without endangering them as well…" Soi fon says aggravated from her defeat. She could only watch as some of her fellow soul reapers be slaughtered mercilessly.

"I've heard enough. I'm going to Hueco Mundo tomorrow." I say angrily fully planning on razing the place to ash. "I'm coming with you." Soi fon declaired

"No, you will stay here and recover with the others. Besides…you would only hold me back." I say leaving the room leaving the two digest this information.

Deciding not to waste any time I head towards the kido corp one last time for the day and ask them to take me to Huecco Mundo which the reluctantly agree to. And again while I waited Soi fon continued to protest and go along side me. "Listen, I know how much this means to you. Trust me I do. But what I'm about to do… you would be caught up in it. What I don't want is someone I care about dying by my blade." I say putting my hand on her head.

"Stop understanding me! Is it because I'm a woman?! What makes you think i can't take care of myself!" She continues yelling out drawing the attention to the kido corp.

I crouch down to her height and look her in the eyes momentarily before I reply. "I never said such a thing… I was just telling you because my bankai is too destructive. Even when I try my best to control it at my current strength, it will cause harm to everything and everyone alike." I say putting my hands on her shoulders.

"So please… for me. Stay here." I say giving one last reassurance as I see the portal taking form behind her.

"Don't die." I hear her say as I stand up and walk past her. "I wouldn't dream of it." I say one last joke before disappearing into the portal as it closes behind me.

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"Aizen-sama, it's just as you've said. He is on his way towards Huecco Mundo." Tosen, a man with tanned skin and a visored over his blinded eyes says towards the man.

"So predictable. Send who you please. We need to continue our work on secret weapon against Yamamoto and him." Aizen says to the man as he folds his arms with a smile on his face.

"But be wary, among the other captains, he is one of the strongest. Send atleast 2 espadas." Aizen says as his face turns serious for a moment, sipping his tea.

"Will do Aizen sama." Tosen says before leaving to who knows where.

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"That's one down" I say cutting down an Adjuchas.

Ever since I entered Huecco Mundo I followed the tracks that our squads left. Or what was left of them. It was hard to stay on course but I managed to much to my delight.

Along the way I would kill any and all hollows that I'd see. No matter if they were a gillain or a fish-bone level hollow.

I continued until I finally found traces of battle. This place was utterly destroyed… with a large sword slash being prominent in the middle of it. There was other craters with blood and even traces of ceros.

They were definitely ambushed by an arrancar. Though I can't get the reiatsu. It's been too long and it's barely noticeable.

I continue the path, going straight foward, staying wary of my surroundings at all times. "Well aren't we lucky!?" I hear a voice call out from behind me causing me to stop in my tracks.

"So they sent another captain huh? Heard the last one was just a utter disappointment. You better be better than the last bitch!" He yells as I turn to face him.

He has short messy blue hair, sharp eyes and a feral look in them. And there was another man next to him. He had shoulder length hair and beutiful rainbow eyes.

"It's a shame I couldn't meet her. I heard she was a beauty. Oh and there was another cute lady! Do you think they'd let me eat them?" He said energetically, basically bouncing around the blue haired man.

"Get away from me you sick freak." He said with a disgust apparent from just being associated with the man.

Deciding this was enough I finally speak up, with the last bit of rationality I have. "I will ask this once. Who are you." I say while narrowing my eyes further examinating them. The one with the blue and messy hair had the number 5 plastered proudly on his chest while the blond one had 4 on his left hand.

"Me? Well if you insist." The blond one said stepping up. "My name is Douma, I'm an arrancar" he said bowing slightly before a wicked grin came across his face.

"And your opponent!" He said before using some time of movement technique, dissapearing upon my eyes.

The blue haired one had an annoyed look as he decided to sit this one out. "Douma you bastard. Always taking all the fun away." He said while sitting down.

The man in question finally reappeared with his sharp fan blade only inches from my face. "If that's how it is…" I say instantly drawing my sword, deflecting the blow.

But this doesn't discourage him. He continues slashing away in my direction, aiming for vital areas and mixing feigns into it.

This left me on the defensive before I thought I finally got down his movements.

But then he put out his hand towards my chest as he charged up a cero. "Tch!"

I quickly dodge before activating my shikai, which causes douma face to one of interest. "So you're finally trying? Delightful!" He says before swiping his fan as my body gets encased in ice.

"Maybe I should do the same." He says while licking his fan with a blissful smile on his face. I quickly melt through his ice with anger evident on my face as I get into a sword stance.

This time, this time his face freezes for a moment. As if he is remembering something ingrained into his very soul, before his face morphs into one of fear.

I leap towards him using sun breathing, not giving him the chance to run away. "First form: Dance" I say while slashing towards him as I start not the 13 forms but all 16 forms in a quick and fluid motion!

The results was catastrophic for the environment, as multiple explosions went off from the destructive flames.

"I know this swordsmanship… but it's different somehow…" Douma mutters while dodging one of my attacks. I ignore him before I cast a simple bakudo #1 Sai to halt his movement for even a fraction of a second.

This lead to me succfully cutting his chest, opening a wound from his shoulder to his waist! Though he continues to look unfazed as he jumps back as ice fills the gap to stop the bleeding.

"Do I perhaps…know you?" Douma says as a smile spreads across his face as he regains momentum using that speed technique of theirs.

I continue to ignore him and track his reiatsu and follow using my flash step that was slightly slower. 'Does he specialize in speed?'

"You're quite fast. A pity, speed isn't my strong suit." Douma says as he disappears from my eyes to appear behind me with a fully charged cero.

It sends me flying forward along with my momentum from flash step until I finally stop hitting the ground with a thud. "My my, and here I thought you were a challenge." Douma says while walking up to me.

"A challenge? Fine I'll give you one." I say getting up, ignoring the sand on my body. I momentarily check the wound from before. It took a small chunk out of my waist as I was lucky enough to dodge to minimize the damage.

I cautionize the wound before I get into a sword stance once more, this time with one hand to my side. I flare up my reiatsu as I begin to prepare 3 different bakudo. The first being Sai to give me a diversion.

The second being rikujoro, which pin him with 6 beams of light. And the last one being my favorite, Izaratoki. I form a bubble the size of his body causing him to slow down all movements instantly.

Seeing as he is no longer able to move I stab out my sword toward his chest before a thick layer of ice blocks it.

"Resurrection!" He yells out breaking free from the bakudo as his reiatsu grows exponentially and gets stronger by the second.

When he finished he looked akin to a giant ice demon, with black ice going up his forearms and ice covering his back. His dazzling eyes stared down at me momentarily watching my every move before he finally moved.

This time being even quicker than before! He sent a kick landing square on my chest sending me flying once more coughing up blood.

'No wonder she was defeated…' I think to myself getting up while wiping the blood off my face. But douma wasn't giving me any time to recover, he appeared above me instantly aiming a dragon made of ice towards me.

"Advent of the Ice Dragon" the dragon comes crashing down at blinding speed as I quickly flash step away, tying to find a opening. He continues the rain of dragons for a minute before I finally get a chance to breath.

"Stop dodging already. This is no fun!" He said pouting in the sand. "Fine… Bankai."

My reiatsu spikes dramatically causing both the blue haired arrancar that's watching and douma eyes to widen.

My reiatsu continues to grow and burn before it finally reaches its "peak" as the flames around my body settles down revealing my white sword. "Amaterasu no Okami."

I swing my sword in a casual manner as a thick slash of flames leap forth from my blade heading towards douma materialize. "Ice wall!" He yells out in panic, but to no avail it cuts straight through like butter.

"Grimjow! Are you going to continue to watch?" He yells out after narrowly dodging the blow, loosing an arm in the process.

"Tch, fine" he said while getting up before adorning a feral grin. "From now on, this is a 2 vs 1!"

End of chapter

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Sorry sorry, was getting my hair done. Anyway like the new style I'm going for? Usual when I write fights it's more of a direct way, yet still entertaining. The problem was the lack of dialogue mid fight (in my opinion)

Also, Yoriichi doesn't really remember douma, he only seen him breifly once.

Next 2-3 chapters will conclude this arc and go into the invasion of karakura town. And no Grimjow doesn't die here. He is Ichigo's dynamic rival Afterall and I need him in the story.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed. Stay safe!