Bikou vs Kirigane!

[ Bleach ost-Bl_86]

Bikou dodged as multiple bolts of lightning were sent hurtling at him by the Captain of Squad 9. 

*Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt!

" Come on, Captain, you can do better than that!" Bikou exclaimed.

Koga disappeared and appeared behind Bikou with a bolt of lightning in his hand. Bikou turned around and blocked the sword with his staff. He pushed the captain back and lunged at him.

Koga parried the staff. " Hmph!" Koga swung his blade in a straight horizontal line and sent a stream of lightning scrapping towards Bikou.

Bikou raised his staff, and though he deflected a majority of the attack away, he could still feel the surge of energy running up towards his fingers.

Bikou spun his staff repeatedly, while Koga flew towards him. When he was close, Bikou thrusted his staff forward, like a spear and shot out a javelin of energy right a Koga.

Koga, saw the attack leaving the tip of the staff, and halted in his tracks.

" Raiga Yoroi!" Koga created a shield of lightning right in front of him and blocked the attack. The explosion consumed Koga, throwing him a great distance, but with his shield he remained relatively unharmed. " Damn!" He cursed. " This thing is stronger than before. It's keeping up my Raiga." Koga muttered.

Koga looked up, as his body exited the smoke, and when his vision cleared Bikou was standing over him with his staff, mid swing.

" SHIT!"

*Smack!

Bikou smacked Koga down to the ground and bombarded his position with cero. 

Each attack was meant to kill the captain; however, it wouldn't be that easy. 

Out of the corner of his eye, Bikou spotted and a chain of lightning heading straight towards him, that turned into a dog.

" What the hell?" Bikou swung his staff at the dog, however the dog seemingly phased through his weapon, and bit down on his arm. " DAMN!"

' What was that? His attack just phased through my cero. ' Bikou stared down at his arm, in surprise. He was bleeding from the palm of his hand all the way to his shoulder. 

Bikou heard the sound of dogs barking and looked up as more of those lightning dogs raced towards him. 

Bikou leaped away as one of the dogs tried to latch onto him, jumping higher into the air in a bid to escape the deadly beasts.

" My Raiga is a lightning based Zanpakuto, that allows me to summon lightning as sharp as a blade. With that Lightning I can shape and form it into anything. My technique Ryoken, creates dogs made out of multiple bolts of lightning that chase my opponents down, they cannot be deflected. And their bite..."

Bikou looked back as the pack of dogs began converging on him.

" Is quite explosive!" Koga exclaimed.

Bikou turned around as the hounds closed in, and they exploded. Koga watched closely as the hounds all turned into a giant sea of lightning, swallowing Bikou whole.

Keeping his gaze carefully on the Hollow's position, Koga watched as Bikou eventually fell from the sky and landed on the hard ground below. He was breathing heavy from the blows he suffered. 

Koga stepped towards the ground and landed right in front of the crater that Bikou was left lying in. He looked into the smoking whole and saw, Bikou laying there, a portion of his facial mask had been blown off, revealing his eyes. They were a bright orangish-red eyes. 

" Funny. Underneath that mask, it almost looks like there's a man." Koga spoke. " You fought well. But I'm ending this now! Raiga!" Koga summoned a bolt of lightning in hands, ready to deliver the final blow.

However.

As Koga moved towards Bikou, the ground beneath him started glowing a bright blue color. 

Bikou's grin grew large and wide. His eye's, now more expressive than before, expressed nothing but anger, and a sick twisted sign of joy.

Realizing he had been caught in a trap. Koga cursed himself and tried to brace himself as best as possible as a massive pillar of bright blue fire exploded out of the ground, engulfing the both of them.

Bikou let out a blood curdling laugh as he and Koga were burned, though being the one who initiated the attack, Bikou suffered significantly less damage than Koga, who lost his captain Haori completely. 

Koga took to the sky, trying and eventually finding an escape from the fire. However, he would soon find entering the sky an even more dangerous zone. 

The moment, he left the radius of the fire, he stared down at Bikou as he stood up from the crater.

" Damn. I can't believe it...." He cursed. He held one of his burnt arms, in pain." That fire... It blew away my lightning shield." He muttered. 

It was then Bikou raised his hand towards Koga, causing the captain to raise his blade again. 

Koga watched carefully as the smiling Hollow, extended the palm of his hand, as if calling something. Suddenly a red ball appeared next to Koga, startling the captain. 

Koga's head turned slowly upon the realization. 

It was a cero, and it had appeared out of nowhere.

Koga watched as the small ball of explosive energy expanded outwards into a greater size.

The great ball of energy engulfed Koga's entire body, swallowing him in a massive blaze of fire. 

' I don't believe it.' Koga thought as the searing pain spread throughout his body. ' Is this it? Is this really how I'm going to die?' He asked himself. ' Alone at night, with no one around?'

' No.'

' It can't end like this.'

' Can it?'

Well within the soul society, the Captain of Squad 3 Makoto Shirahashi sat on top of her barracks, looking out towards the direction that Koga and Kensei had gone, feeling the wavering of spiritual pressure, like candles flickering in the wind. 

" Come on, Koga." She whispered. " You have to come back. We're waiting for you."

Koga's eyes suddenly shot back open, as if a second life had been breathed into his body. And suddenly a massive storm cloud gathered over him.

 Bikou watched as the clouds began rolling in, and massive bolts of lightning started striking his Cero Grande.

" What? What's happening?!" He shouted.

Those lightning bolts striking the cero, suddenly turned a bright crimson red, blowing away the remnants of the cero with ease. 

And there in the middle of a giant red haze of lightning, stood Koga, two distinct blades in his hands.

' Is that?!'

[ Reminiscence.]

" BANKAI! SHINKU SENKO RAIGA!"

" That's... His Bankai?!"

"Raiga is the strongest lightning type Zanpakuto in the soul society. Shinku Senko Raiga, summons storm clouds over my head, and all the lightning within them, becomes my weapon. Like two Crimson Fangs. I am Koga Kirigane! The God of Lightning! This is where the real fight begins!"

To be Continued!

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