Bleach Fan-fiction

The first story I will write, is a story inspired by the Japanese manga, Bleach. Many of the characters will be from Bleach. I will attempt to incorporate some background into the story so that anyone who hasn't read Bleach might be able to understand. The characters, places, and situations in this story that are not my own all belong to Kubo Tite and the people who write Bleach.


1000 years ago...

Aya balanced easily on the sharp edge of the cliff above the battlefield for a seconds before flipping backwards, and allowing herself to fall through the air. The drop was over a hundred feet and below her, a wild battle was raging. Aya started to draw Spirit Energy to her feet and she began to slow her descent. Directly underneath her, there was a Soul Reaper, who was fighting with a Hollow. Aya landed gently on the Hollow's head and slid her Soul Cutter smoothly into the Hollow's skull. As the Hollow disintegrated, she jumped off its back to the back of another Hollow and proceeded to slash though its neck. Around her, the people of the 2nd Squad, and the Stealth Force tore their way through the army of Hollows that was attacking the southern part of Rukongai. With a brilliant smile drawn across her face, Aya flashed from Hollow to Hollow, slicing through their masks and heads. Every so often, she would hear the cries of her men as a Hollow caught them be surprise and she would recoil inside but this was battle and there were going to be casualties. Even with her speed and skills, her black Soul Reaper robes were slashed in many places and her white Captain's cloak was splattered with blood. The Soul Reapers fought with the Hollows for hours and then, just as the tide was turning, Aya caught sight of a strange man standing on top of a hill. She paused mid-attack because this man was not part of her squads and anyone else should not have been in that area. His hair was long and dark and it flapped and fluttered in the strong wind that flew through the plane on which they were fighting. He was tall, with broad shoulders but he did not look particularly strong. He wore a long, gray coat that opened over his bare chest and he had a black sword at his waist. He was watching her and the moment their eyes met, he started to speak. It was obvious even though Aya couldn't hear him, that the words were the beginning of an incantation. Aya frowned and then started to race through the battlefield but every step she made, she was blocked by more and more Hollows. She didn't know what the incantation was but she knew she had to stop it. A Hollow leaped up in front of her and she killed it in one move but no matter how many she killed, even more entered their place. With a growl of frustration, she called out "Slice, Shadow Walker," she called and her Soul Cutter turned gray. With her Soul Cutter she cut through her opponent's shadows killing them the moment her sword sliced through them. Sometimes, she was even able to get more than one Hollow in a single move. She watched the man as he raised his hand and pointed at her, finishing the incantation. A white orb flew at her. Aya tried to dodge but it followed her and hit her in the back. It didn't hurt, though, and it took Aya a second to realize that the ball hadn't hit her, it had engulfed her as well as most of the surrounding Hollows. She called out to the man but he just closed his hand and the small gap that had acted as the entrance to the world, vanished. Aya looked up to find herself in what seemed like a parallel direction surrounded by over a thousand Hollow.

Back in Soul Society...

"Is that your whole report?" newly appointed Captain Commander Yamamoto Genryuusai asked.
"Yes, sir," the man from the Second Squad said.
"This is bad news indeed," the Captain Commander said, "We have not only lost many men in this battle but Captain of the 2nd Squad, Shihouin Aya, as well. We must work hard to get them back. Please give a description of the man you saw to the 12th Squad and have Lieutenant Kaname Syaoran of the 2nd Squad send a few of his men out to search the battlefield again. Take a few specialists from the 12th squad to analyze the remaining Spiritual Energy. We will continue to search for this man and for our missing Captain."
"Yes, sir," all the Captains in the room said.

Aya...

Aya was disconcerted. As soon as she had taken in the situation, she had run away from the Hollows, not ready to take them on, but she knew that they would be after her soon as they tracked her Soul Energy. She looked around her. The parallel world that she was in, was made of nothing as far as she could tell. Literally nothing at all. There was no light, no dark, no up, no down, north, south, east,west. It was horribly confusing to look ahead and see nothing at all. Not darkness or a light at the end of a tunnel but nothing at all. The more Aya tried to analyze it, the more her head hurt so she stopped and concentrated on what she knew what there. She held her Soul Cutter out in front of her and concentrated on how solid it was. Her headache slowly subsided and she sighed as she sat down on nothing, wondering why that statement made sense.
"I have to get out of here," she said.