Chapter 60: Til death do us part...
(Old note) A/N: Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that I've chosen to use a classic from bleach :D! I wanted to give the beginning of the fight more of the Bleach feel than most I've written. Anyway, this chapter is pretty long, it was 14 pages (aka 5k words x.x) long and it took forever to write XD!
Two songs will be listed here, they may be short but the fight itself isn't as long as the ones Kaiorin gets into.
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In the gothic shop, Aurora was down in her own chamber sitting on her throne. In one hand she had an Englishmen teacup filled with blood and a saucer underneath. Slowly, the cup rose to her dark violet lips, sipping some of the substance in an elegant manner. Her tongue slipped out and licked her upper lip, wiping the blood that was left behind. With a few chuckles escaping her mouth, it slowly zoomed out and showed that she had her black hat on.
As per usual, it was hiding the upper half of her face, only allowing her lower face to be seen. Her sitting posture was the same as before, one leg crossed over the other except one arm held the bottom of the saucer while the other gripped the cup by its handle. "Donieri...~" she began, soon having it show Maiya kneeling before the vampire with her elven-looking eyes viewing the floor. "Tatsibura said he would take care of Koumetsu and Setsuen... So, I have a special task for you.~" With her words, Maiya rose her head in shock with her one non-covered eye-widening.
"What is it?" Now she was curious, she's never assigned special tasks to neither her nor Haro. Seeing the vampire set her cup aside and take a stand, she looked away with her elven mauve ones. Hearing the footsteps from her clogs grow closer, she clenched her fists and thought about what could be so special about the task. Suddenly, she felt a hand get placed upon the top of her head and slowly rub; her gaze looked up to view Kisaki and confusion was clear on her face.
"Dear Donieri... I wish for you to accompany me to the world of the living.~ It has been centuries since I've gone there, by now there is bound to be abnormal beings there for me to clean up; why don't you come with me later, I know Tatsibura will not be able to join us..." she darkly spoke as if pain hit her throat and tried to cover it with an ominous tone.
That frightened Maiya, just those words confused her...What does she mean by that?! she mentally panicked, thinking about the many meanings behind those words. Though without hesitation, she nodded and stood to her feet. "How are we going to get there, I mean...we can't open a senkaimone," she answered with doubt in her voice, her brows knitted with uncertainty.
"Silly girl.~ Do you doubt my knowledge, even though I am the one...who created the very first reiatsu cyborg?" Aurora questioned with confidence lacing her words, then out of nowhere she flipped open her fan from behind her and began fanning herself.
"N- No...sorry.." Donieri apologized and averted her gaze, just to receive a pat of reassurance on her shoulder.
"Now, come.~ We must prepare, you never know what abnormal beings lie ahead," stated the lady and paced over towards the same lever as before, that she pulled. She opened the door and it showed the very Cyborg of whom she was talking about. "Come, Reicon, I have a feeling you will be needed when we go out to the world of the living.~" As if on cue, the said cyborg known as Reicon rose his head.
His head once dangled like some machine that was turned off, until it rose. Automatically, the bindings that held him in place opened on their own and he took one step forward. There was a small step, so when he put his foot down after stepping forward his foot made a slight clunk. Nothing but silence came from the male Cyborg as he walked past the vampire and elven-eyed girl. He walked, his body swayed slightly due to his broad shoulders and muscle mass, he almost eight-foot-tall. His shirt-like trench coat waved behind him along with his samurai ponytail. His head lowered a bit, turned to view the woman behind him over his shoulder, and waited.
(This is a very old picture of him that I made long ago, but I have a couple of newer ones that I'll show in later chapters. This picture was made during a fight with a certain soul reaper whose name I won't mention.~ Anyway! He's got better pics so look forward to more!~)
"Follow me, you must rejuvenate your reiatsu; you haven't been activated in a long time...perhaps a few eight hundred years or so.~" Aurora gestured for him to follow, so he did and she brought him to a hidden room within the chamber. The room had a long table in the center with cave flooring and walls. Only a single light shone down upon the table, barely lighting up the room. She pointed to the table, making the cyborg walk over and lay down on it. "You do remember how to do this, correct?~ Because I certainly do not wish to do this manually. We have a limitless supply of water down here, so take as much as you like.~ Limitless amounts of water equal up to limitless amounts of reiatsu.~" Kisaki stated while continuing to fan herself. She watched the cyborg with a smirk evident and knew he understood what he needed to do.
Not once did Reicon answer, he only rose the palm of his hand up above him and stretched out his fingers. In the palm, a hole opened up and on the inside, was a bright lemon-yellow light. In his vision, it showed words scrolling up like some screen on a computer. His vision was normal but had the outlining of yellow around the rims. On the left-hand corner, numbers began to increase showing its progress of reiatsu rejuvenation. Throughout the air of the room, reishi began to spiral like some funnel and got sucked in.
Aurora smirked, before having mental thoughts roam her mind. It's better for him to lay down and absorb reishi from the air...~ Standing up takes longer. After all, recovering reiatsu through reishi is a slow process.~ she mentally noted as if reminding herself.
~~~Elsewhere~~~
Morgus was heading back down to Yamamoto's lab, planning on writing a report and leaving it on his desk. He was humming in delight and Yachiru was eating her candy, he could feel Haro's presence behind him but didn't act. The half-breed knew that if he attacked first, he would be going against the Head Captain's orders and would have a high chance of going into prison for a much longer period. He got all the information he could get from there, he knew of Kisaki's location so he was more than happy to reveal it to the old man.
Behind him and Yachiru, Haro was walking on top of the tall walls that were on either side of the path. His smirk had one fang poking out from a corner, whilst his yellow diamond vampire slits focused on the black and brown-tipped male. How lovely, it appears luck was on his side today...~ That pink-haired girl is accompanying him, too bad... I guess I'll have to wait until she's gone.~ he mentally sang with his hypnotic vampiric voice. Seeing the girl jump up and down all of a sudden, he stopped and crouched.
"Setsu Setsu, I'm going to Kenny's place after this!~" she chirped and danced around playfully until her eyes landed on the unopened bag of soul candy. "You gonna eat that?" she questioned and blinked her eyes cutely with a grin.
"Of course not, I'm saving it for my sister.~ It is a present for her, I know she never had a lot of candy growing up," he replied and tucked the bag somewhere within the cloak, hidden from plain sight now. "Now come on, we must hurry; you can't be out any later than this, it's not good for your health.~" he teased and smiled falsely with his gaze closed.
"Okay! I wanna color when I get back to Kenny's, I wanna draw too!" Yachi happily exclaimed and giggled. After a while, they had gone up to the Head Captain's office and wrote a full report on the mission he was given, with the elder's Lieutenant standing next to him.
"There...~ Now, I'll be leaving... Some other important matters have occurred, I must be off.~" sang the murderous man with a dark expression and was about to leave when he noticed Yachiru clinging to his cloak; he peered down to view the said pinky then frowned at her expression. "Yes?" he asked in a rather displeased voice, hoping for a proper answer.
"Aren't you supposed to head back to the prison cell?" she questioned with a confused feature to her.
"Hmhm...~ Yes, indeed but I must attend to something before I return," he stated and calmly left through the door that they stood in front of. He left the girl there to ponder, soon just going with the flow and heading out the door too; she was heading back to her Captain's office.
After a moment of pacing down the pathway again, he kept his cloak on and waited for the said Vampire to appear.
Now...he was alone...he knew Tatsibura was there, so he waited with a sadistic grin on his lips. The sunglasses he had was off now, he had taken them off after he left the shop. All that was seen now, was shade veiling over his upper face due to the cloak being over his head. The cloak was still wrapped around his frame, so from afar, he looked like a shady and mysterious figure. "I know you're here, Tatsibura...~ Why not come out and play, hm?" he was still behind him, the scene remained on Morgus's frontal region and only showed the vampire appearing from behind by jumping off the edge.
Haro's features had a cocky closed smile and bloodthirsty eyes. "Oh, how you wound me, I was only trying to play hide and seek!~" Haro acted, rubbed one eye like he was crying, and puffed out his lips in a pout.
"Oh...?~ Well, while you hide, I shall go and look for you elsewhere. How about I start counting...don't worry... I'll close my eyes...because I won't need them to see where you're going...~" Setsuen chuckled darkly, opened his cloak, and brushed it off. As if on Tue, the vampire laughed and gripped the hilt of his zanpakuto.
"Setsuen, playing hide and seek with you would be hard...so, let's play tag!" he exclaimed with threat lacing his voice and lunged at the man. He had leaned over slightly and flash stepped, planning on slicing Kai's brother in half. Much to his unfortunate luck, his blade clashed with Morgus's. Setsuen had unsheathed his zanpakuto just in time and held it against Haro defensively.
Both men were close to each other's faces, both had open smirks and shadows over their eyes. Only Morgus's...made him look like some murderer that was in the act of killing, during that moment. "Let's take this elsewhere...Tatsibura.~ In a more...open location and not as populated by others.~ Wouldn't want anyone to catch us fighting, would we? After all..." he paused, leaned forward more, and gazed into the vamp's slits. "They would catch you and find out your little secret...which...I wouldn't mind...~" he finished and lowered his voice into more of an intimidating one.
"A new location works for me, Setsuen...~" Tatsibura stated in reply, soon both of them vanished from sight and were nowhere to be seen. Morgus had raced off into the distance, making Haro follow after and they ended up at an old ruin. Stoned buildings, rubble on the ground, it looked like some gravesite without its gravestones... The ruins looked aged, cracks were in the walls, and the buildings had roofs missing, while some had their entire half gone. The ground looked as if a fire had taken place there and ash-covered it for miles.
They were secluded from everything else now, no one to bother them...it was just those two... Morgus stood in an opening, where Haro was close to a broken wall from one of the gray-stoned ruins. Both their gazes were locked onto each other, not once averting them... "Well, Setsuen...?~ Shall we begin?" he asked with his hypnotic vampiric tone and his hand was still on the hilt of his zanpakuto. He unsheathed his blade, stabbed the tip of the sword into the ground, and kneeled down on one knee. In side-view, the scene showed the man's mouth with an open smirk.
One hand on the grip, while the other hand was flat on the ground. "Consume...Kyuuketsuki...~" he commanded his blade. His sword got sucked harshly into the surface and pulled his hand down along with it, due to his grasp still remaining. Blood had pooled around the spot where it had sunk into, soon being pulled back out roughly as if he was trying to pull someone up by their hand. His sword was different completely... Its color was black with the hue of blood shining across it and its shape was that of a Celtic cross. At the ends of the arms and head of the cross, it was pointed into two prongs. On top of the head, had a dark red bulb that seemed to be filled with blood. The bulb was shaped like a droplet of rain, tear, or blood and it shined like glass. At the end of his blade, there was a silver metallic covering that made it look like some sort of piercing weapon. "Now, your turn...~" he mocked, with his free hand's index finger gesturing for him to do so.
Morgus giggled, closed his eyes, and took out his twin short swords. "I'll get my answers from you one way...or another... I will torture you, slowly slice up your limbs and bodily parts... When you scream, I'll remember it as if it were a mere precious memory.~" he sang, opened his eyes back to the man, and kept his dark grin.
"No need... I'll tell you because you'll be dead before you even get the chance to tell anyone else.~" Haro stated confidently, watching the half-breed intently.
(Just in case you forgot, lol xD!)
Morgus chuckled and stated his shikai command. "Demolish them all, Makkuro Raion..." With that, his twin short sword zanpakuto, morphed into long metallic claws. Black fur was around his wrists and half of his forearm, making the metallic claws appear as if they were poking out of the fur. "Do tell then and we'll see how the outcome goes in the end.~" he demanded, lowered his head, and allowed shade to hover within his features.
"Ooooh, absolutely.~ You see...Aurora Kisaki, our leader...is the one behind all of the hybrid and abnormal-being deaths. The first time she attacked a hybrid, was to save them from themselves. She believes that all of those kinds of beings must die, claiming that they're saved when they die. She believes that all abnormal and hybrid beings are a danger to themselves and to others, so she is willing to kill them off to save them and others from them. She even ordered Maiya and me to eliminate you and your sister, so I decided to take on both of you... After all, I am...her right-hand mam, hmhmhm...~ Even as we speak, she is planning on killing more hybrids than just us. She may even know of other abnormal beings in the world of the living that I don't, that she's going to kill.~ We have been at this for centuries. Maiya and I have been following her orders for over five hundred years, yet not once...has the Soul Society ever found out about our killings. She is a very smart woman, being able to stay hidden and move about to continue her goal of be-ridding of all abnormal and hybrid species!~ She's over a thousand years old, she's even the one who ordered...her last right-hand man to try and kill lord Daomig'rah's child! And, that right-hand man, just so happened to be the owner of a gigai that was left in the world of the living... Kisaki put his gigai to use after he had died.~ Now...since I've told you what you wanted to know..." He mumbled the last part, tightened the grip on his shikai, and grinned.
https://youtu.be/zrTT1C47WbQ
With those words, Morgus's features were even more shaded over than before; now his whole face couldn't be seen... Soon, he barely lifted his head and the only thing that the shadow uncovered was his open smirk. "Hmhmhmhmhmhm...~ Do you honestly believe killing me...will be easy?~" he questioned, with chuckles escaping his lips all the while. He moved his arms back a bit and prepared for any incoming attack.
Haro chuckled in return, narrowed his vampire gaze, and vanished. Setsuen flash stepped as well, soon they both appeared and collided blades. One of his metallic talons blocked his Celtic blade's thrust when Haro went to pierce forward towards his heart. With his other claw, he swung it upward and went to slice the vampire up his chest.
Haro caught his claws easily with his free hand, both now strongly gazing into each other's eyes. "Your efforts are futile Setsuen...~" he stated, smirked, and parted the man's arms by moving his zanpakuto away, making Morgus's occupied claw be moved. With one swift motion, he brought his leg up and kicked the hybrid's midsection.
He was sent across the surface, forcing him to crash into a large structure a ways away. It didn't take long for him to come back, he had his claws behind him and a deadly smirk plastered. Morgus jumped into the air, moved both claws above his head, and descended. "KIRE!" he shouted, brought his claws down, and was about to pounce on the vampire. Haro rose his zanpakuto to block the attack only to almost get cut in the process. He quickly jerked his blade away, avoiding the fatal blow that Morgus would've provided.
Both parting ways to give each other some distance, Tatisbura grinned and placed his Shikai before him. He jolted after the long-haired male, running his blade through the ground and digging it deeper as he ran. With both arms gripping onto the sword's handle, he swiped it up and made a long fissure; it erupted with blood rising from the cracks. Morgus flash stepped and appeared behind the man, spun then went to slice at him. "Mahi!" he shouted, making a dim green aura glow around his talons. He almost managed to hit him with it until Haro vanished and showed up, right at his side. The vamp had his blade in both hands to his side and was about to cut his head off.
Sestsuen sensing this, he ducked and jabbed his claws that were in Haro's direction, into his stomach; they had frozen there, Morgus's smirk still plastered. He waited for the vampire to go limp, to die from his claws that went through his midsection and out the other side. Blood trickled down the talons, coating it with red that almost seemed black. "Do you honestly believe...that a mere stab like this...can kill me?" his hypnotic voice echoed through Setsuen's ears, surprising the man slightly. The vamp swiftly jerked his talons out, spun around, and kicked him back all within that moment.
Haro bounced and flipped, soon stabbing the piecing part of his blade into the ground; this allowed him to skid to a halt, creating a long crack through the surface. "Hmhmhmhm...~" the half-breed simply chuckled, then vanished. Haro appeared in the distance elsewhere, ran at him with his blade dragging in the ground, and created another long fissure. Once more he did it, disappearing and reappearing in a different location. He did as before, ran at him with his blade in the ground. He did this several times until countless cracks in the ground circled and all pointed at Setsuen.
Morgus kept darting his brown eyes, watching the man do his little tactic. Just as he was about to say something, the vampire appeared just a few feet away and swiped his Celtic sword diagonally. His swing made blood rise from all the fissures he made and raced after the hybrid.
Morgus only smirked at his attempt, then flash stepped to avoid the said attack. All the blood collided with each other, making a huge splash and rise up like lava from a volcano. With much speed, time went by and their fight was intense. They collided blades, Haro made fissures with blood erupting from them, Morgus attempted to slice at the vampire with his Kire and Mahi skills. Morgus saw the vampire stab his blade into the ground and chuckle.
"Chinoiawa...~" Haro stated. Blood from the bulb on top of his Cross Sword began to spill down and coat his entire zanpakuto in blood. Morgus quirked a brow at this but widened his eyes at the next sight... A giant blood bubble grew and covered a decent amount of land, engulfing Tatsibura in the process. Setsuen was about to flee until the bubble popped and spat out its substance all over the gray-stoned ruins. The ground was now covered in blood, Haro, Setsuen's form, and everything within the radius was covered in the same liquid. Everything began to sizzle except Haro, steam was rising up and made smoke blanket the area. The whole surrounding now looked like a red foggy, gory battlefield...
Where did he go...?~ Morgus mentally questioned then smirked after gaining an idea. While we're hidden... I supposed I can use fusion, it should kill him easily.~ he added and prepared his talons. (Song ends here :D!)
He intertwined his claws and spoke that simple word... "Bankai...~" his words echoed after he smirked. A black ball of mist engulfed his body and had a visible outline of brown around the sides. The mist grew bigger and dispersed, making thin black fog surround a good amount of area around him. That dispersion pushed the red fog away and made room for his own black mist.
Haro wasn't expecting this, his eyes widened slightly at the sight as he stood on top of one of the broken-down buildings. Soon his shocked features turned into an open smirk and he too chose to do the same. Jumping down, he looked down and stabbed his Celtic cross blade into the ground. Before he got to use his bankai, within the black mist, all he heard was- "Fuse, Shihi Kokuo!" Those words were the only thing that he heard, until black mist began to spin around like an upside-down whirlpool, growing bigger by the minute.
The mist turned into thick black fog and soon faded after a couple of minutes. Haro couldn't see what caused that big upside-down cone of darkness to appear, but he knew for a second...that Morgus wasn't alone. He was able to feel two spiritual pressures there for a minute before he said, Fuse.
As a moment passed, he decided to take this chance and do the same. "Bankai, Kyuuketsuki.~" hypnotically stating, his Celtic cross sword sucked in the blood from all around the surroundings, absorbing it. All the blood was spiraling around it like some vortex, the ground shook and soon the same giant blood bubble engulfed both his zanpakuto and his form.
Slowly, that bubble shrunk and formed into that same bulb that was on top of the cross's head. Now, his sword wasn't any ordinary sword... His zanpakuto looked like a very tall Celtic Cross, with that same blood bulb on top of the head. It was the same color as before except, its black color shined a blood red. Only this time, the black on the cross was tinted a super dark red...almost black. At the end of the cross, there was a long pointed metallic drill. It had three points that were around the pole part and was covered up with a piece of black metal, the same color as the cross's pole.
The same was with the pointed end of the drill, it also had a black metallic covering. On the sides of the drill, there were two strands of red metal that connected from the top of the drill to the bottom. In between the spaces of the three points on top of the drill, had two of the same red metal; those red metallic pieces glistened as if blood tainted them. All in all, it looked like a tall but thin, bloody Celtic cross with a sharply pointed drill at the end.
His attire changed as well, he had his shihakusho pants on but the top was gone. What covered his torso was an open dark, blood-red trench coat that shined a brighter red when the light hits it. The inside was black and the tail end of his coat was split in two, with golden metal chains adorned all the way down his coat's backside. On the sleeves that reached down to his wrists, two metallic golden chains were on his bicep regions. His hair was different, it was extremely long and straight; it went down past his butt a little bit.
One side was slicked back while the other remained straight, much like how his hair was before. Only, his bangs were longer, they touched his chest and the color of his hair was lighter. The side with the long bangs was a light gray color, while the other side that was slicked back was a faint pink color. It looked like both colored sides were separate from each other. His vampire eyes seemed inverted, slits were golden while the eye color part was black. His ears appeared pointed up like an actual vampire.
He waited and stared at the massive amount of black fog before him. As the wind blew, it brushed his long straight hair and bangs. (His final battle song everyone! :D!)
https://youtu.be/2NYO9bRQqn4
(Just a reminder in case you forgot! \o/)
As time went by, within the black fog, a figure began to move. Haro squinted his eyes and watched; (Where the song picks up!~) His eyes widened in that second and he brought up his cross, in that instant when Morgus had come in with his clawed bracer hand. He had ahold of his pole, pushing him back with force and crashing both him and Haro through several buildings. He let go, then watched as the vampire emerged from the rumble in a burst of speed and twirled his cross like a pole weapon. They clashed, flash stepped, and repeated in a blinding manner.
Setsuen managed to slice his free arm up with his Kire and Haro side-cut him with the red metal on the side of his drill. Each slice Haro made, absorbed the blood from Morgus and got collected into the bulb. They did this sequence for a good twenty seconds until Morgus managed to claw at the man's chest with his Kire and make him skid backward quite a ways.
Haro stabbed his cross into the ground with the drill part, caught himself, and smirked. "Kouorodzuyoi!" He yelled out. The drill spun and dug into the ground, soon making the surroundings crumble and quake. Not long after did the entire surrounding begin to shake and uproot chunks of land; Setsuen fell backward from the sudden earthquake. What caught him off guard though, was when blood erupted from all the cracks the quake made. The blood almost hit him, if he hadn't flash-stepped and got out of the way in time.
Just before he managed to even get closer to the vampire...Haro stabbed him in the gut with his drill and pierced right through the other side... Morgus's eyes widened and his mouth gaped open in surprise, he dropped his guard for a mere second... (Song ends here... I know it's short... ) It was as if everything was in slow motion, Setsuen's and Haro's clothing, hair and bony lion tail waved from the force; Haro had him up in the air with both hands on his cross.
It was getting harder to breathe for the hybrid, he couldn't even speak... "As I said...you won't be able to tell anyone, because you'd be dead.~" Haro hypnotically sang and kept his attention on Morgus's brown eyes. Soon his fusion wore off, faded and his zanpakuto returned to their usual twin short swords.
"My...dear sister... I..." Setsuen began, as his eyes slowly fell and life in his brown ones soon began to fade. "Am sorry... I love you..." he mumbled... His almost lifeless eyes rolled down to view the vampire. "With me dead...y-you'll be exposed..." he managed to say, before coughing up blood and having it hit Haro's face. "My sister...w-will not...b-be happy...a-about this!" Not long after did he pass away, his eyes held no life in them now and looked much paler than before.
Haro chuckled, smirked, and jerked the dead body off his drill onto the crippled surface. "Now...we wait, for my Gothic Goddess...~" he kept his giant drill-adorned cross out, stabbed it into the ground, and hopped up on top of it. The vampire lord squatted on one arm of the cross then had one hand gripped on the head of it and his other arm rested on his knee.
"Hehehehehe, I can't wait to give you a big kiss, before I kill you!~" he stated eagerly, whilst the wounds on his body began to heal on their own, from to the blood being drained from the bulb and into his own skin. Soon, all of his wounds recovered and his open small smirk grew more in anticipation. "You'll be with your brother soon, so I don't have to worry about her not being very happy.~" the vampire added in an almost sickening voice as though he were daydreaming about the very moment, his lips would touch hers.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter!~ Don't forget to leave a comment, I'm always happy to hear from my readers! \o/
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