Bleach Dark Dawn Ch41, The Wrath of a God

------Back in the outside world------

“This can’t continue” Shinji said “we’re nearing the end of the second cycle…”

Inside the barrier, Rida was fighting Torin’s body, which had completely transformed at this point. It was white and blue, with jagged crystal spikes for shoulders, crystalline wings, and long blade-like claws. Th body seemed to have most of the same properties as Torin’s crystals, and it was close to 9 feet tall.

Rida ducked a slash from a clawed hand and hopped back as the other hand stabbed the ground where he had been standing. Rida ran up the hollow’s arm and stomped on its head, but didn’t even phase it. He sprung off the head, backflipping away as the hollow slashed t him again.

“Thank goodness it isn’t as smart as Torin…” Rida said “I’d be mincemeat if it were”

The hollow opened it’s mouth, charging a white cero and aiming at Rida as it’s arms did the same.

Rida began to charge, ducking under the first cero, then using shunpo to dodge the next two blasts as he moved forward. Rida drew back his fist, then used shunpo to get all the momentum as he could as he punched the hollow in the gut with boulder shattering force… and did absolutely no damage at all.

Rida looked up sheepishly at the hollow “eh heh… you wouldn’t hurt me would ya Torin?” he asked, receiving a backhand to the face in response.

Rida tumbled back into the side of the barrier with enough force to crack it. The cracks quickly repaired themselves, but Rida wasn’t in great shape.

Rida grimaced in pain as he managed to squint at the hollow body that was Torin. He was at the end of his second set of ten minutes, all the while fighting this… thing without using lethal force. Rida knew even if he went all out he might lose against this creature. It was unstoppable, it had all of Torin’s power and speed that he had developed over the past 2 years, it never got tired, it never hesitated, it didn’t seem to feel pain, and it had all the powers of what was at least a menos grande level hollow.

The hollow charged Rida, when its legs were ensnared by a yellow rope of energy, tripping it, as it fell to the ground golden chains wrapped around it.

“Rest Rida” Aurora said “it’s my turn now, I’ll bind him and give everyone more time to rest. Bakduo 99! Kin!”

Spiritual fabric wrapped around the already bound hollow and tied it to the ground, then weights fell along the fabric, completing the binding and trapping the creature on the ground. The hollow strained mightily against its bonds, and Aurora knew she couldn’t hold him for too long. She’d buy 15 minutes if she expended all of her reiatsu and stamina, but after that they’d only be able to get through half of another cycle before having to kill Torin.

“Torin…hurry” Aurora pleaded


-------inner world------

Serena turned and fled in a panic “I can’t fight that! He’s no shinigami! He’s a demon!” she thought

Torin waved his hand, and a building rose off the ground and flew at Serena, her form flickered as she turned and cut the building in two. Torin was on her immediately after, bursting between the halves of the building and slashing with a longsword he had formed from his armor.

Serena was looking like Torin’s former love less and less often now, more often appearing as a black and white version of Torin himself. His inner hollow’s form kept flickering, unable to maintain itself in face of Torin’s fury. She blocked Torin’s strike, but found he was cutting through her blade and shunpod away, her blade breaking in two as she did so.

Serena hid inside a building “where is all this coming from!?” I had him beat! He was dying! I saw the light leave his eyes! This form should’ve crippled him!”

The building shook, then broke apart into millions of crystal shards, which shot at the inner hollow and very nearly cut it to ribbons, it barely managed to shunpo away from the worst of the attack.

“There’s nowhere to run, nowhere you can hide, no way to escape my wrath!” Torin roared as he raised his hands as if he were lifting something immensely heavy

Serena’s form faded completely, and the inner hollow looked up in horror as every building in Torin’s inner world broke into shards at once and rose into the sky. “what… is this!?” it asked in a quiet voice, overcome in awe and fear

“It is my inner world” Torin said “a world that begins with, changes with, and ends with me. So long as I have the resolve, I can shape it however I wish.”

Torin rose up with the shards, floating in the sky as the shards all aimed at the inner hollow “as I said, in this realm, I am the equivalent of a god… and every god has demons to smite, you are mine. Now perish”

The shards rained down on the inner hollow in unison, pulverizing it beyond comprehension. Then in a flash, Torin’s inner world returned to its original state.
“Fine, you win” the hollow’s voice said “but don’t think I’ll give you my power willingly, I’m gonna make you rip it from me and wrestle to hold it every time you want it”

“So it’ll be unpleasant for you every time I use it?” Torin asked “perfect, I’ll be sure to use it often, now if you’ll excuse me”

-----material world-----

Torin had broken his bonds and was charging Aurora when suddenly he froze. The mask on his face cracked, then the entire hollow form shattered and fell off of him. Torin collapsed to the ground with a groan and passed out.

Shinji sighed in relief “well that was close… but looks like he made it”

Aurora ran over to tend to Torin, and Rida turned to Urahara “so what now?” he asked

Urahara sheathed his zanpakto “he’ll spend the next year like the past two, only now he’ll be training specifically to draw out his hollow powers as much as he can”

Rida nodded in understanding, then said “there’s something else I’d like to speak with you about… in private” he said, nodding to Torin and Aurora

Urahara frowned “you family…?” he started

Rida clamped his hand over urahara’s mouth to cut him off “in PRIVATE, Urahara-san” he growled

Urahara nodded “I understand” he said after Rida removed his hand “let’s go”

Rida nodded, and the two left to talk, Aurora noticed this, but she had Torin to worry about, so she suppressed her curiosity and focused on tending to him