BLEACH: The Dusk In Red

Linny wrapped herself in a warm blanket as she still comforted herself from that awful event. Kai approached her, still unsure of what to do.

"Is Mr. Poh okay? Did you get his soul back?"

Kai paused for a moment. He felt strong emotions of regret and remorse as he struggled to break the news to her.

"I'm sorry, if I was stronger then maybe I could've stopped them before anyone died."

She immediately got up and started to repeatedly kick Kai in the shins. He remained unfazed as he continued to take the beating, all the while Linny started to cry once again.

"YOU SAID YOU WOULD GET HIM BACK! YOU SAID YOU WOULD SAVE HIM! ALL YOU'VE DONE SINCE YOU CAME HERE IS LIE AND LIE AGAIN! IT WAS NO DIFFERENT AT HOME, AND IT'S NO DIFFERENT NOW!"

Kai wanted to apologise again, but he knew it would be useless. Instead he just decided to take all her pain, even if it would calm her down only a little bit. He didn't know Poh for that long, but he was sure that he was a great guy.

"I can't even comprehend a thousandth of the pain that your feeling right now, but his last wish was for you to reunite with your family. If you won't go back for me then would you at least do it for him?"

She calmed down a little while still maintaining anger and hostility towards Kai.

"Sure, whatever."

He then tried to take her hand but she rejected. He breathed a sigh of exhaustion but didn't mind it. He then jumped as he noticed something strange.

There were two powerful spiritual pressures outside, neither belonging to anyone he knew. What was even worse is that, they were similar to Linny's and the people which attacked them earlier.

"More Fullbringers?? Do we not get a break?"

He felt that Yuki had sensed them first, and was already on their way to confront them. Despite being the monster that she was, these two Fullbringers were much more powerful than the ones she fought before.

"Linny! Stay and hide here. If the worst occurs, then you need to run away by yourself."

Before the two could even react, a woman with short blonde hair appeared before them from thin air. It was as if she digitalized in front of them. In her hands was a one handed golden mirror.

She muttered under her breath,

"Invaders must die."

Kai quickly tried to draw his Zanpakutō but the mirror was already faced towards him. A strange black shadow mimicking a digital effect stretched from her, and quickly devoured Kai and Linny before they could do anything. It then stretched across the floor as the words 'SAVE' could be read on it, along with a red loading bar which slowly filled up.

Once it did the shadows disappeared while the girl just frowned to herself as she gripped the mirror tightly in her hands.

Yuki ran through the basement of the mysterious building. She quickly kicked down the buildings entrance door as she unsheathed her sword while jumping outside.

She performed a vertical slash which fell down on the first enemy she saw.

It was a short man pale looking man, wearing a long red and black trench coat which covered his mouth. He pulled out one of his hands which he kept in his pocket, and revealed a leather red gauntlet covered in metal.

He used this arm to easily block her strike. As the collision took place, a shirtless buff man in shorts, ran up to his side and tried to punch Yuki which she easily avoided while taking several steps back.

"You have the strongest spiritual pressure out of everyone in this building. Were you the one who killed Bruno and Finger?"

She readied her sword as she pointed it at the man in black.

"And if I am?"

The muscular man behind him began to tense his muscles, his anger was showing as he radiated a powerful Spiritual Pressure. He slowly approached Yuki, until he was stopped in the man in black.

"Don't do it Melqart, at least not until Liliane comes back."

"But this bitch is the one who killed Finger and Bruno! She killed our comrades! She shouldn't be allowed to live another second!"

The captain looked at him in the eye, and began to release his Spiritual Pressure, forcing him into submission. His killing intent was so strong that he began shaking in his knees.

"Don't make me repeat myself."

"S-S-Sorry."

He took a couple steps back, fearing his power.

"Now! I'd like to ask you a couple questions. How did it feel to kill my friends?"

"You guys are assassins. It felt the same as when you kill others does it not?"

Despite his pale appearance, the captain started chuckling to himself as he felt a great amount of emotion.

"I guess your right. This day was going to come for them eventually. Those who kill should very well expect to be killed themselves."

He then snapped his finger which made a woman with short blonde hair and a voluptuous figure appear. In her left hand, she carried a golden mirror.

"Hey Melqart? You want to avenge Finger right? Liliane, use your Fullbring and put me in a room with the target and the other guy. Have Melqart take care of the girl."

She nodded, as he mirror began to glow. A digital shadow like darkness extended from her as it trapped everyone in a black box. Yuki tried to cast a Kidō spell to break it before it fully trapped her, but she was too slow.

Once the shadow overtook her, she awoke to find her self in a desert landscape characterized by rocky, arid terrain. There were scattered rocks and sparse desert vegetation throughout the scene. In the background, the terrain rises into hilly or mountainous formations with a rugged, rocky appearance. The sky is clear, indicating a sunny day. 

Before her, stood the menacing body builder, Melqart. He was breathing heavily in and out as if tempering his rage into combative power.

"That damned Liliane. I told her before that I don't like dry environments! It's not healthy for my muscles!"

As he complained, Yuki quickly used flash step to appear behind him and made an attempt to shove her sword into his neck.

In the same instance, Melqart rapidly began to shrink as his muscles as he thinned out, making him 1/3rd of the mass of what he used to be.

Yuki's attack completely missed and very quickly, Melqart reassumed his former mass. He then threw a left hook aimed at Yuki's face, but she quickly used flash-step and gained some distance from him.

"You're fast. Were my companions deaths as fast you were moving right now?"

"Do you really have time to be asking questions when an opponent is standing in front of you?"

Before he could respond, a red orb of energy belonging to the Kido spell Hadō #31: Shakkahō, fell from the sky and landed on top of his head. The attack used silent casting and so it was weakened to the point where it couldn't damage him properly, but it did create a small cloud of ash covering his head.

Taking advantage of this, Yuki used flash step to once again, close the gap between the two and went straight for his neck.