Hello everyone, been along a time huh. Well I'm sorry for not updating this in a long I just got the feeling to a create a new chapter back. I can't promise updates for this will be regular cause of all the other things I've got to do but I will try my best to continue this story for those of you who are interested in it.

Chapter 11 A Knights Freedom

Disclaimer: I do not own bleach or any of its characters. I only own the OC characters and any self made moves

"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Zanpaktou speaking"

"Zanpaktou thinking"

'Zanpaktou/kido techniques'

"M-ess!" came a muffled and drowned out voice through the darkness that surrounded Tier, she couldn't make out what she heard.

"Mi-rs, Mist-s!" there is was again only slightly clearer than before and sounding vaguely familiar to her.

"Mistress!" again but this time it came crystal, that high pitched and constantly impatient sounding voice could only belong to Apacci. "Mistress!" and there was Mila being as equally as loud. "Mistress" and there was Sun-Sung sounding very distressed and worried but was many times more polite than Halibel's two other followers.

She dreaded to think what those two combined would make.

Wait! if she can hear them then does that mean that she's alive? or are they dead with her? Halibel tried to move and felt she was on something rough and gravelly, she could begin to hear the sounds of battle all around her. The yells of battle cries, they instinctive flares of Reiatsu and the unmistakable roars of her kind all surrounding her.

She next tried opening her eyes, which felt like trying to pry open a pair of heavy steel doors. Halibel began to see bright light filling blinding her vision, making her squint and hiss from the piercing rays stinging her eyes. After the glare of the sun left her eyes she saw a canvas of blue with specks of fluffy white and quickly worked out that it was the sky, a sky she was not used to and hadn't taken the time to admire its simple beauty. It was much the same but also much different from they eternal night of Hueco Mundo.

She looked to her right with some struggle and saw a forest, the same one that she was launched into, she then turned to her left and saw that cracking metal box that was surrounded by a tornado of silver spirit energy. She decided not to ask about it, it wasn't any of her business what it was and she frankly wasn't interested either. Tier then worked her neck as much as possible and looked back and saw the three worried masks of her precious followers behind a blue see-through wall of solid spiritual energy. "What?" questioned Halibel as she noticed the wall between them and her.

"I'm glad to see you're still in one piece" rang the very confident voice of a certain ex-lieutenant, cutting through the silence like a cold knife. Tier looked forward and tried to move her body, grunting as the new damage she sustained now made itself painfully well know to her, "it's a good job I held back on that, any more and I'm sure you wouldn't be with us right now" continued Soifon as she finally came into Halibel's vision and was looking down at her with slightly softer eyes, giving a kind smile to the half dead Hollow.

Hailbel was in a seriously bad condition, all armor on her body was crack and greatly chipped away, there were no signs that she even ever had a weapon and she was also bleeding badly from a large cut going right across her torso.

Soifon bent down, her sword sheathed and her hands glowing a soft green hue, Soifon was getting shouts of protest from the scared Adjuchas, yelling at Soifon to get away from their Mistress. Soifon sent them all stern looks "I'm not going to hurt her I'm going to heal her, if I don't close up her wounds now she could really die" informed Soifon seriously but with a calm voice, immediately silencing them all.

Soifon started with placing her left hand over the large slash across Tier's body while holding her other hand over the blonde's head all electing a relieved sigh from the hollow. Tier had never experienced such a calm and soothing feeling before, it was amazing her how someone so deadly and cruel could be doing something so gentle and kind, it was baffling.

Halibel shifted her emeralds orbs to Soifon and saw the concentration on her face and decided that any questions she may have could wait until she was done "healing me" she thought, finding it really difficult to believe the reality of the situation. A soul reaper healing a hollow, it was like a crazy man's tail.

About ten or so minutes passed before Soifon seemed to have been finally done with closing up Tiers wound. "There, all done" she said with relief carrying in her voice. Halibel looked down and saw that the cut was indeed closed up with not even a scar remaining, she thought there would at least be a little scaring not that she was disappointed there wasn't. The hollows body was still in too much pain to move currently but she found she could breathe much easier and all her senses were now back in focus.

Soifon stud up and brushed off her gloved hands in a 'job well done' manner, her attention was taken back to her blonde patient when she heard her ask "why?" in a tiered voice, the word blunt like a stone. Soifon looked down at the Vasto Lorde, silver meeting emerald when she did "why save me? why do all this?" she asked her voice thirsting for an answer to her questions.

Soifon sat down next to Tier "well honestly you interest me, the way you appeared and saved Apacci, the look in your eyes showed that you were really worried about her and the other two and that's something rarely shown by hollows, most hollows at your level are usually just megalomaniacs who want nothing more than absolute dominance" Soifon explained, an image of Barragan appear in Tier's mind at the mention of power hungry and saw Soi's point. "You are special Tier. You care for others, you didn't back down against me and you were even truly willing to lay down your life for those weaker than you, and believe it or not but you gave me a fun time" Soifon finished smirking.

Tier sighed in relief "so that means you will finally let my followers go?" she asked.

Soifon cocked an eyebrow at that before she remembered "oh yeah! about that I may have kinda lied slightly about that" she confessed awkwardly scratching her cheek lightly.

Tier and her follower looked on in betrayal at the woman words "what do you mean lied! you said if I satisfied your battle lust that you would let them go!" Tier bit out, anger and hate becoming her voice as she tried to move her body, currently wanting to strangle the woman beside her.

Soi looked at the blonde waving her hands in a panicked 'calm down' gesture "wo wo wo slow down their, that's not what I mean!" exclaimed Soifon getting confused looks from everyone "I was never planning on killing them, there was no deal" Soifon revealed getting perplexed looks from everyone "the only one I was thinking of purifying was Apacci because of her cowardice, but now I see where her loyalties really lie and the fact she was willing to give up her life for you shows me just how deep those loyalties must run, and the same goes for the other two as well" Soi praised as she turned her gaze over to the three mentioned, who still found it hard to make eye contact with her.

Tier was surprised to here that she had been tricked into fighting her, but something was wrong "but if I hadn't stepped into stop that last attack my comrades would have been-"

"Fine" interrupted Soifon as she pointed to the blue barrier wall containing the three hollows "this is a backup barrier set to activate at my command" Soi informed.

Tier was relieved to hear this, if she had failed to intercept in time her followers would have been okay "so you did just use them as a way of motivating me, huh?" she less asked and more stated in a relaxed manner to which Soifon nodded "so what now? you just gonna let us go?" the blonde inquired.

Soifon nodded "yeah but not just yet you see I have a little gift for you that I needed to check to see if you were...let's say worthy to receive" revealed Soi gaining Tier's and the others interest. "Remember when I asked you what you would be willing to take to get stronger and you picked immense pain over trusting the possible backstabber?" she asked and got a confirming nod from Tier "well tell me would you still be willing to take that in order to get stronger?" she asked with an air of deep seriousness around her.

Tier thought on that for a second, she didn't like pain but if it was to become stronger and more capable of protecting those dear to her she would take all the pain in the world if that's what it would take "yes" she said firmly though she was wondering what this gift was.

Soifon smiled at this and stood back up "that's good to hear" she said before her left hand became shrouded in gold spiritual energy that shot of three football sized orbs of energy, two enveloping Tiers hands and the last one doing the same to both of the blond's feet.

Tier began to panic and tried getting out of the binds but she barely even had enough strength to move as she began to be lifted off the ground by the binds that were now levitating her in the air at an upright position, "calm down I need you to be still for what comes next" interrupted the calm voice of Soifon as she stood before the restrained blonde.

Tier frowned down at Soifon not understanding what she was up to "what is the meaning of this? what are you up to?" she asked in an irritated tone.

Soifon smirked as her hand reached for her blade and drew it, gleaming at it was unsheathed "it will all make sense in due time, just know that what I am about to do you will put you through hell but if you survive you will be stronger than ever and you will realize your full potential" stated Soifon vaguely as her sealed sword began to get coated in sunny yellow energy. After the blade seemed full to the brim she pointed it at Tiers face, who looked at it with wide eyes. Soifon slowing began bringing the blade down everyone holding their breaths, the atmosphere thick with tension, Soi stopped just below Tier's rib cage right where one's soul sleep would be.

Soifon looked Tier in her emerald eyes "good luck Tier Halibel, I hope we'll meet again one day" was what Tier heard before Soifon ran her sword straight into the blonde who watched as the spiritual energy on the blade seemed to flow into her until it was all gone.

After all the energy was gone and the blade was removed from her Tiers vision began to grow blurry and darker, she tried fighting to stay awake but it was proving in vain, Tier was able to grab one last fuzzy look of Soifon, the last thing she saw before her world went black was one last challenging smile.

Appaci, Mila and Sun-Sung were shouting in panic at seeing their mistress getting stab especially after how much damage she had already suffered during her battle with Soifon, who was currently removing the blonde from her binds and placing her gently on the ground. Appaci scowled at Soifon complete forgetting her fear of the woman "what did you do to her you bitch!?" roared out Appaci as she and Mila began smashing against the blue barrier in a vain attempt to break out.

Maybe a Cero would work, was a shared though between the Deer and the Lion.

Soifon looked up at the worried and enraged hollows "I have given her away to break through her limits, but I'm afraid the rest depends on your mistresses will to survive" she said as she looked down at the calm sleeping face of Tier. She looked back up at the three Adjuchas with a stern gaze as she let the barrier around them fall "right now your Mistress is gonna need you three more than even, she is not gonna be able to defend herself until the process is done, so until then she will need you three to protect her until then, do I make myself clear? she needs you three to protect her" said Soifon in a tone of finality.

The three hollows nodded in understanding, not fully understanding what had been done to their mistress but seeing it best not to ask questions and just take their Mistress and leave before Soifon has some change of heart on letting them leave.

Soifon stepped back from Tier as the snake hollow pick Halibel up by wrapping her tail around her waist and placed her on Apacci's back. Sun-Sung looked over to Soifon and bowed her head which confused everyone "thank you Soifon for sparing us and our Mistress, we are eternally grateful for your kindness" she said in honesty, this woman could have killed them all at any second but she didn't.

Apacci and Mila growled at Sun-Sung for showing gratitude to the enemy like she was "oi! Sun-Sung you shouldn't go bowing your head to her after all she's done, right Apacci!?" roared Mila as she turned her head to the deer looking for some backup but Apacci just turned her head away, her fear of the woman now back in place. Mila now just gritted her teeth in frustration at seeing she wasn't going to be getting any support and just decided to remain silent and just continue to glare daggers at the uniquely braided haired woman.

Soifon shrugged the look off, the hollow may be a lion in appearance but she was about as threatening as a kitten to Soifon. The soul reaper turned to the snake and nodded "no problem Sun-Sung now watch over Tier she is gonna need you all remember, and be careful yourselves she would be heartbroken if one of you went and got yourselves killed while she couldn't do anything about it" advised Soifon as she stood with her arms folded.

Sun-Sung nodded seeing that this Soifon wasn't as bad as she first appeared but wasn't willing to let her guard down around her. Soi waited for the three to make a move to leave but now saw they were standing around awkwardly "ummmm you can go now, I won't stop you" ensured Soifon, giving them shoo gesture.

All the three began to laugh in what sounded to be embarrassment until Mila spoke up "well you see..um… we sort of don't know how to make a Garganta that could get us back to Hueco Mundo from here, Mistress is the only one who we know who possess that sort of power" the lion admitted sounding humiliated.

Soifon 'ohhhh' in realization and understanding "okay I see don't worry I'll make you one" she stated shocking the three hollows, not seeing how a Shinigami could possible open a rift to Hueco Mundo. Soifon lifted her left gloved hand up which first glowed sunny yellow then shift to a misty yellow with wisps of black coming off, then appear four darts around Soi's hand each a dark blackish purple that shot forward and past the four hollows where they look to piece the air at a single point where they began to part away in four different directions, making a dark square shaped void in space.

The hollows looked on amazed, sure it was shaped differently and more neatly, but it was definitely a Garganta so seeing it the hollows immediately made their way to it but before leaving Sun-Sung turned around and gave one last bow before catching you with they others "hum how polite" was Soi's thoughts of Sun-Sung as she watched them all leave. Soifon was really hoping that she and Halibel will meet again one day, she would love to do battle with her again, and hopefully, it will be a more of an even match.

As Soifon relaxed she noticed that the air felt a lot less pungent "is the Hollow Bait finally gone?" she inwardly question as she looked over to where the others were and still saw them battling with hollows, she could now spot that some the masked beings were not simple attacking randomly anymore and looked to be thinking. Soifon looked over Seireitei and saw that Gargantas were still appearing with hollows continuing to pour through. This worried her, if the Hollows Bait was gone then why was the flow of hollows not appearing to be slowing down?

As if hearing her question Soifon began hearing a voice in her head that wasn't Suzumabachi's "emergency! emergency! this is squad 12's 3rd Akon with an emergency message going out to all soul reapers and souls within Seireitei we have some grave new, the flow of hollows is not ceasing!". This had everyone within the city horrified and wanting to know why "even with the removal of the Hollow Bait from Seireitei's air there are now just too many rifts and hollows coming through which we believe is causing the spiritually enriched air of Soul Society to be traveling over to Heuco Mundo and luring in just as many Hollows as the Bait initially was, if we are to stop the flow of hollows those Gargantas need to be closed! or else soul society's air is just going to keep bringing in more and more, our best suggestion for closing the Gargants are to kill any and all Menos Grande that might be pulling them open, other than that we have no better options for now, Captain Mayuri is currently trying to come up with an alternative method but he is not sure how long it will take before he has one, good luck.. and" said Akon in solemn voice ready to end communication.

"Now hold on" come a voice Soifon was all too familiar with and made her crack a grin.

Akon was shocked to hear a reply, it shouldn't be possible the Tenteikura was supposed to be a one-way communication spell only "who is this? and how are you communicating with me?" demanded Akon his curiosity and worry beginning to peek.

The voice laughed heartily at hearing the man's distress "now calm down boy I bring good news not bad, as for who I am names' Haelen, and for how I'm doing this lets just say I'm experienced with this spell buuuut moving on I am here to tell you I might have a way in which I can close all the rifts currently open in Seirietei simultaneously" revealed Haelen shocking everyone listening, it sounded like an impossible feat, completely absurd.

Haelen sighed at the sudden silence thinking he may now have the man speechless "okay listen I am currently jacked up on a ton of power right now and I possess a spell capable of closing rifts in space, now if I put the two together I can make a huge version of said spell which can close every rift in the city all I need is for all soul reapers to be some distance away from the rifts so they don't get themselves caught in it, okay good you have been warned, you can approve of my idea or not but either way I'm going through with it" finished Haelen making Akon jaw drop at his disregard for his authority.

Akon gained a tick mark at hearing this "HEY! now you listen here you can't ju-" "hanging up now" was heard from Haelen and suddenly one of the lines on the glowing net broke making everyone who saw just stare in disbelieve. Akon just starred at the net before saying through the net for everyone but Haelen to hear "did he just hang up me?" he asked dumbly.

Every one of higher rank or experience were surprised and slightly humored to hear this but mostly surprised, they didn't even think it was possible to just cut off one's mind to the spell. Soifon snickered at hearing this, her father, for the most part, is usually always well mannered but he can have his moments where he is rude, cheeky or even downright just childish for whatever reason it maybe, but she did love it when it happened.

Inside Haelen's Barrier

Amongst the hurricane of silver laid the form of Haelen, his suit nearly completely torn asunder, scraps hanging to his form in tatters, the one parts hanging the most together was his mask but even then it was only half there at this point. Haelen himself was not visible his form leaking gallons of excess spiritual energy which he had now just found a use for. Even though it wasn't visible Haelen was grinning now with him having a use for all this excess power. He could now speed up the removal of his accursed suit "finally I was getting bored in here" he said dropping his kido made acoustic guitar while getting off his kido made stool.

Haelen stud tall and clench one of his fists taking in a deep nervous breath "wow it's really here, nearly a millennia of waiting over, I will be finally able to step back into the world again free of my restraints, I will be able to touch and feel again, my capabilities will no longer be restrained, I will be able to clearly see, be able to touch my cute little Soi Bee and finally….I will be able to face her" he thought both nervous and excited.

Haelen began raising his spiritual energy while rapidly releasing all the remaining bonds of his suit making him seem to explode in silver energy, resulting in the walls of barrier kido around him beginning to shatter like glass. "ahhhhhh!" grunted out Haelen as the first layer of the Iron Barrier shattered away into nothing "here I come world!" roared out the now silver star that was Haelen, the next second the last of his suit was blown away bringing with it a new more intense wave of silver energy.

Outside the Barrier

Everyone on the hill was now beginning to feel the Reiatsu that was once just being kept around the Barrier and they all had to admit it was heavy. All low-level hollows couldn't stand the titanic weight that was enveloping the area around the hill and were quickly getting crushed to death under the weight of it. All soul reapers and humans who were not in a protective Barrier were in awe at the feeling of this overwhelming spiritual pressure.

Soifon grinned in excitement at the approaching moment, she would finally get to see him.

The Barrier itself was now a raging tornado of silver, barely holding together, at this point, it was a struggle between the Barrier and Haelen until finally the straw that broke camel's back appeared. A huge crack formed across the Iron box, looking to go from the front to the back spewing out a river of high-pressure energy that screamed for a few seconds before the rest of box formed hundred of new cracks all over, before finally giving into the tremendous power it was trying to hold back.

Soifon was forced to flash step away in order to avoid the eruption of spiritual energy that came when the Barrier exploded from her dad's excesses of power. It shot up high into the sky nearly twice the height of the Sokyoku Hill while the radius of the bean came about to 40 feet plus and was generating intense gales of wind.

The pressure emanating from the mass of power was becoming too much for anyone below captain level to handle, so Chad had passed out while Renji was on his knees struggling to breathe and sweating profusely "it's like am at the bottom of an ocean while inside a whirlpool" was Renji's thought on Haelen's spiritual pressure.

Soifon appeared next to Renji and used her own power to lighten the atmosphere around the crimson haired man while she lifted him, putting his arm around her shoulder and swiftly flash stepped over to the rest of the hill's occupants. The hollows on the hill swiftly died, as if blown away after Haelen's Reiatsu had made itself well know and all weak hollows had been swiftly crushed to death along with a lot of higher level one's, any survivors had quickly made themselves scared out of fear that they would whined up like they others so with them gone the hill was pretty much free of hollows now, it was now like it had a force field around it since now hollow to want to near here.

Soifon appeared in between Byakuya and Ichigo who were near the Barrier and saw that Chad was now coming back around thanks to the two captain level soul reapers naturally lightening the surrounding atmosphere with their combined energy. Soifon put the still recovering Renji down next to Chad who was lying against the Barriers wall "Soifon is it true? is Haelen really planning on closing all the Gargants?" asked the even voice of Byakuya.

Soifon looked over to him and nodded "yeah he is, with that amount of energy at his disposal right now I'm confident he can pull it off, hell with that amount of spiritual energy he could probably make a Shakhou big enough to wipe out the Sokyoku hill and the 1st division and then some" the silver eyed woman replied shocking everyone present with her description of his current capabilities. Soifon turned fully to everyone arms folded face stern and serious "but he will only have one shot to do this, because once all that extra power if gone it's gone" her smile returned, reassuring as she turned back to pillar of power that was her father "but I'm confident he can pull it off, Kido's his specialty after all" Soifon added.

Everyone's attention was shifted to the arrival of a certain flash goddess who arrived looking fairly winded and sporting some new cuts and bruises but other than that was looking completely fine. Yoruichi flashed everyone a grin and a wave "hey ya everyone" Yoruichi then turned her head in the direction of Haelen's Reiatsu pillar and whistled "so I guess it is true then he's planning on closing every single Garganta in Seirietei, and given how much juice he has there it no longer sounds like an impossible task" commented the ex-captain sounding damn impressed. Yoruichi turned over to Soifon smirking up a storm "hell of a man you picked to be your daddy huh little bee?" Yoruichi asked in a teasing tone.

Soifon smiled at the nostalgic feeling of Yoruichi's teasing and nodded "yeah he is amazing, back when he was a captain he was loved by his squad and he loved them too, apart from his bastard of a lieutenant" trailed of Soifon whose voice grew hateful at the mention of her dads old second in command. Everyone was a bit taken back by Soi's sudden switch in moods and where interested by the mention of Haelen's old lieutenant. Soifon could feel the questioning gazes on her "his second in command was a Noble from one of the four great clans who only got his rank because of his status, back then the four nobles apparently had much influence over soul society and central 46 too, allowing them to usurp power, dad would have preferred to have had his third seat be his Lieutenant since she actually worked for her rank and was more than deserving but was forced to remain where she was" explained Soifon further.

Rukia who was deeply interested in this wanted more details "which clan was this Noble from?" asked the petite girl.

Soifon sighed at this and turned to Byakuya "he was from the Kuchike clan" she revealed making Rukia and Renji nearly gasp and Byakuya gain a look of actual surprise.

Byakuya couldn't believe this it was inconceivable, his clan using their authority rather than their own skill and power to reach higher military ranks, preposterous "this cannot be true we are a proud clan, that prides ourselves on our own merits, there is no one in our clan that would do something so underhand as using their status to reach a higher rank without earning it" argued the proud Kuchiki firmly.

Soifon shook her head "I am sorry Byakuya but it's true, times where different back then, the nobles still thought of themselves as almighty and where deeply arrogant and self-centered and were more focused on their public image, and back then the division were not completely runned by their Captains so they used their wealth and power on the central 46 to have their heirs get higher ranks faster to show their superiority and sadly your clan wasn't above it" explained Soifon in a solemn tone.

Byakuya couldn't believe it and remained silent trying to process this information that was bringing him shame just thinking about it. Yoruichi herself was thinking if her clan did the same thing back then but it seemed likely if the Kuckie clan was willing to do it why wouldn't hers, so she just shrugged it off it was ancient history at this point in her option. Soifon looked at Byakuya "hey Byakuya" called out Soifon gaining the Noblemen's attention "after all this mess with the hollows is over I would like it if you and dad talked, with him still being alive and not dead he still has the execution order on his head and only you can remove it" Soifon informed shocking the noble, a silent question hanging they air which Soi picked up on "the order for his death was put there by your clan" she revealed shocking him further.

After coming out of his shocked Byakuya could only asked one thing "why?" was what he simply asked.

Soifon thought a second on how to respond "I believe that is something dad would rather tell you himself in case I miss out a few points, so I ask that you wait until all this mess is sorted" Soifon requested getting a quiet nod from the nobleman who walked past Soifon and knelt down to Rukia at the barrier and was telling her something the silver eyed woman could not make out. Byakuya stud back up and turned back to everyone else "I believe I have assisted enough here so I believe I will now go and help my squad, with me not being there throughout this crisis I can't imagine the damage that must have been received in my absence, so I will be leaving to go tend to my squad" he informed before he took off in swift flash step.

Everyone was silent for a short until Soifon remembered something "oh hey Yoruichi is it true you can now turn into a cat?" asked the ex-lieutenant who got a proud smirk from said woman in question.

Yoruichi nodded "yup, it's very cool being able to turn into a cat whenever I desire, plus I have much more freedom to roam around when in that form, no one pays a simple cat any mind" trailed off the dark skin woman.

Soifon was impressed to hear her old captain was capable of changing forms "can you show me?" she asked curious to see and was getting shouts of protest from a certain spiky haired soul reaper who was blushing up a storm at certain memories.

Yoruichi smirked and was enjoying the sight of Ichigo freaking out in the background, she just loved leaving impressions "sure anything for my little bee" she said with a glint in her eyes before she bursted into a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared it showed Yoruichi clothes all in a pile on the floor making everyone apart from Ichigo cock an eyebrow who had turned complete around covering his face. There was small moving bulge in the clothes that was moving it's way up the clothes until it fully exited and show an adult black cat with golden eyes "well what do you think" came the now very deep voice of Yoruichi.

Soifon looked at the black cat for a second before picking it up with speed no one could follow not even said cat who was now face to face with a completely lovestruck looking Soifon who was cooing at Yoruichi "awww you are just so cute!" she cooed. Soifon sat down and started stroking and hugging Yoruichi who was trying in vain to fend of the insulting actions but was finding it harder and harder to do as her cat body was helplessly enjoying it, and couldn't help but let out a purr which greatly embarrassed the flash goddess as she had never purred once while in this form.

Deciding she had enough Yoruichi swiped at Soifon with a hiss and flashed out of her ex-subordinates grasp over to her clothes were she transformed and was naked but was obscured by the cloud of smoke that comes with the transformation which hung around long enough for her to put back on her clothes faster than she ver had before.

When the cloud cleared it showed Yoruichi fully dressed and scowling at Soifon with a slightly embarrassed flush fading from her face "that was really humiliating Soifon, don't do that again!" ordered Yoruichi as she continued to frown at Soifon.

Soifon laughed nervously while she got back up "oh but Yoruichi you were just too cute how could I possibly not want to pet you" argued Soifon. Yoruichi frowned harder while a vein throbbed on her forehead which sent Soifon a clear message "okay I'll try to resist" Soi pouted out.

Yoruichi smiled in amusement at hearing this and shook her head at her old prodigy's pouting. It was so weird for her to see, Soifon had really changed and lightened up a lot over the years.

Everyone's attention was taken by the sudden tremor that nearly knocked everyone standing off their feet. Everyone looked over in the direction in which the tremor came from and saw that something was happening with Haelen.

The beam of spiritual energy was beginning to fluctuate and convulse, at the tips of the bean ropes of silver Reiatsu began flowing out and began collecting and merging together forming a giant flowing silver circle, the energy making the circle began to stabilize taking on a much more solid form possessing 8 holes running through. The ring began to descend down at a smooth controlled pace until it was four stories of the ground with the tower of spiritual energy continued shooting through its gap.

The energy beam began to fluctuate again and this time, something began to emerge from the beam itself. A huge silver claw reached out of the beam and grabbed onto the ring and then another identical clawed hand appeared and also grabbed onto the ring followed by the appearance of a head peeking out of the ring followed by a torso until what hovered over the silver circle was half the body of a western styled dragon, eyes burning red and made completely out of energy but was detailed to the point that you could make out its scales.

Everyone and even Soifon was slack-jawed at the appearance of the mythical creature even if it wasn't real and just a construct of Reiatsu built to resemble one, it was just the fact it was here and huge. All the hills occupants became further astonished by the appearance of three more identical looking dragons emerging out of the silver beam all hovering over one side of the ring with even space between them. It was, to say the least, an amazing, beautiful and all round terrifying show, the constructs looked so realistic you would think they might start breathing fire at any second.

But the show didn't stop there from in between the open spaces between the dragons giant hands began appearing out of the beam, these once weren't clawed but in fact looked human. As the hand's forms stabilized they showed to be hands wearing armored gauntlets which was then followed by the giant human forms that like the dragons were only half, once stabilized the four giants of energy looked like knights wearing majestic looking armor, chainmail, and ragged looking capes.

The knights resembled the kind of warriors you would hear about in old fairy tales or old fairy tails. They were strikingly intimidating even to the experienced and powerful individuals on the hill, especially with the visors of their helmets glowing ominously red like the eyes of the dragons.

In the center of the ethereal gaints the tower of spiritual energy continued to rage on, now only being half it's original size which was now about the height of the hill. At the center of the beam the obscured figure of Haelen stud with his hand clasped together "black void that's opened like jaw of beast, starve and close, crack shut and open up back to your darkness, bind, close and be bound shut!" said Haelen, completing a familiar incantation.

Outside the towering arc of power hundred of black headed and yellow rodded harpoons began to form, many times bigger than the ones used before against Aizen, all orbiting around the beam all pointing outwards and angled high with more still forming. Everyone who could see this where astonished with what they were currently witness too, Soifon was amazed by the feat her dad was currently pulling off it made her smirk with pride and admiration. All over Seireitei everyone who was in viewing range of the Sokuyko hill were witness to the construct and some couldn't very well believe their eyes for what they were seeing some were even believing that it was a new extremely powerful hollow.

"Bakudo!" was heard coming from the beam as all the hundred apon hundreds of black and yellow harpoon took aim in every possible direction "Dākuboidosutetchi!" and after that all the harpoons began firing off one after another like bullets out of a rifle as they fired off at amazing varying speeds, creating velocity rings at they traveled through they air. When the spears made it to their maximum altitude and began their decent down each harpoon broke off into dozens of smaller harpoons each locking in any and all gargantas.

All over the city soul reapers were losing hope that the hollows could be stopped and with the continued openings of new rifts that hope seemed to grow dimmer and dimmer with each passing minute.

"where doomed man there's no way we can win this anymore they just keep coming! and am all out of spiritual energy at this point!" shouted out a male soul reaper as he fell to his knee, despair and sorrow filling his voice as he was about ready to burst into tear.

His friend wanting to something against that but he there was nothing he could say against his friend's statement, he was in no better shape and barely had enough strength to remain standing. The second man looked in front of him and gritted his teeth at the huge vertical tear in space that was being held open by a Menos while new hollows trudged through past the Menos. All exhausted soul reapers cursed at the sight of once again being outnumbered, only a few amongst them were battle ready but those ones had to try and make sure their tired comrades would not get eaten.

The soul reapers were losing morale quicker than Rangiku ditches her paperwork, while some were about ready to just flee and give up, that was until out of nowhere a dozens of Haelen's harpoons shot from the sky and pierced the space around the rift, each harpoon began glowing and shot of golden wire that began connecting with the other rods in a zigzag order. Once the wire was connected with its own final harpoon those two individual yellow rods shot out chains with a repeating pattern of black and sunny yellow links that began making their way into the direction of The Sokyoku Hill.

As the wire was their the Soul Reaper noticed that no hollows, not even the smallest could seem to fit through the yellow wires and not even the Menos seem to possess the strength necessary to break the golden thread.

Seeing this filled the Shinigamis with renewed hope and reinvigorated their moral "you see that! the hollows can't get through with those wires in the way, we can still win this!" exclaimed one of the male Soul Reapers who got agreeing roars from his comrades. And so feeling reinvigorated the soul reapers picked back up their blades readied their spells and began to fight once again against the masked beasts of Hueco Mundo.

All over The Court of Pure Souls, similar situations were happening, Gargantas were being blocked by golden wire and hollows were incapable of breaking or slipping through no maker how hard they tried. With hollows being unable to break through the wire and continue flooding soul society everyone was regaining their lost moral and began slaying the hollow who made it through the rift in time.

From a birds eye view of the city one would see thousands of chains flying and zeroing in on the Sokyoku hill or more accurately the monumental construct of energy. All the hills occupants were astonished at the sight of chains dancing their way through the air from all directions, no one could even begin to guess exactly how many there must be.

The people watched as the chains all seemed to stack themselves up by the shackled link at the end of each chain right under each of the eight holes under the circle. The giants then formed pole's of silver spiritual energy in each of their hands or claws and ran them straight through the spaces in the circles and down through the aligned links of the chains and into the ground locking them all in place while creating a small tremor. The giants began emitting more of glow, channeling Haelens spiritual power into the poles and furthermore into the thousands of chains below where his silver power began traveling through all of the chains and off to each Garganta captured by them.

Everyone closest to the hill was nearly breath taken by the beautiful sight of the sky being filled with silver ropes of light, the only things that would make the sight more beautiful would be if it was night time and their wasn't hordes of hollows running about everywhere trying to eat people.

The sight before the hill occupants was like that of standing near an awe-inspiring monument with the giants now looking to have become statues, frozen their holding the rods in place and looking to have become a part of the ring itself. The arc of energy that was before shooting up into the sky had now died down and with it went the oppressive spiritual pressure allowing everyone to relax their own.

As everything calmed down everyone began approaching the monument to see if Haelen was there and as they began to make there way there past the chains that were obscuring their view of the monuments base. They began to see a bright white light coming through the chains the closer they got. After a few minutes everyone even those who were in the barrier previously (Rukia, Orihime, Uryu and Ganju) made it into view of the base and saw what looked to be an 8 foot high mass of Haelen's remaining Reiatsu. An ember of the power that came before it.

Inside people could see a shadowy figure standing tall in the center which they could only guess was Haelen. The shrouded Haelen seemed to sense their presence and turned to face them, everyone held their breath because at this moment Haelen was looking pretty menacing with the only part of being visible is his eyes that were shining a brighter silver, like a pair of stars burning through they thick light around him.

Haelen began to take a step forward and the moment his foot made contact with the ground he vanished from everyone but single person view. The huge of ember of power being left to scatter to the wind.

"Soifon"

Was what everyone heard coming from behind them, when everyone turned they saw the still burning silver figure standing before the girl gazing down at her with her returning the gaze looking ready to burst out in tears.

Father and Daughter finally meet, with only a veil of silver remaining in their way.

End of Chapter

well I hope you enjoyed this new chapter