Chapter 2 - Awakening + Sword Spirit's

The massive amount of power Ywach had just released didn't break the dome I had surrounded myself with like I had thought it would instead it passed threw like it wasn't even there. As soon as the blinding white light torched my skin I screamed in agony in all of the battles I've ever fought getting literally killed by Ulqiourra multiple decapitations and bisections during my fight with Ywach to name a few I've never felt pain this horrible it felt as if my head was rapidly expanding without any sign of stopping my veins felt as if they literally had molten lava flowing through them instead of blood.

If Mugtsu had been more coherent at this current point in time he would have realized that a massive amount of knowledge and reiatsu was being transferred to him by the light. He would have also seen the beautiful scene of the chaotic rainbow reishi quickly condensing into one point and then rapidly expanding out words. He would have seen the area around him turning pitch black he would have seen stars coming to life light-years away from him. Galaxies forming possibly even black holes unfortunately Ichigo was in so much agony he couldn't even process his own thoughts let alone admire the beautiful scenery.

In his pain Ichigo screamed letting out his powers all around him he was flouting clutching his head his power making the area around him pulse and ripple from the pure power. The pain worsened he sent more of his power out in waves this time easily warping reality and destroying the light particles around his body. Each pulse he let out blanketed the already very dark spot in space into complete darkness large cracks were also forming around him in the vacuum of space. Mugetusga had no way of telling time while in this amount of pain but if he did he would have realized he sat in that one spot of space destroying reality for close to three earth days a pretty short time considering the changes that were happing to his soul.

Numb that's the only way to describe how he felt after the pain faded. What's going on? He asked himself still very much out of it. I'm alive… what happened? I'm flouting? Mugetsugas eyes shot open his mind finally recalling the previous events with Ywach. Rapidly looking around Muegtusu didn't like what he saw. What the hell? All around himself, there were cracks that seemed to be in the air itself kinda like garganta but the inside was black and white instead of the blackness of the garganta there also seemed to be some kind of grey miasma leaking out from them. Deciding to approach with caution Ichigo manipulated the reishi around his feat pushing himself forward he noticed it was a lot easier than normal. Normally manipulating reishi was like smothering it with his reiatsu and forcing it to his will this felt like the reishi was eager to respond to his commands and was doing it by choice. 

He reached his hand out towards the miasma coming out of one of the smaller cracks and let it touch his hand he watched the miasma closely it didn't seem to react to his hand and there was no pain or any feeling from his hand when he touched it. Somewhere deep down in his soul he realized that this was some form of reishi and he understood how to control it. He was confused he never heard of clouds of reishi nor did he remember the old man ever teaching him how to control it but he would trust his instincts. He gently nudged this reishi cloud with his will and a sliver of reiatsu with a simple command go back. He watched as the cloud of reishi he manipulated quickly retreated into the crack and stayed there not leaking back out like he thought it would. That was easy. Maybe I should do something about these cracks I'm pretty sure they're here because of me. He tried gently telling the crack to close as he had done to the miasma. Not even a twitch huh I had a feeling that wouldn't work. Guess I gotta be a little meaner. A pulse of his reiatsu and a more strict "Close"!!! In less than a second, all the cracks snapped shut the miasma fading away as if it had never been there.

Mugatsua allowed himself to feel accomplished but it didn't last long because without the many cracks, in reality, blocking his view he could see his surroundings he was floating in what seemed like complete darkness beside the many lights far off in the distance they looked like stars. What the fuck am I in space. If he wasn't confused before he definitely was now. Why the hell was he in space whats with the weird cracks how the hell can he breathe thoughts along those lines were racing through Mugetugas brain right now. Little did he know this was just the beginning.

He was ashamed to admit it but he almost panicked this would have been normal for Ichigo but he was Mugetsu right now as such he wasn't just Ichigo he was also the old man as well as the rest of his spirits the old man never allowed himself to lose control or panic. Of course, even now he didn't lose control but he was close. I'm acting foolish I need to figure out what's going on. He had already used his eyes and he was able to learn very little so he decided to use his more spiritual sense to see if he could figure anything out. Pesquisa he thought using the Arrancar sensing technique that was very similar to a sonar trying to see if he could find anything to help him figure out what was going on. A pulse of reiatsu blasted out from him going in all directions he closed his eyes to focus better it seemed to have gone a couple of miles at best to be fair he used a pitiful amount of reiatsu. I guess I didn't put enough power into that one. Ichigo put a lot more reiatsu into this pulse about the entire reserve of a higher-level lieutenant like Renji or Hisagi. This pulse went on for quite a ways at least a couple hundred miles but still no luck he didn't feel anything like asteroids which he would think would be everywhere in space. One more time a big one with that thought Ichigo let out a reiatsu pulse that would have made the captain commander jealous. This pulse easily when hundreds of thousands of miles and seemed to be coming up with nothing just when Mugetu was about to give up he felt something. A massive object he found...... a planet?

Finally, I found something other than nothing I thought to myself annoyed. My pesquisa felt nothing the planet doesn't seem to have any life on it that I can tell. So not feeling any reason to be cautious of a planet without life I used shunpo at an admittedly slow speed it still didn't even take ten seconds for me to travel the distance many would consider vast. Perks of literally being a being that transcends normal reality I guess. I looked at the planet it was glowing a bright red obviously from being super hot of course this heat wouldn't bother me my spiritual pressure and herrio could defend me from the heat easily. Annoying if I tried to set foot on this planet I would sink into the molten rock.

A strange feeling of nostalgia crept over me as a starred at the planet a feeling deep in my soul telling me what to do. On instinct alone, I raised my hand towards the planet and focused my reiatsu in a way that felt principled it was actually quite complicated but to simplify it I destroyed the heat. you cant destroy heat that's again physics I hear you saying that's why I said it's complicated I just broke psychics just believe me god damn it. It didn't end there though still following my instincts I used a combo of reishi and reiatsu to manipulate the very atmosphere of the planet I watched as trees and grass sported all over the planet as well. Yeah, that's right on my first try I took a lifeless molten planet and turned it into a life-supporting planet.

With a shunpo, I broke the atmosphere and made it to the ground in less than a second. I was in a large field with a boulder that was easily ten feet wide the sun was shining down on the field. There was a sun pretty close to the planet must have been just out of my Pesquisas range.

I went straight to the boulder and sat down on top of it in the familiar stance of jinzen. However, instead of entering my inner world like my position would suggest I sealed my Bankai. I mean it wasn't technically bankai it was a perfect fusion of my power you could say a stage or two above bankai but for a lack of a better word at the moment ill call it bankai. Reiatsu surged around me the grass in a 100-meter radius of my withering and dying. 

Even though he was out of his bankai he still retained some of his appearance the mask disappeared so did the bandages his hands and feet looked much more human now but his shihakusho still looked a lot like a cloak minus the hood. His eyes had gone back to their chocolate brown and the tattoos disappeared he still didn't have any shoes. His hair went back to the shaggy orange main that it was before he used his bankai (His hair after he trains in the dangai)

Glancing down I saw my partner's my zanpakuto's resting in my lap. "Zangetsu" I muttered sofly. Being in that form was strange it turned me into a practically different person and I had been in the form for a long time so being back to normal felt strange. I remembered everything that happened like I had experienced it myself but It felt like my body had been possessed by someone else even though I knew this wasn't true it still nagged me in the back of my mind. 

"Quit being a pansy king". A hunting double-laired voice spoke from behind me. Turning around I was surprised to not only see Zangetsu put the rest of my spirits standing there behind me as well. 

Zangetsu is a nearly identical copy of Ichigo excluding the fact that his skin, hair, and shihakusho are snow-white his eye's sclera are black while his pupils are a bright yellow. He also has a maniacal smile on his face. Unlike Ichigo who had two swords, Zangetsu only had one and unlike Ichigo's, his was as white as his skin. (I was gonna describe his sword right here but I realized I'm horrible at describing swords so if you really wanna know what it looks like just google "Ichigo's true swords" and its the bigger one but white)

"You know you weren't the only one in that fusion we all were. Don't lie to me I know you liked it more than your saying you can't hide from the pain of losing everything you care about in this form like we were before you don't have all of us to suppress those feelings." Ichigo ran a hand through his hair he wanted to punch Zangetsu right now but he knew punching a manifestation of his soul in the face wouldn't do him any good sides he wasn't showing it but Zangetsu was just as hurt as him Zangetsu was the manifestation of his instincts and inner desires the good and the bad so in his eyes being unable to protect his friends was his fault. It's just his way of coping he's just as hurt as me if not more he's my sword in his eyes not being able to save my family is his biggest failure. 

"Hallow…". A cold voice broke the silence the old man was glaring at Zangetsu with obvious anger in his eyes. The old man is probably just as upset as Zangetsu he has said multiple times that his one true wish is to protect me in his eyes keeping me happy is a part of that and he finds the fact that he couldn't protect me and in doing so protect my friends to be his fault. So he was obviously angry with himself and didn't want to be reminded of his supposed failure 

Next to Zangetsu stood the old man, Ichigo's Quincy spirit. He is a tall lean-built and stoic middle-aged man. He has pale skin, high cheekbones, stubble, and long ragged black hair with brown highlights. His attire consists of a tattered white dress shirt with an upturned collar and cuffs, black pants, low-heeled boots, and a long, amorphous black overcoat with a burgundy highlight that flares out into ragged ends. He wears brown-tinted, semi-transparent wraparound sunglasses. Unlike Zangetsu the old man didn't carry his sword around in plain sight but if he ever needed it he would surely pull it outa god knows where. 

"Listen Ichi I know you think it was your fault all of this happened but trust me there was really nothing you could have done not even the combined powers of you and Ywach would be able to stop the collision of the worlds". "Whatever barrier the soul king put up prevented you from being able to do anything" "It really wasn't your fault" He knew she was right but still there should have been something he could have done even at the cost of his own life to prevent their death but there was nothing all his godlike power was useless he was as week to prevent their death as that rainy day with his mom.

Glancing over to the left Next to the old man stood a little girl an inch or two shorter than Rukia(4,6ft 142ish-cm ). She has dark purple hair that goes down to her tailbone. Her eyes are a mesmerizing light purple. Her skin is almost unnaturally pale. She's wearing a plain white kimono the only notable feature on it is a purple butterfly design in the center of the chest. She had a calm smile on her face and was humming and mary tune to herself. This was the Hogyoku or what was left of it after it fused itself to his soul. She might appear childish but she had the power and genius to be an absolute monster. Luckily for Ichigo, she was on his side.

"Ichigo you must realize what has been done has been done when the worlds collided it destroyed the very souls themself destroying the cycle of reincarnation an unimaginable amount of souls were destroyed it is very likely that you are the last soul in existence which means we need to use our power and try to remedy this situation." Three pairs of eyes turned sharply to glare at the man or spirit rather that had just spoken it was his hell spirit. He honestly didn't have a name for him yet he was rather quiet most of the time and seemed to be just as sadistic as his hollow just less open about it. He seemed to lack any empathy which made sense considering what he represented literally hell. 

Frowning, as I stared at my still unnamed hell spirit I wondered what else went on in his head besides balancing the world you'd think being fused with him would shine some light on it but it really didn't he was still an enigma to me. His appearance was rather unique as well. His facial structure greatly resemble mine his eyes were the same as my hallow's but the yellow was a deep crimson red he wore the same armor I wore when I invaded hell but it covered his entire body and was crimson red. He has shoulder-blade-length crimson red hair with black highlights. He had a golden handled sword strapped to his back it resembled a gold English claymore but much larger than normal. 

The unnamed spirit was about to say something but seeing the sharp glares of the other spirits the unnamed spirit seemed to get the message and shut his mouth. Ichigo sat on the rock listing to his spirits words it was true that as far as they could tell Ichigo was the only soul in existence but seeing as he could literally turn a hot planet of death into a giant forest him being able to create souls wasn't too farfetched but even if he could he didn't think it was a good idea side's he didn't wanna mess with reality more then he already had. 

He was so lost in thought he didn't notice his spirits getting into an argument. A loud *BOOM* broke him out of his thoughts he watched his hell spirit go flying. Seeing Zangatsu's outstretched balled-up fist Ichigo realized what happened. Before he could say something his hell spirit came flying at Zangetsu his sword drawn obviously looking for blood. Before the situation could escalate any more the old man grabbed Zangetsu by his shihakusho stopping him from meeting his attacker. On the other hand, Hogyoku had incased the unnamed spirit in a bright purple barrier that judging by his yells of protest he couldn't break out of. "I look away for thirty seconds and you too are getting in a damn fight"! Ichigo yelled in a voice sounding more like an angry father than a teenager. Running his hand trought his hair again Ichigo cut the flow of reiatsu off from the spirits dematerializing and sending them back to his inner world. If they wanted to fight they could do it in his head.