Bleach: True Power. Chapter 40: Devil's Deal

He walked back to his house, having a scowl on his face. he was in a bad mood today, even more so than usual. Jaques Quesh was in the worst mood he had ever been in. following him was Maria Schwartz, she too was in a bad mood. Strangely enough, she was in a bad mood over the same thing Jaques was thinking about.

Jaques was eighteen years old, had messy and spiky red hair, yellow eyes and strange slid like pupils. He wore a black jacket with a red shirt under it, black pants and black boots. he was in his last year at Karakura High school and he had a crush on a girl who was a few years younger than him. her name was Asuna Kurossho, but she was in love with that punk Ryutora Suraisa. And today at school he had heard she spend the night at his place! This really pissed him off.

Maria Schwartz was sixteen, had jet black hair, red eyes with twelve spots in them at the edge, like a watch with its numbers. She wore a fancy dress, as she had just gone out with Jaques to dinner, to smother their anger. She had been popular at school and had seen Ryutora, also popular and quite good looking. Then he hooked up with that bitch Asuna and today she had heard she had spend the night at his place! Enduring their relation was bad enough, but this was going too far!

Jaques and Maria had come to an understanding, that they both wanted the one the other disliked, thus getting the one they disliked out of the way. As such they had tried working together for a while now, to get what they desired; Jaques Asuna as his girlfriend and Maria Ryutora as her boyfriend. But now, after a few months, their efforts hadn’t done a thing and worse, those two had only gotten closer.

Mariah pulled a pocket watch out between her cleavage, frowned and felt the handle of the pistol she hid in her dress. These two objects were her Fullbring, giving her two different Fullbring source, each with their own unique power. Jaques also had spirit energy, which he manifested as shields of spirit energy around his body, or spiritual blasts he shot from his hands. Though the most useful trait of this shield power was that it could hide his presence completely, from sight and from one’s spiritual sense. Like this, when he had been bored, he had gone into the girl’s locker room to watch them change clothes.

Jaques opened the door of his apartment and let Maria in, before entering himself and closing the door. They had decided, they had kept their desires locked inside for way to long! Sure, it wouldn’t be with the person they wanted to do it with, but they both felt like it had to be done. As such, Maria would spend a night at his place.

the next day, Jaques had decided to go and look for Ryutora and give that punk a piece of his mind. he had enjoyed his time with Maria, but was sure that he would’ve enjoyed it much more with Asuna. But as he walked into Naruki city, he felt Ryutora’s spirit energy, as well as the spirit energy of a hollow. He clad himself in his spirit energy, hiding his entire presence, before moving on to where Ryutora was. and just as he arrived, he saw Ryutora in his soul reaper form, killing a hollow.

Jaques had seen soul reapers slaying hollows before, but this time it was different from anything he had seen before. as the hollow was killed, from its slashed open mask, a light burst up, before forming into a large two sided door. On each side there was a skeleton. The door was also bound by chains on the outside  and ropes on the inside. As the door slid open slightly, the chains broke and a large hand came out from the inside, holding a blade. It pierced the killed hollow and dragged it inside. Jaques could feel the power emanating from beyond those doors. If he could get his hands on such power, he could easily take down Ryutora and take Asuna as his girlfriend.

as Ryutora turned around and head further into Naruki city, doing his duty as its guardian, Jaques ran toward the closing doors and jumped inside. As the doors closed behind him, he found himself at the entrance of hell. Jaques was shocked for a moment, seeing a giant blue creature with a white boney face, exposed spine and enormous muscles drag the just killed hollow down. As he did, the hollow became a woman, was clad in white stripes garbs and bound in chains. And just as this happened, the monster bit down on the woman, eating and killing her.

Jaques jumped down onto the platforms and saw hundreds of people in those white striped garbs, bound in chains. Some wore bandages, some were horribly deformed and others were drooling like mindless idiots. As Jaques kept on walking, he saw the giant monsters move through the blocks like they were ghosts, before grabbing the chained people and crushing them in their hands, against the walls or devouring them. this was a horrible place to be and the potent spirit energy hanging in the air felt like death. Jaques was no longer sure if he wanted the power this place seemed to have.

a voice than suddenly sounded, “impressive. That’s a unique power you have. A shield that hides your appearance and your spiritual pressure. But it doesn’t hide your physical presence.” Jaques looked around, but no one seemed to be looking at him and he was still hidden. The voice chuckled before speaking again, “I’m the overlord of hell, under the direct command of the guardian of hell, who is the only person who can command me. as an overlord, I can see, hear and feel everything that happens in hell. When a new sinner was brought in, I felt something else land. That must be you.”

Jaques sighed, ‘so, I’ve been noticed. This has never happened to me before, so you’ll have to excuse my surprise. Who are you? and where are you?’ the voice chuckled, “my name is Ōritsu Fujikujira. I’m currently in my palace at the lowest level of hell. If you want to talk to me, face to face, I can offer you a shortcut.” A round portal appeared in front of Jaques. On the other side of the portal he could see the vague lines of a throne room. Jaques shrugged, walked inside and saw the man that had been talking to him, sitting in the throne in front of him.

he wore a white cloak with black fur at its edges, a gold silver and bronze chest plate with a dark grey round star in the middle. He had light golden armor on his arms and legs as gloves and boots, as well as a skull on both his shoulders, each with a spike on its head. Also did he have such skulls on his sides, without horns, on his knees, and at the ends of his boots. on his back he had black wings with red edges and chains attached to them. also had he chains on his arms and over the rest of his body. In a circle around him there were seven orbs of spirit energy; purple, red, green, pink, blue, yellow and orange. He wore a silver helmet with golden spikes up top, forming a crown. He had long red hair and his eyes were hidden in the shadow of his helmet.

Ōritsu Fujikujira chuckled, ‘thanks for coming in yourself. Otherwise I’d have asked one of the Kushanada to do so. If you wonder what those are, it’s the guardians you’ve seen patrolling through hell and killing and eating the sinners. Don’t worry, you can show yourself now.’

Jaques nodded, hesitantly, before undoing his shield and showing himself. Ōritsu nodded, ‘now, I’ve introduced myself. Why don’t you do the same?’ Jaques nodded, ‘okay. My name is Jaques Quesh, I’m a high school student and have the power to shield myself. But to be honest, I seek greater power.’ Ōritsu nodded, ‘and that’s why you’ve come here. I’m glad that you’ve done that, for there certainly is great power to be obtained here.’

Jaques nodded and noticed a chair in front of him, though he was sure it hadn’t been there when he came in. he walked to it and sat down. Ōritsu nodded, ‘good, now we can do business. I sense great potential in you and the power you can obtain here certainly fits you. but I wonder, why would you only take power from hell, when you can have power from other sources as well?’ Jaques was all ears. This sinner overlord was talking his language. But he wouldn’t trust this guy. No one offered such great power without expecting to have something in return.

Ōritsu nodded as he folded his hands together and crossed his legs, ‘so Jaques, tell me, why do you want power so badly that you travel to hell?’ Jaques sighed, ‘it’s all because of this one guy, Ryutora, who is not only more popular than me, but has taken the girl I like all to himself. Since I’m older, I first wanted to beat him up, but he has won national championships in three forms of martial arts, as well as kendo. When I gained my spirit energy, I thought I could use that to show him up. But then I could sense that, not only had he great spirit energy of his own, he had and still has four forms of power. Soul reaper, Fullbring, something called Quincy and hollow powers. To make it worse, he can add all four powers onto each other. Now the girl I like, Asuna, also has power, not giving me the time of day. I met a friend, Maria, who was as into Ryutora as I am into Asuna. We tried to work together to get them to break up and come to us. but so far no luck. all that’s left for me is to get greater power, kill Ryutora and take Asuna for my own.’

Ōritsu grinned; this guy was a great source of emotions. He was arrogant, held rage toward this guy called Ryutora, was envious of him as well, he was greedy and hungry for more power, he lusted for this Asuna girl, but too much of a sloth to really do anything about his situation. He nodded, ‘I understand. There is a ritual here in hell, which will help you gain great power. It requires seven things, one you already have.’ Jaques tilted his head, ‘purpose?’ Ōritsu shook his head, ‘no, yourself.’

Jaques listened closely as Ōritsu continued, ‘the next things you’ll need will be three different sources of power, two different people’s blood and an eye.’ Jaques nodded, ‘okay, so have other sinners tried this ritual before?’ Ōritsu’s grin grew, ‘of course. one examples; one used his own chain, the magma and acid from hell as sources of power, the blood from two other sinners and the eyeball of another sinner. After the ritual he was strong enough to take on the Kushanada as an equal, but only one on one. But the greater the potential of the objects used in this ritual, the greater the power the one performing the ritual gains.’

Jaques nodded, ‘you said something like; “why only take power from hell?” so along with something from hell I could take something from the hollows, something from the soul reapers, something from a Fullbringer, sources of power, blood and an eye.’ Ōritsu nodded, ‘yes indeed. In fact, I already have something in mind that will help you obtain invincibility!’

Jaques nodded with a skeptic grin, ‘yeah right, sure you do. but tell me something; why would someone as powerful as you, the overlord of hell, help a weak human like me obtain so much power? What do you want out of it?’ Ōritsu chuckled, ‘you’re sharp kid. But what I want out of it is simple; I want to wreck havoc on the soul society, for that’s where everything we search is located, except for one thing, which is located here in hell. And funny thing is, at this moment you’re the only one who can get it.’

Jaques nodded, ‘okay, I’ll have to think about it. but while I do, tell me the objects of power, the blood and the eye that will make me invincible.’ Ōritsu nodded, ‘certainly Jaques. The objects of power include; hell’s core, which is down here in hell and connected to the Zanpaktou of a soul reaper. The hollow core, which is in the soul society, in the hands of the soul reapers. And an asauchi, the begin phase of a soul reaper weapon. The blood you’ll need is; the blood of the Quincy king; Juha Bach. And the blood of the demon of darkness; Sepulcro. Both are being researched in the soul society. And the eye, we’ll have to steal it from Sosuke Aizen, who’s imprisoned in the soul society.’

Jaques nodded, remembering everything the overlord had told him, ‘okay, I’ll remember that. I think I’ll go home first, think it over for a while, perhaps discuss it with my friend Maria. Could you give me something that will allow me to return here after I made my decision?’ Ōritsu took hold of one of the shackles of his own chain and pulled a chip of it off, tossing it to Jaques who caught it, ‘just take that in hand, say; open the gate. Then throw it away from yourself. The gate will open and you can come in.’ Jaques nodded, stood up, thanked  Ōritsu and took his leave. As he did, Ōritsu opened the gate to the human world and let Jaques out.

Ōritsu started to chuckle after Jaques had left, before bursting out in hysterical laughter. This guy was going to be fun to manipulate. He didn’t realize the price he would have to pay to obtain such great power! Jaques called Maria, telling her what had happened, wanting to hear her opinion on the matter. They needed to talk and think this over thoroughly, before making a decision. But as Jaques talked to Maria and sensed Ryutora’s power emanating from Naruki city, as well as Asuna’s power, he had unconsciously already made his decision. Now he only needed to get Maria on his side.