The New Captain of squad three

Chapter 33

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach nor am I associated with bleach or anyone involved with it in any way. Bleach is the property of its original creator, Tite Kubo.
WARNING! This chapter will contain heavy depression and reference to self harm/suicide! The part that will contain the latter will be marked at both the beginning and end of its part! Readers discretion for that part and this chapter is advised! Please do not read if it will trigger you!!!!

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Outskirts of Karakura town

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"Bankai, Shioreta karitori, Shi no chinkonka!

As soon as the words left Asora's mouth the area within the barrier fell deathly silent. Andres looked and cackled.

"What's this hmmm? Are you going to bore me to death? Is this the power of your Zanpakutō? To silence everything?"

Asora frowned, a dark look passing over his eyes. "Pardon me, it takes even the most skilled vocalist a few minutes to prepare for their performance. He's ready now though. So please, I ask you to be silent, and listen to his requiem."

A strange shadowy blob began to appear and boil up around the top of the sword guard, the shadows moving up into the air and blade as if they were contained by an invisible wall surrounding the top of the blade. It reached half way up the blade before some of it slowly spread over the sides of the sword guard and as soon as it did it was as if a dame had just exploded. The shadows both rushed down the handle and up the blade, the bottom shadows pooling onto the ground below covering the forest floor and appearing to creep up anything it could touch. The shadows that shot towards the sky slammed into the top of the barrier, which was extremely high up,  and spread covering the top of the barrier.

Andres looked on intrigued, "Is this your Bankai's ability? Too manipulate shadows? No-that can't be it." He said shaking his head and rubbing his claws together. "No, your shikai's ability is  to inflict despair. Still it could be its sound aspect is manipulating the shadows turning them into a weapon."

Asora gave the Arrancar before him a grim look. "As I said before, my blade's ability is to induce despair by cutting my enemy. My blade can not manipulate shadows. What you see is sound manifested to be seeable by the human eye."

"Oh? so it's sound then is it, how interesting." Andres looked down and noticed the trees and other natural life the forest once had was now withered and looked as if it was dead. "Oh my, I'm guessing I don't want those Shadow sound waves touching me, seems anything they touch withers and dies."

Izuru who was observing the whole thing from outside the barrier his eyes widened. Unlike Andres who was watching the shadows on the ground, he had kept his eyes on his former Captain. The shadows that were hitting the sky and ground were no longer flowing from the blade. The blade that was now changed. As the shadows had surrounded the blade, it slowly began to grow and change form. The sword handle was now a long staff like handle and the blade was now a weathered scythe blade that looked ancient. The once intercut looking shikai was now replaced by the bland and simple looking blade.

Though something Andres seemed to not notice was the sky, which now possessed massively dark bronze bells. The bells were all cracked, some of them having vines and rust coating them. The bells were slowly moving but making no noise what so ever.

Everyone outside of the barrier was able to sense the dense and powerfully dark spiritual pressure coming from the bankai. However what could also be sensed was a dull low sound, it was very low and only hearable if one was completely silent.