Chapter 4: A Song of Souls and Ice

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Ichigo waved over to his collages, "Sorry, I took so long to come." he apologized. "It's ok, what matters is that you're here now." Luffy responded. "Now let us take this Ice Venom down!"

The Ice Venom spotted it's new target and charges up another ice Blast in it's mouth. "Here it comes!" Lucy shouted as they all started flying  away from it. "Ok, everyone we gotta think? How can we stop the ice Venom." Ichigo asked. "Well, I've tried using some of my Fire Release attacks on it and they do work." Naruto began "Now there's another thing we have to worry about, the ice beams shooting out of it's mouth."

Genesis though for a moment "Does anyone have any rope?" they asked. "Rope?" Lucy asked "We could use it to shut it's mouth." Genesis requested. "I think that could work." Ichigo responded. "Do you have any rope?"

Naruto search his pockets and pulled out what seemed to be a rope connected to a kunai. "We could use this grappling hook Topaz created for me." he suggested "Good idea, Naruto we'll distract it while you tie it up!" Goku responded. "Got it!" the ninja called back. Just then they heard the sound of an ice beam being shot.

Lucy looked behind, "The ice blast is coming!" she yelled. As it rocketed towards them, Luffy asked "What should we do before it hits us." "How about we fly in different directions to confuse it?" Ichigo requested. "Good idea" Lucy responded. So they did and it worked. The ice ball flew way past them and hit a tree, turning it to ice.

Ichigo back flipped and landed on his feet, face to face with the Ice Venom. It snarled "When will people like you ever give up?" Ichigo stared into it's cold (no pun intended) dark eyes. "Not until this world wakes up and realises why it needs heroes." he replied. The Ice Venom's horns started to glow "Ok, everyone. Remember the plan." Ichigo said.

As multiple ice blasts shot out of the horns everyone charged to the left, the Ice Venom followed them and shot more ice blasts at them. Ichigo redirected them with an energry blast, "Over to you." he said redirecting them towards Goku, who rebounded them over to Luffy. Luffy grabbed them (and tossed them upwards) "NOW GENESIS!" he hollered. Genesis smirked knowing what to do, they placed Lucy beside a bush. "Wait here." Then they turned to face the flying Ice balls and leapt up. "Come on, please work..." they whispered to themself. Before charging up a ball of energy "NEXO BLAST!" they said, as their now signature attack fired from their hand, disintegrating the Ice blasts.

When that was done, Genesis called over to Naruto. "NOW!" and with that, Naruto threw the grappling hook towards Genesis. It went under the Ice Venom's feet, then Genesis caught it. Seeing that the Ice Venom was about to make a break for it, they whispered "Not this time..." and tossed the grappling hook over the Venom and back to Naruto who caught it and jumped over to Luffy. Luffy grabbed the grappling hook and saw that the Venom was making a lunge at him so he ran and did 3 laps up, down and around it.

Then as the Venom clawed at his leg, he tossed the grappling hook over to Ichigo, who grabbed it and somersaulted over the Venom before clasping the other end of the rope. Once he did, he tied a knot and tightened it. "There that should take care of it." he said as he stepped back. Lucy looked at the Ice Venom and saw that it was now tied up. The rope was wrapped around it like a ribbon that is used to decorate a gift box. 

The Ice Venom looked at the the troupe of heroes and snarled, before it began to rock back and forth. "I don't think this thing is giving up just yet..." Genesis observed. They were right, the Ice Venom, despite having it's mouth shut, was starting to roll towards them. "LOOK OUT!!" Lucy shrieked. As they saw the Ice Venom was rolling towards them, Naruto, Goku, Luffy, Ichigo and Genesis all jumped out of the way. "WOAH!" They all hollered.

As the Venom reached the end of the road, it skidded to a halt before turning to face the heroes and rolling in the other direction. "Here it comes again!" Luffy said. Everyone was prepared, this time. The Ice Venom began to role towards them a second time, Naruto said "Brace yourselves."

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