Panic in Soul Society.~Plot Mission 3.~

Getting no response from Uriko he lifts her up and gets her into a piggy-back position with her head resting on his left shoulder. "wow..... she's lighter than I expected." He sonidos back over to Altria. "grr..... Now that Zombie-boy is outta the way....... we still have to deal with them....." Shiro has a discouraged look, "...... Shin and Uriko can't fight....... I'm running out of steam..... do you think we can take them?" he whispers to Altria, "the decisions' yours...... I'll stick with what ever you choose."

With a sigh Akkei hides away the device she was playing with and moves to stand near frozen Mikiru."My,that was unexpected.Interesting move girl,you little shinigami always manage to surprise me.Poor Mikiru-chan,he should have dodged.Previous success makes one reckless.Mhm,it won't be a problem though.I've pulled him out of worse things before." Running a hand over the ice she pulls out Sagishi and does a few quick,calculated slashes.The ice around Mikiru falls away in slabs.Sheathing her zanpakuto she wraps a hand around his waist,waving the other one and opening a distorted looking garganta."Well,this has been very entertaining.Until we meet again,quite likely very soon.Come on Hisashi-kun let's go,I'm anxious to analyze the data we got.And our dear leader will want to know the results." Pausing before the garganta she digs into one of her pockets,puling out a Tarot card."Almost forgot to leave the mark." With a flick of her hand the card is embedded at Shiro's feet."Goodbye," with a wave she steps through the garganta,disappearing.

~What the card looks like:

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Letting out a soft breath she wasn't aware of holding she shook her head,a sad look crossing her face for a moment."Seems the choice was already made.How's Uriko?Manifesting zanpakuto spirit and doing that attack must have taken all her energy.For that matter,how are you feeling?Did those things she gave you help?"

following akkei's lead, he followed her through the garganta and leave...

shin coughs up as he finally is getting his conciousness...lying on the ground in a time kinda made his body heavy as he hardly tries to sit up. he close his eyes as he wonders and tries to remember what just happened. he suddenly open his eyes in panic and touched his chest where he got stabbed.

"I'm still alive..???"

he breathes calmly as he tries to feel any injury in his body but he can't feel any pain at all. deeply concentrating, he felt altria and tsukiyomi's reiatsu to his body. he then swallows then tasted something in his mouth like he drank some kind of medicine. putting it all together, he's deeply confuse...

"What just happened?"

Seeing Shin regain consciousness she kneels near him."How are you feeling,any pain?Mikiru stabbed you but I managed to heal it in time with Tsukiyomi's Mikazuki ability.Uriko gave you some medicine too." Smiling she glances at Uriko resting on Shiro's back."She was amazing,it's a shame you missed it.Her zanpakuto spirit manifested,this amazing sparkling dragon.And then she used it's power to freeze Mikiru solid,in a glacier.Too bad Akkei got him out but at least they retreated and he's probably heavily injured..I hope.Can you sit up?"

looking at altria, shin tries to sit up

"aah..yea, i think so.."

shin sitted up and breathes deeply..

"The pain is gone thanks to you and to uriko-san..."

he glances at shiro and uriko...

"That might've caused for uriko to use all of her energy..is she okay?"

"Yeah,she probably just exhausted all spirit energy..oh!" Smacking her forehead she quickly looks through her pockets."Stupid,how could I forget about it..ah,here!" With a triumphant smile she pulls out a small pouch.Jumping up she hurries over to Uriko,opening it on the way and pulling out a Mana Herb."Uriko?Here,try to eat this.It should restore your lost spirit energy.."

shin feeling a little better, he stands up and follows altria.

Uriko stirs slightly and blinks awake to see Altria waving a mana herb infront of her. "?? ung... hm? O-Oneesan??" she looks at the herb and accepts it. "thank you.." she munches on it and swallows feeling her reiatsu return. "hmm....." she falls to sleepon shiro.

Feeling uriko go limp, shiro looks over at her. ".... great....." he sighs and gets this 'i'm not paying attention' look on his face.

"Good,she should be ok now..Shiro,you didn't answer?How are you feeling?" Feeling a bit woozy she picks up the tarot card at his feet.It's a magician.'Like a calling card huh..'

Shiro slowly turns his gaze to Altria then looks away slowly. "..... I'm..... fine....." his expression changes again to the 'can we go now?' look.

"Alright,let's go back to 2nd division now.." Taking a few steps her vision swims and goes black.Altria collapses on the ground,Tsukiyomi glows silver in her hand before returning to it's original shape.Blood begins seeping from reopened wounds.

Shiro's eyes widen with shock. "Altria!!" (in thought) 'Damn it... hold on...' Shiro reactivates his pre-res. form and lifts Altria up after sheathing her sword. "oof.... first Uriko now Altria..... erg...." He flaps his flaming wings and takes off from the ground, he goes over to Shin and carefully picks him up by his shoulders. (note: In pre res. and in res. form shiro has clawed talons on his feet. [see avy. for details]) "erg....... so heavy......" he soars towards the 2nd division barracks leaving blue embers trailing behind him.

Unconscious she mutters something quietly,a pained expression crossing her face.Tsukiyomi vibrates slightly in his sheath for a moment.

(a bit later at 2nd Division barracks)

Shiro places Shin on a couch in the living room with Uriko sitting next to him. He walks to Altria's room and eases her gently on the bed, he bandages he wounds and then sits on a small stool next to the bed.

shin on the couch holds on uriko who's resting...

shin whispers..

"Thanks uriko-san"

Uriko smiles slightly then continues sleeping

Stirring she murmurs something that sounds like sorry before opening her eyes. Sitting up slowly she winces,"Well,I feel just wonderful..Shiro?What happened?"

Shiro doesn't respond to Altria's question right away, but instead hands her a few Orange herbs. "here.... eat these.... then talk.."

Staring at them in silence for a moment she takes one reluctantly.Grimacing at the bitter taste she quickly eats it.Feeling the uncomfortable stinging sensation of cuts closing she runs a hand over the bandages."Thank you..."

Shiro stares at Altria with a calm and slightly concerned look. "your wounds re-opened, and you collapsed. I took you along with Shin and Uriko back here to 2nd division. You're home." he smiles in a comforting way.

"Ah..I see,so that's why he was so angry.Well,thank you.." Gazing out a window distractedly for a few moments she sighs and moves to stand up.

Shiro's eyes flick back to Altria. "you shouldn't stand right now..... you'll reopen your wounds again..." he pauses and stares at Altria, as if trying to say 'lay down.... get some rest.'