Chapter 13 - Meeting someone special

WISP POV. Right after "the lie of the light".

After my fight with the old holy knight Reinhardt, I quickly fell unconscious, wait no my heart stopped for a moment... does that count as being unconscious or dead since I woke up? Wait does that mean I came back from the dead again?

Focus.

After I lost consciousness/Died, a voice called out to me, no, it wasn't Soi Fon's, you think this is some kind of fantasy or something ? Anyway.

The voice which called out to me was that of an old man, "It is not your time yet, we will meet later for now wake up." Then I woke up. I woke up to Soi Fon crying over my body, she must have believed I was dead. I reached out to her she looked so fragile right now. I didn't remember much after that except teleporting us back home and losing consciousness again.

I woke up and somehow lit up a fire, I clearly had Soi Fon's help for this, we then sat in comfortable silence. Tonight, we were closer than we've ever been these past few years...not in that way you perverts.

Anyways, we were in each other embrace and this is the best thing since coming to this world. After Soi Fon fell asleep, my thoughts drifted towards today's fight, this shouldn't have been one of the hardest fight I have experienced in this live yet I was forced to use literally every last bit of strength to win.

It didn't make sense, I sometime took damage equal or greater than the damage he suffered in this fight yet why was I pushed so far ? And the voice I heard while unconscious, the hell was that? And what's the corruption ? So many questions.

I sighed and rubbed his forehead, my powers were all over the place, especially my energy bending and by extension, my senses. So much so that I didn't notice the drones looking at us from afar.

Exhausted, I finally decided to fall asleep, unconsciously emitting heat to keep both myself and Soi Fon at good temperature, the fire having burnt out a moment ago.

As soon as I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep, I reopened them immediately because of the sudden light that came from everywhere around me, wait... is it already day time? Hell no, there no way!

I get up, slowly but surely and look around me, I look and see nothing, like literally nothing, white infinity all around. I try calling out "Hellooo~, anybody there?! If you can hear me don't go towards the light!"

"What the hell are you on about? There's literally light everywhere you can't not go to the light" Ken told me inside my head.

Sometime passed again, with me trying to keep sane, what the hell is this place?! Am I dead ? What the hell, how many times am I gonna ask myself this question?!

"Hey, sorry I'm late I had something to take care of..." I sit up immediately and look next to me, I see a man, he looked quite young and wore some sort of black robe that covered his whole body. He had red eyes and white skin, same as mine, aside from that he had black hair and beard and normal human features.

"Here have a seat." Two chairs and a tv. appeared out of nowhere. My first question was naturally.

"Are we in the matrix?"

"No, no we're not in the matrix, now sit down we have a lot to talk about." He said, chuckling.

I get up and sit ďown on the very nice looking and comfortable chair, did I say it was a very nice chair? What a nice ch- .

"Focus please."

"Right sorry."

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"So who're you? Where are we? What the hell am I doing here?"

"Okay... Me, I'm the one who send you here, to your new world I mean, right now we are... I actually have no idea what to call this place, it's just some kind of office if you will." Before he could continue I cut him off.

"How about you call it the matrix?" I asked.

"Fine, finally we are here to discuss about the whys and hows..." he dramatically said opening his arms wide.

"Wow, plus 100 points for drama." I said while slowly clapping, the guy just bowed his head a little.

"So... why did you send me here? And-" I tried to rapid fire my questions but he cut me off.

"Okay before you do that let me explain from the start. In your last life, you were a soldier, you did good things and you were pretty powerful for a human, so much so that you got killed by a hollow. Not wanting you to die, I grabbed your soul and chucked it through this world. You got send back through time about around 400 hundred years and I got you a new body, enhanced wolf like senses and instincts with super human everything. The problem was that by doing this I missed, you were supposed to be a super-human in the human world but while throwing you soul, I missed." He paused and caught his breath.

"Rude, throwing other people's souls, other than that, thanks, really thanks a lot for this new life." I said sincerely.

"You missed."

"Ah, right. Unfortunately I missed and you hit the walls between dimensions, you ricocheted between a lot of world. And you became was you are now, your super healing got enhanced even further as well as your body, and you got a new power, your "Energy Bending" as you call it. Your body and soul got merged together and you can bring either of them out while the other goes back under the other. This brings you a lot of advantages but also some disadvantages such as you keep your wounds in both forms. You also got one hell of a strong Zanpakuto because of my mistake."

"Oh and you may or may not be just a little insane now." the man remarked.

"What do you mean?"

"Well... your personality may or may not be all over the place at some points." He figdeted on his seat, avoiding eye contact.

"What? I feel perfectly normal, how am I insane?" I frowned

"I mean that you will do strange things, some that are not what you usually do, like charging head on into a battle or having rapid chances of attitude, or..." before he could continue I cut him off.

"Okay okay, I get it." So I'm a "little insane" now. Whatever.

"Well, thank you for being so bad at aiming. Thanks to that I have this awesome body, powers and friends."

"What does that mean?" I ask put off by the sudden change in tone.

"It means that when you were bouncing between world's, you hit one that contained a powerful being that followed you because of the rift that opened there." He paused, my eyes widened.

"When you hit his world, you opened a rift and he came with you, the embodiment of War, The War-Wielder, he's immortal but not the same way as you might think, he can die but will come back as long as there is war in all existence." He explained.

"He landed thousands of years before you did and began gathering the power he lost by coming with you, he corrupted everything with war."

"Wait so he's the one at the origin of the Corruption, the death of the Holy warriors and Reinhardt? And that purple energy?" I asked and he nodded "Damn." I clenched my fists.

"He was forced to retreat before he was found by other beings such as the Soul King which could banish him from this world and back into his world. So he hid into another sub-dimension He created. Fast forward and you come back into the world."

"So... let me get this straight, I got killed by a hollow because I became too powerful, you grabbed my soul, gave me a new body and powers and threw me back into the world but you missed, I hit bounced of multiple worlds, gained new powers and came back into my original world but brought back the literal embodiment of War with me. War-Wielder "landed" thousands of years before me and corrupted people with War but ultimately hid away in another dimension and is waiting, then I "landed" and I guess he's coming back?" I resumed.

"Yeah, you got everything down straight and yes, he is coming back, well trying, he can't enter the world yet as his dimensions is sealed off by the Soul King but he is coming back soon. So I need to ask you a favour."

"Ask away." I simply said.

"Ah well you didn't need to ask, I've already been on it for some time." I answered.

"Thank you Wisp, well, now that you know what's going on, I need to warn you, be careful about the corruption, no matter how powerful you are, it can corrupt you too. It also slows your regeneration down so be careful." He warned.

"Well thank you, ah you didn't tell me who you are."

"Me? I'm Fal, the God of Immortality, I'm right under the Big G. This is goodbye Wisp we won't be seeing each other again." He waved his hand and I blacked out.

Well then, at least now I know the whys and hows.

Back at the old house.

I slowly opened my eyes and sat up, I yawned and rubbed my eyes. Looking around I was inside the bedroom, been awhile since I've been here. I get up and change clothes from my sleepwear and into some loose pants and shirt. I woke up in a new outfit and with a clean body, Soi Fon must have changed my clothes and cleaned my body while I was out.

It was day outside, so I knew I slept for some time, I went out the door and into the living room, during the years I hired a few people to renovate the house and make some rooms, mainly a bedroom, kitchen and living room, the didn't touch most of the vegetation as per instruction and the house was beautiful.

Entering the living room, the smell of food tickled my nostrils, my stomach growled and made my way towards the kitche, guess I was really hungry. Arriving at the kitchen, I saw Soi Fon in her gigai making some food, she wore a baggy kimono that looked like a pair of pants, a white cloth belt and a black shirt, she also wore a white apron. She was making some rice with fish, another plate of rice and meat was already on the table.

"IDIOT! Do you know how worried I was ?!" She said tears in the corner of her eyes.

I didn't answers and bent down to her level, I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her with all the love I could muster and softly said "Thank you for worrying for me Soi Fon, and thank you for being with me, sorry for being reckless."

She slowly hugged me back and let out a couple of tears, I broke the hug much to our disappointment and wiped away her tears. He patted her head and they sat around a table to eat.

After eating, we went out to the city, I was thinking on my conversation with Fal, the corruption of war, the fact that it originates from War-Wielder. All the people who have suffered because of him. I clenched my fists, I'll definitely protect this world.

"-Isp, Wi-, WISP !" Soi Fon yelled in my ear.

"Ah, sorry, what?" Damn I wasn't paying attention.

"I was asking if you were okay, you weren't responding and stopped moving for a moment ?"

"Ah sorry I was just thinking about something and I wasn't paying attention, I must be more tired than I though." I said as I rubbed the back of head

"Really? You? Distracted? What you were thinking about must be pretty important for you to lose focus like that." She raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah... yeah it is pretty important. I'll tell you before you ask, it's about the purple energy and the corruption. Whenever it comes in contact with me it slows my regeneration down."

"What? It's that powerful?" She seemed quite shaken.

"Yeah but let's not dwell to much about it and enjoy our day." I grabbed her hand which made her blush and led her back to the forest, we then climbed the mountain.

We soon stopped at the top of the mountain, we couldn't see anything as the forest was too thick, Soi Fon asked me why we were here but I didn't say anything in return and grabbed her bridal style, she blushed so much that her ears became red.

She let out a cute yelp and I jumped straight up through the foliage, I landed onto a sturdy branche and sat down. We now could see the totality of the valley and the sun sinking over the horizon, I then secretly used my powers to make some pearls of light appear into the air, making the scene even more beautiful.

"Wow, it's beautiful... how did you find this place?" Soi Fon asked me.

"Well, I found it a couple of weeks back when I was looking for food and wanted to bring you here but I forgot. Ken reminded me of this place earlier today so I brought you here." I grinned toothily.

She smiled and relaxed in my arms, I was sitting cross legged and she was sitting on my legs while we watched the sunset.

"OH COME ON! JUST KISS ALREADY!" Ken screamed in my mind making me jump a little, the sudden movement seemed to also startle Soi Fon as she jumped to.

"What's gotten into you?!" I smiled at her because of how adorable she was when startled and she pouted.

She was now facing me, the sunset behind her, she looked beautiful. I blushed somewhat and took a deep breath to calm down. My ears trembled slightly, we looked in each others eyes, her small figure surrounded by me, protecting her against the wind and cold of the night.

Slowly, our heads moved closer to each other, our lips closed in on each other and finally, they met.

The kiss was a new experience for the both of them, they were inexperienced and clumsy but they managed. The kiss was full of love and lasted around half a minute.

They separated and looked at each other lovingly, both smiling happily, this night was perfect and nothing could spoil it.

Seireitei : dark room

Two persons could be seen cheering and yelling "Finally!"

TO BE CONTINUED