The Reaper

by SHMANDER

Chapter 2

Previous Chapter

Codenza

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                       They were walking back to her home and he couldn't help but wonder two things, what kind of house would a Pegasus live in. And what did she think about him, as he pondered both of these questions the former was quickly answered. As they were approaching the outskirts of Ponyville, he saw a decent sized cloud condo that appeared to be puking rainbows. 'Yeah I'm definetly high as fuck right now' was the only thing he could think to himself right now.

Dash

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                  She quickly noticed his reaction as his face had that "I'm either seeing things or incredibly drunk" look. 'I really don't care, someone that took on the princess is staying at MY house'. She quickly flew up to her house and then quickly remembered that Codenza didn't have wings. Dash turned to say something but what she saw made her jaw drop through the cloud floor. Codenza was literally walking on the air up to her.

              "Okay strange unknown species with enough power to take on the princess, that can also walk on air, seems legit." She said while just staring at him.

              "Strangely competitive blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane that lives in a cloud that pukes rainbows, seems legit." He said back to her before they shared a laugh.

              The two finished up the night after this, as it had been a long day. Codenza stayed in the guest room, which was actually on the opposite side of a wall from her room. The next morning he got up fully refreshed, after all sleeping on a cloud felt amazing. He noticed something though, he didn't hear anything, normally his wouldn't surprise him but walls made of vapor weren't known. For being sound proof. He looked around he house and surely enough there was no one there.

    "Hey Dash you here!" He shouted. Nothing answered back. He walked outside to see if he could see anything else unusual. But then he felt it, power a very familiar power. He looked to Ponyville to see the streets were lined with ice. "No no no no mono nononono!" He shouted faster as he got to the normally peaceful town. He saw it, in the middle of the market place stood a figure with a white cloak. "Captain!" Codenza shouted at the top of his lungs. "What the hell have you done!"

      "Codenza I have been sent with orders to bring you back by any means, as for what happened, they stood in my way!" He couldn't believe what he was hearing, his captain just detained civilians.

       "Hitsugaya I will not be going anywhere with a spoiled brat who uses his powers on those who can't fight back!" As Codenza shouted this, he noticed a cyan Pegasus and lavender unicorn collapsed a few yards behind Hitsugaya. "Purge the darkness, Kozehime!"

Toshiro Hitsugaya

6 hours earlier

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               "Captain Hitsugaya, are you aware that you Leuitenant has been missing for over a day now." Yamamoto said sternly

               "Yes head captain we heard he was sent to a different dimension from one of Mayuri's experiments we were planning to replicate the experiment so that I may be able to bring my lieutenant back." No more time was wasted Hitsugaya proceeded to the mad clown captains lab. Mayuri said nothing as he hated talking to anyone but himself. Toshiro was given 3 vials one for himself to get there and 2 to bring him and Codenza back. He drank it, and as he began to black out he felt himself begin to glow.

                He found himself just outside of a forest near a village, he noticed it was just dawn. He decided that since they should mostly still be asleep he would check on the conditions of the civilian population, when it hit him ........... Literally. He looked down to see what it was that just sent him onto the ground. 'What. The. Fuck.' Was all he could think while staring at the cyan Pegasus that was on the ground in front of him.

          "No way, there's another one of you here already." She exclaimed as her eyes just got wider, while his looked more confused than ever.

          "Wait, you mean he's here, take me to him we are leaving this world immediately." He said with a voice so cold that dash could have sworn she got frostbite.

          "Alright pipsqueak I don't know who you are, but your not about to take my friend away." That comment just pissed off the captain, even more so than being in a six year olds' fever dream. As he raised his hand up to smack he rainbow maned annoyance he was caught off guard by the lavender aura that kept him in place then brought dash backwards.

          "What the buck is going on here!" Shouted an approaching lavender unicorn approaching the scene of hostility. Rainbow Dash was about to open her mouth to speak when she saw the captain talk into his sword.

          "Don't kill them just knock them out." He girls were confused for a second before they realized what was going to happen. "Reign over the frosted heavens Hyorinmaru!" A dragon constructed of ice so clear and so strong it could easily be mistaken for diamond shot from he tip of his blade towards the ponies, a field of energy appeared blocking some of he power and allowing them to survive, however it chilled them to the bone and sent them unconscious.

Toshiro

Present

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             Before Toshiro could think, Codenza's scythe was a foot away from his face, he barely blocked in time. 'What the hell, how did he get so fast.'

            "Hey Hitsugaya, since I already know what your zanpakto does I'll tell you mine. With each strike that you don't Dodge, even if you block I absorb some of your spiritual pressure." Codenza said with a grin on his face.

            "Codenza think About this, you could already be branded a traitor for attacking your captain." Hitsugaya shouted concerned about his lieutenant.

            "Better to be branded a traitor by those who would attack an innocent, THEN ABANDON MY FRIENDS!" He shouted.

            'So he's doing this for those horses, that makes this even worse' he thought to himself.

            "Well I'm sorry but if they are the reason you won't leave, then you leave me no-"

            "Don't you fucking think about it," the ground was shaking from how much spiritual pressure Codenza was lettig out. "Erase him Kozehime!" The blade of the scythe is now glowing a dark ominous purple. He charged straight at Toshiro with his scythe. Toshiro raised his sword to block, but the scythe just absorbed almost all of his spiritual pressure from that strike.

            Toshiro fell to his knee, and held himself up by impaling his sword in the ground. Codenza sheathed his sword and approached the captain, Toshiro looked up only to get his face punched into the ground.

            "Don't you EVER threaten my friends you little arrogant son of a bitch!" Twilight was beginning to wake up now but was still in a haze. "You thought you could hurt my friends because you thought I was too weak to stop you, well guess what Hitsugaya I haven't been weak for two centuries you just never gave me a chance to prove myself. Now of you'll excuse me I'm gonna use you spiritual pressure to help my friends." By this time the entire town was awake and not many of them had actually seen him before, so all they saw was a strange creature that had just defeated one of its own kind, was heading towards two of the elements. Just before he could put his hands over Dash, a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane now locked eyes with Codenza. For what seemed like hours the mare stared at him with an unimaginable anger.

              "Fl, Flutte, Fluttershy. He's. Our. Friend. Let him help her." A still hazy and exhausted Twilight said to her friend. "Please." Fluttershy listened and stepped out of the way, no that she knew her friends weren't in any danger her usual fear and paranoia came flooding back and she quickly hid from Codenza. Codenza's hands glowed with the same aura as before only this time they appeared only for a second, he turned to Twilight and did the same for her.

             "Turns out my captain actually has some restraint after all, I didn't have to heal anything except for the fact that the cold may have cause hypothermia." Codenza spoke as a relaxed expression flooded back into his face.

            "Codenza, I am sorry." Toshiro said sincerely. "I held my orders above that of your concern for your friends, if it was me and Momo I would have done the same as you."

           "Don't be sorry, I don't care about apologies, but if you know what you did was wrong you can either stay here for a while and let us all get acquainted properly, or you can go the fuck back to Mayuri now" The last part of his statement contained venom, Toshiro knew that he hated being underestimated and unvalued by the court squads. But it now seemed like he despised them. "I am not going back, you can try to force me again but then I will have to fight you again, that will only result in my execution and what good would that do anyone."

         "I understand, I will stop persisting on this, for the moment." The quarrel had finally reached an end.

"You!" The group realized that Dash had just woken up.

"Dammit." The reapers said in unison.