The Lost Guardians

"Training, I guess...we ARE Shinigamis now...sorta..." Julie said before pulling her sheets over her head. "I'm going back to sleeeeeep...."

OOC:" DAMIT LEON, POST IN THE IDEALS DX

Zoe watched as her friend attempted to go back to sleep. Shrugging, she turned towards to door, only to spin around once more, an evil grin present on her lips. She took a running start for her leap just as Julie buried her head in the blankets.

"Cowabunga!!!!" she cried as she flew through the air to land heavily on top of her Asian friend.

"WHAT HTE FFALSKDGJKWEJG" Julie cried, struggling and pushing her friend off of her. She quickly lifted up her head from the covers, glaring at her friend while trying not to laugh. "What was that for!? That hurt, you know!"

Zoe fell onto the floor, laughing.

"Ahaha, I didn't even know you could pronounce that!" she cried though her giggles.

"You two are nuts."

A deep voice interrupted, a now more awake Leon calmly sitting down at the table he dubbed "lame freaky anime desk" with a cup of tea. He sipped the drink, only to spit it out a second later, rubbing his eyes as he coughed "Oh, come on! Half-way across the world, and I can't get a decent brew?! I'm starting to hate this place more and more.."

A certain cat nearby meowed mockingly

"Shut up."

Zoe glared at the English boy from her place on the floor.

"We may be nuts, sirrah, but at least we're cute!"

"Yeah, that's true."

Leon nodded as he drank the sickly tea, admitting fully and bluntly that he thought the two were quite attractive. Finally he stood up and placed the odd mug on the side, silently filling a glass of water before draining it down his throat in one gulp. His eyes shot open fully, finally feeling the ever normal wake of being fully alert. Still, he shrugged and span around, putting his arms behind his head

"I'm gonna go take a shower."

Zoe turned back to Juliana with a weird look on her face.

"That boy is strange...and how dare he call us nuts!"

Even though it's true, her inner self muttered.

"atleast he isn't stupid...like a certain few guys we have t osee every day <<" Julie said, standing up and yawning before turning to the cat. "Yoruichi-san, do we really have to train right now? It's too early!"

A smile lit up Zoe's face.

"Training? We get to train here? That means I can learn to be a real shinigami!!!"

She did a little victory dance in place, not caring who was watching.

"Yeah, but what about me?"

Leon muttered as he dragged through cleaning his hair, hearing the talking in the main room with his newly gained Hollow enhanced ability. It was all well the trio being Shinigami, but he had to go be stupid and become a white haired soul eater. Either way, he wasn't about to back out of anything. Besides, being a Hollow had a few cool advantages...

Like the fact that he suddenly had a muscles mass and level of strength that Ranma would of been proud of!

“I wonder if I can use Cero...”

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"Exactly."

The cat said as it jumped on the table and glanced at the two girls "Today you're going to learn how to fight a Hollow and access your spiritual energy within combat. Safe to say your male friend will be helping a lot in this training exercise..."

It paused and then nodded

"Yeah, its exactly as it sounds..."

"W-wait, we have to fight Leon?" Julie said, tilting her head. "But isn't he much much stronger than us, being a Hollow and all? What if something happens?"

Zoe grinned and lazily put her hands behind her multicolored head.

"Relax, Jules," she said brightly. "Yoruichi-san and Pervert-san aren't gonna let anything happen to us. We may be roughed up a little bit, but they're not gonna let us die or anything."

A arm went around each of the girl's shoulders as a certain Hollow appeared all clean and awake, dressed in the same outfit he had been wearing the other day, a rather sharp frown licking his pale lips "Wait, you want me to fight these two? Are you out of your mind? I can't do that. You've gotta think of something else..."

The cat seemed to gaze at him before frowning

"You can't fight a girl?"

The once-blonde blinked and calmly shook his head

"Eh? No, I'm just afraid of fighting people that can, oh, you know, PURIFY ME."

It was obvious that the following silence echoed because the cat-woman hadn't thought of that.

“Oh.”

Zoe sweat-dropped.

"Don't tell me you forgot about that?"

Julie sweatdrops. "Yoruichi....you didn't really forget did you?" She said, half laughing. "B-besides, Leon's not that weak against us....right?"

Dee was tired.

From the moment she woke up she knew she wasn't dreaming. It was far too vivid, too spectacular to be a dream. Her dreams had always been weird, covered by a black veil and she could change them at will. Her senses were never touched upon in dreams. But here she could feel the grass and hear the river's running water and even smell the flowers.

Dee was awake.

She thought for a bit. Her pajamas were still on. What was the last thing she remembered? She had been thinking some rather depressing thoughts and-

Oh.

THAT happened.

The chubby girl looked around her. She was in front of a river, and judging by the sun it was somewhere around midday. There was a forest all around her, no civilization in sight, and she was completely alone.

Well, on the bright side, she could really and truly cry and no one would hear her.

Dee cried.

Zoe scratched her chin. "I dunno. Maybe we shouldn't fight him. I mean, it's not like we have any idea what we're actually doing..."

Dee blinked. One time, then twice, and another makes three.

It was a city.

She had finally gotten over her little sob fest (the girl was quite a crybaby and had not taken her medicine that morning) and decided to walk around. Dee had thought if she kept walking she might find something, and lo and behold, a city.

Moss really DOES point towards civilization.....

The brunette started towards the town. Maybe she could finally find some answers.

Zoe yawned. "Well, until y'all come up with a plan, I'm gonna go wander around town. See ya!"

Before she could hear protests or any acknowledgment whatsoever, the rainbow-headed teen ducked out the back door and began trotting down the street.

Dee was vastly confused.

First of all, there was the fact that she had woken up in the middle of nowhere in her pajamas. That would be enough to confuse most anyone.

Secondly, there was the town she had stumbled into. There were people wearing both foreign and normal clothing and had hair all colors of the rainbow, and SHE was the one getting funny looks. Not to mention everything was written in Japanese. Dee supposed it could be in Chinese, but considering the fact that she distinctly recognize the language they were speaking as Japanese (though she could only pick out a few words and phrases) it wouldn't make much sense.

Lastly, the fact that it all looked REALLY FAMILIAR AND SHE HAD NEVER BEEN HERE.

Take for instance the building she was standing in front of. It was yellow with a green roof and a sign. The sign was Japanese so she couldn't read it, but it seemed like she had seen it before. The question was, where? She had never been here, she knew that much.

.....This was irritating. She turned around to walk to the park she had seen nearby.....

.....and promptly fell flat in the middle of the road.

“Owowowowowowow!” The teen hissed, clutched her knee. She just HAD to land on the BAD knee with the BRUISE. Today was honestly not her day.

Dee took a deep breath and tried to stop herself from crying again. “It's okay.” She lied to herself. “It's okay.” She slowly stood.

BEEP BEEP!!!

She sharply turned her head as a loud noise came to the side of her. Was that a car heading for her!?!

“OH HOLY CRA-”

Zoe shuffled down the street with her hands behind her head, eyes closed and soaking in the sun. She hadn't been outside for even five minutes before she heard the screeching of a car's tires. Her eyes shot open to see a girl about her age in the middle of the road, and acted without thinking. Darting forward, she latched onto the girl's arm and yanked her roughly back onto the curb with her, sending the two of them sprawling onto the concrete.

"What the heck, girl?!" she shouted, rubbing her skinned elbow. "Why the hell don't you watch where you're...going..."

Blinking stupidly, Zoe stared at her charge, before knocking her to the ground again in a tackle-hug.

"DEEEEEEEE!!!!"

The brunette tried to breathe as everything that just happened ran through her mind and she was being semi-strangled by her buddy. Eventually her brain caught up to her. Dee tried not to start sobbing as she hugged her friend back, but somewhat failed. “Zoe!” she cried.

Pulling away, Zoe slapped Dee upside the head.

"That's for not looking both ways before falling into the street," she exclaimed. "And what the heck are you doing here?!"

She rubbed her head and then her eyes. That was Zoe, alright. “I don't know!” She answered, still trying to breathe properly. “I just woke up in the middle of a forest next to a river and I followed to the moss to a city and everyone was weird and foreign and it all looked familiar then I tripped and fell and I'm so confused!”