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Noel Niihashi was in huge trouble. She had just arrived in Japan to visit her older cousin, Tatsuki Arisawa, when a dragon attacked.
What are dragons you ask? Think Pokémon but with scary teeth. Regular people can’t see them, but since Noel is a witch, she can.
There are other certain people who can see dragons, but they live in Japan. They’re called Quincys apparently.
Noel was a regular teenage girl, who had black hair, a very animated face, and according to her “friend” Ninny Spangcole, Noel also had “a fiery personality”...whatever that means. Noel had been traveling to the house that Tatsuki and her parents were staying at, when a large dragon attacked her. It looked different from the regular ones, with it wearing a strange blue mask, and being humanoid as well. This was not a normal dragon. Noel had to do something to stop it, so she decided to use a spell against it.
She shouted “MAGIC NUMBER 31! BLUE SPARK!”, and made a finger gun formation with her hands.
A shot of blue magic pulsated from her finger gun and hit the dragon right in its stupid head. Unfortunately, the dragon in question was… completely unharmed. This was not a normal dragon. Crap. She had to remember that.
It had caught her off-guard in an alleyway (and before you ask, no she wasn’t lost. definitely not), and she was in huge trouble.
Ninny’s never going to let me hear the end of this, isn’t she? Luckily for her, Ninny wasn’t here. She was back home in Reverse-London due to her job as a pop star.
“CRAPCRAPCRAP! If I had known I was going to be fighting dragons here in Japan, I would’ve brought extra help! This was supposed to be my day off, for christ’s sake!”
As she was shouting her annoyance, there was a soul reaper that was a teenage girl standing in the air two blocks away.
She had long red hair, a confident smile, and wore a shinigami uniform.
She was clutching her Zanpakutuo, which looked like a normal katana, but split into two curved parts at the end with what looked to be a tuning fork connecting them.
Her name was Ichika Arabai, Squad 13 rookie. Due to Karakura town’s tendency to attract Hollows and other supernatural beings, Ichika had been assigned to Karakura as her first mission as a soul reaper.
A witch huh? We don’t often get those here. If ever. Ichika had only read about witches in her uncle Uryuu’s history books, and even then, information about them had been sparse.
Apparently in London, Hollows were known as Dragons and were used for daily activities, such as doing laundry, washing the dishes, and even as ingredients for cooking! Aside from that, no information about them had ever been revealed over in Japan. Until now.
Noel had tried to attack the strange dragon, but nothing had worked. As it geared it for a strong attack, Noel stared at it in defiance.
She was not going to lose to a dragon. Not today, not ever.
She prepared her spell.
“From the jaws of hell, forged in the fire of desperation, MAGIC NUMBER #666! DEFIANCE HELLMIRE!”
A large red explosion shot out from her finger gun, and the weird dragon was finally dealt with.
Defiance Hellmire was the most sought after spell in Reverse-London because it instantly killed your enemies.
It had some drawbacks unfortunately - after you use it, you won’t be able to cast spells anymore for 24 hours.
And because of that, Noel lost her energy and fell on the floor of the alleyway, unable to get up, and completely drained.
That wasn’t even the worst part of the spell though, because if you use it, you'll be a beacon for any and all hostile dragons in your vicinity.
And what does that mean, you ask? It means that if, for example, another dragon tries to attack you. What happens then? Short answer, you're screwed.
...And of course just when she thought she was safe, another weird dragon slowly approached her vicinity. And this time, she was completely helpless. No one was going to save her, so she started praying for a miracle to happen.
And a miracle did alright, as Squad 13 Soul Reaper, Ichika Arabai just happened to be watching her fight that hollow. Ichika was curious to see how witches fought Hollows and thought that the witch in question could handle it on her own. Sadly, she had to intervene. So she grabbed her Zanpakutuo and aimed it like a gun at the hollow.
"SOGEKI JIGOKU! HELL'S SNIPE!"
A huge laser shot from the oddly-shaped Zanpakutuo and hit the hollow right on its head, causing it to fall down.
She then flew over to where Noel was standing to check if she was okay.
"..Wh-who are you?" Noel asked, looking at the figure standing in the air above her.
"I'm Ichika Arabai. Soul Reaper." Ichika smirked.
"Looks like you needed some help. You're lucky I was here!"
"....EHHHHHHH?! Who are you?! And what's a soul reaper anyways?!"
Noel responded while she looked up at Ichika.
Ichika had known that there wasn't lots of information about witches available, but she hadn't realized that witches also had the same predicament about Soul Reapers in terms of information availability.
The hollow then decided that it was still alive and starting twitching, probably trying to get up from it's position.
So Ichika aimed her Zanpakutuo and shot the hollow in its stomach. She then walked over to its corpse and bumped it with the hilt of her Zanpakutuo, sending it home to the Soul Society.
Noel had no clue what she just saw.
As far as she was aware, she was saved by a weird Japanese lady wielding a strange looking sword, and as far as she knew, this was not how Quincys operated.
According to the travel brochure that was given to her from Ninny, the people in Japan that fought dragons were called Quincys - and that they fought using bows of light, while wearing a white uniform.
The figure that Noel saw standing before her was not at all what she expected. Firstly, she looked like a teenage girl. Secondly, she was wearing a weird black uniform that looked like it was straight from the Edo period, and thirdly, she had crazy red hair.
"...So...you're just going to lie there looking shocked? I thought that witches were supposed to be calm and composed."
The Quincy was smiling as she said this, much to Noel's embarrassment.
"First of all, what exactly are you in the first place"
Noel got up from where she was standing.
"Secondly, what were with those weird dragons anyways?"
Noel brushed off dust from her clothes.
"And thirdly, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU ANYWAYS?!"
Noel pointed at the Quincy girl and shouted.
Ichika stared at her in annoyance.
"Wow, that's rude."
"First of all, I'm not a Quincy."
Ichika sighed.
"Secondly, I'm a Soul Reaper."
Ichika flipped her flowing, long red hair back.
"Thirdly, I already told you - I'm Ichika Arabai. Soul Reaper reporting from Squad 13."
She stepped down on to the ground.
"Now is there anything else I need to assist you with or are you good for the rest of today?"
Noel facepalmed.
"Actually I do. We're kind of screwed at the moment, because I stupidly used Magic Number #666."
Ichika gave her a confused look.
"That spell attracts all dragons in our vicinity for 24 hours."
Ichika started to sweat a little bit.
"It also kills your opponent in a single strike."
"...Fuck." Ichika is so screwed that it's not even funny.
"My thoughts exactly."