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Shinigami In Equestria

by Urimas Ebonheart

Chapter 1: Chapter 1: The Shinigami

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Chapter 1: The Shinigami


Present / Location: Canterlot Statue Garden


I watch as these multi coloured ponies walk past me every day. Some stop to stare at me, take pictures with their phones, just sitting nearby and talking with one another while others just pass by without even a glance.

The difference between me and them, however, is that I'm a human.

And for the last one thousand years, give or take a century, I've been stuck as a stone statue after those alicorn Princesses Celestia and Luna used some artefact to imprison me when I was possessed by my hollow half when I first arrived.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I can't remember my birth name, so just call me Ichigo Kurosaki, the character I dressed as at a Convention, and let me tell you what I can remember.


Past, Date: ??? / Earth. London, Anime Convention.


After weeks of work, my Ichigo costume was complete. I had spent a large amount of money to have a real (but dull) steel Zangetsu in its released form made, and it is heavy as hell to carry around. I got the Shihakushō, the robe a Soul Reaper would wear, from an online professional costume tailor and the hollow mask made of plastic from the same place. I'm also wearing a spiky orange wig.

The only thing I wanted was Rukia's phone, but I couldn't get my hands on a replica. So I drive to the Convention on my old second hand moped where I meet up with my two friends dressed as Naruto and Zoro. Though I can't remember their names.

We enter the main hall where lots of booths and tables were set up with various bits and bobs from different animes. We look around and my friends got a few things that fit their costumes.

I'm starting to get hungry and tell my friends that I'll meet them at the premier hall for the showing of a new anime. They bid me goodbye and I eat a quick meal before beginning my walk to the hall, getting some praise for my costume by other people, when I see a vendor dressed as the Resident Evil Four merchant who has some really good looking stuff on his table.

I walk over and look at them: An Omnitrix, Kirito's Elucidator, some kind of spellbook, Zoro's legendary black katana, a Naruto Shinobi headband, and other anime related stuff, but what catches my eye was a cell phone that looked just like Rukia's.

'Oh man, how lucky can you get?' I think to myself.

"Ah greetings, stranger. I see you like that particular item?" the man asks.

"You bet I do, how much for it?" I ask and get my wallet out.

"Just a measly one-hundred pounds sir," he replies.

What!? A hundred? "A bit much for just a replica..." I tell him.

He chuckles and flips the phone open. "But sir, it's a fully functional phone as well. Just place your sim card in and it'll work just like any other phone. It can also browse the internet and has a new self charging battery that charges when closed. It even has all of the Bleach music on it as well," he tells me.

Okay, that seems much more reasonable. I look in my wallet and see I only have one-hundred and fifty quid on me. 'Eh, fuck it'.

"Alright, I'll take it," I say and hand him five twenty pound notes.

"Excellent," he says before he takes the money and opens the back of the phone and pulls out the sim card from it. "Put your sim card in there," he then tells me.

I take out my old phone and remove the sim card. I put the card from the Rukia one into my phone and put mine into the new one. I then put the cover back on mine and put it away in a bumbag. Or fanny pack, as others call it.

"Enjoy your purchase and trip," he says as I take the new phone.

"What trip?" I ask him with confusion.

I feel a pulling sensation as the guy grins at me... then everything goes blank.


Past / Location: Equestria, Everfree Forest.


I groan as I come to my senses. I look around and see I'm in some kind of forest. Looks really peaceful, and I would be enjoying it if I wasn't hyperventilating. To my left I see my sword halfway buried in the dirt, and my mask on the ground beside it. I open my bumbag to find my old and new phone intact, along with my keys, charger, and wallet.

I then get up and dust myself off.

"Just where the hell am I?" I say to myself and scratch my hair. I try to pull the wig off, only to feel like I'm pulling my own hair. "OW!" I look at my hand and see orange hair between my fingers... what?

I frown in confusion before I walk over to my sword and pull it out of the ground... that was surprisingly easy. 'It feels lighter...'

I notice the rig I set up to keep it on my back is gone as well, just great... Then I yelp as the wrapping on the grip extends out and wraps the blade up, just like on the anime.

'Okay, what the fuck is going on?' I think to myself. Wait, then maybe...

I put the sword on my back and let go... where the blade stays attached to the red strap and feels comfortable, unlike my rig that kept pulling at my neck.

Strange. I open my new phone and try to call my friends, only for there to be no signal or their numbers. Just perfect.

"Now what am I going to do?" I muse. "Screw it. I'll just walk in a direction and see what I find, don't even know where I am anyway," I mumble to myself.

I pick up my mask and just let it sit on the top of my head. I keep walking while looking at what my new phone can do. I open the music folder and play the second opening to Bleach.

I pull out the small bud headphones from my bag and plug them in and listen to the music as I walk along. I go through a few more songs before I find a clearing where my stomach rumbles and I frown. I get one of the two snickers bars I have out of my bumbag and eat it. After finishing my snack I put the wrapper back in my bag, I don't like to litter.

I stand up and stretch my limbs and get ready to continue on my way, or I would have if a growl behind me didn't make me crap myself.

"What the fuck?" I say as I stare at what appears to be a large lion with bat wings and a scorpion tail.

It's growling at me and eyeing me up like I'm some kind of McDonald's happy meal. It then roars and pounces at me without warning.

"OH SHIT!" I yell in fright and dive out the way where it barely misses me and I roll back onto my feet. I get my sword off my back and it unwraps itself.

'Relax, focus on your opponent and wait for it to strike again,' a voice in my head tells me.

"Who's there?" I ask in panic while keeping my eyes on the beast.

'There's no time for that now. Just focus on your enemy,' he tells me again.

I focus on the lion and it starts circling me. "Here, kitty kitty kitty," I taunt it, but in reality, I'm crapping my pants. I've never used a sword before!

It growls at me and pounces again.

'Step to your left and swing with an uppercut,' the voice tells me.

I do as he says and step to my left, dodging the claws. I raise my sword and cut into it's belly, I then pull my sword and carve into the beast.

It roars in pain and slams into the ground, writhing in agony.

'Quickly, cut off its tail and then impale its heart!' he then instructs me.

I do what he says and chop the tail off. It roars in pain again and swings its claws at me in anger where it barely gets me in the chest, which stings like a motherfucker. I thrust my sword into its chest and quickly pull it out and jump back away from it.

It whines for a few seconds before going limp. I'm staring wide eyed and panting heavily at it as the adrenaline begins to die down.

"Jesus Christ!" I shout and I fall onto my ass as the adrenaline now wears off.

'Very good. You did well,' the voice tells me.

I stay silent for a few seconds before screaming "WHERE THE HELL AM I!?" I then hiss in mild pain as my chest is still stinging.

'I cannot answer that. If you don't know, I don't know,' the voice replies.

I frown and look at the sky. "And just who are you?" I ask again.

'I am Zangetsu. Your Zanpakuto,' he replies.

I look at the sword in my hand with wide eyes. Wait... he's real? I thought the voice was familiar, but I didn't think it was true.

"How is this possible? This is... you... were just a plain steel sword I had commissioned..." I ask him.

'And yet, here we are. Do you remember your name?' he replies and asks..

Of course I... don't... "No, I don't," I reply with a frown. I can't remember much before the Convention started. I open my wallet to find all my cards missing... I shake my head and lie down. I feel a bad headache coming on. "Just call me Ichigo Kurosaki for now. Alright, so. What do we do now then? I don't know where I am or how I got here. All I remember last was buying this phone from a merchant... and then blacking out," I tell him.

'As I said, I only know what you know of this place, but I recommend finding shelter as fast as you can,' Zangetsu tells me.

He's right. I get up and look around again. "Any suggestions on which way to go?" I ask him.

He's silent for a few seconds. 'I feel two strong spiritual pressures to the west, along with many smaller ones. Most likely a settlement. Whether or not you go there is your choice,' he tells me.

Well then, I'm going there. It's better than roughing it out in the wild, and I can just explain I was at a Convention if they question my clothes and sword.

It seems I dropped my mask during the fight with the lion. I pick it up and I didn't notice at first, but it looks and feels more like bone than plastic now.

I put the mask inside my Shihakushō and continue to head west. After two long hours of jogging through the forest where my Shihakushō snagged on the foliage now and then, I see a Castle and a small town around it just outside the forest.

"Wow, you don't see an old town like that these days," I say to myself as I look it over.

I walk along a path and stop with shock as I'm about to enter... I was expecting people to be walking around doing things, but instead there are miniature horses, and they're very brightly coloured.

"AAAAAHHH! A MONSTER FROM THE EVERFREE!" A female voice shouts out. I look to the right and see a bright blue horse with a powder blue mane and tail staring at me with wide fear filled eyes.

Wow are they small... even for miniature horses as they only stand up to my waist.

"Erm... hello?" I say with a slight wave.

I'm met with more screams and the horses start running around like headless chickens.

I watch for a few seconds as some run into walls or each other making me sigh and face palm. These horses are so skittish.

"HALT BEAST!" a horse in golden armour tells me. He and a few more point short iron spears at me.

I hold my hands up and try to calm them down. "Whoa whoa whoa, take it easy! I'm not here to cause trouble!" I reply.

"It can talk?" One of them says to another in surprise.

"I could say the same about you..." I mutter. "Yes I can talk, I'm not a monster or a beast. I'm a human," I tell them.

One of the them leans to another. "What's a Hoo-man?" it whispers to the other.

I groan and give him a deadpan stare. "I'm a human... I just told you that," I say.

"Quiet! Why are you here?" a horse with much more decorative armour asks me.

"I was at a convention with two of my friends, I then bought this," I say and pull out my new phone. "And when I got it, I found myself in that forest," I tell him pointing at where I came from. "So basically, I'm lost."

"I see... Would you please come with us so the Princesses can meet you? Also, would you please relinquish your... blade," he asks me.

I frown. "Will I get it back?" I ask.

"As long as you don't cause trouble or any hostility, then yes," he replies.

I sigh and draw my sword. "Alright," I say and hold it out for him.

"By Celestia, it's huge!" a guard says as the leader’s horn glows along with my sword.

He then frowns at me. "You can let go now," he tells me.

"Oh, sorry." I let go and it drops straight to the floor.

"What?" he says and tries again.

I just stand there and watch him try to lift it for a few minutes.

"Are you alright?" I ask him.

"Why can't I lift your sword? Is it enchanted?" he asks and glares at me.

"No, but... I guess you can say he's alive," I reply.

"Alive? Are you pulling our legs? How can a sword be alive?" one of the other guards asks.

"He's a Zanpakuto and his name is Zangetsu," I reply and pick the sword up. "Should I just carry it to where we're going for now?" I ask.

The leader snorts and nodded. "Very well, but keep it on your back until we get there," he tells me. I put the sword on my back and wait for him. "What is your name, Hoo-man," he then asks me.

Since I still can't remember my real name, I guess I'll stick with Ichigo for now. "Ichigo Kurosaki," I reply.

"That's a weird name..." a guard says while another snickers behind a hoof.

I frown at him and cross my arms. "That's pretty rude you know," I tell him.

"Sorry," the guard replies with a sheepish smile.

"Alright, I'm Captain Storm Shield. We'll go to the Barracks where we shall wait for the Princesses arrival," the leader tells me.

"Sure," I reply and follow them.

The streets are now empty as I see the little horses stare at me through their windows.

I wonder what they call themselves. "By the way, what exactly are you?" I ask them.

"We're ponies. I'm a unicorn, and there are also earth ponies and pegasi. The Princesses are both alicorns," the captain replies.

"I see, and where am I? Am I still near London?" I ask. Though I doubt it since I've never heard of talking ponies near it before.

"Never heard of a London before, but you're in Equestria, and this is Canterlot," he replies.

"And I've never heard of this place either, so that's just great... I have no idea on how to get home," I say and sigh.

"Do not fret. I'm sure the Princesses can figure something out," he tells me as we arrive at what I assume is the Barracks. He leads me into a room and tells me to put my sword against the wall, I do so and then sit on the cushion next to a table he pointed at. I look around and there's not much in here, I guess this is a interrogation room.

"Please wait here while I inform the Princesses," Storm Shield tells me.

"Alright," I reply and get my old phone out.

"What's that?" a guard asks, giving me a hard look.

"It's an IPhone. It's a communications device, but it can also play music and games," I reply and open up the Angry Birds game.

For the next half hour, the two guards are watching me play from either side of me.

"This is quite the impressive device, does it run on magic?" the one to my right asks.

"Magic? You have that here?" I reply and ask with a raised right brow. He just nodded at me. "Well no, it doesn't. It runs on electricity from the battery inside it," I reply and then get my charger out. "You plug this into an electrical socket and then put this end into the phone to recharge it," I tell him.

"I... See," he says with a confused frown.

The door opens and the Captain walks in, followed by two large ponies more the size of a horse. One is white with a multi-toned mane and tail with a picture of the sun on her flank. The other is dark blue and has a mane and tail that looks like a night sky with a moon on her flank.

"Princesses. This is the Hoo-man, Ichigo Kurosaki," he tells them as they both looks shocked at my appearance.

I turn off my game and put both my phone and charger on the table. "Erm... hi," I say to them.

"Show some manners, creature. Thou should bow before royalty and only speaketh when spoken to," the dark blue one tells me.

I raise an eyebrow at them. "I'm sorry, but I've never met royalty before," I reply.

The white one giggles which makes the blue one frown at her. "Tis alright, we art not offended. We art Princess Celestia, and this is our sister, Princess Luna. Now then, where hast thou come from?" the white one asks me.

"I come from a city called London," I reply.

"Hold thy tongue. Sister, do thou feel that presence? Tis the magic of a demon!" Luna says and glares at me.

"Demon?" I ask with worry.

"Thou art correct, sister," Celestia says and then eyes me warily.

What are they talking about? I'm not a demon. Wait... are they talking about my hollow mask? "Do you mean this?" I ask and pull out the mask and put it on the table.

They gasp and then glare at me. "Why dost thou have such an item!" Luna shouts at me. I was startled enough that I fell backwards.

"Hey! No need to shout, this was with me when I got here. Though it was only a plastic mask before that..." I tell them with a frown at their sudden aggressiveness.

The mask then began shaking on the table. "What the fu..." I say but get cut off as it lunges onto my face.

The mask latches on and I try to pry it off. "WHAT'S GOING ON!" I yell scared out of my mind.

'Your hollow half is trying to take over,' Zangetsu says as my vision blurs.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" I scream as I feel the hollow taking over. 'Oh crap oh crap OH CRAP!' After a few minutes of pain, I black out again.

I come to now and then, as a distorted voice laughs sadistically and the colour red is everywhere. Screams of fear and pain fill my mind. I can see two blurred colours, a deep blue and a bright white, dark and bright colours waving around them, then nothing.

I open my eyes to the sideways cityscape that made up Ichigo's mind, and standing before me, is Zangetsu himself.

"I've managed to spare your mind from the power that was just afflicted on your body. It would seem your body has been frozen to time while we remain conscious," he tells me as he looks over the city.

"I've been what!?" I shout out in panic.

"Or more accurately, turned to stone by some Extremely strong reishi," he then says.

I sit down cross legged and sigh. "So any idea on how to get out of it?" I ask him.

"I'm afraid not, but this is also a good thing. I will be able to train you in the use of your Soul Reaper powers for the unforeseeable amount of time we are trapped," he tells me.

So... I'm stuck here? What did I do to deserve this? I stand up and my sword appears in my hand. "Okay then, what do I do?" I ask him as I've got nothing better to do.

A horrid scream then echoes throughout the place.

"You need not worry about him for the time being. The reishi that sealed us also sealed him within your body, but he will eventually return here someday, and I shall train you until that day," Zangetsu says and conjures a copy of my sword.


Present / Location: Canterlot Statue Garden


And so since then, I've been training with Zangetsu and later my hollow half. Who's a right dick by the way.

And for the last five years, I've been preparing to break out of this stone prison with my spiritual power. Unlike the Ichigo from the show, I've learnt a couple of the Kidō attacks and bindings without incantations, but only two of the basic ones. They're bloody hard to learn.

Like Hadō number one, Shō, that fires a small amount of energy that is dispelled from the tip of the index finger with enough force to thrust a considerable amount of kinetic force at a target.

Bakudō number one, Sai, the caster points their index and middle fingers at the intended target or targets, causing the target's arms to lock behind their back.

I continue to watch the ponies as I wait for nightfall, but I've been getting worried lately as I can hear hollows nearby sometimes.

Oh, here are the Princesses again. I was moved here after Luna was possessed by a hollow and destroyed the old Canterlot Castle, and then sealed within the moon. She's only been back for a few months after she was freed from her hollowfication. She always gives me a sad look when she visits me.


Hours Later


The sun has long since set and all preparations are in place.

'Remember Ichigo, build up your reishi to near bursting and expel it from yourself. This should be enough to break the stone,' Zangetsu tells me.

'Right,' I reply and start building it up.

'Yeah, and don't forget to beat up those two horses that did this to us,' my inner jerk says.

'Oh you be quiet. It's your fault we're in this state in the first place,' I tell him.

'Wasn't my fault you were so weak, and I just wanted to have some fun,' he replies.

I mentally roll my eyes and expel my energy, the stone cracks rapidly until it shatters.

"Finally! I feel so stiff," I say aloud and stretch my limbs. My hollow mask also falls off in pieces as well.

"What's going on over there?" one of the guards nearby says.

Oops, time to split. Using my shunpo, I quickly dash away and jump from rooftop to rooftop as I get closer to the edge of the city.

'Almost there!' I think to myself with a smile.

Something heavy then slams into me in midair and I go tumbling down to the streets below.

"Ouch..." I mumble as I quickly get up and look around.

"How did thou escape?" a female voice asks to me.

"Luna?" I ask and look to my left to see both Celestia and Luna both glaring at me.

"You will not harm anypony again, demon," Celestia tells me with an angry glare.

The sound of hooves around me gets my attention and I'm surrounded by about a hundred guards.

Well crap... I was hoping to escape so I wouldn't have to hurt anyone.

"Actually. The day you sealed me, I was possessed by my hollow half, but I've gotten him under control now," I tell them to which they look shocked at that.

'Oi! I let you beat me. I'll get stronger and take my body back someday!' Bob tells me. Yeah, since he had no name and he pissed me off so badly, I just named him Bob.

'Just shut your mouth will ya, Bob?' I tell him.

'Stop calling me that!' he yells. Good, he's still angry at that.

"Silence murderer. We shall not listen to thy lies," Luna says, but her expression says otherwise.

I sigh. So I'm going to have to force my way out. "I was hoping to leave peacefully," I say and place my left hand over my right eye.

"What are thou planning villain!" Luna yells at me.

I don't answer and pull my hand down across my face and form my hollow mask, they gasp and I move quickly. I stand beside Luna and hold my sword at her throat.

"I don't want to fight. I just want to leave without harming anyone," I tell them in a distorted tone.

Luna slowly turns her head towards me and stares at me with wide eyes.

"H-How? Thou were not this fast before!" she asks me in a shaky tone.

"I've spent the last thousand years training and learning what I'm capable of while trapped in that stone prison," I reply.

"T-Thou were c-conscious?" she asks surprised.

"Yes, and if it wasn't for Zangetsu and Bob, I might have gone mad," I tell her. I slowly pull my sword away and walk around her slowly. "I just want to leave. No fighting, no bloodshed," I tell them.

Celestia has been quiet through this. "And what's stopping you from killing anypony when you leave?" she finally asks unconvinced.

I was about to answer when the cry of a hollow echoes through the night.

The Princesses go wide eyed and look around. I look up and see a hollow that has a serpent like body and feathered wings. What surprises me, is it has a pony shaped mask.

"Another demon!" Luna says and flies up to it and blasts it with a bolt of reishi, or magic as they call it.

"That's not a demon, it's a hollow," I tell them.

"And how do you know that? Are you one of them?" a guard accuses me.

"No, I'm a Shinigami," I tell him.

"A what?" another asks confused. Not once have they lowered their spears at me.

"Shinigami, Death God, or Soul Reaper," I reply.

"D-Death God?" one says and trembles with wide eyes.

I ignore him and leap into the air as I go past Luna and ready my sword. Once in range, I swing it at the hollow and cut it in half where it wails out and 'dissolves' into particles until completely gone.

I land back on the street and let my mask crumble off. I just look at the Princesses as they frown at me.

"If thou art truly in control, then thou wilt come with us back to the Castle," Luna tells me.

I shake my head. "Sorry, but I don't want to be sealed away like that again. I'm going to explore this world a bit," I reply and point my middle and index finger at the guards blocking the gate. "Bakudō number one, Sai," I say and six of guards forelegs are pulled up behind their backs.

"What?" Luna says stunned, but I dash forward and out the gate. "GUARDS! AFTER HIM!" I hear Luna then shout as she quickly recovers from her shock.

I turn to the right and jump off the mountain side. I would have never done this before Zangetsu's training, but now I know what my new body can do. I slide down the cliff face and jump off near the bottom. I land on the ground and sprint towards a small town.

My stomach then decides to rumble. Oh right, I haven't eaten anything in centuries. First things first, I need to find something to eat.

Author's Notes:

Edited by Tide Hunter

Next Chapter: Chapter 2: Exploring the Town Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 8 Minutes
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