A new start for Mike

A portal opens up in the valley of screams as Michael walks through. The portal behind closes up and Michael arrives in the valley of screams. He looks around the place.

"Hmm.. so this is the valley of screams... been a while since i've been here."

He looks to his right hand and closes it lightly and then re-opens it.

"Hmm I can already feel myself getting stronger... this should be good."

Michael then places his hand to his side and says.

"What now? We got this big empty place but nothing to do?"

He said this outloud to whoever could hear and respond.

"Urgh... I need a cigar.."

Daemon, now aged more than when he was in the soul society, now with short, spiky white hair, wearing a dark outfit, resembling that of his betrayel outfit only black and white. His eyes, both now colored red. In his left hand he held a cigar and tossed it at Mike from behind. It floated in the air behind him due to the spiritual energy binding it.

"Welcome back Mike" He said to him quietly.

Michael turns around and grabs the cigar, he bites the bud of the cigar and spits it out to the side. Michael takes out a Silver zippo lighter flicks it open and then runs his thumb down the thumbwheel it scratches the flint and lights up a flame.

He lights up his cigar and puffs it lightly. He places away his zippo lighter. He looks up to Daemon as the cigar is on the side of his mouth with light waves of smoke coming from his mouth nostrals and cigar.

"You know that final battle that I had nearly killed me... heh dang.. it also added another voice to my head. Now I got a freaking angel inside my head reminding me how I'm no longer a warrior and now simply a beast."

Michael places his hands in his haori's pockets and walks side to side and grunts slightly.

"Like I diden't know that already... Now I got another freaking voice in my head."

Michael grunts again. "I hate having voices in my head that arn't mine!"

Michael takes out his right hand and holds his cigar, he takes it out his mouth and blows out some smoke. He looks to Daemon and asks.

"So what do we do now?"

Daemon blinked a bit, listening to Mike.
"You need to get that checked out" He said, chuckling a bit. He turned around and looked ahead.
"I hear things are going bad in the world of the living and whatnot" He said to him.

"Yeah.. lemons voices.. and yeah... heard some blinding light and rapid earthquakes are happening, wonder whats causing it.. or who?"

Mike walks around puffing his cigar, every now and again takin it out and tapping it lightly allowing the ash to drop on the floor.

"So what do we do now? when does the training begin?"

"You know how to get right to the point don't you?" Daemon said as he glared at Mike.
"Now, don't start cocking that attitude of yours at me or you will go without energy for one month" He said to him in a serious tone.
"I don't want to have to train a childish man in the ways of using Blanks" He said.

Michael rubs his eyes and puffs his cigar, he takes his cigar out and blows out the smoke. He looks to Daemon

"Look don't treat me like one of your squad 2 recruits, I'm not a kid anymore. Look around you, do you see anything else to do around here? We are litrelly in a blank empty space filled with dust and stones. Getting right to the point means we can finally pass the time."

He sighs lightly.

"Train me if you want, it just gives me something to do. I can't go to the Soul Society because theres a whole freaking army looking for me I can't go to HM because I can't create a portal there and non of them give me a good enough challenge!

Best thing I can do right now is simply train improve and wait for something good to happen. So don't blame me if I ask for some simple training since you are the only one I can fight here.

All I ask for, is a little training, no money, no home, nothing else. I just ask for one little thing and that is training."

"I don't recall every treating you like you were my recruit from the gotei" He said in a serious tone.
"I'm not going to train you if you don't get your head out of your (fear the great kon) and stop acting like a child" He said. "Just because we're pretty much immortal at the moment, and nothing can really affect you while you're here in the valley of screams doesn't mean you can go and do what you want"
he crossed his arms and looked at him.
"So don't give me any bull and don't act like a child in my presence and you'll get your little training done"

He looked at him confused.

"Look around you... theres nothing to do. I'm not acting like a child, I'm asking a simple question that is all. We could atleast add some stuff to this place."

Michael said in a casual tone, he wasen't trying to argue. Simply stating that he had nothing to do.

"Changing the subject, what exactly is going on in the world of the living?"

Daemon shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know whats going on, but for some reason, the shinigami can't travel to any of the other realms but this one" He said to Mike.
"We musn't let anyone know of our whereabouts here, but i'm pretty sure they will with this black temple back in the distance"
He pointed back behind him, a dark, black tower loomed over the horizon. It was the headquarters of Daemon and his followers.
"That's where we'll do some training later" He said. "At least with the blanks that is"
He had a devilish grin on his face.

He looked at the large black temple floating around. He gave a strange look to it.

"Smart, having a pure black temple in the middle of a pure white rock desert. Would it not have been better to have it comoflaged incase anyone who comes here simply sees a large empty space?"

Daemon gave him a look.
"Don't you think I thought of that?" He asked him. He turned around and looked at it. "It has a camouflage ability that hides it, it's a power I obtained from the blanks"

"Hmm.. clever, so you thought of everything, next i'll be looking for a swimming pool."

He chuckled lightly. He took the final puff of his cigar, blew out the smoke and then dropped the bud on the floor. He stepped over the bud and squished it.

"So what can we actually do here? do we have the ability to shift the land grow some vegetation or what? would be good to know."

"I honestly don't know" He said to him. "I haven't been in this area for to long to find that much out"

Michael scratched the back of his head.

"We should find out, I mean were going to be here for a while. May aswell see what we can and can't do."

Michael aims his hand at a large boulder near by and stands there for a few minutes wondering if he would suddenly gain phychic powers that allowed him to define gravity and raise this boulder... he failed.

"I think we may have phychic abilities... I shall lift this boulder up... with my mind!"

He stood there for 2 more minutes. "Nearly doing it..."

He stood there for another 5 minutes and lowered his hand. "Okay so I never gained Phychic powers... lemons..."

After weeks of nothing happening, and humans going to the reserved section of the Valley, Daemon grew tired of nothing happening.

"Mike" He called out. He pulled out his cane and used it to help stand himself up. "Let's have some training" He said. Daemon was really bored at the moment and even considered traveling to the soul society to cause havoc.

Michael woke up from a Nap after his training, he had simply been training with some boulders smashing them and testing out his new stronger abilities. He got up from the floor and dusted himself off, he was wearing his old shinigami robes with his old captains Haori.

He looked over to Daemon and walked over to him.

"What's up, you actually wanna train?"

Daemon shrugged.
"More or less, yes I would" He said. "But this training will help us with our new found powers since we're here in the Valley"
He took off his eye patch, his left eye now fully healed.
"We just have to figure out what kind of training" He said to Mike.

"Hmm.. well why not start with basic blade to blade then move onto kido and work from there?"

He fixed up his haori and clicked his fingers as he listened to what Xander had to say. He placed his hands in his pockets and looked about the place, it was all fairly large but empty. So it would be a perfect place to train.

Daemon flicked his zanpakto, the force of it cutting the ground. He looked at Mike and chuckled lightly.
"Been awhile since we've trained like this" He said as he disappeared, reappearing behind him, bringing his blade down on him.

"Let's just hope that you've not gone rusty."

Michael watches with a plane normal look at how Daemon disappeared from site. His eyes look down to the now sliced up floor from simply his spiritual pressure crashing down on to it.

Michael spins his body around 180 degrees and with his right hand he manages to un-sheath his left zanpaktou and counter the oncomming attack from Daemon. The two blade clash and sparks fly wildly from the two blades pushing againts each other.

The clash sent out a large wave of spiritual pressure out like a large wave which cracked the floor beneath them. Michael looked to Xander and said.

"Hmm... look's like i'm nearly fully recovered."

Daemon let out a chuckle.
"Is this all of the power you have?" He asked. "It seems like you have a long ways to go before beating me" Daemons body turned pure white and faded into dust. Appearing behind Mike was yet another Daemon.
"i've trained myself in using different abilities and thanks to the fact my eye has fully healed, I cna use abilities that I couldn't before"
He started running around Mike in circles, a trail of his image being left behind him. He stopped suddenly with images of him surrounding Mike. Each one solid in form, it was hard to tell which was the real him due to the amount of spiritual pressure being released from each one.
"If you find out the real one from this crowd" The Daemons Said together. "Then you'll pass this first test, and that's to distinguish reality from the false reality in case you come up against an illusionist like me or someone with abilities like this"