Dream 003

Dream Effects:  Pain, a feeling of overwhelming failure and helplessness.  Optional.
Warnings:  Violence!  And spoilers for chapter 364.

[The first feeling to register in Ukitake's mind is pain.  Excruciating pain.  The world around him is fuzzy, blurring in and out between darkness and light.  And when he finally manages to move his head (or lets it fall, he isn't sure which is truth), he sees a bloody hand sticking out of his chest.

Sticking.  Out of his chest.

But just as quickly as he sees it, it retreats back, leaving him with a hole, a wound that should be impossible to heal.  Blood pours out, he can hear his heart pounding in his ears in a panicked rage, and then he's falling.  Falling from his stance in the sky, the wind rushing by him, but he doesn't comprehend it. 

But he does look up to see his killer in one moment.  A floppy grin adorns his face, as if he is a child who has gleefully proven his power over an old toy, one he no longer wants to play with.

And that is the last sight Ukitake actually remembers, even before landing on the rubble below, face-down with his hair fanned out angelically, almost mockingly of his occupation.  A god of death defeated.

Defeated and facing his own death at the hands of a child.]

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[Ukitake wakes up with a gasp, grasping at his chest as the dream catches up to him, just a moment later.

And then the coughing starts, a need to rid himself of the stress the memory brings back.  Only it doesn't go away.  He coughs and coughs into his hand, and soon enough, blood is visible in his palm, and it just gets worse.  Coughing, hacking, hair falling in curtains around his face.

He can't even turn off the Dreamberry.]