Who am I? What is with all these screams I hear? What is wrong with me? Why does my body feel so wrong, like an insect being squashed together with another? Where am I? How am I here? How can all these voices scream in agony, yet I feel none, no pain? It doesn't make any sense! I want to help them! What in the world am I?
All of a sudden information from an unknown source swarmed into his mind, it burst into his brain, like a train slamming into it at full speed. All this knowledge, it was too much, too fast! He reached up with his claws and grabbedhis skull-like mask with two protruding horns pointing backwards at an angle and opened his jaws and screamed a blood-curdling scream. The pain was almost too much to fully comprehend, but the information was worth it, without a doubt worth it. Hollows, Menos, Grande, Adjuchas, Vasto Lorde, Shinigami, Zanpakuto, the masks of Hollows, Hueco Mundo, the Forests of Menos, the World of the Living, Soul Society, Garganta, Cero, Bala, and for some reason, Fenice, the Italian word for Phoenix.
How do I know this language? 'Italian' doesn't make any sense! I hate soda. I hate helicopters. What's going on? Why did the voices stop just now? What's with all this knowledge that's being fed to me? Is there anything you don't hate? How do I know what a brain is? How do I know what a mask is? How do I know what emotions are? What is with all these things that get into my head? Hello, I am a fucking fairy! Get away from me! I don't want this! Fuck you, you fucking cop! No, no, I need those drugs, man! Stop it! I hate smokers. Go away! I want to know everything I can about the world, and die living! No, I need it! I need it! I need it! Don't go away! No, voices, come back. Please? I just wanted to help! I just want to go home! Where's mommy? I hate these freaking vampires. I want to go home now. What's wrong, child? Don't cry, hush. Hush, little child. Mommy! I want to fucking kill a whore! You didn't deserve to die. Am I dead? Well, might as well give up on life and see what's next in death. Coward! Shoot me, I want to die! What's going on? No! Stop! Don't! They're zombies, Francis. Hey, this is my pizza! Wait, how did I know what a pizza is? I will not die! Ow, stop pushing so hard. Would you mind stopping already? What's going on? Whatever. I want my mommy! Hey, shut up, squirt! Hush, little child. Mommy is going to come back to you soon. Fuck off!
Will you all just shut up! It worked for reasons he did not comprehend. Nothing happened. The voices simply stopped. Nothing was screamed, nothing was shouted, nothing was said, nothing was whispered.
But the blinding pain, as in the migraine, was still there, threatening to split his head in two. No! I am Anima Divoratore and I will not die!, he thought bravely. All of a sudden the splitting headache stopped, just stopped.
And the calls of hunger, for flesh and bone and blood, were heard throughout the massive Forests of Menos. Hollows were out for blood. And they wanted it. They would go through the depths of hell to tear him limb from limb. For no other reason than for food alone. The hunger had eaten away every part of their memory, everything that made up them, and he'd be damned if he would turn into one of them! He would not let the hunger take him over. He would find a way to persevere over the hunger.
And if it meant tearing into the other Hollows that were currently charging at him, then so be it.
One of them slashed at him, but the Hollow's claws merely bounced off of the tough hide of the newly formed Adjuchas. Huh. How come I know what I am now?, he thought briefly to himself. Another slash came from the same, hard-headed hollow, but the newly dubbed Anima Divoratore would not abide by the simple minded Hollow's desires. He spun over the claw of the Hollow and bit down on the mask as he turned fully towards it. He felt a very slight increase of something. He didn't know what, but he assumed it was power, energy.
The Hollow whose mask he had just ripped off strangely enough, and to the idle amazement of Anima Divoratore, dissipated into what Anima would sooner realize was reishi, spiritual particles.
But Anima Divoratore could not hesitate to analyse a situation now. He had other problems to attend to. Like the still charging hollows that were hungry for Adjuchas flesh. They wanted to become Adjuchas, but they picked the wrong one.
And with a swipe of some sort of energy blast that Anima knew instinctively how to do somehow, the purple energy blast swept past the various Hollows, only a few managing to evade it.
But Anima Divoratore did not let the Hollows catch their breath, because Hueco Mundo, no matter what part of it you live in, you have to eat or be eaten.
As one of the few more Hollows charged at him he jumped up and somehow manipulated the local reishi to make a ground for him to stand on. Thus he was able to jump down and swipe his own claws on the Hollow. He caught the Hollow on its shoulder, effectively ripping an arm off. The Hollow cried out in pain and lashed out in blind rage with its other claw. But once again Anima instinctively manipulated the reishi hanging in the air to create a shield, something he would later discover was a unique skill of his. The claw slammed into the invisible shield of reishi and the Hollow cried out in surprise. That had never happened before in the Hollow's experience, nor by the knowledge of any of the other assimilated Hollows it had consumed. But Anima Divoratore did not wait for the Hollow to gain its bearings, no. Anima bit on the Hollow's mask, making Anima slightly stronger than before.
Anima did not notice that the voices in his head began to act up again, too into the fighting that he was.
And Anima continued to butcher his fellow Hollows, biting their masks off, tearing through whatever defences or attacks the Hollows had. It was all for naught, because Anima was an Adjuchas, and the Hollows were just that, Hollows. Adjuchas are, after all, two steps above Hollows in the ranks of evolution.
Anima was not tired in the least. No, he thought as the blood on the sand dissipated into nothing but regular reishi, spirit particles, for Anima to manipulate and slowly take in to increase his chances of becoming a Vasto Lorde, I will not die.
I will not die.
I will not die!
And he shouted out on the top of his lungs, "I will not die!" and sent out a massive wave of his reiatsu, spiritual pressure, as an open challenge to any who would oppose him in his advances towards Vasto Lorde level. What he didn't know was that he already exuded Vasto Lorde level reiatsu. He already had Vasto Lorde level reiryoku, spiritual power. He didn't know, he merely thought he had Adjuchas level reiryoku.
No, he thought as he almost fainted from giving off such an enormous wave of reiatsu, I am Anima Divoratore and I will not die! I will kill anyone who wants to kill me! I'll become the strongest of them all! I'll become stronger than any Vasto Lorde that Hueco Mundo has ever seen!, he added, and at last, he fainted from the lack of spiritual power he had given off. His last thoughts before he lost consciousness was, And I will persevere!
"You awake yet?" a voice called out to him. It was a high pitch, like that of a human female child.
"Five more minutes, sis," he said as he continued to try and get some sleep.
"No, you wake up right now, or else I'll tell mom!" the high pitch said again, now identified as the sister of his.
"Whatever."
"That's it, I'll go to mom!" the sister said.
He groaned into his pillow, relieved that he could finally get some more sleep.
But a few seconds later someone stormed into the room and ripped the bed sheets of him, "Kenji Endo, you will get up this instant!"
"Mom, wait!" Kenji yelled out all of a sudden.
But the mother would have none of it and hit Kenji hard on his cheek, giving the person who is now identified as Kenji Endo an angry red mark on his cheek.
Anima Divoratore took a large intake of breath into his lungs, his dark green barbed tail whipping around in confusion, "No!" he yelled out as he stretched out a placating hand, grabbing onto a tiny arm, compared to his own dark green muscled arm at least. Somehow, despite being a different species, the Adjuchas felt a very human fear deep in his gut, quite primal even.
"Are you alright?" a kind voice asked of him. Identify the voice, Anima, Anima Divoratore thought to himself. Alright, the voice is kinder than the one from that dream, or whatever that was, so it cannot be her! No, not her, it, Anima thought. So slowly Anima opened his eyes, only for them to gaze onto a yellow mane of untamed hair and sea green eyes. The next thing the eyes were laid on was her, yes, a female Hollow. Somehow Anima Divoratore knew that female Hollows were rare. Especially one that reached Vasto Lorde level like this one. But she couldn't be that bad, she had the chance to kill him yet didn't, she also asked if he, Anima Divoratore, the Soul Eater, was alright.
"Ye-yes, I'm alright. Thank you," he said pathetically. He heard a giggling sound that curiously enough annoyed him. Yet it didn't seem to emanate from the Vasto Lorde in front of him. So he turned his head to see three other Adjuchas level Hollows. One was a white snake with some form of earrings of all things, another was a lion with a golden lion mask, and a horse with the hind legs being brown fur, the rest consisting of white bone.
"And what's so funny?" Anima said heatedly. No one insults me and gets away with it!, he thought to himself angrily.
The snake the strange earrings giggled again, "Just how deplorable you look like," she said.
The red glowing eyes of Anima Divoratore twitched heavily, and he was about to burst in anger at the sheer nerve of the white skinned snake. However, Tia Harribel, as he would later discover was her name, held steadfast onto his shoulder. Anima looked back at the only Vasto Lorde in the cave they were in, and found that she was glaring at him. She released her reiatsu and focused it all on Anima. He was almost squashed completely had he not released his own spiritual pressure to lighten the load she had on him. So this is the power of a Vasto Lorde? I will reach it!, Anima Divoratore thought to himself. But if this is the level of a Vasto Lorde then I won't dare on fighting her, he added as an afterthought. The three other Adjuchas gasped at the power of the two that were staring at each other with some kind of mix between malice and respect.
But eventually Anima gave off a small smile heavily laced heavily with respect. After all, it isn't always you meet a Vasto Lorde who saved you from certain death. "I am Anima Divoratore, Menos Adjuchas," he said quietly, but loud enough that the others in the small but tall cave could hear it.
"Tia Harribel, Menos Vasto Lorde," Tia murmured. After Tia Harribel's little murmur Anima turned around to face the three Adjuchas class Hollows. The dark green tough and leathery hide creaked slightly from the awkward angle Anima had to turn in.
"Sun-Sun, Menos Adjuchas, pleasure to make your acquaintance, Divoratore-san," the white coloured snake, now known as Sun-Sun, said pleasantly, as if she hadn't insulted Anima not a minute ago. She was probably one of those types that were mature, polite, but still insulting when she felt like it.
"Mila Rose, Adjuchas," the lion said. She probably liked her conversations short and sweet. Or in a typical Hollow fashion, brutal and violent.
"Apacci, Menos Adjuchas. Nice to meet you, Divoratore," the horse said. Probably another polite type, but didn't seem very insulting at all. More like the quiet, shy type. Hopefully she would break out of her shy shell. And not be violent.
"I see," Anima said. He began to think a little, "Wait, if I'm here, then that must mean-" he was cut off by the shark themed Vasto Lorde, Tia Harribel.
"Correct. I have taken you here," she said calmly.
Anima immediately shot up, not angry, and not ungrateful either, but rather curious, "Why? I'm not exactly your type of Hollow, am I?" he said with mirth.
Tia, however, was silent on the matter of bringing Anima Divoratore to her hideout. Why did I bring him here? I believe I felt a sort of attraction to him. The sort where I have seen him before. Like I have known him in the past. Sort of like pity at first, but then understanding, Tia thought by herself as the snake, or Sun-Sun if you will, made a rude comment on Anima's behaviour. Anima had seethed and the two of them went into a one-sided argument, leaning in Sun-Sun's favour, even if Mila Rose and Apacci were giving Anima the hypothetical ammunition.
"Well I wouldn't exactly be the only one Harribel-sama has saved, now have I?" Anima growled annoyingly. He had added the -sama suffix to Tia Harribel's name without knowing that he did, much to the surprise and pleasure of his three fellow Adjuchas.
"What ever do you mean by that, Divoratore-san?" Sun-Sun said in mock shock.
"By what, snake-face?" he gnarled. He did definitely not like the snobbish outlook on other people the snake, Sun-Sun, had. Oh no, he preferred treating people with the respect they deserved. Which is to say none to Sun-Sun, since she had done nothing to deserve his respect. Now Harribel on the other hand had even saved him from what would certainly be a definite death for him. She deserved Anima Divoratore's deepest respects.
Even if he became stronger than Harribel – he promised himself before that he would – he would still respect her and somehow pay her back. Even if it meant protecting her from some entity more powerful than him. That, however, would be highly unlikely.
"You said Harribel-sama. Not that I am complaining or anything, but it would seem unlikely for a male Hollow to defer to a female Hollow, despite being of higher status," Sun-Sun said smugly, covering her mouth with her tail while speaking.
What an estranged person, Anima thought to himself with a mentally raised eyebrow. After all, it would be rude to say it to her face, despite not deserving his respect. But now that he knew of his saying the added suffix he would use the suffix until he became a Vasto Lorde. That he promised himself, once again. I sure promise a lot of things. But they are promises I will keep, he thought to no one other than himself.
"Yeah, so?" Anima replied to Sun-Sun's taunt, unknowingly sporting a small blush.
Unknown to anyone within the cave someone was approaching it. Sure, it was quite a distance away that even with Sonido it would take at least a week. After all, Hueco Mundo was as big as the World of the Living and Soul Society combined. Slowly but surely the dark blue figure with a cracked mask and hammerhead like features approached the hideout of Tia Harribel's. And it was all for revenge for the mark she had left upon him. But he took his time. After all, he knew Tia Harribel never changed out hideouts.
It had been two and a half weeks, not that they could tell, what with the constant night of Hueco Mundo, since Tia had saved Anima, and he had integrated flawlessly, and despite his initial hotheadedness he was actually quite a pleasant character. He had frequent one sided arguments with Sun-Sun, but Sun-Sun brushed it off, saying that arguing with her was like talking to a wall. It just made you look stupid. So after a while Anima stopped arguing about whatever with Sun-Sun. Though that didn't of course mean that Anima did not bond with the other Adjuchas either. He began to have a rather good relationship with whom he called Harribel-sama, along with the other two Adjuchas.
They had come across many Adjuchas of which they had butchered more easily than before thanks to another Vasto Lorde level Hollow. They didn't know that Anima was a Vasto Lorde level Hollow because he was subconsciously suppressing his absolutely massive reiatsu to Adjuchas level due to the fact that he, again, subconsciously knew that it would harm anyone around him. Though that did not in the least decrease his speed, strength, agility or stamina, merely the pressure his presence had.
Regularly Tia and Anima sparred to enhance both their intake on the ambient reishi floating in the air and their skills in which they fought in. Each and every fight Anima lost and Tia won. That, however, did not deter Anima from his goal of rising above a Vasto Lorde, "I will not lose. I have lost when I'm dead, and I'm not dead yet," he said that each and every time he lost to Tia. Whenever they had restored their power they sparred to the point of exhaustion. Often it was Anima that got tired. Rarely was Tia fatigued, but when she did it was usually after she had won. After all, even with power equal to a Vasto Lorde, when not an actual Vasto Lorde, then it could just as well have been another Adjuchas with too much power and not enough control over it. Anima's theory was that if he was Vasto Lorde he would have better control over his power, along with an increase in reiryoku as well.
They came across two rather lonely looking individuals, one green haired girl and a brown haired man. Both seemed to exude Vasto Lorde level reiatsu, and their size clearly said that they were of Vasto Lorde class.
Anima approached them warily, Tia Harribel, Mila Rose, Sun-Sun and Apacci standing at the ready should anything bad happen to him. After all, it was not always you met a Vasto Lorde class Hollow, let alone two. "Excuse me," Anima began. He saw that the man slowly turned a lazy eye to him, not even bothering replying. What a lazy person..., Anima thought with a dead-panned look on his face. He shook his head, clearing his thoughts for the conversation about to find place. "But you are in our territory."
There was a moment of silence before the brown haired Vasto Lorde just sighed and began to take a stance for battle. Anima tensed. He didn't want to fight a Vasto Lorde, but if it came to it he would fight to the very death.
And then they charged at each other.
They clashed hard against each other in the air, the shockwave making everyone make an extreme effort of hanging steadfast on the ground, waking up the green haired girl up and sending her tumbling off a distance.
The Vasto Lorde Anima was fighting seemed surprised over Anima's strength and speed, having met him halfway.
And so they continued to fight, sending off shockwaves after shockwaves as the Vasto Lorde with ridiculously high reiryoku, thus in proxy reiatsu, and the Adjuchas, the one with Vasto Lorde class reiryoku and reiatsu, clashed in the air several times, neither giving ground, each protecting something dear to them. Each trying to go for a killing shot that would at the very least disable the other, and in the hopes that they would finally have a meal that would satisfy them. And so the shockwaves of the difficult battle, for both contestants, continued to blow the sand of Hueco Mundo away for miles on end, so strong the shockwaves were. The fight and the reiryoku spent during the fight ended up attracting quite the number of Hollows, but the non-combatants figured they might as well also have a piece of something to eat.
Finally, after the dance of death continued, something pulsed deep inside Anima's Hollow hole in the middle of his chest, and it gave him power. No one noticed the pulse itself, not even the one that the pulse had originated from. But the effects were clear. The brown haired Vasto Lorde began to loose ground, pushed back as the shockwaves were growing in size and intensity. Eventually the intense shockwaves were so strong that not even Tia Harribel could hold her ground, and was flung off quite a distance. There was another pulse, and the pulse turned into reiryoku, which in turn was used to throw off perhaps the strongest Vasto Lorde that had ever graced the lands of Hueco Mundo.
Coyote Starrk was losing, and losing bad now. He had to come up with something or else he would be food for the surprisingly strong Adjuchas. But alas, he was eventually going to loose, might as well do some good while going down.
Coyote Starrk, just before meeting Anima again in mid-air, held up a hand. And surprisingly it did stop Anima in his tracks. Starrk let another sigh escape his lips before he just gave up.
"That's all I can do," Starrk said quietly. It was true, he was finally running low on reiryoku, despite being a Vasto Lorde.
Anima cocked his head to the side in curiosity. Is this some sort of trick? Can he do Cero, or perhaps that Bala I have somehow gotten stuck in my head?, Anima thought as he let his gaze wander to the green haired girl that was frantically trying to catch Starrk's attention for some reason. "What do you mean by that's all you can do?" Anima said as he snapped his eyes back to Starrk.
"I mean I'm running low on spiritual energy," Coyote Starrk told Anima, scratching his ear and not giving a care about the world of Hueco Mundo, or anything else for that matter, at all.
"And? Isn't this supposed to be a fight to the death? And the loser gets eaten or something?" Anima asked curiously. Yet again another pulse surged from Anima's Hollow hole, and as it converted into energy it also took away some of the souls that the Hollow in front of Anima, Coyote Starrk, had, and transferred into Anima's stock of souls inhabiting his self.
"No, I don't want to die, and it's obvious you don't want to-" Starrk was cut off by another pulse of reiatsu. Only this one was far past the common Vasto Lorde reiatsu. It was far higher in all aspects of it, in intensity, size and quantity. And Coyote Starrk stared wide eyed at the source of the mysterious and powerful reiatsu. Anima Divoratore. Because without his knowing it, Anima was housing something deep inside him, something that was dangerous to any and all.
The Hogyouku.
Only it was not the one that many would come to know, not that Hogyouku. Oh no, if that were so then Anima Divoratore's power would far exceed any other's, just short of the Captain Commander Shinigami of Soul Society. No, this was the version of Hogyouku Aizen Sosuke had made, the imperfect, the impure, the inefficient. The pink Hogyouku, though colour held no meaning.
All of a sudden Anima screamed in pain and clutched his Hollow hole, or at least tried to, since it was a hole and all. He started glowing an ominous dark green tinged with white, his reiatsu increasing, his form shrinking.
Tia Harribel and her group shouted to Anima in deep concern. After all, despite being a male Hollow, Anima had shown no disrespect to the female Adjuchas and Vasto Lorde. In fact, it was quite the opposite of what one would expect of male Hollows. They all had a mutual respect for each other, and had an unshakable, unbreakable bond. At least Tia Harribel and Anima Divoratore had, or rather, would have.
And while the female group of four yelled in concern for their only male teammate Lilynette Gingerbuck was shouting out in dread for the male part of her soul.
Though her concern was for naught since Starrk used Sonido to appear next to Lilynette.
However, the group of four females had yet to stop their concern for the well-being of their fellow teammate. Anima hadn't stopped glowing as he descended slowly down onto the sandy ground. And he didn't stop screaming in excruciating pain he was experiencing. Slowly but surely he started to shrink, of all things that could happen, like him exploding, or evaporating, converting into reishi, he got smaller. It was unexpected by the onlookers, which only escalated their worry for Anima Divoratore, the Soul Eater.
Suddenly the light exploded in a foreboding dark green colour, tinged with white. As Anima collapsed on the sand the team he was in rushed in to see what was happening to him.
What they saw was shocking, but in fact a pleasant surprise, given the circumstances.
Anima was a Vasto Lorde.
He had two protruding horns going backwards and a mask that was similar to a human skull, with dark green tribal lines decorating his entire white skin. He had tufts of dark green fur around his hips and on his feet and wrists. Otherwise he was rather humanoid. His straight red hair reached all the way to his ankles, quite unbecoming of a male Hollow, much less a male Menos Vasto Lorde.
But how he became a Vasto Lorde would all be discovered in due time to the group of four female Hollows and the one single male Hollow.
Though they didn't have time to discuss it, because Tia Harribel was flung into a nearby pillar of stone jutting from the sand. Hairline cracks appeared as Tia was slammed into the stone, and she screamed in mostly shock and partly pain from the blast that had sent her off. And then appeared what seemed to be a similarly sea creature like Vasto Lorde, only it didn't have much of a mask to cover it, only covering its eyes. It was clearly a male Hollow, with a broad white chest and clearly defined muscles displayed. And it had a light blue kind of spear made out of pure reiryoku, probably sharp enough that not even the toughest of armours could hold against it.
"Harribel-sama!" the three Adjuchas shouted in unison in concern for their master and caretaker, momentarily forgetting the currently unconscious Vasto Lorde.
"Haha! So it has come to this, huh? I hope you will give me a good fight, otherwise I'm in for some disappointment!" the dark blue coloured Arrancar taunted aloud.
The forgotten Starrk and Lilynette merely made a run for it, with Starrk seeming as reluctant in making an effort in running away as possible, but somehow still able to run despite the lack of effort.
Harribel growled under her breath and observed the Arrancar, whom she didn't recognize immediately. However, since he was that small he had to be a powerful Hollow. Somehow size didn't matter when it came to Hollows. No, it was quite the opposite in fact. The smaller the Hollow the more powerful the Hollow. It didn't make much sense, but the world didn't make much sense either anyway, so Harribel did not care much.
She hopped down from the remarkably large stone she had been forcibly planted in. She took a stance, ready to combat the threat that had appeared in front of them all.
The Arrancar chuckled, "You... I wanted to get a taste of you, but now that I'm an Arrancar I don't need to eat like a pathetic little Hollow!" he boasted.
Anima groaned a little, not attracting any attention at all from the three Adjuchas presently preparing to interfere in the battle between Adjuchas Arrancar and Menos Vasto Lorde.
Anima looked up to see the new situation. He unsteadily stood up to survey his entire field of view. His eyes widened when he stood at his full height. He shook his head, This is weird. I should have a much higher vantage point than this. What is going on?, he asked himself inside his head as he looked down to his hands. Once more his humanoid red eyes widened at the sight of small human hands with dark green tribal lines adorning them. He looked all over his body to see that yes, he was in fact a Vasto Lorde now. He was about to chuckle, since he was a guy and didn't giggle, but his moment of glee was interrupted when Tia Harribel and the hammerhead-shark-like Arrancar clashed in mid-air, a shockwave rocking throughout the entire area. It caused Anima to snap his head to the scene of the exchange of weapons. He stared, once again, wide eyed at the sight of his mentor clashing weapons with the hammerhead Arrancar.
"Tia," Anima whispered quietly, not wanting to draw attention to himself. He decided it was best to use Sonido to appear next to the three Adjuchas that were already tense enough as it was. They immediately turned their tense bodies around, but almost right away reeled back in shock.
"A-Anima? You're a Vasto Lorde?" they seemed to recognize him again by the feel of his familiar reiatsu, though they could easily be deceived they didn't seem to be worried about that.
Anima nodded slowly. "Yes. I don't know how, but I am. Well, let's not keep Harribel-sama waiting!" he shouted the last part out, charging towards the hammerhead Arrancar. The four of them charged, only Sun-Sun holding back on giving a warcry.
The Arrancar's head snapped around, glaring, or somehow glaring, given the fact that his eyes were covered, which really should be mystifying, but it wasn't necessary to think about, at the four charging individuals. He growled and took off a hand from his spear like projectile of reiryoku and produced a red Cero in his hand. The Cero shot off in incredible speeds. It hit them. Or hit at least the three Adjuchas, since Anima managed to use Sonido to evade the Cero.
"Mila! Sun-sun! Apacci!" Tia and Anima shouted in unison in wild concern for the band of unlikely misfits. After all, they had been together for quite a while now, and had developed bonds with each other, despite the obvious lack of resonance in their relationships as a whole.
There was silence following the discharge of the Cero. It was quite quickly broken by a small and cruel chuckle, which made the two Vasto Lorde snap their glares at the hammerhead Arrancar. The chuckle turned into full-blown laughter.
"Ha! I knew they would be slaughtered like cattle in the end! I just knew it!," he turned his gaze to the Vasto Lorde in front of him, "And now to deal with you," he said balefully, full of hatred and need for revenge, all directed towards Tia.
"Hey, asshole!" Anima called out, which made the Arrancar turn his head so quickly Anima thought him to break his neck. Something he wouldn't complain to. "Come fight-"
Anima was interrupted when the Arrancar sent off a red Bala towards him. Had Anima not seen it coming his head and neck would have been separated from his shoulders. The Bala exploded powerfully onto the ground, sending off a small wave of sand. Not that Anima cared about the sand, he didn't even turn to face the explosion.
Anima gave the hammerhead Arrancar the best reiatsu infested glare he could produce, but the desired effect was shrugged off by the Arrancar as if it were nothing but an ant biting on the heels of the Arrancar.
Anima charged at him using Sonido, and the Arrancar merely kicked Tia in the stomach, sending her off to the desert. The hammerhead Arrancar turned quickly to face Anima in a fit of anger. "You will pay for calling me that, measly Hollow!" the hammerhead Arrancar shouted aloud.
The two of them met in mid-air as they clashed, sending a shockwave so large it was enough to completely remove the ground of which the sand had found its place to stay upon. Meaning that the Forests of Menos was open for all to see. Even some Gillian, Menos Grande as they were more commonly called, were seen, but they paid the fight above them no heed whatsoever.
Anima jumped backwards and prepared to manipulate the local reishi and call it to his aid. Anima was not the type to play around. If he was in a fight he would be damned if he dragged it out. So he pulled out all the stops to finish the Arrancar. Especially since the hammerhead Arrancar had hurt, if not killed, his teammates.
"This ends, Arrancar," Anima declared. And instinctively he held out a hand. The local reishi gathered around the hand, then swarmed around the arm in a magnificent display of manipulation of reishi. In the Arrancar's mind, though, it was all for naught. The Arrancar used Sonido to gain a burst of speed to ram himself into the newly created Vasto Lorde.
"Spear of Longinus!" Anima shouted out loud, and found the name by trusting his instincts, and thrust his arm forward, much like how one would thrust a spear. The Arrancar trusted his Hierro to hold against the spear of razor sharp reishi, and continued onwards to slam himself into the Vasto Lorde.
The result was leaning heavily in Anima's favour.
The Spear of Longinus was so sharp, so compressed the reishi it consisted of was, that it pierced the iron skin, the Hierro, of the Arrancar, and penetrated the flesh, all the way through the arm. It effectively made the left arm of the hammerhead Arrancar useless from elbow down.
The Arrancar shrieked in the intense pain he got from the flesh wound. Anima, immediately after seeing that his Spear of Longinus was highly effective, used Sonido to teleport his way to Tia in concern. He got to her while the Arrancar was occupied with the pain in his arm.
"Tia," he approached her almost apprehensively, but then tossed the fear aside. After all, what in the world would fear do in the face of danger? Nothing, that's what!
"Tia," he said louder as he got close enough to shake her shoulders. He touched her shoulders with both of his strange small hands, Something I'll have to get used to, and shook her, "Tia?" he spoke, unsure if Harribel was alright or not.
Suddenly Tia gasped and grabbed hold of Anima's hands, quivering as she did so. "Anima!" she exclaimed loudly. She took hold of one of Anima's hands with her own unoccupied hand and clenched her hand enough to cause pain, "What's the meaning of this?" she growled lowly. She was getting nervous. Anima was not a Menos Vasto Lorde, but if the light show earlier was any indication then that must have meant that something must have happened to Anima Divoratore.
And sure enough, it seemed that Anima had turned into a Vasto Lorde.
"What do you mean 'What's the meaning of this'? It's me, Tia! It's me, Anima Divoratore, the Soul Eater of Hueco Mundo," Anima explained to her. Anima put his free hand on his chest to emphasize the point he was trying to get across.
Tia nodded, having familiarized herself with his reiatsu when she had first seen him in the Forests of Menos clearing she had been in for some food.
"Well well, isn't this touching," they heard a sarcastic voice say. Tia and Anima both snapped their heads around to meet the hammerhead shark Arrancar, who was standing not three metres away from them. Suddenly he brought up and stretched out his arm and began charging a Cero at them, one that was glowing an ominous and forebodingly red colour.
"Time to die, scum!" he yelled out.
But as soon as he had made the Cero, Anima had begun creating a thick layer of reishi, creating a shield between him and Harribel and the hammerhead Arrancar.
And so the ominously glowing red Cero discharged it slammed into the shield of reishi, demolishing it but taking the brunt of the attack with it. The heat of the discharged Cero burned a bit of Anima's and Tia's hair, but that was about all it did. As Anima slowly stood up he began to charge his own dark dark green with a white hue Cero from his outstretched hand, and pointed it at towards the Arrancar's general direction.
The Cero exploded outwards, creating a crater deep enough that it went through the ground which separated the deserts of Hueco Mundo and the Forests of Menos, creating a quicksand like effect. It drew the still forms of Apacci, Mila Rose and Sun-Sun, and as if by some godly hand had forced them to suddenly obey the laws of physics also drew in the Arrancar, Tia and Anima in.
Down to the hellish depths of Lower Hueco Mundo.