Sitting on a rail was a girl brown hair cropped so close most thought she was a girly looking guy. Glasses hung off her nose a bit and she had eyes the color of emeralds MP3 player let the song 'you make me sick' by Pink blare into her ears. Kayce was a big girl, broad shoulders, wide hips, and big bones. She scared many of the people at the school with her sheer size, it probably didn't help that she was on the wrestling team and in the heavier weight divisions. "Kaaaaaaaayceeeeee" came a male voice and despite the headphones in her ears the girl turned to look toward the sound. It was her friend Andy, beanpole of a guy with shaggy brownish red hair that hung all around. Pulling the ear buds from her ears she smiled at him. "Whats up?" she asked as he walked up to stand next to her.
"Nothing I'm just bored."
"Yeah, nothing to do today."
"You can say that." he mumbled as they looked at the snow that came up to their thighs in the grass. "This is where you guys are!" Kayce turned to look at her friend Shelby, Andy's girl friend. She was a medium sized girl with that hour glass look, Kayce would of killed for a body like that and Shelby thought herself fat. "Yep, we was hiding from ya."
"Oh I see how it is! Kayce wanted to get Andy alone!" Shelby teased at her friend and Kayce smirked. Andy gave Kayce a look before doubling over the rail making retching sounds. "Never! Shelby your my only love!" he flung himself off the rail and at Shelby.
"Oh fuck you Andy, I'm damn sexy."
"Yes Kayce you are." Shelby said before Andy could do anything other then snicker. "I write you poems and recite them to you in computer class. Your that damn sexy." Shelby laid her hand on Kayce's arm and flexed the fingers and gave her a cheesy smile that Kayce returned.
"Oh yes Shelby, all the time. Andy back off Shelby is mine." Kayce pushed off the rail and wrapped her arms around Shelby's shoulders mimicking the way she saw some men do to their girls. Andy reached forward and smacked two fingers onto Kayce's head making her let go of Shelby to hold her head. "Release." he snarled softly at her.
"You're a douche." Kayce whined at him and he gave her a smile as he twined his fingers into Shelby's hands and the two of them kissed softly as Kayce looked over their heads toward the double doors of the school building. She saw the white wall and framed pictures of the school, a few bodies moved around she put names to faces subconsciously before seeing the principal. "Beziezo." she warned her friends and the two lovers pulled apart to just holding hands. One thing for sure was that the teachers where haters on the boy friend girl friend thing. The principal stepped out to look toward the three students squinting his eyes slightly to look at them better past the large brick pillar that held up the roofy out cropping thing of the front building. A cold wind drove him back into the building as the bell for class echoed around the school grounds.
A small vibrating sensation washed over Kayce as she looked at the ground, looking up she saw a bit of snow shake it's way off the school roof and onto the already deep snow on the ground. "Did you guys feel that?" she asked as Andy and Shelby turned from looking at each other to her, slowly their heads nodded. "Just an earthquake... They happen." Shelby said moving her fingers in Andy's hand a bit more to hold his hand a bit more securely. "We're gonna be late to class." Kayce advised as she shifted her booted feet and made her way toward the school doors. Her two friends followed after her into the halls of the school.
Concrete High school was not a big school, at the most there was 300 kids in the district but maybe only 200 actually came to the school and attended classes in person. Kayce picked up her messenger bag from inside the door and looked at the kids who looked at her, she knew them and they knew her but they never talked to one another. Another tremor spread threw the area as Kayce stood up and looked around, the other students in the area had felt it. A worried buzz of voices started amongst the girls of the school and slowly spread threw the boys as another tremor rocked the school, this time more violent then the first two. "Earthquakes don't do this.." Kayce muttered as Andy and Shelby walked past her to get to their class. Teachers walked the halls telling Students to get to classes, another tremor rolled threw the school this time Kayce saw the display case for sports awards shake and rattle. Slowly the hair along her neck started to stand up as she walked down the hall toward her English class. Halfway to the classroom another tremor rocked the school, this time bigger and stronger. Putting a hand to the wall Kayce felt the dry wall vibrate. "This is so not normal.." slowly the girl looked forward. Many of the students had been cleared out of the halls and into their classes and she could see clearly down the hall and out the window of the double doors at the end of the hall. A large black something was sticking out of the baseball field.
"What the fuck is that!?" Kayce howled and Mr. Rood the gym teacher came up behind her clearing his throat. "Kayce.." he began and Kayce whirled around to grab his arm. "You've gotta tell me you see THAT black pincer thingy in the baseball field!" The old man looked down at her before craning his head to look toward the field. "I don't see anything Kayce."
"You're shitting me... It's RIGHT there!" Kayce tugged at his arm and pointed more insistently toward the double doors where another tremor was making the glass of it shake despite it's painted metal frame. "If you don't let me go and stop shouting I'm giving you lunch detention."
"Oh what the hell . There is a huge," Kayce paused to look toward the thing coming out of the ground. "bug coming out the ground and you're telling me to STOP cussing? YOU should be cussing your ass off right now dude!"
"That's it! Office now!" He grabbed Kayce's shoulder and started to steer her toward the office but she dug her heels in as the bell rang. "I'm telling you! I'm not lying or anything!" Kayce protested loudly as the bigger man pushed her toward the office, away from her class, away from the black bug he couldn't see coming out of the baseball field. Another tremor caused Kayce to fall down and she looked back over her shoulder past the gym teacher and toward the field outside the door. A very large part of the creature was now on the surface, dirt and snow was spread around the field in a haphazard manner. "We are so screwed.." she thought to herself and started to crab walk backwards away from the hulking man who was getting to his feet to come after her.
The hollow was getting further out of the ground. With every few feet of it's body that it freed from the snow caked ground the tremors that rocked Concrete High school grew more violent. Though no one save Kayce could see it. All 200 some odd students of the school could see their baseball field be torn up, feel the tremors and hear the Hollow's angry screech and demand for lives. Students started to fill the halls, many heading toward lockers, teachers shouting at them not to do so and Mr. Rood looming over Kayce who sat on her butt staring past the legs of the students and teachers that filled the halls to look toward the Hollow crawling out the baseball field. "Freshmen! Do not go to your lockers!" Mr. Rood was shouting over the worried voices of the upper class students.
The gym teacher broke off away from her to chase the freshmen away from their lockers. Kayce got to her feet and ran toward the other end of the school hall. Past the office she tossed her messenger bag off into the corner it had been in during the lunch. Her feet pounded past the bag and into the front area of the school, thankfully the sidewalks where clear of the nearly hip deep snow that would plague her in the fields. "Kayce don't go toward that! Kayce get back here!" it was the tech teacher, one of her favorite teachers. She sighed to herself and darted into the snow early. His shouts grew more insistent as he watched the girl plow threw the snow at a run.
As Kayce got closer to the creature she stared up at it towering nearly as tall as the school building and it wasn't all the way out of the ground. Black and looking a lot like a praying-mantis it turned it's head and let out a screech that blew the snow around Kayce away. Arms up to protect her face from the icy cold snow she felt the earth shake worse the before. Opening her eyes and lowering her arm Kayce fell backward and stared up at the full height of the Hollow. The upper body was like a praying-mantis but near the end of it's body a long tail swayed and lashed with blade like qualities to it. It screeched again before diving toward the school. Into the freshmen hall and it's pincer like front thingies raked threw the lockers with screeches of metal and pulled back out with about six student bodies and Mr. Rood. "Not good.. not good.. not good." she started to freak out and jump around screeching the words 'no' or 'fuck that shit!' as her thoughts whirred around to running away to saving everyone. came up behind her and grabbed her arm.
"Kayce, leave now!" he growled and the girl pulled away.
"No! I'm the only one who can help!"She shouted and darted toward to black bug. She had nothing to fight with but maybe a snow ball or something. Stopping next to a snow pile she dipped her hands into the icy stuff and pulled out a chunk. Tossing the snow from hand to hand she put it into a snow ball and hurled it at the monster. Watching and making another as fast as she could the large bug turned it's head toward her and screeched loudly. Dropping the remains of the freshmen and teacher it lashed its' tail toward her. It hit the ground near her and sent up a spray of frozen dirt, chunks of it fell onto Kayce who put her arms up to protect her head. It's pincers came forward and snatched her up.
"No! Let me go! Put me down! Help!!" She screamed and kicked feeling the pincer like things dig into her body the more she fought, fists beating against the pincers she screamed loudly and bent to bite at it as well. From the corner of her eye she saw a flash of color, people started to scream in her head, wails of the dead. Oddly the girl became aware of her MP3 player playing the song Bullet with a name on it. Groaning she wormed back and forth, the bug like hollow seemed to be looking at something else. Kayce wasn't panicking any more she was getting down right mad at the hollow. Screaming mentally she wormed the last bit out of the hollows hold and darted up it's arm. Jumping onto it's shoulders and snapped her mouth shut onto it's antenna. It's screech was loud, reverberating threw her head and body. Keeping her jaws locked Kayce wrapped her arms around the stock of the Antenna farther up from her mouth and started to swing her weight from side to side in an attempt to get a hold of something better. "Damn it Kid!" came a shout from below and slowly Kayce turned her attention from the rancid taste of the hollow to the person below. Wow, was that a sword in his hands?
A goofy looking grin spread across her face till she saw the guy jump up, how did he jump that high? He must of jumped a damn near story high to get within touching distance of the bug things head! The hollow screeched again and Kayce groaned, she was getting a headache from this. The things tail was slamming around into the school building suddenly turned and went toward the guy who was seemingly hovering in the air and drew his sword. With a wide swing the tail dropped to the ground, another screech and Kayce whined softly as she let go of the antenna with her jaws to hold on with her hands. A flick of the creatures head and Kayce was sent flying.
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I don't own Bleach or any of it's characters but Andy, Shelby, Mr. Criner, Mr. Rood, and are my characters even if they are real people. Kayce is me so I guess I belong to me too. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Wait till you meet my friend Kaydin in the next chapter XD