Yo everybody. Chapter one reedited and posted. Yes, I know I be working on chapters five and six, but I'm currently suffering from writer's block. So instead I worked on this.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach though you all know that already.

Note: This is my first story so be kind with the reviews. Also I know this isn't an original idea, I just loved the stories where some of Ichigo's human friends are turned into arrancars. So decided to write my own.

This chapter takes place during the night Ichigo's father, Isshin, killed the Grand Fisher.

Hollowfication

Chapter One

She awoke only find she couldn't move, see or even hear what was going on around her. The only thing she could was think about how she got here, trapped in a black void. Her parents had just left for the airport. An hour ago they receive a phone call from Paris. Her aunt and uncle living there died in a car crash. She decided to stay rather then go to Paris for a couple weeks for the funeral. Looking back on it she probably should have gone with them instead of staying.

But there was no way she could have known what was going to happen after her parents left.

She had been about to call Orihime and tell her what happened, when there was a knock at the door.

Flashback

"Tatsuki Arisawa?" the grinning man at the door asked in a lazy but polite tone.

Tatsuki stared at the pale, white-haired man at the door. His clothing was unusual, but similar to something she saw before. In fact, earlier today she saw Ichigo wearing a similar black outfit. But unlike Ichigo, this man wore a white robe over it with a sword hilt sticking out of the opening of the robe. But it was his presence that unnerved her the most. It felt like snakes were wrapping around her throat by just standing near him.

Tatsuki calmly answered, "Yes. What do you want?"

"I'm gonna need ya to come with me."

Her response was simple and blunt. "No way in hell am I going anywhere with a grinning creep like you."

The second she said that she tried to slam the door in his face.

Only to have him stop the door halfway with a single finger, causing the shocked teenage girl to back away from the door, struggling to keep her growing fear from showing.

'Impossible. No one could do that. What is he?'

The man let out an amused chuckle and said, "My my, is that yer decision?"

Just barely keeping the fear out her voice, she said, "Yes. Now leave."

The man sighed, but the grin never left his face, "Guess we're gonna have to do things the hard way."

He unsheathed his short sword and pointed it at her and said, "Shoot to kill Shinso."

The blade of the sword extended towards her at a speed Tatsuki could barely register. It impaled her through her left shoulder and embedded itself in the wall behind her.

Tatsuki screamed in pain, hoping that someone would hear her and save her from this man, as she struggled to stay standing.

"My my, yer a tough one. Changed yer mind?" the man asked in the same lazy but polite tone.

Fighting back the pain, Tatsuki simply replied, "Go to Hell."

The man let go of the hilt of his sword, which came racing at Tatsuki at same insane speed as the blade, slamming and pinning her to the wall.

Her head was spinning, her vision was blurring and she could feel blood pouring down the back of her head. Then the man somehow appeared right in front of her. Tatsuki took her chance and punched the pale man's face with her right fist.

Or at least thats she thought would happen. But with speed that she couldn't even register, he grab her wrist with his thumb and forefinger, stopping the punch halfway.

Before Tatsuki could react to the blocked punch, the man raised his other arm and chopped her forearm, breaking it.

Tatsuki howled in pain again. She abandoned all attempts at covering how afraid she was. She didn't care anymore, she just to get away from him.

He raised his arm again and said, "Wow. Yer a tough little thing, aren't ya."

He brought his hand down, striking her head and darkness consumed her.

End of flashblack

Then she woke up in this black void. Someone must have healed her as her injuries no longer hurt. Either that or she could no longer feel in addition to no longer being able to see and hear in this void.

'How long have I been trapped here? Where is here for that matter? And why am I where?'

Her thoughts grew increasing frantic as time went on. Of course she could no longer tell how much time had passed since she woke up. How long had she been trapped where for? Minutes, hours, days or worst, had it only been a few seconds since she woke up?

She felt helpless and weak. She hated that feeling. She hadn't felt like this since the day she failed to protect Orihime a second time. When she and Orihime were attacked by that monster that took control of her body and tried to use her to hurt Orihime.

'The day Orihime protected me. The day Orihime no longer needed me. The day—NO! I have to stop thinking those thoughts.'

Ever since that day, her mind had been plague by such thoughts and feelings. At first it only happened just a few times, but then Orihime, Ichigo and Chad left at the beginning of summer holidays and thoughts increased in frequency and intensity.

She hated having those thoughts. They felt like a betrayal of her friends but at the same time, a small part of her felt justified in thinking those thoughts. That they had abandoned and betrayed her first.

These thoughts continued to fill her head for length of time that she couldn't even guess at. Until the void that blocked out her senses was suddenly lifted, interrupting her train of thoughts as her senses rushed back to her, putting her in a temporary daze. In fact she didn't even realize that the person who dropped the shroud, walked out of the room.

When the daze cleared, Tatsuki realized that she still couldn't move her body. She found herself kneeing on the ground with her arms held behind her back by an invisible force. She tried to break out what ever was holding her with no luck. She found she could only move head a little to the left and right but the rest of her body was frozen.

Tatsuki looked around the room (or rather at the area in front her). It was a massive throne room. Maybe it belonged to that fox-faced that attacked her and brought her here.

'Why did he bring me here anyway?'

She then heard footsteps echoing behind her.

"As ya can see Aizen-sama, the girl is awake and ready for the next part." a familiar voice called out from behind her.

'Fox-face!'

"Indeed. I didn't expect her to wake up so soon after you injured her, Gin." said a second, more commanding voice from behind her. "Just as Tosen returned with the other two no less. I have to say I'm slightly impressed."

The first voice, Gin, chuckled and replied, "She's a tough and stubborn one, just like Kurosaki."

"Yes. But at the moment, she is no where near Kurosaki's level." the second man, this Aizen, commented.

There was no doubt in Tatsuki's mind who he was talking about, Ichigo Kurosaki.

'How do they know Ichigo? And what do they want with me?'

The footsteps grew louder as the familiar sensation of snakes wrapping around her neck returned. She would have shuttered but the force holding her would not permit it.

The two men walked passed Tatsuki's frozen body and stood in front of her.

At first glance, the brown-haired man named Aizen didn't look like much out of the ordinary. His slicked back hair, facial features and clothing reminded her of ancient Japanese nobility. His presence unlike Gin's, didn't affect her in any way what so ever. She felt safer around him then around Gin.

But then she looked into his eyes and realized how wrong she was.

Its said that the eyes are the window to the soul. Tatsuki didn't know if that was true, but in the case of this man it was. His eyes held a cunning malevolence, devoid of any emotion or warmth. The eyes of a person that cared nothing for anyone and everyone, save how they could benefit himself.

Then Aizen began to look back at her, really looking at her. That something more terrifying then everything that happened to her earlier. It felt like wasn't looking at her but rather looking right through her and viewing all her memories, dreams, nightmares, fears, insecurities, everything that made up the person known as Tatsuki Arisawa.

She found it became increasing harder to breathe as he continued to stare at her. Tatsuki wanted to scream, to run, to do anything to get away from this man's horrible gaze but couldn't even think under his stare.

Gin laughed and said, "Careful Aizen-sama or yer gonna kill her prematurely."

Then as suddenly as it began, it ended. She felt bile rising up her throat. She would have collapsed and thrown up if it wasn't for the fact that her body, mouth included, was still frozen. So the contents of her stomach stayed in her mouth for a moment before sliding back down her throat. She sat there, trying to regain her breath while continuing to stare at Aizen and Gin, her eyes wide with fear.

She suddenly felt a presence appeared behind her and placed something on the ground to the left of her. She couldn't see who or what it was, but figured that it was the other two that Aizen mentioned.

A dark-skinned man entered her limited range of vision as he walked towards Aizen and Gin. He bowed his head at Aizen before walking to Aizen's right side, opposite Gin.

Aizen stared to the left of Tatsuki for a moment before a grin spread across face. "Tatsuki Arisawa, Mizuiro Kojima, Keigo Asano, I imagine you are all wondering why I had the three of you brought here."

'Mizuiro and Keigo? What the hell is going on here?'

"My name is Sosuke Aizen, and these are my lieutenants, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tosen. You have been brought here because I see much potential in the three of you and I have seen how those you call friends have neglected and abandoned you because you currently lack the power they possess. They think you are too weak to be anything but a burden if they told you the truth about the powers that they received and about the world you live in. I however, see your potential and hate to see wasted potential."

Aizen paused for a minute to let what he said settle in the three teenagers for a moment before continuing,

"I am going to make all of you more powerful then you could ever imagine. In fact, I will train you for one month, it will be brutal though and it is possible that all three of you will die. If you survive the month, then offer you a choice about whether you join my army or return to the world of the living. No strings attached."

Tatsuki knew she couldn't trust what this man was saying but at the same time a part of her want that power he spoke of, she didn't want to be weak ever again.

"Well now that that's out of the way, lets get started." Aizen took a step forward before adding, "Oh, I almost forgot that this will be quite painful, but just think of it as the price of power."

Tatsuki definitely didn't like that. She tried again to break her bonds again and yet again couldn't free herself.

Gin suddenly appeared in front of her, just like he did after he impaled her to the wall. Gin lifted her one handed by her shoulder. She then felt a foreign energy enter her body from his hand. Then the pain came. It felt like something deep inside her was being forced open, something that she could feel shouldn't be forced opened like that. The pain kept on growing and growing.

Then thankfully, it ended. But soon as it ended, Gin thrust his other palm into Tatsuki's face. Sending her flying across the room.

She noticed two things immediately, first she was no longer bound by the invisible force. Secondly, the air felt oddly thick and heavy like being in a pool of molasses.

She looked to her left and saw that indeed Mizurio and Keigo had be kidnapped as well. The two boys were sprawled on the floor. They looked just as confused and terrified as she felt. But then she noticed strange. There were chains attached to metal plates on their chests. She followed the chains to their source, a second Mizuiro and Keigo, hanging limply in the hands of Aizen and the one called Tosen.

'What?'

She then looked down at her own chest and saw an identical plate and chain attached to her chest. She followed her chain to its source. Just like with Keigo and Mizuiro, hers was connected to a second her, still being held in Gin's hand.

'This can't be real. This is gotta be somekind of bad dream.'

Aizen turned to Gin and said, "Would you do the honors Gin."

Gin chuckled and pulled out his sword, "Shoot to kill Shinso."

His blade shot out and impaled the metal disc in chest. The disc shattered, leaving a hole in her chest. Her only thought was, 'NO!!'

Then the greatest pain she ever felt tore through her body and she did the only thing she could, she screamed. So great was the pain that she didn't hear Gin repeat his command or the two other screams that filled the air.

Tatsuki's body painfully tore itself apart and reshaped itself in a larger, less human form. Once her body was finished transforming, a white liquid poured out of her eyes, ears, nose and mouth. It covered her head, formed and hardened into a monstrous mask.

She found herself once again in the dark void. But this time she found herself forgetting all of her good memories. She tried to hold onto the memories one a time, focusing on the first one that came to mind.

She and Orihime were having dinner at Orihime's apartment. Orihime was talking about all of the strange food combinations that she love so much, while she was attempting to suppress the urge to laugh and gag at the at the strange combinations. All the while, she couldn't help but wonder how Orihime could eat such things.

But as quickly as she grabbed the memory, it slid away like water in her hands. Only to be replaced with a horrible memory.

A sudden tremor shook the room, knocking several things off a nearby shelf, including an old teddy bear that Orihime's late brother gave her when she was little. Orihime walked over to the fallen objects and picked up the bear. Suddenly, an invisible force attacked Orihime, sending her flying half way across the room. Tatsuki rushed to her fallen friend, trying fruitlessly to wake her. Until the same force attacked her. The force hit her again and again and then the force started to smother her. Tatsuki fought to stay conscious. She had to save Orihime. But it was in vain as she passed out anyway.

Tatsuki mentally screamed. She discarded the bad memory and frantically grabbed onto another memory.

She was with Orihime and the rest of her friends, under the shade of some trees, eating lunch. They talked and laughed while she warded off Chizuru attempts to seduce Orihime.

But just as before, the memory disappeared and replaced with a horrible one.

She was trying to protect to protect Orihime from a monster and a horde of students that were being controled by the monster. She watched as she was beaten, then her body taken over by the monster and was forced to beat up the girl was trying to protect.

Then it hit her, she couldn't remember the girl's name, or the names of her other friends. Names she had known a second before. She could only remember their faces but they too began to fade away into the darkness. Leaving her alone and afraid. Leaving only one thing besides all of her worst memories. Her name. Tatsuki Arisawa.

Tatsuki said her name repeatedly, clinging to it like it was a life preserver.

Until the darkness finally consumed her.

A trio of mournful roars filled the room and at that moment the humans known as Tatsuki Arisawa, Mizuiro Kojima, and Keigo Asano ceased to exist as three new hollows came into existence.

Aizen still smirking, said "Time for the next step."

She opened her eyes for what seemed like the first time. She looked at herself. Her body was large and muscular, covered in black skin with crimson spirals going across her body and limbs and a round hole in her chest. She stood on two arms and legs. Her arms and hands were human, save her fingers ended in crimson claws. Her legs however were similar to the hind legs of a dog or wolf and also were tipped with the same crimson claws. Her legs also prevented her from standing upright. She had a long scorpion tail at the base of her spine. Their was a long, wild black mane flowed from her head. There was something else on her face, something hard. She raised a hand to her face. There was a mask on her face, what it looked like she couldn't tell.

She was confused. It felt like this wasn't what she should have looked like. Yet she had no memory of anything before opening her eyes. So why did she feel like she had a different form then this? And who and what was she?

The questions plaguing her mind were quickly pushed aside as she felt a growing hunger inside her. What was she hungry for? She didn't know.

She looked around her surroundings. She was in a vast cavern, with a thin purple mist floating just above the floor.

She wasn't alone though. There were two other creatures with her. Both had holes in their chests and white masks on their faces. The closest one was slightly smaller then her. It was extremely thin, slightly hunched over, human-like creature. Like it's body was only skin stretched over abnormally long bones. The skin itself was was dark purple. It's arms and legs were long, longer then the ordinary limbs of a human. The fingers and toes of the creature were tipped with curved, hook-like green talons and matching spikes coming out of it's spine. The mask it wore was shaped like a skull, with razor sharp teeth and two large glowing eyes and three smaller eyes in an inverted triangular formation on the mask's forehead. Wild, short black hair came out from the back of it's mask. Every time it exhaled, a green mist came put of it's mouth.

The other creature was a giant winged snake, in fact it was larger then her. It's scales were bright red with five dark blue stripes running down it's body and it's tail was tipped with a rattle like the ones rattlesnakes had. It had a pair of dark blue feathered wings, the same dark blue as it's scales. It's hole was located in between it's wings. The mask looked like someone took a four-sided star and pulled it over a snake's face, giving it an angular snake head look. The mask had a dark blue line running from the left point to right point and a bright red line from the top point to the bottom point. There was also two pairs of long fangs among the upper row of teeth on the mask.

There was something familiar about those two creatures. It was like she knew them somehow. But how or where, she didn't know.

"Who are you? Do you know who I am?" she asked.

The two looked at her then each other. The smaller one, in a rasping voice, responded, "I don't know. I was hoping one you could tell me who I am."

"Likewise." The snake said, "Are you guys hungry like me?"

She and the thin one nodded.

Suddenly they heard footsteps, lots of them. Emerging from the shadows, were more masked creatures. These however, didn't have that sense of familiarity and they didn't look friendly.

A masked crab-like creature growled and lunged at her. Acting more on reflex then anything else. With impressive speed, she stabbed it in the face with the stinger on her tail. The creature collapsed in a twitching heap.

Another one, that resemble a giant skinned dog, swung paw at her. It was fast but she was faster. She wrapped her tail around it's arm and stabbed the beast's shoulder with her stinger. It howled in agony. A grin crossed her mask as she attacked the trapped beast with her claws.

Once she defeated the beast, she glanced at the snake and the thin one. The thin one had just jumped onto the back of a large, hulking masked beast and was shredding it's back with his talons. While the snake lunged at a bat creature and devoured it whole. The snake then said, "Mmm... Delicious! These things taste great!"

Driven by curiosity and hunger, she attacked the nearest creature. She tore it apart with her claws and teeth and consumed it. The snake was right, they were delicious and she felt a little stronger then she had a moment earlier.

Her grin grew even wider. She didn't know who or what she was. But what she did know was that she, the thin one and the snake would devour anyone or anything they and become stronger. For in this world, the weak were consumed by the strong.

Meanwhile

Orihime's Apartment

Karakura Town

Orihime Inoue sat on a grass covered hill overlooking an empty field. She saw Tatsuki walking across the field, towards her. Orihime stood up and waved to her best friend, who smiled and returned the gesture and continued walking.

Then Orihime noticed a black crack form on the ground behind Tatsuki. She watched in horror as black tendrils emerged from the opening and slowly crept towards her friend.

Orihime yelled at Tatsuki, trying to warn her, but Tatsuki didn't seem notice Orihime's attempts to warn her.

Orihime started to run down the hill, only to crash into an invisible wall at the foot of the hill. She began to frantically hit the wall, trying in vain to break the wall separating her from her friend.

Tatsuki, finally noticing Orihime's actions, glanced behind her. As soon as she did, the tendrils wrapped around her legs, dragging Tatsuki to the ground. They started to pull Tatsuki to the crack they came from but Tatsuki wasn't about to go without a fight. She started punching and kicking at the tendrils but they seemed to unaffected by her blows. More tendrils wrapped around her legs, binding them together as Tatsuki continued to thrashed against her bonds.

Orihime knew there was only one way to save Tatsuki, her fairies. She summoned them, only to find to her horror, that her hair clips were missing. She knew that her hair clips were in her hair a moment ago but now they had vanished. Frantically, she looked around for her hair clips, only to hear Tatsuki scream.

Tatsuki was almost at the crack, her legs almost completely cover by the tendrils and her left arm was pinned to her side, while her free right hand was trying to hold onto any she could find, her face full of fear. Orihime could only helplessly watch, tears pouring down her eyes, whispering 'no' over and over again. She heard Tatsuki scream again, this time calling for Orihime to help her, but she was powerless to save her best friend.

Then Tatsuki disappeared into the crack.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!"

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!" Orihime screamed as she woke from her nightmare.

She sat up and hugged her knees, body drenched in sweat and tears still in her eyes.

'It was just a bad dream. A horrible nightmare, nothing else. Tatsuki's fine.'

She tried to reassure herself that everything was fine but she just couldn't. This wasn't the first time she had a bad nightmare, but they had never been so real. And that is what truly frightened her. It felt like it actually happened, rather then just a nightmare.

She turned to the phone on her nightstand, debating whether or not she should call Tatsuki. She wanted to call her, to hear her voice, to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was safe. But it was late, really late. Calling Tatsuki at this hour would only cause Tatsuki to worry about her. And she already felt guilty about keeping Tatsuki in the dark about...well everything since the day they were attacked by the tentacle hollow. She hated it, but she didn't want Tatsuki to worry about or worst, getting hurt trying to protect her from an enemy that Tatsuki just couldn't beat.

'I'm fine, Tatsuki's fine. It was just a nightmare. I shouldn't worry her over nothing. I'll see her tomorrow.'

Silencing her doubts, Orihime laid back down into her bed and tried to get back to sleep. Confident that she'd see Tatsuki the next morning and that her dream was just a dream.

Little did she know just how wrong she was.

Wow, I didn't expect this chapter to get this long. I had actually planned have to the largest section I added to go into chapter two as a flashback. But it didn't come out the way I wanted. So instead, I changed it into a smaller, more detailed addition to chapter one. For those who are wondering, why didn't I have this when I first wrote chapters one and two? It's because at the time I hadn't come up a released form for Keigo that I liked, preventing me from coming up with a normal hollow form for him. He was the hardest one to create. Mizuiro was the easiest, in fact his released form has changed only slightly from my original idea. Tatsuki was a little harder and her form changed a times before I came up with what she has now. Originally, she would have had a wolf-like released form, but I felt that it would have been a little too similar to Grimmjow's, merely replacing the panther with a wolf. But Keigo was a whole other story. I have half a dozen different forms for him, none of which I was crazy about. That changed when I started writing chapter four. I had finally come up with a form I liked, with some inspiration from World of Warcraft.