"You should've listened to your mother...didn't she ever tell you not to take gifts from strangers? After all, it might be the death of you..."

Those were the last words Grimmjow heard as he slowly sank into a frigid darkness, the poison he had been so foolish to take head on searing through his veins; his mind reeling with anger.

Damn Quincy.

Should have just gutted him when I had the chance!

How could I be so stupid?!

Rushing in like that, I thought I would have the upper-hand and I would hate to die without killing Kurosaki at least!

Oh well, he'll do it himself when he realises he's in away over his head...

Grimmjow paused a moment, looking around at the darkness before him that was continuing to engulf him.

There was somethig he wanted to admit.

I guess I am slowly dying.

This isn't what I pictured at all.

This darkness.

Don't like it and don't like this dying thing. Didn't I already die once?

Then almost get killed a second time by Nnoitra-damn bastard.

Damn it. I have to get up!

Grimmjow tried to open his eyes, but they were too heavy, his arms unable to move as well.

It was then he had to remind himself not to panic.

I have to stand.

I did it before.

I can stand again.

He wasn't really going to die.

Was he?

I made it too far in this life to die!

I have more power than before and I have to save my world.

As dangerous as it is, but I AM King.

I am going to become the King of Hueco Mundo before I die and I am not king yet, so I can't die.

If only I could reach Pantera.

That would heal me.

But I can't. Move.

Someone help. I can't breathe.

Something stepped near him.

Shawlong?

He could only wish it was.

But it wasn't.

Grimmjow flared his reiatsu to keep whomever it was away from him as a last resort.

A gentle hand touched his shoulder.

Grimmjow froze.

Nelliel?!

"Do not worry," she said, her voice that of an angel. If she were real or a figment of his imagination, he did not know. But accepted it none the less. "I am here, my love."

Grimmjow was at peace.

His queen had come to save him.

Author's notes: Happy Birthday, Tsari! Thanks for being an awesome friend and getting me hooked on GrimmNel too! I like to think of them as chess pieces in a way. Aka, she could kick his ass any day and save it as well! Now we are the same age again! :)

Happy, happy birthday!