Author's note: This is the first and second chapter of this new series. It takes place in the bleach universe where Ichigo and Rukia died soon after he received his Shinigami powers from Rukia. After death Ichigo being a human was transformed into a soul in the rukoun district then entered the academy and officially became a Captain. Because Ichigo died his friends life were different as well. And meanwhile a strange man was unknowning ling creating a new existence which would become enemy to all. Will contain high levels of M content
Karakura Town, the cold winter night of December 1st 2013
Sitting beside garbage bins, in a pool of blood flowing from many holes in his chest and belly, was the lifeless body of a young adult boy with head of black scruffy hair reaching just pass his eyes at the front and touching his shoulders at the back. He appeared to have pale skin and silver eyes, around the age of 18 dressed in a black jacket worn over a white button-up dress shirt, a red tie and long black pants with dress shoes. Infront of the body stood a boy of similar appearance with the only differences being a severed chain attach to his chest and being semi-transparent with no feel feet.
"What the hell is this? I was just a high school senior leading a boring lifestyle on my way home, when that mugger came along and stabbed me down and took all my stuff leaving me here to bleed out", the soul of the dead boy screamed out as he looked down onto his bloody body infront.
As the boy's body laid there by the garbage he stayed near it waiting to see if anyone would notice him and allow him to have a proper burial. A few days passed, then months until his body finally became such a state where it was difficult for he himself to distinguish. After being beside his dead body with hopes of resting in peace when someone had found his body, the boy was enraged causing a change in him. The boy's soul exploded completely and reformed in to a large humanoid with a big hole in its chest, darken skin and his usual human face. A white substance formed around his face completely as he then let out a loud terrorfying and distorted roar.
Feeling the burning and aching sensations of hunger the creature disappeared. It reappeared a distance away from where its body was located. As it scanned the area for high quantity Reishi, it came across a little girl's soul in a blue dress and a male person clothed in pure white. The man touched the girl's head and she began to glow and disappear, he then looked at the creature the boy had become.
"Hmmmm! Another of these suffering souls. Let's purify you of your evil", the man said as he raised his right hand and snapped his thumb and index finger causing yellow lights to lock around the creatures limbs and neck.
The creature struggled to get free to no avail roaring in fear of what was to become of it. The man straighten his fingers of his right hand and aimed it towards the creature how began to glow and scream in pain. The creature seeing its destruction near perform an act of retaliation by shooting its tongue out of its mouth surprising the man and piercing his left shoulder the retracted covered in his blood and peices of his flesh. The creature ingested the man's flesh as the light coming off of it began to split down the middle vertically and forced the two sides apart into a glowing white being and a completely black bodied with a white head creature. The two new beings began to disintingrate and fade away, as the man held his right palm over the wound he had received earlier and walked away.
Meanwhile beneath the endless sands of Hueco Mundo in a completely empty region of the Menos Forest a tiny black speck appeared and began to grow slowly. As days and weeks then months pass by the speck grew slightly larger forming into a pulsating black ball with a red sphere in the middle. After a few more weeks the black ball broke open as a small child size Black skinned humanoid crawled out. The creature was completely black except for a grey with red outline circle pattern directly in the center of its chest. It had no eyes and nose and could only hear, feel and taste.
Sensing multiple presences near itself it began to walked towards the direction it sensed them. Walking while stumbling as it progress the being reached the area feeling the presence just infront of it. The presence being around 30 hollows surrounded the being after sensing the large amount of Reiryoku it gave off. They all dashed toward the being which was physically blind heard the slight movement in the air and easily dodged the grabbing arms of all the hollows by moving so fast it disappeared from the center to just outside the circle of hollows which surrounded it earlier. All the hollows roared in pain as they noticed their forearms were missing and the stump left was bleeding profusely. The being turned around reacting to their screeches with its unusual mouth filled with the missing arms. The wrist upwards hanged out of it mouth as it simply swallowed all the arms which dissolved and vanished instantly after it swallowed them. The being sprouted strands of hair on the top of its head which was black, straight and reached slightly below its shoulders in lenght.
Now actually feeling the sensation of hunger the being disappeared and reappeared infront of one of the hollows then shoved its arms through its chest as the being opened it the mouth about the size of its height the jumped above the wounded hollow swallowing it from head to toe instantly. The small being then grew to about twice its size growing a nose and bone like vest around its torso not covering the grey and red circle pattern in the center, palms and feet.
After seeing this the hollows began to run away but was caught by red web produced by the being, which then pulled the back after opening its mouth and devouring them all effortlessly. With all the presence it had sensed before now gone due to it devouring them it began to seek out other existences around.
After days of encountering low grade hollows and consuming them them being discovered a much greater source of energy nearby and dash off towards it. It soon arrived in the vicinities of a towering figure clothed in black from its neck to its feet which were both white. The being stood to just the size of the new creature's foot in comparison. This creature known as a gillian class Menos or Menos Grande charged a ball of Reishi infront of its mouth and aimed it down towards the being which gave off a energy nearly the size of its own. The ball blasted towards the being in the form a beam. Feeling the large amount of energy the blast was giving off the being opened its mouth and swallowed to blast completely which inflated its body to three times its original size. Its inflated body quickly returned to its original shape as a white substance formed around its face and the being coughed up a large amount of blood out its now covered mouth. Its nose and ears also released blood which all evaporated into the air.
The being opened its mouth again and began to mimic the gillian by charging a ball of energy infront of its mouth which was white with grey and red swirling inside. It shot off these energy which separated one of the Gillians legs and caused it to drop to its hands and knee. The being gather energy and formed 3 more balls which it then shot towards the gillians other leg arms and stomach region. The areas the blast hit were separated from the torso and the being quickly dash towards the separated peices and quickly devoured them leaving only the torso piece left as it walked towards the head and slowly engulfing the entire torso as a whole.
After completely devouring the gillian, the white substance on the being's face stablized forming a beetle-like skull mask having the jagged zig-zag slit for the mouth that ran vertically from below the nose to the chin which could separate showing the underside. Within the eye sockets were completely black at first then few seconds later a silver ring formed with a red circle in the middle as iris and pupil with the usual white parts remaining black
"GRAAAAAH! What is this?", the being screamed as images flashed inside its mind. "My name is Mugen Nosamayo, I was a human who was murdered and then became a hollow after waiting hopefully to find peace for months and then when I was going to devour a human soul for the first time a strange man appeared then separated him into two. But wait didn't that destroy me?"
As the being now reminded of its old life and name was interupted by a voice, "Haha yeah! You would think that. We all did, but what actually happened is that we were divided into the pure soul and the evilness or sin which accumulated to create the hollow. After being separate our pure soul moved on to the afterlife and we vanished. From what I know being alive about 2 years longer than you is that after we absorb the necessary amount of Reishi we enter infancy, then after devouring hollows we mature, and finally devouring a Gillian ,which was that last thing you ate, or around 100 hollows we regain consciousness and past memories."
After the voice had replied to his rethorical question approximately 10 beings of similar appearances landed infront of Mugen.
"Hmmm! So I attained consciousness just now? Then what do i do now and who are you people or what are we seeing as how you are similar to me in appearance?" Mugen questioned them as he strecthed out his fingers and arms checking his flexiblity and getting a good feel for his body.
"We are new existence to this world as far as I know. For that strange man didn't intend for us to exist so we have no specific classification, but in this world we are called Vacío Negro. We are feared for devouring just about any moving thing in our paths. There are other names for us elsewhere as well. Now to get more personal I am Blake Kurowatsuki, and these guys are Amuri, Soyu, Shin, Lorani, Tori and Toru, Tsukishi, Akira and Sen", replied Blake Kurowatsuki, the tallest of the group standing about 7" in height having a green spikey hair, green iris and red pupils surrounded by black, a mask similar to that of a hawk-like skull and a small skeletal vest around his shoulder and upper torso ending just at the end of his ribcage with two skeletal wing-like structures on his back. The circle pattern in his chest was a blue ring around a yellow circle.
"Oh and for your other question of what you should do now, it is your choice what you do. You have basically been given another chance a life. Some suggestion from others of our kind who had similar questions were to grow stronger or to test the limits of their new existence. From what we have learnt while alive is that we can evolve further than this stage but it is rather dangerous, we are rather difficult to track and in turn be killed and apparently our numbers is in a rapid increase taking you and 4 of these guys amongst us", Blake replied.
"What do you mean by evolving and how exactly do those guys prove our numbers are increasing rapidly?" Mugen asked as he noticed his bone like armor on his hands and feet ,which completely covered his hands and feet from his fingertips to slightly passed his wrists and feet from their soles to knees, begin to change with the bone around the fingertips receding to the knuckles and the feet's separating each individual toe and forming clawed toes.
"Well if you are taking us for example then to evolve again after first reaching this stage you would need around 1000 regular hollows or 10 Gillian Menos. I have lived and seen around 5 of our kind actually become the next stage but they did it the most dangerous way, by hunting and eating Adjuchas Menos. Even though we are basically near their level of strength most adhuchas have a squad of Gillian around them so it usually takes 3 or more of us to secure an Adjuchas to devour it and then the most difficult part of deciding who get to eat it because it doesn't count when sharing. I chose the slower path and these guys are simply remnants of the teams of those who evolved or newborns like you", Blake smiled as he explained.
"And what about the population increase?" Mugen inquired.
"You newborns are the proof of that whenever one of us is born there is a large dimensional tear between the three active which causes numerous inhabitants from here to enter both the world of the living and the soul society or in simpler terms heaven. There has been 6 tears yourself included within only a year. When I was a newborn there was at the most 1 other tear about 10 months before me. After me there wasn't one for a year and a half and I heard from our elders that their was a birth about once every 3 years or so. Our existence suddenly started back around 10 years ago", Blake answered.
"Ok, so now why have you appeared infront of me and even told me all this?" Mugen asked and awaited a his reply.
"I had hope for one of two things to happen by greeting you, either we got you to join us in evolving slowly or I wanted to ask you to take your fellow newborns and find some other path to evolve. I ask you this because I sense something different and dangerous off you and I believe you might one day lead our kind", Blake seeming eagerly awaiting this question responded.
"Hmmm I guess I can accept taking them along with me, but what will you older ones be doing after we leave? Also I keep make no promises for their survival should they choose to follow me", Mugen stated as he turned away from them and began walking.
"Hahaha! Spoken like a capable leader. We elders will continue our slow style combined we only have around 7 Gillian class or 700 regular hollows it should take around a year of so for all of us to accomplish this", Blake declared as he signalled for the 4 younger Vacío Negro, 'Amurio, Akira, Tori and Toru', to follow Mugen. The four dash after him and they all disappeared.
"Hahaha! There goes our future guys, let's get moving as well", Blake stated as he and the others disappeared from the area.
Meanwhile Mugen and the other 4 had travelled a few miles away then he stopped on the branches of some of the large trees all around. The 4 following Mugen landed near him and stared at him.
"You guys are newborns like me, but I am the youngest so tell me about your experiences starting from the oldest of us", Mugen sat down with his back pressed on the tree trunk and stated.
"That would be me, Akira Kōu, I was born about 10 months ago which is 4 months before the twins and 9 months before Amuri. In pervious life I an elderly man who die of disease and regretted stuff which keep me on earth causing me be eaten by a hollow and then became the main then feed on many until I meet the strange man and was separated as the black creature of the two beings. When I was reformed into the infancy stage it took me several weeks of starving to eat a hollow and mature. It then took me 3 months to devour all the 100 hollows needed to regain my senses. Finally I roamed around for a week before meeting up with Blake then joining them as we hunted together. I should have eaten approximately 500 hollows after reaching this stage", said Akira Kōu, the Vacío Negro standing about 6' with short buzzcut red hair, a large upper body, with iris of white pupils of red and surrounded by black eyes, a rat-like skull and bone-like gloves from his finger tips which was sharp claws to his elbows, shoes from his soles to slightly above his ankles and two large eye socket-like bone armor on his chest and back with a spine running down his back pass his tailbone and extended about 3' long.
"Hmmm so you are the eldest amongst us in all aspects huh?" Mugen said as he looked towards the twins.
"We are next right? We are Toru and Tori Numachi, we were both born at the same time, live together and died together because we were bullied to death in highschool. After we died we nearly instantly became hollows and seeked our revenge. About 2 months after we got our revenge the strange man appeared and separated us from another pair of twin we had consumed. After we became the infancy stage Blake, the old man and others found us and helped us to this stage. Together we have eaten a total of 345 regular hollows and 4 Gillian Menos after reaching this stage. Unlike the old man we hunted alone as well as together with them", stated the twins Tori and Toru Namuchi, the Vacío Negros standing about 4'5" each with bobcut pink hair the lenght of their chins, spirals of green and yellow iris red pupils in the center of black eyes, masks each with one eye hole on either the left for Toru or the right for Tori similar to horned-owl skulls in shape, Toru having a bone like glove from her clawed finger tips to shoulder on her right hand and a skeletal hand structure on her left hand, bone structures on her leftside waist the shape of a leaf, bone kneecap and a white four toed bird left foot, while her right foot and low cut white shoe below her ankles, on the left side of her chest and back was half a torso skeleton with a skeletal wing on the back part. Her sister had the the same features except on the opposite sides.
"And what about you? Amuri was it?" Mugen asked as he stood to his feet.
"Um! Me? I am Amuri Rosa. I was visiting Japan for the first time and die in an accident which lead my body to be unrecognizable and I became a hollow due to my despair of thinking how sad my family would be. After becoming a hollow I ate a crying girl's soul and the strange man separated us with me being the evil side and her the other. I was in the infacy for all of 5 hours before a hollow found me and I ate it. And I only just entered this stage about 5 days ago after eating a Menos when I was near a group of elder Vacío evolve into the Giro Vacío stage. I only just joined Blake and the others yesterday", responded Amuri Rosa, the Vacío standing at 5'9" with long waist lenght curly light brown hair, sky blue iris red pupils inside black eyes, a mantis-like skull mask with a pincer at both sides of the mouth, a long scythe like blade curled backwards to her elbows originating from the center of her palms which had space between the fingers to lock itself firmly, her hands from the wrist to fingertips also her elbows were covered in the white bone-like armor, her legs was covered from the soles of her feet which were raised about 2" up by the heels all the way up to her thighs, the armor around her torso covered only her breasts in the front and from the back of her neck to the end of her ribs on the back with two large insect-like wings coming from her shoulder blades to the back of her knees.
"So that is all of us huh? Well since Blake explained how the others evolved I have been thinking about something. Why was it all he mentioned was hollows? So I thought about something let's go to the world of the living and go sight seeing for a bit", Mugen declared as he effortlessly opened a tear in air besides him.
"You mean we can go back to the human world so easily?" The twins said as they excitedly jumped up and down.
"Well it is something I was wondering about and it seems to be rather instinctive for us to do this, what with this being my first time even attempting it. Maybe the others were too busy with their evolving to try it", Mugen continued as he stepped into the the tear to a world of completely nothing.
With each step he took the flooring materialized beneath his feet. The others seeing this all followed behind him creating their own footings as well. After walking for about 20minutes they reached the other tear which was their exit. Mugen stood at the exit looking outwards and seeing his old hometown of Karakura Town seemingly unchanged. He took his first step outside of tear and was standing midair completely instinctively and effortlessly. After the others had exited the tear behind them closed up. They all stood their in awe thinking they could not be here until after the had grew much stronger. Mugen inhaled the air and noticed the completel lack of Reishi which he had always inhaled while in Hueco Mundo.
"Hmmm I would say let's search for our meals separately, but this is basically unknown territory and I don't wish to die again unexpectedly so follow me for I smell something particularly enticing", Mugen spoke as he flew off towards a nearby abandoned building.
The others followed behind and as they got slightly closer they caught the scent Mugen had mentioned earlier.
"Hey does that mean his sense of smell is much stronger than ours", Amuri questioned.
"It means that Blake was right about him being different from other newborns. For one thing I might be the eldest of us here but the twin should be the strongest and closest to evolving amongst us but neither of us have ever actually taken down a Gillian Menos when in the Mature incomplete stage. You and him are actually the only two I have ever know so far to do so", Akira answered.
Amuri interupted, "But in my case it was a weakened Gillian. We all saw how he basically destoryed that Gillian by himself and only really got injured due to eating a Cero which is really explosive. Also what was that Cero like technique he used, I saw one of the Giro Vacío use it after they had evolved but it wasn't as well controlled as that one?"
"That would be the completely trained variation of Resplandor, Disecar. A regular Resplandor acts like how Ceros act usually but the Disecar compresses the Cero like energy and fires it like a laser to slice its target into ribbons if necessary. I have seen a total of three Giro Vacío in person and the all could use the Resplandor and each had a variation of it but only one type. Of the three Variations this one was the strongest in power but not very widespread so just about useless when hunting adjuchas and their minions" Akira explained.
Mugen suddenly stopped midair just above and inhaled again he then dropped from the sky straight down to the ground. The others were finding it hard to follow all his sudden movements so were delayed as the followed.
"There is something really stranger about Mugen from my knowledge of all the other Vacío Negros. I think that this stage for him isn't completely stablized yet", Akira commented.
"Old man does that mean something good or something bad?" the twins asked.
"Well our kind isn't really large so who knows what it means", Akira replied as they landed onto the ground.
"You guys are kind of slow. The scent is still nearby but it is faint meaning it is moving away from us. Oh but don't worry for some hollows should be coming here attracted by this scent I guess. Amuri you seem to be the fastest among follow me and we will hunt down the bigger meal", Mugen instruction as they continued tracking the scent.
Tracking the scent for around 5 minutes the two sighted three black clothed people walking ahead of them. After seeing the image of this, Mugen disappeared from infront of Amuri who was completely confused but still heading in the direction towards the people. As Amuri grew closer Mugen suddenly reappeared with his hand piercing the back of one of the black clothed people. Amuri flew in slashing the other two across their backs as soon as they became more alert from their comrade's outcry. As the other two bodies fell to the ground Mugen pulled his hand out shoving the person to the ground.
"Hahaha! It might cowardly but in survival anything goes", Mugen stated as he smirked and licked the blood on his hand off. The red part of Mugen's eyes lit up and numerous colored trails of haze became visible all around. Three colors lead to the black clothed people who laid on the ground.
"Mugen I think those are shinigami, Blake and the older Vacío used to talk about when they were hollow who they would be hunted down by people dressed in black carrying blades", Amuri informed Mugen.
Mugen stooped down at near the shinigami sniffing around when he noticed something and declared, "Hmm so this is a shinigami's smell huh, but the scent isn't exactly the one I was following. That scent is coming off these blades they are carrying."
Mugen then removed the blade from around the waist of the shinigami he had attacked and inspected it carefully for a minute. He then opened the mouth part of his mask and shoved the blade, sheathe and all down his throat.
"What are you doing that's a sword its not food?" Amuri totally surprised and confused cryed out.
After swallowing the entire thing completely Mugen let off a large surge of Reiatsu and shook his surroundings tripping Amuri off her feet causing her to land on her ass.
"What the! Is he evolving so soon after just becoming a Vacío Negro? This is strange let's try it out as well", Amuri spoke to herself as Mugen began to roar.
Amuri crawled towards the other people on the ground and removed one of their blades then ate it bite by bite until it was all gone sheathe and sword. Feeling a large increase in her own Reishi, her Reiatsu collided with Mugen's and the two of them experienced something similar. A gash appeared across the circle pattern which a blade came out completely black. Their was a white stripe in running over the iris and pupil but not covering them. They raised their right arms and gripped the blades and pulled it out and their Reiatsu dissipated.
"Grrrrr! Hahhhhhh! This is a great feeling. Its like I could lift a car or run aroung the world", Mugen softly growled and exhaled as he unsheathed the guard less blade and slashed once. He then stabbed the shinigami infront of him lifting him into the air. He then threw him into the air and with three quick slashes sliced him into three pieces Mugen then jumped into the sky and devoured the pieces then landed on the ground again.
As he landed the other three Vacío newborns arrived by following the surge of Reishi Mugen and Amuri let off. Akira saw the shinigami laying on the ground and instantly figured out what had occured.
"Did you guys eat shinigami and evolve?" Akira inquired as he walked to inspect Mugen who picked up the blade of the last remaining shinigami and ate it.
The three of them stared at Mugen with awkward look.
"The scents we were chasing these blades. Apparently it is made of Reishi and we can eat them with ease. Also it appears that if you eat the shinigami who was carrying it you can get another greater boost in power", Mugen responded to their looks as he continue to enjoy his meal.
"You guys should try this too it acutally has a delicious taste to it and it beats simply eat hollows everday. Oh but don't touch this guy he is mine to finish", Amuri advised them as she began to devour the last shinigami.
"Before we hunt down any more of these guys, there is something I was curious about so let's go back to Hueco Mundo for now. When we arrive I will explain and maybe we can meet up with Blake and his crew again", Mugen ordered and he used the tip of his blade to cut open a hole in the air. Mugen resheathed his blade and then placed it beside his waist which formed a holster and held it in place.
With Mugen leading the way and Amuri carrying pieces of the shinigami she hadn't finished yet, they all walked into the void which then sealed up.
Exactly after the Vacíos left a door opened and two new shinigami appeared from it, one wearing a white coat marked with the kanji for 3 sporting orange hair and a long blade the size of his body on his back. The other one carried had a band around her biceps which also carried the mark of the kanji for 3 wearing her hair in a bun covered in a white pouch.
"Captian Shiba it appears we were too late and the unseated members of squad 5 were defeated leaving nothing but blood trials", the girl shinigami reported to the male besides her.