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Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez staggered silently down an empty street. His body covered with blood, bruises, and cuts. He muttered to himself continuously.
"Damn Aizen, who does he think he is?"
His speech was interrupted by a spout of coughing up blood.
"First he tries to kick me out of the espada, now he kicks me out of the arrancar and tries to do me in!" "Bastard… oh well at least I got to kill that fat-ass yammy before I left!"
He attempted to let out a laugh, but only succeeded in causing his chest to explode in pain. Suddenly he felt a massive spiritual pressure behind him. He swiftly turned around.
"Who's there? Show yourself coward!"
A faint, calm voice responded, "Coward? We musn't jump to conclusions so fast Grimmjow."
Grimmjow immediately took battle stance.
"You know my name… so which are you arrancar or soul reaper?"
The voice answered with definitive sass, "I am offended that you would even consider me being a part of those worthless groups." "Tell me Grimmjow, when did you start caring who your opponent was?"
Grimmjow managed a faint smirk, "So you admit you're my opponent?"
The voice paid no mind to this query, instead It continued, "Oh! Could it be? The mighty Grimmjow is worried? Worried that he'll get into a fight he can't win?"
"Shut up!" Grimmjow shouted, he immediately fell to his knees due to the pain brought about by shouting.
"My my my, in that state I can't blame you for being cautious, being attacked by all the espada at once will do that to you."
"Hehe, If it weren't for the intervention of your loyal fraccion you'd be dead."
Grimmjow, still writhing in pain managed to object, "Ugh… How do you know this?"
"Forgive me for being cliché', but we have our sources. Oh, but don't worry you'll know everything about us soon enough."
The voice trailed off into the sound of footsteps, progressively louder, louder than any footsteps human could make. Grimmjow hoisted himself up to get a look at who this figure was. Out of the shadows of an allyway stepped forth a large black lizard-like beast, wearing a bone-white mask.
"A hollow? Grimmjow was filled with confusion, how could a hollow produce that much spiritual pressure? he wondered.
"So what are you? An Adjuchas that somehow managed to escape Aizen's sight?"
"Adjuchas?" The hallow showed the closest thing to a smile a hollow can have. "You flatter me Grimmjow, but no, I'm no adjuchas, I'm not even a menos."
Grimmjow was in shock. "Th-then how? Nothing short of a menos could hope to have a spiritual pressure that high!"
"Whoever said I'm short of a menos?" "I'm something above that level. And…" the hollow chuckled. "I'm more than capable of besting you in your current state."
Grimmjow overcame his pain and snapped to attention. The hollow lunged forth swiping with its claws. Grimmjow leaped into the air, avoiding the swipe, but no sooner had he gotten into the air when the beast sent its pointed tail careening after him. The tail pierced through Grimmjow's shoulder. Immediately after, the tail retracted and hovered right before the temporarily stunned grimmjow. The end of the tail began to glow a bright flashing red. Grimmjow saw this and immediately recognized it; a cero. The tail fired it's payoad point blank. Grimmjow fell down crashing into the earth. The hollow looked on with keen interest, after a few moments he began to step forward towards the crater. Grimmjow flew straight out of the dust cloud at the hollow and delivered a devastating punch right on its mask.
A large crack began to show immediately. Not satisfied with this grimmjow delivered a swift roundhouse to the side of the hollow's head. The hollow shrieked with pain and slashed with its claws. One of them managed to land onto Grimmjow's chest opening an existing wound. Grimjow quickly backed up only to collapse as blood poured out of his body. The hollow saw this opportunity and fired a series of ceros at the arrancar.
"Hehehe… see? I told you" the hollow taunted.
Grimmjow lay on the ground, bloodied, beaten. The hollow began to move forward towards its fallen opponent.
In his last moments of consciousness Grimmjow stared at the beast as it marched forward. The crack on its mask had grown larger, and as the hollow made its way the mask fell off.
Grimmjow's eyes widened when he saw what lurked under the mask.
"What? What are you?" he asked with faint breath.
"Hush little grimmjow, it's time for you to come with me."
And with that, grimmjow lost consciousness.