Nightmare Requiem
Prologue Chapter: Runaway
Chapter Length: 1,094
Total Story Length: 1,094
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Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, which belongs to Tite Kubo. This story is mine, however. Enjoy it! That wasn't a request…!
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"Oniisan! You can't!"
"But I can…"
The girl crab walked backward in fear from the giant serpent creature with the cracked mask that resembled a jackal. It was that thing she called her kin. "Oniisan, you have to realize this is wrong… Please" she protested to the masked python.
"Listen to her!" a voice called out.
The snake turned around to see a man in a black robe that was about average size for someone of twenty years of age. His hair, as black as his robe, came down to his shoulder blades and flowed freely like his red scarf in the wind. A sword rested on his hip and his hand ready to draw.
"You, again? Why can't you just go away! This has nothing to do with you, Shinigami!" the snake said angrily, his mask cracking ever so slowly by the sound of his voice.
"I have already damaged your mask; all that is left is to purify you… You have to realize that you're about to kill your sister… you already killed your mother, and I can't do anything for her except send her to Soul Society. Let me purify you and you can see her again… you do want that… right?" The black robed Soul Reaper made his argument against the masked snake.
"M-mother…" The snake said, as if in revelation of what he had done.
"You have become a Hollow. You devour human souls to sustain yourself, to stay that way. It starts with those closest to you then becomes all people in general. You've killed your mother, you're trying to kill your sister, and soon you'll kill your father, lover, and friends. It is inevitable unless I stop you now, purify you, and send you to Soul Society." The Shinigami continued to argue.
"I will… not do that…" the snake protested, almost fighting himself rather than the Shinigami.
The Shinigami unsheathed his blade, "Extend, Honjoufukushu(1)!" His blade glowed brightly and it became a chain that was taller than him. He walked to the Hollow slowly and let go of the chain's glove-like hilt. He offered it to the snake, "Purify yourself, you will be blessed in Soul Society…"
The Hollow looked at the chain. Each chain link suddenly joined together to form a large black blade. The snake touched it, his mask cracking more so now, and observed it. The Shinigami let go, giving the Hollow chance to take it in his own hands. He pressed it to his chest and began to breathe heavily.
"Oniisan!"
The Hollow turned around to see his sister, thankful that the chain in her chest still seemed to lead to the next room. "Oniisan… You're not leaving… are you?"
The Hollow looked at the blade and back at his younger sister. He extended an oversized hand to her face and brushed some of her lose brown bangs out of her face. His mask cracked and the piece over his right eye fell off.
"Oniisan…?" she asked again.
"Hitomi…" he said to himself. He looked at the blade once more then to his sister, and then to the Shinigami, who kept quiet up until now. "It is best if you leave this world…" the Black Robed representative of death said.
"I…" the snake said out loud, "I… I will not!" he said triumphantly as he tossed the black blade to the Shinigami, grazing his shoulder and pinning his robe to the wall.
"Oniisan!"
The snake quickly turned back and grasped his sister's shoulders. He neared his face to her, "Never forget me, Hitomi…"
"Oniisan!?"
The snake turned around and leapt towards the Shinigami, striking him in the chest. The Black chain blade glowed once more and turned back into a mere katana once more. The Hollow Snake then took the Shinigami in his arm and tossed him out of the half destroyed room, rendering him unconscious. He turned back to his sister once again, "Remember me, Hitomi!"
The Snake Hollow jumped out of the building to the roof of the next and began leaping the rooftops, fleeing from his former sister.
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"Hitomi…" The Hollow spoke to itself. Out of nowhere he heard a voice, "Hello."
The Snake turned around and saw a man with white hair who wore a smile on his face. He had white robes and had a sword much like the Shinigami. The Hollow Snake assumed his Identity.
"Why won't you Shinigami leave me alone!?" The Hollow Snake yelled as he rushed at the man. The snake threw a fist at him, which he blocked with his sheathed sword. "What…?!"
The white haired man made no notion of trying as he shrugged off The Snake Hollow. "Now, Hold on there… I'm not tryin' to hurt ya…"
"Then what do you want, Shinigami?" The masked prey asked his hunter.
"Do ya like yourself?"
"What?"
The white dressed man chuckled, "Look at ch'ya self… tell me… do ya like the way you look?"
The Hollow questioned his attacker. If he had visible eyes, he'd have narrowed them. He looked down to his hands and noticed that each palm of his hand was as large as someone's entire skull, his fingers more like claws. He looked at his back and noticed that his legs were one long tail coupled with three rows of small spikes. He touched his mask, tracing it, feeling the many groves and seemingly wet paint marks on it. He made a note to himself so he would remember that his mask was the shape and design of a tyrannosaurus with a spiked chin and ears.
The Hollow slumped over, noticing he still towered over the man in front of him, and said softly, "I do not…"
"How's about I make ya look better?"
The Hollow, even though he hated this man right now, couldn't help but be interested.
He thought he found light at the end of a long tunnel…
"C-can you? Really?"
"Of course! Just come with me, big guy" he said, smirking that fox faced grin of his. He turned around and, almost as if tearing the air like paper, he split the sky in half with the prod of a finger. "Lets go, I'm sure you'll like it here…" He said as he walked through the seemingly dark and eerie portal in front of him.
The Hollow looked around. After a second, he decided there was nothing better but death than to follow the man.
He slithered through the portal.
He thought he found light at the end of a long tunnel…
Boy was he wrong…
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(1)Honjoufukushu – The name of the Shinigami's Zanpakutou. It means "Relinquished Revenge"
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End Notes: Prologue, Tell me what ya' think!