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Chapter 1: What is Happening?

Sora Inoue was a secretive man. He knew things that normal humans didnt see or realize the possibilities of. No one knew how, but he had a power, unlike all the humans surrounding him.

He could tell that Orihime Inoue, his younger sister, was special too. He had named her Orihime, because she was like royalty to him, a soft delicate flower that he would always keep safe.

Safe from what?

Their parents where abusive, more like a deadly threat. Even Sora could not understand how two cold hearts could be together, threatening to murder the things they created. Their babies. He couldn't understand.

So he ran away with his sister, trying to escape. He swore his their parents were monsters, seeking the blood of their own children's flesh. They kept searching for them.

Sora became like a father to Orihime. He started a new life with her, and helped her continue a healthy, normal lifestyle. She was important, an ordinary girl with special abilities. The bullies at school were just too foolish to see that. They could both relate to those troubles. But it was the least of their worries. It was bullies or murderers.

Orihime was still in grade school when they found them. Her hair was choppily cut because of the kids at school, making her look even younger than she already was. Orihime had just gotten home from school when they barged in.

Sora came running when he heard her scream. Her mother had Orihime by the hair. "You are going to be punished for running away! You filthy little street rats!"

Sora fought with all of his might against those beasts who had terrorized them for so long, had kept them on the run since the beginning. But they had weapons. Guns, knives, the whole deal.

Sora died that day. But Orihime didn't. Sora had power, one that someone would find impossible. He had the ability to do things that humans couldn't but others could. Like hollows.

When Sora was at deaths door, he used his hollow powers to open a Garganta. He threw Orihime in just before he died.

"S-sora..." Orihime shook with fear, her quivered gasps coming out quickly as she watched him bleed to death on the floor.

"We're givin' you a chance darlin', okay? You don't want to end up like your brother there do ya?" Her father asked.

"You..." She trembled. "You stay away!" She screamed. "Stay away!" She got hysterical, kneeling down beside Sora, covered in bruises and blood. "Stay away from us!"

"You do as I say!" The man yelled back, his rumbling voice shaking the walls and making her cower and scream. "Now you come here right now before I do to ya what I did your brother."

"No!" Orihime sobbed, tears falling violently down her cheeks. "Not without onii-chan!"

Sora slammed his hand on the ground, struggling to get up. He wrapped his arm around Orihime, holding her tightly against him. "You may just have to live without me." He choked. Orihime was shocked silent, energy getting clogged up in her chest and throat with all the bad things that she didn't want to happen but were anyway.

"You...can't win this time." Sora breathed heavily, speaking to his parents. "You won't touch her." As he said those words, he opened the Garganta

He hoisted Orihime up. "Sora...sora what are you doing?"

Orihimes breath caught in her throat.

"I'm setting you free, my little princess. So you can build your own castle."

"No sora. No! No sora what are you doing you can't!" She screamed.

Then, with a yell, he threw her in.

Fear overtook her body as she was plunged into darkness, and her bloodcurdling screams echoed in the velvet blackness.

"Sora! No!" She screamed, utterly terrified and pained.

He threw her in. All alone. Where she would live. And he would die.

Orihime couldn't stop screaming.

Light flashed before her eyes, and she felt gravity take its hold. She gasped and opened her eyes, seeing what looked like sand below her. She screamed louder, knowing for sure that she was falling to her death as she felt that horrible flighty feeling in her stomach.

Everything went black when she hit the ground, and her screams were silenced.

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The panthers slick back shined brightly in the dark as he stood proudly on his four legs, his ears pulled back and his black lips in a snarl. His tail twitched as light flickered off his skin from the moons rays.

"Eat us, Grimmjow." The voice of his comrade rang out in the night. The panther scowled. "We've eaten our three thousandth hollow. We see now that evolution is impossible."

"You have a chance, but we are hopeless."

Grimmjow snarled, turning to look at all of his pathetic partners lined up in a pity party. "You can all go die in a ditch for all I care." He walked away, his black paws padding in the sand.

"But you are our king, Grimmjow!"

"Now, as you are,"

"You aren't even worth killing."

They were silent as he sonidoed away, leaving them all to die a hopeless death.

Grimmjow knew he was a rogue beast. A monster with only the highest quality of blood, a potential to truly become the king. He didnt care, he would kill anything that got in his way. He would kill everything.

And atop the endless pile of corpses, there would be Grimmjow, shining and beautiful in his own horrid disposition.

His muscled body flexed as he clawed at the sand, moving his limbs faster as he picked up speed. The cycle would end when he decided it. He stopped suddenly, digging into the sand and making it fly everywhere. He threw his head back and howled at the moon, declaring himself king, deciding that there was nothing non-feral about his empty soul.

Orihimes eyes flew open and she gasped at the terrible roaring. It chilled her violently, making her whimper and sprint away.

Orihime saw a small cave in sight, and with little fear for what was inside versus what was behind her, she scrambled inside, trembling and cold. Once she had gotten herself fully inside the living room sized cave, she fell against a wall, crumpling to the ground and weeping.

When Orihime awoke, it was still dark. Confused and hungry, she slowly got up and walked outside. It was depressing, like a never ending dessert. A few dead looking trees were scattered here and there, who knows how. The only thing that was truly beautiful was the crescent moon that shone up above, it's moonlight providing a perfect view of her surroundings. It was as if the sky was merely painted black during the daytime.

She walked up to a tree near the cave, and saw that it was pure white. She slowly took a part of the branch and picked it off like a twig. It was a brittle substance...almost like bone.

She hugged her arms. "Where am I?" She began to cry again. "Sora where did you send me? I don't know where I am and I'm alone here...!"

She opened her eyes. She couldn't be alone. Sora wouldn't send her to such a horrible, dead place without someone to protect her, would he? She had to find civilization. She looked at the endless terrain before her with tired eyes. Her skimpy school uniform blew loosely in the wind, along with her choppy hair. Even the wind felt dead, lukewarm and hollow, like a quiet breeze.

Then Orihime realized something somewhat encouraging. She could heal herself with her Shun Shun Rikka and restore her body's supply of food, hence not starving to death. She could keep herself alive as long as she wanted to. It had always been that way.

But there was no point in living if there was nothing to live for. She had to find civilization.

And with that, she began to walk.

It had been hours, and Orihime still trudged on in her petite school flats. Her figure was slumped, and she stumbled in the thick sand. It was like a sequence, one foot in front of the other a countless number of times. She felt so hopeless in that moment, seeing nothing except pointless white and deceptive spots that turned out to be trees.

Just as she was ready to break down her knees and cry again, emotionally and physically exhausted, she heard a terrible screech. It shook her bones, and she whimpered and opened her mouth wide at the jet-engine scream. She fell to the sand and scrunched up, knowing that running to a safe spot would be pointless. She looked around wildly, uncomfortable and wired in every way.

Then she saw something that made her as white as the sand. There, in the air, swooped a monstrous beast resembling a Phoenix, all white with the wing span the length of three cars.

It looked at her with beady red eyes, screeching again.

Orihime Scrambled up and ran for her life, scared eyes as wide as saucers.

With a powerful swoop of feathers, the monster bobbed up and down in the air, gaining speed before taking her arms in its talons.

Orihime screamed wildly, kicking her legs and breathing jaggedly. The monsters grip on her flesh only excited her fear.

It took a long time for Orihime to finally get a semi-grip on her situation, realizing that a giant bird had just swooped down and plucked her up. She was lunch for an animal. Unfortunately, Inoue had watched enough Animal Planet to know what happened when a snake catches a mouse or when a bird brings a worm to her babies. She was food. She was going to get eaten.

She started breathing hard again, reaching panic attack mode. It was fight or flight instinct, and flight wasn't really an option right now.

The horror really hit her when she saw a neatly arranged grave for her. A bone nest rested atop a high mountain of rock. Tiny screeches could be heard from within. She let out a high pitched whimper.

"Ts-Tsu-Tsubaki!" Golden Light streamed from her blue hairpins. "Koten Zanshun! I reject!"

The light shot up, hitting the bird. It screamed, and Orihime did the same. The large animal flapped its one, uninjured wing violently, dropping the girl. She screamed as she fell, her stomach got that flighty feeling as she fell down to a ledge in the mountain. She fell on her side, bouncing back and fracturing her hip bone. She began to slide off the ledge. Her hands groped furiously as the hard rock tore her shirt and scraped her stomach. Finally, her small hand grabbed into a rock attached to the ledge. She yelled out in fear, whimpering. She couldn't even feel the pain in her hip, the adrenaline rush was too much.

The giant Phoenix screeched, falling behind Orihime and hitting a few rocks on the way. She grunted anxiously, struggling to pull herself up. When she finally got back on the ledge fully, she instinctively tried to stand. She crashed to the ground, holding back a scream of pain. She speedily dragged her body to the long and narrow cave at the back of the ledge. It very much resembled the old cave she had resided in, and she managed to drag herself in fully.

She began to shake, her lungs welling up and making it hard to breath. Her sobs came through I'm short intervals with gasps in between. She was barely able to call upon her shun shun rikka, but once she did, she felt instant relief as the orange glow surrounded her. Once the process was done, she still had'nt been able to calm herself. She slowly crawled with shaking limbs to the corner of the dry cave, trying not to think, not believing that this was actually happening.

Listening to: Spectrum of the Sky

-Break of Reality