Title: The battle rages
Character/Pairing: The Desert Bros. (Nell Tou, Dondo Chakka, Pesh Gatish, Bawabawa)
Style: Drabble
Genre: General
Rating: G
Theme: October 22, 2006, 'a dark and stormy night'
Spoilers: For recent manga chapters (230+)
Hueco Mundo never was in complete darkness or light. It had a constant twilight, sometimes darker, sometimes lighter; generally in limbo between the two though. Nothing to differentiate between one time of the day and the other.
There wasn't any weather either, at the most sandstorms or a dark heavy drizzle.
And aside from this, the only other disturbance in the desert was the heavy cacophony of battles.
It was almost night one day (or maybe it was two, you never could tell), and although it wasn't dark enough by far it was still late enough to call it that.
And it was still dark enough to see a camp fire in the middle of the great desert.
It was around this fire the desert brothers were sitting right before Nell's bedtime. Nell's bedtime wasn't particularly early, but the small arrancar still protested that it was far too early to be going to sleep.
So they were sitting around the fire, Pesh and Dondo keeping Nell amused until she fell asleep.
Usually this worked fine, but on this night-
"BAWAH! BAWAH!" Bawabawa cried, it's cries almost drowning out the thunderous sound of the battle being waged far away.
Pesh and Dondo rushed around trying to calm the ginormous Hollow down; Nell frantically running around and trying to do the same thing only not succeeding at the task.
"Bawabawa they are not hurting you! Please calm down!" Pesh gushed, trying to comfort the large beast.
"Wah! Nell knows what Bawa means, Nell scared of being attacked too!" The small arrancar clung to its side, finally stopping running around.
Dondo gently tried to pry Nell from their pet, cajoling her into letting go.
"Us are the Desert brothers! Us shall not be frightened by anything! Us will be standing strong!" The two brothers struck their part of the pose, holding it for the two who were crying to join in.
They continued until the two that were crying noticed and joined in, jumping in and out of it and the accompanying exclamation, soon exhausting themselves.
Nell smiled up at the brothers afterwards, sleepy eyed.
"Nell feel better after that, even though Nell can still hear battle." Nell grinned and leant back against Bawabawa, both falling asleep, now oblivious to the fight being waged at Las Noches.