Alrighty then, I'm back, in case anybody was wondering, I'm busy with exams so I might be a little slow. This chapter is still a human version, I'll move on to hollow from the next chappie since this is in chronological order.

Chapter2-Death

Bella was not having a nice day, with all her flashbacks. All they did was to give her an headache. She entered her house, it was of average size since both she and Carlos made and average salary even though she sings so well it still doesn't pay that well but she just does it because she loves singing.

Her life is so full of ups and down that she doesn't know when it's going to end. Bella looked out of the window as she thought about Carlos's funeral…

Flashback-Carlos's funeral

It was a sad day, there wasn't many people at the funeral because Carlos wasn't very social and preferred to stay at home instead of going out with friends, like their first meeting at that club where she sang. Bella thought that just made him more sensitive to small details so she admired that in him.

First the brother then the sister, Carlos' sister Lily died just a year later by falling out of a tree. Bella felt guilty, because she blamed herself for not taking better care of Lily but at least Carlos and Lily were together now.

After the coffin was in the ground, the funeral was over and Bella slowly left, not shedding a single tear at the funeral, she just didn't have any more after her mother.

Flashback end

Halibel sighed and finished making a sandwich and then went to the tv-room and turned the tv on. She flipped through the channels while eating her sandwich. Nothing interesting, a documentary, news, a kiddies show, a wild-west movie. Bella smiled, Carlos always loved the wild-west movies. He used to say that no matter what he did, if he saw a wild-west movie on tv he would stop what he was doing and watch the movie.

Bella didn't know what was so interesting about these types of movies, it was an ancient movie and all it involved was wild-west gunslingers with twitchy fingers and scruffy horses and the girls were often damsels in distress.

Bella snorted, if anything, she can always stand up for herself, she would make sure that she never became one of those so-called damsels in distress. Not if she could help it.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of crying. "Oh shit, Santiago, is he awake already?" Santiago was her and Carlos's baby, Bella decided to give him the name she liked so much back when she was a child.

Santiago was eighteen months old now and a lovely young baby boy with Carlos's scruffy hair and Bella's vivid green eyes. Bella quickly made a milk bottle ready since Santiago was probably hungry.

After she raced upstairs, she made for Santiago's room and gave him his bottle. While he drank, Bella recalled his birth.

Flashback-The birth of Santiago

It was a cold winter day and Bella was in the hospital, the same one where her mother died. Even though it was a place of many bad memories, Bella couldn't take a chance, Santiago came first.

She was worried that something would go wrong, but when she saw Santiago, all her fears melted away at the sight of the beautiful baby boy.

She could see that he was a combination of her and Carlos, it's a pity that Carlos never got to see his baby, he would have smiled lazily at her but she would see right through him and know that he was ecstatic.

Flashback end

Bella quickly pulled out of her thoughts when she saw Santiago yawn. "You're right little one, it's time for us both to go to sleep, early bed, early rise right?" Bella tickled Santiago's stomach and left the room.

After she got to her own room, she put on her pajamas and went to bed.

Bella realized that she couldn't shake off the feeling that something really bad was going to happen soon, but what? She didn't do anything wrong. She slowly sank into sleep wondering if she didn't forget something.

Later that night

"Shit!" Bella shot upright as she suddenly remembered what she had forgotten. She never locked her door since she was daydreaming. "Dammit, how could I have forgotten that! I hope nobody…-"

But a sound downstairs confirmed her worst fears. Someone was in the house!

Bella's first thought when she heard someone coming upstairs was to hide or better, lock herself in her room… But she couldn't! Santiago was still in the other room.

Bella realized that Santiago's room was the first room upstairs, the stranger was going to look in his room first. She had to distract him, she had to do something. There wasn't time to call the police.

Bella acted by instinct.

She pushed her lamp of the table so that a loud thump could be heard. This would definitely call the thief in her direction.

Her thoughts were confirmed as she heard footsteps coming in her direction. She quickly looked around for something heavy to hit him on the head with when he came through the door.

But she was too slow, when Bella looked up, she looked straight into the barrel of a gun.

"You're just a girl, Good, if you behave I won't shoot you." The thief growled roughly pushing Bella against the wall and tying up her hands.

Bella racked her mind for ideas, the most important thing was to keep the thief away from Santiago. There was no telling what he might do if he notice the baby so Bella was being extra helpful to keep the thief busy.

"I have jewels in my cupboard over there, look in my handbag, there's some money. I'll give you the combination to my safe, there's a weapon and more money…" and so forth

"You're a good girl, probably because you know I won't hesitate to shoot you, just tell me one more thing… is there anyone else in this house? Surely you have a husband or something."

Bella knew she couldn't tell this heartless man about her baby. "No, I live here alone, my husband died a year ago and I don't have any children. I'm too busy for children."

"Good" the thief growled, "Because brats are annoying and a man could actually fight back." He heaved everything in a bag. "Are there any good stuff in the other rooms, the first one was closed so there must be other stuff."

"No, that is just a storage full of old dusty things that I have to throw away. I kept all the most important stuff in my room and you took it."

"All right then, I don't see anymore good stuff so I'll go now. You just behave and wait till I'm gone before you move or else I'll just shoot you."

Bella sighed in relief. It seems that Santiago would be safe but then she realized that she heard…crying…Shit! It's Santiago, the thief is going to hear him.

"What the hell! You lying bitch, you have a brat here. His crying is going to alert somebody, I'll have to shut him up…for good."

At that moment every muscle in Bella's body jumped to action. She jumped at the thief even with her hands tied behind her back. She crashed in him, bit him, kicked him. Did everything she could to hurt him.

There was a hefty struggle, the man was caught off guard so he was stunned for a moment, but then he regained his senses.

Bella heard a gunshot.

Everything went black…

To be continued…

Arrancar encyclopedia

Halibel peeks into a cupboard to make sure that Gin was tied securely. "All right everybody today's arrancar encyclopedia will be about Segunda Etapa!"

"Segunda Etapa is an arrancar's second release form, in other words, its bankai in shinigami terms and would probably be our strongest attack. So that actually means that we have been fighting the winter war with our shikai, I wonder how the fights would have turned out if all the espada had segunda etapa.

Damn you Ulquiorra, you should have told us instead of keeping it a secret."

Somewhere else in Hueco-Mundo Ulquiorra felt a sudden sense of impending doom, he decided to go and investigate and left for the room that Halibel was in.

"Anyway, where was I? I'll just explain using Ulquiorra as an example," Ulquiorra enters the room, "oh speak of the devil…literately, Ulquiorra thank you for coming as a guest in the arrancar encyclopedia"

"What's going on, are you telling them about me? Anyway, where's commander Ichimaru? I thought this was his type of thing?"

Halibel peeks at the cupboard guiltily. "Gin's…a little tied up at the moment so I'm taking over for a while. As for the topic, it's not exactly you… just something that you've forgotten to mention probably…"

Halibel glares evilly at Ulquiorra and he feels the sense of impending doom returning, it's almost as bad as the true despair from his segunda etapa…could she… have found out?

"Yes Schiffer-san I'm talking about your Segunda Etapa, you've got some serious explaining to do." Ulquiorra sweats "Uh sorry Halibel, I uh forgot."

"Very wrong answer, I want to see it for myself, then I'll be sure to train very hard to achieve it!" Draws her zanpakuto "Let's see who's stronger, my resurrection or your Segunda Etapa. Attack Tiburon!" Halibel is enveloped in a cocoon of water and cuts herself out, she is now in her released form.

Ulquiorra-"It seems that I have no choice. I will fight you. Bind Murcielago" Ulquiorra transforms in his bat form "Segunda Etapa" He turns in the form of true despair

A couple of minutes later

Halibel is back in her regular form and wipes her hands standing next to a mangled Ulquiorra. "Not bad, it was a quite amusing attempt, better luck next time." Then she noticed the state of the area they fought in.

Halibel-"Oh shit, Aizen is going to crap on us for this"

Ulquiorra-"No kidding"

Aaand cut, that's a wrap, thanks Ulquiorra, you can go to the 4th division now.

Now we'll move one to Halibel's hollow part. Now this is quite simple, I already have the next chapter ready. If your reviews are good enough, I'll be tempted to actually post it, if not… well. Who knows what happens then, comprendo? I repeat, I'm running out of ideas and there'll be tons of chapters for this story so please give me ideas for the arrancar encyclopedia.

Ultrawolfie out!