J.K Rowling and Tite Kubo own Harry Potter and Bleach respectively, I just stuck them together like this.
I am surprised at how well this story has been received so far, and all have to say is; Thank you for reading.
It had been several days since the run-in with those Adjuchas hollows, and the Vasto Lord named, though he couldn't remember it, Harry was bored again. While he may not like pointlessly fighting it was at least a way to break the dreary, monotonous cycle of repetitious, (metaphorical) 'days'.
He was unaware that he would soon be gaining something to alleviate the boredom, or more specifically four something's.
He was just sitting, thinking on his memories, as he felt something hit his back. He turned to look over his shoulder and saw what appeared to be a small child, dressed in a tattered green rag that covered it like a robe, who was trying to remove sand from his/her, him being unaware of its gender, teal-ish hair a good amount of which was covered by an almost cartoony looking skull.
'A child Arrancar?' He thought having heard from the few hollows that didn't either run or attack him on sight about that particular sub-group of hollows.
The child looked up at him and he smiled, not that it did him much good with a mask that covers his entire head except for a small gap at the base of his neck that let his waist length black hair dangle to the afore mentioned spot.
He looked at the child and said; "Hello, there little one. What are you doing here?" His tail slid around his body where he had just had it resting and brushed a small pile of sand off the child's shoulder, being sure to keep the blade away from said shoulder.
"Hiya! I'm Nel Tu." She, (evidently) said waving her hands at speeds even he had a hard time following. "I wath jutht playing a game of eternal tag with my brotherth." The child known as Nel said with a smile, and a slight lisp, having determined the hollow in front of her was friendly by the smile she had seen in his eyes.
"Well, where are your brothers Nel? I'm sure they'll miss you if you're gone too long." He asked raising his head and searching the local area looking for any sign of her brothers. His eyes then caught sight of a cloud of dust heading in their direction, he pointed this out to Nel and asked; "That them?"
What he saw next was surprising; emerging from the dust cloud was a giant hollow worm with what appeared to be two specks of color on its back. Nel smiled and ran towards them a bit before stopping, turning around and running back to him grabbing his hand and with surprising strength, given her size, dragged him after her.
As the worm and specks drew closer she shouted; "Bawabawa, Dondochakka, Pesche! Thtop I found a new friend!"
A skinny, insectiod masked hollow with some strands of straight straw yellow hair visible under the back of his mask hopped down from the worm, followed by a large, clown faced, and yellow wearing hollow. The two shared only a few similarities and that was their basic humanoid appearance.
"Nel-sama!" The white one, the Vasto Lord unknown as Harry was unsure which was which, shouted rushing towards them.
"You had us worried! Don'cha know!" Said the other one, close behind the first.
"Thorry I thought you were right behind me." She said with a sullen look downward, causing the two larger hollows to wave their hands in front of them, while rapidly saying things along the lines of that it was their fault for not keeping up and things like that.
"So who are you?" Asked the skinny one who during the exchange He (Harry) had learned was Pesche.
"Well, my name is..." He trailed off with a surprised look on his face. "I guess it's been so long since I last thought about it I... forgot. I forgot my own name." He stood there, a shocked look on his face now realizing just how deep his memories were scrambled, the other three present shared a look.
"Well that won't do. Don'cha know." Dondochakka said.
"Right we're gonna give you a new name." Pesche exclaimed pointing at the dragon hollow, much to his surprise.
"Huh?" He said in shock, after all he'd just met them, as he thought 'Well, I can't remember my name so a new one would probably be a good idea.' "Alright walking around without a name I can remember will do me no good. So what do you think I should be called then?"
"Let'th make a game of it!" Nel cried out excitedly. "The firtht one to gueth a name you like winth!" She gave a toothy grin to the three other bipedal hollows, Pesche and Dondochakka quickly sounding their agreement.
"Alright then, shall we ride upon your sand worm, what did you call him Bawabawa? That way we can still move around while you're guessing." He said a smile, at the excitability of these hollows, showing in his eyes which went from a dark green around his pupil and slowly faded to the characteristic hollow amber around his jet black sclera.
Nel, Pesche and Dondochakka were beginning to get frustrated. Their new friend had been riding on Bawabawa with them for a few weeks, occasionally flying off to hunt being the only one that needed to, and they had yet to think of a name that suited him. So eventually, Nel being the child she was gave him the temporary name of Midori Kuro based on his hair and eyes.
To be honest he kind of liked it, though they assured him it would only being temporary, he would respond with 'not to worry let's play a different game' which lead to what the four, five if one counted Bawabawa, were playing now, a good old fashioned game of 'I Spy'.
"I Thpy thomething... White!" Nel said taking her turn as 'spyer'.
"Hmmm something white." Midori 'thought carefully' as he rubbed his chin in a 'contemplative' fashion. "Could it be... the sand?" He asked humoring her by acting as though it had just come to him.
"Nope!" She smiled, he was actually surprised; the last... he forgot how many times had been the sand.
"The moon?" He asked now genuinely confused.
"No, it's your wings." She smiled as she pointed at the appendages in question. He smiled and was about to respond when Bawabawa suddenly came to an abrupt and complete halt.
Midori looked over Bawabawa's head and saw two figures standing in the dust and sand that was beginning to drift down from the worm's lack of motion.
One was a rather tall man with wavy, shoulder-length dark brown hair that was parted down the middle the Arrancar, because the two figures had a similar if much stronger spiritual presents to Nel, also has a faded goatee. He was garbed in a white jacket outlined in black, with the collar upturned and a black sash, worn in a manner similar to a matador around his waist tucked into which was his Zanpakuto. What were obviously the remains of his Hollow mask consisted of a fanged bottom jaw that was positioned along his neck in a manner similar a necklace.
The other figure was undoubtedly female with dark skin, green eyes, blonde eyelashes, and messy short blonde hair that had three braided locks. She wore a jacket that covered the lower part of her face downward to fully cover her rather sizable *ahem* assets. The jacket's sleeves completely enveloped her arms, terminating in black glove-like extensions at her extremities, resembling the appearance of a cat's paw. With what was probably her Zanpakuto slung horizontally across her back. The sword itself is notably broad and short and had a western-style guard.
"Who are you?" He called out to the Arrancar, spreading his wings he lightly lifted off the worm to descend to the ground between the two and the slightly shivering Bawabawa.
Tia Halibel and Coyote Starrk were both silently relieved as the stood in front of the worm hollow and the Vasto Lord they had been pursuing for the past few weeks on Aizen's orders. Halibel because it would mean she could get back to her Fraccion, Apache, Sun-Sun and Mila-Rose, which meant there was less time they might kill each other.
Starrk, well he wanted back because it meant he could sleep, even if that sleep would be interrupted by his own Fraccion; Lilynette Gingerback.
Halbel looked at the Vasto Lord as he spread his, rather impressive, wings as he alighted off the worm hollow's head and onto the ground in front of them.
He looked at them waiting for an answer to his question. "Well?" He asked glancing between the two of them. "Who are you two? I mean, two Arrancar don't just randomly show up to stop some travelers do they?" He tipped his horned head in such a way that the light of the ever present moon gleamed of the tips of his horns and casting his eyes into shadow, adding to his already rather vicious appearance.
"We are here to extend an offer from our leader Aizen. To join his army to fight against the Soul Society who would see us all dead, and create a world where hollows can live without fear." Halibel said looking at the dragon hollow in front of her; she saw his eyes had a look of interest in them. 'So he isn't another fool who lives to fight. Good I don't think I could stand another one.'
As she was saying this she also took the opportunity to examine his approximate placement among the Espada. While remembering to take into account the fact that his power would grow when he became an Arrancar. At his current level he might give Aaroniero Arruruerie a hard time and he might be able to win but, it would be close. She could tell however that he is weaker than she was when she was a Vasto Lord, so he would most likely be ranged between Ulquiorra and Nnoitra, but she would have to wait and see.
Only thing is, while she was reeling the Vasto Lord in, another Espada had other plans...
Off to the left of Bawabawa the ground suddenly exploded, launching his three riders into the air al three of the screamed as they sailed only Nel stopped as she was caught in midair, she looked expecting to see the dragon she had come to see as another brother. Only to begin shivering in fear as she saw it wasn't her newest brother but a scary old man, an Arrancar like herself, his mask fragments forming a sort of crown.
Baraggan Louisenbairn glared down at the two Espada below him, and he called out; "You brats! It shouldn't take this long to drag back one Vasto Lord! Especially one with such an exposed weakness." As he said the last part he raised Nell by the makeshift collar of her garment.
"So, hollow what are you willing to do to insure this little brat's safe return? I was thinking swear allegiance to me and only me." Under his moustache and beard there was a smirk, after all he thought he was about to gain a powerful subordinate, but in this kind of story things don't usually work out like that.
He only saw a blur and the child was gone, he looked to see the dragon Vasto Lord handing her to the skinny white hollow, and telling him and the larger yellow hollow to run. He turned only to come face to face with a rather displeased Tia Halibel.
"You fool Baraggan, I was close to making him join us. He might what nothing to do with us now." She leveled a calm glare at him, her patience having long grown thin in regards to the older hollow. He harrumphed at her and said crossing his arms; "We don't need such weakness." and with that he vanished re appearing taking the only non-Arrancar by surprise as he grasped the Vasto Lord's wrist, all present heard the bone shatter under the grip.
Midori found himself unable to move his hand as he was slammed into the ground, the bodily lifted and thrown with such force that he could not open his wings to right himself. The next thing he felt was what he surmised was a foot lodging itself into his back between his wings then he was slammed back into the ground, but the foot remained in place.
"Well brat. What are you going to do?" Came the aged voice of the hollow on his back, he tried to look as he felt a grip on one of his wings, as soon as the Arrancar began pulling Midori knew what he was trying to do, and swung at him as fast and as hard as his tail could but to no avail. With a sickening crack his wing was dislocated but the monster on his back kept pulling until there was a wet tearing sound, and indescribable pain scorched through his body radiating from a point of horrific numbness where his right wing used to be.
I thought about continueing but I felt it would be stuffing too much into one chapter that, and I wanted to see what it's like to be on this side of a serious cliffhanger.
And here you have it, much longer than the first chapter.
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And once again thanks for reading.