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*Note: Neliel or Nel Tu is in her adult form but without any memories of her life as an espada. She is also wearing her espada uniform (which is an arrancar's uniform).
*Here's the real chapter 3. Since the poll is not going as well as I hope (which is all your fault), I am going to just go with the order of characters I had in mind. Anyway, here is Nel Tu and her adventure after coming through the portal.
*I went through at least 4 revisions for different parts of this chapter in order to get it just right. As always, review.
BLEACH INTO AZEROTH
Chapter 3: The Introduction Arc
Nel Tu's adventure through Kalimdor
Contained within the ancient continent of Kalimdor was the great basin of Mulgore, which stretched for miles upon miles in all directions as far as the eye can see. Within this basin could be found the ancestral grounds of the noble Tauren, a race of bovine-like beings with a deep spiritual connection to the world of Azeroth and the spirits and elements that govern and live within it.
Within the walls and tents of Camp Narache in southern Mulgore, two Tauren could be seen sparring. Easily parrying the thrust of the warrior recruit, Harutt Thunderhorn yawned loudly and spoke as if nothing was going on, "You over-extended your left leg on you last attack and telegraphed your strikes as if you want me to know when you're going to attack." Blocking another jab by the now frustrated apprentice, Harutt swung and knocked the blade out of the recruit's hand and while pointing his blade at his throat, continued: "You hold your blade too lightly. Look how easily I knocked it out of your hand. If I was one of those despicable centaurs, you would have been dead a long time ago." The apprentice looked down at the ground, as if contemplating his master's words. After a few moments, he looked back up, nodded at Harutt, and went off to the plains of Red Cloud Mesa to practice and improve his forms.
Sighing as he saw his newest apprentice walk away, Harutt Thunderhorn pulled his sword out of the dirt where he left it and went to put it back with the others, 'Times sure have changed since I started with a blade,' he started to think as he watched the sun set over the mesas in the direction of Thunder Bluff, 'These new adventurers have no idea what is in store for them outside the relative safety of Mulgore.' Entering the tent that was his temporary home while training rookie Tauren in the art of the blade and warrior, Harutt sat down on his cot and before closing his eyes and falling asleep, had one last thought cross his mind, 'If they see quilboar and centaur as threats now, then we are in trouble once they reach the barrens…'
If Harutt had just kept his eyes open for a minute longer, then he might have seen the flash of light and an object streak across the darkening sky and crash to his west near to what he would call, the Brambleblade Ravine.
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Up upon the mesas that Thunder Bluff was comprised of, Hamuul Runetotem had just finished described in detail the vision that he had in the morning. Sitting around and in front of him were the various druids and shaman that made up the spiritual component of the Tauren's beliefs. And behind all of them sat the mighty Cairne Bloodhoof, leader and commander of the various tribes that made up the great Tauren confederacy within the city and around Kalimdor.
Picking up his hand and scratching his chin in thought, Cairne Bloodhoof sat contemplating what he was told for a few minutes before speaking up to the gathered Tauren, "What you have told us is of great importance Hamuul. Your reputation as the great druid of the Tauren precedes you and deems anything you see in visions as important and urgent." Adjusting and rising out of his chair, Cairne Bloodhoof walked over to one of the flaps in the tent that acted as a window and continued, "However, there is once question I have. What does your vision actually mean?"
Thoroughly confused by the question, Hamuul asked, "What do you mean by that Cairne?" hoping to get his confusion cleared up and his question clarified.
Coughing to clear his lungs, Cairne replied, "What I mean is your visions are usually vague and have references to specific people and landmarks that you and the majority of the Tauren have been to and know. However your description of a skull of a ram and a human woman seems to have no reference to anything we have ever seen," Turning around to face Hamuul, Cairne concluded, "Is it at all possible that your vision could have no significance at all?"
"If it was, I would know Cairne," said Hamuul with conviction in his old voice, "I can usually tell my dreams from my visions and this case is no exception to the rule. I feel that overlooking my vision can have consequences, good or bad."
Looking around and noticing the nods of approval coming from the various druids and shaman, Cairne gave in and said, "Very well, you have never been wrong before. While I agree with your assessment, I will have to meditate on my response for a few hours in order to make the best possible course of action." Seeing the nod of agreement from Hamuul, Carine started walking out of the great tent and finished the meeting of the council by saying with a voice that many were used to following, "This meeting is now officially over. You can all go back to what you were doing before. Sorry for disturbing anything of importance you were doing."
As he left the confines of the tent and was walking back to his home, Cairne glanced to the right towards the south as he noticed a shooting star in the sky. Laughing quietly to himself, Cairne thought, 'Hmm, a shooting star. I wonder what Hamuul would have to say about that?' As he was going along the path and across a bridge connecting two mesas, many Tauren that walked by him could swear their great leader was laughing.
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As Nel Tu opened her eyes and saw the night sky above her, all she could manage to say was, "Ow…" Sitting up in the crater she created in the side of a mountain, Nel dusted herself off and started to slowly climb her way out of crater, wary of her surroundings for any ambushes. As she peeked over the each of the crater, Nel was thoroughly confused by her surroundings, while Hueco Mundo was an endless desert full of white sand dunes, her current location were fields and in the distances, were tall mesas. "Where am I?" she asked as she took in her surroundings.
Glancing upwards at the sky, Nel noticed two moons, one white and one blue, "Since when does Hueco Mundo have two moons? Am I still even in Hueco Mundo? Ichigo, what do you think?" Turning around, Nel finally noticed that she was all alone, "Hey, where is everybody?" Depressed, Nel turned back around and closed her eyes.
Grunting from behind her in the direction of the mountains took her out of her musings and depression and grabbed her attention. Turning around, she was greeted to the sight of several creatures observing the crater she creating and pointing to various things that were in the crater and in their hands. "Umm, hello there," Nel started to ask, drawing their attention. Raising her hand in a greeting gesture, Nel continued, "Do you know where I am and whom I can talk to about said location?" The creatures looked at each other and, after a few moments of hearing squeal-like noises that reminding Nel of pigs; they turned back to her and charged while drawing their crude weapons.
Surprised at the pig-men's apparent hostility towards her, Nel drew out her zanpakuto, held it in front of her with both hands, and prepared to defend herself. Even though she managed to regain memories on how to fight, she was still unable to remember how to call out her zanpakuto and many other things about being an arrancar. As the quilboar approached Nel with weapons drawn, the clouds that covered up the duel moons passed and moonlight shown down upon the plains, bathing the fields with a bluish-white glow.
The quilboar were charging towards the human female when the clouds covering the moons cleared up and the stopped and started pointing to Nel's head. The thing that stopped them and made them start squealing amongst themselves was the skull-like mask of a ram upon her head. The quilboar had never seen such a thing before and their primitive intelligence could sense a great and ancient power coming from the human in front of them. As the turned to each other and started to squabble about what to do, Nel decided that this was the best time to leave.
Looking to her left and noticing a path off in the distance, Nel started running towards it at breakneck speeds and called back to the quilboar, "If you nice pig-men don't mind, I'm going to be going now, bye!" enraging them and causing them to futilely try to chase her. However, after a few minutes, it became apparent that they weren't going to catch her and reluctantly stopped, turned around, and headed back towards their home in Brambleblade Ravine.
As Nel ran across the plains illuminated by the lights of two moons, she sensed something different, off,about where she was. From what she remembered Ichigo and his friends telling her, Soul Society, Hueco Mundo and the world of the living contained at least a small amount of spiritual particles or reiatsu. However, using what she remembered about her abilities, the world she was in now did not have any reiatsu, which was impossible. "Maybe," she started to say as she reached the path and brought her hand to her chin, "Maybe this really is a different world." Determined to find her friends at any cost, she started on the path to the east skipping as she went.
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Back at the mountains that contained the Brambleblade Ravine, the home of the quilboar in the region, a scene that could only be described as a massacre was taking place. Throughout the brambles, the bodies of various quilboar littered the ground, the walls, and were even impaled on the thorns that made up their home, all with various slashed, burns or missing limbs. Deeper within the ravine, the only quilboar still alive were the ones that Nel had encountered and they were all tied down and in the process of being tortured.
The figure laughed lightly enough so that an observer would know it was feminine, "You little creatures are absolutely fun to play with." Pulling out a bow, she notched another arrow and fired it into the knee of a quilboar, grinning as a squeal of pain accompanied it. "You thought a couple hundred of your friends could possibly stop me from getting what I want?"
One of the other quilboar started squealing to two others which got a response out of the figure, "Ha ha ha," she slapped her knee in mirth, "You think I don't know what you're saying?" As she took out three arrows and notched them all at once, she said one last thing before three of the eleven quilboars were killed: "I can understand everything that you say! Now you're going to pay for trying to lie and deceive me!" and fired the arrows, which let out a supersonic bang as they flew through the air impacted the heads of the quilboar that had squealed, knocking them off of their bodies and causing them to fly off into the back of the canyon, where they impacted with a loud crash.
For the rest of the night, anyone who ventured too close to the ravine could swear squeals of pain and anguish were coming from it until two hours later, when the figure walked back out and dusting off her bloody cloak said, "Well, I guess them really didn't know anything after all. Oh well, my master will be pleased anyway with what I did learn," and started to walk off, disappearing into a swirl of darkness and shadows, leaving no trace that she was there.
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As the sun rose in the east and started to cast its light over Muglore, Nel opened her eyes and looked from out of the few trees in the region. Climbing down from her temporary respite. She looked around and noticed a town in the distance. "Oh, a village. I bet they could help me and tell me where I am," and started climbing down the steep incline of the short mesa. Landing slightly on the damp, dew-ridden grass, Nel stood up and adjusting her white, arrancar uniform, started walking at a brisk pace towards the settlement.
The guards stood at one of Bloodhoof Village with the road that led from Camp Narache and looked up at the spring sun. From what the shamans in the village could tell, the spirits had said that this year was going to have a great harvest and they could expect similar harvest for a few years after that. One of the guards yawned and, shifting in place, told his friend guards the right side of the road leading to the village, "Even after a couple years, I will never get used to getting up this early in the day, nobody ever comes through here until around midday."
The other guard, his friend of many years, squinted his eyes and looking into the distance remarked, "I'm not too sure about that." Noticing the confused expression on his friend's face, he pointed down the road and said, "Look at that, isn't that a female human?"
"It looks like it, but why would she come all the way here by herself," he replied and, suddenly getting an idea, turned and said, "Do you think Lady Proudmoore sent her as an emissary?"
"No, if that was the case Baine Bloodhoof would have told us of her arrival." Grasping his spear in both hands, he warned his friend, "Be careful, treat her as hostile until she proves otherwise."
As Nel approached the village, she was immediately drawn to the two Tauren guarding the path. Smiling, she thought, 'Maybe I landed in the planet of the animal-people?' Laughing quietly to herself she walked up to the guards and said, "Hello cow-men, I don't know where I am. Do you think you can give me directions out of here?" While Nel said it innocently enough, the two Tauren thought otherwise.
The one on the left replied angrily, "You insolent human, how dare you insult and mock us!" Picking up his spear, he preceded to swing it horizontally at Nel, to teach her a lesson.
Nel saw the spear coming and stopped it with the palm of her left hand. "So your Tauren, then. I'm sorry." Pushing the spear back towards its wielder, she continued, "Now that that's cleared up, can you tell me how to get out of here?"
The Tauren that attacked Nel was furious now. How dare she mock him! Yelling, he went to stab Nel, when she all of a sudden disappeared. 'Where did she go?'
Looking around for the woman that disappeared, the guard on the right said, "Look! There she is!" and pointed to the east. The guards saw Nel looking over a hill and, for the first time, noticed what was on her head and started to get curious. "You there, human, what is that thing you're wearing on your head?" one of them asked, tensing his body into a position to counter any threats from the mysterious woman.
Nel turned around with an innocent look on her face. Pointing to her mask with her right hand and looking up with her eyes, she replied, "This. Oh it's my mask." Turning back around and away from the confused Tauren, she yelled back before disappearing, "Never mind, I can see the way out of here. Thanks anyway cow-men!"
It wasn't until a few minutes after Nel left that the two guards got over the insult and the instant disappearance of Nel. One of them managed to get out, "By the Earthmother, who or what was she?" The other didn't say anything, he only continued to stare at where Nel used to by. Noticing that his friend wasn't responding, he continued, " She could appear and disappear in front of our eyes at will! This is very bad, we must go warn Baine of this woman right away!" The guards then turned around and ran towards the tent that made up the central building of the village.
Nel was running as a pace where she could see everything around her without it appearing a blur. As she ran, she noticed the gradual incline of the path and saw the break in the cliffs surrounding the plains in which she landed. "That must be the way out of here," she said and whispering to herself, finished, "Ichigo, here I come," and ran off into the distance.
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Baine Bloodhoof had just received the messenger bird from his father in Thunder Bluff. Apparently Hamuul, the top Tauren druid had a vision and he had just been notified of this. Looking back towards the letter, he read over the letter again:
Baine:
Hamuul Runetotem had a vision this morning. If you see or hear of a woman with green hair and a something resembling a skull of a ram on her head, take caution, Hamuul did not see whether or not it is a being of good or evil. If you hear or see her, please inform me immediately.
Cairne Bloodhoof: Leader of the Tauren
Folding up the letter from his father, Baine walked over and put it away with the rest of his documents. Taking a deep breath, he started to head out of his tent when he thought, 'What are the odds that this vision coming true and furthermore, for this woman in it to appear here?' Letting out a light chuckle, he failed to see the two guards come running around the corner and hit him, knocking him down onto the ground.
Getting up and dusting himself off, Baine angrily asked the two nervous guards, "What is the matter with you two? What is wrong?" Not getting an immediate response, he continued, "What could possibly have been so important that you failed to notice me and then knock me on the ground?"
"Sir," one guard began, "It was a human woman." Baine immediately gave his full attention to the guard.
"What kind of woman?" Baine asked, confused the guards about why he was so concerned about it when he didn't know anything about wheat happened.
The other guard finished what the first one started, "It was a woman, a woman with long, green hair, a white uniform, and what appeared to be a skull on the top of her head." At this point, Baine was paying attention to their every word, "She appeared along the path that led from Camp Narache and had the ability disappear and reappear in a different location at will."
"Very well," Baine started to say, walking towards the main section of the village, "You can go back to your posts now. I will deal with this appropriately. However, I want one of you to send a scout to Camp Narache to find anybody who saw this woman" After the guards walked out of sight, Baine let out a breath he didn't know he was holding in. 'This matter is of grave importance' he thought, heading towards the gryphon roasts, 'I have to tell father about this right away!'
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Up on the roof of the world, the Lich King sat in wait for his the return of his scout. As she appeared in front of him, he said from behind his crown, "Faithfull servant, what did you find out about one of our, mysterious guests? Is there any threat to me or my plans?"
"No," the crouching figure said, clearly sounding like a woman. "The quilboar who encountered the woman who appeared did not notice anything unusual about her," she said. However at the last second she added, "There was one thing they kept repeated over and over again as I tortured them. They kept referring to her as some kind of ancient god of theirs."
The Lich King sat on his throne, clearly interested in what his loyal servant had told him. Folding his hands in front of his mouth, the Lich King gave another other to his servant. "Hmm, a god you say…" he started, "Perhaps it was the right decision to let you keep your free will. After all, you certainly have not let me down yet. Now, I have another task for you…"
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This chapter was really hard to write, especially Nel's first interaction with the Tauren and her unintentional insults. I made so many fixes to this chapter that it's not even funny just for you readers. Like the last chapter, I may come back and update it if I feel I let you down in some areas with my writing.
~Bahamut_Reishiki
