The Return of El Dios Hueco; Chapter 4
Standard disclaimers apply.
Fumiko lead Chad to the stone table in the center of the diagram, and said to him.
"I'll have to remove these Kido ropes to strap you to this thing. Don't try anything." With a snap of her fingers, the ropes were gone. It was now or never. Before Fumiko could react, Chad knocked her out of the way, prepared his arms for battle, and charged towards the exit. But before he could reach it, Takuya appeared in front of him, blocking the way. Without slowing, Chad charger at Takuya, focusing all his spirit energy into his left fist, he threw an undercut at his stomach. "La Muerte!" He shouted. As his attack made contact, it left it's signature skull crater behind Takuya.
"It's sad, really." Takuya said. Chad's eyes widened in shock. "There was a time when that punch would have sent me into orbit. But that. That didn't even knocked the wind out me." In an instant, Takuya disappeared, and Chad felt a thump on the back of his neck, and passed out. Takuya grabbed him before he hit the ground, and carried him to the stone table. Once their, he shackled Chad's arms and legs, and proceeded to the nearest pillar. Fumiko, Naoki, and Kaito all did the same. Once they were all standing on a pillar, they put their hands together, as if praying, and began recited an incantation in a foreign language. Their words were in perfect unison, and as they chanted, the lines on the ground began to glow, and a magenta aura surrounded them. This aura then shot up from the pillars were they stood. The beams of light met directly above Chad, melded into a single ball of light, and shot straight down at Chad's heart. The resulting impact snapped the chain around Chad's neck, and the coin his Abuelo had given him fell to the ground. A small, black hole appeared where the beam of light was concentrating. Chad screamed in pure agony, but a moment later, the pain stopped. He opened his eyes, but instead of the underground shrine, he found himself in an open grass field, surrounded by alluvial hills
"Where am I?" Chad thought out loud. Then he hear someone reply.
"This is your inner-world, Chad." The voice was calm, relaxed, but at the same time intimidating, and it filled Chad with dread.
Chad turned around, and saw a hollow bound to a stone monolith by massive chains. He was about the same size as Chad, but his muscles were much bigger then Chad's, more toned, too. He had thick, wavy hair. The right half of his body was magenta, with black stripes, and his left half was white, with red stripes. His white hollow mask looked more like a human face with white make-up. The only part of his face that followed the rest of his bodies color pattern was his eyes. The right eye was black, with a magenta pupil, while his left eye was red, with a white pupil. But the thing that got Chad's attention the most, was that this hollow had both, the Brazo Derecho del Gigante, and the Brazo Izquierdo del Diablo,
"Are you El Dios Hueco?" Chad cautiously walking towards the restrained hollow. From a distance, Chad could feel the hollow's spiritual pressure leaking out from the chains, but up close, he realized that what he was feeling was merely a small percent. His true power was being repressed, contained by the chains.
"Yes, I am. But please, call me 'Dios.'" the hollow said.
"So, your the source of my powers."
"That's right. I have been waiting for this for many years. For my servants to release me from this prison, so I can finally do away with the World Of The Living and the Soul Society. I would have done it sooner, but somehow, you have been able to suppress me to the point of non-existence. Because of you, I was nearly killed my my own children several times. But all that's about to change."
At that moment, Chad heard a small cracking sound. He looked up and saw a small crack on one of the chains binding Dios' right arm.
"It has begun." Dios looked at Chad with an evil grin. "Enjoy your freedom now, Chad. Soon, it'll be you chained to this thing instead of me."
Back in the cave, the four members of the Siervos del Dios were still standing on their pillars, trying to maintain the beam of light focused on Chad's heart. the black hole in Chad's chest had gotten larger, and all around it's edges, two different colored liquids slowly oozed out; magenta on the right, and white on the left. As the liquid seeped out, it solidified.
"Excellent." Fumiko said, her voice filled with excitement. "The Hollowfication process has already begun. My friends, the rebirth of El Dios Hueco is close at hand."
While all of this was happening. Just outside of Las Noches' outer wall, a black tear ripped open, and Ichigo, and company, leapt out onto the white, sandy terrain.
"Well, this is convenient. We're already here." Ichigo said, glad that they wouldn't have to run all the way here like last time.
"Umm, Ichigo. You can put me down now." Ichigo looked down at Orihime, who he still had cradled in his arms. His cheeks turned red with embarrassment. He had completely forgotten he had carried her here.
"Oh, sorry." He put her down. She to had turned a shade of red.
" Come on, you two. Don't forget why we're here." Renji said. Ichigo gave an awkward-moment cough, and was about to draw his Zanpakuto, when a loud crash broke the silence, and a large cloud of dust covered them. When the air cleared, they all saw that captain Yamamoto had smashed a hole in the wall, and was already on his way through.
"Wait up, head captain." Shinji coughed, as they all hurried after him.
"I've got a fellen' the head captain's hidin' somthin'." Rose said to love as they proceeded into the darkness.
After a while of stumbling around it the dark, and smashing through walls, Ichigo and the others finally found themselves in a circular foyer that connected to several hallways. Ichigo was about to propose they split up, when they heard a woman's voice on the intercom.
"Did you have to smash your way in? We just finished doing the repairs on this place."
"Who are you?" Ichigo demanded
"My name is Yumi Kogo, former captain of squad 12."
"Where is Chad?"
"Wherever he is, you'd better find him before Genryusai does." She replied.
"Who do you think you are, lady? Addressing the head captain like that?" Renji shouted.
"Head captain? That's quite impressive. I cant say I'm totally surprised, though. I mean, defeating El Dios Hueco was bound to get you a promotion like that." While everyone was trying to make sense of what Yumi was talking about, Rukia decided to speak up.
"Why did you, and your comrades kidnap Chad? What do you plan on doing to him?
And who is El Dios Hueco you guys keep talking about?"
"Just ask Genryusai, he'll tell you." They all turned to fact the head captain.
"Head captain, what is she talking about?" Rukia asked. The head captain gave a heavy sigh, and said.
"El Dios Hueco was a hollow of incomprehensible power. More then that, he was the first hollow in history, and the founder of all hollowkind."
"'The Hollow Father.'" Uryu said out loud, suddenly realizing what it meant.
"What's that, four-eyes?" Ignoring Hiyori's jab, Uryu said,
"Before Chad was kidnapped, I remember one of these guys calling El Dios Hueco, 'The Hollow Father.' But I didn't know what it meant at the time."
"You'r correct, Quincy. El Dios Hueco was indeed the father of all hollows."
"'Was?'" Hachi questioned.
"Over a thousand years ago, before I was the head captain. El Dios Hueco launched an assault on the Soul Society. I fought against him, and barely managed defeat him. Have you ever noticed this scare?" he said, pointing at the cross shaped scare on his forehead. When nobody answered, he said, "He gave it to me, as well as most of these." He removed the top half of his kimono, showing them his scared, muscular torso.
"Ewe!" Mashiro squealed, as she covered her eyes.
"That is an interesting story, head captain." Uryu said, adjusting his glasses. "But their are two things that still don't add up; If El Dios Hueco is dead, why are these people pursuing him? And more importantly, what does any of this have to do with Chad?"
"Just before he died, Dios told me that one day, he would be reborn as a human, and his servants would revive him."
"His servants?" Shinji asked.
"At the time, six of our captains defected, and joined him in exchange for hollow powers."
"It wasn't just that. Some of us joined him for our other reasons. The hollow powers were more of a perk." Yumi retorted.
"Let me get this straight," Ichigo said to the loudspeaker, "you guys kidnapped Chad, because you think he's the reincarnation of this El Dios Hueco guy?"
"We don't think, we know." Yumi responded. Lisa scoffed,
"I'm sorry, but I just don't buy this. I mean, if such a hollow ever existed, how come we never learned about it in the academy?"
"Because." Yamamoto paused, then continued, his voice full of shame. "Because I never told anyone about him, not even the captains. I, and I alone was the only person who even knew that El Dios Hueco existed. I doubt even Aizen knew about him."
"Why did you keep him a secret?" Kensei asked.
"Because I was afraid. I've been in denial all these years. I felt that if I didn't tell anyone about him, then it would be like he'd never existed. What a fool I've been."
"Come on, this guy cant be that bad," The head captain looked at Kensei like he was crazy. "I mean, it's not like he was an Arrancar. Your making him sound like he was stronger then Aizen." Yumi's laughter could be heard all throughout Las Noches.
"Don't compare El Dios Hueco to some one as pathetic as Aizen. Their not even in the same league."
"She's right," Yamamoto continued. "despite Aizen's power, Dios was much stronger."
"Just how powerful is he?" Orihime asked. Yamamoto looked at her, and said,
"I'll tell you all something I've never told anyone. My battle with Dios was the first and only time I've ever had to use my Bankai."
"You had to use your Bankai to beat him?" Ichigo said, his voice shaky.
"That's right, and I was in my prime back then. I doubt that I would be able to defeat him again now, even with my Bankai. That is why we must find your friend, before El Dios Hueco can be revived."
"Don't listen to him, Ichigo!" Yumi shouted. "He just wants to find your friend so he can kill him himself." Ichigo was silent for a brief moment after hearing Yumi's statement. Then, he drew his Zanpakuto and pointed it at the head captain."
"Ichigo, what do you think your doing?" Rukia yelled, drawing her own Zanpakuto.
"Is that true?" Ichigo said, raising his spiritual pressure so high that the whole room began to shake. After a brief moment, Yamamoto said,
"It is not a decision am taking lightly. But I can not allow El Dios Hueco to return. It would be a catastrophe if that were to happen."
"You bastard. I should have known something wasn't right from the start." Deciding to knock some sense into Ichigo, Renji punched him with such force that he was sent flying into the wall.
"Ichigo, I understand how you feel, but you can't just point your sword at the head captain."
"You stay out of this, Renji!"
"Ichigo," Shinji began, but,
"You stay out of this, All of you." He added to the rest of the Vizards. "I now you guys only came alone to improve your hollow abilities. You don't care about Chad, so don't pretend to now."
While the group was arguing, high above them, hidden inside an air vent, Ren watched the group, with an amused smile.
That's it, he thought. keep fighting each other. Don't mind me. He drew his sword, and stuck the blade out through the grate.
"Breath, Kimagure Kin." He whispered. A thin, white smoke began to flow from Ren's sword, and drifted down onto Ichigo and the others, who were completely oblivious to it. This should to be fun to watch.
"Ichigo, Renji, please stop fighting." Orihime stepped between the two.
"You stay out of this."
"Don't you talk to her like that!" Ichigo said, taking in a mouth full of the gas. As he breathed, he began to feel light-headed. His eye-lids grew heavy, things moved slower, sounds seemed to echo, and for some reason he felt unreasonably giggly. It wasn't just him, either. Whatever was happening seemed to be effecting everyone, even the head captain.
"I'll, I'll...I can't remember what were we talking about?" Renji said, he looked like he about to pass out.
"Me either." Ichigo said. At this point, Ichigo began to see colors swirling, everything sounded distant, and he felt like the whole world was spinning around him. The last think he remembered hearing was someone saying; though he couldn't tell who, "I love you, Ichigo." Then everything went black.
"Oh, my head is killing me." Ichigo said, as he woke up. Everything was a blur, the last thing he remembered, he and Renji were fighting about something, but he couldn't remember what it was about. He opened his eyes, but everything was out of focus. He blinked a few times, and when his vision cleared, he saw something that stopped his heart. Orihime was laying on top of him, and they were both completely naked. Ichigo wanted to scream, but couldn't, and to make matters worse, Orihime chose that moment to wake up.
"Ugh, my head. No more red beam past before bedtime for me." She said, groggily. She paused, felt what she was laying on top of, and looked up at Ichigo with an expression of shock, and fear.
"AHH!" They both screamed, as Orihime got off of Ichigo and scampered into a corner.
"What's going on here? AH!" Remembering she was naked, Orihime covered her chest, turned to the wall, and crouched down. Ichigo found their clothes in the corner. He threw Orihime hers before putting on his own.
"How did this happen? I cant remember anything?" Ichigo said as he dressed, his voice full of panic.
"That's called 'Blacking Out'." They turned, and saw a man with long, dark hair sitting on a colapsable chair, with a bowl of popcorn.
TO BE CONTINUED
I hope you liked it. I had intended to put this up before Holloween, but I got sidetracked; I have got to get rid of my YU-GI-Oh cards. I hope you liked the twist at the end. I debated wether or not to put that in. This isn't an Ichihime fic after all, but I couldn't resist, and I thought it would be funny. I have also been debating on the ablities of my OC's Zanpakuto. My brother said that Ren's Kimagure Kin (Freaky Fungis) though useful, wouldn't be very cool, but I just fell in love with the idea. It's effects are suposed to be similer to Marijuana, but since I've never done it before, I have nothing to compair it to. Pitty it's Bankai wont be nearly as pleasent. For the record, the translator I use to get these names includes a buch of punctuations marks (for a lack of a better word) in the words that I don't understand, so I wont be including them. I appologies for any typos. Please read and review. Below is a list of my OC's Zanpakuto and what their names translate to.
Hebi Dorobo; Snake Thief
Yasei No Hachidori; Wild Hummingbird
Kimagure Kin; Freaky Fungus
P.S. If anyone knows what the best time of the week to post new chapters is, please tell me.
