"What was that?" Lex asked me.

"That was my stomach. I'm hungry and I have to pee. Don't they know that we have to eat…and go to the bathroom? I don't know why they lock our door. I mean where do they think that we are going to go?"

Just as I finished my statement Ulquiorra and Szayel walk in the door. We both got up off of our new bed and walked toward them.

"Aizen has requested that you join us for dinner. He usually just makes someone bring you a plate of food so you should be grateful." Ulquiorra stated.

"Okay, well that's cool and all, but can we make a pit-stop first?" Lex asked.

I assumed that that was for my sake. They both just looked at us. Szayel looked a little puzzeled and Ulquiorra, well he looked that same as always. I guess they didn't get the 'code-names-for-the-potty' memo.

"We have to use the restroom, if that's not too much trouble?" I said coolly.

They both just nodded and we proceeded to, hopefully, the bathroom.

We arrived at a small door, much like the one that went into the closet. It had a simple sign the said females on it. Lex and I walked into the bathroom, not really sure what to expect. It looked more like a school locker room. I was happy about this. There were three stalls and another door that lead to the showers, indicated by the sign.

"Thank God!" Lex moaned and went directly into one of the stalls. I followed suit.

We continued down the hall until we reached a large archway. Through it, there was a long, slick, black, table. There were only four empty seats. Others sat there that I had never seen. I guess that these were the other people that Grimmjow had been talking about. Aizen stood up from his seat at the head of the table. Beside him sat Gin and another man that I hadn't seen before. He was black and long braids, he appeared to be blind. Aizen gestured for us to come to him, which we did. The obvious leader of this little group gave a curt nod to the men behind us. The two went to go take their seats. It felt strange, them not being near us. I could tell Lex felt the same way. Her quickly scanned to see where Ulquiorra had sat down. Aizen turned to us and began to speak.

"You two are very lucky that you have some interesting powers that I am curious about, otherwise you would probably be dead by now. Before we eat dinner I would like you to show my comrades and myself what exactly you can do. Alexandra, I'd like to start with you. I want you to line these ten arrancar up by who is the most powerful. Then, I want you to go through and tell me what they can do. Is that clear?"

Lex nodded her head and began to walk around the table. She made two complete circles before stopping. My heart was pounding in my chest. I knew that Lex could do this, though at the same time it worried me. Lex pointed to the largest man at the table.

"He should be at the front."

The big guy stood up and stood near the archway. Lex continued this until everyone was in the line. It was the big guy first. Then a man who had, until recently, had been sleeping in his chair. Then there was an old guy. Next to him was the only woman that seems to be in this place, besides us. Next was Ulquiorra. The fifth was a man creepier than Gin. He had a really scary grin on his face. He wore an eye patch and a weird, white hood. It made him look like someone had drawn a face on the bottom of a plastic spoon. He kept giving me this weird look. It made a chill go down my spine. Next there was Grimmjow. Then there was a huge black guy, but he wasn't as big as the first. Szayel came next, followed by a man whose face I couldn't see because of this giant mask. They each stated their names after Lex got them into order. I tried to remember all of their names. It went: Yammy, Starrk, Baraggan, Tia, Ulquiorra, Nnoitra, Grimmjow, Zommari, Szayel, and then Aaroniero. Lex walked up to Yammy and began telling their powers.

"You actually have the strongest release form. You get stronger and larger the angrier you get." Lex paused before going to Starrk. "You have a gun that shoots something. I don't know what you call it, but it gets pretty massive. Though, it's weird the gun isn't on you like a zapakuto…it's just somewhere else." She gave another pause. "You just make everything die with you touch." Lex quicly stepped away from him and headed on to Tia. "You have a water based power but it's weird, I kind of see a shark in there, somewhere." She gave a quick smile to Ulquiorra. "Yours is like…a bat. You also have a second release form. I guess it's kind of like a bankai?" My heart skipped a beat when she approached Nnoitra. "It's a large soul cutter. It looks to two crescent moons stuck together. You also seem to have a good defense too." I breathed a sigh of relief as she went to Grimmjow. "Umm…panther?" That was all she said to him as she went to the next man. I could tell she wanted to get this over with quickly. "Everything you see becomes, I'm not sure how to say it, but pretty much useless." She gave Szayel a really funny look before she spoke. I didn't know what to make of her expression. "You have, like, voodoo dolls?" Finally she reached the last one. "You use souls that you have devoured and take their shape. I guess that would be kind of defensive."

She turned to look at Aizen. I anxiously waited to hear what he would say.

"Very good Alexandra, everyone may take their seats again, including yourself. Now, onto you Caralynne, I don't think that I will make you see everyone's painful death. I will allow to just do three. Ulquiorra, Szayel, and Grimmjow, come up here please. You just have to tell me how these three died. Understood?"

I wrung my hands together waiting for the three to arrive. I decided I would do Szayel first, seeing as I already knew what had happened. I approached Szayel and felt my cheeks begin to flush. I couldn't tell why. Maybe it was because I was nervous in this situation. Just stating how someone's life ended seems a little, well uncomfortable. That or it was just Szayel himself. He was pretty good looking. I wasn't the kind of girl that just approached a guy. No, that was Lex. She was currently scooted toward Ulquiorra's chair watching me with a worried expression. I took in a deep breath and began.

"Someone, a man who you worked for, poured a bucket of chemicals on you then cut you up with a scalpel." Szayel furrowed his eyebrows and looked at his shoes. There was no way in hell I was touching either of the next two guys. I didn't want to see it in detail. I was about to tell begin telling Ulquiorra's untimely demise, when Aizen interrupted me.

"Isn't it true that if you touch someone it's much clearer?" I nodded in agreement. "I want you to do that. I have been informed that you have already done that to Szayel."

I shot a look at Szayel. "Tattletale" I thought to myself. I reached out and put my hand on Ulquiorra's surprisingly muscular shoulder. The image wasn't as gruesome as what had happened to Szayel; it was more tragic.

"Umm… you and your sister were running from something. I'm not sure what it was, but it caught up to you. You jumped in front of your sister. You were shot. She dragged you into the woods somehow. You were dyeing and she was really scared. She killed herself with a knife. You died minutes later." I could feel his pain as he had to watch his sister die. He had given up everything for her and now it didn't even matter. As usual Ulquiorra gave me that blank stare. I continued on to Grimmjow. I touched his big bicep and closed my eyes. This was actually like something out of an action movie. It fit Grimmjow, though.

"You were in a bar fight."

Grimmjow looked mad. I didn't know what about that made him so angry.

"I DIED IN A DAMN BAR FIGHT!"

"Oh…uh…n-no…y-you won, but the guy you killed was some important mafia person. When you killed him, you were kind of, assassinated…by the mafia."

Grimmjow seemed to be pleased with this. I looked to Aizen for approval.

"You three can go sit down. You did very well Caralynne. You may go sit down now. Dinner will be out shortly."

L&L

I did what I was told. I found a seat between Szayel and Starrk. I stared at my hands and began to pop my knuckles with my thumbs.

"That's a nasty habit, you know?" Szayel stated.

"Yea, I know, I've tried to stop…I only do it when I'm nervous." I said, still looking at my hands. He raised his eyebrow at my last statement. He placed his hand over mine for just a moment.

"You did fine."

Dinner arrived in a moment's time. We were served cream of broccoli soup and grilled chicken. The 'waiter' of sorts asked me what I wanted to drink.

"Umm…do you have Pepsi?"

"We have Coke."

"Oh, that's fine."

I looked up at Lex who just shook her head. She knew as well as I, that Pepsi was way better. She was playing around in her soup. It looked like she was cutting up her chicken and putting it into her soup making a picture. I decided to do the same. I had finished my masterpiece of a chicken cat. I eyeballed Lex and motioned to my bowl. Lex held up her fingers, counting down from 3-2-1. We both slid our bowls with our right hands sending them flying across the table. I successfully stopped Lex's bowl, while Ulquiorra had to assist Lex with mine. Everyone got really quiet but we didn't notice. I looked into Lex's bowl and immediately began to laugh. She had made an Oddish from Pokémon. I looked across the table and she was laughing at my cat. Szayel peered into my new bowl.

"What is that?"

"It's a Pokémon."

"…"

"It's a TV show, usually for little kids, but we still watch it."

Szayel just stared at me. I looked back at Lex who was starting to eat her soup. Ulquiorra was studying her intently. Maybe he thought it was strange that she was eating my soup, or the fact that there was a cat in it. When we were done with dinner dessert began to come out. It was cupcakes surprisingly. I shot up out of my chair, but before I could get any farther Szayel grabbed my wrist.

"Where are you going?"

"To tell Lex something, I'll be right back…I promise."

He eyed me suspiciously but let go. I dashed over to Lex and whispered in her ear.

"If you complain that this isn't homemade butter cream icing, I swear that I will throw one of those cupcakes in your face. Not everybody can make icing like you and your mom."

I ran back to my seat before she could say anything else. Lex's mom made cakes for a living a Lex was really talented as well, but she was really finicky about her icing. If it came out of a can, she hated it. The cupcake I got was light pink. I held it up to see if it matched Szayel's hair. He just glared at me and ate his cupcake. What was weird was that they were all eating them with forks. I guess me and Lex's manners weren't up to par in this place. I looked at Lex, who just took the first bite of her cupcake. She made a face and put it back down. She didn't say anything so no cupcake was in her face, yet. Ulquiorra whispered something in her ear.

"Uh, the icings gross, do you actually think that it is good?" Lex started. "And furthermore there are tons of air bubAAHH! What the hell!"

Lex began wiping pink frosting off of her face furiously. I simply shrugged my shoulders. I had warned her.

"Oh no you didn't!" Lex squealed. She was trying to sound angry but she was trying so hard not to laugh. No one else spoke. They just stared. I don't think they were used to people throwing cupcakes. Szayel turned to say something but before he could get the first word out…SMACK! Another cupcake missile had been launched and hit me right between the eyes. I wiped the orange icing off of my face. I was biting my lip trying to muffle my laughter. I just looked at Lex who looked at me. Then we both let out a fit of hysterical laughter. I was already crying and orange mess was running down my face. Ulquiorra and Szayel both stood up in unison.

"I think they are finished." Aizen said coolly.

Gin was trying not to laugh. Well at least he had a sense of humor. We were allowed to go wash up on the way back to our rooms. We began to walk in silence back toward our room.

"It was just a joke…" I mumbled quietly.

"It was rather funny." Szayel said.

"Then why do you seen mad?"

"We didn't know how Aizen would react so we just got you two out of there."

"So…you're not mad?"

"No."

Lex pulled on Ulquiorra's sleeve. Until now I hadn't really looked at his hands before. His nails were painted black…weird.

"You're not mad are you Ulqui?" Lex asked.

"No and do not call me that."

"Ok."

That was going to be hard; Lex had nicknames for everybody. We got to our room and said our goodnights, well we said goodnight, they just nodded.

L&L

Lex and I climbed into bed. We were wearing our undershirts and panties. I don't think Grimmy would be bringing us in pajamas anytime soon. We snuggled under the big duvet.

"I miss my mom." I said.

"Yea, me too, I know me madre is worried."

"I hope they are okay."

"…yea me too…I can't sleep without my Zune."

"I know…its weird there is an electrical outlet here."

"What do hollows have that they need to plug in?"

"I don't know…toasters?"

"Laptop."

"iHome."

"Blender."

"Cell phone charger."

"Nightlight."

"Printer."

"DVD player."

"Space heater."

We continued this weird twist on counting sheep until we were both extremely sleepy. We had both stopped giving out ideas and where about to fall asleep when I lightly nudged Lex with my shoulder. She gave out a groan in response.

"Lava lamp"

Lex kicked my foot in approval. Thus, ended our first day in Hueco Mundo. This was defiantly going to be an adventure.