First off I would like to thank xLilim for reviewing not one, but all three chapters so far. It got me so pumped I'm going to try to finish this chapter really soon. Hahah thanks again!
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*~Graceful Melody~*

My doppelganger came straight at me, 'fight me,' she commanded.

I did not comply though, I dodged as much as I could, though that wasn't a lot seeing as my right arm and cheek got nicked.

'Fight!' She screamed this time and brought her blade down so quickly I was barely able to dodge.

'No!' I responded with the same tone and harshness. She hesitated for a slight second allowing me to take a hold of her sword's hilt.

'You do not have the right to touch this sword. I have not deemed you worthy,' she sneered with more venom than a black mamba.

'It's my sword to begin with!' I yelled to her.

When both of us calmed down, I stared right at her; 'then what do I need to do?' I asked earnestly.

When no answer was provided, I tried again, 'I was able to gain and train my power with Jūryoku because we made a connection mentally, connections apparently are key and I wont fight until we can achieve that.'

'Fight me, sword to sword with your all, we will connect if you manage to defeat me,'her eyes became soft while saying these things and I became relieved, 'go rest, before I change my mind and whoop your ass right now.'

She threw in a small smirk before I nodded and dematerialized from my inner world; heading off to a well needed sleep.

*~Narrators Verse~*

"It has been decided," Head Captain Yamamoto said regally, "when this girl finally wakes, she will be staying in division 11 with Captain Kenpachi Zaraki and Vice Captian Yachiru Kusajishi, under the supervision of the prior."

Several gasps filled the room and a few started to argue, Yamamoto just dismissed them and called, "that is enough, this meeting has concluded."

'For some reason, I figured that would happen,' Hitsugaya thought to himself when he exited the meeting room with Matsumoto in tow.

*~Graceful Melody~*

'Call me Ella,' was what I got as I rematerialized in my inner world.

I barely had any time to draw my sword as Ella began to attack.

I suppose I will fight as long as I can without releasing my sword, try to wear her down. Attacks came from everywhere, left, right, above, behind but my speed seemed to increase the more I became accustomed. Eventually I was swinging my own attacks and not just blocking.

Ella smiled a sadistic smile, 'you've adjusted right on schedule, time to turn it up a notch.'

Ah, crap.

Hm that seems to by my favorite phrase lately, no mind wondering, pay attention Gracie! I mentally scolded myself. It was definitely harder to catch up to her and adjust this time around but I managed to do it. But not without getting cut a few times by Ella's merciless swipe. I was beginning to breath heavily, but the good sign is; so is Ella.

'Consume all, Burakkuhōru. Now witness the release you will learn with my additional powers.'

With no other choice, I called, 'bring upon the weight of the world, Jūryoku.'

My swords diamonds lit up and my clothes changed into the light blue kimono. Ella's clothes changed as well, into the same kimono as myself. Just some of the stars were filled up, though they were in the shape of a vortex and a dark blue that was almost black.

My swords coloring changed slightly as well, where the swirl near the hilt is; the same dark black-blue color was present instead of the normal sky blue.

'This should be a good one,' Ella said sadistically, as she reared herself to attack.

Though being, somewhat, used to her movements already; I could tell she was going to jump to the right and slice upwards. Though as if she could tell that I knew what she was going to do, she quickly shifted her position and attacked from the left though still with an upward swing.

I blocked and countered, slowly increasing the pressure upon her. Although it appeared to have no effect, I realize now that looks can be deceiving.

'Ugh, that's it!' Ella exclaimed before she seemingly disappeared.

I heard a small noise to my left, as I turned Ella reappeared, 'what the? How did you?'

'Due time, child. All in due time,'Ella continued attacking with the weird shunpo, each time she appeared a slight sound was made, that seemed to be the weakness of this method for attack.

I attacked and was going to graze her right side as she stuck her sword out and disappeared, I paused; waiting for the noise. I heard it from above and before I even could comprehend I shunpo'd above her exiting form and kicked my feet down. I landed on Ella's back and she fell to the ground, I applied the gravitational pressure Ry showed me, even heavier to keep her there and the help me get down to her level faster. I landed standing up pointing my sword right at her neck, ready to decapitate if need be.

'I see that you have defeated me. Very well, I believe that you are worthy of the sword and my power. Call what I called before to release. With this power you only have to call it one time, and the little 'disappearing act' you saw earlier will always be in effect, but for any other attack, the incantation is recuired.'

'Consume all Burakkuhōru.' I could feel it, the power flooding through me. It felt good, but I also knew that I could not abuse any of it; my morals would not let me.

'So Ella, what does burakkuhōru mean? I know that jūryoku means gravity, does your have to do with space? What about the vortex on your kimono?'

'Very observant, Graciela. I am beginning to like you.'

'Ph? Yu didn't like me before?' I joked.

'After you rest I will show you what my true powers are,' so she is telling me what I saw before wasn't even her true power? That would make sense as to why only two stars lit up, instead of three like with Ry.

'But burakkuhōru does mean something. It means black hole, that is what the vortex on my, and now your, kimono is. That is also the reason you have the black hole off to your left, after all three of us are assembled those will be the places you are most likely to find us.'

'Cool,' was all I could manage to say. I finally realized how tired and worn I am and dematerialized before the smarting wound could cause me any more pain.

'Hey miss Ella!' I called.

'Why are you so loud? Oh, and obnoxious?'

'I only get like this when I'm excited, you should take it as a complement.

'How exactly would that be a compliment to me?'

'I'm excited to train with you!' I pointed out even louder; just to purposely get her annoyed.

'Whatever,' Ella dismissed, 'but I am going to show you what I actually am, after a day or so of training; basically whenever I deem you ready, we are going to fight again. I will not tell you the outcome if you lose, but if you win you are fully in control of my powers.'

'Okay… but the cryptic message definitely helps oh so much,' I rolled my eyes sarcastically, 'honestly I don't get it. What's with you guys and cryptic messages?'

'Imbecile.'Ella muttered under her breath.

'What was that?'

'Nothing!'

'I thought so,' I mumbled the rest under my breath in fear of being beaten, 'Ms. Bipolar.'

'What was that?'

'Nothing, nothing. Nothing at all.'

'I thought so.'I laughed as Ella suppressed her own, 'okay, enough nonsense, now; we train.'

As if on queue Ry appeared, 'hey guys!'

'What are you doing here?'Ella sneered.

'I only wanted to watch. I love seeing your release!'

'Okay…' Ella and I said at the same time.

'Moving on…'

When Ella released her form I could sense her- our really- spiritual pressure building, as if she was preparing for something. When her spiritual pressure became almost unbearable, Ella reached towards the back of her head and pulled forward. There was a blast of raw energy and it increased by at least tenfold. When I regained my composure I was amazed at what stood in front of me.

Ella completely changed, her kimono now all the dark black with the black hole the light blue it used to be. Around her waist, a pure white belt was added, greatly contrasting with the dark colors. The sword was the same, but a dense energy spiraled around it, though the dark color of it was barely noticeable.

I looked up and noticed that her hair was different. Her trademark hair style stayed the same, but not her hair was longer; down at least to her hips. What dramatically gave Ella a mysterious edge are the side bangs that grew into place. Behind those bangs, it looks like a white ribbon was acting as a head band.

I stepped towards her and on closer inspection I realized that the 'ribbon' wasn't a ribbon. Extremely perplexed, I went over to her and touched it. Bone, bone hard as steel. But it looked like the top of her head wasn't the only place where the bone appeared. As I moved around her in a slow circle, I noticed that the bone continued down from the top of her head and split in two at the nape of her neck; which is also acting as a pony tail holder keeping the pigtails in place. There were small dark blue markings along the top of the bone closest to her bangs of small swirls; I am presuming that they are also to represent black holes.

When I finally finished observing I stood in front of Ella and posed, 'what are you?'

'I am your 'dark side' as some would call it. Basically I'm your inner hollow.'

'Hollows are?'

'A soul that doesn't receive soul burial, basically. But there are different classifications, I believe I would be classified as vasto lorde, but I cannot be sure.'

'Wait, then how are you in me? Ry said she was a spirit in soul society, is that where you came from as well?'

'No. Hollows are from Hueco Mundo. To be honest, I have no idea why I was summoned to become a part of you. Normally people go through hollowfication to become a vizard, what you would be classified as. I believe it would have something to do with you being the el-' Ry cut off Ella by placing a hand over her mouth.

I couldn't tell if Ry said anything to Ella but she was issuing a warning with her eyes. This is actually the first time I have seen Ry deadly serious.

To put it simply, this side of her scared me.

When Ry removed her hand, Ella spoke bashfully, yea Ella was being bashful; what has this world come to?

'Sorry about that. I almost gave away some top of the line information.' I shot her a questioning glance, but shrugged it off.

'So how can I do this?' Whoa, deja vu.

'Well I need to dematerialize so that you can harness the power. It should take you quite some time to get it so don't get frustrated and give up. If you want to rest now then go ahead, but when you come back I wont be here, Ry will supervise for you.'

'Okay, can do. But how do I make the transformation?'

'Like you said before, it's all connected.'

Today is the third day I've been at this, according to Ry; but still no break through. In my frustration I have called out to Ella a few times but got no response other than Ry telling me to calm down and that I have to do this on my own. I still have no idea what she meant by 'it's all connected.' Well of course it is! We are all one person, well one mind seeing as we all share this inner world. I picked up my sword and tried again, I built my spiritual pressure, after of course releasing both Jūryoku and Burakkuhōru. When my spiritual pressure reached its peak I reached behind my head and pulled forward. Like the first trillion times I tried producing the hollows bone, my spiritual pressure rose then sharply fell after I got my hopes up like it was going to work.

'Hey guys? I'm going to go take a rest now, I'll be back in a little. I'll be thinking but please don't listen in or offer any advice, I want to figure this out myself.'

When I finally felt like I was alone in my head I decided to do two things. The first one, I opened my eyes to truly observe where I am. It was white, like a hospital room, I'm still on the gurney under the white sheets, though not in my old clothes any more. It seems that when the kimono appeared in my inner world, it appeared here as well. I turned my head towards the left, there were two chairs and a desk, to my right there was a wall which I almost hit my nose into; and behind my head a window. I sat up the tiniest bit to see out of it better. Once I looked it appeared to be either dawn or dusk, I hope the latter though; then no one would be coming in to check on me. I checked around the room another time and found myself content with the feeling like I am being taken care of very well in this place.

Finally at peace that seireitei is as wonderful a place that Ry said it is, I shut my eyes and allowed the blackness to take me to the depths of my mind.

So just building my spiritual pressure apparently is not working, I'm not getting any connections out of it. When Ella said it is all connected, what exactly did she mean?

Well yes we are all connected all of our powers, our states of mind; as long as the connections are made between each person inhabiting the inner world. I have three stars that lit up on my sword from when I worked with Ry. Plus the two more that lit up while working with Ella. If my calculations are correct then there is still another star to light up before all the connections are made between Ella and I.

When I first was able to activate my shikai, while consciously knowing about it, I was mad at Ry. Does that mean I need to be mad at Ella to change into my hollow? No, with Ry it wasn't just the anger but I was mentally reaching out to her, for her mind. She left me like Ella has been doing, maybe it's the mental chain between Ella and I that I haven't connected so use the powers.

Eureka! If I reach out to Ella's mind then it should work!

'Might as well give it a try,' I stated out loud as I appeared in my inner world.

I began building my spiritual pressure when Ry appeared, when it was finally high enough I reached out to Ella.

There was a clicking noise, almost as if someone picked up a phone, and Ella spoke, 'so you finally figured it out. Good job bud.'

I nodded my head and reached my hand back, when I pulled forward I could feel the bone forming on my head and the swirling of my reiatsu around me. When the swirling died down I looked at my robes. They were the dark blue with the light blue vortex on the left shoulder. I reached up and felt my hair, longer now, and the bangs that I just acquired.

Ella spoke to me, although it was in my head I could have sworn she is standing right in front of me, 'from now on I cannot show you how to make the moves, I need to explain them to you like this. With Jūryoku's powers you control gravity within the space you determine and by physically wounding your opponent you can collapse a lung, shatter a bone beyond recognition; basically just cause physical wounds. With Burakkuhōru you can teleport as you saw before, but mentally you can attack a person. You remember the release, or am I mistaken?'

'No I remember, it's: consume all Burakkuhōru.'

'The consume part is what black holes do. They absorb all light, this is the reason that I am your dark side. The dark side of a persons mentality is where all dark and depressing thoughts are sent to. I am going to be blunt with you, but the effects of burakkuhōru's powers are horrible; very much like a black hole in most respects. When this power activates on someones mind it blocks out all light, which in a mind are good thoughts or memories. That person is then forced to relive any traumatizing and painful memories all while the vortex surrounds the person and physically cutting them up.'

'Well that's a bit morbid…' I deadpanned.

Ry gave me a look that said what Ella said in my head, 'well- duh.'

'I am also guessing that now I need to find someone to test this on as a form of practice?'

Again, Ry gave me a look saying basically the same thing.

'So I am supposed to wake up and to anyone that is around me say, 'hi I'm Graciela and I need to use you to practice my hollows skills that will make you re-live your worst memories. Oh did I leave out the fact it will shred your body too? Oops.' Yea that's how you make friends.'

Ella, Ry and myself cracked up laughing.

When the fit was done and over with Ella was the first to speak up, 'no, you will be practicing on Ry.'

'Yea! 'Cause I'm a part of you I won't get mentally or physically injured. But I will be able to tell if the attack landed on target and if the winds would be fast enough to pierce skin.'

'Ry how do you manage to pull that off?'

'Hn?' Was her intelligent reply.

'Be so happy while saying such morbid things and hearing what Ella said in my head?'

'Eh it's a gift,' I rolled my eyes at this as a response. Besides, she can probably hear Ella like I can.

'Now Gracie I want you to sleep soon. You just released your hollows powers and your appearance changed as well so physically your body has some catching up to do. This should only take around a day but if you are awake during it, or working with us, you will feel the pain.'

I gaped at her. Everything she just said was, relatively, morbid, how does everyone in my mind, excluding me of course, have the ability to be completely giddy while talking of such morbid things! Actually no, it's like those scary movies that have cute little dolls killing people, it's basically the same paradox.

'You know we can hear you? Thinking in your own mind is talking out loud here, remember?'

'Ah crap.'

*~Frozen Harmony~*

"Why does Yachiru get to have the new girl in her squad?" Matsumoto whined out loud for what seems to be the umpteenth time today. The pout never left her face either and thanks to this distraction, she got even less work done then usual!

At least when she's drunk she's away form me, but no; the whole day she has been whining into my ears.

"What Yamamoto Taicho says goes, that's it," I replied to her this time.

Though I would never admit this out loud, I was curious as to why that girl was staying with Kenpachi, normally my division gets the random people recovering from injuries.

"I wish we were going to get this girl. I could dress her up! She's so small like you Taicho~ You guys could make cute little babies and build a cute little house together! I could be the godmother and teach them all the wonderful things I would teach the girl if she was put in our division! Oh please Taicho can you have her come to our division, please!"

"Matsumoto," I said, the temperature in the room fell rapidly, "if you do not leave this room in ten seconds I will not be held accountable for my anger. Go!"

"Aye aye captain!" under three, she was out.

Now that Matsumoto was gone I can finish the rest of my paper work in silence. Oh how I cherish no noise.

Hyourinmaru chuckled in the back of my mind as I got back to work.

*~Graceful Melody~*

'Are you ready to fight?' Ella posed to me.

I rolled my eyes at her. I complied with her over the train for a day then fight rule, so she could at least save the pointless question. What am I going to say? No. Yea right.

But what she wasn't aware of, is that I figured out her little ruse.

'We don't need to. Nor can we, physically any way.'

'What makes you so sure of that? You could already be losing right now and not even know it, then I get to take over your body.'

'I know because if you were serious over this whole thing you wouldn't have just told me the conditions if I lose; because you would just love to taunt me about it. Also you would have never stayed in my mind and said 'I have to explain you the moves like this,'' I replied with a more than smug look plastered on my face.

'You may be correct about the fight being bogus,' she admitted finally, 'but that does not mean I can't slap that look off your face.'

'Try me,' I challenged.

'Oh me too!' Ry chimed in randomly.

An idea sparked through my mind quickly, and before I knew it I was heading towards Ry at an alarming pace, 'you're it,' I called when I punched her arm.

I just started an epic battle of tag.

'Good job going for Ry. She cant teleport like us, you're getting better at finding the weaknesses in your opponents,' Ella complimented.

I blushed and said, 'thank you, but I think we should go back, Ry looks like she's giving up.'

'Hey Ry, forfeit?' Ella asked, but I could tell where Ry was going to take this.

'You forfeit? Oh alright!' Ry retaliated as I mentally predicted.

I giggled a little as I took my seat under the giant weeping willow tree to watch the scene before me unfold.

Five minutes later the two of them were still at it. Randomly though Ry stopped talking and gaped at something behind me, Ella stopped shortly after and did the same thing. I turned my head back and jumped up, startled at whoever appeared behind me. When I finally got a good look at her, I can say quite honestly she is the most beautiful person I have ever seen in my life.

'My name is Celest, please call me that,' Not to mention but her voice was so melodic, and she was only speaking.

'Just being random, but you would probably make a wonderful singer.'

Celest laughed and replied, 'things like that is what make me like you, Gracie. We must set some ground information before I- all of us- can tell you what you truly are. Please release your sword, then your hollow.'

'Okay, bring upon the weight of the world Jūryoku!' the, now, familiar kimono appeared on my frame, 'consume all burakkuhōru.' I transformed and observed my sword once more. Two more stars were lit up, one presumably form finishing with Ella and now one from Celest.

'Good you have the necessary connections to fathom the information we have for and about you. Please, sit down. This is going to be quite a lot to take in.'

'Before we get to talking can I say a few things?'

The other three nodded their heads as I sat down.

'One, Celest you are really pretty. Two, you guys aren't going to talk all cryptically again are you? Lastly, three, oh great another surprise? I'm a shinigami, then a vizard, now what?'

Celest replied, speaking for all of them, 'thank you and we will be talking directly from now on. No more secrets and you can finally learn about what you truly are and the awesome powers you hold and will be developing.'

'Okay enough with the suspense can you just tell me already?' I asked fidgeting. God, how I hate suspense.

'Graciela the powers that you have are no joke, they have lately only thought to have been a legend. A prophecy to some people. Only the eldest of captains would be able to recall the prediction, 'when in great peril, a great power with be the salvation of all.' To the shinigami I am a true god, to you people from earth there are small references to me throughout history. You have heard of mother nature and how she controls all earth?'

'Of course!'

'Well Gracie, I believe that is what you can call me and with my powers you become the person to fulfill the prophecy. Simply, you are the true elemental.'