Verse 8

The requiem of the sandy plain...

It echoes in the wind...

With it come the faces of the past,

What was once a mirage has formed itself into an unforgiving reality...

"Come on were almost there!" Ichigo led a small band of Hearts warriors as they charged towards the Clubs main camp.

"Look at that!" Commander Karin observed swirling fireballs billowing from the camp. "Someone may have already begun a raid."

Ichigo covered his face with his scarf. "Maybe...Or maybe something."

Ren gazed at the strange pink haired woman before her. Her hair flowed elegantly as if it were hypnotic. Her entire face was concealed in a plain helmet like mask with only four holes for breathing.

"I see the hybridisation with the Arrancar was highly successful." Mayuri walked around her body admiring her natural features. "Your physical structure is almost as authentic as the real Lucy."

The naked woman breathed heavily as she stared at the masochist. Ren had only blinked once but in that moment the scientist's eyes had been gouged out.

"Ack. WHY!" Mayuri waved his hands around trying to find Lucy. "I created the form you bestow! Why have you betrayed me?"

Lucy did not speak but managed to pin Mayuri to the wall using her telekinetic ability. Ren was petrified at this sadistic woman. She couldn't tell who was more evil, she just wanted to escape the nightmare.

Mayuri's windpipe was slowly being crushed by Lucy's invisible hands. "If you kill me, you'll never find the antidote..."

Lucy tilted her head indicating confusion. "That's right...I reconfigured a portion of your original body when we first met, I knew obtaining you might be tricky, so I grew small cysts in your brain and the other two, only I know the cure so if I die you'll soon die as well."

Ren was shocked at the man's words. He would intentionally set up his creations with a limited life expectancy? What if he has done something to Nyu too?

Mayuri was wheezing as his breath was slowly fading. "What will you do? Are you really gonna kill me?"

"HAHAHA! Look at your fabulous new body." The Man psychotically acknowledged Number 28's new form. Most of her body from below the waist was covered in thick white armour as well as her arms which were concealed in bone. One half of her was concealed by a plain white mask

"Don't you dare call me by that name again!" She sliced with her vectors, tearing the room apart in the process.

The Man casually ducked and weaved from each attack, mocking her in the process. "So did you ever get back those organs I harvested from your sweet little body?"

"SHUT UP YOU BASTARD!" She unleashed all her vectors into his torso. Her stood in mid air silently as his body was poked full of holes.

All this time Nyu watched on, even she was terrified of this Diclonius.

If I attack her, she will only kill me...But even if I win, that Man will probably kill me anyway...What should I do?

The Man's lips drooped down into a flayed frown. But in one convulsive reflex he jerked back to life. His wounds slowly stitching themselves back together. "Hehe...I really thought you had dealt me the fatal blow then, but you see my vectors are capable of far more than yours could ever amount to. I have essentially become...A GOD!" He slashes his vectors across number 28's entire body. The powerful Diclonius stumbles as her naked body is painted red.

"Tch. You let yourself become an experiment, just so you could slaughter our kind again." She forms several balls of energy around her body. "I can't let a monster like yourself live any longer." The balls of energy fire towards the Man. The entire room is engulfed in an amazingly bright light. Surely not even he could have survived such an attack.

"Hehehehe...To think if I hadn't corrupted your body you would never had the chance to become so strong." The Man emerged from the wreckage, the skin on his face was starting to melt away.

"Give up...Though you might have greater powers than me, your still just a human." Number 28 was beginning to form more of her cero blasts.

The Man chuckled lightly. "I've waited decades for this battle, I'd love to see your limbless body squirm just one last time." The Man strafed around the Diclonius slamming his vectors into the ground. Number 28 was quick on her feet and able to dodge each strike, however his attacks were raising a lot of smoke and dust.

"Where are you? Stop hiding in the dust you coward!" Number 28's back was turned from his attack.

"Your mine now bitch!" He fired another of the spiky balls into her back. Number 28 screamed in agony as the Nuerotoxin entered her blood. "And a few more for good luck." He threw five more into her back using his vectors.

Number 28 was frothing from the mouth as the Unknown Man walked over her light body. She tried to speak but only managed to cough up blood.

"Oh, no...looks like your paralysed, you won't be needing these anymore then." The man used his vectors to pull out one of her arms. She yelped in pain as he waved her arm around her numb face.

"Rot in hell..." Number 28 spoke weakly.

"Now Guinea Pigs shouldn't talk." The Man begun ripping out her legs and other arm. Number 28 was soon looking much like when she was a prop inside this monster's backpack.

"I'LL VOW TO KILL YOU IN EACH LIFE!" She spat blood into his disfigured face.

The Man grinned, revealing his grotesque gumless smile. "You really do talk too much." He plucked out her tongue with one of his vectors.

"STOP IT!" Nyu screamed as she couldn't bare the torture anymore.

The man looked at Nyu oddly. "Don't worry precious, your turn will be soon enough."

Nyu threw her vectors at the Man, poking more holes through his chest. As his wounds healed other parts of his body disintegrated. He help up a slimy finger. "You are the feisty one!" He pinned her against a boulder.

Nyu was struggle to breath. She lifted her gun with one of her vectors and started firing. However it was useless against this monster. He simply laughed at her hopeless predicament.

The Man's eyes turned a shade of red as he bore a menacing face."MWHAHAHAHAHA! I'm going to enjoy fucking your corpses!"

"NOOOOOO!"

CRASH. BOOM SLASH. A chorus of brutal noise entered the room. Nyu was released from the boulder. As she slumped to the ground, she caught a glimpse of a young girl rushing towards her.

"Nyu! Please be okay!" The voice was gentle and heart-warming.

Nyu spoke faintly. "Funny...I was supposed to save you Ren..." She faded out of consciousness.

Two demons stood before each other. The Man grinned as he regenerated his lopped arm. "Now this one will be a challenge...Lucy..."