Bleached: Ep. 8
Disclaimer: We don't own Bleach. Airi and Zezuri are our characters.
Note: I said two chapters, but here I am posting a third in one day! Lucky you!
Instead of being like all the other girls, I'm going to type up an RP instead of getting ready for prom. Go me! -Airi
Zezuri showed up a half an hour later, eyes very puffy and a pink band-aid on her neck
Zezuri showed up a half an hour later, eyes very puffy and a pink band-aid on her neck. "See you tomorrow morning." Syazel said before leaving.
The room around Zezuri seemed to spin, and she noticed how everyone emitted a strange blue hue. Was it that spirit energy Syazel had mentioned? She staggered across the room, accidentally bumping into Grimmjow.
"Hey, watch it!" he shouted. Zezuri staggered even more, the room swimming in front of her eyes. Suddenly she passed out. With lightning-fast reflexes, Grimmjow caught the girl before she hit the floor. Zezuri hung there, slumped in his arms. He noticed the pink band-aid on her neck as he carried her to her bed. Out of curiosity he lifted the bandage a little and grew a concerned look on his face as he noticed the needle mark.
"What did they do to her?" Asked Airi rushing over. She winced when she saw the puncture wound.
Zezuri opened her eyes a little.
"Zezuri," began Airi who was cut off by her friend.
"Why is the room spinning?" she asked with much delirium.
"The room's clearly not moving," said Grimmjow, "Stupid human."
"That's not normal behavior," stated Airi, "What did they do to her?" she asked again.
"Like I would know. Syzel's always doing stuff like this."
"I hope it's only temporary."
Grimmjow didn't say anything more and set the delirious Zezuri on her bed. After a few more minutes of incoherent babbling she drifted off to sleep.
Airi felt more alone now than she had since the sandstorm incident, here she was, in some strange fortress-castle in the middle of a desert that never saw the light of day, surrounded by strange people dressed in white and some of them had holes through them. What should we do? She wondered inside her head. She didn't have long to ponder before Ulquiorra entered the room again, to announce dinner. So, Airi, accompanied by the two espada, headed for the dinning hall, leaving Zezuri guarded by some minor arrancar.
At dinner Airi glared at a certain pink haired espada from across the table. Syazel was busy discussing with Aizen about Zezuri's relation to the serum he gave to her, before noticing Airi's glare. He smirked slightly. "Don't worry, her blood should adapt to the serum in time," he said to Aizen, but clear enough for Airi to hear.
Meanwhile, Zezui awoke and noticed the others were gone. She looked at the guard who just ignored her. She sat on her bed and stared at the floor, her mind still trying to regain consciousness. She thought about the torture she would have to endure, maybe for the rest of her life, and who knew what they had in store next for Airi. Zezuri's anger rose, but then she was surprised by a tickling sensation in her left hand. She looked at it and noticed it was glowing with blue spiritual power. She shook her hand around as if to shake the glow away. A sudden beam of light shot from her hand and bounced off the floor and then the wall. She was quite startled but remained silent as the guard turned to see what the noise was from. Zezuri made herself look occupied with something else to make it look like she didn't notice anything, so the guard went back to the hallway. Zezuri looked at her hand again and the glow was gone. She wasn't sure if she should tell anyone because she wasn't even sure what it was.
About a half an hour later, Airi returned accompanied by Luppi this time. The other guard left upon their entry. "Zezuri!" called Airi, seeing her friend sitting up and looking a little less confused. "What did they do to you? That Syzel guy was discussing something at dinner with Aizen, but I couldn't hear much of it. More importantly, are you okay?"
"Umm, yeah, I'm fine now… but…" she touched the puncture mark on her neck, "all I remember is a stinging pain in my neck…" she explained.
"Heh, you pathetic human, can't take Syazel's serum?" mused the annoying arrancar.
Zezuri tried to ignore him, "I-I don't know what it did to me, but, it's fading away…"
"At this rate, you'll die in a few doses of it," the gender confused arrancar continued.
Zezuri stared at him shocked at what he had just said.
Grimmjow was walking by at the time and leaned on the doorway.
"What are you doing here, Grimmjow?" asked Luppi. "
"None of your business!" Grimmjow shot back.
"Worried?" Luppi teased, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Tch. No," Grimmjow shrugged him off and left, his hands in his pockets.
The next day's breakfast, like usual, was held in the large dining room. Airi and Zezuri picked miserably at their pancakes, neither one felt like eating. Both were still thinking about what Luppi had said the night before about the serum.
Immediately after breakfast, Syazel lead Zezuri back to his lab. Airi was put back in her room/prison cell. It was near impossible to tell how much time had passed, since Hueco Mundo was stuck in perpetual night and Airi had forgotten her watch on the counter at home before school that day. In what could have been minutes or hours later, footsteps were heard in the hall.
The current guard, D-Roy, looked up from his nap to see if it was a change of guards.
Airi listened intently, trying to figure out if it was Syzel returning Zezuri. But, it wasn't and Ulquiorra entered the room instead.
Back at the lab, Syazel had finished injecting Zezuri with another dose of the serum. He walked over and tossed out the needle as Zezuri fell on the ground but was not unconscious. "Hmmm… maybe she can't handle it as I thought… if she's this useless then we'd be wasting the serum on her," Syazel muttered to himself. He walked back over to her and nudged her head with his foot as she tried to look up at him. Her eyes were soaked with tears and distant at the same time. She felt so sick but couldn't vomit anything up and just passed out. Syazel frowned with disappointment and left.
"Come," ordered Ulquiorra, "Aizen-sama has ordered that you are to train now," Airi followed him wordlessly out of the room. "D-Roy," the fourth espada spoke again, "Go and retrieve the other human from Syazel's lab."
D-Roy grimaced, but headed for the lab without further protest.
After a few minutes of walking through the gray hallways they reached the same room Airi had fought the hollow in. Ulquiorra opened the door and stepped aside, making it clear to Airi that she was to enter. Awaiting her inside the room were a dozen hollows. "You are to defeat every last one," ordered the tall arrancar, shutting the door and leaving Airi in the room full of hollows. Without even a moment to think, the hollows charged at her at once. Remembering last time, Airi drew her sword; its blade a blurry yellow shape once more.
"I can't believe I'm being forced to do all this grunt-work," moaned D-Roy, entering Syazel's lab. Looking around, D-Roy searched for Zezuri.
"If you're looking for the human girl, Grimmjow already is taking her back to her cell," Syazel appeared from another part of the lab. "Honestly, I don't understand Aizen-sama's confidence in that human, she passes out from the most diluted serums I have. She's not even of much value as a research specimen either," The eighth espada paused and adjusted his glasses. "I wonder if Aizen-sama will let me run some tests on the other human, I've heard she's got some unusual powers…" Syazel continued talking while D-Roy left the room silently, clearly bored with this conversation.
To be continued...
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