And Yoruichi is the winner of the poll, so I am proud to announce that this is now a Harry/Yoruichi pairing. She will be appearing shortly.

The Unknown Captain: The Hollow Maker

When the time finally came for the day to end, Hitsugaya sent him a note, that had only one word written on it:

Hollows.

The moment Hiro read the message, he knew it what he had to do. Shunpoing to his room, he popped out of his body and left it to fall on his bed.

But what he didn't see coming was that as soon as he left his body a black blob left it as well. He watched in fascination and horror as the darkness took the form of a Hollow, but it was markedly different. For starters, it was half the size of a regular one and its mask was half-formed as well. Even the hole in the center wasn't completely filled out. Its arms were three-quarters as long as they should have been and any natural weapons it might have had were either broken, half-formed, or nonexistent. All in all, it was a damn ugly thing that was really only fodder for a trained Shinigami.

Hiro wasted no time slicing through the mask, sending the soul-fragment on its way to hell, as its gates had opened right in front of him although how it did so in the small enclosure he had no idea.

When the doorway to hell disappeared, he shunpoed outside the castle and looked at the darkness that was surrounding him, and for a moment there was nothing. But then, a ripple of Reiatsu ran through him, forcing him back, his head shot this way and that trying to discover the source of the pulse when suddenly a giant rip appeared before him, and then a Gillian-class Menos Grande stepped out of it. Now, while they weren't a threat to a captain-level Shinigami, they were still trouble in number. And it seemed that it had buddies, as two more portals appeared disgorging two more Gillians.

Hiro drew his sword at the same time Toshiro and Ichigo appeared. They had told the others that they would deal with the disturbance.

Nodding his head toward his fellow Captains, they all advanced swords drawn upon the three only to have to jump out of the way as the three fired ceros at them, blasting the earth where they had been previously into the sky, where the three Shinigami now were. They each charged at a Menos Grande and quickly cut their masks to pieces, only to realize that the portals that had opened hadn't closed, and they disgorged three more Hollows, but they were of a different nature, and ones that all three Shinigami were familiar with.

While Hiro hadn't participated in the fight against Aizen, he had fought against a minor Arrancar that had made its way into Western Rukon, defeating him after a brief exchange of blows with his Zanpakuto. And it appeared that some had survived the destruction of Aizen's army, and decided to join Voldemort, as he apparently had some kind of power over them.

The three Arrancar looked over at their adversaries with hatred gleaming in thier eyes. They each drew their Zanpakutos and charged. The three captains met them blow for blow. The Hollows, while strong, however, were still no match for a Captain, and were pushed back.

And then they released their blades.

"Light the Heavens, Burezu!"

"Beat them blue, Pondo!"

"Strike them dead, Satsujin!"

The advanced Hollows grew, and became something out of nightmares.

The first one was 3 stories tall and glowed like a light bulb, destroying all shadows around him and igniting the nearby greenery. Its arms were twin flamethrowers and its chest looked like a furnace.

The second Arrancar was markedly different, and just as terrifying. It was actually taller than the one next to it at a towering 5 stories it was all muscle. In fact, it seemed to be all there was to it. Its fists were huge and were as their entire body. Its body looked like it could shrug off physical attacks without breaking a sweat or taking a single scratch.

The last but certainly not least, seemed even more dangerous than the other two. It was between the two in height, standing somewhere around 4 stories tall and seemed markedly more humanoid than the other two. And what set him apart even more was the fact that he still wielded a blade, two in fact, and that his body seemed to be covered in them, with spikes jutting out of his knees, elbows, and chest and all of them sharp enough to cleave the Shinigami in two.

This fight was going to take everything they had.

Toshiro was the first to move into battle, releasing his Zanpakuto as he walked forward.

"Sit upon the frozen heavens, Hyorinmaru!"

The blade extended and the atmosphere dropped several degrees.

Ichigo was next, striding forward, although his Zanpakuto was always released, so he just held his blade in front of him.

Hiro moved right behind Kurosaki, his blade before him.

"Cover them all, Ageshio!"

The blade turned into water that formed at his back in the shape of water wings. He quickly reformed his sword in his hand.

Ichigo and Toshiro, having never seen it before, were shocked that he had a water-type Zanpakuto, seeing as they had only seen one before.

The two sides stared each other down for what seemed an eternity before the living furnace stomped forward, shaking the ground as it did so. It raised its arms and shot a stream of fire right at them. the fire coming at such high speeds that any normal person would be unable to dodge, let alone counter. But then again, Ichigo wasn't a normal person, now was he?

But then again, neither is Hiro, and he was the one who reacted. His Zanpakuto blurred into action, immediately spitting out 2 dozen water shuriken that shot into the flames extinguishing them. The Arrancar looked surprised for a moment before it did it again, and this time it added another attack. Flames leapt off its feet and shot forward across the ground straight at them.

This time it was Toshiro was the one to attack, leaping into the air he swung his icy blade down and tore through the attack, and then went on to attack the Hollow itself, only for the sworded Arrancar to intercept it, the attack bouncing off its bladed body.

It was then that the last one charged forward and pounded its fist into the ground, causing an earthquake that would later be registered as 6.0 on the Richter Scale. The move easily caught them off guard, but not for long. Ichigo, it seemed, was tired of not doing anything and so decided to charge forward, swinging his overlarge meat cleaver above his head and straight through the muscled Arrancar's arm.

Ichigo, deciding he was tired of wasting time, leapt backward. Then, holding his blade before him, cried, "Bankai!" Smoke covered his body as the transformation took place. His outfit changed to an open black robe with bandages around his waste and his blade turned into a daito (Japanese long sword) with a black blade.

Raising it above his head, he gathered his spiritual energy within the blade and swung down, releasing it. The blast launched right at the flaming Arrancar, taking it by surprise, and slicing it in half, disintegrating it. "Enhanced Getsuga Tensho."

The remaining two, seeing their comrades demise, became inflamed, and charged at the three Shinigami, forgetting one very important thing: Captains always have more than one trick up their sleeve.

Hiro, after seeing the two running at them, raised his sword horizontally before him and yelled, "Bankai!"

The blade and the wings expanded around him, drawing power from the nearby lake and subsequently taking less time and energy to construct the arena that they would now be playing in.

Hiro raised his hand and a copy of his Zanpakuto materialized in it. tightening his grip, he looled at the two now floating Arrancar and smirked, they would be in for one heck of a beating.

Toshiro, seeing his fellow Captain's Bankai for the first time, had to say he was impressed, and called out, "Bankai!" quickly to as to not be left behind.

Ice formed around him, creating wings on his back, claws on his feet and left arm, and a dragon head envelops his right hand up to the hilt of the blade.

Quickly moving into action, Toshiro charged toward the two advanced Hollows and when they tried to dodge, they found that they were slower then normal, and Toshiro, due to using his wings to propel him, was able to fly through the water and pierce the muscled one through the chest, at which point he began to freeze, not helping that he already had water all over him. With a quick slash, the frozen Arrancar was no more, turning into fragments that evaporated as they went lower.

The spiky one was all that was left, but he wasn't going down without a fight, and Hiro had just the technique to use on it.

"Raise the Seas, Hayakuchi!"

Water began churning around him at high speeds, going faster and faster until he released it all on the unsuspecting beast. When it finally felt the attack coming, it was too late. It blasted into its side and tore through its armor, they being ripped off at the high velocity incurred by the speeding water. At last the Arrancar fell, disintegrating and signalling the end of the fight.

With that, the three sealed their Zanpakuto, Ichigo's outfit returning to normal, Toshiro's icy apparatus receding back into Hyorinmaru, and the watery battlefield returned to Ageshio and the Great Lake.

He panted as he sheathed his blade. That last attack always took a lot out of him. He made it a couple of steps before he collapsed. He was actually surprised at this, as he hadn't thought he had used that much energy in the fight. Then he remembered the debacle earlier in the day and sighed. He obviously needed to work on his emotional control. After what went on that morning, he had been releasing steady amounts of Spiritual Pressure throughout the day subconsciously and that resulted in his collapsing.

While the three were resting from the fight. the three portals fused together and created one giant one. But what came through it was no Hollow, at least, not in normal terms. For out of the 10 story portal a single man strode, black robes swirling about him as he walked toward the Shinigami.

Ichigo and Toshiro, markedly less exhausted then their fellow, moved quickly to stand in front of him with their blades held before them.

"Who are you and how did you summon those Hollows?" Captain Hitsugaya demanded in a strong voice.

The figure laughed harshly, a high and cold laugh that sent shivers down Hiro's spine and raised the hair on the back of his neck. He would recognize that laugh anywhere.

"Voldemort," he spat.

A moment passed, and they could only assume he was raising an eyebrow, or rather, Ichigo and Toshiro did, seeing as Hiro knew that the man (if you could even call him that) had none.

"I see my reputation precedes me even in the afterlife. Well, no matter, it doesn't change anything. You will all die by my hand right now, so it matters not that you know my name."

Raising his right hand, he revealed his wand that he flashed at the three of them crying out three times, "Avada Kedavra!"

The green jets of light blasted toward them, and, much to his amusement, they didn't even try to avoid it.

As the smoke cleared, however, he was most displeased to see them still standing, well, Toshiro and Ichigo anyway.

He frowned, "Why didn't it affect you?"

Ichigo laughed, "Don't you get it? We're already dead! You can't kill what isn't alive to begin with."

"I see, well, that changes things, it seems I will have to revise my plans. Consider yourself lucky, fools, for when next we meet, things will go much differently."

And with that he sped back toward the portal and disappeared, the gateway dissipating shortly after.

Sighing in relief, they sheathed their swords and went over to Hiro and picked him up, "Come on, Old Man, we need to get you inside for some shut-eye."

With an arm over each shoulder, he was taken back into Hogwarts and up to his room where he gave the password and they took him inside. They goggled at the sight before them. For Hiro's room was exactly as he had left it, the mini-Hollow attack had made a mess of things even if it had been destroyed quickly. Shaking their heads, they took him over to his body and lowered him into it, and proceeded to place him under the sheets and tuck him in, Ichigo laughed as Hiro asked for a good night kiss on the cheek.

Once that was out of the way, Hitsugaya looked around the room surveying the damage.

"Looks like a tornado came through here."

Hiro looked embarressed at the apparent state of his chambers. "Sorry about that, a Hollow appeared in my room and it made a little mess before I could destroy it."

The two senior Captains' heads shot up and looked at him intently. It was Ichigo who asked, "How did it get in here? The wards should have prevented that."

He shook his head, "I'm not entire sure. All I can say is that as soon as I left my body it appeared as well. I can only assume it came out of my body as well. How, I don't know, but it's gone now so that's all that matters to me. Although the way it appeared was strange."

"How so?"

"It started out as a black blob before forming into a mini-Hollow thing that had less than half a mask and no natural defenses of any kind. Even its arms weren't fully formed."

Toshiro thought about that for a moment before he remembered something he read in a report. He snapped his fingers, "Of course, it was a Horcux!"

The other two looked at him confused. "Huh?"

He looked at the two exasperated, "On the night that Hiro's parents were killed and that mortal initially defeated, a portion of his soul broke off and attached itself to him. Unintentionally, I'm sure, but that's what happened. How it stayed inside his body after being dead for long I don't know, but what I do know is that Hiro is now inside his former body and that now it is basically a Gigai, as that Horcrux was the one thing keeping your body 'alive'. I'm not sure how this will work out in terms of eating and such, but there you have it."

Hiro gaped at him for a moment before closign his mouth and frowning, "So, what you're saying is that Tommy basically created Hollows of himself and that I'm now officially dead. Wonderful. Now I can have a Death Day Party and invite all my dead friends to partake of the festivities."

Toshiro smacked him upside the head, "Alright, smart-ass, enough with the sarcasm. But yes, your correct. Now we know how we can destroy these things."

"I don't follow. How can we destroy them if their inside things?" Ichigo was the one that said it this time.

Hitsugaya grinned, "Simple, we drag them out."

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