Disclaimer: The character known as Loth Elcho does not represent this author religious or theological view, he does however represent this author's views on Quincy.

They piss me off.

Personal Jesus

September 5th, 1870 Hueco Mundo

Everything had turned out pretty well all things considered, granted when Loth told Halibel he would be sticking around and why she was less than pleased. However, once Sun-sun approached her and explained that Loth wasn't trying to take her away and that the two of them loved each other Halibel begrudgingly accepted him as a friend of her large family; though she never made the jump to actually seeing him as a son in law.

They only told Halibel the nature of their relationship, Lilinette made her presence known before either of them were in a compromising position, both feeling that they could do without the added attention. The real world is where they spent most of their time together but every now and again they would meet in each other's rooms, typically choosing Sun-sun's room as it actually had a bit of color in it thanks to the flowers Loth gave her that, for some reason, would not whither nor die.

This worked for a few years until one day as he was in the middle of leaving Sun-sun's room, after having spent the night there, he immediately ran into Apache and Mila Rose. The trio just stared at each other for a moment before Loth shut the door in their faces, turned around, and made his way to her balcony saying he'd rather climb down the side of the tower than suffer their questioning and eventual harassment.

As he plummeted to the ground several feet away from the tower Loth realized that getting impatient and trying to run down the side of a building when your lower body isn't made for speed is not what one would call a wise thing to do. As the ground rushed up to meet him these musings were brought to an abrupt halt as Loth prepared himself for the pain that was to come once he stopped falling.

Loth was able to avoid the duo for a few days thanks to his natural hollow and human abilities as well as simple dumb luck. Sun-sun however was not so lucky, it seemed everywhere she went Apache and Mila Rose would find her and bombard her with questions and teasing. Of course a clever word here and there sent the two into a rage and they would forget about their original intentions for awhile but they would keep coming back.

Eventually they were somehow able to corner both Loth and Sun-sun together and began to pester the hell out of the couple. Sun-sun was doing her best to keep her temper under control while Loth just stood there with a faraway look in his eyes staring off into space somewhere over Apache's left shoulder. This went on for awhile until Mila Rose said what a coward he was for just standing there and taking this sort of verbal abuse, that at least Sun-sun would fight back.

Loth's eyes finally focused, he simply shrugged and said if this was how the duo wanted to relieve their pent up tension then that was fine with him and that he supposed doing this would be attractive since up until now they've only been able to get rid of it using their right hands. The group went dead silent after that, both Mila Rose and Apache had their mouths hanging open. Loth just looked at them for a moment before turning to Sun-sun, who was hiding her grin behind her sleeve, and saying that he didn't spend a lot of time with them so maybe they're left handed. At that Sun-sun grabbed his wrist while covering the grin that threatened to split her face and dragged him out the door and around the corner.

When they got there both of them burst out laughing not only at what Loth had said but that he had delivered it completely straight faced. Mila Rose and Apache's reactions had also been, in a word, priceless. After that Apache and Mila Rose stopped going out of their way to bother them, that isn't to say that the pestering stopped just that it was significantly decreased.

The next time Barragan's army attacked Sun-sun actually invited Loth to stand with her in battle, which was convenient as he was planning on helping out anyway. They made a good team; she would dart here and there like a white and green arrow while he fired off several ceros at once, blowing apart large chunks of the opposing army while killing any stragglers with his crushing reiatsu. They fought so well that the battle only lasted two or three hours instead of the usual half day before Barragan called a retreat. The two celebrated the victory the usual way by heading back to one of their rooms for a couple hours.

Loth made good on his word to visit Stark and Lilinette every now and again, staying a few days at a time. It was on his way back from one of these trips that he made a slight detour as he felt a disturbance on the edge of the border of Halibel's territory. What he found caused him to, for once, be left completely speechless.

There were two people just idling out in the open as though waiting for something or someone. The one standing off to the side was wearing a large white cloak that went down to his ankels with ruffles at the top. It was impossible to make out the man's face due to the mask he wore, though from the shape of it Loth could tell that the bone structure for the man's head was not normal. However, it was not this man who stunned him into silence but the one who stood but a few paces away.

He was a shinigame which was surprising enough in and of itself but what's more he displayed neither fear nor hostility towards either Loth or Hueco Mundo and in fact exuded such a strong sense of calm Loth couldn't help but not think of the man as a threat in anyway. The man wore a lieutenant's badge that, thanks to Loth's extended dealings with the shinigame, identified him as a member of the fifth division. His brown wavy hair fell about his head in sharp contrast to his black rimmed glasses giving him an intellectual yet humble look.

As he stepped forward he made no move towards his zanpactou, further solidifying his peaceful aura. When he was within reach of Loth's tentacles he stopped and began speaking, "I apologize if my presence alarmed you but I knew of no other way to make contact, Loth Elcho. Oh, but it seems I have you at a disadvantage my name is Aizen Sosuke, shinigame and lieutenant of the fifth division," here he turned back to his associate before again facing Loth, "and this is my subordinate Aaroniero Arruruerie."

Here Loth finally found his voice, "I don't mean to be rude lieutenant Aizen but shinigame don't come to Hueco Mundo and I mean ever and sense you seem to have come here willingly I just have to ask, why are you hear and for that matter how do you know my name?"

"Ah, that's a rather interesting story, but please there's no need to stand on ceremony," Aizen gestured to two rather large half sunken flat rocks not that far away, "if you would." Once they had seated themselves comfortably Aizen began his tale, "You're actually rather famous in the Seireitei, did you know?"

Loth just shrugged at that, "Typically when I run into a shinigame it's some non seated officer who has no idea who or what I am, or it's the captain commander himself."

"No, the lower ranking shinigame wouldn't know of you but to those seated officers you're well known, in fact there's even a legend about your type of hollow." Aizen explained, "They say that if ten Vaste Lordes come together it will herald the end of the Seireitei."

"I'm really not that strong compared to a few others I know," said Loth.

"I believe the legend refers to the amount of intelligence you gain, more than your power. You see no matter how strong an organism is if it does not have any higher intelligence the creature will be easily trapped, lured away, or simply blindsided and killed. You however can make coordinated attacks, striking from the shadows and then returning to this safe haven." Aizen gestured to the land around them.

"And I suppose you decided that for the good of soul society you would come and end the threat," yet even after he said that Loth made no move to rise; nor did Aizen.

"No, I came here today to ask for your help."

Loth couldn't hide the look of shock after hearing that, "Help? You, a shinigame, need the help of a hollow you yourself said represented one of the most dangerous threats to the Seireitei; with what exactly?"

Aizen leaned back and seemed to organize his thoughts for a moment before speaking, "Every time you're found in the human world the shinigame always assume you're just there to slaughter the innocent yet in every case you have never laid a hand on a living soul, what's more the places you were found were also rather intriguing. In most of them you came to a city in which the ruling class held nearly all the wealth while the poor struggle to survive."

Here Aizen leaned forward, "This led me to question why you would go there if not to feed, the answer because you love the world yet wish for the people to live as equals, am I correct?" Loth nodded, slightly impressed with the man's deductive powers.

"Did you know that Soul Society has a monarch?" Loth shook his head, "He is the king of all of Soul Society and, in a way, acts as the god of earth given the tremendous power he could wield through the Gotei thirteen and the council of forty-six. Yet he remains complacent, content to allow the cycle of violence and death to continue, to allow wars to continue on earth when it would be so easy for the shinigame to stop them, you and your brothers and sisters are forced to exist in this wasteland while the Spirit king remains safe in his castle above and beyond any and all laws. I find that sort of negligence criminal. If I were to assume the throne things would be different; think of how things could change under a man who is not simply content with wasting away in some opulent palace."

Loth looked down at the sands at his feet taking a moment to let that all sink in, "I always thought that God did not care one bit about the rest of the world and now hearing it from someone who knows, well, it's all a bit much." Looking at the man seated across from him Loth asked, "So if I were to help you achieve this divine position you speak of how do I know I haven't traded one dictator for another?"

Aizen stood and moved a few paces to the side, giving Loth a bit of room but still within striking distance of his tentacles, "I'm sure you've seen many different zanpactou, from the incomparable power of the Captain Commander, to the singular functionality of the battle types," here Aizen drew his sword, "but my zanpactou, Kyōka Suigetsu, is a bit different from all of those. With it I can make anyone see, hear, smell, feel, and taste exactly what I want them to. Now Loth Elcho, let me show you my dream. Shatter."

Immediately Loth's whole world was changed, where there was once only sand now grass sprouted, where only a black sky stood and a crescent moon hung but a moment ago now a blue sky dotted here and there with white clouds spread out to the horizon as the sun shined down from the heavens. No sooner had this image appeared then it was swept away to be replaced with a large city filled with carriages going this way and that. That was quickly replaced with a small rural village situated on an island. Slowly, as each location would change, black shapes began to appear and focus into shinigami though they acted like no shinigame Loth had ever seen.

No longer did they indiscriminately kill hollows while completely ignoring the collateral damage done to the living, now they acted as invisible guardians to the material world, using their power to move mass quantities of food to feed the starving and decommission war machines. They had changed their handling of hollows as well; they were now strategically spread out across the world so that every square inch was being monitored allowing no hollow to consume a human soul. Though they still purified the ones that had absolutely no intelligence, the shinigame now acted more as a police force rather than a death squad by allowing those hollows with intelligence to roam the human world as they pleased provided they did not try to upset the balance.

At one moment Stark came into focus, sleeping under a tree while Lilinette played in the branches. Seconds after Loth's brain had processed that then the scene changed to a sandy beach at sunset; a woman could be seen swimming several dozen feet out. Back and forth she would swim until she had expended the last of her energy and made her way to shore. Once she was close enough inland that she could walk Loth saw that it was Halibel and once again she was wearing absolutely nothing forcing Loth to immediately avert his eyes until the scene changed yet again.

On and on this went, with people he knew being replaced with out of focus faceless men and women in white. They appeared in all corners of his field of vision one after another only to disappear when the scene changed and though he could not see the expressions on their faces Loth could feel the peace and contentment that radiated off of them as they went about their business. There was one person who did not fade away with every change of location. It started out as a dot of white located in the center of his vision but with every place Loth was transported to it would get bigger and bigger as though it were coming closer.

Faster and faster the scenes would change and the white creature continued to grow until one moment the form was unrecognizable the next he could see her clear as day. Sun-sun was turned to the side and was wearing that smile he loved so much, that smile she got whenever they were together in the real world enjoying each other's company. Loth was enjoying just watching the woman he loved stare off into the distance when suddenly she turned to look at him, her eyes lighting up as her smile got bigger. She tenderly reached out her hand to him, silently asking him to join her in this paradise. Without a moment's hesitation Loth went to join her but the moment his hand touched hers the illusion shattered and he was back in the wasteland.

Aizen stood where he was before his illusion was cast and watched Loth come out of the effects of his zanpactou; when he felt enough time had passed he asked, "Will you walk with me Loth Elcho, will you help me make this dream a reality?"

Immediately Loth stood and walked towards the shinigame until he was an arm's length away, Loth then got down with his palms in the sand and bowed his head.

"Yes my lord."

A/N I'll let you decide how much of what Aizen said was true.