Okay my computer died so this took FOREVER to get up because it took forever for the old mule to get fixed and back on its er hooves. This is the last real chapter to the story but there will be an epilogue after this to follow up everything. I am tempted to write a sequel story following the live of Province as he lives in the human world and discovers his espada-like powers by accident. Tell me if you want that or not. The next story me and my boytoy will be working on is a humor one called "The Misadventures of Tousen and Van Halen". So keep a look out for that!
Also I drew a picture of Province as a child and uploaded to my deviantart profile if you want to see that.
Thank you to all my wonderful reviewers and readers!
-RabidSheep
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This is not his first taste of loss to death. Keigo can remember feeling a pang of hurt when he was younger and his family cat had been hit and killed by a car. But the pain was he watches his lover fall into the sand from the gaping hole in his side is beyond the small pang one gets from a pets death. His scream chokes in his throat as he wraps his arms around that narrow chest, despite the blood he smears across his own body. Szayel groans then straightens up despite half his body missing from Yammy's cero blast.
He lifts his hand, shaking in pain and taps a rip open beside he and Keigo. The sound of the fabric of this dead universe tearing fills the human's ears as the gaping hole yawns beside them. The pink haired espada coughs a spray of blood onto his hand then glares at Keigo over his shoulder.
"Get out of here, you idiot." He growls to the boy. By now the shinigami had come out of their makeshift shelters and take turns distracting Yammy's attention.
"I'm not leaving here without you!" Keigo keeps his arms on Szayels torn up midsection.
"You…"Szayel clutches his side and stumbles into a standing position. "Idiot."
Its obvious Ichigo is having trouble with Yammy, his mask will not even come out now. Even Kenpachi is barely avoiding being torn to bits by the rampaging Espada. A weard looks comes over Szayels eyes as he watches the fight and Keigo fills terror squeezing his heart in an ice cold grip.
"Oh now, Szayel. Please don't.." He whimpers. The pink haired man turns towards the human and takes a fistful of Keigos hair in his hand, bring their faces only inches apart as golden eyes stare into brown ones.
"Your right…this sort of life is not what Province should grow up knowing. He needs to know something besides this world of dead men. I love you, Keigo. Good bye." He says then smashes their lips together, Keigo can taste Szayels metallic blood in his mouth as his breath is stolen from his lungs. The kiss ends all to soon as the pink haired Espada pushes the human away. He steps towards where Yammy fights the shinigami.
"Leave him. This one's mine." Szayel growls to them. Raising up one finger he coughs then opens a garganta in the sky beside them. "Go back to the soul society and take that pitiful human behind me with you." He snarls to the confused gods of death.
"Now!"
The need no more convincing. The shinigami carry their wounded in as Yammy laughs at the octava espada.
"Ha! You think you are any match for me, Aporro? I'm the strongest Espada! Noone can defeat me!" Yammy crows in a thunderous roar. As the last of the shinigami go into the portal Ichigo picks up Keigo in his arms and starts to go in.
"NO! Please let me stay here!" He begs the orange haired teen.
Szayel pushes his glasses up on his nose and lets a sly smile slip. "You always were to over confident, Yammy. But your still a big an idiot as ever." He says while charging pink cero in the palm of his hand. The desert wing whips his hair around as he turns back to glance one last time over his shoulder at Keigo as the human is carried into the hole in the dimension, as if to say one last silent good bye.
Keigo struggles against Ichigos grip, reaching his hand towards his lover in desperation. Tears streaming down his cheeks as his voice chokes in his throat, his head beating wildly in his chest.
"SZAYEL! PLEASE!" He cries as the portal closes behind them. The last thing he sees is Szayel looking towards him as Yammy's red cero washes over the scientist's body. Then the garganta shuts and all sound from the hollow world is abruptly cut off like turning off the TV during the middle of your favorite show and now silence is king of sounds.
For a moment the shinigami all say nothing. What can you say in a moment like this? Ichigo cradles Keigo in his arms as the boy sobs uncontrollably, his thin body shuddering in agony. The last think the human remembers before he blacks out is the sound of footsteps on cold stone flooring as they travel through the portal.
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As yammy fires his scarlet cero towards Szayel he flas steps out of the way just as the garganta closes. Damn, that was close. He fakes towards Yammy but a the last second moves behind him, appearing in the air behind Yammys head. The cero espada just has time to looks at Szayel behind him with eyes widened in surprised before pink cero blows his brains out. Still Yammy does not die, even with half his face blown clean off he still lashes out towards the pink espada. His mighty tail lashes out as he bellows in pain through a barely there jaw.
He swigs his arm towards szayel but the smaller espada is to quick, even so his injury bleeds blood across the sand like red paint. It takes some clever attacks but eventually he forces Yammy to fall face first into the night soaked dunes of the desert. Still breathing but near death Yammy looks up as Szayel slowly walks towards him.
"You bitch…" the large hollow growls through guggling bubbles of his won blood. Szayel just sneers down at him as he presses a hand against his side.
"Insulting till the end, are we Yammy?"
"Bah! Don't give me that gloating look! You fight dirty like the trash you are!"
Szayel feels his many wounds wearing him down. He cannot regenerate fast enough not to mention he had lost the ability to go into his released state because of all the power he lost while fighting yammy. That means re-birth inside another body is next to impossible.
From the shadows crawl lesser hollows, slinking towards Yammy's large body like wolves towards a fallen deer. Szayel steps back to let them surround the fallen Espada like ghostly shadows.
"I was going to kill you cleanly, you know." Szayel informs him. "But since you have proven so insolent I think I will prefer to watch these creatures eat you alive."
Yammy for the first time looks scared. He had once been a lesser hollow like them and knows all to well their intention as they close in on him. There is many now, hundreds all swarming around his crippled body like starving ants.
"No! Please, szayel! Kill me! DON'T LET THEM EAT ME ALIVE!" He cries as they cover him in black forms of thousands of hollows all biting off chunks of the large espada. Szayel only watches on in cold silence as his former comrade is devoured under the merciless moon above. It is the law of their world, the weak and fallen shall be devoured. Yammy is no exception. Soon there is nothing left where Yammy once laid in the sandy as the now full hollows slink away back towards their shadowy holes. Only a lower jaw bone of what was his mask, half buried in the sand as the only remained of the strongest Espada.
'Finally' he thinks as he falls to his knees, his injuries final overcoming him. He coughs into his hand, grimacing as only blood comes up. Leaning forwards he places both hands in the sand and fights the urge to vomit. 'Keigo…' He brings the image of his lovers face so happy with their son…Szayel never thought he could love someone like this, he didn't even love his own blood brother so how could he love a stranger? Sure the sex as good but there is something deeper between them.
His right hand begins turning black and crumbling away in the desert wind.
"I'm turning to ash…time to die.." He says and falls on his back in the sand. Above is only the silver moon that shines like a beacon in the ink black sky as he feels his body dyeing. He fixates his gaze on it and reaches out his hand as if to caress the distant satellite. His fingers turn to ash as he stretches out his fading arm towards a heaven that will never accept a creature so damned as he.
"Keigo.. thank you for teaching me what love is like…."
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Fix you by Coldplay
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I...
Tears stream down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I...
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you