Bleached: Ep. 11
Disclaimer: You know this by now; we don't own Bleach. Airi and Zezuri are our characters.
Note: Things finally get interesting! Okay, we've always thought the story was fun, being as we wrote it just to help us through school. High school can be a drag... We wrote this part back in late Feburary. Anyhow, this part is one of our favorites. -Airi
Syazel arrived into Aizen's throne room
Syazel arrived into Aizen's throne room. "What is it, Syazel?" Aizen questioned.
"I have the human's results," Syazel said, handing Aizen the results, "She seems to have power, greater than any of my enhanced arrancar, it bothers me," added Syazel.
"Alright…" Aizen turned to Gin who had just entered the room, "Do you have news of the other human girl?" he asked.
"Yes… it seems her powers have awakened, how long before you want her back?" replied the other ex-captain.
"In time, just make sure that the espada who we send kills that soul reaper…"
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Grimmjow wandered the hallways silently, his hands in his pockets. Suddenly he felt something jab him in the back. Grimmjow slowly turned his head to see Luppi. "What do you want?" he asked irritated.
"Nothing. You've just been so quiet this whole time… it's not like you. Something on your mind?" Luppi teased.
"Why would there be you little-"
"Oh, come now, Luppi, don't tease him…" Gin joined in.
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"Achoo!" Zezuir sneezed. Uh-oh, I hope I'm not getting a cold, she thought. Aishda had left a while ago to 'take care of some personal business' (visit the graves of his comrades), so she was alone, staring into the fire.
"What are you doing here, Gin? I thought you were busy in the computer room, changing the hallways," Luppi said.
"I was bored and lonely, by the way… it'll be at least two days until we get her," said Gin, smirking.
"So cheer up lover-boy," jeered Luppi as he and Gin walked off before the sixth espada could react.
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Aishda came back later; Zezuri was sitting on the ground, occupying herself by drawing doodles with a rock. "What are you doing?" Aishda peered over her shoulder, making her jump.
"I, um-uh, I was just drawing!" she said nervously.
"You mean these doodles?" Aishda inspected them. From what he could tell, there were a few attempts at a cat, a flower, all sorts of smiley faces, and a sum. "Umm… nice flower…" Aishda tried to give some sort of complement to the badly drawn doodles.
Zezuri sighed, "I was bored… and… I'm kind of tired," She found a smooth spot on the cave's floor and eventually feel asleep.
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The next two days passed along the same way for Zezuri, in the mornings she'd help Aishda in his hollow slaying rampage and in the afternoons she practiced with her power. She found after a few tries, that it worked better for etching in the rock than using a rock. "Looks like it's time to find a new cave," noted Aishda under his breath when he came back to find Zezuri finishing the forty-second flower on the north wall. The other two walls were already filled to capacity with kittens frolicking through fields of various flowers.
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As for Airi, those two days were spent training; four times a day she was put in the same room, always packed with hollows. Each time she defeated them faster and faster. Afterwards she'd be placed back in her room with an espada member as a guard.
It was now the beginning of the fourth day since Zezuri's banishment. Airi had been back from her third training session of the day for about a half an hour. Luppi, the current guard was staring off into space, quite bored, he suddenly perked up when he heard the approach of a visitor. Airi was 99.7 confident that it was Ulquiorra, coming to take her to the fourth round of training. Instead, Hailbel, the only female espada entered. "Come," she said to Airi with a commanding tone. Power emanated off of her stronger than Ulquiorra. Airi followed without a word wondering why Ulquiorra wasn't the one leading her off.
They traveled in complete silence through the halls, but they passed the normal door and proceeded to Aizen's office. Hailbel opened the door and stepped back. "Enter," she stated. Airi stepped into the room apprehensively.
"Come here, Airi," gently commanded Aizen.
Airi walked over to where Aizen was sitting, failing to notice Gin and Tosen had followed her from the doorway where they had been waiting, until they were right next to her.
Aizen looked at his subordinates as if to give them a mental signal.
Suddenly they grabbed Airi by her arms and held her in place.
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"We need to move to a different cave…" stated Aishda.
"Why?" asked Zezuri, who was feeling quite accomplished with her drawings.
"I have a feeling they've found us…"
"Who… you mean…" Zezuri realized that he meant the espada.
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Grimmjow was wandering the hallways again, this time surprisingly lost in thought. "What did those two idiots mean by that? And cheer up? Why would I be depressed?!" he asked himself irritated, thinking back to what Luppi and Gin had said four days ago. "I don't care about that stupid human! I hope she gets eaten!" he shouted out loud, but he knew he was kidding himself… he found it torture not having that human girl to look out for and carry around all the time. But this wasn't the way for an espada to feel, not towards a human, not towards anyone.
From around a corner, the fourth espada appeared.
"Going to get the human from training?" Grimmjow teased.
"No. She's with Aizen-sama at the moment," stated Ulquiorra, "Aizen-sama ordered me to tell you to go retrieve the other girl from the Menos Forest. Eradicate the shinigami if necessary."
Grimmjow's eyes widened, he hadn't expected to be the one to go bring back the girl. Without a word he ran off for the nearest exit.
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Airi was too stunned for words, "What's going on?!" her mind searched frantically for an answer, were they going to throw her out? No, that wouldn't require the three leaders and one of the strongest of their minions. Airi's mind never reached a conclusion before Aizen gave it to her.
"You've grown much stronger that we predicted," he stated, his face in the calm smile it always wore.
That smile drove Airi berserk; suddenly she wanted nothing more than to wipe it off his scheming face.
As if he could read her mind, Aizen released more of his powerful aura, enough that Airi fell to her knees. "As you can clearly see, you may be powerful against regular hollows and low-ranked arrancar, but you fall short of the espada," the leader stood up and walked over to a short circular pillar, which Airi had mistook for a table. He tapped it and it spiraled open like a fancy jewelry box. Reaching in, he pulled out a small clear box with a dark swirling, purple orb suspended in it's center. "This is the Hougyoku, an object filled with the power to alter or destroy the very fabric of the universe," Suddenly blue fire engulfed the box and the hand in which Aizen held it.
Gin and Tosen pulled Airi to her feet and held her there tightly.
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Aishda and Zezuri began to cross the Menos Forest with much caution. "They're coming… I can feel it…" worry overtook Aisha's face behind his mask.
Zezuri was wondering why they were coming back for her when they had thrown her out… although, like Aishda said before, they could have just fed her to the hollows. She knew that somehow they had found out she unlocked her powers. She could heal and fire off beams of light.
"Stay here a moment, Zezuri. Let me take care of that hollow over there…" Aishda flash-stepped away to take care of the hollow.
Zezuri hid quickly behind a tree. She watched Aishda battle the hollow, but she felt a creeping presence that someone was behind her.
"Finally found ya…"
Zezuri slowly turned her head, eyes wide, to see the owner of the voice. "AISHDA!!" she screamed for help.
To be continued...
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