CRAP! THE NEW CHAPTER WASN'T UP IN TIME! I'M SORRY! I'LL TRY HARDER NEXT TIME I SWEAR! TOO MANY DISTRACTIONS... PLUS I'M LAZY! BUT HERE IS THE NEXT CHAPTER!
Found a new song for the beginning of this chapter, and damn it would have been good for the beginning of the story! But it's too late now, so it's being put in now. The song is "Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies)" by Fear Factor. Please enjoy even though it was delayed!
(and when that song finished listen to "Disturbia" by Rhianna)
Mayuri sat on his new throne, his new found power pulsing through his body. He had used all the chairs in The Round Room (or Where Nothing Gathers), and had taken them apart and re-attached parts to creature a chair hardly a tenth the size of his ego. He was sitting in the most testosterone like way possible. Nemu entered through the door (placed opposite the front of Mayuri's chair).
"She wishes to enter." She said. Mayuri nodded. Nemu turned around and led in Xion.
"Susan," Mayuri said, "My faithful little dog."
"It's Xion." The nobody said, trying to defend herself. Not that she really had any mean to anymore. No one liked her since he had come.
Flashback!
"Fuck you" Grimmjow had said at the time. Xion could hear all kinds of different emotion in his voice. Or maybe she was over thinking. Perhaps she was under-thinking. Maybe she wasn't thinking at all. It was hard to know. Her whole body was shaking too much, every inch of her occupied with the fact that the creepy toilet-headed scientist had come. But... he had said he was done with her...
So she must be okay if she stayed behind the couch...
"SHERWOOD!" Mayuri yelled. Everyone looked around confused.
"Shelly, I know you're in here! Get up! I want to give you your part of recognition as well!"
Xion closed her eyes and covered her ears. She just wanted him to go away.
Larxene, at this point, had already figured out who the person was. She misspoke her name a few times herself. She looked around the room. She had just been in here...
There she is.
No fucking way.
Larxene stomped over to where Xion sat, picked her up by the hood of cloak, and threw her at Mayuri's feet. The silence from before was deafening compared to everyone's reaction, seeing the small female nobody who had betrayed them.
"Ah, there you are Howard!" Mayuri said. "Everyone, I would like to you know that this nobody was a very large help in helping me acquire my powers! It is rare of me to recognize someone else in my work, but I don't want any of you to forget the great help she was for me!"
Xion just sat on the ground, her head hung in absolute shame.
"Xion..."
She turned around to the source of the voice. Roxas stood staring at her.
Nothing was said, but s ingle word was plastered to his face:
"Why?"
Xion felt something hard hit the back of head. She turned to what the source was. A boot lay beside her. She looked up to get another boot to her face. Her vision started becoming blurry from tears, but she was able to see who was throwing the boots.
Grimmjow stood, one of Larxene's boots now in his hand, prepared for another boot-throwing. When the others had seen his actions, they all picked up one of their own boots and threw it at Xion (although some of them would have been better off if their foot was still covered). Mayuri did nothing about these actions.
"Come, Sheva. We have work to do."
Xion followed out behind him, tears flowing silently from her eyes. Anti-Sora whacked her on the back.
"You and I are going to have some good times together."
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"Why did you come here to disturb me?" Mayuri asked, slightly irritated.
"I... I don't want to be a part of your plans anymore."
"What?"
"My friends all hate me now. I hate that you made me do this to them. Please just don't use me anymore."
Silence followed for a long time. Then Mayuri made a noise.
"Tch. Is that it?"
Xion gave him a look of surprise.
"What?"
Mayuri started to chuckle, which turned into laughter, which from there turned into a maniacal fit.
"Is that all you're going to say to defend your opinion? First, I would like to point out that the reason you had gone and collected the DNA of the nobody and arrancar, which was almost completely useless to my evolution-"
"Copycat..." Aizen murmured many rooms away from the current conversation.
"-Was for your own selfish reasons of not wanting to be hurt yourself. Secondly, what makes you think your friends will take you back now? Eventually they would have to know the truth about why you helped me out, and that would do you no good what-so-ever. Your selfishness is what lead you to your current state. It is not my fault at all. Go punish yourself for being so rude to me."
Xion was close to tears.
"Yes."
She turned out of the room, and instead of crying or tears of any sort, a glazed look covered her face.
(Song: "Step Inside" by Bomb La)
Everyone followed Grimmjow's act of rebellion (even Ulquiorra) by not wearing any shoes. More people started to be avoided a bit more (such as Vexen) due to hairiness or hygiene reasons, but it was a sign of hope for the Arrancars and Nobodies... even though they had no clue what they were going to do against the creepy Shinigami/nobody/arrancar. It was slightly bizarre, if you didn't know what was happening, to see them lifting their feet a few inches every time they passed by each other.
Grimmjow had just been walking down the hall to go see Larxene (to "discuss" their plans) when a racing nobody came up behind him.
"GRIMMJOW!" Axel yelled. Grimmjow turned around.
"What is it?"
"I-" was all Axel could get out before he tripped over his own socked foot, doing a somersault to Grimmjow's foot.
"Ow..."
"Is there something you wanted? 'Cause I was ABOUT to go see Larxene."
"Oh right we need her to!"
"For what?"
"Go get her and find out!"
Grimmjow rolled his eyes and went back to finding out Larxene (Axel trailing right behind him). When they had arrived, Grimmjow knocked on the door.
"Hello Grimmj- AXEL!"
Axel madly blushed and turned around.
"GRIMMJOW!" she yelled, before hiding behind the door to cover... a fair amount of herself.
"Sorry! He just forced himself to come. You should... probably go put on more clothes. The pyro-maniac wants us to go somewhere with him."
"While I'm getting changed, can you beat him up?"
"Already on it."
A few minutes later, when Larxene was much more decent and Axel was almost unrecognizable (it's the hair that gives him away) they strode through the castle to their destination. At long last, Axel recognized the room out of his swollen eyes.
"Ready?" he asked.
"Open the damn door already?" Larxene said, rolling her eyes. Axel, with his new hunchback, reached out and opened the door.
"SURPRISE!" he yelled. Grimmjow and Larxene looked behind him.
"Seriously?" Grimmjow asked. Axel, seeing the lack of pure bliss on their faces, looked behind him.
"WHAT THE HELL YOU GUYS!"
The Grey Area floor was covered in torn down blue and yellow streamers, accompanied by plenty of popped balloons of the same colours. Almost everyone lay on the floor or couches drunk out of their skull, except for the few exceptions of Roxas, Demyx, Demyx's cat, Zexion and Arrurerie. A table full of food had been completely wasted from what had appeared to be a food fight.
"The fuck?" Grimmjow asked again as himself and the nobodies walked into the room.
"GRIMMJOW!" Demyx yelled, tossing his cat behind him as he ran towards the six espada, who was tackled down to the ground by Demyx's flying glomp.
"Grimmjow! We threw a party for you and Larxene! Do you like it?"
"If you don't get off me this second I will blast you into next week."
Demyx got off him.
"Well? Do you guys like it?"
"Not much of a party..." Larxene observed, stepping over a crying, drunken, half-asleep Xigbar.
"What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you..." he slurred.
"Aaeri- Aeriu- Ninth Espada!" Grimmjow exclaimed, "You aren't drunk!"
"Of course not. I'd have to be living in alcohol to drink
and I'm not in the mood to die."
"And you three?" Larxene said, pointing to Demyx, Zexion and Roxas.
"Axel said we were too young," Roxas spoke.
"And Ulquiorra said cats shouldn't drink alcohol!" Demyx said, holding up Grimm-Kitty.
What did Ulquiorra mean by that? Grimmjow thought. He shrugged it off. "So what's the point of this party?"
"Umm, you see," Axel said, suddenly back to perfect health, "After you threw the shoe at Xion-"
He cringed slightly as he said the name, like it hurt him to say it.
"- We all thought 'Hey! Now we won't be alone if we rebel!' Plus, we thought you and Larxene might want some fun after what that toilet-head guy must have done to you."
Larxene had a shocked look on her face, surprised that someone might actually take into consideration what had happen to her.
"Umm... cool."
Grimmjow was utterly bewildered. He had thought all the arrancar and nobodies (besides Axel and Larxene) had hated him. And yet, here they were, throwing a party in his honor (A bit for Larxene, but mostly him). He had no clue what to say. So he said the worst thing he could have said to keep his dignity:
"I THINK ULQUIORRA IS VERY ATTRACTIVE."
From that, everyone in their comatose state woke up, and turned towards Ulquiorra to see his reaction.
He was in the far corner, staring at Grimmjow, who was so red a tomato would have been jealous. They stayed that way for about 30 seconds in total silence. Then, without making a sound, Ulquiorra stood up, walked towards the door (all the while looking at Grimmjow wide-eyed), opened the door, walked through, poked his head back in for one last stare, then left, closing the door behind him. For a few seconds afterwards, the awkwardness was almost overwhelming. Then, from the back of the room, a very drunken Luxord yelled "More drinks!"
And just like that, the best and most awkward party ensued.
(Song: "Chariots of Fire", Vangelis [make sure you actually hear music before you start reading])
The gang back at Destiny Islands had just created a plan to go after Anti-Sora.
"FINALLY!" Kenpachi said, as they finished it, "I get kill someone!"
They had all decided the world would be safer if Kenpachi was occupied killing other creatures while they went and saved Sora.
"This is great and all," Toshiro said, "But we should also find Matsumoto."
At that exact moment, a CoD had opened up behind them, farther along the beach (also at sunset, because the time length in this world was greatly messed up).
"Rangiku?" Toshiro said, looking behind him.
"Captain!" she yelled. Toshiro stood up in disbelief.
"I can't believe you came back!" he yelled to her. He started to jog towards her. She did the same. They both started to pick up the pace, however it seemed slower for at that exact moment, for reasons of the positioning of the moon and the stars, they were running in slow motion.
"!" Toshiro yelled, running.
"Caaaaaaaaptaaaaaaiiiiiiinnnn!" she yelled.
The others behind Toshiro stood up at normal pace and then, getting caught in the effect of the moon and the stars, also started running on slow motion.
"Yooooouuuuuu caaaaaammmeeeee baaaaaack!" Yachiru yelled, as she slowly jumped in the middle of her slow-motion run.
Matsumoto was running as fast she could, when suddenly, out of nowhere (for you can't react at normal speed in slow motion) Pluto ran in front of her, and the whipping action from his tail caused her to not only be tripped and fall backwards, but to do a slow-motion back-flip before landing hard on her back. It was when this happened that the world snapped back to normal speed. Riku stopped where he was, confused by the current events. However, he appeared to be the only one to have noticed the effects that had just took hold.
"Matsumoto!" They said, as they all came around her.
"Ow... hey you guys!... Aren't we missing someone here?"
Namine and Yachiru hung their heads with sorrow, while Toshiro, Kenpachi and Riku looked out dramatically into the distance.
"Yeah..." Matsumoto said, "There should be another boy here. Sora, right?"
"Oh, right" Riku said. They all snapped back to normal.
"That's what we need to talk to you about, Matsumoto."
GAWD OKAY I'M DONE THE CHAPTER!
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GAWD I'M GETTING DISTRACTED DOING THIS END PART! WHAT THE FRIG!
So yes it's finally written. I had NO CLUE what I was typing EVER. I don't... you know what I don't even know... life.
SO umm... I hope the chapter was alright. I will probably be pestered into writing the new chapter uber soon.