Belle progressed in her true environment more than ever before. Her strength triplicate if not more, eating all day and training in the appropriate way. She found her zanpakto shortly after arriving, a large scythe like thing with a pink handle. And she had a lot of fun helping her mom in his lab. The screams of pain and live specimens dissections were enough to satiate her natural sadism. One day she was walking towards the exit of Las Noches when…
"Where do you think you are going?" asked Nnoitra, with his arms crossed. He didn´t lie his daughter to go outside there alone with her particular raising.
"I want to see world, so… to the Menos Forest? Yeah, there should be fine"
"Of course not"
"But I have been there!"
"Yes, with us! Not alone! You could find Adjucas and Gillian there!"
"Let her go" a soft voice spoke from behind them and the giant´s blood ran cold. Aizen was there, looking at them with his ever present smile. Belle didn´t get the danger and thanked him, leaving with sonido while her father stood there frozen. "Don´t worry, she is an Arrancar, no? The daughter of two Espadas couldn´t possibly lose against some Hollows."
"Ye… yes, Aizen-sama"
Once in the Forest she explored around, seeing some packs of Gillian that didn´t even look at her direction. She was wandering in there when she heard a sound, a scream of a woman. But it didn´t really sound like pain, it sounded as if this grown up female was playing like a little girl. Then she saw it, three strange Arrancar running towards her with a big worm like creature behind them. Their leader was a green haired Arrancar, the one yelling.
"Upppppsssss" they said when they stepped one her. She was enraged, now she was going to need to wash her clothes again and she hated laundry.
"I think we just stepped in someone important" commented Nelliel Tu Oderschwank, getting up and helping her brothers up. When they turned around to see the girl spitting sand into the floor, they had no doubt that she was one of Las Noches new Arrancars, but for some reason she was familiar to them… that couldn´t be possible, they spent the last decade or so in the Seireitei or patrolling, they didn´t have contact with other Arrancar apart from Gatembain Mosqueda. "Who are you?"
"Who am I? WHO am I?!" she got up throwing a tantrum. "Who do you think you are? I´m the daughter of two of Aizen-sama´s Espadas, Belle Jiruga Granz!"
"That answers a lot of questions" commented Pesche, dusting his uniform as if it has touched something disgusting. "Like why she smelled like lab fumes and insect saliva"
"You damn…"
"I bet she has been in her cocoon all this time, don´t you knows. And… is that really a female? She didn´t have any breasts at all" joked Dondochakka and both of the former Fraccion laughed. Nell was tempted do so, but one look to the other female´s face told her it would not be a good idea. For the younger female, that was a low blow. She knew she was not as gifted by nature as Lilith or Hallibel, but she had some breasts… sort of. As soon as she got to her feet, Belle drawn her sword and readied herself to attack the leader.
"Say your prays" she launched, but Gamuza intercepted her hit easily. The green haired Arrancar had some sort of Deja vú doing this, as if she was seeing a young Nnoitra again. But the girl was much more inexperienced than her father when he was made an Espada. She just had basic training and lots of rage. "Don´t underestimate me!" pink stripped haired girl shot a Cero.
"I see someone inherited daddy´s temper" commented the former Espada when she stopped the Cero with her hand and swallowed it. Belle was planning to throw one again when her Cero was returned in twice with Nell´s Doble Cero. "He never beat me"
"You are good, Nell-sama" said Pesche, drawing Ultima to injure the fallen Arrancar, but a very known sword got in his way. He jumped away only to see that Szayel and Nnoitra came to their daughter´s rescue. The girl, still on the floor, was sporting a consternate face. She thought that she was ready to take care of herself in this World and now…
"Nelliel… long time no see" commented the mantis to his enemy. She alternate her face to the both of them, the culprits of her banishment all those years ago… they practically did her a favor, but even then, it hurt. "If you want to fight I am here to please you… and take you down once and for all."
"Animal… I see that you already managed to screw up raising your daughter" she mocked in her childish tone. "And you too, nerd"
"You stupid bitch…" Szayel put a hand on his mate´s chest and shook his head. Nnoitra breathed, trying to remember all he knew of self control… that was practically nothing. They would have enough time at the war to fight.
"Who the hell are you?" asked Belle, dusting herself once again.
"Nelliel Tu Oderschwank, my personal pain in the head when I was younger" answered her father and pushed her backwards. "Don´t even think about that, she is too much for a child like you"
"I´m not a…!"
"Heard your daddy, cub" said Nell, sheathing Gamuza. "I was stronger than him when he was made an Espada and he was stronger than you are now. I could crush you… but I don´t go for irrational bloodshed or killing children so…"
"Someday… SOMEDAY I WILL CRUSH YOU!" she yelled while being carried back to Las Noches.
"Wooow, she is definitely Nnoitra´s child" commented Pesche and the others nodded before going back to play eternal tag while watching the surroundings of the castle. They carefully avoided the hearth of the Forest, where a new power was nested.
-Inside Las Noches-
Siegfried was walking there humming a song while carrying a little hollow lizard, he passed in front of every person and smiled at them with faked innocence. He was so young that nobody, not even Aizen, minded what he was doing. His mother watched him, but Ulquiorra was so busy that it was easy to slip from him to continue working.
"Aizen-sama!" he chipped happily when he found his main victim. As his brother told him, he was in the tea room. Siegfried managed to pass in front of him before handing the little animal to his master. "For you! They are tasty!"
"Indeed they are Siegfried, but only for Hollows"
"Eh? Not for you?"
"Yes, not for me" he explained in a soft voice and patted the child´s head. Such a nice little Arrancar he was and… it was suspicious. Considering that his brother decided to leave his army and not fight for him.
"Kieran nii-san has always been so independent… but now he is just being stubborn! And being so stubborn is not going to help him!" or maybe the little one was just trying to make up for his brother´s mistake. "Hum… what is that?"
"What?" suddenly Las Noches was under attack by zombie like creatures that emerged from the ground. Siegfried continue to hear that voice singing on his head and remembered. Canción, his brother´s illusion technique. It changed, now the illusion has turned hostile, but it didn´t matter. This was just a show of his brother´s powers.
"Where are you?" asked Aizen, not losing it for a moment, not even when he stabbed a pair of zombies with Kyoka Suigetsu. "Kieran…"
"So you knew it was me, clever" the blue haired teen appeared sitting on the throne with a cup of a red liquid on his hands. He absently drank from it, as if it was nothing. "And you know too that this is an illusion"
"I suppose that like me, you don´t like people that has the same power to create illusions" the leader continued calmed and collected, he was better than any Arrancar ever created or born in this world. "I didn´t like Hirako Shinji either when I saw his power… even if his illusion was by any matters stronger than yours"
"So, will you fight me?"
"I would, if you were here, but this is just an illusion, so I will break it" with those words the cast felt in silence. Siegfried knew the hit didn´t affect his brother, but he couldn´t help but being worried. For his part, the Arrancar in the Forest didn´t even change his neutral face, this was something to help his baby brother. If Aizen trust the little one it was easier for them.
"Let´s fight"
-In the Seireitei-
"Ashido-san, long time no see" greeted him Rukia. She was about to take him to her house for dinner when he demanded to go to the high charges. The Vice Captain was taken aback, but she did. Once in front of Kyoraku he started telling them about Kieran and what did he do in the tombs. The Soutaicho was infuriated, but contained himself in order to think. By his side, a recovered Ukitake gripped the back of his chair.
"Genryuusai sensei" he whispered.
"And are you sure this Arrancar is by our side? Because from what you told us he is too much powerful, a Vasto Lorde or even more…"
"Yes, he is. A vampire type Vasto Lorde"
"Vampire? I don´t have many information about vampires, but…. Maybe the humans do" he called for his lieutenant and said "Contact the teams in the human world and tell them to find me anything they could find about vampires"
"Why are you doing this? Are you going to fight against Kieran? Because he means no harm to Soul Society" said Ashido, worried for his friend.
"No… just preparing for the worst"
-In the human world-
"Vampires? I know something about them" said Steve Rogers, remembering his old ally and now enemy Dracula. "We can go ask my… well, old acquaintance from this world, but I don´t think he would cooperate"
"Who is him?" asked Taisei, holding his zanpakto close.
"Dracula, the King of Vampires" Captain America tensed after saying this aloud. "He could tell us everything about his race but…"
"That´s enough, I want to see him. Where does he live?"
"Transilvania"
"Then prepare the plane to go to Transilvania"
-In Transilvania-
"You dare to cross my path again, Captain America!" yelled the vampire when they arrived in their territory, but the zanpakto and some rays of ultraviolet light kept him in his place. "What do you want here, you humans?"
"Information about your kind" answered Taisei and made a mental list of the things they knew about Kieran. "What powers do you have? Does everybody has the same powers as you?"
"Why are you asking this, boy? Do you have any problems with vampires? Because if you have, even if it is with a low one, you are dead" the man started searching in his mind and found some things he didn´t like. "Seriously, have you seen him?"
"See who?"
"The vampire, one that is blind but can walk as if it wasn´t… like if he could take off his eyes and out them on again" the King roamed into his thoughts again and searched for deeper information about the subject. "Yes, you saw him, but you didn´t know what you saw. Are you sure this… Kieran is capable of all those things?"
"Why the sudden interest?" asked Stark suspiciously.
"The source is reliable" finally declared Dracula. "Put down those lights and come inside, quickly. You are dealing with much more than a vampire…"
"What are you…"
"Come inside quickly!" ordered the vampire. "And all of you, get out!" his forces abandoned the place and the humans got in. "I was not the first one…" confessed Dracula going straight to a wall with a curtain covering it. "Someone make me into the being I am now. She… was not a Queen, she was a Goddess! The Goddess of Vampires, Lamia!" he uncovered the painting of a woman that looked more like a feral beast than a human. Her eyes were bleeding, her nails were claws, her ears bat like as well as her wings and her inferior part was a snake. "The First Vampire ever"
"Lamia… why are you telling us about her?" asked Taisei.
"Because the only one that could ever defeat me is Lamia, and now somehow her power came back into this world in the form of an… Arrancar" he directed his eyes to the painting. "She was insatiable, uncontrollable. She was a human that was cursed by the gods to become a monster and seeing the deaths of his loved ones forever before her eyes… but a god took pity on her and allowed her to become temporally blind to escape that illusion"
"So Kieran is…"
"Lamia… or at least the manifestation of her power" Dracula crossed his arms. "I would accept defeat if I were you, she is no rival someone other than vampires could take"
"But we are not talking about the original Lamia, but about Kieran. Lamia or not, we have to deal with him"
"How do you plan to deal with the most powerful creature of the night ever?"
"I have no idea"
