He looked shocked, sad, and depressed. Truth be told, he was on the edge right now. Mental stability-wise. He saw his friend die in his arm, he was attacked by his other friends, and he was forced to hurt them to save his own hide.
He chuckled as a tear rolled down. It was a messed up world that he lived in.
Eventually he couldn't hold it in, and he laughed.
He couldn't take it.
And then ... he fell off the edge.
Not so far from where Ichigo exited from garganta, Nel's city went under extensive repairs from their previous assault from the humans. A small section of the wall was torn down by human war machine called a tank. Though this was nothing compared to what Ichigo could do, it was still a damage to be very aware of.
Nel was supervising the reconstruction when Ichigo's wave of reiatsu hit everyone in her city like a wave of sand.
But it wasn't stable. Smaller and weaker arrancars and hollows were collapsing here and there, and those who didn't whimpered and let their jaws clatter.
With a sonido, Rudobon came to Nel and bowed. "Nel-sama, we've detected the presence of a Lost Arrancar!" he reported.
Nel looked at her subordinate and nodded. Rudobon was one of the arrancar made by Aizen, who were much stronger than naturally formed arrancar. He, however, had almost a full mask; the bottom right portion of his jaw mask was cracked apart by Yammy's punch, which he did survive from, but barely. Nel had nursed him back to health and he vowed his loyalty for her.
History aside. Nel turned to him. "Take control of the construction," she said before using sonido to Grimmjow's apartment.
Rudobon bowed before she left. And when she left, he turned around and glared at everyone who had stopped working.
It was understandable.
A Lost Arrancar was a arrancar that had reverted back to its hollow form while retaining his or her previous power. Their new shape would be permanently in their resurrecion. Only few know why arrancars become Lost Arrancars; it's the same reason why a plus turns into a hollow.
Overwhelming emotion had taken over the body.
Usually, if a Lost Arrancar is born, it means the death of those nearby, for it will go on a rampage.
"Get back to work! Nel-sama will surely take care of it!" he shouted and they did.
Grimmjow sat with a towel around his waist and down on his bed with the human girl gasping next to him. She was covered with his bed sheet, and her hands were bound by a cuff.
"Grimmjow-!" Nel shouted as she ran into his room. Then she froze and she saw the two of them. "Can you lay off the sex once in a while, Jeagerjaques? Anyway... we got a Lost Arrancar," she said as she turned around and left.
The said man groaned. "Who is she, my mother?" he groaned.
The human girl chuckled.
He turned his head around and glared. "What are you laughing about?"
Though she was his prisoner, Grimmjow has been treating her better after the first rape. Maybe it was a hollow thing to get nice after being so rough.
He smirked when she didn't answer and gave her a light tab on her head. "Silly girl."
She smirked. "Well, you better go get whatever you need to get," she said. "And can you get these cuffs off? The key's in the vest," she added.
He went over to the vest of hers, pulled out the key, and uncuffed her. He went towards his wardrobe and opened it. He pulled his towel down, revealing his tight butt to his mate. Then he put on his Los Humildes uniform. The uniform looked like the Espada's uniform with one exception, the main color of it was grey, not white. He pulled his zanpakuto out and turned around. He gave her a wink before sonidoing away.
There are several theories about Lost Arrancars.
One of the theories state that when a normal arrancar turns into a Lost Arrancar, the transformation acted like a step in evolution, evolving the soul to a higher plane of existence. That theory was made by none other than Aizen Sosuke, the former traitor of Soul Society, now it's prisoner. He has created several of them by using Hogyoku on arrancars.
Though the results of this experiment remain hidden deep in the depths of the ruined Las Noches, the experimented arrancar made Aizen bleed, a lot.
As all these scrambled to find its place in Nel's mind, one more thing came up.
Ichigo is stronger or equal to Aizen in terms of power. Aizen experimented on a very weak arrancar and got himself almost killed.
How strong is Ichigo now?
As Nel constantly thought about Ichigo, the said man stood in the middle of a hollow colony with his zanpakuto in resurreccion; the scythe was invisible.
And around him laid twenty dead arrancars. There were more in this colony, but they were child and mothers, hiding from Ichigo.
Ichigo could only smell their fear even though they remained absolutely silent.
He smirked as he spun the invisble scythe in circles, much like how his inner hollow spun Zangetsu when he first encountered it, however, no one could see it, only the wind it generated.
He eyed the village silently.
Why was he dong this again?
From afar, Nel and Grimmjow watched him massacre the colony with so much bloodlust that even Zaraki didn't match.
"Woah, is that thing there Kurosaki?" Grimmjow asked Nel, feeling a bit under prepared.
Nel looked at Ichigo's mane and the horns on top of his mask. "Yes," she said. "We better stop him before he kills everyone in there," she added before drawing out her zanpakuto. Grimmjow drew his as well with a smirk.
"I've been waiting for a rematch!" he growled happily.
"Praise, Gamura!"
"Grind, Pantera!"
Nel's form changed into a centaur and Grimmjow's clothes turned into his skin, except this time, it was black.
Grimmjow roared, releasing a sonicboom straight at Ichigo who was heading towards a house, ready to crumble it to pieces.
The sonicboom hit Ichigo like a rock and pushed him against the hillside where the house was built on. This threw up a dust cloud roughly the size of three school buses placed right next to each other.
"That's right, Kurosaki-"
A small part of the dust cloud parted and a hole emerged but nothing seemed to come out. "What the-" Grimmjow said.
As if on Que, the invisible scythe that Ichigo threw after being hit by Grimmjow's sonicboom hit Grimmjow squarely on the chest and threw the feline backwards. The said arrancar landed on his back but he quickly got back up. "What the hell was that?" he growled angrily, frustrated and shocked by being hit by an invisible object.
It was Nel's turn. "Ichigo! I'm sorry Grimmjow is impatient but I don't want to fight you!" she shouted to him, even though she couldn't see him because of all the dust.
"Don't want to fight?" a hollow's voice asked as another hole was made, but nothing hit Nel nor Grimmjow. The dust cloud began to change shape and soon dissipated, revealing Ichigo spinning a slightly visible scythe. The mask on his face was moving freely like a face would, making a smirk. "You got it," he said as he began to charge a cero.
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