"Time to go back to Hueco Mundo." Grimmjow said.
"B-but I'm not fully recovered yet." Nina argued.
"It doesn't matter." Grimmjow said before opening up a garganta. The familiar unzipping sound pierced through the air.
"I'm not going. I told you I haven't fully healed and I –"
"Oh you're coming alright." Grimmjow said as he walked forward and grabbed Nina by the wrist then he began to drag her through the garganta.
"Hey, let go of me." She said as she was being forced to walk through the gate. She returned to the familiar throne room of Las Noches but no one else was in there but her and Grimmjow. "Well that was stupid, there's no one here."
"Don't you want to get healed the faster way human?" Grimmjow asked. Nina stopped her complaining and listened to what he said for a moment. "Look, if you're going to let yourself heal without proper treatment from our medical field, you could be looking at weeks of recovery. Here you almost instantly recover."
"Okay first of all, why are you being nice to me? Second, why the h*** didn't you do that in the first place and third: someone just put me in the World of the Living to die there so how come I am being welcomed back by someone who hates me?" Nina ranted. Grimmjow smirked then laughed very heavily.
"Can't I be nice without someone questioning me?"
"Not with me around."
"Okay fine. I am doing orders from Aizen, are ya happy?"
"I knew it."
"And that guy that set you in the World of the Living only did that because our medical people were so booked up that Aizen thought it might be better to get you to your doctors first so that you don't die on us. That's his reasons and his alone." Grimmjow ranted back.
"I thought you said your medical field makes you heal almost instantly so how could they be booked up?"
"I don't know what they do there, I wasn't a medical arrancar for a reason."
"Fair enough." Nina nodded.
"Do you want to be healed or not?"
"Yes."
"Okay then, follow me." Grimmjow said as he began to lead Nina down the familiar corridors. The rout to the medical room was becoming one of the more familiar paths to Nina because of her constant need to get healed as was the throne room. "Here ya go." Grimmjow said stepping aside from the door letting Nina enter first then he came behind her. She sat down then looked at him while he leaned against a wall.
"Thank you, Grimmjow." She said. Grimmjow's frown faded from his face once he heard those words. He looked over to her but she did not have a smile on your face.
"You're welcome." He said pushing himself off of the wall only to leave the room. Nina awaited for her treatment then left the room feeling 100 per cent again. She loved arrancar medical technology compared to the World of the Livings. It was the only thing that was more advanced. As she started walking down the hallways, she was interrupted.
"Nina, glad to see that you are doing alright." Aizen said forcing Nina to turn around and look at him.
"No thanks to you." She said under her breath.
"Now if you please, I have a gift for you."
"A gift?"
"Yes, please follow me down to Szayel's laboratory." Aizen said. As Nina followed him, she wondered why in the world Aizen would all of a sudden offer a gift. What where his motives for doing so? They went down a very long tunnel of stairs, the same ones that she went down when she was first being kept prisoner. She looked at the walls as they got darker and darker; no natural light at all. Just before they got to the corridor of where she was held, they took a left down another corridor then came to the laboratory. Inside the dark laboratory where all the typical things that you would find in a normal laboratory: vials, racks of chemicals and samples, test tubes etc... Szayel turned around and opened up his arms.
"Welcome Nina to my humble laboratory." Szayel welcomed but it was a little creepy to be warm and friendly.
"Thank you Szayel Apollo. Nina, since you are only a human, I have asked Szayel to construct something just for you." Aizen began.
"What do you mean 'only a human'." Nina thought.
"We want you just the way you are. Not soul reaper, not arrancar but a human. Since normal humans are not able to wield a Zanpakuto, I have asked Szayel to craft one and forge it so that only you are able to wield this one as if you were an arrancar or soul reaper. It acts as if it were a normal Zanpakuto in itself but the key difference is that it was meant only for a single human as the chosen one. Szayel was very careful and crafty on this one."
"Why thank you lord Aizen." Szayel laughed.
"So here, I want you to have this. This will be your weapon that you will train with your master which I will be announcing in merely moments from now." Aizen said holding out the Zanpakuto. Nina looked at it for a moment before reaching out to grab it. She looked up at a smirking Aizen once more then took it by the handle. She rested the blade on her other hand and looked at what appeared to be a used sword. "Your Zanpakuto has a name and you can awaked much more power once you find out it's name. Only you are able to find that out so I will get you training within the week."
"Thanks." Nina said surprisingly feeling grateful and smiling at Aizen for the first time ever. Aizen and Szayel smiled back their usual intimidating smile.
"You're very welcome. As for your mentorship, you will be Ulquiorra's fracción since he does not have one." Nina tried to hide a smile that was fighting its way to her face. She thanked him again and was dismissed so she walked out of the laboratory by herself and skipped back to her room smiling the whole way. Once she got back to her room she jumped backwards onto her bed and cheered.
"Yes!"