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I glared at Los Noches.
No matter how much ground we've covered, and we've, covered a lot, it isn't getting any closer.
"Oi, lets play a game!" I offered willing to do anything to alleviate my boredom.
"Sure…" Ichigo reluctantly agreed while the other two stayed silent.
"I spy with my little eye something white" I started off not really finding much color in the landscape.
"The moon?" Ichigo asked searching around for white things
"Nope" I shook my head
"The trees?" Uryu questioned, surprising me since I couldn't see him playing along
"Nope" another head shake
"Sand?" Chad guessed
"Chad wins. Now it's his turn"
"You can have it" Chad told me.
I accepted the offer and started up again.
"I spy with my little eye something white"
"Oh let me guess…" Uryu said annoyed "Sand?"
"No. Yer face. You obviously need to get out more, Hermit" I snickered watching him bristle and gnash his teeth.
This was my way of alleviating boredom. Pissing off the thin skinned Quincy. I could sneeze and he would probably blow a gasket.
"Okay game's over" Ichigo demanded knowing a fight would break out if this continued.
I sighed quickly getting bored again. So I decided to activate Tamashii no Kyōmei and see if I could find another Hollow friend or at least have something to shoot.
Suddenly, Chad stopped making the rest of us stop and question him.
"You tired or something?" I asked realizing none of us brought food or water
He just stared forward.
"It's just the wind" Ichigo said looking at nothing along with me
"No" Chad challenged
The wind picked up spiraling into a twister filled with sand.
"It's a sandstorm!" Uryu shrieked
"Tornado" Chad said
"Doesn't matter just run!" Ichigo barked taking off
We all followed after him. The tornado followed after us and quickly caught up. In a last ditch attempt to stay on the ground we all held on to a tree to wait out the storm.
I frowned feeling my hair whip wildly about tangling and frizzing. Stupid wind.
"Is this a trap?" Ichigo yelled during the storm
"It could be a natural phenomenon" Uryu hollered back
I wasn't opening my mouth. Sand and rocks is definitely one of my least favorite flavors.
Three snaps made me open my eyes. The boys trees snapped and Ichigo's floating body was barreling towards me.
Ichigo slammed into my tree, shattering the poor thing, and sent me flying with him. He was still holding onto his piece of tree like it could save him now. I glared at him getting dizzy in the whirlwind.
"What's going to happen to us?" Ichigo yelled right as the tornado seemed stopped "Huh? What's happ- is it supposed to be this calm?"
"I don't think so" Chad mumbled
"Yep. It's a trap" I stated trying my hardest not to look down
Chad tapped the outside with his piece of pathetic tree. "I thought so. It's a spirit shell"
"It's like Kuukaku's!" I grinned tapping it hoping the crazy woman was here. "Where'd it come from?"
Uryu popped up gleaming with happiness holding the glowing sphere in his hand. I raised my eyebrows at his disaster readiness.
"I thought this would happen. So I held on to this" he explained
"You stole it?" Ichigo barked pointing a finger at him "What the hell's wrong with you?"
"Back off! You should be grateful I saved your butt! You have no right to complain." Uryu hissed at him
Thus started another quarrel between the two. I, surprisingly, decided to stay out of it for the moment.
Until, it started to crack.
"Shut you fucking trap Ichigo!" I hissed not wanting another falling experience
"Wha- It's cracking! Fix it!" he yelled shaking Uryu's shoulders
"I never learned how to repair it!" Uryu sweat dropped
I paled instantly standing near Chad. He's the safest to be around when falling. Trust me, I've done it before.
"No Chad!" I yelped watching his use his power to punch through the shell.
Unless he goes insane and punches through it.
I shut my eyes getting the horrible feeling of freefalling inwardly and outwardly cursing Chad.
I heard the boys hit the ground and flinched. Thankfully I hit one of them.
After letting out a loud sigh, I cracked my eye open seeing that I was crushing Uryu. Jumping off of him I glared at Chad for the first time.
Glaring at him was depressing it was like glaring at a puppy.
"You crazy sonovabitch!" I hissed "The he-"
A shadow loomed over us. Instinctually we all looked up getting an eyeful of sand. Literally.
I tried swimming and wriggling my way out of the pile but it's harder to move through than you'd think.
A large hand grabbed the back of my shirt heaving me out gently. I wonder who that could be?
I spit out copious amounts of sand, blinked out painful granules of it, and tried to get it out of my tangled hair.
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"That place hasn't gotten any closer!" Ichigo moaned flopping down beside me
"When I take a good look at it, the quartz trees near it resemble needles. Las Noches must be unbelievably gigantic" Chad added
"What if it's a mirage?" I asked adding my opinion in
"That has to be it" Ichigo agreed
"It's not a mirage! There's no way we'd see a mirage here!" Uryu shot down
"Whatever mirage master" I sneered at him
"Shall I explain the concept to you?" he condescended
"Start talking science and I will show you what color your brains are" I warned before feeling a familiar tingling sensation.
I hopped to my feet and headed towards a log behind where we were resting.
Ichigo, Chad, and Uryu jumped in surprise after a shrill squeal of glee left my lips. Confused and curious. They swirled around only to gawk at the sight before them.
On my knees slapping the sand chasing after something they couldn't make out. My left hand crashed down on top of the swift black figure out of pride I smirked smugly.
Said black figure, popped out from in between my fingertips, latching onto my arm then crawling until it got under my shirt.
"What are you doing?" Uryu hissed watching me squirm trying to catch whatever ran into my clothes.
"Karissa we really don't ha-" Ichigo started
"Gotcha!" I smirked slapping my hands together.
"What did you catch?" Uryu hissed
I beamed at the confused and possibly disturbed boys gesturing for them to come closer.
Hesitantly they made their way over to me watching my still closed hands. I dropped my left hand letting them see the small dazed hollow in the shape of a lizard.
"All of that for a little lizard?" Uryu hissed once more
I gasped watching the hollow jump to it's feet bristling at Uryu.
"Shame on you!" I scolded pulling my hand to my chest petting the little hollow with my finger.
"Oh? Did I hurt it's feelings?" he sneered
Glub-Glub crawled out of my pocket and made his way to inspect the new Hollow closer.
The small hollow in my hand leapt from my hand head butting Uryu in the cheek.
"Hahaha! That's what you get!" I cackled
"Don't you get it? This isn't a lizard! He's a suuuupah lissurd of doom and destruction!" I held him up to their faces with a devious glint. "Feast your eyes upon the soon -to- be greatest animal on this blue planet we call Earth!"
All three of my companions deadpanned watching 'Suuuuupah lissurd' and I beam with maniacal glee.
"And I shall call him; Zilla!" I bellowed a tad bit over dramatically
"You're a lunatic!" Uryu barked stalking of towards the direction of Las Noches.
"And you." I jabbed my finger in Uryu's face "You bitter naysayer! Just you wait Zilla is going to become a beautiful and graceful dinosaur"
Uryu flipped me off shouting something I couldn't quite catch.
"Okay, now that Karissa had her mental breakdown lets get some rest" Ichigo awkwardly laughed following after Uryu to our make shirt campsite.
"…" said Chad before placing a hand on my shoulder leading me and Zilla after them.
"Huh I wonder why I only attract reptiles…" I thought watching the two animals chase each other on my arms
"Because your cold hearted" Uryu sneered
"Ouch that hurt" I rolled my eyes.
I sat down stealing Uryu's log along with Ichigo.
"I've been meaning to ask" Uryu started "Why are you carrying around a Hollow, now Hollows, like a purse?"
"Because they bonded with me" I shrugged trying, futility, to wipe sand off my pants
"Care to elaborate?" he deadpanned obviously not satisfied with my answer
"Not really…" I dawdled trying not to smirk at the annoyed look on his face "Kidding! I'll tell you 'cause I'm bored as hell"
"Well it turns out that my body doesn't accept Reiatsu so I have to get rid of it. This is just what Tessai and Pos said. I don't believe them but they said if I don't get rid of it I'll make myself sick. Anyway"
"My power allows me to attach my soul to other people and things, in other words bonding with them. For Hollows we have to be soul mates. Turns out Glub-Glub and Zilla here are just my type. That's pretty much it."
Uryu didn't say anything, thankfully, he only stared at me with the wheels turning in his head.
"But their Hollows. Aren't they supposed to be evil?" Ichigo said looking at the critters on my lap
"That's stupid Ichigo." I deadpanned "An entire race can't be evil. I don't think all Hollows or Arrancar are evil."
We slept in shifts that night just in case. My shift was the last one since I was early bird anyway. During my shirt I got extremely, no painfully, bored.
I held both Hollows in my hand swinging them around like a kid would playing with action figures. Both Hollows seemed to be enjoying this as well.
For those of you wondering I'm creating my own cheap version of 'Godzilla versus Zilla' with the lizards. I made dramatic smashing noises, destroyed invisible buildings and even made them attach each other for a second.
"Om nom nom!"
The only person to notice my rendition of a black and white film was a very upset archer.
"Oh no, save meeee." I pitched making Glub-Glub 'eat' a damsel
I giggled watching Uryu's form twitch in annoyance. My cheeks puffed up as I tried to hold in my giggles.
"Rawr!"
I shook my hand making it look like Zilla was eating Uryu's head.
"Stop it!" Uryu bellowed throwing up his arms along with sand
"You can't talk!" I yelled pointing at him "You've been nommed!"
"You have got to be the mo-"
"Thanks for waking us up alarm clock" Ichigo yawned somewhat defusing the tension
Rumble.
We all tensed jumping to our feet. Out of the earth, sand, popped a giant worm Hollow along with some Tiki faced clown thing, what was practically a stick figure in a loin cloth chasing a crying toddler in green.
"A human?" Ichigo gawked
"That's not possible" Uryu corrected
"Whatever she it is does matter right now" I pointed out
I whipped out my guns hitting the large worm on it's underside. Then aiming one gun at each of the weird things chasing her.
Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad ran forward under the cover of my guns with Zanpakutou drawn. Ichigo pinned down the Tiki faced clown, Chad held back the worm, and Uryu had the stick figure.
"Are you-"
"Noooo! Stop it!" the little girl shrieked cutting me off "What did Nel's buddies ever do to you?"
Nel pulled off her hood revealing a large skull like helmet over her head and some light aquamarine locks. Across her face was some kind of red tattoo.
"Oh em gee, it's a baby Arrancar!" I pointed out the obvious
"Tell dems to stop bullin' dems!" She cried pounding on my shins with her tiny fists.
"Stop bullying dems!" I smiled at the cute kid.
They lowered their weapons hesitantly. Instantly, Nel ran over to them getting the whole group of Hollows to bow.
"I'm so so so sowwy! Nel never thought our game of 'eternal tag' would make people think the wong thing!" she apologized with a broad smile
"An endless game of…tag?" Uryu frowned not finding that idea appealing
"That sound like fun!" I chirped.
Eternal tag that had a nice ring to it.
"Yuh-huh, 'cuz there's nothing' fun to do in Hueco Mundo, ya see?"
"But you were crying" Ichigo pointed out
"Yep! Nel is a sewious maso-kiss so it's not fun if I don't cry a lil!" She grinned
"Bwahaha!" I cackled being the only one of our group who found this amusing
"I'm Nel Tu! This" she gestured to the stick figure
"I'm Nel's brother Pesche!" he cut in bowing
She moved her arm to point at the Tiki thing.
"I'm Nel's other brother, Dondo Chakka, Dontcha know?" it said
"And dis back 'ere is our pet, Bawabawa!" she raised her arm to touch the underside of the worm's belly.
"I think their parents are siblings" I whispered gaining an elbow from Ichigo.
"Hollows have family and pets?" he asked bending to Nel's height
"You meanie! Of course we do!" Nel gasped shocked by his question
"I met her by chance, and she was so cute that I decided to become her brother, dontcha know?" the tiki said
"Dontcha know that's annoying" I said lowly
"You have a verbal tick too" Uryu pointed out
I opened my mouth to sneer back at the Quincy but instead I jumped hearing the girl start to yell something in an extremely high pitched voice thanks to Ichigo.
I was my turn to elbow Ichigo in the side. He glared at me for a second before turning back to watch the shrieking child rant.
"What did you do to it?" I snapped covering my ears
"Well first I asked if they could even have families…" he paused wincing "Now she's telling us about the Numeros system they use in Las Noches… I think"
"You think?"
I sighed trying to understand what she was saying but trying to understand something that high pitched and in baby language was kind of difficult.
She stopped talking, screeching, looking all of us over along with her Hollow companions…. I think.
"Actually, now dat I tink about it," she started again this time fortunately in a humane tone "Dose clothes you guys got on don't look nothin' like an Arrancar's."
Nel pointed at Ichigo, still smiling like a child in a candy store, and said everything he was missing suddenly she just froze. The Hollow's tensed too.
This only meant one thing.
"They must've realized we're not Arrancar"
"U-um…What's you're job?" She asked keeping a shaky finger on Ichigo
"Ichigo Kurosaki!" He beamed placing his hands on his hips "I'm a substitute Shinigami!"
She then moved her sweaty shaking finger towards Uryu.
"Uryu Ishida. Quincy" He stated simply pushing up his glasses
Chad was after him.
"Sado Yasutora. I'm Human"
Her finger landed on me last.
"Karissa Evans. I'm considered a Gringo"
"AHHHHHHHH!"
They screamed their heads off looking at us like we're the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse.
"A Shinigami!" Nel wailed scratching at her mask
"A Quincy!" Pesche cried out
"A Human!" Dondo Chakka hollered hitting his hands on his oversized head
"And a Gringo?"
They all pointed at us simultaneously "Dems the bad guys!"
"You didn't know what we were?"
"Obviously not. This means…" I stopped uncharacteristically serious
The cried together flopping to the floor in begging positions asking us not to kill dems or eat dems.
"There is the only one thing left to do…" I started pulling out my gun.
Instantly everyone paled excluding Chad. Nel began shrieking in baby speak again.
"W-what are you doing?" Ichigo yelled staring at the weapon in my hand
"We have to finish them off. Our cover's blown" I stated aiming my gun at Nel
"W-w-w-wait! Karissa they could be on our side!" Ichigo stammered trying to coax me to lower my arm
"Wasn't it you that said not all Hollows are evil!" Uryu added just as nervous as the Shinigami
"We can't take any chances"
Ichigo and Uryu stepped towards me hesitantly.
That's when I lost it.
"Bahaha! You guys should have seen your faces!" I cackled nearly falling to the floor
"Jesus Karissa!" Ichigo sighed loudly "I thought you had lost you mind!"
"What mind?" Uryu muttered
"Wow. Real original, Four eyes" I grinned
"Like that wa-"
"What's a Gringo?" Ichigo interrupted
"It's the Spanish term for 'white girl'" Chad informed them