Author's note: Now I will say this now, do not expect a constant update pattern considering how chaotic my personal life is, not to mention this is my first story to get into fanfic's so one day I do intend to do a remaster for this story when I feel my writing has gotten much better, so I intend on getting as far as possible with this story so that I can get better. Those of you who have critiques let me know so that I can fix the issue with the story as time goes on. And again, the disclaimer I own nothing but the oc character everything else belongs to their respectful owners.
Chapter 2: The first steps on a long journey
"No, please don't do this!" I yelled at the board or whatever the heck this thing is considering it seems to be sentient or controlled by someone and hesitate for a moment realizing I can talk again. "Just send me back to my apartment, yeah, I got killed, doesn't mean you guys can't fix my body, you said the beyonders are god like so they can do that. Please…." I say the last part with a small whisper. This is all just too much to handle all at once. I can feel tears start to form for all of what I have gone through in this small amount of time. These people if you can call them that killed me. All because I didn't want the "prize" they were awarding me with.
Whatever force that was left holding my body still let go, me collapsing to all 4 limbs on the ground with my head down and tears dropping to the dark cloud floor. I stayed like that for who knows how long. Eventually I was able to settle down enough to at least get up off all four of my limbs and sit down. I then just started trying to wipe my tears away. After doing that for a moment I looked up to see where the board was. Upon me doing so I noticed the board was just hovering in front of me. It said 'Believe me when I say that if I had a choice in this, I would let you go back and fix your body, and everything would be normal again for you. However, the committee of beings from the beyond are not going back on this. And not to be mean, you had practically nothing keeping you in your old life.'
"How can you say that? They killed me for not accepting their offer and still forced it on me." I say back to it.
It then writes 'yeah, I get that what they did was not right, but I can't second guess their decisions, it's just like a company from where you come from. You don't second guess your bosses, they decide on something, you get no say in what happens by that point on most things. Except in my case it's worse. Yeah them sending an email named after your great grandpa was a bad idea and… I can't say what I want to, but you get what I feel about this whole situation. I do feel bad, I really do. But what is done is done. Now I am sorry to do this to you, but we are running out of time, and I need to get this samehada aspect fused to your soul, that and make sure you get to where you need to.'
At the mention of having that horrifying sword or at least an aspect of it fused to me is enough to snap me out of my funk and immediately attempt to run. As I tried to run, the board was their waiting for me as soon as I turned around somehow despite being on my other side just a second ago. 'Oh no you don't. I'm sorry but this is happening whether you like it or not. If I don't do this, I'm going to get punished severely for this.' As it says this, I try to run but that same invisible force gripped me once again and I can't move or make any sounds from my muffled mouth.
As the last words were formed on the board an ethereal looking cloud of mist started forming shaping itself into the samehada in it or something looking like it. It held the image of the weapon in the mist as it started to move towards me and eventually started phasing into my head.
Most people when they think of something that foreign like that aspect of the sword fusing with your soul would be painful. The funny thing is I didn't feel a thing. 'You had nothing to worry about in regard to it hurting you, we have always taken the idea of someone being hurt from having a foreign things aspect fused to their soul as a very big no. We have always made sure that never happened nor your soul rejecting it. Now if you want to ask a few questions go for it. But keep in mind we are a very tight schedule so I would recommend asking questions that are very important to your new life.'
As the sentence finishes, I find myself once again let go from the invisible force that has become the bane of my existence. Realizing that it said I had a limited amount of time to ask very important questions that can and will save my life. I decided immediately on two of the most important questions I could think of in the moment. "alright, first question why is my body so weak? It's Ansem the seeker of darkness, the same guy who traded hits with a kid who later could cut skyscraper buildings in half in the battle with his nobody Xemnas. To be fair that was when he was older. I should have been able to at least not only react fast enough to run away from you but also clear a good amount of distance with his insane strength. Second, you said samehada would give a lot of potential. How do you figure that? Last I checked samehada only absorbed chakra, nothing else at all. Any world I go to that doesn't have chakra would be a death sentence for me."
'Alright, first let me explain the thing with your "body". Your body is only aesthetic, sure you might be slightly stronger than your old body. But that is all, you do not have Ansem's magic or insane strength, speed, etc. You also do not have his memories or anything involving his soul it's all basically having a copy of his body without the powers or strength to it. Now to explain the samehada. As I said it's an aspect of samehada. As in the idea of devouring somekind of energy around it or from someone. So, it doesn't necessarily need to be chakra, whatever world you are going to it will change to whatever energy source people use for attacks or something similar, adapting to the world's laws if you would. If I remember right, you are getting sent to a series from your life called bleach. Let me see if I can find some information just to make sure you got a good lottery or see if we can't at least do one re-roll for you if the power you are getting is not good for it and you want to try your luck for a better power up.'
As it said that last bit all the writing on its face? Does it even have a face? Either way it just disappeared after that. At least it gives me a moment to just think to myself on this whole situation- before I can even finish that thought it suddenly started writing again.
'Well I just got done looking for you. And from what I have found your aspect is not useless so no need for a re-roll. Well now with that being done I guess I should send you on your way to your new home.' As the board finished writing this a random portal that looks like the ones the hollows use forms in front of me and the force holding me lets go.
"Wait I still have more questions!" I must know this, I must…
'One more question that is all I have time for.'
"When you said the committee of the beyonders just chose me, does that mean that they just took my life from me and stole my soul away from my chance at heaven, and my god just forsook me like that?" At this question the board took a moment to respond much longer than the other questions. After what felt to me like an eternity to something that has been bothering at the back of my mind that refused to go away that I refuse to accept. No way god would just let these things do this to me and forsake me like this…
'Alright, I really didn't want to tell you this but yeah, your god let them do this.' No! He couldn't have… the board however didn't stop at that response especially seeing the look on my face of pure denial and anger. 'Hang on before you get to worked up. You didn't have a chance to go to heaven in the first place. After everything that happened to you, you started losing faith in him. Not to mention you did have some dark stuff even before that in you, sure you kept it in check, but you did still had it their regardless that would start to show at times when you were at low points in life. As a result, you didn't have any chance by then to go to heaven. However as you know your god is a merciful one, the committee of the beyonders were allowed to give you a chance at a new life since despite losing faith over time, and the dark stuff in you it wasn't so bad he wouldn't allow it, especially knowing you practically lost everything. Hell, you even sacrificed five years of your life to help your dad take care of your grandpa! So, think of this as god's way of giving you a clean slate, he isn't sending you to eternal damnation or punishing you. And if it makes you feel any better all people have dark stuff in them, so you are not the only one. You just got a bit more of it than most. It just got worse for you after everything in life…. Look I know this is all a lot and that it may seem like this a bad thing, but it isn't. This is a good thing. Look I'm sorry but you need to go now, we are both out of time.'
At this point I was in my own little world at the words I saw the board say to me. God has forsaken me. I sacrificed so much for my family and close friends and yet I have been forsaken… I didn't have a chance at heaven?! Despite how many times I prayed and kept true to what god said how to live a proper and just life. For what! Just to get abandoned and have my life taken not even from him, but some abominations. I have darkness me sure, but everyone does so why am I the odd man out. You have people talking about eating their children to save the environment for crying out loud, yet I get my life taken from me without any choice. And add insult to injury I'm being sent to a murder world of not only cannibalistic spirits but also psycho sword wielding reapers! Yeah, they purify the hollows, but the 13 courtyard squads were originally a group of murders, psychos and all manner of monsters that formed it. Good thing my ass!
As that last thought happened I all of a sudden have a large amount of force akin to a powerful gust of wind push me through the portal without so much of a warning. I then find myself sprawled out on my face. As I lift my head to look around, I see the portal close as I soon as I look back. I then get up dusting what looks like sand off parts of my still naked body… seriously after all of that dropped on my shoulders, my god forsaking me and everything that stupid board couldn't even have the decency to give me some clothes. I then realize I have no idea where the portal took me and after I think about what the portal looked like I decided I definitely needed to take account of where I dread I think I ended up being sent to in the realm of bleach. I look around myself only to find myself in something that I did not expect. I am in a giant vast desert with a dark cloudless sky with a full moon hanging over head. I then now realize I am in the second worst place I could be, second only to the hellverse in the bleach world. I am so screwed. As I think this a hoard of animal like howls go off all around me and I then realize I need to find someplace to hide at least long enough to figure how I am going to survive this and get out of here. That and figure out how my ability works with samehada.
In the distance I see a sizable rock and it's the only thing I can see for a landmark so I immediately start running for it all the while hoping that the hollows around here don't see me or even sense me considering I hope my… what was it called again? Rareyaku? R-R-Rearyu? Screw it I'm just calling it spirit energy or just energy in general, hopefully I don't have a lot currently I think this to myself as I am still running for the sizable rock for what I hope is safety. All of a sudden, I feel something, I don't know how to truly begin to describe it, the closest I can come to it is when you have been doing yard work all day long without a drink of water. You finally get to have that drink of water and it is the most wonderful thing you have had in a long while.
As I am feeling this, something just crashed into the sand behind me further making that feeling better. As the sand is spraying everywhere, I continue to run trying my best not to fall over from the force of the impact and it spraying sand all around me and some of it eventually gets in my eyes, even if it hadn't done that the sand was all around me like a smoke screen so I couldn't even see with my eyes being fine. When I had my eyes closed because of the sand and me trying to get it out while running which is proving to be very difficult to do, I could somehow "see" despite my eyes being closed. It was really weird, I could see in a complete 360-degree field of view all around me, however I couldn't see to far, at least maybe 15 feet ahead? I don't really know, it's hard to gauge the distance, but once it got to that point it was just a big black blank. Nothing to see as if I am looking into a pitch-black abyss that no light could help to reach. But what I could see was like looking at softly glowing light blue floating forms of vapor of small streams all around me, being attracted to me and going inside of me while what appeared to be a small stream of light blueish water being pulled to me in a constant stream.
As all this is happening a long skinny white fur covered arm comes out of the black abyss of my vision into what I can see to attack me, which thankfully for my "sight" I see the attack just barely before it reaches me. However, I don't see the hollow itself, just it's insanely long arms that seem to be like rubber considering how they bend so weirdly. I barely manage to move to the right of it as the monster's limb and get scraped along the side of its hairy arm rolling along the rough surface of it. I then fall over after that and as I realize to late that I "see" the other limb coming from beneath me and grabs me through the ground as the other limb then fully unearths itself from the sand. It then lifts me up while holding me in a surprisingly light grip of all things while slightly shaking.
Normally I would immediately notice this, however since I am in full on survival mode with sand still in my eyes, I don't really notice this even with my new "vision". When the hollow suddenly just falls over I assume since I hear a loud thud and sand get kicked up again. Somehow, its arms being longer than my current "sight" will let me see beyond so I can't even get a good look at the hollows body. After the initial noise of the hollow falling its grip slackens enough for me to just fall out of its grasp to fall face first into more sand. I get up and immediately start getting the sand out of my eyes.
The fact that if one hollow found me so quickly and others may very well be on their way here made me work that much faster. As I'm trying to get the sand out of my eyes, I notice the black parts of my new "sight" is getting further away as if the curtain of darkness plaguing me is getting slowly pulled away a little at a time. I also notice now that the stream of light blue vapor that was going into me, now is a full-on current that is now slowing down, all of which was coming from the hollow that just attacked me. All the while that feeling of satisfaction of being deprived of something that I needed so badly for so long and finally getting it, calmed down a little. I didn't even notice it was getting excited? Is that the right word to describe it? Either way I now get a good look at the hollow.
I have to say that bleach in terms of its characters designs were badass, but for the hollows when you think about a human soul turning into the new form on a tv screen is not so bad. Sure, some might look creepy, but man oh man when you see it in real life it's a whole other story. And I'm not talking about a 3-dimensional model either, I mean full on real. Like looking at its fur, it's white and over all of its body, covering an incredibly skinny but tall body. Its arms are as long as its body, which easily dwarfs my own. I would say at least it would take 5 of me stacked on top of myself to reach its height. Then the arms are like fire hoses being thrown to the ground without a care in the world doing swirls around some parts. That would explain me now realizing its arms being like rubber. They were evolved to allow it to attack from weird and unpredictable angles maybe? The legs were surprisingly small in comparison to the rest of the body. How the hell did it get to me then if its legs were so small? Sure, hollows could move fast but if this one could do that shouldn't it have immediately eaten me without me even realizing before it's to late? Wait! The water looking energy was going into me along with the vapor. It was hiding underneath the sand waiting for something to come along to ambush. I then start looking at its mask, its teeth all look flat, no sharp edges to any of them. However, the scary part of the hollow was that it had no eyes. Not even sockets in the mask to indicate where the eyes should be.
So, this hollow senses the energy in others to act as its sight considering it can't see normally, like how I can now and hides under the sand and waits. Then how does it kill other hollows? There are no claws on its fingers. Does just constrict them with its body and especially the elastic arms? As I finish that last thought I finally managed to get the sand out of my eyes. All the while this was happening the hollow was still very much alive, it just continued breathing very heavily while "looking" at me with its mask. Still shaking as though it got done with a grueling workout while struggling to get up but being unable but lie down on the sand. I then hear more howls which put's a big chill down my spine as they are much closer than before.
I then immediately start running again, completely ignoring the existence of the skinny spaghetti yeti hollow. As I am heading for the large rock in the distance, I notice that I seem to be moving much faster than I was before the hollow ambushed me. To the point that I actually have my hair blowing behind me just from how fast I was going. Every step I take seems to kick up a small amount of sand after each step I make. My feet moving fast enough where they are not sinking into the sand like they normally would even when running normally. I then realize what is happening. Samehada's aspect must be passively working for me. I remember when in bleach they invaded hueco mundo to save Orihime I think Ichigo and Uryu noticed a small lizard hollow. They mention something about how it seems to survive off the energy in this place's atmosphere. That must be the streams of vapor I saw, then the watery stream off the yeti hollow was that much more, but ultimately all of it is making me stronger while somehow increasing my vision's range. I just need to get to that rock in the distance and then figure other things out like how I am going to get out of here. Hopefully. I say that last part hoping that nothing else goes wrong and I can get some time before something else tries to eat me to figure out at least how to hide my energy presence from the hollows.
Authors note: Hey everybody sorry that this chapter took so long to come out, as I said up above my personal life is busy, though hopefully you did enjoy this chapter for what I have shown so far. Eventually I will try to start making much longer chapters at least 7K words minimum. Well hope you all enjoyed this chapter.