Here Kitty Kitty
chapter 20
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Yylfordt was looking at the sand as she wandered outside, by herself, while utterly feeling nothing at the moment. 'Nothing, just complete nothing as far as the eye can see.'
As she kept on looking at the sand, we see the moon slowly orbit across the blackened heavens, eternally set on the crescent moon.
'This place is empty and lifeless….unlike the land of the living.' She thought while walking across the white desert sand. 'Being an arrancar has its perks, but we're all stuck living in a place like this where it's night time all the time.'
The sound of hollows in the distance made the woman shiver a little from past trauma.
"I thought taking a walk would help me relax, but now I feel more wound up than before. Sis and her research is a big drag." she muttered, letting her true voice out a little under her breath.
That was when the sand gave way to reveal a tiny lizard with a hole in it's left eye.
'Why must fate tempt me to eat this lowly hollow? It's not even appealing.' She thought as it scurried away. She sighed and ran her hand through her hair before feeling an idea pop up. "Wait...that's it!"
She looked around while making sure no one was looking as she raised her hand up.
ZOOP!
And created a garganta to the realm of the living.
"One little trip won't cause much of a problem, especially if I'm completely careful and don't get spotted." she smirked before jumping through.
(Elsewhere)
-Karakura Town-
CRASH!
And accidentally fell into a garbage truck that was park, illegally, near a handicap space.
"EW!" She gagged while letting her real voice come out in an ear piercing scream of disgust. "What is that smell?!"
That was when she saw several cockroaches crawling out of the ripped bags as they crawled all over her and in her clothes.
(With Renji)
"Hum hum hum-"
"AAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
"Huh?" he turned his head hearing a loud scream, but didn't see anyone around, so he shrugged and kept on walking.
(With the girl)
She panted in horror, now far away from the insects, as she was currently using someone's shower, one she 'confiscated' and was busy trying to get the disgusting smell and insect legs out of her hair, breasts, ass and any place they crawled on. 'SO DISGUSTING!'
It took a while and hard scrubbing, but when she was sure the smell was gone she rinsed off and started getting herself dry.
'By the Spirit King! That...that was gross! And they were….AH!' she screamed in her head while not knowing that the house she was occupied in was the home of a very scary person.
A raging redhead lesbian.
"I can't believe I had to clean up like that after just getting here." she muttered before noticing a redhead girl walking into the bathroom with a yuri magazine in her hands. 'Who is this...wait? Isn't that one that human's friends? The one with the breast fetish? What was her name...um...crap. I had to forget something that trivial?'
"Mmm." Chizuru smiled while sitting on the seat and began looking at some very steamy magazines. "Look at those breasts, they're almost as big as Orihime's~"
'Maybe I should go.' thought Yylfordt while carefully moving towards the door. 'I mean for all I know, she's spiritual sensitive.'
"Oh my~ Look at that chest, an H? No, a J cup! Wow~!"
The woman stopped, looked at her own chest, and gripped her left hand tightly. 'Damn those higher ups and their exaggerated features!'
"Yeah….wait, I smell….a woman~"
'Shit!' Yylfordt thought before seeing the teen standing up and sniffing the air like a bloodhound, right in her direction.
"I can't see you, but I can smell you! Come to mama hotty~!" She yelled while jumping towards the arrancar's position.
'Crap!'
BOING~
And cue the woman fondling the invisible woman while Yylfordt panicked.
(A bit later)
"Ah….ah….ah….." the woman panted while on the rooftop of a random shop as she looked sweaty, tired and not happy. "Damn...human….freak…." 'I can't believe she did all of that and NOT see me to boot!'
As she calmed herself down, we notice that it's a very specific shop, a certain shop that has weird items of the most dangerous.
Hat and Clogs shop.
And at the front of the store, was Renji himself, looking annoyed and busy sweeping the front door of dust.
"Damn bastard, not my fault I made a few walls, maybe if he actually made this place sturdier than wood it wouldn't be so easy to break." he grumbled while kicking a rock with his foot. "And doing this for ten hours is a pain in the ass!"
The arrancar looked down and saw the same soul reaper that fought with her in the past. '...YOU!' and felt her face heat up while glaring. 'I can't believe I'd find him here. Just my luck.'
A dark aura covered the woman while Renji felt it and shivered.
'What was that? A hollow? No...it feels like an angry mother, an angry girlfriend? Wait, I'm not in a relationship! Mmmm...maybe it's a yandere, like the one that hat wearing bastard keeps telling me about while reading those 'light novels' of his?' he thought while the former hollow looked ready to strike him down with a vengeance.
'Oh how I would love to shove my blade down his cocky throat!' Yylfordt thought with a dark twisted grin of hate. 'And watch him squirm for humiliating me and nearly ending my life.'
That was when she stopped herself, while yes he COULD kill him now, there might be others around and the last thing she needed was a fight, she came to relieve herself from boredom, not end up as a disintegrating pile of ash.
'Keep it together, you need to unwind, not start a fight.' she thought before getting an idea. 'Wait, this is the perfect opportunity to find out the enemy's plan of attack. Or even find some allies for sis to recruit.' she grinned before hearing someone call out Renji's name.
"Renji! Renji!"
"Ugh, what?!"
"Get in here!"
"Fine!" He called out while throwing the broom away. 'I better get some training for this.'
She looked around before dropping down and snuck in like a ninja. 'Gotta be quiet.'
(Inside)
"What?" Renji frowned while we see the blond hat wearing shinigami looking at him with his fan over his lips, like a boss.
"I thought you might like a break from sweeping to get some training in."
"Oh?" he said before seeing the man pointing to a yellow cloth, a bucket of soapy water, and some wax, in the corner.
"For the next stage of your training, you have to wax on and wax off all the walls in the shop." He smiled happily.
KAPOW!
"Owie, my face!"
"No way in hell!" Renji yelled in frustration while we see Kitsuke, with a light bruise to his eye, smiling still.
"Well it's either this or fighting a hundred starving wolves with meat on your groin." Kisuke said with a sing-song voice.
He paled in horror as the hollow carefully snuck behind a corner.
'Training? Hmm, I've never thought of how a shinigami trains. This might be valuable info.' she thought before seeing the two go down a trapdoor. 'Eh? That must be the training spot.' she held her breath as she tiptoed towards it and took a peek down.
And saw the giant canyon below as several people were either fighting strange puppets, running from explosions or being attacked by copies of themselves.
BOOOOOOOM!
Mostly the second part of the three options.
'Woah. Now this just got better.' She thought before noticing that there was a ladder nearby. 'Bingo!'
BOOOOM!
Uryu panted while firing arrows after arrows, with his doll avoiding them like before, but it had several scorches on it. 'I'm getting faster, but not fast enough.'
The doll kept on firing at the Quincy while causing lots of damage to the rocks as the hollow carefully avoided the arrows that nearly grazed her hair.
'Shit!' she hid behind a rock and sighed. 'I gotta make sure to learn what I can fast before I'm spotted.'
That was when she saw Orihime fighting her own doll, and succeeding in destroying the doll's arm, which regenerated instantly.
"Ha ha! One arm? Is that all you can do after all this?"
"But it's better-"
"It's not good enough baka! Keep firing! And more power!"
"You heard him Orihime, give it all you got!"
BOOM!
BOOM!
The hollow looked on while sweat dropping. 'I guess Aizen lost out on having a human puppet. And what is that thing on her shoulder? A zanpakuto spirit? A Bount Doll?'
Chad panted while on his knees with his arm returned to normal with his own doll having been pushed farther back on the ground due to the indent in the dirt. "Ah...ah...ah…"
"Come on Chad! You're almost there!" called out Kisuke with a smile.
"Ah….ah….nine hundred….punches…" he gritted his teeth and forced himself back up with his arm changing while he took a stance. 'I need to get a few more in, then I can break.'
As this occurred, the hollow decided to walk FAR away from the 'war zone', for now. 'Ok, so that's two humans, one quincy fighting against those puppet things. But what about that red headed bastard?'
That was when she saw Renji, waxing the rocks with the cloth.
'Fuck this training!' he thought with a growl. 'This is some stupid crap you'd find on tv and think it can actually help!'
'He he he. Karma.' smirked the arrancar. 'Looks like he's stuck with the grunt work.'
And cue her getting an arrow to the butt.
'OW!' she thought in pain while seeing the Quincy arrow embedded in her ass. 'That son of a bitch!'
Uryu himself though didn't notice while she yanked it out and winced.
'Bastard.' she thought before seeing blasts of energy hitting the rocks nearby from Chad's fists. 'Ok, I'm not going to get anything but pain here, I'm go-'
"Break time~" the hat wearing shinigami said with a smile. "Time to take a break~"
The three humans and shinigami sighed in relief as the dolls slumped to the ground like lifeless mannequins.
'Yes, my chance to escape.' she thought before hearing something that made her stop in her tracks.
"So, want to know how I'm going to send you to Las Noches?"
"Yes." Uyru deadpanned.
"Are you sure? It's highly sensitive information."
"Just tell us."
He smiled as the hollow made sure to listen in very carefully not to miss any details. "Alright, it's a little something I've been working on while all of you worked your butts off."
"And that is?" Chad asked while taking a seat on a rock.
He placed a fan over his mouth. "It's a kido spell called Keikaigi, which would allow a garganta to form and let you pass into Las Noches, but it's still in the experimental stages."
"How so?"
"Well, let's just say the last experiment ended up having our resident cat woman turned into a primal beast of lust for a few days. But it could have been much worse."
"Worse how?"
"She could have been turned into a cluster of atoms."
Yylfordt shivered before noticing a woman appearing next to the hat wearing blond. 'Wait, when did she appear!? I didn't see her when I got down here...but that could be explained with the GIANT FUCKING EXPLOSIONS!'
"I'd shut up about that or else." Yoruichi said with a frown as her fingers cracked on her closed right hand.
"Noted." Kisuke smiled. "But still, it is risky, so I need to make sure you are all informed about the dangers before we head over there."
"And to make sure we're ready." spoke Uryu with a nod. "Otherwise our mission will end in disaster."
"And the worlds will be destroyed." the shinigami said. "But hey, at least you all started to train in your abilities."
That made them feel proud.
"The problem is that you are all still at the level of a fifth seat shinigami."
"Is that good?" asked Orihime.
"No." Yoruichi sighed. "That makes you as strong as a normal human without a zanpakuto. Lieutenants, captains and the general are all stronger than them and in essence, the enemies will be above a lieutenant level shinigami."
"Which means if we wanna get there faster, you three will have to up your training to make progress quicker." Kisuke said before looking at Renji. "And you will have to be serious in your training, you can't live in the shadow of your captain forever, you know."
"Oi, maybe if you didn't make me do something stupid I could!" he growled. "Give me one of those training dolls to fight and I can get going no time flat."
"Mmmm, maybe after you do the wax on and off training a few more times. But remember, they are as strong as you are now, so expect a full on battle with your more powerful you."
"Now that's what I'm talking about."
"I can also make it genderbent if you want~" he said in a sing-song voice.
"Oh kami no! I have one too many women like that!" He yelled as his blade seemed to shake a little.
"Just thought I'd put that out there."
"Now get it out of your head." spoke Yoruichi.
"Oh come now Yoruichi, it might be fun to fight a different version of one's self. Like in those fighting game-"
BONK!
"Owie!"
"Get. It. Out. Of. Your. Head."
"Ok ok, no need to get so physical with me. I am the shop's important owner after all."
She deadpanned. "You act like a pervert half the time."
As this went on, the hollow started to get very excited at the information she overheard.
'Wait till sis hears about this!' she thought before seeing the group getting ready to restart their training, making her run to the stairs. 'Ah! Not again!'
BOOM!
'SHIT!'
(Later)
-Las Noches, Syzaleyelporro's lab-
With the Espada, she was currently comparing samples from several hollows to see if any of them were growing close to reaching the next level in their evolution. But it wasn't looking good as they were stagnant and not really wanting to evolve, no matter how many times she looks at them or feeds the samples fresh souls or hollow meat.
"Seems I'll have to get rid of these samples and try again with a new batch." she sighed while carefully holding them in her hands, as they were known to explode with the slightest of touch.
SLAM!
"LITTLE SIS!"
"AH!"
CRASH!
BOOOOOOOM!
She coughed while covered in soot as she saw her sister at the door. "Cough, what?"
"I've got some big news you gotta hear!"
"What, and if it's Ichigo becoming that 'burning angel' again-"
"No no, it's not that! I think we got some new allies from the outside!"
"...eh?"
"Ok, so I went to take a walk because things felt stale here, so I went to the human world. I wound up spotting that one shinigami who beat me-"
"Please tell me you weren't stalking him." sighed the woman shaking her head.
"What no!" she blushed. "I'm not into that baka!"
"Yes and I'm not masquerading as a man."
Yylfordt glared and crossed her arms. "Do you want me to finish or keep this juicy info to myself?"
"Just speak up, I have samples to collect, non explosive ones."
"Well after getting attacked by a crazy human I saw that baka and found out that him, the Quincy and those humans with strange powers were training in this giant canyon area. It was like a warzone down there!"
"Oh?"
"And they were using some sort of doll to train themselves, but that's not the most important part! They are coming here, to Las Noches!"
"Well obvious." remarked her sister with an uninterested tone. "They'd try to launch some sort of sneak attack to get their friend back, which wouldn't work in the slightest."
"But they have this new kido-"
"A new what?"
"A new kido, it mimics our garganta. I believe it is called Keikaigi, but anyway, I think we can use them to our advantage!"
"..."
"What? The rebellion is kinda lacking in numbers." she deadpanned.
"So you want us to have them side with us?" her sister raised an eyebrow and shook her head while holding the bridge of her nose. "What strength could they hold that would be useful?"
"They were at a fifth seat in their ranks, those dolls." Yylfordt said with a shiver. "They can grow stronger, like as strong as the opponent's prime, and if they keep this up….well…."
"Well what?"
"If they keep at it, they could actually pose a problem to the Espada."
"...you do know humans have limits right?"
"Yes I know that, but you should've seen them, the Quincy could fire arrows that could hurt me, the big chested bimbo had enough power to shatter a canyon wall in seconds and the brute of a man's arm was so powerful now that it's like Yammy if he was super fast!"
Syazalloporro sighed and crossed her arms. "Look, the only thing that would make them useful is if one of them had power that Aizen doesn't possess."
"Well at least think about it. At the very least we could get them to be used as meat shields. That's some use, isn't it?"
"True."
"Plus that baka of a shinigami might be useful if he sides with me-I mean us." she said with a light blush as her sister raised an eyebrow at her. "W-What?"
"Nothing, just surprised you keep talking about that shinigami. It's like you have an obsession with him."
"I-I-I do not!"
She smirked. "Yes you do, Yandere-chan."
"I'm not a yandere!" she blushed while covering her face in embarrassment.
"Anyway, if you have anything else for me, tell me now or leave."
"Oh right, I have a question."
"What?"
"Can humans smell spiritual beings?"
"...why ask that?"
"Well….some redhead human kinda sniffed me out and well…" she blushed and pulled her shirt down a little. "Did some unsavory things to my womanhood."
"...I'll have to keep that in mind, she might be dangerous if she can see and touch you."
"That's the problem, she didn't see me, she SMELLED me."
"...just leave before I question your already slipping sanity."
"Oh don't tell me that! You're the one who eats her own minions when she needs to get fixed up!"
"It's either that or eating you, pick your poison." she smirked while not sounding joking, unnerving her sister.
"Um…." she turned around and closed the door behind her. 'Ok, that was CREEPY! I need to find someone to bug, maybe that brat the lazy ass keeps around? Yeah, that won't kill me at all.'
'Sisters, pains in the posteriors.' the Espada thought while getting back to her work, but the idea of allying with a rogue aspect of the hollow's main predator kept entering her mind. 'Hmmm, I'll need to weigh the options of trying that, but first I need to gather some strength on this side before doing something that risky.'
As she looked at her files, all made by her while giving medical reports of all the arrancar of Las Noches, she looked over some of them and then discarded some on the drop of a dime.
'Still, if I am wrong, which I'm sure I'm not half the time, the subjects might be harder to turn against Aizen then in my mind. Especially the higher ups.' she frowned. 'With that Arturo fellow, he might be willing to crush Aizen since he seems more arrogant than him, but he might prefer to do that on his own.'
She looked upon the upper Espada and made sure to keep mental notes of each character, a process she has done a thousand times.
'The queen of jaguars can be swayed with her lover, but with that prick.' she thought, looking at the former minion of the Tres of long ago. 'He might be able to join IF he kept on thinking I was a man, if he found out he'd be sooner to kill me then to let a 'weak woman' boss him around again.'
She moved on to another one and hummed. 'Baraggan, the former king who would easily hold a grudge against Aizen for taking away his throne. He has potential.'
As she looked closer at the file, we can see that his history and personality bios were blurred and faded.
'Still, he is more likely to not join as his creed is stronger than his grudge. A factor that might end the rebellion before it starts.' She thought. 'But with him, the benefits might outweigh the risks.'
While looking at the folder of the 'lazy' Espada, she felt a little hesitant and felt obliged to skip it for some odd reason.
'He might not join for a simple reason, he wants to be weak and Aizen helped him achieve that.' she thought before moving to the current Tres Espada and rubbed her chin. 'She might be possible, given how she doesn't quite seem as loyal as Ulquiorra, and if her fraccion seemed in danger from staying on his side, she might be persuaded.'
She then looked at Ulquiorra's file. 'Loyal as she seems, perhaps she can be swayed….but I have to make it foolproof and leave no trace of my involvement, especially when her current interest is going to be in my plan. Sorry Ichigo, but to get her, you have to become the honey in the trap.'
Speaking of Ichigo, she was now looking at his file and licked her lips a little at the shirtless picture she had as his profile.
'He has a lot of potential, and from what my finding tells me, he is swooning the females to his side, a powerful tool in the rebellion's arsenal, if used correctly.' she thought. 'But with his new form destroying his soul, it might complicate things, but nothing a little practice and some 'persuading' won't fix.' she then tapped her fingers on the top of the file. 'But that one is a wild card, seemingly powerful even by hollow standards, but with limitations that disturb his potential to evolve into a higher being, but if I can unlock it, perhaps I can finally create a being that rivals the perfect kami.'
The woman smirked with ambitions as she placed the file down and into a binder called 'Aizen's Ragnarok: A Plan of Hollow Emancipation from Shinigami Rule. Membership Edition'. 'I merely need to play my cards right and carefully, and that smug fool will be crushed.'
That was when Yylfordt walked back in. "Hey, quick question."
"Ugh, what?"
"Were you expecting the former king of hollows today?"
"No why?"
"Because he's here."
"Oh really now?"
"Yes, shall I let him in?"
"Yes."
She nodded before gesturing someone inside as the former ruler walked in, who was a stocky and muscular elderly man with a left olive green eye, white hair and a white mustache, large scars on the left side of his chin that goes down to his neck and across his right eye, a hole in the center of his chest, wearing a regal white leather coat with black fur lining, short sleeves, three black fur stripes running along the bottom, a golden wristband on both wrists, a belt consisting of three thick chains attached to a large metal disk with a sun emblem, a five-pointed white crown just above his forehead, still as stern and arrogant as ever. "The doctor will see you now."
He scoffed at her before taking a seat at a chair, like a boss. "I don't need to be allowed in from a puny arrancar like you."
'Then why'd you wait till I said something ya old creep?'
"You can leave Yylfordt."
"Yes sir." she said before walking away.
"So, what do you need from this lowly scientist?"
"I have heard from my servants that you have taken personal histories and information without my permission." he frowned. "More specifically, my human history."
'Shit, how did he find out about that?!' "And what would I do with such valuable information?"
He narrowed his eyes. "My past is best left in the hands of death, not in the hands of a madman like you."
"Come now, no need to be defensive." 'he' smiled. "As a person who is trying to learn the limits of what we can do, any information I come across is either useful or not. If I did happen to find that info, I would have gotten rid of it. What use is your past to someone like me?"
He expelled a small amount of his aura, causing the 'man' to gasp for air. "The past for a god is incomprehensible to a lowly worm like you. My past is my own, and you are not worthy of learning of the era of Baraggan, Lord of Hueco Mundo, much less my human existence."
"Ah...ah…."
He released the aura and stood up. "Do not attempt this again, or I shall gut you like a fish and leave you out for the dogs to consume, after I tear out your brains and use your skull as a cup."
'He' shivered a little as the former king walked out of the room. 'Such brutality, to think he was born in one of earth's darkest moments and as a weakling as well.' 'He' then looked at his file and smirked. 'Perhaps a little quick read might help break his arrogance enough to make a compromise with him, for the sake of all hollows.'
While 'he' went to look more into the file, Baraggan himself was walking down the hall, internally muttering to himself.
'Such arrogance, an insect should know better than to become a god. The wolf does not mock the gods after losing their pups to the lightning god, so too much that insect learn not to break the patience of an all knowing and benevolent god such as myself.' he thought while fuming a lot. That's when he noticed the newest addition to the Arrancar, Arturo, coming down the opposite end of the hall.
Said person was busy flexing his fingers while seemingly testing out the limits of his body. 'Even after a thousand years, I still find myself looking at the strangeness of my current form. To be human yet with the powers of a shinigami, a predator of a predator, that is the abnormality of my form, but it's power is strength itself so I shall use this body till my goals are achieved.'
Bump.
"Watch where you're walking."
"No, you should." spoke Arturo. "You might be a god, but that doesn't excuse rudeness."
Both glared at the other as their own personalities seemed to be repulsing the other like magnets.
"A god doesn't have time to show a bug manners. That's a waste of time."
"Well it is not a waste of time to an 'insect' who nearly destroyed the shinigami."
"Yet you were stopped by a mirror and sealed for a millenium."
"And yet I came the closest to crushing the Soul Society. Tell me, where were you during all that?"
"Making sure upstarts like you remained under my rule."
"Well it seems you failed in that regard." he smirked arrogantly. "And how did you lose again, oh right, to a lowly shinigami with a zanpakuto."
"Do not make light of a god, lest you fall like Icarus."
"Yet I didn't fall as clumsy as you did, I held my own against legions of shinigami and became a legend, you? You were defeated on your throne and had your face sliced. Where's the 'godhood' there?"
"Unlike you runt, I have experience and will reclaim my throne from that trickster Aizen."
"Oh that." he smirked. "Funny you mentioned that, but I'm in line for your old occupation, and I have the power, knowledge and skill to use it properly."
"You can not handle the responsibility of ruling a realm such as mine."
He smirked before quickly shapeshifting into an exact copy of the former king and smirked. "Well we will see about that, bug."
Baraggan narrowed his lone eye and brought his zanpakuto out, slamming the tip of it into the floor as a warning.
The copy smirked before changing back, brought out his blade and summoned a dark energy saber from his right arm, his blades humming with power as the air seemed to be slowly sapped of its potency.
The tension was high as the ancient and powerful hollows looked ready to destroy the other, regardless of motives or alliance, for they were the gods of old, and they had no tolerance for any rival to that title.
'This impudent little brat.'
'Undignified pile of bones.'
As this occurred both looked ready to destroy the other without impunity.
That was when Baraggan placed his axe away and walked off. "You are not worthy of a warrior's death, insect."
"Oh? Running away? How unsightly." he smirked with arrogance.
"No, your time will come, for no one can escape my powers." he said while Arturo looked confused. "Not even an anomaly like you."
'Like the shinigami, too scared of my powers.' he thought before his saber vanished and he went back the way he came.
'If he wasn't an asset to that usurper, I would rot his soul to dust, the pompous fool.' Baraggan thought. 'He knows not of my true powers.'
A shadow appeared behind him that seemed to take the shape of a Grim Reaper.
'The power of the first Vasto Lorde.' He thought as the shadow seemed to grin behind him. 'This will be quite the interesting turn of events.'
(Elsewhere)
-Unknown location-
In the void of darkness, we find Ichigo floating in the umbra, seemingly dead yet alive at the same time as he was wearing a white kimono with black chains around his neck and chest.
'Huh?' he blinked while unable to move yet also unable to speak as well. 'Where am I?'
A staticy sound came from all around him as it nearly made him have a headache.
'How did I get here? And what's that sound?'
The sound became louder and louder as Ichigo noticed the chains were growing in length and went right into the abyss below him.
'Is this a dream? A nightmare?'
The sound stopped before a flash of light appeared in front of him, seemingly cold yet ethereal to the touch.
'Huh?'
"Lsus-asya-lax." it 'said' while Ichigo was unable to understand it. "Lusus-kkal-jkasa-maka."
'What?'
"Ikaskaxna-manainill-ajakasinka." it said before the chains started to tug him downwards. "Yahsakajs-jakjaskjakj!"
He looked down and saw the same demonic angel from his training, it's blade ready to strike him down.
(Outside the dream)
Only for him to wake up suddenly was he was currently sweating in fear.
"Ah….ah….ah…" he panted, looking around and saw he was still in the bed. 'What...was that?'
As he tried to regain his barings, we cut to a small room with a small box in the middle of it, a small glow emanating from it, albeit faintly.
Zuooop….zuooop….
The box slowly died down as a small voice could be heard, but so quiet that it was hard to fully understand.
"...I failed….Ichigo….sorry…" the voice said while the box stopped glowing and the room became pitch black once more.