( Hiyo again, So pretty much with chapter 2 after a re-read I realized it was kind of rushed. And the evolution felt forced for plots sake. Which I'm sorry about. Also, I still don't know for sure what the Espada rankings are but the in place espada so far are, Grimjow 6, Nnoitora, 8, Nelliel, 3, harribel, 2, Szayelaporro granz, 9. Anyways hope that helps? On another note, I'm sorry of certain characters appear ooc, It's not on purpose.)
After chapter edit.- One Last thing to add, I wrote this chapter before reading a helpful review -You know who you are helpful person- so for ch4 I'll be keeping their idea in mind aswell as trying to improve my overall writing because I think it is pretty bad.)
A few minutes is all it took for the freshly born Arrancar to collect himself before he set out from the room with Nelliels Fracciones. leading him not to the throne room but to a separate room near it, After a few minutes of walking the two Fracciones had just left him to his own devices in front of a human sized white door.
A simple " Come inside. " echoed from the other side of the door.
And so he opened it, taking a few steps inside. And for the second time he stood before Aizen. Leaned over a balcony of sorts that overlooked a large portion of Las Noches along with some odd pedestal thing? Not that whatever it was mattered to the Arrancar anyways.
" You wished to speak? " Ao got out. It was raspy still but clear enough to understand.
" But of course, We never finished our little chat yesterday now did we? " The man said with his chin on the palm of his hand not even looking at the Arrancar.
" Anyhow, I find myself curious about how you managed that little.. Shall we call it.. stunt? " Now actually straightening up and turning to face the Arrancar.
" Well, " He didn't particularly have an answer, Seeing as he just.. Did it. " I'm not really sure how, It just felt natural? " He half questioned his own answer.
" Felt natural? Would you care to share more details, That isn't exactly much to go off of. "
" Details.. When you told me that I could remove my mask it just suddenly felt as if I should. Prior to that I'd had a weak urge to do so but never attempted it. Like a pull, Or a drive? I guess. "
" That still isn't helpful, But it appears you yourself don't even know. " The man sighed clearly disappointed.
" That aside, You are staying with us I'd hope. " The tone he used made it more like, You WILL Stay with us.
" Yeah, If I'm allowed to. "
The man put his hand on his chin and looked the fresh Arrancar up and down a few times.
" Then I suppose a test is an order to find out where I can place you, We have a large training area for this purpose. It's rather hard to miss so if you wonder around you'll come across it."
And with that he turned around and resumed looking back out of the balcony with a look of contemplation.
" Right.. " He exited the room closing the door behind him.
Finding one large room would be an easy task you think? No, God no, Las Noches is massive to the point that you could get a whole 4 mile jog in just running the halls. So he did the only thing he could, He wondered.
Room after room, Large and small. Even finding an exit.. Multiple times. He was about to open another door, And upon opening the door the Arrancar quickly realized it was someone's bedroom. Now, he wasn't a snoop by nature.. But he was slightly curious.
He didn't even enter the room, Just a quick glance was all. Afterwards he closed the door and turned around, And what was standing there? Well bad luck of course. A tanned tall woman, Taller than himself with messy blonde hair, having three braided locks and Aqua colored Eyes.
A high colored jacket in the typical Arrancar white that covered her lower face and sretched down covering the top of her breasts leaving a portion of her breasts exposed at the bottom. And long sleeves with the rest of her attire being the basic Arrancar clothes. And a Tattoo barely visible on her left breast of 2.
Now, Just her being there wasn't really troubling. Even if he had to look up slightly to look her in the eyes. It was the raised eyebrows and crossed arms which gave off the impression she caught him doing something. I mean.. He was, But it was just one look.
" Well, This is awkward. " He wasn't sure but he swore he could just barely make out some kind of smirk, If her cheekbones lifting ever so slightly was any indication.
" Did you find anything interesting? " She asked with a calm tone only lowering her eyebrows.
" Erm, No. But I wasn't trying to snoop or anything, I'm just a bit lost. " Which, now that he thought about it really sounded like an excuse.
" Lost? .. Oh right, You're new here. What were you looking for? "
" The training area. " It appears he got off, Dunno why but he wasn't about to look a gift hors-.. A gift shark in the mouth. ( Get it? )
" Well, I can promise that it's not in my room. "
" Eh, .. Sorry about th- " The apology was interrupted by three other women coming down the hallway.
It didn't take long for them to arrive at their position, Another tall woman with brown skin, mid length brown wavy hair, And green eyes. Wearing a heavily modified arrancar outfit that has multiple armor plates covering her breasts, and upper arms, Gauntlets on her forearms and a white skirt. Her Hollow hole positioned midway between the naval and her breasts. And a mask fragment that looked like a necklace as well as a three section crown on her head.
The next one had jaw length black hair, One Ice blue eye on the right and the left being amber with an Ice blue outline. Being shorter than the other two with pale skin. Her mask fragment looked like an ancient spartan helmet that covered the top of her head with with two white spikes jut out.
The last being slightly taller than mrs spartan helmet, Was slender and extremely pale. Olive green hair that was nearly black at shoulder length. And lavender eyes with her mask fragment being more so a bang extension on the right side of her head. She has three pink dots under her right eye, With an outfit that looks like a solid white dress having sleeves that extend well beyond her hands with small slits in them and two thin belts criss crossing her waste.
And for some reason they were arguing over something he didn't know what it was.
But as if on que they all stopped talking and gave him a similar look to the blonde one had, Only a lot more.. Aggressively.
" What? " He asked with his right eyebrow raised. He was by a good leap stronger than them so he wasn't going to cower away from some angry glares.
" The hell are you doing in front of miss Harribel's room? Eh? " The one with heterochromic eyes nearly yelled.
" Oh, You're name is Harribel? " He blinked looking back at the blonde woman again temporarily ignoring the louder woman before looking back. He could swear he remembered her from somewhere but was unable to place a finger on it.
" Don't ignore me! " She yelled, The taller woman that reminded him of an Amazonian snickered.
" Maybe you're just too weak to get his attention. " Aaaand now it made sense why they were arguing.
" Oh shut up. " She responded now turning her attention to the woman. Hence they started to bicker and argue over it.
The blonde woman remained silent, She probably could've broken them up but it was more entertaining to watch at the moment. The last of the three walked slightly past the two bickering and started a conversation.
" Sorry about those two, The tall one is Mila and the shorter angry one is Apacci. "
Now facing the other woman. " And you? "
" Sung - Sun. " After saying that she moved her sleeved hand over her mouth which bewildered him, Not that he was focused on it for long as he just wanted to get out of this situation.
With a quick turn to the blonde woman. " Alright, Well sorry I was in your room. I'm going now.- " His escape was assured as he turned the hall and began to walk as fast as he could without making it seem like he was running. Until it wasn't. Three hands made their way to his shoulder. One beside the other.
" Well shit. " He said quiet enough to be unheard.
" You did what? " The three said in unison.
Even if he was stronger than them, He was afraid. Why? Natural male instinct. And it was worst case 4 on 1. However he had one ace.
Giving the blonde woman he now knew as Harribel a glance as if to convey, tell them to stop. And by some god's grace she did.
`` When In doubt beg to the tall woman. `` A voice in his head cackled.
" Alright ladies, Let him go. He didn't do anything wrong. " On que they all let go and apologized to Harribel
After escaping ever so swiftly he turned his attention to the mental companion. " Am I finally losing it or is someone talking to me? "
`` Depends, What do you consider losing it? If by that you mean hearing things I can say no. But I doubt you'd believe me. Regardless like it or not you're stuck with me. ``
He just groaned ending the conversation at that point continuing his search for the room in question, And he found it in record breaking time. 2 minutes.
Upon Walking inside he was in a completely Gigantic room in all white that was far taller than it was wide with a glass ceiling for light. In the middle sat a White mannequin which he made his way towards.
Aizen had said something about testing, So he just assumed this thing had something to do with it. Upon getting within reaching distance it did something extra freaky, It changed shape molding like clay into a duplicate of himself. " Deja vu. " He thought as it began to animate.
As much as he would have liked to look at this thing a bit more his examination would sadly be cut short. Upon Animating it stretched for a bit before standing straight. And in that instance it flashed at him.
" So I have to fight myself? " He was under the assumption Aizen would be watching or something along the lines. Hence the ' test '
Swerving a punch having to swerve another right after, Only to be hit with his own fucking cero. I mean really? Hitting a guy with his own attack just isn't cool man. Bearing the brunt of the hit with his arms he was singed but not damaged all that much.
The clone was in his face once more, Throwing another punch at him only to have it's wrist and forearm grabbed, Spinning the clone around he threw him as far as he could with a shoulder toss, Which was pretty damn far.
Coming to the conclusion that it wasn't an exact copy, It was more like knock off that had his abilities and looks but slightly weaker.
" Right, So how do I beat myself. " He asked aloud as if expecting an answer.
`` Try blowing it up. `` a voice called to him. He had somehow forgotten that he had a mental companion. Or maybe he forgot on purpose, who knows.
" Blow it up? " He figured that wasn't helpful. A few seconds after this determination he saw the clone charge him once again.
Throwing a punch which it dodged the clone swept his legs from under him causing him to fall forward over the clone. Landing with his palms flat he spun around planting his knee in the clones stomach, Quickly launching up he placed a palm on it's face pushing it down to the ground where he held it in place.
It grabbed his wrist and began to pry his hand away. As the original began to expend Reiatsu a dark blue encased himself. Of course the clone could do the same. And so it did.
However upon using the energy it began to violently scream, And wale. To the point where he had actually let go and jumped back. Reigning his energy back in. As it kicked and screamed covering it's face.
" The hell? " The group of ladies from before could feel the expended Reiatsu and out of curiosity came to see what it was only to come in hearing screams of agony.
Them going unnoticed, The screaming and rolling around in what can only be described as sheer agony caught them off guard.
" What's going on over there? " The heterochromic eyed woman asked the blonde.
"I'm not really sure, Maybe it has something to do with his Reiatsu? " They continued to watch, Considering there really wasn't much to do that day.
It finally stopped it's screaming and rolling around. Slowly standing only to stare at the very confused Arrancar. " How are you still alive? " It asked in his voice.
Which both startled and confused him even more, It was sentient? For one, And for two. What was it talking about?
" Sorry? What? "
It only shook it's head raising it's fists to charge him again. Whatever was affecting it seems to have stopped. But it was moving faster, And upon blocking he could feel it's power had.. God quadrupled? The power of that punch cracked the ground beneath them creating a small shockwave.
Not that he was incapable of meeting the power It was just surprising. Raising his Reiatsu to equal he pushed back against the clones fist, Placing them in a deadlock. Two powerful forces pushing against one another, neither able to make headway against the other.
The 4 that were watching placed themselves further back at the entrance to not get caught up in the residual energy.
The clone then pushed all of the energy from it's body into it's right fist, No longer pushing back against Ao. Shifting his body to the left and hitting the Arrancar in the stomach with everything at his disposal. If the floor cracked before then it exploded now.
The blow launched him all the way to the other side of the room against the wall, The wall around him cracked upon him hitting it and he was left there with a familiar feeling. What was it? it had been so long.. He'd lost touch with it.
Upon wiping his chin he remembered what he was feeling, Excitement. He was by no means a blood thirsty brawler. But it had been so long since he had fought someone or something that could actually fight back.
But now he was left with a feeling that he didn't like It was a feeling of unrest, unease, Discomfort he didn't know what or why but he just felt off. Though he wouldn't dwell on it much.
With a single but powerful step he was back in the fight. Trading blows with himself. Each punch taken or landed sounding like a shotgun going off and probably had just as much force. Cero's, Bala, Swords. None of that they fought with their bare hands only.
Slipping through the clones guard he began to pummel it with jabs not hesitating for a moment, One after another By the time he stopped he could tell that he'd already won. The clone was quite literally broken. Visible cracks up it's body. Leaving a bitter feeling like he'd not actually won. And somewhat disappointed it was over so quickly.
But that was how real battles ended, in a split second with no chance to avoid the coming onslaught one mistake, One wrong move and you would die.
He looked down at the clone's body laying there as it's color began to fade back to white, It's form morphing back into what it was before the fight had begun. He soon realized unfortunately his jacket had been pretty much destroyed entirely.
" I only just got this yesterday too. " He said looking at the tatters of his jacket.
" I guess that means I've passed. " As he was pondering this he heard a loud growl..?
Turning around towards the sound, Those women Again and in front of the only exit to the room. So he quite literally had no choice but to go over to them if he wanted to leave. Putting that aside for a moment.
He was now pondering on what that Clone, Doll, Thing meant. ' How are you alive. ' .. Then an idea came to him, He's had this irritating voice that would randomly chime in on his thoughts. It might know something that he did not.
" I know you're in there, So if you know something care to shed some light on it? " He asked aloud
After a few seconds of silence the voice commented. `` You mean about that beautiful blonde over there? `` ...
" No, Not the ' Beautiful blonde. '. "
Lately it seems that he's always finding more questions than he has answers to. Either way his luck decided rear it's head again. As he was.. Admittedly creepily talking to himself the group was walking in his direction, Probably to ask the same question he was curious about. But they got within earshot just as the ' Beautiful blonde ' Part slipped out.
Turns out his inner voice or whatever you'll call it either knew nothing, or did and said nothing. Though he was cut out of his muses by the rather loud steps.
" Beautiful blonde? " The blonde in question repeated.
He was beginning to get the feeling this Arrancar enjoyed messing with him for some reason.
" As much as I'd like to explain why I said that it wouldn't make any sense to yo-. " He was beginning to get tired of being cut off.
" Grose! You men are all the same lusting after our mistress like dogs! " The heterochromic eyed woman yelled.
" No? I mean sure she's pretty but- " Second time isn't the charm.
" You just admitted it, And you were snooping around in her room earlier too. Grose. " Came the taller Amazonian looking woman.
" If you'd stop interrupting me, You would understand. " He said with a loud groan.
" Understand what? All you said was that I'm pretty. " The blonde shrugged ever so slightly.
He just groaned again more silently giving up on the matter, seeing as his explanation would be pointless anyways. " What can I do for you anyways? "
" I only came here out of curiosity, But I would like to know what happened earlier. " The three of her Fracciones as he assumed them to be nodded.
With a turn to look at the good as new looking Doll he answered. " That's the million dollar question actually. "
In a separate room sat Aizen along with two others Shinigami Like him, One had a creepy smile stuck to his face with ice blue colored hair that covered his eyes partially and pale skin, The other having dark skin and dark brown braided hair. With a purple vizor . Having no noticeable expression.
" It seems the new guy is even more interesting than before. " The pale skinned man said.
" Indeed.. " Responded Aizen. The other man just remained silent.
Back in the training area.
He turned back to the four. " Say, Wanna have a spar? " He asked the taller blonde woman specifically.
" Why? " She asked giving him a look as if telling him to pick his words carefully.
" Why? Well just for fun really. I don't mean a fight to the death. I just don't know what better to do so I figured a spar would be fun? " Normally he wouldn't initiate a fight with someone he'd met for the whole of 2 minutes at best. But the adrenaline from the previous fight and that irritating bitter victory pushed him.
There was silence for a time, Her Fracciones stared at him as if he was stupid. " Sure. "
" I'm curious about your abilities so I'll use this chance to learn them. " The three other woman had to do a spit take, Harribel who believed in avoiding pointless fights just accepted a sparing match.
"Phew, For a second I thought you'd say no, But hold on. " The woman raised her eyebrow.
He picked up the dummy and Sonido'd to the edge of the room placing it there. Before coming back.
" Alright Just a reminder, This is a friendly fight. I'd rather not actually try to kill you. Or vice versa. " He got a nod as response.
He wasn't a complete fool, He could clearly see the 2 on her breast. But surely she couldn't be that strong right? I mean he'd made it this far without coming into contact with someone that could completely crush him. What are the chances it'd happen now.
Her fracciones moved back to the entrance to stay out of the way as both parties drew their sword. Her's being rather odd. It's pink sheath was on her back and the blade was hollow consisting of only the sharp edges Being wide and short, With a purple handle and a guard as wide as the blade itself.
" That's an interesting looking weapon. " He remarked even with his small amount of knowledge he knows that looks a bit different from the swords he's seen on the hips of most Arrancar.
Drawing his own blade it was actually serrated. Like hundreds of saw teeth on the blade's edge. Definitely not normal either.
" The same could be said of your own, Shall we get this started? "
With a nod they both vanished from their positions locking blades. With the loud grind of metal they began to clash with sparks flown each way. It quickly became clear he had a raw power advantage.
She pulled back moving around him only to kick him in the side pushing him a small distance away. It was irritating, He could see her but he couldn't move in time. Regardless he straightened back up and moved in to attack once more.
A flurry, slashing downwards, Blocked. Slashing Horizontally, Blocked, Slashing Vertically, Blocked. She was number 2 for a reason he supposed. Clearly unable to win a contest of swordsmanship he jumped back re-sheathing his sword Being unable to use it properly. This was his first time ever even drawing it. It was pointless to try and fight her with something he couldn't even use.
She had assumed he was giving up and began to sheath her blade. Stopping once he raised his arms up in stance similar to a boxers.
" You intend to fight me bare handed? " She asked with a squint.
" Sorry if it comes off as insulting, But my swordsmanship is lackluster so I'll fight you the way I know how."
Moving back into her combat ready stance she then appeared in front of him again. Slashing downwards. Leaning to the left he reached for her wrist. Grabbing it he tried the same thing he'd done previously with the clone. A shoulder throw.
Once he'd thrown her over his shoulder however she planted her feet down right in front of him. I mean what was this woman made of air? She tried to kick him again, Only for her leg to be blocked by an open palm. After retracting her leg she moved back.
He took in a deep breath holding it there, Charging from his position he rapidly flashed around her. A mere distraction considering she was faster than himself. She went for a backhand to just knock him away which was probably the worst option.
Upon her hand coming within mere inches of his face, He flipped over it barely able to avoid it. Now opening his mouth he fired a dark blue cero that had practically no charge. Cutting the cero in two as one does to avoid being blown up and creating some distance.
They now stood a small distance apart neither moving. Waiting for the other to do something. After a short pause a Cero dark blue in color began to form in front of his mouth. Not particularly wanting to find out how powerful it was this time, she charged at him. bringing her fist towards his face to stop him from firing it.
Except It dissipated well before her fist reached him. It was a bluff, pushing the excess energy from the cero into his legs grabbing her wrist, And the collar of her jacket. His head snapped back before Headbutting her with every ounce of his strength. Forehead to forehead.
They both froze there In that position then slowly they leaned back. The fight was clearly over at this point. she probably could have avoided it if she hadn't been distracted. Alas she did not.
" Holy fuck that hurts. " He put his hand on his head wobbling in place until his balance was regained.
And now, With a headache so severe it made his eyes blurry he had.. Well, kind of won? he'd probably be excited, Or happy that he'd won. But the Splitting headache tore any enjoyment of his win out of him.
Harribel still hadn't moved from the spot. No matter how hard an Arrancar's skin may be there's no defending against blunt force trauma to that extent.
Fun Arrancar fact of the day, Arrancars have an innate ability called Hierro which basically means they have incredibly hard skin to the point that some can be slashed only to never even leave a mark. However a Hierro won't stop blunt force damage as effectively as it does piercing or slashing weapons.
" Hey- Are you alright? " He asked now standing up straight still covering his head.
Silence, her Fracciones in the distance beginning to worry about her lack of moving.
" Miss harribel? " He asked again, Still nothing. That's when she began to fall backwards, Reaching out and grabbing her wrist to keep her from falling with his left hand.
" Did I knock her out..? No way, You're joking right? " He slowly let her down so she didn't make the most likely concussion worse.
" God damn this hurts. " He was seeing triple at this point.
The woman's Fracciones ran over even more worried for the sake of their leader fired off questions. They saw the fight but weren't quite sure what had happened.
" What did you do to her? " They all asked staring at him again like they had done before.
" All I did was head butt her.. "
The three took a pause, " You headbutt her? " Mila asked in shock While the other two just deadpanned.
" How did you manage to Headbutt her so hard that you knocked her out? " Sun sun asked.
" Well, I don't know? I just headbutt her as hard as I could. I didn't think it'd actually hurt her much.."
" Is she alright? I'd check.. But.. God- Ow- "
"Oh, she's fine. Other than.. Being unconscious." Apacci responded after a quick check.
" Great.. " He fell back onto his back staring up at the clear glass ceiling.
" Out of curiosity. " The three gathered around him staring like hawks.
" What compelled you to headbutt her? Of all things? She could've cut you in half. " The two pretty much fully agreed with Mila's question.
" Well, She's super strong. And faster than I am. So.. I just had to get her close. And my hands were occupied so.. I used my head."
Mila started to snort a laugh. " You're a brave guy, Most wouldn't dare try something like that on her. "
" I've heard worse, I'll take it. "
" Anyways, How do we wake her up? " He said now sitting up.
" Good question. " They echoed.
" Try poking her? " he asked in a childlike manner.
" Poke? " Sung - sun and mila rose asked.
Apacci walked over and proceeded to poke her a few times In the stomach. After about the 17th time her hand was slapped away.
" It worked? " They asked.
" As you can see it did, Somehow. " he shrugged.
The woman slowly sat up with her hands on her forehead as if trying to shield her brain from the light. With a loud groan that was very different from her earlier Demeanor.
" Of all things, a headbutt cost me a loss? " She asked pulling down one of her hands.
" I wouldn't call it a loss. More of a draw. " Without responding to that she looked at her Fracciones
" Can you three get me something to drink? " She asked with a ' next day hangover ' voice.
Setting off they went to find the kitchen. And with the Fracciones gone that left the two of them just sitting in the floor with massive headaches.
" Sorry about that.. " He laid back down looking at the ceiling.
" All's fair in war. "
" Well, Fair as it may be I will never do that again. It wasn't worth it. "
" What's your name? " She asked out of nowhere.
" I lost my name a long time ago. So I've just called myself Ao. "
" Ao? Doesn't that mean Blue? "
" Yep. It's simple but it's worked. "
What was visible of her face adopted an expression he couldn't quite describe, But in silence she stood up and walked over to him Kneeling near his head.
" What are you doin- " She kneeled and stared at the fragment of his mask. The ash Black horn with a feint Blue running through.
She felt dumb, Why hadn't she realized it before? His Reiatsu is the same as it was then.
- Flash back. -
The blonde was in the middle of a fight with another Vasto Lorde this was back when she was still a Vasto Lorde herself. Welding a large shark tooth looking blade. And having a long strand from the center of her back that extended to her upper thighs taking the shape of a sharks tail at the end. her body covered in bone white armor from her head down. Only a portion of her face showing any skin.
The Vasto Lorde she was fighting was An odd shaped hollow with massive fists, And a humanoid head covered with white hollow bone. A hole at the pit of it's stomach, It's body was equally as large as it's fists. Her companions in their Adjucha's forms, Mila rose a lion with bone plate on the thighs and a golden mask. Sung sun a large white snake hollow with a mask situated atop her head and apacci a large deer Adjucha's whos mask was the skull and antlers.
The three were behind her beaten and out cold. The Vasto Lorde had sneaked up on them and attempted to eat them all. But it ended up being a battle between him and Harribel who was running out of steam rapidly.
Blocking it's massive strikes with the flat of her blade. Being pushed away each time Exhausted, And beginning to run out of Reiatsu. The reality had set in that she and her friends were about to be eaten. It swung once more. She couldn't block it she didn't have the strength left so she closed her eyes and waited to die in that split second giving in to the idea of death.
It's fist came inches from her body only to stop with a cracking sound ringing out, upon re-opening her eyes before her stood what she at the time could only describe as the personification of death. A semi Lizard like Vasto Lorde with a long Boney tail, Ash black in color with blue criss crossing patterns that started at the Hole over it's heart. Bone like plates on the flats of it's arms and horns on top of it's head pointed forwards with a mask that didn't hold a shred of kindness, A mask that drove her instinctual fear through the roof. It was standing beside her maybe a few inches in front of herself. The wind blowing it's long spikey black hair in front of her.
It stood blocking the opposing Vasto Lorde's fist with the flat of it's arm but not attacking, It just stared at it with iced over near glowing blue eyes. The Vasto would draw it's fist back and punch again, Only to be stopped with an outstretched palm. The Vasto Lorde then began to shiver his instincts telling him to run.
An orb of a Dark blue formed in it's right hand at the tips of his fingers. It slowly moved the cero towards the Vasto Lorde's head all the while it was paralysed unable to run out of fear from it's coming death. Once the cero was pointed at it's head it remained there for a few seconds.. But then it fizzled out into particles blowing away in the wind.
" Go. " Was all it said causing the Vasto Lorde to fall back and begin to clamber away kicking up dust and sand all around as it ran not going to forsake this pointless mercy.
The creature turned giving her an indignant look garnering her confusion, saved or not she held her blade up in the direction of the Vasto Lorde expecting it to try and devour her. Not like her pointing it at him was exactly a threat considering she could barely hold it at this point. And then it did the unexpected, It put it's hands up.
" Watch where you point that thing, It'll put an eye out. " He commented laxly
" Shouldn't you watch your comrades over there. " He said in the same calm tone causing her to look over to check on them, They were fine but upon looking back the Vasto Lorde was gone.
-Flash back end-
While she was remembering these things he was just sitting on the floor looking up at her, Creeped out by being staring at in silence. After a while of continued staring she shook her head.
" Do you remember who I am? "
" You do look oddly familiar, But sorry I don't know where from. "
She reached up to the zipper of her jacket pulling the zipper down to her mid neck showing the mask fragment covering her lower face and neck. Undoing her braids and shaking her hair a bit to make it more wild looking.
" How about now. "
It took a while to piece who she was together considering it'd been a long time since they met, And it hadn't exactly lasted long.
" .. The Vasto Lorde with that odd looking weapon and the three Loin, Snake, And deer looking Adjucha's? "
" Yeah, That was us. " She zipped her jacket back up and began re braiding her hair.
" Oh yeah!, I remember you now, You tried to poke my eye out."
Sitting down beside him now. " That's all you remember? "
" Not exactly what I remember is-. "
- Flash back. -
as it turns out his recount of events is slightly different, Personification of death? Try bored Vasto Lorde wondering around for something to do. And amidst his wondering he by chance came upon them fighting, if the bloodlust was anything to go off of. The bigger one was trying to eat the smaller ones.
And since he could, He interrupted. No real reason, He just wanted to. In the past he might put up some vain excuse like wanting to save weaker souls. But the reality was that he couldn't save anybody. So this was just a whim.
Flashing from his spot in the distance into the middle of the fight, He stopped the hit with his arm. Waiting and expecting something stronger but nothing stronger ever came.. Disappointing as it was. So he just decided to scare the weaker Vasto Lorde away with a bluff Cero. And it worked amazingly well.
As he dissipated the cero he spoke only one word. " Go. " To further intimidate the Hollow. So it just ended up running away from a bluff and being essentially told to go away.
And out of mere curiosity, He turned to look at the other Vasto Lorde coming to realize that it was actually a Woman. Not that it mattered. But hey, he'd never seen a woman Vasto Lorde before so it was interesting. And she was pointing an odd looking sword his way even if she wobbled slightly.
Makes sense. He was intimidating he thought. " Watch where you point that thing, It'll put an eye out. " Causing the woman to squint at him slightly.
" Shouldn't you watch your comrades over there. " When she turned to look at them he flashed away in an attempt to avoid any possible questions or fights. Since she'd just die anyways. And now that he had did that. He was back to being bored.
- Flash back end. -
He was cut out of his remembering by a question. " Why didn't you use your sword? " A fair question.
" Well, I don't really know how to use it properly yet. I've only had it for a day after all. So I thought it made more sense to fight you with what I'm good at. "
" Still, You fought me with your bare hands. Were you not worried of being cut down? "
" Hmm, Not really. I doubted you'd cut me too bad and if you did, At least nothing that would kill me. "
" I'm not sure if that is brave or just foolish. " She said with a familiar squint.
" Mixture of both. " As he said that her Fracciones finally came back with her water. I mean seriously what took them so long? They've been there for almost 20 minutes now.. Could it be.. PLOT!? Dun dun duuun. Sorry, Anyways.
Sometimes one has to wonder how Aizen manages to plot within his plots, When he has a migraine it must be on a whole other level. And speaking of him, He's still watching with the two other Shinigami. Had he somehow managed to plan all of this happening? Surely not.
Not that it mattered. " One might call that Arrancar.. Special. " The pale white haired Shinigami said having been watching along with Aizen and the other Shinigami with glasses well maybe not the guy with glasses, He was just kind of there.
" That's one word for it I suppose. " The brown haired man responded. Still watching the screen.
" Though, It's sure to become more interesting with time. " The Shinigami gave him a confused look, Well.. As confused as his creepy smiling face can be.
Once again in the room, He was still on the floor, Less out of exhaustion and more just that he was comfortable. Apacci and Mila were arguing over something again even as they entered the room with Harribels water.
" Well, Seems they're back. " he yawned from the floor before standing and dusting his tattered shirt off.
" I guess I'll catch you later Miss Harribel. " he tried to walk away, But she wasn't going to let him. And he soon realized he wasn't in fact walking Instead being pulled back. Looking down a hand was on his wrist.
" Where do you plan to go. " That voice for some reason gave him chills. She was using the same tone, And yet it was scary.
`` Rest in peace. `` His inner voice said with a loud cackle.
" Well, My room..? to wait for some kind of instruction from Aizen..? " The grip on his wrist became tighter.
Her Fracciones watched curiously there not being much they could say.
" I'm not letting go yet, I spent too long looking for you all that time ago to just let you run away now that I've finally found you. " No fluctuation in tone. Just the same calm and collected voice.
" Why though? " He couldn't pull his arm away still, Talk about an iron grip.
" I owe you something, And I refuse to remain in debt. " That was probably her pride talking, It isn't uncommon for Vasto Lorde Hollow's to have a rather large amount of pride. it seems becoming an Arrancar didn't diminish it.
`` For whatever reason she still feels like she owes us, Just tell her that if she wants to pay back her debt to improve our swordsmanship.`` For once the disembodied voice was helpful?
" Alright, How about this then. Since you feel indebted to me why not pay it back by teaching me how to better use a sword. "
The woman thought about it for a minute before speaking. " That's all you want? That doesn't exactly feel like equal payment.. "
`` Plan B, Go the pay me with your body route. ``
" HELLO NO? " He yelled out loud before quickly covering his mouth.
" Sorry, That had nothing to do with this situation. But yeah just help me learn to use a sword properly, Thats fine. "
The blonde looked at him as if he had multiple screws loose, Which to be fair he most likely did deciding not to comment on it though.
" If that's all I can do to levy the debt then alright. " With that she finally let his wrist go allowing him to leave, On his way out he noticed the 4 woman talking about something but he didn't stick around long enough to hear it.
Once out of the room he walked back through the halls. hearing nothing and not having anybody tell him what to do he assumed he was free, And instead of his room he chose to explore around some more. The first door he opened led him straight outside into the massive area that was las Noches. A large balcony type area overlooking a massive bowl of sand.
The large sun in the sky was beyond impressive but he still missed the moon, It brought him a form of peace he got from no other source, an embodiment of serenity in his opinion. But he felt it again, That feeling like something inside was twisting and misplaced.
`` You sure do mull over things excessively y'know that? `` The disembodied voice cut in once more.
" Of course I do, What else would I think about? "
`` Fighting? Battle of any kind? Challenging an Espada? learning how to wield me properly?``
" All of that is just fighting, But I guess that last one.. Would be Important, But not now. " The fresh Arrancar was beyond exhausted from his first day as a member of Las Noches having been in two battles and having to think so much only made the still lingering headache worse.
He was a bit disappointed he didn't get any more exploring in but it is what it is.
The best option was sleep, Something he'd forgot he needed until the tiredness began to set in. Walking away from the balcony and back into the winding hallways he was quickly able to find his room luckily enough. Sparing no time and immediately faceplanting his bed. By far the best thing he's done all day.
`` You do realize that you're gonna have to train with that Blonde tomorrow right? I get the feeling she's going to knock the air out of you, literally. Not to mention her pycho' entourage. ``
" Probably, But I'm too tired to care right now. " With a long lawn he began to drift into slumber mere minutes later slumber became loud snoring.
( Chapter 3, Wanted to Introduce Some of the Espada, More will come.. And at this point if you're a bleach fan and don't know what's going on it's most likely my head canon making something up. I really do hope it was enjoyed though. And no, I'm not making a Harem or anything it's just I think the only two Arrancar's who would be even remotely friendly would be the only female Espada, It just kind of turned out that way. )