Chapter 2 everybody! I made this one longer cause I won't be able to update for a few days. Oh dear, I hope this chapter is good enough! Please READ and REVIEW; any would be much appreciated!
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach and its characters. I LOVE Bleach and its characters though!
"Ow ow ow ow owowowowow!" I roared and hurled off the weight toppled over me. A yelp echoed the place and my eyes quickly shot open to find that it was Kaye that I had harshly pushed.
"Rie you dick! Look at what you did to my teal dress!" she cried as she dusted off the surface of her clothes.
"Sorry sorry!" I placed my hands out in surrender and lightly chuckled. I glanced around and raised a brow at our strange and yet familiar surroundings. The interior design was plain and had grey concrete from wall-to-wall, ceiling and floor, there was a very long white table and tall chairs... and these flight of stairs in front... it clicked in my head.
"K-K-Kaaayyee...?" my breath began to hitch as I desperately held the squealing of my little fan-girliness-self inside. I could feel my heart thumping on my skin while I thought "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. This is Las Noches, isn't it? As in the one from Bleach? HOLY OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD".
"RIE RIE RIE RIE! This is-! I mean it really is, isn't it?" Kaye squealed as she stood up and excitedly bounced on the spot. I joined her and bounced on the spot as well while cheering a "Ho-rray!". It's not every day you get to be standing in the middle of one of your fantasy's setting. We happily clapped each other's hands together and giddily hopped in a circle while giggling.
"What do you mean 'the Hogyokou suddenly reacted?"
We froze. We immediately turned to the massive door behind and we could hear many footsteps coming in close. OH SHIT, someone was coming...
"Is this what the fucking meetings about?" a familiar voice from blue-haired voice character groaned.
Why am I excited yet petrified at the same time? I have a huge hunch that the people coming in might be the Espadas. And if so, then we're as good as dead.
"Rie, we have to get out of here..." Kaye whispered and tugged at my shirt. I knew that, but where to? There was another massive door across up the high flights of stairs but it might not be such a good idea to exit from there assuming where the situation was heading. I searched the grey walls but there was no other way out.
"We're here." the footsteps had stopped. I could feel their presence on the other side of the door. It was useless; there was nowhere to run and we couldn't possibly fight them without some sort of weapon or something. There was one thing we had and could do but it's only luck if it would work on them or not. I stood in front of Kaye and held my ground.
"Follow me on this," I whispered and she replied with a nod.
The doors creaked opened from the inside and there they were: the ten white and fierce Espadas. "OH FUCK" I instantly thought. No freaking way this could be happening but the fact that they were there, alive, means this must be some screwed up dream of mine.
The frail black-haired Cuatro Espada, Ulquiorra Cifer, was the first one in and noticed us right away. My heart skipped a quick beat at the thrill of one of the actual characters from my favourite series could see us and was even staring dead into our eyes! As the rest of them came in my heart was already running a marathon and as I spotted my beloved favourite Espada out of the lot I felt like I could have fainted right then and there - it was a dream coming true! It's not only him though, seeing all the Espadas - I knew that we were definitely screwed and all but that didn't really matter much to me since I was absolutely blown away by their revived existences. But I had to keep my composure and not activate my fan-girliness-self just yet. Every single one stopped and pretty much carried the same "who are they?" expression on their faces but Nnoitra Jiruga didn't hold back to say his part.
"Who the hell are these bitches?" he furrowed his brows. Every Espada agreed to Jiruga's question and only waited for us to answer - boy, did we look ridiculous standing there. I took a shallow gulp and begged the Gods of Luck that they would buy the shit that was coming out of my mouth.
"Sh-shouldn't we be asking you the same question?" I shyly replied back in a light tone. Kaye knew what I was trying to pull since I could feel her staring at me in surprise.
Before the Espadas had said more questions the door from the high staircase opened and out came the three ex-Shinigami Captains whom I assumed would do so: Kaname Tousen, Ichimaru Gin and Aizen Souske. They immediately looked to our direction with raised brows. The tension in the room was pretty fucked-up. I took this moment to stretch out the idea to them that we were clueless in this whole charade.
"Wh-who are you guys?" I asked as I looked to each character with oh-so-confused grey-filled eyes. I felt like kicking myself for using this overly-dramatic facade.
For those of you who don't understand the concept I'm working on - it's the 'innocence' trick, where you gaze at them with puppy-dog eyes and an angelic tone to show you're a harmless and pure being that wouldn't even hurt a single fly. It's not an easy task to perform and takes years of practice and experience.
"Where are we, sis?" Kaye slowly peeked out from behind me. I lightly elbowed her as a hidden interpretation to say 'good work and keep it up' praise. She knew exactly where we were already and we aren't related by blood at all, so from that single question I knew she would play her innocence on the line too. The both of us have perfected the 'innocence' trick ever since we were little. Thanks to our everlasting childish looks and soft high-pitched voices, we're still mistaken to be eleven years old at our current age of fifteen, which is a major advantage for us on transportation fares and as suspected troublemakers in class.
I glanced at Aizen Souske who stared back at us down with his icy brown gaze. "Hm, how can we help you young ladies?" hearing his voice for some reason, sent shivers down my spine.
"Uhhm... how about you answering our questions: who are you guys and where are we?"
"I am Aizen Souske, these two beside me are Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tousen. 'They' over there, are my fellow Arrancars, also known as the Espadas. You have ill-fatedly trespassed within my palace, Las Noches." he said in less than a few words of introduction. "And you are?"
"Younha... I'm Younha." I gulped. I gently pulled Kaye to the front and hoped she would say an alias as well.
"Y-Yui."
"And we didn't mean to trespass... we just somehow, suddenly, landed here..." I mumbled off.
"You are going to need to explain in more detail," the Octava Espada, Szayel Aporro Granz, said as he flicked his pink hair to the side.
"Pathetic. Someone should be rid of these pesky little children." grumbled the 'old geezer' of an Espada, Barragan Luisenbarn.
"Heh, since they're pretty much useless, we should just kill 'em off and start with the meeting, yeah?" Nnoitra grinned showing his bright glossing teeth. I really wasn't scared of them and their death-glare. The exciting butterflies still flew around in my stomach and practically ate all my thoughts of fear on possibly getting killed by these guys. I just could not stop staring at the characters!
"Nnoitra Jiruga, stand down." Aizen announced that made everyone pause to face him. He reached into his pocket and grabbed out an orb inside a crystal. 'Hogyokou?' I immediately recognized the shape but there was no ominous feel to it like how they described it in Bleach. Suddenly Aizen chucked it at me and I immediately caught it. The Hogyokou was between my hands and I could feel it starting to vibrate. Its vibration began to increase and next thing I knew the orb was floating an inch above my palms and shined a black light throughout the room.
I dropped the Hogyokou and stumbled down from the sudden effect and from the uneasy feeling the piece was giving out. I swear I heard voices, screeching voices and this very strange and heavy feeling was definitely emitting from it. I stared at the Hogyokou that rolled onto the concrete floor. What were those voices? And that weird black blast of light? Kaye lends a hand to bring me up to my feet as Aizen flash steps to the soiled Hogyokou and picks it up. He checked each detail of the crystal with a stern look.
"Nnoitra, Szayel Aporro, restrain them." The two sonidos behind us in a split second. Szayel Aporro grabs my wrists and holds them behind my back as Nnoitra did the same on Kaye but with much power considering the Quinto Espada was insanely strong not to mention freakishly tall.
"Ulquiorra," Aizen continues to command them. "Escort these two to the chamber cell at the lower quarters." he takes a quick glance at us then back to Ulquiorra who replied a 'yes sir'.
"As for the rest of my fellow Espadas, return to your rooms and we shall continue with the meeting at another time."
"We shall discuss and explain to each other more clearly later, Younha, Yui." Aizen turns and shunpos back up the stairs and exits the place with Gin and Tousen. The rest of the Espadas made their way out and sonidos back to their rooms leaving us five.
"Let's go." Ulquiorra walks ahead and the four of us trailed behind.
"Tch. Why the fuck can't we just chop you bitches up?" Nnoitra gave a disgusted look at Kaye who was practically walking on air since he couldn't be bothered bending down to her height level.
"Why can't you just let us go?" Kaye struggled about, trying to break free from his grip but only made his grip stronger. I sighed at the waddling Kaye.
"Is restraining us really necessary?" I asked.
"Lord Aizen's orders." Ulquiorra monotonously replied and continued walking forward, not even turning back to look at us.
Oh I give up. Everything was too overwhelming especially what happened with the Hogyokou. This has got to be a dream. It's just unbelievable! It's unbelievable that we've stepped into the world of Bleach and it's also unbelievable that Kubo Tite's characters are physically holding us and speaking to us. UGH. My emotions and the whole thing are so mixed up.
I am truly super happy that my ever-so favourite Espada, Szayel Aporro is walking right behind me - oh, how I longed adored him from the moment he appeared on Bleach! I absolutely love his insanity, perfection and his dazzling amber eyes... his torso... inches apart from my back, his gloved fingers wrapped around my wrist and his sooth breathing in my neck... BUT OKAY! I'm also super confused, alright? And ever since we saw the, undoubtedly, the Garganta, materialized in front of us, everything got majorly perplexing from there on. And now I'm worried that we might be stuck here with no way of returning home, or worst. Get killed by these guys. I'm sure that this Bleach universe doesn't provide any respawn points, except of course, if you're the main character but that titles already been taken by Kurosaki Ichigo. Oh god. Either way this entire predicament is a rollercoaster ride.
"Younha, was it?" I jumped upon hearing Szayel's voice.
"Y-Yes?"
"Explain yourself. How did you cause the Hogyokou to react in such a remarkable way?"
I gradually bobbed my head down to hideaway my tomato face from Szayel, "Well, even I'm not sure how..." I began to think deeply about the question. I truthfully did not know how or why it reacted that way. I haven't seen it in the chapters or episodes of the Hogyokou reacting in that way, as far as I can remember, and I bet the thing was broken in the first place - no way could it have been me who made it act all bizarre. The Octava Espada asked no further knowing my answers would be useless to him.
We continued our walk down the depths of Las Noches in silence, although, Kaye would not stop wailing and Nnoitra kept yelling at her to 'shut up', so it wasn't completely in silence. There were things I hadn't known about the palace: Las Noches. For example, the incredibly high ceilings, the repetitive use of dark colours as the wall paint, the concrete tile floors, the dim lighting of the hallway and the heavy dusty air. On the whole Las Noches is downright dull and simple. Well, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, so it practically suits the whole Spanish mafia image, which I'm guessing is what they were aiming for.
We finally reached the cell's door and Ulquiorra opens it. Octava and Quinto dragged us inside and released us. Kaye was still teary from Nnoitra's abuse and continued to whine while relieving her wrist.
"Shut up and stay here or else we'll fucking kill you!" Nnoitra growled as he and Szayel exits the room and Ulquiorra locking us in. I heavily breathed in and out taking in the moment and what took place minutes ago. I glanced at Kaye and she glances back at me.
