A/N: I feel so loved, guys! Thanks for all of your positive responses. They really drive me to write more!
Karakura Town was a fake to ensure that the citizens remained safe from the tainted claws of Aizen Sosukue's demonic plans. Soul Society's captains lined up to where Aizen's gargant screeched open to reveal himself, Tousen, and Gin.
"Our invasion of the human world commences now, captains." Aizen started running his cold hand through his rick dark hair, "Inoue Orihime is mine. She proves to be more of a tool than ever before. I won't let you take her. Stark, Halibel, Ulquiorra, take care of these shinigami."
Violently, three other gargants opened their monstrous mouths to dispose their contents. Stark and Halibel appeared with their fraccion, but the third gargant, Ulquiorra's gargant, remained empty.
"Tousen, where's Ulquiorra?" Aizen barked toward his comrade. His cool demeanor was slowly slipping away. All Tousen thought to do was shrug his shoulders. "No matter, go my Espada!"
"Hello Wonderboy." Halibel purred in his ear as she sonidoed behind Hitsugaya Toshiro. Immediately the shinigami prodigy spun his body around and with bone-chilling speed, Halibel and Toshiro's zanpauktos collided with one another.
"Watch out Toshiro!" Hinamori cried out from the nerve-racking sidelines. Everyone that surrounded her started to engage in battle with the white clothed fallen angels. As Hinamori scanned the battle ground, she peered at Aizen, who was unmovable and yet oddly possessed a familiar disposition, the one that he mimicked when he was in Soul Society. Her eyes widened at her sudden epiphany.
"Rangiku!" Hinamori said urgently, pulling the black robes of the busty lieutenant.
"Hitsugaya-chan will be alright." Rangiku immediately reassured, patting her on the head.
"It's not that! Rangiku, Azien is using his zanpaukto! It's not really him up there!" Momo screamed as if her life depended on it.
"Are you sure?" Rangiku asked as her eyebrows arced from the sudden revelation.
"I was fooled by it already! Please, believe me!" Momo pleaded. She could feel wet unexpected tears welt her cheeks.
"Oh course I believe in you. I wouldn't have doubted you for a second, but just to take sure let me test out the theory." Rangiku assured and waved her hand before she flashed step out of sight.
"Rangiku-chan?" the over cheery voice sung. Rangiku had her sword wrapped around his ivory skin.
"Gin…" Rangiku trailed off before she flicked her wrist, yet no crimson liquid flooded the air. She gasped at the sight.
Are all of these guys fakes? What about the Espada?
Tousen turned his head toward Rangiku. He flung his finger to his temple and muttered, "Aizen-sama, the first stage is complete." With that, Tousen unleashed his zanpaukto allowing a fine mist to dwell in the air. When the mist cleared, Gin and Aizen disappeared but the Espada and their fraccion still remained in battle.
"I'm impressed, but your side will never achieve victory as long as justice consumes Aizen-sama's reign." Tousen declared. With a flash step, he was in Rangiku's personal space and drawing his sword. A tight cling noised formed between the two as the new duel had begun.
Ulquiorra was sondio-ing from room to room to look for his precious treasure.
"Gin is going to kill Orihime, Ulquiorra. I don't know where he will do it but if you leave now, maybe you can stop him. I'll try to cover you, but I won't guarantee anything." And with that, Stark nonchalantly walked away from the throne room, allowing no suspicion.
He was sweating from the tension and failure of not finding Orihime in every room his vibrant eyes peered into. He was on a ladder to the sun, but with every step it seemed that he was taking three more steps back. Ulquiorra was getting frustrated with this fact until he finally reached his Sun. Gin shot the giant star and her shine had faded away just like the room that they were in.
She was laid on the room gently; her hair was disheveled and sickly wrapped around her body. A black hole neatly penetrated her delicate throat as he grey eyes were peacefully shut as if in slumber. Ulquiorra couldn't help but note the night he watched her sleep and now she was forever in a deep doze. She looked placid even in death.
He sunk his knees beside her and circled his bleak hands around his waist to embrace her. He held Orihime in disbelief and regret that he left her alone. If he known that the enemies had approached the sun-deprived castle today, he would've protected her more; he would have been her hero, her knight in shining armor. He failed his Sun and the fact corroded him like acid. What was he to do now? Aizen had more plans up his sleeve; Ulquiorra knew that.
Suddenly the wall next to the pair busted open crackling, debris misting the air. Ichigo and Ishida jumped into the room. Their pulses quickened and their eyes incredulous.
"What did you do, bastard!?" Ichigo screamed. He pulled out his sword threateningly.
"I-Inoue-san?" Ishida shuddered painfully as his eyes began to swell up and his hands instantly reaching out to his sun.
"I found her…like this. Please, take her body home. Bury it and give her a nice grave." Ulquiorra suggested, rising up and handed Orihime over in Ishida's arms.
"Is there any way to save her?" Ishida asked.
"We are not leaving until I kill the person who did this. It's all your fault! I knew that you took Inoue away!" Ichigo accusingly pointed his finger to Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra turned his head to the wall and closed his eyes.
"Leave. Immediately." Ulquiorra demanded. His stoic attitude was coming back as he deadpanned the two protagonists.
"Do I have to repeat myself?" Ichigo grumbled.
"You're fighting a losing battle. Aizen is currently recruiting Inoue Orihime as his Espada. Your side shall not interfere with Aizen-sama's cause. Leave now and prepare yourself for battle for the real Winter War." Ulquiorra ordered, "But maybe I can still save Orihime."
Ulquiorra turned his back to the two human teenagers, but just as Ulquiorra was going to perform sondio again, the lavender fox-haired leader appeared in front of the trio.
"Oi! What a pest you are Ulqui-kun. Why won't you be a good boy and wait until Aizen finishes his business?" Gin chirped.
"He is already has her?" Ulquiorra asked shocked before than anything.
"Er…sorta. You see Hime-chan's spirit is so pure that she is already in Soul Society. All of the captains are in Karakura Town so guess who else is in Soul Society?" Gin asked playfully.
Ulquiorra grimaced, "Aizen-sama."
The poorest level of Soul Society held a stank to it and the red headed girl couldn't help but scowl at her new surroundings. She didn't wear her tampered arrancar outfit anymore, but a raggedly dress that clung to her body in the right places.
She began to walk down the deserted ruined streets. People hid in their homes or in dark allies to protect themselves from their unprotected world. When the once living teenager spotted a puddle on the ground, she decided to look into it to see her reflection, but that was not the only thing that she saw.
"Why is it that a beautiful girl like you be so alone?" a deep alluring voice echoed. The young woman looked up to see who the voice belonged to and gasped at his next movement.
"Captains and Vice Captains of Soul Society, intruders of the Material World, Arrancar of Hueco Mundo," the aspiring god announced as visual screens appeared in the skies of the feign Karakura Town and throughout Los Noches. " I've come to say that I am in Soul Society, which appears to lie unprotected. I have all the souls that my heart so desires, but that wouldn't be as fun, right? But I have taken one soul, the soul of Inoue Orihime." Aizen continued. The screen split to Orihime in a dark room bounded by ropes and the chain of fate sticking out of her chest. Her eyes were wide with fear as the chain was eroding at an alarming speed.
"Good luck finding us at our new location, shinigami. Abort your tasks, my Espada and come to your new abode." Aizen concluded and the screens disappeared into oblivion.
Yay! New Chapter! Sorry that it's a little short. Hehehe. Don't forget to leave a comment on your way out the door! CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR EVERYONE! xD
