Walking down the corridors, I saw the door I was supposed to enter. Turning the key in the lock, I stepped inside and locked the door again. I turned around and to my surprise, saw another human! Long orange hair fell down to her shoulders and she was dressed entirely in white.
"Who… Who are you?" she asked fearfully.
"The janitor." I said in an annoyed tone as I started to mop the walls
"What are you doing here? I thought that everyone around here was an Arrancar."
"Aren't you?" I asked, halting my work
She shook her head "Nope. I'm human."
"Well, it's nice to meet someone who has something in common with you." I said, extending my hand "Sirviente."
"Orihime." She replied, shaking my hand
"So why are you here?" I asked, continuing with my work
"I… I don't know."
"Hmph. Is that so?"
"Yes." She said, looking out the high barred window "Though I hope not for long."
"Why might that be?"
"My friends are coming to save me."
"Friends?"
"Yes. Ichigo, Uryu, Sado-kun, Rukia. They're all coming to save me, I know it!"
I stopped working as I thought for a while. Nobody was coming to save me. I was stuck here. Trapped. But at least it was better than the outside.
"So why are you here?" she asked, snapping me out of my trance
"I… I was saved. By Mistress Harribel. One of the Espada"
"Why would she do that?"
"You know," I mused "I never questioned it."
As I returned the bucket and mop to the supply cupboard, I thought about what I was even doing here. I looked down at my gloved hands and wondered. Was I just something someone thought would be fun to have around? Am I just a pet to a more powerful being?
"No." I said to myself. I was not just a pet. I was a human being goddammit. "I'm going to get out of here. Somehow. I just need to wait for the opportune moment, as one Mr Sparrow once said."
I continued down the hallway and was about to open the door to my home, when I felt a fist slam into my side, knocking the wind out of me and sending me hurtling down the corridor, landing heavily on the ground with a heavy thump.
"Huh. That really should have killed you." Spat Nnoitora "Friggin' Szayelaporro."
I struggled to get up, but Nnoitra's huge half-moon like axe thing stabbed into the ground, trapping me.
"Well, at least your neck isn't armoured." He grinned maliciously
"Nnoitra!" shouted Mistress Harribel
"Heh. Saving your pet again bitch?" he spat
"Let him go."
"What if I don't want to?"
"Are you really willing to kill someone weaker than you?" she asked, folding her arms "It'll make you look even weaker."
"Like I give a shit what you think!" he shouted
"Nnoitra, let the kid go." said a new voice. It was that blue haired guy! "He hasn't even put up a fight. It's disgusting."
Nnoitra spat again, reluctantly lifting his weapon off the back of my neck "Fine."
He raised the weapon to his shoulder and slammed his door shut, leaving silence hanging heavy in the air as I got up.
"Th-thank you."
"Don't mention it kid. You just stay out of his way. I don't know what his beef is with you, but he doesn't normally attack people weaker than he is." He said with his back turned to me "Name's Grimmjow by the way. I'm the sixth Espada. So while you're at it, stay out of my way too."
Grimmjow then walked back into his room, slamming the door shut. I turned to Mistress Harribel, who was still standing there, arms folded.
"I finished cleaning Orihime's cell Mistress." I reported, saluting
"Who?"
"Oh, the girl."
"Right. I have no idea why Aizen brought her here, or Ulquiorra's obvious infatuation with her, but her healing ability is useful." She said "Which reminds me. I didn't know humans could perform a Cero."
"Oh, Master Szayelaporro said he constructed my clothing out of some kind of 'Human Altering Fabric'. Said it would give me some of the abilities of an Arrancar."
"Such as?"
"Cero, High Speed Regeneration and Sonido." I said, counting off my fingers
"Yes, about your Cero. Did you notice anything… odd about it?"
"Well, I think it was an unusual colour. White instead of red."
"That's not what I mean. Come with me." She said, indicating for me to follow with her gloved hand
"Yes Mistress."
Mistress Harribel led me to what I suspected was a firing range of sorts.
"Shoot down one of those targets." She ordered. Nodding, I raised my arms, touched my wrists together and focused my energy into my palms. Seeing the small white ball form in my hands, I breathed in and braced myself.
"Cero."
The white beam crashed into the target, leaving a small impact crater and a scorch mark. Further along the target range, a man with long purple hair laughed mockingly
"Ohohohoho! What a pitiful Cero!" he laughed "Allow me, the beautiful Charlotte Chulhourne, to show you, pitiful human, a truly beautiful cero!"
Mistress Harribel and I looked on in embarrassment as the strangely dressed Arrancar began to recite an overly long incantation.
"Beautiful Charlotte Chulhourne's Final Holy Wonderful-"
I turned to look at Mistress Harribel, who had her face buried in one of her hands.
"-Magnum Sexy, Sexy Glamourous Cero!" he finished, soothing a large heart shaped Cero at the target, cracking it in two "That, human, is a REAL Cero!"
Mistress Harribel, while still looking at Chulhourne, pointed to one of the targets. "Cero."
After a brief flash of golden yellow energy, the target was nowhere to be seen. The strange man and I could only look on in awe as Miss Harribel folded her arms again.
"Now Sirviente, try doing your Cero again on a different target, but put some feeling into it."
Nodding dumbly, I looked over to another target. Forming my hands in the same position as before, I thought 'Maybe the idiot over there was onto something… though that name was just plain stupid.'
As I decided on the new name, I hardly noticed that the white ball of energy in my hands was gradually growing much larger than usual.
"Cero Humana!"
An absolutely huge bright white beam shot out of my hands, almost blinding several Arrancars also in attendance. When the beam dissipated, not only was the target missing, but a huge chunk of the wall!
"Holy mother of…" I said, before swaying slightly. I had just realised how much that attack had taken out of me.
"I… you… Human?!" shouted Charlotte "I don't think so!"
I struggled to keep my eyes open as I turned to Miss Harribel, who was looking more than a little shocked "Mistress Harribel, may I have permission to be excused?"
After a brief period of silence, she responded "You may."
Omake the First: A Visitor from Another Anime
"Now Sirviente, try that again, but with feeling."
Nodding dumbly, I looked over to another target. Forming my hands in the same position as before, I thought 'Hang on. I think I remember something like this.'
"Kaaaaaaa-"
"What is he doing?"
"Meeeeeee-"
"I have no idea"
"Haaaaaaaa-"
"It's starting to annoy me."
"Meeeeeee-"
"Hold on, what's that-"
"HAAAAAAAAAAA!"
A huge beam of light smashed through the target, obliterating the wall behind it. Shortly afterwards a man with spiky black hair and some kind of blue armoured jumpsuit jumped out from the hole in the wall.
"Finally! There you are Kakarott! I…" he shouted, before taking a look at his surroundings
"Who?" I asked
"Sorry. Wrong universe." He said before disappearing