-Chapter 2-

All right then, here's chapter two. :) It would have been here sooner if I got more reviews, but hey. To the five people who did review, thank you. To the ones that didn't, reviewing makes me type this up faster. Then again, Combined Studies class also has an effect on my writing time. If you like the story, review. And no, there are no Original Characters to speak of within this story. If you try to bitch about that, you are wrong. This is a crossover with Fire Emblem 10, go look it up if you've never played it.

"Stop calling me Soren. My name is Ulquiorra Schiffer, the Cuarta Espada. I have never met you before, so decease acing so familiar with me," Ulquiorra replied with his trademark blank face and monotone voice.

"Well, damn, I guess you really have forgotten all of it. Mist said that it could happen to those that turned into hollows and stayed that way for too long, but I guess I thought that it would never happen to you, old friend," the man now identified as Tibarn drawled with a disappointed and contemplative frown on his face, talking half to himself and half to Ulquiorra.

"And what, exactly, is that supposed to mean? Answer swiftly or face my wrath," questioned Ulquiorra, allowing slight traces of anger and frustration into his voice.

"Now that's the Soren I knew in the wars. As to your question, I'll let you figure that one out on your own. You always were an exceptionally smart little beorc." With that, Tibarn jumped high in the air before Ulquiorra could do anything to stop him. Quickly transforming, Tibarn flew fast over the trees. Not to lose the opportunity or fail Aizen, Ulquiorra sonidoed after the hawk-man at a slight distance. Just as he was about to give up on the chase, however, the transformed man stopped to land in a clearing and transformed back into his original form. There he stood, as if waiting for something. Ulquiorra remained at a distance to observe.

Before long, four more giant birds flew down into the clearing and promptly shifted form. There were two young men with brown wings and a young male and female with pure white wings and glistening golden hair.

"Janaff, Ulki, you have returned I see. And with Reyson and Leanne two, I see!" greeted Tibarn.

"Of course we did, King Tibarn. Did you have any doubt?" asked the more relaxed of the two hawks, "Me 'n Ulki here have never failed you in the past, so why start now?" Considering that the hawk who spoke identified the other, more formal looking of the duo of hawks as Ulki, he supposed that the one that spoke must be Janaff.

"Of course not, Janaff. I should know better than to doubt the two of you by now." Turning towards the two bearing white wings, Tibarn added, "And, Janaff? It is not wise to speak that way to your king. Just a reminder." As soon as the words left Tibarn's mouth, the one confirmed as Janaff looked both ashamed and slightly frightened, and Ulki just shook his head and sighed.

"King Tibarn, my friend, it is good to see you again. But pleasantries will have to wait, I am afraid. I have unsettling news to deliver," said the white winged male, whom Ulquiorra assumed to be Reyson considering Leanne was a girl's name.

"Hm? What sort of news? Can it wait until we report in to Ike tomorrow?" asked Tibarn, frowning slightly.

"I'm afraid it cannot wait. Do you remember Yune's Medallion?"

"I doubt I shall ever forget that blasted thing. No disrespect to Yune, but we ended up fighting two whole wars over that thing!"

"Indeed. And it looks like we may be fighting a third over it, as well."

"WHAT!!" screamed all three hawks simultaneously.

"A third war over Yune's Medallion. I trust you have all heard of the Hokugyo?"

"Yes, wasn't that what the traitor Aizen stole before fleeing Seretei like a coward?" asked Tibarn, slightly confused, until realization dawned upon his face. "You don't mean-"

"Unfortunately, yes. The Hokugyo is the center stone from Yune's Medallion, where most of her chaotic energies remained after the war," sighed Reyson.

"Hold on a minute, wasn't all the energy supposed to have left the Medallion after Yune was freed?" asked Ulki, speaking for the first time.

"Yune's prolonged residence had an effect, so the stone captured some of her power and has become a very factory of it upon the experimentation the idiots in Twelfth Division conducted upon it."

"That is troubling, Reyson. At least we have some idea of what we're dealing with, though," Tibarn seemed to debate something mentally, before adding, "However, I may have some good news. Just a few minutes ago, I actually ran into Soren." Leanne whispered something to Reyson in some sort of archaic dialect, a dialect that seemed immensely familiar to Ulquiorra, despite knowing that he had never spoken or even heard it before this day.

"Leanne is wondering if he even still remembers any of us. I must admit a similar doubt on his memory, though I admit it would be wonderful if he did. Soren studied the Medallion a lot in the Goddess War, so having him on our side will help a lot," commented Reyson.

"Uhhh… Yeah, he doesn't remember anything, even his own name."

"Damn! Ike's not gonna be happy at that…" said Janaff.

"Don't I know it."

"At any rate, we need to go report in. Come on, we can discuss this more later," said Ulki before all five of the bird-people took off into the air. Sensing that it would be useless to pursue them any further, Ulquiorra headed back to where he entered the mortal realm earlier that day. As he sonidoed back, he thought over what he would report to Aizen. The thought of turning in the five people he had met unnerved him, almost made him feel guilty even, and despite his loyalty to Aizen Ulquiorra just could not think about turning the five in. He decided to report them as mere trash, and leave it at that.

Well, there's chapter 2. Just a sort of setting the scene thing going on, but the business with the Medallion spicing up the plot a bit :) Remember, reviews have me write faster.