Pesche and Dondochakka just continued to look at Nel a bit concerned as she cried. They didn't want to see her crying like this, but they also didn't want her to remember anything. Unfortunately, at the given time, they felt like they didn't really have a choice. IT was either tell Nel, or have her cry for who knows how long until she got over it. Pescche and Dondochakka looked at each other for a minute, giving each other a look about having to tell her. They both nodded as they looked back at Nel. Pesche kneeled as he rubbed Nel's head gently.
"Nel..." Pesche started, trying to get her attention. Nel just sniffled as she looked back at Pesche with watery eyes. "Do you want to know why you have a skull on your head?" Still sniffling, Nel nodded as a reply. Pesche sighed as he was about to tell her. "It's because your an arracnar." Nel continued to sniffle as she gave him a confused look.
"W-What's an arracnar?" She asked sheepishly.
"They're like you Nel. People without masks and such. Everyone that is one has a bone..." Dondochakka started, before getting an idea. "and...your's is a broken bone!" Dondochakka cheered, trying to cheer her up. Pesche looked at him strangely until Dondochakka winked, giving Pesche the idea.
"O-Oh, yes that's right. Your very lucky when you think about it. You get to be a human hollow." Pesche said. Nel looked at him questionabbly.
"What's a hollow?" Nel asked.
"They're spirits of people who died and..." Pesche started. Before he could finish his sentence though Nel began to cry again. It took Dondochakka's smack on the head to to remind him that he just said Nel was dead. Adding that to the broken skull didn't really help much either.
"W-Wait Nel, he didn't mean they're all dead." Dondochakka said. Nel looked at him while she continued to cry. "Your a live one, and that's what makes you lucky." Dondochakka said. Nel reduced to a sniffle right after.
"D-Den what about the big scaw I got on my head?" Nel asked, pointing to inbetween her nose. Dondochakka grew nervous, unable to think of a response to the question.
"Uh... That's...the way we found you!" Pesche replied, coming up with a quick response.
"W-Weally?" She asked. Dondochakka and Pesche nodded as a reply. Nel was still sniffling a bit as she began to shake, covering herself with her arms. "I'm c-c-cold..." Nel said, shivering from the fact it was night and that her cloths were soaked. Pesche and Dondochakka looked around a bit as they found a tree. Pesche quickly ran to it, breaking off branches and pieces of wood, and brought a pile back to the others.
"Your going be freezing if you don't have any extra heat, so lets build a fire." Pesche said. As Dondochakka and Nel watched, they saw Pesche rubbing to sticks together very quickly. They could hear the scrapping of the wood as they began rubbing against one another. It took awhile, but after a few minutes, Nel smiled as Dondochakka and her saw smoke coming. It only took a couple of seconds thereafter to see the fire building up, until it was probably Nel's size. Nel walked a bit closer to the fire, placing her hands near it to warm up. But, a strong gust of wind started blowing, causing Nel to shiver more and starting to make the fire dwindle.
"Da fire!" Nel said, upset.
"How are we going to keep it going if the wind keeps blowing?" Dondochakka asked. As if to answer their problems, Bawabawa encircled the three of them, including the fire. After he was completely circling them, the wind cease to blow on the fire, and the fire started to grow again.
"Horray! Dank's Bawa!" Nel cheered. Pesche and Dondochakka sighed, seeing how everything was alright. They have only been out of Los Noches for a day, and yet they found taking care of Nel a little bit hard. Still, they vowed they would protect her, even if it costs their lives, and they're going to make sure they keep that vow until the end. But, the two grew shocked as they saw Nel just collapsed to the ground on her side for no apparant reason.
"Nel!" The two yelled worried, running up to her. As soon as they were near her, Pesche picked her up. When they looked, she appeared to be sleeping, but she was squeezing her eyes hard, and grunting a bit as she did.
"What's wrong with her?" Dondochakka asked, worriedly.
"I don't know. I just hope it's a cold possibly and nothing more." Pesche replied.
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It had been a few hours until Nel woke up again. She slowly lifted her eyes, seeing Bawabawa, Dondochakka, and Pesche all asleep too. But she was feeling bad at the time. Her vision was hazey and blurry. The worse part was the fact that her head was hurting alot. As she looked around, she saw Bawabawa sleeping around them as well. She slowly leaned up, shaking her head to help wake her up a bit. As she stretched again, she saw the other two waking up as well.
"Hi guys." Nel said happily, waving. Pesche and Dondochakka went wide eyed when they saw her.
"Nel!" They both screamed happily, rushing over to her.
"Are you ok?" Pesche asked, worriedly. Nel looked at him a bit strangely, wondering why.
"Umm...yeah? Why?" Nel asked, who didn't know about the night before.
"What do you mean why? You past out." Dondochakka replied, causing Nel to look a bit scared.
"I...passed out?" Nel said, a bit worriedly. Pesche elbowed Dondochakka in the gut, making it look like an accident, getting in front of him.
"What we mean is uhh...you sorta fell asleep without meaning too." Pesche commented. Nel looked down at the sand a bit upsettingly. She was really nervous as to what it was they meant about her passing out. What worried her more about it was the fact that she had no idea what she was or who she was, and trusting these two were her only option. Yet, she felt like something was wrong, as if she knew these two before but couldn't recall it. As she thought though, Pesche and Dondochakka huddled together to talk.
"What are we going to do?" Pesche asked.
"She just collapsed on the sand last night for no apparent reason." Dondochakka replied, before gasping. "You don't' suppose the water was poisonous to her do you?!" Dondochakka stammered, accidently a bit loud enough for Nel to hear.
"P-Poison?" She asked worriedly. When Pesche and Dondochakka looked back, they saw her eyes getting watery.
"No no no, he just meant if the water was making you feeling weird." Pesche said nervously, covering Dondochakka's mouth with his hand to not say anything else stupid. Nel just looked away again. Even though Pesche and Dondochakka couldn't see her, they could tell tears were rolling down her face, as they could hear her sniffling. "Look, as far as I know, we need to find someone who can help Nel, and we need to find that someone now!" Pesche whispered back to Dondochakka. Dondochakka replied with a nod, knowing it was easy for Nel to hear what they were saying if he talked.
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Meanwhile, across the blazing hot desert, Nnoitra was running around, looking for the opening to Menos Forest. It was there he was sure he was going to find someone who could help him with his problem, and more in particularly, kill Nel, Pesche, and Dondochakka. He has spent at least an hour out in the desert, trying to find the cave that connected to the two places. Best part is that he didn't need to worry about the other Espada's and Numeros looking for him, seeing Aaroniero was disguising himself as Nnoitra, keeping his cover safe. With much satisfaction, Nnoitra smiled a bit as he finally found the opening. It was an underground cavern that was somewhat narrow, but just big enough for people to walk through.
As he looked through the cave, he could hear the wailing of the Menos and other type of hollow throughout the woods. Even being in a place like this, and even knowing that he was a hollow himself, he knew he had to be careful around there. Surely, he specializes in having hard skin, but even he can get too swarmed by the amount of Menos and hollows if he lets his gaurd down. It didn't help much that he had an opened wound still from Aizen, still leaving a scar in it's place. Finally when he made it through the cavern, he saw a complete black forest, with humongous trees. When he looked at the top of those trees, he saw that they had stretched all the way to the top, going above the sand. The only light that seemed to enter through the forest was those created by the trees.
He smirked as he jumped down from the large cavern, landing on the ground in the forest. He looked around curiously, wondering where he was suppose to go. It took him awhile before he realized something crucial.
"Damn that Aaroniero! He didn't tell me where the hell this guy is suppose to be!" He shouted, as it echoed throughout the forest. Out of nowhere, a gigantic beam of red energy shot forth, completely vaporizing everywhere Nnoitra was standing. As the smoke cleared from the blast, Nnoitra could still be seen standing, while everywhere in a circle around him was reduced to nothing but a crator. Nnoitra turned his head around, seeing Menos. His eyes glared at the Menos in anger, seeing it was either brave enough or completely foolish enough to attack Nnoitra. "You have some nerve." Nnoitra said. In an instant, Nnoitra reappeared on the other side of the Menos that blasted him, holding his giant weapon. Within a quick flash, the giant Menos screamed in pain as a white slash could be seen trailing from the bottom portion of its body, all the way up to its head. In one last loud roar, the Menos dissipated into thin dust, as it started to vanish.
"You should choose your opponets more wisely." Nnoitra said, putting his weapon away (seriously, what would you call his weapon anyway? A sword, an axe, a spear?). But as Nnoitra did, he felt what he was looking for. He could sense spiritual pressure deep inside the woods. With a grin, he took off with full speed, chasing after the pressure that seemed to be going on. He knew that the only one who could do something like this was a shinigami, but more in particular, the one he needed to kill Nel.
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Back at the trio, they were riding Bawabawa again, over the hot desert. No one said anything after what happened last night. Nel sat away a bit from the others, covering her head with her hood. Even though she wasn't crying to show it, she was still feeling torn up inside, after hearing what Pesche and Dondochakka said. It was too much for her to bear. Pesche and Dondochakka were feeling sorry for her as well, knowing how hard it would be to find out so many diffrent things that one wouldn't be capable of remembering. But what worried them more was what happened the night before. They couldn't tell why she passed out, but all they did know is that she didn't just fall asleep like normal. When they looked back at her, they noticed her being unsually quiet though, not even looking around.
"Hey Nel?" Pesche started, trying to get her attention. She didn't even respond though, and she didn't turn her head either to show some type of response. "Hey Nel..." Pesche said again, rubbing her shoulder. The two of them gasped as they saw Nel just fall flat forword, knocked out.
"Ahhh! You killed Nel!" Dondochakka shouted.
"I didn't kill her!" Pesche said angrily. He looked back at Nel, noticing that she was still breathing. "She's sleeping. But it doesn't make any sense, she was just awake a minute ago." Pesche added.
"You don't suppose she passed out again, do you?" Dondochakka added, worried. Pesche grabbed Nel, and brought her over to the two of them, holding her in his arms. He grew a worried expression as he saw her breathing unsually heavier.
"Why is she breathing so heavy?"
"Mabey she's just hot. We are in a desert after all."
"We just had something to drink now that long ago, and with the cool breeze we're getting, there's no way it should be hot around here." Pesche added, reminding Dondochakka of the current situation. As the two talked, they began to get worried as they heard Nel not only monaing in her sleep, but she was breathing heavily as well. To make matters worse, they didn't know anyone who could help them in their current situation. While Dondochakka looked concerned, he noticed Pesche looking around, as if looking for something.
"Over there!" Pesche shouted to Bawabawa. When Dondochakka looked, he saw he had Bawabawa move towards a gigantic sand dune, one that provided great shade. As they went under, Pesche and the others could feel the diffrence in temperature, seeing how much cooler it got.
"What is the plan?" Dondochakka asked.
"It's quite simple!" Pesche shouted, then went silent for a few moments. "We wait for her to wake up again and ask what's wrong." He replied. Dondochakka fell to the ground, seeing how rediculous the idea seemed. Then again, he didn't have any idea at the time, and unless they knew exactly what was wrong with Nel, they couldn't do anything to help her. Worse part of it all, if she keeps passing out like this, that means she has a good chance of some fatal illness being the cause of it. No matter what it would be though, all they could do at the moment was to help her get through this...
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"Hello, it's the Pesche and Dondochakka hour!" Pesche said in a stadium, while Dondochakka held a sign. "Like in our series, there's always something ridiculous going on at the end of every ep."
"So, we decided to use this time to answer questions to the audience!" Dondochakka added. He then took out an envelope from his pocket (again, if he even has any). "Eh hem! Question one: Where did you two get your new masks? Signed, Timberly from California." Dondochakka and Pesche looked at the letter for a moment.
"Well, that's quite simple Timberly. All we had to do was..." Before Pesche could answer, a sign with technical difficulties filled the screen.......
