'Man, how long have I been here?' Tyrant asked himself as he chewed his latest meal. The Cannibal part had kind of become redundant seeing as almost all Hollows here were trying to eat each other. A couple had tried to eat him on his first day. He hadn't appreciated that, and showed his discontent with such treatment by beating them both to pulp and then eating one of them in front of the other one alive. He ate the other, but only after telling it off for trying to eat an obviously superior predator. That had been at least a year ago, but it was probably longer than that.

Suddenly Tyrant heard a loud commotion. He followed the sound and crested a dune to see a strange sight. There was a dead serpentine Hollow, some kind of deer-like Hollow, and then a Hollow standing upright like a- 'Ohmagawdthosearetits?!'

The shock caused Tyrant to lose his footing and he slipped and fell down into the dune. The two Hollows looked at him curiously, as he had ended up on his back with his feet in the air.

This was most certainly awkward. He just hoped the woman-like one wasn't hungry; he could feel her power. "Uh, hi, uh, miss. It is 'miss' right?"

The humanoid hollow stared at him blankly. "I am female, if that is what you mean."

'As if that wasn't obvious. I was actually making sure about it not being Misses or something.'

"I, uh, am also female," the deer said in a definitely feminine voice.

'Less obvious.' "Nice to meet you both. I'm going back on my feet now." The saurian righted himself and stood back on his feet. "I wasn't really aware we Hollows had gender."

"Most females are picked off as they are perceived as weaker," the humanoid said.

"Meh, I just eat whatever's there when I'm hungry. Speaking of which, gonna eat that snake guy?" he indicated the dead hollow.

"No. Help yourself." She started walking away, the deer-like Hollow right behind here. He watched them for a moment.

"Name's Tyrant."

She looked back with one eye. "Tia Harribel."

After he had eaten, Tyrant thought back to the odd Hollow. He knew immediately that she was far stronger than him as soon as they had met. She almost seemed to be another kind of creature entirely. Then he recalled her name.

"Tia Haribel? A first and last name? Not a descriptive name or an alias. A regular old name. Hm." He thought to himself for a while. "I like Roder. Roder Tyranus. Yeah, that'll work. From now on, my name is Roder Tyranus."

Roder was chasing a rather quick Adjuchas down. He had been feeling hungrier than normal lately, now he just wanted to eat everything and anything. He had even tried chewing on a crystal tree once when he couldn't find any other Hollows to satiate his hunger. The six-legged Hollow looked back, then tried to speed up.

"Oh no you don't!" He felt something build up within him and let it out.

Roder wasn't sure what he had just done, but a green energy blast fired from his mouth and hit the horse-like creature, making it stumble and fall.

"Gotcha!" He snatched up the Hollow by its front, chomped down and swallowed. Before he even had time to contemplate the fact that he had basically just fired a laser from his mouth, he felt something come over himself.

'Oh god, I'm weirding out again! Wait, last time I weirded out like this that change that made me bigger and sent me here happened! What the heck's gonna happen this time?!'

After a moment, the weird feeling passed, but now he felt off-balance. He fell back and landed on his rump the caught himself from any further falling with his arms. Once he was steady in his position he began noticing that he had a rump and arms.

"Holy sweet cakes!" He looked at his new human-like arms and what was connected to them. "HANDS!" He started patting himself and feeling up and down his body. His head was human, with some semi-long hair and something like a facemask covering his mouth. Most of his body was shaped normally, but everything seemed to be covered in leather armor, some parts harder than others. A look at himself told him that it was a combination of light green and blue.

"Huh, kinda reminds me of Tia, 'cept she was white and blue and had those thigh-highs. Those sexy thigh-hi- … Huh? Sexy? I never thought of anything as... Wait, am I human now or something? No, still got a hole in my stomach. Not hungry anymore though. Yeah, she didn't want to eat that time. I don't even feel a bit hungry. Not a craving. Whatever she and I are, we must not get hungry."

As he contemplated exactly what had happened, he didn't notice the six figures surrounding him and closing in on him.

"And those few weird seconds I was way up in the air must been some kind of out of body experience I was having while all the bodies fused to me. And after all that eating, I…" He noticed the six humanoids surrounding him. "Uh, hi?"

A feminine one pointed a large blade similar to the one Halibel had at him. "State your name and business. Quickly, we have no time for fools and foolish answers." She had blue eyes and long blond hair hanging down her back. Her Hollow skin was white-based but had black stylized etchings all the way down except at the side of her waist and chest where it appeared as more of a black corset. She seemed to be wearing a dress that split above her right thigh, not in a sexualized fashion though. The split seemed to exist solely to allow more freedom of movement.

"Uh, I'm Roder Tyranus. As for business… Existing?"

"Really?" A large male with golden eyes and red hair that was actually longer than the previous female's brought up his sharp sickle-like claws and held them as Roder's throat. His Hollow skin was red and black striped and was covered in crimson heavy armor. He had a mouth-guard similar to Roder's, only his jutted out like a saw-toothed beak. "Maybe we should close up shop."

"Gulcasa, don't try and frighten the poor thing." The speaker this time was another male, this one smaller than his red-headed counterpart. He seemed to be wearing several cloaks on top of one another topped off with an open robe. His eyes were covered by a Hollow bone plate with virtually no way to see outwards. "We all know he was an Adjuchas only moments ago. Besides, he's telling the truth. He literally has no purpose apart from existing."

"Man, that sucks," a younger, feminine voice said. This one appeared to be a young teenager with eyes and hair the same color as the large male, only her hair was tied up in twintails. She had Hollow bone over her hair like a bonnet and a mask like an eagle's beak over her mouth in the same fashion as the male she resembled. Rather than armor, she had plumes of feathers hanging from her shoulders and around her waist like a skirt. Her coloring was similar to his, only pink where his was red and gray where his was black. "Hey, big bro, don't kill him. It would be pitiful for him to go out like that."

The other two stood off arguing with each other. The feminine one somewhat resembled a traditional miko with long, black hair while the other looked like some kind of white-haired wolf-man. The two's argument escalated until the miko shouted, "Sit!" causing the wolfish Hollow to collapse.

"Don't worry," the young-looking girl said. "He's the only one she can do that to. It's weird, but he deserves it most of the time."

"Okay. So, uh, who are you guys?"

The three around him with vision looked at each other. Seeing as there were no objections, the blond female started. "I am Yggdra Artwaltz. Those two siblings are Gulcasa and Emelia Brongaa. The blind one there is Nessiah Aries."

"It's nice to meet you," the robed man said.

"And those two having a lover's spat over there and Kagome Kikyo and Inu Yasha," Gulcasa said while pointing a thumb behind him.

"We're not lovers!" they both yelled.

"They're lying," Emelia whispered. "I caught them in the act once. They thought everyone was gone and they had some time to themselves. I couldn't bring myself to go back into that cave for a month."

Nessiah giggled a little while Gulcasa outright laughed. Yggdra only lightly smiled and shook her head.

"Well, Roder, what is it you plan to do?" Gulcasa asked.

"I hadn't really thought of that. I'm not even sure of what just happened."

"You turned into a Vasto Lorde," Nessiah explained. "The final stage of Hollow evolution. There is first the singular Hollow. These combine to form a Gillian. When one of the Hollow consciences claims dominance the Gillian becomes an Adjuchas. Once an Adjuchas has eaten a certain number of other Adjuchas, it becomes a Vasto Lorde."

Roder scratched his chin. "I remember being a Hollow. I mostly just went around eating other Hollows. I know that was weird since they were always eating souls and such, but that's what I wanted to eat. I kinda remember fusing with a bunch of dead Hollows, but if I was a Gillian I wasn't one for very long, because I turned into an Adjuchas only a few seconds later."

Nessiah nodded. "Odd, but we are quite odd ourselves. The four of us were actually one being before. We never were lower forms of Hollow."

"Really, how'd that happen?"

"Completely my fault. Soul eating sword and all that."

"Eh, don't sweat it Nessiah," Gulcasa said. "You didn't know it was gonna fuse us all into one being and crap us out in one big mess."

"He also didn't suspect it to be used on him," Yddgra added.

"In hindsight, I probably could've done better. Well, your guys made a pretty good Ragnorak without me."

"What about those two?" Roder asked, pointing at the two 'not-lovers' who were now physically fighting, but not very hard.

"They came along pretty normal for the most part, except of course, they did it side by side."

"Eh?"

"Well, how they told us it happened, when one of them had Hollowfied waiting for the other one to die and join them, they allowed themselves to Hollowfy as well. They ate some souls together, became two separate Gillians around the same time, rose to Adjuchas and hunted side by side, then eventually become Vasto Lorde together."

"Then they go and try to play off like they're not in love," Emelia scoffed. "Those two were in love so bad that they still loved each other even after they lost their hearts. It's like some sappy fairy tale, only the prince is a jackass and the princess is a total fake prude. 'Maiden' my butt."

"Sit! Sit! Sit!"

Roder looked over to see that Inu had just about become buried in the sand. Suddenly another emotion he hadn't felt before came up.

"Hehe. Hahaha! HAHAHAHAHA!" Roder literally couldn't remember the last time he had a good laugh. The others looked at him like he'd gone crazy, but they all smiled anyways.

"Well," Nessiah said, "welcome to the team."

AN: Now the story is technically a crossover. To explain in case some people don't know,

The four talking to him are from Yggdra Union, a strategy game for the GBA and PSP. Fans of the game probably know what they were talking about.

The other two, if it wasn't obvious, are Inuyasha and Kagome. Kagome's Vasto Lorde name is Kagamoe Kikyo because she eventually ate all the souls within the dead Kikyo, making her more dead.

Some people may not like that I made all these guys Hollows, but I did so with a purpose. Most of that purpose was because the characters I was coming up with were way too similar and I would've been accused of copying them anyway, so I decided to forego that and just use the originals. The rest of the purpose you will have to wait and see. Now I'm glad because I can use the 'sit' joke.

And so it continues.