Chapter Five
Immediately?
Karin stared at Szayel, fury written in her eyes while Toshiro just remained rigid. Aizen let a small, irritating smile cross his face as the news flooded his ears and then took a step towards his subordinate, patting him on the shoulder.
"Then I suggest you start."Karin widened her eyes in disgust before running at Aizen, shouting as she launched a punch as his head. Aizen turned round slowly and caught her small fist in his palm before crushing it down on her sore knuckles. As she howled in pain, Toshiro snapped back to his senses as he felt himself getting picked off the ground by Szayel, who was bubbling away. Karin continued to cry out in pain and Toshiro decided not to just stand by and watch.
He quickly tilted his head down and chomped into the freaky scientists shoulder, causing him to hiss and drop him. Toshiro ran forwards and first of all punch Aizen's arm away and then hit him squarely in the chesy, but in the world of Huecho Mundo and in the presence of the strongest person there, those kind of things do not happen. Without even knowing it, Toshiro had somehow ended up in the air, his throat being grasped tightly as he struggled to breathe while Karin was on the ground, crying as she now clutched at her throbbing hand. Szayel looked at his master, an amused expression on his face, Halibel stood with a hating expression while Ulquiorra stood emotionless. Ichigo was a crumpled mess on the ground while Rukia remained chained to a wall. Aizen then turned to Szayel and the placed the now motionless Snowflake in his arms.
"I'll bring the princess through in a few minutes to see his transformation." said Aizen.
"Am I turning him into an Arrancar or a Vizard?" questioned Szayel, watching Aizen grin evilly.
"I think for the prince he shall be an Arrancar." replied Aizen, a malicious laugh coming from his mouth, "besides, turning a human into an Arrancar would most likely be the death of them!"
Karin looked at the ground, watching her tears dripping from her cheeks onto the ground. She'd rather be dead than go through all of this…
"You've figured it out?" asked Soi Fon incredibly, staring at the Kuchiki with disbelief. Byakuya nodded and then grabbed one of her wrists and stared at the cuffed link.
"If these suppress spirit energy, they have one flaw." said Byakuya, "It's weakness should be Kido."
Pressing his thumb and forefinger at either side of the cuff, he pressured some Kido energy into the side and wasn't to surprised to see the cuff fall of and disintegrate. Soi Fon blinked as the Noble grabbed her other wrist and done the same. She was shocked to see that he could use Kido with the cuffs on, but then it was Byakuya. After she felt the one on her neck far off and disintegrate, she felt the warm of her Reiatsu surround her before she hid it so the Arrancar's couldn't sense it. She then approached Byakuya to help him remove his own and Byakuya hid his as well, but as they looked at the bars they then realized they had no choice but to show their Reiatsu in order to escape. Byakuya stepped forwards and raised his hand
"Hado 4, Byakurai."
They stepped out and walked out the room, quickly knocking out the Numero guarding it and then looked round, stopping as they heard screaming again, but this time they could recognize it instantly.
"NO, STOP IT! DON'T HURT HIM!"
Szayel stared at the raven, who was now bound to a chair, screaming for all she was worth. Next to him was his lab table with the Snowflake strapped to it. At his other side sat various equipment and of course, the Hogyoku. Szayel was quite evil when it came to experimenting on Soul reapers, but he knew Aizen wanted the boy to live, so to avoid Toshiro's dying from pain alone, he was willing to drug him, even if it would only help a little. Toshiro continued to struggle with the straps, but to no avail. Karin's screams were not helping as this was just causing him to panic further. He watched the pink haired scientist fill up a syringe and the felt his neck get tilted to the side.
"NO, STOP IT!" screamed Karin, kicking her legs out and wriggled her wrists uselessly in their binds. Szayel ignored her and allowed the needle to pierce the Snowy haired Taicho's neck and watched as the drug slowly went into his bloodstream. Toshiro's movements slowed to a stop as he felt his mouth get pried open and a tube being forced down his throat before a mask appeared on top of that.
He choked slightly before his body went numb. His senses went out of whack until it seemed Karin's screams went quieter, slower and more slurred. This moment of strangeness only lasted a few more moments as something was rammed into his chest. Somehow he managed to scream through the tube in his throat and started retching pretty badly as blood surged up through it as he felt something gaping in his chest, as if his heart was being clawed out.
"SHIRO NO!"
Szayel turned his head towards the room as it raised in temperature, the girls form glowing as she howled in desperation. Her binds were set alight and then burned, allowing her to break free. Flames had flickered from her and had set the wall next to her on fire. Her eyes glowed a furious red as she clutched at her head, still screaming.
"SHIRO! SHIRO!"
Szayel took a step back as her hair began to turn red as well. From what Szayel knew of, this girl should have little or no abilities whatsoever, but there he was, witnessing it. The ground below his feet began to heat up before flames erupted and lashed out at him. He narrowly dodged and his glasses hit the ground, instantly melting as a flame touched them. He quickly looked over at Hitsugaya but it seemed the Hogyoku was keeping the flames at wrong he may be desperate and this newly found ability untamed, but somehow she was managing to direct it away from her Snowflake with ease.
Karin opened her eyes and let her arms drop at her sides and as she looked around, she saw that her eyesight had greatly improved, improved so drastically if she focused hard enough, dust particles could be seen. Szayel soon found himself becoming intrigued with this girl, but right now he had to make sure Hitsugaya went through the whole of his transformation. If his transformation stopped right now, he would die. Karin seemingly noticed this and continued to cry, although her tears quickly turned into falling flames. She didn't want him to go through the transformation, but she didn't want him to die either, she would just have to live with it and fix it somehow.
A split second later everything froze as the flames just vanished, Karin back to her normal state as she , despite having a calm expression on his face, let out a sigh of relief and first checked on the Snowflake. Blood was still coming up from the tube but his tortured expression was gone. It was now complete. Staring down at his chest, Szayel smirked to see the hollow hole sitting the, the Hogyoku in the centre of it. If the psycho scientist had to be honest with himself, it was one of the most beautiful Arrancar he had ever seen.
A mask that spread over the bridge of his nose and over his right eye, it had a teal cross crossing over it and a red scrape at the centre of the eye. His hair had turned slighter spikier due to it have grown. His height had improved by half a foot, making him 4'9. His flesh had turned so much paler than what it used to be and as he forced back an eyelid, he saw a now jade eye. That would explain why his mask had teal markings on it; it was taking the colour of his previous eyes. The red slash was probably the eye colour of Hyorinmaru. The one thing he now had to see…Was how he would react when he woke up?
What would the abilities of Hyorinmaru be now?
And finally… Would he still be himself?
A/N: O.O ummmm... Don't kill me? This was part of the original plot but I never thought it would be so hard to write... Since it took me so long to update, I'm putting a spoiler at the end of this update.
SPOILER:
Underneath Aizen's palace was where Ichigo, Rukia and Gin were being held. Ichigo rocked back in forth, his head in his hands as he whimpered quietly.
"Rukia… Ru..kia…" he shook and trembled as the girl in front of him wouldn't move.
"Relax." came a voice from behind him. Ichigo turned round to see the fox-faced man staring at him while clutching at a rib. "She's still alive, just give her some time to recover…"
"Y-you're…" whispered Ichigo, unknown to the fact that Gin had been there the whole time. "Ich-Ichimaru?"
"Guess ya haven't gone completely insane yet." replied Gin, wincing slightly. "Listen to me, you have to remain calm and think. There is a way out of this y'know."
"A way… o-out?" uttered Ichigo in disbelief.
"Ya heard right." replied Ichimaru, "Remain sane and wait for the girl to wake up."
- (skip a bit)
Ichigo turned his head towards Rukia, his eyes glistening as she turned his head towards him.
"Rukia, you're-"
"Who are you?" she asked, clutching at her head. "Actually, who am I?"
A/N: And thats for you to figure out in the next chapter XDDD