A.N: Hello, chatper 27, done. WooHoo! Now, I'll make this short becasue Katie and I find this chapter is Epic, and because my internet hates me and will disconect every five seconds, but it's gonna be fixed tommarrow and will take about three days... I'm done ranting, enjoy the chapter.
Brooke's Zen of the Day- If Honesty is the best policy; that makes lying a close second.
Brooke
I'll admit, I am glade Katie cut my hair (a little short for my liking, but it would grow), cause if she hadn't, I'd of had to be running my ass off with long, heavy, annoying, hot hair. Not exactly my idea of fun. It doesn't help that the person making me run till my legs fall and Hueco Mundo freezes over was the same person that wouldn't let me tease Fran and Emocar.
"Hurry up, my grandma could go faster than you." My oh-so-supportive trainer taunted lazily from where he sat on the ground in one of the really big training rooms in Las Noches.
"You don't have a Grandma." I pointed out in between breathes, I wasn't that tired because I was still in shape from softball/running away from enraged Arrancar and probably because of the whole not-fully-human-crap, but I was bored out of my mind. Seriously, running in circles can become monotonous real fast, "Can I stop now?" I whined.
"No." Grimmy said, obviously tired of me asking that question every time I passed by.
"Why not?" I continued on my circular route.
"Because, I said so and I'm supposed to be the one training you." He explained like it was such a hassle to sit on your butt while you made another person run around like a total moron.
"Well that's a horrible reason." I said, stopping in my tracks before turning around to stare at him, "I want a new reason."
"My gosh you're so fucking annoying." My kitty friend whined, "Fine, you want a reason? Because if you don't do something the gay scientist says you're going to explode, do you want to explode?"
"It would be more entertaining than this." I admitted before getting the 'do-it-or-die' look from Grimmjow, "Running, right."
Forty five minutes later.
"I'm tired, I'm hungry, running's boring, my legs hurt,"
"Wow Grimmy-Kitty, great impression of me." I laughed, cutting his nasally impression of me short as we walked down the hall way towards the Kitchen where I was hoping I could get something to eat. Okay, sure, it was already four O'clock, but I hadn't had lunch today, meaning I was hungry, so we're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of the kitchen, who lives down the white brick hall. (Yes, I know the halls are marble-like, work with me here.)
Sticking with the 'Wizard of Oz' theme; that would make me Dorothy, Grimmy Toto-the-Cat, and Nnoitra and Wicked Witch of the Douche! As soon as these thoughts popped into my head, I started laughing, very loudly mind you, and knowing that telling him would get him angrier than not, I decided not to tell Grimmjow, which was rather funny seeing as it made him really mad at me.
"I don't think there could be a more annoying person in the entire universe than you." He complained as we walked into the kitchen.
"Have you met yourself yet?" I snickered as he glared at me before storming off. Digging through the fridge, I grabbed some stuff to make a sand which, and as I turned around still laughing I found Katie standing at the island staring at me like I was crazy.
"What's so funny?" she asked tentatively as I started smiling like the true idiot I am.
"I was walking down here after training and I started comparing it with 'The Wizard of Oz,' and Grimmjow was 'Toto-the-cat' since he was with me, and now I keep trying to compare stuff." I told her making her roll her eyes slightly, "Hey, do you think Aizen would be the Wizard, or would it be Gin? I could really see Gin hiding behind a curtain to ruin people's lives, don't you?" This actually made her laugh at me.
"Yeah, OH hey, Szayel could be the scare crow cause he's the smartest person I know and it's irony." She laughed, catching on to my train of thought.
"And Lilinette could be a flying monkey!" I shouted, "Would that make Stark one too, seeing as he and Lilinette are kinda the same person and all…" Katie and I paused to pounder this question.
"I do believe so," she agreed, trying her best to sound serious and sophisticated.
"You believe what?" Looking over we saw Fran standing in the door way looking a wee bit perplexed, obviously coming in at just the right time to make Katie and I look like idiots, but then again, that's not very hard.
"That if we were in 'The Wizard of Oz,' that Stark and Lilinette would be flying monkeys seeing as they're both really the same entity and all." Fran nodded before continuing to mull over the idea in her head for a minute before settling on something that I knew was going to be funny.
"If we were in 'The Wizard of Oz,' would that make Ulqui-Kun the Wicked Witch?" she asked, suddenly an image of Emocar wearing green face make up with a face wart on his nose dressed in a black dress with matching hat popped into my head, cracking me up; he already had the hair for the part!
The casting of parts continued for a good forty five minutes until we were laughing too hard to talk anymore. Yes for those at home who have actually been paying attention, this happens a lot to us, but hey, they do say laughter is the best medicine, so we're never gonna get sick.
These are the roles that we ended up with (Katie started writing them down half way through when we migrated to her room):
Wicked Witch(the one that gets hit by a house) – Nnoitra
Wicked Witch(the one that melts) – Emocar
Flying Monkeys – Lilinette and Stark
Wizard of Oz – Gin
Galina the Good Witch – Harribel
Munchkins – the Fracción(besides Lilinette of course)
Cowardly Lion – Katie(her hair's her mane)
Tin Man – Fran
Scare Crow – Szayel
Toto-the-Cat – Grimmy-Kitty
Dorothy – Me(cause I started the idea)
Narrator – Aizen(because he's 'God' and gets to decided how everything happens)
The funniest part about this? I wasn't even on a runners-high when we figured most of these out. I was actually being kinda lazy. So after all of the tiredness, crack is born! You really had to hand it to us… I mean who else could come up with this. It was then I had a thought…. I never ate my sandwich! And, more importantly, I was still hungry.
"I'm hungry." I announced, causing Katie and Fran to look at me.
"But you just had a sandwich." Katie pointed out, like that would make me any less hungry.
"I never ate it," My stomach decided that this would be a good point to prove this fact be gurgling loudly, demanding food and attention, "See? I'm starving! I'm gonna die of hunger!... Wait! What's this strange light I see before my eyes? So, pretty, must go towards light." I lied to prove my point.
"You're an idiot." Katie grumbled staring at me like she'd never seen someone stupider in her life.
"I pretty hungry too…" Fran agreed, causing Katie to sigh, which caused us to snicker.
"Fine, lets got to the kitchen." Fran and I cheered as Katie began leading us towards of food providing destination.
"Katie, maybe you should let one of us lead the way," Fran started sounding rather sneaky, "We wouldn't want you getting scared now would we?" I started laughing as she tugged on Katie's 'mane.'
"Shut up Tin-y." Katie whined, which caused us to laugh again. We kept this up, totally forgetting about the fact that we were looking for the kitchen as we mocked each other. A little while later I remembered what we were supposed to be doing when I noticed we were passing an incredibly big door that I'd never seen before.
"Um, guys? I don't think were in Kansas anymore." I said pointing at the door before us, causing my friends to stop in their tracks and look at the door.
"Dude, I think that's the door that goes outside to Hueco Mundo!" Katie deduced happily, before moving to open the humongous door, I was amazed when she was able to seeing as the door looked like it had to be over a ton, it was probably taller than the three of us on each other's shoulders. Looking out the door I found that she was right, seeing as beyond the door laid a barren waste land of sand with an ever present moon hanging in the sky.
"Wow." We all mused together as we stared at the grandeur of the scene before us. Sand went on for as far as the eye could see, dead trees the spread out sparaticly, making everything seem all the more dead.
"Let's go!" Katie decided, running out into the desert happily, looking over at Fran, she shrugged before we both ran out to join our friend. Stepping out of Las Noches, I was delighted to feel the cool fresh air hit my skin. I breathed in deeply, enjoying the fresh, natural air for the first time since we got to Las Noches, even if it did have a faint sent of blood, it was better than nothing. Katie and Fran took in a deep breath of air to and for a moment, we seemed content to just stand still and enjoy the fresh air. This didn't last long and soon a game of tag erupted and we played for a while. We took the game farther and farther away from Los Noches. It was still in sight seeing as it was the biggest thing in Hueco Mundo and was visible for hundreds of miles. Suddenly Fran stopped chasing Katie and I. We stopped too and looked back, only to see a dazed look crossed her face, when she seemed to get out of it, her eyes widen and she looked slightly panicked.
"Umm guys I think something's-" she was cut off by a hollow that came out of nowhere. It went after Katie but Fran seemed to know that it was going that way and pushed her out of the way. Before she herself could move it clawed across her chest and blood started pouring out. A blood curdling scream ripped through the air. Katie and I both got ready to attack it but before we had a chance to, blood flew into the air from what looked like a cut that neither of us had made.
As the creature fell to the ground we saw Ulquiorra standing behind it, his Zanpaktou still dripping blood. Sheathing his weapon, he quickly looked over the situation and saw Fran lying on the ground, the sand around her a dark red-brown. It was at this point Stark and Lilinette joined us.
"What happened?" Stark asked as Ulquiorra moved to get Fran.
"We came outside and got attacked by a Hollow, Fran was able to push me out of its path, but couldn't get out of range herself." Katie somehow managed to explain while I struggled to find my tongue as adrenaline coursed through my veins and the pins and needles feeling was back in my hands, only this time it went all the way up my arm.
Ulquiorra wasted no time and Sonído away, carrying Fran with him to get her help back in Las Noches, leaving us to get back by ourselves. We followed as fast as we could, by grabbing on to Lilinette and Stark as they Sonído-ed back and ran to the throne room, where we were sure we'd find our injured friend.
Bursting into the room we found Fran sitting up looking perfectly fine besides the still damp blood that covered her clothes and face. She was smiling and her hair that Katie had just cut was grown out and looked raggedy.
"FRAN!" Lilinette, Katie and I yelled at the same time before dashing over too her to see if she was okay. After making sure she was, we glomped her, only letting go when we were pried off Grimmjow, who I hadn't known was in the room. Standing up I looked around as saw that all the 'Spada were here, as well as Aizen, Gin and Tousen, I hadn't known that either.
"What??? We thought she was dead!" I argued at the weird looks we were getting from most of the 'Spada.
"Well she's half dead now." Gin drawled, earning glared from the three of us who were now standing.
"Well as long as I'm not completely dead, I'm ok with that" Fran said standing up and stretching. Katie and I glomp-tackeled her again and we all fell down laughing. That eased the tension in the room and everyone went along and did their own thing.
"Ok I'm covered in blood and stink to high heaven like hollow guts, so I'm a go ahead and take a shower" Fran said waving to us. She walked down the hallway down to her room while Katie and I debated on what to do next. A few seconds later we watched Ulquiorra walk down the same way that Fran took.
"Ok I'm betting anything that Ulqui-kun is gonna go see Fran!" Katie said squealing and jumping up and down. I rolled my eyes guessing the same thing.
"Yeah it's not a surprise" I said. I decided to go to my room, while Katie went to hers. We decided to meet later for dinner when Fran was out of the shower and didn't smell so bad.
I opened my door and stared at the empty room. Everything was in its place, but to me it always had something missing. Sighing, I closed my door and began walking down the hall. There wasn't very much to do and with my head spinning with thoughts, there wasn't much I could do. I ended up in one of the big rooms some of the Arrancars use for training.
Sitting on the floor I watched them train, finding myself still amazed at what they could do, even after living with them for over two months it still was weird to see someone be able to pull of the things they did, and they weren't even the 'Spada. It would take years for Katie, Fran or I to be able to compete against these numerous, and we were probably going to be expected to fight against Soul Reapers, likely a Captain or a Lieutenants, or at least someone who was close to that level in the upcoming war. I wasn't sure how to feel about this, I mean it was exciting yet terrifying to think about, all at the same time, I'd just have to wait and find out what was going to happen in the end.
A.N: Wasn't that epic? you tell us, Yes, I am being lazy, now review.