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Chapter 2: Transformation
Gin arrived in Las Noches, in his arm a little girl with a broken chain dangling from her chest. He went immediately to the throne room, where Aizen was waiting; he was joined by eleven other figures, all sitting around a table.
"Here's the girl," said Gin, smiling as always. Aizen only nodded.
"Good, and what did you do to the body?"
A comical silence followed, while Gin broke a sweat.
"Oh my, I forgot about that, I'll be right back," said Gin as he left the room. All the others that remained placed their hands in their faces and sighed.
"Lord Aizen, what do you wish to do with the girl?" asked a pink-haired bespectacled man.
"I'm glad you asked Szayel, for you see, this girl is the younger sister of Ichigo Kurosaki."
The other figures that were not listening before perked up in interest. Aizen had told them about how he faced Ichigo back on soul Society.
"Is she now? Then I suppose you want to awaken her Soul Reaper powers and brainwash her to join us?" asked Szayel.
"Good guess, but no. I have recently developed a special compound that would immediately have a hollow ascend to the level of an Adjuchas, skipping the Gillian form. The ten were now giving Aizen a look of surprise and curiosity.
Aizen took put a small black ball.
"This little ball, when fed to a Hollow, has the power to completely skip the form of a Gillian, and proceed to the next level of Hollow evolution.
Everyone was impressed, everyone except one that is. A blue-haired man with something that looked like a fragment of a mask made of bone on his jaw snorted.
"Sounds to me like you simply took a bunch of Gillians and pressed them together into that."
Nobody spoke for a moment, until Aizen cleared his throat.
"This meeting is now over. I must wait for the girl to transform into a Hollow."
It was obvious to everyone he just wanted to avoid the awkward follow-up questions from the blue-haired man, who spoke up not too long after leaving the throne room.
"Hey Szayel, I hear you're working on something new, what's it about?"
"Shut it Grimmjow, that was supposed to be a secret. If you must know it's an explosive liquid compound I developed that would explode on contact. This would give us a useful trap with which to surprise those Soul Reapers."
"Right, thanks for letting me know."
"You're welco- hey!"
On an unspecified room, Aizen had hung Yuzu onto chains with her arms raise horizontally, her unconscious form sleeping soundly.
Aizen watched her uninterestedly. In time, 'I will be able to try my new creation,' he thought.
He went back to the throne room, where Gin was waiting for him.
"I took care of the body, and I even managed to convince everyone that nothing is wrong."
"And how did you manage to convince them?"
"With a stick and a ball of course."
Back at Karakura town, Urahara can't help but wonder at the sight of a man who looked suspiciously like Gin, waving a baseball bat and a basketball, assuring everyone that nothing was out of the ordinary.
Still, he can't shake the feeling that he was forgetting something….
Back to Las Noches.
Deciding not to ask how he managed to persuade the entire town that Yuzu was not kidnapped, Aizen looked at Gin.
"I want you to watch the girl, inform me if she is beginning to transform, she is located near the dungeons."
"Of course," replied Gin as he left the throne room and towards the dungeons.
When he arrived at the dungeons, Gin could not help but feel pity at the sight of a young girl, bound by chains, hanging from the walls. But he did not do anything about it. Instead he simply cut the chain of fate even shorter.
"My, my, Aizen can be so cruel," he remarked, watching Yuzu while sitting on a chair and sipping tea.
It would be two days before anything significant happened, and that something significant would be Yuzu's transformation.
As Yuzu woke up and the chain of fate began to corrode at a rapid rate, Gin looked up from his chair, and called out.
"Aizen, it's starting."
In a flash, Aizen was beside him, followed by a horde of other figures, Grimmjow and Szayel included.
The large number of spectators startled Gin.
"Missed something didn't I?"
Everyone ignored his comment and stared at Aizen, who walked in front of the now awake girl.
Yuzu awoke to the sensation of intense pain, like her entire body is being burned with white hot fire. She can feel the chains of fate disintegrating, and a hole opening up in her chest. It was unbearable, the pain is increasing with every second, and the hole growing bigger with it. She cried for it to stop, for everything to end, to just let her die now. And, for one second, her wishes seemed to come true, for the pain stopped.
Only to be renewed again as her body begins to distort and a mask starts to form in her face. Her screams can be heard throughout Las Noches, and even to the surrounding area.
In Soul Society, Karin suddenly felt a multitude of emotions. She felt pain, sadness, fury, and, most of all, guilt. The wave of emotions struck her so violently that she completely stooped whatever she was doing, and breaking a plate in the process.
"Geez Karin, could you be more careful next time?' said Ichigo.
Karin snapped out of her stupor. "Y-yeah."
"Right, what happened back there, you totally froze up?"
It took a while before Karin could answer, as she tried to gather her shattered feelings.
"I- don't know, it's just like being angry, sad, hurt and guilty all at the same time."
Ichigo looked concerned. This was the first time Karin felt like this; usually she would be in a bad mood over his and his father's antics.
"Well, if the same thing happens again, talk to me," he said, before returning to his meal.
Karin only distractedly nodded, her heart was filled with dread.
'Yuzu, I hope you're okay back there,' she thought, going back to her food.
Back at Las Noches, the transformation is complete. What was once Yuzu Kurosaki is now a creature with a lime green body, her arms and feet were little more than limbs that tapered off into a sharp point. Her mask was bone white, with the eyes set far away from each other. A row of teeth draw a line three-fourths the way down. Finishing off the oddness were a set of four tentacles that extend from her back. The tentacles were colored a deep purple, with the edges a lighter shade than the rest of the tendrils. Like her limbs, the tentacles taper down into a point. She also grew ten feet.
Aizen marveled at Yuzu's new form.
"Interesting, never seen one like her before," he said, before taking out the small black ball that was the cause of all of Yuzu's suffering.
While all of this was going on, at the back of the group, Szayel was arguing with Grimmjow.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because even the slightest touch can cause devastation unheard of here in Las Noches."
"Awww, but that's what makes it fun!"
"I said no, this new compound is too unstable to be handled by the likes of you!"
"But you're letting Ulquiorra handle it."
"That's because he's sensible enough not to directly touch the substance, unlike you, who would dip your hands into it at the first possible opportunity."
"You mean like what Yammy's doing now?"
"Yes, like what Yammy's….wait what?"
Szayel turned to face the giant Espada, who was currently poking at the large tank Szayel brought with him. Both he and Grimmjow looked on, in interest for Grimmjow, in horro for Szayel.
"Hey Ulquiorra, can I touch it?"
When the latter did not respond, Yammy shrugged and proceeded to plunge his hands into the tank.
The resulting explosion nearly tore apart Las Noches, the room where nearly everyone was occupying was completely destroyed, and the rest of the fortress barely stood up to the blast. When the dust was clear, nearly all who were in the room were on the floor, knocked out, stunned, or getting back up.
Nearly all because Yuzu was nowhere to be found, nor is the ball that Aizen had worked so hard on. The incident had ruined Aizen's palace and disrupted and delayed his experiment indefinitely.
A few moments later, Grimmjow and Szayel were being stared down by Aizen. If looks could kill, then Szayel and Grimmjow would have been dead a thousand times over.
"Grimmjow, Szayel, could you two please come to the throne room shortly?" Aizen asked calmly.
Yet everyone present do NOT want to be the two unfortunate Espada at that moment. They knew the former Soul Reaper was barely suppressing his anger at the two of them for damaging his fortress and ruining his experiment.
As Grimmjow and Szayel were being grilled by an angry Aizen, Yuzu was beginning to stir. The explosion had thrown her far away from Las Noches, far enough that her spiritual pressure has not been detected.
As she starts into a sitting position, a huge hollow lands in front of her. The monster somewhat resembles a bat, except it has a mask of bone.
Yuzu gazed upon the hollow, when an overpowering hunger consumes her. She gave in to her instincts and charged up to the beast, tearing one of its legs. She ravenously ate the severed limb, and proceeded to do the same to the rest of the poor creature's body. She ate voraciously, uncaring who might be staring, or listening. Each bite had a sickening crunch, each gulp heard for everyone to hear.
When nothing of the hollow was left, only then that Yuzu looked up, and what she saw excited her.
A mass feeding frenzy, with hollows of every imaginable shape and size consuming, eating, tearing each other apart. And she was in the very center of the action.
Grinning savagely, Yuzu raced up to the nearest hollow from her, and joined the fray.
Eventually the hundreds upon hundreds of hollows all began to gravitate toward one another, and soon they were being compressed into a mass. Not long after that the black blob began to form hands, feet, and later a mask, which had a long nose.
A Gillian was born.
Author's note: Ahhh, finally it's done. The lack of reviews is disappointing, but I would like to thank the two authors who favorited this and put it on their story alerts list. I promise I will find your names and put it on the next chapter.
For those of you who are waiting for the next chapter of The Vampire Trainer, I'm afraid it's going to be released something in the middle of October, when the Semestral break comes in. It's my flagship story and the quality of the chapter must be maintained, so I spend more time researching and drawing up a rough plot.
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