Chapter 6 Return of A King
I slowly start to open my eyes in what seems to be the same way now for a while now with that thought aside. When my eyes are fully open I lean up and stretch my arms out and yon. After that I turn my head to the right where I see a window looking outside. "Ah, its good to finally be back." I say. My memories have finally returned and I'm glad... but it is a little bit sad but only a little that I can't return to the friends I once had. But we can never really be friends now considering that..." I then pause what I was thinking and look down at my chest, seeing that the hole in my chest has returned and I then finish my thought. "I'm a Hollow again." As I sit up thinking, I hear someone heading towards my room so I turn my head to see who it is. Lord and behold its- "Ulquiorra. To what do I owe this pleasure to?" I say. "Welcome back home... Lord Sesu." He says. Hmmm doesn't really roll off the tongue but I'll role with it. "I've seen that you've changed a lot over the years. Oh and isn't Aizen the lord now?" I say/ask him as I get out of the bed and walk over to him. "Yes, but you will always and forever be our true lord master." He says. As I get close to him, he then gets on his knee's, puts his head down and offers some clothes to me. "Still as loyal as ever I see." I say as I pick up the clothes and put them down on a table in the room. I then begin to change out into the new clothes and while I am I ask. "So have things been going since Ieft hundreds of years ago." "Will after you left, Barragon took over the throne." He says. "That prick? He was the worst choice for king. I still can't believe that I to him of all people. Anyway what else has happened." I say. "Nothing else has really happened in the time that you've been away besides Aizen coming here." He says. As I almost finish dressing, I notice something on top of my coat. My old mask, I then pick it up and stare at it. "You held on to my mask for all these years Ulquiorra..." I ask. Old memories starting to flow back into my head again. I then ask him. "So, does anyone still remember me after all these years?" "Yes, me and some of the others have become Espada's, master." He says. "Really is that so... and i'm guessing that the Espada are the strongest among the Arrancar's?" I ask. "Yes, we are. All of the Espada has rankings from 1 to 10." He says. "Will then what is yours?" I ask. "I am Espada number 4 my lord." He says. My mask has a black line that would be considered by some as a visor like that of a knights helmet but the are two holes for my eyes and the mask doesn't have any teeth. I then put my mask on and while I am I say. "Anyway, I'm guessing that Aizen wants to see me as soon as I wake up right." "Yes, are you ready master." He asks. "Yeah lets go." After I say that we then start to make our way to Aizen.
As we're wolking down a hallway, I try to sense any spirital energy around me that I remember. The first one that I remember is Barragans. After a little bit I then remember Halibel's and I try to sense for more that I remember but there can't. "So, what ranks are Halibel and Barragan among the Espada?" I ask. "Halibel is ranked number 3 and Barragan is ranked number 2." He says. "Barragan number 2. I thought that he would at least be number one but i'm really supprised that Halibel is ranked higher than you, Ulquiorra. Anyway, wasn't Harribel the one that had a crush on me?" I ask. "You'll get to see for yourself soon." He says. We continue to walk for a few minutes before we finally enter a large room and I see what looks to be throne in the back which I can only assume is Aizen and I see people to the sides in front of the throne who I can only assume are the other Espada. We walk closer until were in the center of the room. "I see that your finally awake Sesu." Aizen says. "Tell me Aizen. Is there a reason that I should keep you alive right now after what you did to me in the Soul Society huh?" I say as I release the killing intent in my aura. "Nothing really, but it wouldn't benefit you in anyway to kill me." He says. It stays quiet for a few seconds before someone from my right says. "Why do we need him anyway lord Aizen." He has blue hair with an open shirt. "And you are?" I ask. "Espada Number 5 Grimmjow." He says. "You, number 5 how did you even become an Espada with how weak you are." I say. "Dims fighting words." He says. "No, they arn't." As I say that I then move in front of this 'Grimmjow at fast speeds and I then grab the right side of his head and smash it into the wall. "I don't even consider you a fight, not even if Orihime healed you. I'm guessing you've never heard of me but a hundred years ago I was the king of the hollows before Barragan took the throne away from me with his army of hollows, which I destroyed but it left me weaked enough for Barragan to only barely just beat me." I say. After I finish my sentence everyone stays quiet ish but I can tell that they all remember me and are now scared. I then pull Grimmjows face out of the wall and let go of him, letting him fall to his knee's on the ground. "With 'introductions' out of the way, Ulquiorra I want you to show him around-" Before Aizen could finish his sentence, one of the other Espada's interupts him and asks. "Lord Aizen, may I be the one to show him around?" The Espada that says this then starts to slowly walk out of the shadows to reveal herself. I could already tell that it was Halibel. "Very will then, Helibel. I'll leave showing him around to you." Aizen says. I then turn to Ulquiorra and say. "Oh and Ulquiorra. After Halibel is done showing me around I want you and Halibel to wait outside of this fortress I guess its called I don't know but just wait outside for me. After Halibel is finished showing me around i'm going to check up on our other newest arrival." "Very will then master." Ulquiorra says. "Anyway, shall we get started." As I finish that sentence I then take off my mask and show my face. Halibel then nods her head at me and we start to walk down one of the hallways.
We continue to walk for a few minutes before Halibel then stops and turns around to face me and then she gets on one knee and says. "Welcome home, Lord Sesu. Its great to finally have you return after all of these years." "Please Halibel there's no need for you to do that. And besides i'm no longer the king." I say. "You will always be considered a lord in our eyes." She says. "Will its great that some of you still have loyality to me. Anyway lets continue shall we?" After I say that we then continue on and she shows me the rest of the place. Afterwards I tell her to go and wait with Ulquiorra while I talk to our new guest.
After walking for a few minutes I finally find her room. When I walk in I see her staring out into the night sky. "How've you been so far Orihime?" I ask her. She doesn't respond until a minute later. "Is it really true that your a hollow..." She asks. "Yeah its true. I think the hole in my chest says it all see." I say as I then open up some of my jacket to show her the hole in my chest. "I'm sorry but I can't take you back to the world of the living. My duty as a hollow comes before everything else." I say. "So your just going to forget us becaming friends then." She asks. At this I say silent for a few seconds. "No, I will never forget what everyone else did for me but I can't go back. Almost my entire life has been here in Hueco Mundo where there are still people that are still loyal to me even after these past hundred years. They never betrayed me and still believed that I was alive for all of these years. They haven't betrayed me so I wont betray them Orihime. I'm sorry but you'll stay here until Aizen's done with you. I have to get going but I'll come back, goodbye for now." I then head to where Ulquiorra and Halibel are waiting for me.
It took me about 15 minutes to find them. "So Lord Sesu what have you called us here for?" Ulquiorra says. "I called you two so I could find out how much you guys have changed in the time that I've been gone. So come at me with all you've got." After I say that Ulquiorra then prepares to fire a cero but... "oi Ulquiorra, did you copy the way that I fire a cero?" I ask as I also prepare a cero the same way Ulquiorra does. When we fire our cero's, they clash and then explode in front of us. We then charge at each other through the explosion with our swords in our hands, our blades then clash with explosive force which clears away the fire and smoke. We stand there, metal against metal but the only thing is that Ulquiorra's holding his sword with both of his hands while i'm only using one hand. "You may have gotten stronger over the past hundred years but your not the only one whose been getting stronger." I say as I then start to push his sword back with my own. As i'm pushing his sword back, I could hear what sounded like the charging of a cero. I turn my head to my right to see Halibel fire a cero off at me, the yellow sphere raging towards me but I was able to easily dodge it by moving backwards. Ulquiorra then charges towards me, trying to get a hit on me while he thinks that my guard is down but it isn't. I block his attack but him and Halibel are some what in sinc with each other cause Halibel is then behind me and she stabs me around my right arm so Ulquiorra could overpower my arm with my sword. He swings my arm away and stabs me in the upper left side of my chest. everything is still for a little bit. "Guess I've lost my edge some. Looks like i'll have to get a little serious." I say as start to form my hollow mask and I then grab Ulquiorra's sword and pull it out of my chest and elbow him in the face to send him away from me and then release some spikes from my back to get Halibel to pull her sword out of my back. I was able to become a king because of my ability to control how my regenaration works. Giving me complete control over my cells. I start to return the spikes I released from my back into my body and convering the wound Halibel and Ulquiorra gave me. "I know you have more to offer than this so come on, show me your true power you two or i'll be forced to take this very seriously." I say warning them not to hold back anymore. They respond to my warning be releasing the Resurreccion forms. They then fire off their most powerful cero's at me, but I stand still where I am. Cutting Helibel's cero in half and blocking Ulquiorra's cero with my sword. Helibel then starts to attack relentlously using her zanpakuto's power that gives her control over water. Even though I can just heal from this I still need apart of me to regenarate from so I block her attacks and she's starting to gain more ground on me. Before I know it i'm now pretty far away for the fortress. Ulquiorra hasn't been trying to attack me ever since Helibel start her relentless assault on me but I see him back at the fortress holding a glowing spear made of green light that he then throws towards us. Helibel can tell that its coming but she still continues her assault until the very last second where she dodge's it, leaving me now time to avoid it. The spear then makes contact with me and then blows up, the only way to survive this is to use my zanpakuto's abilities. My sword then turns into black like flames, I then swing my sword towards the blast and all there's left is a massive explosion. A few minutes go by as the explosion aftermath starts to fade away. I then reappear a few feet away from them. My hollow mask is cracked and starting to fall apart as the rest of my body is covered in wounds both big and small. "Amazing. Truely amazing you two. You almost had me with that final attack there Ulquiorra. Anyway I'm going to return back to my room and get some sleep cause that battle made me very sleepy." I say as we all walk back into the fortress.
We are soon off on our on paths. Heading to where we each had to go. I finally make it to my room and close the door, finally letting out the pain throughout my body. It must be because my body hasn't been through anything like that in a long time. Will I limp over to my bed I take off only my jacket and lay with my back on the bed. I then put my arm on my forhead and stare up, thinking about everything that happened when I first became a Hollow...