Hello everyone, I apologize for the update delay. I had some stuff to do in school followed by a very awesome spring break, so I've been a tad preoccupied. Onward, today you get a little mini chapter before the actual 7th chapter, shedding some light on how exactly Rukia and Ichigo wound up as Vizards. Enjoy~.
The Fallen
Turn Back The Pendulum: Exhumation
OutlawEX
Hollows. Souls who have lost their humanity and live by their primal most instincts. The holes in their bodies symbolize their lost hearts, while their masks symbolize a tangible form of their madness.
Soul Reapers. Souls gifted with an abnormal amount of spiritual energy, and from that spiritual energy is born their Zanpakuto, blades capable of purifying the hollows.
Kisuke Urahara, captain of squad 12 and founder of the Soul Society's research and development department, created an object, known as the Hogyoku, that erased the bold line separating these two races together, giving birth to two new super species: the Vizard and the Arrancar.
Feeling his creation dangerous, he had no other choice but to destroy it. However, the object was far to powerful to destroy. Desperate, he resorted to hiding the Hogyoku in an expected place. Within a living body.
Let us turn back the pendulum to take a more in depth look over the events leading up to our story.
A young, homeless Rukia Kuchiki walked the streets of the Rukongai. Many venders sat on the side of the street looking for business. The small girl would often times take goods from these merchants, when their backs were turned. She didn't necessarily do this because she was a deviant, but rather because it was necessity.
When she needed to rest, she often found herself having to sleep on the sides of roads. She had no friends, no family. No one seemed to want to take her in. She was 'street trash,' as one woman put it, after her son begged her to take the child in.
One day, as she was walking in the forest just outside of town, she was ambushed by a hollow. This particular hollow resembled a scorpion, it's mask was flat and pointed. The girl found herself cornered against a tree. She was trembled profusely as the beast approached her. "Please, don't hurt me," she begged it. It's tail raised into the air, and with a sudden jerk the dark haired girl's chest was pierced. Her vision began to fade. Her last depiction was a darker skinned woman with purple hair splitting the hollow's mask with a kick.
"How is she doing?" Kisuke Urahara walked in to the guest room of his shop.
Tessai Tsukabishi stood over her, using some sort of higher grade healing Kido. "She's stabilized, at this point. I think she's going to make it."
The blonde nodded. "Poor gal, she probably hadn't ever seen a hollow before."
"Her spiritual pressure is higher than most, that's probably why it came after her," the bulky man analyzed. "She's lucky that Yuruichi chose to visit the Rukongai when she did."
The shop keeper shook his head. "She's not lucky," he spoke grimly. "Because of this there is no doubt that she will be pursued by Aizen, later."
Tessai ducked his head in shame. "I didn't think about that."
"I'll do all in my power to protect her though," Kisuke vowed.
And so, the Hogyoku wound up within Rukia Kuchiki. Though completely unaware, it's power flowed through her veins.
When she transferred her powers to Ichigo Kurosaki, he gained the same mysterious, unknown powers, thus both became part of the Vizards.
Sorry that it's so short, I'd been contemplating for a bit now why Ichigo became a Vizard, so I figured I'd write my take on it just so I can get something up, as it's been a bit since my last chapter, and I haven't exactly written the next part yet. ^^; Anyway, enjoy, review, and have a very good week. :]