This chapter wont just be in the inner world any more! [Huzzah] Time to wake up!
Also a major curveball. Sorry if it isn't very realistic.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.

*~Graceful Melody~*

'I-I'm what?' I asked, my mouth agape.

'The true elemental, you do understand what elements are, correct?'

'Yea, water, air, fire and earth,' Celest sighed and shook her head the tiniest bit.

'I cannot believe those are the only elements you have heard of.'

'Wait, you mean to tell me there are more than those four?'

'Of course! You harnessed the power of two already, spatial pressure and folds of the space time continuum.'

'Come again?' Ry and Ella shared a laugh at my dubious epression.

Celest heaved another sigh and began, 'spatial pressure is the gravitational forces you can control thanks to Jūryoku and with Burakkuhōru's powers you have not only your hollow but the little 'disappearing act' Ella pulled was the bending of space time resulting in a wormhole like transporter.'

'I have heard of things like that, they were developing a new science for that when I died. Recently when wondering around Montauk I heard others talking that it is a bad thing to do, that it could destroy our world somehow or another.'

'Those who say it is bad are arrogant, the way you time warp is not through forced methods, but another way. It involves entropy, which is the amount of disorder in a system such as heat. Now most if not all reaction give off some form of heat, that disorder attracts to your reishi, in turn increasing your power and using the entropy to power the warp. Essentially it decreases the entropy and stabilizes the world.'

'It's that important?' I asked amazing.

Celest nodded her head at me. So me, an apparently not so normal spirit, is single handedly responsible for the stability of the universe? Great. Guess that leaves me no chance but to warp, of course that can't be all bad.

'So that is why those spatial forms are elemental, because of the involvement with time and natural occurrences?'

'Correct. Those are not the only elements you can control, including the prior mentioned six there are four others, ten in total. Ice, lightning, sound and mind are the other four.'

'What do you mean by mind?'

'Let me explain the others before I move to mind, for it is the most important one. Fire, is the ability to summon fire through a command given when my powers are activated, please release them so I can show you.'

I let my mind connect to Celest's so that I could find the saying to release her powers, 'Grant thee the power of all, Haha naru shizen!' I called soon after.

Thank god that connecting with Celest didn't take another three days.

'Good, and incase you couldn't tell Haha naru shizen means mother nature.'

'I could have guessed that…' Not really, I thought.

'To release the fire element simply call, burn. Like withBurakkuhōru's time warp, you only need to call the release of the elements once to use them.'

'Burn.'

The nine stars on the sword began to glow a fiery red, I swung my sword and a trail of fire ensued. Holding my hand out I concentrated as much as I could to form a fire ball, it worked and I threw it with a smile.

'Pyromaniac,' Ella called.

I smirked at her then stopped the flow of fire, my blade returning back to normal.

'Good,' Celest said calmly.

'Now for the others, water is ripple, earth is gravel, air is wind, ice is freeze, lighting is shock, and sound is harmonize.'

'Ripple,' the stars on the blade turned a dark blue, as I spun my sword a whirlpool like vortex formed around it. I swung my sword and the whirlpool shot off in the direction I aimed in a spiral motion.

'Gravel,' the stars lit up a dark green, and as I moved my hands back and forth parts of the grassy area under the weeping willow tree were removed and levitated in the air.

'O~h, that's cool,' I heard Ry call from behind me.

'Wind,' some of the stars began to emit a white glow. I used my sword to create a gust of wind, sending the pieces of the ground shooting towards my imaginary target along with the, literally, piercing winds.

'Freeze,' the stars on my sword returned to the original light blue, the swirl near the hilt now discharging a thin layer of ice. It crept up the blade at a fast pace, once it was covered I summoned some water with my hand and it instantly began to freeze over. I molded the ball of ice into a dagger and threw it toward the bark of the tree. Once it hit I deactivated the ice and it melted away.

'That's definitely going to come in handy,' I commended offhandedly.

'Shock,' the stars emitted an eerie yellow glow and I could feel the balance of positive and negative electrons building on the surface of my sword. I swung downward with close to all my strength in a magnificent show and a large lightning bolt shot towards the area where my sword was pointed.

'Cool,' I said in awe as I readied myself to release the last element.

'Harmonize,' I swung my blade not expecting the result to be what happened. I heard a slight ringing from the sound wave that supposedly was made, but I didn't hear a thing. I tried it again with my arm; again only the ringing sound filled my ears.

I turned to Celest with a questioning look on my face.

'It's your powers you won't be able to hear it. What it produces is a high frequency sound wave, close to the brown note, which is very loud and very annoying. In some cases, if enough power is behind it, it could make peoples ears bleed. I suggest not using that element in sparring.'

'Oh… Can you tell me the release for mind now!' I asked extremely excited. If mind was what the gut feeling told me it is, then I should be able to read peoples mind. For some reason I was very happy and anxious to get that power.

'The release for mind is balance. You already used it with your hollow powers and making people relive their worst memories. You will be able to read minds but I suggest you don't really use it. The release, balance, you need to balance all of your powers. You are quite the powerful person, so when trying to get what you want it would be best not to abuse your powers for it could cause more then just yourself harm.'

'I wouldn't think of abusing them. Unless using the wormhole instead of shunpo counts?'

'Don't worry about that, it's helping the universe stay stable,' Celest said in her usual calm yet motherly tone.

'Balance,' I called after a few moments of concentration.

Thoughts immediately came pouring into my head from the people in front of me and from the seireitei. I let them flood through my mind before I began blocking them out selecting one voice at a time to hear to try it out.

'There is one more thing I must tell you. When you are in the seireitei and alone you must try it.'

'What is it?' I interrupted.

'Your bankai, normally it takes a decade or longer to achieve this, but there is something special about you that is making me think you should be able to achieve this on your first try and perfect it your second.'

Not so surprisingly, something else- maybe oh, I don't know, this stupid gut feeling- told me that only one try would be enough.

'A-alright.'

'You know what to say already so the only thing left for you to do is to summon all three of us into the physical world. We all are a part of your bankai and when the last five stars fill up because of the last connections you need to make, it will be at least ten times stronger. When you first try it, the tenth star will light up and if you need it, the three of us will help regulate your control and flow of reiatsu. After that one time you are on your own to fully master it.'

I nodded then focused on the three in front of me as simultaneously issued, "good luck."

I sat up in a hurry with a pout on my face, they kicked me out of my own inner world. I looked around at the numerous people in the room who I must have startled by sitting up so quickly.

"Uh… hi!" I said and waved. They still stared at me like I had seven heads and a tail.

"…I'm Graciela, Gracie if… you… want…?" My introduction turned into a question for the nearly twenty people in the room all had their eyes on me.

All at once the room erupted, "I'll go get Yamamoto soutaichou!" One called.

"I'll go find Shiro and tell him the girl is even cuter than I thought!" I face palmed at that comment and listened to each person talking. I noticed, probably because of releasing the sound element, I could hear much better than before.

"I'm going to tell Captain Ukitake before you!"

"No you wont!"

"Yes I will!" the same girl called again.

The boy shunpo'd from the room with the girl right behind him screaming, "Cheater!"

"When can I start researching you?" a creepy guy wearing what looked to be white and black face paint and some weird gold goatee thing attached to his chin that reminded me of a pharaoh, asked me.

At that point I was fed up with everyone, the creepy guy asking to 'research' me? Yea no thanks Mr. Pedo*. I warped out of there, with no idea where I was going I focused on the area with the least commotion and no minds around.

*~Narrators Verse ~*

Captain Unohana walked in and in the calm motherly, yet absolutely terrifying, voice of hers; threatened not so subtly the shinigami in the room.

"Oh look it appears you have all scared our patient away. I suggest you find her before Yamamoto soutaichou arrives here, I would hate having to describe her disappearance."

Scared out of their minds most nodded while some managed a slight, "yes ma'am," before they all used shunpo to go off in different directions throughout seireitei.

*~Graceful Melody~*

I landed inside a fenced in area full of beautiful cherry blossom trees. I walked around some of the trees before I found one suitable enough to climb. I swung myself onto the lowest branch then climbed to the next highest before I plopped down and hugged my knees to my chest, my back resting lightly on the trunk behind me.

I let my mind reel over the sheer amount of people in that small room. I laughed out loud at the expressions on their faces and what they must have looked like after I 'disappeared'. Quickly I covered my mouth, remembering not to attract any attention to myself.

There is such a high level of spiritual pressure within the seireitei, based on what Ry had told me about this place, the pressure is absolutely nothing compared to what it could be. Apparently most of the higher ranking officers either hid or controlled their spiritual pressure so it would be rather low.

I came here to relax a little after being in that most awkward situation but I'm becoming more stressed. I know I need to let off some steam but both ways I normally do that would attract attention to myself. I decided to hum a little tune and tap my foot to the beat, kind of a compromise between singing and dancing.

One of the lines slipped out and from there I finished the last few lines of the song, "A ribbon on your finger reminds you how lucky, how lucky you are. When the memory is over the ribbon breaks down, letting loose all it's thread. The bond broken down and the lives torn apart put your head on your pillow and gain a fresh start."

"You have a lovely voice." A girl around my age and height said as she hoped onto the branch I am on.

'I never really thought that I could sing...'

"Ah crap. You're not going to bring me to Mr. Pedo are you?"

"No I'm not going to bring you anywhere but back to the fourth division. Captain Unohana needs to check to make sure you are stable. You've been in a coma for nearly four months!"

"I will go willingly with you if you let me try something first," I said as I hopped out of the tree.

"Sure thing," The girl said.

I realized now that she had medium length black hair and some sort of side bangs.

"Would you please move back? I don't want to risk hurting anyone."

"Okay… look girl I don't know what your planing but if-" she stopped talking. Apparently she finally noticed what was happening.

I concentrated on Ry, Ella and Celest's individual minds. Each one issuing me words of encouragement.

'You set up the first bridge, I will see you soon!' Ry thought.

'Number two, right and fast. Not too shabby,'Ella thought with a small laugh.

'I am very happy that you are able to do this Gracie. Once this step is completed I will regard you fully as the elemental. Good job, and good luck.'

I opened my eyes and all three behind me did the same.

"I thought I told you to do this alone?" Celest said with a threatening tone to her voice.

"Well I was, but not anymore. If I don't try this now I may not be able to for quite some while, so chill," I replied with a smile.

I built up my spiritual pressure, it was still unknown to everyone in seireitei, though not for long. When it was high enough, Ry, Ella and Celest's figures started to fade out as their powers surged through my sword. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and when I opened them I announced not only my presence to seireitei, but my strength as well.

"Bankai."

The other girl stared agape as my clothes changed for the third time. The kimono became a shirt that falls off one shoulder that goes to my upper thigh, a sash to hold my sword goes around my waist in a loose manner, with spandex like shorts going to my mid calf for pants. The kimono didn't fully disappear but became almost like a light sweater in the dark blue with a light blue vortex on the back. The spandex like shorts are the dark blue as well and the shirt is a white so pure it practically looked light blue.

One by one other people flocked to the spot but I didn't care, I needed to practice this. My sword became slightly longer, though it felt lighter. The same basic design as always excluding the fact that the tenth star had lit up in the process of my outfit name of my blade no longer Jūryoku for it was all three spirits, reflecting my personality in a harmonious way, became, "Yunibāsaru."

"Eliminate," I stated, and of the attacks my bankai began to activate. There is also create, despise and cherish. Each one the opposite of one of the others.

What appeared to be hundreds of people gathered, watching me. But I paid them no mind, they were not my concern as of now.

Eliminate incorporates fire, wind, lightning, water, mind and gravity. The wind began to pick up throughout the area,more specifically around my blade as a tornado like vortex formed. I swung sending the vortex moving with fire streaming through it, where it hit into a shed. The shed became the example as to what would have happened if my attack hit a person.

The vortex grew thinner in appearance and instead of wind and fire going through it, water started to flow. The flow of the water would appear to suffocate any person unlucky enough to be caught in it, that in truth was not the case. The water acts as a palpable substance so that I could enter their mind and make it seem that they were drowning. If the illusion failed to work and the person fought back to attempt to get out of the vortex, lightning was sent through the water. The highly conductible substance that water is would shock the person caught within. The vortex finally disappears leaving the person behind, if need be, the force of gravity applied would bend the space time sending the person into another dimension. Normally though, it would just keep the person down until they can be safely removed with no further harm to anyone around.

'Awesome!' I could hear Ry call as I deactivated what was left of my bankai.

'And you call me sadistic.'Ella taunted.

'Well done Gracie. You are in truth the true elemental, and fully our master.'

Though my bankai was deactivated my clothes stayed the same. Not like I minded the normal clothes, the kimono started o get very hot.

"Yes!" I called and fist pumped the air. I turned around to see an incomprehensible amount of people standing behind me. They were either, a] gaping, b] clapping, c] scared out of their mind or d] on the ground passed out.

I giggled a little bit, "ah hah, hi? I'm Graciela… Gracie for short if you want."

An old man appeared from the center of the crowd, "everyone please leave the area. All captains report for a meeting, lieutenants as well."

Nearly everyone shunpo'd away, leaving 21 people left standing in front of me.

The old guy stepped towards me, "I am Head Captain Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai of the 13 Court Guards, or the Gotei 13. Please come with me I would like to introduce you to everyone and talk about a few things. You are to join us at the meeting. Please follow me." He said and shunpo'd away.

After a few seconds I searched and found his mind and spiritual pressure and warped to where he waited for me.

"Welcome to my division, the first."

He swung the doors open as more people from earlier began to walk through. I was lead into a rectangular room, a chair on the opposite wall facing the door, a sign with the number 1 was above it. On the left wall there were seats and cushions under signs 2-7 and on the left wall, everything was the same just the signs were 8-13. Everyone started to file in when the doors were shut I noticed three empty chairs under signs 3, 5 and 9. I was going to ask why they were empty but held my tongue for the air in the room was far too tense for my liking.

"Welcome Graciela, do you mind me asking your full name?" The head captain asked.

"No I do not mind, my full name is Graciela Ivy Cordina."

"Please everyone, introduce yourselves to Graciela, in accordance to divisions of course." Head Captain Yamamoto ordered.

"Chōjirō Sasakibem lieutenant of the first division."

"I am Captain of the second division, Soi Fon." She said while staring very harshly at me. I suppressed a shudder and smiled to her as my greeting. Seeming satisfied she walked back to her chair.

"Vice Captain of division two Marechiyo Ōmaeda."

"Izuru Kira, Lieutenant of the third division."

"Retsu Unohana, Captain of the fourth division."

"Thank you." I said to her, "for watching me while I was in the coma," I flashed her a genuine smile.

"Isane Kotetsu Lieutenant of the fourth division."

"Momo Hinamori, Lieutenant of the fifth division."

"Byakuya Kuchiki Captain of the sixth division."

"Excuse me Mr. Kuchiki but you look very similar to the girl who first found me."

"Hn," was all he replied with.

Is that even a real word? I heard Ry and Ella laugh in response and Celest just sigh contently.

"Renji Abarai, Vice Captain of division six."

So the introductions went like that, Sajin Komamura and Tetsuzaemon Iba from squad seven. Shunsui Kyōraku and Nanao Ise from the eigth division. Shūhei Hisagi from the ninth. Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Rangiku Matsumoto the tenth. Kenpachi Zaraki and Yachiru Kusajishi from the eleventh. Mayuri Kurotsuchi, or Mr. Pedo, and Nemu Kurotsuchi from the twelve. I learned the twelve is the research department so that basically explains why Mr. Ped- Captain Kurotsuchi wanted to research me. Finally, Jūshirō Ukitake from the thirteenth division.

"Now could you please share with us your story? More importantly, how to you have bankai- or any shinigami powers at all- when you have absolutely no reiatsu?" Although it was phrased as a question I knew better than not to answer him.

"Around fifty years ago I was murdered by my best friends. I just kind of wondered around until the night when the hollow attacked and Captain Zaraki defeated it and ultimately saved me. I thank you for that sir," I added after ward to show my gratitude.

I continued shortly after to answer the read of Head Captain's question, "I do have spiritual pressure. Just it's always hidden, I need to selectively allow it to flow strong enough to be sensed."

Yamamoto looked at me thoughtfully for a few minutes. Never once did I shift under his gaze, a fact which may have caused him to stop staring at me with a pleased and satisfied look.

"Seeing as you remember Zaraki saved you, I see it fit that you stay with him and Kusajishi in their division," Yamamoto announced.

"If you don't mind me asking, but do the divisions specialize in any thing? If so, what if you specialization?" I asked, genuinely curious.

"Yes, each division specializes in other fields. Ours is combat," Kenpachi answered simply.

'Tch.' Was heard from one of the lieutenants, Renji I believe it is.

"Do you wish to say something Abarai?" Yamamoto threatened. The tension in the room rose yet again.

"The fact that they are the most ruthless of all the squads is more like it. I don't believe someone like Graciela should stay there, she seems so fragi-"

"I'm sorry to interrupt Vice captain Abarai, but although I do not enjoy fighting, I am not the only one I am thinking for. Ella can be quite ruthless."

'Ella? What the… does she have multiple personality disorder or something?' I heard Renji think.

'I heard that!' I screamed back mentally. Physically though I just smirked at him while he flipped his lid.

"How did you hear that! Did anyone else hear her answer? What are you!" Renji barked at me.

I giggled while Ella spoke, 'thanks for that, kid. But now I think they are going to ask for you to show them some of our powers.'

'Yea,' Ry agreed.

'Master, if you don't mind I would also like to speak with Yamamoto.'

'Alright,' I thought.

"Ms. Cordina would you mind showing us your powers? It seems Arabai is very skeptical that you are on our side."

"Of course I will show you my powers, I have nothing to hide. Oh and Head Captain Yamamoto?"

"Yes?"

"I have someone that wants to speak with you," I closed my eyes and focused on Ry, Ella and Celest's minds. Each one leaving our inner world and when I opened my eyes again, were standing behind me.

I heard a chorus of shocked gasps, multiple, "how?"'s and head captain Yamamoto uttering of, "silence."

"This is Jūryoku, my zanpakuto, Ry for short. This is Burakkuhōru my inner hollow and this is Celest, uh… mother nature I guess you could call her," I shrugged at the last part not really knowing how to explain Celest's powers.

"What is this?" Yamamoto roared.

Shocked I jumped, like some of the lieutenants. With no idea what was going on Ry and Ella just shrugged and moved into a protective stance surrounding me. Celest took it in her own hands to calm down Yamamoto.

"Please Yamamoto, calm down."

"Everyone the meeting will take a few moments break, Graciela if you don't mind could you leave Celest here? We have a few things to talk about."

"Okay…" I replied unsurely. I tapped into Celest's mind before Chōjirō shut the french doors when everyone dispersed.

I listened intently while Ry was off talking to Rangiku and Ella was apparently getting ready to fight Kenpachi. I sighed and warped to a quieter area, the roof of a near by building to be exact.

I began to listen in, I closed my eyes and saw their conversation through Celest's eyes.

'I don't appreciate you doing this, but I would have told you eventually,' Celest thought to me.

"How do you expect me to stay calm Celest? After all of these years, what happened?" Yamamoto began and boy did he sound even angrier than before; if it was possible.

"I had the full intensions of training you in the fire element and helping you gain the title you now have acquired. But I have been destined to play this part and help with what I warned you about before I left. Back when I was with you I was nearly a spirit you accidentally came across. You were never my master and quite frankly I do not believe that I would have served as your Vice Captain. I was chosen for a reason to be with Gracie and that is to help save your world and ultimately my own. If asked I know Gracie would help because that is the kind of person she is, but if this conversation continues to go the same way it is now I will not offer my powers to her to aid you," Celest was truly angry, putting it lightly.

I physically whistled, man was she ripping him a new one.

"Then why did you leave all of those centuries ago? You would have never known about Graciela that far back, so why did you leave me?"

"I left because you were always Yama- chan, and still are, to me."

"I loved you Celest," 'Say what?' I thought.

Celest ignored me.

"I know, but like I am now I was only a spirit. Even if I held the same emotions it would never have been possible. Did me leaving not fuel the spark that gave you your inspiration? To truly prove to me how far you have come?"

"Yes and no. I still would have liked you to help train my element," Yamamoto replied lightly; his rage calming as well.

Celest smiled at him and they embraced, it was not romantically but more like the hug you would give a friend you have just met after a whole lifetime of being apart.

'Wow,' I thought as I closed of the connection to Celest's mind.

When I opened my eyes I moved to a more comfortable position, lying on my stomach with my elbows keeping me up and my head in my hands. I watched what was going on, Kenpachi and Ella nearly destroyed the main gates for the first division, though after some damage control they started talking with each other. Apparently they tied though Ella likes to think she won; typical Ella. Ry and Rangiku were annoying the shorter captain with the white hair, Toshiro Hitsugaya I believe his name was. When Yachiru came over to help annoy as well I decided to intervene.

I warped to the area, grabbed his arm and warped back onto the roof.

"Sorry about the three of them annoying you. I know how Ry can be and quite frankly the other two didn't look like they were helping much," I smiled as I sat back down onto the roof.

He was still standing after a few moments, I moved onto my back to look up at him, "Captain Hitsugaya?"

His cold glare bore into my eyes. Unaffected I smiled up at him, contemplating what to say until Celest sent me a warning, 'the meeting is going to be called back soon.'

"We better get going, Head Captain Yamamoto should be calling everyone back soon."

Just as those words left my mouth the doors swung over and I warped to them. Leaving Toshiro behind to stare at me quizzically.

But in truth I was the one truly curious, I know that I have seen him before; but I can't remember where.

"After a short talk, I have proved that Graciela is not a threat and her stay in the eleventh division is finalized. She will be supervised by Yachiru Kusajisji, eventually we will find a place for her in the Gotei 13 is she wishes. Do you have anything you wish to say Graciela?"

"Yea, seeing as you are all taking me in and treating me with the utmost kindness I believe it would be extremely rude if I did not help out in any way. If you need my help with anything, just call me and I would be willing to help. Also, I would like to thank you."

"Very well, you may follow Kusajishi to your room. Meeting dismissed."

Once everyone was out side of the meeting room, Kenpachi came up to me, Yachiru on his back.

"Hello, Captain Zaraki, Lieutenant Kusajishi."

"Don't call me that Gracie!" Yachiru replied, "just call me Yachiru, and if you want you can call Kenny Ken-chan if you would like!"

"Just Kenpachi would be fine. Follow us to our division so we can introduce ya' to everyone," Kenpachi stated while giving me a toothy grin.

"Okay," I replied and shrugged.

'How bad could it be?' I thought.

Apparently really bad. Of all the members in the division, I only remember Ikkaku Madarame and Yumichika Ayasegawa. The rest tried to attack me, apparently it was some sort of tradition for new members. Even though I was a guest they thought I should be put through it. Basically I stood with a gravity barrier around me, with winds swirling around and surround the inside so that if anyone managed to get past the raised g-force they would just be shot right out.

Two hours everyone was at it. Until eventually I added an electrical current to zap the person unconscious if it hit them. Finally, that got the last few off and passed out.

When Kenpachi saw I laid all his men unconscious without lifting a finger he wanted to fight me, not just Ella. I refused and we got into a bit of an argument, if a bit counted as screaming at each other.

Finally I decided to break it off, "I'm too tired. I'm going to bed! If you follow me in there I'm taking it as sexual assault and getting myself transferred to another division!"

"No, this argument is not over!"

"Yes it is!" I retaliated with, very childishly.

"No, it's not!"

"Yes!"

"No!

"Yes!"

"NO!"

"YES!"

"NO!"

"NO!" I replied, hoping my trick would work.

"YES! And that's final!" Hook, line and sinker.

"Oh alright, if you really think that. Goodnight!" I replied with sweetly and warped back to my room to leave Kenpachi thinking over what just happened.

The room was medium sized, with either a full or queen bed aloft above the closet. When I walk in, there are three steps to descend for the room has a sunken floor. The ceilings are still the same height throughout the building, which allowed for the bed to be in a small cove above the big closet. Walking in further, on the opposite wall, were two floor to ceiling windows with white drapes over them. A mahogany desk in between them and a medium sized dark green couch on the perpendicular wall. The wall colors were a dark tan, the bedspread matching them along with white and dark green decal and pillows.

Too lazy to climb the steps cut into the wall to get to the bed, I warped up there. Tossing the pillows onto the couch and jumping in between the covers I realized how nice it felt to be in a real bed. After three months on a hospital gurney, this was heaven in well, heaven.

"HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" I heard Kenpachi yell. So I guess he figured it out, I just laughed tiredly at him before I laid my head down on the pillow for good.

Within minutes I fell asleep, not without issuing the other inhabitants of my subconscious, a very well deserved good night.