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Chapter Seventeen:
Chompy
When they arrived at Ulquiorra's room, he sensed something was off. He motioned for her to stop, then opened the door.
"Umm, what's wrong?"
"Something's in here."
"Oh, really? I don't see anything." Seren tried to look over the pile of blankets she had in her arms.
"I can sense its' reiatsu." Ulquiorra stepped cautiously in the room. Then he saw something- a small white tail under the couch. It crawled out from under it, snarling and grunting. It was a small, lizard-like mini hollow. It was eating a hole out of Ulquiorra's jacket, which Seren had left behind.
Ulquiorra raised his finger and fired a cero at it.
"EEEK! NO!"
In a second, Seren dropped her blankets, flashed over to the hollow, and deflected Ulquiorra's cero. It bounced off her hand, whizzed inches past Ulquiorra's face, outside the door, to explode against the wall, carving a huge hole in the wall.
Ulquiorra blinked once.
"What are you doing?"
Seren sweated. "Umm… um.. I was… um.."
"You're defending that trash?" His cruel green eyes focused on Seren.
"Yeah. So?" She picked it up and hugged it tight.
"Give it to me so that I may destroy it." He held out his hand, waiting.
"N-no!" Seren shrieked, and she hugged the hollow creature close to her chest. "Never! I won't do it, I won't!"
"Stop being stubborn and hand it over. Why do you bother with something weak like that anyways?"
Seren pursed her lips in a pout. "Because it's cute."
A stray wind whistled mournfully between them.
"How idiotic."
"I think he's adorable."
"You do know that it only likes you because it can easily feed off your reiatsu?"
"No that's not true-" CHOMP. Seren froze mid-syllable. She looked at her hand, and sure enough, the hollow had its mouth clamped around her finger, hanging from her hand. Seren shook her hand. "Hey, little fella, bad! Let go!" It stubbornly held on, only grunting in response to the shaking.
She looked at Ulquiorra, and she could almost swear he had a smug look on his face.
"Ah, haha, this?" She waved her hands. "He's just hungry. He won't bite me again, I'll train him!" She pulled it off her finger. "Bad!" She shook her finger at it.
CHOMP. It bit her other hand. "OWWCH!" Seren shrieked. "BAD CHOMPY!" She waved her hand around. "Let go! Can't you see you're not helping my case for your life?"
"Vermin should be exterminated," Ulquiorra said. But he was already walking away. Seren smiled widely.
"So I get to keep him?!"
"Just don't let it eat any more of my clothes."
Seren looked at the jacket. There was now a large bite out of the shoulder.
Oh. He was probably pretty pissed about that.
"I-I'm sorry!" She called. "It was really cold, so I put one of your jackets on-"
"Don't touch them again."
Yep, he was angry.
"Um… can I go out?" Seren was sitting on the floor, playing with her pet hollow. It had a skull for a face, its mask, and a small hole in its chest. It had a purple lizard like body, and clawed feet. It had vertebrae bones lining its spine. Seren petted it and lifted it up, throwing it and catching it.
"Why?" Ulquiorra was resting on the couch.
"I… I wanted to get a ball or stick or something for Chompy!"
"Chompy…?"
"That's his name, Chompy." She lifted Chompy up and cooed at it.
"No."
"What?! Why?!"
"Because you'll get yourself in trouble. Why do you want to get something for that trash anyways?"
"Because he's adorable! Look how lonely he looks!" She thrust Chompy in Ulquiorra's face. Ulquiorra blinked at him once.
"You consider drooling and stupidity adorable?"
Seren cried out and hugged her pet to her chest. "You just have no heart to feel compassion for the less fortunate! But it's okay, I will watch out for you, Chompy. Mommy will protect you forever, yes, yes, yes!" She kissed it on the head lovingly. "Mwa!"
Ulquiorra resisted to urge to roll his eyes and then cero the stupid trash. Which one, he didn't know.
"I love you, Chompy." Seren said to her pet.
Ulquiorra blinked. That surprised him.
Love? There was no such thing. And if he didn't know himself better, he could have sworn he felt a twinge of pain in his heart.
But he knew better. He had no heart.
"UUUUHH…. I'M SOOOOOO BORED." Seren moaned. "Ulquiorra, why don't you have anything interesting to do in your room?"
"I'm usually out of it, so it doesn't matter."
"Why don't you at least have any fraccion to talk to?"
"I don't need any."
"How come you're so hard to talk to!" "I don't want to talk to you."
Seren stuck her tongue out. "Screw you," she muttered. "At least you still love me, right?" She rolled Chompy over on its belly. She gave it a belly rub. "Yes, yes you do. My little cutie pie."
Something strange twisted in Ulquiorra again.
It was a small pain in his chest, right where his hole was.
How strange.
He wanted her gone, suddenly. This stupid girl was putting too much into question. "Very well. You may go, but be back before it is dark. If you aren't, you will not be let out again."
Seren looked up, surprised. "O-oh?! Really?" She jumped up, excited. "Oh, yeah, yes, I'll definitely be back! C'mon, Chompy!" She grabbed her strange lizard hollow pet and swiftly sonido'ed out the door.
