Chapter Forty Nine:

Violet Eyes and Red Hair

"I think it's only fair to warn you, Aizen-sama, that Fuerda has more… um… bite than I do…" Seren winced, picking her words carefully.

Aizen actually wanted her to predict the future for him! He had some questions to ask or something. He wanted her to play Madame Zelda Mysterious Gypsy Fotune Teller Woman With Too Much Time On Her Hands to Aizen Not Enough Crystal Balls.

And of course, to do that, she had to slip into bankai.

Which obviously meant basically letting Rabaeth take over her body.

Oh crap. Obviously they didn't know Rabaeth too well.

Rabaeth, obviously, was NUTS.

OBVIOUSLY.

If you try ANYTHING I swear I will DESTROY YOU she told brooking no room for argument.

But- Rabaeth started-

NO!!!

Rabaeth huffed unhappily.

"Just remember, you asked for this," Seren gritted her teeth and sighed.

"Sh'chi…" Seren muttered with less than true enthusiasm.

Earth, fire, water, wind, bla bla bla shiny fireworks and-

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Seren screamed.

Ulquiorra, Aizen, everyone jumped. The ground shook, the walls rattled, and several screams could be heard.

"Seren?!-" Grimmjow growled-

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Seren jumped gleefully. "I fooled you all!" She fell over on the floor, squeezing her sides, and literally, roflhao (rolling on the floor laughing her ass off). "Ooh, ooh, I'm sorry." She got up and wiped a tear from her eye. "I apologize for that brief interruption- AAAAAAHHHH!!"

"AAAHHHH!" everyone screamed.

"AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!" The ROLFHAOing continued.

"Umm… Seren…" Aizen was getting annoyed.

Seren got up off the floor, dusted her robes off, and took a deep breath. "I am most certainly not Seren," she smirked. "I am Rabaeth."

It was true. Seren's dark hair had turned pale and white, she (he) was taller, heavy, and definitely more manly-shaped. As a result, Seren's clothes were noticeably tighter.

"These pants hug my ass way too much," Rabaeth muttered.

Oh, how Grimmjow and Ulquiorra's eyes bulged.

"You're a MAN?!?!" Grimmjow yelled with his usual finesse and tact.

Rabaeth blinked at him like he was the dumbest thing that was ever put on the white Hueco Mundo sands. "No, you idiot. I am a woman!" Rabaeth said sarcastically.

Poor Grimmjow just looked even more confused.

Rabaeth sighed and smacked his forehead. "Well, I suppose I've been summoned. As much fun as it is confusing pee-for-brains, I need to get on with it."

"Hey! Who're you callin' pee-for-brains?!" Yelled Kimi, shaking a fist.

"Yeah!" Grimmjow yelled also.

"I was… never mind…" Rabaeth said. "I so am not getting paid enough to do this." He grabbed Sh'chi and muttered a few unintelligible words. A bright light flashed from the sword and everything was white.

Then the light vanished back into Sh'chi.

All was silent.

"Hey, hey, Ser- Rabaeth," Grimmjow snapped his fingers at Rabaeths' face impatiently. "Hello? Anybody home?"

Suddenly Rabaeths' body lurched backwards and a terrible screeching filled the room.

"Dammit, not this again!" Aizen cursed.

The screeching stopped, and Rabaeth. rose off the floor. His eyes were blank, filled with a strange, violet light.

He pointed to Aizen. "Your plans shall go as you hope- but the ones that you ruined years ago shall come back to haunt you. Their faces are changing, their souls are shifting. You will lose many of your soldiers in the battle. Watch the one with gold hair. It is too late already for the violet eyes."

He turned to Ulquiorra. "Beware of the red hair, for it shall be both your savior and your doom."

To Grimmjow now. "Your pride will kill you slowly."

To Kimi. "Your heart lies elsewhere."

Then Rabaeth screeched again and fell to the ground. The light flared again, and everything disappeared in the face of the white.

When the rubble cleared, Seren was lying face down on the floor, Wearily she got up. She rubbed her head. "Wha- what was that?"

"You don't remember?" asked Grimmjow.

"Of course not!" Seren replied. "Rabaeth and I are two different beings. If I do go into a trance, I am out of the house, if you know what I mean."

"Now," Kimi said angrily, "why are all of your hints so darn cryptic?!" she pondered.

"Well, if I came and told you guys outright, you would do something to change the prediction, and if I did, the event I told of wouldn't happen because it has been tampered with. That's why. I can only tell you what to expect." She started rebraiding her hair. Ulqyiorra stepped away from Aizen's dais to help Seren.

Aizen rubbed his chin. "Seren, let me see your eyes."

Seren looked up, curious, and of course there they were- violet-silver eyes.

"You all can go- Ulquiorra, stay with me."

Kimi, Grimmjow, Seren, and Kiyoshi all filed out.

Aizen waited until their footsteps receded. Then he turned to Ulquiorra.

"I'm going to take the lock off of her necklace. If she tries to escape, kill her."

Ulquiorra kept his composure, but his heart dropped off the earth.

"You may go now."

Ulquiorra strode out of the room.