Kindly Hollow

Author's notes: This is the first chapter, or second if you include the prologue.

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½ or Bleach. If I owned anything, why the hell would I be making a fan-fiction?

The Menos Forest is dark and lonely. It is also the home of the Menos Grande, or Gillian as it is more commonly referred to. It is a giant hollow that is formed from hundreds upon hundreds of ordinary hollows. It is so massive that its appearance alone could cause many to run in fear, and it is much too powerful for a single Soul reaper to deal with. Well, an ordinary soul reaper, that is.

However, these Gillian's are not the only creature that lurks through the cavernous forest.

As you could probably tell from the dead Gillian.

A lone figure walked away from the carcass. It wore a cloak of skin and fur made from the hollows that attacked it. It had a strange bone mask on the top of its head. It had red hair falling down to mid back and a pair of bright blue eyes.

Ranma Soatome. That's her name. She had known ever since she regained her memories 6 years ago. The first four years she had spent her time going up the ranks of hollow from Gillian to Adjuchas to finally Vasto Lorde. When she reached the rank of Vasto Lorde she regained her memories from when she was human, and she had spent all her time since then getting stronger and stronger so one day she would be able to go back and protect her family from the monsters that also exist in their world.

"Damn that Gillian was tougher than the other ones, I wish they would stop attacking me" she sighed. She was unusual among other hollows, one reason is because she regained her memories from her human life and also because she stayed within the Menos Forest. One reason she stayed is because of a person named Ashido, a Soul reaper that was stranded there after pursuing a large group of hollows that were attacking the Soul society through the Gargantua they escaped through. When they met, he sensed a certain talent in her and was able to tell that she wasn't a threat. He began to train her to a point where she began to develop soul reaper powers. Because of this she then became an Arrancar, a hollow with the powers of a soul reaper.

It had been about two years since she had last seen him. They didn't really try to find each other; they rather just wander around and keep each other company for a couple of days before the split up again.

Suddenly, a group of hollows sped past her without even sparing her a glance. "What the hell..." she whispered and then stopped. There was a pleasant smell in the air and it seemed to be making the hollows go crazy. Then one of them seemed to claw the air until the atmosphere in front of it seemed to crack and open up until it was big enough for the hollow to get through. "What the hell is happening!?" she exclaimed as she ran to the closest crack. When she looked out, she froze. It was a city. A human city.

"Oh no" she squeaked. She wasn't ready yet. She couldn't go back until she was certain she was ready. But she saw all the people and cursed, "They'll never stand a chance." She paused for a second before jumping out.

"Call it off, get rid of that bait!", growled an orange haired soul reaper as he slammed another person that appeared to be the same age into the ground.

"What's the matter Kurosaki?", the black haired guy with glasses asked in a condescending tone as the soul reaper snarled at him.

The orange haired man's name was Ichigo Kurosaki, part time soul reaper, and the Black haired man's name was Uryu Ishida, a type of human with hollow slaying abilities called a Quincy. Uryu stared impassively, "I cannot recall it, the die is cast and soon hollows will flock to this town, lured by the bait."

You see, Ichigo had followed Uryu from school, and Uryu suggested that they have a contest. Ichigo refused but Uryu managed to get him worked up enough to agree, but he thought it would be a fight between the two of them. But Uryu released a type of bait into the air that attracts hollows. "A word of warning" Uryu tells Ichigo in a bored tone, "Hollows will attack anyone with high spiritual energy."

'Karin', Ichigo thinks as he bolts away to try and find his sister, while Kon run after him yelling for him to slow down. Uryu then sets out to destroy the hollows swarming the area faster then Ichigo.

The hollows head caved in as Ranma delivered a devastating kick to its Mask. Another went down from having its body destroyed from a small cero.

'Dammit, what's happening' she shouted in her head as she ran to the nearest person with high spiritual energy.

End notes: I'm not going to type up the entire story from the book, because if people haven't read this part of Bleach, then they shouldn't read this. Also, my chapter updates probably won't have a pattern.

Random thought: Have you ever noticed how in fan fictions, certain characters powers or attitudes are blown way out of proportion. I especially hate it when people make Akane ridiculously homicidal or when they seem to have a god-Ranma complex. And I plan to make all of the characters in the fan-fictions I make as close to the cannon characters as possible.

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