Is everyone present?" Head Captain Yammamoto asked the assembled captains, he received no answer but it could be seen that all the captains, with exclusion of the recent traitors, had arrived, as had Torin, Rida, and Aurora, who had arrived to give a testimony on request.
Rida looked around in awe at the room "I can't believe we're at a captain's meeting, it makes me feel kinda important, I like it."
Torin sighed "try and stay serious for once in your life Rida, these meetings are called to address serious issues, and this one is about the arrancar we fought, so we're going to have to look respectable and act like we belong in serious discussions like this."
"I was just kidding, no need to get all frustrated with me" Rida whined
"The fact that you're cracking jokes is exactly WHY I'm frustrated with you!" Torin snapped
"Torin's right Rida, you should be more serious right now" Aurora added. Rida, clearly in the wrong and outnumbered in the debate, responded by falling quiet and staring off into space.
"Good, then let this emergency captain's meeting now commence!" Yammamoto said as he pounded his cane on the floor. "Captain Ukitake, you were the one who requested this meeting, what has happened?"
Captain Ukitake gave a small bow to the head captain and stepped into the center of the room. "I requested this meeting because of what happened to my three squad members while they were training near the squad 13 barracks. I've requested they be here so that they may relay the events to you personally" he said, then he turned to Torin "please Torin, will you do the honors?"
"yes captain" Torin said with a slight bow "My name is Torin Inzanki, my comrades here are Rida and Aurora, we were training in a clearing near the squad 13 barracks when we were attacked by an arrancar. It quickly gained the upper hand on us, and we were all badly injured, but in a last ditch attempt we were able to kill it. We reported this to Captain Ukitake, but he said that this arrancar could not have been from Aizen's faction, which means this arrancar was part of another group of sufficient strength to secretly infiltrate the Soul Society, and with members strong enough to secretly infiltrate the Sereitei after entering the Soul Society"
Torin was out of breath from speaking so much, but he still held his breath, afraid that his story would be dismissed and the threat ignored.
"This is most disturbing" Yammamoto said "and you vouch for the legitimacy of their tale Captain Ukitake?"
"I do sir, none of these three would lie to me, and the place they were training in did show signs of conflict with a being that used a cero and a bala attack." Ukitake replied "I don't know for sure about a new faction, but Aizen and his cohorts have not made any moves, so this arrancar was either very powerful or it had a powerful group assisting it. Since my recruits bested it in battle it must have been the latter.
"Captain Yammamoto, may I speak? I have information that may relate to what Captain Ukitake has said" Captain Soifon said
"Go on, what is this information?" Yammamoto said with a nod
"The Stealth Force has recently detected a large influx of arrancar and adhuncha level hollows outside of Aizen's fortress Las Noches, this may be the new faction of which Captain Ukitake speaks." Soifon said
"I too have relevant information" Captain Mayuri said "we in the department of research and development monitor all current and previous threats to the Soul Society to make sure they don't take us by surprise. We have recently detected a large amount of spiritual pressures recognized by the archive database gathering in the same location mentioned by Captain Soifon, that location possesses a truly massive spiritual pressure that the database recognizes, but the data is locked away even from myself. I meant to ask about this earlier but the opportunity never arose."
Torin watched all the captains as they added their information to the discussion. From the way things were shaping up, it looked like there was a whole army forming in Hueco Mundo, and they were being led by a threat to the soul society so great the information on him was restricted even to captains. Torin felt fear stretch out a claw and grab his heart, what had he gotten himself into here?
"enough!" Yammamoto said, banging his cane on the ground again "I have heard all of your information and have decided to place the seireitei in a state of emergency wartime preparation! Based on what I have heard this threat is the same as the one that nearly crushed the Soul Society 3000 years ago. Captain Mayuri, I will release the restriction on the database, you are to access the information and send it to all the squad captains and lieutenants at once! The rest of you, prepare your squads for war, you are dismissed!"
Torin looked at Rida and Aurora, they were as terrified as he was; the threat that nearly crushed the Soul Society before was rising again? And when they were short 3 captains no less! Torin shuddered at the implications.