IX: Servant of "God"
Pantera: *takes out a piece of paper and readers* "Okay for the outfit question, it will be revealed later on in this chapter. Antex-The Legendary Zoroark, you are correct!" Shirosaki!
Hichigo: *sighs* Privaron Epsada are former Espada that are stripped of their rank and are given a 3-digit rank. They're stronger than normal Números Arrancar and reside in Tres Cifras(Three-digit/Three Digits).
Sode no Shirayuki: And the outfit, I can't wait for it to come! Me and… uh, um…
Tiburón: Tiburón(Shark/Imperial Shark Empress).
Sode no Shirayuki: Yeah, Tiburón and I came up with the coloring and whatnot for it! Mistress Galiancrystal said congrats for you obtaining Kyōka Suigetsu. She doesn't find this as a coincidence… maybe you're meant to clash against each other in the future. Or as allies in the near future. So anyways…
Tiburón & Sode no Shirayuki: "Mistress Galiancrysal doesn't own Bleach, Tite Kubo does and if she did, then Ulquiorra would've been alive and as a frenemy of Ichigo's."
-:- Opening: After Dark by Asian Kung-Fu Generation -:-
My shadow is fracturing
It's pieces are scattering
They all… run away
I skip over falling blooms
And though they are beautiful
Unseen— They decay
Sickening sweetness flows on the wind
From the corner of the street
And in the distance I hear the cries
As someone weeps
Stolen by the midnight wind
My hopes have all been swept away
Wonder if they'll ever be found…
I cannot accept this world
But it looks like rejecting it
Only makes my anger rebound
But I will wake up one day
If this is all in my head
And even if I still lose
I'll know that I am not dead!
In A Dream
[My P.O.V.]
I groaned as I opened my eyes, only to find myself in what seemed to be a amazon forest, at night I add. Making it look creepy just by the glance of it. I gulped in nervousness as I heard something making a thump. "W-who's there!?" I shouted as I backed up with fear in every step. A gasp escaped my lips as I bumped into something. I turned around and nearly screamed at what it was. A giant Hollow of what looked a mix of an Infected from Resident Evil along with something from the Alien film, a Xenomorph if I can recall(it's the Wraith from Evolve, but it looks like a Hollow with mask and all). "Z-zangetsu?" I trembled as I reached for the sword on my back, but then felt nothing. "N-n-no… No! No! NO! This can't be happening!" I shouted and started to make a run for it by using shunpo, but the creature was already hot on my tails. My heart raced in fear, sharpening my senses as it pumped more energy. Just my luck, I tripped on a root and slammed into the ground.
"Grah!" I screamed in pain as I tried to get up, but pain flared from my ankle. Damnit I twisted it. A roar echoed the forest as I tried to crawl away the best I could, but a pair of tentacles entered my vision. Once again I gasped in fear as I looked up to see the creature from before. It roared once again as a lime-green cero(Zero/Hollow Flash/Doom Blast/Empty Disaster) started to form in it's open mouth. I gulped and I closed my eyes, not wanting to see anything. It then screeched, as if it got attacked as I opened my eyes just in time to see a figure slash it across it's face, making blood squirt out of it as they landed. "We don't have much time. So we have to hide now!" They shouted. In a flash I was slung over their shoulder like a sack of potatoes as the began to use shunpo to get away. The beast, Alien Mantis as I called it, followed us. "It's coming closer!" I exclaimed as he, I believe, nodded and began to shunpo faster like no tomorrow. Soon a light entered our visions as I was placed onto the ground.
The room looked so much like Naminé's room from the KH series, but without any drawings all over the place. "Where… are we?" I asked as I looked behind them to see them clearly. The person that rescued me, was a woman of what appeared to be in her mid 20s with black wavy shoulder blade length hair that held a tiny tint of blue to it with friendly, but depressed dark orange eyes. She's pale-skinned(like Byakuya), wearing a amber orange turtleneck under a white long bell-sleeved kimono top that slid off of her shoulders, held by a white teardrop string in the front that tied in the back, a black sash with purple designs on it that tied in the back in which the sash touched the floor, held by a silver teardrop belt. It turned out that the turtleneck was also a dress which trailed behind her, and purple flats. "And… who are you?" I asked as she said, "I'm Suzumushi(Cricket), Kaname's Zanpakutō."
"Kaname?" I questioned as then I heard a door open with a, "Ah, Suzumushi, you're here." I looked to see three figures, two males and the other unidentified. The male figure I recognized as… "Hichigo?" I questioned with wide eyes as he ran over and bent down to face me with a hug. "Oh, thank goodness you're okay!" He said as he added, "You're ankle's twisted."
"No duh baka." I deadpanned as I then looked at my swollen ankle and was shocked at what it looked like now. "What the…hell?" I muttered as it looked like new as if I never twisted it in the first place. I stood up, seeing if it wasn't injured and I was right. But then I tripped after taking a step, Hichigo catching me just in time. "It looks like you just fell for me." He said with a grin as I said, "Not the time." A male voice chuckles as we both turned to see the other two figures.
The man that chuckled looked like he's in his early 20s with spiky silver hair(like Thief King Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh!) and light blue eyes. His skin was in-between tanned and pale, but not fair skinned though, with a pale t-shaped scar going down from his right eyebrow to his lower cheek. He wore a sleeveless pale turquoise haori held by a dark teal sash, sea blue hakama, pale bandages wrapped from his hands(but not covering his fingers) to up above the elbow, on his chest, and some parts of his feet. He grinned at me, a grin much like Hichigo's plastered on his face.
The person next to him, a guy I believe, has knee length spiky and layered white hair with waist length bangs with a white mask covering his face. The white mask had slits, but it was hard to tell what his eye color was since its shadowed over with red markings on the mask and a yellow crescent moon on his forehead. He wore a really light tan sleeveless haori with two light green circles on each side with three abstract shapes underneath each circle and a jade green four-petaled hollowed flower, a lavender kimono top with midnight blue lining and grey hexagons on it, a matching lavender hakama with a inch thick midnight blue lining at the bottom of the hakama, a jade green sash around his waist which held the haori, light green fingerless tekko gloves(like Byakuya), and white socks and clogs on his feet. He nodded at me acknowledgement for my presence here in this white room.
"So Suzumushi," The tanned man said as he walked up to me took my chin in his hand, forcing me to look up at him in his eyes. The action making Hichigo growl at the man as he released me from his grip. "Who're they?" He asked, his accent was slightly Australian. "Isn't it obvious Shinsō(God Spear)?" The masked man said, placing his hands in the sleeves of his kimono as he crossed them. His voice was slightly muffled due to the mask which got me curious of his true gender. "They've been captured by Aizen."
"That creepy man? Your master? You've got to be kiddin' me Kyō." The man, Shinsō, asked with a chuckle as he puts his hand out for us to shake. "The name's Shinsō, and this creep over here next to meh is Kyō." Shinsō said as I shook his hand nervously. "My name isn't "Kyō" Shinsō." "Kyō" spat out in disgust of his nickname as he turned to face me and Hichigo. "My name is Kyōka Suigetsu(Mirror Flower, Water Moon). And who are you and your friend?" Kyōka Suigetsu introduced and asked me about myself. "I'm Victoria, but I prefer Vicki and this is my partner, Hichigo Shirosaki."
" "Hichigo"? What a strange name for a Zanpakutō." Shinsō smirked as Hichigo growled at him. "Well, my real name is actually Zangetsu, I'm just one-"
"*gasp*!" Suzumushi then gasped, clutching the clothing over her heart before dropping to her. She began to hyperventilate as in a flash, Shinsō was by her side. "Suzumushi are you okay?" He asked, worried for her as she said, "I-I'm okay. It's that Hollow…why?" She muttered as her head is down, her hair shadowing her face as she trembled. "Why would Kaname betray me by allowing th-that thing in his soul?!" Suzumushi started to cry as she covered her face with her hands, hiding tears as Shinsō comforted her in a hug. Kyōka Suigetsu looked away as he told me, "My master, Sōsuke Aizen, experimented on Suzumushi's master, Kaname Tōsen, because he wanted more power to bring justice. I…" He was quiet for a moment, thinking about something before continuing. "I want to do something to stop this madness, to save her master, but that cursed thing, the Hōgyoku, silenced me… This is only one of these times it allows me to be free. To be around the other Zanpakutō until Aizen and that thing call for me by force."
The way the masked man said it, he sounded upset by his master's decisions. He didn't want this, it's like he wants to see his old master, before all this madness. Kyōka Suigetsu gasped, removing his hands from the sleeves of his kimono as he quickly said with some shock, "Quick! You must return from being here in the Shirosekai(White World)! Wake up before they notice you and Zangetsu are here!" He raises his hand and swipes it in front of him, creating a shockwave that sends me and Hichigo flying out the door, and into the eternal darkness.
End Dream
I gasped as I sat up quickly with quick gasps of air. Was that… really a dream? A knock is heard as I heard a door open. I didn't even dare to look as they walked up to me and said, "You're awake…" I only nodded in response as I felt something being placed next to me. "Get dressed in these, Lord Aizen expects for your appearance. I'll be waiting at the other side." The soon left, closing the door before turning around and faced the pile of clothing that sat next to me. Before getting dressed, I healed my injuries then put on the black and white clothing. "Ya know, you don't look bad at all in that uniform." The same voice from before said as I turned to face them, and to my surprise, it was my favorite villain, Gin Ichimaru. Gin chuckled as he walked up to me and I looked up at him. "Brings ya hair out Shiro-chan~!" He said, bringing a piece of hair from my head to touch before dropping it. "Shiro-chan?" I asked and he nodded, bringing a mirror from thin air to show me why he called me "Shiro-chan". My hair completely changed.
My hair is brown as usual, the same color as Aizen's as are my eyes, making me seemed like a genderbent version of him. My eyes weren't huge like all the other girls's. Instead, it's styled like Kaien's, but with brown eyes you know? And then I realized why he called me that. My bangs are now white, like Toshiro's hair, and they're semi-spiky like Mugetsu Ichigo. "What the…" I muttered as I also saw that the tips of my hair are a crimson red color, the same shade as Renji's hair. "It looks like our reiatsu affected your appearance Princess." Hichigo told me. "Sorry 'bout that."
"Look Hichigo, you don't have to apologize. This was something… weird, but in a good weird, okay?" I asked as he hummed in response. "Hello~, anybody in there?" Gin said, waving his hands in front of my face. I glared at him and said, "Can you please stop waving your hand in front of my face please?"
"Aw~ you're no fun." He whined as I sighed. We then left the room and walked down the halls to wherever the heck we're supposed to go.
[?'s P.O.V.]
"My fellow Espada." Aizen said, making the everybody in the room to stop talking and faced him. "Today another member has joined our cause. They realized that being with the Shinigami was wrong. Thus, they joined our cause because they had enough of their rules." He then looked at the shadows and said, "Now please come, young one. Don't be afraid to show yourself to your comrades." The figure came out, a girl to be exact, with brown shoulder length layered hair with spiky neck length white bangs with crimson red tips and a semi-scowling and calm look in her brown eyes. She looked to be about in her teens, on the tall side that's for sure. A short white jacket with a black fur collar around the neck area, white pants with black vertical zippers going down from the sides of the knees, a black v-neck shirt, black zipper-lined shoes, three black belts around her right thigh, two crimson red belts and two black ones criss-crossing except for a grey belt that's worn properly. Around her neck is was seems to be a cross mixed with a Hollow mask remnant.
I raised my brows in interest as I examined her closer. Holy crap… she looks like she could be Aizen's daughter! "The name's Victoria, Victoria Garcia. It's… an honor to meet you all." So "victory brave in battle" huh? Not a bad name for the kid.
"Hey," Nnoirta said, making Victoria look at him with the same gaze she had when she first appeared. "Aren't you that chick? The weak one with the humans?" He taunted as she said calmly, "Yes, I use to be until I realized that Lord Aizen is the answer to end this war, not those weaklings." I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but she spat out the words "Lord Aizen" with disgust. "I hadn't seen ya fight so why don't you and I fight, eh?" Nnoitra asked as I could tell she's already annoyed by him. "…I won't fight against a madman like yourself." She stated calmly. "What was that!?" The Quinto Espada yelled as she said, "Didn't you hear me? Or does that spoon-head of yours makes you deaf in the ears?"
I couldn't help but let out a laugh, oh I was already liking her. My Inner Hollow, Pantera, shouted with laughter, "Oh burn! Burned by a girl!" Ulquiorra shook his head, already not liking her as Barragan grumbled how she's being disrespectful to one of her superiors. "That's it! You're dead you little-!" He shouted, but then Aizen raised his reiatsu, making Nnoitra stop in his tracks completely. "Nnoitra, I already have plans for her to prove her strength to us. To show us that she's one of us." He stopped for a moment before continuing. "In the arena, she'll face a life-or-death battle against an Arrancar. Now let us not stall any longer, shall we?" We all nodded and then sonído'd(Sound/Sound Ceremony) to the arena. I sat down with a fist against my face in complete boredom. Let's hope this will get good now.
[Nobody's P.O.V.]
The brunette teen gulped in nervousness as the Arrancar she's suppose to kill appears in a flash of his sonído. He was as tall as the average man with tanned skin and dark brown wavy hair in a low ponytail and a stubble. Cloaked in the traditional Arrancar uniform with a black and white sombrero on his head along with a white poncho with black designs and tails. "So you're the niña(girl) I'm suppose to fight with right?" He asked, fixing his hat while looking at her with curious amber brown eyes. "Yeah, so what of it?" Vicki asked with her arms crossed. The man chuckled before tipping his hat to shadow his face. "Niña, you are aware that when you're facing me, you'll be fighting for your life. So please, I hope you'll live to see the light of day." He then drew his sword, a rapier with a reddish orange wrappings around it from it's matching sheath. "The name is Caesar, Caesar Candencia. Your's niña?" The man, Caesar Candencia, asked as he pointed his rapier at her. "It's Victoria." Victoria responded as she then shunpo'd behind the made and performed a roundhouse kick, only for Caesar to dodge it with his sonído.
"Playing dirty are we niña?" Caesar taunted as he then swiped at her with his rapier, in which she crossed her arms in front of her in a form of a "x" and activated her hierro(iron/steel skin). The rapier barely scratched her skin as she's thankful that Hichigo taught her that skill. "I'm just playing by what the rules say." Vicki answered back as she performed a combo of punches and kicks with the hierro active. Caesar either dodged her punches and kicks, or blocked them with his rapier with his other hand on the blade to try to push the brunette teen back. "Nhg." She grumbled before being sent flying back a few yards and nearly into the wall of the arena's battlefield. "Giving up yet, niña?" The tanned man taunted as he sent a flurry of slashes at the teen in which she shunpo'd out of the way in each slash. "I'm not giving up to the likes of you!" Vicki shouted with anger as she summoned Zangetsu in her hands. "Stand my vanguard… Zangetsu!"
[My P.O.V.]
No… impossible! This shouldn't happen! "Old Man…?" I warily asked as I got nothing in response. "Damnit!" I cursed under my breath as I dodged Caesar's red orange cero(Zero/Hollow Flash/Doom Blast/Empty Disaster) which came from the tip of what I presume was his Zanpakutō. "Vicki… I'm sorry that I didn't told you this, but when you got knocked out by Aizen, we lost touch with Old Man." Hichigo explained as I could imagine him frown and looking away from me. "So I'll have to help you out from here on out until we find King again." I hummed in response as he gave me the commands to his version of their shared shikai.
[?'s P.O.V.]
I raised my brow once I saw the kid had a smirk on her face. "Terrorize your opponents… Zangetsu." She spoke as white and red reiatsu swirled from her blade and up. The reiatsu creating a storm of winds before stopping to show her new appearance as my eyes widened. Her sword took the form of Kurosaki's shikai except the sharp edge is black with the rest white with black bandages wrapping around her right arm up to about halfway up her forearm with the rest flowing to her will. The fur collar color change to crimson red with the jacket now black instead of white, and a white v-neck with crimson red markings(think of Ichigo's Vasto Lorde form) on it. "Now let's get going Caesar!" She shouted as I grinned. Finally things are getting interesting.
[Nobody's P.O.V.]
Caesar smirked as he adjusted his sombrero with a hand on his rapier. "Now that you released your shikai, don't you think you should use bankai to fight me as an equal?" He asked as he pointed the tip of his rapier at the teen. "I don't need my bankai. I have another power." Then her voice was unconsciously in sync with Ichigo's voice with his fight with Privaron Espada 103, Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio. "I can only show it to you… for an instant." Both teens said in perfect unison, which one did not know that the other was saying the same things in perfect sync to the other. "Really? Then show me this power for all to see!" Caesar said as Dordoni said something similar to Ichigo. "Really…" Both teens said as they put their hand on their faces."…Trust me…" Many Arranger that watched whispered hushed words as they watch the battle, curious of this power as was Dordoni to Ichigo's Hollowfication. "…It'll be enough." Both teens finished calmly as for Ichigo, black and red reiatsu formed his Hollow mask.
White and red reiatsu formed Vicki's as Aizen smirked at the situation at hand, already knowing what exactly "the power" was. Hollowfication. A certain sky blue-haired Espada was know in full shock as he grinned once more. "So it looks like the kid's got more tricks up her sleeve. Interesting, now her reiatsu is like one of us." He muttered as his Inner Hollow chuckled in response. "Yer right 'bout that King-o. I already had a talkin' with the Hollow. Interesting fellow he is." Pantera added as his master chuckled. Back to the battle, Vicki gave out a battle cry and unleashed a Getsuga Tenshō of white and red reiatsu at Caesar. The man's eyes widened as he quickly fired another cero in hopes to stop the attack. "Behind you." The hollowfied voice of the teen whispered loud enough for Caesar to hear as she used the attack once more, causing an explosion. Everyone but the exception of Aizen and Tōsen was on the edge of their seats, wondering who was the victor of the battle. Smoke then cleared up to reveal the teen with her Zanpakutō at Caesar's neck who is now on the floor with his Zanpakutō away from his reach. "I win." She smirked as she removed Zangetsu from the mans neck and walked away from the scene. "Why?"
"Huh?" She asked and turned around to face the man who lost his sombrero. "Why didn't you kill me when you had the chance?" He asked again as she placed her sword on her back. "When a man wins, he choses if his opponent gets to live or die. If that man is left alive, he needs to get stronger so that one day, he'll face the same man who fought him and they'll fight again to see who's the true victor of their fight. That's what I was told by a friend of mine." Vicki said as she silently thanked Kenpachi. "So hear me out!" She suddenly shouted and pointed at Caesar. "Go and get yourself stronger, go and hone your skills because next time will be different… Caesar Candencia!" Caesar was wide eyed at first before smiling and saying, "And you go get stronger too… Victoria!" Vicki wasn't looking at him so she lightly grinned at him before leaving the arena with Gin waiting for her.
[?'s P.O.V.]
"Interesting theory." I muttered as I took a sip of my beloved tea. " "he choses if his opponent gets to live or die."" I quoted as Tōsen added, "Sounds like something Zaraki would say."
"Indeed, Tōsen. Indeed it sounds like something that beast Zaraki would say." I smirked as I took another sip. That reminds me… "Tōsen, get the girl and the Primera Espada."
"Yes… Lord Aizen."
…To Be Continued In…
X: A Hidden Truth Revealed
M.G. Crystal: I lllliiiiiiiiiiiivvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeee!
Hichigo: *mutters to the audience "She's having a Mushu moment."*
Shinsō: *chuckles*
Kyōka Suigetsu: *face palms* You guys are a bunch of idiots, no wonder Aizen wishes to erase your existence from the face of the Earth.
Suzumushi: *turns to the audience* Please, review, follow, and/or favorite as usual. Flame and you'll have to face the wrath of justice.
Hichigo: You sound like your master.
Suzumushi: Shut up. Anyways here's the question: What is the name 4th Division member that helped out Ichigo and the name of their Zanpakuto?