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This is an AU story with some OOC.
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Chapter 16: Danger! The Battles That Lead to Hopes, Memories, and Dreams!
Part 2
-X-
She looks down at the blueprints; her focus stare made the two men by her side believe she knew what she was looking at. She ran her forest green eyes across the paper once and then looked up. Pursing her lips, she says, "How is this going to work? We'll probably spend years building it." Turning her sights to the man to her left, she added. "It also doesn't help that this place is pretty… noticeable to others. This might catch the eyes of some unwanted lookers."
The man to her left was huge, even though the woman was proudly standing at 5'8, he was a foot taller than her. His body was bulky with scars decorating both his fairly tanned and brawny arms. The only facial hair the man has was his thin eyebrows and his long goatee beard that reach past his neck. His black shorts were accompanied white bandages wrapped around his chest and legs.
He turns his light gray eyes towards the woman and speaks in a deep and thick almost-Scottish accent. "I don't see wot your talkin' about, this place is perfect! I thought ye wanted somethin' big 'cause you be plannin' on invintin' others over. You wanna have us look around for somethin' better than?"
The woman he was looking at has short light-blue straight hair, pale skin, and a curvier figure noticeable with the tight bandages wrap around her waist. A handmade belly shirt that she was wearing exposed the bandages wrapped around her stomach. She was also wearing a white tattered side slip robe and feet wrapped in bandages.
Looking up towards the man, the woman says, "No, no, no! This place is perfectly fine!" Her eyes went back to the paper. "It's just that I don't want to put too much work on everyone." Her voice rolled out sounding simple and easy, making anyone who hears it feel a sense of serene.
Feeling the effects of her peaceful voice, the man to her right spoke. "It's good to see you care about us. Even after we all agreed to follow you as servants and nothing more, you never looked down at us like the sand below our feet."
The man to her right was of average height with a thin and lanky body with sharp facial features with his brown hair shaved from the left while his right side was single braided into a bun. Unlike the other man, his skin color was peach tone and just like the bulkier man, his arms and chest were wrapped in bandages. Instead of shorts, he was wearing the lower half of a black color robe. Turning his sharp onyx colors eyes to her, he says. "I know it might feel like it's a bit too much for you to handle, Luciana, but you're our queen and we will do anything you wish."
"C'mon now, you know I hate it when you call me that!" She pouted. "I already told you to just call me Luna."
"I know." He smiles before continuing. "But I, and like everyone else, hold you in high regards. Is only respectful if we call you by your full name. Luna sounds like a name that only friends should call you."
"Are we not friends, Garreth?" Luna asked.
Garreth's eyes were looking at the huge mountain range that seemed to spread for miles. "Friends?" Living longer as a Hollow than a human being, he felt like the word 'friend' was just not set in their vocabulary; the Hollows' vocabulary. Hollows don't have friends; they have a pack, and inside those packs, there are pecking orders. There are no bonds between one another because that's showing weakness.
Opening his mouth again, he says. "We talked about this before Luciana. You shouldn't show any signs of friendliness. Others might try using that against you."
"And I'm trying to change that!" Luna raised her voice. "You keep making it sound like we're still animals! Did you forget the fact that before being a beast we were human?"
"... Perhaps." The brunette's onyx eyes look up to the sky, his eyes resting on the full moon. "I lived longer as a beast than a man. Can you blame me for losing my humanity?"
She narrowed her forest-green eyes and pointed a finger at him. "Lost your humanity? How can you say that! We lost our masks and Hollow hole. I think that's a sign that we gain back our humanity."
"And just because we're complete again doesn't mean we must forget what we truly still are." The bun brunette closes his eyes.
Frowning, Luna says. "Sheesh, why do you gotta make it sound so gloomy." Feeling as if she was forgetting someone, the woman panicked and looked towards the other man. "Oh crap! Sorry about that Konnor, I didn't even answer your question." She rubs the back of her neck, all while releasing a sheepish laugh.
"Err, that's fine lass. But do ya wanna have us look for somethin' better or nat?" Konnor replied.
Shaking her head, Luna says, "No, this is fine." Looking back down to the blueprints, she smiles. "Though I do have a request."
Lily slowly opened her eye. Even after having yet another weird dream, she didn't freak out. Not when she has seen them every time she sleeps, however, she wonders why this one was different though. Before, the dreams only reveal a woman and a man in a white void and that be all, so where did this one come from?
'Konnor, Garreth, Luna... Who are you?'
With a sigh, she turned to her sides and rested her head on the softness of the pillow. Her eyes settle themselves across the other bed in the same room that she shares with Ichigo. She couldn't help but wonder how she misses his orange mop of hair. She has seen it every day for the past 4 years and now gone from her sights she felt rather… lonely. A feeling she had hoped to never experience again since the last time she felt this way was the day when she learned that her and Starrk's souls had split. While the outcome was perhaps for the better; to feel like nothing—as if her existence felt small and insignificant—was not worth the 8 months of hell she mentally lived with.
With the first thought after waking up from a nap was about her friend, Lily narrows her eye into a glare. Why didn't she go? Why couldn't Starrk send her with Ichigo back to Karakura Town? Both Ichigo and Ulquiorra weren't enough to deal with, if possible, many Shinigami! Sure the only real worries would be Captains but still, it was the idea that Ichigo would do something stupid like face the silver-haired shrimp of a captain that made her feel anxious.
'There's nothing to worry about. He promised, remember?'
Once again she sighed and closed her eyes. She couldn't help but wonder why she felt so worried about him. He hasn't even left for more than an hour—it has been less than 30 minutes! It's not like something bad would happen, right? Besides, their mission isn't even that hard! Ulquiorra's main role was to distract, if possible, all the Shinigami Captain there. After that, all Ichigo had to do was head towards the ruins of Urahara's Shop where said shopkeeper with the company of Shinji, and a man by the name of Hacchi would wait for him. While in the meantime Yoruichi, Rose, and Mashiro would take a different route towards the park to help Ulquiorra and guide him back to the warehouse where Ichigo would already be waiting.
And that's all, see? Simple enough. 'Buuuuuut~ things could go even smoother if Starrk sent me as well!' Lily thought angrily. She doesn't question Ulquiorra's strength, the pale-skinned Arrancar is strong, but she was sure the Shinigami wouldn't just keep their attention on him since their focus would be Ichigo. And that's where she would come in! If a captain split from the rest to go after Ichigo then they both could have a better chance against a Shinigami Captain!
The mission could have gone in a different direction, but Urahara had pointed it out about how much of a bigger risk it was. The original plan was for Ulquiorra and Ichigo to just appear above the ruins of Urahara's Shop, where the ex-shop owner and his company would wait for them but the shaggy blonde mention that many Shinigami have taken close patrols around his shop so the moment they open a Garganta, the Shinigami would already be there. So Urahara proposed that they should appear above the park, the one place Shinigami had stopped looking at.
Eye still closed and now with a more clear mind, she tries going back to sleep but with the feelings of anxiety creeping around the back of her mind, she decided to just go visit Szayel and spend some time with him, something that she seemed to notice about just recently was the lack of connection between both of them. When was the last time she talked with Szayel? In a normal conversation? Like… never.
Perhaps that could take her mind off of Ichigo.
She wasn't even half-way up the bed before she groaned and crashed back down with both hands covering her face. Why did Ichigo even creep through her mind right now? Why can't she have a normal thought without having her redhead friend make himself known?
Ichigo.
Recently thinking, hearing, or just saying his name made her cheeks feel warm and she just can't seem to understand why. The redhead was what to her? A friend. A close friend… her best friend.
While she has always been together with Starrk, their relationship was not in the plane of friendship. More like, family. Though that was even harder to figure out. As far that she knows, the brunette wasn't even a blood relative. To her, he felt more like an acquaintance than a family member but with Starrk being the ONLY being around. She couldn't help but label the man as some sort of brother figure. 200 years prior before Ichigo came along, they created their bond out of neediness, because after all who else could they talk to? Kami's knowns what their future could have possibly been like if their lives never change with Ichigo's presence.
Feeling warmth reaching her cheeks, Lily went back to groaning into her hands.
Having Ichigo introduced into their lives has changed a lot of things. For starters, there were all the friends they made; Szayel, Ulquiorra, the Visoreds, Yoruichi, Tessai, and dare she says Urahara. While no longer connected with Starrk, she knew just how much the introduction of those people had made him happy. Even if he was having a hard time showing it. Loneliness was a harsh emotion they had to endure for over 200 years, but with the 4 years of Ichigo living with them, those 200 years felt rather long ago. Even when the reality was actually very much different. She knew damn well how she can't compare the 200 years of solitude to the 4 years of Ichigo's presence in their lives. Yet the 4 years spent with the redhead made her feel as she lived more in those moments.
His existence really changed their lives, even if he put them in danger. But even then, the aftermath of those disastrous adventures became worth it.
First, there was Menos Park. While they meant the trip to the former Forest Of Menos to be a simple visit, Ichigo wanting to help Gerald from a Shinigami opened up Starrk's eyes. To her, that was the first time she had seen Starrk worried about anyone else. It showed her just how much Ichigo meant to him and finally let her see that Starrk could care for others, even when they were weaker than him.
Another event was the day in which they first visited Karakura Town. After the horrible disaster that happened at the Human World, the aftermath was to say for the better. They met so many people. Many people that she and Starrk would have never gotten to meet if it wasn't for a certain redhead and because of that, they could finally have friends, company, etc! She herself got a sister figure!
Removing her hands and looking at the ceiling of her room, Lily went back to thinking about everything that had happened in those four years.
Their lives have only been in danger like, what, twice? 1st was the incident at the park, then the 2nd time was when Starrk fought Baraggan. If the brunette would have lost, then the former King of Hueco Mundo would have gone after them.
Thinking about it now, the pros overshadow the cons. There were more gains than losses. After her almost-near-death moment, while she lost her connection with Starrk, in return she became a different being, completely no longer relying on Starrk's power anymore since she could get stronger. The biggest news to her was the fact that she finally aged! Scratch that, that was the best of news for her in such a long time, period! She'd lived her entire life stuck in a child's body and thanks to Urahara, she grew up. They were also finally strong enough to train with the others, too, another set of good news for her!
And it was all thanks to Ichigo.
Feeling the warmth return, instead of covering her face, her right hand went over her heart or where her heart should be and just lay her hand above it.
"Ichigo." Lily spoke his name soft and gently, making her cheeks heat more and a smile form on her lips. She doesn't understand what these feelings could mean, but she's just glad they made her feel so happy and alive.
"Ichigo."
Again she spoke his name just so that she could feel the happy effects her body seems to behave in.
With a cheery smile plastered on her face, Lily got up. As she finished putting on her usual attire, she headed towards the balcony of their room and looked towards the quiet nights of Hueco Mundo. The balcony that she was standing on was of simple design and it was only big enough for two, her and Ichigo. Shaking away the warmth from her cheek, Lily looked up to the moon.
It was strange that something like this could even exist in Hueco Mundo and she wonders just how Nel was able to find such a place. Well, from what the centaur-looking Hollow said, once she reached her current form and hunger no longer driving her mind, she was able to discover more of Hueco Mundo. Lily could understand that. Hunger is the only thing that drives Hollows to live, so what comes after they reach the stage of a Vasto Lorde? She doesn't care for what the other Vasto Lordes do, she's only happy that Nel used her opportunity wisely. She wonders though what other ill-intended Hollows would do if they ever reach such a stage of evolution.
A shiver ran down her spine as she thought about Baraggan. For someone so powerful and could have possibly done so much for Hueco Mundo, the aged Arrancar chose to rule Hueco Mundo with an iron fist.
'I'm glad Starrk won.'
Shaking her head and looking down from the balcony, Lily wondered who could build such a fortress or what she better believes to be a city. The huge mountain range that Nel brought them seemed to spread for miles, and she means miles. It was easily twice the size of Karakura Town. Size aside, the real glory of such a structure was what's inside of it. Someone had built an entire city inside of the mountain! That's right, A FULL CITY! She found huts, stores, etc. You name it and she bets you'll be able to find it.
Eyes still looking down, Lily used to wonder just how all of this got built. The inside of the mountain was hollow, almost as if someone carved it from the inside and they got to work from there, but the more she looked into it, the more she learned that all the balconies built by the side of the mountain were once the entrance point. They built the city from the outside going in.
After Starrk sent Ulquiorra into the mountain to make sure no other Hollow were living there, the pale-skinned Arrancar came back with some amazing information. Besides the buildings and balconies, Ulquiorra stated that there seem to be around 3 levels of floors. The first level seems to be what appears to connect to all the stores and such. Making the 1st floor the main district. Throughout the 1st level, Ulquiorra found many pillars with stairs built around them. Deciding to take one of them to see where they would lead him was the way he discovered the 2nd level... an empty floor, she couldn't guess what that floor would have been. Discovering only one staircase and once again following it up did he discover the 3rd level. Every room found on the 3rd floor looks a lot like a top-class three bedroom apartment and she really means top-class. While they lacked any form of furniture, the apartments were basically big enough for one to decorate them to their own liking but the only thing they had to style their rooms with were beds. Beds that they have stolen from the Human World.
And so the 3rd floor became theirs.
Well, it's not like they called the 3rd floor their main place of residence; it was actually all the Hollows who decided that for them. Since they saw that it was only fitting for Starrk and his company to live at the highest level of 'status'.
She really hated that.
Only because she was an Arrancar didn't mean she was superior to everyone else! Okay, yes she's superior to all the Hollows because of her strength and such but that didn't mean she was better than them!
Turning back around and deciding to head towards Szayel, Lily peeked her head from the door first to make sure the coast was clear and as she saw no paparazzi, she sighed and started walking down the halls that were big enough for any abnormally huge Hollow to walk through.
Feeling as someone was watching her, she snapped her head back and tried spotting anyone but no luck. She honestly couldn't believe how quickly the attention made her feel tired. At first, she was fine with it; people would surround her and at the time she didn't care about it, the days would go on without problems, but then later on she realized they wouldn't leave her alone, she was close to almost lashing out on them. She was happy that Starrk shooed them away.
Before she could continue to find the stairs that headed towards the 2nd floor—since she already knew that Szayel was working in creating a lab there—Lily was still feeling like there was a pair of eyes on her. She knew that all the Hollows were obedient to Starrk's words so when the brunette announced that the only one who could ever head up to the 3rd floor was Nel, they all listened. Still, though, she feels like someone was spying on her.
Closing her eye and using Pesquisa, she was able to sense two very familiar Reiatsu signatures. Starting to feel vexed, Lily called them out.
"I know you're there! I can sense both your Reiatsu. Menoly, Loly!"
Hearing their names called out, both Adjuchas-class Hollows came out from hiding inside a room. Both looking down at the ground, avoiding Lily's eye.
She figures it'll be these two again and yes she means again. Unlike the rest of the Hollows who listen, these two seemed to have ignored Starrk's rule and still come up to the 3rd floor.
During the first week of settling down at her and Ichigo's new home—yes she was actually happy that she could convince the redhead to live with her, Starrk didn't even mind it! Anyway, getting off topic, these two have always found themselves a way to get past Nel and reach the 3rd floor only to ask her to train them. She honestly didn't know how to feel about that, these two were the first to ever ask her such a question. While the rest of the Hollows only admire her beauty and strength, not one of them has asked her to train them. She wanted to tell them yes, but what can she even train them in? They can't use any of the skills that an Arrancar can. The best she could help them is in physical and communication skills.
She doesn't understand why they were so persistent. The first time she caught them she gave them a fair warning; she didn't raise her voice towards them or get mad. She explained that she wanted privacy. In the 2nd week, she went down to the 1st level to see how everyone was taking in their new home. She was actually surprised that the Hollows haven't tried eating each other. How was it that Baraggan could keep such a huge army in check? Has none of his Hollows tried eating others? Szayel hasn't revealed it, but he seemed to have figured out a way to keep their army happy. That's why he had been mostly down on the 2nd floor so that he could finish his lab sooner.
Anyway, again she was getting off topic. During the 2nd week in which she was checking if everyone was happy and getting surrounded again by her fans, Menoly and Loly once again approached her. This time making their intentions clearer, just like the rest of the Hollows, they first started off by praising her strength and beauty, she was about to use a quick Sonido when Loly spoke about wanting to be just like her. They didn't want the Hollow population to see them weak just because they were born to be of the opposite sex. The centipede-like Hollow wanted to prove them wrong. Menoly was about the same. Both girls have requested if they could be her personal guards—or what they like to better call it, Guardia Real.
Feeling their words, she didn't say no but never said yes either; she told them that she would think about it and left it at that. For the rest of the 2nd week they have left her alone but coming in at the 3rd week, these two have been constantly sneaking past Nel to ask her what she chose.
With a sigh, and shifting her weight to her leg foot, Lily said, "You both know I can always tell Starrk, right?"
"We know." Both Hollows respond.
Seeing as they were still avoiding her eye, she sighs again. "Besides being a bit mad," she crossed her arms and continued. "I'm actually curious to know how both of you could get past Nel."
From the 1st floor to the 2nd floor, there were 10 stairs that anyone could use to reach up to the next floor. While these stairs were spread out enough for any size up Hollow to use, the stairs from the 2nd and 3rd floor were not. Being only one set, it was the fact that only human-size Hollow could use them. While Menoly and Loly were of right size, Nel's guarding the staircase.
Rubbing her pincer nervously, the scorpion-like Adjuchas said, "We, umm, just told Nel-san if she could kindly let us pass."
Lily stopped herself from facepalming. "Really?" But couldn't help the way the ends of her lips twitch as she heard Menoly's answer. "You know what? I'm not even mad, shouldn't even be mad. If you guys are this serious then, okay."
Loly's eyes lit up. "Do you mean?"
Lily waved her left hand in a dismissing manner. "Yeah, yeah. I'll train you. Actually." She turns around and sends them a smirk. "Instead of me training both of you. We'll all train together once Nee-san gets here!" She gave herself a mental pat on the back. Why didn't she think of it sooner? While Menoly and Loly get their normal training, they can also get private training with Mashiro! And she could also continue with her own training too!
"You have a sister? And she's coming here?" Loly asked. Watching as the princess started walking off towards the stairs, they followed behind her.
Without looking back, Lily answered her. "What I'm about to tell you is very important and no matter what you shouldn't tell anyone about it, got it?"
"Yes, ma'am!"
Lily hid a smile from them. "All right~! Listen closely and be very open-minded about what I'm about to tell you. After Starrk's announcement three weeks ago, Szayel brought up an interesting idea. Long before returning to Hueco Mundo for Starrk's battle, we were under the wing of a group called the Visoreds, 8 Shinigami who gained Hollow-like powers." She spun around to see both Hollows with a neutral expression but she could see the way they wanted to speak up but held back their tongues. Spinning back around and heading towards the staircases, she continues. "These men and women helped us train while also preparing Starrk for his fight. They had one year to train us, but during the 8th month into the training, an accident occurred and it forced us to cut our training short. So Szayel thought that we could convince the Visoreds to use the remaining of our time to train, well, you guys."
Menoly was the first one to grasp the information. "A year, but your training got cut down to 8 months. So 4 months of training is all we're going to get? Is that even going to be enough for us?"
"You guys remember most of Starrk's speech, right?" Lily said as she started walking down the spiral staircase that connected the 2nd and 3rd floor.
"Some of it." Loly responded, her eyes looking at the back of Lily's head nod.
"Okay, so do you remember the way we've planned on training everyone?"
Menoly frowned. "I think Starrk-sama mentioned that they will train only a few individuals and once they're done, then those individuals will receive several Hollows to train themselves."
Lily nodded again. "Exactly. Szayel found about nine Hollows that we could help train." Finally reaching the bottom and spotting Nel guarding the entrance, she spoke to the centaur-like Hollow with a deadpan tone. "You're doing an amazing job, Nel."
Turning her hazel eyes to look at the princess walking out with both Adjuchas behind her, she smiles behind her mask. "I'm sorry Hime-sama, they're tricky."
"Really now? They told me you let them pass." She deadpanned, no sort of anger reaching her voice.
Nel kept her smile as the Arrancar walked past her, she could spot a ghost of a smile on Lily's lips. As the two Adjuchas walk by, she whispers to them. "Did you both get your wish?" While not verbally responding, Menoly turned around and with her human hand, she sent her a thumb-up.
Hustling to return by her sister's side, Menoly continues about the topic. "I'm kind of curious Lily-sama, who are the 9 Hollows who got chosen?"
Feeling a bunch of Hollow's Reiatsu surrounding Szayel's. Lily wonders just what the man might be up to. "Sorry but I don't know who those 9 are. Szayel was the one who was searching, not me. Though it is no guess that Nel is one of them. Training a Vasto Lorde would be useful." As she finally reaches the sight, Lily's pink eye watches as Hollows of all different shapes and sizes were setting up walls. "What the hell is going on here?" Walking towards Szayel, Lily could spot how some Hollows had stopped working so that they could bow to her.
Before they could follow behind Lily, the centipede-Adjuchas spotted a familiar tree-like Hollow. "Oh! Hey there Rudbornn! What the hell are you carrying?"
The towering Adjuchas looked to the generator that his right branches wrapped around it. "Szayelaporro-sama had tasked me and a few other Hollows to go to the Human World and collect some materials for him."
"Rudbornn-san please set that generator next to the mainframe! The thing that looks like a refrigerator!" His amber color eyes fix themselves on another Hollow carrying a flat screen. "Be very gentle with that! I don't have any tools to create my personal screen so be very careful when putting it down!" Szayel turns around to see Gerald come up to him with cables in his hands.
"Are these the cables you wanted?" Asked the Guardian.
Szayel smiled as he snatched the cords from Gerald's hands. "Yes! Yes! Yes! Just a few more things and I can start creating more food pills!"
"Food pills?" Lily asks, a bit puzzled.
Hearing Lily's voice, Szayel turns around and sends the girl a smile. "Lily-chan! Why are you up so soon? I thought you went to take a nap."
She shrugged. "I couldn't sleep."
"Couldn't sleep?" His smile widened by a hair. "I find it hard to believe that. You haven't rested for over 3 days now. While the sense of sleeping is no longer necessary for our bodies, we still must sleep to rest our minds and regain some of our strength." Smile replaced by a smirk, Szayel leans closer to Lily's face. "Could it be that you can't sleep without your teddy bear?"
Her face flushed from embarrassment and moved her head back. "E-eh!? What are you talking about!? I have nothing so childish."
"We both know what kind of 'teddy bear' I'm talking about." Laughing while bringing his head back, Szayel pushes his glasses up. "Oh, how I wish Yoruichi-san didn't break my camera so I could have taken more pictures."
Lily blush. There have been some occasions in which she would end up sleeping with Ichigo on his bed. It became a bad or good habit for her. She could say that pretty much everyone, except Starrk, has walked in on them. Though nothing happens between the two. All they do is sleep. "Yoruichi broke it?" She lifted an eyebrow up. Didn't she break the camera that was apparently his?
"Indeed. She came to me after one of your training sections and told me how the camera felt out of her hand." Oh well, no point getting upset about it now. "So what can I do for you, Lily-chan."
"I just came to see if you wanted to talk." She said while her head was looking at Hollows bringing more stuff in. "I'm guessing this is where you're going to make your lab?"
His eyes watch as another patch of Hollows lifts up the 3rd wall, only one more left. "Not quite. Once Urahara-san and the Visoreds get here, I will move my lab. I only created this place because I can't work outside my comfort zone." He watches as a weird spherical-waist Hollow gently sets a 4x4 glass chamber. "What I hope to create with all these limited materials is the food pills that we eat to restore our Reiatsu."
"Why the food pills?" Her pink eye watch as the same Adjuchas Menos floated towards Menoly and Loly, who were both talking to the towering Hollow.
"Tell me Lily-chan, in your own words, how does your body feel after eating just one of my food pills?"
She taps a finger on her lips while trying to think about how she could best describe Szayel's question. "I guess. Satisfy? As if my stomach was full." Her lone eye widened. "Wait, are you thinking about giving them food pills?"
"That's right. Think about it like this. If a single pill restores our energy and pleases both yours and Ichigo's hunger. How do you think a normal Hollow would feel after eating food meant for an Arrancar?" Szayel asked.
"Their hunger will mostly get satisfied for days! Perhaps even weeks!" Lily blurted her answer. "And that's probably by only eating 1 pill! Wait." Frowning as she remembers something important, Lily said, "Don't you need Hollows to make those pills?"
Szayel was glad she brought that up. "That's right and before you say anything, please wait." He told her as he spotted a quick spark of anger behind her pink-eyed. "I won't use any of our Hollows or even Baraggan's Hollows. What I will use instead are Gillians."
She calmed down a bit before narrowing her eye at the scientist. "Gillians?"
"That's right. Remember how I mentioned before that some Adjuchas class Hollows restored themselves back to their Gillian stage after not devouring the significant amount of souls they require? Well, these empty-husked Gillians are the ones I will work around with. This is just a theory but these abnormal Gillians may still hold their current Adjuchas stage power, if I can prove it then I will recreate the same quality type pills." With the cables still in his hand, he walked towards the generator that Rudbornn brought and plugged it in before heading towards the mainframe. "Wouldn't you say it would be better to put these Hollows out of their aimless marching by at least helping the future of Hueco Mundo?"
Lily followed behind the man. "I guess so. Szayel, I meant to ask you but what else have you found about this place?"
"Not much." He shrugged his shoulders. "It's quite an interesting structure, really. Whoever built it sure thought hard about it. While the 3rd floor has plenty of windows for the moonlight to shine through, the 2nd and 1st floor don't have any of those. Instead, I found hundreds of small tunnels running entirely through the mountain. I asked a Hollow to dig through it, and can you guess what I found? Glass! Hundreds if not thousands of glass running through those tunnels. I was a bit lost about it but then I learned that they're all reflecting the light of the moon! That's how all sets of floors have light in them." With the last cord plugged in, he walks back to the computer screen to see it loading up. "Hopefully after Urahara-san gets here he could help me modernize this entire place."
"Glass, huh?" She smiles as she thinks about how a certain redhead might like that. "I bet Ichigo will find this interesting."
"Ichigo?" Szayel asks as he turns around to see a healthy blush across Lily's cheeks. "Why would he find that so interesting?" 'And what are you blushing about?'
"Oh, well, 'cause he's snooping around this whole place in trying to uncover all its secrets. He's kind of obsessed with learning more about Hueco Mundo, and he thinks this place might be a clue."
With a hum, Szayel looks back towards the screen. "I never knew that about Ichigo. You two have such a wonderful connection." He turns around to see the blush on her cheeks brighten up.
"Yeah, we really do." Her blush and smile dropped, a worry frowned now molded on her lips. "I hope he comes back soon."
"Oh~? Are you worried about little Ichigo?" Szayel teases her. Before turning back to the computer, he could spot the way some Hollows were paying close attention to their conversation. 'Must have caught their curiosity.'
Her frown deepened to a scowl. "Of course I'm worried about him. I mean, I know I shouldn't since Ulquiorra's with him but the situation can become unpredictable. Who knows what sort of Captains are there right now." Her words gained all the Hollows' attention now. None of them knew exactly where Ulquiorra and Ichigo went.
"Are you saying that Ichigo is too weak to fight any of them?" Szayel smiled. This was the perfect opportunity to set the redhead in a good light to all the Hollows. While only a few were here, it'll be no time before they gossip his words across the entire city. "Y'know. Ichigo's a lot stronger than he appears to be. Who do you think was the one who saved us on that fateful day?"
"Zangetsu?" Lily answered.
"That's right; however, Zangetsu used Ichigo's body and powers to fight. So you can say Ichigo was the one who saved us and with his unfounded power he could easily defeat three Captains. He's unaware of his untapped potential." He smiles as he could already hear whispering among the Hollows. "And this all happened when he was a child. Could you imagine just how powerful he has become since then?"
"So there's nothing to worry about then?"
"Nothing." Szayel inwardly sighs. He doesn't want to scare Lily by going into deeper details. 'I just hope you never use that untapped potential again, Ichigo...'
-World of Living-
His moments felt slow. He tries to raise his hand, but he just couldn't do it because of just how heavy the spiritual pressure around him felt. 'This is Ichigo's Reiatsu. Where did he get this power from?' Ulquiorra's eyes set themselves on the colorful vortex that seemed to have formed at the location that he could sense the redhead at. What happened? Was Ichigo okay?
Her knees felt weak, barely surviving the Arrancar's power-up Cero had already put her in a bad shape to put some resistance against the heavy Reiatsu that seemed to have swallowed the entire park. 'So this-this is Zangetsu.' Suì-Fēng thought. Could it be that the lieutenants caught the redhead off guard and forced him to unleash this power? 'It doesn't matter to think about it now! We need to save them!' Wish she could move right now. It felt like her body was trying to disobey her orders of going towards the unholy Reiatsu. 'Move damn it!'
Seeing as a blur seemed to run past her, the petite Captain turns her sight towards the spot that Captain Kuchiki seems to be absent from. Her eyes widen and turn her sight towards the vortex. 'His heading towards Zangetsu!' His actions must have woken her body up since she could finally move. "Better not do anything too stupid, Kuchiki." She whispers as she prepares to chase after the clan head before Ulquiorra appears in front of her with his Luz de la Luna coming in an arch.
She leaps back before the Arrancar could behead her. "You just don't give up."
"My mission is to stall all the Captains." His eyes look away from Suì-Fēng's and focus his Pesquisa to sense Captain Kuchiki heading towards Ichigo.
She smirks and says, "Stall all of us? Don't get cocky. Even you wouldn't be able to win against three captains." She raises her bladed-gauntlet up.
"You're right." He closes his eyes. "If I fought all three of you, I would have lost. But it seems luck is on my side because you're now all alone." He opens his eyes just in time to see the 2nd Division Captain about to stab him at the center of the stamp. He raises his green javelin and blocks her's Zanpakutō. "If you still had your teammate, then maybe you would have a chance against me."
Her fiery and sharp grayed-eyes stare at his cold and bored green orbs. "I work better alone and start feeling more worry about Zangetsu right now since Kuchiki's heading his way." She bullshit.
With their blades still locked, Ulquiorra leaned his head closer and said. "Do you really think I let my guard down and risk Ichigo's life? Because let me tell you something, we both know Captain Kuchiki alone won't be able to handle him."
'Damn this bastard!' Her eyes widened. He purposely let Kuchiki get past him to split them apart.
He parries her blade and counters to the right. Making her Flash Step back. "Your pride will be the end of you, Captain." He tosses his Luz de la Luna, expecting to land on the woman when a man with long white-haired puts himself between the petite woman and his attack. Ulquiorra witnesses as the man's strange dual blades, that seemed connected by a large red rope-like chain, observe his attack. 'Wha—' Ulquiorra grunts and leaps back, his right hand going towards his bloody stump left forearm. The reason he leaped back and didn't take flight was because he couldn't feel his left-wing either.
"Eh, what's this? You're not Zangetsu."
Standing right behind Ulquiorra, Kenpachi grinned as he rested his chipped Zanpakutō on his left shoulder.
His green-eyes widened but didn't turn around to see Kenpachi, instead he chose to Sonido up to the sky and hovered overhead the 3 Shinigami Captains.
"Seems your luck has run out, Hollow-san." Captain Ukitake said before looking at Suì-Fēng. "Are you okay, Captain Suì-Fēng?"
A tiny young girl with pink hair and dark pink eyes leaped over Zaraki's shoulders. "Ken-chan! Do you feel that!"
"Oh yeah, I can feel that." Kenpachi grinned. "Oi! Ukitake, you can handle things from here, right? 'Cause I have a date with Zangetsu." His smile turns into a bloody smirk. "I don't want to be the last of the 3." And with that, the mad 11th Division Captain headed towards Ichigo.
Tōshirō VS Ryūken
With one last shaky breath, Tōshirō held his blade tight and straightened himself. His stamina was running low and it took him too long to figure out why. The Quincy's Soul Cutter was draining off his Reiatsu. At first, when he started losing more of his ice because of the weird gadget's ability, the silver-haired boy solved that problem by creating more ice with his Reiatsu but then the Quincy would absorb it making him waste his Reiatsu for nothing and this has already happened 3 times.
He growls as the taller silver-haired man pulls out the 4th one. "Just how many of those things do you have?"
"Is something the problem, Captain?" Ryūken replies as he lets his gadget absorb the surrounding Reiatsu. "You can always gather back your Reiatsu, but if you do that, then you won't be able to enhance your ice."
As the Quincy loaded his weapon and fired, Tōshirō Flash Step forward and launched an Ice-Dragon. Instead of following up his attack the moment Ryūken countered with a Piano, the 10th Division Captain used the small opening to head towards Ichigo when he felt the world drown in the heaviest Reiatsu ever. A quick pain across his chest brought back memories. 'His transforming!' His turquoise-eyes widened. 'Rangiku!'
He already aimed his bow towards the back of the Shinigami Captain. He would have taken the shot already if he didn't get stunned. Being a Quincy means that he is sensitive to Hollow's Reiatsu—he could sense it better than any Shinigami. But this, this feeling. Can he even consider this Reiatsu? Sensing Reiatsu was a 6th sense of sorts. You can't physically see Reiatsu unless one projectiles it, can't taste it, feel it, hear it, and touch it. Yet he could feel this spiritual pressure. Ryūken dares say that his entire senses were basically focusing on Ichigo's Reiatsu. He could just feel the rage. 'What happened? Did Ichigo Resurrect too?'
Finally, used to the Reiatsu and resuming his action, Ryūken was about to fire when the strong feeling of killing intentions warned his head. Dodging with Hirenkyaku, he narrows his blue eyes into a glare the moment he spotted an all too familiar Shinigami Captain. "You." He growled.
Captain Kurotsuchi's grin reaches new heights. "Good to see you again, Quincy." The Shinigami scientist looked over towards the silver-haired boy and yelled. "Just go already, Captain Hitsugaya! I can take care of our friend." As the boy left, he dropped his smile and sent the Quincy an annoying frown. "You got me off guard last time Quincy, but things are different." He reaches for his left pocket. "I got your messages. A shame I didn't get them any sooner." Finding what he was looking for, Mayuri tosses a pair of bloody glasses between the man's feet. "Do those seem familiar to you?"
His eyes shake as he slowly picks up his son's glasses. "These are Uryū's..."
"That's right. If I remember right, humans have a strange custom of burying some parts of the deceased's body into a grave." He sighs and shakes his head. "Sadly, I can't return any of those since I will require them to enhance my research, but you can have those." His smile returns the moment he spotted a devastated look in his opponent's eyes. "Your son just couldn't handle my tests. I guess this is what I get for working with new fresh material when I should've gone for something with more raw experience."
"My–my son is... dead..." He rushes his eyes towards the Shinigami. "B-but the woman said your Captain-Commander ordered you to not kill my boy!" Ryūken couldn't believe he stuttered. When was the last time that ever happened? "Won't he punish you for killing my son!?"
Shrugging his shoulders while reaching for his Zanpakutō, Captain Kurotsuchi said. "I can always tell the Captain-Commander some petty lie, something believable. Maybe something between the lines that the boy bit his own tongue and bled to death." He shrugged his shoulders again, thinking a lie right now is of unimportance. "Bankai: Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō."
With Captain Kuchiki
The moment he felt that all too familiar Reiatsu, he made a B-Line straight to Rukia. He senses the way both his lieutenant's and sister's Reiatsu have dropped low, either from injuries... or worse. 'Just hold on a little longer, Rukia.'
He clenched his teeth down harder. He has already sealed his Bankai to recharge some of his Reiatsu so that he could put up a fight against Zangetsu. As he exited his Flash Step, he stops and turns around to see not only Captain Hitsugaya but Kenpachi, too. "Captain Zaraki, when did you get here?"
Kenpachi smiles, glad that he wasn't late to the party. "The old man dispatched Ukitake and me after that idiot Kurotsuchi headed towards the Living World the moment Zangetsu appeared on his radar. Heh, and here I thought he was the smart one." He looked around and noticed the lack of a certain creepy Shinigami. "Where is that bastard, anyway?"
"He's busy with my opponent." Tōshirō answered before turning his sights on Byakuya. "What are you doing here, Captain Kuchiki, did you leave Captain Suì-Fēng to fight off the Arrancar?" He narrows down his eyes into a glare. "That Hollow was already giving both of you trouble and now you left her all alone."
"Not exactly, brat." Kenpachi interrupted. "Ukitake's with her so I'm sure she'll be fine." He grins and says, "Enough of all the chit chat. We got a Hollow to fight."
Kuchiki turned around and started leading them. "The moment the fighting starts, I'll move in to escort our lieutenants out. So keep him occupied." He looked at Zaraki as the man replied with a "You don't have to tell me that twice." before looking at Hitsugaya and hearing a simple, "Let's go." As they flash across the distance between themselves and Zangetsu, Kuchiki notices how Fate seems to work in mysterious ways. 'Zaraki, Hitsugaya, and I. The 3 original captains that faced Zangetsu. Will the outcome be the same as the first time?'
The winds weren't even bothering his eyes, nor did the heavy energy coming from Ichigo. He only kept smiling as he finally senses the boy's power. 'Kurosaki Ichigo, truly you have surpassed my expectations.' Aizen wonders if Ichigo was still under the influence of his Kyōka Suigetsu. 'Only one way to find out.' He was about to activate his Shikai when a muffled noise interrupted him. Turning around to see Ōmaeda waking up, an idea came to mind.
He got punched hard and got knocked out in an instant. 'Here I thought getting punched by my Captain would at least have my body get used to it.' Ōmaeda grunted. He was unconscious until his body woke him up and all because of the intense Reiatsu that seemed to have eaten the whole park. Standing up on shaky legs, he turns his head around to see the colorful vortex. "What–what the hell happened."
"Ah, Lieutenant Ōmaeda, so nice of you to volunteer."
"What, huh, Captain Aizen?! What are you doing here?" The large man asks, feeling uneasy with the smile on the Captain's lips.
Aizen didn't even answer back; he instead looked towards the vortex and spoke to it. "Kurosaki Ichigo!" As he calls out the boy's name, 2 glowing orbs appear and focus on him. "Tell me, do you hate your father?" A glare flash across his glasses as he heard a deep growl. "Well." He gestured towards the confused and scared 2nd division man. "What are you waiting for?"
"Wa-it what!? Captain Aizen what are you doi-" "RAAAAAAAAA!" Looking away from the brunette and towards the vortex, Ōmaeda watched as the glowing orbs narrowed down to a glare. He heard the roar again before the vortex and wind completely vanished.
Silence covers the entire park, not even the wind made a noise. Everything was too quiet for his liking until he started hearing heavy breathing. Looking down to perhaps the most diabolic-looking Hollow ever, Ōmaeda couldn't even describe the sensation running through his senses as he looked deep into Zangetsu's blacked-void eyes; there was something behind those eyes that scared him. Is it because there's nothing? Nothing. He was seeing nothing in those eyes and yet, he could feel all the rage behind the Hollow's stare.
Why did he feel so tiny compared to Zangetsu? He was a big man, standing at 6'10, so why would he feel so small and insignificant compared to a devil? Yes, a devil. The term Hollow doesn't fit for the boy-turned-monster.
"Iiiiisshin..."
The Hollow's voice came out sounding rasped and low. Almost as if he was mixing up growls and words. He replies with a weak and scared voice. "What."
"Yyoou lieee."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Why wasn't he doing the one good thing he's good at, running? He was about to act when he started leaning towards his left before falling backward; he doesn't even know why that was happening. "W-what?" After hitting the ground and laying there for a couple of seconds, he tries getting up but failing to do so, he looks down to see his left leg bending backward. Shouldn't he be screaming right now? Or has Zangetsu's Reiatsu numbed his senses?
Everything was so quiet that Ōmaeda could perfectly hear Ichigo's footsteps. Forgetting about his leg and looking at the Hollow walking towards him, he started crawling away from him. "No! Stay away from me!" Remembering who else was here, he looks behind Ichigo. "Captain Aizen, help m—" He stopped and his eyes started shaking. The 5th Division captain vanished. 'No! No! No!' He resumes his crawling. "Please! Just stay away from me!"
He yells as the monster steps on his right leg, breaking it before he pinned him to the ground with his left. The Hollow's head was lean downward, a Cero charging between its horns, but the 2nd Division lieutenant looked past the energy attack and into the Hollow's eyes. He finally understood the feeling he was getting by looking into those deep blacked-voids. It was Death and ironically as a Shinigami. He feared it.
Aizen turned around and smiled, glad he was able to get out of there. Oh no, don't think of it the wrong way. He was able to sense the approaching Captains and left. He still has much more to do before they depart from the Gotei 13. Turning back around and taking one more Flash Step, he appears right beside Gin.
"Captain Aizen! Back so soon?" Gin asks with his ever mocking smile present on his face.
"We're done here, Gin," Aizen said before turning his sights to the elderly king. "That means you're good to go too, Baraggan-san."
Scowling, Baraggan said, "I'm not your dog like this Shinigami for you to tell me when to leave, Aizen." He levels a stare to the calmed looking brunette. "I'm not your subordinate. We're equal partners, got that? So don't go bossing me around like I'm lower than you."
Urahara's ears perk up at the moment Aizen drops the name of the Arrancar. 'Baraggan? This was the Hollow that Starrk had to fight. Why is he alive? I thought Starrk became king!?' He quietly grinds his teeth. This would explain why Starrk wanted help with training Hollows. Since he never killed Baraggan, the ex-king would probably raise an army again and go after Starrk and company. 'But that doesn't explain why Baraggan and Aizen are working together.' He silently watches as an intense staring contest starts between both Arrancar and Shinigami, none of them backing off.
Aizen closed his eyes and sent Baraggan a smile. "It seems you have misunderstood me." Opening his eyes and gesturing towards the park, he said, "It's not like I'm ordering you to go back to Hueco Mundo, I'm just saying that it would be a wise choice to leave before the entirety of Gotei 13 comes pouring down here. You still haven't gone through your power-up by the Hōgyoku to grant you more power and I still have much to do before I take my leave from Soul Society."
Baraggan narrows his eye as he looks towards the direction Aizen was pointing at. "I guess you had something to do with that strange phenomenon." While a scowl formed on his face, it wasn't because of Aizen responding with only a smile, it had to do with the fact about whose powers he was able to sense. "That brat, where was he hiding this kind of power at." And why did he hide this power from him?
The Arrancar shielded his eyes as a brilliant green light appeared at the park. The Reiatsu behind the strange light felt the same as the green-eyed Arrancar's Reiatsu. 'And why was he hiding that power from me!' Did the boy and white-skinned Arrancar not fight him at full strength when they interfered with his fight with Starrk!? He kept staring as shatter glass seemed to fall from the sky.
"Oh my. That isn't any good." Gin said. "I think Ichigo-kun just demolished the entire barrier."
The 5th Division Captain nodded. "It would seem so. Now truly will Gotei 13 come raining down here." He listens as sirens start going off. "The barrier set around them made sure that both Captains' and Arrancar' Reiatsu wouldn't kill off any nearby humans, but with it destroyed, who knows just how many lives have Ichigo taken." With a satisfying smile on his face, Aizen turns towards Urahara. "Seems I'll take my leave now. Good luck cleaning this up, Urahara."
Urahara didn't even reply and quietly watched as both Shinigami and Arrancar used a Garganta.
Shinji frowns. "Damn that bastard. What the hell did he do to Ichigo."
"Let's go." Urahara said.
The scene in which the Captains arrived was when Zangetsu fired a full power Cero at point blank range. The only thing they heard from the man under his feet was him calling out his Captain's name. The winds from the blast have blown away all the unconscious bodies, saving them from the close quarter explosion. Kuchiki was the first to react. "Kenpachi!"
"Oi, Yachiru, here's where you get off." Watching as the girl jumped off his back, the 11th Division Captain grinned before charging through the blast. "ZANGETSU!"
"Good luck, Ken-chan!"
Losing sight of the battle-freak man as he rushes towards Ichigo, Tōshirō grips his sword and follows behind his lead. 'This is it, here's where my training will pay off.'
Byakuya didn't even wait a minute before the blast faded and he found Zaraki and Zangetsu already crashing blades. Satisfied that Kenpachi stopped Zangetsu, he was ready to look for his sister when he spotted something that sent an unpleasant and tight feeling in his stomach. Zangetsu's body, while covered in his Blut Feuer (Blood Fire), had two different colors decorating it. The flames on his arms were green while the ones on his chest were blue.
What did that mean? What was it that Captain Kurotsuchi said about those flames again? They're made of Reishi? Kuchiki scowled. He felt like there was more to it and the 12th Division Captain kept that to himself. He shook the feeling off. Right now wasn't the time to think about that. He should first try saving his sister and the lieutenants. An ugly and twisted expression forms on his face, wondering if there was anything left of the 2nd Division's lieutenant.
He already removed his eye-patch, already knowing that Zangetsu could fight him at his best. With a quick burst of his Reiatsu that took the form of a yellow skull behind him, he parries Zangetsu's sword to the left before swinging his back. Unlike the last time, his sword was able to cut through the blue-flamed skin. Making the diabolic Zangetsu hiss. "C'mon give me the fight that I want! Where's the cockiness from last time!?" His response came as a low growl.
Kenpachi goes for another swing but Ichigo Sonido, appearing up in the sky. "FIGHT BACK DAMN IT!" He yells at the creature, hoping it would cause it to attack but nothing comes. It just kept staring at him with a confused look on its face but then he noticed the quick shift on the Hollow's expression as one second he looked puzzled before looking at him with hate and that made his smile grow. "Finally remember me, you bastard?" He was expecting to hear Zangetsu's smug voice, but he got something else.
"ISSHIN!"
Head pointing down towards him, Kenpachi watches as a Cero forms between Zangetsu's horn. "Eh? Are we trying to blow things off now instead of having a proper fight?" He was ready to unleash a burst of Reiatsu wave towards Zangetsu to cancel out his attack when a bunch of ice-pillars formed around Zangetsu. "What the hell?"
"Sennen Hyōrō! (Thousand Year Ice Prison!)"
Just as Ichigo fires his Cero, the pillars move towards him, enveloping and crushing him. But instead of getting crushed between the ice-pillars, Ichigo releases his attack. Destroying the traps but engulfing himself in his own attack.
"What the hell brat!" Kenpachi glares at Tōshirō. "Either let me fight Zangetsu first or if you're feeling impatient, fight the Hollow I left Ukitake to take care of!"
His turquoise eyes glare at the man with a cold stare only his ice could rival in sensation. "If anyone is going to fight Zangetsu first, then it's gonna be me, Captain Zaraki." He coldly stated, making the man look at him with a hot furry look.
"Now listen here you little shit, I waited almost a year to fight Zangetsu—"
"And your excuse for fighting Zangetsu is idiotic. All you want to do is fight. You have nothing that you need to take back from him." The 10th Division Captain interrupted with an edge around his words.
Zaraki ignored the dangerous tone used by the young prodigy. "You're starting to piss me off." He glared down at the boy before Ichigo made himself known again with another roar.
"ISSHIN!"
'Isshin?' Did the Hollow just yell his old Captain's name? Or maybe Ichigo just knew a different Issin? It didn't matter to him. Tōshirō gathers energy around his blade and was ready to attack when he noticed that he was down to only 1 ice flower. 'What the hell? I was sure I was still up to 3.' Releasing his attack, he instead launches himself towards Ichigo before Byakuya's Bankai swallow the Hollow. He heard yells of pain as the tiny blades cut Ichigo.
"For Kami's sake! Not you too, Kuchiki!" Kenpachi yelled at the clan head, his sleeves tainted with blood.
"Captain Kuchiki?" Tōshirō was too scared to find out whose blood was on Byakuya's clothes but still, he asked. "Are they?"
"13th Divisions' Rukia Kuchiki is heavily injured, blood loss and seemed to have been exposed to Zangetsu's Reiatsu. I could say the same about my lieutenant. Rangiku Matsumoto only signs of injuries seems to be a wound on her head." Byakuya replied, though his voice sounded indifferent, there was a hint of relief underneath it. "We must return to Soul Society and take them to the 4th Division right now."
"HELL NO!" Glaring at the clan head, Kenpachi pointed a finger at the pink sphere. "What the hell are you doing! This is MY OPPONENT! MY FIGHT!" Towering over Byakuya, Kenpachi glared down at the man. "If you're too scared to fight Zangetsu, then just leave! I don't even need your help here." He then turns his head towards Tōshirō. "You still want your chance with Zangetsu, right, brat?"
He'll say yes, there's no reason for him to throw this chance away. So why, even when he knew what to say, the words that came out were different? "We need to fall back. We already lost one lieutenant. We can't lose them all just because one of us can't control their battle lust."
"PUSSIES! I'M SURROUNDED BY NOTHING BUT PUSSIES!" Kenpachi yelled, feeling complete outrage. "Fine, just run away with your tails between your legs! I'll handle Zangetsu by myself!" 'And speak of the devil.' Kenpachi turns towards Kuchiki's Bankai as he could feel Zangetsu build up his Reiatsu.
The Hollowfied-Ichigo release a roar mixed with Reiatsu that pushes away the 6th Division Captain's Bankai. He growls like an animal before glaring down at the Shinigami. There was something he wanted to try. Yes, there was something. Something that he could do, but what was it again? He growls again—feeling irritated before his glowing yellow orbs widen.
Byakuya's first instinct was to mentally call back his Bankai. That was the thought, but his mind froze. Ichigo started gathering the strange green Reishi-flames around his arms and concentrated all of it towards his right hand. Then the Reishi started forming into a very familiar javelin-looking weapon.
'There's no way!' The clan head raises his hands, his Bankai swallowing up the Hollow before it could try throwing the green-energy javelin, but he was too late. The Hollow reacted faster, he threw the energy weapon straight to the ground. His keen eyesight could only watch as the weapon soared down to the earth before it finally made contact to the ground.
And then a green light conquered the world.
-X-
And here's part 2, just one more chapter before we go into canon!:D
Okay, so how much do we have to talk about. Hmmm.
Ummm, guess the first thing to talk about is where they're trying to live at. SO I originally wanted to have them discover a worn out Las Noches but decided against it. Felt like it would've been too predictable. So something new is always fresh, eh? So design-wise, the place they found is a large mountain range with 3 sets of floors. The 1st floor is basically the main district, I will hold on to the 2nd one and the 3rd floor is basically the Arrancar's dorms.
Okay, that's enough about that.
Hmm, don't really have much to talk about. Just wanted to clear that out more.
On another side note. This story's about to reach its first year. :D
Okay well, cya next time.
-Ten out.