Episode 2. a herd.

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Hi all! The long wait for a new chapter is over, I hope you enjoy it, I just wanted to let you know something that I forgot to put in the first chapter, and that is that English is not my mother tongue, but I do my best to make this as understandable as possible.

So I apologize in advance for any spelling errors you may find, I try to improve with each chapter I put out.

Enjoy the story.

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When I woke up, I could see that I no longer had the body of a turkey on steroids, the first thing I saw was my hands, I had human hands again, or at least somewhat human. I had 5 fingers, but each finger ended with claws.

Also my hands up to the middle of my biceps were covered with fine white feathers, they were too small, so they gave the image of a kind of long gloves.

I could also see that I also had human feet. Again, each toe ended in claws and was also covered in my finest feathers, up to the middle of my shins.

my hollow hole was in the pit of my stomach. I don't know why I expected it to be in the center of my chest. And I could see that I wasn't wearing anything on my torso. It was a torso with some well marked muscle. Not in an exaggerated way, but it was seen that I was not a weakling.

I had a kind of long skirt made of my back feathers, they were white with their characteristic pattern of yellow, green, red and black colors.

I also felt something strange on my back and when I turned to see what it was, I was surprised to see a pair of white wings. They were huge.

I could also see that she had a slightly tanned skin tone, contrasting a little with all the white I was wearing. I didn't care at all though. I looked great, according to me.

I directed my hands to my face. I had the same mask, only reduced to a size that matched my human head.

At the end of the day, he had a humanoid form. And then I just said.

"I am a Vasto Lorde…" I said in disbelief.

I had made it. I had reached the peak of Hollow evolution.

I was feeling a great emotion, although my goal was to become a Vasto Lorde, I thought I would achieve it in more time, maybe in 100 years, but I did it in 50 years, although I don't remember much about my time as a Hollow common and Menos Grande, maybe and if I managed in just over 100 years.

I think I made it in a good time, after all in canon history, many managed to get to captain level in less time. Not to mention Ichigo, that bastard in less than a damn year managed to go from a weakling to a level higher than a Espada.

Which is a level above me currently. I sighed and shook my head, it wasn't good to compare myself to the main characters. I am my own being, so I will advance at my own pace, and I will not be cannon fodder, now that I have become a Vasto Lorde, my chances of survival increase drastically.

I think I was too blessed with my Mist ability, it's quite versatile. Whoever the deity or cosmic entity is that sent me to this place, he did not leave me helpless. I think he knew that he would die easily if he didn't have a useful skill.

With this ability and my relative knowledge of this universe and other anime universes, I have managed to reach the pinnacle of Hollow evolution.

It's time to test my powers, I can feel my body overflowing with power.

I must also admit that it is more difficult to control this power. I tried to suppress my power, but it was no easy task, in fact, I barely managed to suppress it a bit and it took a lot of effort.

I tried to test my power by going hunting and I could feel the presence of some rather strong Hollows, I think they are Adjuchas, but when I got closer, I could feel them moving away from me quickly. I still can't suppress my power enough to go unnoticed.

I gave a sigh of resignation and decided instead to test my destructive powers in a makeshift training ground, then I'll see how my mist works, and when I have better control of my powers, I'll manage to ambush some Hollows. I won't make the mistake of stalling my power at this level like Barragan and Haribel did. If I want to survive in this dangerous world, I have to keep getting stronger.

I got to a place full of rocks and tried my "Cero". I was surprised how quickly it loaded, I fired it and the explosion was impressive, and I didn't even try. I threw a "Bala" and was also surprised, the charge time was even faster, although the explosion was weaker, and it has better piercing force.

My next experiment was to see how my feathers worked…it was amazing.

I could use my feathers as a weapon, be it swords or blades, I could control the size of the feathers and they were as hard as steel, or even stronger. I could also create things with my feathers, like clothes or shields, among other useful things. I was really pleased.

I could also imbue them with my attacks, as the "Cero" would be. It was like in my Adjuchas stage, but I could feel that this was many times more powerful than my previous versions.

I was also able to direct my attacks with greater ease and precision, launching only one of my charged feathers with a "Cero", as a test. Not only was the penetration force impressive, as it pierced through various rock formations with ease.

Rather, the force of the explosion was greater than a normally thrown 'Cero'. I quickly realized that this was because, when I cram my attack into my feathers, the attack has a higher concentration of compressed and more concentrated energy than that of a run-of-the-mill Cero, making my attack do higher damage all round.

When I tried to release my mist to see if I could do it faster, I couldn't do it. That scared me a bit. But the scare went away when I saw that the tips of my feathers had turned red.

(I think now I can only release my mist through my feathers.) I was a bit disappointed, I liked to release huge amounts of my mist, this gave me a great area effect. Now with just my feathers, my mist will look more concentrated on a single point or object.

Somewhat disappointed I threw one of my red feathers to see how much mist it released.

But when it hit a large rock, the mist that was released left me speechless.

A huge amount of area of my training ground was covered with my red colored mist. I quickly backed away to see how much my attack had covered, but was surprised to see that, in the affected area, 10 "less big" could easily fit.

And that was just one of my feathers.

(I take back my thoughts from a moment ago.) I thought jovially. This was much better than my old way of releasing my mist. Now I no longer have to expose myself in the middle of the battlefield in order to release my mist in a large area.

I also tasted my flames, this time they formed on my hands instead of my throat. my hands looked like they were burning, but I didn't really feel anything, and I wasn't burning.

I could create bursts of flame as well as balls of flame, the flames were so intense that it melted rocks into molten lava. My flames were hotter than ever. And as expected, I could also embed my flames in my feathers, only they exploded when they hit the target.

The explosion wasn't as strong as my feathers with the power of Cero, but due to my flames' special characteristic of sticking to my enemies like oil, they could inflict heavy damage on my target with them.

But after seeing my impromptu training camp, I said.

"Great... it's time to train restraint."

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20 years later.

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I was currently in my lair, which was supposed to be a temporary lair, turned into a permanent one. I had customized it, expanded it a bit and created my own rock furniture. It was easy to make them with my supernatural strength and endurance.

It also took me a while to control my power, around almost 10 years, so that I could suppress my reiatsu to acceptable levels, instinct only helped me to a certain extent in this case. The rest was trial and error, having to control the power of my attacks was one of the main points in my training.

I accidentally took out a lot of hollows, and that was inconvenient, since I couldn't absorb them. After those 10 years of hard training, I was finally able to hunt Hollows normally again.

Although those 10 years of training brought some inconveniences, and that was that the news of me spread in the Hueco Mundo. That a new Vasto Lorde had risen in Hueco Mundo. So very few hollows dared to approach what they said, it was my territory. It also didn't help that in my training I indiscriminately took out a lot of Hollows that were near my lair.

They thought I eliminated them because they were close to my house, but in reality they were just unwitting victims of my training to control my power.

He was also somewhat removed from Barragán's territory, he didn't want to have anything to do with that crazy old man. I wanted nothing to do with his God complex. Although he had already received some visits from his followers. They were envoys from Barragán himself, for a moment I was worried, since, as expected, that old bag of bones wanted me to join his army.

Obviously I refused, and by the way I ate his envoys. They were quite upset and disrespectful with his invitation, in short, they said that I had to be grateful for being chosen to be under the command of the God King of Hueco Mundo.

And when I told them that I would not join Barragán, they tried to attack me, so I eliminated them in retaliation, my lair has several traps with my feathers, so they had no chance, to even lay a finger on me.

But when I saw that he no longer sent anyone else and that he himself did not come to face me. I relaxed, it seems I'm too far away for him to come personally, he also has to take care of his territory, even though he says that all of Hueco Mundo belongs to him, he doesn't dare leave the lands he knows best.

A fight between two Vasto Lordes would not end in anything good, perhaps that is the reason why he never fought Harribel, although Barragán knew that he could beat Her, it would cost a lot of his power to do so. This would leave him vulnerable to any enemy who wanted to deal with him at the time.

Maybe he thought the same of me, and well, thanks to my mist power, I was able to find out that I don't have the best reputation in Hueco Mundo, I've caused a lot of unintentional massacres during my reiatsu control training and having a moderation in my attacks.

There's also the fact that I keep hunting a lot of Hollows, to keep increasing my power.

anyway, I was sitting in the center of my lair, i was meditating, molding my reiatsu, but i stopped doing that since i decided it was about time to pay coyote stark a visit. I have further increased my power, since I became a Vasto Lorde.

I am confident that this time I can withstand the power of Stark.

I was at the limits of where Stark's power reached, with a sigh I took the first steps towards where the most powerful hollow in Hueco Mundo was. It was amazing that even after reaching the peak of hollow evolution, and having increased my power even more, I could feel how Stark's power was pressing me to fall before him, and I'm sure he's not even trying.

But this time I would not give up, this time I could feel that my body was not failing me, as time passed, the closer I got, the more I released my own reiatsu, to try to minimize the impact of Stark's power on me.

After a few minutes of walking, I could finally see some small mountains not far away, if my memories were correct I already knew what those mountains were.

When I managed to get close enough with some difficulty, I saw a couple of figures together, they were covered in rags, to my surprise, I saw how the larger figure was looking at me with boredom, while the smaller figure seemed curious.

We stared at each other for a few seconds without saying anything, but this was too awkward for me so I said.

"so you are the ones responsible for emanating all this power that is felt throughout this environment." I said in a calm voice, but inside my heart was beating with great force.

He wasn't going to talk to them as if he already knew them, that would be strange and suspicious.

The two figures still didn't say anything, so I continued talking.

"Come on, don't let me talk to myself, that's awkward." I said laughing nervously.

"We don't even know your name." It was the first thing Stark said.

He was right about that, but I wasn't going to make a fool of myself and I said.

"Well, you're right, but if they had continued the talk, we would have gotten to the introductions quickly. I just wanted to break the ice a bit, you know?"

I did not receive an answer again.

I breathed a sigh of resignation and said.

"Well, since you insist, my name is Goeritz Shen, nice to meet you. You can call me Shen."

I said that while leaning in a little bit, one hand forward and one hand back, and as for my name, it just came to mind, it just felt natural.

Although I knew that that wasn't my name in my previous life, but I couldn't remember that name, the name I just said came to mind instead.

And again I didn't get any response, after a few seconds of awkwardness, I heard the little girl say.

"Stark, Stark, he's not dying. He's the first one not to die." She seemed somewhat excited.

She also made me understand the situation, why learn the name of someone who would die in a few moments? As it happened to all these corpses, they wouldn't bother to learn the name of every fool they come across, if in the end they would die in a short time.

"Of course I'm not dying, I'm a Vasto Lorde, I won't fall so easily" I said with some pride in response to the girl's statement.

Now he had the full attention of both of them. The girl couldn't take it anymore and she said happier.

"My name is Lilynette Gingerbuck and this is Coyote Stark."

"Don't give our names so lightly Lilynette." Stark said. But he didn't seem upset.

"Nice to meet you." I said again.

"What brought you to us?" Lilynette said. Apparently she is more willing to talk.

"curiosity." was my answer. I wasn't lying, I was extremely curious to meet them.

"curiosity?" now it was Stark who spoke.

"Yes, I was curious to see what being, was the one that released all this power. And let me tell you, I'm surprised." Again, I wasn't lying, I already knew the huge difference in power between them and me, but I hadn't imagined that the difference was so abysmal.

Becoming an Arrancar granted such a level, it seemed.

"Why?" Llilynette said, she also tilted her head somewhat adorably.

"Because I wasn't expecting to run into a couple of Arrancars."

"do you know what we are?" Stark asked, interrupting me on the spot.

"I had heard rumours, Hollows ripping off their masks, but they were just that, rumours, plus they were said to be incomplete 'Arrancar', and low level." I wasn't lying, thanks to my ability to read minds, I managed to get a lot of information on different topics. That was how I managed to locate Barragán, Stark and Yammy.

"I see." Stark said thoughtfully. But then he said.

"And what will you do now that you know about us?" I didn't miss the threatening tone in that question.

"Nothing, I didn't get to become Vasto Lorde, being a fool. Given the difference in power between us. It would be complete suicide to confront you. So I have come in peace." I said calmly.

"How did you know we wouldn't attack you?" kept pressing Stark.

Apparently he doesn't trust the Hollows much, less in the Vasto lordes, I don't blame him, he didn't reach the level he is at, being someone soft and trusting.

"Like I said, I'm not a fool, I've been checking their behavior for a while. Although I couldn't see them or know what they were at first. They rarely moved to a new place, and you would have attacked from the moment I got close. From which I gathered that you aren't aggressive, or at least, they aren't unless they provoke you." I said all of that as I moved a little closer and sat down not too far from them.

"Is that why you have almost 200 Hollows on the edge of where our power comes from?" Stark said accusingly.

(So he noticed, that's why he's so defensive.) was my only thought.

"Just a precautionary measure. Just in case things got a little... violent. Besides, all those gaps wouldn't be a problem for you, you'd squash them like mosquitoes."

"So you were planning to use them as a distraction so you could escape, in case your deductions about us were wrong."

I didn't know if Stark was upset or not.

"You have to understand, someone of your level, should be able to understand how dangerous Hueco Mundo is, it's never too much to exercise some caution before meeting someone in such a hostile environment. After all, you didn't get to be that powerful, being careless and trusting." I was hoping this wouldn't turn into something bigger.

Luckily for me, Stark seemed to understand, since he just closed his eyes and scratched the back of his neck, and sighed.

"You haven't answered my question. What will you do now?" Stark asked again.

"Well, first I wanted to see what kind of attitude you had, but I see that you are very nice. So I want to offer my friendship." I said that while giving a mental signal to the other Hollows to move away, although I didn't release them from my control, after all I was going to absorb them.

Stark seemed to notice that, as he directed his gaze to where the Hollows were. And then he came back to see me.

"Friendship? Like partners?" Lilynette spoke again.

"that's how it is." I said while nodding my head.

Stark still didn't seem convinced. So I keep talking.

"I know that all this may be strange for you. I don't blame you, I am a complete stranger after all, but my intentions with you are not evil, in fact, I think we can benefit from each other by allying."

"Like what?" Stark asked.

"knowledge." I said.

As I saw that they did not understand me, I said.

"I see that you have no control over your power, I can help you with that, I can teach you how to suppress your reiatsu, it won't be easy, but I think you will be able to suppress it to a more…acceptable level."

When I finished saying that, the two of them seemed more interested.

"I can also provide you with other information, information that might be useful to you later in the future. Or present. For example, did you know that the Shinigami have been raiding Hueco Mundo?"

Apparently that surprised them, since Stark interrupted me.

"Shinigami? In Hueco Mundo?"

I simply nodded my head, in all this time, I hadn't lied, thanks to my abilities, I was able to obtain information that in the forest of the "Menos Grande", some shinigami were trapped after chasing some hollows to Hueco Muendo. Although I think they already died, since I have not heard anything more about them.

Apparently, Stark seemed less reluctant to ally us, but to finish convincing him, I said.

"Besides, if we join forces, you won't be alone anymore. Now I'll keep you company."

Lilynette quickly gave Stark a hopeful look, apparently she loved the idea.

Stark stared at her for a few minutes, they were having a silent chat.

then he gave a sigh of resignation and said.

"We agree to ally with you, but if you hurt Lilynette, or do anything against us, I will eliminate you." Stark warned.

But I was more than pleased, I had made a powerful ally.

To what I said.

"You will not have to worry about anything Stark, I assure you, you will be pleased with our alliance, and who knows, in the not too distant future you may consider me your friend." I said that while I extended my hand.

To which Stark hesitantly agreed.

then I looked around and said.

"since the important topics were discussed. I think we have to clean up all this mess they have made." I said while crossing my arms.

"hey! We didn't do anything, all those Hollows died by themselves." Lilynette said in a pout.

I just patted her head and said.

"Sure, but it's still a pretty sad mess."

"And what will you do then?" Lilynette said as she took my hand off her head.

"this." It was my only response.

Four of my feathers turned red and shot towards the mountains made of hollows.

Quickly my mist was released, and I began to control it, now I could insert my mist even into the corpses of the Hollows, as long as they were not dusted or disintegrated, I could insert my mist and absorb them, although the power I received from them was negligible, each grain of sand mattered, that was my motto.

Lilynette watched in amazement and Stark was attentive to what would happen.

When I finished covering all the small mountains, I started to absorb all the Hollows.

Lilynette's jaw dropped and now Stark was surprised.

Before long, the depressing sight of a landscape of dead Hollows was gone.

"Whuaaaaaaaaaa." Lilynette exclaimed in surprise.

I just laughed lightly, Lilynette's childish attitude was something quite refreshing.

Stark didn't say anything, but I'm sure he was analyzing everything he had seen of my technique.

"Well, I guess it's time to start your reiatsu control training."

"How fast?" Lilynette said somewhat incredulously.

"Of course. While I can withstand his power, that doesn't mean he isn't feeling like he's constantly pressuring me."

Lilynette seemed to understand that easily.

"Besides, I need to keep increasing my power, so I'll retreat from time to time so I can go hunting."

"What? But why? You said you would be our partner." Lilynette was starting to throw a tantrum.

"I know what I said. But I won't be able to hunt until you guys learn how to suppress your spirit power. That's why the faster you learn, the faster you can join me on my explorations." I said calmly.

Stark sighed at Lilynette's face and said.

"Then let's not waste time. Let's get started." Lilynette looked at him in surprise, and at the same time his spirits quickly improved.

"Yes! After learning to suppress our spiritual power, we will be able to do things together, as a pack." Lilynette exclaimed with a big smile.

"Well, we also have to fix those rags they bring." I said pointing to her dirty and ugly robes.

"It's the only thing we have." Lilynette said dejectedly.

"Well, you won't need those rags anymore." I said as I extended one of my hands towards them and several feathers from my hand came out towards them, they stopped in front of them and began to join forming clothes to their size.

The clothes weren't very fancy or detailed, but they were better than her rags, for Lilynette they were simple clothes from shorts to her knees, with a blouse that reached halfway to her navel, with long fingerless gloves that reached to half of her forearms, and a white robe that could cover her completely and white sandals that held her feet quite well.

And with Stark, a long-sleeved shirt, with pants, gloves that covered all of her hands, I also gave her a tunic that covered her entire body, with shoes that covered her entire foot.

Of course, the entire outfit was white, made from my smallest and finest feathers, to give a fairly soft fabric texture.

"whuaaaaaaa." Lilynette exclaimed again.

She touched the clothes with her hands and said.

"they feel pretty soft, and they look really comfortable."

"You're welcome. It also serves as protection, being made of my feathers, they work like armor." was my answer.

Stark only stared at me for a few seconds and nodded in thanks. then they went to a more private place to change clothes.

When they were ready, I said.

"Ok, let's begin."

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20 years later.

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"I don't understand why we have to do this." Said a somewhat irritated Lilynette.

"I already told you, to get information." It was my only response.

It had been a while since I became partners with Stark and Lilynette. we had greatly improved our friendship relationship. I showed them with my actions that they could trust me all these years.

They could also control their reiatsu now. Unlike me, Stark didn't take that long. In just over a year he was able to control the amount of reiatsu he could release. I felt a bit jealous of his great ability, but he had already put aside that comparing me to bleach characters. I would only get frustrated and stuck in my power.

It had also given him some hints that there might be one more transformation for them. I was not going to be stingy with useful information for them. Besides, it would earn me more of his trust. Which was more useful to me than holding back information that wouldn't help me at all at the moment.

He had told Stark.

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"Hey, if you really have shinigami powers now, you should have your Bankai too right?" I said that, while we were relaxing in the lair.

"That's not how it works. For a Hollow with shinigami powers, we have something equivalent but it's not the same, we have our resurrection." Stark explained.

"Yes, but, stop and I'll put it this way. You had already explained to me that your resurrection releases his sealed Hollow powers, in this case Lilynette is the seal." I said that while pointing at her.

"HEY!" was the only thing she said to me. Apparently she doesn't like that I refer to her as a seal.

Stark didn't say anything, but he was paying attention to me.

"But there's the catch, it only releases the sealed power of its true hollow form. So where do shinigami powers come into all this? Having a zampakuto doesn't count."

after hearing that, Stark was thinking, but I kept talking.

"Shinigami have these two releases, their shikai and their bankai, what if resurrection isn't the equivalent of bankai, but shikai?"

"Are you saying we could have a second resurrección?" Lilynette said intrigued.

"Yes, a… segunda etapa. In case you want to call it something." I said between humming.

"That would be really troublesome to get." Stark said scratching the back of his neck.

Although Stark said that, my intention was to sow that doubt, I'm sure he's already thinking about how he could unleash that hidden power. Stark may be lazy, but he still has the hollow instinct about him. he looks for the strongest and proves that you are the strongest.

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In all this time I was also increasing my powers as a Vasto Lorde, occasionally training with Stark and still absorbing huge amounts of hollows. I couldn't even do anything against Stark, but he was kind enough to help me with my training. It also served as some exercise for him.

I was also helping Lilynete improve her Ceros and training her so that she would be stronger when canon came. That would help Stark too.

Another thing I was focused on all that time too, was figuring out if I could become an Arrancar, like Stark did. I even asked him for help.

But according to his explanation, he couldn't help me with that, he was able to become a natural Arrancar, thanks to his special ability to split his soul to his liking. I can not do that.

And if he tries to break my mask or if he tries to split my soul in a forcible way, there was a high possibility that I would regress, or involute, or worse, cease to exist, since my soul would split into two beings. new and different from me.

So, for now, I'd give up my attempts to become an Arrancar on the side, for now. The risks are too high and with a greater chance of failure than success.

I see why there were so many rumors of failed and weak Arrancars. Stark is arguably the only exception to all of this.

also the rumor spread of our alliance, two powerful Vasto Lorde in the same territory, it was a surprise for me when I heard about that rumor. Well, I don't blame them though, Stark's power could be felt from far away, and a lot of Hollows noticed when Stark came to my lair. the fact that we were seen loitering in various places only reaffirmed our alliance.

although both Stark and Lilynette always wore the white robes I made for them with my feathers, so the other Hollows only guessed that Stark was another Vasto Lorde.

We were currently heading to the forest of the "Menos Grande", I also had a couple of adjuchas with us, those fools tried to attack us on the way. of course they were under my control. I don't know what they were thinking. Anyway, my intention was to go to the soul society, more specifically the Rukongai.

I wanted to draw some attention from some low level shinigami. My intention was to bring them under my control and have some spies, so they could give me some useful information about how soul society is currently doing.

And well, that they are informing me about everything they see, about possible rumors and possible weaknesses of the shinigami. I still have my knowledge from my previous life, but I also want to see if there are more things that weren't mentioned in canon.

When we got to the forest of the "Menos Grandes", I had already put several common Hollows under my control, there were only 10. I only brought the Adjuchas as insurance, cannon fodder if you want to see it that way. In case things didn't go as planned.

Also, he wanted to attract weak shinigami, not a lieutenant or captain. I wasn't ready to face them yet, or at least that's what I thought.

Sometimes I thought of myself as a video game character, who takes all the side quests before reaching the final boss, to arrive with all my stats maxed out and with the best gear and weapons the game can provide. That was pretty funny to me.

Stark didn't say anything, as usual, he was too reserved, but he was attentive to possible inconveniences, so he was quite reliable in that sense.

When everything was ready, I opened a Garganta, big enough for the 10 Hollows to pass through the Garganta, while the 3 of us and the pair of Adjuchas stayed inside the Garganta.

We were seeing how things were developing, it was strange to say how he knew how to open a Gangarta, it was also strange how I could choose which dimension I wanted to go to. Whether to the human world, or to soul society. It was... instinctive.

I had opened the Garganta in a forest, quickly the 10 Hollows spread out. Releasing the weak spiritual pressure from them. We weren't too far from soul society, so it wouldn't take long for a few squads to arrive.

When they're distracted by low-level Hollows, I'll send out a couple of my feathers with my mist, they'll have enough to control a few shinigami completely.

What I did not expect was that two unexpected characters appeared. They were none other than Yuroichi and Soifon.

(What the hell are they doing here?) was what I thought, almost panicking. Though thanks to my mask, I didn't show that emotion on my face.

"But what do we have here?" Yuroichi said somewhat amused.

"Yuroichi sama, please let me take care of this trash." Soifon said kneeling behind her.

"Come on Soifon, don't be so stiff, I let you follow me while I sneaked out of the Headquarters so I could stretch my legs a bit. This will serve as a good stretching exercise." Yuroichi said again in a cheerful tone.

(damn.) was all I thought, my plan had gone to hell.

All because Yuroichi had grown bored with her duties as captain of her own squad. Me and my fucking lucky shit.

This was a waste of time, so I was going to close the Garganta, I wasn't going to expose myself that easily, much less expose Stark and Lilynette. If soul society knew of the existence of a perfect Arrancar like Stark, we would be hunted like animals.

But when I was going to close the Garganta I listened.

"Hey, you guys in there, why don't you go out and play a bit?" Yuroichi said pointing to the Garganta.

(What?) was the first thing I thought. How the hell could he feel us?

Stark and Lilynette keep their spirit pressure hidden. I also have my power suppressed. It was when I turned to see our two companions, she is feeling the Adjuchas.

then I relaxed again. I thought about it for a while and made the decision to take those two out. I was somewhat curious to see how they would react to two Adjuchas. then I'd just close the Garganta and we'll get the hell out of here.

I signaled to the Adjuchas to get out of the Garganta. Stark and Lilynette didn't say anything, they just stared. When the two Adjuchas came out, Soifon was surprised.

"Adjuchas!" she said somewhat alarmed.

Yuroichi didn't say anything, but she did narrow her eyes. But then she surprised me when she said.

"Hado Number 4. Biakuray!" she point her finger at the Garganta.

The attack was so sudden that it only gave me time to spread my wings and cover myself and Lilynette, who was in disbelief at the attack. Stark managed to get away, but since he saw that I covered Lilynette as well, he was able to worry a little more about himself.

The energy attack that looked like lightning hit me. but thanks to the shielding of my feathers I only flinched a little from the electricity running through my body, but it didn't do any real damage.

"You're not very smart, are you?" I listened to Yoruichi again.

"You made the mistake of ordering those two Adjuchas to be present at my declaration. Usually an Adjuchas takes at least 50 hollows with them when they try to invade soul society, the fact that two Adjuchas are the responsible for bringing so few hollows with themselves, it is an indication that there is a superior mind guiding them."

"Not to mention that when a horde of Hollows comes to the soul society, they are always desperate to eat souls, they always sow chaos, instead they just stood in scattered places releasing their spiritual pressure, as if they were waiting for something."

She made a dramatic pause and she continued speaking.

"But the fact that these Adjuchas aren't reacting to my sudden attack means they're being controlled. Just like these other 10 Hollows, so it means your intention was to lure low-level shinigami to capture them and make I don't know what with them. Maybe eat them." Yuroichi said with a shrug.

"Impressive, Yuroichi-sama." Soifon said in a flattering voice.

"Besides, as insignificant as it is, I can smell another Hollow in there. So why don't you stop playing and show up." She said accusingly.

(How the hell did she find out about all that, I don't remember Yuroichi being that perceptive. I think I underestimated her deductive abilities a bit, spending a lot of time with Hurahara must be beneficial for her.)

"What will we do?" I heard Lilynette whisper into my wing. I was still covering her.

I sighed, everything went to hell quickly. I was a complete beginner, in this to invade the society of the soul.

"Wait here for a moment." I said that as she pushed her towards Stark, who watched as he headed me to the other side of the Garganta, I was really curious to see how they would react to me, although he wasn't going to come out of the Garganta obviously.

"As expected of a captain, your attack gave me a little itch, and you are smart enough to see the small details."

When I said that I stopped near the sunlight, where it was visible to them.

Soifon stiffened, and Yuroichi tensed her body.

"A Vasto Lorde, huh?" Yuroichi said with a somewhat forced smile.

"I must admit I was expecting a high level Adjuchas, not a Vasto Lorde."

"Sorry to disappoint." I said something offended. It messed up my plan and I was still hoping it would be a lower level Hollow.

"yuroichi sama, let me take care of those two Adjuchas, don't worry about me, eliminate that Vasto Lorde." Soifon seemed quite ready to fight.

"Heeeeeeem, you do know there are still the other 10 Hollows, right? Besides, what makes them think I'm alone?"

When I said that Stark released some of his reiatsu causing the two shinigami to freeze.

"What's this?" I managed to hear Soifon.

I raised my hand for Stark to stop, and I said.

"Honestly, I'm not interested in a conflict with you. My reasons why I'm here are my own and I don't have to explain anything to you." As I said that, I started absorbing all the Hollows he had brought with me.

The Hollows quickly transformed into red mist and headed in my direction quickly. All this happened in the blink of an eye while I turned around and began to close the Garganta, it was not worth continuing to expose myself.

"See you later, Beauties." I said goodbye to the two shinigami.

"I'm sorry, but you're not my type." I caught a glimpse of Yoroichi before he finished closing the Garganta.

"This was all a waste of time." I said that with some frustration.

I'll have to make another attempt in a different place, but I'll do it some time later, it would be troublesome having to watch the shinigami's activities all the time, I'll let them lower their guard again.

"What will we do now?" Lilynette said with a slight tilt of her head.

"We're going to try again, but we'll let some time pass, for now I don't want to upset the Shinigami any more." I shrugged when I said that.

After that, we headed back to Hueco Mundo and continued with our routine.

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20 years later.

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In this time our group has grown, it seems there are some hollows that seek the protection of a Vasto Lorde, or are desperate to serve some powerful Hollow so they can eat other Hollows that outnumber them more easily, I think this was the case with This guy Edorad, his name sounds familiar to me somehow, but I can't remember clearly.

It is one of the disadvantages of living so long, my past life has become more and more blurred, and well I have not read anything from Bleach in a long, long time, it is normal that I forget things like that. The worst thing is that I have nothing to write down my memories, so I think there will come a time when I only have a general idea of things.

Edorad is a pretty big hollow, a more specific Adjuchas, he has huge arms and his attacks are based on fire. He is not very fast, but he has great physical strength, although his spiritual pressure is a little above average, it is not a big deal, generally speaking, it would not have been a problem for me or Stark if he would have decided to attack us.

But instead he appeared in front of us and bowed, almost begging us to let him join our group. Stark had no problem bringing someone else into our group, and Lilynette took him on as her own personal amusement park.

I also had no problem with him joining, as he had already said, he did not represent any real danger to us. and it was a relief to have someone to distract Lilynette. instead, I helped him hunt large numbers of Hollows.

then we meet another Vasto Lorde, a more specific woman. She looked like a centaur, her mask looked like a ram. She had green hair and was accompanied by two other Hollows, Adjuchas. One had a kind of tiki mask, and the other had a somewhat elongated mask with horns.

It was a bit awkward as we were hunting the same prey. the female "Vasto Lorde" had strong spiritual pressure, as expected of a Vasto Lorde. She also surprised me that her two companions were stronger than Edorad.

While Edorad wasn't the strongest Adjuchas in Hueco Mundo, he was a pretty powerful Hollow. Until now, very few Hollows had given him any trouble, but Edorad always emerged victorious.

But after an awkward silence she was the one who broke the silence.

She told us that she didn't want to have an unnecessary fight, and that she would leave the prey to us, she seemed to be quite reasonable. So I decided to see if we could strike up an alliance, the more powerful allies he had, the better our chances of surviving all the disaster that was coming.

To my surprise, Stark helped me with the conversation, we were talking for a long time, while her two companions interacted with Lilynette and Edorad, during the talk between the 3 of us, she was surprised to see that Stark was a perfect Arrancar.

Apparently she had come to the same conclusion as me, and she asked him for help in becoming an Arrancar as well, but Stark gave her the same answer as me. And again, she seemed to have come to the same conclusion, the risk was too high to try to become an Arrancar.

She put that aside for now and she joined us for a while, if in that time she didn't feel comfortable with us, she would go with her companions and go on her way, we accept that condition. By the way, her name is Nelliel. And yes, I do remember her, in general terms, I only remember the characters that were most recurrent in the original Bleach story.

In general terms, we led a somewhat quiet life, as quiet as you can expect in Hueco Mundo.

I think Nelliel like that, since he has been with us for just over 10 years. Although I think she also helped a lot that both Stark and I stopped her every time she went into a frenzy hungry.

As it happens, Nelliel has to be careful whenever she goes hunting, as she has an insatiable appetite. Dare I say, her appetite is even greater than mine.

And in the heat of battle she goes haywire attacking anything that moves, so that's where both Stark and I come in. I stand up to her and hold her until her frenzy stops, and Stark just knocks her out easily.

I see why Nelliel's special ability is eating Ceros. Her appetite is so great that she developed a special technique capable of consuming the attacks of her enemies.

And again, word spread that another Vasto Lorde had joined my party. It's kind of hard to hide that fact, when every now and then a fight breaks out between two Vasto Lordes.

As expected, our fights were pretty destructive. Although I did not attack with the intent to kill, I did make some effort to contain Neliel.

Leaving aside those sporadic clashes, our life was pretty calm, but that calm was about to end. Throughout these years I have managed to create a certain network of information.

Thanks to the help of Edorad, Dondochakka and Pesche. They made a deal with some Hollows on my behalf, I let them roam our territory and nothing would happen to them. In exchange they would give me some information and rumors that they might hear in Hueco Mundo.

Imagine my surprise, when I was informed of some rumors about Barragán, that he was gathering up Hollows who had their masks broken. That something was happening in the Las Noches palace.

Those rumors had already been circulating in Hueco Mundo for a few years. And the reason he hadn't investigated this further in soul society was because the bastards were still on the lookout for any Hollow anomalies.

When these rumors started, I tried to go investigate the soul society, but the ones who always came to my trap, were the bastards of Kyoraku or Ukitake.

And to top off my bad luck, they arrived with full battalions. And as expected, I didn't even show up this time. Whenever Kyoraku or Ukitake showed up, I simply quickly absorbed the Hollows and retreated before they reached my position.

I was stupid to reveal myself like that to Yuroichi. She must have given a report on me and the spiritual pressure she felt from Stark. Right now I regretted my stupidity at that time.

(Me and my stupid curiosity.) It was my only thought at the moment.

Anyway, crying over spilled milk won't help me at all, the important thing is that something wasn't right in all of this. He was suspecting that this had to do with Aizen.

(Has that bastard already arrived in Hueco Mundo?) It was the only thing I thought.

I think it was time to try to catch some Hollows that are near the Las Noches Palace, and get information from them about the current situation and what is happening in the Las Noches Palace.

So I stopped meditating and molding my Reiatsu. And I decided to go out and I was going to tell Neliel and Stark about my plan. It was a simple thing, get in and get out quickly.

But my thoughts were interrupted when out of nowhere I heard Edorad scream.

"Shinigami!"

(What?) It was my only thought.

In less than a second both Stark, Neliel and I were outside the lair fully prepared to fight.

I'd made sure everyone had their own room, while Edorad, Dondochakka, and Pesche took turns keeping watch, in case some fool tried to raid the lair of two Vasto Lordes and an Arrancar.

But my surprise would not stop on this day, as I saw three Shinigami in front of our hideout standing calmly.

One was a black person with dreadlocks and he had on these weird polarized glasses. The other Shinigami looked younger, he had a smile like a snake, his eyes were closed and his hair was silvery white.

And there was the Shinigami that was the most in front of the three, and he was the one I worried about the most. He had a confident smile, he had glasses and his hair was brown. I already knew who they were, and I didn't expect them to come looking for me so quickly.

In fact my intention was to find them myself, under my own terms and conditions, now everything has gone to hell.

(Great... Why am I so bad at planning things? And what's with my shitty luck?) It was my thoughts.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Sōsuke Aizen." said the Shinigami in front of us with a calm and confident voice.

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