With the Captains suffering casualties and heavy injuries on their side, all hope seemed to be lost... until Shinji Hirako appeared, along with the rest of the former Shinigami. Though the aid of the Vizards certainly helped to draw the battle in their favor, it seemed Aizen's power alone proved too much for them.
Las Noches, enter at your own peril, past the white doors, and down the halls of echoing sounds. You reach a tower where impossible things happen that the world has never seen before. In this tower strange things have been known to occur, where experiments that no one has ever dreamed of happen and everyone tends to avoid it at all cost. This place was known as a true mad house and anyone foolish enough to enter would either wind up missing or insane once they leave.
From lack of guess, Hatter had to find a way to get people to visit him. He tried party invites and tricks to get those that he consider friends to come to his tower, but that usually resulted in mixed feelings. So in order to recharge his way to gather the necessary guest to enable him to enjoy some company outside his assistants, he turned to human literature.
He was quite fascinated in the way a certain candy maker came up with a way to find an heir to his candy legacy. But he wouldn't copy that man's plan, no he'd just use his own golden ticket. It took some time and failed tests, but he managed to find the right combination of tachyon particles and quantum mechanics that won't result in butt faces.
And so, only a weeks of hard work did he appear above Karakura and release the tickets to the general public. He went back into the garganta as the tickets flew to the select few who will find them.
He waited a day or so, but soon he got the alarm that his guest have arrived. Going to the terminal, the screens lit and he looked at the lucky finders waking from their sudden trip into the middle of his tower.
Rei didn't find his ticket, he took it from a woman who had no idea what was going to happen. Sure, he didn't know he would be transport to Las Noches, but he felt that when it started to glow. He quickly snatched it away from her before she was teleported in a blinding light.
An hour later, he awoke to a large room, his surroundings were of white and certain blob shapes. Rei's vision was blurry from the sudden action, but once his eyes adjusted to the light, he got a good view of the room. It was white with six doors. Four on each wall, one on the ceiling, and another on the floor. This was not going to be a good day.
It had been a long day. Mizuki was tired from school, and went to relax at the park... Although today was not the day for it. As she walked through the park, she saw something shiny in the trees. She wondered what it was and went to investigate, which was the wrong decision. She grabbed the shiny and looked at it closely. What is this? She thought. Then it began to glow, and she blacked out.
Black, everything was black. Nothing, there was nothing to be thought of. Mizuki started to move a little, awakening from her slumber, or rather her blackout. It was a spinning blur. Nothing was straight, there was even doors on the floor and ceiling. She was rather confused, then realized that she could see fine. A strange place this was, and Mizuki wanted to know why she was there. She stood up and noticed the one other that was already there.
"Wh-who are you? W-why am I here?" she asked in hopes that he would know.
Sentenza had just finished bifurcating a Hollow's head when he found found his ticket just underfoot of where the hollow had been standing. Sentenza glanced at the ticket and reached down to it. Normally, Sentenza was not prone to acts of curiosity such as picking up a random object found where a hollow he had just slain had been standing, but that fact that a hollow had stood there not moments earlier was what made the situation intriguing. The ticket glowed and Sentenza blanked out immediately after.
Sentenza came to his senses in an odd room with six doorways. Four on the walls, where a door was rather normal thing to find, one on the ceiling and one on the floor. Sentenza became aware of two other people in the room. Sentenza took a step for them, but his blurred vision staggered him for a moment, and Sentenza stood still to regain his senses for a moment. It would appear they're as clueless about the situation as me. Sentenza thought to himself. He became increasingly sure that the situation could only become weirder from that point.
It had been such a great day thus far. He had uninterrupted naps in each of his classes and had been taking another one at lunch. As he had made his stake in the usual tree the ticket and fluttered into his lap. Toshioni had woke up as it began to glow and emit a sort of energy. He stared down at it sleepily and could barely process what was about to go happen. He just smiled and nodded happily, assuming it was all a dream.
As such, he didn't feel too worried when he blacked out. What did worry him was not waking up to the familiar sound of the school bell or a teacher's shouting. He woke up in a white room and instantly felt funny. There was a buzzing in the front of his skull. It was as if the Siren's Song was giving him a sort of high that he could not alleviate. However, he looked around the room and was surprised even further. There were six doors in the room. Typically, that wasn't a problem, but there was one on the ceiling and one on the floor. Creepy.
As he wobbled to his feet he heard a girl's voice talk. He looked and saw three other people in the room with him. The girl looked to be a high-schooler herself. Damn, she was hot. Red hair, blue eyes. He'd have to get her number. Another seemed to be about his age with almost black eyes. He looked a little scary. Yes, rather scary. Finally, his eyes settled on the one who was in front of him. He looked to be about Mikhail's age with black hair and a pretty athletic build. He looked not as scary.
The young Quincy continued to walk towards them before stopping only a few feet away. He looked around the room at all the doors. Damn...this was going to be hard to figure out. "So, from what I heard, no one knows why we're hear? Is that a fair assumption? Oh goody. A good old fashioned mystery. I love mysteries. No, that's a lie. This is going to suck."
He sat down again. The buzzing in his head persisted. Toshioni didn't understand that he was experiencing an excess of reishi here. If he did, he could probably guess that he was in Hueco Mundo. But, he had never been exposed to such a sensation so that was a moot point. His eyes lingered on the girl. She was pretty. But, was she as pretty as the one who he had met that day? Maybe.
"So, anybody care to introduce themselves? I would feel better if I knew a bit about all of you. Names, ages, deepest darkest secrets. Okay, maybe not that last one. I'm Toshioni Sarungekki. I'm 14 and was taking a nap when I was...whatever brought me here. See? That wasn't so hard. Something like that could work for everybody. Share the love."
She was reading again. Makana's nose nearly met the pages of her books, an old copy of the Kojiki - and she found it quite fascinating to read the first recording of those myths and legends - as she walked. A glint of light distracted her from her reading, and drifting to the ground was a pretty golden piece of paper.
That would make a lovely bookmark, she thought as she reached forward and caught it. It started to glow, and her eyes widened. "Oh dear..."
Amusingly, wherever she ended up after catching her ticket, the woman was still holding her book. She looked around, at the small gathering of adolescents, and then back to her book. A girl stuttered out a question as to what was going on, and Makana answered, "Dear, you're best off not questioning this kind of thing."
She rested a hand on her stomach, slightly worried about the timing of this all. She was going on maternity leave. What kind of sick bastard targets a pregnant lady and a group of children? I think I'll kick his ass.[/color]
As she turned the page, she heard a boy speaking. "So, from what I heard, no one knows why we're here? She smirked lightly. He responded with sarcasm, claiming that today was going to suck. Well, it most likely was. Poor kid. Hadn't come to embrace supernatural beings attempting to cause bodily harm yet. "So, anybody care to introduce themselves? I would feel better if I knew a bit about all of you. Names, ages, deepest darkest secrets - okay, maybe not that last one. I'm Toshioni Sarungekki. I'm fourteen and I was taking a nap when I was...whatever brought me here."
"Masashi Makana; history addict and teacher...I don't believe I have any of you. Maybe next year," she chuckled, smiling softly. "I'm quite pregnant, so don't be offended if I don't offer you much sagely advice."
Character List "Let's eat, Grandma!" "Let's eat Grandma!" Commas save lives.
Rei looked at the others who had awoken from their slumber, it was quite a gathering. Indeed, it was something that Rei has never experienced before. Another Vizard was there, he could feel aura from him as the man staggered from the blurred vision. However, he was of little importance as Rei continued to investigate the room.
Then a boy started to talk, not that he had any clue at what kind of situation they were in. Rei gave him a look, ignoring the opportunity to introduce himself. He'd rather not deal with these people, for all he knew one of them was the reason behind his sudden incarceration.
Bending down, Rei wiped his fingers on the ground and rubbed them together as if investigating the dust of the floor. Things were coming together as he started to deduce where they were. The flow of Reishi was high, may even be higher than the seireitei. There was only one place that could possibly have a reishi level as the Seireitei. Rei heard Makana speak, but again, he didn't care. That is until she mentioned her impending nativity. As much as Rei felt to alienate himself from these people, he couldn't just ignore that. "If I had to guess, we're in Hueco Mundo. If that's the case and if these walls are any indication, Las Noches." He finally spoke, his poncho pulled down to reveal his full face as he stared at the door on the ceiling.
Or was it the ceiling? This place feels out of sync for some reason.
Meanwhile, the man behind such a plan was watching the monitor with increasing interest. One seemed to deduce their location quite quickly, he'll be watched carefully. But rather than wait for them to ask who was in charge, he decided to announce what was happening sooner than later.
As if out of some kind of scifi movie, a see through monitor appeared with his face on it. Though not his actual face, it was blacked out with a big white grin. "Welcome friends to my humble abode. I'll be your Game Master for this evening." He didn't bother to hide his voice, so anyone who has ever met Hatter would surely recognize it.
He eyed everyone in the room, smiling at each person as the monitor it flew around the room. "Let me just say how happy I am that you found my tickets in such a quick fashion. I hope y'all still have them, you'll need them to get out of my tower." This should be a fun game, as long as people played fair and by the rules.
Mizuki began to look around. There was a quite fella, a young talkative boy, an old lady, and the guy she had woke up to she already standing. Who were they? Why were they here? The boy began talking.
"...I'm Toshioni Sarungekki. I'm 14 and was taking a nap when I was...whatever brought me here. See? That wasn't so hard. Something like that could work for everybody. Share the love."
Mizuki turned slightly away, looking at all of the doors. "I'm Mizuki, that's all that needs to be said from me right now..." She was not in the mood.
Then the lady began to speak. "Dear, you're best off not questioning this kind of thing."
Mizuki folded her arms and turned her nose up, as if she didn't wanna hear it. She wanted to know, and she was sure everyone else wanted to also. The first guy began to talk now.
"If I had to guess, we're in Hueco Mundo. If that's the case and if these walls are any indication, Las Noches."
Mizuki's eyes widened. She had heard few things about Hueco Mundo, let alone Las Noches. She had no idea what she had gotten into. "Then why the hell are we-" Before she could finish she was cut off.
"Welcome friends to my humble abode. I'll be your Game Master for this evening." A voice came from the monitor that was hidden until now.
Mizuki looked at the monitor, and to tell the truth it was kinda creepy. A blacked out figure with a huge white grin? That was trouble waiting to happen.
"Let me just say how happy I am that you found my tickets in such a quick fashion. I hope y'all still have them, you'll need them to get out of my tower."
Mizuki pulled out the little ticket that she had stuffed into her pocket. "Why would we need these..." Mizuki asked herself out loud.
Sentenza would have preferred not to introduce himself to a bunch of strangers after less than five minutes together, but the situation seemed to necessitate teamwork, and knowing each other at least a bit. "Sentenza Hoshizuki." Sentenza said. He didn't see any reason to share anymore information about himself at that point. Sentenza glanced at Rei, who hadn't introduced himself, then to Makana, then to Mizuki, and finally Toshioni.
Rei's note of their location immediately brought a question to mind for Sentenza. What use could a pregnant woman, and four seemingly random people be to a hollow? Sentenza asked in his head. The screen that entered into the room answered that question. The choices at least appeared to be random. Their "host" had sent the catalyst for whatever brought them here, apparently those golden tickets, into the world at random and waited for random people to find them.
Sentenza opened his hand and found the somewhat crumpled golden ticket there. "The tickets brought us here, it is entirely possible they are also capable of doing just the opposite." Sentenza said too Mizuki. Sentenza's eyes followed the screen for a few moments before he spoke again. "I would hate to be rude to our host, but could you please get to the point?" Sentenza asked.
"Masashi Makana; history addict and teacher...I don't believe I have any of you. Maybe next year,"
The young Quincy looked at her for a second. She was, quite pregnant. That might be bad. If they were going to have to do anything a pregnant person might have a little trouble. He began to chuckle slightly to himself. She must be used to this sort of thing as she wasn't freaking out at all. It was just so funny how many interesting people you could meet nowadays.
"You seem...calm."
"If I had to guess, we're in Hueco Mundo. If that's the case and if these walls are any indication, Las Noches."
Toshioni stopped breathing for a second. He took a look at the the man who had said that and studied him for a second. He looked younger than he was, but looks could be deceiving. The young Quincy thought about Ikatsui and how old he was yet how young he looked. Could this man be in the same boat? He didn't look like an Arrancar. He was too...odd to be a normal human. That left two things. Quincy or Vizard.
Standing up, he walked over towards him. He tried to sense this man's reiastu but something was in the way. Shit, would this buzzing never cease? He began to back away and look down. Fuck, fuck.
"Tell me, what are you? You don't look like an Arrancar, so that's out. I highly doubt you're a human given your knowledge on the subject. That's gone too. You don't have the uniform to be a Shinigami. So, all that leaves is Quincy or Vizard. Which is it?"
He shook his head and sat back down as he heard Mizuki introduce herself. She seemed rather shy. However, given the situation, that was not necessarily a bad thing. He heard Sentenza do the same thing. At least he was comfortable enough give his last name. Just then, a familiar voice came over through the monitor.
"Welcome friends to my humble abode. I'll be your Game Master for this evening."
Cubbit...Jumping up, Toshioni felt a familiar sickness of having to deal with an Arrancar. However, Cubbit wasn't Xuan. He had pretended to be a substitute teacher for a high school class. Toshioni shuddered; he remembered how that went. It was alright to get a little mouthy with this man. He wasn't prone to violent outbreaks that was knowledge to Toshioni. So, cue yelling...right...about...now.
"CUBBIT, YOU BASTARD! Let us out of here! What's wrong with you?"
"Welcome friends to my humble abode," a voice echoed. Makana looked up, only to see a large screen with an orange-haired, wiry man's face plastered on it. "I'll be your Game Master for this evening. Let me just say how happy I am that you found my tickets in such a quick fashion. I hope y'all still have them, you'll need them to get out of my tower."
Makana glanced to her book - it was still there. Sure enough, the children started to protest, though the ones who were...well, not quite human seemed less offended by being taken to a hollow-infested castle. Makana didn't mind - she could kill them if need be. She was pregnant, not crippled.
"Toshioni-kun, keep your voice down," Makana said bluntly as the boy yelled. Her head was prone to aching since she and Roi did the deed, and quite frankly she didn't want to get any more irate than she already was.
She decided to herself that she would help protect the younger children, the ones which she may someday have. There wasn't too much she could do - she wished that Roy was here. He would have been much more of a help in this kind of situation.
She, like the others, looked to the screen and rather politely asked, "I don't suppose that you would send me back? I'm quite pregnant and supposed to be on vacation."
Character List "Let's eat, Grandma!" "Let's eat Grandma!" Commas save lives.