Wanderin' the desert

I got up, and walked out the door. "If these are the living quarters, then he's got to be around here somewhere..." I reached out, sensing much reiatsu, trying to find the one i was looking for.

There!

I glanced at Drake, telling him to follow me, then sped down a few halls into another blank room. Inside was a man with black hair, and a hollow mask on the right side of his face.

"Welcome back, Alexx. Come to escape once again?" He turned around, revealing green eyes and lines of the same color running down his face. Ulquiorra.

Drake snarled and said "Ulquiorra Cifer. Alexx, is this the right room, or are we about to get killed?"

I looked at Drake with reassuring eyes. "It's okay. When I first started my Fraccion career, i served under him as his only Fraccion until Aizen transfered me to Szayel. He helped Ren and I escape to my cave when It happened, and made excuses for his absence."

Drake lowered his weapon and said "Alright." Drake kept his weapon in it's released state and seemed cautious, but not of Ulquiorra. Drake then said "Ulquiorra. Do you know anything of Szayel's ally? I need to know everything that he has done recently if I'm gonna avenge her." Drake's free hand then seemed to move towards his side pouch until he said "And Alexx, I have one question. When you kill Szayel, what then? You say you want him dead, but Xenax has told me something. Possibly the only thing he's ever said that I believe. Murder leads only to more murder. What about his Fraccion? No thirst for revenge? I know that Xenax's Fraccion would die to avenge their master. And what about other Espada? Would they care nothing for their fallen comrade? Or would they attempt to kill you? I know nothing of the politics involved in Aizen's army, of which I am glad, or of what he did that makes you want to kill him, but what after he dies? Just wandering in the desert? You won't even have many goals if you kill him. Just-" Drake actually seemed concerned about Alexx as he said that. Drake then grinned, embarrassed and said "Sorry. You just remind me of Ranpu. You look so much alike it's freaky. The only difference is that her hair was a royal purple."

OOC: There's something nearby... Something demonic, but it has a somewhat 'good guy' aspect to it... It feels like The Keeper, but slightly different...

Roy silently comes from behind them "Drake, You need to calm down and remember your a soul reaper. You are under different control your not like me and alexx where you can carry out your own assignments freely. Unlike us YOU do have consequences to face if you do something wrong." Roy turned to alexx and saw how confused she was. But for him it was only expected.

"Obviously. If word get's out that I'm working with two Arrancar, then I can kiss my seat good-bye. But I have no-" Drake then paused for a second as his eyes turned to slits and said "The Keeper. He's doing something... And it's not good. We need to get out of here. Now." Drake seemed worried as a demonic pressure started to build up and come closer. It was still far away, but it was closing in fast.

I didn't blame my former master for keeping quiet, but he took his right hand out of this pocket, and tossed an emerald stone at me. I caught it, and a scene flashed through my mind. I knew where to go.

"Don't die on me, Alexx. And say hello to Night for me." He said.

I nodded, and as the demonic reiatsu got closer, I crossed the room and put my hand on the wall as i did before at my cave. A trap door appeared below Ulquiorra, and he fell down it without surprise. I hopped in after, quicky saying, "Come with us if you wish to find your Keeper." The drop lead to a system of underground tunnels, much like the ones i used to escape years ago. Ulquiorra had disappeared, and a few torches lit the way we shouldnt go. People just think thats the way, but it was just a trap for those with weak common sense.

Roy leaps down as a mysterious shadow follows them.. They wouldnt know what it is but roy knows exactly what it was.. It's spiritual pressure was completely hidden only Aizen or a -3 espada could detect the person.. "So where do we go now? I mean this place has all kinds of twists and turns..." Roy looked around with his shotgun on his back as it had a low glow.. He stayed on look out behind everyone for any unsuspecting followers

"We go where the torches do not. 'Into the dark, out in the light. Only those chosen escape alive.' " I said, reciting a quote i heard when i touched the stone. "Lets see if we're chosen, then!" I said this like life was a game that i was the master of. Then i turned to the darkest path, and happily walked down it with a bounce in my step.

Drake followed Alexx and then said "You seem strangely ecstatic. What's up with that? This strikes me as one of those times that you want to be all serious and stuff." Drake said this while widely grinning and doing the exact opposite of what he said. Drake then said "And who's Night?"

"Even i don't know that. My best guess is she's the voice ive been hearing every now and then. If she is, then he makes these awful headaches come out of nowhere, and i think she's something like a guardian angel. She gave me the advice to pickpocket Flekoon, and she controls my dreams."

"You mean like your Zanpakuto? Or something completely different?"

"Like another spirit is trapped inside me, Szayel probably did this because i rejected him..." My voice faded away so softly that Drake could hardly hear it. He knew that i knew that he knew i had been hiding something. I tried to take my mind off it by playing around with the Bakoto i stole.

"Wow. Thats something weird. But atleast were all together now.. and we have each others backs... And we do stand a fighting chance against an espada so we should be good.. But since were not following the torchs we should probably use something to keep us all together that way no one gets lost am i right?" As roy said this That same person that was a shadow whispered in his ear silently but quiet enough for only roy to hear. "These.. Accomplices of yours the lady. She knows her way around las noches as if she made it... Im getting testy about her.. And the boy.. His spiritual pressure changes every now an then.. Hes different from the other reapers we've killed... This one.. He has a secret that he wont tell... atleast not yet and i know it..." Roy silently replied "Keep him under watch is all... His spiritual pressure is nothing for warriors of our caliber to be afraid of... Also he has no guidance in his own fighting style... I bet he swings that sword around sloppily... Hes nothing compared to the people we've dealt with" Being that roy was in the back he had a watchful eye over everything that happened... The shadow still had no spiritual pressure as it temporarily vanished and stood a few meters away from roy as it continued to follow them through the tainted dark corridors.

"Could you hand me that Bakoto? The way you're holding it would make it so you'll stab yourself if it goes off... And I could swear I hear someone whispering." Drake then said "Nah, my ears are probably just tricking me. Oddly enough, my ears have been more sensitive then usual lately." Drake then said in a slightly more serious tone "Maybe it has to do with Kage Ryuu being so close to Xenax. Maybe he's speeding up my senses because he's close... Or maybe he's doing just to screw with me. Either way, that Bakoto's blade comes out that way." and pointed out Alexx was holding it wrong.

I switched the armlet to the way its supossed to go. "Thanks. Now how do I make it come out?" I asked, putting it on my arm like a normal armlet.

"You just focus your spiritual energy. Watch out though, you feeds it too much to fast, it will clamp on your arm and sting. I mean just ow it hurts."

"Okay, ill try it, but later. First we have to go through the horde of hollows in a few minutes. They're usually pretty easy to defeat though, so it wont take us long to be on the other side of this place." As i said, we took a right turn, and a mass of hollows stood crowding the passage. I sharpened my nails. "The reason why we couldnt sense them is because these walls absorb reiatsu given off by one;s presence, preserving it until that someone leaves alive. Why people dont survive these tunnels is merely because they exposed their reiatsu too much, and had none left to keep going. I suggest you keep it to a low level as we kill these worthless creatures."

Drake smiled and said in a odd tone "Alright then. Let's go." He unsheathed his sword and dashed forward and said to himself "Darken, Kage Ryuu." Drake smiled and decided that he would use Shikai, just not much more reiatsu than needed. His sword morphed onto his arm as he tore through several Hollows at once with a slash and a dark burst.

I followed, using my now really long sharp claws to massacre a group of hollows. "This always helps me with stress." I said jokingly, turning to slice two more who were creeping up behind me.

Drake then said "Rend!" and a black tendril was shot out of the sword and pierced several Hollows. Drake smiled and said "Alexx. How many are there? I'd prefer to be out of here before an Espada or Flekoon come around. Rend!" and then launched another tendril, this time looping towards Drake to stab one behind him. Drake then grinned creepily as his spiritual pressure changed a little. Right after this, he shot out one final tendril that split into several others and cut through more than twenty Hollows at once. Drake continued killing them one after another.

As they took out the hollows one by one roy pulled up his shotgun as it turned from blue to red and flaming bullets came flying out.. Every shot decimated 3 hollows.. 12 shots were in each round which meant 3x12 =36 ... Every round killed 36 hollow with ease.. "Hirenyaku" A disc appeared under roys feet as it rose him above the hollow making it easier for him to kill them with a upper advantage... "How much more before were gone?" By this time they all should have killed about 3/4 of the hollows

I chopped one's head off. "Actually, we should've been done by now. Maybe they just put more so they had more time to find us." Elbowed one behind me, jumped into a ball and flipped forward hitting a hollow some distance from me by kicking it with both legs. "Now this is just getting annoying."

"Well, it's not like we can't handle it. At least they aren't all Menos." Drake then said to himself "Though he's really taking a toll on my nervous system. Rend!" and kill several more Hollows.

As they finished the rest of the hollow roy lowered himself on his hirenyaku making sure not to get off of it as he laid down on it.. "Please do lead the way.." As roy said this he laid his shotgun right next to him on his hirenyaku as it glowed a radiant light blue