//------------------------------// // Peach 48 // Story: PEACH! (Season 2) // by ChromeRegios //------------------------------// “Where am I?... What happened?... Who am I?” Ulquiorra asked himself, while walking aimlessly on the forest. Just as he was leaving the place where he was spawned, a manticore jumped from behind, about to cut him to pieces... but before the creature can sink its teeth on Ulquiorra... The neck of the beast suddenly exploded, creating a small hole on it, and killing it instantly. “Why... why did you about to attack me?” He asked in a deadpan voice, he looks at his bloody hand, and starts shaking... “W-what am I? Why do I have this hole on my neck?” He asked all sorts of question which he never got any answer on it. It appears he lost all his memories about the fight of the Visors and the Espadas. Ulquiorra walks to a nearby river and knelt down to clean his hands, he also washed his face as he sees the image of himself on the water. This got him thinking on what he was, and why he has quick reflexes whenever he felt he was going to be attacked. Just then, his head suddenly gave a very painful reaction... like it was being drilled. “AAaarrrrggghhH!!! W-what's happening to me?!” He held his head, oh so tight, just to relieve the pain but to no avail. Just then he heard a voice... “You must be Ulquiorra...” The voice said to him. Ulquiorra looked around, but no one was around... He still cringes and grinding his teeth on such sheer pain he’s feeling. “W-What do you want?!” Ulquiorra asked the voice. “I want you to help me with my cause...” The voice asked with a deep voice. “Help you? What s-sort o-of help!” He asked, valiantly trying to keep his mind at the best state, trying to prevent the pain for as long as he can. “Help me, conquer this world!” The voice announced. Ulquiorra suddenly remembers a bit of his past, as he was battling someone with an orange hair... and lost. His mind fights off the voice. “No! That feeling! That hurtful pain!~” He shouts. “I shall never repeat the pain and mistake I took over that course of time!” Ulquiorra punches the water creating a huge splash. “You are not Aizen! And I shall follow NO ONE BUT HIM!” Ulquiorra gathers his mind and rejected the voice out of his head... regaining his sanity once again. Ulquiorra looked at the sky, as he remembers some of his past... “Aizen... is dead...” He said to himself... “Is that mean... I’m free?” He looks back down on the river, then saw some fish swimming around... his stomach rumbles... “I suppose... that I’m hungry...” Ulquiorra said, while quickly gathers five large fish without any effort at all... “I guess this will do.” He then creates a fire with some twigs and a huge log... then he cooks the fishes... After three hours, he finished the meal... He should have been finished earlier if it wasn’t for a huge bear... a pack of dogs, and a manticore came and nearly ate his catch... “I’m sorry, but you all gave me no choice but to kill you... I hope you forgive me...” He said while looking on the dead corpses that lie between the river bank. Ulquiorra stood up and was about to leave the area when he felt a sudden heat on his neck... as it turns out, the hole on his neck is slowly disappearing... Ulquiorra feels it, and sure enough it was completely gone... only a circular scar remains on the once large hole on his neck that makes him a hollow. “That's pleasant...” He said to himself, while smelling the fresh evening air... “I guess I better find some shelter... for tonight...” He said to himself... Unknown to his own... He was slowly turning Human. The connections on Aizen after the great attack was now fading, as his appearance in Equestria is still unknown... Unlike Ggio Vega, he retains his memories and still served on the terms of Aizen... But after a fight with Ichigo, Ulquiorra just cutted away on Aizen’s control, and with Aizen’s death... his contract and loyalty went down the drain... He quickly reverts to a human form and now barely just got any spiritual power nor anything to fight with... Without his knowledge... he was slightly powerless... His mind was filling with Human like emotions such as fear, laughter, sadness, loneliness... He was in reality, a half hollow now... But because of a side effect on the regeneration on his bodily structures, the power of a hollow was sealed on his neck, where the scar of the former hole resides... He now ventures to the darkness, towards the unknown dangers of the forest that lay in the nightly environment. Ulquiorra walks blindly on the forest, only feeling where he’s going... he completely lost his ability to see in the dark. Fear now sets in his mind. “What’s this feeling I’m getting...” he said to himself, as his hair in the back of his neck stood on end. “This feeling is somewhat new, yet familiar...” Ulquiorra looked back and forth, going to a paranoid state. “This... is fear...” He said as he runs towards nowhere. “This is not happening! Why is my abilities diminished when I need them the most!!” He said as he tripped, slides and fell face first on a muddy pit. “DAMN IT!” He said to himself, the felt another emotion... Irritation. He quickly gets up and runs forward... quickly dogging any branches and jumping small pits along the way. What was guiding him was just merely his instincts... nothing more. As he was about to jump another pit, he ended up on a huge cliff... he hovers there for two seconds, then looks down... he gave a blank face then said... “I should have stayed dead~” Then fell down the ravine, giving off a fading scream as he fell and only hearing a slight splash like of a drip on a loose faucet, then it was silence...