A Hollow in Rainbow Sand

It's been about two months since that night. I was pretty sure about how I felt towards Luna now. I knew I was falling in love, but I was scared. If I mentioned it, how would she respond? But at the moment, that's the least of my problems.

I've decided to see if I could use cero, bala, or any other hollow abilities Ulquiorra contributed for me. Now normally, this would be simple, I meditate to find my reiryoku and once I do I bring it to the surface and attempt to use it. What I was not expecting, however, was to end up in what could only be Hueco Mundo. I looked around, with my guard up for anything. But there was only silence.

Confused, I searched for my reiryoku, only to find that I was literally standing in a place where even the air was made of my own energy!

"This...This is impossible!" I exclaimed to myself, wondering what was going on. It took me about five minutes of freaking out before an idea hit me.

"Wait, Soul Reapers have an inner world inside their soul. Could this be mine? Wait, no that doesn't make sense, the show said that Arrancar Zanpakutos are just manifestations of their power!" That's when it all snapped into place for me.

"Of course! The Kaleidoscope! It must have drawn out a version of Murcielago that comes from a dimension where Zanpakutos are either reversed or maybe even the same for both sides! But if that's the case, then where would my blade's representation be?" I muttered the last part to myself, not expecting a response.

So you can imagine my surprise when I heard a feminine and monotone voice reply, "How about right behind you."

I must have jumped like ten feet into the air from surprise. When I landed, I looked at where the voice came from and was completely shocked. This was not what I was expecting!

Understandably, my jaw hit the floor. She was hot as hell! But after an initial once over, I forced myself to focus on her eyes. Eyes which showed no emotion whatsoever, leaving me wondering just what she was thinking.

The silence stretched on for a moment. I think she was analyzing me, trying to figure me out, but I felt that it was far too quiet.

"So..." I began, causing her eyes to come into focus slightly, "Your name wouldn't happen to be Murcielago, would it per chance?"

She tensed. It was slight, but it was there. However, she surprised me with her answer.

"No. Though that is the name of my blade. I am Ulquiorra Cifer."

"Fuck, Shit, Piss, Damn Son of a bitch!" I paused at the last one before hanging my head. I not only dissed myself with that last bit, but I also insulted my mother whom I loved very deeply. I made a note to offer extra prayers before I went to sleep tonight. Shaking my head I turned to look at Ulquiorra, only to see her stone faced.

"Sorry about that. Now don't freak out, but...I think that I might be responsible for you getting sealed in here..." She quirked an eyebrow, non-verbally asking how responsible I was, "It might have been a version of myself from an alternate dimension who did this..."

I didn't get much further than that before she threw an energy javelin that missed my balls by an inch, blowing up behind me and making me land at her feet. I looked up only to see her readying another javelin.

"Give me one good reason not to kill you where you lay." She said in that monotone voice. I figured that this version of Ulquiorra was able to show anger at least. And what's worse, it was the cold, glacial type of anger that focussed it all into a point.

"Well...Ummm...I honestly didn't know you were here for one thing...And for another, I already plan to get you out as soon as I can! Nobody deserves to be trapped in their own weapon, even if both the weapon and its wielder are absolutely gorgeous..."

Her eyes narrowed, and I barely managed to roll before the javelin hit the ground. Standing up quickly, I began the desperate run for my life!

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I quickly started running through the dunes, with her flying right behind me. I turned a corner, only to come out from behind a totally different hill as Ulquiorra came from one beside me. I was distinctly reminded of a scooby doo hallway chase scene.

Such shenanigans continued for about five minutes before I stopped and slapped my forehead and turned into a pile of sand that then merged with the rest of the dessert, giving me a much larger amount of power.

Just as Ulquiorra stopped above a dune to look for me, I used the sand to reach up and grab her. Pulling her onto the ground, I encased everything but her head in about two feet of sand just to be safe. Then I materialized beside her and squatted down, putting my lower arms across my knees.

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"Alright, now that you can't attack me anymore, can we at least try to talk this out? I get that you're angry, but I don't think you should take it out on me." I said this and sighed as she continued to struggle for release. "Look, I'm perfectly willing to let you go, but first you need to calm down."

She glared at me again, making me stand up and put my hands out palms open.

"See, I'm not armed. You're not hurt, as far as I'm aware, and all I'm doing is restraining you. Like I said, I am completely fine with releasing you once you're calm. When you want to talk, let me know."

With that, I went back underground and started manipulating the sand from another, far distant dune. Forming another body and taking direct control, I began working on something I had thought of weeks ago. Loosening the bonds between the grains that made up my form, I then began to rotate the particles randomly. Slowly at first, then gradually beginning to speed the motions up.

Eventually, I had built up enough speed that my entire body was acting as a kind of grinder or sander. So far so good. Now for the next step.

I tried to get into my hand to hand stance, only for the entire thing to fall apart and the particles that were moving at the time to go flying. Reforming, this time in a fully solid body, I shook my head with a sigh as I crossed my arms.

"Not again. Why won't this work? Is it a matter of control? Or is it the fact that it requires some way of multitasking? Maybe I should look into Memory Partition. Actually, that might be a good idea since it'll let me set background tasks for my mind to work on like accessing alternates." This was the tenth time I'd tried to use what I liked to call the Drill Fist. The first five times I couldn't get it up to speed, the next two I had trouble getting the sand to go in multiple directions, and from the eighth time onward it failed just like it had on this attempt.

With another shake of my head, I went to check on Ulquiorra. She seemed a lot calmer now.

"So, are you willing to talk now?" I asked, getting a nod, "Good, now just give me a second. I accidentally compressed the sand into sandstone. so I need to try and grind it back down. However, I don't want you underneath it when I do so I am going to separate it from the ground and use the sand to push it up. If you could push up as well, then I will have a much easier time."

I then started to make channels along the edges of the sandstone, to loosen it up. Then Ulquiorra started to push on it. I started lifting from above and using small pillars of sand to push from below as well. With all of that, the stone turned out to be very light, and thus it wound up flying off and crashing in the distance somewhere.

"Ummm...Oops. I'll find that later. Now then, Ulquiorra, I am willing to let you out of the blade once I figure out how to do it. But, since I don't know how at the moment, there's not a lot I can do. I could try and form a sand clone of you on the outside and use my body as a conduit for you to take it over, but I don't know if that will work. And even if it does, you won't have any real powers. Also, you won't be able to go too far away from me."

Ulquiorra stared at me for a bit. It was kind of creepy at first, but then she spoke in that monotone voice of hers.

"While it would be nice to get out of the sword, I'd rather not be so restricted."

"Yeah, I figured. I mean you're kind of like a bat. Like all flying animals, bats hate being contained. I'll figure something out." I replied before snapping my fingers in realization, "Oh yeah! I almost forgot why I came here in the first place. Ulq, I have a near exact copy of your powers. I was hoping to learn how to use bala and cero, do you think you could teach me?"

Again with the staring, and this time I noticed her eyes seemed slightly out of focus. Maybe that means she's thinking? I was brought out of my own thoughts by her voice.

"I am willing to teach you, but first I have a suggestion on how to get me out of here..."

She explained her plan to me, making me facepalm so hard that my head disintegrated again due to the force because I didn't think of it.