The Hollow Queen

The Basilisk

"Lucky me to have stumbled across a quincy and a shinigami. I have quite a bit of information about Ichigo and Lady Rukia but none on you two." Szayel's slimy voice unnerves Renji and Uryu as the three have their standoff. "I can tell that your Zanpakuto is a power type though that's a shame. You truly are as dumb as you look then."

"Then you're underestimating me from the start." Renji declares before raising his sword upwards and slashing it towards the espada. The repeating segmented serrations of Zabimaru fly through the air coming down in a massive arc striking Szayel directly in the shoulder.

The cocky espada didn't even raise his sword to block the attack, assuming that Renji wasn't nearly powerful enough to scratch his hierro. That however is far from the truth, the center of the hundred meter long cable linked blade immediately pierces through Szayel's hierro cutting deep into his clavicle. With a yank backwards the blades retract towards the handle of Zabimaru sawing into Szayel's shoulder. The espada is slammed to the floor under the weight of the attack before he manages to sonido away from the sawing blades. Appearing several leagues away from the four, Szayelapporo clutches his partially severed shoulder as blood drips from the wound onto the floor. The mad scientist stares in fear at the retracting blades as they return to their wielder. The red headed shinigami snaps his blade back into place with a flick of his wrist as Uryu draws back on his bow.

"Fascinating." Szayel says before lifting his undamaged hand and snapping his fingers. "Fracciones." This statement causes the floor to rumble as large openings in the walls open up revealing strange deformed arrancar that come bounding towards their master.

"Lord Szayelapporo!" The chorus of distorted voices echo through the hall as the fracciones get close to their master. Tall, gigantic, round, skinny, gaunt and every other strange combination of sizes range between the army of strange arrancar. As one round bodied hollow gets close to the mad scientist he reaches out and grabs it by the face before consuming the poor creature. The fracciones and intruders look on in disgust as Szayel gorges himself on his own servant.

"Ah.. much better." He purrs after finishing off the poor hollow, the black and pink reiatsu that bled from the creature now radiates through his body causing the gaping wound in his shoulder to mend itself. "Don't look so glum, I'll make you another one later."

"Disgusting." Uryu spits out after having witnessed the grotesque display. "That used to be a soul you monster and you just devoured it with no hesitation."

"Such is the nature of hollows, but my fracciones are different. They're field medicine, and each of them knows that. I siphon off a portion of my power to create these little fleshling arrancar and when I consume them I can regenerate at high speeds. So can any other arrancar that is injured." Szayel explains before looking at the tattered portion of his shirt. "Fracciones, entertain our guests for a moment. I need to get changed." He says dismissively before walking away from the fight.

"Oh I don't think so." Uryu says as he draws one of the silver sword handles from his belt. Channeling his spirit energy into the device it creates a long slender sword blade made of energy. He lifts the weapon upwards and loads it into his bow before firing it at Szayel. The espada turns around just in time to see the modified Quincy blade pierce through his chest. "Do you really expect to just leave us with your toys? You never turn your back on your opponent in a fight."

"Nice shot Uryu." Renji compliments before maneuvering his sword to the side, extending the blade in preparation to attack the multitude of strange arrancar that surround them.

"Ah... I remember now. You dealt with that Privaron espada Cirucci." Szayel recalls before turning to face them completely. Him rotating his body causes the energy blade in his chest to shatter like glass before it clatters to the ground. "This has certainly gotten interesting. Fracciones. Deal with them." With a sonido, the scientist vanishes allowing his minions to fight the two hollows, shinigami and quincy intruders.