The Hollow Queen

A Widow in White

In the middle of a busy street a senkaimon opens, unseen to the human world, the hustle and bustle of a quiet sunday morning goes about as it manifests. From the white light walks a long brown haired man, his eyes hued in purple sclera and white irises. In the center of his chest sits a beautiful black pearl known as the Hogyoku, his body is garbed in the remains of a chrysalis that hid the extent of his metamorphosis into a transcendent being. He is the only one to exit the gate, and all who had fought at his side had either betrayed him or lie dead and dying in the streets of the fake version of this very city. An evil smile splits his face, a once handsome man turned monster bent on killing god to install himself on the throne of the heavens. Aizen has arrived to the world of the living, the transcendent evil that wafts from him radiates out and physically distorts the horizon with both his spiritual pressure and his malevolence. He raises his hands outwards as if basking in the praise of an audience hailing him as a king, breathing deeply the dense reishi that situated itself in the little town of Karakura. 100,000 would be sacrificed, 100,000 would never see the next day, 100,000 would cease to exist, 100,000 souls to create the King's key. Aizen lowers his head from looking at the sun, drifting towards its bed on the horizon, and down the street. In the center of the road stands a short black haired woman in the tattered remains of a set of arrancar robes underneath a set of black shinigami robes.

"When will you be satisfied?" She asks, her face stained with tears. "You took everything from me..." She says her voice begins to crack as sobs rattle through her. She is slightly hunched over, like the weight of the two blades she carries is dragging her down.

"I will be satisfied when the false god that sits upon the throne of the soul king is deposed and I rule in his stead." Aizen answers, taking note of her pitiful form. "Those that stood in the way of the new world had to be destroyed."

"Is that how you see it? Of all things, hollows, the denizens of hell, humans, quincies and shinigami alike, all don't compare to how evil you are. Did you feel anything when you slaughtered them, the souls you destroyed to make your half of the hogyoku? When you killed my friends, what about Ichigo? You told me he was your greatest success why?"

"Ichigo is my greatest triumph, as are you. He didn't meet my expectations, and I left him alive in the fake city with the others." Aizen answers, the sadness present on Rukia's face disappears and turns to the fury the likes not even hell could contend with.

"It doesn't matter." She says with a laugh to herself, "When I win, I'm going to rip the hogyoku from your corpse and use it to undo everything you destroyed." She says standing to her full height, her two swords resting at her sides pointing slightly away from her center. "If I should not be enough to kill you. If I die, he will annihilate you and do the same."

"You will not die in this battle, for you carry within you the next piece of my plan. What is growing inside you is the product of a perfect being and the perfect espada." Aizen says, leveling his sword at her pointing to her lower abdomen. "You are with child, and that child will succeed me as the next soul king. Everything has gone just as I have planned, everything except you, my wonderful outlier. Who'd have guessed that a street rat from Rukongai born with only a name to own...would one day mother the new god." Rukia stays silent, the news that she is pregnant should be utter elation, but all she can feel is desolate and entropic.

"I'm going to kill you now." She says, her reiatsu beginning to freeze the ground she stands upon.

"I am immortal, Rukia Kuchiki, the hogyoku has responded to my will and made it so that I shall not be defeated until I attain my ultimate goal." Aizen responds with a sick grin on his face. "Fret not, Ichigo is still alive, but barely. He will be coming here to pursue me in time. When he arrives he will see my transcendence and you two shall live in my perfect world."