Chapter 38 - Kaal - Part 3

Rizevim clicked his tongue, "How do you even know about that?"

"I am interested. In its nature."

"Hahahaha, it's evil! It's pure hell! That's what it is! And it's mine!" Rizevim didn't hide. He slammed the table, leaning forward, "those bastards took Ophis from me! I am not giving this up!"

"I don't want to take it. How about this? I will show you the power of Hogyoku. Would that motivate you?"

Rizevim dramatically raised his head, stretching his neck, groaning as he moved his head side to side, clowning around, "Ah, sure. Fine! Show me this Hogyoku thing!"

"What is this you people are talking about," Amado scratched his beard, "Why don't you involve this old man?"

Euclid created a magic circle, teleporting them. They found themselves in front of massive gates, bigger than the whole Las Noches. They went to the depths of chasms, burning with fires of Hell, "One day. We found this place. The gates of Great Hell opened, and they created this place. It was almost as if they were trying to get rid of something. Having Lost Ophis, we were looking to fill that gap, so we opened the gates to find out what's behind it."

Euclid continued, "It took all of our force to open it."

"Wait," Amado narrowed his eyes, "How did Hell even manage to get here? I know it can open anywhere, but isn't this too far out of its reach?"

"That was me. You didn't get to go to the control room since I was researching it," Aizen told them.

"You invited Hell to the party," Amado scratched his head, "Isn't that…insane?"

"I didn't invite Hell. I invited its inhabitants. If it's here, then only one person could have done it," Aizen watched the gates with interest.

"Kurosaki Jun?"

"That guy again," Rizevim curled his lips, "Anyway, come over. After we managed to open the gates the first time…now they open on their own."

He excitedly walked in front of them as if showing a toy to them, watching the gates open. It was only a seam, but it seemed like they were passing through a valley. One which was miles long. When they reached the end, getting a good view left them stunned.

"That's…what is that…?" Amado covered his mouth and nose, feeling nauseous as he looked at the thing in the centre. It was massive, the size of the moon, to say the least. It was a black viscous liquid, forming a sphere. It radiated with evil, but that wasn't what made Amado nauseous. He could see hundreds of faces, of people absorbed by this thing, twisted in madness, wanting to escape, trying to crawl out of it, screaming. And these twines of black liquid were connected to the sphere.

They could see the results of the attack from before, the magicians that had tried to run but were captured by the twins, and the black liquid had covered their bodies, hardened.

"I told you! That's evil! It's my greatest weapon!!"

"Just…we can't control it," Euclid shrugged, "It's too big to move…."

"Huh," Aizen walked forward; it was like walking against the current, the chaotic energy. It was thick enough to be visible, but he couldn't sense it. He knew the moment he saw it that this creature had transcended before even being born.

"It's an Egg."

"Egg?" Jigen questioningly looked at Aizen, walking behind him, in case this thing decided to attack.

"Oye, oye, you can't be serious. What do you mean it's an egg? You can't mean that thing is a creature, right?" Amado shuddered from the thought, looking at the thing.

"Yeah, what makes you think it's an Egg?"

"Because I know that it's one of the Fragments," Aizen narrowed his eyes, "When Jay Senju's Zanpakuto was destroyed. It divided into Seven Fragments. One is inside him. Another gave birth to Decimo."

Euclid raised his eyebrows, "The boy that defeated Loki? He has a Special Sacred Gear."

"Decimo isn't. He wasn't human or the devil. He was a hollow…a powerful one at that. The power over nothingness. Though he seems to have abandoned that, to become human, and then Devil."

"The other was Kurosaki Jun."

"And then Guren Uchiha."

"This one is a Fragment…no, I feel more than one source in it. There are maybe two or possibly three of them here. This thing would keep growing until it swallows all seven of them, and then it will be born. That might be the most likely case," Aizen stopped in front of it, taking out the Hogyoku, placing it in front of him, upwards, and the Hogyoku shone, causing tendrils to come out of the sphere and attach themselves to it.

Jigen and Amado watched closely, much like Rizevim and Euclid did, watching the shine from the Hogyoku travel through the tendrils. Then the Hogyoku stopped shining, falling back in Aizen's hands.

"What? Is that all? That's disappointing," Rizevim curled his lips when the black liquid started boiling. A wave went through it, going through the tendrils, and it started dropping the ones it kept trapped on the ground, but even if these people were free, they were connected by a string. Evil poured into their veins, shining inside to the point the blood veins became visible, shining with purple light.

The people, magicians, lifted their eyelids, but their eyes weren't visible. A purple light came out from them, shining more as they screamed, and then they fell forward, hanging in the air like puppets.

The sphere contracted, becoming smaller, losing half its size, and then again, losing more of it, and it kept convulsing, losing more size every time until there was little left, and it hardened, cracking apart.

Black fluid rushed out of the cracks, spreading them out, breaking the egg, and it dropped a creature in front of them.

"Is it dead? Or is it alive," Rizevim gulped with anticipation, walking over, and they all slowly followed. But the nearer he got, he couldn't help but furrow, seeing a boy, young, with purple hair and white ends, weak, beyond measure. He looked like a child who had never been fed, his bones were showing, and when he raised his head, his eye sockets were empty.

"Fuck!" Rizevim jumped up in surprise, seeing the empty eye sockets staring at him, but after the initial surprise, he screamed at Aizen, "What did you do?! Did you ruin my weapon! What have you—"

"Too loud," A raspy voice rang out in this place, echoing, and before Aizen, Jigen, Euclid, or Amado realised it, they were covered in blood, which splashed over when Rizevim burst apart, killed in the blink of an eye.

Euclid widened his eyes when the realisation dawned on him; he opened his mouth to say something when a silver-haired man appeared behind him, placing his palm on his shoulder, whispering, "Don't. You'll get us all killed."

Euclid knew of him, Gin, and he knew he had been following them, but even he knew this wasn't the time to talk. They all silently stood there, waiting to see him raise his hand and forefingers beyond others.

And the blood on their bodies, on the floor, even in the black liquid that covered half his body moved backwards; flesh and blood formed Rizevim, who fell to his knee, gasping for breath, having come back to life.

"You…fed me," The raspy voice kept echoing, "I forgive you…once."

The empty sockets stared at them in the face, "You woke me…ahead of my time…before I could feed on the worlds…before I was complete…do you not fear death?"

Aizen felt the eyes of his so-called allies, raising his chin with a smile on his lips, "Two of the fragments have left this world. You can never be complete."

"They died…they are in me."

"No. They left the Universe," Aizen narrowed his eyes, "We are on a Battleship, one that Travels between Worlds. Universes. If you want to be complete, you must hunt them down; to do that, you must become the ship's captain. Unless you can travel to Universes beyond too."

The creature sniffed, "No…two are here…those two first."

Jigen watched him, looking over to the men and women standing lifelessly, one who took off his clothes to cover this creature's body.

"Haha, fine, we will serve you from now on!" Rizevim laughed but froze in between, realising two fingers were in front of his eyes. They pierced those thin, weak fingers through his skull and took his eyes out, one after the other. He couldn't even scream until that thing was done with him.

"My eyes!! My eyes!!!! Nooo!! My eyes!!!"

Euclid rushed over, trying to use healing magic since Rizevim's regenerating powers weren't working.

"Do not lie to me," The creature watched the eyes with his empty sockets. He picked one, trying to put it in his eye, but it was destroyed the moment it was put inside, "Ah, you are so weak…even your eyes are useless to me."

He crushed the other one before rising on his feet, "Eyes…I want the eyes of your strongest warriors."

Jigen glanced towards Amado, "Amado can make them for you."

Amado felt his legs tremble in fear when the creature looked at him, "I can try…."

"You lie too," The creature said, "Why lie when you believe you can do it?"

"I will! I will!!" Amado hastily changed the framework of the sentence.

"Make me my eyes…."

"I will make them! As soon as we go back, I will make them!"

"Do you have a name?" Aizen observed him asking.

The creature stopped, wondering, "…Kaal…Destroyer of All Things."

"That sounds…" Gin looked at the creepy magicians, following like puppets, "Appropriate."

He looked over to Aizen, furrowing his brows. He didn't know what was going in that guy's brain to wake up something so dangerous. It would have been better to let him sleep.