Lost in the Tundra [Mirja]

"Then don't was the last words that Leviathan had actually heard before the arrancar fire off her Cero directly into his face. Shit, I'm dead He said to himself as he felt the full force of the attack hit his face and then everything went black. The presumably dead shinigami felt nothing but cold and loneliness from the darkness that had engulfed him. Ah, seems like I'm dead. That's too bad the thoughts of Leviathan seemed to echo in the darkness. Suddenly leviathan could not only hear himself, he suddenly saw hands that looked like his. "what's this? he asked himself before the feeling of crippling fear overcame him, it was like nothing before. It was maddening fear, a fear that drove perfectly sane men insane causing Leviathans face to take on very distorted looks of pain. It was so bad that he screamed into the darkness before grabbing his throbbing head. What was going on? Why did it hurt so bad? He would have asked more questions before he heard what sounded like cracking coming from behind him. The increasingly unstable Leviathan turned around quickly to check on, only to see skeletons dressed as both of both of his parents making their way out of the ground. Only confusion entered his mind and he had no clue what was going on, he could only hope to overcome the maddening fear that plagued his mind.

"M-mom, d-dad? the trembling voice of Leviathan said as he looked at the skeletons who finally pulled themselves completely out of the darkness. "Why did you let us die?!"[b] the voice of his mother echoed from the skeleton that was dressed exactly as she was the day she died. [b]"This is why we didn't want you! You are a failuree and this is why that arrancar killed you! the voice of his father rang out from his skeleton. Was this hell? As each of his skeleton parents spoke something seemed to break within him. Leviathan knew that his parents death consumed him, the feeling that because of his powerlessness that he had lost what was most important to him that day. However there was one fear that he had never admitted to himself nor anyone around him and that was the fear of battle itself. Losing the two most precious people too him during a battle made him feel like he couldn't protect anything at all, that he was weak, and that battle is not fit for him at all. The arrancar attacking him proved this as he immediately buckled, feeling Moore powerless and broken than he did before. "Let me devour you, weakling the voice of the female arrancar that attacked him sent chills down his spine and he immediately fell onto the ground and began to back away as several other voice chimed in. "Let me devour you!! A new voice boomed in with all the others, it was stronger, more menacing, and sounded like pure evil. As he continued to back away from the image of his attacker and heard the immeasurable voices taunt, he seemed to hit a wall. Leviathan clutched his head into his hands and pulled his knees to his rocking back and fourth feeling himself fallen deeper and deeper into the pit of negative emotions that surrounded him. what could he do in such a situation?

While his inner workings seemed to be picking up, something was happening on the outside of Leviathans body as well. His body seemed to lay face down on the gravel of the Tundra, snow lightly falling over his body. His shinigami uniform was tattered from the Cero that the arrancar hit him with at close range, also leaving some burn marks around his face as well. If anyone was around, they would jump as Leviathan's body started to violently convulse and his reiatsu began to spill from his body. It leaked an unusual amount from the young boys body before growing even larger as a tint of hollow reitasu began to merge with it. Soon after, a horned masked began to form of the left side of his face as his body found itself crawling up from the ground. The mask that continued to devour Leviathans fast resembled that of a hollow mask, something that shouldn't have been happening since he was a shinigami. A shinigami should be the furthest from having a hollow like appearance but in some instances it happened. It is when a hollow and shinigami soul come together to form one being, a being known as a visord. It seemed that while Leviathan was in a comatose like state, the hollow was gaining control over his body.

After Leviathans body picked itself off of the ground, it let loose that of a grotesque roar that echoed throughout the Tundra, causing whatever close enough to hear it to tremble. The body of Leviathan seemed to have no real thought, only instinct wanting to roam and destroy whatever was in its path. The hollowfying Leviathan began to stomp and rage about the tundra trying to find something to tear apart. As it did, more white goo shot out of his mouth and formed the shell of a hollow around his body. It had covered the left side of his face, arms, and legs with a hole partically formed at the center of his chest. It seemed that he was more or less than 50% hollowfied and if something didn't happen, he would no longer be a shinigami.

"Let me devour you! is all that echoed in the darkness that was surrounding Leviathan. Wether he wanted to admit it or not the madness, powerlessness, and fear were going to consume him at any moment. "If only I had been a bit stronger Leviathan said as he finally felt the coldness of whatever was going to devour him but lucky enough, something weird happened. "I think that's quite enough the voice of another man chimed in but when he looked up he could see no one at all. It was weird but the voice sounded familiar, comforting like he had known it all of his life. "I cannot sit back and watch you embarrass yourself like this the voice rang in again as the darkness began to fade around him as stars one by one began to fill it, making something that resembled the Milky Way. Water formed below his feet and boulder size rocks appeared around him. As Leviathan looked around, he found it to be quite beautiful and quite peaceful. However, upon examination of this new world, the mysterious mans voice came again "welcome to your inner world, Leviathan Shihōn". "My inner world? Like my Zanpakuto's inner world? he asked himself but knew that's what it was. This was new to him, it was the first time that he had actually into the inner world within his Zanpakuto and lead him to guess the mans voice is actually his Zanpakuto spirit. The young boy seemed to regain some sense of joy too seeing his inner world for the first time but it was quickly put out by the darkness.

the darkness that once seeked to consume him seemed to be meeting at one point under the Milky Way skies. After a few second of just being a ball of pure darkness it began to take sort of a humanoid outline before molting the darkness all together. What Leviathan saw next scared the living hell out of him, he was not expecting such a thing to be inside his inner world. It was a hollow. It was roughly six feet tall, very thin, and pure white with long black colored hair that reaches past its back. Two large, white horns protrude from ear level and two thin black lines traveled under each of its eyes. It had piercing black eyes and no mouth, it looked truly like a devil. The hollow had his back to Leviathan at first and slowly turned to have a look of hunger in his eyes and a menacing laugh filled the air. It was then he knew that it needed to purged from here as soon as possible or else he was to be no more. "Let me devour you Leviathan! I swear it'll be fun the hollows voice that came from no mouth boomed around as it moved towards him at unbelievable speeds. It was hard for Leviathan to keep up with the speed of the hollow but by putting his arm up and reinforcing it with his signature blut imitation technique, he blocked the attack from the hollows sharp razor claws. While he may have been prepared for one attack, he was not ready for another and was instantly hit in the gut by the hollows other hand. The attack was powerful enough to send blood flying out of his mouth and send him flying six meters back into a rock. Hahahaha come on Leviathan! I can see why you let your parents get killed! the hollow said gayly as it made its way towards the young shinigami.

The hollows words made his body rip with the same madness as before, breaking him down and him wanting to end everything. It made Leviathan's body heavy and shake badly as he tried to get up, however by then it was too late. The hollows speed allowed it to close the gap, make it to the weakened Shihōn and getting a fatal wound in as well. As he still sat on his knees, Leviathan could only look at arm that was going through his stomach. HAHAHAHA, you'll finally get to die like the weak little brat that you always were! Go join your parents in hell the hollows words rang in his ears as everything began to grow black around him. Looks like this time it really is the end for me[i] his voice rang in his head [i]"I'm sorry mom, dad I really wish that I could have lived up to your dreams. It was then everything went black but only for a moment as two bright lights appeared, caring their own messages for Leviathan. "Son, it isn't your fault we died. It's not your fault at all, we died protecting you, so that you could live it sounded like his mother, her sweet voice filling his head and made something light inside him. "She is right, Son. We died fighting the hollow so that you could live on, it was not your own powerlessness. his fathers voice chimed in and a little flicker in his soul ignited into a flame. "We don't want you to worry about us anymore, worry about yourself, grow powerful enough to conquer your own fears! . However there is one last thing you could do for us, defeat that hollow! they both chimed in before Leviathans eyes shot open again. Without a word he quickly took his arm and grabbed his Zanpakuto from his back, moving at max speed to cut off the arm that went through his stomach.

ARRHHHHG the hollow screamed as it moved back at its astonishing speed, leaving a trail of black blood in its wake. Leviathan ripped the hand out of his chest and threw it to the side, making his way up with his katana in hand. "Thank you mom and dad Leviathan said as he looked at his Zanpakuto, slowly rising it up and pointing it at the hollow who stood a few feet away from him. "I know I'll become powerful enough to conquer my own fear! Leviathan yelled in sync with the hollow that was trying to take over his body. They both took off for each other at max speed and began clashing claw to sword. The hollows immense speed was now dwindling due to losing an arm and for the simple fact that Leviathan was not afraid of battling it anymore. The young shinigami now just wanted to use his own power to conquer his fears and it would start with this damned hollow! The two beings were at exhaustion and knew that only one more attack with everything in it would work as the final decider. "I'm gonna kill you!! The hollow said as he moved past his max speed, instantly appearing in front of Leviathan and tried to lodge his claws into his head. "Sorry hollow, not this time! Leviathan said as he managed to use his shunpo behind the hollow at the last second and bisecting it with a full powered slash.

The hollows lower body fell to the ground a few feet away from the upper half, its black blood spilling everywhere. Leviathan sighed and sheathed his blade, turning towards the upper half of the seemingly dead hollow. Looking intently at the body, he felt a sort of relief to see that the thing dead but jumped as he heard it's voice begin to come out of nowhere. You may have gotten me this time but I'll be back! Try to conquer those fears before I appear again hahahaha the hollows laughed pierced his ears as its body began to slowly fade away till it was no more. While the battle on the inside was just wrapping up, the body of Leviathan was still rampaging on the outside. The only part of him that had not been hollowfied was his left shoulder, meaning that he was soon to complete his transformation as a hollow. His body had began firing off Ceros into the giant cliffs of the tundra, making giant chunks rain down all over him. It had killed cause the earth of the tundra to shake and debris fill the air. Since it had no pray, the hollow leviathan began to go even more berserk throwing the boulder size rocks that fell from the cliffs near him. It ha decided to fire off another Cero, gathering it in the hollow hole in the center of his chest but before he could fire it, something cracked and the hollowfied portion of his chest began break off. The cero disappeared as it did so and the hollow Leviathan began to scream before a large explosion swallowed him and the tundra. As the smoke of the explosion cleared, the hollow shell that covered his body fell off, revealing the original owner of the body, Leviathan Shihōn. His clothes still tattered and his body still scared from the arrancars attack, he immediately fell to the ground from exhaustion. Lucky enough for him, the same time that he finally came too a senkaimon opened in the sky and several shinigami came out that immediately noticed him. They had come at the signs of an immense hollow reiatsu but only could find him. I can do this.. Leviathan said to himself as he entered the senkaimon on the back of one of the shinigami and watching the gate to the human world close behind him before passing out.