Hollowed Dreams [Lilium/Boria]

Sleep... It's the thing that many enjoy partaking in, and generally a necessity to functional life for most mortals. Though, Lilium wasn't any such mortal, rather, being borne of Nidhana; a freshly created Danava, hardly alive for a month, though instead of having a normal sleep in a bed or other sort of soft furniture like most, Lilium was taking a good snooze... Atop a lumbering Hollow. The silver haired newling was fast asleep as the beast cruised along the tree filled path, crossing the forest not being too much of an issue due to the size of the beast; being as tall or even possibly taller than the arboreal structures. It looked much like a wooly elephant, it's feet stamping against the ground as it was on it's way to cross back over into Hueco Mundo, whatever business it had been up to in the mundane world been completed whether it had been munching on some souls or shitting in the woods.

What it didn't realize, however, is that the tiny one was fast asleep on it's back, having fallen from a branch she had spent a considerable amount of time on, and remained asleep on it's back, completely undisturbed. Lilium's constant state of energy loss and gain further made it possible for her to be in the sort of scenario where she could be dragged across the planet yet not be disturbed.

Her dreams weren't quite dreams, rather, was a minor dip into her Conceptual World. Her eyelids remained shut, her body lying backwards as half of her was afflicted by a feeling of lukewarm ripples; water of course. The smell of salt blessed her nostrils, her face pointed towards the sky, though resting atop a soft, warm formation. The feeling of her hair being stroked and tugged by child-like hands was present, a familiar, melodious voice fluttering towards her ears.

"You come here, again and again... Yet you do not wake."
A masculine voice, one of gentle tones spoke to her this time, the sensation of eyes staining her prevalent, though she could not react.

"Unable to touch me, at least, not completely... So close, yet so far..." The hand strokes along her hair, and at times cheeks, were far too gentle, far too comforting, like an overly cautious child tending to a stuffed animal they love to near death, though there was no love in the fingers that stroked her, only curiosity.

What the girl also wasn't aware of, was that she had crossed into a different world, one beyond her knowledge, while being atop the soul-eating mindless beast. It huffed, walking through the crystalline forest within the Hollow's den. Nowhere near a safe place, she did enter, though was in a deep sleep, partially obscured by the hair of the abomination.

Boria Lee leapt between the tree-like pillars of the Forest of Menos with the air of someone going to the grocery store. This was actually an apt comparison; the Adjuchas had to eat, after all, and the Forest was her preferred hunting ground. She trailed small fragments of glass embedded in the quartz trees behind her as she moved on muscle memory, focusing on her other senses to try and find a tasty morsel. A solitary Hollow caught her attention; a large, but not quite dense, sounding energy. Something massive, but not a Menos. "Hmm. I could go for a light snack."

The Adjuchas changed her angle of approach, climbing higher into the treeline as she got closer to her quarry. Boria built up her speed, circling inward on the slowly-moving large Hollow as her momentum began to reach dangerous heights. Dangerous to her target, anyway. There was a reason birds of prey hunted like this. She spotted the target beneath the next tree in her path, and when her feet impacted the quartz trunk, Boria kicked off hard enough to crack shards of crystal from the edifice, angling herself straight down at the hairy creature's shoulders.

Her left arm impacted first, razor sharp glass forming into a scythe blade and carving a furrow from the base of the Hollow's neck. Her quarry's wound immediately began to knit itself closed, even as Boria slid across the other Hollow's shoulders. Her Kristallnacht wrapped around the opposite side of the Hollow's neck, the motion a well-rehearsed, quick takedown that had secured dozens of meals for Boria Lee in the past 500 years.

None of these meals had had a small child on their shoulders, curled up inside the matted hair like they were nestled in a warm blanket. Boria's foot caught on the lesser Hollow's passenger, and the upset sent her falling towards the desert forest's sandy floor, the Kristallnacht scythe discorporating into a swirl of jagged blue glass that skittered painfully, but ineffectively, down the Hollow's back after its master.

"SON OF A BITCH!"

The Adjuchas impacted with the dirt, painfully, as her prey turned to face her, lifting a foot to try and crush her. The blond Hollow dove out of the way, growling and swiping at the ankle with her shards. "Who the hell sleeps on top of a Hollow? What the shit?"

The sleeping Danava hardly felt the swaying of the beast's body as she was gripped by sleep, her arms sliding to hug her pale, skinny legs. Her breath was structured, relaxed, predictable as she rested in quite the dangerous place on a dangerous beast. Though, this sense of peace the girl's body had lapsed into was soon to be disturbed by an unexpected battle. It was the nature of hollows to devour, though the slumbering lass wouldn't think to have to watch such a thing.

The hollow had released a roar of furious pain, vibrations shaking it's furry body as the blonde Adjuchas had lept onto it's body.

"Oh... The tides of nature wish to swallow yet another under it's fearsome waves..." The gentle voice pondered, as if familiar with the circumstance, "...It appears to be time for you to awaken, young demonic seraph..."

As the girl's foot made rather painful contact with the girl's mid body, her eyes fluttered open as the pain settled in and the screamings of the girl banged her eardrums. The girl disorientedly sat up, no longer supported by the fur as the rather pissed off creature she was on lifted itself to crush the girl below like a rather thoughtless child crushing ants on the playground. As the creature's back slanted, the girl leaned to the side, taking a tumble to the sandy floor below. Despite being rather tired, she instinctually postured herself in order to land on her feet, though clumsily landed on her soles, her butt hitting the floor.

"Urf... What a pain." The girl put a hand to her mouth, releasing a hefty yawn. She looked at the scene before her, not intervening or even letting out a scream at a blondie slicing up a furry elephant monster.

"Huh... That's new.." Lilium slowly blinked, not seeming too interested in what was happening, or that she was even in an entirely different place. All she noticed is feeling even more tired than before, little spores of sin flying around even more than she had ever seen. She snatched one of the little invisible-to-all-eyes-but-her critters, giving it a gentle squeeze and inspecting it, before putting it in her mouth and swallowing, "Lots of you guys here, huh..." She mumbled to herself.

Boria spared the strange child a withering glare, the confusion and frustration she was feeling in equal measure easily visible on her face. The little brat just sat there all sleepy-looking, munching on something Boria hadn't seen her eat. Sat there like she wasn't in hostile territory, hadn't just ruined someone else's hunting, and wasn't currently in the field of view of two rather irate Hollows. Balling up her frustration and confusion, the glass shards of Boria's right arm coalesced into a gapping maw, a blue Cero charging inside the glass facsimile of a wolf's jaws. "Fuck's sake, kid, move!"

And then there was sound.

Boria Lee's Null von Kristall sounded like a few dozen windows we're breaking all at once, mixed with the deep bass note of a normal Cero. The beam of power slammed into the nameless Hollow's mask, forcing it back and leaving dozens of deep scratches in the bone, but it wasn't enough to kill the creature all at once. "You know, the least you could do is fucking help, since you're the reason this thing lived long enough to get all pissy."