Monster March

It all begins with a single sensation. A nagging restless pull that yanks and yanks until it could be ignored no longer. Red gleaming eyes shoot open from beneath the sands of the desert scape of Hueco Mundo. The sands once still began to tremble, intensity ramping up and up until a mound of sand began to grow. First it was anthill, barely discernable from the countless dunes that surrounded it. It grew at a rapid rate as the Hollow underneath the sand stirred awake, easily reaching impressive size as it stood at full height. Tyrant Hunger, awoken from its slumber, remained deathly still as the sand flowed off of it's gargantuan form.

It was awake and it was hungry.

A roar shattered the silence as it began to thrash about, driven by its unending hunger. It looked about for something to consume. Finding nought but sound in its surroundings only intensified the demanding emptiness within. Desperate to be filled, Tyrant Hunger did the only thing it could at the time. Another roar rang out as it began to tear a Gargantuan Garganta in a random location. It didn't matter where, all that mattered was satisfying its hunger. Meanwhile several miles away from Minatumi Harbor, a massive Garganta began to open.

Mifune Soan had been charged with the duty of protecting Minatumi Harbor and it's interests. Or, rather, he had been hired to. After his meeting with Ulv Auber, one which was not entirely welcome to Mifune, he immediately relocated to the severely damaged town and was given all the information about what had occurred there. The idea of protecting something his younger brother had nearly destroyed was not entirely surprising given their incredibly different outlooks on life and deep hatred for one another, but it wasn't an issue because Mifune was being provided with plenty of compensation for the job.

As an alert went off informing Mifune Soan of the opening of a rather large Garganta, or inter-dimensional tear used primarily by Hollows and Arrancar, he prepared for what would undoubtedly be a fight. With a single one of his signature katana in hand, Mifune headed out from Minatumi and quickly reached the location of the Garganta even before anything had stepped through it. As he stood before the gigantic pitch black tearing of the very fabric of reality, shouldered jacket swaying slightly due to the ocean breeze, Mifune's crimson eyes remained trained on it. Whatever stepped through would be dealt with swiftly by his blade.

The Garganta continued to grow larger and larger as the seconds ticked by. Finally, having seem to have hit the required sir fot its creator to travel through, plus some additional space for maneuvers, the Garganta stopped growing and remained still. Tyrant Hunger took a few slow steps to approach the large portal to the harbor before breaking into the fastest run that it could ever muster. The speeding behemoth rushing into the Garganta and causing the sands of Hueco Mundo to scatter and into the air in its wake.

The head of the monstrous Hollow rapidly emerged from the other side of the Garganta with a deafening roar. This was followed by its arms, body, legs, and tail. Standing at full height and Minatumi Harbor in sight, its hunger demanded satisfaction, to be filled by anything and everything that Tyrant Hunger could si m its teeth into. It ignored the presence of the ones in front of it and began to stomp its way to the Harbor.

Unfortunately despite her clearly joking demeanor and kidding around, Mifune remained stalwart and steadfast. It wasn't that he didn't understand the concept of comedy but he certainly wasn't the kind of person to appreciate it or laugh much in general, and so while he gave Ulv a bit of a sideways glance to acknowledge her presence and statements his gaze remained trained on the Garganta still increasing in size in front of him. "Due to the size of the dimensional tear, I would say it's either a massive Hollow, perhaps a Gillian, or an army from Hueco Mundo. Given the concentration of noteworthy individual currently occupying Minatumi I cannot completely ignore the possibility of a dedicated attack against us from one of Hueco Mundo's factions."

Though the massive tyrannosaurus rex-like Hollow would attempt to ignore the two individuals, it would not be so lucky. With a blinding leap into the air Mifune clashed with it by striking the Hollow's head between it's eyes using the blunt edge of his sword. Though the Hollow had size and weight as advantages, Mifune was physically strong enough to cleave through skyscrapers as if they were made of papier-mâché and would have no problem stopping the creature in it's tracks. After hitting the Hollow on it's head using the blunt edge again, with enough force to shatter diamond, Mifune kicked off from the beast's snout and landed on the ground a short distance ahead of it. To Ulv he signaled his willingness to cut it down where it stood "I'll leave it up to you. Would you like me to kill it now?"

Pain was not a foreign sensation for someone like Tyrant Hunger. Having been struck twice by a man with a sword stopped it in its tracks. Its natural armor and regeneration had taken the brunt of both blows and was already healing its injuries. It took a moment to glare at the one that had put itself in its way before roaring. It seemed that with the two having decided to prevent Tyrant Hunger from approaching its meal, it would have to resort to more creative methods of feeding. It began to back itself into the Garganta it had made seemingly to make a hasty retreat.

Then it opened its mouth and began to tear another massive Garganta above Minatumi harbor, the tear of space growing larger and larger as Tyrant Hunger moved to finish backing into the Garganta behind it. Its plan? To take as much as it could from a distance with its Devouring Garganta.

Before the gigantic Hollow could back into it's dimensional rift Mifune acted quickly to prevent such a retreat. In an instant he was back in the fray, this time no sword in sight; having impaled it into the ground at his previous location, he was now barehanded and gripping the beast's armored left leg. The sheer pressure with which Mifune's grip tightened caused his fingers to pierce the carapace the monster could have been proud of against weaker opponents. Using his colossal strength which allowed him to pierce and kill Blackheart Gremory, a man who possessed far more durability than this monstrous Hollow, Mifune lifted and threw his enemy over a hundred feet into the air. Whether it weighed one thousand pounds or a hundred thousand, weight would not be an issue here.

While his opponent likely flew helplessly through the air, unable to deal with Mifune's far superior speed and strength, the human warrior flashed back to his single katana and launched into the air behind the Hollow. In an instant Mifune had kicked off the ground, flew past the dinosaur-like Hollow, and attacked with his blade, all before the creature could likely register what was going on around and to it. His attack consisted of cleaving through his target's armored carapace like a hot knife through butter all down it's back and side, with the likeliest result being the Hollow's right arm and every single spine along it's back sliced cleanly off, all of which would fall and hit the ground with heavy slams.

Assuming the Hollow would struggle to actively regenerate while simultaneously attacking with it's strongest techniques, it would not be all that difficult for Mifune to reposition himself on the beast's left shoulder as it began to fall back to the ground. With a burst of speed the infamous Shadow Fall veteran sprinted across his opponent's gigantic body, sliced across it's entire torso from shoulder to leg, and launched off it's skin, landing back safely on the ground. Due to the speed with which he moved the result of his attack, which would likely be an explosion of blood out of it's newest deep wound, wouldn't occur until after Mifune was standing calmly on the ground. If at this point the Hollow could still regenerate and fight he would be incredibly surprised given it's small amount of overall energy which he could deduce by it's existence as a base Hollow and the lack of effects it's Reiatsu had on the physical world.

The flesh that was Tyrant Hunger slowly knit itself back together even as it was damaged. All that it was registering was pain and hunger, though there was no competition when it came to which sensation would drive it into action, the hunger always won out for the Hollow. The Devouring Garganta it had made had been dispelled, leaving it no choice but to continue to approach the city on foot, despite the threats that it was facing. There was no fear of absolute defeat or injury, only the need to feed upon something, anything.

But before it could even get anywhere, Tyrant Hunger found itself back in Hueco Mundo, face to face with an unknown Gillian. "Heh, stupid beast." The Gillian knocked on Tyrant's head. "Be grateful that I used Negacion to save-." Any more that the other Hollow could have said was interrupted by the sudden maws of the larger Hollow snapping up the Gillian and crushing in its teeth.