Fear My Fangs [Dragon, Khaana]

"Arrancar..." The beast tried the word out on her tongue, and she utterly fucking despised it. It tasted like the most raw of garbage, like a gillian with no substance that was wasting away at the same time it was being eaten. "What an utterly repulsive kind. Even if our existence stemmed from humans, we are an evolution. A superior race. How could we simply... regress, like that?" It truly was a baffling idea, one that left the creature even more deflated, especially as Khaana only asked more questions.

"Obnoxious little pest, aren't you? Asking all these meaningless questions." She sighed in defeat. The Dragon had fallen to let herself rest, but she couldn't possibly have anticipated this. All she could do was deal with it. "What goals could I possibly have asides from getting stronger?" She wondered to the girl. "I have no other purpose. To become strong so that none may defy me, and so I can feast on whomever, whenever. What other purpose could a Hollow even need?" Though even asking that question, it seemed like more of these Arrancar had shown up in the human realm with more purpose than what the beast herself had. At least, more human purpose.

"What are you even doing here?" The question came out of her abruptly the moment she realized. "If you yourself are not explicitly Hollow, at least not in the same way as me, what business do you have in Hueco Mundo?"

"I don't know what this 'spanish' is that you speak of, but I hate it. Do not utter that word again." The Dragon said matter of factly, like her word meant law. Which, despite how weak she was after fighting Criella, she still was to this little not-human that had simply wandered up to her. "Who cares what it means. The meaning of names means nothing at the end of the day. Words hold no merit to the consequences of one's actions, nor to the arbitrary rules of nature which dictate whether we do, or do not, live."

The Beast snorted at the reasons she was given in contrast to her own. "Those are human reasons. Hollows are supposed to be an evolution. Look at me, then yourself, and tell me that Arrancar are a reasonable change of figure. They're a regression. That's why I hate them." It made no sense how, if that truly was the evolutionary path for a Hollow, that if she were to 'evolve' past being a literal Dragon she would instead turn into the thing that was her food.

"Even if, on a conceptual level with Hollows being born from human souls, it simply does not make sense for a Hollow to change from a human, to a monster, to a different monster, back to a human. It's utterly pointless, convoluted, and simply does nothing for us on a strength or otherwise evolutionary level. It's like a bird evolving a beak designed for feasting on insects, only to live in a land of seed and nuts instead. It is simply not fit to live, as it is not designed to fit that environment. Just like Arrancar are not fit to walk the same ground as the thing they have devolved from."

With a tired sigh, the beast simply closed its eyes silently. "If they devolve into food, then they should be eaten like the degenerates they are. Does that explanation satisfy your fascination with my hatred, incompetent child?"

"They get weaker because humans give words so much power, but that power does not hold a candle to death barreling at them as it so often tends to do." She argued back, starting to get a little irritated at the way this girl was being so argumentative. Really now, humans and Shinigami and all their creations really did like to chat so much. This wasn't some sappy story, this was real life.

"It doesn't matter how big you get. Gillians are but puny, pitiful creatures whose size isn't reflective of their lack of strength." She spat with a dry sigh. "I can't imagine your bigger state is anything that could give me trouble in the slightest. I don't feel that sort of threat from you." Whether or not that was insulting didn't matter to the beast. She had proven her strength to herself plenty of times. The Dragon knew how strong she was in comparison to most things.

"No. Begone." And that was that. What the beast had gotten out of this, she didn't really know. Perhaps just another event she was forced to endure during the maelstrom of mundanity that was the act of being alive. "And if I find out you tell anyone where I'm at, I'll simply erase you. Do not test me."

And that was that. The Dragon closed her eyes and simply relaxed with a long, exhausted exhale.