Who Let Riffraff In? (Intro Topic)

A hole opened up in the space/time fabric of the land of the Hollows, loud screaming from all sorts of hollows entering this barren and rock filled zone. A large body took off running as soon as he appeared, hounded and harried by a much smaller bright little flashing body.

The large body was screaming in pain, while the smaller one was screaming in what amounted to anger as she was pulled around with blood soaked claws stuck in his head. Meanwhile a few of the smaller hollows caught in the crossfire reorganized themselves and started yelling too.

"CUT HIS HEAD OFF!"

"PUNCH HIM OUT! FOR FRED!"

"OH SHIT SHE'S TEARING OUT HIS HAIR OUCH!"

"It was his fault, he started it."

"AVENGE FRED'S DEATH!"

"..I'm...not...dead...Just...pain..."

"FRED IS TOTALLY DEAD DON'T LISTEN TO HIM! TEAR THAT ASSHOLE A NEW ASSHOLE!"

While those hollows yelled, they didn't move any closer to the quickly becoming more and more one sided fight.

"YOU KILLED FRED YOU ASSHOLE, HE WAS SO NICE AND SWEET AND YOUR FAT ASS LANDED ON HIM LARD ASS BUCKET! I WILL TEAR YOU APART!" Her yelling cut off for a second as she bit into his neck, raged screams still emanating from her throat. As her teeth went through his neck, her claws sliced in from the other side and... Yulia tore the hollows head off. A large cheer went up from among the group of hollows, as she turned and gave them a thumbs up as the body fell without her. She was floating in the air, her wings fluttering slowly, much too slowly to keep her afloat.

Fred the small fishmonster shed a happy tear from his prone position on the ground. "I have been avenged!...I'm not dead though. GUYS!"

A sad face adorned her as she remembered Fred's loss and flew to his body, lifting it slightly as she held his shoulders and cried. "Nooo Fred! My dearest companion, you will be missed..."

"I'm not dead..." Fred promptly shut up as he realized his position, his eyes closing as his body went limp. The other hollows excited and sad faces all turned to his as they grew grumpy. "HE'S NOT DEAD LOOK HE'S BREATHING!"

Fred's eyes shot open as Yulia's crying stopped briefly, her eyes happy and excited. "FRED! FREEEED!"

Hugging him to her, she cried happy tears that may have been a bit pink from the blood covering her.

One hollow at the back, looked around and spoke in a soft voice. "That's all well and good but...how do we get out of here? Where is here?"

Testament was sitting in his ship, legs crossed on the floor. He hated the idea of this being his personal quarters. He had spent enough time here, he felt. That seemed like a reasonable thing to feel. But he was still giving careful thought to his zone's shape and format and had not developed any other personal quarters for himself yet. So he sat here, thinking. And trying to focus.. and... and... what was all that ruckus he was sensing?

He turned his head to face that direction. Something was odd... two powerful signatures.. one that loathsome hollow monster and the other... he didn't recognize it and OH DEAR. Where did the Dios signature went. He stood up and disappeared.

And reappeared a moment later floating above the throng of celebrating hollows standing about a headless corpse, reenacting the Lion King, something Testament was completely unaware of.

"What the HELL is THIS?!"

At the loud angry voice that sounded through the celebration, all the Hollows died down. That was an impressive signature and required utter silence. Except for the happy sobs of the fairy woman who was slowly choking a happy fishmonster to death with her hugs.

As silence fell though, she finally turned and looked up. Uh oh, that was... someone strong. With a glance around, she realized they were in a weird place she didn't recognize. None of their menos friends had followed, how were they to run far far away from this rather angry hollow?

Looking at her hollows, she floated in front of them after letting go of Fred, arms held out. Yulia wondered if it was his friend? The hollow had just appeared so... it obviously knew this place. Still a determined look was in her eyes as she held out her arms. Her body was covered in blood. "I killed that stupid hollow over there! He hurt Fred. He deserved it and I don't regret it! You can kill me in revenge but you have to promise to send my friends back!"

"NOOO RAINBOW BRIGHT DON'T DO IT. WE AREN'T WORTH IT!"

"YEAH TAKE FRED, HE WAS THE ONE WHO GOT SAT ON!"

"HEEY!"

Her eye twitched as the peanut gallery spoke. Would... he hurt them? She wished they would shut up and quit drawing his attention... Unlike the other one, she had no fantasies she could take him. her wings fluttered slightly behind her in dismay.

Testament stared down, his visor showing nothing. Hrm... She'd killed him? Couldn't be... But then again, he had only detected one power signature of note... It was interesting though... she was offering herself up.. to save her friends? And her friends... didn't seem to agree with the deal.

Hrm. Interesting. He was under the impression that all hollows outside of Salvaje operated out of self interest at best or wanton abandonment at worst. These seemed loyal to her like a mayor or leader of that nature and she referred to them as her friends. It was... cute.

His body suddenly changed, shifting from that of a high tech space suit into a young man with black hair and a regal shawl thrown about his personage. He teleported to immediately in front of her and leaned in close, inspecting her hollow mask, then turning about to make his way up to her eyes before staring her dead in them. "Why do you care about those hollows down there?" He asked, with little inflection or emotion. He didn't want to give away WHY he was asking. That would change her answer

Yulia grew more concerned by the minute as the visored hollow just seemed to stare at her. She tried not to gulp or show fear, she was terrified inside and it made her angry. She was NOT going to die now just because of this!? Was she?

No! If she died it'd be making sure her colony was safe! She frowned as the body shifted, becoming entirely human like in appearance as he moved to examine her. What kind of...being was this? Was that a crappy scarf? Her voice turned angry and a bit grumpy, he was just playing with her! "Warn someone before you do something like that, and stop staring at me as if I am some sort of weird thing! I am a hollow, not an object!"

She wanted to cover her mouth after the outburst, but stood her ground. Her grumpy voice continued, he was probably going to kill her anyways at this point... Maybe she could save them? "They are my friends. I keep them safe and they stay by my side well not anymore since I am about to DIE but... Just don't kill them please? A few of them could be good protectors to the colony."

Yulia hoped that this hollow would be honorable in some ways, her eyes glaring at him openly. She couldn't read this hollow at all.

All the hollows below had fallen silent, for the first time thinking they really would not be making it out of this with their Rainbow Bright alive if any of them made it.

He crossed his arms. "Oh could they. And you of course are the most capable guardian of all." He said, standing up straight and floating up a few feet and away, so he'd look bigger. "And I'm perfectly aware you are a hollow. It's why I'm so interested in this development." So... She'd resigned herself to death but still wished to protect her fellow hollows. Her fellow hollows who, were he to let her go, would go back to the human world where, despite their kindly natures, they would need to prey on souls to survive.

Hrm... The fountain would take some time to recollect the dead hollow's energy and reconstitute a new surface soul.... he'd entered himself into the system. Now that he was the administrator for it, it couldn't be hard to register her as a moderator. "Come with me." He said, teleporting down to the corpse to grab something from it before floating away, heading towards the fountain. "Your friends are not to move an inch." He called back.

This place wasn't safe. He wouldn't want them wandering around and becoming someone's lunch.

"..." Yulia looked at this odd hollow as he moved up and away, one eyebrow raised in confusion as her arms came up, before she turned and looked down at the others. She waved her arms vaguely in the direction of the human-hollow monster thing, while the hollows below gave similar confused motions as well. Interested? Development? What in the HELL was going on here!?

Where was her honorable death?! Not that she was entirely complaining. But... this just got more confusing. As he flew to the body, she just stared in dumbfounded shock until he spoke once more. Startled from her utter confusion, she became more confused but able to move. The hollows below her froze solid and nodded in one terrified mass as she also glanced down to make sure they'd listen. "S-Sure? What...are you planning? Who and what ARE you?"

Her voice was awed a bit as she quickly flew to his side, her wings acting more like wings now at least in pretend. The color was shifting from blue to indigo, slowly. She'd follow him wherever for now, hoping it would appease him and set them all free.

Hrm. Should he tell her now? No. It would hardly do to tell her all of these things and get her hopes up only for things to not work out or him to be unable to do what he was planning. Goodness forbid he tell her she'd be ruling this land and then she had to be killed for some reason he couldn't even fathom. He flew up a volcano with her, glancing over.

"Could you explain your wings to me? Your flight patterns suggest magical flying but you flap your wings anyway." He said, before adding. "They're very pretty, by the way." in reference to said wings. He was a little envious.

"I...don't know how they work? I can make them flap myself? They just sometimes do things on their own." Of all the things Yulia expect to see here, of all the things she was expecting to do right at this moment.. small talk about her wings was not it. To humor the male, she fluttered her wings like a butterfly but they didn't alter her flying course one bit.

"They...are made out of light. I think." She was staring down at the volcano, curious as all hell but trying to hide it. Now that she wasn't worried about dying, she was feeling a bit better. It took a minute for the hollows words to sink in before she turned a red color, her wings shivering anxiously. "TH-THEY ARE NOT!"

Testament really wanted to see them closer now. They were made of light? Too intriguing. There was the matter at hand now though. He peered the silvery core of the volcano down through the top. "They are and I'd like to take a closer look at them, but that can wait. Fly directly behind me or you'll be melted." He said very nonchalantly before flying straight down the center of the volcano. The magma flowed upwards around the center but left a small pathway through it.

Once through the passageway it widened out into a massive chamber. In the middle was the fountain. Silver light streamed out from the center like liquid, into the lava around it.

"This is the Fountain. The core of this Zone." He held up the sigil before tossing it up to her. He could easily teleport and catch it if she missed. Not that the lava would prove a great problem if it came down to it. The sigil was too strong to melt. "You're to take that sigil." He floated down to the fountain. "And press it down into this fountain and hold it there." He demonstrated, taking the opportunity to make the changes he needed to. He found the experience much more pleasant then when he'd infiltrated the fountain he was in charge of. He stepped away. If all went well, she was about to enjoy a rather drastic change in life quality.

"Are not." Yulia muttered sullenly, her face still the color of beets as she followed the hollow's directions precisely. Melting was low on the list of ways she wanted to die, right below dismemberment and being sat on. Why was this volcano silver? Was that how all volcanos were? Her eyes were bright with curiosity she didn't try to hide anymore.

As the passageway widened into a chamber, she gasped as she saw the silvery light streaming out. Now THAT was beautiful. His words brought her back to reality, catching the sigil rather well as she stared at the odd thing a moment. "Sigil...? Okay."

Looking at the fountain and his orders, she cocked her head to the side before nodding. Whatever it was he wanted her to do, she'd do and then hopefully they could aaallll leave peacefully. Her wings fluttered nervously as she floated down to the fountain a bit slowly. Taking the sigil she closed her eyes and dove it into the fountain and held it there. What in the world would this do?!

As she pushed the sigil down into the fountain, it began to spew more light. Light began to rush out, flowing around them, rising higher and more violent, spouting out a few times and encompassing both of them...

and then it receded, all the way to the base of the fountain where the sigil was pressed. All of the light receded, before a shimmer passed between the fountain and Yulia, before the light suddenly burst out again, this time resuming a normal flow.

"Well. That went well." Testament crossed his arms and took a minute to check it over to make sure it worked correctly. He placed his hand down to the fountain. Yup. She was officially the fountain's master and integrated into Salvaje, and the old master would be broken up and rejuvenated into new hollows. Perfect.

"So." He stood up straight. "Good news. This area is what's called a zone. There are 10 of them that make up the world we are in, Salvaje. They are ruled by the Dios, with each zone ruled by one Dios. They use these fountains to shape their zone into the sort of world they want it to be and rule over it accordingly."

He gestured around. "As you can see and no doubt know, the last Dios who ruled this zone was... the unsavory type. You killed him and as of a moment ago, you are officially not only a member of the Dios, but in charge of this Zone. I believe if you use that sigil on that fountain when you have time, you'll find reshaping it is rather intuitive. It takes a few hours though. I'd set it aside on your schedule... Which will be busy."

He trailed off, before looking at her and then placing his hand out to shake hers. "Welcome to the Dios, miss... I did not catch your name."

That light was bright but she kept the sigil held down. Yulia knew their lives depended on it. That knowledge kept her holding it down, kept her eyes closed and her body still even as she was terrified out of her little mind.

Finally it was over and as she floated down to the ground in a confused and emotionally exhausted haze, she heard the...the man who had done all this just speak as if it was expected. She lay partially on the ground, her wings having grown smaller as she pointed. "YOU! YOU SCRUFFY JERSEY WEARING... GOD? I don't know what you are but what did you DO to me!?"

She felt odd, different but the same... as she looked down at the formerly odd shaped sigil it was now a very simple yet pretty circlet. That person continued speaking, her angry growing more as she started floating again, legs bent behind her and arms outstretched in fists in front of her. "Nononono! You did NOT tell me I was entering some weird cult organization with this! Oh no what are the others going to saaay? How have I let them down so baaadly?!"

She flipped onto her back, arm across her forehead as she floated there in dismay. Her voice held utter just...resignation. "I'm Yulia. Or Iristana, as the other hollows call me."

More like she wished they called her. Her wings bent softly around the front of her a bit like a small light cocoon, as she hovered in her dismay.

He blinked a few times as she screamed at him. "Technically I'm not wearing anything. It is an audio-visual-kinetic illusion. But that's not the point." He said shaking his head. "I would hardly call us a cult. Allow me to explain." He floated up and gave her some space.

"Salvaje is an ancient hollow come from another world to this one. It and by proxy you, are currently taking up space created by space-time-warping. Salvaje is a land of life for Hollows. Whereas in the Human World, hollows must eat to survive and in Hueco Mundo even they must consume each other to grow." He pointed to the fountain. "Here, the nourishment of that fountain is all it takes for Hollows to develop. And you, miss Iristana are now the effective god of this zone. As I said, you may use that fountain to shape it into whichever you wish. If you desire it to be a place of war and destruction, as your predecessor did, I see little need for change. If you wish it to be a peaceful place where your friends may live their happy lives under your watchful care. Well. That is easily within your ability."

"In all truth, your apparent care for your friends is why I brought you here. I recently have become in charge of this world and found some of the... old management.. in poor taste. I was particular unfond of your predecessor, but it was hardly within my right to chastise him. He did nothing to threaten Salvaje's security. But you slew him which means you were powerful enough to take his place. Usually a new hollow would have reformed from his energy. But once I was certain your care for your friends was genune... I decided you would make a more suitable replacement."

He waited a beat before adding. "Can we speak of your wings now? They're quite lovely."

"Technically...audio-visual..." Yulia felt a headache coming on. Could she get headaches? She assumed she could because there was pain in her head, therefore a head ache, if not headache. A he floated up, she righted herself and moved as if to sit in air to watch the hollow.

It honestly sounded...too good to be true. They could live here, she could make them all a home that was a nice place? All of her own design? She wouldn't ask them for input, they would all want stupid things. Very stupid things. Still it was a shock to see he...appreciated her care and had chosen her based on it. Most hollows or arrancar attacked her for that very reason. She went to speak her thanks, a thoughtful look as her anger disappeared, before that anger reappeared.

"No we CAN NOT discuss their looks! You can touch them if you want, they... are odd. Like...pliable light? I don't know. They just... are. My body has weird stuff like that on it too." Looking down, she poked the dried blood covering her gossamer dress like garment. Her body...was definitely feminine and she had needed to cover it. It almost looked human but for the... Ugh. She shook her head.

Moving off that subject, she looked up at the hollow who had...potentially given her quite a bit for nothing. She may have been angry with what he had done without saying but... she was still grateful for that amazing opportunity. "What...do I call you? Lord? Master?"

His face lit up and he quickly teleported behind her. They couldn't discuss their looks but he could touch them? He would take that bargain. He placed his hand on one and ran it across the wing. "Woah.." They were stupendous! Some sort of hard light? Hrm... It was so amazing... But he couldn't discuss their looks. but that wasn't looks, right? "They are amazing, miss Iristana." He said again, trying to figure them out. He glanced up.

"Well. If there's any sort of problem you have with your appearance, you may address it now. I don't know if you noticed, but those sigils come with an ability known as the cara designed for us to be able to blend in with environments where Hollows are less than appreciated. You can shape it to any sort of appearance you wish for, although I believe you only get that one disguise." He said, before looking at her wings again, tapping one. He paused. "I would not recommend changing too much. You already resemble an attractive human woman other than a few non-human qualities."

"And you may call me Testament for now. I'm still coming up with a more suitable name."

As the hollow disappeared, she sensed him behind her so didn't panic too much. His rude teleporting would be something to get used to. She just sighed and let him touch it, sending a shiver across her spine. It still felt weird when someone touched them, somehow she felt in them even though they didn't even look like they fully attached. Her eye twitched as he called them amazing, her voice spluttering out. "...How about we not discuss the properties of my wings in anything other than scientific inquiry."

At Testaments words, she thought about her appearance before looking down at the sigil. Keeping most of her appearance would be good?... Thinking for a moment, she placed the circlet on her forehead. Human woman, human woman? Taking a deep breath she shimmered before... in her place stood someone who looked like a purely human version of herself. Gone were her wings, the gossamer dress and blood. Gone the hollow mask around her neck and ears... Lifting the weird kimono looking dress up a bit she saw all the light scales were gone on her skin though the rest looked as usual.

The best part though, the part that had her excited... was FEET! Looking down at her legs, she wiggled what she assumed were human toes. She had small sandals on and could see her bare feet in them! "I have...feet now. FEET!?"

They would never let her live it down if they heard that Testament calling her by the name she insisted was her super one. No one called her it. She should be excited one person believed her instead she felt like a dumbass for suggesting it. Happy at least a bit about the feet thing, she kicked her legs around and stared. "...Call me Yulia."

"...Can I make my area now Lord Testament? Should I send my friends home?" Yulia had already decided on a place. She felt a bit better about everything.

Hrm. He was still busy examining the wings when he noticed a small shiver. Could she feel that? Perhaps he had best not touch them further. It turned out to be a moot point however when she worked out her Cara. The wings vanished along with several other features.

"Hm? Yes you do. Congratulations!" Had she not had them before. She must not have. He supposed that must be awfully relieving to gain a missing body part. "Yes. Now you are identical to an attractive human woman." He said with a nod.

"And please... Just Testament. Ah.. shall I take my leave or do you want me to stay and help while reshaping?"

She was glad he was just as pleased with the feet, people needed to share her excitement about this. They weren't something she really needed, but it was nice to have them.

No amount of feet excitement could keep Yulia from popping back into hollow form though as Testament spoke once more. None. Turning red, she hopped away in little bounds across the other side of the fountain. She glared and pointed, her wings fluttering in frustration. "I am NOT! AAAAAAAAAH! Those words, I do not think you know what they mean. They do not apply in this situation. Stop!"

"You can go! I will figure out how to reshape my home on my own. Just come back when its done and make sure I didn't mess it up. Could you bring my friends here? Will I be able to bring the rest here in a bit?" Yulia asked after her outburst, not sure how this whole thing worked. Should she stick her sigil and body into the fountain again? Playing with the circlet, she pulled it off after a moment before sticking it back into the fountain experimentally.

He blinked a few times, taken aback. "I know what all words mean." He said rather factually obviously without the slightest indignation that she'd question that. "They apply perfectly." He said with something that was most certainly not a huff.

"I will take my leave and return once the process is complete. I look forward to seeing what you do with the place. And yes, with that sigil you will be able to repeatedly perform the ability that led your initial group here. They seem like they should integrate nicely."

As she stuck her sigil into the fountain, she'd find the knowledge of how to perform the process and properly operate the fountain immediately enter her mind.

Testament nodded. "I'll see you once you are done." He said before disappearing. A few moments later, her friends popped up around her on the island in the magma.

"Do not..." Yulia's eye twitched with irritation, but she needed to stop yelling so much. Just because she was flustered was no reason to scream at this man... Their leader or someone important she assumed and she should be respectful. It was just HARD when he kept saying stupid and ridiculous things.

Getting that ability would be nice, she could bring everyone here and they could all live happily. Though maybe some of them would be grumpy... with what she had in mind. Nodding to Testament in a sort of farewell, she gasped as the knowledge over took her...and then she was off! Her friends scurried to her side as the whole world started shifting...