The Conclusion (any espada may join)

Ulquiorra had fought his way back to las noches, the trip to Rukongai had been more or less unfortunate but at least they had accomplished their mission, it was top secret even so that only Incognita knew the true purpose of the mission however the end of this mission was a start on something so great it was hard to comprehend for most people.

Ulquiorra did not know if it was what Incognita deisired was to keep the power to herself or to create an army of hollows and simply wipe out the shinigami withouth having to so much as to lift a finger about it, Ulquiorra would probably have chosen the latter, since he concidered himself to be fairly strong as it is and did not see others so much of a threath as he could have hoped... He stood now in the open hall of their lord and master yet no one was precent, the entire fortress of Las noches seemed to be void of life, its walls stood firm yet lifeless in the shadows, the throne stood mighty about 40 feet up and about towering over him followed by a long set of pillars supporting the structure, this place would always reminded him of that day when he fought here for what he belived in.

Not that it really mattered any more, but the nostalgy that followed seemed to quiver his mind of thoughts, "what am i doing?" he asked himself mentally, holding his arms in his pockets, suddenly he felt like someone was approaching his location...

Having found his chambers to be empty, she had followed the faint reaitsu to trace to a certain room. Said room was not only very close to the place where she had been reborn, but it was also where her beloved god had spend most of his time, sitting on his throne to care and observe his beloved creations. Now that he was gone, Luna had taken it upon herself to protect and watch over them. As she entered the throne room, she still had a small smile over her face. The thrill of having killed shinigami on the very battlefield her god had fought, still remained, as well as the brief feeling of his reaitsu. While the shinigami were mourning their losses, she was feeling better than she had in months.

"Ulquiorra-sama?"

She stopped around 10 feet from the espada, holding the plate with steaming hot tea steadily. Serving tea had been her main objective during the meetings, so she had gotten quite good at making it. The faint smell of shinigami blood still lingered from her sword, despite having been cleaned twice now. Despite only having entered the room a moment ago, a question had already risen within her. What was he doing here? She walked up to him and handed him the tea, looking up towards the throne with the smile still being present. She folded her hands together and closed her eyes towards it for a moment. The throne had been untouched by the god for around a year, but for Luna, she still felt like he was there.

"Aizen-sama, i hope your doing well where you are..even through there is no light without god here..i still feel happy through". The words had been spoken, like she had been in some sort of trance. Luna opened her eyes again after a brief moment, before looking towards Ulquiorra to see if he had finished the tea..

Kai let go small sigh as he exit and room and headed down the hallway. Kio had just fallen asleep so, he had a chance to wondered off at least for a little while. Kio was afraid of the throne room for some reason so, he decied to head there. Stopping short he heard kio mumble his name in her sleep. The brunette then rolled his eyes before walking at a faster pace after slipping his hands in his pockets. Most of the other espada seemed to have their door shut today so, Naokai had no enteriment by looking in the room today. Growling slightly to himself he finally reached the door to the throne. When stopped at the door he could feel another espada and a faccion lurking in the room. The throne was usaully were the head of the espada hung out but , the fifth espada didnt feel her pressure anywhere close.

Since he had nothing better to do he decied to go in and check it out. Steeping through the door he saw little bit on the people. Soon a small boom could be heard as the fanged espada disspeared and the reappread standing on the arm the thorne. He could now see the people were the second espada Ulquiorra and his faccion. Still not saying anything he sat down and on the arm idian style. " Hey there emo espada... and Miss Luna Chan" he is a carful with some slight laughter at his own joke. The dark eyed boy could hear other footsteps in the hallway but , he ignored them.

Moretsu thought of his power growth. His body had regained most of his original power. Septima Espada, one step closer to killing the Primera, James White, and dying. The thought made him happy. As happy a he could be as nothing more than a dead body. Though his senses were perked when he smelled two higher Espada. So he slowly floated his way to the area with them.

Arriving he walked towards the group silently. Well, walking was the wrong word. He was more of zombie shuffling, and three inches above the ground at most times. He enjoyed doing this for multiple reasons. The major one was as a reminder to himself he was not living. The second was to remind the others he was not living. A freak of nature. He introduced himself, his voice very forced.

"Hello... Ex-Fraccion to Fuu... Moretsu Shukketsu..."

Vladimir roamed the halls of Las Noches, having recently returned from battle in Karakura. He smiled as he walked, recounting the events of that battle, and how fortune had smiled upon him, giving him his new rank. He licked his lips as he tossed his dice high into the air, catching the combined Reiatsu of four individuals coming from the throne room. He scowled, wondering if a surprise meeting had been called, though he could sense only one who seemed more powerful than himself, and not by much.

Vlad walked in the direction of the throne and listened to the sound of his feet echoing throughout the halls, sighing. Their numbers had been thinned, greatly by the empty sounds reverberating back to him, and this meant many things, less female accompaniment being chief in his mind. Though not all of the losses were bad, seeing that two of those higher than himself were slain, allowing him to move through the ranks easily, to come to where he was now.

Vlad finally stood in front of the doors to the throne room, which were open and occupied. In front of him stood the new Septima, Moretsu. He could also make out Ulquirra, and his Fraccion, whom he had had the pleasure of meeting, on a few occasions. The other male he could barely make out, and he had no idea of who it was, Vlad had never laid eyes on him before. He stepped forward, his footsteps echoing and laid a hand on the floating shoulder of the Septima, sending an odd smile his way, have discomfort, half smug.

Vlad cast his smile to the others, gray eyes brightening as they slid over Luna, before he stood scowling at the male of the throne armrest. He was curious about the male who thought so highly of himself to sit upon the throne, in such a disrespectful manner. Vlad tightened his left hand over his dice, feeling them crack from the pressure. He shut his eyes and exhaled deeply, loosening his grip. He spoke not a word, but stood next to the Septima, and looked at the others further in the room.

And indeed there she was, Ulquiorra had not expected luna so soon or even at all but it really did not matter besides himself and Incognita she too knew the purpose of their mission and he expected her to stay quiet about it unless told otherwise.

Ulquiorra briefly scanned her expressions and sorted out a small smile nothing out of the ordinary if you asked him, he wondered why she was smiling but could not come up with a reason? the moment she called out his name did his face sway away from looking at her again and remained at the throne where the leader of the Arrancar`s commanded them, but right now it was empty...

As he heard her footsteps close in on him he closed his eye lids I don`t want it... he did not move from the spot but kept his eye lids closed for a moment, with his right arm that he pulled out of his pocket he placed it against the hilt of his sword and drew out the entire metallic length of his Zanpakto Murushielago, it remained stainless due to him not even bothering to use it against the trash that he had faced... its vivid green hilt reminded himself of his status as an espada it also reminded him of drake for reasons unknown to him, the metallic part of the sword reflected his face, but he did not raise his sword, he took his left arm and ran two fingers along the metallic part of the blade yet withouth cutting himself he tapped the blade once while he had listened to Luna speak but he did not answer because he did not know how to respond to that at least not fast enough he sensed a precence not far away from them and he even could hear his foot steps now quite clearly and yet he did not bother to turn around but raised his blade sideways to see the reflection, not of himself or even luna but the espada whom had trespassed inside... as far as he could remeber he had met the guy somewhere briefly but not long enough to catch his name...

but he knew this... he was an espada one quite rude at that, as he used sonido to appear on the throne and sit on the arm of the throne, something that was clear was that luna would not appreciate it or at least so he speculated it, obviously this espada tried to gain some attention hopefully just not the wrong kind... then he called out to them Ulquiorra raised an eye brown at the man but did not respond to his insults as it was obviously what the man was asking for...

And second because others where approaching on their location, Ulquiorra did not know why or how but it was obviously not Incognita that he could tell which dissapointed him but he did not show it on his face though. The first espada was a bit of a nut case and seemed quite... out of the body there, Ulquiorra did not even start to guess his ability as he had more pressing concerns luckily the espada knew the correct etiquette to introduce himself... and so forth the last one to come was someone he knew the best of the 3, Vladimir, he could only wonder what he was doing here though.

As no one spoke Ulquiorra sheathed his blade back into its holster Im suprised of so many of you gathered here... don`t you have better things to do on your free time?.... .... he stared past Luna at Vladimir mostly but his words reached to all of them...

Luna kept the small plate with the cup on in her hand, it was unusual for him not to want his tea. Having served him for a long time, well long considering most fraccion rarely survived longer than a month or two, she had learned the times of the day were a cup of tea suited him. A thing such as time didn`t even exist in the kingdom of hollows, so it was rather a sense she had acquired. His next action surprised a little, since when had he last drawn his sword? At first she thought he would punish her for interrupting whatever thoughts he had, but he simply looked into the blade with his eyes, running his fingers over it. Not being in the reflection itself, she looked at it from her spot, getting lost in thoughts looking at the reflection of his eyes. Without her knowing, the smile had slowly faded away, along with the signs of emotions she held within.

" Hey there emo espada... and Miss Luna Chan"

She laid her head back and looked at the fifth espada. While she had only encountered him briefly a few days ago, his joking personality had kept him from being forgotten. From what she remembered, he had been fairly nice and disliked of being called by the right honorifics. She was woken up from her little daze when she realized were he was sitting. She narrowed her eyes, and a sudden anger could be seen in her eyes. "Mo...move from there! Have you no respect for the man who were our god! No respect for Incognita-sama that carries on Aizen-sama`s dream!?". The words that had started out as shuttering, ended in a angry yell which echoed through the tall room. The free hand moved to the hilt of her sword, and her reaitsu began to build up. "Move..or i`ll-". The sound of the cup and plate hitting the floor caused her to stop in the mid sentence. Her reaitsu stabelized again, and her arms hung down loosely from her sides. "..What`s wrong with me..threating what i am suppose to protect...". The words were merely a mumble, but loud enough to hear for those that were observant.

Having yet to notice the two other espada in the room, she moved her hands out of her sleeves, bend down and picked up the large shards. She stopped briefly halfway up when one of the shards cut into the palm of her hand, but bit her lip and stood up fully. The wound would close in minutes anyways.

"Im suprised of so many of you gathered here... don`t you have better things to do on your free time?"

Luna looked over her shoulder to discover the two espada that had yet to talk. The first one was a espada she only knew the name of, a modified arrancar named Moretsu. The second one she had encountered a few times, the now third espada Vladimir. He had grown much in rank since their last encounter, but his apperance was the same; the sharpen teeth, the tall body and the unsettling smirk he had around himself. Even through Ulquiorra not had been looking directly at her in the reflection, his question was meant for all of them.

"I usually serve you tea at this point, but when i could`t find Ulquiorra-sama in his chambers, i went to search for you. Had i known you not wanted it, i would have remained there and awaited your return..". The words them selfs held no traces of lies, but due to her eyes it was apparent that she wished to say more, but had decided to keep quiet. She focused her gaze to the air in front of her, since it would be disrespectful to stare.

"I apologize for my rude behavior, Naoki-sama, it was foolish and disrespectful of me to ever shout at my Superior.."

James hefted his large sword over his shoulder. Walking int the throne room as he flung the sword at the feet of Moretsu. Until now he had completely hidden his, now it was out at full force and he was prepared to kick some ass. Spiritual pressure alone coming out of hm would be noticed by Ulqy and Vlad, but not truly affecting them. Luna and That other one wuld be affected, but not enough to really do anything. Any lower in power would truly be affected by his mere presence, maybe even bringing them to their knee's. Outright killing those to weak. His own personal experiment had become an Espada, and he was proud. Though he was also concerned, the potential for Moretsu was unknown and if he got to powerful, he might challenge James. If he challenges James, then thers might start to do the same. Time to throw down the rules. Using Sonido to infront of Moretsu he flung his elbow back, colliding with his chin and sending the Septima flying back through the corridor he came through. Pulling his sword out of the floor he shot a look at Moretsu, who stoop up without so much as a grunt.

"Never. Will you achieve your goal."

Moretsu gave James the finger and floated off toward his resting place. James turned back towards the rest of teh crowd and with a huge grin clapped. " Having a party? Without me and my wenches? Also... " He turned and nearly backhanded Luna, but his grin was to much and he stopped. "Never talk like that to your superiors again. Do so and no matter what eyeliner says I will kill you." He stepped away and waved to Vlad, then walked up to the throne and sat infront of it, leaning on it. His large frame taking up a lot of space.

(Moretsu said I could post for him exiting-he looked over this post)

Shortly after he had arrived many more of the espada arrived in the room. This confused the brunette espada slightly and he wondered if he had missed a meeting memo. Ugh Kio chan you moron he thought to himself because he had put the busted women in charge of telling him these things. If this was a meeting she had forgot to tell him about he would scold her when he found her. Looking down from his perch he noticed the third espada giving a werid look. Kai rasied his eyebrow at him with a what look plastered on his face. The second espada then told everyone that he was surpised alot of the espada had gathered here today. Naokai defintly agreed with the emo man on that note.

Before doing anything else he jumped down from the throne and landed on the marble floor gracefly. As soon as he landed his hands went right into his pockets. " I agree is with emo espada sama. Is there some meeting memo i missed?" he asked the room in his usaul tone. Here you go Kai sama a fresh refill Kio said as she appreaed next to the spider like espada. Naokai glared at her slighlty and took viles from and put them in his pocket. Before he could ask the girl about a meeting she was gone. " Stupid girl" he mumbled to himself in a low growl. Looking to other espada he took one of his blood viles from his jacket and took a large sip from it.

Since becoming a member of the Espada, Alruna refused to leave her room. She dreaded crossing paths with any of the other Espada out of fear. She wanted to avoid any potential confrontations she may face with the more violent Espada. But today was a different day. After two weeks of holding herself up in her room, the serpent emerged. Passing through door after door, she entered into the main hall that all Espada castillios lead to. She began walking, her senses on high. Her tongue flicked from her mouth every fourty-five seconds, capturing any change in the air.

She began to head towards the throne room, seeming to be drawn to it for some odd reason. Upon approaching nearer, she witnessed a creature seeming to be thrown out of the Espada Leader's Throne Room. Alruna flinched and stumbled back around a corner, hoping that she wasn't seen. A shallow hiss passed her lips, her mouth now open and bearing her long, retractable fangs. When shen noticed the figure limping off, she closed her mouth, her tongue flicking again. She captured several scents that wafted from the Throne Room, five or six of them. One was oddly familiar, the others not so much. She suppressed her spiritual pessure and peeked through the door, catching a glimpse of several members of the Espada gathering around the throne. Standing closest to the throne was Lord Schiffer. Next to him was a female that seemed rather attached to him. A fraccion perhaps. Alruna's emerald hues scanned the features of each one of the room's occupants. She deduced that she, next to Lady Incognita, was the lone female Espada. She shivered and remained outside of the room for a moment, wondering if there was a meeting that was taking place, and if so, then why was she not aware of it. She simply stood in the doorway, waiting to be noticed or to be told to leave if it was a private affair.

Vlad sighed at the the floor. He looked back up at Ulquiorra and shrugged. He had nothing to do, really. "Well... If Haruin had his way I would probably still be playing chess with the old geezer.... Or I would be out in the desert, doing nothing... so this really is the best alternative." He chuckled lightly, as this was still not a very good option, nothing interesting was happening. Vlad shut his eyes and tilted his head down, aimed at the floor beneath his feet.

Vlad's head suddenly shot upwards, as Luna threatened the fifth Espada, and dropped the tray she had been carrying. He sighed, she might be starting trouble she couldn't handle, and knowing Ulquiorra he would let her lose, to teach her a lesson. He sighed, about to move, when Luna stopped, and a scuffle happened directly to his left.

Vlad jumped aside as James burst in, throwing Morestu bodily from the room. Vlad smirked, and shook his head. That's the problem with an army, especially a stationary one, you get lots of conflict. He watched Morestu scurry off and turned to watch James walk up to Luna, and nearly smack her. Vlad shook his head, yet more proof of his theory.

Vlad nodded his head in James' direction as he waved, and turned to look at the fifth espada as he had a visitor, who disappeared nearly instantly. But she had been visibly long enough for Vlad's gray orbs too glow with greedy need. He blinked and shook his head, sensing another reiatsu source closing in on them. Vlad smirked, and turned to the doorway. "No need to wait in the hallway, nothing important is going on, join us. The party, as James called it, is just getting started."

Vlad then took several steps into the room, stopping not far from Ulquiorra and Luna, staring at Luna, glancing around at the others occasionally. Struck by a sudden idea he looked over at James, who leaned against the throne, to which no one complained, Vlad noted, and cleared his throat.

"You wouldn't happen to have a bottle of the good stuff on ya, would you James?" Vlad asked, licking his lips quickly. He turned to peer at any who scoffed, or commented, but otherwise left the others alone.

Luna reacted exactly as he had thought that she would, not only did she speak ill of the espada, but got worked up about it as well, truly was she ready to die for Aizen`s sake?

However she soon stopped and Ulquiorra stared at her briefly when James came and caused a small scene, Ulquiorra rolled his eyes, and turned his back on luna when james warned his fraccion, none of this was in Ulquiorra`s best intrest... none of it, Ulquiorra too had sensed Alruna in the corridor but did nothing about it as if he did not notice her yet, especially since vladimir called her out... he had listened out to Vladimir`s reasons and for Luna`s as well as Nao`s reasons whom also agreed with him at least to some point it seemed ... i see, what caught Ulquiorra`s attention was in fact what James did... as he took a seat in the throne itself and seemed quite comfy in it to boot Ulquiorra raised his head slightly to get a better look at him Have you decided to take the leaders place once more? he awaited an answer because he needed to know whom to answer to...

OOC: crappy post i know x.x

"Never talk like that to your superiors again. Do so and no matter what eyeliner says I will kill you."

Luna opened her eyes slowly, having expected to feel pain and be flung halfway across the room, she was surprised to just hear the words. The pain, however, came when she briefly shared eye contract with Ulquiorra, who rolled his eyes at her and turned his back. The self confidence and sense of pride she had gotten after the somewhat successful mission, was dropping rapidly. While it could not be seen on her body, her eyes became a little more hazy, and what anger or joy that had been in her face, faded into the same emotionless fast her master bore most of the day. Right now, at least in her eyes, the primera was quite arrogant. There was no way her master would care if she died, in fact non would probably care. A fraccion getting killed by their own master, or any other espada, was not uncommon. Having powers that could give even the fifth espada trouble, she could easily kill one of the lower ranked espada and take their spot and avoid this kind of treatment...but it was something she would`t do. Having sworn to protect the espada, she could continue to do so, even if it meant giving up her life.

Having been staring at Ulquiorra`s back for the past minute, she turned her eyes towards Vladimir who had moved further into the room, thereby getting closer to them. She moved her eyes back to the throne, avoiding a awkward eye contract with the taller espada. As the sight of James near the throne meet her gaze, her reaitsu spiked up a little again. Was her respect for Aizen still so big, that she would attack the primera and get killed? Luckily not. Luna`s reaitsu stabilized again, and she covered her mouth using her hand that wasen`t holding the shards. She spend a few moments breathing heavily through her fingers, before lowering it again. Her face remained emotionless, but her cheeks were slightly flushed due to the outburst she had suppressed. Looking over her shoulder, she felt the suppressed reaitsu that was even lower than her own, meaning it was one of the lower ranked espada. Still remaining quiet, she briefly looked at Ulquiorra. At first, she had seen the spot as his fraccion as a way to protect and observe the new espada, as well as to honor Aizen`s memory...but over the past few days, she had begun to change her goal. Of cause she would always be trustworthy towards Aizen...but her will to protect and help Ulquiorra, had begun to get stronger than the will to protect the other espada. Every time she disappointed him, it felt like knives, every time she succeeded at something, she felt the warmth most hollows have forgotten about.

Finding herself yet again staring at her master, she quickly turned her eyes to James.

James yawned. Sitting on the Throne again... he felt nothing. Just more matter to him. It was a symbol of Aizens and Incognitas power. Raising his hand a champagne glass already full formed in it. His other hand tossing a bottle of premium vodka to Vladimir. His power slowly suppressed itself back to zero. James had an announcement.

His voice rose, allowing him to be heard clearly." Fellow Espada, and Fraccion. Those of you who are here will be the first to know next to me of our current predicament. Some of you may have felt it, but Incognita is not in the building and has abandoned her position as our leader. While this is sad, we must not let ourselves divulge into chaos. Just Like when the bastard Aizen, who left us to die may I remind you. " He spoke to Luna there. Everyone must know Aizens faults in James eyes. " I shall take over this Espada. Still as our army's Primera, but now I am the highest in our chain of command. "

He raised his glass, " To incognita. She made us a wonderful declaration of War. " He took a drink as the chair behind him began to twist and bend in shape. Transforming into Obsidian Glass and becoming much more gothic. James placed hsi glass down and awaited reactions.

Naokai laughed to himself at the excitment in the room before looking to James as he started to speak to them. At the first the rasied his eye brow at the white haired male. But, that quickly went away as he listen to the other male speak. According to the male there previously leader at abandon them. The white haired male was the first espada so, he was probably the best for the job. Although Naokai would have defintly loved to be the leader of the espada. The fifth espada then wondered if the new leader would be hiring and second in command. The prevoousl eader had perosal guard and the one before that had two commanders so, it seemed like a traditon.

When the chair changed to a gothic decor they red eyed man's thoughts changed for a moment. He liked this guys style in furniture and wondered if he could od that to his room. Picturing the new decor he picture and gaint marble spider on the head on his bed and spider web curtins. Stepping toward the throne a bit more and evil smirk came upon his lips slightly. " You've style James sama" he said refer to the newly design throne. " Say are yuh gonna have some commanders? It is after all a tradition."He pointed out hoping this would maybe give him a chance. As he he waited for the ehite haired male to speak he took another sip of his blood vile and then put it away momentairly.

OOC: skip alruna`s turn, its your turn Vladimir!