The journey for power... begins...

From the depths of the Forest of Menos a yell is heard. After the yell a crash as if one of the gigantic trees fell down. But that seemed impossible with the power of the creatures that roamed around. To do something like that you needed to have much more strength. The enormous Hollows that were in the forest were hard to kill, but so delicious that no Hollow could resist. And for the most, that hunger would be the end of them. But for the rare ones to prevail, the dead corpse was a meal to never forget.

Anyway. A group of five hollows had taken one of those powerful, gigantic and yet clumsy beasts down. Having the meal of their lives, some of them gave out a roar. Would it scare of the Menos? No, it would only show that the Hollows are cocky and so... easy to kill. But when the other Hollows surrounding them had so much Reiatsu the Menos didn't really care about the puny Hollows with so little Reiatsu, that they could only fit for an appetiser. It could be felt that the Menos are moving away from them and the Hollows where lucky they did. Only the leader of the five Hollows was angry about it.

When they had finished their meal, rested and recovered from injuries gotten from the previous fight they moved further. They slowly went to the south and started to move out. In the front a Hollow in the form of a Lion, the leader it would seem. Moving to the south and cranked about the Reiatsu they felt there, they didn't even care to feel the Reiatsu around them. The Reiatsu of one of the Hollows started to flicker. The hollow lost its form and started to stretch at the ceiling of the forest. Only moments later the Hollow himself had become a Menos. The Menos opened it's mouth and a red ball of energy formed in it. The Hollows took a careless look to the back and their eyes opened wide. It seemed they decided to look behind them after all, but only when it was too late. Foolish creatures... The red ball was fired out of the Menos' mouth and the red beam first killed the Leader and then it was drown at the other Hollows. In a matter of seconds the group of five was now a single Menos standing alone in the Forest of Menos. They outnumbered him in thousands and were soon to be killed by Hayato. The Menos raised the left leg up as he was going to move. He placed the leg in front of him and let it down making a laud noise when the leg made contact with the blood stained ground. Hayato looked at the ground for a moment and then started to walk. Making a great noise, with each, even so light step.

These sights were in Hayatos mind. They could be seen by him in running like a movie when he closed his eyes. He then started to walk slowly. Now without making such a huge noise. Now the noise was more silent as he had already learned how to control this new body of his. Well... more or less. A Menos was standing in front of him. Hayato moved at him slowly, without the intention to kill the Menos in front of him. Or at least so it would seem. With the same black clothes-like robe on him the Menos stood there. "The same as all the others in this damn Forest." Thought, Hayato to him self. Hayatos body swung from one side to the other as he was walking slowly at the Menos. The Menos turned his body at Hayato since at the first he was walking at the north. Hayato was in the west so the Menos turned only his head at the beginning. The hollow watched Hayato as suddenly he saw a pool of blood behind Hayato. The Menos' eyes opened wide. Hayato used the moment to start charging at the Menos. Bending his body slightly he gained speed. But with such a bad footing he could only stop if he felt on his face, ran into a tree or any other object. Hayato jumped at the Menos and bite its mask. He regained his footing on the earth and bite off the lower portion of the Menos' mask. Then the other half and the rest of the body.

Hayato looked to the left to see where the Menos was going. Before, it got brutal murdered by Hayato. He didn't see anything. But then he felt a pretty big Reiatsu. That was probably the reason the Menos was going there. Well there wasn't a reason for Hayato not to go. He would get a gigantic meal or he would have gone there for nothing at all. "Why not..." Hayato thought to himself as he started to move at the direction with the huge Reiatsu. As he walked straight all the time it didn't seem that the Reiatsu was coming closer. You thing, that on the way there you would have nothing to do but to look around. Look at the trees the dead remains and the few creatures with the tiny Reiatsu. But Hayatos look was straight all the time. His stare was at the direction all the time. It seemed that Hayato stared into a never ending path or a tunnel. It stretched so far that Hayato couldn't even see the end, only some random trees that came sometimes out of nowhere in front of him. As he came closer he could feel more and more Reiatsu streaming out of only one Menos. There could be felt more Menos' around him. They only stood still as they would watch a show. Suddenly the Reiatsu of the strong Menos started to increase slowly. Hayato was now so close that he could see the circle of Menos'. As he was only about 15 feet away he was suddenly pushed back by a huge stream of Reiatsu coming from the strong hollow. The ones in the circle were pushed back as well, but one part of the circle was blasted away by a Cero the strong Menos fired off. "Damn it! So strong! Unbelievable! Good that he didn't fire it off this way or... shit..." Thought, Hayato. He made his way closer to the Circle. Only a glance at the Menos was enough to make Hayato grin despite the power of the Menos. "Looks like I found someone who is worthy for me to kill." Hayato thought to himself planning a strategy.

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What perfection... The Forest of Menos. A dark and evil place. Full, of creatures that, are ready to rip your throat out. Creatures, that don't go back on anything. Creatures... stupid as hell! The centre of this forest where a large amount of Reiatsu has gathered in one spot. And in the middle of them the one whit the greatest amount of Reiatsu. The one who makes the other Menos tremble in fear. The place they are in surrounded by trees. Each passing second, more and more Menos surround the powerful one. They keep coming, and he keeps killing them. Those idiots. A disgrace to the whole Hollow race. If they came this way to see what the hell is happening, they should have at least brought some courage to attack the one Menos in the middle. But they just stand around and wait to be killed like animals that are going to be butchered. And yet there is nothing Hayato could to, but to stay quiet and feed on the remains of the killed Menos. Scared? No only not doing anything and waiting for him to kill a bunch of them and then eat the seemed to be a good way to gain more strength. A laud noise can be heard and the big Menos had shot off another cero. Killing every single Menos that was in it's way. Hayato continues to feed one the Menos around him. He rips of and devours one mask after another. Bites them of off the smaller Menos. In a bunch like they were in it didn't matter. Almost no one noticed the things that happened behind them. So it was easy to kill many of them. What idiots...

The hollow in the middle stops. To, save up some Reiatsu? Because he is tired? Who cares? All that mattered to Hayato was that it was an opening. Hayato chewed the mask of one of his victims. After a short break the hollow in the middle started to charge another cero. Somehow Hayato had managed to avoid every of the Ceros the Menos had fired. Hayato walked around the circle so that he would be behind the Big Menos and charged his own cero. Hayatos plan needed to be executed precisely and in the nick of time. Hayato was lucky that the Menos was going to fire at some Menos that were standing north-east to Hayato. That didn't give Hayato too much steps to take. Hayatos Cero was ready and Hayato fired it off as soon as he saw signs off the Big Menos firing of his Cero. A cheap shot? Maybe. But no one cares! Everything is allowed if you fight for power! Hayatos Cero hit the Big Menos' head and bent it to the front making him fire the Cero at the ground before him. From the power of the Cero the Big Menos started to fall backwards, but he regained control and stopped himself. "Shit!" Hayato cursed to himself. His plan was to make him fall backwards and then kill it by ripping off his mask. But luckily Hayato had a back up plan. Knowing that the Big Menos will charge another Cero, since it is its specialty, Hayato started to charge a Cero himself. The Big Menos raised his head up and fired of a Cero. Hayato had fired his Cero off some time before the Big Menos fired off his Cero. The cero met, destroyed each other and blew up right in the face of the Big Menos. The Big Menos fell to the ground without making a sound. There he was, laying on the ground unmoving and with a almost destroyed mask. Some of the Menos' started to charge at the dying corpse with hunger. Hayato didn't intend to share his pray and nor did he intend to leave it there. Hayato fired off a Cero in a straight line at first and then he drew it to the right killing the hollows and the ones standing behind them. After the Cero a yell followed. A yell that was meant to scare the other Menos' away from Hayatos pray. And it succeeded. The Menos' started to scatter and they disappeared in the dark Forest of Menos. Hayato slowly walked at his pray lying on the ground with eyes full of fear, but there was no signs of hope, courage, power, honour. Hayato bent down and started to feed on him. After few minutes devouring the Big Menos Hayato rose hi head and looked around for any more strong Menos. He placed the remains of the Menos' mask in his mouth and started to walk west.

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Hayato was slowly walking through the Forest of Menos. There was no one to kill no one who could be a worthy opponent. What a shame. A forest full of weak Menos is like a kindergarden. Where ever Hayato was going no one could match him in a fight to the death. He had hunger. It had been gone for a while after he defeated the Big Menos. But it seemed after Hayato consumed him, there was no one who would want to challenge him. Why was it that way? Considering the amount of the Menos roaming around in the forest you would assume that there would be someone to kill. Hayato was starving and yet he wanted to keep some Menos' alive so they can kill each other and get stronger. Hayato had enough. He looked around and saw a Menos walking around. Hayato started to charge a Cero. The mighty Cero. Not only it had saved Hayatos life before, from the first day that Hayato had become a Menos he had only used Ceros and his teeth. The Cero. A little red ball in Hayatos mouth at first, but when fully charged one of the deadliest weapons. Once you fire it off there is almost nothing that can stop him. Hayato fired of the Cero and the red beam flew through the air destroying the trees in front of it. The Menos only got to look once at the deadly beam before it ripped a hole in his body. After a few seconds Hayato was at the corpse to feed on it. He had become more violent and more bloodthirsty. He didn't eat his pray up calmly like always this time he ripped off the limps and munched them down so quick that there remained nothing after a few moments. Hayato looked in a blood puddle on the ground and saw his reflection. He couldn't recognise him self. Long legs and arms. A black mass of clothes over his body and the only thing he remembered was his mask. It looked like a skull. One of the few things he remembered from his past was that the mask always with him. He could see it every where while he was in the human world. He saw it in skyscraper windows. In the eyes of his victims. In the blood puddles of the victims. Every where. It went so on until he had enough of it and he accepted the fact that he is a monster. But now it didn't seem to be a bad thing anymore. On the earth the sight of his skull form mask made him enraged. He destroyed everything around him. Sometimes he even got lucky and he could feast on some shinigamis. But now in this world he was alright with how he looked. Inside he even smiled. Maybe it couldn't be seen on the outside, but he had a evil grin on his face inside.

When Hayato woke up from his memories a Menos was charging at him. Pathetic. Only being able to attack when the opponent was not by his senses. Sounds like only something that a weakling would do. Hayato pierced at the Menos' chest with his arm. He pierced through it and then pulled it up cutting open the Menos' chest. Then another Cero formed in Hayatos mouth. From the anger Hayato felt the Cero seemed to have gotten stronger as Hayato fired it off. It ripped the Menos apart. Body parts where flying around. Hayato stretched out his arm and caught the head with the whole mask on it. Hayato took a bite from the mask and started to walk again. He took bite after bite from the head as i it was an juicy apple. When finished Hayato wiped his mask from the blood and licked it off of his hand. Hayato went on a killing spree around the Forest of Menos. Where he went Ceros could be heard and seen. Some of the smaller trees fell and Hayato consumed the Menos'. But no matter how many masks he ate how many limbs he devoured he didn't feel any satisfaction. It was as if he had an endless hunger for battles. He then felt a Reiatsu that was close to his own Reiatsu. Hayato started to run a the place where he felt the Reiatsu. The distance seemed like nothing compared to the thirst for blood and the hunger for battle. Looking at his form it was amazing how fast he could run. It was hard to imagine that hunger could do that to Hollows. Yet, Hayato almost couldn't control himself. It was as if his body drew him that way or as if he was controlled by his instincts. Hayato didn't thing that his instinct to kill was so powerful. He was so close he could already see the Menos. As always he opened his mouth and the red ball of energy appeared that everyone knew so well. The Menos Hayato was after turned at him. Hayato fired of the Cero and watched what would happen. The Menos swung his head to the side and avoided the Cero. He started to run at Hayato. They both stretched out their arms and caught each other. They stood there and fought. Each tried to push the other one back and throw him to the ground. Suddenly the other Menos decided to charge a Cero. The red energy ball started to form in his mouth. Hayato started to thing of an plan how to survive this battle. Hayato started to charge Ceros in both of his hands. He waited for the right moment. The other Menos started to look like he was going to fire the cero. Hayato swung his head and hit the other Menos' head. The Menos' head shook and he only hit Hayatos arm. Hayatos Ceros where charged as well. He fired them off destroying the arms of the Menos and then Hayato charged a Cero in his mouth. When the Cero was charged the life of the other Menos was at its end. Hayato started to eat the Menos. After the meal Hayato had already healed and he was ready to continue his trip.

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The Forest of the Menos. A place to live and a place to die. A place some call Paradise, and others call Hell. A place to kill and to get killed. A place now a strong Gillian calls home. The things haven't been the same for a while. There has been more and more deaths. Every five minutes Hollows run in fear and yell in the annoying voice of theirs. It get's annoying after a few hours killing Menos and hearing it all the time. Those yells are the reason Hayatos wants his opponents to die slower and slower. So Hayato has tried several killing methods. Ripping off the limbs. Ripped them in half. Bit out parts of their body. And the most painful, at least so Hayato thought, scratching and leaving deep marks in the mask. Then the screams where the loudest. After some time spent in the forest Hayato had abandoned all feelings and emotions. He didn't even think about anything now, he just killed. Hayato walked through the forest. His back was bent to the front and he just walked. Hayato walked straight all the time. a Menos was stun from fear. He stood at the side of the path Hayato was taking. Hayato didn't even look at him. He turned his palm at the Menos and walked straight. Hayato swung his arm as he was besides the Menos. He swung it back and then cut with his sharp fingers across the Menos' face. The Menos died on the spot. Hayato dragged him with him and bit of the head of the Menos. He kept dragging him and then he threw him away on his right side with a simple swing. The lifeless body flew some metres until it hit a tree. The impact broke his spine, well not like it mattered anyway. Hayato just kept walking straight. With seeing no point in the killing if he didn't get stronger Hayato had no purpose, nothing to do. There was nothing he could to. The hunger was gone, at least for now. He walked through the forest with his head hanging down and his feet dragging. What kind of life is this? He wondered. No one to kill. It seemed that the Menos were running away from him. There was another pile of Reiatsu somewhere to the east. Well as bored as he was now, it couldn't get worse. He turned to the right and looked straight. He started to walk to the east. Walking already for quite a while he started to sense the Reiatsu pile to grow. That meant there where many Menos and some where weaker and smaller it seemed. Hayato stopped as he saw a group of some Gillian some Menos and some lower Hollows. Hayato took a closer look at each of them. There were many Hollows. But what were they up to? Suddenly a Menos turned to Hayato and pointed at him. The others looked as well. Hayato looked behind him and to his right and left. He then rose up his arm slowly and pointed at himself with his thumb. Hayato wanted to make sure he isn't misunderstanding anything. The Menos who was pointing suddenly started to yell in the screaching voice Menos had. It was a signal to attack Hayato and so the Hollows did. The lower Hollows started to charge at Hayato and the Menos and Gillian started to slowly walk at him. As the Lower Hollows were in tiger forms they were fast and agile. One of them jumped at Hayato. Hayato took his left arm and lifted it up so it almost touched his right shoulder. And at the right moment and with a quick swing he hit the lower Hollow to the side and he crashed into a other Hollow. Killing them both when they hit a tree. Hayato charged a cero in his right arm and shot it in the air. The cero knocked off a branch and it fell to the ground crushing some other Hollows. A Menos ran at Hayato. Hayato slid to the side. The Menos ran past him and Hayato raised up his right hand. He made it fall down at the front and Hayato caught the Menos that was charging at him by the mask. Hayato pulled his hand back and his claws went in deeper into the Menos' mask. The Menos' body flew back and Hayato ripped of its mask completely and devoured it afterwards. Hayato turned around and saw a line of three Menos'. Each of them started to charge a Cero in their mouths. Hayato did the same. He charged the Ceros in his hands as well. Hayatos expression didn't change at all. He fired off the Ceros before the other Menos' did and killed them. The Menos in the middle was destroyed fully, but the two at the sides just had holes in their bodies. Hayato stretched out his arms to the sides. He then swung them both at his front and clashed the both skulls of the Menos' together and devoured them right after. Hayato kept killing the foolish Hollows one after another. He destroyed them with Ceros and ripped out their eyes and masks. The number of them decreased. Until they finally gave up and ran away. That was it. Now Hayato had seen everything. If the Hollows start to gang up on him that means that this is going to be one hell of a life. And yet his journey had just begun.

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Hayato was still roaming the Forest of Menos. He had already gotten a lot stronger then he was when he came here the first time. He had learned to control his new body very well. Some of the most powerful Gillian had fallen by his claws and teeth. He had made the hideous creatures in this forest run away terrified. Every single Gillian in this forest was so scared that it couldn't move when Hayato was walking past it. Hayato knew there were one or two other powerful Gillian somewhere. Yet he didn't want to kill them.

When he was still in the World of the Living he saw some of them. The guardians of the humans. The protectors of good. The slayers of demons. The Shinigamis. With emotionless faces they draw their Zanpackutos and with the same faces they slay Hayatos kind. One after another Hollows fall to them. They protect the lowly, pathetic Humans. Hayato had a nickname for them himself... food. The Shinigamis use their power to save them from Hollows... what a waste of potential. Because of them Hollows almost starve and are too weak to fight. Those idiots, yet they are too delicious to resist. That’s the reason Hayato picked one fight after another with them. Sometimes he lost a limb or two, but it was certainly worth it. Luckily the war affected them as well.

Anyway. They were the worthiest opponents on Earth, but here there was no one to match Hayato. Hayato was walking through the forest. He had walked it so many times he seemed it was one and the same path he took all the time. It was as if he could close his eyes and walk through the forest blindly. Hayato was sick of killing these mindless creatures all the time. He was looking for someone who could kill Hayato or someone who at least had the intention to. Not only once had Hayato cheated death. Oh no it was the other way around. Hayato always had so many opponents he was in a circle of Ceros all the time. But somehow he had always escaped deaths claws.

Hayato was walking further as he saw two Gillian fighting. They were slashing with their claws at each others mask. Each time even the slightest scratch was dealt they screamed as if someone was ripping out their heart. Seeing it Hayato slowly lifted his arm and felt his own mask. It was cold and blood was spilled over it. Hayato had lost himself in his thoughts. As he came back to his senses the battle was over. Somehow the two Gillian didn't feel Hayatos strong Reiatsu. Perhaps they were to cranked up? But still, somehow one of them managed to charge a Cero and fire it at the other Gillian’s legs. There he stood now. Before the other Gillian lying in a puddle of blood. The other Gillian stood in front of him for a while and then turned around. He started to walk away slowly. Hayato standing behind a tree clenched his fist. In a few seconds he was behind the victorious Gillian. Hayato slashed with his claws across his legs, making him fall on his knees. Hayato packed him by the lower half of its mask and pulled his head backwards. They both looked in each others eyes. Hayato lifted his hand up and extended his claws making a loud noise and sparks when the sharp claws clashed together. "Fight to kill... OR DON'T FIGHT AT ALL!!!" Hayato yelled to himself as his claw slashed down, cutting through even the air. With all his might Hayato pushed them down just to kill one Gillian. Well there was nothing Hayato could do now. Blood spilled and a head rolled. Hayato walked a few metres south where the head rolled away. He picked them up and walked back to where he came from. With the head of the victorious Gillian in his right hand and his other hand free he walked past the Gillian who lost. Hayato grinned in his mind as he slashed in the stomach of the other Gillian with a quick swing. He started to drag his claws in the Gillian’s body. When he was at the head Hayato picked up speed and ripped its head off.

With both of his hands full he started to eat. But who would have guessed that? With taking the first bite and starting to chew the mask of one of the Gillian Hayato eyes opened wide. Hayatos head shot up. He was looking straight the one moment and then the next one he was looking at the sky. Well not directly the sky, but who cares? It was as if all of his body was burning. A large area around Hayato had a purple Reiatsu tornado around it. It was Hayatos spiritual pressure there was no mistaking. Hayato dropped the heads and they immediately burned to ash from Hayatos spiritual pressure. Hayato himself started to glow in a purple colour. Many Gillian and Menos gathered to watch what the hell was happening. Hayato was letting out screams in his Gillian voice. The purple form started to get smaller and smaller. It was still pretty big, but it was nothing much compared to a Menos or a Gillian. The purple colour vanished with the Reiatsu tornado at the same time. The Menos hiding behind the trees moved their heads to have a glance at Hayato. There was still smoke covering Hayato, but you could see that there was something moving. Hayato stood up and he was looking like his old self again. Smaller in size, but deadlier in power. He looked around and saw a huge crowd around him. "Knowing how mindless they are you would think they would now attack me, just because I have gotten smaller, but..." Hayato thought to himself. "I guess they aren't so mindless after all." Hayato closed his eyes. "It seems I have regained my ability to speak in a understandable tongue." Hayato said as he opened his eyes and knowing full well that he said the last sentence about the Gillian not being so dumb. "Finally." Hayato let out a sigh. "Those terrible screams were starting to annoy me. Hmm... it seems that consuming so many Hollows have affected my personality. Normally by this time all of you have been dead." Hayato said as his pupils were travelling from the middle to the left. Then he closed his eyes and when he opened them the pupils were on the right side. Hayato closed his eyes again. "But now when that killing intent doesn't control me and I'm fully aware of my actions... I'll spare you." As Hayato said that the Gillian started to run around scared. After a minute or two when the whole bunch was gone Hayato started to walk. "I have reached my full potential here. It's time to see what else there is except Hollows as tall as a skyscrapers and trees that don't seem to have an end." Hayato started to walk with the objective to get out of the Forest of Menos.

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