"Ugh, that could have gone better." Menoly said as she stretched and continued to walk on the sands towards her destination. Her eyes possessed visible bags underneath them just like her partner Loly and there would be body guard and his men Rudborrn.
"We should have all of this done yesterday, but someone just had to call us to help them out!" The pigtailed girl spoke sarcasm clearly evident as she turned her head to see the bull skull faced Arrancar walk behind them as his soldiers carried the clothing meant for the newest member of their Lord's army.
"I apologize sincerely for my inability to have completed my duty as well as dragging the both of you into it as well. I promise to improve myself so that it never happens again." Rudborrn spoke with the utmost sincerity and conviction in his voice as they strode the castle of the first Espada.
"Please, don't say anything like that, just go out and hunt with us from time to time to help make up for it." Menoly waved off his seemingly debt to the both of them.
"She does not speak for the both of us. But I guess it is nice that you offered to help take that idiots' clothes to Lord Starrk's place. So thanks." Loly had to begrudgingly thank their escort and help on their delivery trip.
"Your words humble me my ladies and of course miss Menoly I am willing to escort you two on your hunts whenever you ask." Rudborrn's voice seemed quite content with the current situation; he was hit with a flood of knowledge of the intruder turned ally from Fracción of Lord Barragan. So as the one who could not slay or capture him he strove to meet the one that escaped his grasp.
"Seems like we're here." Loly's voice drew Rudborrn out of his stupor before him standing the palace of the first Espada in all its glory. The troupe made their way to the white quartz door of the castle; they were ready to each release small bursts of their reiatsu to alert the owners however the doors opened themselves as if the palace was inviting them in. The three looked at each other before entering.
As they entered the doors closed behind them, within the castle were spanish inspired decorations present in every Espada castle the ones in the first's castle revolved around wolves and other large wild dogs. The carpets had images of wolves with fierce blue and green eyes that stared above.
The tapestries showed the images of silhouetted hunters in front of great pillars of fire in a dense forest. The three were taken aback that the Espada truly lived a life of luxury as the swords of their Lord Aizen.
"Oh, it's just you three, dang I really have to thank Ben for making that thing open itself better than a reiatsu alert last thing I want to feel in morning." The voice of a young girl drew the gangs attention to one of the owners of the castle Lilynete Gingerback.
"L-lady Gingerback y-your clothes." Menoly stammered as she and the others stared at the subordinate of the strongest Espada.
"Hmm, yeah what about them?" Lilynete looked down at herself. Yes it was true she was not wearing her usual uniform. She did not think her current attire was that bad. Her usual revealing vest and white coloured briefs, arm warmers and fur lined boots. Where replaced by a white oversized sweater, baggy pants and slippers made from vines adorned with vibrant pink flowers that complimented her pale green hair and pink eye.
"I got these clothes from Ben so if you have any complaints about them take them up with him." The little Arrancar shrugged and leaned on the wall to the left wing of the castle.
"I did not expect to wake up and get thrown under the bus like that on my first day here." The man in question Ben Tennyson made his way down the left staircase into the entrance space.
"Dear-!" Rudborrn nearly had to do a spit take as the human he met yesterday Ben was walking towards him his eyes sunken in and hair sleeked back with a singular strand over his face. He looked like an identical albeit younger and green eyed version of Aizen.
"Kind of creepy." Menoly mumbled to the stunned in shock Loly who seemed to have turned into a statue out of suprise.
"Told you! You definitely look like the Boss when you wear your like that." Lilynete said in her usual mischievous tone as Ben descended the stairs and stood beside her.
"Nah, I still think I look better but I can't lie it is a mean look." Ben messed up his hair once more to appear like a less tame version of his usual style. He began a playful banter with Lilynete as if they were siblings who had not seen each other for many years.
"Um, my apologies Ben - I mean Lord Tennyson, we have come to deliver your uniform and other clothing." Rudborrn spoke to the human before himself.
"Oh, you're Rudborrn sorry for what I did to your soldiers and thanks for these by the and walking here with the girls. And you three can just call me Ben never really liked all that formal stuff anyway." Ben went to go and take the clothes from the two soldiers that the three arrancar traveled with.
"Thanks, but it kind of feels like a slap in the face after seeing the clothes you made for Lady Lilynete and the robe for yourself you know." Loly seemed a tad bit disappointed, Ben quickly came up with a response.
"D-don't be like Loly I'm pretty sure whatever you and Menoly wiped up would be ten times better than anything I could! I'm a jack of all trades. I've mastered absolutely nothing so anything you two make would blow my best work out the water for sure! I'll go try them on right now!" Ben quickly ran away up the stairs and soon the slamming of a door could be heard.
The four Arrancar and two Calaveras stood there with wide blinking eyes.
"Why don't you guys head to the dining area where we can sit down while we wait for the idiot." Lilynete gestured the way for everyone as they all thanked her and were soon seated by a quartz long table with matching chairs. However what caught their eyes was the chandelier above their head.
"Wait those crystals are they not-" Rudborrn was interrupted by his hostess.
"Ben made it with his diamond guy. I really like it. Wait, I have something for you all to try out!" Their tiny host ran off somewhere to bring them what they could only guess was another invention of their guest. However they were not alone for long as from the entrance came the Primera Espada.
"Yawn, morning." Starrk walked in dressed in stark white clothing. a loose shirt, baggy pants like Lilynete and a robe like Ben. However his neck length hair curled back into a bun, as he wore vine slippers like his Fracción.
'He looks like a bum.' The three guests present all thought the same thing as the strongest of their Lord's generals came and too a seat at the long quartz table.
"I'm assuming you all dropped of the kid's stuff?" Starrk took his seat at the head of the model white long table and casually sat there without a care in the world, with his elbows placed on the table and half open eyes.
"Yes, Lord Starrk and we had a last minute request from Rudborrn over here that took up more time than we'd like to say our apologies." Menoly bowed her head to the Espada as Loly followed shortly.
"I can tell you two look like you didn't wink. You...I can't tell you anything honestly." Starrk told his gathered guests as the two young girls felt a bit of happiness over taking them at their superiors' concern. Rudborrn deflated internally towards the unenthusiastic arrancar's comment.
"But never fear this should make you all feel right as rain. I'm pretty sure that's something good heard ben say it last night." Lilynete stroled into the dining hall with a tray made of the same crystal as the chandelier, she placed it down and before them on the tray was five cups filled with a dark brown liquid that possessed a strong aroma that seemed to drift into the nostrils of everyone present.
"What's that stuff?" Loly asked as she eyed the liquid that was contained in ruby cups this time.
"Another invention from Ben I assume." Rudborrn guessed as he looked to the short girl opposite him.
"Yup, he calls it it's great! Tastes not half, main thing is it'll make you feel like you just had a power nap." The pale green haired girl spoke with great amounts of barely contained joy as her superior curled back into his chair.
"Keep that demon juice away from me! I prefer having the ability to get a good night's rest that the only thing the kid made that I hate!" Starrk made his dislike known.
"Ok, rude. And get over it." The familiar voice of Ben Tennyson drew their attention; they saw him now wearing the standard arrancar uniform; the difference was that he wore his hair differently. His brown hair was combed to the side and the remainder by his ears were tied into a bun and held in place by a quartz pin.
"Not half bad kid." Starrk gave his two cents.
The other three guests as well complimented him, however Lilynete had a sour look on her face as she looked him over.
"Doesn't suit you, you look like everybody else in this place now. Honestly I preferred your old look with the green." Lilynete could not help but voice her disapproval they have known each other for less than twenty-four hours hour they seemed to really grow on one another.
"Glad to know I'm not crazy. Let me see what I can do about that." Ben lifted his arm that the omnitrix rested on and soon a display of holographic lights rose and fell. Soon Ben's body was covered in green and black circuitry patterns as they travelled over his clothes and face.
Soon the group assembled saw Ben still clad in black and white however, the uniform was modified. His white jacket became a long-coat that reached his ankles; the coat was left open to reveal a black shirt with a simple white line down the center. His hakama or pants were replaced by a white set of military pants and black boots with white highlights.
His belt bore a green omnitrix badge while he also had a green scarf with an all silver 'X' pin.
Overall they had to admit he looked good, he did seem more like the odd person they knew, afterwards Loly stood and approached him getting perhaps a little too for his liking. She had a hand to her chin as she looked over every inch of his newly updated uniform, from the scraf down to his shoes.
Ben was praying that the others did not notice his blush as his eyes caught a glance of the black haired girl's chest as she squatted and analyzed his get-up. Ben would never call himself a pervert, after all he was a proud father of fourteen Necrofriggian babies! What would they say if they saw him shamelessly gawking at the chest of a woman out of the blue?
As his thoughts spun in his head, Ben nearly missed what said to him.
"Fourteen." The black haired girl now on her two staring into the eyes of the young man.
"What?" Ben had no other response to the seemingly out of nowhere number he was presented with.
"Fourteen, that's the number of days you have to go hunt for me and Menoly. Your little trick basically blew anything we could make out of the water, so now my pride has been wounded. And I'm sure a gentleman like you wouldn't want to leave a girl like me this way after all." The girl tried her best damsel in distress impression as the young green eyed man looked dumbstruck and the other people present only shook their heads.
"What?!"