La Soberanía
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Seven long years, that is how long it took to rebuild La Soberanía and bring back those who managed to escape Antonio’s wrath all those years ago. A tragedy that will never be forgotten as friends and lovers alike were lost that day. But not all things end on such a sour and sad note. For one reason or another the Arrancar of Las Noches seemed to have decimated themselves, perhaps Valiosa’s loss during the invasion made them question her rule. Whatever the case may be, they are now nothing but memory although vestiges of that flame still exist in the form of Antonio. He has been running rampant as if something is chasing him, always on from one place to the next, he even had the gall to turn up at La Soberanía begging for help against some sort of enemy that comes from the shadows. He was laughed off and forced to leave by Estarossa himself.
However, after those seven long years of rebuilding in a remote location modifications were made. Stolen technology from Las Noches has allowed La Soberanía to move its location at will across Hueco Mundo. Luckily this feat is achievable due to it not being as large or vast as Las Noches itself, in reality it would be considered one of the many rooms that line that decrepit structure. As a result the Shinigami have been struggling to locate La Soberanía and its inhabitants, even during their snack runs to the Human World they are discreet. This isn’t by accident either, it is because Estarossa does not want to be found, purely due to how doggedly the Shinigami are hunting for him. Although hunting is a stretch, they come in peace, assumedly, however El Desatado (lit. The Unbound One) does as he pleases, he will be found when he wants to be.
The next three years were spent partying at La Soberanía, celebrating the revival of the safe haven, celebrating lost friends and lovers, celebrating the downfall of Las Noches, and celebrating their Freedom. In present day the festivities have died down back to a normal pace, well a pace considered normal here. The founder of La Soberanía sits up out of bed, stretching and yawning, all around him are various sleeping males and females, Arrancar and Adjucha alike. Considering their naked forms it doesn’t need to be explicitly said what happened here hours ago. The purple-haired Arrancar makes himself decent by putting on clothes and exits his room of debauchery. He yawns and stretches again, greeting or waving at anyone he happens to pass by, eventually reaching the “dining area”. A place with various spreads of food on multiple tables, from assorted meats, vegetables, pastries, fruits, candy, etc. All things Hollows typically do not eat or even think about, but here in La Soberanía these are delicacies.
An Adjucha looks up from the steak it is eating with its bare hands, it looks around at the other Hollows in the room, all of them shaking their heads or shrugging.
He goes back to eating and Estarossa sighs as he sits down on a chair, throwing his leg over the armrest of it. He leans his head back and stares up at the distant ceiling of the room.
Using a fork he cuts off a chunk from his slice of cheesecake and eats it. He thinks out loud because he has nothing to hide from anyone here. Everyone is free to voice their own thoughts, although some thoughts might lead to them being asked to leave or to take things into a more private setting. Estarossa has never once stopped to think what had Antonio running scared for so long, shadow people was something he always assumed meant Shinigami, due to their black attire, but what if it meant something else? Estarossa has no mind to go save or even help Antonio, this is merely fleeting curiosity. If he runs into that stuttering Arrancar again he’ll most certainly fight him on sight.
Three loud beeps ring out across all of La Soberanía, alerting its residence that it is about to change location again. Estarossa sighs and continues to eat his cheesecake as the structure begins to rumble and sink into the sand. Where it ends up next is unknown, even to Estarossa as it has no pattern to trace, it is truly and utterly random. The Shinigami are going to have their hands full looking for this particular Arrancar.
The sands of Hueco Mundo shake and tremble at something rising from their depths, any unsuspecting Hollows run and flee from whatever it may be encroaching upon them from below. A massive expulsion of sand rises into the air, raining back down and creating a plume of dust to obscure whatever it was that had just breached the surface. The dust settles only to reveal itself to be La Soberanía, the home of what many consider to be a strange band of Hollow kind. Within this moving fortress lies Estarossa, the community appointed leader of this faction, surrounded by many empty plates that once held a slice or two of cheese cake. He had become a true glutton in his boredom and devoured enough of the pastry to send himself into a food coma. Drool runs from his mouth and onto the table as he sleeps hunched over on it, certainly not a comfortable position to sleep in but when sleep strikes at random the body isn’t too picky about that.
Even the alarms within La Soberanía alerting all to the fact the fortress will be rising to the surface again wasn’t enough to wake him. It took a female Adjucha shaking him over and over for him to wake up at last. A significant event happened while he was out cold, something he may want to know about. As his eyes open he looks at the one who woke him, looking her up and down. She was a monstrous praying mantis type Hollow with just enough feminine details to denote her gender, not as if that would have stopped Estarossa from saying his next words.
That was the only sound she made in response to his blatant advance, it also managed to fluster her slightly as well considering she, as probably all Adjucha, don’t expect someone to ever say something like that to them. She quickly composes herself to relay the information to him.
Estarossa yawned while listening to her speak and continued to stare at her with a flirty expression on his face.
Estarossa drops the flirty expression and sits up straight. He stands up out of the chair next, it is very obvious he is taking this seriously.
And with that Estarossa heads out, not even waiting for a response from the Adjucha who was left in a flustered state once again and yet, oddly enough despite what her instincts and nature are telling her, she decides to await Estarossa’s return.
Beneath La Soberanía, Estarossa and a different Adjucha exit into the Forest of Menos, making their way towards the last known location of Emillia in hopes of asking her questions about what she fought and maybe even asking what the Shinigami are doing here as well. Two things have been bothering Estarossa lately, the first is this weird shadow group that has been culling the remnants of Las Noches loyalists, while he is all for that he isn’t a fan of how they are being hunted like dogs. Very strong arm tactics are being done and it feels like bullying more than anything else. The second thing is the Shinigami who have been occupying Hueco Mundo since the end of the Unhallowed Wars centuries ago. It has a lot of Hollow running scared or hiding in their own domain. It isn’t right, his kind shouldn’t have to walk on egg shells in their own realm, he’ll make these thoughts known to the Shinigami when he potentially meets them.
[To Hueco Mundo Deserts: Menos Forest]