Playing with sand & friends

Heuco Mundo was truly the most barren and monotone realm within the scope of reality, at least in terrain. It was quite the cosmic joke how a vast endless waste of desert sand could house so many differing individuals, a world of alpha predators constantly at war to stay at least ahead of most of the others. And today would be no different, two differing Hollows about to butt heads with unforeseeable consequence. Or at least that was what usually happened. Instead the Hollow skipping along the sands was a walking bundle of chaos eager for a new day's entertainment.

The small creature humming to herself as she skipped was Dahlia, more commonly known as Mad Dahlia, the only creature crazy enough to call itself a nurse within this Hellish landscape. Draped in a slightly risque Nursing outfit, she happily skimmed the endless sea of sand as if it would produce anything but more sand or emotionless chill. Stopping for a moment the girl lifted her free left hand to her eyes and used it as a visor as if the soft moonlight could inhibit vision at all here. She smirked "Whoops, wrong mode!" Before she dropped an odd little weapon from her right hand to free it as well, turning both of them into makeshift binoculars like a child might and scanning around the limitless horizon. She pressed her lips together tightly as her tongue barely poked out from between them.

A soft hmm escaped her throat before she finally dropped her gaze and exclaimed "Nope! Still nothing but sand!" She reached down to grasp the menacing looking bonesaw she'd dropped to the ground before she heard an explosion in the distance, causing the girl to stand upright right away and turn towards the direction. Somebody was doing something! She pointed a finger in the direction she thought she'd heard the sound and shouted. "High ho, Dahlia away!" Before sprinting off towards the new stimulus. Dahlia was a woman of whimsy, and she was certain explosions always meant fun games, or injured people, either of which would sate the woman's starving attention needs.

The Arrancar's gogo boots kicked up a stream of sand as she ran towards a new sight amidst the nothingness she called home. While there was a castle present within Hueco Mundo, seeing another one was quite unusual, bringing a smile to Dahlia's face as she looked up at the tall walls and stony keep. It was a pearly creation, similar in tone to the sand beneath her boots, but it certainly was more interesting than said sand. She bent over to the left slightly, holding both her hands and her Zanpakuto behind her back as she Oohed and Ahhed at the large structure, before she starting circling it to find the entrance.

Finding the entrance finally she looked up at the Tower standing above her and shouted, using her left hand as a microphone to carry her small giddy voice. "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, Anyboooooooody home?" She asked as she waited to see if anyone would respond, though Dahlia's patience limit had about a half second time span before the girl decided to just let herself in. She bent down for a second, before vaulting right over the wall before her, landing with a soft thump upon white stone before jumping up in a cheer. "Dahlia's here! For Tea!...and violence!" She giggled a bit before looking around still hoping to find a new playmate or anything mobile to grab her attention.

She began to advance at a slow pace, taking her time as she strolled along the path examining the structure she'd invaded without permission. It was surprising to see plant life at all out in the wastes, but she didn't mind as she took in the garden hidden behind the walls. Finally she came upon the sounds of splashing water and peeked her head around to find a fountain. But it wasn't the fountain that split the girls cheeks with a happy grin, it was the small adorable creature splashing around the fountain. Dahlia immediately fell over with an audible thump as she exclaimed. "Holy Vexing Vixens, Dahlia thinks she has diabetes!"

The girl's quirky antics certainly didn't fit the pattern of most Arrancar, and her chaotic and uninterested spiritual pressure gave off no sense of aggression or violent intent, in fact the pink haired woman only really cared about who the little creature before her was, and how real his furry parts were. The mad nurse quickly hopped back onto her feet and looked towards Ezreal. "Dahlia wants to know who the small furry person is! Tell her tell her!" She demanded, acting more childish than the child looking Hollow before her.

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     Ezreal kept playing in the water before spinning around to see someone had made it into his castle. His first expression was fear as he covered his ears at the shouting and new voice. ”LOUD PERSON!!!!” His tone was riddled with fear as he tried to pull himself out the fountain and run into the castle if fear. He tried his best to hide behind one of the pillars but his trail of water was a dead giveaway. ”Why is there someone here … I thought I found a spot I could be alone … What’s more she is a loud person… wait …” Ezreal’s power sank into the castle floor as the room began to shake, his tails lashing about as he stormed to find the girl who had scared him. ”I’M NOT SMALL TAKE THAT BACK MEANIE!!!!” His words high pitched as he puffed his cheeks up and stood on his tiptoes. His tails all puffed up as he looked about ready to cry.

     Ezreal stood his ground for a few moments before the shacking caused him to fall on his butt. His face switched to pain as he started crying. ”I’m not a shorty … Kami-sama calls me fun-sized …” Ezreal did his best to wipe his tears with his wet kimono before sneezing lightly. Having just realized he was still drenched he stood up and dusted off his butt before shacking around and tossing water everywhere. Slowly after teetering around from losing his balance he looked back at the girl and focused on her appearance. His attention was drawn to the pink hair firstly then to the cloths. His cheeks puffed up before he walked toward her staying on guard. Lightly pressing his index to the nurse outfit before trying to let it grow to the proper length for a hospital standard while blushing.

     ”Kami-sama says that nurse outfits should not be that short, unless worn by the girls on the streets or around Halloween.” Ezreal’s tone was filled with fear as he quickly ran away to avoid getting hit by the saw the girl had. Spinning around after he was five feet from the girl he bowed and held out his hands keeping his thumbs on his palms. ”Ezreal S. Enfer, eight year old elem-en-tary school stu-dent… I think that’s what Kami-sama told me to say … I forgot the rest.” Ezreal said cheerfully, although struggling with a few words. Quickly swinging his hands back to his sides as he ran off into the castle again. ”If you want to know more you have to play with me for a while, ha-ha.”

Upon being noticed by the new object of her attentions, the small adorable furry creature proceeded to call Dahlia something even she wasn't used to being called, loud. Loud of all things? Dahlia wasn't loud, she was just...obvious! The smaller Hollow bolted off after yelling at her, seemingly uninterested in the pink mopped Arrancar's antics, or perhaps he'd sensed the coming earthquake as the place began to shake. "Nobody told Dahlia it was earthquake day!" The woman spouted to no one in particular as she began to fumble and sway back and forth as the stone beneath her shook and rumbled. Suddenly the smaller creature had returned, his cheeks puffed up with childish frustration and his voice nearly cracking.

Dahlia nearly let out a hnngh at how cute she found the little fox child, but it seemed he was quite put off by her presence as he began to throw a tantrum. Fun-sized he said, an absolutely perfect descriptor for such a tiny furry creature, to be small around Dahlia was already impressive considering her own short stature, but something about furry ears and tails got the girl positively drooling with violent intent. Dahlia spoke "Stop, please stop, any more and Dahlia will go into a coma, you're so fuzzy!" She giggled as she spoke, before Ezreal decided to put the slightly skimpy girl in her place, his finger somehow forcing the uniform clinging to her body to grow in length and properly lay just above her knees.

The girl was struggling to keep her balance but she glared down at herself with those dead yellow eyes before responding. "Hey, stop that! Dahlia needs to show some skin or else no one will oogle her while she works!" She said reaching down to tug on the material and make sure Ezreal had actually altered it and wasn't just messing with her noodle noggin brains. The boy quickly retreated from her, though she showed no ounce of interest in striking out at him or even holding the saw in a manner befitting a weapon. Ezreal seemed intent to explain his actions via some God or spirit telling him so, which gave Dahlia an idea on how to negate his words. "Yeah well SUPER Kami-sama told Dahlia she could dress as skimpy as she likes AND she can play with furry peoples ears too!" The idiot in white proclaimed, giving up on her now properly lengthened uniform and letting her glare fall back upon the small fox boy.

Ezreal S Enfer, what a proper introduction the boy had given, it put a smile on the crazed woman's lips. Dahlia quickly dipped her hips and tugged on her new skirt as she introduced herself with a bit of humor. "Dahlia Gahara, the best Nurse in all of Heuco Mundo at your service fox-chan." Though he'd given her his name, Dahlia could barely be counted on to remember your face let alone make use of proper monikers. Instead she'd rather find out more about how this Hollow managed to have cute fluffy parts that she didn't have. The boy ran off though before she could question him, causing the Mad Nurse of Heuco Mundo to happily give pursuit as she chased the boy as a Mother might her own son in a game of tag.

Though Dahlia's idea of a game of tag proved far more dark than what one might expect, her voice echoing through the stone hallways. "Come back here cutie, Dahlia wants to play with your ears! She'll put them back on when she's done...she promises!" The put emphasis on the fact that she'd reattach his ears after she was done, as if such words meant anything after someone proclaimed intent to maim or injure the other party involved.

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     Ezreal had even more reason to run as he heard the girl say she would be taking his ears. ”I don’t wanna have my ears taken off, then I can’t hear and it hurts … NO WANT THAT!!!” Ezreal poked his head out from behind a hiding spot before running again, his tails wagging happily as he enjoyed the game. Slowly kicking off his shoes and jumping up his claws allowed him to anchor or cling to the wall before he hopped up higher hoping her could trick the girl to run past him so he could go back to the fountain until she noticed him. His tails wagging slowly and giving his hiding spot away as he tried to stop giggling also.

     If Dahlia chose to stand below him for too long Ezreal would jump down and try to balance on her head. If she looked up to spot him he would grin before letting his back claws on his toes to retract so he could swing forward and resume running if he was not caught. However if Dahlia pulled his tails Ezreal would make a light toned cry before trying to get free. Ezreal spent all the time thinking of the different choices only to get bored of his spot. Letting his hands out of the ceiling he swung down to see if he was still in the clear only having been hidden her for roughly ten seconds. ”I have not had this much fun since Kami-sama agreed to show me how to play … I forgot the name of the game … had something to do with a bed I think … oh well.” His tone was quiet so he could help stay hidden before flipping and landing on his feet with a light ‘dada’ pose before running off down the hall opposite the way he had come.

     Without his shoes his steps made little noise but he was not so eager to run full speed on the cold stones. His mind was busy wondering how long he could drag his game out before the girl might leave him alone like everyone else did. ”The castle is only so big, and I don’t like the thought of going up floors because then there is only one way out without jumping out a window. Maybe I can hide back near the front door so if she leaves I’ll know and not stay here playing hide and seek with no one here … Last time I hid for two years … Only to find out a hollow had killed my playmate…” Ezreal’s voice was sad toward the end as he managed to walk a circle back to the first room where he moved behind one of the doors and waited calmly. Two of his tails slowly swaying just out from behind the door.

Dahlia sprinted after Ezreal with an exaggerated run, holding her hands forward and groping at the air as she followed behind the smaller Hollow. It seemed he didn't like the idea of parting with his oh so adorable ears, how stingy thought the mad woman. "Boo! Didn't your mother teach you to share? It'll only hurt ALOT!" She said placing emphasis on how painful it would be to have his ears sliced off, her voice trailing off into a cackle as she reinforced her desire to rob the boy of his hearing parts. Much as the boy was enjoying the game, so was Dahlia, her sense of play as about as complex as any child's might be, just twisted through the lens of her sociopathic lust for pain. She turned the corner at full speed, continuing down the pathway beneath the ninja like Ezreal, her gogo boots clicking loudly against the ground as she did.

Shortly realizing she'd ran past the boy, Dahlia skidded to a halt so abruptly you'd swear her boots were smoking from the sudden forced stop, before the woman began to run in reverse, not as in she turned around, but literally the nurse began to run in reverse as if she were going backward in time, a silly grin plastered on her face. "Sneaky little brat! Dahlia's going to smother you real good!" She said, her words mildly threatening, but the tone as eager as any child at play. As she came back towards where she'd run past Ezreal, she heard the pitter patter of little feet upon the ground, and continued to backwards sprint before slamming into a wall, forcing her to run normal again. The woman's shark teeth shone brightly through her smile as she ran down the hall hoping to find her new plaything. "Dahlia's gonna git cha little man!" She licked her lips as she began to pick up speed, searching eagerly about for the boy.

Dahlia passed through a doorway as she came to another halt, scanning the area while holding her free hand above her eyes to show she was searching for Ezreal. "Come out come out wherever you are!" The girl shouted playfully, her spiritual senses being ignored in favor of simply trying to spot the boy, after all what fun would it be if she just could figure out where he was? Tag was played best when you have to find your prey, then when you cut them up it'd be all the more fun. Her fingers grasped into the hilt of her weapon tightly, almost frighteningly so as she began to tap the head of her weapon against her own body in an idle motion. "Dahlia's going to find you eventually little one! And then we're gonna play "Which organ did Dahlia just remove?"" She said with a sinister grin. Dahlia was a childish being, but a nightmarish one as well, so most of her games involved absurd levels pain to bear, though so long as she was having fun it was more likely the boy wouldn't get actually attacked, after all keeping a ditzy woman like Dahlia busy kept the dark side buried

However predicting whether or not Dahlia was dangerous at any given moment was nearly impossible, and her next actions would prove that ultimately the woman was not to be taken lightly. Standing there looking about, the girl finally turned towards a door where Ezreal was not present, and shouted a word. "There!" However the word itself was not the important part to pay attention too, but rather the small pink sphere that suddenly began to form in front of her eye. Dahlia's cero wasn't very strong among the Arrancar, but it's brilliant pink color was pretty to see. The orb condensed for a brief moment, before erupting as the girl shouted the word, the explosive attack rocketing forward from her eye with a sort of machine sounding screech, and then blowing a hole into the part of Ezreal's construct where she'd been looking.

Though it might have seemed like she was purposely trying to attack or even kill the boy, the girl quickly spun around, facing away from her newly created destructed and chuckled a bit. "Whoops! Dahlia accidentally Cero'ed! How embarrassing!" She said sticking her tongue out for no one in particular to see. Ezreal might have been having fun playing tag with the woman, but perhaps now the boy might realize that Dahlia was...well kind of nuts.