Claw [Closed/Levi/Chie]

Hollow hunting was a lot more fun as an arrancar than it had ever been as a shinigami. Before it had been a risk forced upon him by his so-called superiors, and his duty to a bunch of people he didn’t know. Now, it was an actual hunt; a pursuit of a prey weaker than himself with no more risk than he chose to take, and the actual tangible rewards of food, power, and in this case material for his gigai experiments. It didn’t hurt that base hollows were so easy to take down.

They were big and strong sure, some stronger than him even, but they were so stupid. That was why the giant tentacle monster with an elephant mask was lying on the ground at Levi’s feet, battered, broken and dead. It wasn’t because it was weaker than him, though it was, but because it was stupid. It was predictable, its attacks easy to anticipate and avoid, and its defenses straightforward to the point of being virtually non-existent. The only difficult thing about this hunt was not eating his prey like he had the last one. And the one before that... and the three before that... well it wasn’t like he actually needed his gigai quickly. When all was said and done it was meant for nothing more than his personal pleasure, so why resist the pleasures of eating to get it sooner?

This one, however, he decided he needed to bring back to the laboratory and work on. Although little more than a toy, the gigai would be a really, really nice toy, and he was pretty excited about it. He also wanted to make sure nothing had hunted Chie while he had hunted dumbo... and the other four. The bad thing about having a defenseless shinigami as a slave was that she was in fact defenseless. Any wandering weakling that got lucky enough to sense her and break through the walls of the lab would find an easy meal, and impede progress on the gigai indefinitely.

Levi snapped his fingers to open a garganta, grabbed his prey by the tentacles with his Manos Fantasmales, and stepped through the portal to find his worst fear realized. An arrancar and a base hollow had found their way into the laboratory. Levi just stared at the intruder for the span of two seconds and blinked. That was how long it took the surprise to evaporate. His wide eyes narrowed and he clicked his tongue as an obviously strained smile stretched across his lips.

“Oh-ho-kay...” He chuckled as he dropped the carcass on the ground and positioned himself between the intruder and his most valuable, and surprisingly calm, asset. “Three obvious question. Who are you, why are you in my home, and...” Letting his sentence trail off, Levi released his reiatsu, bringing its full pressure down on the intruder. “...Why should I not kill you?” His strength was clearly superior to hers, and he wanted to make sure she knew that right from the start so that she would want to fight him even less than he wanted to fight her. He could definitely beat her. He could most likely beat her without Chie getting seriously hurt. Beating her without any of his invaluable equipment being damaged however, he was not confident about.

It was at that moment that Levi turned his full attention to the base hollow and realized that it was in fact, not a base hollow. In fact it showed no sign of being a hollow at all, and its reiatsu was identical to that of the arrancar. In fact, it almost felt like they were sharing one reiatsu signature. Now that was interesting.

“Less obvious question...” he started as he allowed his own reiatsu to die down, indicating that although able to win, he was not necessarily looking for a fight. “What’s up with your pet?”

OOC: Sorry this took so long. My family and I moved into a new house, which took a lot of time itself, and then I had no internet for a few days so... better late than never right?

WC: 650