Crystals Are a Girls Best Friend [Private]

With a heavy sigh Seran tossed the contents of his pockets onto the large armchair situated just inside his front door. It had been an eventful day and he checked on the progress of the construction site. around a week and the shell of the complex was nearly complete; thanks in no small part to the special night crew of shigai using arrancar that sped up the process significantly with the use of spiritual tech. It would only be a few days now until the human crews could be replaced entirely when the inside of the complex would be completely hidden from the prying eyes of those who might find the site of a being lifting several steel beams on their own unusual.

But that was all in Jack’s hands now. Seran had utmost faith in the artificial soul to complete the base building structure without need for his intervention. Once the underground facility was the focus Seran would be needed again for planning and implementation but for now he was free to delve into his own personal projects. With that in mind Seran headed to the back of the house, to a rather normal looking wall with a bookcase situated in front of it.

“The red dog bites the hand of death.”

“Passcode recognized, voice pattern recognized, reiatsu signature recognized. Welcome back.”

With that the bookcase and wall behind it melted away into black iron, revealing a white wall with a polished silver elevator at the center. The doors slid silently open and Seran stepped inside, turning around to face the doors as they shut behind him.

“Sixth level.”

There was a soft “boop” as the elevator began to slowly descend into the belly of the small mountain where the house was located.

“What is the status of our guest?”

“Readings indicate continually increasing energy levels within the crystal’s core. As predicted the containment is holding, but within one month the gravity will exceed containable levels with current system, collapse of the containment vault followed by the rest of the lab will follow.”

Seran frowned.

“I suppose we’ll need to figure out a solution before then huh?”

The elevator came to a stop and the elevator opened, revealing a secondary set larger, much more heavily reinforced doors with a keypad in the center. Seran typed in a quick string of numbers and the sounds of pressurized locks being released could be heard behind the door.

“Please proceed into gravitization chamber.”

The large doors clunked loudly then slowly opened, revealing a small black room with another door similar to the first. Seran stepped in and the door behind him closed, the same sound as before heard again as its mechanism repressurized.

“Beginning Gravitization…. two times earth gravity... two and one half times earth gravity…..”

The voice continued to count up in such a way, and with each level Seran felt his body’s weight increase. Luckily being a mod soul in such a specialized body made these levels of gravity only slightly noticeable, at ten or twenty times he might begin to have problems, but for now the situation wasn’t quite so dire.

“5 and one half times earth gravity….. equalization complete.”

The second door slowly slid open, and a strangle prismatic mixture of lights filled Seran’s vision, as though all the light in the room was being split through a prism. His eyes adjusted to the strange strobe of lights, as they had many times before, and the area came into focus. At the center of the circular room was mounted a massive, unfathomably complicated crystalline formation. The mixture of colors was astonishing, but even more so were the strange pressure induced combinations, of the kind likely impossible to find in nature. But it was not the crystal that interested Seran, it was what was suspended at its center, or rather who was suspended at its center.

A year and a half previous, Seran had discovered the remarkable objected as he tunneled down into this particular mountain on the outskirts of Karakura town. Baffled by how a human being had been encased in crystal and buried under a large portion of a mountain, he had made researching the object a sort of “pet-project”. But several months ago the energy emitted by the crystal had begun to increase, along with the gravity of the area around the object, forcing him to build a special containment area to prevent damage to his lab. Unfortunately this was only a temporary solution, as with each passing day the gravity became slightly higher, and he quickly realized the growth was exponentially leading to levels he could not contain.

From the time the gravity had begun to increase Seran had learned several things. First, the young girl encased within the “Gravitized Gem” was a fullbringer, a fact made abundantly clear through the constant flow of energy the stone gave off. Second, it was his assumption that she had been encased roughly ten years ago, judged from her features, clothing, and the reports of a large earthquake in the area ten years previous where certain witnesses had stated feeling strange fluctuations of gravity that had been dismissed by local authorities as reactions to shock. and third, the crystal that had been formed from the gravity was basically impervious, or at least as best Seran could tell without leveling the area with his reiryoku and attracting the entirety of the Soul Society.

Seran stepped slowly up to the stone, examining once again the face of the girl preserved within.

“I’ll be honest, I’d take anything at this point. A change in the readings? Some indication of a flaw within this.... prison. I’m starting to think that whatever put you in this state really didn’t want you getting out again.”