I woke up.
I looked around. I was in a dark room - a cave. This was not my master's world. This was not the world full of ice in which I live in. I have been summoned from the world I live in. I have materialized.
I only realized it until a dark figure appeared before my eyes. His face was pale. He wore a long white coat. He had long fingernails. He was not any normal Shinigami. He was definitely not my master. But why do I suddenly favor this excuse for a person more than my master?
"Hello. My name is Muramasa. Everyone, this is the newest member, I have brought along." the dark figure spoke.
I looked around the cave. There were many people- Shinigami- no, they were my fellow Zanpakuto spirits. How did they come here? Where is my master?
"What is your name?" The figure- Muramasa asked.
Why should I tell you? Then, I felt a troubling feeling to trust this person.
"Sode no Shirayuki"
Then, I realized that this was not my master's view, nor my master's world. It was the REAL world. In a cave, gathered by my fellow Zanpakuto, I no longer trusted my master. An overwhelming thought has come to me: I am now part of the Zanpakuto rebellion. I will no longer obey my master. I will no longer take part in her obsessions in Chappy. I am no longer a part of my master. I am free.
A few days later...When all Zanpakuto spirits have been awakened...
"Everyone, we will take over Soul Society and the Shinigami who claim to control us. Now that we have materialized, we will start a new era. The era of the Shinigami is drawing to a close. The era of the Zanpakuto spirits have begin!" Muramasa chanted.
"Yea! Haha!" Various shouts of "happiness" yelled across the cave. Everyone was suddenly energetic to overthrow what was once their master's, their friends. And I was too.
That night, the war officially started. Was this true? An urge came to me and it said "yes, this is true. And I WILL overtake my stubborn master". Soon after everyone exited the cave, the Zanpakuto were raiding Soul Society, attacking Shinigami.
Muramasa summoned everyone to gather at Sokyoku Hill. Tengen attacked his master first, while I was observing from the sidelines. It seemed that the Shinigami's simply could not go into shikai forms. And thus, the Zanpakuto Rebellion officially started.
"Sode no Shirayuki!" a voice shouted. It was my former master - Kuchiki Rukia.
I hated her. She never took pride in me. She only used my powers for herself. Thus, I will make her suffer. I will take everything away from her. Her family, her friends, her pride as a Shinigami.
I had not realized that the hatred was the destruction and weakness I had until my former master managed to almost defeat me. I had realized that it was not hatred I felt for my master. That I was grateful that I was part of her. But even that emotion faded away when Muramasa came to rescue me.
The day I, Sode no Shirayuki broke as a Zanpakuto, was the day I truly went back to the gratefulness I had for my master. The hatred was the weakness Muramasa needed to draw myself out from my master. I thought it was too late, since I had already broke.
Then, I woke up...haven't I died? Looking up, I saw the face of a Shinigami - Kurotsuchi Mayuri. I came back. And the first thing I had to do was - find my master.
I hurried to the real world. I was back. I had come back thanks to the Shinigami. I will help defeat Muramasa for turning me on my master. I would not ever do such a thing again. I had realized that we Zanpakuto are nothing but weapons of destruction without our masters.
And thus, the Zanpakuto Rebellion ended.
