Chapter 1: Where Dreams Are Made of; New York.

The couple were grabbing at each other's clothes in the shadow of the club they had just left. The woman was dressed well and decked out in the highest of fashions that she filled out very generously in all aspects. The man was tall and kept his hair short. He was dressed in a black jacket with a grey under shirt. His baggy jeans were a darker shade of grey and tented some from the attention the woman was giving him. They clawed at each other's bodies hungrily as the music from the club thudded in the alley.

"You have protection right?" The woman asked between kisses.

"No worries, I cant have kids." The man answered as he picked up the woman.

"Not what I'm worried about. You know of diseases right?" The woman said pushing the man back just a little.

"I'm clean trust me." The man said defensively. "Come on babe, dont ruin the mood now!" He leaned back and let the light from the street cast over his face. The woman smiled as she reached up and ran her index finger over the man's scar that went from his left eye brow down to the corner of his nose.

"Can I trust someone who has a face scar?" She asked jokingly as she reached down the man's pants.

The man looked up smiling. His eyes widened. "Oh damn. Really? You couldnt chase them somewhere else?" The man yelled up at the sky.

The woman looked up and noticed the sky seemed to be hazy from unseen heat. "What is that?" She asked looking at the man before her.

"Nothing!" The man lied smiling. "Where were we?" He leaned back into the woman. She smiled and started kissing him again. A large crash and dust flew up and covered the two lovers. "Shit Rellik. Why?"

Ten minutes earlier.

Rellik Wade chased after the hollow for what seemed like hours. 'Damn it you fucking beast!' Rellik cursed as he pulled the sword from his back. The hollow stopped a top of the Empire State Building and looked down at Rellik and howled loud. It was a very well developed Hollow, almost to the Arrancar level. Rellik sighed as he flashed stepped up the building and appeared before the hollow standing in mid air.

"You think one pathetic soul reaper can stop me?" The hollow asked laughing. "You'll need a captain to stop me! I'm an Arrancar!"

"Dont flatter yourself." Rellik snorted twisting the sword in his hand. "You're just an over developed bottom feeder." Rellik held the sword out before him. "Pilage and Raid, Ragnok." With the incantaion spoken the sword started to glow and seperate from itself into two identical black axes with a red etching of a snake across the blades, connecting the axes to each other was a thick black chain.

"I know that weapon!" The hollow said in near fear. If it had eyes they most likely would have swelled up and nearly popped from his white snake head mask. "You're the soul reaper that faught against the soul society a few months back!"

Rellik smiled as he held each axe over his shoulders. "I dont like to brag." The hollow backed up from the ledge slowly. "Dont run, I'm tired from chasing your ass all night. Just sit back let me have a word with you. Then, just then, I might decide if I'll let you live or not."

"Fuck you soul reaper!" The hollow yelled before taking off again. Jumping from one roof top to the next, the hollow looked over its shoulder to see that Rellik had disappeared. 'That fucker isnt getting me!' The hollow thought.

The hollow turned to face forward just in time to see an axe's blade slice its cheek. The hollow yelled in pain as Rellik stepped forward and began twirling the axes again. "Told you not to run."

"Damn you soul reaper!" The hollow yelled as he approached the edge of the building. It looked down and saw two humans against the wall of the building. "Back away or I'll kill those two humans down there!"

Rellik removed his eye patch and looked past the soul reaper. His vision was filled with orange aura that twirled and danced in the air and the ground. Rellik's left eye had the unique ability to see reishi, the energy that all living beings gave off. Two reishi auras were radiating from the alley. One was a regular human, the other Rellik had grown to well of knowing. He sighed and shook his head as he pulled the eye patch over his left eye once more. 'Damn it Bun-Bon.'

"Did you hear me soul reaper?" The hollow yelled waving his arms around. "I'll kill them I swear!"

"Shut up." Rellik said holding out his hand. "Hado number fourty-four, Sokatsui." A strong pale fire ball shot from Rellik's hand and bunred its way into the hollow's chest sending it flying off the roof. "Hate to ruin dates, but I've got to walk around in that body you stupid little bitch." Rellik stepped from the building and landed beside his gigai and the woman.

"You couldn't have taken him anywhere else?" Bun-Bon yelled from the gigai. "Seriously look at this chick!"

Rellik looked over at the scared woman and then back at Bun-Bon. "Shut it. I told you to stay at the motel!"

"What is going on here?" The girl screamed as the haze before her stood up. Rellik looked over at the hollow who was trying to keep his balance by holding onto the wall. "What the fuck is that?"

Rellik smacked the back of his gigai's head causing the body to spit up Bun-Bon's candy. The body fell limp to the ground causing the girl to scream even louder. 'Always gotta clean up your messes dont I?'

'It could be worse.' Came a deeper voice from with in Rellik's head. 'Could be more hollows.'

'Thank you Ragnok I'm aware of that.' Rellik said sheathing his zanpaku-to. Thanks to Bun-Bon's special talent, Rellik is able to freely speak to his zanpaku-to at will as long as Bun-Bon was in a close faciltiy. He rejoined with his gigai and stood up grabbing the woman's hand. "Come on."

Rellik lead the woman away from the recovering hollow and made their way towards another alley. He looked over at the woman and saw that her clothes seemed almost torn away.

"Got a little rought didnt I?" Rellik asked as they stopped so the woman could catch her breath.

"You sound like you dont remember." The woman said looking up at Rellik. He was staring off into the distance as though looking past everything that was already there. "We met inside the club, you commented me on my hair, then we drank, danced, went outside..."

"Yeah listen I'm sure it was great fun," Rellik replied giving a smirk, "But you really need to go now."

"You think you can just use me like that?" The woman asked hurt. "Who the hell do you think you..."

The woman was cut off as she was lifted up into the air and thrown against the wall breaking her back. The hollow stood there where the woman had been scolding Rellik, and yelled loudly. Two other hollows dropped from the sky and landed beside the head hollow. Rellik quickly ate Bun-Bon's candy, forcing his soul from the gigai and Bun-Bon's soul back into the gigai.

"Hey I was going to smash that!" Bun-Bon yelled loudly pointing at the dead girl's body.

'Looks like he beat you to it.' Came the deep voice of Rangok.

"To soon Ragnok." Rellik said smiling to himself. He pulled the zanpaku-to from his back. "Pilage and Raid, Ragnok." Ragnok's shikai form appeared in Rellik's hands as he rushed forward. 'This is what we do. Killing Hollows.' Rellik thought as he sliced through each hollow seperately.

Rellik landed on the other side of the hollows and smiled. The hollows each grabbed at their chest as deep gashes appeared upon them. One of the hollows coughed loud then growled.

"Damn it Zuroki!" He yelled at the hollow with the burn and gash on his chest. "You didnt tell us we were dealing with a captain!" The hollow smacked the one Rellik had been chasing before. This new one was twice the size and looked more human than Zuroki. His mask had started to vanish and revealed dark skin underneath. The mask he had left looked to be that of snarling cat.

"He's no captain." Zuroki spat. "He's Rellik Wade, the soul reaper who attacked the soul society all those months ago, trust me Kokori, I thought we could handle him!"

"Flok," Kokori turned towards the third hollow, "What do you think? Can we handle him with just us three?"

"No problem Kokori dear." The hollow said with a female voice. Her mask had also started to disappear and revealed soft pale skin underneath. Her mask looked to be that of a wide mouthed sea creature "We're hollows almost up to the arrancar level, we can handle one simple soul reaper."

"Ragnok I think these bastards need a lesson in real hollow powers." Rellik said smiling sheathing his zanpaku-to. He cracked the knuckles in his right hand and started to laugh.

"Look at him!" Zuroki yelled. "He's gone mad from the fear of us!"

Rellik held up his right hand and pointed it at Zuroki. "This is for making me chase after you." Rellik smiled as a red ball formed with in his hand. "Cero!" Rellik fired a large red cero blast from his hand and watched as it enveloped Zuroki whole. The hollow yelled loudly as he vanished from existance.

"W-w-w-what the hell was th-th-th-that?" Flok asked backing away from the chared mark on the ground where Zuroki stood just moments before. "A soul reaper knowing a cero? Its not possible! A cero is a Hollow technique! Only Arrancars, Menos Grande and Espada know it!"

Rellik removed his eye patch and placed it with in the pocket of his custum made shihakusho. He looked down at his hand and saw the black reishi leaking from him freely. Rellik closed his hand and looked at the other two hollows. "Normally I give hollows I chase down a choice," Rellik said as he formed another cero in each of his hands, "But I cant let anyone know of this gift." He raised both of his palms up at the cowering hollows. "Cero."

Rellik walked over the scortch marks of the three hollows and stopped by the body of the young woman on the ground. Rellik turned the body over to see her eyes were still open and her body twisted beyond repair. He closed his eyes as the soul of the woman stepped from behind him. A long chain protruded from her between her breast connected her soul to the ground where she had died just moments before.

"Am I..." She started looking at her own corpse over Rellik's shoulder.

"Yeah." Rellik said nodding his head slowly. "You're dead. I'm sorry. I told her to stay in the motel, but she gets antsy when in big cities like New York."

"She?" The woman asked looking at the gigai behind her. "You're a woman?"

"Only I am sweet heart." Bun-Bon answered from the gigai. "The soul is woman, but the body is all man."

"Its complicated." Rellik said as he reached for the eye patch in his pocket. He looked at the soul of the girl. The soul gave off no reishi only part of her that did was the chain that pretruded from her chest. He brushed the girls hair back and smiled. "Are you ready to move on?" Rellik pulled Ragnok from his sheath as the woman nodded her head. He placed the hilt of Ragnok onto the woman's forehead. "You're wake up in a very peaceful place, I promise." Rellik pressed softly causing the soul to glow in a bright light and disappear in a blinding light. "Konso. The technique used to send souls that have perrished to the soul society." Rellik stood up and looked over at Bun-Bon who sat by the corpse looking up at her companion. "Lets go. This is human matters now."

Rellik climped through the window of the hotel just as Bun-Bon, still in the gigai, walked in through the door. Rellik knocked the candy from inside the gigia and watched it fall back lifeless onto the bed, he then placed the candy with in the mouth of a small fairy doll that was placed on the dresser. The doll stretched and flew up into the air, the little wings on its back fluttering fast.

"Alright lets here it." Bun-Bon said in her usual sultry voice. "I messed up going to the bar and trying to hook up. Go on say it."

"There was nothing either of us could do." Rellik said putting the gigai under the covers of the bed closing its eyes, making it appear asleep. He himself stepped over to the spare bed and removed the top of his shihakuso. As Rellik dropped it on the bed Bun-Bon looked at the scars and wounds that covered the soul reapers torso and back. "You didnt know that would happen, its not your fault."

Bun-Bon blinked her doll's eyes and flew over in front of Rellik's face. "You are not Rellik!" She head butted the soul reaper hard sending him back onto the floor.

"What the hell Bun?" Rellik shouted from the ground.

"You never admit, when something like this happens, that its neither of our faults!" She cried flying around Rellik's head slapping him over and over again. "Where is my soul reaper?!"

"Get off you crazy little nympho freak!" Rellik flicked the small doll across the room. He stood up and placed Ragnok upon the feet of the bed. He got down on his knees and closed his eyes.

Bun-Bon floated in the air behind Rellik and sighed. 'He's going to beat himself over her.'

'Yes he is.' The deep voice of Ragnok spoke with in Bun-Bon's skull. 'But that is how he handles all of this. Let him be himself Bun. Rellik is stronger then many give him credit for.'

'Is he still planning on going to Hueco Mundo again?' Bun-Bon's thoughts trailed off to their last visit to the home land of the Hollows. The images of Rellik being near death sleeping in the endless desert. Bun-Bon fighting off the smaller Hollows while Rellik slept.

'He truely believes that he'll find his sister their.'

"You know I can hear you both right?" Rellik asked from his crouched postion by the foot of the bed. The small doll had a small sweat drop appear on the back of her head and laughed. "We'll go back to Hueco Mundo after we figure out what Aizen's arrancar's are doing here in New York. Our source stated seven in total. With the three I disposed of earlier that still leaves four."

'Speaking of which,' Ragnok's voice echoed loud, 'You are using the Cero to much. If you are going to continue to use the Cero technique why not just embrace all of the Visoread powers? Learn to manifest your mask.'

"I want to keep some of my dignity." Rellik spoke sternly. "I do not want to become one of the abominations that are soul reapers and hollows mixed."

'Yet you use the cero as though it is one of the treasured soul reaper kido techniques.' Ragnok shot back.

"Boys calm down!" Bun-Bon shouted and got between Rellik and the sword. "Ragnok makes a good point Rellik. You do use the Cero more then you'll willing to admit. You cant tell me you havent noticed it."

Rellik looked down at his hands and saw the black reishi leak from them. Its true that using the cero was causing his black reishi to leak more and more from with in him. Had he learned to master his visoread powers and manifest his mask he would be able to control the amount of black reishi that he produced.

Rellik looked over to the top of his shihakosho. The green ribbon that was tied to the left arm shone slightly in the light. He reached for Ragnok and held the sword before him, the blue ribbon tied to the hilt gently flowed from the wind of the still open window.

"Winry hated hollows." Rellik pulled the reishi blocking eye patch over his eye. "I will not become what destroyed my family." Rellik placed the sword on the foot of the bed and walked to the bathroom where he stayed for the rest of the night.

"YAWN!" The little girl flipped a stone with her foot. She looked to the large man by her side and rolled her eyes. "He's not going anywhere for the day, cant we just leave him alone? If he didnt join the others in Japan, why would he join us?"

The large man lowered the binoculars and ran his hand through his long black hair. He looked at the girl with piercing green eyes and shook his head. "I need a hair cut badly, and the others havent been doing this as long as we have, now have they?"

"Yeah but why do we even need this kid?" The girl pulled the yellow jacket's hood over her head hiding her young features from view.

The man followed suit pulling over his head the red hood of his red jacket. "We dont need him. He needs us. You know what its like, its not easy to go through what he's going through alone." The man lifted the binoculars to his face once more to see the young one eyed soul reaper through his window argueing with the flying pixie doll. 'Looks more and more like him everyday.'

Rellik closed the door to his motel room and shushed the still angry pixie doll as he clipped Bun-Bon to his backpack. Rellik stretched his gigai's arms out over his head as he stepped into the lobby. He placed his room key on the desk and waved to the desk clerk as he walked from the small shabby motel.

"NexttimeIpicktheplace." Bun-Bon said quickly and quietly so not to arouse suspision from the New Yorkers around them.

Rellik pulled out his black sunglasses that matched the red and black hoody he currently wore. He felt his keys jiggle in his pockets of his black jeans and reached for his cell phone in his other pocket. He quickly punched in a number and held up his phone as he started walking the three blocks to his rental car.

"Hello Urahara Shop." A young boy's voice echoed through the reciever.

"Put the old man on Jinta." Rellik said walking with the crowd.

"You dont tell me what to do you one eyed freak!" The boy shouted. Rellik held the reciever from his ear as there came a skirmish from the other end of the phone.

"Who is calling?" Came a very serious voice.

"Tessai, will you put Kisuke on please?" Rellik asked politely to the once kido master. "Its..." Rellik exhaled deeply. "Its Gabriel." Rellik shuddered at his middle name. The name that was, now, his 'human' name.

"Gabe!" Came the up beat and happy tone of Kisuke Urahara, the once Captain of Japan's Thirteen court guard squads. "How's the trip going?"

"Must you really call me that?" Rellik asked as he felt Bun-Bon physically try not to laugh at his side. "I'm in public I understand why I do, but you're all cooped up in your cozy little shop."

"Huh?" Kisuke spoke, sounding distracted. "Oh sorry I'm on the phone Chad. I dont know where Ichigo is sorry." There was more small talk before a door was heard off in the distance. "Rellik what were you saying?"

"Are you still lying to Ichigo and his friends?" Rellik asked as he stepped up to his sad little rental car. "You're really crazy there old man."

"I'm not that old!" Rellik could hear Kisuke's head shrink low as he spoke. "And yes I am still lying to them. For all everyone needs to know, you are simply on hollow elimination missions."

"How are the fake reports coming for the Thirteen Court Guard Squads?" Rellik asked as he started up the car.

Kisuke sighed loud. "You know its one thing to lie to my own Seireitei, but I'm not even apart of yours. Why do I have to falsify your reports?"

"One, because I hate paperwork." Rellik pulled out onto the road and took off towards the edge of the city. "Two, you offered to help me in anyway, that's how I need your help. Finally, I cant exactly tell the American Soul Society that I'm out hunting Aizen and his Arrancars now can I?"

"I suppose not." Kisuke sighed again. "The paperwork is finished. I went a head and did four months worth so I wouldnt have to worry about it." There was a pause on the phone as a small commotion began on the other end of the line. "Rellik, Yoruichi would like to talk to you." Kisuke sounded out of breath and in some pain as he spoke.

"Rellik where are you?" Yoruichi's female voice came from the reciever, and sounded angry.

"New York." Rellik answered quickly. He knew better then to mess with Yoruichi Shihoin when she was angry. She was dangerous when in a good mood, in a bad mood she was near psychotic.

"There are still four hollow energy signatures coming from there!" Rellik pulled the phone from his ear as she yelled into the phone. "Why are they not gone yet?"

"Two of those signatures are barely a threat," Rellik spoke slowly and carefully, picking his words carefully, "The other two are near the out skirts of the city... Which is where I'm headed now!" Rellik quickly pulled a u-turn and took off towards the two pressures he felt.

"And what of the two that are 'barely a threat'?" Yoruichi sounded slightly less angry.

"They've been in Central Park during the day. At night I lose them cause they leave the city. My guess is doing recon in the country side."

"Your guess?" Rellik flinched as he realized what he said. He pulled the phone from his ear just as Yoruichi started screaming and yelling through the phone at how he should know and not guess. "Finally if I find out for a minute that you're slacking off I'm personally going to come out there and kick your one eyed ass!"

"Yes Yoruichi Sensei." Rellik disconnected the call and lowered his head. "That woman is as crazy as Kisuke is." Rellik pulled up in front of an abandoned factory and sighed heavily. "Why cant bad guys be more creative?"

Rellik stalked across the top of the factory with his hood over his head. His gigai was laying in the back of the car with Bun-Bon's doll stuffed under the seat, and the candy that held her soul placed in the cup holder in the front seat. Rellik didnt want any chance of the little nympho taking his gigai out for another joy ride.

'This sucks!' Rellik yelled in his head he looked down to see the two dark shadows of the sources of the spiritual pressure he felt. 'These two better be more cooperative then the others have been.'

Rellik opened the skylight slowly and dropped down onto a small ledge. As he landed on the ledge he noticed that all spiritual pressure he had felt before vanished. He crouched low and started walking towards the center of the room and looked down over the werehouse. Rellik could see many wholes, souls that have yet to move on to the other side, all around the werehouse. These hollows were setting up camp here and killing humans to feed on their wholes.

One of the hollows stepped out into the light. He wore baggy white jeans and a white vest that was opened to reveal a very chisheled chest. In the center of his stomach was the hole signafying he was indeed a hollow. He had light blue hair and eyes to match his animalistic look. Across his right cheek was what little mask he had left. His left arm was currently missing as he walked around the werehouse.

"Are you seriously killing these humans to eat their wholes?" The animalisitc Arracnar asked snorting. He approached a female whole and ran his fingers through her bangs and snapped his teeth at her. The whole flinched away and began to sob uncontrollably. "Pathetic. The lot of you. Why Aizen even asked me to check on you is mind blowing to me."

"Big talk Grimmjow!" The other arrancar shouted. He was a massive arrancar and what little mask he had was covering his right eye up and around his head. He was the same height of Grimmjow but was built in a bigger fashion, seemingly built of stone. "I'm not the one who lost his arm to some subsitute soul reaper now am I?"

Grimmjow growled low in his throat. "Ichigo Kurisake will get what's coming to him!" Grimmjow turned and stopped as he was about to head off. He began to sniff the air and look around. "Is this place secure?"

"Yes." The mean looking arrancar spoke. "I've secured it myself. Dont worry about it. The whole place is completely spiritual pressure locked. No one can sense us in here."

"Is that right?" Grimmjow grolwed again and began to scratch the back of his head roughly. "Then how come I can't even sense you when you're right there?!" Grimmjow threw a box at the rough Arrancar, who ducked low. "Damn it Tukugowow! You sealed the building in reverse! We cant sense anything while inside the building!"

Tukugowow flinched away from the one armed Arrancar. "I'm sorry. I'll fix it right away Mr. Jeagerjaques."

'Mr. Jeagerjaques?' Rellik looked down at the two Arrancars confused. 'Sinse when did hollows have a pecking order? This Grimmjow Jeagerjaques must be one of Aizen's Espadas.'

"Just remember who you're dealing with." Grimmjow opened up a sky rift behind him. "Espada Number Six, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques! The Espada hand picked by Aizen himself to overlook the operations here in the states." Grimmjow spat at the ground. "I cant wait to see this world burn to the ground." With that Grimmjow turned and stepped into the Sky Rift and vanished from view.

'Called it!' Rellik laughed in his head.

Tukugowow growled loudly and walked over to one of the wholes and lifted the frightened soul high into the air. He opened his mouth wide and the whole was sucked into the Arrancar's mouth. Tukugowow whipped his mouth and walked around to another whole.

Rellik stepped from his vantage point and landed with a loud thud right behind the arrancar. Tukugowow turned around and growled again while he reached for the sword at his side. In a flash Rellik was beside the the shocked arrancar and rammed his opened palm into his chest, just below the gaping hole. Tukugowow hit the ground unable to move as Rellik smiled down at him.

"So," Rellik unsheathed Ragnok from his back and held the blade at Tukugowow's throat, "Lets have a little talk about Aizen shall we?"