Author's Note: The Rating of this story went up to 'M' for gore and violence ONLY. There will be NO sex in this story and all romance will be kept 'T' rated.

Vicente stared down at Gabriel over Karri's shoulder. He really didn't look so good.

In fact, it was truly nasty.

"I don't know wha-" Vicente turned around just in time to grab Connor's shoulders as he came over as worried as the rest of them and turned him around. "Connor. Don't. You don't need to see this."

"But Gabri-"

Vicente shook his head. "No. Now…can you go over to Lyneth and have her bring the purple sword she's holding?"

"The granny store sword?" Connor asked, glancing back at his sister who stood unmoving.

"Yes," Vicente didn't want to ask what the ten-year-old meant by that. "And then you should stand back." He glanced at his watch. It had already been one minute since Aizen left and hospital was too far away to get here in time as Gabriel was losing blood and fast.

Vicente glanced at Connor as he asked for the sword, but Lyneth shook her head.

The former Novena frowned, his dark eyes meeting hers, "I need that sword, Lyneth. Give it to-"

"No," Starrk said, sighing heavily as he spoke, his eyes traveling to Milo and Janus' parents who were beginning to wake from where they laid on the sidewalk. "If Gabriel releases, then Aizen can use his powers. I… I am sorry, Lyneth, Connor, Karri, but I-"

"No, he can't."

Vicente glanced over Starrk's shoulder at Janus who really wanted-could use a jacket about now. It was cold out here and he wasn't wearing anything and worse, he was going to have to explain this to his parents, wasn't he? "Aizen's plan isn't going to work, just do it."

"I thought you were sleeping." Vicente said, standing up.

"Too wound up," the young man said, really trying to ignore his own lack of clothes, but it was hard not to.

"Are you sur-" Starrk began backed away as Vicente tried to snatch the blade out of his grasp. "No, Vicente I won't ris-"

"Do you want him to die? Starrk. Think a minute. Do you want Lyneth and Connor to be without a brother?"

He was silent a moment before thrusting the sheathed weapon into the young man's hands. "There. Take it. Don't want to lose any of my friends." This was not working out like Starrk had first planned. Not at all."Is that understood?"

"It is. Now, step back and watch after Connor," Vicente ordered him, turning and rushing back to Azura who was trying to comfort Karri over Gabriel's state. "Here," Vicente skidded to a stop next to Karri and got down on his knees next to her oldest son. "I don't have time to explain, but don't scream at me."

"What-" Karri gasped as he drew the granny store sword from its sheath. "What are you-"

"Just let me do this, I will explain later. Azura, hold her. Hud-Hudson!" he yelled, making the snob look up from his cellphone.

"What the hell, Arrurueire? I am busy! Faceb-"

"Come here."

"You can't order me around peasant! Social media needs a proper king!"

Vicente sighed and turned his attention back to Gabriel who was already struggling to breathe."Sorry. This isn't going to make things any easier," he glanced at Azura to make sure she had a hold on Karri. "Got her?"

His older sister nodded and Vicente gently turned Gabriel over. He wasn't sure if was a fortunate thing he fell face first or not. Broken nose aside, but glasses and surely some kind of concussion as well. And maybe that was a good thing…Vicente thought, ignoring Hudson's complaining as Karri threw up on his 'priceless' shoes at the nasty sight before her.

"You like to be resilient, don't you?" Vicente muttered, sure the blow to the head had knocked the former octava out long enough so he wouldn't die by trying to do something stupid; like actually try to stand up and fight.

At this point, the blood, the weird crawling creatures emerging from the wound, and the pieces and lengths of intestines strewn across the pavement were the least of Vicente's worries as he found it hard to keep Gabriel sitting up and his head tilted back just so. "And guess this is going to have to do it." He let Gabriel's back lean on his chest, the leather jacket already dirty, and carefully brought the sword up to Gabriel's lips; his free hand trying to align everything as close as possible. "Hope this works. Sip, Fornicaras."

Karri screamed as Vicente slid the whole sword down her son's throat, the cold metal waking Gabriel with a start.

What- the pain was worsened as he felt all of insides melting into nothing, but then… then it faded. What just…happened? He heard voices and something was nearly choking him. Hey. I don't wan- Gabriel opened his eyes and found himself in a comforting hug, his mom's arms wrapped tightly around him. "What-" he gasped in pain as he tried to take a deep breath. Everything felt better, but… off at the same time.

"And the pest returns…"

"Wh-"Gabriel glanced around, but didn't see who was talking.

"Up here."

He looked up and found himself staring at Vicente who smiled. "Why…you…"

"I won't eat you, promise."

"I am-" he stammered, wondering for a moment how the hell he ended up in a hug between his mom and frickin' Aaroniero. But that didn't matter. I am alive… "Hel-"Gabriel frowned and tried again, but to no avail. What's wrong?

"Don't move too much," Vicente ordered, holding him even more tight as Karri finally let go. "This just healed your wounds and stopped the bleeding, but not your organs."

Now it all made sense, too much and it was annoying.

"Aw…damn," Gabriel muttered and closed his eyes again. "Why." He hated only using one word at a time, but it was still so painful to breathe. "Better…then-"

"Butterfree?!" A voice screeched from somewhere. "My brother's Butterfree?! This is the best day of my-"

"Shut up, peasant! I am listening to music!"

"Butter-"

"Connor! Stay!"

"Aw…" Gabriel managed to groan loudly as he finally added it all up, his wings drooping a bit more than they already were. "Why?" He just wanted to know why. Of what, he couldn't quite add it together in his state. "Too much…blood." He honesty felt like he would pass out any minute even though he was sitting down.

Or am I?

"Honey," Karri began, her hand fixing some of her son's strange pink hair back into place, "rest, okay?"

Gabriel nodded the best he could and did just that, only to feel Vicente sigh heavily. "We have to take him inside. It's almost six in the morning and people are getting up. We don't want them finding a mess…"

"No, I don't think that would be good," Azura agreed, glancing at Hudson who was no help at all. He can clean it up. I'll make him. Somehow. "Get Gabriel to his room and I will take care of this."

Vicente nodded and glanced at Karri, "See? It's all okay now."

"Uh… okay." She didn't really appreciate him almost skewing her son's insides even more, but she was too tired to complain. "His room is upstairs."

"Okay…" Vicente glanced around and sighed as he found himself without a person to help him. Janus could be of help, but he was shorter than he was, Hudson would refuse and was shorter and- "Azura, can you help me lift him and then clean things up here?"

"Yeah," she nodded and carefully stood, not wanting to track any blood into the house, but her foot crushed one of the crawling lumps of flesh anyhow. "Gabriel, We are going to have to move you."

"Move?" He asked, glancing at her with his amber-coloured eyes. "Why?"

"You're kinda in the middle of the street," Vicente laughed, getting a tired glare. "Oh, come on… now, this is going to hurt, but we have to do it." He didn't wait for a reply as he saw a light on a second floor turn on down the street. "And-"

Gabriel screamed as Azura carefully swept him into her arms. Damn, this hurts… why don't I have the same pain tolerance I had? This- He glanced at Connor and Lyneth who were being escorted along behind him into the house, Vicente making sure neither looked behind them.

Primera or not, Lyneth did not need to see the blood and gore either.

"And Butterfree's room's upstairs," Connor pointed, still in awe of the sight before him. "Want me to help yo-"

"I think I got it," Azura smiled at the child and made her way upstairs and down the hallway to what she figured was Gabriel's room as he didn't have pokemon wallpaper or a Girls Only sign on his door. "And here we are," she announced, moving slightly to open the door.

"Than.." Gabriel managed to say. For some reason, he was very, very glad to see his room. It was something… something normal that hadn't changed. The one and only thing left of the life he had before all organs he had left before this. It was a nice tidy room, save the unmade bed that Azura gently laid him down on after calling Connor take half the blankets off the bed and roll them up to put under the injured's knees. "Here you are. We aren't going to move you anymore."

"Goo…" Gabriel tried to take another deep breath as being set down caused him more pain, but he couldn't. He just couldn't. "No…"

"No, we won't attack you," Azura said, knowing he was worried about the other arrancar. "Promise. We're…a family now."

He half smiled/frowned that. He wasn't sure how he liked the idea of getting along, but things changed and that… It's okay.

"Try to sleep," Azura ordered, tucking Gabriel in much to his shock, "I am going to take care of your mom and you rest. I'll keep him-" She glanced at Connor who was still marveling at his older brother's wings. Actual, real life wings!-"Busy."

Gabriel nodded a little before closing his eyes. He felt rather sick, the pain still ever present and a bit hungry of course, but at least… I am alive.

That was enough for him.

"How is he doing?" Karri the moment Azura walked into the kitchen, Connor behind her, the kid worried but so amazed at the same time.

"I told him to rest," Azura replied, sitting down at the table, glancing at the now empty- "Where's Milo?"

"Oh…" Karri yawned, "Janus came in a took him back to his house. The one across the street and Hudson's helping him take his parents."

"Wh-what?" Azura didn't believe it. "How?"

"He promised to like him on facebook."

"…Really?" Now she had a plan. An evil and brilliant plan."I will be right back."

Karri nodded and Azura left the kitchen where Connor was instantly sorting through his pokemon decks looking for Butterfree.

"I have to see what powers he has and if there is anything useful he use to get better," Connor said, still looking, "or we're going to have to put him in a pokeball."

Karri winced in unison with Vicente as he walked into the room, placing a hand on Connor's shoulder.

"No, I don't think we should," he said, not sure how to explain this all to a ten-year-old at this hour. "I don't think we have any pokeballs right now either."

"Oh," Connor nodded a bit, finally finding the card he wanted, "Guess you're right. But we need honey. Lots of it. Says here, Butterfree collects lots of honey, so I guess he eats it."

"Well," Vicente really hated to say this," I don't think Gabriel likes honey… He's a hollow."

"But I thought he was a pokemon!" Connor cried.

"Yeah, I know you did… maybe…." Gabriel was going to hate him even more now, but it didn't matter. "He's half-hollow-half-pokemon. Ever thinka that?"

Karri gave him a look, but Vicente just shrugged.

It was better off this way, didn't she see that?

"I do," she muttered and slumped so more onto the table, almost asleep now. "Dowhatyeawan."

Vicente didn't understand a word of what she just drawled, but he nodded anyhow. They were all tired and it was best if they all went to-

"AHHH! Get it off! Get it-"

He winced as he heard a sickening crack.

What his sister did to Hudson, he didn't want to know, but the snob should at least keep it quiet as not to wake the whole neigh-

"You didn't get it! AHH! It bit me and-"

Vicente heard another crash. No. More like, thud.

He sighed.

He was going to have to finish cleaning, wasn't he?

"Oh, great…" He yawned and glanced to make sure Connor was still busy, and he was, so the tired young man with leather jacket headed outside to find Hudson passed out on the street while his sister stared at the ground, taking a step back as if crept out by something.

"What is it?" he asked making his way over, only to stop as Azura motioned for him not to come any closer.

"Stay…where you are," Vicente's older sister ordered, "I don't know what these things are but one just crawled inside Hudson. Stay back."

"What?" He glanced down only to step away as some lump of flesh began to crawl towards him as it sensed his presence. "What are these…?" he counted the moving pieces. Some headed towards Azura, the others eating away at Hudson, or more like into him. Three, five, six… "Azura…back away and get ready to run inside."

She nodded and swept another one away from her with a mop. She stepped on two already and she was sure she saw Aizen take at least five of his own. "But why he'd want them, I don't know…."

"Who wants what?" Hudson cried, trying to get the other creepers off of him, but they were fast and, "I am not an apple, you worms! Get off me!"

"Aizen," Azura carefully stepped over to her younger brother. "He was stupid enough to take some of these… creatures."

"Creatures?" Vicente wasn't sure, but by the way the moved… "they're caterpillars. From… from inside Gabriel. I didn't think they were more than falling pieces of flesh, but…."

"But what?!" Hudson screeched, sending another one flying into the grass. "I hate this and they bite! Caterpill-what?!" It finally registered, "These creepy things came out of Gabriel? Well, get his creepy weird kids off me!"

Kids?

Vicente smiled, making Hudson scream even louder, complaining how no one cared. And how his parents didn't care either and how he ate them, and so forth and- "I know how he does it. I know how he brings himself back to life." It was a great day in Aaroniero Arruruerie's life. One that would be cherished and held dear for the rest of time.

But, "ow, that has to hurt."

"Yeah," Azura winced as well as the realisation settled in. "What are we going to tell Karri?"

"I donno," Vicente shrugged, noticing a garage door opening. "On no. We can't-" he rushed over and made Hudson stand up and seconds later the three of them hid the mess and the mop behind them as the car drove by, the driver only seeing three 'friends' hanging out.

The moment it was gone, the three rushed inside Karri's house, Azura abandoning the mop on the lawn before slamming the door shut.

"Phew, are you okay?" she asked Vicente as Hudson tried to dig into one of the holes in his face to try and grab another as it tried to craw inside. "And you," Azura opened the door and promptly kicked Hudson, sending him staggering outside. "Stay out!"

"No!" he screamed, the door slamming shut before he could try to get back in. "It's eating through my face! No!"

Azura winced as he continued to scream and howl even.

She felt a bit bad for him, but there was no way she was going out there.

"Go upstairs, Vicente. Get far, far away," She ordered, feeling Hudson's reiatsu begin to stir as she leaned her back on the door. "And don't you break this down!"

"I will if I have to! They are all-"

She winced again as she heard more screams, her eyes watching her brother do as he was told. The caterpillars they had left must have sensed Hudson's reaitsu and made right for it. Damn, they're fast…And don't look at me like that, Karri… I will explain. I promise.

She couldn't help but feel sorry she made the woman worry even more due to the scene Hudson was mak-

Azura froze.

Hudson had stopped screaming.

Is he dead?

Azura turned around and looked through the peephole in the door only to gasp. The others. Coeur and… everyone else. Damn it. They are outside and-

A blond knocked on the door

"What do you want?!" Azura called.

"Can we come in?" the young man asked,, not sure why the other on the steps was moving away from him like carried the plague.

"Uh…" Azura glanced at Karri who was still confused and scared of what was going on. "Use the back door. Jump the gate!"

"Okay!"

The redhead listened to the sound of footsteps and followed them to the glass door she slid open for the group. "Welcome. Hudson's just…" She didn't know how to put it. "Weird. Come in.""Come in. I'll get your sister's meds later today, okay? No charge…"

"Why?" Couer asked as he staggered inside into the hallway. "You like to charge me."

"Things changed," Azura muttered, yawning as well. "Go to the living room and sleep. It's all sorted out for the moment. Take where you want…"

"Okay," Pagan nodded and made his way to the living room, hoping to get to sleep as soon as possible. "Anywhere?" he glanced around the room, the couch already claimed by a jacket and a few other items while someone seemed to have claimed the chair and another a piece of the floor next to the couch.

"Yeah," Azura wished she could have referred them to Milo and Janus' house as well, but their parents had been placed under Janus' complete powers, so they wouldn't remember a thing of what happened after. So, as far as they knew, Milo found a sword under the floor and Janus was still missing.

And being the nice person she was, Azura didn't want them to freak out, so said to the news guests, "Take anywhere you want, I'll steal your wallets later and ID you while you sleep…"

"Good idea…" Teresa yawned and laid down on the part of the floor that wasn't claimed. It felt strange to be in Gabriel's house. He didn't like it, but they both agreed to be civil and so he said nothing. "Thanks."

"Nothing of it," Azura said and left the room to let the others settle down. She knew they would be of no help at the moment and she didn't feel like explaining the events of the evening, so instead went and grabbed Hudson a blanket-she tossed it out the door of course, along with a pillow- before going upstairs where she found her brother on the floor of Connor's room.

Both of them sleeping.

Vicente on the floor and Connor on the bed.

Azura smiled and took her jacket of to lay across her brother. Hopefully he'd be warm enough until she could find something more to use. She kissed him good night before making her way to Lyneth's room where she gently knocked.

"Ugh?" The teenager's voice asked as if half-sleeping as well.

"It's Azura, can I come in?'

"Yeah, yeah…"

"Hi," Azura opened the door and stepped inside, trying not to wince at all the cute boy posters and boy band posters and the sort. "Can I borrow your floor?" She knew she claimed a place downstairs, but with more people, she didn't want to have to fight the others. Not to mention she couldn't help but feel the nasty discomfort she used to feel in Hueco Mundo about being around men.

"Sure, you can camp in here," Lyneth didn't want to be alone either. Not with Starrk that evil jerk. He wanted to let her brother die. "And I am ignoring you still!"

Azura watched the teen fall silent for a moment as if caught up in an internal battle with her other side. "I"ll get my stuff."

Lyneth nodded and Azura left the room, to get her blankets, one of which she draped over Vicente before heading to her room. As she fell asleep on Lyneth's floor with an extra pillow, she faintly heard Karri talking in a calm soothing voice.

Azura glanced at Lyneth's sleeping form and smiled faintly.

I wish I had that kind of love in my house… But I guess… I do.

Don't I, Aero?

I do.

Damn, I wish you were here to see it. Vicente's such a pest, you'd love him. I say that every night, don't I, big brother? I don't want you to become lonely. I don't want you to become like me.

But I know you aren't, Azura smiled and closed her eyes. You're an angel.

Author's notes: Wow. Some people are finally getting some sleep around here. As I was writing this arc, I was trying and trying to get them to sleep, but it wasn't happening! Thankfully it has now and I must say I feel rather bad for Hudson. He'll be okay though. And don't forget to 'like' his facebook page.