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Hollow King-Chapter two.
Life after death.
Gondra woke up face down in a ditch by the side of the road.
"How cliché" he thought to himself.
Once again Gondra pulled himself to his feet noticing that it was pitch black. He looked around taking in the scenery. He seemed to be in some kind of slum.
"Hey buddy what you doing out so late?" A thug shouted brandishing a chain with a hook on the end.
Gondra rubbed his aching head and tried to get a grip on reality.
"Hey, why don't you leave your sword on the ground and run home kid." the thug mocked.
Gondra looked up at the thug with a vexed look on his face.
"Piss off! I have way to big of a headache to deal with you right now!" Gondra grumbled.
The thug twitched furiously and started to swing the flail over his head.
"I'm not playing around here kid!" with a flick of his wrist the assailant sent the hook flying at Gondra's head at a high velocity.
Gondra drew his blade and swatted the hook out of the air shattering it. Gondra then jumped out of the ditch flying towards his assailant driving his blade through his chest then yanking it out, getting sprayed with blood in the process. Gondra didn't even flinch. The thug coughed blood and collapsed onto the dirt road. Gondra raided the man's corpse for money and used the chain to strap his sword to his back.
"I need a drink….." Gondra stated with a sigh.
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At that time in the R&D department, a computer screen powered up. A pale young man in a lab coat with two rows of horns sticking out of his forehead peered at the screen, analyzing the data. He printed out the image and glanced over his shoulder at a strange looking figure in a large throne like chair leaning on one of his closed fists with a black mask and white makeup on his face. His golden eyes fixed on a series of computer screens in front of him. On the back of his white jacket was the kanji for 12. The horned man spoke up.
"Captain Kurotsuchi."
"What is it Akon?" The strange captain asked in an uninterested and annoyed tone not taking his eyes off the monitors in front of him.
"I think you and General Yamamoto should have a look at this sir."
Kurotsuchi stood up abruptly and walked over to Akon, snatching the paper from his hand. He scanned the print out with a fascinated and intense look on his face. He suddenly turned around and sped out of the lab.
"Nemu, take over while I'm away!"
Kurotsuchi arrived at the giant doors leading to Yamamoto's office. He heard the old musty voice of the captain general.
"Enter Captain Kurotsuchi."
Mayuri walked in and approached the old man sitting behind a large desk. Mayuri handed him the printout and spoke up.
"Sir this concerns the new sensor that my men were monitoring, I believe we may have found a new potential prodigy."
"That is still up for debate captain. This method of recruitment is still untested."
"Sir this one subject was able to form his Zanpakuto and he hasn't even been in the soul society for a full day."Kurotsuchi explained.
Yamamoto rubbed his brow, thinking about what decision he should make, it was true that central 46 had proposed a new method of recruitment.
"Keep an eye on this one." Yamamoto stated, pointing to the image of Gondra on the printout.
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Gondra entered a local inn and sat down at the bar. He placed a few coins on the counter wile rubbing his aching head.
"Sake." he ordered.
The bartender stepped forward pouring Gondra a glass. With three gulps, Gondra downed the drink not caring that the other bar patrons were staring at him. He was still wearing his follow the leader t shirt and black jeans that now were covered in blood.
"Judging from your appearance I'd say you just arrived here. Let me be the first to welcome you to North Rukongai district 80 Zaraki." The old barkeep stated.
Just then the bar door flew open and two other thugs stepped through.
"Hey kid that was our comrade that you took out back there." another thug called out.
Gondra looked over his shoulder his hair leaving a shadow over his eyes.
"He shouldn't have bothered me. That's why he's dead. You two want to avenge him?"
The two men drew daggers and lunged at Gondra.
"Damn punk!"
Gondra drew his Zanpakuto, cutting down both men without getting up from his seat. the thugs fell to the floor with their faces split open. The barkeep chuckled wile pouring Gondra another drink.
"I haven't seen moves like that since Kenpachi all those years ago."
Gondra looked up from his glass.
"Kenpachi, who's he?"
"He's captain of 11th company; Kenpachi Zaraki. Killed the former captain and took his title of the strongest."
Gondra gulped down his second glass of sake and grinned as his headache finally started to subside.
"Sounds interesting tell me more."
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For the next few weeks, Gondra rented out the top floor of the inn. In exchange for performing tasks such as sweeping the floors, serving drinks, and most of all keeping order over the place, he was allowed to stay there for free. He decided to try and fit in by dressing like everyone else. Hey when in Rome. He wasn't just goofing around either. In the days, he tried to learn all he could about the soul society and in the nights he defeated gangs of the district, improving his combat skills. One night as Gondra roamed the streets, someone was searching for him, dashing across the roofs of the buildings was a small ninja like figure with the kanji for 2 on her captains' jacket. She had a frustrated look on her face as she scanned the streets. She couldn't help but let her mind wonder.
"Damn it Yoruichi what do you see in that whelp!?" she thought to herself. "And why send me of all people to draft this guy? What did the captain general mean by we need a captain to bring this one in?"
It was all so vexing to too her. She then decided to take out a little anger on her target.
"Found him!"
Gondra sensed a suppressed spiritual pressure rushing at him from out of nowhere. Before he had time to even think about reaching for his sword the figure pinned him to the wall with her blade at his throat. Gondra looked down in surprise to see a short slender woman with short ebony hair glaring up at him with killer intent in her eyes. Gondra noticed her captains' jacket and chuckled to himself.
"And what would a captain of the 13 court guard squads want with me?" Gondra asked.
Soi Fon continued to study the strange man wile thinking to herself.
"No mistaking it this is him. What's he smirking at?"
It was just then that she noticed there close proximity. The front of her body was completely pressed against his, sandwiching him to the wall. Soi Fon had to fight to suppress the urge to slit his throat right then and there. With a pissed off look in her face and a mad blush on her cheeks she jumped back sheathing her sword.
"I am here on behalf of the shinigami draft program. You have two choices. One, you can work for us or two, you can live out the rest of your days in a place under the jurisdiction of my squad where we leave potential threats like you to rot called the maggots nest."
Her words laced with anger.
"Would that make you the jailer my dear?"
She had to stop herself from drawing her sword again.
"Just shut up and come with me!" she yelled.
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Half a semester passed at the shinigami academy and Gondra's grades weren't going anywhere. He was more than sufficient in combat, at the top of his class in fact. He was also able to achieve shunpo or something like it at least. Gondra thought back to the test he had to take remembering the look on the instructors face when Gondra reached the checkpoint in time. The instructor looked down it his clipboard muttering one word to himself.
"Sonido…"
He then walked over to the lead instructor to inform him that he passed. But the fact remained that Gondra was absolutely horrible in kidou. He couldn't even get the basics down. And with that failing grade Gondra looked to be stuck in the academy. Until one day.
Gondra sat on the roof of the academy looking at the dusk sky. He closed his eyes like he was beginning to meditate
"Talk to me."
"Okay."
When Gondra opened his eyes he was back at his mindscape. The song Helena by My Chemical Romance was playing softly off in the distance. He looked up to see the mysterious girl casually walk up to him.
"You wanted to talk?"
"I think I'll be able to hear your name now, Ms. Zanpakuto."
He stated with a grin. She grinned back and tilted her head to one side.
"Alright but before I tell you I need you to do something for me first. Throw me in the air as high as you can."
Without questioning, Gondra walked up and grabbed the small woman around the mid section lifting her up.
"No! The sword not me!!"
She shouted with tear filled eyes squirming under his touch, waiving her arms and legs franticly and flapping her wings. A shrill cackle could be heard of in the distance.
"Kyahahahaha!!"
"Shut up!" she yelled off into the distance.
Gondra set her down and watched as she caught her breath with a hand on her chest and a crimson blush on her cheeks.
"My Zanpakuto is ticklish!?" He thought to himself.
Gondra stepped back, drawing his blade. He reeled back ready to launch it as high as he could.
"Here goes, Haa!!" he roared, sending his Zanpakuto through the atmosphere like a katana shaped missile. The girl watched the sky marveling in his display of strength.
"I think you hit something…" she commented.
"What the hell could I possibly hit!? A satellite?!"
"Look there!"
The girl pointed at something burning through the atmosphere on re-entry. It crashed into one of the nearby ruins. Gondra ran over to where the object landed, he noticed a beam of light shining through the hole in the sealing shining down on a mound of scorched sand, Gondra crouched down and began to sift through the pile until he came in contact with something metallic. He suddenly felt a rush of power. With one hand, Gondra yanked the monstrosity from the sand and held it up to the light. In Gondra's hand was a giant jagged cleaver shining sand gold in the setting sun. Mounted along the flat edge of the blade was what looked like a giant gun barrel like out of an old war documentary. The kind that would be on a freaking destroyer class battleship! Along the length of the barrel there were strange spike like protrusions, the blade itself was cracked and chipped like it had been sitting in that sand for centuries. At the hilt was a trigger and a button. He pointed his blade aiming the gun barrel at a nearby wall and pulled the trigger with his index finger, the recoil almost ripped his shoulder out of the socket as a devastatingly explosive blast destroyed the wall, leaving a scorched crater. Gondra was about to push the button when the girl stepped through the crater.
"I wouldn't press that indoors."
Gondra stepped out with the girl in tow.
"Try to cut into that statue wile pushing the button in mid swing."
As soon as Gondra pressed the button the spike like protrusions shot out flames giving the blade enough propulsion to cleave the statue in two. The spikes to his surprise turned out to be rocket thrusters.
"Nice!! I have to test this out!"
"We need a test subject" His sword said, glancing over at a toppled over skyscraper next to a waterfall with an evil look on her face. When ever you need my power, just call out my name. It's Sunaryu. The girl stated with a smile.
"Sunaryu... that means Sand Dragon. Nice name."
Gondra noticed for the first time that the girl was missing one of her wings. Clutching his new blade Gondra stepped into the ruined building. There was his hollow, reclining on a sofa wile smoking a hookah and drinking some kind of rancid black liquid over ice, the song robots 3 humans 0 by Norma Jean blasting in the background. Gondra couldn't help but think to himself why the voices in his head had access to music when he didn't.
"God I miss my iPod" he thought to himself.
His hollow shot him an evil grin.
"Well hello there Jack, nice to see you again." The hollow spoke in an evil yet happy tone. "Getting stronger I see. So, what brings you by here to see me?"
"How about a sparring match?"
The hollow grinned in an insane way only he was capable of. Then he reached behind the couch and pulled out a large dark gray katana that didn't look a thing like Gondra's.
"Sounds good to me. Lets take this out back, shall we?"
A/N okay that's chapter two pleas leave a comment if you would be so kind. And I would be more than happy to answer any and all of the questions that you all might have.
Sandragon out.