Hollow King Chapter twelve
War Zone: Part Two
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"Isane!" Gondra shouted as he tried to squirm to his feet. He aimed Sunaryuu at one of the female arrancar's heads but was met with a boot to the face by Ghelid, sending Gondra tumbling back in the sand.
"You can't save your little Fraulein until you defeat me! But I don't think that's going to happen." Ghelid chimed as he slowly walked up to Gondra.
With a scream of rage, Gondra jumped to his feet using the momentum of a sonido to crash his fist violently against Ghelid's face. As the arrancar tumbled back through the air, Gondra fired several explosive rounds at him, engulfing him in the explosions. Ghelid's smoldering body crashed hard in the ocean as Gondra struggled to catch his breath. Gondra was about to rush over and help Isane when a cero blast shot through the surf, evaporating the water and blindsiding Gondra. With a sudden shock of pain, Gondra stabbed Sunaryuu into the sand to keep himself from falling. With gritted teeth, Gondra jerked his head in the direction of the attack in time to see Ghelid emerging from the ocean and walking towards him.
"Oh my. That was quite the attack, Gondra Durden. It would seem that I have underestimated you. I'll be sure not to let that happen again." Ghelid stated in a smooth but malevolent tone as he held his blade to his own neck. "Inhale, Hypoxia."
Just then Ghelid's sword vanished as his body started to mutate. His mask fragment merged up over his eyes creating a full gas mask. Two clear tanks full of a mysterious swamp green liquid formed on his back, connecting to his gas mask through a series of winding hoses. As Ghelid inhaled the murky liquid in gas form through his mask, his arms tripled in size, suddenly rippling with muscle fiber as a pair of spiked brass knuckles formed on his fists.
Kenpachi and Mayuri where too occupied in their own fights to help. Not that Gondra wanted them to. The credo of Squad Eleven was to win your own battle after all. He just wanted someone to help Isane. Gondra heard a scream of agony as he dodged one of Ghelid's powerful punches that sent a shock wave through the sand. Gondra couldn't afford to take his eyes off his opponent but he had no choice, he had to see if Isane was alright. As he looked over, he saw the horrible sight of Isane getting electrocuted through the tentacle that was wrapped around her neck as the other twin arrancar tore at her shihakusho.
"Damn it! Isane!" Gondra shouted, as he made another attempt to save her.
He was only a few meters away when Ghelid sonidoed in front of him, slamming his fist into Gondra's solar plexus causing him to fly backwards at an alarming speed and crash into the sand creating a large crater. Gondra rolled over on his hands and knees, coughing up a large amount of blood as he clutched Sunaryuu tightly.
"Fuck! Isane! I made a promise! I said I'd protect her! I promised everything would be okay!" Gondra screamed as he made a failed attempt at standing.
"Jack! Let me out!"
"No...I cant." Gondra mumbled as he started to lose consciousness.
"I can save her Jack!"
Ghelid walked up to the crater, stopping right in front of Gondra and picking him up by the hair. He swatted him away with a brutal backhand. As Gondra lay twitching on the ground, Ghelid approached him with his fist raised.
"Now, I think it would be a good time to pray to your god before you die." Ghelid stated in a dark yet confident tone.
As his fist came crashing down, it was stopped in mid-air by one of Gondra's hands. As the metal sword strap around his chest given to him by Mayuri turned from blue to black, Gondra looked up revealing a half formed hollow mask, two amber and black slitted dragon eyes and an insane grin on his face.
"God? Are you kidding? I am my own god!" the hollow possessed Gondra roared as he crushed Ghelid's fist effortlessly.
"Who the hell are you?" Ghelid demanded as he stepped backwards in shock.
"My name's Tyler. I'm here to kill you and save that useless bitch over there!" Tyler replied, pointing over to Isane.
"Hey! Emo cutter bitch! You better stop holding out on us and unleash the rest of your shikai!" Tyler shouted at Sunaryuu, as he held the blade up in the air.
In a flash of light, the cleaver's canon transformed into a chain gun. A jet black chain formed, linking to the hole on the hilt with a diamond shaped, metal dragon eye on the end of it. With one hand Tyler aimed the the upgraded Sunaryuu at Ghelid and pulled the trigger. The multi-barreled gun started to spin wildly as an insane spray of bullets shot out, filling Ghelid full of holes and shattering the tanks on his back. Tyler then pressed the thruster button and twisted the grip, causing the rockets to burn continuously. He grabbed the diamond at the end of the chain and let the blade go. The cleaver spun around, orbiting Tyler like a rocket on a string. As he jerked his arm to the left, the cleaver changed its trajectory and sliced Ghelid across the chest and arm. With a mad cackle, Tyler sliced him again and again with the final cut taking off Ghelid's arm at the elbow.
With a roar of frustration at his imminent defeat, Ghelid inhaled all the mist he could in one breath, trying to gain strength. He came rushing at Tyler with his lone remaining fist ready to take off Tyler's head. Tyler jerked the chain, causing Sunaryuu to fly back into his hand. Using the momentum of the rockets to spin around, he cut Ghelid's fist in half. Tyler then stabbed Sunaryuu in the sand, deactivating the thrusters but not before igniting the liquid from Ghelid's tanks, burning him and turning the sand at his feet to glass from the extreme heat. Finally, Tyler grabbed Ghelid by the mask, planting a foot in his chest. He hurled him over his shoulder into the ocean, ripping off his mask in the process. Ghelid's body slowly floated to the surface as it began to dissolve. With his final breath, Ghelid croaked out,
"Aizen-sama...mein fuhrer...I have failed you."
"Goodbye, Ghelid!" Tyler chimed as he took a savage bite out of Ghelid's mask fragment, absorbing his power.
"Now, it's time I make good on Jack's promise. Not that I mind a little girl on girl action." Tyler said to himself as he clicked Sunaryuu onto his back with the magnet on the metal strap.
Turning the blade sideways, Tyler activated the thrusters. He used them as a makeshift jet pack to rocket himself forward down the beach to where the female arrancar were dragging the half naked Isane into the surf. Tyler slammed down next to Isane, grabbing her with his left arm and pulling her tightly to his chest. He then pointed his free arm and open mouth at the two arrancar, firing off double cero blasts in both directions and vaporizing the arrancar. As what remained of the arrancar's bodies fell to the ground, Gondra regained control of his body. He looked down at Isane's unconscious body. She was covered in electrical burns. Other than a few large rags of wet clothing, she was dressed only in her underwear.
"Shit! She's not breathing!" Gondra shouted in a panic as he started to perform CPR.
It only took a moment before Gondra realized that she had started to breath on her own and was now kissing him. Gondra pulled back as Isane slowly opened her eyes. She let out a gasp, staring at him with the look of shock as she took in the remains of the hollow mask that still clung to Gondra's face and dragon-like slits of his eyes.
Gondra looked away. He couldn't bear for Isane to see him like this. Gradually, the mask started to dissolve and his eyes returned to normal. He whispered,
"I'm sorry..."
On the far left side of the beach, Mayuri was growing annoyed with his battle as he injected himself with some kind of mysterious potion that caused his arm to regrow.
"Time to end this! It looks like I'll have to get Jizo to hold its breath. Bankai." he complained.
In a flash of purple reiatsu, Mayuri's trident mutated into what looked like a cross between a giant caterpillar, a Buddhist deity and a fetus.
"Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo. Attack!"
Upon Mayuri's order, the monstrosity charged forward and impaled the arrancar multiple times with the many poisoned blades sticking out the front of the bankai. With a scream of agony, the arrancar dissolved. With the arrancar dead, Mayuri called his Jizo back to its sealed form and sheathed it in the holster on the front of his waist.
"So, that's a bankai. I am Jack's overwhelming since of envy." Gondra muttered to himself as he held Isane in his arms.
"What? Are all the fights over?" Kenpachi called as he walked up to Gondra, holding his opponents head by the hair in one hand and his sword in the other.
"Yes, Zaraki, its over! So let's all get off this damn beach!" Mayuri fumed.
"Fine. Lets go home." Kenpachi grumbled as he sheathed his sword and chucked the arrancar's head into the ocean.
We left our corpses on the beach untouched and slightly out of reach we paint the walls with our dreams we'll turn the lights out when we leave.
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