Hollow King Chapter twenty five
King of Panthers VS Jack of Dragons
I hope you all like this fight, Tite Kubo owns bleach and no, I'm not dead.
Gondra was grinning like an insane shark as he walked to the sparing area with Aiona and 11 in tow. Grimmjow was a few paces ahead of him. "What's got you so happy?" the Espada asked.
"This will be my first real fight in my new form. I'm looking forward at testing it out." Gondra replied as he pried the safety off the lighter Szayel had given him with his teeth. After flicking the sparks several times with his calloused thumb, he lit up a cigarette.
"I hope you set yourself on fire with one of those things." Aiona said coldly.
"Don't think I'll go easy on you just cus' your my fraccion." Grimmjow stated in a stern tone.
"I don't care who wins. I hate both of you but, I'm leaning towards Gondra in this fight. I'll be happy if either one of you gets your ass kicked." Aiona huffed.
"Shut up!" Gondra and Grimmjow said in unison followed by a menacing growl from 11.
"Does somebody need to get fixed? My brother can arrange that." Aiona said said as she looked down at the hollow dog. The creature's fur bristled and he glared at the woman with his piercing copper eye. The pupil turned blood red, causing the part of the wall next to Aiona's head to explode. She looked at the crater in the wall and back at the hound multiple times with a freaked out look on her face. "Was that a fucking balla?" she shouted in surprise. The dog just grinned and walked up to Gondra.
"I'm starting to like you more and more, 11." Gondra said as he studied the dog.
The beast was built like a furry tank with rippling muscles under his shaggy fur. His coat had brindle zig zags all over it with jet black outlines. His ears were triangular and drooped a little. The paws on the beast were massive and armed with sharp claws. His jagged mask only covered the right side of his face with a oval shaped eye socket and burgundy designs around it. His right eye wasn't visible but a piercing amber light shone through the hole. As he walked, his slender tail swayed back and fourth. He appeared to be in a good mood. Gondra then realized that this dog was his first real friend in Hueco Mundo.
"Come on boss, can't we keep him?" Gondra asked the Espada.
"I'll think about it after the fight." Grimmjow stated.
Just after Grimmjow had finished speaking, a shrill and familiar cry for help echoed through the three arrancar's minds.
"No! Aizen-sama! You said the pain would stop! You said it would stop hurting! Aizen-sama! No no no no no no no no no no... no!" "Bitch. I will not accept defeat." Aaroniero's voices screamed as they died..
Gondra froze in place. Feeling like he could relate to being in pain.
"God! That stupid ping-pong ball just wouldn't shut up!" Aiona complained.
"It sounds like they're getting closer." Grimmjow said in a cold voice."
"The shinigami." Aiona said darkly.
"Rukia..." Gondra said under his breath.
"We better get this fight over with. Come on." Grimmjow stated as he pushed open a heavy set of doors, revealing a large training grounds. Alright. Come at me with everything you got!" He shouted as he stepped into the center of the arena and drew his sword.
"Gladly!" Gondra roared as he flew at Grimmjow and brandished his buster blade.
Sparks flew as blades clashed. Grimmjow didn't move an inch as he blocked Gondra's attack. Grimmjow grinned as he tried to punch Gondra in the face, only to have his fist latched onto by his fraccion's strange teeth. Gondra put both hands on his blade and pushed hard while firing a mouth cero simultaneously. Grimmjow was able to get away from the blade but, the cero scorched his left side. He slashed his blade at Gondra while performing a spin kick, hitting him square in the solar plexus. Gondra flew back and crashed into a wall. He then looked left to see Aiona sitting on the stairs, holding her legs. Her ear buds in and she was listening to some ere metal song. It was obvious she was paying little attention to the fight.
"He's coming you know." she said without taking her eyes off her feet.
Gondra turned his head to the right, to see Grimmjow running on the wall at him. With a deadly roundhouse kick to his opponent's face. he sent Gondra past Aiona and smashing him into the opposite wall. Gondra kicked off and charged at Grimmjow with his sword leaning against his fore arm in front of him. Grimmjow was still in mid air and was blasted back and into yet another wall. Grimmjow used both of his legs to drop kick Gondra on impact and deal some damage. He then leaped forward and smacked Hexagram out of Gondra's hand and send it flying at Aiona and into a wall. She paid no mind. With a cackle, Grimmjow stuck his sword into the ground and start to pound his fists all over Gondra's upper body in a devastating haymaker. Grimmjow picked his sword up and and raised it as Gondra crashed to his knees.
"Looks like you weren't meant to be my fraccion after all, Gondra Durden." Grimmjow said with malicious grin on his face. All of a sudden, he was blindsided by something furry. Gondra looked up to see 11 knock Grimmjow back with Hexagram in his mouth. The beast sonidoed back next to Gondra and dropped the blade into his hand.
"Thanks." Gondra said as he staggered to his feet.
"So it's the two of you now? What can some half rate arrancar and his pet dog do to me?" Grimmjow scoffed.
11 roared loudly, causing him to be enveloped in mist.
"Is that a...?" Gondra thought.
"No fucking way. That mutt's an arrancar?" Grimmjow said in surprise.
When the smoke cleared, it revealed a sleeker version of 11, covered in heavy armor plating. Gondra noticed the extra two heads and snake tail as well.
Gondra grinned and leaned his sword against his right shoulder as he stood up. "Shoot down the sky! Hexagram!" he shouted as the explosion of his sword covered him. Gondra flexed his massive dragon arms as they formed. His hair became more spiky, his foot talons, tail and wings appeared and his mask merged over the other side of his face. His dragon release mode was now fully activated.
"Guess that means it's my turn!" Grimmjow shouted as he held his sword over his left side and scratched the blade with his fingers. "Now Grind! Pantera!" he roared as his blade started to glow blue. A gust of air swirled around him, masking him from sight.
Gondra could feel the massive surge of power that blasted through the room. When Grimmjow came back into view, his mask fragment was gone and replaced with one over his forehead. His human features were replaced with that of a large predatory cat's, like his eyes, ears, and teeth. His body was now mostly covered in a metal plated outfit with clawed hands and feet.
"So this is the power of an Espada." Gondra said as he cracked his neck. "Eat this!" he shouted as he pointed the barreled ends of his dragon wings at Grimmjow and 11 started charging up a cero. Gondra shot a series of explosive rounds at his target and 11 shot three ceros from his mouths. Grimmjow kicked several of the shells out of the air with a massive spin kick and dodged the ceros. He fired back with his own blue green cero that 11 absorbed through the mouth of his right head and shot it out the center mouth. The blast hit Grimmjow in the chest knocking him back. Gondra rushed in and smashed him through the heavily damaged wall into a gigantic room with a blue sky. Gondra opened his mouth and blasted Grimmjow with his incendio cero. Grimmjow planted his clawed feet on Gondra's chest and drop kicked him hard. To extinguish the flames, Grimmjow let out a loud roar, breaking the sound barrier. Gondra could feel she shock-wave of it as he corrected his balance and took to the sky. His wings working like air foils.
"Lets see what else you got!" Grimmjow growled as he pointed his elbow at Gondra. Several green spikes shot out of the panther king's armor plating and rocketed towards Gondra. He tried his best to swat them out of the air with his wing but, the density and speed of the projectiles was so great that it nearly ripped his wing off. Gondra aimed the end of the damaged wing at his opponent and fired a rather large explosive shell, causing his left wing to give out and the barrel to explode. Grimmjow reached out with his clawed hands to stop the shell and was blasted back by the force behind it. The Espada crashed into the side of the same tower that they had came from and was being scrapped across the side of it by the rocket propelled shell. When the thrusters stopped, Grimmjow got a good look at the round. It had a razor toothed etching of a face on the end. "Kyahaha! Cool bullet but, it looks like a dud." He cackled.
Gondra just grinned from the ground below and snapped his fingers, triggering a giant explosion right in Grimmjow's face, followed by a small mushroom cloud. "How's that for a fucken' dud?" Gondra said with a smirk as he tried to catch his breath. He grabbed the bladed edge of his broken wing and pulled, causing it to disconnect from hid body and form a makeshift sword. What was left of his wing folded onto his back. Gondra extended his right wing in front of him and used the spikes as a gun sight and scanned the area he thought Grimmjow was in. a white glint at six O clock caught his eye. It was Grimmjow, heading right for him at breakneck speed. Gondra fired off a smaller yet faster round like a sniper bullet. Grimmjow ducked and the bullet passed through his blue hair. Gondra braced himself with his blade ready. His scaled sword met with the edged metal on Grimmjow's forearms in a shower of sparks. The two clashed weapons more times before Gondra found an opening to take off the Espada's head. Just before Gondra's scales could connect with Grimmjow's neck, he ducked.
"It's over!" Grimmjow shouted as he pointed the fingers of his free hand at Gondra's chest. "laceración!" four flat blue beams of energy ripped through Gondra's chest and out his back.
"Too... fast..." Gondra coughed out as blood gurgled up his throat. He slumped to the ground and felt his resereccion deactivate.
"Aiona. Get your buddy to that human girl." Grimmjow called over. That was the last thing Gondra heard before he blacked out.
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Gondra awoke to voices in the background. It seemed like Grimmjow was having an argument with Aiona. He figured from the silhouettes in the doorway. He then noticed that the color of everything was off. Instead of white covered in shadow, there was an orange light glowing all around him. Gondra turned his head to the right to see a young girl with orange hair in a white outfit sitting beside him with the palms of her hands pointed at the light. "Who are you?" he asked.
"It's not good for you to talk right now, Mr arrancar." the girl said in a timid voice.
"Are you quite done yet? I don't usually allow visitors." a dreary voice said from the shadows. Gondra looked past the girl to see a short thin arrancar with black shaggy hair and a mask fragment that covered the left side of his head and part of his eye like a helmet. Gondra could have sworn he had seen that person before. The green tear markings that went down from his eyes and the overall expression jogged Gondra's memory a little.
"All done. You can stand up now." the girl said.
Right away, Gondra could feel that he was fully healed from not just his battle with Grimmjow, but almost every battle he had ever been in since he died. "You did all this?" Gondra asked the girl as they both stood up.
"That's right. I healed most of your scars too. I left the one over your eye alone. It reminds me of the one Kenpachi-San has." the girl said with a faint smile.
"You know Captain Zaraki? How? What's your name?" Gondra asked in a surprised yet, hushed voice.
"My name's Orihime Inoue. I'm sort of here against my own will..." she said in a quiet voice as she looked down.
"Looks like I found her before Ichigo. What the hell should I do now?" Gondra thought as he looked around the room.
"And who are you? I haven't seen you around here before but, I recognize you from somewhere." the arrancar said as he walked over and studied Gondra. His intense green eyes seemed to have no emotion in them.
"Hey Ulquiorra! Quit joshing one of my fraccion!" Grimmjow called out as he stepped into the room with Aiona.
"So you had your fraccion replaced. I see your making up for your shortcomings." Ulquiorra stated as he turned his head towards Grimmjow.
"And what the fuck do you mean by that, you runt?" Grimmjow growled.
"Your presence grows irritating. Leave and take your fraccion with you." Ulquiorra stated as he walked to the door to see the three of them out.
"You'll get yours you emo vampire runt." Grimmjow grumbled as he walked out of the room. Aiona and Gondra were in tow. " Lets get some lunch.
"Wait. I didn't catch your name." Orihime said to Gondra.
"It's Gondra Durden. Arrancar number 87." Gondra stated as he walked out the door.
Finally! A new chapter of HK! I'm sorry for keeping you guys waiting like half a year! Hope you all enjoyed and pleas review. Btw, I NEED A NEW BETA READER!. my last one was a freak and I don't want to be in contact with him anymore so any takers? let me know.
Sandragon out-