Hollow King Chapter twenty six

Can't pass go.

Hey everybody! Sorry for the long wait. I hope this chapter makes up for it. Btw, please disregard anything my old beta has to say. Gokuss400 is sick in the head and we had a falling out so I want nothing to do with that guy. He's been kinda cyber stalking me.

But, I have a great new beta now. Fire wolf Fred. FWF for short. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter and remember that I do not own bleach XD

"Hurry up. It's this way." Aiona said as she led Gondra down a series of identical looking corridors.

"What's the rush?" Gondra asked as he looked out windows and down hallways.

"I'm fucking starving. Aren't you?" Aiona answered.

"I guess, but I want to study the castle a little more. Maybe they have a mall with an arcade and a head shop." Gondra said with a grin.

"You're fucking with me, right?" Aiona asked as she looked at Gondra with a raised eyebrow. "The closest thing you'll get to those things is my weird brother's lab. It would look sketchy for you to hang out with a guy with pink hair

all the time." she said with a sigh.

"Now that you mention it, I am kinda hungry."

"Good. We're here." Aiona said as she pushed open a heavy set of white doors with ease.

Gondra stepped in to find a giant cafeteria filled with various arrancar.

"Grab a trey. I'll meet you over there." Aiona said.

Gondra was surprised at the large selection of meat they had. Some of it didn't even look edible. "Must be hollow meat." With a grin, Gondra grabbed a large portion of everything. He was much more hungry than he let on. By the time Aiona got to the table, Gondra was already tearing into his meal. To his surprise, she sat right next to him.

"And here I thought you weren't hungry." she said rhetorically.

"Where's Grimmjow?" Gondra asked with a jagged mouth full of what looked like a blue squid.

"He prefers to eat alone."

"Did he say anything about me keeping 11?"

Who knows, he may even let him stay if you prove yourself further. Any other questions?" Aiona asked, obviously disgusted with her teammate's lack of table manners.

"What were you and him arguing about?" Gondra asked after gulping down the blue thing.

"Our boss is sending us on a mission." Aiona said with a sigh. "The order came from the top."

"Aizen. He must want to see how a shinigami turned arrancar fairs on a mission." Gondra thought. "What's the mission?"

"We're to go scouting for Vasto Lordes. Aka the great hollow kings." Aiona said with another sigh as she grabbed a piece of meat with her chopsticks and ate it.

"The hollow kings? I need to talk with them! They might be able to help me!" Gondra thought intensely.

"Hey there skank." A smooth and eerie voice said as a figure approached and placed a pale hand on Aiona's bare shoulder. It's slender fingers caressing her tan skin as the silver bracelets jingled.

"Get the fuck off of me Jiruga!" Aiona shouted as she smacked the hand away.

Gondra looked up to see a tall ultra thin arrancar with long black hair and a white eye patch walk around the table and sit down opposite Aiona, placing a bowl of stew on the table. "Heh... heh heh Kyahahahaha!" Gondra cackled in a mad laugh.

"What's so funny?" Jiruga asked as he narrowed his visible eye.

"IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR SPOON'S TOO BIG! Kyahahahaha!" Gondra blurted out.

"You want to die or something?" Jiruga asked.

"Bite your tongue around Nnoitra-sama." a smaller blond arrancar with a black eye patch said as he sat down next to his eye patched friend.

"Why should I?" Gondra asked as he stuffed another strange piece of meat into his mouth and started to chew.

"You idiot, this guy's the fifth Espada," Aiona said.

"What? This little guy?" Gondra asked once again with his mouth full as he pointed to the blond kid.

"No. That would be me!" Nnoitra shouted as he stuck out his tongue and pointed to the number five on it. "So, how come your hanging around Aiona?" he asked with a smirk.

"Ask Grimmjow." she said with a scowl as she continued to eat her food.

"What does the sixth Espada have to do with this?" Tesla asked.

"We're both his Fraccion now. I'm new by the way." Gondra answered.

"What?" Nnoitra asked, his smirk gone completely.

"That's right. Looks like you lost your chance to ask me." Aiona said as she smirked mockingly at Nnoitra.

"Who said I wanted to ask you anyway, bitch?" Nnoitra said before downing the contents of his bowl in one gulp and getting up from the table. "Come on Tesla, I feel like killing something. Tesla nodded and got up, following Nnoitra out of the room.

Gondra grabbed Tesla's trey and tilted it over his own, causing the food to slide off.

"You're still hungry?" Aiona asked.

Gondra shrugged "I just like the taste of hollows."

"With an appetite like that, it's surprising you didn't end up as a Vasto Lorde yourself." Aiona said as she picked at her food.

Gondra remembered enough of hollow lore to know what Aiona was talking about. "So, when do we leave?"

"As soon as you're done stuffing your fat face."

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Gondra and Aiona walked swiftly across the fine silver sand, Las Noches getting smaller and smaller behind them. Gondra wasn't sure what to talk about so, he remained quiet. He couldn't help but notice that Aiona kept looking in his direction as if to study him. "What's her deal?" Gondra asked himself. He put his hood up to get rid of his peripheral vision. Something about her just irked him. He felt like he knew her from somewhere but, his shattered glass memory prevented him from remembering. He could still feel her gaze through the hood. He stopped walking and turned to face her. To his surprise, she just stood there with her arms folded and an expression that looked like she was expecting him to say something, to spill his guts out.

"Who the fuck are you?" Gondra asked.

"Your-" Aiona started but, a loud rumbling sound was coming closer from the distance, cutting her off.
They both looked to their right to see a giant sand tidal wave coming straight at them. It reared up to reveal a strange hollow mask.

"State your business in my desert!" the sand thing said.

"Fuck off, Runuganga. We don't have to answer to you."
Gondra turned to Aiona. "Who's sand castle head?" he asked.

"Some sort of self appointed hollow guardian of the sands. He's meaningless now that Aizen's in charge." Aiona said after activating her resereccion form. Gondra did the same.

"You little bitch. Don't make me hurt you." Runuganga said.

"And don't make me throw a bucket of water on your ugly hea-" Slam! Aiona was blindsided by a giant hand made of sand that formed from the hollow."

"That's it!" Gondra roared as he blasted an incendio cero straight at the creature, setting it ablaze.
Runuganga roared in pain as it's body turned to glass. Gondra took to the air and delivered a dragon clawed spin

kick. The sand hollow shattered instantly.

Gondra took to the sky and noticed a large crater where Aiona had landed. To his shock, she was in several pieces. "Oh, scarecrow, I think I'll miss you most of all." Gondra said as he folded his arms and grinned.

"Shut the fuck up, you flying lizard!" Aiona's disembodied head yelled at him as many long black threads pulled her limbs back together and started to mend them in place.

"That's some regeneration power you got there." Gondra said as he swayed his dragon tail back and forth in amusement. "Does it hurt?" he asked.

"Like you would care if it did?" Aiona spat as she stood up and cracked her neck. "It's gunna' take a few minutes for the stitches to settle in. Let's rest over there." Aiona pointed to a large petrified tree as she shot off a chain for Gondra to pull her out with. To her surprise, he went rocketing off with his wings and yanking Aiona so hard that she yelped. By the time Gondra reached the tree he noticed that her disembodied arm, wrapped in chains was the only thing holding on. "Asshole!" Aiona shouted as she shot another chain from the creator to the tree and zip lined in an arc over the distance.

"That was an interesting trick." Gondra said as he handed the girl her arm. She bonked him over the head with it before she reattached it.

"It's something I've been working on called, sky hook." Aiona said as she sat on the branch next to Gondra.

Gondra looked down and saw two strange devices clipped onto the waistband of her provocative bottoms. "What are those?" Gondra asked.

"New MP3 players my brother made for me. One's for you." Aiona said as she unclasped one of them and handed it to Gondra.

"Thanks." Gondra said as he looked at the device in his dragonic hand. He noticed that the headphones were built in and retractable. He clipped it to the black army belt he was wearing. He decided to stay in his resereccion form with his teammate and listen to music. Aiona tried to talk to him but, he couldn't hear her due to the music.

"I think it would be nice, if I could, touch your body" Gondra sang as he rocked to the music with his eyes closed. Aiona reached down and yanked his tail hard. "What?" Gondra asked as he took out his ear buds.

"You're acting like a moron." she said. "You know... you never told Grimmjow that secret. What was it?"

"I'll only tell you if you answer my question first. Who are you really?" Gondra asked as he put his Mp3 player away and drew two cigarettes out of the pack in his cargo pants. He put them in his mouth and lit the two cancer sticks at the same time before handing one to Aiona.

She grabbed it with her skinny fingers and placed it in her mouth. "If you obviously don't remember, then I might just have to jog your memory somehow." Aiona said as she took a drag and stared off into the distance.

Gondra took the opportunity to look his teammate over. She was much more pale in this form and frail looking. Gondra could see most of her ribs and collar bone through her skin. The white bikini with black trim didn't leave much to the imagination. Her stitches and chains covered even more skin than her garb.
She turned her head back to him and noticed his stare. "See anything you like?" she asked.

"Just admiring creepy artwork." Gondra said with a grin.

"Whatever." she said as she looked away again.
Just then Gondra felt something in his armored chest. It was more like pure power than spiritual pressure. It was coming from the direction of a large gathering of rock trees. "Vasto Lorde!" Gondra thought to himself as he leaped from the tree.

"Wait, where are you going?" Aiona shouted as Gondra flew off in the direction the force was coming from.
"Wait here!" Gondra ordered as he swatted one of her hooked chains away.
Gondra landed in the middle of the small forest and looked around. "I know your here so, come on out. I have no intention to fight you."

"What have we here? One of Aizen's pet arrancar?" A deep and demonic voice stated as a slender figure in a black shroud came into view. "What do you want?" the being said as it cocked its antlered head to the side and peered at Gondra with blood red eyes. "I have no intention of joining Aizen in his little game." it said.

"I just want answers." Gondra said as he deactivated his resereccion and bowed in respect.

"What questions do you have, boy?"

"How do I become a hollow king? I need the power to get back to someone I love. How do I become powerful enough for no one to stand in my way?"

"My dear boy, that power was with you for some time now but, it's gone. You will have to find it again. As both a shinigami and arrancar."

"He knows..." "And just how am I supposed to do that?" Gondra asked as he heard a high pitched sound coming from the area behind him.

"I would tell you but, it looks like our time is cut short." The demigod said as he raised his hand in the air to intercept a familiar looking chain.

"Sky hook shot!" Aiona shouted as her weapon hit the Vasto Lorde's hand. It disintegrated instantaneously.
The Vasto Lorde pointed it's palm at Aiona, causing an invisible blast to hit her. She was blasted back and hit a tree hard.

"And now I bid you adieu." the Vasto Lorde said as he faded back into the forest like a mirage.

"Please wait! I still have questions!" Gondra roared as the creature faded into nothingness. Gondra roared in anger and picked up Aiona's motionless, normal body. The mission was a failure for the both of them.

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Gondra returned to Grimmjow's small section of Las Noches to find his boss gone but the dog there. He scratched 11 on his furry head and dropped Aiona on the living room couch."I need a fucking shower."

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Gondra smashed the tiles of the shower wall with his fist. "Damn that Aiona!" he growled. Why can't I get that cunt out of my mind? It was her fault for preventing me from learning about the Hollow Kings! That Vasto Lorde was about to tell me something else." Gondra thought as he turned his head so that his mask fragment would hit the steady beam of water. "Isane! I can't forget about Isane!" Gondra held on to that glass shard of a memory close in his mind. All of a sudden, he felt the spiritual pressure of another arrancar in his room. Gondra quickly shut off the shower and threw on a towel. When he threw open the bathroom door, he found Aiona rifling through his trench coat.

"Why the hell are you in here, going through my shit?" Gondra growled with his head to the side. "Get out of there!"

"What's this?" Aiona asked as she pulled a photograph out of the inner most pocket. "Your girlfriend when you were still alive?"

"You put that back now!" Gondra roared as he started to run at Aiona.

"I have news for you, newbie, forget your forgotten past and move forward with your life here." Aiona stated in an evil voice.

"I swear! If you don't put that back, I can't put into words what will happen to you!" Gondra roared.
Aiona just smirked at him and flicked the picture into the air. "Maybe this will jog your memory about me." she said before vaporizing the photograph with a balla blast.

That's it for this chapter. Sorry again for the long wait. A lot of shit has been going on in my life but I will never quit my fics. You have my word on that.
Sandragon out-