Hollow King Chapter twenty eight

our days of collapsing

Tite Kubo owns bleach.

Gondra walked swiftly down a long hallway with Aiona at his side. They both knew exactly where Orihime's room was. Gondra looked over at Aiona. He noticed that she had a new found look of calm in her eyes. As if she was experiencing an overwhelming piece of mind. She had probably been waiting all this time to see him again. She was now the anchor that offered stability for Gondra in this new world.

"Aya?" Gondra asked as he turned his head to the left.

"Yeah Ty? Oh sorry. You go by Gondra now."

"Is it okay for me to love you?" Gondra asked as his eye twitched with signs of a psychotic break.

He had forgotten all about Isane. All that remained in his memories of his time in Soul Society was a few names and faces. None of them her's. He was still mad at Aiona for destroying it but, he didn't feel like exacting it. On her any way.

"I would like that. Gon." she answered.

"Gon?"

"I like to shorted the names of people I love." Aiona said with a happy smile. For once, there was no anger in her expression.

They turned another corner and arrived at the red haired girl's cell. The door was blasted open and cackling could be heard from inside. Gondra and Aiona nodded to each other and stormed in. they looked down to see two arrancar girls kicking Orihime in the ground.

"Well if it isn't Aizen's wanna be harem. Loli and Menoli. What are you bitches doing here?" Aiona said as she folded her arms and cocked her head to the side with a smirk on her face.

The two looked up. "What the hell are you doing here?" the one with short blond hair asked angrily.

"Piss off and let us have our fun." the one with black pigtails spat.

"I don't think so, little girls. We have orders from our boss to bring her with us. I don't think Grimmjow would like it very much if she's damaged goods." Gondra said as he walked further into the dimly lit room.

"What are you gunna' do about it, lizard?" the dark haired one asked with a cocky smile on her face.

"Hey Aya, which one is this?" Gondra asked as he lit up a cigarette.

"That's Loli." Aiona replied.

"Goodbye Loli." Gondra said before kneeing the girl in the face. Sending her flying across the room and shattering a window that she hit.

"You bastard!" Menoli shouted as she charged at Gondra, charging up a cero.

Aiona sonidoed in front of her and grabbed her wrist. With a swift jerk, she smashed the still charging cero into Menoli's face, blasting her at point blank range. The girl dropped to her knees with severe burn marks on her face.

"You'll pay for that!" Loli shouted as she pulled herself out of the window with her arms riddled with glass shards.

As she lunged forward, Gondra took a drag of his smoke and charged up his own cero, blasting it at Loli's mid section. She shrieked as everything between her knees and waist was being vaporized. What was left of her came crawling at Gondra with a zanpakuto in hand.

"I'll fucking kill you!" she screamed in anger and pain.

Gondra placed a booted foot on her head and started to press. "It's too late to say your sorry." Gondra said with an insane smirk. Right after he finished his sentence, a horrible cracking sound was heard. Soon after came a splat. Blood and brain scattered across the floor.

"Damn, Gon. That was brutal." Aiona said with a half scared laugh.

"Want me to finish off the other one?" he asked.

"No. I got this bitch." Aiona said as she reached down and backhanded Menoli against a wall. Aiona drew her metal fan and placed against Menoli's neck. Slowly, she pressed as the girl gurgled out a cry. Aiona laughed and pressed hard causing Menoli to get decapitated. Her head hit the floor as her body slumped over. Both girl's were dead.

Aiona and Gondra looked over in the corner to see Orihime huddled down in the fetal position with a look of sheer horror on her face.

"Hey, girl. If you're done pissing yourself, can you get up and heal my collar?" Aiona asked. Pointing to her cracked mask fragment.

Orihime slowly stood and formed an orange force field over Aiona's neck and shoulder.

"Just the collar. I want to keep the bite mark." Aiona instructed.

Slowly the cracks disappeared and the strip of bone became good as new.

"Okay. Now, lets get moving." Gondra said as he took off his trench coat and threw it over Orihime to conceal her identity.

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Gondra and Aiona followed Grimmjow's spiritual pressure as they walked down the white halls. Gondra looked back to see a worried look on Orihime's face. "What's the matter? We're taking you to your boyfriend. His name's Ichigo right?" Gondra asked.

"Why didn't you let me heal them?" Orihime asked sadly.

Aiona let out a laugh. "Those two are better off dead."

"And besides, they would just chase after you again." Gondra added.

"I see. So, you know Kurosaki-kun?" the girl asked again.

"Kind of. I think anyway." Gondra answered, trying to remember.

After a few more minutes of walking, the three arrived at what was left of a large tower. In the clearing, they saw Grimmjow standing over Ichigo.

"Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime shouted as she shrugged off the trench coat and ran over to him.

"Pwees! You hav tu sayv Itsygo!" A small green arrancar said as she tugged at Orihime's skirt.

"Good work you two." Grimmjow said as he stepped aside and let the girl heal her friend.

"You asked and we delivered." Gondra said with a sharp toothed grin as he walked over to his boss.

"Why's she all beat up?" He asked.

"Those two bitches, Loli and Menoli were roughing her up. But, we took care of em of good." Gondra said as he threw on his trench coat.

Grimmjow chuckled. "Those two deserved nothing less." He then went on alert. "He's coming!" Grimmjow said.

Gondra and Aiona turned around to see Ulquiorra approaching them.

"What are you three doing here?" Ulquiorra demanded.

"Bastard! You think you could take away my prey?" Grimmjow snarled as he got ready to fight.

"Boss! Let us handle this." Gondra said as he drew Hexagram from his back.

"Are you mental? He's the fourth Espada." Aiona said.

"Come on babe. We're a team. Partners in every way. We can hold him off for a while." Gondra said as he put his arm around Aiona.

"Gondra. Take this. If you can get it into the hole below his throat, you win," Grimmjow said as he tossed Gondra a black diamond.

"Thanks boss." Gondra said as he tucked it into his cargo pants pocket. "Alright Aya, lets kick some ass!" Gondra roared as he charged forward swinging his blade down at Ulquiorra'a neck. The Espada caught the blade with one hand. "Do you think the two of you can really take me?" he asked as he punched Gondra square in the chest. The force of the punch blasted him back at an unreal speed off the tower.

"Gon! You have to fly!" Aiona called out as she brandished her fan, about to activate her resereccion.

"I can't... without..." Gondra grunted as he tried to catch his breath from having the wind knocked out of him. "...Hexagram!" he roared.

The pommel of the blade opened up to reveal a small jet engine and blasted off out of Ulquiorra's grip. The buster sword careened across the desert at Gondra. "Shoot down the sky! Hexagram!" he roared right before the blade hit him and blew up. A metal winged figure could be seen flying out of the explosion and over the desert. Gondra was heading straight for his target. He folded his wings around him and began to spin rapidly.

Ulquiorra outstretched a palm in order to stop the spinning missile that was Gondra only to be blasted back through a wall. The Espada got up and dusted himself off as Gondra caught his breath.

"Now it's my turn! Aiona roared as she leaped out in between Ulquiorra and Gondra. She reached down and ripped out several of her stitches. "Cero strobe-light! She roared as she spun around, shooting cero after cero at their opponent. Ulquiorra blocked each one with his bare hands. The dance left Aiona out of breath and open for an attack.

The Espada lifted his hand and pointed a single finger at her. Gondra knew what was coming. In a hasty move, Gondra knocked Aiona out of the way and stood in front of the charging cobalt cero. He opened his mouth institutionally in order to fire back but, there was no time. Ulquiorra's grand ray cero blasted Gondra at point blank. Then something strange happened. Gondra was able to inhale the blast and channel it through his wings. With a grin, he pointed both of his gun barrels at the foe and roared, "Double Grand Ray Cero! Shotgun of the Hollow Kings!" blasting two blue green beams of light at Ulquiorra who couldn't dodge in time.

The fourth Espada dropped to his knees with his clothes tattered and burn marks all over him. In a flash, Aiona jumped behind him and bound his arms with her chains. She did a triple flip, causing the chains to tighten and her stilettos to press into his back. "Now Gon!" she shouted. "Use the gem!"

"Not yet babe. I wanted to try something out I learned from boss. "Dragon style hay maker!" Gondra roared as he pummeled Ulquiorra with his large dragon fists in rapid succession, causing his image to blur and Ulquiorra's mask fragment to crack. When he was done he gave Aiona to go ahead to let their opponent go. Ulquiorra slumped to the ground with the look of unfathomable disbelief on his face. Gondra reached into his pocket and grabbed the gem with a flick of his thumb he shot the black jewel into Ulquiorra's hollow hole. A split second later, he was swollen up by a garganta.

With a grin, Gondra turned around to see a mostly healed Ichigo standing next to Grimmjow and Orihime all three of them had the look of shock and disbelief on their faces. Gondra's grin just widened as he closed his eyes and scratched the back of his head. He wasn't sure what to say. It was no small feat to subdue the fourth Espada with the help of his long lost love and live to tell about it. "I guess it's time for the two of you to fight now." Gondra said as he looked at Ichigo and Grimmjow.

"You're right. I have a lot of questions I have to ask you, Gondra. But I should get this fight over with."

"Yep I made a promise to bring your girlfriend back to you didn't I" Gondra said with a laugh.

"What about you and Isane?" Ichigo asked.

A sharp jolt ran through Gondra's brain that caused him to clutch his head and groan.

"What's wrong? Don't you remember her?" Ichigo asked.

"Just... Just shut up and fight my boss!" Gondra roared as he grabbed Aiona and flew away.

"Wait! Don't you want to watch the fight?" Aiona asked.

"I don't care! There's someone I need to talk to."

"Who's that?"

"The other Tyler." Gondra said as he flew to the highest point he could find. When he reached a rather high tower Gondra sat down with Aiona in his lap and folded his wings around the both of them.

"But, you're Tyler. Aiona said."

"I'm not 100% sure of that..."

it won't be yesterday when, before the days of collapsing,
And I'll stand through all these lines just to make it back to you
Can you help me every step of the way? We can bury that battle and bury the cause
There is nothing that I can say because I was wrong this time

Robots 3 Humans 0 by Norma Jean.

Sorry for the long wait guys. I hope you love this chapter as much as I did writing it.

SpinalWinter out-