Yes, part two of the War Between Night and Day! I stayed with the songfic criteria, and so this song is My Chemical Romance's Helena, off their album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. Please read, enjoy and respond. And surprise if you read the end note!

The War Between Night and Day: The Beginning of the End

Candy thought about how he had taken her here, to his castle exactly 63 days, 4 hours, and 41 minutes ago. He was…nothing…so dead to the thoughts and reactions of the Abarat and its people. He was immune to the consequences his war would have on the people, his people.

Long ago
Just like the hearse you died to get in again
We are so far from you

He was still in on the war. And, with his power and underground links to people and events, he was slowing taking over the Day islands of the Abarat. But, much power as he had, the filthy thief Rojo Pixler was turning Pyon into a mass clutter of insanity. And the Panacea was the only medicine you could now get on the everyday market. But there was always the black market, which was becoming such a big hit. But even them too, were being driving into non-existents.

Burning on just like a match you strike to incinerate
The lives of everyone you know

It happened so suddenly. The crimson sunset that merged with the bright yellow of the midday and blended with the velvet blue of midnight. The pastel of blues and pinks from a foggy early morning mingled with the cloudy royal blue afternoon of a rainstorm. All of it.

Gone.

Just like that.

Candy screamed. She knew it was going to happen, after all, the days of islands had been changing, the days becoming not as bright. But now, it had really happened. Absolute midnight had actually, literally, physically, been brought to reality.

Carrion smiled. The first smile he had smiled in a long time. It was all working out right. He saw the people run out of their houses screaming when they realized that their land, their property, their sanctuary, was in pure darkness. Overwhelming darkness.

He was proud, but there was still one more thing that needed to be taken care of. Rojo Pixler.

Candy Quakenbush had not talked to Christopher Carrion since he had brought her here. He would come into the room she had been put in, talk to her, try to get her to speak, but nothing would happen. She never said anything. He would tell her of his plans, how, when everything worked out, the people would run and scream, and beg for mercy, and he would become the leader. The leader of all the Abarat. And, even as he told her of his grim reality, still she would not mumble a word. She would only sit on the window sill, and look out the window, the only window, out into the blackness. For he was horrid, and, as much as he tried to care for her(if that was possible)-to let her roam around the castle and take his time to talk to her-no matter how depressing his stories were- she still saw him as a lump of unfeeling matter- and she was stuck in his prison of a castle.

And what's the worst you take
from every heart you break

But today, her silent bond of speaking would break.

As Candy was still gauking over the deep velvet darkness surrounding her, the official Lord of Midnight entered her room.

"Well, hello there, my dear Candy. I see your enjoying yourself." Carrion said enthusiastically as he sat in the dark velvet chair at the desk that sat in the room.

She could only see his gray eyes in the darkness that now fully filled her room, and she could feel him. Which was weird considering the mask of glowing nightmares that was supposedly supposed to be around his neck. He stalked on through the dark, fed on the power of the very creepiness of it.

And so he started his story. But this time, it was different.

"As you know, my plan for Absolute Midnight has succeeded. But there is one more thing. I think you can guess."

Slowly, Candy turned her head and, for the first time since she came here, looked him in the eyes. He had been looking at the many books that lined the walls, but, feeling her eyes on him, turned. And there, it was silent as she held his gaze. Before she knew what was happening, Carrion was right in front of her, his breath against her ear. She stood still from shock.

"Rojo Pixler…" He whispered in her ear.

"No…" She whispered back, not believing it. The first word she had spoken in 63 days. She could feel him react to her word.

"Yes." He smiled.

And like the blade you stain
Well I've been holding on tonight

And then, Candy said something most unexpected.

"Well, he is a mad man. And that city of his is insane."

"Yes, I know. Would you like to come with me to witness it?"

"No…" She fought back the thoughts of seeing a murder. Especially a murder by the hands of Christopher. Oh goodness. She'd called him Christopher.

"To each his own."

"Yes, to each his own…"

What's the worst that I can say?
Things are better off if I stay.

And so, seeing that she would not like to accompany him more than she was forced to, he started to leave.

"Christopher." Candy called.

Carrion turned, he was shocked.

"Is this from you or your passenger?"

"Me."

He was shocked even more.

"Goodbye."

Carrion felt like his lips were sewn together again.

"Goodbye Miss Candy Quakenbush."

So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight

Yet little did he know what Candy's 'Goodbye' actually meant.

As the Lord of Midnight walked down the stairs leading to the main floor of his tower, he thought about Candy's words. Candy's words. Only hers. And they would stay forever hers.

I'm becoming such a romantic! He thought.

He thought. Yes, he thought. He thought about Candy. About how beautiful her hair in the moonlight was, her whispering voice. Her tears she'd shed when she thought he'd left all those times.

Came a time
When every star fall brought you to tears again

Yes, in that trip from her room to his entranceway he thought about a lot of things.

And that, is the War Between Night and Day: The beginning of the end, part 1. Yep, part 1! Expect another one! Besides, I have to finish the song lyrics!