AN: Hey guys. I'm back with the sequel to "Dark Skies", and here's the first chapter! Hope you enjoy.

If you haven't read "Dark Skies" yet, I advise that you read that first.

Since I couldn't include this in the summary, this is rated T for all the same reasons as "Dark Skies".

It was the first weekend in December. Sorami City was quiet, with people going about their daily routines. At Doremi Cinemas, two people walked out side by side. One was a girl, with blue hair, blue eyes and pigtails. She wore brown boots and a long pink dress with a light-pink and purple sweater overtop, and had a yellow purse strapped over her shoulder. The other person was a boy, who had straight black hair and dark brown eyes. He was wearing a red t-shirt, a black hoodie with a red dragon on the back overtop of it (the inside of the hood being red), black sweatpants and black and red sneakers. Unbeknownst to the people around them, these two were angeloids whose names were Nymph and Achos. Nymph had a slight bounce in her step, smiling as she and Achos walked back home from the movie theatre.

"So, what do you want to see next?" Nymph asked cheerfully as she looked up at Achos. He shrugged.

"Doesn't matter to me, so long as it isn't a bad movie," he responded. Nymph lightly punched Achos' arm.

"You're no fun, Omega," she whined. "I thought you liked those movies where people fight and stuff. I'm sure they're showing a couple of them!" Achos sighed in defeat.

"If you insist, we'll go see one of those next week," he said. Nymph's smile returned as they continued to walk.

"So, there anything else you want to do, like go to an arcade or something?" Nymph asked. Achos thought for a moment, then nodded.

"Sure. Then we'll head home," he answered. The two walked silently for a moment, before Nymph spoke again.

"You really have to work on choosing things for yourself, Omega."

"What?" Achos said, raising a curious eyebrow at Nymph as she sighed.

"There's nothing you ever want to do when we go out! Mostly I'm the one who either wants to do things or suggests things to you. Maybe you should start doing that every once in a while."

"I'm not very picky when it comes to these things. You know that," he said. Nymph suspected it was more because of the fact that even four months after his arrival in Sorami City, he was still trying to adjust to life without orders, but decided not to bring it up for the sake of retaining the light mood of the conversation.

"You really need a hobby," Nymph said, poking Achos' arm. "Going out will help you find one. I'm not trying to torture you." Achos smiled and shook his head.

"Alright, I get your point," he said in surrender. "Let's just go to the arcade and play some games."

Meanwhile, Tomoki Sakurai sat in his room reading a porn magazine out of boredom (he had no perverted plans up his sleeve today). He was anticipating for when Achos and Nymph would get back so he could (yet again) poke fun at the two angeloids for "going out on a date". They weren't actually dates, but a little while after the defeat of Alkaios, Nymph decided that she and Achos should go out occasionally so that they could do more things together. You could call them "friendly dates", if you wanted. Whatever the case, Tomoki making fun of them for it usually ended up badly. Even so, the oblivious idiot still hadn't learned his lesson after about four months of doing the same damn thing.

About two and a half hours had passed since Achos and Nymph's departure before they came back. They were both expecting Tomoki to arrive at any minute. And sure enough, he did.

"Oh, hey guys," he greeted innocently, an almost sinister smile tugging at the corners of his lips.

"Hey pervert," Achos said dismissively, taking off his shoes and socks. It was then that he could hear Tomoki chuckling in an evil manner.

That's new, he thought to himself. What has he, a new sick and perverted plan?

"What's so funny?" Nymph asked, her voice indicating that she was slightly irritated.

"So, did you two do anything interesting today?" Tomoki asked, his voice no longer displaying mock-innocence. Both angeloids recognized his tone as being one of perversion, and taking the hint that Tomoki brought up, the two turned a deep shade of crimson.

"What the hell are you talking about, pervert?!" Nymph exclaimed with embarrassment. It was then that another angeloid, Ikaros, wandered into the hallway, watching the scene a fair distance away from the three.

"Oh, I don't know. I just thought that since you guys were away from a long time, you'd go ahead and decide to-" Achos didn't let Tomoki finish. He stepped forward and gave Tomoki a hard chop that would have made Sohara Mitsuki proud, sending him flying across the hallway and into the wall on the opposite end. As he looked up, he noticed that Ikaros, the girl he still harbored feelings for, was standing in the middle of the hallway, fixing him with her emotionless gaze that had a rather deadly air to it. He gulped nervously, and thought:

Oh shit.

Outside, a faint boom could be heard from inside Tomoki's house.

"She really needs to stop doing that," Achos muttered, sitting in Tomoki's room with Nymph. "I'm a friend, not an enemy."

"You know Alpha's protective of her master. It's normal that she'd do that," Nymph said. Achos scoffed.

"Yeah, as if you or the others get blown up for beating up that pervert," he said bitterly.

"Look, I'll talk to Alpha about it, okay?" Nymph said, her voice soft and soothing. Achos said nothing and simply nodded in response. Unbeknownst to him as he stared at the floor, Nymph looked at Achos intently. She knew that he was still in love with Ikaros, and he was often troubled by his feelings for her. Nymph could see through his thoughtful eyes that he was thinking about Ikaros now. Nymph deeply cared for Achos, and hated to see him upset. After all, he seldom expressed positive emotions, and usually had none to express. To see him only express negative emotions made Nymph sad. She believed that he deserved to be happy after all the emotional pain he'd suffered as a creation of the Synapse.

Sometimes it seemed like he was never happy.

When night came, Achos sat on the roof of Tomoki's house, staring up at the moon in the sky. For a while he sat there alone, in thought, before he heard footsteps coming from behind him. He looked behind to see Nymph standing on the opposite slant of the roof.

"Mind if I join you?" she asked.

Achos looked back up at the moon and said, "Sure." Nymph sat down beside Achos at the top of the roof, also looking up at the sky in thought. Her thoughts eventually wandered to Achos once again, and her gaze shifted over to him. She remembered how four months ago, Achos nearly took his own life in order to save his friends and the people of Sorami City. Nymph's mind was occasionally plagued with these memories, and it made her shudder to think about it. She was concerned for his well-being, and didn't want him to suffer physically anymore than he seemed to be suffering mentally. She didn't want him to get hurt, not the way he did last time. There had been a long moment of silence before Nymph decided to speak up.

"Hey, Omega?"

"Yeah?" Achos said, turning to look at Nymph and meeting her gaze.

"I'm really worried about you. You almost died when you stopped Sigma, and-"

"You don't want me to do it again?" Achos finished in anticipation. Nymph shook her head.

"Not just that... I want you to promise me that you won't do it again," she said firmly.

"But what if it needs to be done?" Achos asked. "What if any of us has to do something like that again?"

"Please, Omega," Nymph begged. "Just promise me." Achos sighed through his nose, momentarily staring at his hand. Then he looked up at her and nodded.

"I promise," he said. Nymph wasn't entirely convinced that Achos was telling the truth. She held out her pinkie finger to Achos, who raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Pinkie-promise?" Nymph asked. Achos hesitated for a moment before nodding again and wrapping his pinkie around hers.

"I pinkie-promise," he said as both of them shook their pinkies before breaking them apart from one another's grasp. Both of them then continued to look up at the star-lit sky.

And as Nymph did, she hoped that Achos would hold true to his promise should the time come when they had to face another threat.