A.N. I changed some things, like their age, because I didn't want them to be so old yet. Just so it makes sense later.
2/10/? (A month after Chrono disappeared to fight Aion. I don't know and can't find the actual date.)
Chrono and Rosette were riding the train from Quebec Canada to Florida when it happened.
"Hey! Chrono wake up!"Rosette said, shaking Chrono by the shoulder.
"No... Go away Rosette, I'm tiered."
"Wake up now Chrono!" she yelled in his ear. Chrono jumped and hit his head on the ceiling of their small train compartment.
"Oww." he mumbled, rubbing his head and glaring at Rosette. She smiled cheerfully at him and pointed out the window.
"Look." she said. Chrono walked over to the window and looked out into the snowy darkness.
"Wow." he said. Outside the window, the February snow was falling in thick clouds through the forest, and the full moon was reflecting off the snow so that it sparkled like a pile of silver. Long iceicles hung from the branches of the trees, and deer and the occasional bunny was seen through the window.
Chrono and Rosette stared out the window for a long time.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" asked Rosette.
"Yeah..." said Chrono.
They watched the snow whip by their window as the train sped along the snowy tracks.
Suddenly, the train lurched to a stop, jolting Chrono and Rosette, who hit her head on the window.
"Owch!" she yelped. Chrono dragged the complaining Rosette to her feet and stepped into the hall to see why they had stopped.
"What is it?" said Rosette, rubbing her head.
"It looks like we crashed, or something." Chrono said.
"Come on!" Rosette said. "We have to see if everyone's alright!" she and Chrono ran down the hall along with a large group of people to the front of the train where the most damage would be.
It was awful. The front car was on fire, and people were running around in a panic.
Rosette and Chrono forced their way through the crowd to the captains compartment. Which was also burning.
"Mr. Captain!" called Rosette.
"Here..." came the weak sounding voice of their captain.
Rosette rushed over and pushed a burning piece of train off the captain.
"What happened?" asked Rosette as she pulled him and the engineer to the not burning third car.
Chrono ran back to their compartment and grabbed their box of weaponry.
"It was a monster." said the captain.
"A monster?" asked Chrono as he came running back with the box.
"Yes. A great big monster, the size of a house." The captain paused to take a breath. "It walked in front of the train and we couldn't stop. We crashed, and the entire first car was crushed. Then it started burning." he said.
"Then what?" asked Rosette.
"I, I don't know."
"What? Why?"
"Everything was chaos, and that piece of the wall fell on me." he said.
"Okay, thank you." said Rosette. She stood up and yelled,
"Listen up everybody! All of you who are not hurt say I!" By now, everyone on the train had come to the front car to see why they had stopped, and anyone who didn't, Chrono had gotten to come. and since this was the first car that had not been burned, everyone was gathered here.
"I." came the response. There weren't as many "I's" as Rosette had hoped. But all of the people who said I had come up to the front of the room.
"Okay," said Rosette, "I need all of you to help Chrono and I treat the injured people." she said.
There was a general murmur of consent, and they began the tasks set to them.
"Rosette, shouldn't you call the Order?" asked Chrono.
"Yeah, that's what I'm going to do now." she said, picking up the phone attached to the wall.
"Lets hope it still works." she said, dialing the number. She held the phone to her ear and listened. There was a click, an then a fizzing sound. Rosette took the phone away from her ear and shook her head.
Chrono sighed and turned to look at all of the people.
"How do we get them to the nearest town? asked Chrono.
"I don't know. I don't even know where the nearest town is." said Rosette.
"Well, we're somewhere in Main." said Chrono.
"Yeah, but we're in the middle of a forest or something." They both sighed and walked over to a group of people who needed help.
Three hours later, when all of the injured people were treated, and everyone was sleeping or sitting around, Chrono and Rosette went outside to see where they were.
Outside was snowy and cold. Rosette shivered.
"It's cold."
"Yeah." Chrono replied.
They went further into the surrounding forest in search of a town or any people at all.
"Do you want my jacket?" asked Chrono when he saw Rosette shivering.
"Won't you be cold then?" Rosette said.
"I'm a demon. I'll be fine." he said.
"If your sure..." Chrono handed Rosette his jacket and they continued their search.
One month and two weeks ago, after they had defeated Aion, Chrono had gotten his horns back and gone to find Rosette. He had found her in an old cottage near the lake where they had first met. She had been about to die at the time, but Chrono had found a way to save her by giving up his immortality. So he would live until Rosette died, and Rosette would live the normal life span of a human, if not a bit longer, instead of dieing because Chrono had taken all of her soul. And Chrono's arm was well on it's way to being fully healed by the end of the month. They had returned to Magdale a week later.
"Rosette! Your alive!" Asmaria had said. "And you too, Chrono!" she had been so happy she had started crying. Joshua had been there too. He explained that everyone thought they were dead, and that everyone believed Chrono had been executed by Father Remington before the defeat of Aion, and only a few people actually knew that Remington had in fact, not killed Chrono. But even they believed them to be dead now.
They were also told that a funeral had been held in honor of Rosette, even though they couldn't find her. Joshua had then proceeded to hug Rosette until she turned red and started making strange gurgling sounds because she couldn't breath.
Father Remington and Sister Kate were also very happy to see them. There was a great deal of hugging, and a long questions and answers session before they finally got to relax. Sister Kate had her superiors edit the paper work so that it said Rosette and Chrono were both alive, and Rosette was a member of the Militia.
Then they had been given money and told to take an all expenses paid vacation to Florida and they would have a party. They drove to the airport, then took a plane from London to Quebec, and then had gotten on the train to go to Florida.
Chrono smiled at the memory of all the people smiling and being happy to see
them. Although Sister Kate was mostly happy to see Rosette. Kate
didn't like him at all.
They searched for another half hour, which Chrono had spent shivering. He
had said he would be fine, and he would. But in his human form he
could still be cold. He had no idea why he didn't use his demon form.
He spent most of his time as a human even though he had gotten back
his horns because he wanted to stay near Rosette, and it was easier for
both of them that way. But now there was no one around and it didn't
really matter.
"Lets go back." said Rosette.
"Okay." Chrono said. Forgetting about his earlier thoughts and focusing on
getting back to the broken train.
When they got back, everyone started asking if they had found a town.
"No." said Rosette for the sixth time, as she handed Chrono his jacket. The
train was warm because they had kept a small section of the fire going
with the wooden pieces of the ruined train cars and some of the not
used cars.
She and Chrono went back to their little compartment to sleep and discuss
what they should do.
"We should probably search for a town again tomorrow." said Chrono.
"Or maybe we should find a source of water and food first." said Rosette.
"These peoples water bottles won't last forever, and the dining car has
been totally destroyed."
"Yeah, some of the other passengers salvaged whatever was edible, but it
wasn't a lot."
Rosette nodded. "So it's food and then village?" asked Chrono.
"Yep." said Rosette. The two them looked out the window again, although
most of the scenery was the same, the view was somehow less
enjoyable.
"We should get some sleep. Everyone else is." said Rosette.
"Yeah, we have a long day tomorrow." Chrono agreed. Since this was a
long distance train, they climbed into the bunk bed on the left wall and went to
sleep.
"Goodnight Rosette." said Chrono.
"Night Chrono." said Rosette. They soon fell asleep, and they would need all
the sleep they could get. Tomorrow was really going to be a long, and
difficult day.