.**A/N
Okay, first off, I just want to say that because I accidentally deleted my first draft of this chapter, I had to upload it later than I intended so sorry about that. Second, if you're interested in helping me editing and proof-reading my fan-fic, give me a heads up. I am in desperate help for any help honestly. And the Latin phrase is a very direct translation and is supposed to mean 'to satisfy a man desire'. The significance for it will be shown in later chapters.**

Chapter 2
Ad sature uno homo desiderium.

Raf clawed at the wall of dirt and stones until her fingers are sore and bloodied. Tears blurred her eyes and stings the cut on her cheek but kept at it furiously. She faintly heard a voice pleading...
...please,please,please,please...
...and realized it was hers. She dug and dug and realizing that it was useless, pounded her hand on the dirt. She felt the sharp stones dug into her palm and drew blood but it was a pain she welcomed. She can hear herself keening but it was a distant sound.
He's gone. He's gone and left her all alone. Sulfus is gone. Gone.
She screamed at the the thought in her head, angry at herself for thinking them and pounded on the wall entrapping her in safety until her hands bleed and her fingers feels like it's broken. It sank on her side useless and she stare at the dirt wall until her eyes blur.
Then she felt the hands on her dragging her back from the wall. Away from Sulfus. She screamed kicking and clawing at the hands, the body and heard their grunt of pain. She resisted like a wild animal but somehow they mange to drag her away from the wall. The wall where on the other side where Sulfus is. It fall from her sight and suddenly the wall was gone. In it stead is the garden of the Golden School and as Raf felt her soul shattered to pieces, darkness sunk into her eyes
"Sulfus...!"

Raf woke up with a jerk, her trembling as the remnants of her dreams flash in her mind eye. Cold sweat clung on her like a second skin and Raf felt the cold seeps into her bone. Her blankets is tangled around her uncomfortably and Raf flung it aside, but the feeling of suffocation didn't ease. She tried to calm her ragged breath but failed miserably as it escalated to heaves. Raf pulled her knee to her chest and closed her eyes, feeling the omnious darkness in her bleed bigger.
With an angry sigh she lifted herself out of the cot and paddle bare-feet to the sink, turning the faucet to full flow. She stuck her hand under the cold water and hissed in pain. She turn it up to the faint moonlight spilling through the slits of the window and saw the angry red marks on her palm where her nails bit. She pressed her thumb to it and a drop of blood marbled and trickled down to her wrist. She contemplated for a second to bandage her hand but dismissed the idea. It's just scratches.
She grabbed the band-aids she threw in the cabinet above the sink the day before and slapped it on the cuts.
She glanced at the clock and frowned when she saw the time. Five-thirty A.M. There's no way she can sleep now so she grabbed the blanket and folded it and changed out of her tank top and shorts to plain jeans and t-shirt.
Something nudged against her leg and she smiled at the black and red-ringed snake coiling on the floor. "Hey, Basilisk."
She crouched to pick the slithering snake and laughed when it burrowed itself in her hair. She took a hairband out of her bag and pulled her hair up in a ponytail leaving Basilisk to wrapped himself around Raf's neck.
She pulled the blinders open and early morning light spilled in to the kitchen, flooding it with faint light. She slept in the kitchen because the other rooms in the house has no heater and the ones that does are not ones she's wiling to use. It seems that Reina only fixed the heater in only two of the rooms, the one she used and the one Raf did the day of her defeat. And neither room was deem livable by Raf until the whole place is scrubbed from the bottom up and cleared all traces of the witch.
She went to the closet and pulled out all of her cleaning supplies, putting the smaller ones in the bucket when she heard a buzzing to the side of her head and saw Cox hovering next to her, bumping playfully with Basilisk. Basilisk uncoiled himself from Raf's neck and fall in a heap on the floor. Cox flitted to the serpent and circled around the snake head in an invitation. When the blue ladybug flitted to the hallway, the serpent was close in pursuit.
"Don't go too far out." She cried to her two pet and followed down their path to the hall, musing how Sulfus's mascot came into her possession as she goes.

She stared out the window blankly, her mind blissfully empty. It's easier when it's empty, the gnawing pain in her chest numbed out when her mind is blank. Of course it reduce her to an emotionless being as she lays in the Golden School Infirmary Ward bed but nothing is better than the wreck she was. She has been in the ward for almost three weeks now, her injuries that made her bedridden has faded to angry red slash and her bruises diminishing slowly. But the huge gaping wound in her soul remained unhealed and Raf knew it would never be.
The empty peace she was in was broken when angry shouts and the sounds of clambering feet on the ward floor was heard outside her room. Something gold, red and black slithered into her room and Raf eyes widen when she recognize it. She leaped of the bed, the most movement she made in weeks and scooped the slithering snake in her arms. The snake hissed happily and nestled comfortably in Raf arm, feeling at home instantly. Raf almost smiled at the the snake when the Devil Enemies came bursting in with Kabale leading the pack.
Maroon eyes widen when she took in the Angel holding the Devil mascot in her arms like it's the most natural thing in the world. Cabiria gasped and slapped her hand over her mouth as she took in the situation and Gas gaped at the sight of the beautiful blonde, all bruised and cut up in a drab hospital gown, holding the serpent.
Kabale were the first to collect herself and glared at the annoying snake in Raf's arm. "Good, you caught it. Now hand that thing over."
Raf slowly look down to the snake in her arms and back up to the Devil girl; who felt a chill down her spine when she look at the Angel vacant eyes. "What happened?" Raf asked quietly, the snake burrowed deeper into her arm.
"We were feeding it when it just went off and came here!" Gas exclaimed and received a glare from Cabiria for it.
Kabale rolled her eyes and narrowed her eyes on the annoying snake."It doesn't matter what happened, we'll just go on our way once we had it back so why don't you give it here."
Basilisk hissed at Kabale menacingly only to have the Devil girl hissed back. He curled himself around Raf neck and hid under the blond gold tresses.
"Now look what you did, he'd never go back with us at this rate." Gas remarked. Kabale glared at him, her maroon eyes flashing angrily. Cabiria silently agreed to Gas but wisely kept silent.
Raf sat back on her bed, weary after standing up after weeks of inactivity. "Why did he ran?"
"Because it's being difficult that's why. You don't have to care about it, we're the ones that's taking care of him." Kabale practically growled. Raf company was the last thing she want especially after what happened. "It just gonna have to deal with it." If I could, I washed my hand off of it
Kabale knows she's being unfair and she does know why the snake ran. Because looking at it remind her of her lost best friend/crush and that put her in a bad mood. When she is in a bad mood, she's a bitch and that a loose term to describe it. And she pratically inches from physically abusing it but that is not something Raf needs to know. Cabiria and Gas had to separate her from the snake countless of time and Gas actually shouted at her once because of her animosity toward the serpent.
"Devil may suppose to be bad but there is a difference between bad and evil you know!"
Kabale had been stunned and she realized that she was becoming so embittered that she took it out on Basilisk. She stayed away from it then letting Cabiria and Gas care for it. But the animosity is still there and she jsut happened to be there when she slithered out of reach and away from the Devil's dorm into the ward.
Raf look at the serpent unblinking eye and realized something. Basilisk was Sulfus's mascot. In other words, Basilisk was a reflection of Sulfus. A part of the Devil. And that gave more comfort to her than all the soothing words and kind gestures put together.
"Um, Raf, we kinda skipped school to catch him so... can't you give him to us?" Cabiria said, speaking up for the first time. Raf tighten her grip on Basilisk until the snake coiled uncomfortably in her hand. A thought formed in her head and before she knew it, it came out of her mouth.
"You know, if you're having such a hard time taking care of him, why don't you let me do it?"

The tinkling chime halted Raf mid-scrub and she look up from her hands and knees on the floor. She glanced at her wrist watch. 8.45. They're early.
There's no way she can get up and then sink back into the suds liket this. They just gonna have to come to her. Her pets was goofing around on the stairs and she leveled a glare their way. "Well, what are you waiting for, open the door. And don't act you can't either because it sure wasn't me who dragged that squirell in didn't I?"
Basilisk bowed his head guiltily and Cox fluttered in the way that Raf knew as his guilty dance and went to answer the door.
The six Celestial teenagers voice swam back to her she heard the note of arguments and the exchange of heat between them. Somethings never change and sometimes she was glad for that.
The Angels came to view with the Devils close behind and they beamed at their best friend as she scrubbed the floor after they stripped off the carpet the yesterday. "Hai, Raf!"
"Hey, guys." Raf tried to put as much enthusiasm in her voice and face as she could, really but by the slight falter in her friends smiles told her that she failed. "Um, you guys should get on with work. If there's anything just ask me. I'd be here scrubbing the floor."
Not waiting for a reply, she bent down to her task, scrubbing furiously. The Devil went to theirs grumbling and her friends lingered with her as if to say something. She kept her head down, pretending to be ignorant to the pointed looks she's getting. They eventually gave up and went to their task and Raf breathe a sigh of relief.
Maybe she get off from the talk her friends they'd insisted to have.
Sure. When pigs fly.

**A/N
Okay, so this is my re-write for the lost chapter. There were suppose to be two of them and I had intended to upload it every once a week. That obviously didn't happen. Hopefully my next chapter will come sooner but as I had painfully discovered, there's no guarantee. But here's a promise, Adrian, Sulfus supposed dopple-ganger will appear in the third chapter so stay tuned!**