Now with "Our Little Brother" completed, we will be going back to ROS! Anyone hyped?

Mind you, we are getting close to the finale of this one too... :/

Miracle

Silence regained over the room.

Everyone's eyes were on Nasch, who was clutching on a dying Alcor's body. The leader himself, meanwhile, was actually crying as he shook the other gently, demanding for him to wake up, to stop joking with him in such a cruel way. When Yuma didn't reply at all - not even by breathing loudly - Nasch slowly laid him onto the cold, marble floor. He slowly got onto his feet and faced Vector, who was snickering sardonically as Merag and Astral crowded around Alcor, trying to check for any signs of life.

"I will whipe that grin off your face."

The grin just grew bigger as the other began to mock him.

"Oh really, Naschie-poo, when you couldn't even save Yuma-kun? That's rich!" he laughed then as his form began to glow purple. "I think it's time I finished you off, too..."

And so, once again Nasch's reflexes were out of it due to the grief and shock of losing Yuma, that he couldn't dodge. Merag's scream of horror jolted him from his mind as he started to feel a piercing pain in his left side. He looked down in surprise before crumbling down onto his knees in front of Vector, who just continued to laugh as he raised his blood-covered sword to strike down at the fallen leader. The former princess/priestess shouted something that wasn't tangible to Nasch's ears as she jumped Vector, attempting to fight off the sword from him.

"Why is she doing this?" Durbe rushed forward, trying to prevent another tragedy. "She never had any official swordsman training!"

That shook Nasch back out of his stupor. He lost Alcor (right?), he couldn't lose his little sister. Not again. Weakly, he got onto his feet and with shaky legs, guggled on forward to join the former knight in trying to help Merag wrestle the sword out of the maniac's hand. But Vector easily overpowered the twins (one of which had no training, like implied before, while the other was heavily injured) yet he did have some difficulties with Durbe, who wasn't so keen on giving up the battle quite yet. Nasch felt his little sister fall onto her knees beside him.

"Brother! Are you alright!?" she looked seriously worried and gasped. Looking up (when exactly did he look down again?), he saw why. Vector had managed to win their small squirmish and was now threatening to cut off Durbe's head with his weapon swinging down onto the resolved knight.

"DURBE!" Nasch yelled. No, he couldn't lose his other best friend too. With more force than needed - which disgusted him - he got onto his feet again and rushed towards them as fast as he could. At the same time, Alcor's pendant began to glow in a dark pink colour, causing Astral to blink as his whole body suddenly glowed in the same manner. "What...?" the blue spirit wondered as the boy's body vanished, a trail of that same energy shooting towards Nasch. The alien's eyes widened. "Could it be...?"

Nobody could really answer him at this point but as the light collided with the leader of the Barians, they didn't have to. As the answer was clear as day. In place of Nasch stood an imposing figure - dark purple and pink in colour, with wild hair and dual-coloured pink and blue eyes. It was ...

"CHAOS ZEXAL!" the new form spoke with the two voices blending together in perfect harmony.

... their last miracle.

So yes, last time, Alcor almost died and this time it was nearly the twins and Durbe! Misael is keeping Alit and Gilag at bay, for anyone wondering, which is why he didn't speak much here... and Astral was too surprised to do so.

On the other hand, Nasch and Alcor's new form does not have a name yet. If you have any good ones, please leave them in your review or PM me directly, and I will pick the one I like the most!

Thank you for reading and stay tuned! :)