PoisonousDemon: Yep, in this chapter... Just wait till you find out who Spyder is.


Okay, so after this, we get to the season 1 finale, essentially.

Love, Keta.


Chapter 8: My Home Away from Home

What I want from this world

What I wanna resolve

When I want you to stay

So I want you to wait

I don't wanna be bold

I don't wanna be cold

I don't wanna grow old

I wanna go home

-Home (Breaking Benjamin)

Dawn has barely started when a whitette E.V.O. creeps into his boyfriend's side of the room with the intention of taking him on a trip, but for a moment, he cannot wake Rex, too enraptured by his sleeping face. Then he quickly gets over it and jumps on the bed to wake his boyfriend up, smiling widely and whispering, "up! Up!"

Shortly afterward, the black haired teen's left eye slides open, and a groan passes his lips. "Seriously? I thought we were sleeping in."

"Not anymore. Now get up before Bobo wakes up."

"Why?"

"Because, Breach and I are going to show you our other home." As soon as those words are out of his mouth, Rex is up and changing clothes, making the other teen blush slightly, but he holds it together enough to ask, "you ready?"

"Yep," the older male replies. "Lead the way."

"Good." They turn around to see Breach's head peeking out of a portal, a small grin on her face. "Then come on. I want to find the others before we have to get back here."


Rex shivers in the cold morning air, not sure how much he likes the Romanian forest Allen and Breach have him traipsing through. "Why can't I just fly?"

"Because," the albino replies, "it's impossible to see from the air. Considering, we live underground." He leaps up on a rock before climbing up in a tree to run alongside Breach. "Besides, we aren't that far away. I recognize these rocks."

"How can you recognize rocks?"

Breach rolls her eyes and points to a large crack that almost splits one apart. "Allen did that when he was fighting with Spyder." Then she points to one that's worn smooth. "That's where the three of us would sit and watch the sunset. That's how we can recognize rocks."

"Oh."

The girl looks at her friend and mouths, 'he's such a moron.'

'But he's my moron," Allen responds. Before Breach can come up with a reply, Allen leaps down and slows their pace. "Home," he whispers and stoops to pick up a rock and throw it to the side. His hand reaches back to grab Rex's, and he leads the other down through a tunnel, a black abyss in the daylight. After they've gotten through, Breach moves the rock to close behind her, eclipsing them in nothingness. Still, the albino knows the path as if it were a piece of him, every bump, every turn and every crack coming back to him as if he'd never left.

"How do you know where you're going?"

"I've been down this path hundreds of times, Rex; not everyone can just make a portal like Breach."

"And you don't get lost?"

"Not anymore."

To prove his point, a small light appears in the black, slowly becoming brighter the closer they come to the exit, until at last, the brightness envelopes them and blinds them for a few moments. "Whoa," Rex says, awe dripping from his voice.

"I know right?"

Silence rings out for a few moments as the black-haired boy stares at the glowing walls, lit by fluorescent rocks along the walls, and he sees the E.V.O. plants growing in the soft glow, an amazing sight to behold. "You lived here."

"A long time ago," a harsh voice calls out from a cave-like crack in one of the walls. "Then they abandoned us."

"Hello, Spyder..."

Rex doesn't know what to make of the man Allen once loved when he steps out, the seemingly leader of the E.V.O.s that are hiding from his presence. He's a rather tall teen with the same red hair and green eyes, or rather eye, as Ryder had, but his own emerald pool glimmers with intelligence as his four attached spider legs walk him closer, supporting his human one that seems weakened. His voice is almost melancholic when he says, "it still has t healed from you, Allen," and that makes Rex very aggravated.

"Maybe if you hadn't hit on Breach, he would't have hurt you."

"He has a point, Lavi." A girl with long green pigtails comes out then alongside another teen with blue hair and an older man who seems to attached to her.

Lavi, Spyder sighs and answers, "of course, Lena, but I really don't think that he came back to defend himself."

"That's because the Moyashi has someone new to occupy his time," the bluenette drawls, smirking when the albino fumes at his words.

"Don't call me that, BaKanda!"

He growls and stalks forward, ready to fight his friend to the death. "Shut up, Beansprout."

"Never." The resulting fight causes catastrophic damage to the cavern that has to be fixed by a young woman nicknamed 'The Timekeeper' who made the damage disappear; Rex quickly learns that her real name is Miranda.

After everything's cleaned up, the Hispanic teen's introduced to the present part of the clan: Yuu Kanda, Lenalee and Komui Lee (Hatter), Arystar Krory (Vampyre), Howard Link (dubbed, to his annoyance, Inspector Gadget), Lavi (Spyder), and Alma (Kanda's lover). It doesn't take long for a new rivalry between Lavi and Rex to start, much to the others' amusement, but in the end, they have to leave, lest Holiday find out that her precious son has run away. And just as they're heading out, yet redhead asks to speak to Allen alone.

"How are you?" he asks, his green eye softening.

A scowl comes to the albino's innocent features as Neah stirs in his soul, and he says, "fine. Better than I was here."

A small sigh passes the older teen's lips, and for a second, he forgets what their relationship is and almost reaches out to touch his cheek. "I'm sorry, little Clown."

"Doesn't matter," Allen whispers back.

"Are you happy with him?"

"Yeah. I am..."


Allen's left hand wraps around Rex's wrist before drifting down to intertwine their fingers, a small smile coming to him. "Someone's happy," Rex remarks as they step into Breach's portal home.

"Very," the whitette replies. "Things are g..." His sentence stops short as he looks up at their new home to find it too quiet for a few moments until gunfire breaks out. "No..." Fear runs rampant in his heart, making him run from his boyfriend and best friend, because he needs to make it inside. "Mom!"