The Loss

Richard took a boat to Northern Hellgondo, he had just returned from San Ilias. He had Chrome, and her sister Shirome. They had finally arrived at their destination, the Monster Lords Castle. They walked up to it, but there was nobody at the gates, and the castle looked half destroyed. "What the hell?" Richard questioned. They walked in and saw many monsters cleaning and repairing the castle. "What happened here?" Richard asked.

"We were attacked" a servant responded

"By whom?" Chrome asked

"They call themselves the Scions of Destiny, or at least that's what I heard."

"Where are the others?" Richard asked

"They went on a boat to find Lancer." The monster responded

"Okay, then where is Lancer?"

"Across the Ocean, or at least that's what they said"

"Across the Ocean? How?"

"They tracked down Lancers last known location, and then a man named Zack. They asked around, and someone said that he was teleported away by two men."

"Okay, well I have to go. You can do your research here Shirome." Richard nodded to Chrome before leaving.

"Where are you going?" Chrome asked

"I'll be a king soon, so I have to prepare" Richard stated before walking out.

"Alright, well what should we do?" Chrome asked Shirome

"You can help fix the castle" the servant said

"You're fairly gutsy for a servant, we wouldn't be very helpful anyways." Shirome responded

"Let's go sis" Chrome said

"One moment, anywhere we can work?" Shirome asked the servant

"It depends what do you do?"

"We work with Necrurgy"

"Necromancy?"

"No! Not Necromancy, they're different"

"If you say so. Check the sixth floor." the servant said shaking her head, "Anything else?"

"No, thanks. Wait, how many floors are there?"

"Ten… I think. Yeah ten"

"Okay, thanks… I guess" Shirome said, "Alright now we can go"

They walked all the way up to the sixth floor, getting lost a few times, and searched the rooms. "None of these are large enough!" Shirome said frustrated.

"Well, we could just claim this floor, no one is up here" Chrome stated shrugging

"Not sure if that's a good idea… but why not!" she said, "This rooms larger than the others, it'll work as the main."

"Alright fine by me, will Alice approve of dead bodies on her sixth floor?" Chrome asked

"She doesn't have to know" Shirome said with a mischievous smile.

They started bringing all of their equipment up and then unpacked it. After about an hour a loud horn sounded from outside. "What was that?" Chrome questioned

"Dunno, let's go see" Shirome stated.

They walked down the endless flight of stairs and walked outside. All of the servants stopped working. They looked around the servants all seemed to be walking over to the docks, three of the Heavenly Knights were there too. "Wonder what's going on, let's follow" Shirome said. They walked among the others over to the docks, it was the ship that the servant from earlier was talking about. They watched it dock, and then as Alice stepped off. There were servants behind her carrying a body. Shirome heard a gasp beside her, it was one of the Heavenly Knights, she remembered her as Tamamo. Shirome carefully walked over to her. "Who is he?" shirome asked. Tamamo just looked at her, small tears in her eyes. Shirome changed her attention back to the ship. Two people walked off the boat, followed by a dragon and more servants. Then finally Shirome watched as her old enemy walked off, Luka.

"We… we have suffered losses" Alice said saddened. We will hold a funeral tomorrow at dawn, it will be c-closed casket. Alice put her arms in her arms and retreated back onto the ship, then disappeared in her cabin. Luka turned sighed and followed slowly, looking depressed. Granberia took the man from the servants and told them to retire for the day. She looked like she was suppressing and tear. She walked into the castle carrying the man carefully. He was young, and very handsome, but looked worn, as he had cuts all over his legs and side. He also had a large wound in his chest. All of the servants returned to work, the mood lowered. She walked over to the only person left. It was Alma Elma, the Succubus Queen. "Who was he? I asked Tamamo, but she didn't answer."

"That was Lancer Octivus, he was very close to everyone here. He helped with the war and Ilias, I wonder how he died. He seemed to be invincible, he was always death defying. I-I" Alma Elma said, she turned and teleported away.

Shirome just stood there. "Let's go sis" Shirome said turning

"Wait!" Shirome turned again, it was an angel, with a woman behind her.

"I-I heard you were do necrurgy, can you help?"

"Help how?" Shirome asked

"Can you revive him? She's his Doppelganger" the angel said pointing to the woman, "and I-I have regeneration, I can heal him."

"But that won't work when he's dead, besides I'm not a necromancer."

"Please! We owe him, he saved our lives."

"I… Fine I'll see what I can do. I need more info however, who created you?" Shirome asked looking at the Doppelganger.

"Promestein, but she won't help. This is what she wanted to happen in the first place."

"Alright, but I need the body." Shirome said feeling a little sorry for her attitude.

"I uh… Granberia should know where he is" The angel said.

"Meet us on the sixth floor." Shirome said before turning to leave

Shirome and Chrome walked around the castle trying to find Granberia. They wandered for a few minutes, until they heard something in the training room. Shirome and Chrome stopped and walked in. It was Granberia, she was beating the shit out of a steel punching bag.

"Hello I'm Shirome, and this Chrome."

"What do you need?" Granberia said giving one last solid punch.

"I'm sorry for your loss, but do you know where Lancers body is?"

"W-what!?" Granberia asked surprised

"We were asked to try and revive him."

"I-I no! The Monster Lord wouldn't approve…" Granberia said looking down

"She doesn't have to know." Shirome said uncaring

"I-I, fine he is being taken to the preparation center, on the third floor."

"Thank you, and again I am truly sorry for your loss" Shirome said

"Yes, me too" Chrome said

"There is nothing I can do anymore, and… don't fail, or I'll personally come after you."

"We won't" Chrome said nodding

Shirome and Chrome left for the third floor. They rushed up the stairs, and caught the servants before they reached their destination. "We need to borrow him for a moment" Shirome said

"Uh… why, and who said you could?" a servant asked

"None of your business, and Granberia said we could."

"Okay, fine. I'm checking with her though."

Shirome had the servants carry Lancers body, still in the coffin, back to their lab.

"There will be fine" Shirome said

"Okay, now we're off." The servants said before leaving.

Shirome and Chrome met up with the other two and started working on a way to revive him. They formed up different solutions researched them, but found none that had a chance of working. They continued brainstorming ideas and formulas, but again found that all would fail if utilized.

"Who are you?" a voice said.

Chrome turned it was a young vampire. There were three other young monsters behind her. "I'm Chrome, that's Shirome. Who are you?"

"I'm Vanilla, that's Gob, Teeny, and Papi. What are you doing?"

"We are trying to revive Lancer. We were asked to do so by an angel, and Lancers Doppelganger." Chrome said

"Do you know him?" Shirome said turning

"Yes, he saved me from being eaten a small while ago" Vanilla said

"Would you like to see him alive again?" Shirome asked

"What, he died?!"

"Oh you didn't know…" Shirome said quietly

"How, when did he die?!" Vanilla said breaking into tears.

"Just recently, I don't know how exactly, but we may be able to revive him, wait Chrome do you think that his DNA from the Doppelganger and the angels regeneration could help him?"

"I umm… maybe. We could try I guess"

"Umm… I'm sorry for your loss, but I need to get back to work. Chrome can you go find them?"

"Yeah, on it" Chrome said before running off.

"It'll probably be better if you leave." Shirome said.

"I, uh yeah…" Vanilla said while wiping her eyes.

Chrome was jogging down the halls looking for the two when she saw Luka.

"Hey Luka, where is the angel and the Doppelganger?"

"I don't know, they may be on the first floor. In his quarters' maybe?"

"Alright thanks, and how are you doing?"

"I'm… holding up. Alice isn't doing so well however. She feels at fault for not finding him sooner."

"I'm sorry, I have to go however. So we can catch up later"

"What? But!" but Chrome was already gone.

She went to the first floor, and asked around for where Lancers quarters' were. She finally found his room. She knocked and entered.

"Is it done?" was the first thing said when she walked in.

She looked at the angel, she must've been talking to the salamander, because otherwise she wouldn't have known. "Uh no, but we need you two" she said looking at the angel and the Doppelganger.

"Sure, what do you need?"

"We need your DNA and your regeneration abilities" Chrome said waving them over

"Yeah sure, let's go Selena" the Doppelganger said

They went back up to the lab to help Shirome. "Good you're here" Shirome said.

"Yeah, what do you need us to do?" Selena asked

"I need your DNA, so let me get a needle." Shirome said looking at the Doppelganger

"Okay, anything else?"

"Maybe, but I shouldn't need you for a while. Alright let's get back to work, oh and I'll need you later" she said pointing at Selena.

After about an hour they created a formula that would regenerate Lancers cells, and replace the completely destroyed ones. Shirome called for Selena and prepared the serum.

"I need some blood." Shirome said

"I uh yeah, sure"

"Chrome, can you take her blood? I need to make sure this is going to work"

"Yeah on it, there all done." Chrome said after taking some blood.

"What'll that do?" Selena asked

"Well the serum will rapidly replace his destroyed cells, and your blood should revive him while we try to jumpstart his heart" Chrome explained, "It should work, if not then… well I don't know what we'll do next"

"Alright, ready?" Shirome asked

"Yeah, here's the blood"

"Here we go" Shirome said, "Here's to working" she stated quietly

Shirome set up an electrical current and attached one side to his chest, and the other to his back. Then she injected him with the serum, she watched as all of his wounds healed, but left large scars across his chest. "Give me the blood" Shirome said to Chrome.

"Here" Chrome said taking the blood off the counter and handed it to her sister.

"Prepare the device"

"Ready?"

"Yes"

"Alright, on the count of three I'll inject him with it, and you start the current."

"Alright, got it"

Selena and the Doppelganger watched nervously as Shirome counted down.

"Three, Two, One. NOW!" Shirome said while injecting Lancers lifeless body. An electrical current shot onto Lancer creating a loud boom, and arced all over the room. When the smoke cleared a figure shot up from the bed eyes wide and breathing heavily. He looked around and grabbed his chest and felt his scar.

"Wh-What? How am I alive?" he muttered, "I-I can't can I?" he muttered to himself questioning

Hey everyone! How'd you like the chapter? It was shorter than I wanted, but hopefully it was good. I hope you enjoyed, review. The next chapter will be out sometime next week. Bye everyone!