Progression

Sorry for the late chapter, I had a lot of stuff to do, and I didn't have much time to type, because my computer was fried and I had to replace it.. This chapter is also shorter, as if I waited any longer people might have thought I quit, but the next chapter will be out soon. Enjoy!

"What the hell happened?" Lancer asked

"You died." Shirome stated blankly

"Right I get that, but why am I alive?"

"We did some hocus pocus on you" Chrome said smirking, "but in all seriousness we created a serum and used their blood to bring you back."

"Okay that's better. Now, does this mean I'm undead or something?"

"No, we completely regenerated your cells, and jump started your heart. So no, before you ask, you are not going to start decaying in the middle of battle" Chrome explained

"I wasn't going to ask that, but thanks anyways. By the way how did you get Alice to agree with this?"

"We didn't."

"Okay, then how did you do this without being caught?"

"Granberia made sure nobody questioned anything. Oh wait I almost forgot we need to go, you'll be late to your funeral!"

"Wait what? Why am I going to my own funeral?"

"I don't know, to make your return more dramatic?" Chrome stated

"Um, actually I think I'm going to go find Alice and tell her rather than surprising everyone by just popping in at my funeral."

"I still think my idea's better, but sure whatever. Oh and, umm you should go find Granberia first."

"Can do, but does anybody else know about this?" Lancer asked

"Uh no… Sorry"

"Well that's inconvenient, alright. Well I may come back as a dead body after talking to Alice" Lancer muttered

"Yeah, well… Let's hope not" Chrome said

"Yeah, you're too cute to die again" Shirome said smirking

"Right…" Lancer said sarcastically while walking off.

Lancer walked down the halls, somehow not getting lost. He turned some corners, with the same designs he remembered, though vaguely. He sighed and started trying to figure out how to explain to the others why he was alive.

"You're alive" a voice said slowly and quietly

Lancer spun and saw a familiar face, it was Alma Elma. "Oh um I-I"

"I already know" she said

"What, how did you know?"

"I'm me, I know everything"

"Uh, right… I bet you were just eavesdropping." Lancer muttered

"Now, how are you going to explain this to those who don't already know?"

"I don't know, I was trying to figure that out when you showed up"

"I have an idea!" She said giggling

Lancer watched as she disappeared, he sighed and continued walking. He felt a breeze and turned around. As expected it was the Succubus Queen, though with her was a blue blob. Lancer sighed again, it was Erubetie.

"You are alive… Human. Some of us will be relieved to see you still alive and… well"

Lancer gave her an unenthusiastic look. "Nice to know I'm appreciated, somewhat"

Alma Elma just glanced between the two, wondering what was going on. "That's all you have to say? Wow Erubetie, that's cold"

"Yeah well it's understandable, we don't know each other very well"

"Fine, if you insist Elma. Come here human"

"Uh…Okay?" Lancer questioned while stepping forwards

She stuck out her hand and motioned Lancer to do the same. Lancer stuck out his hand and shook hers.

"So, that's what you humans do…"

"What was that?" Lancer asked

"Oh uh nothing" Erubetie said turning to leave

If he didn't know better Lancer would've commented on what looked like a blush.

Lancer turned to Alma Elma, but she was gone.

Lancer stood and waited for her to return, it wasn't very long 'til she reappeared, this time with Tamamo. Before Lancer could react she ran over and pounced on him, fortunately she wasn't too heavy.

Tamamo continued hugging Lancer until it started becoming awkward.

"Um, hi. It's nice to see you again, now could you please let go?" Lancer asked not knowing what else to do.

"It's good to see you too, how did it feel being dead?"

"Lancer just cocked his head at the question, "Uh. Like I was dead" he responded still confused.

"I asked because there is no "Goddess" to bring you to heaven"

"Oh, uh I honestly don't know. I was dead, I couldn't feel anything" Lancer stated like it was still obvious, "though now that I think about it I was somewhere dark, but not eerie. It was a comforting darkness, that's about all I can remember."

"I see interesting, either way it's good to have you back" she said before hugging him again.

"I'll be back shortly, with the others." Alma Elma said before disappearing with a gust of wind.

Lancer walked over and sat against a wall, waiting for her to return.

"So, now that you are back what're you going to do?" Tamamo asked

"Well for starters I'm going to NOT die again, after that I don't know"

"Well you should probably figure that out, though if you're interested I know someone who's single and looking for a mate." Tamamo said

Lancer just gave her a look and shook his head, "You'll never stop trying will you?"

Tamamo's ears perked up does that mean you accept?" she asked excitedly

"No" Lancer said smirking

Tamamo just scowled at him

A quick gust of wind grabbed the twos attention. Lancer stood and turned to see who it was.

This time it was Granberia who was with Alma Elma. The Succubus Queen quickly disappeared, "probably getting someone else" Lancer thought to himself.

"H-hey" Granberia stuttered

"So I'm alive, so you don't have to brutally murder anyone" Lancer said quietly laughing to himself.

Granberia ran forwards and smashed her lips against Lancer's and wrapped her arms around him. Lancer was too surprised to do anything. After a second Lancer kissed her back, he hadn't known she liked him. She responded by pulling him in closer, it was slightly awkward as they both had their armor on making it hard to get close. With a gust of wind Alma Elma appeared, with Alice and Luka by her side. Granberia quickly stepped back and looked away, however not fast enough to keep them from seeing.

Alma Elma grinned widely. "Well what do we have here?"

"N-nothing!" Granberia said blushing

"You know I was actually hoping to be the first one to kiss him" Tamamo stated frowning and crossing her arms.

"You never had a chance Tamamo" Alma Elma said still grinning

"Oh YEAH! Well neither did you!" Tamamo said standing up.

"Um… if you please stop your bickering, I need to talk to Alice" Lancer said slightly louder than the other two were. He didn't like yelling, but it was necessary in order to keep them quiet. He walked over to Alice and Luka arms crossed, feeling a little uncomfortable. His lips still tingled from the kiss that Granberia had given him.

"Hey" Lancer stated awkwardly

"Y-you…" Alice stuttered looking at Lancer

"Yeah, um let me answer that. I was brought back by Shirome, Chrome, Selena, and my Doppelganger"

"But how? No, you aren't… You aren't him!" Alice said stepping back in disbelief.

"I can assure you that it's really me"

"No, it can't be! I saw you die!" Alice said stepping back into Luka.

Luka looked at Lancer with confusion, "If it is in fact you, then prove it. That would probably make Alice feel better"

"I don't quite know how, but Granberia was the first one of you lot that I met. And Alice, you trained me. You should be able to tell that it's me" Lancer said desperately trying to convince her with logic.

"I-I need some time to think" Alice said before turning and walking off.

"I'll talk to her" Luka said turning

"Can you keep up the tough guy act long enough though?" Lancer said trying to brighten the mood.

"Yeah, right" Luka said smiling a little bit while walking off.

"So, um since Alice thought you were dead she had her servants clean your room up, so um you'll have to sleep somewhere else tonight" Alma Elma said winking.

"Uh I would rather sleep outside than with you" Lancer said smirking

"Oh whatever, you're still a guy"

"Yeah, one with a sense of decency" Lancer said

Granberia walked over and said"you can sleep in my room tonight"

Lancer turned looked at her "Why the hell not"

"Alright well, if you chose her then I'm going to retire for the night" Tamamo said

"Not me, I'm going to have some fun" She said before disappearing.

"And that leaves us" Lancer said, "I can't remember where your room is so you'll have to show me"

"This way" Granberia said before walking off.

Lancer followed her to the room. "Alright, well I feel like post mortem so I'm going to take a shower and go to sleep"

"I'll join you" Granberia stated

Lancer turned and gave her a questioning look.

"I-I meant going to sleep" She stuttered

Lancer turned shook his head and went to take a quick bath in the small swimming pool.

After he was finished he grabbed his bag that was given to him by Tamamo before she left, and threw on some fresh clothes. He walked out and went to go and sleep on the floor, but was interrupted by Granberia.

"There's enough room on the bed for you"

"No, it's fine. I don't want to intrude" Lancer said

"I insist, c'mon" Granberia said motioning him over.

Lancer sighed blew out the candles and hopped into the bed, it wasn't half bad, though a little cramped. Granberia quickly fell asleep, but kept Lancer awake with her mid-sleep mumblings of beating someone up, or talking about her sword. After about an hour Lancer finally began drifting off to sleep, but was re-awoken by Granberia moving over and wrapping her arms around Lancer. He sighed and laid there wondering if he was ever going to sleep that night. Granberia nestled her face into Lancers neck and started her mumblings again, this time about something more awkward when sleeping in the same bed as someone else. She began moving her legs around Lancer and making noises uncomfortable to the ears. Lancer started to move away, but was pulled back by Granberia. All he could think was "this is going to be a long night"