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AN: Yeah, yeah, I haven't updated in God knows how long and you readers are probably, pardon my language, pissed as hell. I couldn't do anything about it. I had more than enough going on and writing just wasn't my top priority then. I have an idea of how I want the last couple chapters of this story to go, so I'll do my best to add those in all the while replacing others and finishing the entire thing up all together. Besides, I promised a few readers that I'd rewrite one of my old stories and get that up soon.

I realize that this will most likely sound weak, but just cut me some slack, why don't ya? I haven't written for this story for a long while now! Oh and if anyone's caught up with the manga, I know that a lot of what I wrote and will write isn't accurate, nor will it match up. I'd only recently caught up with the manga, and was seriously surprised at how things turned out. But in any case, it would do well to remember that this is a rewriting of the anime with slight details form the manga added in.

Enjoy the chapter!

The Altered Rotation

oO~The Battle of Past and Present~Oo

Kevin charged at Break, unsheathing his blade from underneath his cloak. His eyes were glowing red, pupils dilated, and a crazy smile upon his lips.

Break had dodged the attack and narrowed his eye at what was supposed to be him, or at least who he was in any case. 'Hm…something isn't right…' He separated his cane and charged at the duplicate of himself with his own blade.

While the two humans were fighting with one another, the Mad Hatter and Albus remained where they were summoned.

"Albus!" Kevin shouted, his eyes crossing slightly as he continued crossing blades with Break. The large Knight-Chain said nothing as he stayed in the same position and began glowing an eerie red colour. And soon enough, Kevin had been covered with the same faint, red glow as well.

His grin widened to the point where it looked practically feral. Unexpectedly, he lunged at his future self.

Break's eye widened as he took in the increased speed of the duplicate. He was so surprised that he almost didn't raise his sword in time to black the blow that would have been fatal had it hit.

Unfortunately, the surprises didn't just stop there. It seemed that while Kevin's speed had increased, his strength had as well. Break clenched his teeth as he broke out into sweat from trying to hold back the sword.

'How is he this strong?' The white-haired male of the future wondered, succeeding in pushing the blade off. 'Duplicate or not, it's impossible for a mere human to have such strength!' It was then that his eye fell upon the glowing Knight-Chain.

Looking from the Chain to his duplicate, Break quickly put the pieces of the puzzle together and realized just how the clone had gotten to be so strong so quickly. Think fast, the white-haired man concentrated on the bond he had with his Chain.

In no time, both Chain and Contractor were glowing a faint violet-hue.

But just then, like before, the echoing voices came back, louder than before. Screams of terror resonated throughout the room.

"Listen Xerxes," Kevin cackled, "listen to the cries of the lives we took. Their wonderful screams of agony! The beautiful, red blood leaking from their bodies as we took their lives!"

Break's grip tightened on the handle of his blade. "I may have done those things," he said in a low voice, "but I no longer follow that path. I fight to protect. I've no need to kill anymore because I no longer have a wish."

Kevin shrieked as he once again, charged at Break, only to be pushing sword with him once again. "Liar!" the copy hissed. "You wish that you could go back and change things so that you'd stayed with the young mistress!"

"I admit that I had wanted that," Break grit out, "but not anymore. Not when I have a new family to serve and a new mistress to look after!" With that, he swung out at Kevin, catching him in the shoulder.

A painful and burning sensation erupted from Break as he let out a small grunt of pain. He felt something dripping down his arm and lifted said appendage to take a look.

It was blood.

Break's eye fixed upon the tiny stream dripping down his hand and looked to where the blood must have started from, only to be shocked once more.

The blood was leaking out of a wound on his shoulder. The very shoulder he'd just struck on the duplicate.

"Surprised?" Kevin chuckled. "I'm not. After all, we are the same person."

"Shut up!" Break hissed menacingly. "I'm not you and you definitely aren't me. I'm no longer a murderer! I am a protector! I AM MYSELF!"

His last line must have done something because the faint-red glow around Kevin and his Chain faded away.

"No," the duplicate whispered, looking at himself. "NO! This will not happen!" He let out an inhuman screech.

Black shadows began to emerge from the walls and from within the mirror Kevin himself had emerged from. "Your life is MINE!" the copy shouted, eyes glowing once more. And with that, the shadows shot towards Break and his Chain.

The white-haired man of the future stepped into the folds of is Chain's cape and uttered only one word as the fabric stretched to hide him. "Obliterate."

There was a large flash of light as a blast erupted from the Mad Hatter. The shadows screeched as the light touched them before dissipating into nothing.

The last thing Break heard were the inhuman shrieks of Kevin and Albus.

Pandora~Hearts

Darkness.

That was all Break saw when he emerged from within his Chain's cocoon.

"Ah la la," Break muttered. "I know that your attack does quite a bit of damage, but I didn't think this would happen…"

He suddenly doubled over and started coughing into his hand. When the coughs subsided, the white-haired man looked into this hand and saw a little blood spatter his palm. "This always happens," he murmured before standing up once more.

"Well, we aren't going to get anywhere by just standing here," Break said, walking off in a random direction, Mad Hatter hovering behind him. "We might as well go and see if there's an exit."

A bientôt,

TsukiyoTenshi