Chapter 34:
Still not really awaken Rosette turned to the voice which was softly calling her. Slowly she opened her eyes and looked into two golden eyes. It was Chrono in his full demon form. He was holding her in his arms and looked down to her. The girl noticed she was lying on a hospital bed and he sat next to her.
"What happened?" She asked tiredly and tried to sit up as well. Suddenly thousands of pictures flew through her mind. They seemed so real, like memories! Moment! It WERE memories!! The memories from her past life! The life which was filled with pain, sorrows and her running too fast though the time. Chrono pulled her closer to him.
"Don't worry! It'll all be alright!! I promise. I'll protect you." He softly whispered into her ear and kissed her on the forehead.
"I know. I know you will. Thank you, Chrono." She snuggled on his chest and heard his heart beating loudly. A devil's heart can't feel. A devil's heart can't love. That was what she had been told all the time. But was that true? No, the best example for this was Chrono. Why did God let him be reborn as a demon again? He deserved something much better.
"I don't want to interrupt you now, but at the moment there's no time for that." Sheda told them. She seemed serious now. They turned to her to listen what she had to say.
„I'm sure everything at the moment is confusing for you now… but let me explain it to you, yes?" The cat woman cleared her throat and began to babble.
"After all that happened in 1924 I was the only sinner who survived. I heard of your death in 1932. – I'm really sorry about that. – Well, anyways, I survived the whole time. Yes, I'm still the same as more than 80 years ago… with the same body and the same soul. I survived all the time and looked for something I could do. Then in 1993 I found the frozen Sathella and Fiore. Now I had finally something to do!! I built a machine which should unfreeze them… Unfortunately it took me six years to finish it… Too late for Azmaria… At that time she was already an old woman. Before I was able to finish it, she died… She had always looked forwards to see Sathella again. I had given her the promise that I'll unfreeze them… but I couldn't keep it." She sniffed at the thought that she had disappointed her.
"Moment? You were with Azmaria?" Rosette asked.
"Well, I came and visited her from time to time, telling her how far I was with the machine. She was a really nice person. And she was the one who gave me the watch. She told me that I shall give it to you when you're reborn. Then she died. But she died peacefully in her bed. I was sad because of that for months… Now nobody was left. I worked even harder on the machine. And finally in 1999 it was done. I managed it to unfreeze both sisters. They had a lot of wounds, so I helped at first Fiore to get into my car. I wanted to drive them home to my healing machines. As I wanted to get Sathella as well, the humans had already found her and had taken her away."
"So Sathella is still the same person like before? And she can still remember everything?" Chrono wanted to know.
"Yes, she is and she can, but I think she thought it would be better not to tell you… For her it was surely a huge surprise to see you again. Where was I? Ah okay. Now I had Fiore by my side and Sathella had disappeared. I only saw her a few times at your grave.
Oh, I totally forgot to say!! In about 1994, before I had unfrozen them I had seen some children playing in the park…They reminded me a lot of our old sinner group and they even had the same nicknames!! I directly knew that you were the reincarnations of the real sinners."
"But if you had had the same body as before, how were you able to change into a six years old form? In this life I've known you from child on. How did you do that?" Chrono was confused. (AN: Good question… I noticed that, too…. After I uploaded the memory-chapter-thing… And then I had a problem therefore…)
"Oh, that was really easy! In all the years I practised switching forms and built some little funny machines for it. Then I took my child form, hypnotized a woman so she thought she was my mom and then I waited for the right moment… Then I saw you, Chrono, and I knew you wouldn't be so mean and ignore a crying child. And I was right. Anyways the similarities between these kids and the sinners were unbelievable. But obviously you all weren't able to remember at that time and I thought it was better that way… But suddenly, only one day after you left the town to live at Mr Hendric's, Aion came to me and told me some strange stuff. He spoke in riddles, but he made clear that he remembered… And his plans were still the same."
Rosette watched her nervously going form the left to the right. "Why did you listen to what he said?"
"Nya, you know, I'm not trained to fight. I'm a technical demon, not a warrior. Aion is much stronger than me!! And the other sinner could remember, too. I had no other choice and I had to help him. Then we found you, Rosette, and the other Apostles. One Evening Aion came to me and asked me a favour. He wanted me to create an army for him, for supporting."
"What do you mean by army?"
"Well, that means that I took some legion cells and worked on them. They remained from the time Pandemonium had made that all demons changed their looking and obeyed her orders… You know, you saw it, too. They were the reason why Aion had ribbed his horns of, so he wouldn't be controlled. (AN: I mean that what happened in Manga Volume 6/7)... Anyways, I took these cells and changed them a little bit. Everyone who came in contact with them would change into a devil who obeyed Aion's orders. The virus, like you call it, was free and everywhere were new demons under Aion's control. His plans are still the same. He tries to kill Pandemonium and change everything in the world. He wants a new apocalypse. And now he even has an army. That's terrible, but I couldn't do anything against him. You two are the only hope for this planet."
Rosette hesitated. That was a huge responsibility. If they failed the whole world would suffer under it. Great motivation… Chrono hesitated as well, but he had two final questions, too.
"Sheda, what is with Joshua? He can't have MY horns because I've still mine on my head and can we save him with ribbing his horns of?"
"Well, these ARE YOUR horns. But they were from your past life. I arrived at the church only one hour after you two died. You, Rosette, were lying on the ground and next to you laid the horns. I knew you two had died. I wasn't sure with Chrono, because devils become dust after death, but I felt it. I took the horns with me, as a remembrance of you, so I would never forget… Unfortunately I didn't hide them good enough and Aion found them. Ribbing them apart should help."
Chrono got up from the spot he was sitting and pointed to himself. "Okay. My last question is: Before the last what two hours? Anyways, before the last two hours I haven't been able to change into my full demon form. But I was infected with the virus. So, why hadn't I changed immediately as well? Why hadn't it forced me into my full form? I only got a little headache…"
Sheda thought for a second and scratched her cat-ears. "Well, you are a demon… So you have legions by yourself… I guess it's because your legion is much stronger than the manipulated ones… Yours was able to defeat it easily…"
AN: So they finally have their memories back and the reason for the virus is explained… I hope it wasn't too confusing…