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"The" – Oral/Normal Speech

'The' – Thoughts

'The' – Telepathic Speech

AN: This isn't going to be a very long chapter, so don't get your hopes up. I was kind of rushing to get this done since my laptop was running out of charge and I didn't have my charger with me.

Enjoy the chapter!

The Altered Rotation

oO~Brother and Brother~Oo

"What the hell is going on here?" Gilbert muttered furiously, trying to shield himself from the shower of blood.

Just then, the walls of the room disappeared, leaving nothing but a floor and the belongings in the room floating around aimlessly.

"Welcome back Onii-sama," a voice giggled. "I'm so glad you came back to play!"

"Who's there!" the dark-haired man demanded. "Show yourself!"

It was then that a young Vincent Nightray faded into view in front of Gilbert.

"Vincent," Gilbert's eyes widened.

"What wrong, Onii-sama?" Vincent asked innocently. "Didn't you like my present?"

"Present?" Gilbert echoed.

"Those of course!" the blonde-haired child giggled, pointing to the dead bodies he'd seen before.

"Come on, Onii-sama," Vincent untied the older man from the chair. "Let's play!"

"Look kid," the dark-haired man growled at the boy, "there's no way I'm going near a murderer!"

Vincent's eyes filled with tears and for a moment Gilbert actually felt guilty. That is, until the young boy noticed that the older man hadn't fallen for his tears.

A wind began to whip around the bi-colour eyed boy as his eyes glowed furiously, a frightening expression on his face. "We're going to play! NOW! Dee! Dum! I want you guys to meet someone!"

Suddenly a dark shadow rose up from the ground behind Vincent and split into two. Each individual shadow slowly morphed into somewhat disfigured semi-human forms.

They were both twins, Gilbert noticed, but each had a different colour theme. One was going with a magenta theme while the other was sticking with a dull-orange.

(AN: Honestly, I'm sick and as I mentioned, I was rushing, so I won't be describing how the twins look, so just use your imagination and think up whatever grotesque images you can for the Chains. And in case the twin thing or the names called out didn't ring any bells, these are supposed to be wacked-up versions of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum)

"Do you like my friends, Onii-sama?" Gilbert noticed a change in the young boy before him; his voice seemed to echo with several different tones, as though several voices spoke at once.

"Who are you?" the dark-haired man demanded, figuring that something was off. He backed away slowly as a blood-red light emanated from the small being.

Bright blonde hair dulled to a grayish-blonde tone, skin became pasty-white and his eyes…his eyes were no more than two pools of black. His mouth opened to reveal elongating canines and a forked tongue. Nails grew and grew until they were

"We want to play, Onii-sama!" a high-pitched voice shrieked. "We want to play!"

"Raven," Gilbert said simply, feeling the large bird materialize behind him. "Go."

With that, the large bird-Chain swooped off towards what used to be young Vincent and his two Chains with Gilbert right behind him, pistol drawn.

"Dee! Dum! It's time to play!" the thing had was Vincent squealed, launching himself at Gilbert as the twin Chains charged at Raven.

Gilbert shot off three bullets, two missing their mark and the last lodging itself into 'Vincent's' left shoulder.

'Vincent' let out a cry of pain and outrage and shot out his arm at the dark-haired man, nails becoming longer and longer to reach the target.

Gilbert dodged the claws and looked up when a shriek sounded. He saw that his Chain had finished off one of the two twin Chains, leaving nothing but a few scraps of fabric behind. He smirked.

Unfortunately, Gilbert found out that he shouldn't have looked away when he felt a blinding pain in his right leg. Glancing down to the source, he found 'Vincent's' claws lodged into his right thigh.

Gilbert's jaw clenched, stifling a pained yelp.

"I love this game, Onii-sama!" Vincent laughed. "Why don't we p—" he was cut off by two loud gun shots ringing through the air.

Unlike last time, both bullets had lodged themselves into 'Vincent's' chest. Flowers of red slowly bloomed on his chest as the inhuman being staggered back and looked at Gilbert with questioning eyes. "W-Why…"

The dark-haired man said nothing as he watched the scene with cold eyes. He didn't even bother looking up when another shriek sounded, signaling the end of the other Chain.

"Well, that's that," Gilbert closed his eyes with a sigh, feeling Raven return to his place behind him.

When he opened his eyes, Gilbert let out a strangled sound. "What the hell?! Where am I NOW?!"

The dark-haired male continued to grumble under his breath as he started walking in a random direction, his Chain right behind him.

A bientôt,

TsukiyoTenshi