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Project Messiah - codename: Shinji

Another frigging Eva alternate reality by Raiden_X_

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Chapter 4 - My Blue Heaven

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[Hospital]

It was midnight. The moon was at its glorious peak where the sun shines fully over the satellite's exposed side.

The door for the fire-escape stairs opened. A lone dark figure entered covertly.

I mustn't be seen around here... he thought as closed the door.

He entered the hallways and pretended to be a normal visitor. The boy then lowered the hood on his cap to minimize possible recognition.

The place wasn't that very busy. The only time the hospital receives major traffic jams are during angel attacks.

Where does she stay? He thought as he hid under a bed in an unoccupied room to take a quick nap.

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[Shinji's Dreamscape]

"Hey! Are you guys awake?" the young Ikari hollered as he left the cockpit.

He went in the main room and into the sleeping quarters.

"Zzz....uh? *Groan! * What do you want now? *Yawn! *" Lucifer was irritated for being woken up before midnight.

The four of the quadruplets often sleep during the day while the chairman stays cognizant 24 hours a day. Shinji may be sleeping in the real world, but he is wide-awake in his dreamscape. The others often wake up during the body's unconscious state, the time where all of Shinji's consciousness was at equilibrium.

"Do you know which room?" The chairman asked.

"*Yawn! * Damnit Shinji, I told you that I don't want to be a part of this mission. I swear, you and Christ are too generous for your own good. Ask Adam: He knows everything. *Yawn* Wake me up when there's a war.... zzzzzzzz" scratching his flame dyed hair, he went back to his bed.

"............"

The leader of the quadruplets then searched for Adam in his workshop.

"Hey! You're bright and early tonight."

"Oh! Hi Shinji!" The person greeted without moving from his workbench. the guy seemed to be intent at finishing his work. His hands were fumbling with some electronic device.

"What are you fixing now?" The chairman inquired.

"This? It's just a broken nerve link that I temporarily disconnected from the cockpit. I'm trying to heal it with my regeneration process. Shinji, you should be more careful. Next time you get a into a battle, you may end up destroying a major nerve group if you got hit hard by the feedbacks from Unit-01." The omniscient of the four replied sagely.

Adam was the 'step-brother'. His DNA was manually implemented unto Shinji when he was 2 years old. The DNA merged itself unto it's host and created another consciousness. Thus Adam was born. The First angel acted mainly as the group's advisor (He did eat the apple of knowledge, you know) and repairman. His power to regenerate gave Shinji the ability to heal fast.

Since Yui and Gendo didn't know that there is already an angelic entity within their offspring, they implemented the 1st angel's DNA to ensure the boy's survival after 3rd Impact. Of course both the Christ and Lucifer could live after the judgment day and so forth but they need a strong physical entity, like an angel, to exist during then. Since only Angels could live through the massive collection of souls, Adam was used.

Adam's presence caused more than what's been anticipated. Lucifer was once an angel. The first angel's DNA has awakened most of the fallen one's angelic properties. Thus, Shinji grew wings.

The young Ikari's parents got worried that their son's anomalous nature is plainly visible. They felt at ease when the boy learned how to hide them.

"Hey, Could you tell me where the little girl's hospital room is located?"

"Ms. Suzahara? Room #134, east wing. Take a left at the intersection, you can't miss It." came an instantaneous answer (It's a bonus if you're a psychic).

"Thanks!" Shinji replied as he headed back to the cockpit.

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[Hospital]

Shinji woke up from his nap and left the room. Avoiding contact with the cameras and the hospital personnel, he stealthily moved to his destination.

If I have to do these things often, I better get shoes that don't squeak too much...

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[Hospital room #134]

A small bedridden child was staring at the wall. She could see the reflection of the full moon from the window. The clock on the wall was silently displaying '11:23 PM'.

She got crippled during the attack of the third Angel, Sachiel. A pile of debris fell and she got crushed underneath. She was lucky to be alive, but she couldn't move her legs since then. The doctors said that they couldn't repair the nerves that were crushed and she was paralyzed for life.

*Click! * The doorknob signaled that there was a visitor

Oh no! The nurse is going to catch me awake! The girl thought, afraid that she would be scolded for not sleeping yet.

She quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Shinji tiptoed inside after closing the door silently.

...Good, she's asleep...

Shinji sat at a chair beside the bed.

The boy began whispering something. The atmosphere was too quit that the girl could perceive his barely audible nervous ramblings.

Hey! This guy isn't the nurse!

"-Uh...um I'm sorry...for getting you crippled and all, your brother told me about it. I'm really sorry. I wish I could have prevented the pain from even happening... but... all I could do right now is help you heal..."

*Sigh* Shinji took off his jacket and his cap.

What's going on? The child thought.

Bright light enveloped the whole room.

This time, the child really went to sleep.

The light faded out abruptly and Shinji left as quickly and as silent as he had arrived earlier. He also made sure that any any evidence of his stay was dealt with, or so he thought...

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[Shin-chan's Lovely Suite]

*Swoosh! * *Flap! * *Flap! *

Shinji came in through his window. He made sure that he wasn't being followed by NERV security intelligence before coming back to the apartment. The artificial angel then hid his wings and collected the feathers, the evidence of existence of his unnatural appendages.

*Cough! * *Cough! *

Blood splattered on his right palm as he coughed violently, covering his mouth.

I should be all right by tomorrow. My life force should be fully healed by then. That should keep Adam busy for a while. (Otherwise he would continue on his 'mate-hunting' again...)

After wiping his mouth and cleaning his hand, he switched on his SDAT and lied back on his futon.

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The next day...

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[Hospital room #134]

*Yawn*

The young girl in the bed woke up from a beautiful dream.

A dream of the sun, the birds, and the sky.

From the corner of the room, something caught her eye. She stood up from her bed and picked the shining object. It was a golden feather. The glow is starting to dissipate.

"Whoa! This is so kawaii!"

*Click! * A nurse came in with the girl's brother.

Touji visits his sister every morning before going to school. His Father and his Grandfather works at NERV science department almost the whole day that they couldn't check up on the little girl. Touji had to come early to the hospital to avoid being scolded for being late for school.

The small kid was startled and hid the feather behind her back.

Touji and the nurse had their jaws dropped to the floor in surprise.

"...Uh...Hi Oniichan!"

"Yu-Yu-You're supposed to be crippled, right?!" cried the surprised Lady.

"She's cured!!!" Touji ran forward and hugged her tightly.

The boy's tears of joy started to soak on her dress.

"W-wait a minute... I can stand again?!!!" Realization struck the little Miss Suzahara. She started hopping about and skipping around gleefully.

"I better call the doctors right away!" The nurse immediately dashed outside.

"Hey! What's this?" Touji watched as the feather that his sister was holding just turned to silver.

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[Shin-chan's Lovely suite]

*Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...*

The alarm clock struck '5:30' and rang.

Shinji Woke up abruptly and slammed his palm on the button.

*Yawn* Shinji stood up went to the bathroom to freshen up.

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[Misato's apartment]

The taste of his own blood is still tangible on his tongue. The boy fixed that with a cup of Listerine and a good scrub with his toothbrush. He sank in the warm tub. Soon he finished his bath and left to make breakfast.

"Hey! You could cook?!" A red haired girl came up from behind him.

The poor kid got startled almost dropped the pan.

"Um, uh yeah..." Shinji replied.

His roommate began to look at him from top to bottom and started giggling hysterically.

"Is there something wrong?" The puzzled boy asked.

She began to point at the frilly pink apron he was wearing.

The young Ikari blushed and returned back to his job.

"Oh! I'm sorry, there wasn't any other apron in here..."

"I usually take off before Misato starts to make 'breakfast' but since Misato conned you into making them, I'm willing to stay for a while. You better make it worth my time Third Child! If your cooking is as bad as Misato's, I'm going to make you regret into eating your trash!" She stated threateningly.

"*Gulp! * Uh... sure, I guess..."

Soon, it was time to eat and everyone gathered around at the table.

"I'm going to Rei's and ask if she wants to join us." The young Ikari declared as he placed a bucket of oven baked fish for Penpen.

"You won't find her there today, She went to the hospital earlier to have her cast removed." Misato drawled out sleepily as she snapped open a can of Yebisu.

"Oh." Shinji replied, crestfallen.

Taking a big swig of beer, the major drank all of it at one go.

"Ooooooooooooh, YeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaH!!! It doesn't get any better than this!" Misato beamed.

"You're drinking beer for breakfast?"

"What? You got a problem with tradition? Didn't you know that the traditional Japanese breakfast consists of rice, Miso soup and a little sake?"

"What's wrong with coffee? And besides, whose turn was it to cook breakfast today?"

Both ladies turned their heads towards the chores list and noticed that it was indeed the major's turn to make breakfast. Asuka was pleased that Shinji took over today and her guardian won't be cooking for at least a week.

"Because I knew you would still be asleep when I woke up, so I took the liberty to do it for you." Shinji replied as he bit on his toast with strawberry jam.

"Are you suggesting that I'm lazy?!" Misato asked threateningly, Her eyes were twitching in irritation.

"And sloppy too." Both her charges replied in sync. The household penguin would have replied in the same manner too if he only had the right vocal apparatus. He just sticks to nodding vigorously to agree with his fellow dwellers.

"Oh, just leave me alone!" she yelled out as she turned her head away in embarrassment and in anger.

How dare thy gang up on me like that?!!!

From the one corner of the table, Asuka was eating her breakfast like a starving wolf.

That was the best breakfast I ever had in years! She thought as her plate filled up again for another helping of bacon and eggs.

"Shinji, We didn't have bacon on the fridge. How did you get some?" the major asked suspiciously.

"I err... bought some yesterday." The boy replied nervously.

Well I got to have some excuse if they found out that I wasn't here last night.

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[The classroom]

"Kensuke!" Touji yelled out once he got to the classroom.

He leapt over some chairs in his haste and almost knocking Aida over in his speed.

"Touji! What up!" The four-eyed nerd greeted back with his trusty camcorder pointing at his friend.

"*Huff! * You won't believe what just *Puff! * happened!" The jock paused for a while to regulate his breathing into normal speed.

"You remember what happened to my sis, don't you?"

"Yeah, I remember. She got crippled right?"

"When I checked up on her this morning, she could walk again!!!"

"That's impossible! The doctors said they couldn't repair the crushed nerves on her legs!"

They didn't notice Asuka and Hikari eavesdropping on them.

"It must be a miracle!" freckled girl whispered to her German friend.

"Nah, the kid must have healed fast, that's all. Nerve cells usually regenerate very slowly." She explained sagely.

Soon, the sensei came and the class representative started shouting orders.

Falsified info on Second-Impact was taught again today. While the class got sleepy restless, Touji and Kensuke continued their discussion over this morning's events at their own private chat room.

Touji: I couldn't believe it either!

Kensuke: What did your sister say about it?

There was a long pause before Touji wrote back.

Touji: It got me worried. She said someone broke into her room last night.

Kensuke: What happened?!!

Touji: She pretended to be asleep while this guy went in. She thought that he was the nurse. Then he started mumbling something about being sorry for causing her pain and that I told him about her condition. The next thing she knew, the whole room was filled with light and she woke up like nothing ever happened. The security cameras showed nothing about what occurred in there or of the intruder. It's pretty mysterious, I say...

It was Kensuke's turn to be baffled. But then something clicked within his fragile mind.

Kensuke: Do you think it was Ikari?

Touji: Who?

Kensuke: Shinji Ikari, the new kid.

Both friends aimed their vision at the boy in the middle of the class. The boy was busy copying his notes from the blackboard. Some girls were covertly blushing on his direction.

Touji: What ever gave you that idea?

Kensuke: Think about it. You said that this guy seemed to be very apologetic he thinks he 'caused' her injury. You also said that you 'told' him about it.

Touji: Come to think of it, it does make sense. He's the only other guy besides you that I told about her predicament. Hikari's a girl, so that rules her out of the suspect line up.

Suddenly, cell phones began to ring. Shinji opened his book bag to answer his like his fellow pilots did. A few seconds later, warning klaxons outside began blaring wildly.

There's another angel in town.

Shinji, Rei, and Asuka immediately took off while the other pupils were herded towards their designated evacuation shelters.

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[NERV Headquarters]

The three pilots were assembled over at the debriefing room.

Misato handed them some papers and photos.

"These are the information we currently have for the fourth angel."

Shinji examined the squid-like monstrosity from the picture.

"Shinji, you shall have to combat this angel alone. The repairs on both Units 00 and 02 are still in progress and incapable of close combat. Understand?"

"Hai."

"Humph!" Asuka harrumphed. She was really looking forward to having her first battle with an angel and proves to the wimpy-looking upstart that she is his superior.

It's all Wonder girl's fault! If her Eva didn't go berserk then, my Eva should still be operational and I could show my prowess on this dummkopf!

The Director of field operations then indicated to the recon photos.

"According to this, we have determined that this angel has the ability to 'float' on thin air and it's main form of offense are it's two tentacles. They emit very volatile heat signatures and could melt thick titanium alloys. You should avoid these at any cost or you may consider yourself 'whipped and fried'."

"*Gulp! * Hai!"

"Take care, Shin-chan." Rei said as she left with Asuka and Misato.

The boy then proceeded to the locker room to change into his plug suit.

I might hurt somebody again...

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[Evacuation Shelter, section #12D]

"Damn!" Kensuke was fumbling at the antenna for the TV option on his camcorder.

"What?" Touji asked.

"It's News censorship. The government won't broadcast any footage of the battle, even though this is a historic event!" the bespectacled boy explained as he showed his friend the eyepiece of his camera. It displayed a picture of a beautiful waterfall and there was a caption at the corner saying 'Please stand by for further news'.

Looking around conspicuously, Kensuke whispered something to his buddy.

"Hey, I need to talk to you on someplace private."

"Why?"

"C'mon! Please! This is important!"

"*Groan* Fine..."

Both of them stood up and walk towards the class representative. She was chatting away with her friends at the other corner of the room.

"Yo! Class Rep.! We both need to go to the bathroom..."

"Eeew! You should have gone already before you left!" She and her friends had this irritated look on their faces.

"Yeah, but we really had to go!" Fine! But make it quick, nobody are allowed to stay away from the group too long, I could get in trouble if disobey!"

"Yeah, Yeah. Whatever..." Touji replied as he turned around and left the room with his nerd buddy.

"*Giggle! * I saw you Hikari! You looked at his crotch the moment he said 'bathroom'" one of her friends teased.

"WHAT?!!! I DID NO SUCH THING!!!" the girl blushed as she defended herself.

"Oh yeah? You even checked his ass when he turned around!" the other added.

"Shut up!" Hikari's face is as red as the ribbon on her school uniform by now.

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[Evacuation Shelter, Men's bathroom]

The two delinquents were pissing along in their urinals.

"Touji, I got a favor to ask ya."

"What is it now?"

"Please help me unlock the gate! I really need to see the battle!"

"Are you crazy?! We could get killed out there!"

"Yeah but we might get killed here too so I rather die watching the battle anyway."

"You Idiot! What do you think is NERV for?"

"Fighting Angels. But do you know what's NERV's most important weapon? It's that robot Ikari pilots."

Touji's composure wilted a bit.

Knowing Kensuke, this is going to turn out as blackmail...

"He protected us the other day, but you hit him pretty hard. He also must have been the one who cured your sister last night. Don't you think it's your duty to cheer him on as you watch him fight?"

"Oh man... Fine. I'll help you; you're not giving me many options here. You'll do anything just to get anything you want, wont you?"

"Heh he-heh!" Kensuke grinned as he zipped his fly up.

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[Evacuation Shelter, section #12D- (at the surface)]

"There they are!!!" Kensuke squealed in a high-pitched girlish tone as he tried to focus his camcorder on the battle scene.

Eva-01 seems to be having a hard time.

"Oh man! Look, he's losing already!" Touji whined.

"It's not a problem."

The angel's tentacles were lashing out like lightning at the buildings that the Eva hides on. The sounds of exploding buildings were continuous.

"Gee, getting beaten up must have really messed him up..." Kensuke deducted as he kept his recording steady.

"Oh, shut up!" Touji exclaimed. Fear of being the cause of Humanity's downfall started to add guilt to his conscience.

Shinji tied to return fire, but a glowing appendage ripped the nuzzle of his pallet gun and another one wrapped around his left ankle.

"Oh no! It's coming this way!!!" Kensuke shouted as the purple evangelion was hurled to their side of the mountain.

Shinji's designated unit landed flat on it's back. Shaking his head to clear his mind of the pain, he noticed something from the side of his screen.

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[Nerv Headquarters]

"Hey! Those are Shinji's classmates!" Misato pointed at the screen.

It showed the two kids cowering down in terror as looked up at the armored titan's eyes. Soon their profiles were brought to the other side of the screen.

"What the hell are they doing there?!!!" Ritsuko exclaimed.

"Sir! The angel is approaching Unit-01!"

The screen showed the entity floating towards the Eva. It then lashed out both it's tentacles at it's fallen foe when it arrived above the armored life form.

The purple Unit suddenly lifted its palms and grabbed hold of the glowing appendages.

Misato is getting aggravated at the situation. The internal battery timer display that read '29.83 seconds left' didn't help much either.

"We have no time left! Shinji! Pause your Eva's actions on your current command, then release the entry plug! You are to take the kids inside with you!"

"Major, who authorized you to allow civilians into the entry plug?!" Dr. Akagi protested.

"I'm authorizing it!" Misato replied.

"You're exceeding your authority, major!"

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[Evacuation Shelter, section #12D- (at the surface)]

Touji and Kensuke were shivering and were crouching limply at where giant palms prints were pressed.

"H-how come it doesn't stand up and fight?!" the jock asked fearfully.

"Maybe he can't, He couldn't because of us!!!"

Both teens watched as the entry plug ejected and a door opened.

{You two! Get in, NOW!} Misato's voice blared from a speaker hidden outside the entry plug.

"Yes Ma'm!" the two hurriedly stood up and ran towards the door.

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[Unit-01, entry plug]

"Hey, It's flooded down here!" Touji exclaimed as he tried to breathe.

"My camera!" Kensuke was preoccupied in trying to retrieve his camera from the floor.

Lights bombarded the place once more then they found themselves staring at Shinji, who was in pain as he willed his Eva's hands to throw the cruel entity away.

Both kids also noticed that there was a slight irritation on their palms as it grew by the second. The screen showed the fried palms of the Evangelion.

From the com-link, they could hear Ritsuko wailing about something.

{-The nerve links are reversing! The sync rate is falling! There is thought noise because you've allowed foreign bodies into the matrix!} Dr. Ritsuko was scolding Major Katsuragi.

{20 seconds left!} Maya yelled out from her station.

{Shinji, Quick! Retreat and regroup! Go to emergency escape route b-32 on the east sector-} Misato ordered

Shinji didn't respond.

{Shinji! Can you hear me! Damnit, report!}

The pylon on the Eva's left shoulder opened and the progressive knife was released.

"Hey new-kid! The lady said retreat! Let's go! New-kid!!!" Touji urged the pilot to act. He then noticed that Shinji was mumbling something.

{Sir! The Progressive knife has been ejected!} Shigeru reported.

{What?!!! Shinji! Stop it! Retreat!!!"

"I mustn't runaway! I mustn't runaway! I mustn't runaway! I mustn't runaway! I mustn't runaway! I mustn't runaway! I MUSTN'T RUN AWAY!" The young Ikari chanted, getting louder by the sentence. He then grabbed the knife from his shoulder.

{10 seconds left!}

"Chraaaaaaaaa!!!" The pilot suddenly lurched forward and uttered a battle cry as he commanded his robot to slide down the mountain with it's right hand holding the vibrating weapon tightly.

{You Idiot!} misato screeched.

The enemy anticipated Shinji's movements and stabs the purple titan at the chest. The glowing tentacles skewered through and flailed about wildly.

The two delinquents flinched as they felt a tangible irritation from their abdomen. They then realized that the pilot receives the same pain as the Eva does. They also noticed that Shinji was absorbing most of the full jolt from the feedbacks of the nerve links.

"-Graaaaaaaaaaaa!!!" The Third child yelled out in pain as he willed Unit-01 to stab the angel's core in retaliation.

The progressive knife bit on the core like butter and started to sink in slowly as the vibration of the weapon allowed it to cut even further. Sparks sprayed between the two giants.

{5!}

"-aaaaaaaaaaaa-"

{4!}

"-aaaaaaaaaaaa-"

{3!}

"-aaaaaaaaaAAAA-"

{2!}

"-AAAAAAAAA!!!"

{1!}

The angel's core stopped it's evil glow as the same time the vibrating knife went offline; two beings both lost their power at the together. The giants stood there as if they were frozen in time.

{The target is completely silent.} Makoto reported from his post.

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A week later...

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[Misato's apartment]

"Good morning Ikari! Hey Miss Misato, were taking off now!" Both teens greeted in unison. Tears were flowing freely as they watched Misato wave back from the kitchen. She was wearing only her bathrobe.

"Hey knock it off!" Shinji scolded his two new friends who were drooling pathetically before him.

"Misato! You should be ashamed of yourself!" Asuka said as she walked past her guardian.

"Good-bye kids!" Misato bid farewell to her charges as she popped open another can of beer.

She watched as Touji and his Otaku buddy lead Asuka, Shinji and Rei towards school.

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End of chapter 4

Next chapter--- Against a Sky-bolt

- Author's Jiba-jabah! -

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Sorry for the delay on this chapter. Other ideas kept popping out and I had to release them on other fics.

I have already made an alternate sequel to this fic.

[Adventures Of the $60,000,000,000 Purple knight]

^Another Shinji Ikari from the far future of 2015 A.T.I. (After Third Impact) must awaken the Messiah within to do battle against celestial beings who was trying to finish what's been started 2015 years ago. If only he had no $60-billion dollars bounty for his head, not engaged to a German warrior princess, and not have a throne to be an heir of, etc... Things would be so much easier...

I also made a somewhat similar kind of epilogue.

[All's well and Ends well - Lime Warning! *R* -]

^What happened to Shinji and the gang after the war? {Extremely WAFFy for some readers)

P.s.: This one-shot story is mostly comprised of summaries. It is meant to describe how things have become to the characters of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

There are other ideas that are unrelated to this fic.

[Shinji Huntin' Season]

^Shinji's female classmates has declared him a prized catch for a potential boyfriend, and the competition is brutal. Even other guys decided that Shinji's 'pimpin' days are numbered. With Rei, Mana and Asuka (She's not attracted to the dummkopf, or so she says) in the lead, who will stand victorious?

[Lunatic Calm]

^Shinji finally finds a use for his massive depression... only that it's too destructive. Even Gendo and SEELE are having goose bumps.

Procrastination had bitten on the heels for I lazied away from making this chapter sooner because of writer's block. I know what I want to write about yet I couldn't think sometimes of a scene that will lead to that event.

Anyways, watch out for future chapters for I WILL write more. (At least 1 chapter per week on this fic and another for one of my other fics.)

Send your comments at: raiden_x_@hotmail.com

Thanks!