Author's Note: To everyone who has sent me reviews: thanks! Please send me reviews about this chapter too if you would be kind enough. Also: Master Eli is another character that belongs to me, but Dana belongs to Konami. And (just if you wanted to know) I used E ending as my basis. I still don't own anything.

Eike: "You can still teleport from place to place, even though you can't teleport through time, right? That means you can still run from him."

Homunculus: "He has prevented me from teleporting at all. I can't teleport through time or from one place to another because of his stupid barrier."

Eike: (looks at his watch) "It's 8:30 p.m. right now. 8:30! Oh man! I'm as good as dead!"

Homunculus: "Why? Allan just vanished, so how is it possible?"

Eike: "Dana is going to kill me for being late for our date."

Homunculus: "Well, I'm the one who's responsible for you being late, and I've got nowhere else to go. I suppose I should go and explain things."

(Homunculus smiles his mysterious smile.)

Dana: "He's late!"

(Dana notices Eike running up to the square.)

Dana: "Just where have you been? We were supposed to meet up at 8:00 and you show up 30 minutes late! Well?"

(Homunculus steps out from behind Eike and smiles.)

Homunculus: "Well, looks like we did meet again, doesn't it?" (Homunculus laughs his echoing laugh.)

Dana: "I see. What do you want from Eike this time?"

Homunculus: "It is a very interesting story."

Eike: "Sorry I'm late."

Dana: "Don't worry." (She smiles, then scowls at Homunculus.)

(Homunculus laughs.)

Dana: "Well? What's going on?"

Eike: "I'll tell you what's going on right now…"

(Allan looks down on them from the top of building.)

Allan: That girl…I could put her to very good use.

(A man looks at Allan form an even higher building. He wears a black cloak and has long, brown hair that he has in a braid at about half way down his back. He is about 24 years old.)

Man: My foolish pupil. Because you are so weak that you cannot get Homunculus on your own, you intend to take the girl as a hostage in exchange for him. How very pathetic. It appears that you haven't understood any of the things I tried to teach you these passed four years.

(Allan is still watching the three of them as Eike continues to tell Dana the story. As soon as Eike finishes the story, Allan looks up to the place where the man once was. The man has apparently vanished.)

Allan: That presence I felt…it was stronger than even I am. Just who or what was that? "Oh well. I must focus on the task at hand."

(Allan looks down the group. Then he jumps from the roof of the building, heading straight down on the party.)

Homunculus: "What?!"

Eike: "He followed us!"

(Allan grabs Dana and throws her over his shoulder.)

Eike: "Let her go! She's got nothing to do with this!"

(Allan laughs.)

Allan: "Come to the old warehouse at the edge of town at midnight. Bring him."

(Allan points at Homunculus. Then, he spins and vanishes again.)

Eike: "Why that…"

Homunculus: "It is useless to get angry. We must simply do as he says."

(The man looks down from another building at Eike and Homunculus. The man fades and reappears behind Eike and Homunculus.)

Man: "Truly pathetic, isn't he?"

(Eike and Homunculus are startled and immediately spin around.)

Eike: "Who are you?!"

Man: "Manners, young man. You are supposed to say your name first and then ask for the other person's name."

(The man gives him a sarcastic smile.)

Eike: "Eike Kusch. And this is Homunculus. Though my intuition tells me that you already knew those things."

Man: "Your intuition is correct. I did. And my name is Eli. Master Eli is what I am called by my students. I have dropped my last name, so you need not worry about that."

Eike: "Okay, now that the introductions are over, just what do you want?"

(Eli smiles.)

Eli: "I can see that you are angry with yourself for letting Dana get captured, but you need not worry. Allan will not harm her unless it is necessary."

Eike: "You know him?"

Eli: "He was one of my students."

(Eli smiles.)

Eli: "Just do as he said for the time being. Be at the old warehouse at midnight. I will be there as well."

Eike: "Why you?"

Eli: "Allan does not understand what will happen if he destroys a living being. He has only destroyed inanimate objects so far. But if he destroys a living being, there will be a void in the universe that will be filled by something even more powerful. If he destroys Homunculus…"

Eike: "Then an even greater evil will be able to come into the universe?"

(Eli nods once.)

Eli: "However, it is different for mortal beings. If he attacks a normal human being, and that is the one he is aiming for, his power will be rebounded against him. He cannot destroy Dana, but that does not mean he cannot kill her. This is also the reason why Homunculus came back to this era. To use you as a shield."

Eike: "But doesn't Allan know this?"

Eli: "Of course. I taught him. But sometimes, don't you get so angry that every thought of the consequences vanishes from your mind? That you just do something without thinking? Homunculus hoped that you could rile him up enough to fire it at you as the target. However, if you just jump in the way of a blast when he is aiming at Homunculus, you will be destroyed. Well then, I will see you at midnight."

(He turns and fades.)

Eike: Hang in there. I'm coming.

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