IF I HAD A SCANNER I'D PUT MY COMIC UP, BUT SADLY MY FATHER WON'T HOOK IT UP.... ;;;; SORRY, I ONLY HAVE ONE PIECE OF ART UP ONLINE.....

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

Chimera stared at the ground that the three women had dispersed from. His gaze turned towards the Koneko, a sad smile grew on his lips.

"He's in neutral territory, but Amara claims him as her own. Along with his friend," Mitsuo said, standing infront of the door's window. "I'm going out to get him."

He shooed the others away from the door, and dashed out to Chimera.

"Hey, Chimmy..." Mitsuo said, hugging him. "Come inside okay?"

"...can he come too?" he turned his head to the alleyway, a lanky figure was leaning against the wall. A giant smile on his face you couldn't see his eyes.

"Sure, go get him. Bring him in with you." Mitsuo said, placing a light kiss on the boy's forehead. "See you inside!"

Chimera nodded slightly before walking to the alley and talking to the figure. "Hello..... let's go in. Mitsuo invited us." he placed his small hand on the lanky one.

"Whatever you want." the figure said smiling.

The shadows engulfed them.

"He's coming in. Though he's bringing the friend I told you about." Mitsuo said, walking over to the couch he had left Elijah on. "Hey, wakie-wakie. Chimmy's coming inside with us. He brought his buddy too."

"His name is Centinal." came the quiet voice from behind. "....that's what he wants to be called."

"Hey, Chimera!" Elijah said sitting up. "Come here, okay? I want to give you a hug!"

The purple hared boy reluctantly walked over to the older man when Centinal gave him a light shove. "Go on.... he wants to," he looked at Chimera, "... he wants to get to know you two."

Centinal's smile grew larger his eyes still invisible to everyone, "Go on......" he pushed Chimera a little harder. "Give Elijah a big hug."

Chimera nodded and walked over to Elijah and wrapped his arms around his neck. "Thank you for being my friend... Elijah..."

"You're welcome, Chimmy. You can go back to Centinal now, if you want." he said with a smile.

Chimera ran back to Centinal, who was now sitting in a chair. His lanky legs reached about a foot or two from the edge of the chair, he was sitting up with his butt against the back too. Centinal smiled again. "Come here."

Chimera sat on one of Centinal's leg and curled up against the elder man.

Ran chose that moment to come back in. With a giant bowl of ice cream, he looked at the sight across the room, an old man with a child on his lap. The thought sickened him.

He redied his spoon and chunked it at him, snatching Chimera away. "PEDOPHILE!!!!" he hugged little Chimera, who had awoken from his daze.

"What?" Centinal said, "Come back here, Chimera." he waved.

Chimera nodded, and said to Ran. "I love him. He loves me. We are almost the same age...." he walked back to Centinal.

"I think this belongs to you?" Centinal asked, his smiled growing bigger. He handed Ran his spoon back, "There you go, are you feeling better Chimera?"

Chimera nodded. "I.... I wasn't sick."

"I know, but I can feel that you are deeply sad." He ran a large hand through the pale purple hair. "You can express your feelings through me, Chimera."

"I know."

"Good." He stood up, smiling still, and holding Chimera. "Well, this certainly isn't big enough for us, Chimera. Let's make some room."

Chimera waved his hand and shadows began to expand the room, and rebuild what they broke. "Good boys." He curled back up against Centinal.

Ran looked at Chimera, then at the shadows, then back to Chimera. "Dude! That's cool! I wanna do that too!"

Ken and Yohji stared blankly at the younger Ran, "He said 'dude'?" Ken asked.

Yohji's eye twitched in response.

"Yohji?"

"That's scary...." Yohji whined. "Ran's scary! Why aren't anyone from Defiance back yet?"

"I dunno........." Ken said, looking at the door, everyone had moved away from it, Nagi had gone back to his room he shared with Omi. Abriel and Gabriel went out shortly after Defiance had left.

Farfello, they didn't know where he was...

Chimera smiled slightly as he walked into his new room he shared with Centinal. "Thank you, Ebony." Centinal's smile grew confused.

"Who's Ebony?"

"My shadows...." Chimera said, sitting on the edge of the bed. Centinal wrapped his long arms around the boy's body.

"That's cute."

"Thanks...." Chimera said, leaning back into his embrace.

Rhelex gasped. "Where're they coming from?!" the nightstalkers were everywhere, surrounding the ten people.

Gatos sliced five more in half, their bodies burning after they had been cut. "I don't know, Rhelex...." he said angrilly. "I don't even know how many there are surrounding us!"

Hacker ducked and jumped back when a few charged at him; he lunged back with his hands outstretched and cut their heads off.

Tatsuya looked at the seven that surrounded him, "Bad move...." he said, gazing at a couple of them, he pulled out two giant metal fans from his belt he wore. "This isn't too fair... for you that is!" he threw them both in different directions, and they swung back around in a circle, cutting off the heads and tearing their hearts to shreds.

Abriel and Gabriel stood back to back, smirking. "What do you see in their future, brother?" Abriel asked. He laughed at the nightstalkers that were near them.

"The same thing you see in their pasts!" Gabriel shouted, holding his hands out, palms facing the enimies. Their bodies disentergrated instantly. Abriel did the same as his younger brother.

Raven and Lucreziachin looked at each other before grinning at the ones that opposed them, "I feel guilty... Don't you Lucrez?"

"Same here, we didn't even give them a chance to fight back." Luc said with a triumphant smirk as the nightstalkers' bodies blew up, "and you had all the fun, Raven."

Raven grinned and flashed his hands out to the remaining ones. "If you want, I'll let you have them." he pulled his hand back and shook it. "I don't want these things to explode in my fingertips, now would I?"

"That wouldn't be fun at all.." Luc said smiling, "My turn." he charged at them, jumping into the air, and landing a few feet away his palms down on the grass. He pushed down, denting the area. The nightstalkers sank into the dirt, where they had come from. "That outta have killed them...."

"Did you make your plants slice through their disgusting bodies again?" Raven asked, holding his hands up to his face.

"Maybe..." Lucreziachin said with a sheepish smile, "Fast and efficiant."

"Let's go back to the others...."

They nodded and disappeared.

Amara raised her head from where she sat, sending out her foresight. "They're getting stronger...."

She hummed before getting up, "They've taken my Centinal and Chimera........ those brats will pay for corrupting him."

END CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO