A/N: Okay! I'm listening to a really, really sad song right now, so I'm prepared to write some angst! …But I hardly doubt that I could make you cry! I can't even make myself cry! …Unless I punch myself…I'll do that later though…
Disclaimer: Sure, Chrono Crusade doesn't belong to me now, but it will when I rule the world!
I slammed the door to my new home, closing the bottle's lid tightly after filling it up with some water from the lake. My feet tapped gently on the wooden boards of the floor as I set it inside of the now hooked up fridge. Thankfully, Shader dropped by to add in some sort of electrical device to make it start up.
A nearby cabinet door caught my interest as I opened it up to see liquor stored in it. I was never one to be able to hold my liquor…
With disgust, I hastily shut the door and sat down on the couch. Nothing. There was nothing I can do. And right now…I was starting to miss Chrono more than any other time in my life.
You don't need him…A voice rang out in my head.
You're strong. You can take care of yourself. You don't need him…The voice repeated.
I only sighed as I ignored it.
He'll only ruin your life, Rosette…your better off without him…Angrily, I grabbed onto a pillow and screamed as hard as I can into it. My words echoed in my brain, "I do need him! I do! I can't live without him! I do need him!" But the voice only denied it once more.
I laid on the couch still for a few minutes, before the temptation was too much. Opening the cabinet, I drew out a bottle of liquor and drained it within moments. Silently sobbing, I grabbed a few more and returned to the couch.
"Did you hear that?" Sark asked Aion.
"Uhh…wear wha?" Aion asked, his glazed over eyes turned crossed as he fell off his chair.
"…Um…Aion…?"
"Weave me we!" Aion shouted out as soon as Sark prodded him with his foot.
"I'm going to go check on Rosette, alright?" Aion only chuckled frankly and waved at a wall. "So, don't do anything stupid…alright?"
"Fine, fine!" Aion hiccupped.
Sark only shook his head and took off out of Eden. Aion had a nasty habit of getting drunk every Friday night, ever since he discovered the wonders alcohol could grant to one. Stopping over the water, Sark glided the rest of the way to Rosette's cabin.
He screamed though, once his time limit ran out and he splashed into the water.
Grudgingly, he swam the rest of the way to her cabin. Once at shore, he shook the water off of him like a dog.
"Rosette? Love? Are you okay—" Sark knocked briefly on the door, before it was flown open and a tumbling blonde girl fell into his arms, laughing insanely. "Oh my God! Love, are you okay?" He shook her, only to have her laugh even more.
My eyes blurred as I answered the door, laughing crazily as I fell into Sark's arms. "Ah ha ha ha ha! I well…wnd…you…ah ha ha…waught me!" I laughed even harder, thinking about how funny it was to be caught by a demon.
Sark had a hard time picking out the words that I said. "Love…are you drunk?" He asked silently, pushing me back onto my feet and onto the couch.
"Of, couwse not, Siwwy! …I….doon't wet dwunk!" I started laughing harder.
"I think you need to just lay down and rest now, Rosette…You look pretty out of it…" He worriedly placed a hand on my forehead, only to have it pushed off by me.
"Doon't…touch…" My gleeful expression dulled to a frown. "I doon't…neede…wim…"
"Need who?" Sark asked, sitting next to me.
I turned my glazed over eyes onto the now really handsome looking stranger. "Doo…I kwow…you?" I chuckled lightly. "Ohs well…Stwangers…are fwn to tawk to…I doon't need, Kurono!" I suddenly screamed out, almost falling off the couch.
"Senior Chrono?" He frowned. "Where are you going with this?"
"I'wm fine…without…hwm…" I whispered before collapsing onto the couch and into my horrid dreams.
"Ro-Rosette!" Sark was going to grab the girl, but hesitated once he found out that she was only sleeping. Frowning, he picked up bottles of liquor off the ground. "…No since in letting her get up in the morning to trip on these…" Sark muttered, picking them up and throwing them away.
"What…in the world…has gotten into her…?"
Remington screamed as Chrono slashed his leg, but recoiled instantly with a swipe of a swift claw.
Chrono hissed when it scratched his face, but attacked back with a swift swing of his vertebrae head tail. Digging itself deep within Remington's chest, he pulled out quickly when Remington latched into his shoulder with a bladed arm.
They both stumbled to the ground.
His blonde hair moved into his eyes. He didn't know how much time he had left in his demon form. This was also getting too much to handle, if he didn't defeat Chrono, he would eliminate the human kind in his blinded rage.
Chrono was slowly getting to his feet, but before he could do that, a brilliant flash of light blinded the both of them, it's echoing flare soaring past the dull, dark skies, only going so far before stopping.
Shielding his eyes from the light, Remington wearily peered out as the light began to fade away. Chrono copying.
Before them, stood a girl with dark brown hair, a light blue dress, and complete with the demon insignia given to the seven of Aion's picking, a watch. She glowered at Remington, but turned to face Chrono. She smiled briefly before helping Chrono all the way onto his feet. "Hello, Senior Chrono…My name is El Lagra…I'm one of the seven Aion has chosen."
Remington frowned at his old friend. "El Lagra…"
She didn't respond, but lightly gasped when Chrono hissed and pulled out of her gasp. "Please! Senior! Aion requests of your presence—" She stopped when she had to dive to the ground to miss one of Chrono's bladed arms.
"Aion says…" She dodged another attack. "…He wants to…" She dodged again. "…show you something very important!" She finished hastily, withdrawing with a swift jump back a couple feet.
"El Lagra! What are you doing here?" Remington yelled at the girl.
"Remington! I have no business with a traitor such as yourself!" She flipped over on two hands to avoid Chrono's recent attack. "Senior! Please!"
"I don't want to hear anything about Aion!" Chrono roared, managing to slice a piece of the lady's dress.
"B-but…he says that it's about…a girl…" She muttered, turning around, but stopped when Chrono's crimson gaze fazed directly in front of her.
"…What…girl…?"
"…Um…he said…her name started with a…Rose…Rob…Something like that…Please, Senior! Aion demands that you come with me!" El Lagra grabbed onto his arm.
"Wait! El Lagra! …Don't…" With a sudden gasp, Remington fell to the ground as his original human form. "…not…enough…time…don't…Rosette…must…" He stopped when he lost conscience.
El Lagra only looked down with pity, before disappearing with Chrono in the same blinding flash.
"Kurono!" Aion shouted jollily, flinging his arms out to hug his brother, but only to pause when Chrono slammed him into the wall, pinning him down.
"Don't toy with me, Aion. Tell me, where is Rosette?" Chrono roared, shaking Aion briefly.
"…Wosette? …Ah ha ha ha!" He laughed. "Wou doon't know…do…wou?" Aion laughed again.
Chrono dropped him. "I don't care either…if you won't tell me, I'm leaving…" Chrono turned to leave, but Aion flung onto him.
"Doon't leave me agaiwn, bwother!" Aion screamed out. "…Aws beiwng the' oldew bwother of the two of us…it is ownly wite to keep secwets fwom the youngew bwother!" He laughed again. "But…I'll tell…Wosette is alive! She lives, bwother!"
Chrono's dark gaze soared to a stop, resting on Aion's drunken form. "…If you…are lying…I will kill you…" Chrono turned away from the door. "…where is she…?"
"…Being…the dwemon you awe! You wouldn't weally cawe about a pitiful human? Would you Kurono?" Aion asked.
Chrono said nothing.
"She's…in a cabin…bellow Eden…" Chrono turned to leave once more, but Aion stopped him again. "But…you can't see hew…" He chuckled.
"I can do whatever I want!" Chrono screamed out right after Aion's sentence, strangling the demon himself.
"Nah…I doon't mean it like that! …I placed a wosary on hew! You can't see hew no mattew what you do!" Aion twirled his fingers around in circles, laughing while he did so.
"Take me to her…" Chrono commanded darkly.
"…Can't wemember whewe it is…" Aion mumbled.
"Take me to her." Chrono repeated.
"…Do wou always hawe to take the fun out of evewthing?" Aion cursed as he slowly got to his feet, walking towards the doors of Eden.
Chrono followed reluctantly.
Aion stopped briefly to turn into his demon form, after forgetting he didn't have wings, and flew down from Eden, Chrono still following.
Aion surprisingly landed on both feet, stumbling slightly once completely on the ground. Chrono landed also without any faltering. Aion still led the way, opening the door to the cabin. Chrono stopped and glared at the inside of the house, thinking that this might possibly be a trap.
Aion only laughed when he found Sark inside, sitting on a very old looking couch. "Sark, buddy! You left me!" Aion chirped, sobering up a little.
Chrono said nothing, only being slightly curious when the demon Sark pushed an imaginary being up.
"Ello, Rosette! We have a present!" Aion cheered, hugging onto air, Chrono glared at Aion.
"Aion, where is the girl?" He growled hastily.
"She's…oh…right! …Rosette! Stop your fussing!" Aion cried out, throwing his arms around in circles, finally stopping and holding onto something.
Chrono's gaze widened when he saw Aion pull off a beaded array of flowers off of the neck of the now appearing girl. Her daze was dull and she smelt of alcohol.
"There, spoiled! Hey, Rosette! Looks like you had some fun too!" Aion sat down next to Rosette, holding her hand. "Hey! Chrono's here!" He waved his hand in front of her eye line.
"She's been like that for the past hour, Sir. I don't know what is wrong with her." Sark complained, sitting on the other side of Rosette.
My eyes opened slowly. In front of me, in blurred features, white, blonde, and purple dots wavered in my eyes. I blinked once and rubbed my eyes, only to gasp with happiness.
Flinging myself off the couch, I clung onto Chrono, hugging him tightly. "You're back…" Tears start to roll down my eyes. "You're really back!" I held onto him tighter and buried my tearstained face into his chest.
Chrono didn't move from his position as I latched onto him. In fact, he wasn't saying anything at all. He only stood and stared at me with the slightest of interest, before he turned away and headed for the exit.
"C-Chrono? …Where are you…"
It seemed as if the Earth and Pandemonium suddenly smacked Aion, for he stood up instantly and let out a volley of curses, before grabbing onto Sark. "Why didn't you tell me what was happening?"
Sark whimpered. "I-I thought you knew-
"You know I don't know shit when I'm drunk!" Aion cursed and looked for the rosary, finding that it was gone. I stood up fiercely, with the rosary in my hands.
"Looking for this?" I taunted, as I dropped it to the ground and broke it with a slight strain on my foot.
Aion growled. "You just made…the biggest mistake of your life…"
"No, Aion, you did, why is Chrono like that?" I pointed out my door, the two demons' eyes following where I was pointing. Chrono was pacing around the lake, every now and then he would mutter to himself, but we couldn't hear what he said.
"Aion…what…" I gasped when a girl with brown hair was staring right at me.
"So this is the girl named Rosette, eh? Scrawny looking…" The lady stated about me, in return, I placed a hard glared at her. She turned away from me and marched over to Sark. "And where have you been, Mr.?"
Sark only started stuttering and twirling his finger around in circles.
"Have you been here the whole time with this puny human, especially since this was our anniversary?" She screamed loudly, causing both Sark and I to cover our ears.
"N-now…listen…El Lagra…She means nothing to me, Baby! It's only you I—" Sark reached forward to hug the woman, but she only twisted away and slapped him square in the face.
"I am tired of your pathetic excuses, Sark!" She screamed again, smacking him once more.
"You're married?" I cocked an eyebrow up. "So why are you calling me Love, then?"
"Love…? Love? Julian Brandon Sark! I thought I was your love! Not this immortal weakling! You are going to love counseling with me!" El Lagra shrieked, grabbing onto Sark's ear and the both of them disappearing.
I grinned. "Sark got caught!" I turned to face Aion, but he was only frowning and muttering a few silent words.
"…I can't handle these type of situations! Specially when I have a major hangover!"
"What situations? We have Chrono back! And that's all that matters!" I chirped happily.
"…something's not right with Chrono, Rosette. I don't know if he's still that mass murderer or that happy go lucky guy you know…" Aion groaned again, muttering something about headaches.
"…I think he's back…let me go talk to him…" I walked away from the flustering white haired demon and headed toward the troubled purple haired one. "Chrono…? You okay?"
He ignored me and continued to pace back and fourth, muttering something about girls, priests, and demons.
"Hey! Chrono! Oi!" I waved my hand in front of him, this time, it had an affect.
He stopped his pacing and looked at me, rushing forward to land a hug and held me tight against his warm chest. Blushing a little, I looked up at the handsome demon's face, but he was crying. His tears slid down his face and landed onto mine.
"Hey! It's okay! I forgive—" I stopped when I felt extradinary pain in my lower abdomen.
"I'm…so…so…sorry…Rosette…" Chrono choked out through his tears.
He let go of me slowly and watched as I landed with a hard thud! onto the ground. He kept crying, turning around and grabbing at his spiked hair.
I looked down and saw blood on my hands. Tilting my head forward slightly, I saw that right above my pelvis area, I had a deep cut.
Chrono let out a hard sob, not knowing what to do. It wasn't his fault! He didn't mean to! It was as if his body…did it on it's own. "Someone…Please! Please, help!" He screamed out suddenly, diving down next to my body. "I-I didn't…I didn't mean to…Rosette…don't close your eyes! Please!"
A thud of footsteps and Aion was also by my side. "Chrono…what did you…"
"…He…didn't…do…it…" I rasped out in my pained pace of breath. I won't give up. I still had a full life to lead! I couldn't! But I felt so weak…so helpless all of the sudden, it scared me. Was this what death was like? "…Joshua…" I cried softly.
Chrono paled at that point. "Do something, Aion! I don't know…what to do!" He screamed, shaking his brother hard.
"…I can only think of taking her to Eden and letting Shader do something. I don't know anything else…it might be too—" Chrono punched Aion hard.
"Don't say things like that! It's never too late!" He screamed louder.
"Chrono! Calm down!" Aion screamed back, slightly panicked himself.
"Stop…yer…fussing…I'm tired of it…" I mumbled out. "Take…me to…the cabin…" I said more slowly, Chrono nodded, but let Aion take me.
I relaxed in Aion's arms, when I turned around to look for Chrono, he was gone. Once there, he set me down softly onto the couch and left, returning with a bucket of water and a rag.
He let out a grin, but I slapped his hand away fiercely, erasing all thoughts of his that imagined him cleaning me. "I'll do it…scum…" Padding myself slowly, I made sure that I got all the blood off of me, dipping the rag into the cold water.
"How are you doing, Rosette?" Aion asked slowly.
"I'm fine…Just…in a little pain…where'd Chrono—"
Aion only shook his head, finally reverting into his human form. "I told you, Rosette. He can't control himself. I tried to—"
"Don't speak about Chrono that way!" I screamed, gasping slightly when my wound tingled with pain.
"He's probably gone to kill…Rosette…he's a murderer…there's no way around it. You'll just have to get used to the fact that you can't live with him anymore—" Aion stopped when he noticed that my hand was grabbing onto his.
"Aion…am I…going to die…?" I asked, my eyes shutting with exhaustion.
"No, Rosette…" He smiled for once, a genuine smiled. "I believe that…" He sighed. "…that in the end…you'll be the one to stop me…and you'll live a happy life…with Chrono."
"Aion…" I blinked. "I think that's the sweetest thing you ever said to me…" Aion stood up, giving my hand a quick squeeze.
"Yeah, yeah…just don't let it go to your head. I'll stay until your feeling better, but after that, I'm leaving, got it?" I nodded.
"…yeah…then I'll catch up to you and make you quit your insane idea…but…promise me this…Aion…let's settle this…without any violence…" I grinned. "I wouldn't want to kill you…you can be annoying…but I love you as a friend all the same…I don't know how…but…"
Aion sniffed. "Stop! You're going to make me start crying! No violence! Got it…" He left that part hanging as he looked down worriedly at me. "Are you going to be…alright?"
"Yeah…"
"Here…you get some rest…and I'll stitch up your wound…alright?"
"Alright…just no…funny business…" I mumbled, closing my eyes.
"Yeah…right…no funny business…now what does that mean?" Aion grinned, and I laughed quietly.
"…Aion…you're such a loser…"
"I know…get some sleep."
I nodded before I fell fast asleep, grinning slightly as I dreamt of being a mother…with Chrono as my husband…
"…How…could I…ever dare to attack her…? How could I even…" He screamed as he let out his furry on a nearby tree.
You loved it…admit it…Chrono gasped in anger. "I could never…"
Admit it Chrono, you love to cause your sweet Rosette pain. That's why you killed her brother…right?
"I…I didn't…" Chrono looked wildly around for the voice of the speaker, only finding the voice in his mind.
Chrono? Why do you like causing pain to everyone? Why did you kill…my brother…?Chrono let out a choked sob when he heard Rosette's voice ring out into the empty area. "Rosette! That was on—I didn't…I mean…" He couldn't find out the reason why, he had killed her brother.
Chrono, my brother was my life…and you took him away from me…I loved him so much…how could you?
Chrono didn't respond, he let the words of his loved one engulf him and drowned him in his own pool of emotions.
Why, Chrono? Now you want to kill me? I can't believe you. Is that all your about? Killing? I hate you…I hate you…
He let out another sob. Her words hit him hard.
She hates you Chrono…what are you going to do?"I don't…know what to do anymore…I don't…know…" He bent his head low, letting his tears flow freely down his face.
He felt warm, very warm. When he looked up to see the reason of his warmth, he saw Rosette hugging him tightly.
Chrono? I think you do know what to do…you know that you have to do what is right. And I forgive you…always and forever…I will always love and forgive you. But…you need to go to me now…I need you now…more than ever…
The warmth disappeared, leaving Chrono alone in the clearing of the forest. Rosette? Needs me?
"What the hell happened?" Sark shouted, running past El Lagra and to Rosette's side.
"We had a mishap from Chrono…I think she'll be okay…" Aion responded.
"Aion! We need to take her to the doctor! Not have you tend to her!" Sark was about to grab onto the sleeping girl, but El Lagra smacked him.
"Remember our talk…Honey?" She grimaced at the very word.
"Uh…yeah…" Sark let go of the girl, falling in line with his wife. "B-but…isn't it nice to help the people who are hurt?" He whimpered.
"Yes it is, but we're the bad guys!" El Lagra screamed.
"Oh…yeah…" Sark rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry…"
Aion groaned as he felt the blonde haired girl's forehead. "She has a high fever, I think Sark's right. We need to take her to the hospital." He lifted her up off of the uncomfortable couch, only to stop to see Chrono at the entrance.
Chrono stalked up to
Aion and examined Rosette carefully, taking her into his arms. "I'll
take her…" Please hang on, Rosette...
Aion watched as his brother left with the girl. "…Follow them…" He said hastily to both Sark and El Lagra.
"I can't! I just…" Sark took one look at the furious look on Aion's face, before unhooking his pocket watch and transforming, El Lagra doing the same.
"Don't come back…until there both dead." Aion's eyes narrowed as Sark and his wife nodded, leaving instantly.
The flight was a long one and the silence between the two of us was killing me. Both mentally and physically, meaning my wound just right above my pelvis. I was about to say something, but Chrono said it first.
"Do you remember what you first said to me when we first met?"
I thought hard before answering, "I'm here to help you?"
Chrono smiled, "That too, but you said something else"
I shrugged.
"You said that I was cute."
"…I did? …Well I still think that…to this very day…" I told him, smiling back.
"You do? Even after…I…"
I silenced him with a glare. "You didn't do that. I know you didn't…"
"Rosette…there are times when I cannot control my actions…that was one of them. I don't know what I will do anymore…" Chrono informed me, flying down when in sight of a hospital.
I didn't say anything.
Once landed, Chrono was back as his usual form and walked swiftly into the hospital and rang the bell at the counter. "Hello?" No one answered.
"Maybe…there busy…" I suggested, wincing as Aion's makeshift stitches started to fall apart and blood began to reemerge through my already bloody clothes.
Chrono suddenly shuddered as he looked over the counter. I tried to look too, but he pulled me away.
"What's wrong, Chrono?"
"It's…nothing…"
"Common! Something's obviously wrong!" I pushed myself out of his arms and gasped when I looked over the counter. Three dead doctors and a nurse lay in a bloody mess on their chairs. One of the doctors were reaching for the phone, before he was killed.
"…What…happened…" I moved away from the counter and looked at Chrono's ashamed face.
"…Chrono?" I asked, "What happened…after I left with Sark…and Aion…?" Holding tightly onto Chrono's body, I held a direct stare into his crimson eyes.
"I-I can't…remember…"
I held a suspicious stare for a minute, before I responded. "…I believe you…" I dropped my hands to my side, observing my wound. "We better do something about this…"
Moving past the counter, I walked the best I could to see if there was any survivors. Chrono nodded when he saw my plan and headed down a separate pathway.
"This is kind of creepy…" I whispered out to particularly nobody. Every room I passed, there was at least four dead people in them. I shuddered as a mother held possessively onto her child, both were slain in the end.
"Who could have…done something as horrible as this…?"
Chrono's shallow footsteps echoed briefly through out the deselect hospital. Instead of helping Rosette, which was his original intentions, they were now looking for survivors.
He smiled, Rosette…always thinking about others.
All the doors were either swung open or broken, none of them were shut. It looked as if whatever got here killed off all of the humans…
Chrono sighed slightly in pity, but that pity turned to fear when he heard a scream. Turning and running back the way he came from, he stopped abruptly when a blade was thrown right in front of him.
With a growl, Chrono turned to see Sark walk out of a room.
"Why don't I ever have weapons in these types of situations?" I yelled out as I narrowly dodged El Lagra's staff. Her dress was shattered in the back, where two brown, silky wings were narrowed down together to fit through the hallways without damaging them. Her eyes were a deep golden color and her usual brown hair was now a darker shade. And not to mention the deadly, pointed staff she carried with her.
"Oh, did you forget? Great! All to my advantage!" El Lagra cried out, swinging her staff again.
With as much force I could without damaging my already wounded body, I ducked down, dodging the staff once more. "Aion! That liar!" I screamed out as I grabbed onto a rock and threw it at El Lagra.
She laughed in amusement as it flew at her, exploding into millions of pieces by an invisible barrier. "Odds look extremely bad for you, Rosette Christopher!" She continued her chase after me.
"D-do you ever run out of energy?" I huffed out, slamming a door shut and hiding behind it. But to my displeasure, her staff sliced through it, forcing me to move or be killed. I chose to move.
"Nope, not when I'm chasing a human that is!" She laughed wickedly as she snagged a hold of my old uniform, slicing my leg along with the dress.
"These are expensive to buy!" I cried out in pain, sidestepping into another room to avoid her astral blast.
"Well, when you die, you won't have to worry about that, will you now?" She taunted, bursting into the other room.
"I don't plan on dieing, bitch!" I snapped, diving to the ground as she let loose another round of astral blasts.
"Now, that's not nice!"
Out of breath, I still continued running, until I heard another explosion. In fear, I ducked, but it was to no use as someone burst through the wall and landed on top of me. I gave a surprised scream when it was Sark with a deep gash on his chest.
"Julian!" El Lagra cried out, rushing to his side and helping him up.
"I'm fine…" He grumbled out, wiping a trickle of blood away from his head, "…just taking down Chrono isn't as easy as I had thought…what about you?"
"I'm having fun toying with my new friend…"
He glanced over to me, "Stop that…kill her now…or she'll come back to kill you…"
There was another explosion from the room Sark had just been thrown out of. Flames licked at the ceiling, making it impossible to see through them to the other side. But, Sark gasped when Chrono walked through them with narrowed eyes. Sark bolted up through the ceiling instantly, Chrono right on his tail.
So Chrono was fighting Sark…
With surprise, I rasped out for breath as El Lagra swung her staff at me horizontally, ramming me square in the gut and causing me to burst through several rooms before coming to a stop; held up to a wall by El Lagra's staff.
"Got the wind knocked out of ya'?" She laughed as she moved her staff away from me as I slid down slowly to the ground. "It's a shame we have to kill you…I liked playing with you…"
Breathing heavily, my eyes flickered to my side as a large glass shard laid beside me. My eyes returned back to El Lagra.
"But, Julian told me to finish you off quickly…so…bye…" She lifted her staff to the air and aimed it straight down at me, it's point facing me, but sliding onto my left foot, it jabbed into the ground. She let out a surprise scream when it was stuck and I moved quickly behind her, the large piece of glass in my hand, and stabbed her in the back of the neck.
She let out a shutter of air as her body twitched once, before she fell dead to the ground.
Shaking slightly, I held onto the glass piece tighter, it's sharp edges cutting into my sweaty palms. I…I actually killed a person…she was a demon now, but she was human once…
Horrified, I fell down onto my butt and moved away from the once human and cornered myself up against a wall, staring at the open wound still leaking blood out. "I…actually…killed a person…"
After what seemed forever, I shut my eyes and walked out into the burning hallway and began my search for Chrono.
The flames had spread and were now covering my only way out, deciding instantly, I ran up a spiral staircase to the roof of the hospital, spotting Chrono send a finishing slash at Sark.
Letting out a helpless scream, Julian collided into the ground next to where I stood. He opened his eyes weakly and grabbed onto my foot with a gentleness I never knew he possessed. "Where's…El…Lagra…?"
My tears came again as I was ashamed to tell the man who was married to her. But, I felt rage built up in my chest as I thought of Arvin. "I did exactly what you did to Arvin…Julian…I killed her…" I informed him, loud and clear, not missing a beat.
Sark let out a pained gasp and clutched his hand tighter around my leg. "I…never knew…you had it in you…" He closed his eyes, giving me one last squeeze…before I knew that he had died.
I didn't look up when I heard Chrono's heavy feet landing onto the platform we stood on, I continued to look sadly at Sark's pained, sad face.
"I killed…her…I killed someone that was…once human…"
Chrono nodded and wrapped his hands around my shoulders, "If you hadn't done that, she would have killed you…"
Nodding, I hugged Chrono tightly. We would have remained that way, but another explosion reminded Chrono that we needed to get out of here. Holding me carefully, he outstretched his devil's wings and glided gracefully down to the ground.
Getting over the shock, I grinned up at Chrono as he returned it. I seemed to be lost in his crimson eyes, before I noticed a black spot coming closer and closer to Chrono and I. But it disappeared shortly.
Chrono opened his mouth to say something, but he was suddenly flung far off away from me. I cried out his name, but turned to face the attacker, only see Remington's bloody face. "Re-Remington?"
"Rosette, get away from him."
"We've been over this before, Remington! He's fine—" He placed a glare on me, his blue eyes narrowing.
"…That thing…he was…it's been free…He can now unleash it whenever he wishes…he's a danger to us all…" Remington stated coldly, watching as Chrono moved to his feet.
"That's a lie! Even if it has, Chrono would never do that!" I fingered the blade of glass in my hands.
Remington walked forward, ignoring my words about Chrono and transformed his hand into the usual blade.
"Remington! Please don't!" I ran forward and clung to him, forcing him to stop. "There are other guys you can kill! What about the three ether person's Aion has chosen! Why don't you go after them—" Remington grinned eerily, stopping my sentence.
"You don't have to worry about them anymore, Rosette…it's only Chrono and Aion now…" He continued to walk after Chrono.
My eyes moved over to Chrono, the purple haired demon was flexing his arms as he walked forward to meet Remington.
"Please! Remington! Don't do this!" I pleaded some more, knowing that once Remington had set his mind to the task of doing something, he did it to the very end.
"Go find shelter, Rosette…" He commanded, pushing me away from him.
"Remington! Please! Please, don't—" I cried out when he swung his arm backward to push me away.
"Go away!" He roared, his eyes still remaining on Chrono's.
Remington was a good man, don't get me wrong. But sometimes…he did whatever it took to get a job done. I stifled a moan as I got off shattered stones and onto my feet. But my blue irises saw something totally unexpected. Letting out a quick intake of air, I was running past Chrono and Remington, the both of them turning to watch me run.
"Rosette!" I heard Chrono's voice, but Remington stopped him and told him that I was seeking shelter. "She's more important than our fight!" He screamed out again, chasing after me.
I ran harder as tears leaked down my face. I leapt over stones and ran around dead bodies, until I came to a stairway leading to a park. Increasing my speed, I ignored the pain of my pelvis. "Don't leave me!" I screamed out suddenly.
Getting to the top of the stairs, I came across a fountain. The water long since stopped functioning and the trees there were burnt from a recent fire. There was nobody here. Slowly falling to my knees, I held my hands on the ground as I continued to plead, "Don't leave me! You can't!"
With a rush of air, Chrono had finally caught up to me. "Rosette! What is wrong with you? You know I'd never—"
Chrono again was sent flying past me, back down the stairs he had to climb up. Remington just got there and was diving to grab onto me, but a shadow kicked him into the fountain, breaking it instantly and continued his involuntary flight.
I smiled sadly as two long legs stood next to me, the blue overcoat he wore waved like a flag behind him as he towered over me and held out a hand to help me up. "Tell me…how is it that I know you…?"
A/N: Great! I think this is just about the best cliffhanger I've ever done! Now I want to keep you up all night long, thinking about who this mysterious person is! That's just how evil I am! AHAHAH! …I'll work on the next chapter soon…and I for once got to seventeen pages…(Punches herself)