A/N: Wow, I'm finally back for the long awaited chapter eleven! I'd like to thank all my reviewers for sticking with me for this long! It's so nice of you guys! I've been having a hard time of thinking on how I'm going to write this major chapter, although I know very clearly about what will be happening after it. So, with the reliable help of my dreams, I've dreamt up yet another chapter to this! Hope you enjoy it and I hope ya'll review! Also, a person told me that they thought that Magdalene was dead and Chrono was buried beneath her. That is indeed true, but I made it so that Pandemonium was possessing her already dead body. Magdalene is dead. Only, her grave is empty. That's why they used it as a doorway to Chrono's chamber. Make sense?
Disclaimer: I only own the wheels on the bus…and they go round and round…
The blonde former nun stared eerily as her slightly darker shade of blonde hair swirled around her head mysteriously. Her irises were a dull grayish black and had a dark red on her eyelid. Whoever this girl was, she was most definitely not Rosette.
The white haired demon woke up with a slight stir, his violet eyes opening to see a dark blonde levitating a foot off of the air. Far from her was Chrono, a very pissed off Chrono. Around the well-known Sinner, a deep black aura surrounded him and he was breathing very heavily. Traces of red outlined his skin, as did his eyes glow with the same shade of crimson.
Aion looked around even further, Joshua laid still beside him. "I can't…believe…it…we did it!" Aion shook Joshua hard, making the man open his blue eyes. "Joshua! Now it's time for our plans to be put into action!"
Joshua groaned and rubbed his eyes, "The…plan…?"
"Yes…now all I need you to do is reclaim your contract with Rosette and give it to me. Go get the watch, Joshua…" Aion's eyes lit up with delight as Joshua rose slowly to his slightly shaky legs and walked towards the floating woman.
The woman's eyes flickered over to the approaching demon, her position in the air not faltering for a moment. Once he was close enough, he observed her with slight amazement.
"Are you…Rosette?" He asked slowly, his eyes narrowing with suspicion. His blonde hair waved smoothly on his head from the woman's aura brushing against him. His ears lowered in a tense formation, prepared for any signal for an oncoming attack.
Joshua's wings lowered slightly when the girl before him grinned ominously at him. Her hair stopped billowing in the clearly visible wind swirling around her as she gracefully landed to the ground. The tips of her feet stretched out as she touched down, holding up a minute longer before relaxing lazily onto her heels.
He looked down to her as she looked up to him. He was indeed taller than the disturbed woman before him. "Then…you really are Rosette…"
The supposed Rosette's grin widened.
"I reclaim my contract with you, Rosette Christo—"
Before the blonde demon had the chance to finish, he was head butted through a wall by Chrono. The demon glared heavily down at him, his eyes widened to the point of insanity.
"Crap! Aion!"
Joshua called out to Aion, but the demon was nowhere to be found…except right behind Chrono. He lashed out with his elbow, but that didn't even move the Sinner.
The crimson-eyed demon glared for a moment longer before turning slowly in the opposite direction to face Aion. The proud leader of the rebellion against Pandemonium frowned deeply and went into a defensive position.
"Aion! I think he's trying to protect Rosette!" Joshua screamed out to the white haired demon. His irises flashed a darker shade for a moment as he backed away from Chrono and Aion, the two demons glowering deeply at one another.
"Chrono…are you trying to protect your former lover? …How can that be…when you are unable to poses the simple manner of emotion?" Aion asked curiously, but Chrono replied with a slight snarl.
"Perhaps that's the only memory he has left of her!" Joshua thought deeply, lowering his head before it snapped back up, "He died with his mind on the fact that Rosette was in danger! He was now brought to life with that same instinct! Aion! He won't let us proceed with our plans!"
Aion nodded, absorbing the information. "Once a bastard, always a bastard, eh?" He grinned cockily as he turned to face Joshua, "Proceed with the plans anyways, withdraw the watch and claim that your contract is over, I'll then reclaim the contract with the blade!" Aion wrapped his hand around a single strand of hair floating freely in his eyes.
With a swift snap, he yanked it off with the slightest of ease. Holding it before his hands, he focused on the point of the hair, before it transformed into the same black blade from earlier.
Joshua nodded and ran swiftly towards the darkened aura of Rosette.
"Chrono, Chrono, Chrono…I'm going to succeed with my plans…and you can't stop me…" Aion circled around Chrono, making the purple haired demon's gaze disappear from seeing Rosette.
His short, white hair flew past his face as he entered Chrono's dark aura. With taunting ease, he gently tapped Chrono's leg with his blade.
The demon growled and struck out at Aion, only to have him fly up into the air. "You'll have to keep up with me, if you want to kill me…"
Chrono, without hesitation, flew after the white haired demon, leaving Rosette open to Joshua.
Joshua approached cautiously, his hands held out before him. "They tell me…that we're brother and sister, Rosette…I believe them…I feel the love for you as the boy who possessed this body before me did. I feel the need to protect you, to save you, to help you through this, but I can't…the plans must proceed."
The lady before him stopped smiling and frowned, as if wondering what he was saying.
Please…stop this…get out of my head…! Chrono…! Where's…Chrono! …Help me! Joshua! Oh, Joshua! Help
The voice echoed throughout the lady's mind, making her frown turn into a small sneer. The male before her looked worried. His eyes narrowed as he a muscle twitched slightly in his cheek.
"I reclaim my contract with you, Rosette Christopher."
A slight swirl surrounded the former siblings as the spell in bounded tightly onto the girl's soul was lifted. Joshua glanced at her before turning his head away.
"Aion! Now's the time! Hurry!" Joshua turned back to face Rosette, but she wasn't there. Instead of her, a well toned out muscled chest with a black overcoat hung in his view.
Joshua growled when Chrono swung a bladed arm out at him, furiously kicking his foot out and hitting the blonde boy when his arm missed. Joshua crashed into a nearby pillar, but was instantly picked up by Chrono and charged into a wall.
The blonde demon coughed out blood as his wings flapped wildly for escape. He was up into the air, just before Chrono could strike again.
Behind the blue-eyed demon, the newly dark Chrono grabbed onto Joshua's wings tightly and ripped them out from their sockets, a dark crimson liquid splashing out in pools. Chrono scrambled to grab onto Joshua once more, managing to pull tightly at one of his horns and yank it off before Joshua hit the ground hard.
Joshua screamed out in an ear-piercing scream as he fell to the ground in a bloody mess. Chrono observed this from the air, his arms folded tightly over his chest as the blue-eyed demon's horn fell beside its owner. The man looked from his crumpled position and laughed, before laying his head down on his arms and laying still.
Chrono's already placed grin widened insanely as his glowing red eyes shimmered. His darker purple hair blew back suddenly, causing him to frown and look over.
There…Aion had plunged his black blade deeply into Rosette's chest, supposedly where her heart should have been and twisted it counterclockwise. The blonde girl cried out as he did so, some of the dark aura around her disappearing.
"PANDEMONIUM! THOU PURIFY THEE FROM TIS WRETCHED GIRL'S HEART AND DELIVER THOU TO THE DEEP BOWELS OF HELL TO BE IMPRISONDED THERE FOR ALL ETERNITY! ONLY TO HAVE THEE'S VILE POWERS REMAIN AND FOR THOU TO POSSESS THEM! BE GONE AS THOU MAINTAIN THESE POWERS INTO A MAKE SHIFT CONTRACT!"
Aion roared out each word, loud and clear as he withdrew his sword from the woman's flesh. He grinned as her dark aura dispersed from her and surrounded him.
"Yes…it feels so nice…to have extraordinary powers…Tell me, Rosette Christopher. How does it feel to hold so much power in such a body that can not hold it?" Rosette gasped out harshly when Aion spoke to her, clutching at the wound on her chest.
"I need you alive, Rosette…" Aion in his fierce new posture bent down before her and easily healed her wounded chest with one raised, clawed hand. "For you see, you are the source of my power…and without you…I'm nothing."
Rosette looked around in a scared like manner, her normal light blonde hair shifting as her head twisted in fear. "W-wh-wh…"
"Who are you? …Your name is Rosette Christopher and you are a loyal servant of mine…" Aion smiled softly as he threw his black blade away from him.
"…Ere…" She whimpered out softly, her eyes were wider than they should be as they dilated.
"You're in Pandemonium…but soon…this world will be destroyed and a new heaven and Earth shall form…come…let us go…" The dark haired demon held a hand out to Rosette as she gladly took it.
Chrono's eyes narrowed as he soared down from his flying position to faze in front of Aion. He looked as if he was going to say something, but the frightened young woman clinging on tightly to the white haired demon distracted his mind.
"Chrono…I suggest you leave…I wouldn't want to have you killed, would I?" Aion laughed harshly and pushed past Chrono, only to have the enraged demon grip tightly onto his shoulder, his nails digging in tightly.
"…W…oh…r…u…?" Rosette difficultly asked. Her tongue seemed to have not been used to speaking for a long time, considering her slight speech problem. Her eyebrows rose up as she held tightly onto Aion's sleeve, daring not to leave the demon.
Chrono ignored her and pushed in deeper into Aion's flesh.
"Let go…Chrono…" With a disastrous force, Chrono was flung back and buried deep into a wall. His arms hung out loosely as his head rolled to one side, a slight trail of blood running down his forehead and into one eye.
Rosette screamed out slightly as she shut her eyes and latched on even tighter to Aion. "Don't be scared. There is nothing to fear as long as I am here…" Aion spoke with a soothing ease and smiled gracefully down to the girl.
She nodded, glancing back to the fallen form of the strange purple demon. Something bugged her deeply about him…something…something that made her want to cry out in agony at the sight of his angered shape.
She threw her head back suddenly when a painful burst of information flooded into her already confused mind…
"Ku…rono…" She whispered slowly. Rosette's arms dropped to her sides abruptly as she turned her body towards the demon implanted into the wall.
Although her words were whispered, it did not go unheard. "What did you say?" Aion asked sternly, moving his eyes away from Chrono and down to the knowing young woman besides him.
"…Chrono…." Her arms swayed slightly when she lurched forward. The former blonde nun marched almost dizzily away from Aion and towards the purple haired demon. "…Chrono…!"
Chrono's ears raised as his red eyes moved slowly open to gaze at the running woman ahead of him.
"CHRONO! CHRONO! CHRONO!" Rosette screamed out the words fiercely. That was pretty much the only word she knew how to say clearly.
Rosette ran with longer strides and when close enough to the male demon, she leapt into his arms. Her blue irises wavered as she wrapped her arms firmly around him, incasing him tightly into her hold. She didn't like this demon to be like this…no…this made her remember something more.
"Cu…me baa…ck…Chrono…Com b…ack…" She whispered into his ear, her blue eyes shutting.
…With the surprise of it all, Chrono's tensed arms relaxed as he wrapped his own arms around the woman in front of him…
The red glow disappeared as his eyes turned back to normal, the black aura diminished about him, as he held on tighter to Rosette. "I thought…you forgot me! …I thought, I was to never resurface again…"
The blonde girl laid in his arms for a moment longer, until Aion calmly stalked towards them. "Bravo, Rosette. Bravo. I can't believe you remembered your lover's name…but do you remember what he did to you?"
Rosette withdrew her head from the crook of his neck to stare at the wall as she struggled to remember.
"He killed your brother, Rosette…he killed him…He killed him for the first time, and now for the second time…" He waved back to the dead form of Joshua.
The blue-eyed girl frowned, as she found no memory of being related to anybody. Her mind surged throughout it's self, scanning to find any possible answer. When she found one, she grinned widely.
"Bull…shit…"
Aion frowned, his cockiness sobered. "How can it be that your memory still remains when you could've died from the power possessing you? How can that be? You should still be that same damn blubbering fool you were earlier!"
Rosette's eyes darkened as she got off of Chrono, the demon behind her also raising. She didn't know what to say. What could she say? Did this really happen to her? Who had possessed her?
"You should be at insanity in fact. Not to be talking. Not to be walking. Do you even remember anything at all?" His violet eyes flashed. The white haired demon's claws relaxed when he dragged them out to point at Rosette, "Or is that all you can remember? Only your hopeless boyfriend…"
"Aion, don't be such an asshole about the fact that she doesn't want you! I bet she can remember more, right Rosette?" Chrono's crimson gaze traveled down to the woman's body before him.
Rosette looked firmly down at the ground, not making any motion of acknowledging Chrono's question.
Chrono gaped slightly as he shuddered, "What you did to her, Aion…will cost you your very life…" Chrono flung himself at Aion, but was soon thrown back into a pillar and against the wall again.
"Rosette…come with me…I'll make sure that you stay alive…you'll be better off in my hands then with the cold uncaring ones he offers…" Aion outstretched his hand in a smooth fluid moment. His body leaked out gracefulness as his seemingly vibrant, warm eyes pooled her into a swirling vortex of confusion.
"DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, ROSETTE! YOU MUSTN'T LISTEN! HE PLAYS TRICKS ON YOUR" Chrono was cut off when he was thrown abruptly into Aion's already outstretched hand.
Chrono's purple hair flew back when he coughed from Aion's painful grasp. His wings shuddered, before lowering and his claws lowered in defeat as his eyes shut tight.
"Come Rosette, I'll take care of you…" Aion's taunting voice cooed out again, completely oblivious to the faltering demon in his grasp.
"Rosette…I've been…rude and uncaring of your…feelings…in the past…Joshua…Arvin…everyone you knew and…loved…I tried to keep them away from you…to keep…you…all to myself…Rosette…I…I love you…That's why…I did all those things…all for you…"
Chrono's voice cracked up when Aion slit his throat and threw him hard to the cold floor. His skull cracked and echoed loudly against the tiled ground.
Her eyes stared wide with horror as his words repeated over and over again in her mind. The woman's shaky, pale hands hovered near her face as she gasped in fear at the demon's seemingly dead form.
For you see, you are the source of my power…and without you…I'm nothing.
She screamed out and held onto her head tightly, the world spinning around her.
It seemed to rush in all at the same time to me. Like lighting a flame in a dark room. It was somewhat like changing a channel to a TV right now. Flashes of earlier scenes sketched themselves out to me as my hands felt cold as ice.
"…You're right…Aion…without me…you are nothing…" My head was lowered against my chest as I bit on my lower lip slowly.
Aion's eyebrow raised as he wiped his bloody hands off on a white hanker chief. "Is that so…?"
My fist clenched tightly as I rose my cold, icy gaze to slice through Aion's calm one. "Yes…" And with that, I punched myself hard. Spit flew from my mouth as I felt my cheek fill numb all at once, but I grinned when Aion had the same affect as me.
"What the hell was that?" Aion cried out when I elbowed myself in the groin and stomped on my other foot. But a black object caught my eye…
"Rosette! STOP THIS NONSENSE!" The white haired demon spat out, but froze in position when he saw me run farther away and pick up his previously absent sword. "Put that down, Rosette…"
"Didn't your mom ever tell you to not leave toys on lying on the ground? Someone…" I held it tightly into my hands outstretched before me as I aimed it at its destined location, "…might…" I plunged it deeply into my chest as I hacked out blood onto my arms and on the hilt of the blade, "…get…hurt…"
Aion let out a harmed scream when a sudden hole exploded in his chest, his blood hitting us both. Suddenly, I felt my breath leave me as I felt something raise inside of my very center.
Before my now crumpled form, the same speck of white floated above me. But instead of stealing my soul, it took the form of a longhaired lady. "…You did a good job, Rosette Christopher…a real good job. I knew you could do it…"
The mysterious woman walked towards the fallen form of Chrono, but I hastily scrambled to my feet and blocked her from him. "You aren't going to poses Chrono now! I won't let you!"
She smiled, "No…I'm not going to do that…I'm only here to say one last goodbye before I leave…" Her blonde hair shifted as a true genuine smile shined through to me. I actually felt sad for this woman.
"…B-but no possessing him!" I cried out as I moved away and the woman stepped forward.
"Right…"
Her transparent hand hovered over Chrono's face until he finally snapped awake. "Ma-Magdalene…?"
She smiled and my mouth just about dropped to the ground, "M-Magdalene? Thee Holy Maiden? Mary Magdalene?"
She nodded and smiled at my surprise. "Chrono…I'm so glad that I have this chance to say a real, final goodbye…and it's all thanks to my glorious reincarnation…" Chrono looked to me, as I looked back at him.
"M-me?" I whispered out hoarsely as she nodded yet again.
"…Chrono…I loved you in my time, as I know you felt the same way…but now…now it's time for you to love her. Treasure her, for you may never find another like her again…Goodbye my friend…"
"G-goodbye…Magdalene…" Chrono's tone seemed hurt to say goodbye. I almost thought he was going to start crying, but he didn't. He instead stood up and waved with a grin. "I'm bound to see you again sooner or later, you old hag."
Magdalene grinned, "…and then what are you going to do? Threaten my life like last time?"
"Something like that, except this time I'll have a gun with me…yeah…a gun sounds nice…" Chrono chuckled lightly as Magdalene rolled her eyes.
"And thanks again, Rosette Christopher…I owe my freedom all to you…" She gave a final wave and floated upward towards the invisible heavens.
I seemed stunned for the moment. "…Don't tell me…that really just happened…" Chrono's grin remained.
"That didn't just happen." He looked down at my chest, "And it looks like that whatever just didn't happen healed your chest also…"
I lowered my gaze and nodded in amazement. But my moment's peace ended abruptly when Aion grabbed onto Chrono's foot, blood leaking around him.
"Don't…te…ll…me…you…fo…rgot…all…abou…t…me…!" He hacked out as his hand loosened slightly, but his determined eyes didn't falter.
"No, Aion…I could never forget you. I've been waiting so bloody long for this moment…" Chrono drew out a bladed arm and plunged it deep into Aion's chest. "…That's for even thinking you can take my woman with you…and this…" He twisted his arm out to the side and kicked him away. "…is for screwing around with our lives!"
I shuddered as Aion let out a final scream before he fell silent. "…Chrono…let's go home now…" Chrono grinned and he offered his arm out to me. I grinned also and took it with eagerness.
He raised his other arm and sliced through the air, creating the portal back to Earth. "Let's go home…"
Eight months later…After out incident in Pandemonium, we went back to Earth and found Remington waiting for us. I had angrily yelled at him for not being there, but he had insisted that he couldn't have come in without being drained from his soul by Pandemonium's time sucking abilities. I ended my contract with the Minister, since his demonic powers ran off my soul. We decided that it was used for the last time when he helped us get to Pandemonium and return Chrono his soul. Since his original clock was broken, Remington remained a human, although I still think he's hiding some very important facts from me.
He'll probably never tell me though…
Chrono and I had gone back to New York, where my old home was destroyed. I had managed to tell him the story of Aion's trap of falsely killing the rosary spell and me. I even included him punching me in the face. I didn't think he took it well after I had managed two punches to him and screamed out, "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?"
I thought it was rather…funny…that I had the once almighty Sinner pleading to be forgiven.
The local Magdalene Order managed to bribe the police into not releasing any facts about my destroyed and bloodied home. So, we bought a new one, in the same exact location as my previous old one. I'm quiet happy with it, but I don't think Chrono likes the fact that I still haven't allowed him to sleep with me yet.
Feh…as if.
I've decided to let us go on with slower steps and not rush into things, which pretty much summed up Chrono's thoughts. Although, we both know that sooner or later, we'll get married. But, I can't say that I'm pleased with his latest crazy idea, "Rosette! I want bunches of kids!"
Ehehe…Right.
Things at the Magdalene Order have been the same as usual, but the only change was, Sister Kate returned from her sudden mysterious disappearance. We're guessing that she thought about retiring, but she screamed for hours about her only being thirty.
Although…I don't think she's thirty…
Now, Chrono and I have been spending day in and day out living with our lives. I've finally decided to not dissert my post as an exorcist and Chrono has fun doing jobs for the newspaper company. And yes, Chrono finally learned how to count money. It took him a good while to get it, and when he finally did, he wouldn't even listen to you if you were to tell him that he didn't know how to. He had insisted that it was so easy, that a moron could get it. I only laughed. Things were beginning to look like old times for us again, but our story doesn't end there…
No…far from it.
My legs folded tightly underneath me as I plopped a grape into my mouth and laughed slightly at the talk show host told a funny joke on the radio. My hair shifted over my shoulders and smothered the base of my neck.
I had reluctantly decided to let my once short blonde hair grow out to be slightly longer and decided to keep it at that. And I've also grown taller, but I'm no comparison to Chrono's usual seven-foot tall self. Speaking of which…
Chrono lumbered tiredly out of his door, slamming it hard behind him.
"Hey, sleepy head! Couldn't sleep?" I asked teasingly, eating another grape.
"Shut up…" He mumbled lazily, struggling from yawning. He took a seat beside me and swallowed a grape hole, almost choking in the process. "Besides, who could sleep when one has to bare through your horrid laughing?"
I glared at him harshly, "And how could one bare through your horrid singing in the showers?"
"I do not!"
"Chrono! Don't lie to me! I know you sing! I've heard you!" I laughed slightly.
"And you would know for spying on me!" Chrono laughed when I blushed slightly, "Common, Rosette! We're way past pleasantries…" He mumbled seductively. He leaned forward to blow in my ear.
I giggled slightly, "Sure, but that only means your at hello!" I scooted away from him, eating another grape. "Chrono…I've been thinking lately…"
Chrono stole the grape I was about to eat and ate it himself, "About what?"
"Well…you won't laugh?" I asked hesitantly.
"…Do I ever laugh at you?" I frowned when Chrono exploded into a fit of laughter, "I'm sorry! It's just…oh never mind…" He finished off with a mumble.
I sighed and turned off the radio. "Okay…you know…how a demon is reincarnated into another when one dies?"
Chrono nodded, raising an eyebrow suspiciously. "Where are you going with this…?"
"…I want to…find Aion…"
A/N: MWAHAHA! I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT AT THAT, AND START A SEQUEL! THIS, I NOW PROCLAIM, IS THE END OF, "UNTIL DEATH, DO WE PART?" AND THE BEGINNING OF, "WE'RE NO ANGELS!" Yep. You read my irritating sentence correctly, I'm am going to start the sequel in a new story and it's going to be a happy romantic type bull crap thing! But…I'm not going to release it…not until I get my other two stories up and running! So it might take a while! Review, Review, Review!