SC: All right! Here's the next chapter! Let's get an earlier start on this one!
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The handsome white haired devil had his legs propped up easily on his desk as he looked tensely at a document in his hands. His glasses slipped down slowly to the end of his nose when he shifted slightly in his seat, but he pushed them back up momentarily. There was a brief knock on his door that made him look up.
"Come in." He called.
Jennia walked in nervously, looking around as a huge library of books surrounded Aion and his desk. The blind demon stood next to Aion, finding his voice to speak. "Joshua has just left, Sir."
"Good…earlier the better." Aion set the document down, "Don't tell me you've only come to tell me that, Jennia."
"No, Sir." Jennia took a seat at the other end of Aion's desk. "I still don't know what we're going to do about the girl…" He mumbled.
"Why does Rosette trouble you so?"
"…I cannot lie to you, Aion. I want that bitch dead." If Jennia could see, Aion would be seeing a whole lot of anger flaring in them.
"I'm sorry to tell you but, Joshua wants her alive. I'll kill her though if she tries to screw anything up though…" Aion shifted in his chair, setting his legs down to the hard ground, his arms resting on his knees.
"…She killed her, Aion…what can I do…?" Jennia mumbled miserably, holding his head into his hand.
"Nothing…there's nothing you can do. Jennia, I won't lie to you either. All of us have suffered in our path to get here. I'm sorry about you being blind, but Rizel could not be helped. She failed us, Jennia. And I cannot except failure." Aion stated his opinion sternly, his face glowering at the demon before him.
"I understand, Sir…"
"And Jennia…if she does mess up…you may be the one to kill her…"
Jennia smiled as he walked out of the room, but poking his head back in briefly, "Are you sure about that? Cause we all know that you'd love to do it yourself…"
"Jennia? What are you? Obsessed with people dieing? Get out of my sight, now!" Aion said hastily, Jennia left after the words came out of Aion's mouth.
Rosette woke up from the bright sun shining through her closed curtains, lines of the energy source flowing up and down her walls and on her face. She moaned as she covered her eyes and crawled out of bed slowly, getting ready to start the day with a nice, refreshing shower.
Chrono rolled over onto his side, disturbed by something tickling his nose. Opening his eyes wearily, Chrono screamed when he saw that it was Satella's crimson hair tickling his nose. Scrambling away, he sighed heavily.
Chrono had decided to sleep on the ground and let Satella sleep on the couch, he never knew that it would turn out to be such a danger to do that. Especially since Satella was now sleeping peacefully on his pillow.
He groaned and went into a bathroom to get ready.
Rosette exited the bathroom and sighed happily when she found that Joshua had some spare clothes that she could use. Placing them on, she looked into a mirror to see herself wearing overalls with a white shirt.
She nodded and agreed that this would be better than nothing. Rosette then headed down to the kitchen to find something to eat.
Chrono shut the door with a groan, his hair was soaking wet. His shower wasn't as pleasant as he had expected it to be. The water ended up to be freezing cold.
How? He didn't know. Why? Who cared besides him?
His hair clung to his back as he placed on his shorts, pulling the straps over his white t-shirt and pulling on his red overcoat. Time to go see what Rosette was doing.
Rosette was sitting at the kitchen table and dully-eating cereal when Chrono walked in. "Hey, Chrono…" She mumbled out tiredly.
"Hey! You sound cheerful this morning…" He responded, getting his own bowl of cereal.
"Yeah…I didn't sleep too well…"
"That's okay…" Chrono stuck a big spoonful of cereal in his mouth, but started to choke from the sudden scream behind him.
"CHRONO! THERE'S A BOY OUTSIDE ASKING TO SEE YOU!" The redhead hollered right in Chrono's sensitive ears.
The purple haired devil turned purple, but choked out the cereal nonetheless. "Al…right…hang…on…" He rasped out, hitting his chest.
Rosette laughed and pulled up a newspaper, reading the daily news. Satella sat down besides her, eating out of Chrono's cereal.
Chrono went to the front door of Aion's beach house and opened the door, only to run face first into an astral blast of energy. Bursting through several walls, Rosette cried out when Chrono ran into her.
"Rosette! Are you alright?" Chrono asked, getting off of Rosette slowly.
"Yeah, but are you?" She asked back, pushing Chrono all the way off.
"Yes." Chrono gazed around the room.
Satella stood up, still eating her cereal, and kicked the table over, using it as a shield. Just then, a flash of light echoed faintly throughout the house, making Rosette and Chrono wince.
Through the light, Joshua stepped out into the clearing of the half blown away house. A smirk played on his lips as his blonde hair danced with the wind, his blue eyes shimmered with a long anticipated fight. "Chrono the Sinner! On pure request from Aion, I'm here to eliminate you from being a threat to us all!"
"Joshua…?" Rosette whispered out, but her view of him was blocked when Chrono stood up and pushed her behind him protectively.
"Joshua! Whatever lies Aion told you are not—" He pushed himself down over Rosette when Joshua unleashed another blast.
Satella observed the fight with wide eyes, just finishing her/Chrono's cereal. She stood up and ran in front of Chrono, placing a jewel into its slot and about to summon it until Rosette called out to her.
"Satella! Don't! He's my little brother! Let Chrono handle this!" She glanced with her eyes at Chrono's defensive stance.
"Joshua? What has gotten into you?" He cried out at the horn sporting kid.
"Aion told me all about you! You're a danger to my sister! To me! To everyone on this Earth! It'd be best if we get rid of you now, and not suffer later!" Joshua responded fiercely, moving in at Chrono from an odd angle; bursting through walls to get to him.
Chrono looked down in worry at Rosette. "I'll be fine! Don't hurt Joshua too bad, Chrono…" She nodded and moved away from the fight. Chrono gave a slight nod and jumped backwards, bursting through a wall and onto the white sand of the beach.
Joshua followed in an angry pursuit.
The sandy blonde threw his fist at Chrono, but the purple haired demon dodged it abruptly, throwing his own punch and hitting the boy.
Joshua spat out a small amount of blood, but continued his furious assault on the small demon.
Rosette ran through the house and saw Satella out near her car. "Satella! Where are you going?"
"There's no need for me to be here, if I can't fight the demon—" Satella didn't finish her sentence, because of Rosette's choking grasp tightly wrapped around her neck.
Her blue irises flashed menacingly as she snarled lightly, "My…brother…is not…a demon…"
"Then how do you explain his horns? Or his mysterious demonic powers?" Satella yelled back.
"Aion tricked him, Satella! It was all Aion's fault!" Rosette let Satella go, leaning against her car. "We need you here with us…or at least do something useful like getting a telephone and calling for Remington…we're going to need help on this one."
Satella nodded and got into her car, driving off to the nearest phone booth.
Rosette placed on a worried look when she heard a scream of pain. Turning her head swiftly, she saw in the distance that Joshua had hit Chrono in the face with a bladed arm. "Chrono…"
Chrono did his best to avoid the raging horn sporting child, but that hadn't turned out too well. Joshua followed him with no limits to his new powers. He had tracked down Chrono instantly and followed him, not letting him out of his sight once or the chance to escape.
Chrono had ended up blocking physically with his arms and getting slashed in the face with Joshua's dangerous blades. Letting out a wail, Chrono gripped tightly on his face, hoping that somehow the bleeding would stop.
His face burned. It felt as if it were on fire. Giving a final squeeze to his face, Chrono went for a punch to the boy's groin. Joshua gripped his hand instead.
Chrono let out a surprised look when Joshua twisted his arm, breaking it instantly. "D-da-damn…" Chrono cursed, pulling up a pained expression when Joshua raised his arms up into the air for a finishing move.
But at the moment's time, gunfire went off, knocking Joshua's bladed arms away and stabbing the ground instead. Turning a fierce glare over, Joshua saw the intruder was his sister.
Rosette steadily loaded the gun with a bullet and walked forward. "Lucky for us, Remington came and finally gave me my gun back…now…Joshua…back away slowly from Chrono or else!"
"Or else what?" He snapped, but moved away slowly.
"Or else I fire! And I don't care if it hits you or not!" Rosette yelled back determinedly.
"Who are you? I don't even know you so why should you care?" Joshua asked fiercely.
Rosette's mouth gaped open, her gun lowering a bit. "…Y-you don't…know…me…?" She squeaked out.
Joshua nodded, his eyes never leaving hers.
Rosette made eye contact with Chrono, the demon only shrugged. "But…I'm your sister…Rosette!" Her gun lowered all the way.
Joshua grinned.
"ROSETTE! IT'S A TRAP! DON'T LET HIM TRICK YOU!" Chrono screamed out in a pained voice. Rosette glanced at him and held her gun back up.
"Whether you believe me or not, I—" She looked around when Joshua was missing. "Where'd he—" The blonde nun was pushed to the ground when a figure holding a blazing beam of light defended her from the offending opponent.
"REMINGTON!" Chrono screamed out, crawling slowly to Rosette. "Hey…you okay?" Rosette nodded, observing his broken arm.
"Chrono…how can Joshua do this?"
Joshua looked surprised when Remington held a swift hold on his bladed arm, throwing his blade up into the air and cutting fiercely down, slicing it in half. Joshua hollered in pain, gripping tightly on the appendix as blood pulled down on the ground.
"DAMN YOU!" He shouted in a strained voice. Remington didn't answer, but held onto a tensed frown.
"Joshua…" Rosette mumbled as the boy screamed in pain again.
"It's going to be alright, Rosette…" Chrono mumbled, holding on tightly to his precious contractor, trying not to get his own blood onto the blonde nun.
"But…he doesn't remember me…how would you feel if your brother didn't remember you?" Rosette asked quietly.
"I'd probably feel the same as you…we can only watch and hope now…" Chrono observed as Remington slashed out again at the horned boy.
Joshua unfolded his angelic wings from his back, his hair waving up from a bright light surrounding him. Rosette gaped slightly at the beauty of her apostle brother. "He really is…an angel…"
"Yes, Rosette…your brother will never be a demon…" Chrono replied sadly, watching as Joshua took to the air.
"STAY OUT OF MY WAY! I CAME FOR CHRONO, NOT FOR YOUR DEATH, PRIEST!" Joshua screamed, glancing at Chrono. His fist tightened when a sudden rage exploded in his chest when he saw the purple haired demon holding on tightly to the mysterious blonde nun.
"If you want them, you have to diminish me first!" Remington shouted back, his head turning to Chrono and Rosette. "Get out of here, you two. I can handle him."
Chrono nodded and got up slowly from the help of Rosette. "Please, Father, please don't…don't do anything…that might put my brother's life in danger."
Remington didn't answer. The blonde Minister stared coldly at the angelic form above him, as if daring him to strike the nun and demon down.
Rosette nodded at Remington's silence and walked slowly away with the wounded Chrono. A screech of breaks sounded off and Satella's car roared into the distance. "GET IN!" The red head shouted, poking her head out from her window.
Rosette nodded and assisted laying Chrono down in the back seat, while placing herself in the passengers seat. Satella stepped hard on the gas pedal and they were gone in moments.
Joshua watched them leave, slowly descending to the ground from the lack of flapping from his wings. When he landed, Remington was already jumping at him.
"You'll pay dearly for making me miss my chance to kill Chrono!" Joshua roared, swinging out his only clawed hand.
Blood was shed and a death was nearby.
Rosette whimpered when she looked in the rear view mirror at Chrono. He was looking down at his arm, observing the white part of the bone poking out. "Chrono? Are you going to be alright if we take you to the nearest hospital?"
Chrono thought about for a moment before nodding, laying his head back and shutting his head for a long needed rest.
The blue-eyed girl was about to object to that, in the fear of him never awaking him again, but Satella rested a hand on hers.
"He'll be alright, Rosette…"
Rosette nodded wearily, her eyes never leaving the mirror showing her loved one in pain.
Soon after an hour-long trip of harsh reality, Satella stopped the car in front of a big, white building with a huge red cross on it. "Common, let's hurry and get Chrono in there!" Rosette jumped out of the car and held Chrono up by the waste.
The demon boy's face paled as he felt a twinge of pain run through his arm. "Hand in there, Chrono!"
Running inside of the building, Rosette ran to the counter with Chrono still hanging loosely in her grasps. She pounded her arm down on a bell when nobody came to ask for assistance.
She banged it again.
And again…
…and again…
…and again…
Until finally a nurse hurried over to them. Before the nurse had time to speak, Rosette was already barking out orders.
"HURRY! MY FRIEND NEEDS HELP!"
She shoved Chrono into the nurse's arms and when she just stood there, she contorted her face to a sheer look of furry.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE! HELP HIM!"
"I-I'm sorry, but we're very busy right now!" The nurse waved to all the patients in line, pushing Chrono back into Rosette's arms.
"Busy…? Busy…? MY FRIEND COULD BE DIEING! NOW IF YOU DON'T HELP HIM, I'LL BLOW YOU TO BLOODY HELL!" Rosette angrily cocked her gun and held it up to the nurse threateningly.
Chrono coughed out, "Rosette…we can wait…all these other people need help too…"
"But…Chrono…! Your arm is much more serious than their wounds!" Rosette insisted, lowering her gun to talk to Chrono.
"Rosette…these people are innocent…much more than me…I'm in the least bit innocent. Isn't this what we strive for? Saving others? …Let's wait, Rosette." Chrono smiled at Rosette.
Rosette sighed and put her gun away and looked up at the nurse, "Look, I'm sorry for" Rosette couldn't finish her sentence. Dropping Chrono to the ground, security guards grabbed onto Rosette's arms and dragged her out of the hospital.
Chrono cried out when his already broken arm hit the ground, but his cry was more out to Rosette.
The supposed lead security guard grabbed tightly onto Rosette's head and threw her against a car, feeling around for her gun. "HEY! YOU CAN'T" Rosette was again cut off when the guard pulled out her gun.
"As suspected! You have the right to remain silent! Anything you say can and will be used against you in court of law!" The security threw her into the car, the other security guards heading back into the building.
Satella helped Chrono up right when the guard drove Rosette off. "Shit…what are we going to do now?"
Joshua grinned down at the hurt Priest. "I told you, Old man…don't mess with me…" He coldly slammed his foot down on Remington's head, holding him tightly to the ground.
Remington rasped out for breath, the wound at the base of his neck seeped out blood. "Rosette…is…looking for you…Joshua…you just can't…see her…for being blinded…by Aion's…vile…tricks…"
The man shuddered when Joshua's foot pushed down harder.
"Do you know where Rosette is?"
"Of…course…"
"Tell me now!"
"…You just missed her…she was here…moments earlier…"
"You mustn't mean that nun? That can't be! I think I would know what my own sister looked like!" Joshua barked out swiftly, glancing down the road that the red head's car went.
"…Don't fall…so easily…the bloody bastard…tricked you…" Remington lurched when he felt that if he closed his eyes for a mere moment, all would be lost from him.
"Aion is everything to me! He gave me all that I can ever wish for! He—"
"…took your sister…" Remington finished off.
"…You're coming with me…I believe Aion wants a word or two with you…" Joshua grabbed and pulled Remington to his feet, spreading his white, feathery wings, he took off into the sky's blue haze.
SC: Oh yeah! Told ya'll I'll have this out!
Chrono: You sure told them!
SC: I know! Now, I have to make chapter eleven for Until Death!
Rosette: Have you even started that yet?
SC: Nope! But I have been planning on what to do! All of the angsty goodness will be in that chapter!
Rosette: All right, review…
Chrono: …and SC just might…
Aion: …get all her stories…
Remington: …updated sooner…
SC: …than imagined! …Hey! That was kind of cool, so...yeah...review and I'll see what I can do with all three of my stories!
