-Chapter 3-

March 2, 2157

"Ack!" Decipher shouted, as Vermillion had just spilled his pancakes on Decipher's shirt.

"Vermillion! These were my favorite PJs!"

"I'm sorry!" Vermillion replied.

Meanwhile, Magnus was just on the same table enjoying the argument.

"Argh! Well, anyways, I have to go to the grocery to get more food. Magnus, you coming?" Decipher said, after he cleaned up his shirt.

"Umm….yeah, sure! I'll go take a bath now…."

The two glared at him in a menacing way. Decipher showed him his shirt.

"On second thought, maybe you should go first, Decipher."

Decipher went up the stairs to his room. He opened his closet, and got a pair of dark, blue denim pants and a shirt with the design of a poring, sleeping. He went inside the bathroom, closed the door, and locked it. He took off his clothes, then went in and opened the shower.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhh!"

His scream could be heard throughout the whole city of Geffen. Magnus and Vermillion were covering their ears.

"It's cold…….it's cold……..brrrrrrr!"

"Don't worry! You'll get used to it!" Vermillion shouted out as he cleaned the table. Magnus was in the kitchen sink, washing the dishes.

"Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!" They heard another deafening sound from Decipher.

"What now?" Magnus shouted as he stopped washing.

"Vermillion! You forgot to flush the toilet! It's full of jellopy!" Decipher opened the door hastily, with a towel tied around his legs. He descended down the stairs, with a large vein popping up on his head.

"Vermilliooooon!" He shouted.

"Oh fine! I'll flush it." He hopped up the stairs, into the bathroom. The two of them downstairs heard the flush of the toilet.

"Magnus! You can use it now. I'm done." He went back up the stairs, got his clothes from the bathroom and went inside his room to dress up.

Magnus went in the bathroom as Decipher went out of his room. He was finished dressing up. He walked downstairs, with a book in hand, entitled: "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events".

Vermillion hopped up to him and said, "Hey, are you mad at me?"

Decipher patted him. He wobbled.

"No. Of course not. You're one of my best friends!"

Vermillion hopped up and down in joy. He noticed that Decipher was now reading his book, he seemed to enjoy it a lot.

"Say, what's so god about reading books anyway?" Vermillion said, as h analyzed the cover of the book.

"Try it! Why don't you grab a book from my shelf and read it instead of watching tv all day?"

Suddenly, they heard footsteps descending down the stairs. Magnus was all dressed up. Today, he was wearing a black trench coat accompanied by a fluorescent, blue shirt inside, and denim pants.

"Are we ready?" He asked.

"Yes. Okay, let's go! Vermillion you watch the house!"

They walked towards the front door, opened it, then walked outside. Before Decipher closed the door, he said to Vermillion, "By the way, DO NOT let anyone in except us? Okay?"

"Yessir!" Vermillion replied. Decipher closed the door. The two hopped inside the car. Vermillion heard the car leave the garage. The house was all to himself now.

"Let's see……what can I do?"

He paused for a while with a facial expression that would've entertained Decipher.

"TV!"

He hopped towards the couch, pushed the "power" button on the remote, and began watching.

"Try it! Why don't you grab a book from my shelf and read it instead of watching tv all day?"

He remembered Decipher's words and closed the tv. He went up to his master's room and looked at his humungous shelf.

"Boy, he sure has a lot of books!"

He hopped across the shelf, looking at the title of each book.

"Exorcism, boring. The complete idiot's guide to exorcism, what the heck?"

He went through every book, none of them seemed to interest him. Then he saw it. The book of revelations. His eyes widened and he grabbed the book. His insides were grumbling. He was about to poop.

"Oh no! Decipher will get mad! To the bathroom!"

He hopped towards the bathroom, with the book in…..er…..hands, or whatever.

He opened the toilet seat, sat on it, and began reading the book.

-Meanwhile, at the grocery….-

"So……exactly WHAT kind of stuff do we need?" Magnus asked Decipher as they left the car. He gave him a list of things.

"Whoa! Well these are a lot!"

"That's right! I meant it to be a lot. That way, I would have something to do till lunch."

The doors of the grocery opened as the sensor sensed them. They went in and were blasted by the air coming from the air curtains. Decipher fixed his red, fuzzy hair.

"Ok, so the first thing to do is to get a cart."

They went over to the kafra personnel and asked to rent a cart.

"That will be 30z please. Thank you!"

They paid the girl, and they got a cart. Decipher checked the list.

"Okay, first we need eggs, cheese, and other dairy products. To the dairy section!"

"Well that was creepy. I think I'm finished jellopy-excreting now."

Vermillion closed the book, and hopped down the toilet. He reached out for the door knob. It didn't budge.

"Oh no! I'm locked in!"

-Beneath the Prontera castle-

The high council was having a meeting. Something about the "rite of ascension".

"Viceroy, do you really want to go through with this? If we…..fail, all who take parting the ceremony will cease to exist!" One of them said to the viceroy.

"That is why we will NOT fail. Bring in the fallen angel!"

The massive doors opened, two masked figures entered, bring with them a prisoner with shackles on his right and left arms and feet. When they reached the center, the shackles were chained to the ground, and the "fallen angel" was kicked and he fell to the ground.

"Shimizu Kaito, the fallen angel, reveal your true self, so that we, Queen Quisha Laodamia's Royal Advisory council may be able to perform the rite of ascension, so that I, the viceroy, may be able to fulfill my dreams of becoming an immortal: a god!"

"I am NOT a fallen angel! What are you talking about?"

The viceroy stood up.

"Hiding the truth I see. I can see your past buried deep within your eyes. Stop hiding it. Rejected by God, and sent back to this earth to live……as a taboo!"

"I AM NOT!" His voice echoed all throughout the arena. The whole place became silent for a few moments.

"Fine then." The viceroy pointed at Kaito. He began to chant in an unknown language, similar to latin.

Red sparks emerged from Kaito's back, and an angel and a demon's wing emerged from his back. He WAS a fallen angel.

"See?" The viceroy said to the whole council. They all stopped talking, because of their astonishment.

"Let's perform the ritual now."

They gathered around in a circle, and began chanting in the same language the viceroy had been talking in a few moments ago. Kaito fell to the ground. He couldn't move. There was nothing he could do now.

The viceroy pointed once more at him. Kaito knew his life was about to end, so he made a desperate move to live. He tugged on the chains chained to his various body parts, and they came off. He stretched out his wings, flew upward and broke through the stained glass.

"Damn!"

The whole council started muttering different words to each other.

"Viceroy, shouldn't we go look for him?"

"Bring in Midgard's finest warriors. We're going to look for him…..even if it costs our lives!"

"Yessir."

And with that, the viceroy strode off, slamming the door shut.

"I guess that's all we'll need!"

Decipher lined up to pay for the items while Magnus put in some more…..stuff.

"What's this for?" Decipher said, as he picked up a pack of gummy bears.

"We've gotta have gummy bears! Never leave the grocery without gummy bears!"

"Fine. Fine."

Decipher pushed the cart forward. It was there turn. The kafra personnel took their items and recorded each one of them. Then another kafra put all the stuff into plastic bags.

"That will be 1, 254z please. Thank you." He payed the kafra, took the bags and they left. Magnus and Decipher loaded the trunk of the car with the bags and hopped inside. Decipher ignited the engine, and he drove off, back to his house, which was just a couple of blocks away.

They reached the house, unloaded the car and went in.

"Vermillion! Open up!" Decipher was now banging the door.

"Vermillion!" He was now forced to open it with his keys. He dropped the bags he was carrying, reached in his pocket, grabbed the key and opened the door.

"Vermillion? Where are you?"

"….maybe he went out." Magnus suggested.

"Sigh…."

Decipher left him to unpack the bags. He went up to his room to get another book to read. Just then he noticed something.

"Where's the book of revelations?" He said as he dug through his book case.

"Aaaahhhhhh!"

Magnus went up, as he couldn't stand the screaming.

"What's wrong?"

"Don't just stand there! Help me find the book!"

He dug the book case as well, until all of the books were on the floor. No sign of the Book of Revelations.

"That book was given to me by the bishop of rune-midgard! We've got to find it!"

They went over to the computer room and looked around. It wasn't there.

"Where is it?"

"Calm down! Let's just retrace your steps. Where did you go last night?"

"But I didn't bring it with me!"

"You had a bag. You didn't even check what's inside!"

"Oh fine. Yesterday, I went to the top of Geffen tower to have a chat with the talking dog."

"Okay, we'll go there."

They went out the door, and just walked towards Geffen tower, which was just a few meters away.

"Okay, here we are. Now we need to SCALE this thing?" Magnus asked as he looked at the massive structure.

"Yes."

"Gulp."

They went in and found the staircase, and climbed it. Only a few steps and Magnus was panting really hard now.

"Gosh, you really are out of shape!"

They finally reached the top after thousands of steps.

"Darsia, have you seen my book of revelations? I think I dropped it here yesterday." Decipher asked the talking dog.

"No."

He descended down the stairs and intersected with Magnus.

"Where are you going?" Magnus asked.

"It's not there." He replied.

"WHAAAAAT?" Magnus's cry could be heard all throughout Midgard.

"First you made me climb all the way up here, then you make me go down again?" He said as he descended down the stairs.

"I made a mistake. Don't freak out."

"Don't freak out? DON'T FREAK OUT? You just made……."

He was cut off by Decipher who had just inserted a cigarette and lit it with his lighter. He did the same with his, and blew out a cloud of smoke.

"Cigarette?" Decipher offered him. A vein was now sprouting from Magnus' head.

He spit out the cigarette.

"Hey! You could've given that to me!"

"Well you should've asked first!"

"Well anyway, this is the only place I went to yesterday. I think maybe we should go back now. I need to use the bathroom."

Decipher and Magnus ran back to the house, Decipher running at extreme speeds. He opened the door to the bathroom and found…..

"Vermillion? MY BOOK!"

"Oh. Here. I was locked in. Gosh. I'm sorry. Lemme go fix lunch." Vermillion hopped down the stairs as Decipher went in. He locked the door.

"Oh no….here we go…" Vermillion said to Magnus.

"What's wrong?"

"3….2…..1…."

"Vermilliooon! You forgot to flush the toilet! There's jellopy everywhere!"

Author's Note: Hm…..is anyone still reading this fic?