A/N: Okay, now I know that I've been pushing the limits for me to be delaying my updates! Ehehe…stupid chapter title pun. …All right, that was very, very awkward… Let's just start the chapter and pray to God that this will be a long one!
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After Shader's childish cheer, she had led them all to a small section of the forest where a cave lay hidden behind two big bushes. Once inside the cave, Rosette took careful notice of the small wires that hung off of the walls like some sort of weird decoration of the demon's will. Her eyes slowly traced their path, but came to a stop right when she noticed that it stopped at the mouth of the cave. Her eyes backed up and she once again started to stare them down from where a television stood and then to the end of the wires, where they seemingly disappeared into nothingness.
"H-hey! Is that natural?" Rosette uttered, examining the strange wires with the tip of her finger.
Shader grinned, "Be mindful to not touch the vanishing point, Rosette! Your hand might come back all old and wrinkly!"
Instantly, she yanked her hand back; giving Shader a sour look.
Chrono's eyebrow lifted as he noticed the wires for the first time, "So…they actually lead into Pandemonium?"
Shadder nodded and began to fiddle around with the television in the center of the cave.
"Really, why is this the location to set up the monitors?" He questioned calmly.
Shader spoke to him without lifting her head up from her work, "It had the best connection to the other world."
Chrono fell silent as he stared down the vanishing points of the wires. Rosette gazed wearily at them and backed away, "I don't know about this…what if something bad happens for keeping these portals open so long?"
Shader stepped back from the TV as it flashed on. Several outlined boxes appeared on each corner of the screen, showing numerous beings passing through them in both air and ground, "We got a connection!"
Chrono nodded and grinned slightly, "Something can go wrong. If pursuers noticed the openings, they will most likely go after the cause of it," he paused. "We are still wanted demons, so this will be a big opportunity for them," Chrono looked over at Vid; the big demon nodded. "Just because they teamed up with us last time, doesn't mean it'll happen again."
Rosette grinned, "Yeah, but I'm with you! They wouldn't want any harm to come to the "Saint," would they?"
The latter's reply was a grim one, "Magdalene was currently y…"existing"…in the demon world. If they had harmed you, that would cause an affect to her body; since the two of you weren't meant to be in the same timeline."
Rosette's grin slid off her face, "…that means…"
"…they can harm you now," Chrono finished. "But that won't be happening since you won't be coming with us," He continued firmly, silencing Rosette with a finger from her obvious surge of an argument. "You won't be coming with us, will she Shader?"
The cat demon mumbled something as she stared memorized at the TV screen.
"See?" Chrono's grim demeanor vanished with a look of relief in its place while he sat down to watch the screen.
"B-but…I want…" Rosette stopped when she noticed Chrono wasn't listening. She glared at him, but sat down.
Chrono watched the TV carefully, the words Something's not right continued to run through his head.
It would seem to Rosette that the whole day was wasted on watching some demon's creation. She sighed heavily and stared out the cave; the sun was just going down. "Hey, I'm going for a brief walk, all right?"
Chrono turned to acknowledge her before turning back to focus on the TV again.
Just as Rosette turned to walk away, a flicker appeared on the upper left corner of the screen. She paused in motion to turn around and approach the TV, "Hey, Shader…can you zoom this screen up?" She pointed at the corner.
Shader nodded and in seconds, the screen was zoomed up. Rosette squatted near the TV and looked closer. To Shader, Vid, and Chrono; the TV was mute and in black and white. But it was much more to Rosette…
"Your majesty…the demon's soul has been restored and has found its reincarnated body…" A demon about the average height of a human was kneeled down before a shadowed figure.
"The Leader of the Sinners…it's been so long, since you've been in the land of the living," a soothing voice hoarsely whispered out, more to herself then the demon before her.
"Your orders, your majesty?"
The shadowed figure seemed to gaze at the bundle in her arms, "He is to be eliminated, even if he comes back alive in the next year. We cannot risk having the new generation of demons getting his immoral plans in there already confused minds."
A laugh echoed throughout the palace the shadowed figure and the demon were in. The demon nodded and stared sadly at the bundle in his queen's arms. Poor guy, he didn't even have a chance to change his life…
Rosette withdrew from the TV screen and gasped fearfully, her raised hand covered her eyes, twitching all the while.
Chrono was beside her and holding her tightly, "Rosette! What happened?" He held her tighter, lowering her hand from her face slowly.
"I-I…saw…Chrono! She's going to kill Aion!" Rosette hoarsely whispered, turning around to grab onto Chrono. "Didn't you see it?"
Shader and Chrono exchanged glances, "See what?"
"You…didn't…see it?" Rosette asked.
"No, Rosette. Whatever you saw, I'm sure it's just a hallucination," Chrono smiled. "Just relax, we'll find—"
"No, Chrono! I'm sure about this! I know it! I saw it! Aion needs us!" Rosette cut in quickly, pushing Chrono towards the vanishing points of the wires.
"What are you… Stop! Rosette! You don't know where this leads to—" Chrono stopped right in front of the ends of the wires. "Oh thank God, Rosette!" He turned around to see Rosette give him one final push.
Chrono was gone…
Shader sweat dropped to see an overly exhilarated Rosette, "Weren't you supposed to give him the directions to where Aion supposedly is?"
Rosette gasped, "Uh-oh!" She stared at Shader.
Shader just recognized that look in time, "Oh no you don't, Rosette! I am not a fighter!" She glanced at Vid; the tall demon nodded and stepped before the wires.
"Vid, I saw him last in the main palace area…please take care of Chrono for me…" Rosette waved good-bye as Vid disappeared.
"You should really warn somebody before you push them into the demon world…" Shader mumbled.
Chrono let out a shrill shriek as he fell through the portal and into the dark world of Pandemonium.
Just then, he realized he was nowhere near ground except for the tall ledge of the canyon besides him.
As he plummeted, his hand slid out before him and retched onto a ledge of the cliff; yanking him up from falling.
Chrono looked around him and noticed the wires connected to the TV next to him. "Damn you, Rose—" Chrono ended it with another scream when the ledge he clung to broke off.
Right near the ground, he stopped in mid air. Confused, Chrono looked up to see Vid in his demon form grabbing him.
"Oh, Vid! I thought I'd never be this happy to see you—" Chrono's eyes widened and once more he screamed when Vid let go of him; landing him softly on the ground. "Oh…"
Vid said nothing as he flew away from Chrono and towards one of the glowing green buildings.
"Vid! Wait!" Chrono ran after him as fast as his human like appearance would allow, while Vid acted as if he didn't exist.
The demon flew low to the ground, probably not to be seen Chrono suspected, and acted as if he knew this place better than any one would've expected. Changes had occurred to Pandemonium with the death of the late queen and this was to the pursuer's advantage. Without Vid, Chrono would be lost.
As Chrono saw Vid land at the edge of a corner, a flashback reemerged in Chrono's mind.
"Shut up, stupid! You're going to get us caught!"
"Am not! And I'm not stupid!"
"You're too loud!"
"You're too loud!"
A young purple haired demon laughed when his white haired brother whimpered once he stepped on his booted foot, "Gees, Chrono! That hurt a lot…"
"Then be quiet or we'll get caught!"
"Why are we doing this anyways?"
Chrono sighed, "Must I explain again?"
Aion nodded.
"Fine, I saw mother leave her throne without moving…I want to know how she did it!" Chrono grinned when Aion's ears lowered.
"What's so exciting about disappearing?" Aion groaned, scratching his head.
"I just…want to know…"
Chrono darted quickly into the area of the queen, avoiding all attention from the guards at the front door. Aion stumbled at first, but caught on with his brother once Chrono stopped next to the queen's thrown.
"Okay, now what, Genius?" Aion uttered.
Chrono growled while whipping around and grasping onto Aion's coat collar, "Listen, Smart-Ass. I know what I'm doing!"
Aion nodded and remained silent when Chrono let go.
The demon rummaged around the throne, looking for something, but found nothing. After a few minutes of thinking on how their mother did it, he sighed deeply and sat down in exhaustion on her throne.
…Instantly feeling a void.
"A-Aion…I think…I know how she did it!" Chrono stood up and pushed his brother into the chair, smiling at the surprised look on his brother's face.
"Chrono? Do you know what this means?" Aion flexed his fingers on the resting place for his arms as a slow smirk played upon his lips.
Chrono said nothing.
Aion continued, "We can finally free ourselves from this…damn…world! We can free ourselves! Rid ourselves from the constant eye of the demons and Pandemonium in that matter!" Aion laughed, "Let us show everyone that you cannot control Aion and Chrono…the Sinners!"
A smirk came to Chrono's lips as Aion and he both disappeared…
The tall human like demon sighed at how foolish that was. If only he could go back in time to tell his younger self how many would be sacrificed from going to Earth. How many humans he had killed, he could not remember.
…but…but he would do it over and over again, just to meet Rosette. If Aion hadn't encouraged the forbidden thought in Chrono's mind, he would've never have met the human nun he is in love with today.
A/N: Okay, I'll stop there for today. It's longer than the last chapter, so I hope you all are happy. Since I just got a laptop since my computer is not working anymore, I'll be able to upload my stories much, much sooner. Hope you all review and hope you liked the chapter!