Aeris1172: lol, thanx! yay! (pats bandaid) now i won't bleed to death! lol. and NO, i'm not putting psymon in this. it's just cause... u kno, i said 'this is gonna be very very interesting'... and ya know.. elise says that when ya pick her. eh, w/e. the new character shall be revealed in this chappie, but you won't learn about her till next chapter.

Chapter Eight:

An unexpected discovery

((Shion Uzuki))

"Wow..." Jr. muttered, attempting to strike up a conversation. "That's the second time Kos-Mos' upgrades saved us."

"Yeah..." Jin replied.

The effect of Kos-Mos' attack was amazing. Within a minute, the battlefield had changed from a billion Gnosis attacking from every direction to a barren crater of a field covered in Gnosis remains.

The door to the bridge suddenly opened, and Matthews walked in, and by the looks of it, he was furious. He sat down in his seat, and muttered to himself for a moment.

"Um... Captain?" Hammer picked the wrong time to speak.

Matthews kicked the back of his chair, and Hammer's head was sent to his computer. "My ship! Damn it, why can't you take care of the Gnosis before they attack the ship?"

"Hey!" Jr. took the same tone as Matthews "We got rid of them, didn't we? At least you're not dead!"

"All the same..." he ignored Jr.'s remark "We can't lift off until the Elsa's repaired! So get to work! I want all of you working!"

I was about to open my mouth to ask something, when chaos interrupted me. "Um... do you mind if I search around the area? I'd like to know what made the Gnosis all attack us. They must've been provoked by something..."

"Can I go with her Captain? I would probably be of... most assistance to her." I added, as nicely as I could.

"Fine!" he spat out, to nobody in particular. "Just don't let me catch you goofing off, or you're working on the ship too!"

I quickly chased chaos out the Elsa, and asked him "So... why did you want to get out? Really?"

"I have to teach you how to fly. You almost got killed out there."

"Oh, so now you want to teach me how to fly." I glared at him, but lightened up when I saw his expression.

"I honestly didn't think you'd make the wings grow."

"Ok, well there's a good first lesson. How do the wings grow?"

He motioned further into the forest. "Over here." I followed him, and then he spoke. "The wings grow... when you feel like you're in danger... or you have a sudden adrenaline rush. Since you were falling from the sky due to the Golum's attack, I'll assume you were filled with adrenaline." I nodded, and he continued. "Now... controlling the flight is pretty easy... you just have to feel the need to get somewhere. The wings respond to a need of urgency... I guess you could say. That's why you were able to go up, because your life depended on it. When you got back up, you didn't keep the feeling as strong as it should've, so you fell like a rock."

"Ok... I think I get it. Can I practice?"

"Well... if you think you can really do it. We have to get the wings to grow though..."

"I think I know how..." I pointed up ahead, and a lone Winged Demon blocked our path. I quickly ran up to it, and shot a small aura ball at it, to provoke it. It worked. It instantly flew up to me and began shooting fireballs at me. Some of them singed my clothes, and I felt the wings grow.

"Ok!" chaos shouted out to me. "I'll take care of the Demon, you practice flying!" he ran in between us, and I took off.

The rush flying gave me was unmatched. The wind in my hair... the look of the forest beneath me... it was awesome. Looking around for anything odd, something caught my eye. The gas... was all gathering at one point, right near here. This suddenly took my concentration off what I was doing, and I began to fall again. Not bothering to save myself, I aimed for the gaseous gathering point.

I could hear chaos calling out to me. He must've seen me fall. Brushing myself off, I stood up, and looked around. I could see the gas on the ground, and it was coming from through the bushes in front of me. Taking a deep breath, I walked through.

"Well hello there." a voice said "I'm glad to see you've finally found me... Yeshua." the woman was dressed entirely in black. Even her hair was black. She had wings just like chaos', but her's were black as well. She was flying slightly above the ground. Where she should've been standing, was a ritualistic circle, and the gas was coming from a jar in the circle.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, not knowing of this... Yeshua. "I'm chaos..."

"Ah, so you're the one Yesua switched places with... where is he?" she asked me.

"I told you, I'm chaos!"

"You can't be chaos..." she flew up to me. "The one you call chaos... his real name is Yeshua. Had you known that, you wouldn't have denied your knowing about it. Now where is he?"

"I... don't know..." I looked around nervously, hoping that, for once, chaos wouldn't come to my rescue.

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A/N: yay! i know where i'm going now! ok, just so ya know...

---SPOILER! don't read below if you don't wanna ruin ep 2 for ya.---

I'm gonna have it, so the kukai foundation has the Zohar too, ok? just forget that able's ark took it at the end. lol.

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okies? just remember that for some of teh upcoming chapters. (that's how i'm gonna have albedo, if your wondering, but i'm not saying anymore! lol. so review! next chappie, Uichi!