(A/N): Okay, here's your new chapter! Thank you everybody for those lovely reviews! I won't let you guys down! Oh yeah just as small warning, this episode contains spoilers from the Volume 6 from the CC manga.

Chapter 13:

The Lights of Life

Rosette and Chrno continued sitting by the sidewalk looking for any signs of Satella and Azmaria but they didn't see them anywhere. It had been already one hour since the incident with the fortune teller and the last time they saw their friends. Man, what were those two doing?

Chrno sighed and turned; a warm smile illuminated his lips when he spotted a certain blonde resting on his shoulder.

Rosette usually didn't wake up early and if she did, some time later she would fall asleep again. Well if she were allowed to she would sleep all day, if only Chrno wouldn't go every morning to her room to get her up, throw her out the window, and perhaps into the lake. The only advantage of that was that she didn't have to bathe after that. Yep, Chrno was her personal alarm clock. What could she possibly do without him?

Chrno continued grinning as she snuggled closer to him muttering something he couldn't make out and smiling with pleasure.

He sighed and turned to the ground, his expression darkening. This girl, his Rosette was so odd. She had changed lots of things in him. With her he had learned to enjoy of life once again, he had learned to smile and laugh, and more importantly... to love.

He caressed his contractor's golden locks as the fortune teller's words once again clouded his mind. He cursed her silently, his fangs bearing.

"Damn it!"

He would never allow anything to happen to his Rosette. He would protect her no matter what but why all of a sudden her felt so tense? So scared, so insecure? He wanted to protect her but what if he failed? What would happen?

Suddenly, flashbacks hit him. He could see a smiling girl... blonde. Rosette...? No, this was not Rosette... she was slightly different. She didn't have Rosette's determined eyes but lonely orbs yet a kind smile. Long golden locks trailing behind her form.

"Magdalene..."

Yes it was her, Holy Maiden Magdalene. The same human who had stolen his heart, the first human Chrno had come in contact with, and the first human with which he had made a contract. That time... at that moment... he had failed. He couldn't protect her... and she... gave her life to save his. Such a wrong act indeed, she would have lived if it wasn't for his stupidity!

But Magdalene herself had insisted, through tears, and sobs she had allowed his claws to slay her chest... her delicate flesh... her pale skin...

"Curse it all..."

He remembered a conversation he had with her, she always taught him so many things. She was such a special and weird woman.

Her thought about that one time, the moment before all things went wrong. Before Aion had ordered him to kill her, and before he lost his horns...

(Flashback)

Chrno and Magdalene were sitting on an edge of Eden. The powerful gales made their clothes and hair to flutter all over their faces. The sky was peach colored, puffy orange clouds hovered over their heads.

"Chrno! Look below..." said Magdalene pointing downwards and toward the small town that laid below them.

"The lights... from the town..."

Chrno turned to where she was pointing at and frowned.

´Geez, what a strange woman...´

Magdalene smiled wider when she noticed the demon's puzzled look. He didn't quite get what she meant. She continued looking to the town as the sun disappeared within the mountains leaving all pitch black. Some minutes after the sun had set twinkling lights illuminated the houses below. They were like stars in Earth.

"I... like to see the cities' lights just as the sun goes down."

Chrno just eyed her weirdly, what was the point in all that? He closed one eye and the other kept a close vigil on the girl next to him. She continued with her explanation.

"When fathers who are tired from work, and children who are tired of playing come home... and they'd tell the mothers, who are preparing dinner, all about their day..."

Chrno snickered, what was so special about that? That human was definitely weird.

"Within those lights...there are families... livelihoods... and life."

Chrno stared at her with a more serious expression. He was finally catching up. Man he could have said that since the beginning!

The wind started blowing again, its song whispered on Chrno's ears, and tickled his body. His violet locks and Magdalene's tangling into a braid.

Magdalene's expression darkened a bit as she joined her hands in her chest and sighed.

"The lights of life. Each and every one of those flickering lights... Are proof that people are living."

Chrno gasped interested. Hmm, not everything she said was blabber. This was quite intriguing. He had never imagined such a thing, well maybe he had done so or didn't really cared or never stopped to think about it.

He blushed a bit and turned to the sky, "I... don't know anything about people's childhood..."

Magdalene smile pleased that Chrno was paying attention to her so she giggled slightly, " Actually, I don't either."

Chrno sweatdropped, " Huh? Then what was that all about?"

Magdalene's expression darkened a bit as she laughed to herself, Chrno stared at her with attention, "...I don't remember my childhood." She said her voice turning into a whisper.

She smiled once again as she stare at the horizon, " My powers of ´vision´... would often let me see thousands of different ´dreams´."

Chrno blinked, what was she talking about? Were her powers so bad? Did it bring so much misfortune to her to have that divine power of ´vision´?

"... Dreams of a young sibling suffering because of sickness. Dreams of war, those of soldiers swallowed in sand, rotting of thirst. Those of a bride in a small village being raped by those soldiers..."

She continued staring to the sky as her smile turned into a stern one into a fake. Yet she continued grinning in order to hide the grief. Such a lonely feeling was that her eyes reflected. Such sadness...

"My perception of everything didn't differ one but from the truth... I knew anything that happened anytime, and anywhere on this planet..."

Chrno felt a bit of pity of what he was hearing, he also wanted to do something. He didn't know what but in order to help her. He blushed, what was he thinking of? What had gotten into him so suddenly? Well he liked it or not, he had fallen for that human girl since the first day they met and he hadn't noticed it until now that they were talking so peacefully. That she was saying her thoughts and feelings. He somehow felt secure around her, as if he could tell her everything that bothered him.

"It was all a bit too much. My ´truth´ got lost in there somewhere."

She turned at him smiling once again, the grief was gone all of a sudden. Chrno gulped, she was so strange... and pretty. What! Pretty! Where did that come from? But somehow in what she had said, she was right, and there was a bit of truth about himself in her words too. Her face gave him warmth and light as all hints of fear or anger vanished from her features leaving only her pure smile. Not lonely anymore. Not scared anymore, it looked... determined.

She brushed her locks away from her azure eyes as she stare at him while smiling sweetly. Chrno blushed.

"A vessel that you can add anything to, but it's empty... That's me."

The moon beamed on her pale skin making her look glorious, like a real goddess, her clear ocean eyes, her golden locks, marble smile... wow...

"Even so there is one, and only one dream that I kept having over and over again since when I was little. A dream that I remember as ´my own´."

She slowly got back to her feet while joining her hands to her heart as she looked at Chrno kind of like pleadingly. He slowly got up too trying to follow her.

"It is the future... inside the only certain past that I, with such vague boundaries, have."

Chrno's eyes widened when the next words escaped her peach lips, "It is a dream about you."

Magdalene stretched her arms and wrapped them around Chrno's waist, he gasped, "You are ´Chrno´ the one who will ´steal´ my life..."

He was shocked.

´I will take... your life...? You came here... despite of knowing that...!´

And what happened next was something he wouldn't forget, never in his life. Aion had showed up telling him that Magdalene would become Pandemonium and that he had to kill her. He had refused and Aion had taken his horns off and wounded him badly. He had betrayed ´ The Sinners ´.

The next scene that reached his mind was when Magdalene died, and the contract was held. Magdalene kneeled next to him sobbing and holding his hand as he caressed her cheek. She begged for him not to go and that she would so anything to save his life. She then decided to make a contract with him, he had denied but because of his conation he couldn't even budge or avoid Magdalene's next move. She took his hand gently as crystal tears trailed downer her cheeks. She then smiled at him sweetly and pressed his claws against her chest causing warm blood to ooze freely down her pale skin.

"... I love you and don't worry Chrno, we shall meet again."

(End of Flashback)

Chrno closed his eyes while trying to force the tears back, he then remembered she closed her eyes, never to open them again, those beautiful sky clear eyes. Her smile, her pure smile, he would miss it a lot, and he still missed it. He remembered as he stood before her grave that he promised that he would see her again and buried himself with her, in the depths of darkness. He thought he was going to die, his body told him so, as he began to feel weaker, and weaker, until... light...?

What was that warm familiar feeling? Magdalene? Was that her? Was he finally dead? Were they together again?

No. This girl... is... she looks like her but her eyes... are different... they seem more... innocent... and she's blonde... her hair is just s golden as hers... she's so pretty... Who is she...? And... who is the boy that is with her? Who are these people?

"Here!"

Chrno gasped as the smiling girl handed him some treats and cookies, "Um... thank you..."

It was that day he would always remember tenderly, the day he had met Rosette. His present love. His one and only love. Now Magdalene was a memory, one that he would cherish deeply but now, only a memory. Now Rosette was his past... present... and future...

He smiled to himself. No, this time he wouldn't fail. This time... he would not commit the same mistake twice!

(A/N): Cha chan! What do you think? Did you like this chappie? I hope you did. Please feel free to ask if you didn't get something. See you in the next update!