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I'm really sorry that its been so long since my last update and yes I have the usually excuse that a high schools student gives. The teachers seem to have some perverse enjoyment in giving us the students, so much homework that we can barely go to bed before twelve and then order early practices the next morning at 7. Meaning that I get less than 6 hrs of sleep a nite.
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Now I hope that you guys like this chapter, the plot starts to move some more! And as a little head up, I changed Remi's name back to Yuan. Just my personal preference so sorry, for any confusion! Now have fun reading my (hopefully) long awaited chappie!
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The year is 2044, over a hundred years since her death. With an evil threatening to reoccur for the third time, the world may have no choice but to call forth her power, and reunite her with what killed her, in hopes that she may bring about the salvation of the world. Chrno x Rosette, Joshua x Az
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Chrno stretched his neck and winced when he heard the cracks and pop emitted from it. He then subjected his neck to more abuse and craned it up again, searching for a certain leather bound volume.
"What are we looking for again?" Rosette asked lazily from a ladder stretched up the expanse of a rather large bookshelf.
She was seated in between two rungs of a ladder, the ends of her skirt hanging gracefully beside her legs, which were swimming back and forth, the knee socks that draped her legs threatening to fall down any second.
"A book called Jastic." Chrno replied casually, while straining his eyes to read the worn down titles of the books.
Rosette snorted, "I don't think that that's going to help much." She said, referring to his attempts to read the titles. She leaned over to the right, ignoring the way the ladder started to tip, threatening to dump her. "You can't even read some of the titles of these books. Do you know what it looks like?" She asked.
"It's pretty old." Chrno answered.
"That takes out half of the archive, anything else?"
"It's made out of red leather."
Rosette sighed, couldn't he be anymore descriptive?
"Have you actually ever seen this book?" She asked.
"Uhh, I have once a very long time ago." Chrn answered.
Rosette continued to look. "Give me estimation on how long ago."
Chrno faltered slightly, his forehead creasing in thought. He saw it after Rosette had died, so maybe, "Seventy-years ago."
Rosette's hand slipped slightly on the book. Seventy-years ago was a very long time. How did he even remember how it looked like? She could barely remember what she had learned in math this morning. Wait. She didn't even have math today!
"And before you ask, I'm sure that I remember how it looked like." Chrno said, his voice slightly muffled when he disappeared behind a stack of books and then reappeared a few meters from where Rosette sat on the ladder.
"What's in this book anyways?" Rosette asked, leaning even further off to the side to grab a book in hopes of ending their search. "Trying to find it is like finding a needle in a haystack."
"It's a book on the relationships between human and demons." Chrno said.
"But don't we know enough about that already? You're a demon and everyone else is a human. Why do we need a book?" Rosette said.
"There's something special about this book, you'll see what I mean when we find it, its out the worlds." Chrno replied. He eyed Rosette nervously, taking in her slim form that was hanging off the ladder. "Rosette... Could you not lean so much to the edge, you'll fall off."
"Maa, relax." Rosette said, waving her hand casually. "I'm not going to fall."
Chrno lifted his eyebrow in disbelief and bent down to examine another worn book.
They continued along this pattern in a comfortable silence for about ten minutes. Rosette savored the ancient mood that the dust-covered books gave to the surrounds around her. She could imagine what the library would have been like in its younger days.
She could almost feel it. Leather-bound books with gleaming gold titles, some other paperback and hand-written documents. Reaching up her hand to stroke a worn spine, she could almost feel the swirl of a thick material around her legs, creating a comfortable, yet not a confining skirt.
Rosette sighed and leaned back. Forgetting about the sad excuse of a ladder that she sat on as it shifted and groaned. The sounds spelling disaster did not reach her ears but they did reach another's.
Chrno glanced up, his sharp ears picking up the sound of creaking wood. His gaze was captured by Rosette, so obliviously in her own world, gracefully swaying back and forth on the ladder. For some reason he could barely see traces of her habit, the faint blue outlined against the brown bookshelves. Swathing her body in a transparent dark blue. His 'vision' was broken when the ladder gave one final creak.
"Rosette!" He called desperately as he lunged for the ladder, "Watch out!"
"Waaaaa!!" Rosette cried as the ladder gave out underneath her. Desperately she tried to grab onto something, anything.
Her stray hand caught the end of a self and her fingers drove themselves into the wood. The self gave out, and Rosette was left with a rather large piece of oak in her hand. The self started to fold down where she had grabbed a piece of wood out, books that were once evenly distributed along the old self began to slid along to the middle, putting even more pressure on it. The self gave one final loud groan and joined its cousin as it collapsed, sending the books in its care hurtling toward the blond a foot below.
Chrno's lunge slammed him into the bottom of the bookshelf. He quickly looked up and caught site of Rosette and numerous books and pieces of wood coming at him at an alarmingly fast pace. He reached up and grabbed Rosette hugged her to his chest. Bending over slightly he used his head and upper body to shield the smaller body below him.
Rosette gave a slight 'oofff' when she was pushed against something hard. Strong arms wrapped around her back and something bent slightly over her, dulling the blows that the books and pieces of wood delivered. The arms wound her loosened slightly and Chrno leaned back far enough so that he could fully see Rosette's face.
"Are you ok Rosette?" He asked, his eyes searching her for any signs of injury.
Rosette jumped out of his grip and hit him lightly over the head, a read colour decorated her cheeks. "I should be the one asking you that! Are you crazy? You could have gotten seriously hurt!"
"I'm a demon; my body can handle a lot more damage than yours can." Chrno replied calmly, his voice in the opposite end of the spectrum than his younger counterpart's.
"Well that's still no reason to purposely put yourself in harm's way!" Rosette shouted back.
"And you can? I hate say it, but I told you so. You shouldn't have been leaning on that ladder that much." Chrno said back.
Rosette opened to her mouth to argue back but was distracted when a particularly scary woman appeared from the doorway. She took one look the two on the ground and the books and pieces of woods littered around them. Her mouth, already in a stern line, seemed to thin to the point where it blended in with the rest of her pale face. Fixing them with a steely glare, she pointing in the directing of the exit and said one word.
"OUT!"
Chrno and Rosette had quickly exited the archives, and now were sitting outside the gigantic building at fountain, that had ceased to spout water years ago.
"All that trouble and we didn't even find the book!" Rosette fumed, "She just ordered us out! We didn't even get the time to say sorry!"
"Well you can't really blame her." Chrno said, trying to clam her down. "We did destroy a whole bookshelf." That in itself was pretty bad, but at least it wasn't a whole building like it used to be. "I guess the book wasn't really that important, but it would have been helpful."
"Could you explain to me again what was supposed to be in it?" Rosette asked.
"Pandemonia and this world are lying in parallel planes, so in theory they should be overlapping with one another in certain parts of the world. I wanted to see what those parts were the books explained all of the 'intersecting' points and any incidents that have happed there." Chrno said.
Rosette sighed, it didn't seem that important to her, but then again she didn't even know what he wanted to know for. She was about the asked when her stomach decided to voice its opinion.
Chrno smiled, "Want to get a bite to eat?" He asked.
Rosette turned the idea over in her head. It was her turn to cook tonight, so she could go home and eat some hastily whipped up dish. Or she could go out to eat with a handsome demon and leave the guys to starve.
She would have had to be an idiot not to choose the latter.
The small flame a top a blood red candle was the only thing illuminating the dark room. It cast eerie shadows along the large walls, complementing the sadistic mood that the occupant was currently in. He eyed the candle, watching greedily as red droplets of wax rolled down the candle. Only in the occupants eye's it was blood instead of wax, a perfectly tear dropped shaped droplet. It slid elegantly over the wrought iron statue the held it. Slipping over the masterly sculpted crying face, screaming out in pain and sorrow.
He supposed that he had waiting long enough. After all it had been over a hundred years. He had already lost once, and, would call the last one a tie. It had left his opponent broken for quite a long time.
Was it revenge? No not quite.
A game? It could be called that. It was a game to him, albeit a dangerous one, but it's like gambling. What was the point of playing if they're wasn't some risk? Though the other players were probably entirely unwilling, they would have no choice but to play.
After all, it is always fun to play a new version of a game with the same people.
-End CH. 6-
So what do you guys think? The last little bit a lot of hidden meaning to it, so think a bit about what they mean. And yes this is out 'bad guy' now who ever could it be? I wonder... lol. The end is prob a bit confusing too, so srry bout that.
Well I hoped that you guys liked the Chrno X Rosette fluff. Now just wondering? Would you guys want t o see some Josh X Az stuff next chappie? More so than Chrno X Rosette stuff? Oh and someone pointed out to me that I might be overdoing the whole reincarnation thing. If I add in another character, say Satella, would that really be overdoing the whole thing? Pls tell me what you think!
Please review on your way out!