Greetings, Earth-dwelling creatures. (snickers) KK, enough with the 'alien-talk'. I'm sorry for the delay in the updating, but I haven't been able to get a break until now. First, I was swamped with homework- (World History notes are such a pain!)- and then I got grounded for an evening. Okay, then, enough with my ramblings and on with the chapter!

WARNING: See chapter 1.

Disclaimer: See chapter 1 or chapter 5.

Return to Times of Yore
By GundamWingFanatic90
Submitted: 2 November 2005

Past, Eden, Chrono

15 minutes later, I closed the door to my room behind me, wiping stray spit-up off of my coat with a towel as I did so. As it turned out, I just had to get the one that, apparently, liked to vomit. The burping towel had caught the brunt of the white-colored explosion, but some of the foul-smelling goop had managed to find its way onto my cloak despite my best efforts. I couldn't keep the smile from my face, however, as I walked down the halls towards my favorite place to sit, tossing the 'gag rag' into the dirty clothes hamper as I went. Rosette had fallen asleep soon after her laughing- at my predicament, of course- had ceased, and, when Adrian followed suit soon after, I had placed him silently in the basket next to Aidan, careful not to jostle any of the members of my small family. I had then walked quietly out of the room, stealing one last glance at the trio before closing them off from the disturbances of the outside world. All in all, I had had a fairly good day, if you forgot about the part with Rosette's life being almost over.

I slowed my walk at that thought. Rosette was dying. I had to find a way to keep that from happening, even if I had to give my own soul to replenish hers.

'Waitaminnit…' I thought. 'Give my own soul to replenish hers… Souls are made of Astral, right? So what if… THAT'S IT!' Triumphant, I ran down the hallway to Shader's lab, where I could sense the genius working diligently. When I opened the door abruptly, the other Sinner shrieked in surprise and nearly jumped out of her skin, instead taking it with her to where she clung to the ceiling, tail bristling violently as she hissed her fright at me. After a few moments, she calmed down, and dropped back to the floor, landing on her feet before yelling at me.

"DON'T DO THAT!" she screamed, causing my ears to ring. I cringed at the loud noise, rubbing my ears.

"Sorry, Shader…" I muttered. She sighed exasperatedly, and turned away from me.

"Whatever. Just don't do it again." she said, and then, "I take it Rosette told you everything?" I nodded. "Even about her life… you know?" Another affirmative nod.

"Yes. And I'm not going to let her die like that." I said. She narrowed her eyes at me.

"And how do you expect to do that?" she asked. I grinned.

"Shader, would you be able to modify her pocket watch so that Astral could flow two ways?"

Okay, then, that one was a shortie, there. I'll post another to make up for it. Please leave a review, and to everyone who asked to see the pic(s) of Aidan and Adrian, I'll attempt to get them out as soon as the scanner starts functioning again. 'Til the next time, ja ne!

-Fanatic