Hello, again! Sorry about the late update. (Forgive me readers, for I have procrastinated. It has been 5 days since my last update…) (grins and snickers) Okay, that was just so called for. So then, on with the chapter!

WARNING: See chapter 1.

Disclaimer: See chapter 1, 5, or 16.

Return to Times of Yore
By GundamWingFanatic90
Submitted: 13 November 2005

Present Day, Chrono

I fell out of the portal with a whoosh of breath, and lay there, panting, for several moments before I heard a door open and someone knelt next to me. They helped me to sit up, and I found that it was Father Remington, Sister Kate, and the Elder.

"Chrono? Are you alright?" –Remington.

"What about the portal? Did it work?" –the Elder.

"What about Rosette? Did you see her?" –Sister Kate. I held one hand to my spinning head, the other coming out in front of me to stem the flood of questions. They tapered to a halt in a second, as did the world's whirling around me, and I began to answer them one at a time.

"Yes, I'll be fine in a second." I said. "Yes, the portal worked- I ended up in Eden in 1870. And yes, I saw Rosette- just as my younger self got shot with a Gospel on accident." They all blinked at me, mouths hanging open.

"What?" Sister Kate asked after a second. "What do you mean, your younger self got shot with a Gospel?" I nodded.

"I remember it well." I admitted. "I was out for about 2 days in a pool of Astral to attempt to reconstruct my abdomen after it got blown apart by a holy bullet, shot by Aion. I recall that when I woke up at last, Aion told me that he had seen something that looked like a lower-class Legion in human guise and, thinking it a Pursuer, had shot at it, but I accidentally got in the way. Now I know who that 'Pursuer' was. It was me." I held a hand to the right side of my face, pulling my singed hair away to expose severely burned skin. They all cringed. "I got too close to the blast just now, and got burned. Either that was a Spirit, or Shader was messing with the Gospel bullets, 'cause I don't think that it should've affected me so badly from 10 feet away." The Elder shook his head in bewilderment.

"Chrono, my boy, you've just done something that no being has ever done before- you've traversed the rivers of time and space, come out intact, and even brought back proof of it!" he exclaimed, quickly becoming excited. I nodded, brushing him off as I turned back to the mission at hand.

"As soon as my face heals in a couple of days, I'm going back again." I announced. My voice lessened to where I was muttering determinedly under my breath, "And this time, I'm going to bring them all back to where they truly belong."

Okay, then, yet another chappie done.Sorry for the shortness, but it was just an interlude, after all. KK, I've got to go. I might not update for a few days on account of homework and the such, but I plan on finishing the typing of this story soon. Then there'll be pretty regular updates. But what does Chrono mean by, 'And this time, I'm going to bring them all back to where they truly belong'? Stay tuned to find out! Oh, yeah, and please review!

-Fanatic