The story is coming to an end. (Sorry to say.) Anyways, here's the next one. Hope you like it.
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A Psychologist's Day And Life
Chapter Sixteen: Game Over...Everybody, Off The Field
"Don't hesitate. When the time comes, just act."
The immortal words of Wolf O'Donnell in Star Fox Assault. All kinds of things were happening in my mind while making our way to the beach house. That's where the Sinners were after all.
"What are you thinking about?" I turned to find my brother asking me this.
"Besides the unending doom that we are going to come across and the possibility that we won't be able to get back home? A Star Fox quote."
"64 or Assault?"
"Assault, obviously."
"What is it?"
"Don't hesitate. When the time comes, just act."
"Good advice...for Rosette anyways."
"I'll say."
"HEY GUYS," Chrono yelled over the car noise, "WE'RE HERE!" The car slowed down and we were about thirty meters away from the house. We waited for about 15 minutes then after that we spotted something near the porch of the house.
I couldn't see. "Somebody hand me a binocular, will ya?" Somebody did. "Thanks." I got a good look at the person near the porch. He was wearing white and black and in a cowboy outfit. Judging by this outfit, I knew who it was.
"What do you see?" Chrono asked.
"One of the Sinners are keeping watch."
"Who?"
"Genai."
"Great, it's always the suicidal one." Amor murmured. He grabbed the binoculars. "Where's our backup?" Just then we heard some noise from afar. When we looked up, there were three objects flying. Genai ran into the house and moments later, we saw two objects burst out from the top of the house and heading towards the other three objects. Then they started fighting.
"The battle has begun," Chrono said sternly. "What now?"
"What else, we assist and investigate the house. Any volunteers?"
Rosette looked serious as well as Chrono and Satella. "Okay. You three will assist with the battle. Amor and myself will investigate the house."
"And if we meet up with any other Sinner?" Amor asked.
"We destroy them."
"Perfect."
"Okay, everybody ready?" Guns were prepped, jewels readied and swords taken out. Everybody had a weapon, except for Chrono.
"I'm sure you'll get a weapon," I said reassuringly. "Uh...Rosette?"
She turned around. "What?"
"Don't hesitate. When the time comes, just act." Amor snickered. I didn't know at the time but I got the impression that Rosette understood my words. She gave a swift nod and we charged unto the battlefield.
"GIVE THEM NO QUARTER!" I yelled. Amor shook his head slowly.
"Seriously, don't do that, ever again."
Gunshots were soon heard, followed by the appearance of the Brave May. We made our way into the house.
"Where to?" Amor asked.
"Where else? To the basement." As we made our way into the basement, we heard frantic shouting.
"Gotta hurry, gotta hurry!" In the basement, we saw pillars of light as well as the Sinner Shader.
"Eep!" she squeaked.
"You're not thinking of leaving, are you? Not yet, the party's just begun."
"Stop quoting!" Amor said sternly.
"I don't know why you're here but you're not supposed to be!" yelled Shader.
"Uh...you haven't happen to see a blond haired boy, black tie, white shirt, black pants with horns stuck unto his heads, haven't you?"
"If you're talking about Joshua, you're already too late. Lord Aion has already taken him and Fiore to a place that you'll never find them."
"Near the carnival?"
Then she started to stomp her feet in rage. "Ohhh, you guys are annoying. For a pair who came from the future, anyways! Oh well, you're life will end, right now!" She jumped unto Amor and started to attack him.
"AHHHH!" he screamed, "GET IT OFF ME, GET IT OFF ME!"
"Use your sword, stupid!"
"Oh yeah...I forgot!" and he stabbed her in her torso. She yelled in pain.
"Gahh! Damn..." and she fell unto the ground.
Amor got up. "How do we know she's dead?"
"Easy," I said to him. I got my sword and did the most disgusting thing in my entire life. I grabbed her head and then...cut it off.
"YO, SHIT MAN, THAT'S DISGUSTING!" Amor was frantic. I guessed that he didn't thinking that I was capable of such a thing.
"Well, she's dead. And she was evil so I'm a hero." We looked around the room.
"What do you suppose these pillars of light are?" Upon closer examination, we saw bodies.
"Apostles. Great." We found the control panel and stared at it endlessly.
"What now?"
"What else? Push buttons until something happens." And that's what we did. After a few minutes of pushing buttons, the pillars began to glow.
"Pretty," Amor mumbled excitedly. Slowly the pillars of light began to form figures. After three minutes, there was a low humming sound and the figures became people. They dropped unto the ground.
"Great. Clean up on aisle one."
"We'll have the others clean up this mess. Let's look around." We searched the room and made our way to the back porch. There we found a picture, followed by...
"Manga?" Amor asked.
"Not just any manga. Look..." and we found Chrono Crusade manga, scattered all over the table.
"You mean they were reading about themselves? Weird..."
"Your telling me. With the rest of the Sinners down, the only ones now are the obvious suspects."
"Where are they going?"
"Hmmm...me thinks this picture can tell us..." We looked at it. It looked liked the carnival. At the back was written July 5 11:55pm.
"Well that's it I guess. You think we should bag all of this stuff?"
"Yeah. Have the others take a good look at this. I wonder how the Sinners got the mangas..."
"One question at a time, my brother."
"Okay, let's head back." By the time we went back, the battle was already over. The wailing of sirens and shouting were all over the place. The bodies of the Sinners were no where to be seen.
"Battle over?" Amor asked as he got to Chrono.
"The battle is over. Did you guys find anything?"
"Later," I replied to him. "What happened to the pursuers?"
"They left after the battle."
"Then I suggest that we make ourselves as scarce as they are." We regrouped and made our way back to Satella's villa. We told them everything once we settled in. We also got a good look at the manga that we found at the hideout. Seems that the group was a bit confused about themselves being on paper. I couldn't blame them: the manga differs itself from the anime completely. We discussed it some more for about an hour.
At the end of the discussion, we all thought about the situation. "So what now?" Rosette asked.
"We go to the carnival at the appointed date. Although it is obviously a trap, the chances of the Sinners winning are heavily reduced."
Just then, Steiner came in. "The Order had called. They have requested your report, Sister Rosette."
We all looked at each other. Then they all looked at me.
"Well?" Chrono asked, "is it okay to tell them?"
I was beat. With all of them talking about the future, I wanted to sleep. "Do what you will. If you need me, I'll be upstairs...sleeping." And so I made my way upstairs and slept soundly.
I was pretty sure that Rosette was prepared to rush into the battle. With her report and all, I was sure the carnival would be littered with Order officers. I was also sure that Sister Kate would loved to have the chance to kick my butt after all that went down. I woke up early the next day. Yawning, I walked around the villa. The battle was not until two days later. As I walked around, I somehow made my way near the entrance of the front door. There I saw Rosette talking to a man. Short brown hair, a guff look, bags under eyes. Gilliam...the leader of the San Francisco Branch of the Order. Rosette closed the door after a while and that's when I confronted her.
"Well?" I asked her. She was taken aback from my presence. "Are they coming with us?"
"I didn't tell him."
Okay...this was a surprising turn of events. "Why?"
"Because, like you said, we would be risking a number of lives. I don't want my friends to die."
"You do realize that you're going to be in trouble once this is all over."
She shook her head. "I don't care about the Order. All I care is about getting Joshua back." As she walked off, my only thought was how far...how far was she really going to go for that stupid, moronic, instigating starting, brother of hers.
Sorry this took long to update. There's a lot of things going on, okay? Anyways, that's for viewing. You know the drill, R&R.