A/N: I've discovered a new song that I really like, it's called In the Shadows by Rasmus. It's a really good song. How did I discover it? Well, my brother was looking at anime music vidioes on youtube. It was a Naruto music video and it was named after the song. Definitly worth watching!
Anyway, lets get onto the reviews...
Fuoco Annerito -- Yes, I am going to do another one.
Pooch -- You'll find out what Aion has planned. Just not in this chapter.
Sister-Rosette-Christopher -- Thank you!
MisoGirl -- I've never gotten an LMAO for anything I've writen... This makes me feel very good inside.
raspberrysorbet -- Well, yes from the world's perspective they were in school a few days ago, but for them it's been five years. You see when you make a time pocket you can spend five hundred years doing whatever in it and come out at any point in time you want (sort of, someone from the outside has to undo the time pocket for you -- you're kinda trapped). Does that help clarify it for you or does it make things more confusing?
Lyra the Sorceress of Scholars -- No to what? Chrono passing out?
tegan new -- Yeah, it would be a bit of a surprise wouldn't it?
Chrono tried to stifle a yawn as he walked down the street on his way home. Rosette had gotten a sudden craving for a papaya. In the middle of the night. After finding out that she was pregnant no one had really had much of a problem with them sharing a room – especially with the wedding just a month away – so he had been the one she had woken up to get her a papaya.
For some reason that Chrono couldn't quite figure she wanted to keep going to school. Like the other's the angels had trained she knew more about every subject then all the teachers in the entire state combined. But she insisted, so the others went as well to keep an eye on her. Unfortunately the kids at school weren't reacting to well to her pregnancy, which has been a little too obvious to hide for almost two months.
Trying to rub the sleep out of his eyes he almost didn't sense Aion behind him until it was to late. Spinning on his heel, Chrono's leg connected with Aion's face. The white haired demon went flying into the building next to him. He quickly extricated himself – to find Chrono's foot three inches from hitting his face. He bent as far back as he could without losing his balance, then had to change it to a back flip as Chrono went to knock his feet out from under him.
What happened next was all one fluid motion: Chrono went up into a one-handed hand stand turned to face him fully and brought his knees down on his gut with enough force to make the white haired Devil see stars and cough up blood.
Chrono wasn't done.
Flipping onto his feet he spun around to keep Aion in view then, seeing that the other male couldn't focus, walked over and – using his hand as the focal point – dropped the wight of his entire upper body onto Aion's face. He disintegrated.
"If you're going to attack me Aion, don't send a puppet."
Straightening out, with grocery bag still in hand, he headed back home.
Chrono stood outside the front yard with a frown on his face. Something wasn't quite right... In fact, something was very wrong. He could feel it, deep in his bones. Suppressing a worried shiver he opened the gate and went in.
What he found inside chilled him to his very core. Blood. On the walls, on the ceiling, on the floor. Making his way out of the hallway and into the kitchen what he found there were more signs of battle: a broken wall with a severely dented pipe spraying water everywhere, more blood, the table in pieces, a hole in the ceiling, broken dishes, ruined cupboards, shattered floor tiles and the front of the stove concaved around Rizel. He ran over to her and pushed the two sides of the stove apart enough for him to get her out. Then he picked her up and carried her into the living room.
Less then a week after they had come out of the time pocket she had moved in with them do to family troubles.
The living room was as bad as the kitchen. Smashed walls, broken pipes spraying stuff everywhere, hanging wires, the coach cut in two, the rocking chair half broken, more holes in the ceiling, all but one of the side tables broken and the entertainment system completely destroyed.
Half in a wall, half in the TV, Genai groaned, then extricated himself carefully. Once standing he spotted Chrono holding Rizel and came over to take her.
"You go check on the others. I'll take care of Rizel."
Nodding, Chrono ran upstairs. Half way up was a huge hole where Viede had crashed through. By the looks of him he had taken a bad thrashing before ending in the storage closet.
"Viede! Viede! VIEDE!"
The large Devil groaned and opened his eyes to stare blearily up at his purple haired friend.
"Yeah...?" He asked groggily.
"Get yourself out of this hole." Chrono answered quickly and then went past.
The first room in the upstairs hall belonged to Joshua. He looked. Ruined bed, burn marks, more broken walls, window and chunk of ceiling above it gone and Joshua laying on the floor unconscious, with his muscle wall cut open. Luckily for him, nothing was spilling out. Chrono pulled out his cell to call nine-one-one when Viede came in the room. Running past him Chrono tossed the cell to him saying, "Phone an ambulance!" And went to check on the others.
He didn't have to go into any rooms to find his mother, she was in a nest of drywall and pipes on the opposite wall to the open bathroom door with sever burns.
"Make that two!" He called to Viede as he pulled her out of the wall a gently set her on the floor before gong to look for the last three.
Finding Helen was just as easy as finding his mother; she was at the end of the hall in the linen closet. On top of having burns it looked like Aion had strangled her. But she was still alive. He called out to Viede that they would need three ambulances not two even as he thought to himself Sloppy, in regards to Aion leaving them all alive. Not that he wasn't extremely grateful...
He looked through the rest of the upstairs. No one else.
Where are they...? He thought as a chill crept into him, Where are Rosette and Zeke...?
He heard an agonized, angry, inhuman roar from the master bedroom. Running over there he was surprised and relieved to see Zeke standing in front of the sliding glass door. Wait a minute. Where's Rosette? He looked at the angel as his fists spazzmatically clenched at his mane.
"I'LL DESTROY HIM!" The angel all but screamed before letting lose another roar.
"Where is she?" Chrono asked, clenching the door frame until the wood split, "Where. Is. She?"
"He took her." Zeke ground out.
"He... Took her..."
"Yes. Aion. He took her." He threw his head back and let out another roar with a bellowed promise to tear the white haired Devil limb from limb, then he turned his attention back to Chrono, "I couldn't follow him, he was to fucking fast."
"D-do know why?" Chrono asked, suddenly finding it hard to breath.
"No."
Chrono felt rage at the other Devil start to mount.
No.
If he was going to get his mate back he had to stay in control. He had to keep his cool. He reined it in. He would vent it all on Aion later, when he found the bastard.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T HELP?" Zeke bellowed, "SHE'S A HYBRID! YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING!"
La'Shan sighed. The cost of taking Human form was that you had to... Drop... A lot of stuff. Usually memories and, by proxy, knowledge. You can only stuff so much into a Human form. Which meant that Zeke no longer knew why they had to let things play out to a point before interfering.
"We will be aloud to interfere. Just not right now." Mi'rra told him tersely.
No one else was in the room but the tree of them: those injured were resting while Chrono told his brother what had happened since he had been on a date with Shader at the time of the attacks – though they had been attacked as well.
"We can, however, tell you who to go to for help finding her."
"Who?"
A/N: So, what did you guys think of Chrono's fight scene? Was it hard to follow what he was doing? Please let me know!
