"Ack. Sinner Chrno. So you decided to show up." Aion circled around the young demon, who, even in his full devil form, was still much shorter."Chrno!" Azmaria tried to get his attention but to no avail.
"Aion. Let her go!"
"Ah but you haven't even met my apprentice yet. Joshua!" He whistled and the lights suddenly went out.
"Come on..." Rosette had managed to get around the two squalling devils up to Azmaria's holding tank. "Rosette! Thank good---" She was stopped when Rosette put a finger to her lips. "Shhhh... we've got to hurry and get you out of here."
"Not so fast..." The Milta looked up into the eyes of her younger brother. "Hey sis. Long time no see!" With that last word, she was kicked into the wall and immidiatly lost conciousness. "Rosette!" Chrno and Azmaria cried out at the same time.
"Well it looks like your plan went awry. Too bad." The older devil laughed. Joshua walked to Aion's side and stared Chrno eye to eye. "Who's this?" He asked Aion, pointing to our favorite devil.
"This is... well he's an old friend of mine. I need you to 'escort' him off the island. Him and your sister. Is that understood?" Joshua nodded. "Completely."
A few attacks later, Chrno found himself in the same state as Rosete, slumped against the wall with bruises to match any boxers. "Well Rosette... it looks like we've failed..."
Then, he noticed a tiny piece of plastic sticking out of Rosette's collar. "Huh?" He lifted a wounded arm and pulled at it, Rosette's face coming off to reveal... Satella's! "I can't believe... I helped her..." She mumbled, finally regaining her conciousness.
"What?" Aion was watching all of this, noticing he had made a mistake. "That's right! And now we're gonna go. Come on Chrno!" "Right." This was all a part of their plan, and Chrno wasn't that badly hurt after all.
He stood up quickly and slung Satella over one shoulder as Rosette ran out the rusted door, Azmaria in tow. "Do you need me to follow them, sir?" Joshua asked, looking up at Aion. But the older devil had already gone out the door after them, only to be greeted by a disapearing figure in the distance, flying away.
"No!" He called for his bird and gave it a few orders; simple things... like to keep an eye on the two 'troublemakers'. "We'll see who gets the last laugh."

"Whew." Rosette silently closed the pocket watch as Azmaria relaxed in her bed. "That was close, huh guys?" Chrno looked away and Rosette didn't say anything, just remained quiet.
"He has such... empty eyes now..." She whispered, then shook her head, giving the younger girl a smile. "It's nothing. Don't worry about it." She stopped suddenly as Chrno drew her into his arms,sighing.
"It's okay to cry. I know how it feels. Aion was my friend before Mary came... she took away his power over me." The boy looked off into the distance, Rosette still in his arms. "I have a feeling this isn't over yet." All the while a silver bird with red eyeswatched them from the window still.

Hey, yo, konichiwa and hola to all you folks out there. Sorry I haven't updated in soooooo long but I FINALLY GOT OVER MY FOOD POISENING AND WRITERS BLOCK! Yeah, well you see, I went to Las Vegas just last week and got food poisening from Dennys. NEVER eat at Dennys. I spent a whole night kissing the porcilin god or whatever they say... more like making out. God Ihate being sick. Well then, I guess I will update more now that it's summer break! Yay. Well I guess review if you can. They kep me full of gingerbread cookie. Yuuuuummy. --The Fluffy Muffin Queen