Dear whoever the hell is reading this,

Woahkay, lets get started! First off, I first heard of Chrono Crusade when my friend, Kate, started babbling about it. I, of course, had no idea what she was talking about. Then, she finally let me read one of the Chrono Crusade mangas. Basically, it rocked. I, with my fertile imagination, made up two characters within an hour of completing it. The next day, I had made up a third, and found a way to incorporate it into that big, crazy thing I just can't leave alone; in other words the Cabbage Universe (note: sorry, but I can't explain more, besides, it doesn't come into this story much if at all so just read my other stories, Bitches . ).

I decided to write this story to introduce them. It does not start at the beginning. It starts in the middle. I don't know why, but that's usually were I like to start off.

Stay tuned ,

Tara

(Oh, and PS notes will be marked by an asterisks and will appear a the end of this chapter TG)

Cast:

New Peoples

Paden: A Bounty hunter with a strange past searching for his mother

Rosary Smith: A girl who died… and was reborn

Sarena: A half-devil girl also looking for her mother

Old Peoples

Sister Kate

Father Remington

Azmaria

Prologue: Paden has just been fighting hordes of undead and had his ass almost kicked. At the same time, Rosary is fighting a demon and is getting her butt kicked. Remington is after the devil that raised the undead.

OK, ON WHIT DA SHOW!

Bitter Enemies Turned alleys

Chapter 1:

Untrue Accusations…

Part 1:

A Friendly Shoot-out in the Rain

The rain poured down on the two men as they faced each other. They were about the same height. One was blonde. The other one had dark brown hair. The darker one had a cut over his right eye and blood dribbling out of his mouth. Considering he had just been fighting about 300 undead, he was in pretty good shape. "Remington," he said.

"Paden," the other man said. He tightened the grip on his revolver.

"Long time no see," the dark one said, also tightening the grip on his gun.

"Yes, it has been a long time since the last time you stabbed me in the back."

The darker man narrowed his eyes. Two thoughts were going through his mind: One, 'Is this idiot ever going to figure out the truth?' and Two, 'Can I beat him in a shoot-out? I lost count of how many bullets I used…'.

As he thought this, his opponent was also analyzing the situation. The footing wouldn't be very good since it was raining… There was lots of things to take shelter behind…

"So, how about we finish this?" the dark man asked.

"Once and for all…" his opponent replied. And then it began.

The two men ran down opposite sides of the street, shooting at each other. The blonde one ran out first. He quickly ducked in to an alley. Then the dark one ran empty and swung behind a car. He dumped the shells onto the street, and loaded the last of his rounds into his gun.

At the same time, the other man reloaded his gun. 'I'll have to be quick,' he thought. 'he won't give me a chance to reload again…'.

The two men sprang from their hiding places at approximately the same time and began shooting again. They met in the middle of the street, each one's gun pointing at the other's head. The blonde one smiled slyly. "Your empty," he said.

"So are you," his opponent replied .

The two men just stood there in the rain for a moment, both trying to stare the other one down. They were just about to drop their guns and resort to hand to hand when a small meek voice from somewhere behind them called, "Father Remington! Father Remington!"

The two men looked in the direction the voice was coming from. A small blonde girl was running toward them. The enemies looked at each other, and then lowered their guns, both secretly vowing to finish this later, when no one was around to witness it.

The girl ran up to the blonde man. "Azmaria," he said, putting his hand on her shoulder. "What's wrong?"

"Rosette and Chrono went after the rest of the undead and then Rosary was attacked by this thing…" the girl said, seemingly near to tears.

The man with the blonde hair looked at his enemy. Then he turned back to the girl and said, "Show me where." She nodded, and ran off in the direction she had come, him not far behind.

The dark man stood there for a moment, looking after them. Then he followed. There was no way that bastard was getting away that easily.

End Note: O.K. Here are a few things:

Usually, chapters have more than one part, but with all the introductory material, it would probably be too long.

I kinda don't know very much about Chrono Crusade.

This is the first story I've put on this site, so if anyone has any pointers, please let me know.

Thank you,

Tara

Note 1: The two men have had the same combat training, so it really isn't all that strange that they move at about the same rate. Oh, and if you haven't guessed already, the blonde guy is Father Remington.

Note 2: I know this part is a bit cliché ( I call moments like these Face Off Moments), but I think it's cool.

Note 3: Rosette and Chrono do not appear in this story. This is the only time these two are even mentioned.

Note 4: The Devil in question raised about 500 undead in one isolated area (specifically downtown New York), about 300 of which were taken care of by Paden. The rest of the undead mentioned by Azmaria is the hundred not already destroyed by Rosette and Chrono.