Time for Chapter 6!

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Jack laid comfortably on his bed while he waited for his bedmate to join him, he was twirling what looked to be a necklace that looked like a six in his hand. That was what Coco saw when she walked in after changing into some of Jack's spare sleepwear. Curiosity having gotten the better of her, she decided to ask the million dollar question."What's the story behind that necklace?" Coco asked as she took a seat on the bed next to her friend, Jack smiled almost looking like he was reminiscing on an old memory before responding with a question of his own. "You ever heard the story of Cerberus and the mark of the beast?"

Not hearing her say anything he sighed before beginning to explain. "Cerberus is supposed to be the guard dog of hell but something happened that caused the 3 headed hound to be split up into 3 separate hounds, a wolf, fox and husky respectively..." He then trailed off as he looked at the necklace again, "This houses the husky hound in it, and I am it's master. I would show you the husky hound but considering it's so late, and you guys have had a bombshell dropped on you information wise already it can wait." He said laughing a bit, however Coco had one last question she wanted to ask.

"But what about Cerberus's other parts the fox and wolf? Were they sealed into necklaces too?"

Jack took a moment to put the necklace around his neck before reaching into a dwear and pulling out 2 necklaces similar to his own. "I guess that answers my question.." Jack nodded as he took his seat on the bed next to the bandicoot again. "Yeah the other hounds of Cerberus are in those two necklaces but sense no one that can wield their power has shown up here they stay collecting dust." Coco nodded beginning understand this a bit as she snuck a glance at the necklace that now hug loosely around her bed mate's neck, noticing that the 6 now glowed a mix of white and black colors matching his hair signifying something within it had been awoken.

Jack took a momentary glance at a picture on his bedside table, smiling fondly at it, ever increasing Coco's curiosity over her bed mate's strange past. Deciding to ask Jack about it tomorrow she gave her friend a hug, biding him a good night as she did which he returned before she snuggled into the covers before falling asleep in moments. Jack couldn't help but chuckle at that, even though Coco tried to act like a strong woman he knew deep down that she still possessed the innocence of a child or late teenager which he cherished in friends. He stopped his inner musings then, deciding too get some sleep turning out the lights as he did..

MEANWHILE...

Cortex was seething with anger, twitching involuntarily as he was getting a new robotic arm put in place to replace the one he had lost earlier that day. "Hurry up N gin, I need to have a new arm too replace the one that damned MONSTER stole from me!" The doctor shouted again making the short cyborg with a missle sticking out of his head panic, "heh heh, I'm going as quick as I can master!" The man shouted back trying to speed up his work, before another rather tall man with what looked like pistons sticking out of his back addressed the mad doctor.

"Patience Cortex, you will have your revenge but it will take time. I have to make curtain my information I've gathered is accurate."

This piqued the doctor's interest considerably as he turned his head in the other doctor's direction, "What do you mean Dr N. Tropy? What kind of info have you gained?" The time master smirked before explaining, "Apparently, our reaper friend has some 'inner demons' he's trying to keep hidden.." The doctor trailed off whispering the rest in Cortex's ear making the man's eye's widen in shock for a moment before an evil smirk donned his face.

"Oh really now?"

Jack woke up early the next morning, putting on a muscle shirt and shorts before going out to the kitchen finding Diane going around a mile a minute working on breakfast.

"Need some help with that mom?"

Diane smiled at her son before she spoke "Sure you can help with the eggs and grits while I finish up with the sausage and biscuits." Not needing to hear anything more Jack went to work doing as he was asked. A few minutes later a gray haired man in a trench coat with a badge on it came into the room greatting the two with a tired smile, "Morning you two." He said as he took a seat at the kitchen island, before taking the cup of coffee diane had offered him giving his wife a kiss on the cheek in thanks. Jack nodded to his father as he focussed on his task.

Jack's dad just laughed as he went about finishing his coffee, "Well I better get to work." He said as he went to grab his hat, "Have a good day John!" Diane said as he went out the door. After another few minutes of cooking the food was ready, Diane nodded as Jack shouted out "GUYS! BREAKFAST!" Within moments Crash and Crunch came barreling in like pet dogs after them Coco came in rubbing her eyes mumbling "Mornin' guys." She said sounding sleepy, however her eyes grew to the size of dinner plates as she took in the sight in front of her.

Jack laughed, smirking at the 3 in front of him.

"You guys hungry?"

The group nodded slowly, making him laugh again before smiling broadly.

"Well then, let's eat!"

The meal went along rather uneventfully aside from the bits of conversation the bandicoot family and their teki mask guardian shared about their new home. Eventually Jack got up from his seat muttering "I'm stepping out for a bit to get some air.." With that jack left the group giving them no chance to question him. However Diane could tell something was wrong. "I'll go talk to him." She said leaving the group with no room for argument before fallowing her son out the door to the side table near the pool, taking note of the troubled look on his face she approached him carefully and cautiously, before taking a seat next to her son.

Deciding to make this quick she got straight to the point asking the unspoken question in the air. "You know you can't hide the truth from them much longer." Diane tried to comfort her son before he quickly lashed back in anger, "You think I don't know that! I would love to tell them.." He then trailed off as he looked out at the sky, Diane fallowed his gaze muttering "Then why don't you?" as she did.

"Ask yourself this: How do I explain to someone that the world they're in isn't the first but the second incarnation of it, as well as the fact that they died on their wedding day?!"

Jack finished with a sigh as he took in his mother's stern look, knowing exactly what she was going to say. "I know how you feel Jack but you should still tell them besides if you love Coco as much as you did in the past I'm sure she'll love you just as much as she did then.." She then trailed off as she reached into her pocket pulling out two beautiful wedding rings, Jack for his part, looked shocked as he took in the two rings in his mothers hand. "Those are!" Diane nodded seriously before speaking placing the rings on the table as she did.

"Yes, the rings you and Coco gave each other on your wedding day..."

Ok Here's the end of this chapter after editing! Here's hoping you all are enjoying this story so far. please read and review!

- Foxhound