A/N: Heeeere's Chapter 1! Just so you know, you might notice that my OCs are inspired from other things (anime, movies, stories).
Also... SOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRYYYYYY FOR NOT UPDATING!!!! (ToT)
My annoying little sister got impatient and stole this fic's original manuscript! And because of that, I wound up losing it! So instead I wrote another fic and told her to find it (or else...) Thankfully she did and now I'm back! (took her forever to find it though)
Can't really assure you guys yet on how I often I update but I'm gonna promise that I will complete this!
Disclaimer: I don't own Chrono Crusade blah blah blah... nor do I own the stuff I base my characters on yada yada yada... Do I really have to write this down? (ToT)
Chapter 1: Detention
1989 A.D.
A terrible event occured in Pandemonium. The Seven Deadly Sins, seven demonic creatures of terrible power, have escaped from their netherworldly prisons and wreaked havoc upon the world, plunging it even deeper in darkness. In response, the Archangels of Heaven took it upon themselves to seal away the creatures on Earth...but at a heavy price. For each demon they had to seal, they were forced to use a human child to contain it. Burdened by the task of holding these demons within them, these unfortunate children have been dubbed: Martyrs.
2006 A.D.
Though the Seven Sins were sealed away, the world was still immersed in great evil. While some of its inhabitants live in tranquility, the rest wallow in great sin. Crime and Corruption are everywhere. The Catholic Church is now under attack, not from demons, but from humans. Heretics who claim that universe is theirs and that God is merely a ruse to impede man's progress. The youth, who were thought as the future and hope of the world, are now wasting themselves away on vice and worldly pleasures.
However, all is not lost. For somewhere near the abandoned ruins of the Magdalene Convent, a group of teenagers make their way to the tumbledown church...
What they don't know, is that they are soon to discover something that will put a new chapter in their lives... and change them forever.
"Man this is busted, why do I get detention? I didn't do anything!" complained a tall good-looking young man with long, slightly spiky, jet black hair as he and his friends walked to the old church's ruins. His dark blue eyes gazing lazily into the distance.
"Yeah, uh, that's the thing Rik, you didn't do anything...including your homework." answered a pink-haired girl coolly. She had emerald green eyes and on her long pink hair was a hairband that had cute tiny cat ears on top.
"Hey, at least that's better than dissin' Principal Hardy behind her back." replied a fat dark-skinned boy holding a bag of corn chips. He was wearing a reverted baseball cap on his head and a flashy orange basketball shirt over a plain white t-shirt.
"Oh, c'mon! Did you even, like, hear what she said to me? "'Young lady, do wear any skirt that's longer than your thighs?'" said the pink-haired girl as she mimicked an old woman's voice.
"Well, do you?" said a teal-eyed girl with purple hair that barely touched her smooth shoulders. "Honestly Kitty, you've really outdone yourself this time."
Kitty looked at her friend slyly,
"Reeeeally?" she said," Weeell, at least I remembered to wear my bra to school."
"Ooooooh! Yeouch! Hahahaha!!!" laughed the fat boy heartily.
"Well at least that's better than nicking food from the cafeteria... during Gym Class. Am I right? Jo?" the purple-haired said as she looked at the fat boy mischieviously.
"Hahahah," laughed Kitty, "good one Violet."
But Jo merely shrugged smoothly,
"Hey Vi, you know Coach Herman's wack. He's got us high-school kids playin' dodgeball. Dodgeball girl!" he said, grabbing another handful of corn chips. "Besides, recent research shows that's its actually a pretty traumatizing sport. Ain't that right Chris?" he added turning around.
But when he saw nobody there he called again,
"Chris?"
Everyone stopped and looked back, wondering where there last friend was. Then, Kitty spotted him.
"Oh there he is. Ugh, does he do anything that doesn't have him facing a screen!?" she said irritably, putting her hands on her hips.
A boy with short navy blue hair approached them. His sky-blue eyes, behind black oval shaped glasses, were glued to the screen of a sleek, jet-black PSP. When he reached his four friends he instantly stopped, but he still didn't stop playing.
Only when his PSP gave loud BOOM did he finally look up.
"Yeah?" he said rather dully.
"Oh! Back to reality already? What did ya blow up?" Kitty said in a tone of mock surprise as she clasped her hands together innocently.
"I wish it was you..." Chris replied grumpily as he walked past her.
"Oooooh! I'm, like, soooo scared!" Kitty reacted mockingly.
As the five friends resumed their trek, Violet turned to Chris and asked, "Um, Chris? Come to think of it, why are you in detention? Your a straight-A student. Not like you to get in trouble."
"I created a radio control chip that I installed within the wiring of the head jock's sports car and activated it using a program that I designed on my laptop.Which I then used to manipulate the vehicle's movements." Chris replied automatically.
"Okaaay... what's that in human?" Kitty asked, completely bewildered.
"He turned David Landon's new ride into his own remote-controlled toy car." Jo translated, emptying the last few crumbs of his snack into his hand.
"Ohhh..." Kitty said, mildly impressed, "so that's how it got totaled!"
Suddenly they heard voices in the distance.
"Sounds like were almost there, let's get this over with... I wanna go home." Rik said wearily scratching the back of his head.
As they approached the source of voices they were a bit shocked at what they saw.
It was said that the convent ruins were especially terryfying at night, but now those same ruins are being bathed by the light coming from installed search lights. Groups of people were going here and there studying the ruins. Some were sketching what was left of what looked like a nuns' dorm. Others were examining inside the main church building, trying to analyze the bits and pieces of what supposed to have been a large crucifix. Trucks and vans, probabably stocked with all sorts of equipment, were parked all over.
After a stunned silence...
"Um... Vi? Who was in charge of detention again?" Kitty asked rather weakly, looking at bustling activity below.
"That would be me Miss Hart." answered a gentle, mysterious voice next to them.
The group quickly turned their heads left and immediately saw a blonde-haired man with dark blue eyes. On his head was a pair of rather goofy square glasses.
"Or did you forget why the five of you aren't stuck in my classroom, drooling your faces off?" he continued, crossing his arms and smiling.
"Haha, funny Mr. E, very funny!" Kitty answered sarcastically.
Mr. E merely kept on smiling and said,
"Well, what are you kids waiting for? C'mon!"
As they walked through the place and looked at all the busy people running around, Violet turned to Mr. E and asked curiously, "Ermmm... Mr. E? What exactly is all this?"
"Can't ya tell? It's an excavation."
"What?" Kitty exclaimed incredulously.
"Well, I am a History teacher now, aren't I?" he said casually.
"Heck, you ain't just a History teacher Mr. E, your our History teacher!" shouted Jo joviantly.
"Yeah! Your, like, the youngest, coolest teacher on campus!" Kitty agreed. "Not to mention the cutest!" she continued looking at him teasingly.
"In fact, even Kitty's got a crush on you." Violet said slyly.
"Ugh, do not!" Kitty retorted, "Anyway what the he-"
"Whoa! Watch it young lady!" interjected Mr. E waving a finger warningly at her, "Your still near a church. A dead one, but all the more reason."
"Fine! Whatever! Geez!" she said irritably. "What exactly is this place? All I heard was it was just some creepy old church but that's all I know." she asked.
As the group approached an overhanging tent, Mr. E answered them as they went inside.
"You, my young friends, are standing upon the grounds of one of the Catholic Church's most mysterious Orders." He paused facing his students from behind a table that was laden with maps, charts, and other documents.
"The Order...of Magdalene." he finished.
At this Jo made a cough that sounded more like a chuckle being stifled.
"Something wrong Jo?" asked Mr. E raising an eyebrow.
"You kiddin' right?" he said, trying to contain his laughter as he looked disbelievingly at the decrepit ruins outside.
"No," Mr. E said seriously, "you guys..are standing on the grounds... of the Magdalene Order-New York Branch!" Chris looked skeptically outside, towards the broken walls and crumbling pillars, he then looked back at Mr. E.
"Or at least... what's left of it." the teacher admitted rather awkwardly.
"Hmmm..." Chris wondered suspiciously. He then asked quickly, "Where's your LAN?", as he rushed past Mr. E so so suddenly that the he flinched.
"Oh, a-ah, o-over here." he stammered. Boy, this kid can really get the jump on you sometimes he thought nervously.
Then Chris flipped off his backpack and opened it. Before they knew it, Chris had taken out a smooth, flat platinum laptop and turned it on. As the device beeped into life, Chris started to type furiously until he found what he was looking for.
"Got a hit." he mumbled incoherently.
All of his friends automatically around him. Mr. E looked curiously over the back of the laptop's screen."So, um, h-how-how'd you know I had internet way over here?" he asked, impressed that his computer student had noticed.
Chris was about to open his mouth for another jargon of tech-talk, when Rik answered lazily,
"He saw one of your assistants surfing for porn..."
There was an awkward silence.
"Ah, g-guess that must be those college kids that I hired. I, uh, better go..." he said embarrassingly as he quickly rushed out of the tent. Kitty, Jo, Violet, laughing hard as he left.
After everyone had calmed down a bit. They all bent over to see what Chris had found:
The Order of Magdalene
'The Order of Magdalene was a Roman Catholic Order that was established around the time of WWI. It was extremely active during the Roaring Twenties but was gradually disbanded around WWII, following to the destruction of it's New York branch somewhere during 1933.-
"That's where we are right now." Chris muttered
Though the Mayor's office released a press statement saying that the cause of the branch's destruction was accidental, it didn't seem enough to prove how an entire religious compound burned down in a single night-
"'burned down'?" Kitty said disbelievingly as she looked outside."Blown up, more like it!"
"Wait, there's more..." Violent continued.
Despite public records state that the Magdalene Order was nothing more than a charity organization of the Catholic Church, it has been the subject of many strange rumors and urban legends. Two of the most famous of these legends are the Legend of the Saint and the Sinner and the Legend of the Last Apostles.
Many attempts have been made to prove the truth behind these legends, but none have succeeded in actually excavating the site and find actual evidence. The reason for this was because the Mayor has declared the convent, and the area around it, a restricted area.
Rik read and reread the article several times, with an sudden extreme seriousness in his eyes.
"Wait a sec, 'restricted area'? As in 'No Trespassing' and 'Keep Out'? he said seriously.
"'The Last Apostles'? Who are they?" Chris thought musingly.
"Surprised you didn't know that Chris. An informer of your caliber." said a dissappointed voice with a roguish accent.
"Aaah, go easy on 'im Jimmy. Not like this prairie dog's ever been outta his hole and actually talked to real people." answered another voice. This one had a cowboy accent.
They looked up and saw two boys, both of them in rough clothes. Their jeans were torned. Shirts had crazy designs. Basically, the attire of your average, everday truant. One had golden orange hair, while the other had short brown hair. They were looking at the five amusingly.
"Hey, Baron! Jimmy! Wazzup?" Jo greeted them. Kitty, however, was far less than pleased.
"What are you two jerks doing here?" she said coldly.
"Aww don't be mad little Kitty. Not like it's my fault your doin' hard time." said Baron, the one with the orange hair.
"Yeah!" She said in rather irritably "Same thing it's not your fault ya can ditch school and get away with it!"
"Well, does your family give you bigger and possibly more worthy obligations and responsibilies other than school?" James, Baron's partner, asked, speaking very fast.
Kitty opened and closed her mouth furiously, she then said somewhat bitterly.
"I-I, well, no..."
James smiled triumphantly and said arrogantly,
"See? Stick to fending your terv." He then added mysteriously "Leave the rest of the world to us."
"Okay, first thing." Kitty answered back sharply, "It's 'turf' not 'terv'. And second, it's not my fault my mom's such a-"
"James." interjected Chris grumpily, he was getting sick of this. "What do you know about all this?"
"Oh, nice to see you too." James replied sarcastically.
"Ok, easy fellas." Baron said raising his hands up. "it ain't high noon so don't start a showdown. Know about what Chris?"
"I've heard one and only one urban legend about this place... The Legend of the Saint and the Sinner. What's this about the 'Last Apostles'?
"All right...James?" Baron said, looking at his pirate companion.
"Very well," James said defeatedly and then explained, "aside from the it being haunted you might've heard that this place was rumored to be an exorcists' training ground. Savvy?"
All five friends nodded at this.
"Well, from what I've recently gathered, ridding the devil and his crew was just one their fine goals." he continued.
"So you're saying... they were after something else?" Rik asked.
"I wouldn't say 'after'. It's more like 'guarding'." Baron answered mysteriously.
"Guarding? Guarding what?" Violet asked puzzledly.
James opened his mouth but it was another voice who answered,
"They called them Apostles." answered Mr. E's voice, announcing his return. He looked somewhat flustered and slightly harrassed but all the same, there was a definite tone of seriousness in his voice.
"And they are...?" Chris asked inquisitively.
"These are young individuals imbued with a portion of God's power." Mr. E answered. "Each Apostle is said to have the capability to perform countless miracles. However,their powers come at a heavy price. They suffer great misfortune in their lives are incapable of using their powers for themselves. It's called Ingaritsu or the Law of Cause and Effect."
"Ooooh bummer." Kitty commented.
"The Legend of the Last Apostles," Mr. E continued, "tells that two of the Apostles ever found by the Order were sheltered and safeguarded within the walls of this very compound. However, it wasn't long before the demons decided to take action.
"Oho, I get it." Said Jo clapping his hands. "Ya sayin Satan and his homies trashed this place."
"Hmm... yeah," Mr. E said gloomily, "I guess you can say that."
"Makes sense though don't it?" said James as he fiddled with a compass on the table.
"However," Mr E. added, "the legend also tells that in a last attempt to protect these servants of God, the Order placed the two in mysterious tanks that act like some sort of time capsule for humans that would preserve them for long periods of time. Tanks that are, even to this day, hidden beneath these ruins... at least so far as the legend goes."
There was a short silence as each of the seven teens pondered at what Mr. E said. Then Kitty straightened up, smiled uncomfortably, and said,
"Okay lemme get this straight. You and your archeology people are trespassing on government property to search for a pair mystical time capsule thingies and whoever's inside?"
"Yes." Mr. E replied as if they were in class.
"Ok, one question."
"What?"
"Are you outta your mind?"
Everyone except Rik looked disbelievingly at Kitty but Mr. E just laughed and said.
"Don't worry Kitty. First of all, I'm not trespassing. I have special permission from the mayor's office. I've got friends in high places, believe me. Although I wouldn't say it was a walk in the park getting all those permits. It's one of the reasons I had James here."
At this James looked at his nails on his chest as if his task was nothing.
Kitty, pretending that James was nothing more than a plastic plant, continued to ask,
"But you don't seriously believe in these holy, holy, angel people do you? They sound a lot like those all goody-goody saints." She said rather cynically. "Nobody's a saint. At least… not anymore..."
It seemed that Kitty wasn't the only one who thought like this. Each of the other teens knew exactly what she meant. They knew how things were going with the world. How everything was all but deceit and lies. How evil has now invaded everything in the hearts of humanity. However Mr. E smiled gently and said.
"Well ever since you kids saved me from Hobo Ville I figured I had more reason to believe than before…"
At this Kitty's face softened.
Then to everyone's surprised, Rik raised his hand.
"Yes Rik?" Mr. E responded.
"Why do you wanna find these capsule things in the first place?" he asked, though he was currently facing outside. "And more importantly, why do you wanna know what's inside?"
Mr. E closed his eyes and thought seriously, though he couldn't help but smile a bit. Rik may be a lazy slacker but of the seven of them he's the hardest to fool. It's no wonder the others treat him like a leader, despite how lazy he is. However, I can't tell them why…at least not yet.
Mr. E was about to answer when a shouting voices were heard outside. Then a pale faced young woman rushed into the tent and said urgently.
"Mr. Remington," she said gasping, "you better come see this!"
Mr. E looked at his students and nodded. They quickly followed after him from out of the tent and to where the entire ruckus was all about. They followed the young lady assistant to a huge, tall pile of debris at the very edge of the grounds. Of all the areas, the buildings in this part looked the most devastated as they were nearly reduced to the heights of small fences. It was as if something huge and fiery came down from the sky and obliterated everything.
But it didn't seem to be the reason why almost all of the people here were huddled around it. They were looking at a team of workers busily shifting the broken blocks and tiles off the center of the pile.
Mr. E bolted straight to the top of the messed up hill and approached what could only be the leader of the team. He was a big, bulky, hairy man wearing a checkered orange shirt and a green jacket; he was wearing a safety construction helmet much like the rest of his team. Upon seeing the blonde-haired History teacher he beckoned him over.
"I'm no archeologist but could this be what you lookin' for?" he said indicating something on the ground.
Rik and the others couldn't see what the Mr. E was looking at but the expression on his face when he came back down told them everything.
"Sally!" Mr. E called the young woman from earlier. "Tell the others to get the lift ready."
He then turned to Baron and Chris and said,
"You two go with her and help 'em out ok?"
"You got it sheriff." said Baron while Chris merely nodded and followed suit.
"Umm, Mr. E," Kitty asked, completely perplexed, "what's going on?"
Mr. E just smiled mysteriously and said "What else? Time to do our detention."
The five remaining friends, Kitty, Violet, Jo, Rik & James, all followed Mr. E up the rocky pile (with Jo making the occasional stumble.)
"Jo could you be any more of a fatass!?" Kitty said angrily after he nearly slipped for the seventh time.
"Hey," Jo huffed tiredly, "that's inappropriate language for this location show some respect. You don't want some dead nun suddenly floatin' around your crib cuz you said somethin' un-Christian like do ya?"
Rik looked at the both of them and sighed. He then approached the thing that Mr. E got so excited over earlier.
What he saw shocked him.
In the very middle of the pile was a hole. It wasn't very wide (probably just enough for a small vehicle) but looking down.. Rik couldn't see anything. Anything.. except darkness…
"Oh my-What is this!?" he heard Violet whisper. She looked as shocked as he was.
"This thing makes Davy Jones locker look like a shallow reef." muttered James as he peered into the sinking black abyss.
"Oy! Kit, Jo! You gotta come see this!" Violet called.
Kitty walked over to them looking slightly disgruntled but it was soon replaced with a look of surprise as she saw the deep hole.
Joey kneeled down next to Rik, his face serious.
"It's gotta be over, what? Five-hundred maybe even a thousand feet?"
Rik looked around and, conveniently enough, found an open case of glowsticks nearby. He went over, took one, bent it to light and approached the hole carefully before dropping it inside. Everyone looked anxiously at the falling glowstick. It's eerie green light dimming rapidly as it fell deeper and deeper into the hole until finally, they couldn't see it anymore.
The five friends were completely silent for a while, then Rik turned to James and asked, "Where do you think this goes?"
James thought for a while and then answered, Hmm… judging from our dear teacher's tale, it could be the very thing the man's been looking for."
Rik looked glumly at the deep hole as if lost in thought but after that he just complained gloomily again, "Man… to think I could've just snoozed in Mr. E's cozy classroom for detention but nooo, I've got to have a whole lotta work to do again ugh.. geez this blows.."
"Oh get a grip Rik! What you do all the time isn't exactly what normal people would call 'work'." Kitty scolded.
"Whatever lady." replied Rik grumpily.
Suddenly, they heard the huge booming sound of a truck horn from behind them. The five quickly turned around to see a fairly large truck backing it's way towards them. The truck had a small crane attached to it's hold and suspended on the crane's hook was rather peculiar object.
It was a flat wide metallic disk, with a ring of seven light blue orbs attached at the bottom along with a slightly bigger orb at the center. As the five stared rather apprehensively at the strange object, it was lowered right above the mouth of the hole. On top of the thing was Mr. E along with Chris and Baron.
"Well whaddya guys think?" asked Mr. E expectantly, pocketing his hands.
"Just what is that!? Looks like a cross between a flying saucer and a manhole cover!" Kitty said disbelievingly. "Did Chris build it?" she added mockingly.
"Keep talking and I'll throw in a giant laser." Chris hissed icily.
Kitty threw him an annoyed look. "You know, even for a geek, you come up with pretty messed up jokes."
"Oh, you thought I was joking?" Chris replied sarcastically. Kitty was about to retort when Mr E. said, "Hey, you two can bite heads later. Now hop on!"
Kitty eyes widened with surprise, "Seriously?"
"Sweet!" said Joey excitedly as the five of them stepped on the floating platform.
"Hey Joey you better stay behind mate, we don't know how much of your obesity this thing can hold." James said teasingly.
"Relax class," Mr. E said, "this lift's one of the latest in anti-gravity technology. Chris and Baron had a hand in it. So you don't have to worry about falling."
"Oh yeah, knowing that I feel reeaallly safe now, hm-hmm." said Kitty sarcastically glancing over at Chris. In which the boy returned with a livid stare.
When everyone was already on, Mr. E said finally, "Ok… here we go guys! Chris if you will."
Chris took a small, shiny silver remote, "Initiating Gravity Elevator, descend at 15 kilometers per second." he commanded as he quickly pressed some of the remote's buttons.
"Wait, '15 kilometers per second'?" Violet asked uneasily. "Isn't that a little too- FAAAAAAST!!!" she screamed as the elevator shot down the deep hole like a bullet; the wind immediately whistling wildly as they descended at breakneck speed.
"Yee-haw!!!" shouted Baron excitedly as they went deeper and deeper into the hole, not even knowing how far the have already gone down
"Chris how do you stop this thing!?" shrieked Kitty.
"You don't…" Chris answered creepily with a maniacal gleam in his eyes.
"What!? We're all gonna die!!? Help me!!!" she screeched. "Rik, hold me! I'm too young to die!" she cried as he put her arms tightly around Rik.
"Hey! Girl, get a grip!" Rik said angrily as he tried to pry the girl's arms from his waist. Kitty's grip seemed to too tight for comfort. Then just as the elevator seemed to have reached maximum speed, it began to slow down rapidly before coming at a complete (and ironically gentle) stop.
"Whoa, man!" cried Joey happily. "That was da bomb! Hey Chris, think you can pimp my ride with that sorta thang?"
Violet slumped off dizzily before clumsily sitting down. "Ugh… look what it did to my hair." she sighed miserably, feeling the ruffled crumpled mess on her head.
As everyone else got off, Rik looked down at Kitty. She still hadn't let got of his waist. "Uh Kitty?" he wheezed, Kitty's tight hold hadn't relaxed either. "Mind letting me go before you crush my ribs?"
Unexpectedly, Kitty looked up straight into the young man's face. She was even more surprised to find it so close to her own and that their noses were touching. Rik too, was equally was a little take aback to have Kitty's face so close to his. What's more he was becoming aware of something soft and bouncy squeezing against his waist; something that was slowly starting to make his face heat up.
Unfortunately, he wasn't the only one who noticed…
"WAAAAHHHH!!!!"
SLAP!!!
Rik looked grumpily at Kitty as he massaged a nasty red mark on his cheek; the group now moving forward, away from the elevator. They found themselves in a really dark place that they couldn't see two steps away from the elevator. However, they could at least tell that they were in a chamber of some sort as bits of metal and broken pieces machinery littered the floor around them.
"Ok, let's split up for a sec." declared Mr. E as he turned on a flashlight he was holding. "I'll go this way, you kids can go anywhere but just don't wander off too far. You might hit your head or something." Everyone nodded before Mr. E walked a little ways to the left before disappearing into the dark. For awhile, everyone was just walking a bit aimlessly in the dark, keeping close to each other as possible.
However, when none of them could still make out anything in this deep dark place, Baron said irritably, "Won't somebody light a match? This place is darker than a haunted gold mine on a new moon!"
For a few seconds, everyone was shuffling around trying to get anything that could shed even the smallest bit of light.
"Why didn't you say so?" spoke James' voice. "All right you lot gather around." he then said. Suddenly, there was an intense clicking sound after which an extremely bright light literally burst forth from something in James' hand. "Little gizmo that my dad got me, lights up the area all around you. Neat eh?" he said arrogantly.
"WHOA!!!" Jo cried.
"What? Surprised Chris isn't the only one packed with nifty gizmos?" the young truant replied peevishly staring at Chris.
"Not that fool! That!" Jo said as he pointed at something behind James. In fact, he wasn't the only one who was staring at something behind the young man. James turned around, lifting the bright white light but nearly dropped it when he saw what stood before him.
Standing right in front of them were two very large tanks. Though they were covered by the dust of ages, there was not a single scratch on them. They were completely undamaged. Kitty slowly approached one of the tanks carefully and placed her ear (her real one) to it.
After a while, nobody did anything as the pink haired girl closed her eyes and listened carefully. After a while, Rik asked, "Well?"
Kitty pulled her ear away from the tank, looking a bit confused. "All I hear is water." she answered. Rik went up towards the tank and scrutinized every inch of it. It looked pretty sturdy and there were pipes leading out of it to some place behind it.
"Could these be the tanks Mr. E told us about?" Violet asked uneasily.
"I don't know, these don't definitely look like your everyday water tank." Rik stated. "It looks way too sophisticated. Still… I'm starting to think that he didn't just bring us here by accident. He knows something, let's ask him."
"Speaking of the bloody maestro," James wondered, "where is he?"
As if to answer that question, they heard a loud clanking noise, then the buzzing sound of running electricity as well as the sound of an old rusty switch being turned on. After that, bright lights suddenly began slowly blinking from above them before finally turning on, lighting up the whole chamber.
"Thank God it still works." he said with relief as he hastily dusted himself. He then looked up at the tanks, a rather unexpected look on their teacher's face. Normally, people would often jump and run around excitedly if they made a discovery as big as the one Mr. E just made. However, the expression on the man's face was of different nature. He was rushing urgently towards one of the tanks as if something very precious of his was trapped inside the two large metal chambers. and was muttering something that the seven teens couldn't hear clearly. He then went towards them holding a few dusty rags.
"Yup, these are the ones." he said to them, his face more serious than they ever seen. "I'm gonna go back up and bring the rest of the people down here to check this out. Here." he said as he gave Rik and Kitty the rags.
"Eeeww!" Kitty squealed tossing her rag, which then landed on Rik's head. "Mr. E, what's this!?"
"Oh uh..." Mr. E then said, his face suddenly looking nervous. "That's umm… your detention." he said as quickly as he could before walking away at a fast pace.
"Say what!?" Jo yelped incredulously.
"W-well, I promised Principle Hardy that I would have you guys doing 'disciplinary labor'. So uh, clean those tanks while I'm gone ok?" the teacher stammered, no longer looking back for fear of the shocked and livid stares his students are now probably giving him.
"Wha-!? Clean the ta-!? Aw man!" whined Rik, taking the rag that Kitty threw at him and looking at the two insanely huge tanks.
"This isn't detention. This is child labor!" Mr. E heard the young man complain before he stepped on the elevator, he felt extremely guilty for just leaving them like that.
However, after a while, his face became serious once again as he looked up towards the mouth of the hole. His thoughts now drifting to the real reason he had all this set up.
Just a little longer you two… I'll get you out of there. Whatever it takes, I promise.
Meanwhile, back down everyone was getting to work cleaning up the tanks. The mood was obviously less than cheery.
"Hey you know guys, I've been thinkin'." Jo said as he and Rik wiped the huge layers of dust on the second tank. "These are the tanks Mr. E told us about right?"
"He just said that, didn't he?" Kitty replied grumpily.
"But wouldn't that mean he could've right on everything else about 'em?" Jo added thoughtfully.
"What, you mean that there's one actual living human in each of these two devices?" Chris said in a cold skeptical tone, "Sorry, but that's scientifically impossible."
"Oh gimme a break Chris, your mind is scientifically impossible." Kitty remarked irritably as she furiously wiped something flat and circular stuck on the tank.
"This is just great…" she then said. "I just had my nails done, now look at 'em!" she cried, looking at her scratched nail polish. "Ugh, why is our principal such a total bi-Whoa!" she suddenly cried as a soft green glow suddenly lit up in her face.
"Hey, uh, you might wanna look at this!" she called. All of them gathered around her checking out what she found. Slowly they looked more closely inside, both fearing and anticipating what they would see…
What they saw stilled their breath.
Inside, suspended in a strange pale green liquid, was a young boy. He was completely naked, and his hair was flowing gracefully along with the strange luminous water. His eyes were closed, yet his face didn't seem to reveal a person in death… but a person in sleep.
"Oh… my… God." Kitty breathed.
"Could this be… an Apostle?" Chris asked his eyes wide with incredulity. "The servant of God that was tasked t-"
"He is sooo HOT!!!" Kitty then squealed.
Chris nearly collapsed on his knees as he looked at the pink-haired girl, wondering if she was for real. A great awe-filled moment of discovery and all she says is…
But before Chris could retort, he felt Baron tap his shoulder. "Hey", he said, pointing to the second tank. "You reckon somebody in there too?"
"Won't know till we find out." Jo answered as he and the rest of the boys went over to clean the second tank.
"C'mon Kit." Violet said as she pulled on Kitty's arm.
"One second alright I wanna get a good long look at his face." Kitty said dreamily.
"So you can have it in your dreams for the rest of your life?" Violet asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"Duh."
Violet sighed. "All right. It's gotta be up there with all the other movie stars and male models trapped in your head." she then said as she observed the boys from afar.
"There it is." Chris said after finished wiping the last bit of dust on the second tank's porthole. The boys then waited cautiously as the navy-haired young man peeped inside the hole. He then pulled his face away a bit, looking very unnerved and said,
"Hmm… this one's a girl."
However, the moment he said that, Chris knew he just said something he shouldn't have.
BAM!!!
The next thing he knew his head was being shoved in different directions as Jo, Baron, and James suddenly slammed themselves in trying to get a good look.
"Hey fool lemme see!"
"No way I got here first!"
"Oi, easy gents, we'll all get our fair share."
"Your crushing me you morons!!!"
Rik looked gloomily at the four of them, after a few moments Chris managed to get out from underneath and was now staring murderously at the three who were oogling at the young girl inside.
It was really hard to blame their behavior though. Chris was right. Inside the tank, similar to the young boy, was a girl, and not just any girl, but an angel… or at least someone who could easily pass for one. She had long silky hair that moved about slowly in the strange green liquid, and like her partner in the other tank, she was unclothed and her angelic face bore the look of one in deep sleep.
Baron wolf whistled as he looked inside, "Looks like we got an angel from heaven here boys!"
"Oooh yeah, now that what's I'm talkin' about." agreed Jo.
"Still, it's a crying shame these holes are too small. I can only see her face." James commented.
Suddenly a familiar voice spoke from behind them.
"Didn't your parents ever tell you that it's not nice to peep on girls?"
The boys jumped, but because they were so bunched up they winded up stumbling in surprise. When they picked themselves up again they looked up to see Mr. E standing between a bored Rik and a sour-faced Chris.
"Especially when they're not wearing anything…" Mr. E then added in a mock disapproving tone. "Tsk, tsk, naughty boys, very naughty" he said as he waved a finger at them.
"Aww cmon Mr. E it's cool man." Jo answered smoothly.
"Yes and for the benefit of your information we have not beheld any part of this young woman other than her visage, savvy?" James added, talking very fancily again.
"Yeah, yeah, save your excuses for later." Mr. E then said. "Now let's go, it's getting late, I promised your parents that you'll all be back before nine."
As the group made its way back to the elevator (Violet dragging a dreamy faced Kitty in tow), the team that Mr. E said that he'd bring down was already halfway in tinkering with the machinery. Rik observed them for a while but suddenly stopped when he noticed something. "Hey, what're they doing?"
A loud voice that rang through the whole chamber answered him.
"Ok systems ready! Prepare to open the tanks!"
The group flinched when the two tanks suddenly whistled loudly to life. Steam was now hissing from several of the pipes connecting with them. After wards a tube coming from each tank was slowly rising out from the top. Though he couldn't see for being so far, Rik already had a good guess on what, no, who were inside.
Everyone looked at Mr. E. Seeing that he had kept them in the dark long enough, he said in a serious tone. "All right, time to tell you. Cmon."
As the teacher and his seven students zoomed up the elevator, the two young Apostles, secretly known as Joshua and Azmaria continue to sleep peacefully. Not knowing the new journey that awaits their awakening.
A/N
WHEW!!! FINALLY!!! Like I said, I am REALLLY SORRY for taking forever to update! You can blame my sister for that, (oh and school, argh! SCHOOL!!) Also, if you have noticed, this chapter was used to introduce my OCs as well the return of Father Remington. If it looks like this chapter left you with a lot of questions to ask, then don't worry cuz that's exactly what this chapter was supposed to do mwahahah!! It helps you guess exactly what I plan for this story, (and believe I am planning a lot!) Your also free to see where I got the inspirations for my OCs J
Once again, I'm really sorry for not updating very frequently, (Trust me, when you're in college, chances are your life would really get turned into one huge jam-packed schedule. sigh )
I'm welcome to reviews (preferably many) suggestions (also many). Flames however, are completely forbidden in any of my fics review pages. If I see one, boy, you are asking for some reeeeaaaally serious PAIN!!!