2-25-17: Minor edits made. Eclipse is/was a long time reader of mine and one of my most beloved online friends. May he be doing well wherever he is.

Challenge: A pair of Eclipse's pants, Reno, Rude from Fayted Eclipse

"Hey Rude aren't these Eclipse's pants?" Reno asks, pulling a pair of pants off of one of the chairs in the breakroom and inspecting it. Rude blinks.

"Which Eclipse?" Rude asks, he knew at least two. Reno scratches his head, thinking and snaps his fingers.

"The scary one. You know with the long black hair who's always following that blonde idiot of a demon lord around like a maid." Reno says, holding the pants carefully between his thumb and his forefinger. Rude shakes his head.

"He doesn't wear pants," Rude points out. Reno blinks. That was true, he had never seen that Eclipse ever wear pants. It was always some weird thing that looked like a dress.

"Then these must belong to the cool Eclipse." Reno shouts, he liked that Eclipse. In some ways he was almost as random and destructive as he was. Reno glances around for a moment. "But if his pants are here where is Eclipse? And what is he doing without pants on?"

Rude raises an eyebrow and shrugs, pointing to the wall where something has been scribbled on the wall in some red substance.

The Bloody Serpents own your worthless lives Love Rhiana, Juno and Eclipse.

"Uh heh-heh. Let's run off and pretend we know nothing about this ok." Reno says nervously, glancing around as though afraid someone might see. Rude's other eyebrow raises, Reno was hiding something.

"Do you know these people? Besides Eclipse obviously." Rude asks, the two names mentioned before weren't familiar. Though The Bloody Serpents was the name of a cult trying to take over the world, but everyone knew they were made up mostly of psychopaths, oddly competent psychopaths but psychopaths none the less.

"Ummm can we just pretend this never happened?" Reno asks, tossing the pants back on the couch and backing out of the room. Rude watches him, confused.

"Only if you tell me what's going on." Rude states, crossing his arms threateningly. Reno pales, looking for an out.

"I know nothing about a secret cult of psychopaths trying to take over the world!" Reno screeches and dashes out of the room leaving Rude to wonder what in the hell is going on.

Luckily enough for Reno and the Bloody Serpents there was an incident involving the stick of randomness, a snake and certain psychopaths which ending up giving Rude amnesia.

Though it may not have been entirely accidental.

This has... a -lot- of callbacks to an earlier fic that is no longer up, unfortunately I lost most of the originally posted chapters, but I do have most of it available if anyone wants it. Just drop me an email and I'll send it to you.

Thanks to all for reading and reviewing.