Another Chance
Sorry that it took me so long to upload this. But I had been busy the last few days and so I couldn't upload a new chapter everyday like last week...Anyway, hope you like my new chapter. In this chapter, Satella finally makes an appearance and even Fiore got to make her appearance too! Not only that but... never mind...should leave it to you to find out...
Disclaimer: Chrono Crusade and it's characters do not belong to me.. etc...etc...etc...
One month later...
"Attention please, everyone." said Ms Kate from the stage in the school hall, trying to get the students' attention. Unfortunately, her attempt seemed to be futile. She tried again."Ah-hem. Students, may I have your attention, PLEASE?"
Again no answer. In fact, she could hardly hear her own voice over the noise even though she was speaking into the microphone.
"THAT'S IT! IF NONE OF YOU WANT TO SHUT UP, THEN ALL OF YOU HAVE TO STAY BACK FOR DETENTION FOR A WHOLE MONTH." Instantly, the whole hall became quiet and everyone looked at her with annoyed expressions.
"You are being unreasonable, you old spinster!" shouted Brad.
"Brad, you are entitled to one month's worth of detention."
"WHAT! YOU OLD WITCH HOW-"
"SILENCE! You are not allowed to speak to me or any teacher in that way. One more word from you, and you will find yourself with one YEAR's worth of detention."
Defeated, Brad closed his mouth shut.
"Thank you. Now, I would like to introduce to all of you our transfer student... Miss Satella Harvenheit." Miss Kate announced as a tall long haired girl appeared on the stage beside her. Wolf- whistles filled the air as the girl smiled down at the crowd. All the guys in the whole hall were practically drooling.
Apparently Miss Harvenheit has a curvy and drool-worthy body and she was not afraid to show it. She wore a VERY low cut dress which could hardly contain her large bust as it was practically spilling out of the top of her dress.
Why does it feel like I had known her from somewhere? Perhaps a long time ago? If so, why can't I recall our encounter? Thought Rosette, confused. The strange thing was that when I first met Chrono and Azmaria, I had also had the same feeling too. Except that with Chrono, the feeling was much stronger. I wonder why? At that time, I had thought that it was just my imagination. But could it be my imaginatin at work again this time? She turned to look at Azmaria and found Azmaria starring off into space.
In fact, Azmaria was thinking the same thing as Rosette. It's so strange. I feel like I've met this girl before long ago. At a time so long ago which I can't seem recall. Where? Where did I meet this girl before? When I first met Rosette and Joshua, I had the same feeling too. It's like I had known them for a long time but that was only my first encounter with them! The problem is that I have the same feeling when I look at that transfer student too. What is going on?
Joshua on the other hand, was busy trying to keep his friends from drooling all over the floor. In fact, the only reason as to why he wasn't drooling was that he wasn't interested in older girls. Besides, to him, that girl looks wayyy too huge. Especially her boobs. He preferred Azmaria better. Wait, did he just thought of Azmaria in a different way other than friends? He must be going mad. Wait a minute, that girl on the stage looks a bit have I seen her before? Nah, couldn't be. I couldn't have met her before. She's from overseas and I had never gone overseas before. Maybe it's just my imagination.Thought Joshua as he shrugged his shoulders and continued holding up his friends' jaws so as to prevent the saliva from coming out. He did not want saliva all over him.
At the same time, Chrono was starring at the girl on the stage, causing the girls from his fanclub to start crying about 'losing to that big-bust bimbo'. Why do I have the nagging feeling that I have seen this girl before from somewhere? Thought Chrono as he starred at Satella. He suddenly thought of the image of the girl from his dream and this girl was quarreling about something. He couldn't hear or see properly wha it was about. But it looked like they were quarrelling about something. Chrono decided to turn his attention back to the stage to listen to the introduction the girl was about to give when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head. He cried out and then everything went black.
Chrono's dream...
"Hurry up, Chrono!" shouted the blond-haired girl who was always appearing in Chrono's dreams.
"But we've just defeated another demon and I'm dead tired!" replied Chrono.
"But we've got to rush back to the Order in time for dinner!" replied the girl.
Next scene...
Chrono looked at the girl, enchanted by how she looked as she lied on the soft grass looking at the bright sky.
"Chrono! Why are you starring at me?"
"Uh... nothing.."
"WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU THINKING, YOU PERVERT?"
"Nothing! Serious!"
"DO YOU THINK I WILL BELIEVE YOU AFTER YOU STARRED IN ME IN THAT PERVERTIC WAY?" screamed the girl as she bashed him up.
"I really didn't mean anything! I was just wondering how enchanti-"
"SEE! YOU ADMITTED IT!" screamed the girl as she continued smashing him.
Next scene...
"Chrono, let me help you with that." said the same blond-haired girl as she pointed at his injuries.
"No, it's ok..." replied Chrono as he blushed.
"Oh...those two are getting mushy!" teased another girl who looked suspiciously like the new transfer student.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU FREAK?"
"Oh, don't you get it? I meant that you and Chrono like each other!"
"WHAT?..." shouted the blond haired girl.
"I meant what I just said."
"You... YOU BOOTY! HOW DARE YOU!"
"HOW DARE ME WHAT? YOU ARE THE ONE WAS LOOKING AT HIM WITH THOSE DREAMY EYES AND OFFERED TO HELP HIM WITH HIS WOUNDS, AH-SO-CARINGLY."
"I DID NOT!"
"DID TOO!"
"DID NOT!"
"DID TOO! ADMIT IT ROSETTE!"
Suddenly Chrono jolted awake and jerked to a sitting position. He had just heard that Miss-Harvenheit-look-alike girl calling the blond-haired girl, from his dream, Rosette! Isn't that the same name as one of the strange Christopher siblings? Wait, Rosette Christopher is blond too!This is so strange... How could he have a dream of a girl of whom he hardly knew from the first day he met her?Even though it's possible, but it couldn't be possible that he actually felt love for that girl from day one, right?
His dreams seemed so real too. If he hadn't known better, he would have thought that they were actually his memories! And there's the matter of the other girl whom Rosette,he just can't get used to calling her that, argued with. He could vaguely see her face. But the more he thought about it, the more clearer it became and it seemed to show a face that was almost identical to that new transfer student! Something strange is definitely happening. But what is it?
Shaking his head to clear his thought from his dream and back to reality, Chrono looked around to see where he was. It was his room. How did he came to be here?
As if she heard his question, his housekeeper, Mrs Edwards, came into Chrono's room and said,"Oh you are awake." with relief washing over her wrinkled face." Just now when you fainted in school, the principle immediately had someone to send you home. We sent in a doctor but he said that he couldn't find anything wrong with you. Is something wrong, Master Chrono?" she asked worriedly.
Ah, always the caring one, that Mrs Edwards. She used to be his nanny when he was younger but as he grew up, she slowly became his consultant and counseller who came to him in his times of need and listened to his troubles when he was upset. "I'm fine,Mrs Edwards. And how many times have I told you to call me Chrono? "
"At least a billion times, counting from when you are seven." replied Mrs Edwards, smiling . "And how many times have I told you that I just feel that it's disrespectful to my employer to call him just my his given name?" chuckled the old lady.
"A billion times too."
"So what's your problem?"
"Well, it's just that I had some strange dreams about a blond haired girl, from the day that I met this girl called Rosette Christopher and her brother,I think his name was Joshua Christopher, in school." Mrs Edwards suddenly looked dazed when she heard the names.
"Are you alright?" asked Chrono, concerned. After Mrs Edwards nodded her head, he continued."It's strange because when I first met them, I had this strange feeling that I had met them from somewhere before. But that was only our first encounter!"
"That was not the only strange thing. I just figured out that both girls, the one from my dream and Miss Rosette Christopher, are blond too. Not only that. Both of them also have the same given name, Rosette, too! There's just way too much coincidence, don't you think?"
Chrono looked at Mrs Edwards to see her response. When she did not say anything in response and only gave him an encouraging smile to continue, he took a deep breath and continued.
"The other thing is that, there's a new transfer student in our school. She has huge boobs and a very curvy body. So much so that she looks like a giant barbie doll to me, except that her hair isn't blond. She is a redhead-" "Ah. So did you drool when you see her? Or were you too busy trying to prevent your fanclub from beating her up?" teased Mrs Edwards.
" I did NOT drool." said Chrono as he gave Mrs Edwards a glare and continued. " Even though, I DO like curvy body girls." said Chrono, blushing furiously at this point," her boobs were just WAY TOO LARGE for my liking. Her name is Satella Harvenheit." This time, Mrs Edwards practically fell out of her seat."Are you wure you are alright?" asked Chrono, concern showing on his face. When Mrs Edwards gave a wave of her hand for him to continue, he looked worriedly at Mrs Edwards but continued.
"Anyway, it was only after I see her that I fainted. And during my short ah-coma,I dreamt about her bickering with the blond-haired girl from my dreams."
"I see. So what do you actually think about these strange dreams of yours?"
" Well, honestly speaking, I really don't know what to think of them. I mean, they seemed so real. Yet they couldn't be cause' I've never experienced any of the things, that I had dreamt, in my life. Besides, the Rosette from my dreams looks around the same age as the Rosette from my school and I didn't even know about any Rosette Christopher until about a month ago! So it makes it even more impossible that my dreams are true since in the dreams Rosette and I seem to act... very close to each other but in real life I hardly know Rosette Christopher that well. All this is just so confusing man..."
"Master Chrono, do you believe in second chances?"asked Mrs Edwards quietly.
"Huh?" asked Chrono, confused by the sudden change of topic and atmosphere. "Uh, of course I do, Mrs Edwards." replied Chrono earnestly."Especially after so many chances that you have given me for all the mistakes that I had ever done."
"Then do you believe in a second chance at live?"
"What? You mean when people get reborn again? Aren't those just myths and stories?"
"You may believe that they are just myths and stories, Master Chrono. But I don't."
"Why is that so, Mrs Edwards?"
"Trust me, I am saying this from self-experience." replied Mrs Edwards with a twinkle in her wise old eyes.
"Self-experience? This is a joke right?" asked Chrono, confused as Mrs Edwards suddenly standing up and walked towards the door to leave Chrono to his own thoughts.
"Wait! Please wait, Mrs Edwards." repeated Chrono after seeing Mrs Edwards glance and was reminded of all the manners she had thought him. "What do you mean when you say that you are telling me about this from your own self-experience? I mean, it's impossible for anyone to be re-born, right?"
"When I said that I am telling you from self-experience, I mean it and I am NOT joking." said Mrs Edwards firmly.
" But... but... There's not such thing as second chance in life!" sputtered Chrono.
"I see that there is no point in trying to convince you to believe me so I think I should leave yourself to your own thoughts." replied Mrs Edwards, getting ready to leave the room again.
"No, Mrs Edwards. Please don't leave. I appreciate you being here to hear my troubles. I really do." added Chrono sincerely. "It's not that I don't want to believe you either. It's just that we live in a modern society world where technology is greatly improved from the olden times and so when we want to believe in something, I feel that we need to have scientific proof to back it up."
"I know what you mean." said Mrs Edwards with a sigh. " I don't know how to get you to believe me anyway."
"How about you start by telling me your tale?" prodded Chrono gently.
"Well, it all started when I, like you, started to have dreams of some people whom I thought felt familiar. But unlike you, it was not because I met any of them. In fact, I was born many years before my friends from my past life do. It was because when I was about eight, World War II broke out and I started seeing flashes of people and events from my past life."
"At first, I thought nothing much of it except that they are just fragments of my imagination. But slowly, everything just starts to prove itself to be true to me. Especially when my powers began to come back to me." "Wait a minute, what do you mean by powers?" interrupted Chrono.
" It's rude to interrupt, you know, Master Chrono." After Chrono apologised, she replied his question teasingly," Anyway, that's for me to know and for you to find out."
"Anyway, about twenty years after the war ended, I came upon two graves that I had seen in a dream which I had consistently. I was greatly disturbed and went to investigate about the backgroud of the two graves, hoping to ease my nightmares. The reason as to why I could recognise the graves was that I had seen both names on the graves and a special icon on them which I later learned, was the logo for the Magdalan Order."
"Anyway fortunately for me, the brother of one of the ah.. shall we say.. owners of the grave, was still alive,working as a pastor for a church. I went to him and explained to him my reasons for seeking him out. Though he looked shocked at seeing me, and even more shocked when I explained to him that I dreamt of his sister's grave, he did not seemed astonished at all when I mentioned to him that I also dreamt of the other grave that was beside his sister's grave."
"In fact, he calmly, or as calm as could be for someone who was already pretty old and just being reminded of his sister, informed me that the grave that was beside his sister's belong to his sister's lover and contractor. He told me that even though his sister never admitted to being a couple with the other guy, it was obvious that they were both very close to each other and loved each other as, according to him, his sister spent the last few years of her life waiting for the return of the other guy and just when he returned, she died in his arms. He died shortly after she did. Touching isn't it?" asked Mrs Edwards as she wiped her suddenly damp eyes with her napkin and continued her story.
"He died two days after I went to see him which I found out on my next visit one week later. According to the church, he died with a smile on his face and tears streaming down his cheek.." At this point, Mrs Edwards broke down and cried.
"Aw.. Mrs Edwards... Don't cry, ok? I'm sorry for having you go through all these and end up upsetting you. Please forgive me,ok?" comforted Chrono, angry at himself for making his dear housekeeper who was also his nanny and the substitue for his ever-absent parents(they had to go overseas constantly for business purposes) upset.
"It's alright. It's not your fault."
"I think I should be leaving." said Mrs Edwards as she stood up to go.
" But Mrs Edwards.."
"No, it's not your fault. It's just that I've still got lots of stuff to do. So don't 'but Mrs Edwards' me, Master Chrono Anderson." replied Mrs Edwards with a little smile and wiping tears off her face.
"Alright, Mrs Fiore Edwards."
So how's the ending? Love it? Hate it? To people who supports Fiore Harvenheit: Sorry that I had to turn her into Chrono's old housekeeper but I couldn't think of any better way to fit her into the story without getting the story too complicated.
