Another Chance

Disclaimer:I don't own Chrno Crusade or any of the characters!!!!

I know that I haven't posted any stories for a looonnnggg time.. sorry about that.. so to make up for it, here's another chapter!


After the Halloween party, school was back to normal for everyone...except Chrno. He spent restless nights in bed, starring at the ceiling aimlessly. The household staff noticed but didn't comment. Even Mrs Edwards comtemplated asking him about it though she changed her mind when she saw the expression he had on his face. However no one could comprehend what he was thinking. Except Mrs Edwards.

In school, he starred at Rosette so much so that she noticed and demanded to know what's going on. With fists, of course.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Rosette inquired sarcastically one day when she noticed him starring at her for the umpteenth time. Cjhrno hesitated before stammering, " Nothing...Nothing significant..."

"Out with it! What are you hiding?!??!?"

"Seriously... nothing..." Chrno said. Suddenly with a sudden plunge of courage, he said with a frown," What matter of yours is it anyway?"

"BECAUSE YOU KEPT STARRING AT ME!!"

"Don't give yourself too much credit. I was merely starring at the gorgeous girls behind you."

"WHY...YOU..YOU.."

WHAM. Rosette's fist was stopped by Chrno's hand. He managed to dodge her foot too. Pushing her against a wall, he whispered in her ear,"Don't you dare hit me. You will regret it."

With that, he pulled away and strided off leaving Rosette to stare at his back in shock.


"Can you believe the nerve of him?!?" fumed Rosette.

"Uh.. Rosette? Are you ok?" inquired Azmaria with concern.

"Of course I'm ok...NOT. He had the nerve to stare at me and when I questioned him about it, he just walked off on me! "

"Well... Perhaps he has taken a liking to you?"

"Huh? What?!?"

"I said that perhaps.. you know... he might have fallen for you... " said Azmaria slowly."It's just a guess and my opinion though.."

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?" Rosette spitted out her orange juice and shouted, making all the heads in the canteen to turn towards her direction.

"Like I said, it was just a guess on my part. No point thinking too much about it. I might be wrong, you know... Maybe you should just ignore it.Or maybe not. Afterall he might pester you after the 'staring stage' but I'm not su-"

"Azzy! You are rambling! Can you just get straight to the point?"

"Oops.. Sorry.." said Azmaria, embarrassed. "Well, it's just that I've been.. well, having weird dreams about you and him having a very close relationship, dressed in the costumes we wore to the Halloween Party. It seemed so real... Yet I know it can't be true as there's no way you will fall for him, right? Rosette? Hello, Rosette? You dare?" asked Azmaria as she noticed that Rosette was starring at her in a strange manner with a dazed look. "Hello? EARTH TO ROSETTE!" shouted Azmria as she waved her hand in front of Rosette frantically to try to wake her from her daze.

"I'm not deaf, you know Azzy." said Rosette as she suddenly sat up straight and tried to clear her head by shaking it."I'm just thinking that I had a similar dream just a few nights too! It's so creepy! You don't think it's true, do you?" she asked suddenly.

"Of course not. I mean, you aren't really in love with him, are you?" asked Azmaria as she raised her eye brows.

"NO WAY. No chance. Absolutely not."

"Okok.Calm down. Hey, don't get yourself worked up over my dreams ok?" asked Azmaria with a gleam in her eye.


"I have a confession, Mrs Edwards..." said Chrno slowly.

"Ah ha! Time for confession now, huh, Master Chrno?" said Mrs Edwards with an unusual air of mischief and a soft smile tugging at her lips as Chrno finally looked her in the face after days.

"After the Halloween party, I start to have this... weird feeling..." Chrno trailed off and stared into thin air, not bothering to even correct Mrs Edwards for calling him 'Master' Chrno.

"Weird feeling? In what sense?" asked Mrs Edwards, suddenly attentive and stood even straighter than before.

"Please have a seat." said Chrno as he gestured towards a chair beside his. Mrs Edwards obediently sat down, all the while keeping eye contact with Chrno. "Answer me. What" a frown graced her normally serene features, " weird feeling are you talking about?"

"You know the dream I told you about where I recognised this girl from my school who has the same features as the girl in my dreams?" Mrs Edwards nodded. She might be old, but she still has a perfect memory.

"I think that everything I dreamed about might be real. I don't know how I came upon this conclusion but I had been thinking about it a lot lately and this thought that it is real kept on popping up in my head. The even more absurd thing was, " at this point, Chrno leaned slightly forward towards Mrs Edwards, "I saw YOU in my dreams. Not the present age you are though. No offence. But this other girl I dreamt about has the same features as you, the same coloured eyes, the same high cheek bones... everything..."

"I see..." said Mrs Edwards slowly.

"Th main point is, I slipped in the bathroom floor a few days ago, hit my head though I was left quite unscathed except for a bruise and guess what?"

"What?"

"I remembered."

"You remembered what, Master Chrno? " asked Mrs Edwards, suddenly feeling self-conscious and fidgety which was very unlike her normal self. Her heart pounded against her chest at an increasing speed.

"I remembered Chrno. Not Chrno the human as I am now." said Chrno as he put special emphasize on the word 'human' and paused to make an emphasize on the moment. "What I remembered was Chrno, the demon who fought to protect the love of his life against a demon I believe you will remember, named Aion."


That's the end of the chapter, people! I'm sorry i couldn't have written more but I'm seriosuly on a tight schedule...