Hey guys, how're you? Well, I'm happy to say this is yet another filler…wait…not happy lol, just, well at least I'm posting something! X3 lol This is the last filler, I swear! The next post will be full of fight scenes back and forth between Chronos vs. The Apostles of the Stars and Train vs. Creed. Like I said the story is coming to a close but I'm already writing the beginning to my next fic which will pick up where the show of Black Cat left off.

I'm also happy because I was able to purchase the third manga of Black Cat in English! I'm so happy it's coming out here Anyways, enjoy!

"A Final Understanding"

We made our way down the dark corridor as quietly as we could in a small group until we reached the sliding door that led into Doctors lab. I wasn't sure what I was looking for, or what I planned to find out, but my search earlier had been almost entirely unsuccessful and I didn't plan on leaving without at least discovering something worth while.

The shining doors slid open silently before we stepped over the threshold and into the strange set of rooms Doctor seemed to call home. While the power seemed to have been cut to the rest of the mansion, it remained on here as power seemed to buzz all around us.

I left Sephiria and Jenos standing behind me, their eyes taking in their surroundings as Chronos had trained us to do. I crossed the large room, ignoring the tables full of bottles, the blinking computer screens, and the test tubes full of strange creatures I wasn't about to attempt to understand.

I walked in silence, Sephiria and Jenos finally decided to follow far behind, until I reached the doorway that led into the room I had awoken in once before.

I stepped inside, ignoring the empty room and entered the room where Ash lay, his body bandaged and covered in a white sheet, all except his pale face.

I stepped up beside him, looking down at his closed eyes, trying to remember what he had once looked like. I was happy Sephiria had sent Belga with the others, because I didn't think seeing his old partner like this would've helped him any. That and I knew it'd send him after Creed, which was something I wanted to handle myself.

I reached out and rolled the heart monitor towards me as Jenos and Sephiria entered the room, their expressions placid but the blood seeming to drain from their faces as they recognized the unconscious body lying before them.

I took hold of the cords that led to the back of the monitor and with one single and quick movement I yanked them out. It only took seconds before he flat lined, his body finally allowed the peace it should've been granted years ago.

"Heartnet!" Sephiria cried as she half unsheathed her sword and threatened me with her cold expression instead. "What do you think you're doing?"

"It's better this way," I muttered as I let the cords drop from my hand. "He wasn't alive really-he was never coming back."

At this I turned to see the stands full of the test tubes, all holding someone's blood and the Silicon Variant. I picked up set after set before dropped them to the floor in front of me and flinging them against the wall.

It's hard to know what Sephiria and Jenos were thinking as they watched me throwing vial after vile of the strange concoction against the wall until the white paint was stained a sickening red.

I was breathing hard by the time I was finished, turning to face them as they studied me. I explained to them what exactly those vials once held and what it was Creed and the Doctor wanted to do with them, but the emotions I was showing were far beyond their understanding.

I stood in silence for a few minutes as I took in what I had put behind me and what still lay ahead of me. I glanced up at Sephiria to see her studying me with a disconcerting look, as if she thought I might be finally losing it somewhere inside my tangled mind.

I took in a deep breath before sighing heavily and crossing the room. I brushed past Jenos and Sephiria as I left the room that now felt as though it were full of nothing but death. They followed quietly behind me as we retraced the steps we had taken only minutes before.

As we passed through the test tubes holding the strange creatures I heard Sephiria let out a strange sigh. She and I both knew that this place would have to be destroyed in the end, otherwise Doctor, having lost all his living proof of the Silicon Variant, would turn his attention back to the mutations of nanotechnology-something I didn't think Chronos was quite ready to confront just yet.

As we neared the front doors I veered off from our straight forward path and turned my attention to the wall of buzzing computers. Of course they were all password protected knowing Doctor and his obsessive paranoia, but I was sure there would be a way past all of that.

Sephiria and Jenos seemed to take on the job of standing guard as I attempted to hack past Doctor's passwords. It was several minutes before I was finally able to access the computers files, searching for a familiar name, or something I could recognize.

I scrolled past dozens of strangely labeled folders and documents until something caught my eyes. A folder somewhere in the middle of it all had been labeled "Silicon Variant – Chronos". I opened the folder to find only a single document, which I of course opened quickly.

I skimmed through the scientific babble I could barely understand myself, taking in some words and erasing others from my mind, trying to take in only what seemed to be of some kind of importance.

"Testing Silicon Variant on unknowing subjects seems to produce the most efficient and pleasing effects scientifically. It not only amplifies the abilities of the subject, but opens the door to the possibility of a form of mind control, only one that works through the physical aspect alongside the mental aspect".

It ended here and directly after that was written a single word, "Chronos". So Creed and Doctor had been creating a chemical that could not only amplify the physical abilities of an individual, but could help them to control people's minds and body's? Not only that but it had been made very clear that they planned to use this on Chronos.

I bawled my hands into tight fists as I realized that I had only been planned to be one of the test subjects alongside Ash. After us they would move onto the rest of Chronos, therefore controlling the most powerful organization in the world.

I turned my back on the computer screen, my eyebrows furrowed and my eyes to the floor as I tried to think. I pushed past Sephiria and Jenos, signaling for them to follow, before exiting the lab and quickly making my way down the corridor towards the door the rest of Chronos had gone through.

Creed had gone too far this time, way too far. Not only that but he had pulled one too many people into this plan of his, and he had taken an innocent life that I planned to take revenge on. I had originally hoped to make this look like a kidnapping of sorts, but now I couldn't leave here without destroying Creeds plan alongside his ego.

Sephiria, Jenos, and I made our way down the spiral stairs, taking step after step until we reached the base and passed through the set of double doors.

I stepped into the large room where I had left memories best forgotten long ago to disappear on their own, but now I had to face it all, including the person who had made it all come true.

I glanced around until I saw at the far end of the room, standing in front of the towering arched windows, a figure looking out at the raging storm, kept at bay by the thin glass panes.

A flash of lightning lit up the darkened room and I felt something inside me break free-something I hadn't felt since the day I had found Saya lying at Creeds feet in a pool of blood.

I tightened my left fist before pulling Hades out of its holster with my right. I turned and glanced at Jenos and Sephiria and they both nodded as if they knew that this was something I planned on dealing with on my own.

I turned back towards the lone figure before crossing the room and slowly closing the space in between us. I felt my finger fall on the trigger, not ready to pull it but wanting so badly to.

"Creed!" I yelled as I approached his turned back, the lightning flashing as if my words had caused the crackling energy to be released.

He turned slowly, his head first before his body followed, his eyes seeming to glow an ice blue in the unnatural light caused by the storm. His sword hung at his hip, sheathed for the time being, but his right hand hung dangerously close to the hilt as he regarded me.

"Train," He smiled almost manically as he locked his strange eyes on mine. "I knew you would be the one to find me."

I tightened my grip on Hades as I watched him speak, his mouth moving but his words making as much sense to me as they might to the raging storm outside. All I wanted was to hurt him-to take from him what he had taken from me.

"Those eyes…" He whispered, his voice high with excitement as his smile widened and his expression grew more and more deranged. "Those are the eyes I've been looking for, Train."

I could feel the rage shooting through me as he spoke, his words seeming to feed my anger.

He took a single step forward, his hand reaching out towards my face at a speed I hadn't expected, but I caught his wrist in my hand before his fingers could touch me.

"Train," He whimpered pleadingly, as if his fingers needed to come in contact with my face for him to survive.

"I'm not falling for this, Creed," I muttered just loud enough for him to hear as I glared into his glowing eyes. "You've tried this one too many times."

"But Train!" He cried, his voice barely audible over the crash of thunder that echoed overhead. "I'm not trying anything. You and I are meant to stand side by side-to control the world as gods."

"Stop pretending you can control everything," I snapped angrily, my emotion rising. "When you can't even control yourself."