• Rubedo was starting to get worried about the servant, but simply stayed there, intruiged, eventually getting the courage to stroke the sleeping boy's silver hair, which was starting to get stained with droplets of blood. The left wing had pushed itself through chaos' back, staining the boy's hair even more, as the right began to slowly follow suit.

    Rubedo watched the tanned boy as he began to pale from the loss of blood. Rubedo lightly touched the boy's back the word "Rememdium", the Latin word for "Cure", escaping his throat. The fibres re-attached themselves more efficiently, the more Rubedo cast rememdium. All the crimson-haired boy could do was watch as the other's back began to tear up again, fresh blood covering the right wing that was still pushing itself out of his back.

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    What's happening to me?

    Why can't I feel?

    Am I awake? Or am I dead?

    My body's so numb... Maybe I'm like Mother afterall...

    chaos thought as he subconsciously stood in a pool of something that was too dark to be merely "darkness", he was standing in blackness. There was no light. He couldn't hear anything except his own silent screams, the screams that everyone should have heard... But his body had grown too weak. Although, he couldn't feel as much pain anymore. Who was it that was making sure that he wasn't internally crying, yelping from this agonizing pain?

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    "chaos!" Rubedo called, the prison of the room was small and wanted the prince to turn away to empty his stomach, but he didn't... He kept casting rememdium, hoping chaos would wake up.

    His azure eyes were averted from the servant to the window, the Gnosis had... returned. Something was wrong with them... Why were they turning into these dark creatures..?

    Rubedo watched as they appeared through the wall... and the rest of chaos' wing was pushed through. The prince cast rememdium again, picked the servant up, and began to run. He needed to get the archers to start attacking and chaos to a medical ward. Rubedo's power was depleting and fast.

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    "Little master! What's wrong with him?" a blonde woman asked, another servant to Rubedo. Her hair was neatly braided and put in small bows... It was only recently that her name was revealed as Mary. Before, Mary was mute to the degree where she didn't scream. Even though she had a badly marred back from taking the three princes' misbehavior, she paid more attention to the two were covered in blood.
    Special vocal classes, provided by Rubedo, brought a pretty voice out her thoat.

    "Shelly! You might want to see this!" Mary called, holding a hand over a scar as she yelled into another room.

    A woman with hair that had been dyed with violets, entered the room. A large yellow lily was matted into in her knotted hair. The first thing she saw was the blood, wanting to faint from hemophobia, but stayed strong for Rubedo. "Little Master... How did... this happen?" she asked, tightly holding her attire, until her knuckles camouflaged with the torn tunic.

    "I know, Mary... Shelly... you don't like blood and don't like treating people who are this badly injured just as much..." he gasped, exhausted from using most of his energy, converting it into magic.

    The sisters nodded, and began to take chaos, laying him on a wooden table.

    Rubedo drank some water that was in the basin, located by the wall. "Just cure him. He's going to be able to walk soon anyway..."

    "Little Master, how can you be so sure?" Mary asked, taking a moment to ask through the rigorous spellcasting.

    "He's mine. He'll come to realize that." he replied, "When he wakes, tell him he's grown wings."

    "Yes, Little Master." the girls replied.

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    As Rubedo left the room, Albedo slid in the emergency ward through a secret passage. "Hello ladies." he sadistically grinned.

    "Al-Albedo!" Shelly gasped.

    chaos' eyes opened, they were glassy, murky to a degree. He had been lost in that darkness for some while... But he felt no pain anymore...

    "Hello... Wretch." Albedo frowned, holding chao's chin, forcing the Egyptian to look at the silver-haired prince.

    "...Master?" he murmered, his voice was near-gone from the muted screams.

    "Ahahaha! Such sweet words from someone who doesn't even belong to me! Oh, let me hear it again!" Albedo laughed, watching the sisters curl up in a corner.

    "...Master...Ru...be..do?"

    Albedo lost his patience when his twin brother's name was mentioned. "...I'll kill you... If you ever get close to my brother again!" he snapped, dropping his fingers so the boy would be forced to look back at the blood-stained floor. "Do you see the blood underneath you?"

    chaos weakly murmered a yes.

    "That is the blood of every Kierchwasser I've killed!" the man said, holding chaos' back down, causing the boy to hiss with pain... Such music to Albedo's ears! "Those women got what they deserved! 10, 40, 70! So many screaming women that were silenced! Those screams, they were all so beautiful too..." he excitely said, pressing his firm hand on chaos' tender back.

    "Pl-please... stop.." he huffed, not knowing how much more he could take before he passed out again.

    "Fine.. Have it your way. But don't go telling dear Rubedo about this... Or I'll be forced to kill you." the ivory-haired man told chaos as he gave the boy a Kiss of Death on the boy's bloody cheek, licking the blood away from the boy's face...

    Albedo lifted his hand from chaos' back and entered the passage again.

    Mary and Shelly couldn't do anything about this, since they had already been given the Kiss not that long ago... When Albedo started to kill every servant he had.

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    "MEN! GET READY!" Rubedo commanded as he spoke to the archers, "Now, our targets are... those." he sighed, pointing to the transfomed Gnosis.

    The men nodded, pulling arrows out at the same time.

    "INTENDO! PRAEPARO! SUBOLES!" Rubedo demaned as the archers shot at the Gnosis.
    Sora here:

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    I was depressed for a little while, I was for a realky long time, until I tried to figure out where the hell I'm going with this 'fic... I had two days of super-depression, where I had no inspiration at all... and I was crying and stuff and... a couple weeks of normal depression where I just jotted down my ideas... and yeah...
    chaos is my favourite character in all of Xenosaga. Someone wrote an angst fic with Jr/chaos and I cried for two days about it... my throat was still a little scratchy, and I had this horrible headache.

    Kiss of Death - When the reciever is to die, or may (in chaos' case) die, in the future, they are given a kiss. Most prefer on the cheek. A kiss on the lips signifies a certain death.

    Intendo praeparo suboles     - literally "Aim, ready, shoot!" But the dictionary I used didn't have 'fire' so I opted to 'shoot'.

    Yeah, that's enough of me. I wanna hear about you. Gimme a comment pretty please?