Holy frioly! I havn't updated this in one few months too long. Jeez I hate writer's block.

Chapter 10

Everything had changed. His perspective, even his personality had been subtly altered. Canaan was in disarray from the change in his neural reconstruction recently. He didn't know who to turn to, the engineers at Vector seemed out of the question. Only to follow chaos' request seemed to keep his mind busy enough to ignore the changes occuring within his body.

"It's different isn't it? To actually feel." Canaan turned, startled to see Allen leaning against the wall oposite of him. Why hadn't he noticed before?

"On the contrairy, I feel... mute yet not. It's very frustrating."

Allen nodded, "Don't worry, eventually your body and mind will calm down. For now, let's prepare to leave."

OOO

Jr's heart felt much lighter as he strolled down the corridors of the Durandel. The shadows cast didn't seem as dark any longer. MOMO was back and safe, also she'd let him know that being what he was did not bother her. She'd done a very human like reaction: MOMO had gone through a stage of conflict and reasoning within herself. It seemed, that her reactions were more apart of her than from her programming. Machines aren't exactly all that different from us. Jr thought while entering his office and absentmindedly poked at the data pads waiting to be read on the table. They identify and react the way they have learned and or have been told to. The same concept as humans. The red head stomped his foot at no one in particular, but MOMO was special! She'd been changed somehow in her ordeals with chaos, for the better. The URTV smiled inwardly.

"Penny for your thoughts?"

"Yah!" Jr nearly jumped out of his spur heeled boots at the foreign sound behind him. It was inochi.

Jr caught his breath, "Gah... don't sneak up on me like that!"

"I apologize." inochi smiled.

"No no it's alright, I guess I shouldn't let my guard down even with a few days of peace." he noted the lack of personas in the room, "Hey where's chaos?"

The phoenixs' angelic movements made her seem not quite real enough to exist, "Another matter called his attention. But you should know that he keeps his word to the best of his ability." her eyes constantly shifted in contrast to her creamy brown skin, like a mirror reflecting all different shades of blue.

Jr nodded quickly, "Well of course I know that. Uh, what'd you come here for?"

"I came to give you a mission." inochi stood looking out the picture window, "You've sensed it, your race is dying. Inside you feel each life ebb away because you are a master of time so you see with not your eyes but your soul that this universes balance in the future is tipping dangerously toward complete pandemonium." inochi turned her head towards him the light shimmering off her silver hair, "The end is near for the defenders of this dimension."

There was a moment of heavy silence while this news now put to light registered within Rubedo's mind. Indeed, he had known this but had never been able to put it into words he could understand himself. His dragonic spirit had declined over the years till now, and the language was rusty.

"What do you want me to do about it?" he said slowly.

"Nothing more than to seek and bring back. You must find the remaining female dracos. You know of whom I speak, your genetically altered sisters. Despite them being your 'siblings' they will help in bringing back the aeon generations." inochi caught the slightly sick look in Rubedo's face and chuckled soflty, "Not to worry, you are a young one of your race and have not seen a birthing. It is not what you think it is."

Jr wasn't convinced. But he put aside his childish views and stood straight. For a moment a memory of Citrine flashed across his minds eye, "Where would I find them? It's not like kept out in an open field with a neon sign pointing at them."

She grinned in amusement, "Nope I don't think so. But you are a telepath, and your dragonic half is starting to awaken once again. You will also not be alone on this." on que to her words, a figure appeared out of thin air. He was dressed from head to toe in white cloth and armor, his face blank with a mask.

OOO

"What are you thinking about Kos-mos? You seem awfully quiet...er than usual." Shion asked the android as they walked through the front gardens of HQ's building.

At first there wasn't an answer, "I am unsure, Shion."

"Unsure? The Kos-mos being unsure? Come on, you can tell me!" the half human was getting a little frustrated at the gap growing between creation and creator.

Kos-mos did her signature blink before speaking, "chaos and the others say that there is a deal to fulfill. That agreemant has a 83.4 percent probability of including me. I am simply attempting to reason why it would include me. Unfourtunately they are extremely secretive therefore I have insufficient information on the matter."

Shion would've fallen over her own feet had her charge not caught her wrist, "Oh Kos-mos! After all that you've been through with chaos you can't - no you won't put everything together! Why are you in such denial?"

"To be in denial - ."

"Ah! No!" Shion cut in, "Your blackbox programming is doing this. I get it, sort of. Kos-mos you need to be more open minded! Kevin obviously made you with more in mind than just fighting the gnosis!"

"And now the gnosis are becomming less of a threat. Soon they will be eliminated completaly as soon as the King Gnosis is destroyed. What use will I be for after that Shion?"

A soft familiar voice joined in, "You exist to serve others Kos-mos. As we all are here to serve eachother." chaos walked up to them smiling, "You cannot see beyond what you think you were made for? What did you imagine your life being years from now?" The android's mechanical red eyes quivered in their sockets. The conflict returned ten fold now that he was standing next to him. Her being almost the spitting image of Keteya, all the objectives which her strickly logical side forbade her to examine.

chaos didn't seem surprised when he didn't recieve an answer, "It's alright Kos-mos, it's better to concintrate on the present more so than the past or future." he turned to Nyima's daughter, "Wilhelm is calling you and Jin the Daemons. An honored title I suppose."

"I don't know what to say."

"Then don't say anything. I have something for us to do however. It's a request, I know you've been through a lot." he added.

"Oh spare me the politeness! We both know who's been through more." Shion snapped. Immediately she clamped her hand over her mouth.

chaos waved aside her apalogy, "It's fine. You're right, and you seem to be more confident in yourself which is good. You need to be ready for the battles to come. There are still two seals left that belong to us in this dimension. Like the one we removed from MOMO, the others will be hidden in two other hostes. Our time here is running out Shion, we need all the help we can get." he looked sad, "There is still the king to deal with, and the damage we've caused needs to be healed."

"You're leaving something out."

"That is not apart of this."

"Oh I think it is!" Shion pursued.

"No it isn't."

"If it involves you and Kos-mos particularly my Kos-mos then yes I think it is definately involved." Shion placed her hands on her hips, a sure gesture of not dropping the subject. chaos had come to fondly call this her 'mother mode'.

His sigh was long, "Mintia will decide whether the memories are hers, until then it is not open for discussion."

"What about fulfilling the objective?" Kos-mos suddenly spoke up.

"All in good time Kos-mos. You will be at peace once again, and hopefully all of us will be. I cannot reveal everything yet." he turned back to Shion before she could question them, "So will you help us?"

"Well of course! There's simply too many unanswered questions here!"

"Heh, I knew I could count on you. You have such a strong spirit, like your mother's." chaos' last words suddenly brought the Vector engineer to a sad place in her heart. chaos wondered if he'd said the wrong thing. But Shion recovered from whatever she was thinking and smiled. Kos-mos was a sheen of cold over torn and incomplete thoughts.

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Gah! Another short chapter darn me! T.T But Im so full and sleepy! All that Thanksgiving food! Plus I was running on five hours of sleep all day somehow. Well Happy Thanksgiving! Oh and be sure to leave a review before you x out this page please. See ya all later! Hopefully I'll get back on track with this thing.