The twelve of us charged the army.

I slashed, stabbed, rolled, jabbed, and sliced my way through them.

"Uh, can you help me Hooded Hottie?"

I punched a telekhine in the eye and turned to see Gilli and Lea surrounded by hellhounds.

Gilli was swinging her toaster cat everywhere, hitting the monsters upside the head with its tail.

I pulled Lea's pink Three Way necklace out of the Void.

I threw it to her and shouted, "Say something like Leo!"

She wasnt listening. She was too busy yelling, "This is SO NOT awesome anymore!" She caught it.

I remind myself to laugh at that later.

Her body was immersed in a wall of flames. Everything on the Chaos planet exept for us ten, Gilli and and her cat, and Chaos civilians, turned into dust.

"Whoa." Was Gilli's blunt comment.

Scorch had attached itself around Lea's neck. The Dagger form of it was in her hands. (The ghost form stays around our necks when we fight. The weapon form stays in our hands until we touch then to the ghost.)

The blade was pure gold with some of the same metal as mine streaked in some places. Curled around the handle was a golden dragon,which seemed to be studded with red rubies and pink quartz. Its mouth was open, and black fire poured out, covering the blade.

The Lost Roman Fire.

"We have got to get you to Chaos."

Another portal later, the two of us are in the throne room.

What we saw then would be something we would never forget.

Blood. Lots of blood. Blood everywhere. On the walls. On the floor. On the ceiling (which should have been impossible, because it was 1,000 feet off the ground).

Everywhere. And in the middle of all that blood, was one man.

"Chaos!" I rushed to his side.

Lea looked at me curiously.

Chaos lay in a pool of his own blood, which was red because he was neither god, primordial, mortal, or even mortal. He was Man.

He was alive, but not for long.

I kneeled by his side. My hands hovered over his, body unsure what to do.

"What do I do.... What do I do.... I don't know what to do.." I whispered. Lea stood back.

Where his stomach was supposed to be, there was just a huge, gaping hole. His wings were broken and crumpled beneath his body. His hair was matted down and sticking to his bloody, deadly pale skin.

"Nico... You have to stop him. Take it..." Chaos whispered.

"What? Dove! Rare!" Their portals opened up and in stepped the rest of the Omega team with Gilli.

"Oh...Night..." Rare and Dove came and stood beside me. Lea went to stand with the others.

"Take it. Take it! Please, take it! PLEASE!!" Chaos was screaming as if he was in pain. He had started crying.

Chaos never cried. I shook my head.

"Take what, Night?" Dove said.

I shook my head.

"No. I don't know what to do! Tell me what to do! How do I save you!? You told me to stop- I... I don't know how!!" I yelled at Chaos.

His hair dripped red.

He gripped the front of my shirt and pulled me down.

"You. FREAKIN. TAKE IT. Take it! TAKE IT!! TAKE IT!! PLEASE!!"

He let go of my shirt and kept on crying.

I hung my head and said the ancient words.

" Ex nova et vetera, per diem nox ad diem. Vita, et mors, et tres dies iam incipit."

(Out with the old and in with the new, Day to Night when Day is through. Life of Love and Death depart, now its time for....Three new starts.)

I hesitated on the number.

Chaos sighed and closed his eyes.

His entire form shimmered. His blood turned into millions of little lights, along with his body.

The lights expanded, until you were looking at the 25 foot tall light Chaos.

Then the lights shut together, like a hologram going off. All was left were three floating, glowing orbs. One green, one black, and one red.

I stood and walked forward and grabbed the red and black ones.

"Lea? Could you come grab the last one?" I asked.

She looked surprised, like she was the last person I might pick to do something.

"Uh, sure. It won't hurt will it?" She asked.

I sighed. "If I wanted us to hurt I would take give you yours and take mine. Mine is the green one. Yours is black. They'll hurt like Hades if you claim them."

"Wait... Then who's is the red one?"

"I'll explain later."

She walked up and grabbed the green orb after a bit of hesitation.

I opened my Shadow Vault and stored them there until we could get Leo.

After I closed the vault, she asked, "When's later?"

I ran my hands through my hair.

"Just later." I growled and disappeared into the shadows.

That was two years after I left.