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Chapter 16

Circumstances

Sickle and Held are in an unknown room, sitting at a large table with paper's spread across on it with headshots on the sinners clipped on them. Gilles opened the door to the room and allowed Allen to walk inside, he's still wearing the uniform from Capriccio Academy. Allen sat the table with the two gods.

"Afternoon, Sickle." Allen said.

"Afternoon." Sickle replied. "You sounded a bit winded, what happened?"

"Apparently bullies exists at the Academy, we've spent to whole day fighting them off." Allen sighed in exhaustion.

"They exist still?" He asked.

"They've existed for centuries, my friend." Held said, "Just like the second period."

"Oh right."

"So why am I here again?" Allen asked.

"Well Allen, I'm afraid we have a bit of a problem here."

"What?"

"Well apparently the demons have lost track of Seth, he has cut off all of his escape routes."

"That is a bit problematic, after what the both of us and Gumilia had went through just to fix what Nemesis had done...Maybe he escaped into the ground world?"

Sickle thought of it for a minute, sighed, then continued on: "Maybe...maybe so, the most likely place would be Levianta since he was a scientist there, but we don't know for curtain until we can get down there, but right now we have to secure the Heavenly Yard and it's inhabitants. Next, our second problem."

"Hm?"

"The sinners, their progress in redemption is slow."

"What do you expect, Sickle? Sorry but you can't expect them to change their ways in less than a week. They've been attached to their sins due to various circumstances, wither it's due to a conspiracy or their need to survive, exact revenge, fulfill a prophecy, make a loved one happy, make themselves happy, or coup with heartbreak." That made Sickle silent again.

"Allen's right y'know." Held said. "You can get a little impatient from time to time, my friend, these are demon contractors we're talking about, they suffered hardships to which motivates them to contract a demon, wither by choice, by force, or born with it." Held shifts his position in his seat to get comfortable. "Once a person makes a deal with a demon, they're no longer human."

Sickle sat in his seat listening to what his friend had to say about what's going on, he made a bit of a pout and crossed his arms. "Geez, you guy don't need to gang up on me with all of the depressing stuff like that."

"Sorry, but that is the truth."

"Well I guess I can get a little impatient."

"I know how that feels, Sickle." Allen admits. "My problem with them is that I have to deal with them constantly being at each other's throats, especially Nemesis and Gallerian. No offense but as I recall Gallerian was calm about Nemesis wanting to shoot him."

"True, but that was before he knew who sank the ship his family was on and now all he wants to do is fight tooth and nail with her." He then whispered: "I've kinda forgot to add that last detail when he saw me."

"What?" Both Allen asked.

"What?" Sickle asked, avoiding the question. They we're silent for a while before Held spoke up.

"Anyways, we'll just have to wait for the results of their redemption. Now back to the matter at hand, how are we gonna catch Seth before he causes more trouble again, and where are we gonna find him?"

"Well as I mentioned before, he could be in Levianta due to his involvement there, but I could be wrong, though I do have a few ideas on how to catch him." Allen and Held leaned in on what he has to say. "There is...Levia-Behemo's former apprentice."

"You don't mean?"

"Yep, the Guardian of Sins himself."

"Who?" Allen asked.

"Well Allen, like Jun of Yingmu, he came from another dimension." Sickle got up from his seat to look for something. "But unlike Jun, he was a descendant of one of the many denizens of the Second Period who took refuge in the said dimension, along with most of the said Period's tech." Sickle dug through the room as he spoke. "He was a trouble maker you see, he entered the Third Period during it's Magic Kingdom era and caused all sorts of trouble in his youth, he hid himself within the "Sin" ark to hide from the authorities, there he met Levia and Behemo in their dragon form and learned about Magic and the history of the Second Period." He finds a mobile phone with an antenna. "No that's not it." He puts it away and continues searching. "He became their loyal apprentice and an evil sorcerer by the end of BT 005."

"Well how will that do any good?" Allen asked. "He was trained by two gods who planned on destroying the Third Period just because you gave it to the humans."

"Let me finish, Allen." He finds an old coffee maker. "Not it either." He puts it away and climbs on the counter to look on the higher shelves. "As I was saying he became their apprentice and an evil sorcerer by the end of BT 005, now willing to use those powers to cause havoc throughout Evillious. However, it wasn't until after the birth of Hansel and Gretel during the whole "Project [Ma]" fiasco, he sought out their true intentions and began to see the error of his ways. He left Levia-Behemo and returned to his home dimension, using the powers he required to preform good acts instead as a form of redemption for his past wrongs, becoming a good sorcerer and his home's ruler a few decades later." He got down from the counter, panting. "Seriously? where the heck did I put it!?"

"Ahem." Held cleared his throat and motioned his head to Sickle's shoe box, Sickle hanged his head down and began to walk towards it in a dispassionate fashion.

"Why didn't anybody tell me it was there?" Sickle asked, he opened the box and revealed a clear platinum colored gem, it was cut into a fat briolette shape and it's as big as someone's big toe.

"A gem?" Allen asked.

"Not just a gem, it's a communication device from his world and the Second Period, it works from one dimension to another better than a black box would. I'm gonna use it to contact the Guardian of Sins."

"Oh really now?" Held said, arching an eyebrow.

"Yeah." Sickle tapped on the gem and it began to glow from the tip of it, a ball of light began to grow until it was as big as Sickle's head, Allen sat there with wide eyes, he didn't know what to think of this. Just then the orb formed and a image can be seen, the image had multiple gems shaped like the one Sickle's holding in the background, floating and moving all over the place inside the image. "Yoo hoo, anyone there?" Sickle asked.

"Who is this?" The image turned it's self around and showed a man wearing a white cloak, his face was hidden within a hood and was not facing the monitor, it wasn't a image at all, it was a screen.

"It's me! Sickle!"

"I don't know any "Sickle", What is your "real" name?"

"Oh right, ummm." He snapped his fingers to Held to cover Allen's ears, Held complied. Allen was confused but decided not to argue with him. "Hazuki, Professor Hazuki."

"Much better, I prefer actual names than aliases."

"Surly you must make an exception, I mean I got a kid here who I can't give my confidential details to."

"Your disciple? I heard you talking about him."

"Yeah."

"Very well, Sickle." He said his nickname, Held let go of Allen's ears.

"So your this Guardian of Sins person?" Allen asked.

"Indeed I am, but you're more than obliged to call me "Alexander" or "Hero X" if you want, Alexiel." He answered, still not looking at the monitor.

"How did you know my name, surely Sickle-?"

"I didn't learn it from him, I learned it from the gems in this room." He finally turns to the monitor, his face was shadowed by his hood, he shows him one of the gems that glows in a faint light, it was colored orange and faint images we're shown, and by the looks of it, it was of memories of Allen and his Sister on "Anonymous Beach" on the day of their 14th birthday. "These jewels serve as window to various realms and dimensions for me, they also allow me to see the past, present, and future of various individuals."

"Incredible..."

"So, what is it that you need to tell me, Sickle?"

"Oh right, well Seth kinda slipped away from the Hellish Yard master, and he had cut off his escape routes."

"And you want me to track him down with my gems, I take it?"

"Yeah."

"Let me see." Alexander began to look through all of the gems that flew by him until he found a lavender colored one, he began examine it for a bit. "Like you said, he has cut his escape routes, I can't pin point where he is, but by the looks of it I place his location around this area in this region." He show them the map of the Evillious Region and drew a red circle around the Northern part of Elphegort and the Southern part of Levianta.

"I knew he be in Levianta." Sickle said.

"I said around the area, but basically yes."

"Splendid!" Sickle said, reveled. "We'll have a search party ready."

"Indeed, but be forewarned: He is a demon and a scientist, and beings like him are cunning."

"I'll keep that in mind." Sickle then spotted Alexander bringing down seven gems, suspiciously representing the sinners. "Alexander?"

"So you're dealing with the sinners, right?"

"Yes, Sickle thought they be redeemed so he placed them in purgatory." Held answered.

"I see..." He was quite, he examined them more, he sighed and asked: "How is...Levia-Behemo?"

"Hm?"

"They're separate now, right?"

"Yeah, Behemo is messing around in the Heavenly Yard and Levia is...well it's sort of complicated." Sickle said as he rubbed his right hand on the back of his hand.

"I understand, I just want to know, until we meet again." The Monitor went off, and fell back into the shoe box.

"Well now we have a lead on where Seth went, should we start the search party?" Allen asked.

"You may have to stay behind to look after the sinners, Allen." Held answered. "And if things get complicated, then we'll need your help."

"I understand, I was gonna go shopping for dinner anyways." Allen began to take his leave. "Good luck you two."

30 minutes later

Allen appears in the box in particles of light with a bag of groceries in his arms and opens the door to the flat. Once he did, a foul odor hits his nose like a rock, he drops his begs and covered his nose. He runs inside with his hands still on his nose, along the way he found that half of the house is a bit of a mess, soon he found the sinners in the kitchen, standing over an either lifeless or unconscious body of Sateriasis, Gallerian was holding a plate of something burnt and horribly unrecognizable and wearing a apron.

The sinners looked up and saw Allen by the doorway with a look of shock on their, they didn't know how to explain this to him, the only one who can however was Nemesis, and her reply was:

"Sateriasis died, Dad did it."

END

The character Alexander is DeviantMaster2014's OC, I do not own him, and this is not the last time we'll see him...I hope.