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Gevaudan, knight of Ganymeade

The voice sent chills up his spine, and he wondered if it was just Chaos speaking, or some distant cousin to Metallia. A new born voice of chaos, fledging speaking, or was it just the code's warped voice? Either way, he almost felt as if he was in the chambers again, knee pressed to the dark crystal floors, taking orders.

Taking deep breathes, he stared at Camelot's attempt only failed, and the code offered it's own suggestion. A piece of chaos.

Under the table, his hands curled into fists, gripping the hem of his coat as he stared at it.

A little piece of chaos.

The other knights offered themselves, pure as they were and had always been, sure in how easy it would be for them to thwart any influence. Geavaudan on the other hand, well, he couldn't help lick his dry lips and give a dry swallow at the offer.

This side is a mess. IT would have been easier if I had a worthwhile weapon.

If you have this, could SHE find you? Could Metallia call you back to her chambers?

Could ZInkenite find you?

If you had Chaos, even a bit, would starseeds work again?

Can you risk this to save a code piece you know nothing about? What about Hawara? What if you leave him? What if you loose him?

As a knight, you gave up everything for this side. What's a little chaos? Your side needs this?

Do these knights matter? Only Hawara does…but what if this chaos takes us fully?

It wouldn't be the full amount of chaos. A sampling. It's split between all of us.

Will it feel like home again?

Pale, he gave a nervous glance to Chris as he offered, and he felt deep worry for the man and his impaired starseed. Wouldn't he be susceptible?

Looking back, he stared at the swirling darkness – not as an affliction, but as something comforting yet poisonous. Dangerous but once familiar.

"I'll take some of the Chaos." He offered, feeling a bead of cold sweat drop down his back.

Do I tell Hawara?

His heart was racing as he look at the Code.

I'm Gevaudan. Gevaudan can do this. Wolframite won't be called back. But even he could hear his doubt.

If the Code had not been so embittered by the Chaos that clung to it, it might have been proud. It might have been grateful. But now was not the time for that.

Now, energy was spreading across the room, pushing at everyone. The walls of the room seemed to buckle, but the building stood strong.

As the Knights began to accept the Chaos into them, the Code changed. It wasn't drastic, at first—it was a slow, steady stream. The energy around it swirled quicker—frantically.

But it lightened.

The darkness slowly seeped away, and the shadow that clung to the room seemed to lift.

The shroud of Chaos thinned, and then it was gone.

Not banished, forever, but stripped from the Code, leaving only a pale, dimly lit orb. The light in it flickered, like a candle clinging to life.

The Chaos was gone from it, accepted into the Knights that voluntarily chose to carry the its burden. It was not an incredibly unpleasant sensation when it slipped into the Knights; it felt like jumping into an icy lake. There were pins and needles for only a second, like moving a sleeping limb. Their heart rate might have increased, and they may have felt dizzy, but it did not hurt.

It felt like a weight in their chest, though. A constant pressure.

There was no telling how it might affect those that braved it, but they should at least take satisfaction that before them, reclaimed, was a piece of the Code.

A piece buried in Metallia's layer, forgotten by time and claimed by Chaos.

An energy that existed before them—before all of them, and all of their ancestors.

And it was alive again, because of them.

The Code Piece did not immediately speak; it was but a piece of the whole, and separated from the natural energy of the universe for so long had worn it thin.

When it spoke again, it was not in their heads—it was out loud. It was soft, and tired, but good.

It whispered, as it flickered meekly, "Thank you."

It seemed like it wanted to say more, but words did not come easily, and the orb it formed drooped. Chaos had eaten away at it, but there was no denying that this piece was of some importance. It glistened like the one on Olympus, and though it was a similar size, it seemed more drawn into itself, like it struggled to keep form.

It managed only more two words, softer even than before.

"…Forgive me."

Kairatos let out the breath he'd been holding, half concious of his own nerves on the matter. While he'd been reasonably sure it would be, at best, uncomfortable, the doubts from Chauvet and Emrys couldn't help but find their marks in the part of his mind that was all too eager to jump on the part that they were taking a risk, that they didn't know what would happen, exactly, and as Chaos settled like a lump of something heavy and uncomfortably undigested...

"Well." He forced a tight smile, and tried not to shiver at the strange, disorienting sensations that had passed over him. "Thankfully it looks like we won't have to find out. But if it had... The reasonable course of action would have been to haul your assess back to earth and warn everyone in ear shot that s**t had gone down."

He rubbed a thumb half consciously at the buckle to his pauldron where it strapped across his armor, as though he could get that weight to shift or settle to be less noticeable.

They'd done a thing. It was a good thing. It was a noble thing...

And he tried very hard not to dwell on the words "Forgive Me" because he did not know if it meant for the hatred that had bled out from it to their wonders... or something else, and he was fairly sure that it would not... or maybe more accurately, could not... answer them. He hadn't known you could exhaust something like the Code, but he'd known so little about the code he couldn't pretend he'd have ever figured it out if they weren't here.

"...We still don't know where to keep you safe..." He added, more quietly, to the drooping thing. Had they done enough? Was it in time? Or had chaos eaten away too much of everything it was?

Hy-Brasil, Page of Earth

Blue eyes watched as the swirling mass of energy around the code began to change. The darkness that had dominated the piece was slowly lightening and with it an icy coldness spread over Hy-Brasil's being but was just as quickly gone. The page glanced at the other around her, noting different reactions and expressions to the chaos that many of them had opted to take into themselves. She herself was slightly puzzled but relieved that nothing drastic had happened to anyone.

The whisper of thank you brought a small smile to Hy's face and a nod of her head in acknowledgement to the Code piece. It was very interesting to see it now free of the chaos and glistening of light.

The final words though caused brows to furrow slightly but the page quickly brushed it off as apologies for past deeds and not what had just occurred. After all, everyone seemed well enough.

"Well, that's at least taken care of now." She glanced around. "Are we going to leave the piece here, take it with us, or put it in a safe location?" She wasn't exactly sure how this would all go down at this point.

Niflhel had thoughts about accepting Chaos. He wasn't too keen on it but eventually even he agreed. He shivered as the small bit of chaos took to him. Trying to keep his face from twitching into a snarl at the icy feeling, though it wasn't painful it was unpleasant.

His heart felt like it was racing and his head, it fogged and for a second he thought he might pass out from the dizzy spell. It was at least not painful but he was stricken for a moment unable to move other than twitch for a moment or two.

When he could move again he leaned against the nearest wall holding his head. It was like there was something he'd long forgotten, that the feeling had dragged up. The burden sitting on his chest, he was trying to keep from panicking much like he would from one of his nightmares.

"Forgive you?" He said looking towards the meekly flickering sphere. "For what?" He was generally curious and concerned - what had it done?

Though he knew he couldn't tell Polaris or Snowball about this.



Odain shivered when the Chaos was transferred into her. She wasn't sure what had just happened. Though the slight dizzy spell passed and her heart beat was slowing. She looked worriedly towards the code, but wasn't sure what to say. . .

"Once something greater?" Niflhel couldn't help but look concerned. What was greater? There was so much they had to learn about this code.

He wrinkled his nose; "How did you corrupt if none of them found you? Can it happen to anyone?" This was troublesome to the Saturn knight; if the code could corrupt without anything corrupting it; what did that say about them?

Though he sighed when the code said there was no Chaos here, Niflhel was trying to ignore the fact they all just took in chaos. "Considering it's the moon . . . I would hope that it's not suppose to have Chaos?"

He stopped, "Won't we have to find you a more permanent home though? Eventually, I mean. The moon is the senshi's thing right?" He looked around at the other knights still there; still present. Wondering if they had the same question.

Delphi

The cold chill that ran through her wasn't bad, rather it was comforting and enjoyable, as the bit of chaos she had accepted entered her. She hoped this wouldn't have a bad effect on her but at least the code was safe, so was her piece of the code and her wonder. They were all safe and that was more important. Looking to the white haired knight at her side Delphi smiled lightly, something only just there, and nodded her head. "It looks like the code is better." Weak but better, it could grow in strength given time. Time healed many things and as the code was now saying that being here might help also, which it very well might.

"Can a place be found for you? Wonders are locations here and in space. Can a place not be found for you? A new wonder created, sort to speak? Something that we all have access to as the Academy was accessible to all in the past." As this piece of the code seemed special, maybe it was because it was from where it had been - a place all knights could go and had been? The same as the one at Olympus. Was that why they differed from the code piece at her own wonder?

"If you were all bound together once...and now are broken apart. Was there anything lost when you broke and why and how did that come to pass?" Why had the code been broken into pieces, she understood what it said but had there been some sort of incident? Who had done it, who had that power? Had the code done it on it's own? Could it even? She doubted anyone would deny the code piece it's request to stay here and if any senshi became upset by it she had a feeling they'd have many knights to face down. Delphi was sure the code would not be leaving this place until it wanted to.