On the next evening, at the Red Cloud Music Store...

The rain had subsided sometime during the day and the evening sky was paint by a beautiful shade of reddish orange over the gray clouds that still lingered on the horizon. It was like a sign to the Chasers, that despite all the hardships they endured, life still goes on and the world never ceases to present us with these small wonders.

Even Chikage was feeling quite melancholic as she brought her herself from the darkness where she spent the daylight hours [color=crimson]"Why don't you all take a time from this?"[/color] she asked the Chasers as they were gathered, thinking of what to do next [color=crimson]"There's nothing you can do right now. And the eclipse will happen in two weeks from now. The best you can do is relax and get your strength back."[/color] She retrieved a few tickets from within a drawer and gave them to Shiina [color=crimson]"There's enough to everyone, I guess you agree with me too don't you?"[/color]

After that Chikage left the Chasers alone to decide on their fate and gestured to Mizura to follow her [color=crimson]"It's their matter now, Mizura. We can't get involved anymore. Plus, we have our own job too..."[/color] and they disappeared within the shadows, off to god-knows-where.

Two weeks later, back to the Crimson Sky...

A cold wind blew through the quasi-desert streets bellow the concrete ramparts formed by the many skyscrapers that dot the landscape of the Crimson Sky version of the City. As the Chasers gazed at the blood red moon, the silhouette of darkness from the Eclipse started to take over it. From the place they were standing it was possible for them to see the grounds where the ceremony would take place.

Suddenly, the wind died down and a voice echoed as if coming from the very air around them...

[center][color=red][h3]"People ask, "Why do you fight? Why do you kill? Why do you destroy?" They will die with these questions unanswered. That is mortality's bliss."[/h3][/color][/center]

When they finally found the place the voice was coming from, they noticed it was from the sky itself, or better yet, from the moon the hung over their heads. And from the very same moon emerged a human looking being, whose appearance was difficult to classify between angelic, demonic, both or neither. Peering at the Chasers from his throne high in the sky, it said...

[center][color=red][h3]"Now let this world's final hour commence. The circle must come to a close and you will be the last links of the chains of destiny."[/h3][/color][/center]

With a wave of his hand a deluge of red assaulted the world.

The time of judgment had finally come, and now the fate of both worlds was up for the Chasers. The final step of their journey had finally been taken, but where it will lead to?