Disclaimer: Trinity Blood is owned by Sunao Yoshida. I fell in love with the story (sadly with anime first, then the manga, and finally the novels).

Here it is the squeal to Past Hidden in a Frozen Gaze. I hope all of you enjoy this story.

Warning: This story contains mild language, violence, and hinted sex.

Request: Please read Past Hidden in a Frozen Gaze before this story. This story picks up right where that one left off and if you haven't read it how some of the characters get here as well as what is going on will confuse you.

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Trinity Blood: #2: Future Seen in Golden Eyes
Prologue: Tainted Time Stream

Lilith kicked the chair when she entered her. How could she have been so stupid? Of course Cain would be the one who meet with her for peace! Sitting down, she let her breath hiss between her teeth, her long red hair falling around her face. "Abel, why, why can't you see Cain has to desire for peace?" she whispered her voice choked. The barclets she wore clinked as she moved her hands. The jewelry she wore spoke of more wealth than she really had. Every piece had been given to her over the years by her beloved Abel.

Shaking her head, Lilith stood. Her swords, also gifts from Abel, still attached to her back. She need time to think this over and debate if she should meet with Cain or not. Her fingers brushed against her cloak as Lilith hesitated. Her earrings hit her neck as she shook her head. Picking up the cloak, she tied moved her swords to allow it before throwing it over her shoulders.

As Lilith finished clasping the cloak, a blinding white light filled the space. "What the—" whipping around, she felt as the solid ground vanished. The next moment soft sands raced over to slipper like shoes. Her eyes wide Lilith was meet only by the vast desert. What just happened? Where was the camp the Vatican had set up in defiance of Carthage? Turning on her heel, Lilith's gaze fell over a new by city, but it wasn't the same and, at the same time, was exactly like Carthage. "Where am I?"

"Hey, cuteness," Lilith turned to see a man with a turban wrapped around his swarthy face and head grinning down at her, "what's a girl like you doin' out here on your own?" It took Lilith a moment to realize the Latin he was speaking was off. It had shifted again, but Abel had informed her, this only happened over many years or if something like Armageddon took place.

"I'm sorry," Lilith bowed her head to the stranger, keeping her eyes on him all the while, "but I seem to be lost. I was looking for the city of Carthage. Would you happen to know if this is the right city?"

"Aye, it be," the man nodded, "if you be headin' into to town I know the perfect place for you to stay." She smiled with a hint of venom at the man until he shifted under his gaze. "Ah, I mean, you be here to see Cardinal Sforza, right, ma'am?" Cardinal Sforza? Last Lilith had checked there hadn't been a cardinal by that name. "She been delayed I hear so rooms still be cheap close to the place she and her agents be stayin' at. If you like I be more than happy to show you the way."

"I am certain I can find my way, thank you," Lilith nodded before striding off. That man had been an utter creep. If not for her height and the unease she seemed to give humans she doubted she would have gotten out of that mess without the man trying to rape her.

As Lilith headed into the city, the semi-cool morning seemed to vanish as the sun rose. The humans around her bustled around some excited, some angered, and some just plain having a bad day. She caught a few snippets on the cardinal and her agents but it was much. Near noon she stopped at the stand and bout a newspaper. The person had clucked on her Italian money before giving it to her.

"Where is a cheap hotel?" Lilith asked the man who solid her the paper. He drew her out a map and smiled a toothy smile. "Thank you," she placed down a few coins.

"God bless you, madam," he grinned his thanks scooping up the coins. Lilith gave him a gentle smile before she strode off. It was difficult to move through the streets without bumping into someone. No one even glanced t her thanks in no small part to her skin tone which was common to this area. If she had created like one of the Nightlords people would have been gawking at her.

It didn't take Lilith long to find the hotel and get a room, saying she didn't know how long she'd be staying. The older woman behind the counter smiled, "Oh, I understand, deary, people have been making such a fuse over Caterina visiting us again, most hotels are booked. You're lucky to have found this one. People have been praying to God vampires don't attack again. Thank God for the Inquisition and her AX. I don't know what we would have done if the vampires had been allowed to stay free here." Lilith hid her confusion behind a soft smile. Taking the key from the woman, Lilith moved up the steps to the well air-conditioned room. The door clicked behind her and she leaned against it grateful to be away from people and all the strangeness which had hit her.

Lilith glanced around the small room before sitting down on the small bed. The stiff mattress groaned but didn't otherwise notice her weight. At last Lilith looked at the newspaper and stared at the date printed on it. There was no way this could be! The date showed the year as being 3063 AD, but that was impossible. Her mind did the math even though she didn't wish to know. Somehow she had moved eight hundred forty-three into the future. How could this be?

Meanwhile:
"Are you certain nothing else happened, Abel?" Caterina asked. Abel didn't turn to the young, but stern figure of his boss to know her steel gray eyes were locked on him. The desert was spread out before his eyes. In the next two days they'd be arriving in Carthage. Until then he doubted Caterina would drop the fact she, Leon, William, and Esther had all lost memory and Tres was still out of commission until William could figure out what had been done to shut down Tres. It was a shame Abel couldn't remember what he had done to the machine in the past to make him in this state and at the same time a blessing.

"I'm certain," Abel replied, not turning to the four others in the room. He could make out Esther's pale features framed by fiery red hair and the blue boarder of her white head covering of her habit. Seated beside her with one arm wrapped around the girl's slender shoulders was the extremely buff figure of Leon. His hair fell around his face as a lion's mane. His swarthy skin and dark hair spoke of a Hispania lineage. "One moment you all with me and the next you were gone," Abel repeated for what felt like the thousandth time that day.

"You sure, Four-eyes?" asked Leon in a gruff voice, "Seem sort of strange that we would black out and get separated from you only to end up in some musty old cave."

"It was what happened!" Abel exclaimed in frustration. He turned to the four in the room. "I swear it's what happened. What reason would have for making this up?" he demanded pouting in mock disappoint that Leon even thought he would be making this up.

"I believe, Father," Esther piped up. She turned her blue eyes on Caterina, who nodded, her long golden curls bouncing from the movement.

"As do I," Caterina agreed, one hand over her mouth in thought, "Crusnik has no reason to lie to us now and whatever happened in the span of time we are missing will just have to remain a mystery until Father Tres is repaired." Abel could have sighed with relief, but restrained himself from doing so. Turning back to the window, Abel wondered when or if he would end up meeting his past. Had Valdemar not said he was trying to around this time? If so this meant Abel might end up dragged into a battle he had been in centuries ago. There was also the off chance he would never meet up with those from the past, but he doubted this. Once Valdemar learned Abel still lived he would either try a different time or another tactic to get at Abel.

(Author's Note: Yep, Lilith XD Three point of view characters have been chosen for this book so far: Lilith, Abel, and Aran. I might have Cato tell one or two, but it might not happen.

Now you see why this book is titled the way it is, yes? Also note: this is after the first trip to Carthage when they meet Ion, I just have them returning because it was the only reason I could think of them being in the desert for…

On the comments from the last book: Kite00: I am insane that is why I have so many stories going on at once. Also I am certain there are stories which haven't been taken yet.

To Chaos: FOR NARINA! Got to love those books (and movies). Yes, I a nineteen year old, still read Narina *cough-cough*.

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