Symbiosis
Summary: Symbiosis: cohabitation of two entities, that is beneficial to both participants. Allen hated that his Innocence was referred to as parasite – he prefers to call their relationship symbiosis. After all power comes at a price. And that price is time. Events from Crown Clown's POV.
Warning: grammatical mistakes, since my first language is not English.
Pairings: none intended but can be interpreted as Crown ClownXAllen or EveryoneXAllen
Rating: T
A/N: length of chapters are uneven, sorry about that, I hope it won't ruin the experience. By the way this will be short.
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Chapter 1
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It was in pieces. It was failed to be saved by the Exorcists. It saw the hopeless attempt to save the Innocence shard, however it turned out to be futile. It got in the clutches of a Noah and ended up destroyed, reduced to ashes before having the chance to join its Master.
Its Master. The for-now nameless Innocence wondered who might that be. It was on this globe for so long... Centuries and Millenias passed since "the Great Flood" and its separation from its siblings. It watched the always changing world in interest – since it had nothing else to do – it was the only constant being in this world. For the Innocence piece the world was too big, and cold and to be honest, horribly lonely. It watched empires rise and fall without being able to do anything about it. It saw humans kill and sin in the name of God, something it despiced. Sometimes it wondered why bother saving such destructive creatures? Why saving them when they are as evil as the ones they need protection from? Why did humans turn their backs on God yet annihilate in His name? Why living to save these hypocryts?
No wrong, without an Accomodator it only existed. It could see the world, but could not touch it. The only reason it went rampant since it felt the presence of an awakened Innocence and it hoped that maybe its sibling could help. But its impatience and carelessness caused it to get smashed. Now all it could hope that its Master would be able to revive it.
When will its Master awaken? When will they call out for it? Was its Master even born? So many questions bombarded its mind.
It was a little frustrated. It hated the fact that it was powerless without its Master. It was a strange thing really, it may have the force to defy the laws of nature and physics, but without its Wielder it couldn't fulfill its original duty. The Innocence may be a great force, but it didn't belong to this world. It was as if it was separated from the human world by a transparent curtain, showing everything, but not letting touch anything. It needed an entity of this world that could act as a medium – an Apostle – so it could be used. Until that it was as if it was asleep or in a kind of trance, so it acted on impulse. It had no conscious, no name.
It hated this meaningless existence. It wanted to be used already! To free the Akuma, to save humanity, to defeat the Noah clan and to erase the Dark Matter! It wanted to join its Master already, but it couldn't without being called. Without its Wielder it was practically useless, or in addition harmful. Moreover to be reduced to such disgraceful state! It was truly shameful.
Hurry! Please hurry up and show yourself! Be born, grow up fast and call me Master! Accept me, use me, love me! So that you and I can protect this world together as one! And when Your time comes and you leave this plane I'll cerish your remains by completely assimilating it inside me.
As if on cue it felt a tug. It froze and stayed completely still, not wanting to believe it happened. Then it felt the tug again. If it had a physical form it would jump around screaming in joy like crazy. Finally! Finally it was summoned!
Not wanting to waste any more time – its Accomodator maybe in serious danger after all – as fast as it could it headed in the direction it felt the tug. It wooshed past the landscape, earth and ocean, like a shootingstar, ignoring everything else, only concentrating on the pull that intensified as it approached. As it reached the islands of the United Kingdom it slowed down. It definitely felt the call!
Ah there! London, England. The most populated city in the world. The Innocence reduced its speed again and in the form of fog it envelopped the city. It was late night, around 2 or 3 am. At time like this noone was awake. That's better, it could sneak in unnoticed. It didn't want to risk re-encountering a Noah in this state, moreover, it didn't want to risk the life of its Accomodator.
It squeezed itself in small gaps scanning the residents of each house of London. So far it didn't succeed, but it could feel getting closer. The first sunrays were already peeking at the horizon, but it still didn't want to give up. Its Wielder had to be here somewhere!
The Innocence froze when it saw a particular woman. She was civilian lying in her bed alone. Her frame was light and fragile-looking, her face still baby-like, framed by unruly auburn red hair. She was lying on her back with a relaxed expression, her hand over her flat lower-belly.
The Innocence felt the tug come from inside her body. Could it be that she was to be a parasytic type wielder? The tought made it shudder in excitement. Secretly it always used to long to fuse with the flesh of its future Wielder, so that they could much closer than any Equipment type could only dream of. Even if it didn't have a developped personality, it was a little possessive, it wanted to be the closest to its Host, the one who loved its dearest Wileder the most.
If it could it would snicker. In this fog-like form it could easily enter her body, who would have thought that getting smashed by a Noah could come in handy?
The Innocence gathered its scattered particles in the room, then through the woman's nostrils it invaded the body. Its particles shook at the feeling. The inside of a living body was so warm, the source that called out to it was so inviting. It wanted to rush in at once, but it didn't want to overwhelmits dear Host, so it continued to flow in a steady pace.
It flowed down on the windpipe and divided itself in the pair of lugs. It squished itself through the cells and joined the bloodstream. From the bloodstream it could reach every single part of her body. It flowed in the slowly beating heart of the woman and followed the great artery when it was pushed out of the ventricle. It followed the pull, navigating in the veins that became narrower and narrower. It surfed lower and lower, maybe the Innocence had to morph in her legs?
This theory was denied when it felt the tug lead it to the lower abdomen. That consfused the Innocence, it had to fuse with an organ maybe?
This suspicion was cancelled when it entered her womb. It was thoroughly confused. What could it do in a woman's-!
Its thoughts were cut of when it spotted a small form floating. The Innocence stopped. A child?! An unborn one over that?! How was this possible, the kid practically wasn't even alive! How could a fetus call out to Innocence?! There most be a mistake! There's no way that a baby called out to Innocence!
But it felt it acutely, this unborn human's weakly attached soul called out to it stubbornly. That sweet sound the soul emitted was intoxicating.
Hesitantly it continued it journey, meanwhile it inspected the baby. There's no denying it, no human made it feel like this before. It trembled in excitement as it approached. It couldn't help strange thoughts invading its mind.
First of all, for some unexplainable reason the baby seemed really cute. The child was so small it couldn't help it! The next thing the Innocence noticed that regretfully the poor child's left arm wasn't developping normally. Worry swelled within its heart. Now that it thought of it, the mother seemed pretty small too, probably didn't have enough money to eat as much as she needed.
Without further ado it invaded the baby through the umbilical cord.
For a moment it stopped and let the feeling wash over. It felt expuistite warm fill every particle of it. So this it what it felt like to be alive? There was no more cold, no more loneliness. It was warm, it was heavenly, it was pure bliss. As if in a trance it let the invisible string pull it towards the child's left hand and assmiliate into the warm flesh. It squeezed itself as much as it could in the cells and melted into the skin, the distinctive cross took shape on the child's left hand. Lastly it connected itself to the child bloodstream and nerve system. In time it could send its signals and inform the child of their mission.
The Innocence was mildly disappointed with the outcome. The child's skin got deformed from the intense heat as they fused. It seemed like a gutted wound, deep red skin and black nails. It hoped at least it didn't hurt. Sadly it fried the nerves a little too, the child won't be able to move his – checking the rate of hormons it turned out the infant was going to be a male – arm, or only with great effort. But that was all it could do, his small body instinctively rejected the invader. It couldn't do much else until its Master understood and accepted its presence. It felt a little guilty because of this.
But in order to gain something you must go through hell for it first. The Innocence suspected that the boy's life will be hard with such handicap but it was determined to make it up for him. In exchange of the time it takes it will provide great power and protect him. It will make sure that the boy will enjoy its presence as much as it enjoyed being one with him. And if it's needed it will follow its Master to the depths of hell. Until that time it will patiently reside in the boy and stay put, so that poor boy wouldn't meet a Noah or Akuma before he was ready.
Yea, until that time it will sleep and send its signals to the boys brain so he knew he was loved by others than his parents. It was so impatient to work with its Master. It was really looking forward to that time.
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