A Memory of Flowers: "Do not fear that which you do not know or understand, everything will be made clear through you, as you are the light to burn all which resides in the dark labyrinth. Be brave Remy Alick, for you are the flower of growth in a time of great culmination."

Rating: Rated M for adult content, adult language, violence, blood, and overall D. Gray-ness.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own D. Gray-Man I just own Remy and any characters that aren't familiar.

Author's Note: I have had a story in my head for a while now, including this character that I greatly love. I just want to share her story. Let me know what you all think in a review. Please~

P.S. This is about a year before Allen comes to the order. I wanted to integrate my character with the canon characters a little before I start with the main plot line. Don't worry, I don't plan to cover the whole year with a lot of chapters, I just want to get the introductions and possibly some growth in a few relationships a little down. Maybe five or six chapters. No more than ten that's for sure!

Word Count: 2,377

Editing: December 11, 2018

Chapter One: Not at All

"This way Remy!" Bright, pale blue eyes watched the back of the person who had introduced himself as the Black Order's chief supervisor, Komui Lee. He was leading them in the direction of a large elevator that was waiting to take them, her, to see someone named Helveska. Helveska wanted to see her innocence; Four rough, green bands that had the appearance of burnt scar tissue except for the color, that wrapped around each of her limbs that apparently made her a parasitic type…whatever that was supposed to mean. Remy just knew that the bands etched into her pale skin helped protect her from the monsters that were always trying to kill her. She had had them for as long as she could remember, which admittedly wasn't long, so she never questioned them. They were useful even if they were painful sometimes.

"This is an elevator?" Remy questioned as she stepped onto the huge platform, her blue eyes looking all around her in wonder. A large cannon on one side caught her attention. "I didn't think elevators had weapons, but I've never been on one before. So, what do I know?" She shrugged, walking past the smiling chief, who was standing at the control panels, to stand along the railing. She gripped the bar lightly, leaning far over the side with no fear to look down where Komui was taking her. It was very dark.

"Ready Remy?"Komui asked her, causing her to lean back over onto her two feet properly, which Komui gave a relieved sigh for, and looked over her shoulder at him. Her wide blue eyes, so large they seemed almost unnatural, blinked at him through her short, curly dirty-blonde hair that fell in a mess around her ears before she gave a nod and turned back to look at the darkness below. This time her feet staying firmly on the platform. "Alright, here we go!"

Remy's hands tightened on the railing, the metal giving way easily to make indentions of her fingers without her even realizing it as the platform gave a jerk and began moving down relatively fast. "I do not like the dark" Remy stated as they went further and further down, no lights but the one small one on elevator making her feel trapped. "I do not like it at all."

"It will only be for a little while Remy" Komui tried to reassure the small girl, still amazed she was twenty years old with how young and childlike she looked at an even five feet and with her wide eyes that looked at everything around her with near dewy-eyed naivety. She even spoke with a blunt innocence that made him question the age she had given the finders who had brought her in. "Helveska just wants to check your innocence and then we can go back up to the main floors where we can see where everything is, including your room as I'm sure you're probably tired–"

"No. I do not require sleep, but I am hungry. Does this place have chocolate?" Remy asked absentmindedly, her thoughts traveling to the possibility of getting a good, full meal. One with mounds of chocolates, and no vegetables. In fact, she only envisioned sweets; cakes, dango, gumdrops and ice-cream. I wonder if they will have chocolate ice-cream? It is my favorite. "I would like that very much. Chocolate ice cream..." Remy stated, paying no mind to Komui, who was smiling at her.

"You and Suman will get along perfectly," Komui spoke, causing the girl to lose her daydream of delicious food and look towards the supervisor once more.

"Who is Suman? And why will we get along?" Remy started, "Does he like chocolate ice cream as well? Which is not hard, chocolate ice cream is delicious after all..." Before she could continue a voice interrupted her. Komui was smiling at her, not sure what to make of the rambling and random girl quite yet truthfully, when a deep, feminine voice spoke out from the darkness and the elevator came to a stop.

"Remy Alick" Remy startled as a white, ghostly figure that was extremely tall with long wisps of hair shaped more like tendrils appeared from out of the darkness abruptly. The figure had no eyes as a mask appeared to cover the face and the hair started there as well. Remy stumbled back as several strands of the strange being's hair moved forward and grabbed her, lifting her up and into the air.

Remy jerked about, fear beginning to emerge and overtake her previous feelings of wonderment as the tendrils continued wrapping around her tightly, not giving her a way to escape. The white figure was lifting her further away from the one light and into the darkness. She began to will the bands on her limbs, her innocence, to activate and attack the monster when the same voice began to talk once more. It drew Remy's attention despite her current level of discomfort. "Remy Alick, I am Helveska. Do not be afraid. I have appeared before you to measure your synchronization rate."

A shiver passed through Remy as she fought to control her breathing, frantic heartbeat and her fear. She did not like being manhandled. "I do not like this" Remy spoke, her voice dull and almost emotionless except for the slight tremor at the end, "I do not like this at all."

"It's only for a little while longer Remy, please be patient and endure it" Komui's voice broke through her fear, causing the girl to look over her shoulder to see the older man smiling gently at her from where he hadn't moved from his spot on the elevator. "Helveska will not harm you. I promise" Remy gave a small, jerking nod, closing her eyes in a tight grimace as she fell limp Helveska's tendrils, trying to ignore the situation as she focused on the soothing voices around her instead of the situation. "What is her synchro rate, Helveska?"

"Searching...searching..." Remy wiggled about again as she felt an almost probing like feeling on her wrists and ankles, where the things they called innocence resided, "Innocence: Anneaux de Fleurs. Synchronization rate at twenty-four percent...forty-three percent...fifty-seven percent...seventy-one percent...Synchronization rate at eighty-seven percent."

"Eighty-seven percent, that's good" Komui spoke again, writing the information down on a clipboard he had brought along, "Is that all Helveska?"

"Remy Alick" Remy opened her eyes as the woman's voice grew frosty, having a different feeling altogether, "Do not fear that which you do not know or understand, everything will be made clear through you, as you are the light to burn all which resides in the dark labyrinth. Be brave Remy Alick, for you are the flower of growth in a time of great culmination."

Remy blinked up at the white being, as she still wasn't quite sure what was holding her, in confusion as she didn't understand a single thing that had come of the being's mouth. "Um, I do not understand."

"That is alright Remy" Komui continued smiling at the girl as she was slowly placed back onto the elevator where she had been standing before, the tendrils drawing back once more. Which Remy was instantly and immensely relieved about. "Not even Helveska truly understands a prophecy when she speaks one. It's part of her innocence and will reveal itself in time. Now," Komui pressed a button on the control panel and the elevator started making its way upward again, "why don't we return to the main level and someone can show you to your room and the cafeteria? Weren't you hungry?"

"I am always hungry" Remy answered, trying to shake off her confusion like usual, as she was often left confused and without answers until she later figured them out for herself. "But I do feel like eating food right now. There will be ice cream, yes? Chocolate?"

"Yes," Komui chuckled lightly, seeing very much that her and Suman, who was another parasitic exorcist that had a huge appetite, would get along. "Jeryy should have some chocolate ice cream. I do hope that is not all that you eat though."

"Of course that is not all that I eat," Remy answered, looking at Komui with a new expression that clearly revealed her thinking that he was a complete idiot, "I also enjoy eating clafouti, dango, cake, éclair, religieuse, mousse, cream puffs, fartons, toffee, sherbert, pie, especially chocloate pie, cook-"

Komui cut the girl off before she could continue, an actual full laugh bubbling forth, "Okay I understand. But, do you eat anything other then sweets Remy? Like vegitables or fruits?"

"I do not like vegitables" Remy told him like it was the simpliest thing in the world just as the elevator came to a stop on the main floor again, a crowd that the girl took no notice of having formed waiting for them, "And I do eat fruit, like with clafouti and-"

Komui cut her off again, taking note of how her slightly french accent deeped when she spoke french words but not spanish or English, "Alright, I understand, that's fine. Now-"

This time he was broken off mid-speeh by the very person he was just about to suggest he find to show her around, also just taking note like Remy the group of people watching them curiously, "Brother!"

A young girl, who was younger than Remy but almost managed to look older than the blonde with a pretty, slightly rounded face and pointed chin which was framed with bangs, with the rest of her very long, dark hair pulled back into two twin ponytails on either side of her head, called out to Komui. She was wearing a short black, pleated skirt with a black, long sleeved jacket decorated with an intricate silver cross resting upon her breast with white cuffs and a pair a long, knee high black boots.

"Lenalee!" Komui cried out, his attitude and demeanor abruptly changing at the sight and sound of his younger sister, as he sprung forward with his arms spread wide and fat crocodile tears falling down his cheeks, "You've returned! Where have you been? I thought you might have run off and eloped-"

Remy watched curiously as the girl side stepped the director with a tired sigh, causing him to fall to the ground in a dramatic heap. "You knew I was welcoming Kanda back from his mission in Germany. He's bringing the Innocence this way now to give to Helveska. I rushed back when I heard that the new exorcist was being welcomed." Remy blinked almost owlishly, standing still as the girl turned away from her brother, almost like she'd rather ignore him then look at him, which caused him to wail pathetically in the background (which neither girl took notice of, as well as the small group of men in white lab coats trying to comfort him), and gave her a wide smile. "Hello, I am Lenalee Lee. Welcome to the Black Order," Remy watched as her smile faltered slightly when Remy returned the smile, if not as wide and a little awkwardly, catching sight of the smaller girl fully. "A child? Again..."

"I think you are confused," Remy spoke up, cutting in before she could continue on her train of thought, pushing aside the small satisfaction she felt at someone besides her being lost and confused, "I am Remy Alick. I am twenty years old. I am not a child."

"Twenty?" The girl, Lenalee, gasped lightly in shock, not expecting it as the small blonde looked at least a year or two younger than she was. "Really?"

Remy was about to answer (of course really, why else would she have told her so if it wasn't the truth?) when a deep and cold voice broke in from behind Lenalee, "I doubt it. Move." Lenalee turned around quickly, ashamed she hadn't felt the boy come up behind her in her shock, taking a couple steps back subconsciously and allowing Remy to see who had spoken suddenly.

A young man, who appeared to be at least eighteen but no older than his early twenties, stood glaring down at them. He had a sharp, almost feminine face with narrowed, dark brown eyes framed by straight bangs and two long stripes of black hair while the rest of his long hair was pulled back into a high ponytail on the back of his head. He wore a jacket similar to Lenalee's in decoration, expect that is was much longer, falling to around his ankles in a trench coat length with black pants tucked into a standard pair of knee high, black boots. Remy took note of the katana hanging from his belt on his waist before his eyes locked with hers. "There is no way you are twenty, yōsei."

"I am not a sprite." Remy started "I do not remember many things," Remy stated, causing everyone around her, including the scientists who had frozen at Kanda's arrival, Komui and Lenalee's eyes to widen slightly at her terminology and choice of words. Even Kanda's eyes widened fractionally, "But I do know that my name is Remy Alick and that I am twenty years old."

Remy's eyes watched, still wide like that of an owl, as Kanda's glare returned in full force. "Tch. Move." He shoved past her and Lenalee to step onto the elevator Remy and Komui had stepped off not too long ago and immediately pressed the button to begin his decent into the darkness. Remy watched him curiously the entire time, Kanda never turning back around despite the eyes he could feel on the back of his head.

"That's Yu Kanda, he is an exorcist as well," Lenalee introduced him since he hadn't bothered to do so before he left in a huff, not that he would have anyway, drawing Remy's attention back to her. "Sorry about him, but he's really not so bad. Kanda is actually very nice!"

Remy just looked back in the direction the elevator had once rested at, the spot empty now, with her face blank and her eyes still blank before she looked back up at Lenalee. "I do not think that I like him. I do not think that I like him at all."

Translations (I got everything from a translator, so I am sorry if its wrong) and Explanations:

Anneaux de Fleurs – French – Flower's Rings, Ring of Flowers

Yōsei – Japanese – Fairy, Sprite, Elf

Clafouti- a baked French dessert of fruit, traditionally black cherries,arranged in a buttered dish and covered with a thick flan-like batter. It is dusted with powdered sugar and served lukewarm, sometimes with cream

Religieuse – French – a French pastry made of two pastry cases, one larger than the other, filled with crème pâtissière, mostly commonly chocolate or mocha. Each is covered in a ganache of the same flavor as the filling, and then joined with buttercream frosting.

Fartons – Spanish – delicate and spongy confectionery sweet. Elongated and glazed with sugar, they are made to be dipped in orxata (or horchata), a drink made of tigernuts that is served cold, but fartons can also be eaten with hot beverages such as hot chocolate.

A/N (2):

Remy is completely different than any character I have tried to write before, which is why this is going to be so challenging. I hope to write more of her, and with -Man, but I'm not sure if I will ever actually get everything out. I hope you like her, even though you do not know much yet.

Quiz: Did anyone notice Remy's quirk? She has many, but I wondered if anyone could easily spot this one?