The Beast Tamer- D. Gray-Man
Plot- A woman's life has not been the best. She's lost most of her family and had been used in experiments at the Black Order. These tests were secret and not even the Bookmen, historians of the world at the time, knew it was happening. She is let out of her cell to become a captive scientist for the same place that tortures her. Her past soon comes back to bite me and allof those around her. Find out in 'The Beast Tamer.'
*This starts when the exorcists are in Edo.*
Disclaimer- I don't own D. Gray-Man and I never will, unfortunately.
Chapter 1
Piercing screams.
Cries in pain.
Make it stop, please! I can't take it anymore!
Kill me! I'd rather die than live in this hell for another minute!
I lurch forward and fall face first to the red carpeted floor of the train as it makes an abrupt stop at the station. Wiping the sleep out of my eyes with gloved hands, I sit up stretch, sighing in relief on the inside when I hear the sweet cracking of my back. My vibrantly strange, snake-like, bronze eyes sweep the room as I did once before as a bad habit. The room is vacant of anyone else but me. It has a window covered by thick navy curtains and firm velvet seats on both parallel sides of the walls. The wood door is closed and also covered in the same type of curtain as the window. It smells of musk and smoke in the room. Once done investigating the room, my hand draws back the heavy curtain and the same strange eyes look out to the unforgiving world.
I can see that the train is slowly making its way to the station at the edge of London, England, where I will then take a carriage to my next destination. I stand up slowly as to not get dizzy and grab my suitcase that I placed next to me in one hand, with the other I pull the door to the side. I then fix my tan and golden highlighted hair so that it is still in its tight bun and under a grey hat. The golem that has been sleeping on my top of my head wakes up from almost falling to the floor.
What a strange golem I have made, I think as I turn to look at it again, as if expecting it to be different than how I made it. The golem was dubbed the named Widow, for its large bright red diamond on its back. The name suited the pretty golem; for it was very similar to the Black Widow Spider. It was black too; it even had eight tiny legs on him. It had three white dots in a line next to each of the two large dots that I considered the golem's eyes. Most golems don't have eyes so I guessed this symbolized its eyes, but would never open. The strangest thing about the communicator was its large smile (A/N- like Tim's smile). It had retractable bat structured wings that it used to fly around my head, as if showing it was upset that I disturbed its beauty sleep. All I did was raise an eyebrow at Widow and let it settle itself on my shoulder. Since it was a bit chilly out, Widow snuggled under my thick black coat that hid any body shape under it, I don't doubt Widow would have gotten a small malfunction if let out in the cold it wasn't used to.
I walk out of the private room and made my way toward the exit. As I walk away from the old over used station I pass by some dirty miners and a small child. The young boy with his mouth and nose covered wasn't watching where he is going and bumps into me, pressing his face to my stomach before falling back. I quickly grab his arm lightly so the child doesn't hurt himself on the cobblestone ground. The three of the miners run over and start to apologize and fuss over the boy at the same time.
"We are so sorry miss he's a bit clumsy at times." One of the men with a light tan and large spiral glasses so thick I couldn't see his eyes says to me with a bit more manners than I expected of a poor miner, but I let it go.
"Ya 'ave to be a bit mo' careful Eeez." The one with a hat on his head looks worriedly at the boy who I now know is named Eeez and takes him from me.
"Yeah ya can't go aroun' bumpin' inta people like that, sorry lady, he didn't mean ta do that." The one with a strange hair cut looks between me and Eeez. I nod my head to them and bend to look at Eeez in the eye. I noticed the child got a bit of what I assume is chocolate on my coat and the men also see it in contrast to the coat's color. "Oh! Lady, ya 'ave somethin' on ya jacket! I'm so sorry!"
"It is fine, I felt the need to take it to the cleaners anyway, I was just looking for an excuse and you gave me the perfect one. I noticed the sweet fell, but I don't have any of that. I do have this though, would you like it?" I take out a large lollipop from my pocket and hold it out towards Eeez. He nods, happy I wasn't upset and yelled at him, and takes the candy with no hesitation. I stand up and nod to all the men surrounding the boy. They also hold large smiles on their faces as well. I turn and make my way toward the carriages taxis.
"Thank you, miss!" Eeez yells happily as I walk away, I only look back for a moment and raise a hand as a farewell to the four of them.
I walk down the cobblestone road towards a small open black carriage. I tell the driver to take me to a road by the edge of the woods that he recognizes immediately. Once inside the carriage and paid the driver with a large tip he argued with me for quite a bit, I lean back and rest my eyes a bit as the carriage moves down the road shakily.
I must have been having a nightmare of my past back in the train cabin, since I can't remember anything that has happened. I wish I could dream about the good parts of my life, with my two nephews and my sister and my brother-in-law. But alas, I can only have nightmares or no dreams at all.
I miss them so much. I can barely take knowing I am the only one left of the whole family. My older sister, her husband's brother, my two nephews, my mother and father, my lover, all of them are gone. I can't kill myself, they wouldn't want me to. Though, I doubt Cyrus would care, that man was always a little twat, but I loved him. I loved all of them, I still do.
I peer at the roof as the carriage comes to a complete stop. The unnamed driver gives me a hand out, seeing as I am a woman, and smiles saying that we reached the destination. I thank him and take my bag from the man, walking away and down the road. Once the carriage is gone, I take and abrupt turn towards the forest, Widow leading the way the whole time.
We reach a cliff and I circle it, following Widow to an elevator. I raise an eyebrow as Widow slams into a button, taking us directly to the top of the cliff. As the contraption goes upward, I wipe the chocolate from my coat, making it seem as if the situation never happened at all.
This is it, where I will be working till I am taken back to experimentation or am killed by an akuma. I really am going to dislike it here but I will learn to deal as I always have since 'joining' this terrible organization. The elevator comes to a stop and I step out, seeing the front entrance to what I assume can only be one thing.
The Black Order's European Headquarters.
There is a long path from where I stand with the elevator behind me. I can't waste any more time, and I start to walk up the path to the front gate of the Order. As I get closer the building is no long partially blocked by trees that surround the building and I finally inspect where I should be staying.
It is an obsidian building with arch windows. It's so tall that a quarter of the building is covered by clouds. The rest has a thin fog that encircles the building, making it seem dark and eerie. There are bat-like golems fluttering around the building and I feel them watch me as I take my steps toward the dark place. Widow notices and snuggles closer to me, burying herself in my large coat. If this is the building of the good guys, then is the bad guys must have rainbows and butterflies (A.N- hehe… Skin's room and Tyki's Teeze…).
I am about fifteen feet from the door when a man's voice comes over on a diamond shaped golem that lingered around the building. The man sounds young and curious of me. I stop walking and look toward the golem.
"What is your purpose in coming here?"
Komui P.O.V
I hear a crowd gather around me when I ask them if they see the person walking toward the Order. No one has come here like this since Allen, and he ended up being an exorcist. I step towards the microphone and turn it on.
"What is your purpose in coming here?" I ask the person.
That's when they speak and I realize it's a woman in the burly coat.
"I would like an audience with Supervisor Mr. Komui Lee, please. I am the new transfer scientist by orders of the Vatican. My name is Dr. Campbell. Mr. Lee should have received a letter in the mail, notifying him of my arrival." Her smooth, formal voice was light but held a firm pitch to it.
Crap, I think. I look around hastily and pick a random scientist.
"You find that letter she is talking about, I think I remember it." This earns me a smack to the back of the head.
"You go look for it too!" Reever isn't happy. It takes us 4 minutes to find the letter. I quickly scan the letter, finding that it was the new scientist I had requested, 4 months ago. I walk back over to the microphone.
"You're all good! We just need to get you scanned so you'll have to take off the little coat of yours." I say gleefully. Dr. Campbell slowly removes her hood, giving us a look at her, what was visible.
She was wearing a large black trench coat, tight black pants and fingerless red leather gloves. She was covered from her 2 inch knee high boots to the neck. She was beautiful with bronze eyes and it was up but I could tell that she had unnatural tan-golden hair hidden in a dark grey wool hat. She looked to be in her 20s, from what I can tell. I noticed she was a bit pale and malnourished, we can't fix the paleness but a week with Jerry will be good for her. What's best is she was a woman, a friend for my sweet Lenalee! I don't have to worry about any more octopi going after my sweet angel girl!
Once the scan is complete, I plan on giving her tour of the order so I can get out of doing all that work in my office, what was left of it. She passed with no problem and was on her way inside soon enough. I caught up with her in large hall considered the entrance in the building, surprised when she wasn't looking around the room with curious eyes like most new people. Strange.
"Well, I'm Komui Lee! Shall we start the tour and then get you to your room so you can rest and start tomorrow?" I say enthusiastically to the new scientist.
"I already memorized the map of the building and which room I was ordered to stay in, I am not tired so I believe I will just go over the documents of the exorcists I will be helping and meet my new… comrades." She says walking slowly towards the direction of the lab, brushing by me. I stand a moment stunned at the information and the closer look I got on Dr. Campbell, but I soon shock my head and followed her none the less.
She had the look of a dead person in her eyes. Was it a trick of the eye?
Reever P.O.V
Maybe the entrance of the new scientist will get Komui to stop worrying about Lenalee and the rest of them. He just got off the intercom with Allen, who was in the ark, and wouldn't stop talking about how he hopes he's okay along with Lenalee.
Sometimes (most of the time), I wonder how I deal with that man.
Komui walks in after the new scientist whose name is, if I remember, Dr. Campbell. I hope nothing is weird about her. It would be really nice to have at least one sane person around here to talk to. I inspect her, she is rather pretty, gorgeous even. The letter said she was put here by the Inspector Leverrier. She must have some past with him to be put her directly by him, wonder what he's done to her.
"Hi, I'm Reveer, nice to meet you."
"Greetings, my name is Thays Campbell. It is nice to meet you too." Too formal, like she was a computer.
"This is Johnny and Tapp, the other scientists are on lunch break. You'll meet them later on. Johnny, Tapp, this is Dr. Campbell, she is our new scientist. Treat her well."
"It is a pleasure to meet both of you. I hope we can all get along well." She doesn't smile back at either of them. They blink at her and I wonder what there're looking at. What was so different about her? Then I get a look for myself.
All life had been sucked from her eyes. Bronze, third place, a beautiful but now haunting color it seems as I look into their depths between long thick, dark eyelashes. I feel frozen and can't look away from their scary lair, the owner not even realizing what she had done.
"Well, why don't we show Dr. Campbell her new desk space, Reveer?" It's Komui who pulled us all out of our little trance. We walk through a maze of paper to the corner of the room to where a spare desk is kept, it's not empty, in fact it has piles of papers on it.
"I'm sorry about the mess." Komui scratches the back of his neck.
"It is fine, it can easily be cleaned. I have orders by the Inspector to study the exorcists I will be working with and their innocence so I can be more of a help when they all return from their missions of collecting the Generals. If you would like to see the note I will show it to you." She takes a letter out of her small and only bag and gives it to Komui. He looks it over and nods, making a motion for her to follow him to where the files are. Like the rest of the office, the file room is also a mess. Once again Komui is scratching the back of his neck.
"You'll have to find them all; they're kind of all over the place." Like she'd ever find them in this mess of a room, I think to myself. All she does is nod and make a motion to start looking. Komui starts to walk away and I cast a look at the beautiful new scientist before walking swiftly to catch up to him.
"You think she'll find all those documents?" I peer at him, waiting for an answer.
"To be honest, I hope not. The letter stated she was to read all of the files on the exorcists, their innocence, relations, and how they got into the Order. That means my Lenalee's past will be known by a stranger and so will Kanda's past as a second. I don't want her to use it anywhere or do something stupid with it." I stand with wide eyes as Komui walks away to his office. Hopefully, to do work, but probably to sleep and run experiments that have nothing to do with the Order.
What a strange but brilliant and caring man Komui is. I smile lightly and go back to my own work.
Thays' P.O.V
I observe the mountain of piles in the small, cramped and dark room. I sigh in my head and move towards the mountains.
Let's get started on this.
A.N- Hey I'm deleting the other one and posting all the new crap on this one. I combined chapter one and two and add/fixed a lot. So even if you already read it, I suggest you go back. Okay? Thanks and if you want, leave a question or anything you think about the story! It would help a lot! Thanks again!
