A/N: I have been trying SO hard to come up with a good way to make this character, and I think I finally came up with it. I mostly just had a template I wanted her to fit, but I finally have her!!! Please review and tell me if you think she's okay…no matter when! Also, I made up Skelling, Arizona. If there is a Skelling, please tell me so I can change it. And as a final word before the disclaimer, each chapter has a theme song. This one's theme song is "Photograph" by Nickelback. I do not own D. Gray-Man, because I'm just not that cool.
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"I can't believe this is the place…" She black haired girl looked up at the looming building. She had been told it was foreboding but this… the phrase that came to mind was "Dr. Frankenstein's Laboratory".
Sighing, she picked up her knapsack, which was filled with what was left of her few belongings. This was a time when she kinda wished she had asked if- what was that guy named again? Toma, or something?- would come with her. If that didn't work, get down on her knees and literally BEG.
With another heavy sigh, she continued onward. She began to randomly wonder if someone would talk to her of their own accord. People often avoided her because she looked really, really scary to people who had experience with the Clan of Noah. As it was, from what she knew, her grandmother had been a Noah. Neither of her parents or her older brother had inherited the looks. And of course SHE had to be the unlucky one who scared people. But she was used to it. She had looked like a serial killer for her past 19 years of life.
There were times when people over-reacted that she thought about really freaking them out and activating what Toma had referred to as 'Innocence'. It was pretty scary-looking, seeing as it resembled a banshee. Get really crazy on them.
Naw, I wouldn't go THAT far. She thought. I would never show my face anywhere again if I sunk that low.
A little black golem like the one she had seen Toma with flapped in her face. "Please state your name."
"Huh?" She said like she was brain-dead. Mentally slapping herself, she regained what composure she had left. "Uhm, I'm Celesta Mae Treani. I was told to come here by…Toma, I think?"
"Another person?" Komui asked.
"She just showed up." A sleep-deprived Reever replied. "Kinda like Allen. Only this time we don't have to search your messy desk. I remember the call from Toma."
"Really? Wherever from?"
Reever sighed. The Chief was so beyond stupid sometimes. "From Arizona, remember? Skelling, where the 'banshees' had been attacking?"
"Check the records, just in case. She looks…suspicious."
There had been about 13.2 minutes of searching through several golems' memory when they were reminded why they were searching these golems. "Um, HELLO? Did I, like, get rejected? Or something? Will somebody tell me what's going on?" The annoyed 19-year-old's voice brought them back to the fact that a new Exorcist had showed up. "It's starting to rain, so let me in or throw me out." There was a pause and she cocked her head to the side. "You realize I'm used to being thrown out on my butt so telling me to get lost isn't rude."
"She's gonna be a fun one." Komui said. "Reever, get her situated for me."
"WHAAT?! Why me?!" Reever growled.
"Fine, get someone ELSE to do it, but just find someone for me." He started walking off then stopped. "And make sure she isn't a suspicious character."
Where's he going in such a hurry? Reever wondered. Until, of course, Celesta threw a big rock at the window, causing it to break. "Excellent aim." He muttered.
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In the dining hall, Allen, Lenalee, Lavi and Chaoji (Kanda had left after fiercely ignoring the other four) sat eating their dinner. All except Chaoji who, despite a month or so of seeing Allen's disturbing eating habits, always lost his appetite if sat within a 30 meter radius of him.
"Allen, I've seriously been contemplating you don't have a stomach." Lavi said, causing the white-haired Exorcist to pause in eating. "I'm pretty sure all of that food goes into an alternate dimension in which a human could survive for 10 or more years."
This remark lightened the mood, earning Lavi a bunch of laughs from everyone but Allen who rewarded him with a swift kick in the shin. Just then another wave of thunder caused the Order to shiver, scaring the inhabitants. Some people close to the windows fell off their chairs and yelped with surprise and occasional pain, while others just yelped in surprise.
"Jeez, I swear one of these days this place is going to fall apart during a gale." Lavi muttered, righting himself from where he'd been on the floor. The sudden yelling had surprised him into jumping out of his chair.
"Please don't say that, Lavi!" Whimpered Chaoji. "I hate storms."
"It's okay!" Lenalee's well-honed motherly instincts (courtesy of Komui) leapt into action. "Lavi was only joking. This home is more well-made than you think!"
Once again, the thunder rolled across the roof of the Black Order, causing another shock wave of yelps and cries and the sound of Allen choking on the dango he had been eating. Lavi jumped to the rescue by whacking Allen's back and finally the goop dislodged itself from his throat. Unfortunately, it landed on Reever who had suddenly shown up.
"Sorry, Reever!" Allen said quickly, and then suddenly stiffened up. Just beyond his right shoulder was a tall black-haired girl around Lavi's height looking as though she had just been saved from drowning in a pool. The sight brought back some really terrible memories, and he felt Lenalee, who was sitting next to him, stiffen up. "Um…"
"Its okay, Allen…" Reever grumbled, but the tone in his voice indicated otherwise. He suddenly noticed the distress being caused and decided to cut to the chase. "Anyway, before I get back to work, Komui asked me to introduce you to our newest Exorcist; Celesta, this is Allen Walker, Lavi, Chaoji Han, and Lenalee Lee."
No one said a word, so Celesta assumed these people assumed she was not an ally. Sending a death glare at them that even Kanda would have a hard time beating, she looked like she didn't give a crap what they thought of her. Reever sensed the fur flying before it started and took into account Celesta's pale skin and tawny eyes. To the four who had been in the battle of the Ark, she probably brought back bad memories. Her giving them a look like she may very well decide to kill them probably wasn't helping her already sorry case.
"Please try to get along; I don't have any more time for this." Reever begged. "I don't need you to be best friends, I'm not asking you to be either, but I need someone to get Celesta orientated." The four looked at each other, as if debating the chances of who would win if they drew straws. Reever sighed again. Looking over at Celesta, whose death glare had not wavered since she got there, he really began to wonder if he shouldn't have just dropped this on Johnny. No, the poor guy would probably get killed.
"I honestly have a lot to do today, so if you could figure this out without adult supervision it would be great." Reever told them. Behave…behave…behave… he silently ordered. Hoping that when he turned around he would not hear the sounds of a massacre, he left.
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Celesta landed face-first with a flop on her new bed. Her room was okay sized, bigger than the flat she had to share with four other people in the apartment building in Skelling. Ah, Skelling. If all Hell was let loose, it would head straight for Skelling. Bad stuff always happened in Skelling. It was like there was a big glow-in-the-dark neon colored sign that screamed (with theme music) "If you feel like causing a huge problem, come here!"
With a soft chuckle that came out a snort, she thought about her two best friends in the whole wide world, Elizabeth and Melody. The things they got up to were a riot. Such as actually making a sign (just painted, they didn't have glow-in-the-dark resources) that said "SKELLING! Home of the largest collection of CIA and government secrets since Area 51!" That got a huge laugh from the townspeople who needed a brighter morning.
Another funny incident was when the three girls had switched all of the Aspirin boxes in the city to laxative boxes and then played loud music. Unfortunately, several annoying wanna-be punk-rockers and children who thought they were the epitome of emo to their sides, all thinking it was a rave. The punch line was when the fire department got involved and chased off the huge group. They got chastised for playing loud music past curfew (if there was really a curfew), but weren't discovered for the laxative prank. That landed on the head of a wanna-be punk-rocker-emo who didn't get the message about leaving.
Celesta took out a photo of her and Elizabeth and Melody at Halloween when they all got did up as The Crow from those old comics and went to a party that ending with the three getting kicked out because they had switched off all the lights in the house. Elizabeth had her blonde hair tied back in a French braid. Her periwinkle-blue eyes stood in stark contrast to the black eye makeup in a triangle below and above her eye. Melody had ginger-brown hair and luminous green eyes even without the black to accent them. And then there was Celesta, who didn't need any white face make-up because of her already obnoxiously pale complexion. Their smiles were huge and care-free.
She felt a hot wetness rolling down her cheeks. She quickly wiped the tears away. Why am I so upset? She wondered. I don't remember the last time I cried like this…not even when I said goodbye to them for good at graduation. Not even at my parent's and brother's funeral.
Deciding it was because of being in a new unfamiliar place, she put the photo away and picked up her notebook. Flipping through the pages she found one that had no writing on it. To keep from getting upset over something stupid like being sentimental, she went over the day's events, writing them down so she wouldn't forget them.
Got to the Black Order. Was greeted by the four Exorcists known as Lavi, Lenalee, Chaoji, and Allen. Introduced to them by chief of the Science Department Reever.
The aforementioned drew straws over who was to take me on a tour.
Was given 'the tour' by Lenalee.
Literally ran into Miranda and Kanda while falling down three flights of stairs.
Gawked at by several people. Some ran for cover.
Cleared the entire dining hall at dinner just by showing up.
Fell down the…hole..Hevlaska's chambers were located in.
Tripped over a bug.
Ran into a pillar on way to the library.
Ran into the same pillar on way out of the library.
Got locked out of own bedroom.
Once found the key, forgot which room was mine.
Sat down to write.
The thing accomplished:
Made no new friends
Managed to not break any bones despite the amount of klutziness exercised.
Ah, yes. Her day in a nutshell. Proof of how welcome she was at the Black Order.
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A/N: the actual story took up 4 pages. That felt like a really little bit considering I worked on it for 3 days (anger mark). I hope to put in more about the Clan of Noah. I love Road and Tyki-Pon! And I'm debating bringing Elizabeth and Melody into the story…it's tempting. Please tell me, and please review! If you do I will give you a mental hug!!!!!
