I'm being stupid again and starting a new story.

But you see, I loooooove the idea for this story, and I wanted to publish it quickly because so far I haven't read any fanfics with this plotline, so I thought it would be sorta cool if I was the first, and I didn't want anyone to beat me to it! So, yeah, I posted first chappie.

It's kinda rushed and messy and not my best work, but I was in such a hurry to post it, lol.

Anyhoo, enjoy! And leave a review at the end!

*Disclaimer

Do not own . Wish I did. Would glomp Lavi nonstop.

The Innocence Revolution

Chapter One

Lenalee hit the wall with a sickening thud.

Lavi didn't see it, he only heard it. Heard the sound beautiful exorcist hitting the wall of the stone church. Heard the sound of her bones cracking and splintering. Heard the soft thump her body made as it hit the ground.

Heard Allen scream out her name.

Lavi gritted his teeth and blinked the blood out of his eyes, standing up and lifting his shaking hands. His Innocence had reverted back to two red bracelets around his wrists; he'd exhausted it long ago, when they'd fought the first Level 4.

The four exorcists, Lavi, Allen, Kanda, and Lenalee, had already been tired from trapsaising all over the outskirts of Moscow, looking for a pond that was rumoured to temporarily grant the power of flight to whoever bathed in it (a sure claim to Innocence), when they had run into a horde of Level 2 Akuma, plus a Level 4. The Level 2s had gone down easily through the combined powers of the four exorcists, and soon only the Level 4 was left.

Like all Level 4s, this one was disgusting, sadistic, and impossible to kill. Even with four powerful Exorcists-three of which having already defeated a Level 4 or two-the Akuma was a deadly opponent. It was probably because, unlike the other battles with Level 4s, the Exorcists were facing it in a wide, open area in the middle of nowhere. The only buildings and obstructions around being a small stone church, where the pond was supposed to be located.

The church was now missing its roof, with one wall obliterated.

The Level 4 had pounded them relentlessly. Lenalee had been knocked out, Lavi had been trapped under stones that had fallen from the church, and Kanda and Allen, beaten and exhausted, had had to face the Akuma alone.

Then they too, had been thrown, senseless, to the ground.

It seemed all hope was lost.

Lavi looked down at the red bracelets, blinking his eye slowly. What had happened then was still a clear, burning memory in his mind. Something that he wasn't sure he should be proud of or be deeply regretting.....

Flashback

The sound was fading in and out around him....black spots danced in front of his eyes....

To the side, he could see Lenalee crumpled in the snow....her hair, now well past her shoulders, fanning out around her, ringed by red....

Allen was down, almost invisible in the snow...if not for the dark red splashes on his body...

He could hear the sounds of Kanda....no....Kanda had fallen....a black, bloody speck on the ground.....now no one was....no, wait, Allen had gotten up....now only Allen was fighting...Allen was alone....

No....Lenalee, Lenalee was back on her feet. She had invocated her innocence again.....as she flew up into the air, blood fell like a red shower from her body....

Now Kanda was up, Lavi couldn't hear him, or see his lips moving, but he knew Kanda was cursing, cursing as he drew Mugen and leapt back into the fight.....

Why? Why couldn't he do that? Why couldn't Lavi find the strength to get up...to fight....to fight for....

His friends?

But he was a Bookman, and Bookmen didn't have friends, they didn't have hearts. They couldn't.

But what about now?

When his not-friends were in danger?

What was he supposed to do?

He had tried so hard....all this time....pretending......

But what was he pretending?

Was he pretending that he had a heart? And cared about what was going around him?

Or was he pretending that he didn't?

He was a Bookman, only with the Order to record the hidden war....all the people he met....they were just ink on paper......

Lavi gritted his teeth as he heard Allen scream out in anguish.

There just ink on paper.....I don't care......

Lenalee fell from the air like a butterfly that had just had its wings shot out by a sniper.

I...I don't care! I don't!

They're.....they're just....they're just.....MY FRIENDS!

Lavi struggled up, pushing the rocks off of him as he closed his eyes and gritted his teeth in pain.

I have to help them! I have to help them! I HAVE TO HELP MY FRIENDS!

I WON'T LET THEM JUST BE INK ON PAPER!

Lavi's eyes snapped open wide, and he hissed in pain as his hammer shattered in his hands, the Innocence fragments burrowing deep into his skin. Blood oozed out from a dozen deep cuts all around his wrists, and ran down into the snow. Blood flowed for a few seconds, and then stopped, leaving tiny cross-shaped lacerations on Lavi's wrists. Then, the blood began bubbling, and it flew up to encircle each of Lavi's wrists, creating perfect, blood-red bracelets.

Lavi blinked slowly as he looked at them, and then his eye narrowed. He grunted as he pushed the heavy stones off of his body, and stood up shakily, calling out in a loud, clear voice:

"Innocence! Invocate!"

Lavi gritted his teeth as the bracelets expanded and clamped onto his wrists tightly. The bracelets were now formed of two thick bars, with five elemental signs trapped between; ten signs between the two bracelets.

Lavi looked at the bracelets, confusion written all over his face.

The hell am I supposed to do with these? This isn't my hammer! How am I supposed to help Allen, Lenalee and Kanda with two stupid bracelets!

Just then, as if responding to his emotions, one of the symbols on the Left bracelet began to glow.

The fire symbol.

Suddenly, there was a flash of green light and in Lavi's left hand appeared a medium sized hammer.

Made entirely of fire.

Lavi's eyes widened and then narrowed as he tightened his hold on the flaming handle, not even the least bit surprised that it wasn't burning him.

So this was the power of crystallization.

Lavi half closed his eyes, silently thanking his Innocence for giving him this strength, before his eye flew open and he charged forward, raising his transformed Innocence.

"Little Hammer, Big Hammer, Grow, Grow, Grow!"

End flashback.

They had defeated the Level 4 Akuma, barely.

Exhausted, and badly injured the Exorcists had hobbled into the ruined church, resting against its stones wall as they used Kanda's golem to contact the Finders in Moscow, alerting them to their position, and condition.

Lenalee and Kanda had then left to try and find the Innocence, leaving Allen-who was hurt worse out of all of them (damn martyr)- and Lavi, who was exhausted after the first time use of his crystallized Innocence.

Lavi's Innocence was now a combination of its powers as 'Big Hammer, Little Hammer', as well as its elemental powers. The hammer would now be formed entirely out of whatever element Lavi was using at the time, whether it was fire, lightning, wood, water, wind, or something else. He now had the ability to use his elemental seals directly, with every hammer attack, and with increased power.

Lenalee had returned to Allen and Lavi, and informed them that they had found the pond, but they hadn't found the actual Innocence yet. She had been walking towards them, fretting over Allen's injuries and chiding him for being so reckless...

And that was when Allen's eye had activated suddenly and violently, causing him to cry out in pain.

And that was when the wall beside them exploded, and an energy blast sent Lavi and Allen skidding across the floor, opening up wounds and leaving bloody skid marks behind them.

And that was when Lenalee went flying into the other stone wall. Crunch.

And that was when Allen screamed out her name in anguish.

And that was when Lavi gritted his teeth and blinked the blood out of his eyes, standing up shakily and weakly lifting his hands.

Where he was now. Staring at the second giggling Level 4 with narrowed eyes.

"Innocence! Invocate!" shouted Lavi, lifting his shaking hands. The bracelets around his wrists glowed and then tightened painfully. Lavi gasped and grimaced as black marks extended up from the bracelets and wrapped painfully around his arms.

Damn, he thought, I haven't had it for like, five minutes, and I'm already pushing my Innocence past its limits....

"Exorcists....." cooed the Level 4, in its disturbing, high voice. "Won't you come and play with me?"

Allen howled, and leapt at the Akuma, ignoring his wounds as he drew the Sword of Exorcism.

"Akuma! I won't let you hurt my friends! I'll set those trapped souls within you free!"

Crown Clown wrapped around the teen, and the silver mask fell into place as he used Clown belt to launch himself at the Level 4 hovering in the air.

The Akuma giggled, and opened its mouth wide, revealing sinister cannon. He began firing a hail of bullets at Allen, which were blocked by Crown Clown's cloak.

"Cross Grave!" shouted Allen, sending his attack at the Akuma, who did a somersault in the air and dodged it. The Akuma then increased it speed suddenly, and charged right into Allen. Allen cried out in pain as he was slammed into the wall. The teen than gritted his teeth and stabbed the Akuma with Crown Clown, ripping through its body. The Level 4 screamed and released Allen, falling down a few feet before righting itself.

"Ouch, that hurt!" it complained.

Allen slid down the wall before using Clown belt to slow his descent. The teen stood shakily, coughing up blood and with a dozen wounds everywhere on his body.

The Akuma laughed again and then opened its mouth, this time revealing a new cannon. A deep glow could be seen within the recesses of the weapon, and anyone who looked at it would immediately know that it wasn't bullets that would be coming from it.

Lavi leapt at the Akuma, ignoring the pain in his arms as he raised his flaming Innocence.

"GROW! GROW! GROW!"

The Hammer grew to an impressive size, and Lavi slammed the mass of flames onto the Akuma, smashing the Level 4 into the ground while sending ridiculously hot flames ripping through its body.

Almost immediately, a vicious beam of light exploded up from the ground. The hammer was flung upwards, and Lavi with it, sending both of them into the ceiling and then crashing to the floor.

The Level 4, rose up from the floor, giggling like mad. "Aw...you have to do better than that!"

"Damn Moyashi and Usagi, can't you do anything right?!"

The Akuma turned around, a pout on its gruesome face. "Huh? Did someone come to ruin my fun?"

"Fuck yeah, Hakka Tourou!"

Kanda leapt at the Akuma, using his double illusion blades to quickly slash the Akuma eight devastating times. The Level 4 screamed and then raised its hand and simply whacked Kanda away, continuing to scream at the top of its lungs.

The Japanese Exorcist flew into a wall, crashing through the stone work with the force of the impact and sending him out into the snow outside, body broken beyond repair.

"Yuu!" cried Lavi, staggering to his feet and once again activating his Innocence.

"AUGGGGH!" Lavi fell to his knees, clutching his arms as a terrible pain ripped through them.

....Shit.....

"Cross Grave!"

The Akuma was sent flying backwards by Allen's unexpected attack, and was then smashed into the ground as the full weight of the Sword of Exorcism crashed down upon it.

"Bring salvation to this pitiful Akuma's soul!" cried Allen through a mouthful of blood.

The Akuma screamed again as its body was seemingly cut in two, but then began giggling.

"Stupid Exorcist, do you honestly think you can win?" it whispered, before its eyes and pentacle mark began glowing sinisterly.

Then it exploded.

The remaining walls of the church were blown out, as stone and debris flew everywhere in a massive cloud of dust and fire. The Exorcists were lost in the explosion, disappearing in the smoke and stone.

The Level 4 floated above the carnage, unscathed, and giggling gleefully to itself.

"Bye-bye exorcists!" it cooed. "Now, for that Innocence....oh bother, I've made such a mess of the place! Now it's gonna be so hard to find!"

The Akuma began hovering over the wreckage of the church, descending as it searched for the Innocence. It saw no signs of the Exorcists, and laughed at the thought that he had blown them- and their accursed Innocence-into smithereens.

Just then, the Level 4 saw something glowing underneath a mass of fallen timber. Giggling gleefully to itself, it began moving the wood aside, happy to have found the Innocence so quickly.

Clearing the last of the debris aside, the Akuma frowned.

It wasn't the Innocence he had been looking for, it was the Innocence of that girl, the one who he had taken care of earlier on, and the Innocence was still attached to her legs in the form of two glowing rings.

The Level 4 sighed. Not the Innocence he was looking for.

The girl herself seemed to be quite dead, with blood covering her body and bones sticking out grotesquely from several inches of her skin. Her limbs were contorted into shapes that no human limbs should be, and the Akuma was sure that she was quite dead, and not an issue.

Her glowing Innocence though....

Innocence was Innocence right?

The Level 4 reached for the glowing rings, wondering how exactly it was to get them off. It supposed that it could just slice off her feet and take it to the Earl like that....

"No......"

The Akuma frowned and turned around.

That kid, the weird one with the white hair, the one that the Earl had told him to specifically to take care of, was crawling towards him, blood plastering his now red tinged hair to his scratched and bruised face, and his right arm bent awkwardly to the side as he used his exhausted Innocence arm to pull himself forward.

"L-Lenalee...."

The Level 4 smiled, more Innocence to bring back! Now he'd have to carry back two severed feet, and a severed arm. That was a bit of a bother, but he was sure to be praised for bringing back not just one, but two Innocence. From Exorcists no less! And one of them Allen Walker! The Earl's hated nemesis!

The Level 4's smile widened into a sinister grin, and it floated towards the crippled teen.

"Aaaallen Waaaalker. Teehee, The Earl told us all about yooouuuu."

Allen coughed up blood and continued crawling towards Lenalee, ignoring the Akuma, and the pain that pervaded his body. He dragged himself forward, until he was less than an inch away from the girl's battered form, but then he cried out in pain.

The Level 4, stepping heavily on Allen's back, cruelly continued to apply pressure the youth's wounded body.

"Heehee, lookie lookie what I got! I got two Innocences for the Earl! And an Exorcist pet for Lady Road! Lady Road loves to have pets to play with, did you know that Allen Walker? But she goes through them so fast. This girl, do you think she will last long with Lady Road? She already looks pretty dead. If there's any life left in her, do you think she'll last very long with the Lady Noah of Dreams?" teased the Level 4.

"No! Leave Lenalee alone!" screamed Allen, bucking the Akuma off his back and making a mad dash for his wounded friend.

The Level 4 flew back a bit before scowling and flying back at Allen, wrapping one ghastly around the youths neck and smashing his face into the ground. Blood spurted from Allen's nose, and bubbled up from his mouth. The Akuma ground the Exorcist's face into the dirt and bent down so that its face was beside Allen's.

"Silly Exorcist," it whispered, bringing its mouth disturbingly close to Allen's ear. "You should stop fighting. Don't you see? We've won. Now be a good little boy and cooperate. I'm going to kill you now, and it would be great if you didn't make a fuss. Though....." The Level 4 smiled its cruel, disturbing smile, grabbing Allen's hair and yanking his head up. "You can say goodbye to your dead girlfriend, before she becomes one of Lady Road's dolls."

Allen coughed, and blinked blood out of his eyes as he saw the blurry form of Lenalee's broken body stretched out in front of him.

Dazedly, he stretched out his left hand, reaching out towards the girl. His fingers were close to her legs, grazing just above her ankles. The Akuma laughed at the pitiful display, and jerked Allen backwards. The white haired youth's fingers brushed against the red bracelets around Lenalee's legs.

There was a bright flash of green light, and pain shot through the Akuma, causing it to scream in anguish and scramble away. A green sphere of light expanded out from the two Exorcists, and encompassed the entire area. The Akuma screamed and tried to fly away, but crashed to the ground. It curled up in a ball, skin peeling and cracking as it was bathed in the green glow.

Slowly, the glow retreated.

The Level 4 opened its eyes and jerked upwards, grimacing in pain.

What...what was that?!!

The Akuma tried to get up, only to be shoved down roughly by something.

"Hey!" it squeaked, pushing upwards of the snowy ground. Once more, it was shoved forcefully back down into the snow.

"Foul servant of the Noah, you've hurt my precious girl. Now you must pay."

The Level 4's eyes widened and it turned its head, looking upwards.

"I-impossible!" spluttered the Akuma, looking at the woman with one booted foot planted firmly on its back, her green hair spilling over her shoulders in voluminous curls.

The Level 4 whimpered in fear and tried to scramble out from underneath the woman's high-heeled boot, only to have a foot planted squarely on his forehead stop his escape. The Akuma's eyes travelled upwards, widening as it saw the asian man before it, with slicked back black hair and cold black eyes.

"Che, you're disgusting. Imagine, filth like you beating my Kanda. Well, you're not going to beat me."

The Akuma was then forcibly jerked upwards, grabbed by the skin on its chest. It squealed in pain, and looked down into the green eyes of the angry looking red-haired woman holding it up in the air. A ball of flame appeared in her right hand, and she stared at the Level 4 with contempt and rage.

"No one can touch my Lavi but me," she snarled, throwing the Akuma to the ground. The Level 4 than felt something sharp the back of its neck, and it turned its head the other way.

It was then, staring up at the tall figure with spiky white hair and face mostly obscured by a mask, that the Akuma knew its time had come to an end.

"You hurt my Allen," growled the figure, flexing the claws on his left hand, "and now, pitiful Akuma, prepare to reap the hell that you have sown and release the tortured souls you have consumed!"

Okay, Review! What do you think? Do you have an idea of who those 'people' at the end were and why the Akuma was so freaked out? Come on, come on, Review!

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