The Lost One

Loneliness. That is all that I feel when I walk through the huge, empty halls of the Black Order HQ. I ama martial artist, not an exorcist! I think as I pass the totally packed dining hall, with my older brother stuffing himself silly almost every hour of the day. Allow me to explain my situation. My name is Katherine Walker, and I am a 13 years old. I am martial artist trained to fight for the good of mankind. I have a slightly paralyzed right arm and silvery white hair that is right in between my shoulder and my elbow, my strange features finished off by an odd-looking red scar that goes across my right eye, that allows me to see the souls of akuma, just like my big brother Allen. Up until about five weeks ago, I was living happily in a small house on Mt. Pawse with my foster family. A man named Goku, his wife ChiChi, and their 11 year old son, Gohan. I loved it there. The sweet smell of the trees around the cottage made me all warm inside, the soft wind broken by the mountain that gently stung my cheek whenever I stepped outside. I think you can plainly see why I dislike this dark, musty castle. Partially because of the smell, but mostly of the bad memories that wash over me whenever I cross the path of another exorcist, but mostly my brother. You see, when I was only 2, I was abandoned by my previous faster father, Mana, and my brother. I have no idea why, I guess that Mana just didn't want two freaks around, that one was enough. I was raised and trained by Goku and his family and friends, and I came to know them as my own family and home. When I was only six, Gohan and I were forced to learn martial arts under the wing of Piccolo because of the upcoming saiyan invasion, and spent the next year preparing for it. But after they had come and gone, there was still the problem of our fallen comrades, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu, along with our master, Piccolo, who had just admitted that he saw Gohan and I as his very first friends. We soon set out to Namik, the home planet of Piccolo, in hopes to use their dragon balls to bring back our friends from the dead. Unfortunately, we met Frieza, an evil alien overlord destroying all life on planets and having his men claim it for him to rule. We also ran into Vegeta, the saiyan that had invaded Earth only a few months ago. We did our best to save the planet and our new Namekian friend, Dende. And man, did we get our butts handed to us. Gohan, Krillin, and I were already half dead when Goku finally arrived. We tried our best to help defeat Frieza, but in the end, the planet was destroyed, and we all had thought that it had taken Goku down with it.

A few years later, we found out that Frieza had somehow survived the explosion, and had brought his father with him to seek out his revenge on Earth. That was when we met Trunks, a kind and timid 17 year old from the future. He informed us on the horrible events that would come to pass of the next three years. Goku, who had just come home from his yearlong training in outer space, Piccolo, who we brought back from otherworld with the dragon balls on Namic, Gohan and I started to train non-stop for the next 3 years, trying to prepare for the android tragedies that would soon come to pass. Time passed, we trained, the androids came and we tried to fight them, but Goku fell ill of a heart virus, and we had to cease our attack. Throughout time, after the Namic incident, Vegeta became our ally, but he still didn't want to be our friend. His goal was to, at some point, surpass Goku in power; I still to this day have no idea why he is so proud, it is annoying. Anyways, Goku recovered in time for Cell to appear and make matters worse, and introduced his Cell Games, which were to happen in 9 days. Gohan, Goku and I trained in the hyperbolic time chamber. It is a strange room on Kami's lookout that connects to a different dimension, where you can train for a whole year on the inside, while on the outside only a day has passed. Time went on and the Cell Games came and went, with Gohan and I being the victors. Everyone was alright, we had lost no one. Over the years my arm had acted up and turned into a huge, metallic-colored arm with claws as sharp as swords where my fingers should have been. It totally freaked me out at first, hating that I had been born with this cursed arm, but I have learned to deal with it.

After about a month had passed, we all had a huge party to celebrate our victory, and that was when it happened. My arm had been hurting a lot after the Cell Games, but I didn't tell anyone because at the time, I thought that I had been cursed for my arm, and did not realize that it was actually innocence. Finally on the day of the party I couldn't take the pain anymore, and let out a loud, blood curdling scream in agony. Gohan was the first to realize that it was me who had screamed and ran to my aid, but it was too late. My innocence had activated on its own and akuma had already set their sights on me. Then I let out another scream as my eye had activated for the first time. I didn't scream in pain that time, but in fear. It had never done that before. When I saw the huge, blimp-like machines, I started to cry out in the sadness of their souls. Now everyone was worried. What is going on? I thought as the akuma targeted me, ready to fire their cannons. What is happening? The pain... I continued to think as my other friends came over to see what was wrong.

"Katie, are you alright?" Gohan asked as I sat there, completely paralyzed in fear and searing pain. He had seen this before, and he knew that I wasn't a normal girl, I mean, he isn't particularly normal himself, he is half saiyan after all. I was only able to mutter two simple words as I fought for consciousness,

"...Gohan...Run..."

"No, I won't leave you!" he yelled. Now Piccolo was at my side, asking if there was anything we could do to help me.

"...Piccolo...get everyone out of here...I'll be fine, just go!" I managed to say, slipping in and out of consciousness now, getting dizzier by the second.

"Katie, Gohan is right, we aren't going to leave you here to die, even if you want us to, we aren't going anywhere." Piccolo said in his deep voice. Gohan slowly started to put his hand on my right shoulder, then lifted his hand to brush back my white hair, which was originally a darkish brown before my scar appeared. He gasped when he saw my eye and found that I was crying.

"Yeah, that's right, we aren't going to leave a teammate in need!" Yamcha said, not knowing what was going on, since he had either been dead or not around when this usually happens. My eye was now starting to really hurt, and that was when I saw it. A boy, about 15, with the exact same arm and eye as me, only on the left side, coming through the cloud of akuma, slicing and hacking at them as he went. Then I heard the unmistakable sound of metal on metal and saw a glowing blue katana sword slice through the remaining akuma. The one with the sword was tall and looked like he was in his late teens, maybe 19? He had long, bluish-black hair and a strange tattoo on one of his shoulders. The other one, the one with my arm and eye, looked exactly like me. Same white hair, same gray colored eyes, and of course, same arm.

"Hey Moyashi, who is that?" The samurai yelled.

"I don't know!" The boy yelled back at him.

"Well, get down there and help her!" The samurai screamed at the boy as he continued to slice the blimps into pieces. Once in awhile, one of my friends would try to get up and fight, but were told to stay put by the two guys. Once all of the demons were destroyed, the two of them landed in front of me.

"...Who...are you?" I stammered weakly. The one that the tall one referred to as "moyashi" said,

"It is okay, you are safe now."

"That still doesn't answer her question," Tien stated,

"Now tell us who you are and what those things are." Yamcha yelled in frustration. I managed to say one last thing before I blacked out for good,

"...Wait, do I know you? Hold on...is that you...Allen?" Yes, it has to be. This boy is my big brother! I thought happily, before I collapsed from pain and exhaustion. I could faintly hear Gohan and the others yell my name in worry as I relaxed and drifted off into my mind.

I woke up in a small hospital bed in a damp smelling room. I felt a cold sweat on my skin as I lift myself up onto my elbows. What the heck happened? One minute I was at the party, and the next my eye and arm went crazy, and I thought I saw my brother. As I tried to sit up, I felt an excruciating amount of pain. I groaned, "Owwww.., smooth, real smooth Katie." I heard someone walk in and found it to be a tall man with medium length blue hair and a beret. He wore a long white lab coat and his hair curled up in the back. He seemed to be around 30 and he had these wire-rimmed glasses, much like my own, only the rims were a bit thinner than mine.

"Oh good, you're awake." He said cooly, "My name is Komui Lee, and I am the chief of the science division here at the Black Order,"

"Where?" I asked out of curiosity, "Where am I, and where are my friends?"

"Your friends are fine, they are out in the hall, but one boy is getting very impatient, would you mind if I let them all in?" Komui asked, completely sincere.

"Of course you can!" Gohan, it has to be you! I thought. Komui opened the door and Goku, Gohan, Yamcha, and Krillin came tumbling inside, with Piccolo close behind.

"Katie! Katie, are you okay? How are you feeling? Are you in any pain?" Gohan pounded me question after question, not letting up until I grabbed his arm and said,

"Gohan, I'm fine! But I would like to know what happened and how I got here." Gohan had this pained expression on his face, and I had seen this face before. He wore this face before when he was only five, when he watched Piccolo die.

"I think I can answer those questions." Just then, the white haired boy walked into the room.

"You!" I shouted excitedly.

"Hello Katherine," He smoothly stated, "Long time, no see, sis."

"Wait, Katie, do you know this guy?" Gohan asked, a bit hurt that I didn't tell him.

"Yes...No...I don't really know." I said shakily, the pain starting to shoot through my arm and eye. I groaned.

"My name is Allen Walker, and you are at the Black Order Headquarters." The boy said, realizing he hadn't answered my questions yet. "My partner and I took you here after you fai-"

"I don't faint, only stupid girls faint! I black out!" I shouted angrily at Allen. Who does he think he is, and what gives him the right to think that I am a helpless little girl, disgusting! I thought as Allen came away from the door frame and sat down next to my bed as if he were trying to comfort me. I cringed as he tried to put his bad arm onto my good one,

"Katie, its okay, he isn't going to hurt you. He just wants to help you out a bit, try to sort things through." Goku said, a bit more serious than usual.

"That's right, I'm not going to hurt my long lost sister!" Allen said happily.

"I am not your sister!" I shouted at him, fury building up inside of me.

"As I was saying, my partner and I took you here after you blacked out. Your friends were a bit reluctant to let you go, though..." Allen drifted off into thought. Just then, I heard a loud crash coming from outside the door,

"Oh man! I can't wait to meet the new girl, some say she is one of the martial artists that fought in the Cell Games!" I heard an overly excited boy cry, getting closer by the second,

"Now hold up Lavi! You don't want to scare her! Allen said that she is in a lot of pain, so try to take it easy on her!" This voice, a girl, was calmer and more sweet that the other one, she seemed nice, but I still tried to sink down further into my bed.

"Lavi! Lenalee! In here!" Allen shouted, and Gohan got up and faced the door, like was awaiting a fight.

"Woooo, Gohan! Its okay, sit back down! I doubt that they want to hurt her!" Goku said in his usual, playful tone. I began to relax just as the door burst open, revealing a tall, red haired teenager with a green headband, a white scarf, and an eyepatch over his right eye. Along with a kind looking girl with long, dark green hair that she had brought up into pigtails. They all wore this strange black and white uniform with a silver crest on it.

"Wow Lenalee, look! She looks exactly like shortstack!" The redhead shouted, and with that Allen got up and walked over to him, and shouted at the top of his lungs,

"Its ALLEN you baka!"

"Okay, sorry, sorry! I didn't mean to upset you!" The redhead apologized. He walked over to my bed and said, "Hey, you know, you are really pretty for a girl your age! How old are you, exactly?" With that, Gohan jumped up and punched the redhead hard right under his chin, giving him whiplash.

"Thank you Gohan." I said to him, very happy that the redhead didn't come any closer because at that point, I would barely be able to lift my right arm, which was covered in bandages, let alone hit the redhead.

"OOOOWWWW! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! What the heck, man? I wasn't going to hurt her or anything! Shesh!" The redhead yelled.

"You did kind of overreact a bit, kid." Piccolo said calmly to Gohan, trying to get him to sit back down.

"Yeah, but he does deserve it once in awhile!" The girl, who I am guessing is Lenalee, said to all of us. "My name is Lenalee Lee, and that is my friend, Lavi. Sorry if he scared you! He can get a bit carried away when someone new comes to the Order, especially if that person happens to be a girl." The girl told me. The redhead got up and started to run over to me again.

"Man, you recovered quickly. It usually takes a few minutes for someone who Gohan hit to get up. Good for you!" I told Lavi, saying it somewhat sarcastically. "Now would someone please explain what the heck is going on!"

"That is simple, you have innocence!" Lavi chirped.

"I have what?" I asked, slightly confused.

"That right arm of yours can be used to destroy akuma, it's a weapon, and a darn good one too if you can survive this long with only getting attacked once." Lavi began to explain, but before he could continue the door slammed open again and in came an old man with black circles around his eyes. He ran over to Lavi and kicked him square in the head, then proceeded to sit down in a chair across from my hospital bed.

"Ah, Bookman, you're here. Good, would you mind taking a look at Katherine's arm? She seems to be in some pain." Chief Komui said to the old man as he got up from his chair and started to walk slowly, and creepily, towards me.

"Nope, *ow*, no pain. None at all *ow*. I am perfectly fine. Oh, and my name is Katie, not Katherine." I said, trying to convince the old man that I was fine as I back away as far as I could in my bed, but then my arms gave away and I came crashing onto the floor. "Owwwww." I quietly moaned as I tried to get back up. Gohan seemed to be worried about me, and tried to help me up. But when I was just about to stand, pain shot through my arm, and I screamed because of the searing pain. This is worse than it was before, what the heck is going on? I thought as I fought for consciousness once more.

"Just try to relax, Katherine." Bookman told me as he jabbed my arm with a long, silvery needle. I did as I was told, and tried my best to relax. Soon after my whole body went numb, and I remember Gohan and Allen trying to put me back into my hospital bed. Bookman continued to jab long, sharp needles into my arm, but strangely I couldn't feel it, and I couldn't see any blood. "I promise that this won't hurt a bit, you are fine now." Bookman said kindly to me. I nodded my head in agreement. But Gohan still seemed worried, as did Krillin, who had remained silent this whole time. Goku and Yamcha had left a little while ago, right after Lavi came tumbling in, along with Piccolo, who jumped out of the window when no one was looking.

"Katie, are you okay?" Gohan asked worriedly as my face slackened. "How long now have you felt like this?"

"A couple of weeks now, the day after we won the Cell Games." I said lazily, my speech getting slower and slower with the relief of the pain. "Wow, I never would have thought that having needles jammed into your arm could feel this good..." I slowly said as I drifted back to sleep.

I awoke once again in a small, stuffy room with brick walls and brick floor. I was laying on a bed again, only this one was a whole lot more comfortable. I had a cool cloth on my forehead, like what ChiChi used to do when I had a fever. I tried to sit up on my elbows again, but like before pain shot through my entire body. "You should lay back down, you know. Your fever will spike again." said a surprisingly calm voice. It sounded vaguely familiar.

"Allen, is that you?" I asked, a bit scared for what the response would be.

"Yeah, its me. How are you feeling Katie?" He asked me.

"A bit on the worse side, I thought that Bookman's needle treatment would work a little better than it did."

"Well, the effects of the treatment are only temporary, plus he hasn't come around to do another treatment since you fell out of bed. He said that he would come around when you woke up." Allen told me as I once again tried to sit up, but was pushed down by the long haired samurai.

"Hey! Let me get up!" I yelled at him. My arm was starting to act up again, just begging me to be activated. I had to bite my tongue to keep myself from screaming my head off.

"Get back down, now." He said in a strong, controlling voice.

"Kanda! Don't be so rude!" Allen yelled at him, and shoved him to the ground. Kanda pulled out his sword and yelled, "Mugen, unsheath!" Allen activated his arm and they started to fight each other right in the middle of the tiny room. Then Kanda's sword came flying towards my head and it happened so quick that I fell out of the bed again, and landed right on top of my right arm.

"Ahhh!" I screamed as I landed on the cold floor. I was on the verge of tears now because of the horrible pain. They looked up and saw that I had fallen when Gohan and Trunks came bursting through the door.

"What in the world happened?!" Trunks yelled, scared out of his wits at how close the sword had came to my head.

"Those two started to fight in the room, and when I looked up Kanda's sword was flying towards my face! I panicked and fell out of the bed." I explained as they all at once tried to help me back up. I had just gotten back into bed when Emily came flying through the door, her honey gold and pink hair like streaks of pink and yellow lightning. Emily is a close friend of our group, and basically all she does is follow Trunks around and try to help him the best she can.

"Trunks! Why did you run? What happened?" She cried. Then she noticed me trying to get back at Kanda, yelling swears and trying to punch his smug little face. "Katie! Oh, I was so worried about you! I'm sorry I couldn't be there when it all happened, I had to help Trunks out with the android problem in his time." She said as she came closer to Trunks and started to hug his arm.

"Uhhh, exactly who are you?" Allen asked, a bit confused about the current situation.

"Straites, Emily Straites." Emily said in her best James Bond impression. "But everyone just calls me Em." And then yet another person comes through the door. It was Bookman with is acupuncture needles. All I could think was, Man, when will people leave me alone? I've already been almost killed once today.

"Katherine, are you ready?" Bookman asks as I nod my head slowly.

"But first answer me this, how long have I been out?" Everyone suddenly had this pained expression, especially Gohan. "Gohan, how long?" I ask, a bit forcefully. Everyone was a bit reluctant to answer, but I needed to know.

"Two weeks." Kanda finally answers. Two weeks? I thought, I have been unconscious for two whole weeks? That is impossible! That is... My thoughts started to get foggy. I looked up and saw that Bookman had already started. The all at once release of the pain was overwhelming, and I once again fell asleep.

I finally woke up back in the infirmary, confused about what had happened. Was it just a dream? No, it was too real to be a dream. I looked around, the windows were pitch black. Gohan was asleep in the chair next to my bed. I looked around and saw that I was hooked up to a whole army of beeping machines. I heard a rustle around the corner, and asked who it was. But before I could hear an answer, the sound moved down the hall, and out of the door. I could just vaguely see a tall thin figure with long hair pulled back into a ponytail. It was a bit hard to make out the shape without my glasses on though, so I could have been easily mistaken. "Kanda, is that you out there?" As soon as I asked that, the figure stopped and came back inside. I heard a slight "che" come from his direction, like he was angry that he had been found out. "Turn on the light, will ya?" I asked as he came a bit closer. "I need to find my glasses, and I can't do that without a bit of light."

"You know, you are really annoying, just like Moyashi." Kanda said coldly as he flickered on the lights. "But at least you are a bit kinder." I was a bit flustered at this statement. I mean yes, my friends do think that I am kind, but I would have never thought that someone like Kanda, who is so cold and distant, would admit it.

"Thank you." I said as I fumbled for my glasses. "Maybe you will answer my questions. First, what is this place?"

"This place is the Black Order. We are an organization that deals with finding innocence before the Millenium Earl does. The Millenium Earl is the creator of akuma, those monsters you saw a few weeks ago. Innocence is the only thing that can stop his plan to destroy all human life on Earth, and so he finds it and destroys it. Does that answer your question?" He asks, like he has given this speech a lot of times before.

"Not all of them. Next, who are you people?" I ask, trying to get a bit more comfortable in my stone hard hospital bed.

"We are exorcists, our purpose is to retrieve innocence that has been discovered, and to destroy any akuma that try to take it. Is that all?"

"No, its not. Last question, am I one of you freaks?" I asked a bit worried. I started to finger the strange green cross on my right hand. Could my hand really be innocence? I hope not, I would have to give up my life with my friends. Plus, these people are freaky. I thought. Kanda just sat silently, not answering my final question. "Well? Am I or not?" He stared at me blankly, then my arm, then my right eye. His stare seemed to look right through my skin and into my soul.

"Maybe. I don't know. Komui has checked in on you while you were asleep from time to time, you should go ask him if you really want to know. But you should do that once they have figured out what is wrong with you." Kanda said. He didn't seem in the slightest bit to care, just answering pointless questions. But to me, they were vital for my survival.

"Well, thank you for answering my questions. You can go if you want to, I am gonna try to sleep some more before the sun comes up." I said as I settled back down into my bed. I thought it was very interesting how Kanda knew so much on the subject. Just as Kanda was about to leave, the door burst open, revealing the redhead, Lavi. "Hello Lavi, how are you?" I asked as he came barreling towards Kanda.

"Yu! What are you doing here? What did you do to her? You didn't hurt her, did you?" He yelled. Eventually because of all the noise Lavi was making, Gohan woke up from his sleep in the chair. Kanda got extremely mad at Lavi for calling him Yu, he yelled,

"Don't call me that, you damn Usagi!"

"Okay, okay, sorry! Anyways, Katie, Bookman told me to come and get you. He wants to do a treatment on your eye." Lavi said, surprisingly calm for his energetic behaviour that I have seen lately. Then what he said hit me.

"He wants to do a treatment on my eye!? Are you crazy? I'm not going to let him jam needles into my eye! My arm, fine, but not my eye! My sight is bad enough as is!" I scream hysterically. Gohan, now just realizing what is going on, walks over to my bed and sits on it next to me.

"Katie, its okay. You don't have to be afraid, it probably won't even hurt." Gohan reassured me as he started to stroke my right arm. I cringe as his hand passes over my rough, dried out flesh, if you can even call it that anymore. It seems like all of the skin has been pulled off of it and the blood had dried instantly, encasing my arm in red. It still hurts a lot whenever someone touches it, but I can somewhat lift it, just barely able to move my fingers. He stops when he notices that it was hurting me.

"Come on, lets go." Lavi said as he pulled me out of bed. As soon as my feet hit the cold hard ground my teeth began to chatter. I realized that I was still in my party outfit, a small dress with a plaid black and white skirt and a black bodice, with thick white straps that hold the dress up. I tried to tug the short skirt over my knees, but it didn't work. Lavi pulled me away from my hospital bed and I reached just in time to snatch a blanket from the bed and wrap it around my shivering body. "You need to get up and walk around, anyways. It will be good for you!" Lavi told me as he tugged on my good arm.

"Where are we going?" I asked as we turned the corner, and ran straight into Allen.

"Ow! What the heck Lavi! Can't you watch where you are going?" Allen yelled as he got up from the ground, not noticing that he had knocked me down, too.

"Owww, my head." I groaned, because I ended up tumbling onto my head.

"Oh my god, Katie I am so sorry." Allen said as he rushed over to my side, trying to tug me to my feet.

"Stop! Let go of me! I don't need your stupid help! I am not that helpless little girl that you abandoned out in the woods!" I started yelling at him, angry at his sudden show of affection. He left me, and now he wants to help me? I can't let him see me as a weak, helpless girl. I thought as I shook him off.

"Aw man Allen, what have you done to this poor girl?" Lavi said as I pushed myself onto my feet. "Come on Katie, we still have to see Bookman." He calmly said as he pulled me away from my brother. It started to get really quiet in the hallway as we walked.

"So, where is Bookman?" I asked as we passed the chock-full dining hall.

"He is in Komui's office. Chief wanted to talk to you and see if you were really Allen's sister. He didn't really have a chance to talk to you the first time you two met, and he only really saw you when you were asleep and he was checking up on your arm. But now that you are awake, you two can finally talk." I wasn't all that excited to see the chief again, and I really didn't want to see what his office looked like. As we walked into the science division, I saw a ton of paper stacks and stacks of books that seemed to have gone on forever. There were a ton of desks scattered everywhere and people with tired expressions on their faces. I walked in and was immediately trampled by a girl with long, green hair pulled into pigtails. It was Lenalee. She squealed,

"Katie! I am soooo glad that you are up and walking! How are you feeling? How is your arm?" She asked as I tried to pry her off of me. "Come on, the chief and Bookman are waiting for you!" As she pulled me along, I walked passed a short man with red headphones and messy hair.

"Never again, I will never again pull an all-nighter ever again." He muttered as I poked my head around the stacks of books that littered his desks.

"Hello? Are you okay?" I asked as he lifted his head off of the desk.

"Yeah Allen, I'm fine. Just pulled an allnighter, not fun."

"Uh, I'm not Allen. My name is Katie, I'm the martial artist that was taken here."

"Oh my god, I am so sorry! I am just so tired that I glanced up and thought that...wait, you have the same mark as Allen, are you related?" He asked. He seemed a bit more awake now because of the situation.

"As far as I am concerned, I have nothing to do with him. But yes, he is my older brother."

"Cool, my name is Johnny. Sorry about that again, I am just really tired." He said. Just then Lenalee poked her head around and said,

"Come on Katie, they're waiting!"

"Okay! Lets go!" We kept on walking as Lenalee introduced me to the people we passed. We met Tapp, #65, Section Leader Reever, Johnny, and a whole lot of other people. Soon we walked into a large room with papers scattered everywhere, on the floor, on the desk, in books, everywhere! There was a red couch in the middle of the room, with a desk right across from it. Komui sat at the desk and Bookman sat on the couch.

"Lenalee! Why did you leave? I needed you!" Komui whined as we stepped into the room. Wow, he must really like her. I thought as she tried to pry him off of her.

"Are you related to him or something?" I asked Lenalee.

"Actually yes! Komui is my brother!" She said excitedly. As this happened, Bookman came towards me. Then he asked if I was ready to start,

"Uh, o-okay. I'm ready." I answered, cursing myself for stuttering. He pulled me over to the door, with Komui following close behind.

"Where are we going? Isn't Lenalee coming with us?" I asked, now really scared about what was coming up next.

"She won't be coming with us, we are going to the examination room so we can analyze your arm and see what is causing you pain, is that alright?" He said as we started to descend down a flight of stairs. I had been trying to ignore the pain as I was dragged around the Order, but now it was starting to get to me. I swayed as I let a bit of the pain get registered by my brain and nearly doubled over in shock. Wow, that really hurts! I thought as all three of us stepped off of the stairs. We walked into a large white room with a huge sterile table and a lot of surgical equipment.

"Please, sit. Lay down so we can get started." Komui told me as I walked around the room, eyeing the sharp equipment suspiciously. I laid down on the table and Komui and Bookman sat at my right side. Komui pulled my arm closer to him and looked at it, deep in thought. His hands were cold and soft, sending goosebumps down my spine. Bookman pulled out his needles and tried to jab one into the flesh near my right eye. As he did, I grabbed his arm.

"Heh, sorry. Its a reflex. I normally don't have people touching my face. Just a bit uncomfortable for me." I explained as I slowly let go.

"Please just try to relax Katherine." Bookman said as Komui started to lift my fingers individually.

"Ow, that hurts chief!" I yell as he tries to bend my elbow.

"Oh, sorry Katie." He apologized. Bookman tried once again to jam a needle into the flesh near my eye. I cringed, but let him put it into my face. It was cold and it hurt as it hit my bone. My eye activated just as he tried to put the second needle. I yelped in shock as it seemed to move on its own. Komui and Bookman looked over me as they tried to keep me down. I don't know why I acted the way that I did, it justed seemed to happen. Then Allen came bursting through the door.

"What is going on?" Allen asked as he saw the two of them pushing me down. My eye throbbed again, and I had to bite my cheek to keep the screams in. Tears were streaming down my face, and Allen rushed over to me.

"Its okay Katie, this has happened to me before. Just try to relax, there must be an akuma nearby." Allen explained. He started to stroke my white hair, and I wanted to punch him for touching me. Just as he said that, Lavi broke the wall with his hammer.

"Yo chief! There are like 50 akuma outside the front gate! The gatekeeper is going berserk!" Lavi yelled. Now Allen's eye was activated, and he jumped up to help.

"Wait! I want to help!" I yelled as they started to run off.

"No, you must stay here. You are not ready yet." Bookman said as he and Komui tried to calm me down. I just smiled my slyest smile.

"Then obviously you don't know me." I say simply. I then ran off, close behind Lavi and Allen. I tried to ignore the pain as I bolted through the hallways. I burst through the front gate to find about 50 akuma outside, just like Lavi said. I saw some other exorcists fighting off the akuma attack. I just smiled, and jumped right into the action. I jumped up and kicked the first akuma I saw, still unable to control my innocence. Whatever, I don't need it. I am a martial artist, I can fight without a weapon. I thought as I was punching and kicking the crap out of the akuma, and I swear I saw a small German lady with a spinning record on her hand looking at me like I was crazy.

"Katie, what are you doing out here?" I heard Allen ask as I was fighting the akuma.

"Isn't it obvious? I am fighting, just like I am trained to do." Just then there was a loud explosion, and I whipped my head around to see what had happened. There, standing right in front of me, was a tall man with gray skin and a suit with a tophat. He seemed to be about 25, and he smiled at me devilishly.

"Hello, you must be Katherine!" He said happily as he let another wave of akuma fly past him.

"Oh great, more of them! Will they ever stop, I just want to go home!" I yell at the wave of machines fly past me. "Hey, don't you fly away from me!" I screamed at them as I flew after them.

"Wow, I did not know she could do that." The man said as I flew past him. I stopped immediately as he said that.

"What makes you think that I couldn't fly, huh? What, is it just because I am a girl? Well, thank you very much mister! That is just peachy! Now if you would excuse me, I need to keep these things from destroying this building!" I yelled at the man. He seemed to have ignored me and continued with his introduction.

"My name is Tyki Mikk, and I am one of the clan of Noah. I was sent here to, well, kill you actually!" He said, a bit too cheerfully.

"Just try it buster!"

"Alright then, let the best fighter win!" He said as he came running towards me, hands at the ready. I met him halfway, and tried to punch him in the stomach. Somehow, my hand passed right through him and I fell to the ground. "Oh, didn't I tell you, I can pass through anything I choose to, even human flesh." Tyki said as he turned and picked me up by my hair. He then proceeded to punch my back in several places, but I didn't scream. I knew better than to give him the satisfaction that he was causing me pain. Instead I just grunted as he hit me. "I can also touch anything that I please." He put me down, and I started to pull at my hair.

"Well, thanks a lot! You just yanked out about half of my hair, and now I'm mad!" I yelled as I turned around to face him.

"Katie! What are you doing fighting Tyki?" I heard Allen yell from the distance.

"Oh, you know her?" Tyki asked Allen, a bit confused.

"Of course I know her! She's my sister!"

"Oh, really? Well, lets make you an only child!" Tyki said excitedly, turning to face me.

"Hey, walk away tough guy! Don't even think about touching me!" I yelled as Tyki sauntered towards me. I tried to back away, avoiding fighting because of the pain in my arm was starting to act up again. But Tyki was fast, and in no time at all, he had me in his arms. I tried to calculate what had just happened, when he jammed his hand into my chest. I could just barely hear my brother screaming at Tyki to stop, and I couldn't move, or even speak. I saw Gohan fly down, and the look of utter horror on his face.

"Well Katherine, say your goodbyes. You will never see these people alive again." Tyki said as he grasped my heart. I gasped and started to cough up blood. Right before he could rip it out of my chest, my arm activated on its own and I swung my arm at him. He let go and jumped back in shock about what had just happened. "Well, it looks like this is going to be harder than I thought. Because you have the same annoying innocence as your brother, I will have to take care of that, won't I?"

"No, I don't think you will. Because I will kill you first." I said as I stood up shakily, and charged at him. With my arm still activated, I slashed at his head and sliced off some of his long, black hair. He stood there in awe, clearly amazed about how I could recover so quickly. He smirked and punched me right in my stomach, and Gohan ran in my direction as I crumpled to the ground.

"No, stop! Don't touch her!" He yelled as he came to my side. "Katie, are you alright? Can you stand?" Gohan asked as he tried to lift me to my feet.

"I'm fine! I can get up by myself!" I said, slightly aggravated at him for thinking that I am weak. "I need to finish this, so just stay out of my way!" I screamed as I pushed him away.

"You should listen to her, little boy. Let her solve her own problems. Oh, and if she dies, you can blame those exorcists over there. They were the ones who forced her to do this, not me, and not you." Tyki said as he pulled me to my feet. I tried to get him to let go, but his grip was firm, and he had no intention of letting me go. "Now hold still, this will only hurt a lot." He almost purred as he smiled at me, sending a surge of energy to his hand, and slowly bringing it to my right arm. Oh crap! I thought as his hand slowly came closer to my arm, sending off sparks of electricity that crackled as it made contact with other objects. The hand was getting closer, and Tyki started to laugh at my sad attempt to struggle. My innocence had drained my energy, and I was pretty much defenseless at that point.

"If you start monologuing, I swear that I will kill you." I simply say, waiting my electrifying death.

"Ha, that was kind of funny. Too bad you have to die now. Such a shame, too. You were such a pretty girl." He purred as his hand was just about to touch my arm. Then, it happened. His sizzling hand clasped my arm, and sent a wave of pain all the way up and down my arm. I couldn't help it anymore, I let out a long, horrifying scream. Tyki only laughed at me, and I swear I wanted to strangle him so bad at that point. Tyki let go, laughing out in amusement, and I once again crumpled to the ground. What felt like hours passed as I laid there, letting the pain take over my senses. It was surprisingly hard to breath at that point, and I knew that Tyki had knocked over one of my lungs. Then I felt a soft, warm hand brush mine and pulled me up to my feet. The owner of the hand then proceeded to pick me up princess style and carry me away from the fight, with me crying out in pain of my scorched arm. I could faintly smell something burning, but I couldn't tell what it was. I saw some other exorcists keep Tyki busy as I was being carried away. I looked at my rescuer, and found a small boy with short, spiky black hair and black eyes. It was Gohan, he had been the one who had saved me.

"I know, I know, you don't need my help. But seriously, you looked like you were going to let him kill you out there, so I stepped in." He said as he carried me over to the Order's front gate. The battle was over and Tyki had left.

"No, I was just thinking that it is usually me saving your sorry butt. But in this situation, it is reversed. I just want to say, thanks." I weakly say as I drift off into thought. My arm feels like it is on fire, so I couldn't exactly move at the moment, so Gohan carried me all the way back into the Order, where they put me on a stretcher to take me to immediate surgery. My brother had caught up with us soon after we walked into the building. He had this worried and yet relieved expression on his face, like he was glad that it wasn't any worse than it was.

"Katie, what were you thinking? Taking on Tyki? Do you know what could have happened? He could have ripped off your arm and taken your innocence! Do you know how bad that could be?" He said as he and Gohan followed the nurses that carried me in the stretcher.

"I'm sorry, alright? I thought that I was helping you guys out a bit, but apparently you don't want my stupid help." I tried to argue as the nurses carried me into the surgery room, not letting Allen or Gohan in. I tried to relax as they put me onto the sterile table, and one of them gave me some anesthesia. I didn't fight for consciousness this time, this time I just let it take me.