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I do not own D Gray Man or any of the contents except for the character Dylan and his Innocence.
D Gray Man: The Rogue Exorcist
1st Dusk: Found, His First Akuma
He stared up at the giant monster, his parents dead, his family murdered the house in total shambles. Only he was left, and now it was his turn to die by the gun of this huge, ugly beast. The guns of this thing were now pointed at him, ready to fire at any given second. But something happened, he was no longer in the presences of the monster, he wasn't even in his destroyed house, the world around him was turned white, and there was nothing. For a moment he thought he might have died without realizing it. but then something and someone appeared in front of him.
The man was very fat and had an unusually large grin on his face, and he was wearing a strange looking suit, and his skin was an odd grey color. He was standing next to what looked like a skeleton you might find in a science room, but it was black and had a star on its head.
"Hello Dylan," The man said.
"W-who are you?" Dylan asked, sounding almost calm.
"I am the Earl, and I'm here because your family is dead." The man replied, and Dylan flinched at the mention. "I can help you bring one back, with this device right here." The Earl motioned to the skeleton. "All you have to do is stand in front of it and shout the name of the person you want back."
"You... mean it?" Dylan asked.
"Yes, without a doubt." The Earl replied, but then the look in Dylan's eye changed. "Is something wrong Dylan?"
"Yea, actually something is. If this works as well as you say, why can't I bring my whole family back, why just one?"
The Earl paused for a moment, and then answered. "Because it only works once for each person."
"Why did you have to think about your response just now?" Dylan asked, as if playing some sort of mind game with the Earl.
There was a longer pause. "It's just no one has asked that question before, it startled me."
"What exactly will happen to me and the one I call back?" Another pause.
"What do you mean?" There was a slight shakiness in the Earls voice.
"Why do you sound so nervous?" Dylan asked. "Are you worried I might not try your device? Why can't you do it? All you need to do is shout the name of the person in front of that thing, right? What was that thing that killed my family anyways? ... Why won't you answer my questions Earl?" Dylan was trying to get information out of the Earl, he always was cautious.
"You didn't give me time/" The Earl started.
"You start by answering the last question Earl? Why don't you start from the beginning, it's much easier that way."
"Why do you need to know brat? Just do it!" Immediately the Earl realized what he had just done.
"I don't think I need to call any of my family back, you know how the saying goes right? 'Their in a better place now.'" And with that the white world, the man, and the device vanished, and he was back in front of the monster with guns pointed at him. He knew he was about to die, he would have died even if he had brought someone back, they would be killed by the monster as well, and nothing would have mattered.
But just as the creature was ready to fire, something jumped on it, destroying it, and nearly blowing him away in the process. After a moment, he made out what the figure was; it seemed to be a huge monkey. And when Dylan looked in the direction it came from, he also saw a women in a purple shirt and white pants, she also had her blonde hair over her left eye. She was walking toward him, and he could tell she wasn't planning to hurt him.
When she got to him she kneeled down to be at eye level with him. "Are you OK kid?" She asked.
All Dylan could manage was a nod, still wondering what just happened, but after a moment he said, "I'm fine, and my name's Dylan."
"Hm, alright Dylan, my name is Cloud Nine."
"What was that thing?"
"An Akuma, creatures created by the Earl to reek havoc on humanity." Dylan was shocked by one thing she said, The Earl.
"Was that what that skeleton thing was for?" He asked her.
"Skeleton... Uh, wait, you meet the Earl?"
"Y-yea, he was saying something about helping me get one of my family members who got killed by that thing, the Akuma, back to life."
"He told you that and you actually refused?!" Cloud was completely shocked.
"He seemed dangerous, and I've always been the cautious type."
"Oh, is that it?" She asked rhetorically, practically laughing at his response.
"So does that mean whoever I called back would have become an Akuma?"
"Your a pretty sharp kid, you know that, I've never heard of anyone meeting the Earl and turning him down though." And then something started glowing in Cloud's pocket. "Uh, the Innocence is reacting?" She said and pulled out a strange, glowing box and held it for Dylan to see.
"What is that?" Dylan asked.
"This is the only thing in the world that can kill Akuma, Innocence, I have my own, and you just saw it at work." She motioned to the huge monkey. "Innocence will glow when it is close to its partner, as this one is doing now."
"Do you mean... I can use this?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying, and if you do use this, you can become an Exorcist like me and kill Akuma too."
Dylan reached and held the Innocence in his hands. "What do I need to do to use it?" he asked.
"This is an equipment type Innocence, so you need to find some sort of weapon to put it in, and then you can use it."
"Find a weapon, that won't be hard, my family were weapon smiths, so this house is filled with things I can use."
"Alright then, go find something." Cloud said and Dylan got up and looked around for remaining weapons.
It took a few minutes, but Dylan finally stopped in front of a large sheet of metal. He had found his weapon; He could take vengeance for his family against the Earl. He was now an official Exorcist.