Old Truths
Chapter 1:
"…ker…lker…Walker, wake up!" yelled Howard Link, watchdog of Allen Walker. A pillow hits the slumbering teen, causing him to bolt upright. No longer hidden under the blankets, you could see him more clearly. Shocking white-hair framed a face toughened by battle, yet still holding a certain angel like quality to it. A red pentagram rested above silver eyes, a line trailing down over his eye where another line crossed it.
Yawning, Allen Walker, the teen that was so rudely awakened, rubbed his eyes with his left arm. An arm, that I might add, that has a rather odd appearance just like the red scar on his face. The arm was pitch-black, with a scaly appearance. The only other color on his arm besides black was green, coming from a strange cross embedded in the back of his hand.
"What's wrong Link?" Allen asked groggily, while looking at his roommate *ahem* stalker *ahem*. Link, a man easily identified by the two-dots on his forehead (that earned him the name two-dots from Lavi), waited until he was sure he had the teens attention before answering.
"You have a mission Walker. You need to be at Komui's office in about ten minutes." Allen hurriedly got dressed and was sprinting down the corridors to Komui's office. Or at least he thought he was. It took him about eight minutes to finally get there. By then he only had seconds to spare before he would be late. But, of course, the person he came to talk to was fast asleep on his desk, uncompleted work providing a pillow for him. Sighing, Allen bent down and said the dreaded words.
"Komui, Lenalee's getting married." In seconds, Komui was awake and sobbing, looking around for his precious sister. Eventually calming Komui down enough to reassure him that no, Lenalee was not getting married any time soon, he hoped to finally hear the details of his mission.
"Allen, you and some other exorcists are going to go on a mission to retrieve innocence."
"That seems simple enough though I have a feeling that that's not all there is to it, right Komui?"
"Yep. The area the innocence appears to be located in is set in the city suburbs, where a powerful gang is control of the area. It also seems that they have control of a lot of the city as well. So we need you and the exorcist going with you to go undercover and gain their trust before grabbing the innocence and leaving."
"Wait, you keep mentioning other exorcists going with me. Who's going with me and why aren't they here for the briefing, Komui?" Allen questioned, slightly suspicious as to why Komui seemed to be very vague with the instructions.
"Ah… I forgot. You are going to go with Lavi, Kanda, and my sweet, precious, darling Lenalee. As to why they aren't here, it slipped from my mind to tell them." Komui responded cheerfully, totally ignoring Allen and Link's incredulous expressions.
"You should go back upstairs and start to get ready. I'll call you down in a couple more hours to go over the mission a bit more with everyone else."
"Okay Komui." Allen nodded as well and started to walk out of the room. Stopping just before he stepped outside he thought of two more questions to ask before leaving.
"Hey, Komui, you never said what the city name was, or what we were going undercover as. Would you mind telling me?"
"Of course not Allen. You're going to develop a fake personality as a toughened street rat as your undercover identity. The name and way you choose to act is up to you to decide. As for the city I believed it is named Windsor."