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Chapter One
All Allen did was walk into the office. That's all. Plain and simple as that. But apparently that was enough to have bad luck hit him. And hit him it did.
There had been another fight in Komui's office. It had become quite common now a days. Over what, no one outside of the science department knew. They just assumed it was some crazy experiment that Koumi(1) had mixed up again and everyone else in the department knew better than try those crazy experiments. Ever since the night Komlin went on a rampage they've been careful with the chief's experiments.
Of course this would be very helpful if Allen had known about this. But alas he didn't. He had been out on a mission, for a month now. The poor exorcist knew nothing about the recent fights in the science department and had unknowing walked into something bad. He was there to deliver a simple report on that there had been no innocence where he had been sent. Just an old town legend.
When Allen had walked into Komui's office the first thing that he noticed was something wet pouring down on his head. It poured over his white hair and down his jacket and on to the report in his hands. He just blinked when it happened. And with his right hand he touched his hair and brought it down to look at what had fallen on him. It was some pink liquid. He tilted his head confused. Timcanpy was fluttering around Allen's head. He had moved when the liquid been poured down his head.
Then he looked to his left to see half of the science department around Komui who had his arm stretched out over Allen. When Allen looked up at Komui's hand, which was over his own head, there was a test-tube in the man's hand that was turned upside down. All the workers in the science department looked horrified while the man in the beret looked happy as ever.
"ALLEN!!" The science department all yelled then tackled the poor boy.
"Wah!" he yelled as he fell to the ground.
He was bombarded by questions from every which way. He couldn't make any out. It was only Reever who stopped everyone and pulled them off of the boy. Allen sat there, with the pink substance oozing down his head and down his back. Reever crouched down and snapped his fingers in front of Allen's face. The kid seemed to be dazed.
"Allen, you okay buddy?" he asked.
Allen shook his head a little then put a hand to his forehead. "I think I am. I'm just a little shaken up by everyone's tackling. What's this stuff on my head?" he asked confused.
Reever sighed. "it's a new experiment made by Chief Komui. It was supposed to act right away, but you got lucky, and it didn't work." He let out another sigh. A sigh of relief in fact. "Thank god."
Allen stood up with Reever and looked over at Komui who looked disappointed.
"All that fighting…and it didn't even work…" Komui said with a sigh.
"Thank god!" Reever yelled at his boss. "Allen, don't worry about the report. Just go take a bath and we'll talk about it later, alright?"
Allen nodded. "Okay."
He went to go but was stopped by Reever again.
"Allen, here," he threw a key at the boy who caught it. "It's a private bath that belongs to the Chief. Use it instead of the regular bath's alright?"
Allen nodded. "Where is it?" he asked
"Next to the regular one. It should have a sign that says 'Chief Komui' on it," Reever explained.
"Thank you," he nodded at the man and left the room.
Once the boy was gone the man turned on his boss. "You are so damn lucky that didn't work. You would have scared that kid for life!"
"But…" Komui said sniffing a bit. "I wanted it to work. I worked so hard on it too…"
Reever wanted to kill his boss right then and there but he let go of his anger. He sighed and rubbed his temples.
"Sir…are you sure Allen will be okay?" one of the workers asked.
Reever turned to the man who asked and shrugged. "I dunno. You never know with the Chief's experiments. I just didn't want to freak the kid out that's all."
Reever looked at the door that the exorcist had left and sighed again. He really hopped nothing would happen to Allen.
The bath was a great idea. Allen had thrown his report and clothes into a basket when he arrived at the private bath. The first thing he did was wash his hair. The pink substance, whatever it was, came right out after a few good hair washes luckily. Soon enough, he was soaking in the large hot spring kind of bath afterwards. He leaned back on a rock and just relaxed.
He watched as Timcanpy fly around the area with a soft smile.
"You enjoying this too Tim?" He asked with a laugh. The little Golem landed on Allen's wet hair and made its self at home.
He yawned a little and looked up at the ceiling. He wondered what had been poured on him. It worried him, and nagged him. He jumped when he heard the knock at the door, it interrupted his thoughts as well. He stood up and wrapped a towel around his waist.
"Is that you Reever?" he asked.
"Yep. I hope you don't mind, but I got you some clothes from your room," the man said behind the door.
Allen smiled and went too the door opening it.
"Thank you Reever. I really appreciate it," he said looking at the clothes. He took them happily.
"You're welcome. it's the least I can do after the Chief doing that to you. I'm really sorry about it. We've been arguing about it with him for days." Reever said sighing.
"What does it do?" Allen asked worried.
"…I wish I could say, but its closed information. So says the Chief," Reever explained rubbing the back of his head.
Allen sighed. "That's okay. I understand. Thank you for bringing my clothes. I'll be out of here soon," Allen added.
"No, take your time. Trust me, this one is a hell of a lot better than the regular men's," Reever said in a low whisper. "Lenalee is the only other person who gets to use it. And thanks to that Chief doesn't put anything in the water."
That made the boy blush. "Well thanks anyways bye!" he closed the door on the man fast. He stared at the bath then at his clothes. Timcanpy fluttered around the bath.
"Tim…I think I'm done taking a bath," he said a little worried.
Allen dressed and headed down to the cafeteria. He was lucky that the line was short. His stomach growled from hunger. He smiled at Jerry once he made it to the front of the line.
"Ahh, Allen, what do you want?" the man asked happily.
With a deep breath Allen started his long list of food always ending with…
"And sweet…." his voice cracked. He blinked and put his hand to his throat. Even Jerry stared at the kid. He cleared his throat. "Sorry. I want sweet dumplings as the last thing, please."
"Sure thing, but kid…you aren't you know going threw-"
"Already went threw that!(2)" Allen said holding up his hands. "I just grow slow. Can I just please get my food."
"Sure thing Allen," Jerry smiled and went off to cook for the boy. There were a few moans behind the boy but he ignored it. He didn't even notice the moan coming from Lavi who was right behind him.
Jerry cooked up the food at his normal speed and gave it too the boy. Allen said thanks and sat down at an empty table…which was empty until Lavi slid into the seat across from him.
"Hey there Allen," the older boy said happily. There was a grin on his face. "You're home early."
"The rumor was just a town urban legend. Fake as ever," Allen explained as he took a bite of a sandwich. "So I came home."
Lavi nodded. "Ah, I see. So…what's with your voice cracking in line are you-"
"Already went threw that…" his voice cracked at the word that. He looked a little annoyed. "I think I'm getting a cold." Once again his voice cracked at think.
Lavi broke out laughing. He had his head hidden under his arms and just laughed at the boy. Allen glared at the red head and ignored it. He kept on eating.
"Man, that was funny. Sorry Allen, it's just your voice is cracking more," Lavi snickered.
"Yeah, yeah. Shut up," Allen said as his voice cracked away.
Lavi started laughing harder this time. He slammed his fist on the table as he laughed hard, which caused the plates of food Allen had on the table to bounce. Allen ignored it and ate, while he boiled in his anger. Allen put a hand to his throat after he finished eating. It didn't hurt, and he didn't even have a cold and he never suffered from allergies(3). The cold was just an excuse to have Lavi stopped laughing. Though it didn't work, it did have the red head stop asking questions thus making it so Allen didn't have to talk.
When Allen finished he stood up with his plates and went to the dirty dish counter. Lavi followed happily.
"C'mon Allen, I didn't mean it. It's just funny to hear your voice," Lavi explained. He leaned on the boy's head.
Allen said nothing and brushed him off leaving the boy in the cafeteria. Lavi frowned and rubbed the back of his head. Maybe he did push the kid to far.
Allen almost stomped threw the halls of the Black Order. A usually happy boy it was an odd sight. It caused some to stop and stare at the stomping boy. It even had one exorcist go up and tap him on the shoulder.
"Look Lavi, I'm not going to stay there and listen to you laugh at me for no…" Allen said. His voice continued to crack all the while. But at this point the boy had turned to look at Lavi and found that it wasn't Lavi. It was Krory. "Oh! I'm sorry Krory, I thought you were Lavi…"
The man looked a little worried, being that Allen hardly ever yelled especially at him but just blinked. "Its alright. But what about you? It's rare to see you angry."
Allen sighed and ran a hand threw his snowy hair. "I think I'm getting a cold and Lavi's laughing at me…I'm kinda annoyed still."
"What was he laughing at?" Krory asked. He studied the boy with a curious but careful stare.
"…If you didn't notice my voice is cracking. That's why I think I'm getting a cold," Allen explained. "Lavi can't stop laughing at it for some reason…"
"Well…you do sound funny with your voice cracking," Krory said carefully. "But I don't see any reason to laugh."
"Its alright," Allen sighed and looked up at the man. "Thanks for worrying about me anyways." He smiled happily and even turned it into a grin. "I'll think of a way to get back at Lavi. Don't worry about it alright?"
Krory nodded. "Okay. I hope you feel better Allen, and you're voice goes back to normal."
"You and me both. See you around Krory." Allen left with a wave heading to his room.
Krory waved a bit at him and watched the boy go. It was then he tilted his head and put his hand to his chin.
"Did…Allen get shorter?" Krory asked himself aloud.
Allen made his way threw the many corridors to his room. Timcanpy joined the boy inside the room flying from his head to the window. Allen yawned, taking off his black vest and throwing it on a chair. He flopped down on his bed and took of his boots. He messaged his feet a little before laying down on his bed.
"A nap sounds good huh Timcanpy?" Allen asked as the little golem flew over again and laid down on Allen's pillow.
Allen pulled off his gloves and laid them down on the nightstand next to his bed. He sighed a little standing up. He un-did his belt and took off his pants. He untied his neck-tie and unbuttoned his shirt. He laid down on his bed with just a shirt and his boxers on. He pulled the blankets up to his chin and yawned again. He rolled onto his side, the back of his head facing Timcanpy. Soon enough the boy was off in dreamland.
Allen awoke the next morning. The sunlight shined in face happily. It didn't surprise him that he had slept longer than planned but he decided he needed it anyways and let it go. With a groan he got out of bed and stretched. Thanks to this little movement Timcanpy started to flutter about its normal speed. It gave one look at Allen and started to fly around his head crazily.
"What is wrong with you Timcanpy?" he asked watching it fly around. He smiled. His voice wasn't cracking anymore.
He watched it as it moved to a full body mirror. He never really wanted it, it just came with the room. He turned and looked at the mirror that the golem was tapping with its little hand. Allen rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked at him self. He blinked then rubbed his eyes again. He stared at it for a moment…before he screamed.
Author's Note:
Yay! Done!
So I hope you all enjoyed it. I had fun writing it. And I'm going to have more fun writing the second chapter. Though I'm not too sure about the Lavi part. Still getting a hang of him along with Krory. That's another part I'm not really happy with. I hope I did alright. So onto the notes!
(1) Komui and the other's are always showed being over worked all the time, but I thought to myself…when did Komui get the time to build Komlin? So I figured if he had time to build a giant robot then he has time to fool around with other stuff which lead to this story.
(2) Yeah…I figured that Allen already went threw puberty since he's 15. That's all about his one.
(3) Allergies suck and sometimes cause your voice to crack.
Alright the notes are done! So I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, I'm also looking forward to what you guys guess what happened to Allen. I wonder if anyone will get it right…
Well thanks for reading, please review!
-Lain-Chan009
