D. Gray man- Light and Dark side
This will be after Allen got injured.
"Urgh… this sucks. Not being able to go back to my friends… Why am I dallying here? I must hurry!" Allen thought as he did his usual exercise with Fou, his frustration building up in him. Without his noticing, Fou managed to knock his arm away and kicked him in the gut, making him fly across the room and hit the pillar. He got up painfully, God; Fou's kicks were the next most painful moves after his Master's and Lenalee's. Lenalee… his nakamas… he wasn't listening to the lecture Fou was giving him.
"Oi, are you listening to me, baka moyashi." Fou said with her arrogant temper.
"No." was Allen's honest reply, Fou nearly killed him there and then had it not been for Bak and the other scientists watching Allen's training.
"What's with you? You're not putting your spirit into this, baka moyashi! At this rate, you'll never be able to activate!" Fou shouted at him. Allen wasn't listening, in fact; the most terrible thing had happened, his left eye activated.
"Damn it." Allen cursed as he quickly lowered his bang over his eyes and covered his left eye with his right hand.
"Walker-kun, is there something wrong with your eye?" He heard Lou Fa say. "Ah, there's nothing wrong. Do you mind if I take a little break now…?" Allen asked quickly as he backed away from the others into the shadows. Bak gave him permission and he rushed off quickly.
"Bak, did you see that?" a stunned Fou asked the golem.
"…Yes, it activated last night, I found out about it when I passed by his place…" Bak replied.
"What was that?"
"… His curse." Fou felt pity for the young boy, and then a loud crash was heard.
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Allen stumbled through the corridors, somehow managing to get to his room. The pain was unbearable. He could hear the voices of battle already.
"I've made my decision, Lavi. Please protect the ship." He could hear the sound of Lenalee's fighting. Help her, please, why am I still here? I'm useless, just as those two scientists said… Innocence, Lenalee, Nakama, Akuma, Noah… they are my life now. I have no time to play here.
Allen grasped the wall as tightly as he could. The pain of the Akuma's soul was penetrating him; he could hear Lenalee's suffering through his eye. The red pupil was twisting around in his socket, like it wanted to tear itself out.
"Please, help Lenalee…" he gasped. Allen-kun… He jolted, Lenalee! He shouted in his mind.
Allen-kun… I'm scared…
Don't be scared, Lenalee, I'm sorry. I want to help you through my cursed eye, surely I can do something… Help her please, Innocence, this is my wish to save the Akuma and… humans.
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He blacked out. It was his turn then, since he had begged Innocence and wanted something else, to save his friend… Innocence could do that. But through the cursed eye Mana made? That was possible for him to do. The shadow beside Allen smirked as he ran his hand through the snow white hair. He could help out in some way.
"What happened?" Lou Fa asked concernedly when she was permitted to come into the room. Bak was rubbing the bridge of his nose with his fingers.
"His curse… injured his eye. The pupil is rotating around the socket… searching for something and watching something…" Bak sighed and looked down at the young boy. His left eye was bandaged up and he had been like that for one day. Not to mention, his Innocence particles had disappeared, it seemed that there had been a time limit for Allen Walker to acquire his Innocence. But he couldn't jump to conclusions.
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He opened his eyes, he wasn't in the comfort of the Asia Quarters, where was he?
"Allen-kun." He heard a feeble whisper to his right, he turned his head. Lenalee! She was beside him, but her eyes stared right through him, not seeing him. What was happening?
There was a purple color chain wrapping her body, he knew it was dark matter, but when he tried to touch it, he did not feel any pain. Then a flash of white caught his eye and he turned his head, there was a large cloak heading Lenalee's way, it had a silver mask a line dividing the mask into two parts, one was white and the other was a dark blue.
Lenalee had also caught sight of it, "What? Inno…cence? Who's?" she mumbled. Innocence, was it he's? Had it decided to answer his pleas? The white cloak wrapped itself around Lenalee and released the chains from her. It wrapped itself around her body and lulled her to sleep.
The cloak floated to the surface and when they resurfaced, they saw the Level 3 up there. "Title: What are you?" the Akuma said when it caught sight of the Innocence. His head started to hurt badly.
Then it's eye opened and it stared in the direction of him. "Noah…?" the Akuma seemed stunned that Allen was there.
"How can it see me?" Allen wondered but the most important matter now was that his head was starting to pound terribly. Allen couldn't help but scream out loud. The Innocence took the chance while it was distracted and released the soul from the Akuma. It swept over to him and cradled him beside Lenalee, and then it shot to the direction to what he hoped was the ship. He reached out and stroked Lenalee's hair, she wasn't dead. Thank goodness.
In no time at all, they reached the ship only to see that it was being attacked by Akumas. The Innocence did not think one bit before it swept above the clouds and destroyed the Akumas. Then it headed back to the deck and left Lenalee there. It wanted to leave but Allen stopped it and leaned his head against the hood of the Innocence.
"Allen Walker, what are you doing here? Why are you…" an old person rasped.
"Bookman," Allen mouthed, turning to face the elderly man.
"Lenalee." Bookman gasped, seeing her leaning against his shoulder.
"Lenalee!" someone shouted and a young man with a shock of red hair landed on the deck.
"Allen! What happened to her? What did you do to her?" Lavi demanded as he grabbed Allen's shirt.
"I didn't do anything." The words were out of Allen's mouth before he realized it; someone else was speaking through him. Then the Innocence swept up and enveloped him in its caress, the headache was coming on again…
"She was like that when I reached her." His vision was fading and someone was manipulating him. "See you soon, Bookman… Lavi…" Allen rasped as he rapidly faded away.
"Bak-sama, just now, Allen Walker gained conscious and his Innocence has returned to the room. But according to scans, the Innocence particles are in red mode already! It's swirling around at a fast pace!" Wong reported to Bak. Bak nodded, it was time.
Bak… Bak… He jolted, that was Fou. She never contacted him this way unless there was an emergency. Was an Akuma here? Impossible but probable…
Bak, get Allen out of here now!
Damn…
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Allen opened his eyes. White, everything was white. It was painful. "Bak…" he heard a hoarse whisper by his bedside. Then he jolted, the left eye had activated.
"Akuma!" he shouted as he leapt out of the bed, the location of the Akuma was by his bedside. Fabulous, just great, today should be his lucky day.
Bak skidded into the hospital room of Allen Walker, but he knew it was too late already. The empty white bed with messy sheets as evidence Walker had been there and Fou was on the floor, panting heavily. 'They've taken Allen!" Bak shouted.
"No… baka Bak, you're late. Allen went himself after he destroyed the Akuma…" Fou rasped out loud.
Bak froze, "His Innocence has been restored, and it's called Crown Clown." She continued. Wong was holding her in his arms now, and they were walking back to the door.
"So he's gone to?" Bak asked, trying to glean more from the matter that had happened with an injured Fou as his witness.
"Edo." The name made his blood run cold. "To help Lenalee and the rest of the group searching for Cross Marian." That sounded bad.
"He left a tape too." Fou mumbled as she fell asleep in Wong's arms, her hand clutching a golem with a small smile on her face.
Bak retreated back to his office after they dropped Fou off and listened to the message Allen had left behind. Bak-san, I'm leaving for Edo… to search for Master. I'm leaving with the Noah's Ark, don't worry, Crown Clown has returned to me, I will be safe. We are going to save the Akumas and Humans, together hand in hand. But there is… crackle… something…crackle…me, I feel uneasy about it… Thank you for taking care of me. Help me say good bye to the others… Here, Allen Walker's message ended.
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Lavi and the group had encountered the group of 3 level threes now, and they were trying to escape from it. They had escaped to the air and now met the green Akuma.
"Damn it, we'll just have to fight!" Their determination did not last long as Chomesuke found another route out and spending the last of the contraptions did not help elevate their luck. They were trapped.
"What do we do now?" Lavi asked Bookman.
"Fight." The panda hissed back.
Then one of the Akumas stiffened, "What is that?" No one wanted to be tricked but all of the Akumas were looking in the same direction so Lavi took a peek and gasped; the sky had split open. This was an unheard of phenomenon, what on earth was going on?
"The Noah's Ark is back." The Akumas started discussing eagerly.
"But Earl-sama wouldn't land it here. What could be going on?" "Let's go check out!" the others agreed quickly but before they could reach the Ark, it disappeared. The Akumas stopped and Lavi and the group who had been going in the opposite direction but somehow ended up on the same route as the Akumas, stopped.
"It's gone… That's too bad. Hey, our meal followed us? That's so good of them!" the mourning Akuma turned around and saw the group. Lavi stopped dead in his tracks, he cursed himself. This was not a good situation… he prepared himself for the attack.
They were in the middle of the battle between the level 3's and their side was losing. Bookman, Krory and Lavi were worn out already.
"Whoa, the battle has passed this quickly? Shall I help you out?" a voice said loudly before a white streak blew past them and flew into the sky. From underneath the cloak, a hand with 5 talons quickly slashed the Akumas into quarters and they blew apart. Then the figure landed on the ground.
"Pitiful Akumas, may your soul find salvation." A familiar voice murmured a familiar phrase. The exorcists jerked upright, "It can't be… your Innocence…" Lenalee put a hand over her mouth.
"What can't be what?" the stranger turned around and pulled off his hood.
"I'm back, everyone." It was Allen Walker.
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Allen was riding on Chomesuke as he had fainted after he reintroduced himself back to the battle field.
"It was impossible. It couldn't be true…" Lavi muttered under his breath to Bookman. They had settled down for a rest. Allen was running a high temperature, a fever now at all times! But it had risen dangerously; it was a miracle that he was still alive. He had coughed up blood a few times, but what was weird was that the blood was blackish in color.
Chomesuke seemed to know what Allen was going through. She couldn't explain it but she said it had to do with being an Akuma, from Allen, she was feeling a family feeling. Something that she couldn't explain, the other weird thing was that they always found blood on his forehead after a night of rest. They had set someone up to guard Allen, but the blood always appeared later.
Bookman had an expression of horror on his face and told Lavi to kill Allen if he started behaving weirdly. Lavi was shocked and tried to deny the order but when Bookman asked,
"What are Bookmans, Lavi? We are people who do not need hearts. We do not have nakamas. We are observers only." Lavi's response was to grit his teeth; he secretly damned his fate as a Bookman. "Bookman, Lavi, shall we continue on? Allen has regained conscious, but he's coughing blood…" Lenalee's concerned voice broke in through their conversation. "What? Coughing blood? This is unheard of, whatever could be happening to Allen Walker?" Bookman muttered as he made his way over to Allen.
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"Allen? Are you all right?" he heard a person calling him through layers of darkness, it sounded familiar, and he had no idea why… Allen opened his eyes wearily and saw an Akuma staring down at him. It had red hair with curls at the end and it was wearing a pink kimono. It looked familiar, even in the silvery light of the crescent moon.
"Sachiko?" he murmured softly.
The Akuma jerked as it heard his voice, "Allen Walker- chio? You're awake- chio? They'll be pleased! Chio!" the Akuma said, smiling widely.
What had happened? Allen tried to remember, there was the level 3, and it had damaged Fou seriously. He had freed the soul and it told him to go to Edo using the ark, that's what Tyki Mikk's orders were…
He had landed not far from Lenalee's group and it seemed like she had exceeded her 100% synchro-rate during the battle… her hair had burnt off; it was a pity as it was beautiful. Then he had disposed of the level 3's… he had only gone for what seemed like a moment to get some food into his growling belly. But after the battle, he had collapsed. That was funny, why did he collapse? His eyes widened as he felt something force its way up his gullet and he coughed, blood spilling out of his mouth.
"Shit… is this effect of going too far with my cursed eye?" he thought, not wanting to embarrass himself in front of an Akuma. He looked at the Akuma, noting that the soul wasn't in much pain like others and the chains were loose.
"So this is the soul of a modified Akuma." He mused inwardly. Then he noticed the tightening of muscles around Sachiko's jaw and at once a stream of information jolted through his left eye.
"Is the killing instinct getting too strong?" the question was out of his mouth before he could stop himself. Sachiko looked at him in astonishment.
"Yes… chio, it is, chio. I can't accompany you guys for too long, chio. Marian hasn't found a cure to this yet, after all, we aren't made by him but by Earl-sama, chio." Sachiko replied.
"Allen-kun, you're awake!" someone gasped. Allen turned his head and saw Lenalee, her legs were bandaged and her hair was short like a boy's. The 100% had taken a lot out of her; she was struggling to stand but could not manage it. When she saw his face, she froze.
"Allen-kun, why are you crying? Your tears are black!" she cried, Chaoji, awakened by her cries helped her over to Allen.
"Why is there blood on the ground?" Lenalee asked as she approached and saw the blood stains on the ground. Then she spotted the blood on Allen's face and her face widened.
"Allen-kun, what happened here?" she asked in a quavering voice, her eyes starting to tear. Oh no… Lavi will kill me if he sees this…
Allen smiled a fake smile and patted her head, "You worry too much, Lenalee." She smiled apologetically, remembering the scene from last time; but it didn't reach her eyes, she knew he was lying and trying to comfort her. Allen reached up and touched the wetness on his face, the tears from his cursed eye was black while the other side was clear. What were the black tears?
"Allen, are you all right?" someone said.
"Huh? Uh… yeah, I'm fine." Allen automatically replied as he jerked his head in the direction of the voice.
"Lavi, it's good to see you… again… Oyasumi, Bookman." Allen said politely. There was something stirring in him when he saw the elderly Bookman. Recognition, well, of course Bookman was familiar to him. They had been together ever since a few months ago that he had to leave them because of his shattered Innocence. Bookman looked at Allen, sizing up the fifteen year old boy. He seemed to be in good condition, excluding the black tears and the blood he coughed out. Lavi, on the other hand, was celebrating as his best pal was back on the battle field with them.
'Idiot apprentice,' Bookman thought. 'He's really of no use, wouldn't listen to what I say.'
"Hey, Panda, stop staring at Allen with that perverted face, come over and examine him now." Lavi called out.
Bookman's eyes shone as he used the panda fist on Lavi and kicked him away, saying, "I'm not a panda, you idiot Lavi!"
Lavi flew a few leagues away from the whole group and Allen felt a drop of sweat roll down his face as he smiled at Bookman.
'Still the same as ever… I'm glad.' He thought. "Are you all right, Walker? Or should I say, Noah." Bookman whispered so softly that it was almost just air passing through his lips. Noah? What did Bookman mean? He wasn't a Noah… Allen thought as his attentive ears heard Bookman's soft words.
Then a jolt of pain shot through his head as he wondered about it and clutched his head tightly. Chomesuke was clutching her head and kneeling over too.
"What's wrong? Allen-kun, Chomesuke?" Lenalee was calling out.
"It's a message from Earl-sama…" Chomesuke was squeaking out between pants, "A message from the Millennium Earl…" Allen forced out.
"What is it? Has he found out about us?" Bookman asked urgently.
"No, it's not that. He's calling for a different reason…" both of them said. "Earl-sama is calling every…" Chomesuke said, "…every Akuma from all over Japan…" Allen said. Both of them completed the message by saying, "…To Edo." The whole group froze.
"What shall we do, continue forward or turn back." Bookman broke the silence when he digested the information.
"To Edo, we can't stop here." Lenalee replied immediately as she broke out of her stupor and crawling over to Allen, who seemed to be in greater pain than Chomesuke.
"I… want to continue walking… according to what Mana ordered." Allen whimpered. Lenalee put his head on her lap, trying to soothe his pain. It helped him, but not much.
"Hey, look! Exorcists and humans! Our lucky day!" a level 3 Akuma shouted from above to his four partners as he descended down. The four Akumas followed suit and when Allen couldn't hold in the pain anymore, he yelled out loud. The 5 Akumas jerked as if they'd been stung.
"Hey, isn't that the Exorcist Tyki Mikk-sama told us to watch out for? That boastful Akuma blurted it to us…See, that guy…" the red Akuma exclaimed upon seeing Allen and pointing towards Allen.
"Yeah, if we take him to Mikk-sama, we'll be rewarded!" the four other Akumas agreed. Lavi leapt in front of Allen before their conversation ended.
"You're not going anywhere with Allen!" he cried as he readied his fighting stance. Krory and Bookman were right behind him.
They took on the Akumas, but a yellow one managed to wrestle Allen away from the rest of the group.
"I've got him! Let's go claim our rewards!" it yelled to the others and they sprang away from the opponents.
"It's too bad we couldn't stay to feast on you! We'll meet you at Edo! Depending if your little friend is still alive, whether Earl-sama is merciful or not." The Akumas jeered.
"We'll gobble you up, level 2! Traitor!" the yellow one added as they flew away.
"Damn it! Why couldn't we try harder? What shall we do, Gramps?" Lavi asked.
"No choice but to do the inevitable." Bookman murmured. The rest did not understand what he meant, but Lavi did.
"No! We're not going to abandon him to the Noahs! Gramps, we need every exorcist we can get!" Lavi tried to make excuses for them to get Allen back.
"We'll see how this war turns out first." Bookman muttered. He did not scold Lavi for now as he nursed a soft spot for Allen Walker as well. There was a part of the boy that drew everyone to him like a moth to a flame. Maybe it was the part of him that wanted to keep walking no matter what. His determination and courage was the fuel for everyone. But he couldn't do anything for the boy now. They could only keep moving forward. Walker had to fend for himself. He was sorry that they had to leave the boy behind, but they would have to go ahead and should not risk the least number of exorcists they had left. However, he regretted not being by Walker's side since Walker was The Destroyer of Time and recording Walker's path would be interesting. "I'm sorry, Allen Walker. I wanted to learn much of what happened." Bookman murmured softly.
He thought nobody heard it, but Lavi managed to catch it whole. What is Gramps thinking about? He wondered as he guarded the rear of the party that was moving to Edo.
This is the end of the 1st chapter. I do not know how this story will end up. It depends whether I'll still have the inspiration to continue…