Another dgm fic. I seem to constantly write these, huh?

I don't own d.gray-man.

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As Allen lay in darkness, unable to remember what had happened, he felt strange, like something important was missing from his body. It wasn't physical, he could feel all his limbs were still there, it was something deeper then that. He suddenly felt something pulling at his neck and managed to open his eyes. Though the light was dim, it hurt his gray eyes slightly. The pulling didn't stop, so he arched his head back against the rubble; Timcanpy was pulling at the hood of his jacket in an effort to wake him up. Allen held up his hand and Timcanpy settled on his palm.

'Tim…I'm sorry, did I worry you?' Timcanpy flew off his hand and nuzzled against Allen's neck. Allen patted him comfortingly and attempted to sit up. He let out a grunt of pain as his arm gave a painful throb. Allen gripped it and looked around. The underground temple he had been fighting the level three in was completely obliterated and there were no doors left; he was stuck.

'Crap...' he thought, lying back down as there seemed to be more gravity in the air then usual. There was a hole in the roof, but it was a very high roof and he was in no state to try and scale the walls.

'Tim... .' Allen said in a hoarse voice, 'Is there anyone up there? Could you go check outside?'

The little golum nodded and flew up as quickly as he could, leaving Allen to his thoughts. He definitely felt strange. He closed his eyes and strained his memory back to when he first encountered the Akuma. The others had been outside fighting off level twos and ones, he'd come down here, and the Akuma had grabbed him and a weird light had come out of his body and the Akuma had tried to eat it… But Allen had beaten him away before it could finish, then nothing.

Suddenly, there was a crunch sound. Allen opened his eyes and struggled to sit up. He could see Lavi shrinking his hammer and coming towards him, a big tired smile on his face. Timcanpy flew past him and settled on Allen's head.

'Hi, Allen! Thank god you're ok, we thought you'd died.'

'I'm sorry…'

'Meh, don't worry, anyway, can you stand?'

Allen nodded and held out his uninjured arm. Lavi took it and pulled him up. Allen stood shaking for a moment, and then both his legs gave painful throbs and his knees suddenly buckled. Lavi grabbed Allen and stopped him from hitting the ground.

'Did you hurt your legs?'

Allen sighed and nodded.

'I guess so…I can hardly remember what happened…'

'Hm…well, that's understandable, you probably hit you're head. Anyway…'

Lavi suddenly picked Allen up and slung him over his shoulder. Allen gave a cry of surprise and sweat dropped.

'Lavi, you do realize this is really humiliating, right?'

Lavi chuckled and got out his hammer, and suddenly they zoomed upwards. Allen, as always, gave a tiny scream, slammed his eyes shut and hung onto Lavi tightly, and just when he thought it would never end he felt Lavi touch on solid ground. Allen opened his eyes just as he was placed in sitting position against a building.

'Allen!'

Allen looked up to see Lenalee running towards them looking worried. Her pigtails had fallen out and her hair was flying behind her.

'Allen!' She repeated as she skidded to a halt in front of them, 'I can't believe you went to face that thing on your own! Now you almost got killed!'

'Sorry, but I was the only one who was able to get to it…'

The girl huffed and rolled her eyes. She then muttered something about going on ahead and left. Lavi sweat dropped.

'Wow, Allen, you made her really mad this time.'

Allen looked after her sadly, then braced his arm against the wall and pushed himself up, his legs shaking slightly. He couldn't see the wounds on his legs but he could feel the raw flesh rub painfully against his pants, then rips in the material covered in blood.

'Need a hand, Allen?' Lavi grinned, holding out his arm.

Allen smiled gratefully and was about to take it, when suddenly he felt an intense pain deep in his chest. He screamed and fell to the ground, gripping his exorcist coat and curling up. Lavi gasped.

'Allen! What is it?'

Allen was unable to answer. He just lay there, shivering and whimpering. Lavi stood there, feeling useless, then suddenly he felt someone hit him I the back of the head.

'You stupid rookie, why didn't you see something was wrong?'

'Panda?! When did you...Oh, Never mind…'

The senior Bookman brushed past him and got on one knee. He dragged Allen's hands away from his coat, unbuttoned it and opened his shirt.

'That's odd, there's no wound.'

'What? But look at him! He looks like he's dying!'

Bookman was silent; the only sound for a while was Allen's moans. Then-

'He might be.'

'WHAT?!'

'The Akuma he fought, was it the level three?'

'Yes, but what's-'

'Lavi, pick him up, we have to get him to headquarters as soon as possible.'

Lavi nodded and obeyed. As they hurried back to where Lenalee and the finder were, Allen lapsed into unconsciousness.

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Lavi and Lenalee looked up. Through the window they could see Bookman and Komui talking seriously. Then, the two men came out, shutting the door behind then. The two teens stood up.

'Well?' Lenalee said, 'What's going on? What's wrong?'

'That level three...' Komui said, 'Everyone it's faced has ended up dead.'

'So?' Lavi said impatiently, 'That's the case with most Akuma!'

'Well the people don't end up dead because of an Akuma bullet or a wound…at least, not a visible one.'

'What?'

'Yes, it's a strange kind of ability it had, it never hurt the exorcists or finders or people it came across directly, but somehow, they ended up dead soon after encountering it. Before hand, they all had a deep pain in their chest though nothing was wrong with their body. We don't know why.'

Lavi and Lenalee looked through the window in horror. Allen lay curled up, and though he was unconscious his face was twisted in pain. His face was deathly pale.

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Hm, what's wrong, I wonder. Oh well, review please.