Ever heard of 'Jack the ripper' the most famous serial killer in the world. Well, this story is done in the 'Jack the ripper' theme, but D.Gray-man style. Allen is Jack the ripper – the killer of all prostitutes and he also remains an exorcist.
Disclaimer: I don't own D.Gray-man although I wish I did and the story of Jack the ripper in the real world I don't know. And I don't know who jack the ripper really is.
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Allen: the ripper
CHAPTER 1The first attack
It was a cold night in white chapel, London. The main square streets were deserted as the cold night wind blew threw them making the leaves on the ground rustle. The main square clock rang for midnight and a policeman began to do a walk around the square, slowly leaving to check around it, as his duty states. The police began to jog to keep himself warm and he left the square.
A woman entered the square from a house nearby. She was dressed in a dark blue dress with a clock around her to protect her from the cold. She looked to be in her early thirties with a seductive face and brown eyes. The woman looked around the town square suspiciously then began to descend from the small house. The two lights in the town square were the only objects illuminating the small area and this itself wasn't enough. The woman looked around as she could hear footsteps behind her, following her and stopping every time she stopped.
She began to quicken her pace slightly afraid of what was following her. A small chuckle could be heard behind her and she found someone, a tall figure around her height covered by a clock. The figure moved towards her and she broke into a run, but unfortunately for her the clocked person appeared right in front of her, running at inhuman speed. The woman toppled backwards and landed with a thud on the floor. The figure smiled and kneeled down to come face to face to her. The woman noticed that there was a small cursed scare visible on the left side of the persons face.
"Today, Mary Ann, you die," said the figure as he pressed her down to the stone cold floor with his right arm. The lady began to scream, but then noticed that the figure was still clocked. She grabbed the figures clock and pulled a part of it, revealing the face. It was a young sixteen-year-old boy with white hair and a kind face. His eyes were grey while a small cursed mark was visible on the left side of his face stretching from his eye. He boy was dressed in a white shirt, a red tie, a grey vest, black trousers that fitted around the bottom part of his body, Black zip-up boots and a tail coat with a clock over it. The woman smirked as she stared at the boy leaning over her.
"Allen Walker," she said smiling "What would a fine young man like you be doing here, sire, looking for a woman such as my self?"
Allen smirked at her then jammed his other arm down near her face, trapping her.
"I'd rather die than to do that any time soon," he replied coldly.
The woman slowly moved her hand up to his collar and grabbed him pulling him down on to her, but failing due to the young boys strength. She tried again, but this time started to undo the top buttons on his shirt.
"Oh, come now, Mr. Walker, you know you want me."
Allen immediately moved away from the woman and on to his knees, then on to his feet.
"Afraid not, Mary Ann. I'd never want any kind of a pleasure with a woman such as yourself, knowing what you do to earn money and it defiantly ain't something pleasant." A small evil grin spread across Allen's face "Don't worry though, your humiliation will not be known for long or more like you won't be around too long to hear about it."
Allen's smile faded and he looked down at the woman in front of him then muttered "Innocence Hasdou," activating the innocence within his deformed arm. The arm slowly began to extend and turned itself into a metal claw the size of a farmyard animal. The next thing happened too quickly. Allen cut the woman's throat right open before she could even get the chance to scream. Crimson red blood slowly oozed out of her throat and on to the ground as her eyes were open in terror. The white haired boy smiled looking up at the moon then set to work on the woman's body.
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Allen made his way home, jumping across the rooftops so that he wouldn't be caught. Bloodstains were visible on his shirt and vest and he hurried home as fast as he possibly could. The night air stung against his face and made his clock flutter in the wind. Allen soon came to a stop and looked down to find the orphanage. He climbed down the roof and through one of the windows into his room was, he prayed, the matron wouldn't come and have a go at him.
He sighed and fell on his back on the bed. All he wanted now was to doze off into his sleep and into his dreams. A hard knock could be heard on the door and Allen jumped up on to his feet and began digging through his cupboard looking for something to wear. Then he remembered that it was passed midnight and pulled out a pyjama top. He stripped the cloths on his upper body off and began to pull on the blue pyjama shirt leaving the buttons undone. He opened the door and found the matron staring back at him with pure rage in her eyes.
She was a big chunky built woman with a bonnet on her head and a dressing grown covering her body. Her eyes were a scary brown in colour with brown hair and a chunky face. The matron had a rolling pin in her hand and was slapping it against her other hand, threatening to hit Allen with it.
"What the hell were you doing in there, Walker!" she screamed, scaring Allen "you must've been in there for an hour or two and we even tried knocking, boy."
"S-Sorry, matron," Said Allen, putting his hands up defensively "I wasn't doing anything. I just fell asleep and notice that I wasn't even in my PJ's. So I started to pull them on and - "
"Fine, I don't need ever single detail, boy," The matron looked at Allen and noticed that the buttons on his shirt weren't done up and that his torso was revealed "And for heavens sake, boy, put your clothing on properly or I'll have to do it for you. My god, girls live here too you know."
"S-Sorry, Matron."
With that the Matron turned on her heel and headed in the opposite direction. Allen let out a deep sigh and closed his eyes, but then noticed Lou fa standing in front of him looking at him.
"Oh...um, hi Lou fa, how can I help you?" Allen asked leaning forward with his hands on either the sides of the door.
Lou fa blushed as she looked at him and her blush only deepened when she saw that he was pretty much shirtless. She tried to hide her blush, but Allen noticed and smiled at her. The brown haired girl straightened up and looked at Allen, trying not to blush.
"Um...Walker - San, we've got to hand our science assignments in tomorrow about dissecting hearts," she said as she smiled softly "I was just wondering if I could have a look at your assignment, Walker - San, and I'm sorry about my Aunt, she's just like that."
"Huh? Right, um, no worries. The matron's always like that anyway. Erm...Yeah, so come in and I'll show my assignment." Allen invited the young girl.
Lou Fa entered his room without hesitation. He lead her to sit on a chair by his desk where papers were scattered about, a complete mess. Allen began to look around for the assignment that, Lou Fa had told him about. It took a while, but in the end he did and he placed it in front of Lou Fa on the desk.
"There it is," he said as he leaned forward standing next to her, his hands on the desk, "I forgot all about it until this morning."
Lou fa began to read the assignment, but stopped half way and stared at Allen's hands on the desk. She got the sudden urge to reach out and just touch them, but didn't have the guts to. She wanted her hands to intertwined in his, but knew that it would never happen. Oh, how much she wished that one day she could just walk down the street, hand in hand with Allen.
"Hey, Lou fa, anyone home?" asked Allen, waving his hand in front of her face, "You finished that assignment yet?"
Lou fa shook herself out of her thoughts and blushed.
"Yes, Walker - San. Um...I think I should go now, you know, before my aunt gets back."
Yeah, sure."
The brunette girl stood up and began to walk away, but then turned around as she got to the door.
"Good night, Walker - San."
"Yeah, G'night."
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"Hey, Walker boy! Wake up you idiot!" your late for school, "Wake up or do I have to come up there and get you down here."
Allen woke up and mumbled something under his breath. His hair was a mess and his face had sweat all over it along with his torso. He made his way to the bathroom and brushed his teeth lazily and washed his face, but it still didn't wake him up from his tiredness. He wiped the sweat on his torso away with a damp cloth and then made his way down to breakfast since he knew what would happened if he wasn't there on time for it. Allen arrived and took a seat next to Lou fa who had started blushing again, but this time he just ignored it. He said good morning to everyone and began to stuff with cereal, toast, fruits, tarts and much more. Everyone were used to his eating habits by now and didn't say anything.
"What in the world's this, boy," roared the Matron as she looked down at Allen "I told you to sleep with a shirt on, you're making my niece awkward, Walker."
Giggles arose in the room and Allen practically slapped himself mentally, not believing how stupid the grown woman could be in saying something like that in front of everyone in the orphanage.
"Way to go, Allen," smirked one of the boys who Allen knew all to well as the most annoying bastard he'd ever met "Looks like Lou fa here likes you with that body of so-called fit body of yours."
Allen stood up and stared at the boy also named as Jason.
"Well, at least I'm not fat now am I?" He growled looking at Jason with venom in his eyes.
"What was that, skinny?" asked Jason also standing up, "you asking for a fight?"
"Hell, yeah."
Allen threw a punch at Jason's face sending the chubby boy flying into the fall. Jason slowly pulled himself up, but struggled to stand. He charged at Allen and dug his shoulder right into his stomach, making Allen lose his balance and fall. As Allen hit the floor he found it difficult to breathe, especially with Jason on top of him, beating the crap out of him.
He could feel himself wanting to faints, but fought against it as he coughed. The cough began to get louder and Jason began to stop punching. Allen immediately used this as an advantage to roll the chubby boy onto his back and punch him instead. Jason grabbed Allen by his throat and began to strangle him, but Allen was too quick and pulled his head away from Jason.
"What in the, damn world is going on here!" Screamed the Matron as she picked up the two boys: Jason by his shirt and Allen by his arm "Do you to think it's appropriate to fight? Huh?"
"N-No m'am," They stuttered quivering in fear.
"Then why the hell where you two fighting?"
Allen and Jason looked at each other and hugged each other in alarm as they looked up at the Matron who was now towering over them.
"That's it. Extra chores for the both of you and I don't want to hear any if's or but's about this decision," She said sternly "Is that clear?"
"Yes, m'am."
The Matron folded her arms across her chest and her head turned to Allen.
"Walker," she said simply as she stared at him with a small smile.
"Yes m'am?" he asked, hopeful that he'd be off the hook.
"You're late."
"Dammit!" He roared as he ran up to his room.
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"I'm so late! I'm so so late!" screamed Allen as he raced down the street with his black bag with small studs banged against the side of his thigh.
He was dressed in a grey t-shirt with a buttoned black cardigan that had folded up sleeves just below his elbow. Red and black sweatbands were visible on his wrists and a silver ring on his right thumb. He wore a baggy black jeans with a chain attached to it. Black converse sneakers were visible in his feet and he wore a chocker around his neck.
Allen saw a school up ahead and ran in. The corridors were all empty and he assumed that everyone had gone in. He slowly entered his classroom apologized to the teacher and took a seat next to Lou fa who seemed to have arrived earlier than him. Then again she got a lift from her aunt and he didn't.
He sighed and opened one of his books, his history and began to draw some random things in it. There wasn't much to do in the homeroom. People talked to each other after the registration and waited until their first lesson and that was it really. Allen turned around and tried to find one of his friends, but couldn't find any except for Lou fa who was sitting next to him blushing like mad as usual.
The bell went and everyone began to make their way to their next lesson –for Allen this was English literature and for Lou fa it was geography. He said bye and left for his lesson when someone pulled him aside into one of the rooms with his mouth covered by their hand. Allen elbowed the person in their stomach, hard and turned around to fight them, but found that it was only his red haired friend Lavi. Lavi grinned and out his hands up defensively.
"Hey, Allen. It's only me."
Lavi was dressed simply in a black shirt with blue jeans and sneakers. He wore a side bag like Allen's but blue instead. An eye patch covered his right eye and he wore a green bandanna with an orange scarf around his neck.
"Lavi," Allen began "Why the hell did you give me a heart attack just now!?"
"Wow, chill out!" Lavi began grinning like an idiot as he put his hands up defensively again "There's something going on and we (as in me and Kanda) need you there with us right away."
"Another Akuma attack?" asked Allen, growing more serious.
Lavi nodded.
"Yeah, we're not really sure of this one, but there's a high possibility that it is an Akuma."
Allen nodded and followed Lavi out of school. The two boys made their way through town and caught the bus. They got off in a deserted old town and they began looking for Kanda.
The town wasn't much. The streets were sandy and the houses were broken. Not many people lived there and the few who did shut their doors when they arrived and wondered around. Allen and Lavi found Kanda in an old inn that seemed deserted as well. Kanda was pointing his mugen at a small old man demanding him to answer his questions.
"Kanda, what the hell are you doing?" asked Allen.
Kanda turned his head towards Allen.
"Keep out of this, Mayoshi."
"It's Allen."
Kanda turned his head away from Allen and his mugen slowly began to glow scaring the man on the ground.
The old man began to talk telling them the story of a young woman who came to the town a while back – her name being Clair.
"She was a wonderful woman," he said "She said she had lost her beloved husband right after their marriage and came looking for her mother who lived here for comfort. Everyone enjoyed her presence around her. She preformed many miracles such as making a water fountain out of thin air to fixing up old houses by just touching them. It made our town popular and we finally got tourists coming here and business was great, but then the killings began. One by one the towns people began to disappear. They began to blame Clair and he miracles calling it witchcraft and saying that they had to end up paying their lives. Now only a few of us are left and we can't leave the town those who tried in the future died a cruel death and we don't want to suffer the same fate. That's all the information I've got sir, but before you people, a girl came by and asked me the same thing."
"A girl?" asked Allen looking at the man "did she look dangerous or anything?"
"No, not from what I know anyway. But I do know that she went by the name of Lenalee."
"Lenalee?" Asked Lavi, his eyes widening.
"You know her, Lavi?" Asked Allen.
"No, the name just sounded familiar to me is all."
The Lavi and Allen thanked the man and left along with Kanda to go and find this woman named Clair. The boys asked around town where she lived: some shivered and shut the door in their faces while others just screamed and fainted. Allen knocked on the door of a small house with straw as the roof. An elderly woman opened the door and smiled up at the three boys. Allen bowed politely and asked her in she knew where Clair lived. The woman looked down at the ground solemnly and beckoned the boys in.
"You talk to her," Lavi whispered in Allen's ear "You're more polite than me or Kanda. And old women like you more."
"Shut the fuck up," hissed Allen "You say that again Lavi I swear to God I'll freaking kill you."
Allen took a deep breath in and walked towards the old woman. He asked her if she knew Clair and she answered him with a yes. She explained that Clair was her daughter.
"Ever since she came back, she'd started acting differently around me. The others thought that she was great, but she'd usually lock herself in her room and not eat properly. She became merciless as well. I don't know what happened to her, but please, good sir, help her. I want my daughter back."
Allen nodded and then asked her where Clair was. The woman said that she'd gone out for a walk and would probably be somewhere near the forest or in the gardens. The boys nodded and began to leave, but Lavi and Allen left Kanda behind to look after the woman.
"Why me, Mayoshi?" asked Kanda as his eye twitched.
"Because I hate you and I need to go to identify the Akuma with my eye." Allen answered simply "I'd rather have Lavi come along even though he scares me a bit - "
"Hey!" Whined Lavi "I don't scare. People scare me!"
Allen stared at his friend for a moment then shook his head and left saying bye to Kanda who ignored him. The two boys walked for a while trying to find the forest and eventually they did. The forest wasn't one of those that were dark and gloomy like you find in fairy tales before the princess gets attacked. No. It was just normal. The sun illuminated the forest making it look peaceful and beautiful. Flowers were growing in many places and the trees were as high above as the clouds.
Allen looked around slightly suspicious wondering what was going on. The town was all deserted and the forest looks beautiful. Something was up. He learnt from some of the town's folk about the gruesome tales about his forest and some even had pictures of it. In the picture the forest looked deadly and dangerous full of dark and strange things, but here at the moment it wasn't the case. It was as if the town's folks had been lying to them.
Lavi froze in his tracks, which made Allen stop as well.
"Lavi, what's - "
"Ssshh," hissed Lavi, cutting Allen off "Can you hear it? That sound? It's coming closer. I heard it before and it's still following us. Listen."
Allen's hearing wasn't as good as Lavi's. Maybe Lavi could hear better because he was a bookman: they had to develop these kinds of skills. He began to listen closely and at last he could hear it. Footsteps getting closer and closer. They stopped. The bushes to began to rustle. Then stopped. Allen could feel his heart rate beginning to quicken.
"There!" roared Lavi as he grabbed Allen and thrust him aside on to the ground.
Both boys looked up and found something hideous dashing towards them. It looked like a ghost out of a horror movie. It was a woman with black hair covering most of its eyes and face. It had a pale white face with piercing eyes and cracks in its skin. The woman or whatever it was wore a flowing black dress.
Allen and Lavi jumped to their feet and began to run for their lives.
"No one told me ghosts lives in this forest," screamed Allen as he ran "I'm gonna piss myself at this rate."
"Hey, how do you think I feel?" Asked Lavi, also frightened "I swear to God I'll be a better person if I escape this alive!"
"Hell, you will!"
Then Allen's eye began to activate and hurt him. He stopped in his tracks, activated his anti-Akuma weapon and lashed out at the ghost.
"Ghost or not, I don't care," he roared, "You're really an Akuma, aren't you?"
The ghost avoided the attack and stopped floating ten feet above Allen and Lavi, who also managed to stop. Lavi lifted his hammer above his head and got ready to attack, but the ghost summoned other akuma's and the boys had their hands full fighting them off.
Allen shot the akuma's while Lavi called upon his.
"Big hammer, little Hammer grow, grow, grow," he grinned "Hiban: Hammer of flames!"
The forest was consumed by fire, but not all the akuma's died. Allen shot a few dead with his weapon, releasing their souls. The fight raged on for a while and Lavi finally noticed that the ghost had disappeared.
"Allen, pull ahead," he said "the ghost things already taken off. Go! I'll take care of these pieces of crap and I'll be right behind you!"
Allen nodded and ran in the direction of the ghost. The forest began to thicken and the flowers began to disappear, literally. They were like holograms. The weather became dark and gloomy and before he knew it Allen had caught up. The Ghost turned around and smiled evilly.
"I'm glad you saw though my illusions," it said in a sweet feminine voice "And now die exorcist!"
It attacked Allen, but he managed to do a back flip and dodge it.
"I take it you're Clair," he said looking serious "There's been stories about you in the town. Good stories at first, but then turning bad. I figured that you're an Akuma, am I right?"
The Akuma grinned.
"You're pretty smart for a young boy, Walker, I've heard many stories about you too: about that curse on your face and that you're an exorcist." She said, still grinning, "You're a legend. Well to the Earl anyway."
Without warning, the ghost attacked Allen, turning itself into its Akuma form. It caught Allen and began to squeeze the life out of him. He tried to use his anti-akuma weapon, but the akuma trapped his arm as well making sure that he couldn't use it.
'Dammit, I'm gonna die' thought Allen as he tries to struggle free 'Oh Damn, I hope a guardian angle comes along and saves me right about now like in the movies.'
He closed his eyes seeing as the akuma had released a bullet straight at him. Allen waited for it to hit him and end it all, but it never came. He slowly opened one eye, made sure that everything was okay and then opened the other.
There he saw a beautiful girl gliding across the sky, her feet and boots shining a light green in colour. She kicked the Akuma in the face then punched it. Her long beautiful dark green hair waved as she fought the Akuma and her dress waved and danced along with her. Her striking violet eyes full of rage towards the creature in front of her.
Allen looked at the girl stunned by her beauty. He wanted to help, but found it hard to help. The girl beat up the Akuma easily with her boots and kicked it near Allen so that he'd be able escape. Then she kicked the Akuma straight through the centre, destroying it and releasing the trapped soul.
She looked at a speechless Allen, smiled at him sweetly and left him sitting there on the ground.
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