Disclaimer: I am not the owner of D. Gray-Man.
Warnings: Cursing, OOC-ness, mentions of slightly graphic (blood) scenes, etc.
(A/N): I was given the request to make a story involving "centaur Allen". It took way too long to write, but here it finally is. Hope you all enjoy it, especially you requester jy24.
There were empty plains deep within the forest, closed off from human touch. Clans of mythical beats would claim these spots as hideaway living spaces. Of these plains was a herd of Centaurs. One day the a centaur stallion was wandering the vastness of the plain alone at moonlight. Normally the plains held nothing but grass in the majority, but on this night there was something out of the ordinary. Small blue lights floated around in a circle-like motion. Curious, yet cautious, the stallion made his way closer to the lights. Once close it was easy to see that the lights were actually little will-o-wisps; they danced around the body of a dead centaur mare. The stallion that came to see had to put a hand over his mouth as he looked at the body pooled in blood. But then a sound echoed in the night that made the stallion's heart truly drop. It was a cry, the cry of a baby. Immediately the stallion starts to look for the source of the crying. Just behind the dead mare's body was the baby; covered in blood just as its mother seemed to be. Once the stallion knelt and scooped the foal into his arms the blue wisps around him disappeared. Checking the little one over the stallion came to see that the blood was all from the dead mare, that this baby was missing his left arm, and what intrigued him the most, that the baby's flank was white underneath the stains of red. A tale passed down through generations of Centaur culture made way to the mare's thoughts.
"But will you be a blessing or a curse?" The stallion muttered softly before placing the foal down and trying to convince him to stand on his own. "Come on now follow me…"
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"Mythical creatures are real! Why would the Black Order exist otherwise?" Out in the forest were three humans, the one with red hair seemed to be the one speaking.
"I don't know Lavi, people have supported less believable things." The woman amongst the group gave a small sigh after speaking.
"If you don't believe then why did you come along?" The redhead, Lavi as the woman claimed, whined.
"Because you wouldn't stop bugging us about it in the first place." The final member of the group hissed. He shook his head and decided to lean back against a tree.
"Yu…" Lavi whined once more. Within a split second Lavi had an unsheathed katana blade held up against his neck.
"Kanda!" The woman screeched, "Leave Lavi alone." The attacking male clicked his tongue before putting his blade back in its sheath at his hip.
"I'd only cut out his vocal cords." He continued on to speak, "You're lucky Lenalee came along Usagi or else you wouldn't be so lucky."
"I said enough Kanda. Why don't you go hunt down some dinner while Lavi and I set up camp?" Lenalee gave a huff and put a hand to Lavi's shoulder.
"Oh? You didn't think to pack anything before hand?" Kanda huffed.
"No, and from the looks of it you didn't think to do so either." Lavi replied with his tongue sticking out. Kanda shook his head but walked away nonetheless. To him, he was getting away from the idiot before he really wanted to actual kill him. There was quite a bit of wander going on for Kanda. Occasionally he'd pull out his sword to leave a distinctive notch in a tree so that he'd be able to find his way back to his companions. Just as Kanda was to try and head back, only slightly upset about not spotting something that he could coax into becoming dinner, he heard rustling in the bushes. Taking careful steps, Kanda headed towards where he heard the rustling coming from. Once in a less tree-dense clearing the sword wielding man could see something big and white. Thoughts of it being an albino deer crossed Kanda's mind, however this creature was much too large for a deer. Maybe a traveler abandoned their horse?
"So this is how I die?" A voice chimed from the shadows. Hands flew to Kanda's sword as he put his guard up. But movement from the horse reeled Kanda's attention back. There appeared to be a person that had seemingly come from the other side of the horse. The person's torso could be seen, and said torso was bare save for white bandaging that went across his chest diagonally and all around his left side. This person also had white hair that was long enough to run past his shoulders, yet as he turned his face, he seemed fairly young. Blood was dripping down this guy's face on the left side. Following a blood trail Kanda came to the realization that this person's torso ended where the horse's withers began.
"What in the fuck?" Kanda couldn't help but hiss out loud. There was no way this was some weird ass creature that Lavi would babble on about. The strange creature, as Kanda was now deeming it, whipped his head to stare wide-eyed at the sword wielder.
"Who goes?" The creature questioned immediately. Kanda only scowls to the beast. "A human?" The creature continues, "Oh…I really am going to die." Taking a deep breath as not to bite out a nasty remark to the creature, Kanda made instead to ask a question.
"What are you?" The creature attempted to make its wide-eyed gaze turn into a glare after Kanda's ask.
"Dying or not I'll never give up anything to you! I'll keep my herd safe from the likes of you." The creature's body made an attempt to move, but it seemed he only went on to hurt himself.
"Hmph, all this fire and yet just second ago you were awaiting your death. What kind of idiot are you?" Kanda shakes his head and drops his guard only to cross his arms over his chest.
"…You are an idiot." The creature weakly huffed back. Kanda only shook his head and started to walk closer. "Wait!" The creature yelped and Kanda halted.
"What?" Kanda now turned his own glare at the creature.
"You weren't the one that step these traps were you?" The creature questioned. At the mention of traps, Kanda began to look around. Hidden under piles of leaves were varies bear traps and the like. Were so many really needed so close together in a single spot?
"No." Kanda replied as he dodged around the traps to make his way closer to the creature's flank.
"T-That still doesn't mean I should trust you!" The creature wiggled around once more; again seeming to further pain himself.
"Enough!" Kanda softly hissed, "I'm going to get you free from whatever fucking thing you've gotten yourself stuck in, whatever you do or wherever you go after you're free doesn't concern me." Finally he reached the side of the creature where his horse feet could be seen. One was very clearly napped in a bear trap. It seemed that the creature chose to stay silent this time. Kanda knelt by the trapped leg and inspected the contraption. It looked new, no rust layering it in anyway, however it also looked hand-made as the spring within it was loosely put together.
"I can pry this open long enough for you to pull your leg out." Kanda reports after he finishes looking at the trap. The creature nods his head slowly in understanding. "When you no longer feel any pressure on your leg is when you remove it." Currently thankful that he had on gloves, Kanda moved his hands into the trap and pushed at the teeth that kept the creature's leg pinned. Once freed, both males jumped slightly back as not to get stuck in the trap as the pressure of its spring caused it to close again.
"Thank you…" The creature murmured softly as he made his way up onto his fours; well, as well as he could, it was evident he was not putting pressure on his injured foreleg.
"With that over I need to head back to camp…" Kanda huffed and made his way past all the other traps once more. "Damn it what are we going to do for food. Maybe there were berry bushes I missed." Little did Kanda know, little blue wisps began to trail the path behind him.