"You woke us up for this?!" "Pipe down Devit; she's still in pain as it is."
A new Noah had come to the base, a female this time, quite petite and long midnight blue hair, short choppy bangs framing her face and a side fringe covering her right eye slightly. Tyki had found her in an alley in Florence, Italy, her forehead bleeding from the Stigmata setting in; all the Noah knew too well how painful this stage was.
She started to open her eyes but everything was blurred, the last thing she remembered was being in an alley way, now she was on a long sofa. She could make out a few people standing around her.
"And it's 11 in the morning you should be up anyway." Tyki noticed that she was shivering now, "Go get her a blanket Devit." Devit growled, "Why can't you get it?" Tyki didn't glance at it him.
"Just do it." Jasdero snickered then turned his attention back to the girl, holding his teddy in hand, "That's Devi; he's the moody one, what's your name?" She didn't answer, she wanted to fall asleep again, in her own words, she felt like crap, everything hurt and the room felt like below zero but her fever was raging. Devit came back with a blanket and threw it at her.
"Devi!" Jasdero shouted at his twin as he sorted the blanket out.
"What?!" He shouted back.
"Now, now Devit there's no need to shout, we don't want to make our new arrival uncomfortable."
Tyki stepped back slightly so the girl was in the Earls sights, "Well hello there Miss. Knight" She looked up at him, her eyes half closed but still she didn't respond. She curled up under the blanket, it still hurt, she wanted to fall back to sleep. That voice spoke up again, "We'll get your room sorted out so you can rest my dear." She suddenly felt someone pick her up bridal style, they walked for a while then placed on a bed, it felt nice.
"You'll feel better after some rest, it's better to sleep the first stage off." This was the same voice that found her in the first place; she never saw his face though. He pulled the thick quilt over her and left, shutting the door behind him. At least now she could drift off to sleep.
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She'd been asleep for most of the day now, it was about 7 in the evening now. Admittedly, she felt a lot better than yesterday but a light headache still remained. Sighing, she carefully sat up and looked around the room she was in, the walls were black with silver stars rising up from the corner, the bedspread was a deep purple with a few black butterflies stitched in, the pillows however were the reverse of that. Now she wasn't sure if it was just the bad lighting, but her skin looked darker than her normal pale complexion, she got up from the bed and drew the dark curtains back finally letting some light in, however the sun had gone in long ago and now the moonlight shone through on her. The light was no better, but she could've sworn her skin had turned grey. She looked in the mirror on the desk to see her eyes had turned from green to a gold colour and a halo of what looked like black crosses on her forehead.
To her surprise, her new room had its own en suit bathroom and it was a pretty decent size for one too, a lot nicer than the other ones she's used in the past. That shower was suddenly looking very friendly, she'd felt grubby for 2 days now. Locking the door behind her, she let her hair down, took her matted, two sizes too big clothes off and got in the shower. She looked at her body for a while, seeing it was now completely grey. The warm water felt nice, her body had been aching for days during the early stages of her Noah genes settling in.
She'd been in the shower for over an hour now, lost in thought about what has happened to her, when a sudden knock on the door made her jump.
"Hey new girl, open up, I need to talk to you."
Shutting off the water, she wrapped a towel around her small figure that just stopped above her knees and opened the door. There stood another girl, she looked about 12, maybe 13, her hair was also deep blue, short and spiky, wearing a white frilled shirt, black skirt and striped stockings. Her skin was grey as well.
"Well it looks the transformation is complete. You feeling any better?"
She shrugged, she felt a little better but not brilliant.
"My name's Road Kamelot, what's yours?"
She froze suddenly, trying to think of way to tell her name without speaking. She then noticed the mirrored wall had steamed up from the shower. Perfect. Walking over to the mirror, she spelled out her name.
"Bambi"
Road smiled, "Bambi, sounds Italian." Bambi frowned; she never did like her name
"Bambi it is then. I left some clothes for you on your bed, get dressed and come downstairs to meet the family~" With that, she left the room, leaving Bambi by herself. She stood still for a moment,
"Meet the family?"
She thought to herself. Sighing, she stepped out of the bathroom to find clothes laid out on her bed. There was a light metallic purple short frilled sleeved dress with a black wide lace up strip along the side, a black corset with a pale blue trim, pale blue stockings and a black stripe on the inner thigh and ankle high boots with lilac bows around the ankles. She began to dry herself off, feeling a little sceptical at first towards her new clothes.
Once dry, she tried the clothes on; she was surprised to find them fitting her perfectly, the dress hugged her figure nicely, not making her look as skinny as she actually is, the dress stopped above her knee's. Something was missing though. She began to dig through her new found closet, not quite sure what she was looking for, until she spotted it. A pair light blue with a pale yellow stripe, long fingerless gloves with big buttons running along them. Slipping them on, she looked herself in the mirror; she hadn't had clothes that fit her properly in a while so this felt kinda nice. Now came the issue of wandering out her new found bedroom to see her new 'family'.
Cautiously, she opened her door and poked her head out, scanning the hallways for any sign of life. Luckily there was no one there, however she in a way wishes at least someone was there, she had no idea where the others were. Taking a chance, she turned left down a hallway; it was awfully quiet, her footsteps echoed as she walked the lonely corridor. She suddenly heard the sounds of shouting and things being thrown, likely ending up in them smashing, she began to follow the sound as it got gradually louder and louder until she saw various items being thrown out a room at the end of the corridor.
"Is this where they are?" She thought to herself. She made her way to enter the room when suddenly a dark haired teenage boy flew past her and crashed into the opposite wall.
He growled as he rubbed his head in anger, "God Damnit, you bastard!" He made to get back up and charge back in but a second 'body' crashed head first into his gut, sending them both back into the wall. This one had long, blond hair and was wearing similar clothing to the first. Hang on, she'd seen him before, she recognised the green, light bulb, head piece he wore most of all.
"Deevvviiiii! That hurt, hii!"
"Get off Dero I can't breathe!"
"I definitely remember these two from this morning." She stood there and watched the pair scramble to get up, a little surprised they hadn't seen her standing there in the first in place.
Devit stood up and drew out his revolver, "You're in for it now Skin!" He stopped glaring into the room he flew out of and slowly turned his head towards Bambi, giving her an uninterested look, but gave her a devilish grin a few seconds after. "Sleepin' beauty's finally awake eh?" She continued to stare at him, had she able to talk she wouldn't know what to say. Unfortunately, she hadn't noticed that Jasdero had crept behind her.
"You just gonna stand there or what? Newbie."
She glared at him now, but that expression quickly changed when Jasdero hoisted her up onto his shoulders with no warning what-so-ever. "Newbie! Road said you come and see us! Hii!" Bambi made to grip onto his head but to her surprise, he felt stable, she wouldn't have guessed someone fairly skinny like him could hold her up. But she still kept her legs tense, just in case, and that need came when Devit began to push the two into the dining room.
"Hurry up Dero! I'm starving!" He turned his attention to Bambi, "We couldn't start till you got yourself dressed! Geez, why do women take so long to get ready?"
She really felt like smacking him across the head for that, but her current position made it difficult to reach him without falling back. Looking ahead, she saw the long, white dining table ahead of her. She recognised Road already sitting there, reading a book of some kind, a man with a top hat was sat next to her and a huge guy was glaring at them whilst eating some ice-cream. Bambi continued to look around the room when a floating umbrella with a pumpkin head shot out towards Jasdero and screamed, "Jasdevi! Look at the mess you've made! Lero!" Abruptly surprised by its sudden actions, he yelped and fell back, sending both him and Bambi toppling towards Devit, who unfortunately, was unable to catch them both and was once again on the floor.
"Wah! Who turned out the lights?! Hii!" Jasdero cried out, upon falling, Bambi's dress was draped over Jasdero's face. Bambi groaned slightly, that fall made her headache come back, but she landed on something a lot softer than she expected, below her, Devit was borderline knocked out. "Crap, I think I killed 'im…" She thought to herself, but a sudden twitch and strained cough proved her wrong.
"For goodness sake Jasdero, she's been up for 5 minutes and you're already trying to get her killed." Tyki commented.
Bambi sat up off Devit and flicked her dress off of Jasdero, who let out a small yelp of glee when his vision returned. She heard Devit groan as he sat up, turning, she offered to help him but he swatted her hand away and got up, pulling Jasdero with him.
"The Earl is taking care of some business at the moment but he'll be back soon." Tyki commented again, however, that soon registered in Devit's mind that they'd have to wait till The Earl came back to eat… and that pissed him off even more.
He twitched again slightly, "For craps sake! We're gonna die of starvation at this rate!" Jasdero let out a crazy giggle and mimicked his brother in a more comical fashion, "No food for us, hii!" Bambi backed away from the pair, Devit's temper scared her a little, Road noticed this and got up.
"Don't mind them Bambi, Devit's in a mood 'cause he didn't get his 13 hour sleep." She walked over to her and sat her down, "He'll calm down once he gets his food, you know what boys are like, right?" That made her smile slightly; she was friends with a boy around their age back in Italy.
"Good Evening, little ones~"
They all looked towards the head of the dining table; there stood The Millennium Earl himself in usual attire. "I do apologise for the wait, some urgent business came up." He turned his gaze towards Bambi, "How are you feeling my dear?" She looked up at him and smiled slightly, trying to show she felt fine, despite the headache that still remained.
"Well everyone I'm proud to say that God has blessed us with a new apostle to help win our battle against the Exorcists, I hope you'll make her feel at home until she's ready to join the fight."
"Join the fight?"
"So what's ya title then, newbie?"
She looked over at Devit and shot another glare at him, trying to hide the fact she had no idea what he was talking about. "She has a name y'know, dumbass." Road stepped in for her. Now The Earl spoke, "She's the Noah of Longing, Devit." He tilted his head slightly, "Well that sounds pathetic, like she'd be able to scare an exorcist with that title."
"It may not sound very impressive but her longing to know something may push her to a point where she'll do whatever it takes to know the answer." said the Earl, still retaining that inhuman grin.
"Longing is an emotion regarded as a strong feeling of desire, that desire could easily fuel her into killing an exorcist or even a whole village of humans, doesn't sound so pathetic when I put like that, eh Devit?~" Road grinned at him, she'd got him with that little fact and he didn't look too impressed by being out smarted by a 13-year-old girl, instead he just huffed and gave her the finger, which in turn made Jasdero snigger.
"I'm going to kill people?..." She began to panic slightly now, what had she got herself into?
"Alright, alright, that's enough. Now, my dear Bambi, as I was saying, in time your hatred towards the exorcists and a substance called Innocence will grow and you'll eventually gain your own ability. But for now, just make yourself at home." Bambi lowered her head slightly, she didn't feel right being there, it seemed so upper class, why would they want her there? She spent her childhood in an orphanage and was a common pickpocket. She snapped out of her daze when a spread of food was laid out on the table.
"As you all know when a new family member arrives we serve food from their nationality, as young Bambi is Italian we'll be having Italian cuisine tonight."
As soon as the food was uncovered by the silver lids, Devit's face lit up completely, "Bout time!" within seconds he and Jasdero began shovelling down the food. In all honesty, Bambi wasn't even that hungry, but still ate the meal in front of her; normally her lack of appetite was because she hadn't eaten in a while. She'd feel bad for not eating as well, her abnormally high metabolism made it difficult to put a normal amount of weight on for someone her age.
"Baaambiiii." Jasdero whined, "Why haven't you said anything yet, hii?" She dropped her fork with a small 'clang' when he asked, she was screwed now. Jasdero continued to stare at her with curious eyes, waiting for an answer from her but nothing came out, Devit, unfortunately noticed this.
"Answer him then."
She refused to look at them now, hoping they'd give up and concentrate on their food again, thankfully, The Earl broke the silence, "I'm afraid she can't talk, Jasdero."
"Can't talk or won't talk?~" Devit spoke up again.
"You could say both. Bambi suffers from something called Mutism; she believes that if she speaks, it'll cause pain, a psychological problem that arose when she was younger I believe.~"
"Such a shame you two don't have that problem." Tyki commented sarcastically. "Shuttup Tyki!" Devit retorted.
"These two are insane... I wanna go back to bed…"
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Meal time was (finally) over, Bambi could hardly keep her eyes open and her headache had gradually got worse, she assumed The Earl would dismiss them seeing as he was the master of where ever she was. Thankfully, the twins were a lot more content and relaxed after they'd eaten.
"I hope everyone enjoyed their meal tonight, I'd like you all to get some rest now as I'll be assigning missions for you tomorrow." With that, they all stood and left the room, Bambi followed shortly behind, not feeling quite ready to walk with them yet, she was happy knowing she could go back to bed now though.
After locating her room, she found a pale blue night gown neatly folded on her bed. She left her clothes on the back of a chair by the desk and slipped the gown on; it had sting straps and was frilled slightly at the end. She then climbed into bed and pulled the duvet over her, one last thought ran through her head before drifting off to sleep.
"Guess this is my home now… huh?..."