|Okay so this isn't my first fanfiction on this site...BUT. It's a different fandom. It's somewhat short but only because I am testing waters! Please, if anyone reads this, review because I'd like to know your opinions and stuff!
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The Lost Redhead
A young redheaded boy lays in graveyard in front of a tombstone. The tombstones list two names followed by short words which are newly carved. They list the date of death a week ago.
The boy isn't doing anything but crying and pounding his fists on the ground in frustration. They were his parents, whom had been there for him the 6 years of his life. He is alone now, no family to take care of him.
Everything had been fine before... He wants to keep living those happy days with them. Those days that they would always make him laugh, take care of him when is sick and shield him from the cruelty of the world but that is taken away. It was taken away from him when he was being babysat and they got the call. His parents were on a mission for the Black Order. That was what he had overheard,
After their death he had been sent to an orphanage but he hates that place. They are cruel to him, threaten him to do chores unless he wants to starve but he ran away from that place. No one but himself knows that he is here. Hopefully.
He wants to speak but is crying to hard to spill out any words. All he can do is lay there, helpless.
"Why hello there child," A new, strange, voice says from the behind the tombstones but doesn't earn the child's full attention just yet, "Sweet, sweet child, do you miss your parents?"
The child looks up at the stranger and observes them. The stranger doesn't look human but is big around the waist and is holding some kind of umbrella in his hand. His head seems oddly shaped for a humans head...Still he doesn't care about their appearance. He nods at him.
"You know, I could bring them back to life," the stranger replies, the grin on his face staying as wide as if it never changed.
The man's words surprise the child and for a moment he considers them. However, he was always a bright child. He knows not to trust a stranger, especially when they seemed off and this one seems like so. The child also knew that that sort of thing, if it existed, was the devil's work. That is something that his parents wouldn't have wanted him to resort to.
"No, you can't," the child says bluntly and wipes his tears as he stands. "Mother and Father wouldn't allow such a thing either and I won't believe it. Who are you"
The man now raises an eyebrow at the child. This should be an easy task but apparently it isn't. It would seem this child wasn't easy to convince, which never happens. This made him curious. He approaches the child, his grin not faltering.
"What a brave little child you are and my name, oh, you could call me the Millennium Earl," The Earl replies and looks upon him from head to toe. "Do you have a name, child?"
A name? Of course he has a name but he doesn't wish to say it. His parents always told him that the only way to go is forward. They also told him that he would have to be prepared. That they lead dangerous lives and that things might come for him, that he needed to be able to depend on himself. They never told him what they were but he had overheard something...Exorcists? He thinks for a moment, deciding on some kind of name to choose.
"The Millennium Earl, no offense but you don't look like you would be some kind of Earl," he sniffles, wiping more of his flowing tears, "My name is Lavi."
The Earl is now very close to Lavi. There is something interesting about this boy, he can tell. Just then he turns to look at the tombstones and sighs before he looks back at Lavi. Ah yes, he knew who they were, just a week ago his Akuma had killed them. He had been interested in their boy because of what he had in him and they died protecting him. If he could grin any wider, he would.
"Lavi, I bet you feel alone, don't you? You hate that they were taken away from you, that you were left alone." The Earl's voice is now more soft and luring. "There must be a reason why you are here alone."
Lavi freezes up at his words. There are so many thoughts in his head but how does a total stranger know how he feels so well? Was he that see through? He looks down and is once more crying hard.
"I-I am alone because I ran away," Lavi sobs uncontrollably and the pain is evident, "The place I was sent to, I don't want to be there. They're mean to me. I just wanted to be here with my Mother and Father." He chooses not to say anything else.
"It is unfortunate, isn't it, that you've been cursed to be alone like this, is it not," The Earl feigns sympathy as he places a hand on the child's shoulder. "I could offer you something that will not be taken away. You can come with me to a much better place where you will be treated so much better, you will be safe and shielded from the cruelty of the world. Will you join me?"
Wasn't this man just attempting to do something evil before? Lavi doesn't know what to feel right now. It's like their conversation took a different turn than he expected it to. Can he trust this man? Maybe he can.
"There is nowhere I can be taken, I am for forced to stay here," Lavi continues to sob and shakes his head as he backs away from the Earl. "Mother and Father said they were going to be back soon...but they died, I don't have anyone or anywhere to go. I wish such a place existed."
It is obvious that the child is intimidated by Millennium's current form, most were when he was in his Noah form. Then again, that was the point but if he wants to lure the child in, he needs to make a good impression.
He backs away and begins to change into that of a human form, or what the Noah referred to as their 'White' form. Lavi sees this and his eyes widen but can make no words come out.. The Earl simply smiles at him and offers him his hand.
"Don't be frightened, Lavi, unlike those awful people you speak about I mean you no harm," He says seductively as he keeps his hand out for him, "This place does exist, it is my home, where my family lives and they can be your family too. You won't have to worry about cruelty or being lonely again. You will have a family to take care of you, like your parents did. What do you say?"
Lavi is scared, no, he is terrified. Whatever this man is, he isn't human, surely? No one he knew could change into different things. Regardless, he considers the man's words. The offer sounds genuine...kind. He is a lonely boy who lost his parents, maybe, just maybe, he can just trust the Earl. Eventually and with much hesitancy, he takes the Earl's hand.
"The family will love meeting you, I just know it," Earl smirks and spins the umbrella and door appears behind Lavi, which opens almost immediately. This was the portal to the Noah's current Ark. "Lets take you to your new home~"
Before Lavi can say anything, he is already being lead into this random door but he isn't fighting. He is good on his word. Once he makes promises, he keeps them until he sees a reason not to. Together they enter the gate, the door closing behind them.
-In the Ark-
Some how on the way there, Lavi manages to black out from the lack of sleep he has been having. So, the Earl ends up carrying him into a spare room. He lays the six year old into the bed and covers him up. There will be chances to speak more with the child later. As he leaves he looks back and shuts the door.
"Millennie, you're back," A female voice shouts with much excitement and rushes towards the Earl, giving him a tight hug, "Where have you been? I've missed you so much!"
The Earl grins, still in his 'White' form as he hugs her back. After a minute or two, he pulls away taps her shoulder with his umbrella.
"Oh I've been out doing wondorous things, my little Road, things you might like," He smirks and points towards the door to Lavi's current whereabouts. "I found that child I've been looking for. He is now in our possession, is that wonderful?"
Road grins and jumps up and down before she runs to the door. She wants to enter, however, she stops to ask the Earl if it was okay anyway. After all, she doesn't want to go against his wishes.
"Millennie can I please see him," Road begs, slightly more excited than she was before, "I want to meet my little brother, please?"
Earl chuckles at Roads reaction and shakes his head as he thought before he says, "The poor child is exhausted from his trip here, so he is currently slumbering. So, if you wish to enter, do not wake him. We don't want to scare him off when we just got him here."
He turns around and says nothing more, walking the other way and swinging the umbrella. A tune is whistled from his mouth as he just leaves Road to do whatever she wants.
