The Hidden Exorcist
-Fourteen Years Ago-
I was Four years old, my Mother died trying to protect me from a monster that was going to kill us. I cried over my mothers corpse when suddenly the monster was destroyed by a rose like thing. "Are you alright?" asked a rugged voice. I looked up to see a man with shoulder length wine red hair, same color red eyes, and a white opera mask was covering his left eye. His eye held a soft look in his eyes as he took note of the blood that covered my clothes and the tears that fell down my face. "Mama...is hurt...can you help her?" I whimpered my young mind deciding to not believe that she was really gone. The man's smile faded into one that was filled with sympathy. "I'm sorry but your mother is beyond help." the man said. Fresh tears filled my eyes and spilled down my face as the truth was stated once more. 'Mama...' I sobbed mentally. The man knelt down and lifted me into his arms, "Don't cry. She left keeping you safe. She wanted to be sure that you could make your own path." he said. I stared at him in silence before resting my cheek against his shoulder and falling into darkness.
-Fourteen years later-
When I awoke from falling asleep on the mans shoulder, I found myself in a strange place called the Asian Branch of The Black Order. It was there that they trained me into becoming a Finder who scoped out area's to find an essence called Innocence. The man that I met all those years ago never returned so I never got to thank him for giving me a place to live. The Order was always kind to me, but they never got passed my sheltered barrier. Tonight I was on a mission to a place in the outskirts of Paris. There was supposedly Innocence that needed to be find, little did I know that the Innocence would find its master. I was walking in a cave where the Innocence was said to be located when I slipped and fell down a shaft of some sort.
"Ow..." I moaned as I looked around only to see crystal everywhere and then a glowing light filled my vision. I blinked and shielded my eyes to see the Innocence waiting in a circle of Crystal. "I found the Innocence." I said into the phone that was strapped to my back. "Excellent we have a General on the way from Euro Branch who will take it with him." answered the head finder. "Yes sir." I answered hanging up the phone and stepping up to the Innocence. It glowed softly in the light of the cavern and memories assaulted my mind as I watched over it. 'Mother.' I thought as I saw her fall to the cobblestone ground once again in my minds eyes. The earth suddenly shuddered and shook, shaking me out of my thoughts to fall forward...onto the Innocence. Light covered my entire vision and a warm filled my core before I was sunk into darkness. The sounds of an Akuma filled the cavern and I found myself stricken with fear. I crawled till I was hidden behind solid crystal as the Akuma entered the room and began to destroy the room in search of the Innocence that suddenly disappeared. I uncovered my chest when I felt a wave of warmth fall over my body again to see a crystal of rainbow embedded into my skin, connecting into my veins, my organs, and soul. 'What...happened...?" I wondered when suddenly a looming shadow fell over me.
An Akuma pointing its cannons at me now smiled viciously at me. 'Mama...' I thought before everything went blank with the sight of black blood in my vision.
Unknown POV
When I arrived at the cave where Innocence was reported to be only to find the Finder standing in all the destruction of the cave. "Hey, you alright?" I asked approaching her. She turned to face me with black blood covering her entire body and a crystal embedded into her chest. Her eyes were hollowed out and her lips pulled into a heavy frown. She blinked and life seemed to return to her conscience. "I'm fine...but the Innocence...it's destroyed..." She rasped walking over towards me. I nodded, "That's fine at least you are safe." Her eyes widened as she stepped closer, "You..sound..familiar." she murmured. I stared at her before I too remembered her. "You are the little girl that I saved Fourteen years ago." I said. Her lips pulled into a soft smile, "Thank you for saving me back then." Suddenly her eyes rolled up into the back of her head and her body collapsed to the ground.
When I returned to headquarters the girl finally awoke just as I was briefing the Leader. "Ah...I see you are awake little Amaterasu." Leader said. I sat up instantly the blanket slipping off my front to reveal the jewel now imbedded in my chest. "What happened my dear?" he asked getting out of his chair; shock in his eyes. "...I was watching the Innocence...when the Akuma attacked causing me to fall onto the ring of Crystal holding the Innocence. When I got up from hiding...I found this crystal imbedded into my chest..it's fused with my blood, skin, nerves, organs, and soul. I don't know what to make of it..." I answered. Leader was now smiling, "Why...my child...you say you landed on Innocence, it must have chosen to fuse with you. You must be the mistress." I stared at him in shock, "There's no way...I don't fight...I search for Innocence to protect the world." I murmured pulling out the shattered bits of the Innocence that was on the ground after the Akuma was destroyed.
Leader's smile dropped, "I see...then go rest and get something to eat. Jeryy is cooking again today." I nodded and left the office to change in my rooms. I adorned an all bandage undershirt, a black lace corset, black skin tight pants, and my black ankle boots. Entering the dinning hall I saw Jeryy cooking up Soba noodles for some guy with extrememly long navy blue hair and the same colored eyes. I strode up to the window and Jeryy noticed my pressence in seconds. "Amaterasu! How was the mission today honey-pie?" he asked in his flamboyant personality. I sighed, "I got crystal embedded into my body, the Innocence was destroyed by the falling crystals, and nearly died thanks to an Akuma attack." Jeryy reached out of the window and clasped my face, turning it in all directions. "Well thank goodness it didn't harm your face honey. Who destroyed the Akuma?" he said releasing my face. My eyebrows pulled together as if something was nagging at the back of my mind. "I..don't know Jer...all I remember is falling, the crystal embedding into my chest...then when I awoke again the Akuma was dead and a few minutes later Cross Marian appeared to help me out of the cave." I murmured. Jeryy stared at me sympathetically, "I understand how you must feel love. Now would you like me to fix up your favorite dumplings?" I found a smile tug my lips up, "I would like that and your famous sticky buns, three orders." Jeryy laughed, "You got it honey-pie!" I turned ignoring the blue haired guy and took a seat close to the kitchen so that Jeryy could come talk with me like always on his break.
"Order up Traditional Soba noodles, My dumplings and three orders of Sticky Buns!" Jeryy yelled out in joy. I got up and took the dumplings and sticky buns. When I returned to my table and was about to eat a sticky bun when a voice had me pause. "What really happened to the Innocence?" asked a stern voice. I looked up to see the dark haired guy had taken a seat in front of me. "Excuse me?" I asked feeling my anger rise slightly. "You heard me. Now what happened to the Innocence finder?" he retorted. I stared at him in silence feeling pain rip through my chest. I gasped as my hand flew to my chest, I removed my hand to find blood flowing out from around the chest. "Honey-pie!" Jeryy's voice cried out. I stared up at the guy and coughed with wide eyes, "It...broke...but I think...it's power transferred...into the crystal in my...ah..." I collapsed to the floor with darkness consuming my vision.