A/N: Hi there! First ever fanfiction… here we go! XD I hope you like it.

Chapter 1: Where Have You Been?

It was a beautiful day as Allen Walker and Lavi Bookman were strolling down a long dusty road, trying to find a decent town to rest at for a couple of days. They had just got done with their most recent mission back in Liverpool, defeating thousands of Akuma.

"I'm so thirsty!" Lavi whined, arching his back into a perfect U nearly inches from the ground.

"We shouldn't be much farther from a town, just try and hold on." Allen reassured, patting his panting friend on the back.

"But I feel sooo exhausted! I feel as though I'll combust any minute if I don't get some water."

Allen gave out a small sigh hoping that they'd find a town soon, so that he wouldn't have to put up with anymore of Lavi's complaining.

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"Shit!" Nellie screamed as she jumped up from her seat, which was now covered in hot soup.

"Sissy, is everything ok?" Edel called from the other side of the room, looking quite horrified.

Nellie looked up from her mess and smiled. "Yes, I'm ok. Sorry for scaring you like that. And by the way...never repeat that word I just said."

Edel gave Nellie a short smile and nodded lightly, quickly going over to the cabinet grabbing a wad of paper towels, giving them to her sister.

"Thank you Edel." With that they shared a smile cleaning up the watery soup. As they were finishing up, they heard men and women screaming bloody murder from outside the door.

"Edel, go hide in the safe room." Nellie said calmly.

Edel looked at her with panic on her eyes. "It's an akuma?" She asked quitely.

Nellie shook her head up and down, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."

With that, Edel nodded scurrying off to the safe room. Nellie then went into her closet and picked up a medium size bow-and-arrow, rushing out the door.

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"Look Lavi, it's not going to make it any better if you keep whining and complaining." Allen said, almost reaching his limit.

"You're right, it's just we up and left Liverpool without any food, not to mention you drinking the rest of the water, so what else am I supposed do?"

"Hey! How do you think I feel? I'm starving! If anything, I should be the one complaining!" Allen shouted.

Lavi had never heard Allen get so worked up, he felt somewhat bad for Allen, him knowing that food is Allen's definition. "Sorry Allen, I didn't what to upset you."

Allen's face fell into deep remorse. "Yeah same here. I'm sorry as well; the last thing I wanted to do was shout."

They then started walking again, noticing a small town up ahead. "Hey! There's a town up ahead!" Lavi screamed, getting ready to sprint over to it.

"Wait a minute... something's not right." Allen said, holding Lavi back.

"What are you talking about? Looks fine to me."

Just as Lavi finished his sentence, Allen's cursed akuma eye activated, reassuring that Allen was right. "There are a bunch of akuma in that town, we gotta go help."

Lavi nodded, taking out his mini hammer. "Grow, Grow, GROW!" He shouted, turning the mini hammer into a huge whacking machine. "We'll take this to get there faster." Allen got on the back of the hammer as it went up into the air, nearing themselves toward the infested town.

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"DIE you sick bastards!" Nellie shouted, bring her bow-and-arrow towards her face and pulled back. "Innocence, activate!" There was a glow of green showing on her brown bow in the shape of a green cross. When it stopped glowing, the bow was bigger with three arrows on it. Now you're in for it. She thought, letting go the arrows one by one, piercing the akumas with them. Once the arrows had hit/destroyed the akuma, they'd automatically go back into the slots of the bow.

I need to get them away from the town, She thought, jumping onto the nearest roof, sprinting as fast as she could, leading the tons of akuma away. When she got to the distance she needed, she started shooting. However, she was unable to notice the one akuma that slipped off to the side.

"Phew, that was one heck of a workout." Nellie then started to jump off the building when she heard a shrieking noise from behind. Eyes wide, she turned to stand face to face with an akuma. "OH CRAP!" She screamed, jumping so fast that she was able to dodge the attack just in time. Not able to steady her bow, all she could do was dodge. That is, until she hit a wall.

The akuma came in close so she couldn't escape. This can't be the end...it just can't…

In those moments, she flashed back to about everything, but mostly Edel. She couldn't stand the thought of leaving her to fend for herself. The akuma was getting ready to blow. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, shutting her eyes. There was a blast, but it didn't come from the akuma.

Nellie opened her eyes to see before her a short guy with white hair, wearing what looked like a black robe. She looked down to see his hand big and white. She looked closer and was able to see a speck of green from the side.

"Are you ok?" He turned and said. She let out a slight gasp when she saw his cursed eye, but nodded with assurance.

"Nice work Allen!" A loud voice called from the sky. When she looked up, she saw a figure standing on the staff of what looked like a very big hammer. He came descending down onto the ground, shrinking his hammer into a tiny hammer. For some reason he looked familiar.

He looked right at Nellie, studied her face and she did the same. She then remembered, smiled lightly and said, "Hello Lavi, its good to see you again."

At that moment his eyes widened "Nellie? Is that you?" The girl nodded. His face expression then went from astonished to serious. "Where on earth have you been?"

To be continued…

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