Whoooo, this is just because I'm bored. This is actually my…. seventh story? I don't know, I'm just doing this because I'm bored. Well, enjoy. Heehee! This takes place during the first few months of Allen being an exorcist that we didn't get to see before the rewinding town arc.
I don't own DGM, only Fi. And her innocence, but you should have at least guessed that.
It was quiet…very quiet in the city of Venice. The air was silent and the water was lapping at the walls of the canals in a soothing manor. The moon was grinning a Cheshire-cat smile at the world below it and the streets were for the most part empty. There would occasionally be a cat or dog running about trying to find shelter for the night. It was a very peaceful night, or it would be if not for one little problem.
There was a large splash erupting from the Grand Canal and when the water had returned to its source, it revealed a large serpentine dragon-type creature. It wasn't very pretty to look at, that was for sure. In its mouth was a young man…he was about fifteen years old, had white hair and an odd scar over his left eye.
Allen Walker had gotten himself into another bad situation with an Akuma and was being tossed about as if he were a toy. How degrading. Yet again, the large level two akuma threw him into the air and was coming back down when he was snatched out of the air by something other than teeth wrapping around his ankle. It was a brass chain.
"Hold on, Kid!" A voice called and Allen swiveled around to see who had addressed him. He didn't get the chance since he was quickly dragged to the side and then up. The movements were so sudden that he almost got whiplash.
"Uwaaaaaaaah!" Allen yelled as he tried to hold in the most recent meal he had devoured before the battle.
"Damn kid! Get back he–AAAAH!" The akuma screeched and was cut off by the sound of metal…Lenalee must have gotten to it.
"Aw…." The voice mumbled and his ankle again jerked Allen to the side.
He took another chance to look the other way to see that there was a flying Akuma that looked familiarly to a bat. Allen was jerked again, but this time he was more or less thrown and was in the air when he saw a figure in the night dive-bomb the bat, attacking it with what looked like a dagger attached to the chain.
"Pull the chain!" came a yell and Allen did so…nothing happened…"Harder!" Allen gave the chain a sharper tug and the human who was at the other end of the chain was yanked back to his side. He saw a pair of legs covered with white pants and they were wearing steel-toed boots that went a little over their knees, diamond-shaped metal plates were places at the knees to act as kneepads of some sorts and that was all Allen saw before he was jerked downwards by gravity and not the chain around his ankle. The figure again dived at the bat and there was another green glow accompanying them who had to be Lenalee. The two jumped back in time to avoid the explosion caused by the akuma and Allen stopped falling abruptly. The sudden movement made him shut his eyes but he cracked one open to see that he was a little over two feet from the ground.
"Sheesh! Like I'd just let you fall like that!" the same voice that caught Allen teased and then was dropped to the ground.
"Allen!" Lenalee yelled from the sky and she landed, running to Allen to help the poor kid up.
"Heheh. How was your first time, Kid?" said the pilot's voice and Allen stood up slowly and with Lenalee's help.
"Fi, you really should have been a little more gentle…" Lenalee muttered with an exasperated tone in her voice. The girl, supposedly named Fi walked into a light and Allen was able to get a good look at the newest person.
She was pretty short, for starters and judging by some other qualities of hers, he guessed that she was about twelve or so, maybe thirteen. She had a playful smile on her face, but that was all he could determine since she had darkly tinted goggles over her eyes. She had strawberry blonde hair that would have been to her shoulders if it hadn't spiked out a little at the ends but it was tied back at the nape of her neck with some locks falling out and her bangs fell into her face. She had an exorcist coat that reminded Allen of a ringmaster in a circus with tails that reached to the back of her knees.
"Well, we were kind of busy with that akuma out there, sorry that chains don't come with seatbelts." Fi huffed and crossed her arms. "But still, he was gonna get tossed around again by that giant snake! So what if he's a little green, he's in one piece, right?" the girl explained and shifted her weight to one leg.
"You were no better." Allen said with a 'I am SERIOUSLY about to hurl' tone in his voice that seemed to be laced with spite.
"It's better than an akuma, right?" The other exorcist said and put her small hands on her hips.
Allen sighed and just slumped for a second. Fi smiled in victory as Lenalee just shook her head with a small smile on her face. She invited Fi to come back to hotel with them so there could be proper introductions.
The three were now in the warm hotel room on the other side of town and it had a nice view of the garden below. The room itself was rather lavish as it wasn't that big but it's decoration left Allen in wonder. The floor was a rich shade or royal blue as well as the bed covers and curtains on a large window that was next to the bed. There was a desk to the left of the door and in the middle of the room was a sofa and there was an armchair in the corner of the room across from the bed. Allen was sitting in the chair while Lenalee took the couch with Fi.
Allen and Fi were formerly introduced and Fi apologized for jerking Allen around so much. Emergency and all that, she said. Allen laughed a half-hearted laugh and shook her head, saying that it was all right. He had gotten over his motion sickness and was walking on his own once again.
While the girls had been chatting, Allen learned a few things about the newcomer. She had been in the Order for almost five years and those brass chains of hers her innocence and she called them Clockwork Chains. Fi'd also been on some consecutive missions for the past few months and she was on her way back home. She was also living with her uncle before it was decided that she was an accommodator and the man was alive and well. It was a very interesting night and Fi said that she would help Allen and Lenalee find the innocence the next day so they could go home.
Allen and Fi switched rooms for the night so he had one to himself. For most of the night, he lay in his bed, wide-awake from the shock of riding Ari for the first time. Fi had also never taken the goggles off of her face for some reason. She was probably got so used the tinting of that they provided and the lights in hotel would hurt a little if she did take them off but it kind of bugged Allen. Oh, well, she had to take them off to sleep, right?
Back in the other room, the girls stayed up a little longer, Lenalee brushing her hair for the night and Fi was sitting by the window, looking out at the gardens their room overlooked.
"Lenalee? How's everyone back home?" Fi asked, not looking at the other teen in the room.
Lenalee looked over as Fi and smiled, "They're all doing fine. The scientists tried to break into your room again." She informed and Fi got a very angry look on her face, "Reever caught them, though." Lenalee added and continued to brush her long hair.
Fi smiled and shook her head and took the goggles off, putting them on her forehead instead. Her dark brown eyes looked sleepy as she gazed out at the gardens and she smiled a little. There was just something that she liked about things like that it was almost instinct. Lenalee smiled at the rare serene face on her comrade from the reflection in the mirror and smiled a little as well.
The two decided to hit the hay for the night, Fi opening the window for some air circulation and they both slept pretty well that night. Allen had fallen asleep as well with Timcanpy on his head…could golemns sleep?
The next morning, after showers, breakfast and such, the trio set out to find the elusive innocence. It had been a couple of hours and it was around noon when they all decided to take a short rest. Fi was sitting by a canal with her feet dangling over the edge, but not quite touching the water. She leaned back and let out a sigh.
"Such a nice day!" She chimed and bounced her heels off of the wall of the canal.
"It is…there are no akuma around, either." Allen said as he glanced around at the people as they bustled about. Lenalee was at a booth getting some food for the three for lunch.
Lenalee came back and they all ate their gelato peacefully. Allen had gone back for thirds while the girls hadn't even finished their first helping…Fi asked what was up with him and Lenalee explained that he had a parasitic-type innocence, that was enough of an explanation for the small teenager. Allen had come back with Timcanpy flapping beside his head and the boy had a happy expression on his face.
It took three more helpings of the sweet before Allen deemed he was ready to look again and the girls were almost embarrassed to watch him eat so much. They asked around to where some of the phenomenon was occurring but they all seemed to be goose-chases. What was going on were oddly large waves emitting from the canals, even the smaller ones in alleys and such, and it was being a real pain to residents. Lenalee would sprint across the water to look in case the innocence was submerged in the water, Fi offered to look from the roofs to see if the innocence needed a high ground of some sort and Allen searched along the canals' walls and other cevaces.
They didn't know how many hours it took before Allen found out what was causing all of the trouble. It was a gorgeously painted mask that was ginning as if it had finished a good laugh and it had an intricate wave-like pattern painted onto it's silver face of blues, white and some gray. It also looked as if it were wearing a jester's hat that was blue and white with bells painted on as well. It had been in a shop that had opened only a few months before it started to act up as innocence. The manager couldn't recall where he had gotten it. The mask faced a window that overlooked the Grand Canal, so all of the smaller canal waves must have been something like aftershock. The shop owner was a little reluctant to part with the mask, but he gave it to the exorcists either way, being the devout catholic that he was. Fi snorted at the mention that he was only doing it for the religion while Allen told the story as they walked to the train station.
"I'm glad we get to go home, though." The barely-redheaded girl said as she adjusted the brown leather strap to the goggles on her forehead.
"Fi, why do you wear those?" Allen asked and earned a quick glance.
"My hobby, for the most part. But I do wear them for fighting since my eyes are sensitive to wind and stuff. I also don't want sparks to fly in my eyes." The girl explained with a dismissive wave of her hand. They continued to talk while Allen was holding the innocence at his side. Fi offered to carry it, but was turned down since Lenalee told Allen what the klutz the small girl
At the station, Lenalee made the call to HQ to say that they had gotten hold of the innocence. Komui told Lenalee that she had to go a mission straight after and that Fi and Allen could come back. Lenalee was sad to depart and Fi gave her a good hug before having to get back on the train with Allen.
"Be careful, or else you're gonna get a scolding from your big sister." Fi said to Lenalee through the window. Lenalee laughed and said that she would be fine.
"See you back home, Lenalee." Allen said with a smile. Lenalee nodded and the train started to move.
The two were sitting in their comfortable first-class seats and Allen looked a little awkward about something. Fi rose a slender brow at him
"What?" She asked impatiently as she leaned forward in her seat.
"Er…Fi, you said 'big sister' back there, right?" Allen questioned, Fi nodded with her brow still raised, "Uhm..aren't you twelve or something?" He finished, looking a little more relaxed. That was a mistake.
Fi's questioning expression had gone from calmly interrogating to downright furious. She grabbed Allen by the collar of his coat and brought his scared face close to hers.
"I'm seventeen!" Fi scolded and Allen adopted a look of sheer shock on his face. She was seventeen? She was older than him and she was shorter than both him and Lenalee! "You callin' me small, bean sprout?!" She yelled and it was Allen's turn to snap.
"It's Allen!" He said and the two glared at each other for a good long time. Neither moved, Allen was still being held by his coat collar and Fi was still standing up. The air was so tense that someone could drop a pin on the carpet and the two would jump. Then they both slowly started to smile a little and Fi let go of Allen as she fell back into her chair, pushing him back as well. They started to laugh at their reaction to the insults of their size.
After a good amount of laughing, the two sat up properly in their comfy seats, Fi was wiping a tear from her eye. The rest of the ride was filled with chatter, some jokes made by Fi and her also telling Allen about Kanda. She made sure to bring up the fact that they had thought they were the opposite genders. As in, she thought that Kanda was a girl when their first met and Kanda thought she was a boy seeing as her hair was just that short and she dressed like a boy for reasons she didn't want to reveal just yet. Fi fell asleep half-way through the train-ride and Allen had to admit, she looked a lot different when she was sleeping…she looked calmer and a little older even, enough for him to think that she looked fifteen instead of twelve.
Allen looked out of the window with a smile. He wanted to go home again to Jerry's cooking. He was REALLY hungry at the moment…
Okay, cue really weird, permanent-tab button…my computer's being a bit weird at the moment so please try to ignore it. I went through quite a few changes for Fi during her development.
First, her name at first was Bia. I at least came up with something that had that "ee" sound. Her innocence was a parasitic type, it was an owl named Aristotle (he had a mechanical wing and leg and was missing an eye) and I might just throw him in at one point since he was just so cute.
ABOUT FI'S GOGGLES! I don't know how to describe them other than being of the steampunk style. Look it up on google images or something. Please review and I'm happy you took the time to read this story.