AN: This is one of Nines stories. Appreciate how good it is because when she first gave it to me to edit I wasn't even sure that what she had written was in English.
Warring: So many eventual warnings for this story I don't even know where to start. As of this chapter though, it's pretty clean. Other chapters will have their own special warnings though.
Disclaimer: Nine does not own D-Gray Man or any of its characters and never will, no matter how many times she goes searching for the rights on the black market.
Updated 14th of August 2017
Allen Walker stepped into Black Order Academy for the first time. It was a big place. One of the largest schools he had ever seen, and by far the biggest building he had ever entered. It was several stories high and painted black. Even the windows even seemed to be tinted impossibly dark. Allen couldn't help but wonder if the name came first or the paint scheme.
Allen checked the map that he'd been given again. By 'map' he really meant booklet, the building had twelve normal floors, a ground floor, five larger floors beneath that, a large roof, a wide campus with many recreational locations, and a secondary building that contained five floors of it's own. The map was as confusing to use as the city outside was to navigate, and Allen refused to move any further from the entrance until he had a good understanding of where he was and how to get to the principles office.
Allen was still staring intently at his maps when he felt someone tap on his shoulder. He raised his eyes to see a girl only a little taller than him with long dark green hair smiling at him.
"Hello! I'm Lenalee," She said holding out her hand.
Allen took it and nodded his head with a polite smile. "My name is Allen Walker, it's nice to meat you."
"Hi Allen! You looked a little lost so I was wondering if I could help you," Lenalee informed him with her excited hand shake. "I know the school can get a little confusing some times if your new."
Allen looked at her with hope filled eyes. If she could just explain the map to him a little better he would be eternally grateful. "I would really appreciate that, thank you."
Lenalee laughed a little and took the booklet from Allen's hands and stood beside him, "Okay, so where is it you want to go?"
Allen pointed to a place on the sixth floor that he had marked last night so that he would at least know where he was supposed to go if he could ever find his way there. "Right here. The principles office... I think," he told her, hoping that he had the right room marked and that the way there would be easy enough.
Lenalee flipped to the first page of maps and took a multi color pen out of the binder Allen hadn't noticed she was carrying, "Alrighty then, to help you out I'm going to make some marks on your map. You don't mind do you?"
Allen shook his head.
"Okay! First," Lenalee drew an arrow pointing towards them from on of the door ways on the map, "These are the doors that you used to come in. They are the ones just over there," she pointed in front of Allen, making him question when exactly he had turned him self around after entering.
"These are the main stars," Lenalee made a small mark on the drawing of the stairs that where across from the main entrance and behind Allen physically. "I suggest that you only use this stair well unless you've got a really good sense of direction or someone who really knows their way around this place." Allen nodded his head vigorously and took careful note not to even look at other stairs since his sense of direction was only as good as his sense of smell at lunch time.
Lenalee clicked from the reddish color she was using to a blue and then flipped the page. At the top of that page where the stairwell was she made another mark. "This is where that stair well lands of first. This floor is mostly dorm rooms for the kids in preschool through third so you won't spend any time on this floor unless you're using the stairs to get to the gowned floor," Lenalee informed him.
Flipping the page again she made another blue mark on the still continuing stairs. "This floor is where the preschool through third graders hold classes. You wont go here very much either."
The next two floors where just like the other ones, only with forth through eighth. They even had the continuing stairwell.
When they finally got to the fifth floor she switched back to red. "This is Principal Komui's office," Lenalee said circling the room that Allen had previously marked and writing KOMUI on it. Then she drew a red line to the room from the stair well. "And this is the easiest way to get there. This entire floor also has the elementary and middle school auditorium, cafeteria, and some of the staff rooms."
"After you meet with Komui ask him to mark where your room is." she told him. Allen nodded his head. He thought that would be it but Lenalee continued to switch through colors all over his map. his map.
After she flipped to the next page she indicated the top half of the sixth floor. "The stairs continue on here. This floor hold the buildings staff rooms and separates the teens from the younger kids and make it harder for kids to sneak out, The only exceptions are the few teachers that have rooms between the girls and boys to separate them" Lenalee flipped another page and switched back to red again. "Your room will be some where here on the seventh floor." Lenalee marked the continuous stair well again and indicated the side of the map that his room was likely to be located.
The next page held the floor that all of his classes should be on. Since Allen had no clue what any of his classes would be Lenalee could only mark the basic classes that he would have to take or could choose to take. "All of the physical education classes are located in the basement, though. This door by the science department here leads to a waterside that leads to the second sub floor where all of the aquatic classes are held. The slide was the principals idea. He thought it would make getting to class easier, but no one's dared to try it since the day it was installed," Lenalee half muttered the last bit to herself as she switched to a teal color and put SWIM on the room next to the light blue science department.
Allen had obviously never planning on swimming, but even if he was going to, an eleven story water slide did not seem like the way to get there. Lenalee flipped to the sub floors and labeled the ever present stairs on the first sub floor, and titled the entire map PE. The second sub floor had the stairs marked and the location where the eleven story water slide ended. It was labeled in green as Aquatic Classes. The third sub floor was labeled as Specialized fitness classes. "The floors below this aren't a place you'll want to go to. Most fitness clubs take place down here before and after school as well, so if you join the swim team, or the archery club, or any of the combat clubs you'll meet your team down here."
Lenalee flipped back a few pages and switched to red once again indicating the stairs on the ninth floor. Allen was beginning to wonder if the school had ever considered the benefits of an elevator system.
"And this is the last floor that you need to know. This is our auditorium, cafeteria, storage and where some other extra curricular activities and electives are held," Lenalee marked the auditorium as AUD and the cafeteria was marked in green as FOOD. "And this is the best way to get those two places," she drew a line from the stairs to those locations showing the most direct rout to each.
With a final click Lenalee put her pen back in her binder and handed the map back to Allen with a satisfied smile. "There you go! You probably wont ever have to go much higher then that, unless your going with your class." A loud bell rang and Lenalee suddenly started walking away. "Bye Allen! See you later!" Lenalee waved at the ran towards a hallway that Allen didn't know.
He gave a small waved back and looked down at his map again with a smile. What a nice girl, he looked back down at his maps and started following Lenalee's directions.
