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All in this war are bound by destiny. Exorcists. Noahs. No matter the path they take, the players for each side has long been chosen. If the start of their paths were to change, what would it take for them to reach the same destination? 14 years ago the Noah of pleasure awakens while Tyki and Lavi try to escape their imprisonment as lab subjects in a cruel human experimentation plant. The Millennium picks up the duo and Lavi begins his path as a player on the side of the Earl.

Destiny

Prologue

He fought the headache that was starting to build as he backed up against the cold stone walls, shielding a young boy half his size from the dozens of men with loaded guns. They were surrounded, there was no way out.

"Come back with us quietly and we promise that no harm will befall you."

The guard's warnings were clear, they were going to shoot them if they struggled. Tyki's head throbbed again. He visibly flinched.

'Not now! Not now! I gotta be able to think straight! I gotta get us outta here…they can't take us both back! We'll die anyways!' Tyki thought.

"Tyki?"

Tyki turned to look down at the small boy clutching tightly to his tattered pants.

"Tyki? I'm scared."

"It's okay, Lavi. We'll get out, you'll see!" Tyki whispered assurance to him but had to swallow hard to keep his voice calm.

'Damn it! Damn it! Damn it all!' Tyki tightened his hands into fists, 'at least Lavi…I have to at least get Lavi outta here! The kid doesn't look a day past 5! In this godforsaken place…I can't give up here!'

"We'll warn you only one last time. You have one minute to decide your course of action, after which, we will shoot."

'Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn.'

Tyki shifted more to his left, making sure to cover Lavi completely from the guards' line of fire. His head was throbbing worse now and the guard's next words didn't help.

"You think you're special, kid? There are many more of you out there. We'll just replace you, it's all the same. It won't make a difference who we use. If you surrender here you'll get to live. Think you can foolishly escape us and we'll just dispose of you and the brat hiding behind you too."

'Bastards! Damn them to hell! All of them!'

Tyki was furious and this only seemed to make his headache worse. Then, like a dam, the pain he'd been trying to hold back burst forth. Tyki doubled over as he clutched his head in a vice grip, trying in vain to contain the pain ripping through his very being.

"MY HEAD! IT'S….IT'S SPLITTING! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Tyki? Tyki?!" the young red-haired boy called as he shook his friend with worry, "Tyki! Tyki!"

"IT HURTS! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!"

"Tyki! Tyki!" the little boy was now frantic as he latched himself onto Tyki, trying to comfort him and banish whatever it was that was hurting his friend so much.

"UGH! NO…DON'T! LAVI…GET AWAY FROM ME! RUN! GET OUTTA HERE! AHHHH!" Tyki was on the floor now as he began to bash his head against the hard stone floors hoping to dull the pain, "STAY BACK! LAVI! STAY….BACK!"

"No! Tyki! I…I won't leave! Not without you! Tyki! Tyki please stop! You're hurting yourself! Your forehead…it's bleeding!" the child was shaking now as he tried to stop his friend from continuing his assault on his own head.

The guards, confused from the sudden change in the youth, slowly began to approach the duo. That was their first mistake. A dark substance suddenly erupted from the youth turning the first row of guards to dust. They then made their second mistake. They didn't run. Instead, they shot randomly in the vicinity of where the duo were, kicking up dust and debris into the air.

"Oh~? What's this? My first wakeup call's from a rain of bullets? How…fitting…" a new, more sultry voice snickered as the youth emerged from the dust holding an unconscious, bleeding boy in his arms, "now that's hardly any way to greet a guest! I think that you all need to be…educated."

The massacre was brief as the air filled with blood and organs.

"It's nice to be back~. Now…" Tyki paused and pondered as he looked at the stirring boy in his arms, "what to do with you?"

Lavi looked up as he woke, right eye bleeding and shut. His still good left eye grew wide as he saw a stranger that wasn't a stranger.

"…Tyki?" Lavi asked when he finally found his voice, "you…are you Tyki?"

'What a sharp boy,' Tyki thought, 'and a lucky one…now…how did you survive the initial release of all that dark matter little red-headed boy?'

Tyki lowered the child to the ground, making sure to face him away from the aftermath of his bloodshed and began to examine him for injuries. That was when he noticed something odd about the then bleeding right eye of the boy. There, embedded where the pupil of the eye should have been, was a black cross, one resembling those that now decorated the youth's forehead. No other wounds were found on him which was another mystery given the bullets that should have pelted him.

"Ah~ I see. You somehow managed to take in the dark matter with that eye of yours…I wonder…what powers that will grant you?" Tyki asked, "little boy. How did you survive that barrage of bullets unharmed?"

"…barrage? Tyki, stop using hard words, you know that I don't understand them."

Tyki sighed, he hated babysitting, "I meant 'how did you not get hurt when all those bullets were fired?'."

"…I dunno. They just passed through me."

Tyki's eyes widened slightly as he realized the meaning behind those words.

'Oh? So I was the one who saved him? How…interesting.'

"Hey, kid…" Tyki started but was cut off from a small but angry and scared voice.

"Don't call me 'kid'! That's…that's what 'they' called me."

"…fine. Then what's your…" now it was Tyki's turn to cut himself off as a memory flashed through his mind.

'Lavi.'

Tyki cringed, 'you have got to be kidding me…I…have this human's…memories.'

Tyki then looked down to the red-haired brat that he now remembered as Lavi and silently groaned, 'and I have this human's…wishes. I…want to protect this kid. I want to help this kid get out alive…'

That's when Tyki remembered the mutilated bodies of the guards, 'that kid…Lavi…if my memories are accurate and the kid remembers everything he sees…the corpses…I hope he hasn't seen them…'

Sighing as he resigned to his fate, Tyki kneeled down to face the fidgeting boy, "boy, if you value your sanity, face me and don't look around."

Tyki then took Lavi into his arms as the child nodded his head, firmly pressing his face into the youth's chest to hide his eyes as he was instructed. They met no further resistance and walked in silence until Tyki began to notice a physical change in the tunnel's layout.

"Doesn't this place look like a rabbit hole?" Tyki mused as he saw the stone walls give way to the now dark earthen cave-like tunnels, "well, more like a cage made to look like a rabbit hole so that the rabbits trapped here feel like 'home'. How about I call you 'rabbit' instead of 'kid'?"

Tyki looked down, expecting protest from the boy in his arms but was met only with silence. He then realized with agitation that the boy had not only been lulled to sleep from their long trek up the tunnels, but seemed to be drooling on his shirt.

'This kid…' Tyki thought as he felt annoyance arise. This annoyance though, was far different than any he could remember feeling before. It was an annoyance that was laced with the need to protect and care for the boy causing the annoyance.

'How odd,' Tyki thought and then paused as he saw the tunnel split into two.

"Hmm~, left or right?" Tyki asked no one in particular and waited for no response. After choosing a path, he walked until he saw the light of the tunnel's entrance.

"Seems we'll finally be leaving this hell hole of a home…little rabbit."

-To be continued-

Author's note: Basically a story about Lavi's destiny as an Exorcist and Bookman despite being introduced to the war as one of the Earl's pieces and not meeting Bookman when he did. This idea wouldn't leave me alone so I decided to write it to get it out of my head~. It was posted up earlier but I took it down rather quickly since I realized I didn't have an ending (and still don't really?). But I've decided to put it back up and ask for further guidance as the chapters unfold! Thanks for reading!