A/N: I teased this a while ago didn't I? Well I finally got on it thanks to my pushy brother so thank him. That being said Dark Heart is not done but more on a whenever I upload schedule for any of my past readers. Good news is I have a plan for this story. Like the beginning of Dark Orihime this is going to be slight things changed at first leading to an ultimate bout face on the original storyline these first few chapters will be slightly changed but not so much just little things that could've happened starting from episode 56 and continuing on from there. Hope you enjoy and please R&R.
'Why, why is Suman gone? I saved him, what are these things?' Allen stared helplessly as the dark butterflies ate him "Suman…" Allen couldn't do anything his arm was done for drained of its power. Allen continued to stare on as he remembered Suman's apology, the last thing he spoke. It seems my life has run out. I'm going to die, I'm sure this monster will disappear as well. I'm sorry. I wanted to see my family. I'm so sorry… Allen gripped Suman's innocence refusing to let this happen he moved quickly swatting the insects away from Suman's body. "Stop! Get away from Suman!" but his arm wouldn't let it happen as it started to fall to pieces. Unable to bare the pain Allen had to stop. Gripping his arm in frustration he continued to watch his friend, his brother in arms, be eaten by these creatures. "Damnit!" He cried as he stared helplessly as he failed to protect what he swore to Lenalee that he would save. Suman.
With that the Butterflies flew away leaving not even a trace of Suman behind, not even a drop of blood. Allen bent over in sadness and frustration of his weakness let his tears fall not caring as the dark insects started to charge him as well. But just as they got to him he heard a voice from behind. "Tease." Opening his eyes in surprise he straightened his back and looked behind him. A man in a tuxedo and top hat stood there hands outward and … smirking and uttered one word "Come." All the butterflies flew into his hands, making holes in the of the same dark energy but soon they re-emerged as larger ones with an actual structure and in place of a body was a chattering golden skull. Smiling the man held out his new toys as the holes in his hands healed instantly.
"My, my they seemed to have gotten a bit bigger." Lifting one to his face and kissing it. Allen's vision blurred and he saw the same man but somewhere else with a devilish smile on his face standing over the corpses of Suman's squad. 'What was that just now? Suman's memories?' Allen remembered the painful experience he had to go through to get those. Being trapped in the Fallen One having them all engrained into his mind as if someone was writing on his brain. He remembered Suman begging for his life and this man asking what his name was but the memories stopped there as if blocked off from the world. Enraged with the new information his innocence started to glow. 'This is the man who killed Suman.' "Bastard!" But his innocence gave out losing its power again and once more Allen flinched letting out a pained yelp.
"That left arm… Innocence?" The man said to himself 'Have I seen him somewhere' just then he remembered being cheated by this boy all those months ago on the train as his white self. Eyes widening in surprise he exclaimed in surprise kneeling down to get a better look. Allen raised his head to look at him. "Oh, you're Cheating Boy A?" the man exclaimed "Not that you would recognize me now." Unconcerned about the man's rambling Allen mumbled "What did you d?" The man leaned in for a better hearing "Huh?" a little louder, head still faced downward, Allen asked "What did you do to Suman? Did you kill him?" Facing him with hate in his eyes "Answer me!"
Staring at him absentmindedly the man just replied with a smile not actually hating the boy "Well, he's my enemy and all, you know?" That smile pissed Allen off he gritted his teeth at his inability to do anything as the man lit a cigarette. "Yeah, that's kind of what I do. It's a bit late for the information to help you get away. I guess I'll tell you. Listen well, kiddo." Allen swore that if his teeth were ground any harder they would break. Gesturing to the butterflies "Theses things are called Tease, cannibal golems created by the Millennium Earl. They're butterflies because, well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans. The more they eat, the more they reproduce. But that's their power, not mine. Tease are just a plain tool." Raising his arm slightly "My power is… This!" He exclaimed as he put his arm right through Allen's chest.
Allen felt no pain however not even a dull sting besides the usual aching from his overexerting himself. The man chuckled a little seeing the confusion on his face. "Don't worry. It doesn't hurt. My hand-no, my whole body-can go through anything. This is my power. But only things I decide I don't want to touch. So if I pulled out my hand, and decided I want to touch your heart…" He exampled this by bringing his hand back so that it was inside Allen's chest and ghosting his hand around Allen's heart "I could rip out your beating heart without cutting your body at all." Allen could feel it the hand slowly gripping around his heart. Gasping afraid of what might happen he enticed the suit clad man who now stared at him with eyes pure in intent to destroy.
"How do you think it feels to have your still beating heart ripped out while you're alive?"
"Tell me."
"How do you think it feels?" His hand now firmly holding Allen's heart. Allen looked at him a dead calm expression on his face surprising the man. Allen wasn't afraid to die not by this man who he could tell was just playing with him. ' This man, this man who killed Suman he could teach me to be more powerful … No what am I thinking he's a Noah he's the enemy the one I should be fighting but still if I was stronger I could've saved Suman' seeing the expression (or lack thereof) on Allen's face the man smiled "You don't care, huh? I won't rip your heart out. It would get my glove dirty. So normally I just hold the Tease and let them devour people." Raising his hand to let one land on it.
"Normally?" Allen asked "Yup. You hadn't heard? No rumors about your friends who died with their internal organs taken out? Daisya Barry. Kazana Reed. Chakar Rabon. Suman helped me, so I didn't do that to him. I put a Tease inside him and made him a breeding ground. Thanks to that, I got a few more." Allen clenched his fist as this man if he could call him that listed all the ones he failed to protect the ones he could've saved if he was stronger. "Oh, and there was some marshall called Yeegar, too. Allen's eyes shot open as he remembered how he found the kind Marshall … chained to a tree by his own chains bloodied and beaten. "I'm pretty sure I didn't kill him right off… Why'd I do that again? Oh, yes I made him a messenger. His organs were eaten, so he must've been in a lot of pain." The man chuckled to himself. Allen was shaking in rage "How… How dare you…" Noticing his trembling "What's wrong, shounen*."
"Everyone…"
"Oh I get it. You hadn't heard." And that set of Allen he drew up all his strength left in his body and backhanded the man across the face removing the hand from his chest. "I won't forgive you!" He yelled raising a fist to strike him again this time being caught by the man who just smiled finally getting the reaction he wanted. "Didn't think you had that much power left." He said tightening his grip and standing up "But as you are now…" Lifting Allen's already beaten left arm with him, the one that held his innocence, and started pulling his wrist from its socket and dropped it once he heard the bone crack. "Too bad, shounen. If you'd met me when I was "white", I would've wanted to play another round of cards." Pulling out the Joker from his own deck the man started spinning it on his fore finger. "I'm going around killing people who are involved with a certain man… Are you Allen Walker?"
Lenalee landed on another branch 'Suman's light disappeared around here. Where is Allen? He was supposed to save Suman. Why can't I find them? Allen. Please be safe.' She thought as she searched the ruined land for Allen she wouldn't admit it to herself but she loved him she had to find him and Suman. She passed many pieces of the destroyed Fallen One but not a single sign of Allen. She screamed his name hoping he would respond. 'All alone, with those wounds…' She landed in a river where she saw a mother curled around her child both crushed by the piece of debris atop them. What if this happened to Allen she couldn't live with herself knowing that she let him leave. That she asked him to save Suman. 'Why is my heart pounding like this? Allen…' Please be safe.
'This is horrible' Allen thought 'I can't even stand up now, let alone move. If only I was stronger like this man, like this noah' The noah grabbed him by the throat lifting him to his feet. "Answer me. Are you Allen Walker, Shounen?" A small moaning like voice interrupted saying "That is correct. This person is Allen Walker! Delete him. Delete!" The voice came from a little man looking like some kind of sad clown in a floating card but the inside the card it looked like a cell and along the walls there were many names scratched on the wall namely one glowing red Allen Walker. The noah looked at the strange card man then back at Allen "This is Cell Roron. He's called the prisoner of the List Cell." Lifting Allen off his feet "He's told me who you are."
The noah reached down, a light purple lightning emitting from his hand, and gripped Allen's left shoulder right where his arm turns into the cursed skin and started to tug. The electricity channeled through his body electrifying him as the suited man tore his arm from its socket and kept pulling. "Let's start with that Innocence of yours." Allen screamed in agony as he felt the lightning coursing through him and his arm being taken off until at last with a final tug the man ripped his arm from his body and tossing it away.
Allen fell to the ground the last of his strength taken from him. The noah stood over him hand still sparking with electricity "Did you know, Shounen? That we can destroy Innocence. We Noah clan and the Millennium Earl." He started to walk towards Allen's severed arm, Allen stared blankly in that general direction still feeling the after effects of the lightning and his arm slowly bleeding out. He let out a barely audible "stop it" but it was a cry on deaf ears. "I've destroyed all the Innocence I've gathered so far. Why should you be any different?" But something was off about this when channeling his energy though the boy he felt another presence a familiar presence … A noah presence. Was he a noah yet to awaken? It didn't matter now. "But if one of the Innocence was the heart," he continued "then that would destroy all the innocence you've got. That's how we'd know it was the one. Now then, what about your Innocence?"
He looked over at the glowing ball of green light that was Suman's Innocence "That's Suman's Innocence is it not? So that means if I destroy yours and his, too, is destroyed than that means this was the heart." He smiled to himself hoping this was what he hoped it was as Allen let out another mumbled "Stop it." Raising his hand over the severed arm ignoring yet another louder "Stop it." He let loose the pink electricity again and disintegrating Allen's arm as the boy let out a final scream "Stop it!" the man chuckled as the arm disappeared and the glowing green cross flew into his hand that was embedded in it. He then proceeded to crush as Allen watched the thing he tried so hard to protect vanish and turn to dust right before his eyes, yet another thing he couldn't protect.
"Now then, was it the Heart?" Seeing as the other glowing ball was unaffected he sighed "Darn, I guess not. Oh, well. My mission this time was assassination, nothing else." The little card man started to shout "Delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete!" Pushing the card aside "Right, right. I'm on it." Timcampy (Allen's golden golem) put itself in the way of the approaching man and his master "Run, Tim." The golem looked at Allen "Take Suman's Innocence and run." Shaking itself back and forth it refused to leave him "Go. If you don't go no one will be able to find my master. Go. Go!" Just about as it was going to refuse again a voice entered its head the voice of its old master Go I'll live through this like everything else GO! The little golem acted with speed swept up Suman's Innocence swallowed it and flew away "Thank you, Tim…"
The man looked where the golem flew off smirked and looked back at Allen "Well, that was a smart thing to do." He closed his eyes and focused on the demons high above them ordering to find the golem and take back the Innocence. Looking back at Allen he had to finish up "I can guess what you were thinking when you sent that golem away. 'I'm done for. I need to at least send my golem to my friends' you've prepared yourself for death, right?" Allen looked the man now crouched over him "If everyone is there… there is still hope" sighing at the inexperience of harshness this world has he was starting to get sympathetic for the shounen "You're optimistic to the end, kid. Well, pray that happens. To your God, if you like. But your God isn't there, kid."
Allen didn't have the strength to even retort anymore he could barely breathe. "Listen, Tease. Don't eat him. Just open a hole in his heart." He took one of the butterflies in his hand and pushed it through Allen's chest. "I feel I should give courageous people like you time before they die. The blood will flow from your heart and your body will fill with terror. And you'll die, suffering with no one there to save you." The Tease took one bite of his heart as Allen let out another scream of agony. "Did it hurt? But it's okay now. We're done." He removed the hand and the Tease and pulling the button of his shirt off as a souvenir noticing the cards in his inside pocket Tyki took them and spread them over Allen the boy now unconscious his mission fulfilled he left him there to bleed out thinking to himself 'A hero's death one he deserves if the beast inside him doesn't wake.'
A/N: *Shounen means Kid in Japanese and is also Tyki Mikk's (The man in the suit) nick name for Allen. The next chapter will be different from natural the natural storyline but some things will be the same and for all of my readers who haven't read or watched man I'm sorry as this probably made no sense to you. If you enjoyed R&R until next time fellow readers.