The Shadowed Coin
Chapter 2: The Orders Search
The Next Day
I was in the middle of my meal when Reever called over to me. "Allen, Komui wants to see you." "What for?" I called back to him. "A mission. That's all he said." I ate up one more drumstick and then headed off to Komui's office.
When I opened up the door, I noticed Lenalee and Lavi by Komui's desk. Lenalee and Komui seemed to be having an argument. "But it's so pretty, and I want you to be safe." "I don't you watching me through a fluorescent pink golem! Besides, I can take care of myself." Lavi turned and saw me. "Oh Allen, there you are." Lenalee and Komui stopped arguing for a second to turn to me. "Allen your here, good." I stepped towards them. "What were you arguing about?" I asked. "Nothing." Lenalee said quickly. "Anyways, now that your here, I can explain the mission. Kanda get over here." I turned and saw Kanda walk out of the corner. "Beansprout." "Bakanda" We glared at each other for a second, then turned back to Komui.
"We need you four to find someone." We all looked at each other for a second. Oh, God no. "Is it General Cross?" asked Lavi. "No, it's someone else,"Thank God. "But he did disappear around the same time as Cross." "Did they know each other?" asked Lenalee. "Not very well, no. He's an Exorcist, age 22, by the name of Ashamar Triyk." "Ashamar?" she asked. "Yes, did you know him?" "Not very well, but I did see him around a few times."
"He disappeared four years ago after a mission. He and two other Exorcists went to find an innocence in a forest somewhere near HQ. Both Exorcists with him were found dead, and he was nowhere to be found." My eyes widened. "You think he killed them?" "It's possible. The night before the mission, someone heard voices coming from his room. They couldn't hear what they were saying, but there were more than one." "You think maybe it was the Noahs." Lavi said thoughtfully. "Maybe they tricked him into killing the Exorcists." "We thought of that too. But we find it very hard to believe that he could've been tricked." "Why?" Kanda asked. "It sounds pretty believable to me."
"Kanda," Komui said, annoyed. "Ashamar has been with the order since he was four years old. He's been here longer than any of us and he always thought of the Order as home. He thought of everyone here as family. Even more, His younger brother and sister are also here." I was surprised at that. "If he had a brother and sister here, then why would he leave?" I asked. "We don't know, but that's what we need you four to find out. Your job is to find him and bring him back here." I thought about it for a second. "But Komui, Lavi and I have never even seen him before."
"We chose all the Exorcists we had on standby. If we wait any longer, he'll get away again." "Why do you need all of us to find one person, anyway?" Lavi asked, confused by the whole dilemma. "We have reason to believe that Ashamar would try to escape by any means, including fighting you." "Then just send me, I'll beat him to a pulp" Kanda said. "Wow, your cocky Kanda." I said jokingly. "I should beat you to a pulp too, Beansprout." "It's Allen." I said, irritated.
"Kanda!" Komui said angrily. "You could not beat him on your own. Like I said, he's been here longer than all of us. When he left, his synchronization rate was 94%. He also knows yours and Lenalee's fighting styles, having seen you both train in the past." Lenalee looked surprised. "He watched us train?" she asked. "He is a very cautious person. He wanted to make sure he had a way to take down anyone who got in his way. Lavi and Allen are going for the reason that he doesn't know them, so he can't know their abilities." I nodded.
He seems like a very important person to the Order, seeing as how prepared they are to find him. "Then, Shouldn't you send people who actually know him." Kanda said, irritated. "We are. Rosalia, Krio, get over here. As he said that, a girl and a boy came into the room. The boy looked to be about the same age as me. He had short black hair and a pale complexion. His uniform included a silver colored shirt under a buttoned jacket. He was also wearing leather pants and sneakers.
The girl was probably about a year younger than me. She had curled red hair that went down past her shoulders. She was also of a pale complexion. Her uniform looked more like black silk robes that went down to just above her ankles. She had a silver chain necklace with a black coin around her neck. In her right hand was a silver scepter with a large blue jewel in the top of it.
They looked at us with smiling faces, but I could tell they were hiding the sadness deep down. "Krio was brought to the order by Ashamar after he found out that Krio was the Innocence's accommodator." Komui said respectfully. "Rosalia, is Ashamar's sister." My jaw dropped. "Wait a second. Both Ashamar and his sister are Exorcists!" "Our brother too." Rosalia said happily. "It's never happened before." Komui said, Mystified. "Three children from the same family, all accommodators of Innocence."
"Anyway, these two obviously know Ashamar very well, they'll know where to find him." "You still haven't told us where he is." Lavi said. "Oh right. We heard reports in a village in Northern Italy of an akuma being destroyed by a man who fits the description of Ashamar. We assume he is heading south. We need you to start you search as soon as possible. "Yes," Shouted Rosalia gleefully. "I want to find brother as soon as possible."
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"Well, we're off!" I said as we sailed through the tunnel. Lavi was steering the boat down stream while the rest of us just sat down talking. Well, Some of us were talking. Kanda just sat there and went to sleep with that annoyed expression on his face. "Ashamar would never kill another Exorcist." Rosalia said suddenly. "huh?" I said, surprised at the comment. "The two Exorcists that died on that mission four years ago, he would never kill them."
"You really think so?" Lavi asked. "It sounds pretty likely that he-" "He wouldn't!" she said angrily. "Ashamar isn't like that." Krio said calmly, putting his hand on her shoulder. He may not have always been nice to everyone, but he cared. He would never-" he stopped suddenly. "What's wrong?" Lenalee asked. "Well, there was one time...when he was different."We all turned to him. "What do you mean 'different'" Lavi asked him. "I'm not entirely sure myself. It was a few days before he left, we were on our way back to the order from a mission. On the way we were attacked by akuma, lot's of them. They were very powerful, they were more powerful than level 2's, they were level 3's.
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"Krio, stay back!" Ashamar screamed to me. "Close your eyes and don't open them until I tell you too!" I did as he told me and closed my eyes. My body ached, I could barely move. "I'm afraid to die." "Don't be," He said to me. "You won't die today." "HAHAHAHA!" The laughter of the akuma sent chills down my body, I was scared, I didn't want Ashamar to die. "You really think you can beat us on your own. There are ten of us, you can never beat us, Ashamar Triyk." My heart stopped, How do they know his name?
"Heh, your right," "eh?" the akuma said, confused. "But I'm not alone. We will kill you together." I heard the sound of wind blowing strongly and the trees around us breaking. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ashamar screamed in pain. "Ashamar!" I screamed. He's dying, and I can't help him. "Hahahaha." said a deep dark voice. Who is that? That's not one of the akuma, and why is he laughing. "Ten you say." said the new voice. "That shouldn't be too hard. Heh." I heard an explosion and the screaming of akuma.
"Is that Innocence!?" screamed one of the akuma. "That's not Innocence, the Earl said his Innocence was in the blades." said another . "Then what is it!?" screamed a third. "Hahahahahaha, Is that all the Earl told you? I guess he doesn't know everything after all, Tarrin." Who is that? Who is Tarrin? What's happening? I was tempted to open my eyes and see what was happening. I need to see what's happening. I need to open my eyes. "Don't open your eyes" said Ashamar's voice. Ashamar? "Don't open your eyes, Krio. It will all be over soon."
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