Disclaimer: I don't own -Man. If I did…well, there would be deaths of several characters.
An Innocent Heart
*Flashback*
"Ryan! Lookie lookie! There's a guy with white hair outside the shop!" Jeniya shouted happily, running into their shop.
"What?" Ryan gasped.
Ever since their parents died, no one ever came to their shop. It was unheard of in the village. Two children barely old enough to live by themselves let alone work running and owning a shop. It had been months since anyone had bought anything from the shop. Ryan rushed out the door to make sure his sister wasn't seeing things. Sure enough, there was a man with pure white hair standing in front of the shop looking at what they had. Next to him was a man with blonde hair and two dots on his forehead. Ryan hesitated for a second. These two sure looked weird.
"Can I help you?" Ryan asked, casting that last thought aside.
The man with white hair turned to see Ryan standing by the door. Ryan watched as a gentle smile appeared on the man's face as he slowly approached him. Once he got close enough, Ryan noticed a red star on the man's forehead above his left eye along a red line running down from the star and down his cheek. Defiantly weird.
"Yes," the man stated as he brought himself down to look Ryan in the eye, "I'm in need of some information."
Ryan tensed. Was this man the man that was supposed take Ryan and his sister to the orphanage? Or was he going to separate them first? Ryan glared at the two men. There was no way that he was going to allow that. Suddenly, Ryan jumped inside the doorway of his shop and grabbed his crossbow. Ryan smirked. There was no way that they were going to be taking them today. Slowly, Ryan walked back out and pointed the crossbow at the first man's head. The instant he spotted the crossbow, the man jumped back.
"You are NOT going to take me and my sister to that wretched orphanage!" Ryan snapped.
"Whoa there! What are you talking about?" the man with white hair shouted, flinging his hands around in front of him, "I don't know anything about you or your sister and I'm defiantly not taking you to any orphanage!"
Ryan slowly lowered his crossbow, eyeing the strangers. If they weren't there to take them away, what kind of information could they need? Who were these two men?
"I was just going to ask if you knew anything about the Stone of Songs?" the white-haired man sighed.
"The Stone of Songs?" Ryan gasped.
Ryan quickly raised his crossbow again and scowled at the men. The white-haired man sighed again. That ticked Ryan off. How could he even ask such a thing and expect any other kind of reaction? The Stone of Songs was forbidden to talk about. If one was caught talking about it, the village elders almost always sentenced you to life in prison. It was even worse if you revealed its location to strangers.
"I suggest you leave, strangers," Ryan frowned, "unless you want to bring upon your own deaths."
With that, Ryan ducked back into the shop and locked the door. If these men were after the Stone of Songs, he needed to grab his sister and head to the temple as fast as possible. Even if it was forbidden to speak of, going to the temple of the stone was not. In fact, it was Ryan's family's job to protect the stone. Ryan bit his lip. That's how his parents died. They were trying to protect the stone from treasure hunters. They succeeded in saving the stone but died soon after due to their wounds. Ever since, the entire village helped look after the temple but it was Ryan and Jeniya's job to protect it now.
"Jeniya! It's time to go!" Ryan called out, running to the back of the shop.
"Time to go where?" she asked curiously.
"To go to the temple of the stone," Ryan stated.
He watched his little sister's eyes widened as she nodded. Quickly, she reached into a drawer and pulled out a necklace with a green pendant and slipped it over her head.
"I'm ready," she stated simply.
Ryan just nodded and took her hand and rushed out the back door. It wouldn't be long before the two men would find the temple. It never took long. The temple wasn't hidden and could be spotted from miles away. Ryan and Jeniya ran as fast as their young legs to take them. They just had to get there before the men did. They just had to.
But they didn't.
"Hey Link! Do you think this could be it? The Stone of Songs that Komui told us about?" Ryan heard the white-haired man's voice asked.
"How should I know? It's not acting up like Komui said it was so there's no way to be sure," the other man's voice sounded, sounding irritated.
"Then should we take it and hope that it is? Or wait till it acts up?" the white-haired man asked again.
"Again, why are you asking me?" the other sighed.
"Some help you are, you know that?" the white-haired man sighed.
Ryan tightened his grip on his crossbow. Dammit! They were too late! The men had gotten there before them. Now what? Just go out there and start shooting at them? Ryan looked at his sister. She looked just as distressed as him but at the same time looked like she was going to try something. Jeniya stood tall as she took a few deep breathes before walking out in front of the men.
"Hm? Oh! It's that little girl from earlier," the white-haired man smiled, holding out a hand for Jeniya, "How are you?"
Jeniya took a deep breath and Ryan covered his ears. He knew what was coming. Jeniya started to scream as high and as loud as she could. At the same time, her necklace's pendant started to glow a bright green. A few seconds after her screaming begun, the ground beneath the men started to bend and fold, rise and fall, and crave in. The men shouted out in their surprise and Ryan smirked. He never figured out how but whenever Jeniya wore that necklace, her voice could control nature. It was how the two had always defeated anyone who came for the stone. If they were late getting there, Jeniya would just open a hole in the earth underneath the intruders and let them fall to their deaths. True, neither enjoyed doing it but it was their duty.
Ryan walked up slowly to his sister, hands never truly leaving his ears. His job now was to stop her. Just when he thought it was alright for her to stop, something happened that never had before. Something of pure white flew up from the hole in the ground and wrapped around one of the many columns. What the hell was that thing? Ryan quickly stopped his sister's screams and the two of them stared in awe at the white thing. Then, suddenly, the two men flew up from the hole, the white-haired man the source of the white thing itself. Ryan fell backwards. What the hell were these men? No one had ever come back from his sister's scream. Jeniya was just as shocked. How were they still alive! They should hit the bottom before that white thing came up!
"That wasn't very nice, you two," the white-haired man scolded, gracefully landing on his feet, "Why did you attack us?"
Ryan and Jeniya just stared at the man. Who was he?
"Hey, Walker. You don't think that she's an accommodator of innocence, do you? That would defiantly explain how the hole came out of nowhere when she started to scream," the man, earlier called Link, stated.
"She might be. We probably should take her to the Order just to be sure, though," the white-haired man stated.
Ryan was on his feet instantly. He didn't understand anything they had just said except that they wanted to take his sister somewhere away from him. He pulled up his crossbow and pointed it at the white-haired man once again. The man just stared at it and raised an eyebrow. Ryan smirked. The man was probably thinking why he was pointing a crossbow at him with no arrow loaded. Little did the man know that Ryan's crossbow was special. All he had to do was imagine an arrow and aim. The second he fired, there was always an arrow of nothing but green light. True, it was made of just that green light but it was just as, if not more, powerful as a real arrow. Ryan placed his finger on the trigger and closed his eyes. It was just for a second though. The instant he opened his eyes, Ryan pulled the trigger sending one green arrow flying towards the white-haired man. Ryan grinned victoriously. There was no way that the man would dodge his arrow.
He was right. The man didn't dodge it. He stopped it with his right hand that was now completely covered in the white thing. Ryan dropped to his knees. This wasn't happening. There was no way that this was happening. It had to be a dream; just a bad dream.
The white-haired man slowly approached Ryan. Jeniya quickly flung herself in front of her big brother. There was no way that she was going to lose her only remaining family member to some treasure hunter. The man reached out his right hand and Jeniya closed her eyes. This was it.
"It's okay," the man said softly, gently placing his right hand on Jeniya's head, "We aren't here to hurt you two. Trust me on this. We're the good guys."
Jeniya looked up at the man's face. He was smiling in such a warm and gentle way. Was he actually telling the truth? If so, why was he after the Stone of Songs? Why was he here trying to ruin their lives?
"Why are you trying to take the stone, mister?" Jeniya questioned.
"Hm? Well, that's because it's made of innocence, my dear," the man said softly.
"Innocence?" Jeniya asked, quite confused.
"Yep. Just like my left arm," the man said, still smiling.
The man slowly pulled his left arm out from hiding behind the white cloak thing. It was completely black with long sword-like claws coming out where his fingers should have been. Jeniya's eyes widened in fear. It looked so scary and deadly to her. Jeniya forced her gaze back upon the man's face and saw that he was still smiling. What was his deal? Didn't it bother him to have that arm?
"This is only one phase of what my innocence looks like when activated," the man said, suddenly losing his smile as he placed his right hand at the top of his left arm.
Jeniya just watched at that same arm turned into a giant sword and the cloak turning into just basically white ribbons attached to a white glove-like thing that was attached to his right hand. Jeniya bit her lip. The sword was even more terrifying than the arm was. The man suddenly started to smile once again.
"Link! Come over here so I can show them that this sword is nothing to be afraid of," the man called out to his comrade.
"Why don't you do on yourself?" Link yelled back.
"You know very well that I can't do that," the man scowled, "now get you're arse over here."
The man called Link muttered a few curse words under his breath as he slowly approached the white-haired man. The man continued to smile as he quickly stabbed the other through the chest. Jeniya almost screamed. He just stabbed his own partner! How bloodthirsty was this man?
"It's okay, my dear," the white-haired man stated, "My sword can't hurt normal humans like you three. It only hurts those that have the truest of evils inside of them. And it really doesn't hurt the human self there either. It attacks the evil that lies inside."
"Why don't you do it on yourself then?" Ryan questioned, finally speaking up.
"Ah, he lives," the man chuckled, pulling his sword out of Link's chest, "Well, it's just as I said. My sword only hurts those that have the truest of evils inside of them. That is what dwells deep within me. If I stab myself, my sword tries to kill those evils, causing me severe pain."
Jeniya watched Link's eyes flash something she didn't quite understand. For a second, she could have swore that she saw something like a mix of fear and sorrow. It was only for a split second though.
"Then why on earth do you have that sword?" Ryan nearly shouted, "If you have something evil within you, then why do wield that sword?"
"Well, dear boy," the man said as the white cloak thing and sword disappeared, "To put it simply, I am an exorcist. Nothing more, nothing less."
Jeniya looked at the white-haired man. Why did he seem so sad behind that smile? Was it because of the evil he spoke of or something else entirely? The man slowly rolled up his left sleeve and revealed his nearly completely black arm.
"This is the form that my innocence decides to take when it is not activated," the man stated, pushing his sleeve back down.
Slowly, the man backed up from the two kids and made his way back over to the Stone of Songs. Jeniya quickly realized what he was going to do and rushed in front of the man.
"You can't take it! It's the sacred relic that the village guards! If you take it, the village will be ruined!" Jeniya nearly screamed at the man.
"If I take it then the village will be ruined? No no, my dear, it's quite the opposite," the man stated, walking right past Jeniya, "If I do not take it with me, the village with be ruined. No. It will be destroyed."
Jeniya froze. Destroyed? How? Why? Just because he didn't take the stone? How was that possible?
"Don't listen to him, Jeniya! He's trying to trick you so that you'll let him take the stone away!" Ryan shouted, slowly getting back onto his feet.
"Ryan…" Jeniya whispered, "Mister please don't take the stone!"
The man stopped and turned to the two kids, "Now this isn't fair at all. I know that you believe that this stone is what protects your village or something but if I leave it here horrible creatures called akuma will descend on this village to take the stone away to destroy it. At least if I take it, then it will be safe and not be destroyed. So will you just stop trying to fight with me on this and let me take the stone?"
Jeniya stared at the man. It looked like his patience was started to crack a little. But nothing this man said made any sense to her. First he had such terrifying weapons that he said were to purify evil while he said that he himself had evil in him. Then he says that if he doesn't take the stone, something else will and destroy it. But that didn't make it any better that he was taking it with him either. Jeniya couldn't figure out what to do. When she looked at the man, she wanted to believe him but his words made it so very hard to do so.
"Why are you two the only ones that came to protect the stone anyway?" the man asked.
"That's because it's our family and our family only duty to protect the stone!" Ryan shouted, running towards the man.
"Then where are your parents?" the man asked, suddenly quite curious.
Ryan stopped dead in his tracks. Why did the man need to know that? If he was a treasure hunter, why didn't he just take the stone while there was just two kids guarding it? Ryan clenched his fists. And why did he have to bring up their parents?
"They died protecting the stone," Ryan heard Jeniya say.
"Jeniya!" Ryan snapped, "Why on earth would you tell him that?"
"Because we can trust him," Jeniya stated.
"How can you be sure on that?" Ryan shouted at his younger sister.
"Think about it! If he really wasn't telling the truth, wouldn't have already taken the stone and left! He knows that there isn't much that we can do to stop him but yet he hasn't even touch the stone!" Jeniya yelled back.
Ryan fell silent again, trying to process what his sister just said. Jeniya sighed and walked up to the man. Looked like she had to do everything on this one.
"Would you at least tell us your name so that we can tell the villagers who stole the stone?" Jeniya asked, holding out her hand.
"Allen. Allen Walker," the man said, shaking the girl's tiny hand, "And it is a pleasure to meet you, Miss Jeniya."
Jeniya flinched at the mention of her name. This man was good at listening to others. Most people didn't notice through the kids' arguments their names but this man sure did.
"I hate to ask, but I'm curious," Jeniya questioned, "Exactly, how old are you, mister?"
Allen just laughed at the random question. He knew the reason for it though. With his white hair only, it made him appear to be at least five years older than he actually was. Unfortunately, that wasn't the only reason anymore. Allen knew it and hated to admit that his own innocence was slowly killing him by draining his life force whenever he was forced to fight at full power. He himself had to admit that there were days that he thought that he was at least twenty-five, though he knew better.
"I'm fifteen," Allen stated, chuckling a little at the young girl's shocked expression, "Soon to be sixteen in about three weeks."
"You're so young!" Jeniya exclaimed.
Allen just laughed a little at the girl, "Well, thank you for that. Anyways, I really should be taking the stone and going. And you two should start packing your things."
"Huh? Why?" Jeniya and Ryan asked.
"Because with you two being potential accommodators of innocence, I am required to take you with me back to the Order to be…examined I suppose is a good word to use," Allen explained, grabbing the stone and looking over at Link, "Link, bring the suitcase over here!"
"Suitcase?" Link asked, confused.
"Yes suitcase. The one I handed you this morning when we left the hotel," Allen stated, walking over to his partner.
"I put it back into the room once you went to breakfast," Link stated.
"You WHAT?" Allen shouted, startling the kids.
"What?" Link snapped, a little startled as well.
"That suitcase had the three other pieces of Innocence that we recovered in it! That's why I handed it to you. It was right after I told you that if we got into a fight with any akuma that you needed to take the innocence and run for the Ark!" Allen shouted at his partner, "Or do you not remember me putting the innocence in there last night!"
"Ah…no," Link confessed.
Allen tried taking a few deep breathes. This was not happening. This couldn't have been happening! Allen locked eyes with Link before thrusting the heavy stone into Link's hands.
"You take the stone back to the hotel and put it into the suitcase. Meet me at the Ark when you're done," Allen ordered, gently grabbing the two kids' hands then turning back to see the blonde haired boy about to complain, "And don't even start on how it's not your job. If we lose that innocence to the Earl, I'm going to tell everyone, including Leverrier, who's fault that was. Now, get going!"
With that, Link sprinted out of temple and towards the hotel.
"Honestly, for someone so high on the totem pole, you'd think that he'd have a better head on his shoulders," Allen sighed, leading the kids in the opposite direction.
The two kids were silent the entire time they were walking. There was so much on their minds to do much of anything other than walk. There was the first fact they had failed at protecting the stone and now they were being taken away to "the Order to be…examined". Both shivered at the thought. What had Allen meant by examined? Then there was the second fact of everything that Allen had said while they were in the temple. The village was going to be destroyed if they didn't get the stone out of there. How was that even possible and what would be the thing that destroyed it? And what exactly were "akuma"? It was too much for the kids to take in at once.
Never once while they were walking did Allen let go of their hands. It was like he didn't want to leave them alone as they entered this strange new world that he was dragging them into. Or that he was afraid of something. But what on earth could that be? From what they had seen, they could assume that Allen was very strong. So there was no way that there was anything that actually scared him, right?
Wrong.
"Damn," Allen cursed, suddenly breaking the silence that had surrounded them the entire four hours they had been walking.
Allen suddenly stopped walking and dropped the kids hands, raising his right hand to cover his left eye. The two kids looked at him with a little worry. What was wrong? Why had they stopped? How much farther did they have to go to get to this "Ark?"
"Shit…Why do you have to act up now, you damnable eye?" they heard Allen muttered.
Digging in his pocket with his left hand, the kids watched Allen pull out a yellow ball of about the size of his hand. Suddenly the ball shot up into the hair and started flying around in circles above them. When it finally came back down to eye level, the kids noticed its wings, tail, and cross pattern.
"Tim, I need you to go through the Ark and bring back some reinforcements," Allen started, holding the yellow ball close to his face.
The kids looked closely at the strange man next to him. What the hell was going on?
"Chief Komui, this is Allen Walker. I'm in the field at the moment and am in need of reinforcements. My left eye has started to act up indicating an akuma in the area but not within my sight range. I'm about five miles south, south-east of the gateway that is placed with a church in an abandoned village. I have six pieces of innocence in my possession. If you cannot send reinforcements, give me permission to open a gateway where I am. Send Timcampy back if you cannot send backup…if you have to, send Kanda," they heard Allen whisper to the yellow ball, "Okay Timcampy? Take this message STRAIGHT to Komui, okay? If he sends backup, stay there, okay?"
The yellow ball nodded and shot off towards where the gateway was. Allen sighed and looked around. There was a small river that passed through a small cliff nearby. That would have to do for a place to wait and hide. Allen couldn't risk fighting with Link somewhere else. Link was the only that could restrain him should the unthinkable happen while he was fighting the akuma. So for now, he had to hide.
Grabbing, the kids' hands again and dragged them into the cavern. It was big enough for the three of them but small enough that so long as the akuma didn't try to blow the cliff up, that Allen could fight on pretty much even terms with any akuma. Sighing, Allen let himself slide down the wall, right hand still covering his left eye. There was no reason to scare the kids with his hideous eye just yet. He'd have to wait till the akuma were closer.
It wasn't like he had to wait for long for that to happen. It had only been about five minutes before the akuma where in the range of his curse. Allen smirked and let his right hand drop to his side. It was going to be a long day.
Jeniya screamed when she looked over at Allen. There she saw what she deemed to be a terrifying sight. She saw Allen's left eye activated. Allen just smiled at her and stroked her hair slowly while Ryan trembled in horror.
"Don't worry about this eye," Allen stated, smiling the two kids, "This eye is what allows me to see the akuma."
"Wh-What are akuma, Mr. Walker," Ryan questioned, slowly regaining his composure.
Allen looked sternly at the two kids, "Akuma are our enemies creations. When an akuma is "born", a human must die first. You see, the maker, or as we know him, the Millennium Earl approaches a grieving who has just lost a love one suddenly. It is this lost that creates the one opportunity that the Earl has to create an akuma. It uses the darkness and sorrow in a grieving human's heart to manipulate them into calling their love one back to life. What he never tells them is that once they call them back, they themselves do upon their loves one's soul the worst possible fate ever. They turn them into an akuma where the soul of their love one is trapped forever, their feelings of distress becoming the fuel for the akuma. The Earl then orders the newly born akuma to kill the very person that called them back. They can not fight against this order. After they kill their loved one, the akuma wears that body as it's skin, thus hiding it from most of the world."
Jeniya shuddered at what she had just been told. Was this actually possible? It sounded something from a science fiction book than reality to her.
"But with the power of innocence, we can see them?" Ryan questioned, suddenly quite interested.
"No…" Allen stated, looking down.
"Then how can you-" Ryan started.
"I can only see them because I turned my own foster father into akuma," Allen stated, voice filled with sorrow.
"What? Then, if everything you've told us up until know is true, then how are you alive?" Ryan demanded.
"Because of my arm," Allen stated, looking directly at the young boy.
The was a moment of silence as the two kids took in everything Allen had told them.
"Tell us everything that happened when you turned your foster father into an…akuma," Jeniya said, staring at Allen with sorrow yet compassion filled eyes.
"I remember sitting next my foster father Mana's grave for several days. I didn't have any clue of what else to do. I still couldn't believe that Mana…that my father was really gone. That he had died.
~ "Good Evening, little boy," a sinister voice sounded, "You looked rather sad."
"Wha?" a little Allen Walker stated, looking up to the source of the voice.
There, leaning over Mana's grave was a man of large proportions in a strange outfit and top hat, wearing a never ending grin.
"Would you like for me to bring your daddy back to life for you?" the strange, fat man asked the young boy.
"What?" Allen asked the strange man, not believing what he had just heard.
"I only need for you to call out to him, seeing that you have such a "special" bond," the fat man stated, emphasizing the word special, "Wouldn't it be great if you could just see him again?"
"He'll come back to life?" Allen questioned, astonished that his father would come back to him.
"Of course!" the man exclaimed, "Come, let's call him back from your detestable God."
"Will he…really hear me calling?" Allen questioned, suddenly nervous about whether or not he could actually make his voice loud enough for Mana to hear.
The man just started to laugh and pointed at the ground. Suddenly, the fat man shot something into the ground and up rose a metal like cage thing with a strange looking skeleton on it, just floating there. Allen stood up and made his way slowly towards the skeleton. He was going to do it. He was going to bring his Mana back so he wouldn't have to face the world alone.
"Now, just raise your voice and call back the one that you love back to you," the fat man said, standing next to the skeleton body.
Allen trembled as he hesitated for just a second but his mind was set on what he was about to do.
"MANAAA!" Allen screamed out, his voice reaching to ears for miles.
Suddenly, there was a flash of a bright purple lightening that hit the skeleton body. The body then erupted in a purple flame while a purple light quickly wrote the name "MANA" on the skeleton's helmet like forehead.
"Mana…" Allen sighed in relief. He had indeed come back to him.
"A-Allen?" the skeleton spoke in Mana's voice.
"Mana!" Allen nearly exclaimed, reaching out to hug his Mana like he used to do.
"How…could you?" the Mana skeleton snapped, raising his voice to beyond what Mana had ever done, "HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME AN AKUMA? I curse you…Allen!" The skeleton holding Mana's soul then sliced its sharpened forearm down, cutting Allen from his forehead over his left eye and finally down his cheek. As soon as Allen fell to his knee in shock and pain, the skeleton holding Mana's soul wrapped something around him, trying to squeeze his very life out of his tiny little body. It pounded him into the ground while the voice of Mana, the voice of his father, scolded him in a sorrowfully angry voice. Allen was so frightened by the idea that his Mana was angry at him for bringing him back that he barely heard the fat man say, "…you're all mine now…". The rest of what the man said was a blur. Allen didn't care about whatever the fat man was saying. He was too focused on what his father kept yelling at him.
"I curse you…ALLEN!" Mana's voice screeched through Allen's terrified young mind…~
After that, all I remember is my left arm activating for the first time ever. It attacked the akuma that I had created Mana into. I can still remember calling out to Mana…to father, telling him to run as my hand rushed towards him, dragging my body behind it. Then…Mana told me to kill it. That's when my first activated.
"Allen…please…destroy me," the voice of Mana Walker sounded from the skeleton's body.
Allen's left eye suddenly started to focus on something. It focused on Mana's soul that was attached to the skeleton's body. His mind was what focused on Mana's tears…
"DESTROY ME, ALLEN!" Mana nearly screamed.
Allen's left hand did just that, letting the boy watch as Mana Walker died for the second time.
"MANA!"
Almost immediately after that, I met my master. He was the one that trained me to be an exorcist," Allen said, pulling his legs up to meet his chest.
Both kids swallowed. What a horror of a tale Allen had just told. How on earth was he even able to keep going after all of that?
"My left eye is my curse from Mana. It allows me to see the soul of an akuma even if it is in a human form. And trust me on this," Allen slowly turned to the kids, showing his eye fully to them and just smiled his warmest smile, "you do NOT want to see the soul of an akuma. That is the most sickening and terrifying sight ever. It is like seeing Hell itself."
Allen slowly stood up and brushed off any dirt from his pants. He stretched and then held out his left arm as if preparing for something.
"They're coming. There's at least 50 level 2's…75 level 3's and…shit…there's a giant akuma in the mist of them," Allen cursed, activating his innocence for the second time that day, "I knew that it was going to be a long day…"
"Y-You can see all of the akuma at one time?" both children gasped.
"Yep. Now get ready. It's gonna get pretty bad around here. What I need you to do is to stay next to this cloak at ALL times. Got it?" Allen ordered.
"Don't you want us to fight as well?" Ryan questioned.
"No. You're innocence hasn't been made into a weapon. You'd only fight long enough to pass out and be killed. Oh! By the way, do NOT get hit by their attacks no matter what! Akuma have a virus that destroys living tissue within seconds. You get hit, you'll be dead within a minutes time," Allen warned, wrapping his cloak around the kids, "Just stay there and don't move no matter what!"
With that, Allen ran towards the entrance of the cavern where the akuma started to gather. The kids were about to follow when they noticed that the cloak wasn't leaving them. It finally hit them. That's how he got out the hole. He could stretch his white cloak to a certain degree. The two kids to listened to the fight as it commenced. Slowly, they just sat down on the ground and started to pray for the end of the fight to come quickly.
That was anything but the case. While neither could be sure, both were almost positive that it had to have been at least a day if not more since they had entered the cavern. Jeniya felt as if it had been even more than that. When the heck was that back up going to get there? There was no reason for them to be this late. The only reason why they would be was if-
Jeniya's line of thought was interrupted when a hand suddenly grabbed her ankle and started pulling her towards the other exit.
"JENIYA!" Ryan shouted, quickly grabbing his crossbow.
The next thing Ryan knew, he was lying on the ground fighting off unconsciousness. Jeniya's eyes widened as an akuma attacked Ryan from the back, knocking him out.
"RYAN!" Jeniya screamed.
With her scream, Jeniya's innocence activated and started an earthquake in its wake. Earth shot up from beneath the few intruding akuma, puncturing them completely, causing it rain a dark reddish-black blood. Jeniya rushed over to her brother and cradled his head in her lap. This was not happening. Jeniya could feel a wave of exhaustion suddenly race through her body. Allen was right. They couldn't fight. Not yet at least. Jeniya was just about ready to cry. Was there even a chance that they ever would?
"Found ya little twerps!" a eerie voice shouted from above them.
Jeniya screamed out and squeezed her eyes shut, awaiting for some sort of pain to come. But it never did. Slowly, Jeniya dared to open her eyes to see Allen standing above her, stars appearing on his skin as her wrapped his arms around her and her brother.
"A-Allen?" Jeniya said, voice shaking in fear.
Allen just smiled and placed his left hand over his heart. Suddenly, there was a rush of power that filled the area as Allen purified the virus from his body. It was starting to get harder to do, Allen noticed.
"D-Damn Noah…" Allen muttered, knowing all to well why it was so hard to purify his body now.
Jeniya stared at him. Didn't he just get hit by an attack? Shouldn't he be dead? What was this man? Jeniya was forced out of her thoughts again when Allen came crashing back down to her left. When he started to get back up, Jeniya noticed all of his wounds. How the hell was he even alive let alone moving?
He was slowing and he knew it. Allen could his body weakening with every move he made. This was not looking good.
"Clown Belt…" Allen muttered, grabbing his left arm with his right hand.
Allen quickly changed Edge into his exorcising blade and let the Clown Belt slowly wind itself around his body. Allen sighed inwardly. He was going to regret doing this but he needed to buy more time while his back up came. If they were coming that was.
Jeniya was about to stand up to help Allen when she felt a presence behind her. Slowly, Jeniya turned around to come face to face with a Level 3 akuma. All she saw was a flash of purple then nothing…
*Flashback end*
Mizu: Ah. Finally done! I typed for a full day just to get this flashback part done with! It's a lot longer than i first planned to make it but I like it. Tell me what you think please!