The Heart of Me: Chapter 2

Hi! So I don't own D-Gray Man or any of it's characters just my OC's and this plot.

It had been a month since Mr. Johnson had talked to me about my headphones and during that time he had given two tests and four quizzes. He was really making me work to keep my headphones that was for sure. I managed to pass all of them but on one of the quizzes I got what would have equivilated to a B. Again Mr. Johnson made me stay after class telling me that I broke my end of the deal and that he would be taking away my headphones and giving me detention. I managed to get out of that by finding loop holes.

*~*~*~flashback~*~*~*

"'Very well Miss Danielle I believe you. I will allow you to wear your headphones in my class. But on two conditions. One no one is to find out that you are wearing headphones or else I will have to confiscate them. Two you are not allowed to get anything lower than an A on any of my tests or else you get detention, do I make myself clear?' Those are the words that you said to me that day are they not Mr. Johnson."

He gave me a surprised and quizzical look as I said and wrote what he had said on the board before answering.

"Yes that is what I said word for word. Your actually remembered all that?"

I ignored that since I didn't think that question was important.

"Well then Mr. Johnson it would be you who ends up breaking our deal."

That quizzical look stayed on his face.

"Care to elaborate on that Miss Danielle?"

"Gladly. First you said my headphones would be taken if anyone found out that I had them not if I didn't get an A. Well no one has found out so that would break our deal."

"*chuckle* Alright I'll give you that one but you still broke our deal, which means you still get detention."

At that I gave him a cheeky grin before I answered.

"No it's still you if you actually give me detention."

The quizzical look was back on his face after I said that so I decided to continue.

"You told me that I had to get an A on all of my TESTS. Well this isn't a test it's a quiz so I've held my end of our deal by following what you yourself had said and confirmed that you said word for word. And I don't believe you to be a person that would go back on their word Mr. Johnson."

I saw him process this and it finally clicked in his mind and he started chuckling again.

"I see. Well then Miss Danielle it seems I was mistaken. You are free to leave."

*~*~*~end of flashback~*~*~*

Currently I was outside under a tree having lunch with some of my friends. There was Jackie, Becca, Madison and Ashley talking about who they thought was hot in their classes. Eric, Ryan, and Thomas were standing a little ways away talking about some movie that they had seen. Kim, Sarah, Justin, Aaron, Liz, and Shane talking about a project that they had to do for one of their classes. And with Michael and Sven wrestling again over something stupid.

Then there was Matthew leaning on the tree next to me enjoying his lunch. I could see him trying so hard to ignore Michael and Sven but he eventually snapped and gave them both a good beating and lecture. We all watched and laughed at this since this was pretty much normal with our group of friends. Matthew was a grumpy pain in the ass but he meant well and we all know that. His beatings were how he showed he cared because what we did wouldn't bother him so much if he didn't. He sat back down again and glared at me.

"What the hell are you laughing at?"

I just shook my head and kept laughing. My friends knew I wore my headphones all the time and wouldn't take them off no matter what. So if they wanted to get my attention they would normally throw something at me (some times it was semi-hard things...those freaking jerks) or start doing some random stupid movements to get me to look up.

None of them knew why I wore them 24/7 only that I did and they all accepted this. It actually became a joke between all of us saying that my headphones were connected to my heart and if they took them out I would die. Unfortunately that's when it happened.

I felt the ground around me shaking and saw smoking rising from the other side of the school. I was guessing that there had been some kind of fire caused by one of the chemistry classes that forgot to make sure all the equipment was turned off but then we saw these…things come up. They looked like…I don't even know how to describe. The best thing I could compare it to was a grenade with guns coming out of it and they had these scared and in pain looking faces on them. The faces looked like they were crying black tears with a black star in the middle of their foreheads.

Then more and more of them came hitting not only our school but also places surrounding it. When I looked at them I thought I saw something but I didn't have time to figure out what it was because we all got up trying to either get out of the school or find shelter. Everyone was in a panic. While we were all leaving I got separated from my friends and ended up being shoved on the ground by other kids trying to get away. When I hit the ground my headphones came out and that's when I heard it.

The screams that had haunted me all my life keeping me awake at night crying. The screams that began eating away at my soul driving me to the brink of insanity. The screams that threatened to split my head. It was so loud and paralyzing that I could only sit against a wall covering my ears trying to drown out the screams.

It didn't even occur to me that I could just put my headphones back in to silence the noise but by then my entire thought process had stopped. I saw those things firing bullets or missiles at students, teachers, and other faculty members and I just watched as they got hit. I noticed that those who got hit began to have stars slowly cover their body before they turned black and then disintegrated into nothing but dust.

Because I couldn't think straight it didn't occur to me that they had just died right in front of me. That their hopes, goals, dreams, and future ended then and there and I had witnessed it. I was too focused on shutting out the screams of the things that were killing everybody to understand this.

When actually looking at these things I noticed what I had ignored earlier. Inside those things looked like skeleton looking ghosts with chains binding them to whatever the hell kind of killing machine thing that they were in. These ghosts were those of men, women, and children just screaming and crying out.

"Please run away!"

"I don't want to do this! Please let me rest in peace!"

"Don't hate me please don't hate me! This isn't my fault!"

"God please save me I beg of you!"

"Why?! Did they have to bring me back?! Why couldn't they just let me be?!"

Every single one of them seemed to be saying the same thing or something close to it. And I just watched mesmerized by what I was seeing that I hadn't even noticed the person walking so calmly in all this chaos. And then I did.

He was wearing a nice looking black suit with a top hat. His skin was an unnatural gray and he had these crosses running along his forehead. His hair was a bit long for a guy but he had it pulled back. Upon closer inspection I realized that this man was Mr. Johnson but at the same time he wasn't. He was casually walking to where I was huddled shaking because of the screams of the killing machines, screams of everyone around me and the images that I was seeing.

He on the other hand seemed to be enjoying this quite a bit which was scaring me even more. But what I didn't understand is why those things were ignoring the two of us. They went after everyone else but it's like we didn't even exist. The man that I knew as Mr. Johnson was then right next to me and kneeled down to talk to me.

"Hello Miss Danielle you seem to be having a hard time."

I didn't say anything. Or rather I couldn't with my head splitting because of all the screaming. I couldn't tell my left from my right let alone make a coherent sentence. He seemed to pick up on this.

"Hm. I need to have a discussion with you but that won't work if you're in too much pain to answer."

And with that we were surround by nothing. No school, no machines, no people just us in this black nothingness.

"This is a space that I created so that way we will be able to have a little chat."

I just looked at him eyeing him suspiciously. He took out a cigarette and lighter and was about to light it but didn't. Instead he chuckled and looked me.

"I forgot that you don't like cigarette smoke. I guess I can hold off on smoking for just a little while."

"Who are you? What's going on? What are those things?"

"*chuckle* You sure get straight to the point don't you? As you may have already guessed I am not a history teacher named Mr. Johnson so let me reintroduce myself. I'm Tyki Mikk the Noah of Pleasure. As to what those things are they are akuma that the Lord Millennium has made. And as to what's going on... well that's pretty obvious. Their killing people."

I stared at him completely baffled by what he just said. I didn't know what he meant by Noah or what akumas were or who the "Lord Millennium" was but the last sentence hit me hard.

"Why weren't we being killed?"

"Hm…I wasn't being killed because they follow my orders and you weren't being killed because I ordered them not to."

It took me a second to process what he just said and when it finally set in I was no longer scared. I was pissed beyond comparison.

"So basically you ordered those things to kill all those people. Why the hell would you do that?"

I all but yelled this at him with venom in my voice and pure hatred in my eyes.

"Oh…? What happened to the sweet girl that I was talking to before? And I did this as a kind of experiment."

"What kind of experiment are you having that you need to kill people?"

At this he gave me this smug grin to whatever twisted thought that was going through his head.

"I wanted to see if you really could hear the voices inside the akuma. And judging by your reaction from before I'd say that it was a success. So when you think about it, you're about as responsible as I am for all the people that ended up dying"

Not wanting to think about that I focused on something else.

"Why did you want to talk with me?"

"I wanted to see if you would join our side in this war. Of course the Lord Millennium will have to meet you and see if you can be trusted but I'm sure that it'll all work out."

I stared at him for a bit. Was he seriously asking me this? To join him and be a part of this massacre. He must be out of his mind if he thinks I'll say yes.

"Sorry but I'm going to have to pass on your offer."

"Huh? Why?"

"One I don't agree with killing people and two I'm pretty positive that even if your 'lord millennium' says yes I'll only be alive as long as I'm useful but once I'm not I'm as good as dead. So if I'm going to die anyway might as well die for what I believe in."

"*sigh* I was hoping that you would join. I was really quite fond of you."