"Hey new girl, it's time to get up." Kanda gently shook Mikki awake.
"Ugh, must I?" She looked at her clock. It read 3:32. "What the hell? The sun's not even up yet."
"We need to leave early. You don't want to miss your first mission." Lavi said walking into her room. "Did you pack last night? We might be gone for a few days."
"Yeah yeah, my bags are by the window." Mikki turned over in her bed and fell back to sleep.
"No, you spent enough time in your stupid dream world. If we don't get to sleep in then neither do you." Kanda pulled her out of bed and dropped her on the floor with a loud thump.
"Be nice Kanda, you might hurt her!" Lavi said.
"Chill, she didn't feel a thing. The wench is still asleep."
An hour later, after Kanda got fed up with her and poured ice water on her, they walked into the meeting room to learn more about the mission. Kanda, Allen, Lavi, Mikki, and Lenalee were all going together, while Miranda and Marie would meet up with them later.
"The Earl's up to something, and it's not good." Komui stated when everyone sat down around the large table.
"Well that's a surprise," Kanda mumbled sarcastically.
Komui ignored him and continued on. "Out in the Arabian Desert a strange thing has appeared."
"What thing?" Mikki asked. "Do you have a picture of it?"
"Well, we don't know what it does or even if the Earl created it, but just to be on the safe side we want you to check it out. We did have a picture...but Reever lost it."
"What! You lost it in your junk pile that you call a desk!" Reever stood up and pointed his finger at Komui.
"Moving on," Reever sat down and glared at Komui. "About the time you should arrive, if you stay on schedule, Marie and Miranda should arrive, too. They are on another mission close by and agreed to stop to see if you need help." He pulled out a long paper. "By my calculations,"
"Mine," Reever coughed.
"You should arrive at the site in five days."
"What? Why don't we go through the Arc?" Allen asked.
"Because it won't take you there. You have to go on foot."
"Foot? Don't you guys have a ship or something?" Mikki was startled that a place like this was forcing them to walk to the desert.
"Don't be silly, the Order can't afford that. It's not like you'll be walking there though," Mikki sighed a sigh of relief. "You'll be stowaways! We can't afford train tickets either."
Mikki's relief vanished. "What happens when we get caught?"
"You just flash them!" Komui smiled, not realizing what he said.
"Excuse me?"
"He means show them the Order badge that's sown into our uniforms." Kanda explained.
"Of course, what else did you think I meant? Oh, that reminds me, Mikki your uniform is done so on your way out please pick it up."
"I'm fine with what I have on."
"No, you must wear the uniform." Kanda replied.
Mikki rolled her eyes and sighed, "Okay mother." She got up and went with Lavi to pick it up.
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"Aren't you going to put it on?" Allen asked Mikki when they got to the first train station. "Komui told you you have to wear it."
"Listen albino boy, I don't like playing by the rules. You bug me one more time about the stupid uniform and I'll push you in front of the tracks when the train gets here."
"Please do it, it do us all a favor," Allen gave Kanda a dirty look as he slowly backed away from Mikki.
"Looks like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed." Allen muttered.
"What was that?" Mikki snapped her head around to glare at him.
"Calm down," Lenalee started.
"Calm down? Calm down! You want me to calm down? I'll calm down when I don't get ice water splashed on me at three thirty in the morning!"
"Oh, so that's what it's about." Lavi mused. "So it was Kanda's fault. See I'm telling you guys, everything is Kanda's fault."
"Shut it, you stupid rabbit!" Kanda began to draw his blades.
"Make me," Lavi stuck his tongue out at him. This caused Kanda to lunge towards Lavi at full speed. Lavi jumped out of the way just in time, and grabbed his hammer and the fight began. Mikki took a few steps back and yawned. She watched as the train got closer and closer and finally stopped at the station. She was the only one that noticed since Lenalee and Allen were trying to stop the fight.
"Let me go you idiot!" Kanda yelled when Lavi grabbed his ponytail and pulled him down. Just then the whistle blew and everyone turned to watch as the train began to pull away from the station.
"Look what you've done you stupid soba eating freak!" Lavi yelled as he let go of his hair and started running to the train.
"How is this my fault?" Kanda yelled back as he started running too. "You're the one who wouldn't shut your damn mouth!"
Mikki stayed put and watched as they attempted to jump onto the moving train. She laughed as everyone failed.
"Idiots, follow me." She said as she climbed her way onto the roof of the station. They watched trying to figure out what she was planning. Kanda grunted and followed her up to the roof, followed by Lavi. Mikki smiled at them as she jumped off the roof backwards and landed ontop of the train. She stood there waiting for the others to do the same. One by one they eventually all got onto the train, Allen having to catch the caboose.
"Now what?" Kanda yelled over to Mikki. "You got us stuck on top of the train."
"No I didn't. Just watch what I do." Mikki went to the edge of the car and slide her legs over the side. She kicked in a window and slide inside.
"She just broke that window! Komui's going to be pissed when he gets the bill." Lavi said with his mouth hung open. Kanda pushed Lavi out of the way and did exactly what Mikki did. When he got into the car Mikki was there waiting for him. Lavi slide in through the same window, not wanting to break another one.
"Well, wasn't that fun?" Mikki smiled. "I guess we should get to the other car to make sure Allen and Lenalee made it all right." They walked through the sliding doors until they found them.
"How long do we ride this train?" Mikki asked after they got settled in and the passengers stopped gaping at them. Lenalee pulled out the long sheet of paper Komui had.
"It says we need to stay on this train through five stations, which will take about seven hours. Then when we get off we need to head to an inn called Lake Wood. The manager knows we're coming and he's going to let us stay for the night. In the morning he'll get his carriage to take us to the next train station. We then ride that train through three stations, and that'll be about two hours."
"Great, what are we going to do for seven hours?" Mikki demanded.
"Well you can sleep off the crankiness." Kanda replied.
"I'm not tired anymore."
"Do you play cards?" Mikki looked at Allen and saw and evil glint in his eyes.
A slow smile spread across her face. "Why yes I do. Be prepared to get your ass kicked." Allen gave a slight chuckle as he pulled out his deck of cards and began dealing them.
Two hours later:
"I don't get it!" Allen screamed as he threw the cards at Mikki. "I've been using every cheat I know and I still can't beat you!"
She gave an evil laugh that made everyone shudder. "I knew you were cheating you little runt. Tyki figured out how you beat him and found a way through your cheats. He's the one who taught me how to play." Everyone went quiet.
"Do you...do you mean Tyki Mikk?" Allen asked after awhile.
"Who else has a strange, yet sexy, name like that?"
"But, how...why do you know him?"
"I thought you knew about my history?"
"Oh my gosh!" Lavi screamed. "She's a Noah!"
"No! I'm not, I'm an exorcist."
"Liar!" He yelled back.
When she got everyone calmed down enough, she explained her story, leaving out who her father was though.
"Ooooh...ew so you sucked face with that Noah?" Lavi said when he was done.
"I always knew he was a player," Allen whispered under his breath.
"I didn't even know what a Noah was at the time. He was just a freakishly sexy man who offered to tell me what was going on, since my father wasn't home. When he explained everything he asked me out on a date, and I knew my father would freak out if I was dating an older man, so I said yes. I just didn't know my dad would go to the extent of trying to turn me into a hermit by locking me inside the house. I eventually got sick of not being able to go anywhere and agreed to live at the Order. In my mind I see it as a boot camp." She turned her head to look out the window and closed her eyes.
"Why won't you tell us who your father is?" Lenalee asked after awhile.
"Because I don't want to scare Allen more than I already do.. Now stop talking, I'm trying to sleep."
Something clicked in Allen's mind and he back away to the corner of the car and huddled up in a tight ball.
"Allen, are you okay?" Lenalee had a worried look on her face.
"I always knew this would happen..." He said to himself
"What do you mean?"
"She a freaking copy. Can't you tell? A copy...to haunt me forever." He began sobbing. "Even when he's dead." He started murmuring about evil copies as Lenalee slowly backed away from him.
Okay, tell me what you think. By now it should be pretty obvious who Mikki's father is (;
