Sequel: This is a sequel to "What Lies Hidden". Please read that first!
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Katsura Hoshino owns it… I just enjoy twisting her ideas for my own warped amusement…
Warning: … Nothing to bad in this chapter
Spoilers: Some, but none in this chapter, I don't think… This will by my little warped and twisted rewriting of the new chapters… which can be found at -
http : / www . mangareader . net / 210 / dgray - man . Html
Portuguese Translator: BelleTiger BT (also the awesome person who shared the link with me! If it wasn't for her I'd be stuck at Vol. 20 of the magna… Thank you BelleTiger BT!)
Timeline: Chapter 198; Vongola Gear of the Sun to Chapter 201; A Sinner in Despair
Updated: 7/22/2011
- Neah speaking to Ellen or Crown Clown will look like this
- Anything that are Memories will be like this. And if it's a major memory then it will also be separation from everything else
If you have any suggestions that might help to make things clearer, please let me know
"An Apostles power isn't for saving people…"
That wasn't true…
"Your duty is to destroy that which only Apostles can destroy…"
…But that would mean killing-
"If you're too preoccupied saving the lives in front of you, you won't be able to save the world…"
How could she not try to save-
"Its because of you… it's because you survived that the humans didn't repent… It's because of you that I became an Akuma…"
"Then I'll destroy you."
Why was Kanda Yuu's voice so cold…?
"Are you going to destroy me Ellen Walker…? Has the Innocence seen me as a threat? But I am an Exorcist… I am a Third Exor-!"
Pain.
"Ellen, if you say that you'll come with us willingly then I will put an end to this little show. ~"
Why did she hurt so much…?
"Agree and I'll stop this for you…"
Her silver eyes kept straying back to the group of Noah, standing high above the bloody battle field below…
"Why do you want Ellen to join you so badly?"
Pain.
"Why?" the man masquerading as her beloved foster father had whispered, his mouth pulling into a deep frown.
"Why?" the words this time were hissed out, the Earl's gray eyes flashing in his anger, but then it was gone like it had never been there in the first place, that hauntingly familiar smile once again on that equally familiar face. "You don't have the right to ask me such a question. ~"
Screaming, yelling, swearing, and yet more pain…
Dear god her body hurt…
The worst of the pain centered in her stomach, Ellen could feel the sharp hot throbbing pain burning her insides, spreading through her veins.
Giddiness bubbled up in the back of her throat, along with a hot thick liquid...
Her pink lips stretching across her face like they had a mind of their own. An amused giggle sliding passed her lips, the burning liquid following, Ellen's lips staining to a cherry red as the blood ran down her chin.
"What the Hell-?" Kanda Yuu snarled, his strong body flush against her, Ellen's right hand braced against his bare shoulder. Another gleeful giggled sounded, the young woman barely realizing that the sound had once again come from her.
Dear god her body hurt.
Stepping between Kanda Yuu and Alma Karma had not been one of Ellen's brightest ideas…
But…
More white hot pain flared and burned as Kanda Yuu pulled his blade from her stomach, the man taking a few long steps back. The young woman could feel her body stumble back a step also, Ellen could feel the pain eating away everything else, making her world dim and unfocused.
And still her blood stained lips held that thrilled smile…
Even when Ellen Walker's body went completely numb, then felt as heavy as led.
Ellen Walker fell back then, her legs to weak to keep her up any longer, her world nothing but silence and blackness. The Exorcist couldn't feel it when her beaten and bloody body hit the ground. Her jacket now nothing but rags and its once pure white now stained with red…
The Exorcist could feel it bubbling and boiling up within her. Ellen could feel that anger and hate rise, she could feel that absolute giddiness prick and tingle, then spread through out her petite frame.
Infecting every nerve…
To the tips of Ellen's fingers and to every cell in her body…
Deranged howling laugher rang out, shaking everything around her, even the blackness that was clouding Ellen's mind shook. That horrid thrilled laughter was going to swallow her whole, but Ellen couldn't let it, she knew this feeling…
Ellen had felt it then, when she had stabbed herself with Crown Clown….
She felt the pulse of darkness and power beating and growing within her, clawing its way up her throat, choking her and settling within her slowing heart. It was now that the young Exorcist realized that horribly amused and giddy laugh was coming from her own parted lips…
"Don't be going mad now," A smooth voice whispered into her ear and the young Exorcist suddenly fond herself somewhere else, though this place Ellen could never forget.
Because this was the place that she had first seen him.
"If you're not careful you'll drown Ellen Walker." that same voice purred in amusement. "Great prophesied Puppet of Destruction."
Ellen tilted her chin up, her silver meeting the amused golden eyes of a Noah, the young woman could feel her breath catch in her throat at the young man's features…
He looked just like…
The man's smile pulled wider, his eyes filling with insane and pleased glee. "I have been waiting for a long time for you, Ellen Walker…"
The Noah's face lost his amusement, his face t twisting into a look of sorrow.
"He was also once a mere puppet, who's master manipulated into performing a twisted and bloody parody," the Noah's tone was hollow, his smile still pulling his lips wide, though Ellen could see that the Noah was in now way happy or amused. "And you too 'Allen', you too have been made into a puppet by the same master without even realizing it…"
Ellen felt her heart beating hard in her chest, her mind finding it hard to focus. This man looked so much like that perverted bastard Tyki Mikk, but then the young woman knew that this man before her wasn't the Noah of Pleasure…
…It was in the eyes and in the way that his smile didn't twist just so- it was in the sound of his voice when he spoke, Mikk's voice was just a little deeper and filled with a sly amusement…
No this man before her looked like Tyki Mikk, but he was most definitely not that perverted bastard…
"You're awakening dear Ellen. Soon you will be a target again, but don't worry… he wont let things repeat… Thirty five years have passed and a lot has changed since that travesty took place..." The Noah continued, his eyes not once looking away from her silver. "I am much stronger then I was in the beginning…"
Ellen swallowed around the lump within her throat, her pink lips parting to speak, but the Noah shook his head and offered her another empty smile. "This form you see is of my first and only host before you...I thought you would not feel so…alarmed… if I took a more human looking form…"
Then his mouth twisted from that horrid empty smile into a grin of complete giddiness…
"I am the Musician, the one that was made into a puppet so many years ago…" The man paused then, his eyes falling to half mast. "I am the Noah of Destruction, whose true name is Neah," The Noah made a sweeping jester with his hands, arms now held out from his sides.
His smile joyful and wide, his gold eyes burning with an elated thrill over something that Ellen couldn't seem to grasp...
"Welcome my precious Apostle, Fourteenth in the Clan of Noah. ~ The Noah of Destruction. ~ Awaken with me; my Apostle… let me cut the strings that tie you, like how I couldn't for him. ~"
Darkness once again rose up around her, Ellen choking back her terror as the night moved in to swallow her whole…
Golden eyes filled with excitement and utter contentment, the look in the Noah's eyes horrible.
The scar over her left eye hurt, the pain snapping the young woman out of her dream, Ellen's eyes finally focusing on what was happening around her. Ellen's left eye pulsing and burning with pain, and for a moment it felt like she was being torn in two...
The scar on her chest also starting to ach…
The white haired Exorcist could feel her cursed eyes restraining and pushing the darkness that was threatening to suffocate her back down. Ellen finally able to regain control of her body from the Fourteenth, her silver eyes widening as the silver monocle formed over her left eye.
Her eyes moving to the confused Kanda Yuu, then to a beaten and wounded Alma Karma in his arms…
Ellen gasped as she was finally able to see Alma Karma's soul…
Chaos erupted as Alma tried to kill himself, desperate to take Kanda Yuu with him, and then Kanda, that fucking conceded jerk, asked for her help…
How was Ellen to refuse?
It was easy for her to summon an Ark gate, destroying it after the two had fallen in. The Exorcist didn't pause to think as she severed the connection to the place that she had sent Kanda and Alma too.
Ellen then fought and pleaded for her comrade, the Third Exorcist, to fight against Alma's hate. Even if the young woman didn't know the green haired man all that well, she still had to try to save him.
She had to focus on something…
The Earl watching everything taking place with a blank look set upon his face, the other Noah standing at his side.
Mikk watching her from his place only a step to the right of the Earl, his gold eyes narrowed and his poster tense. The bastard looking like he was ready to step in at any moment…
But the young woman couldn't let herself be distracted by them.
"An Apostles power isn't for saving people…"
Desperately Ellen fought and slashed at the twisted form of the Third Exorcist, because she needed to save him, she needed to protect those that couldn't fight back, because she was the only Exorcist here now that Kanda Yuu was gone.
"If you're too preoccupied saving the lives in front of you, you won't be able to save the world…"
The Third Exorcist was wrong; Ellen had set Kanda and Alma free…
Then why didn't she feel like she had done something good?
Why did she feel…
Why did she feel trapped?
Ellen Walker felt more alone now then she had ever felt since joining the Order…
Why was she fighting to save those that had committed deeds just as horrible as the Earl himself had committed…?
"Shibari-bane!" A cold voice called out, the next moment and Ellen felt the binding spell set upon her. The young woman growled as the talismans restrained Crown Clown and made it almost impossible for her to move.
Within moments her Innocence was forced to un-invoked and Ellen fought down her angry cry, her silver eyes turning to glare at the man that had stopped her…
Why was she fighting for people who didn't care about the soul's right in front of them?
That horrid darkness that Ellen assassinated with the Fourteenth had been suppressed by her curse, so why did it feel like she was still drowning? Couldn't they see that she could still save the Third Exorcist? If Ellen were to kill him with Crown Clown she could still save his soul…
Howard Link stood on top of some of the twisted metal pipes. The smallest of the Thirds held under his right arm. Ellen swore and fought to break free from her bindings, but the spell held strong.
This time Ellen couldn't keep back her irritated shriek, her voice high and bitter in her anger and frustration. "Link! You bastard-!" the young woman seethed, her eyes narrowing when Head Inspector Leverier started barking out orders for the Crow to restrain her, that Ellen was out of control…
Ellen's heart froze within her chest, her pale and bruised skin ice cold as the Third in Howard Link's hold pushed away from him, the young girl almost to fast for Ellen to fallow with her widening silver eyes.
The Exorcist blinked and the Third was bearing down on her. Ellen's first instinct was to call Crown Clown to protect herself, but the binding spells made that impossible. The young woman braced herself for the incoming attack that she was now unable to defend against.
Ellen hated the feeling of being defenseless more then anything…
The blow from the Third never came as Timcanpy came out of nowhere (which Ellen didn't know how she hadn't noticed her master's golem, Tim was huge!) and knocked the Third Exorcist away from her…
The girl was quick to push herself back up however. The child looking ready to attack again, though the smaller girl looked slightly detoured by the huge golden ball sitting as close to Ellen as it could, Timcanpy growling and baring his white sharp teeth.
Her master's golem hissing in warning to anyone that looked like they were going to try and approach the defenseless young woman.
A heavy sigh brought everyone's attention back to the group of Noah watching everything take place with seemingly little care. The Earl's gray eyes were narrowed and his face showed his displeasure over how things had unfolded. With a wave of the man's hand the girl and the other twisted Third were gone.
Ellen silver eyes met Mikk's sharp gold, and for a moment it looked like the Noah of Pleasure was going to step forward and away from the other Noah, who at the moment were leaving by an open black Ark gate.
Tyki Mikk's gold eyes narrowed and turning to look at the Earl, confusion clearly seen on his face when the Maker stopped him from moving forward, Mikk no doubt planning on retrieving her.
The remorseful look on the Millennium Earl's face however clearly told the Noah of Pleasure that the Earl had planned to leave Ellen in the hands of the Black Order from the start.
The Millennium Earl's mouth was then pulling into an odd kind of smile, his gray eyes hard. His voice was lined with regret when he spoke, though what ever the man said was much to quite for Ellen to hear over the distance between them. The young woman only hearing the tone, not the words…
Mikk's mouth pulled into a deeper frown, but took a step back and towards the open gate with little argument, though the bastard looked far from being pleased. The Earl turned his eyes back to her, his dark gray looking apologetic for having to leave her…
It made Ellen's heart ache.
"Remember Ellen Walker, everything that happens from this point on is for your own good. "
The Maker sighed heavily again, his eyes narrowing and his mouth twisting into a sad smile. "To tell the truth, I can deeply understand the 'Third Exorcist Project'…" His eyes closed and one hand rose to remove his black top hat from his head, his other hand running through his short black hair. "It is an utterly natural act done by those who seek their own survival..."
When the Earl's eyes opened again, they were a deep burning gold, the man lightly tanned skin shifting to a deep gray, seven stigmata crosses appearing across his brow. The Earl's mouth pulled into a displeased frown tainted with anger. "I know just how far one is willing to go to survive and protect those that they cherish…"
Tyki Mikk and the Earl were the last ones through the black gate, "I am going to have the Third Exorcists become my pawns, and follow my rules. ~"
The Millennium Earl's last words filled the room with a dark and heavy warning…
"And to you, the Black Order, soon I will be taking back what your 'God' stole from me… and that is when the true show will begin ~"
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Yet again not enough Tyki-pon, but if you have read chapter 203 and 204 then you should know what's coming… : )