Disclaimer: Kindly refer to the prologue.
Zuenira: You could have at least typed in the disclaimer properly you know.
Azure: Too lazy.
Zuenira: You really need to –
Azure: Let's just move on, no one wants to hear you ranting. You can do that in your own story… if you already have thought of one.
Zuenira: I WILL!!
Chapter one: Home?
Allen seemingly sensed the change in atmosphere regained back his sense and slowly, the disturbing images left his sight for the moment. The atmosphere had tense considerably and Allen blinked for a while as he looked at the surprised faces of his friends except for Kanda who looked like he wanted to kill something.
Then Allen's gaze fell onto the blood stained bandage that Lenalee was holding in her hands. Immediately he understood the current situation. He must have spaced out when the fourteenth's memories took hold of him! That was not good… He must have also started bleeding again and Lavi and Lenalee must have tried to aid him!
Allen raised his right arm, a movement that made some of the finders tensed even more, towards his forehead to cover the bare crosses.
"How did I get in this mess?" Allen thought frustratingly.
"Walker..." Link started.
Allen responsively jumped off his seat and backwards, further away from Link when Link was about to approach him. Why Allen did do so, he was not even sure. It was purely reflex.
A sudden pierce of pain went through Allen's head as he hunched forward. Allen groaned as the blood seeped out of the crosses again, creating a sticky feeling on his hand.
"Allen, are you alright?" Lenalee asked worriedly as she stepped forward.
Allen raised his head up as he unconsciously took several steps backwards. Lavi observed as Allen bit his lower lip in pain. Allen was bleeding again and this time the blood flowed downwards, staining Allen's pale face.
Afterwards, the things that happened just started off so quickly that not most of them had even registered what had happened. Allen ducked as he barely dodged Mugen's slice.
Another throb of pain sent Allen down to his knees.
"Allen! Kanda stop it!" Lenalee yelled as some of the observers started to panic and ran out of the cafeteria when Kanda had made his move.
"Hold still you damn Noah." Kanda hissed as he swung Mugen towards the crouching Allen ignoring Lenalee's words.
"Kanda!"
Allen did not know what had made Kanda stop since he can't feel Mugen slicing through him. He opened his eyes, which had closed before due to the pain.
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Lavi gasped as Lenalee yelled Kanda's name and Kanda was thrown to the opposite of the room landing hardly on one of the tables. Now, people really had started to go frantic, most of them had by now ran towards the cafeteria entrance which was currently flooded with people trying to leave.
Allen's innocence had activated. Lavi could tell by the cape that had surrounded protectively around Allen's crouching figure and that same cape had struck Kanda surprisingly. Lavi looked back towards Allen as Kanda slowly stood back up to his feet.
"Allen…"
The cape dropped down towards Allen's side as Allen raised his head and opened his eyes which were now gold in colour. As Allen stood up, Lavi noticed that Allen's hair had curled up a little. This was not Allen. They need to report this to Komui or things might get ugly.
"ungh…" Allen let out a soft moan as he focused his vision.
"Lenalee! Get Komui and tell him what's happening here!!" Lavi instructed as he activated his innocence just in case Allen might try anything.
"But-" Lenalee was about to protest.
"Lenalee! Allen himself said that if his mind were to be taken over by the fourteenth we would kill him!" Lavi cut off.
Lenalee hesitated for a while but she activated her new crystallized innocence anyway.
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Allen knew he should not fight back. He knew that he had told his friends to kill him if the fourteenth Noah appeared but something in his self decided against it. It was not the Noah rather another promise.
"Keep walking forward, Allen." A voice ranged in his hand as if to remind Allen.
"What should I do? If I stay, Rouvelier will surely kill me or something close to that…" Allen contemplates to himself.
"Then, leave this place," the fourteenth whispered.
Allen widened his eyes. The fourteenth is communicating with him??
"Leave this place…"
"No way. I'm not letting you go back to the Noah side using my body on top of that!!" Allen was shouting out loud now. This earned questioning stares from Kanda and Lavi who were the only one left in the room.
Lenalee had left to call his brother while Link… Wonder where Link went? Allen decided not to think too much about that.
"Allen?" Lavi finally spoke but Allen ignored him.
"You don't have to shout…" the fourteenth sighed inside of him. "I'm not going back to the Noah residence… That is just suicide both for you and me."
"Huh?"
"I can explain but not now… For now, try to leave this place…"
"And I should trust you, why? For all I know, you just want to trick me…"
Footsteps were heard nearing the cafeteria and soon enough, Lenalee came in with Komui and several other exorcists.
"Allen!" Lenalee cried.
Allen turned towards the whole group of exorcist and at that moment he felt some kind of lust pulsed through him. Not only lust, hatred and the need to destroy.
"No!" Allen screamed out loud as he backed away. He can feel it, the desire to destroy each innocence present in front of him.
"That was why I tried to tell you to leave this place boy," the fourteenth's voice said annoyingly in his head as Allen tried to control himself from doing unnecessary things that he will regret later on.
The fourteenth sighed once again when he realized that Allen was far too deeply troubled by the sensation he was getting and that would prove to be troublesome later on. Both for Allen and himself.
"Let me just handle things from here onwards…" the fourteenth did not care to wait for a reply as Allen's defenses had been down due to overpowering feeling Allen was getting.
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Timcanpy flew away from the crowd of people. He had done his part and fulfilled his creator's desire. Now, it is time to go back to him and report the matter. Timcanpy flew out of one of the windows and turned around to look back at his second master. This might just be the last time he will see Master Allen for a long while. But it would be nice to see his first master again after a long while. Tim recalled his last meeting with his very first master.
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It was near dawn. His master had been missing all night and he and Master Cross have been searching for him. Though, to be exact, Tim was doing all the hard work of searching by flying low and high while Cross just slowly walked while smoking as usual. He didn't even seem to be putting any effort into it.
Then, that was when Tim found his Master lying near a lake. Worst, he was injured badly.
"Master!" Tim taught as he flew by his side.
His Master opened his golden eyes and gave Timcanpy a smirk.
"Tim… I might not be able to make it."
Tim fluttered his wings frantically and was about to fly away to call Master Cross but his Master stopped him.
"Don't go yet…" his Master ordered as he lifted up his right arm that had a lesser injury than his left.
Tim nodded and rested on his palm which was opened. His Master seemed to have transferred something to him as Tim was surrounded by a light.
"I am giving you the last piece of my memory which is the key to fully awaken the next holder of the fourteenth's memories. This piece of memory is very vital and it needs to be inserted only when the next holder of the fourteenth Noah is about to awaken," his Master's voice was barely a whisper. "Don't insert it too early or too late or else he will take…"
His Master's voice trailed off as the light that surrounded Tim dimmed and finally disappeared. His Master's arm fell downwards bringing Timcanpy along. Tim floated up to look at his Master who was not moving at all. His master's face even though bloody looked expressionless. No ounce of pain or happiness or even peacefulness was present. That was the last image Tim had seen of his first Master.
After that, Tim had left his Master and went to find his Creator, Master Cross to tell him the news. However when the both of them along with Master's brother came back, Master's body was gone. Master Cross assumed that Master's body had fall into the depths of the lake and Master Cross actually had done something to the lake so that Master's body will not float afterwards. Well that was part of the reason anyway…
----- End of Flashback ------
Tim has reached the nearest town. He had a long way to go to find his Creator but he was sure that Master Cross will not mind since he will be probably be enjoying himself with some women, bear and debt-making. Tim enters an alley and his round body turned into a young boy's. Tim was not sure whose body his first Master had given him but it was almost similar to Master Allen's only that this body had light brown hair and there was no red scar present on the left eye and the most obvious feature that this body can not possibly be Master's Allen was the fact that the right arm was perfectly normal. So it can't possible be Master's Allen past body, Tim confirmed.
Speaking of Master Allen, I hope he is doing well…
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The song sent chills to the audience. It was simply mesmerizing. Even those who had not learnt the basic of music were pulled and swayed with the soft and gentle rhythms. Each note seemed to be telling them a story of their own and with each passing tune, the audience feels the need to know more, to understand, to feel why it was being played that way and all of a sudden the melody stopped.
Silence.
They gave the pianist a long look. None of the audiences applause or even say anything. They were awed and speechless. The pianist's smile curved up in satisfaction as he looks at the speechless audience.
Clad all in white attire with silver tie, belt, shoes and mask that covered only his upper face, the pianist gave his audience a short bow and left the stage.
"That was quite a success," he spoke as he left through the back door. He removed his white top hat and smoothed his white hair.
"Hmm… It seems we may encounter a few problems in this city." A voice spoke in his head.
"Why is that? There is innocence in this city and the location is not that difficult," the pianist who was still in his adolescent replied but to outsiders one will think that he was talking to himself not that it was wrong. "The akuma here are only level twos it seems too."
"That's what you found out but you forgot to look deeper," the voice answered.
"Sorry but I still can't handle it if I used too much of the Noah's abilities, I might just end up destroying my own innocence," he admitted.
"I can't argue with that since the seals are already loosening." As the voice mentioned this, the boy's face darkened. "I might be gone too if we don't settle this quickly. Anyway, it seems that a Noah is here too."
"A Noah?" the boy replied surprised as he stopped form his tracks. "That's a lot of risk… We can't simply…"
"If we don't take this innocence, you might just be consumed seeing as we have to stay in this city for a few days… and there's no stopping the Earl then." The voice reminded him.
"I guess it can't be help…" the boy replied slowly.
"Actually that's not the whole problem yet," the voice continued. "It seems that the akuma had spotted several exorcists too…"
"Exorcists!?" Allen exclaimed as he tripped over his own leg and feel on the hard stone of the path.
"Calm down kid…" the voice said with a hint of laughter in his voice as one of the passersby asked if Allen was okay.
"Ye-Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry!" Allen quickly apologized before he hurriedly scampered off.
Allen quickly strode to one of the nearest restaurant. He sat on one of tables, gave a large order which required more than ten pages of the waiter's small notepad to be filled in. The chef is going to have a heart attack seeing the amount of food he needs to make. After Allen was done he took a deep breath and calmed his self for a while.
"Which exorcist?" Allen lowered his voice so that people won't think he was talking to himself.
"The Black Order exorcist, duh. It's not like there are other organization like that anyway…" the voice replied as a matter-of-factly. "You can just talk to me with your thoughts you know."
"No thanks I'm comfortable this way, talking with thoughts just makes me feel unsafe…" Allen replied as head things fall in the kitchen but he ignored it. "I meant what do the exorcists looked like?"
"I'm not sure; one of the akuma in the orchestra saw two…"
"two?! How many are there?!" Allen raised his voice a bit.
"Calm down… There's only four of them." The voice answered. Allen felt like fainting at those words but he can't faint yet, his food was processing in the kitchen.
"I don't know who they exactly are but as I said, the akuma saw two female ones and the other two are male…"
Allen let out a moan as he slumped his head onto the table.
"Great just great… I can't let the Noah take the innocence and I also can't let the Black Order have it either." Allen muttered. "After that incidence I have never seen them again and never did we encounter them in any city when we searched for innocence there and now, they have to be here and with a Noah no less…"
"Hey, don't complain yet… If you want to avoid them, better leave as fast as possible, for all we know, they might know where the innocence is already."
"After I fill up my energy…" Allen agreed as he saw several waiters came out of the kitchen bringing his orders.
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Azure: I'm tired.
Zuenira: You just took a nap.
Azure: You are still here?
Zuenira: of course! And actually I'm quite surprised you post chapter one up this fast…
Azure: That's because I've actually done the prologue until Chapter two…
Zuenira: What?! When did you…
Azure: When we were having physics I actually managed to write down all the three chapters in a notebook in those four periods. Just need to type it in computer.
Zuenira: Okay… I'm not against that. It was quite boring to be honest. Can't you just post chapter two now??
Azure: I haven't typed it. I'll type it sooner or later. Possibly later…
Zuenira: You lazy bum. Oh, You've got reviews by the way. I replied them for you.
Azure: I know I've got reviews, and stop replying to those reviews, I can reply them myself. You can reply reviews of your OWN story later…
Zuenira: But you were napping and when I told you to reply them, you said later and when you say later, it usually ends up with never. You can hurt their feelings you know…
Azure: (sighs) I will reply them, I'm not that mean you know.
Zuenira: Not mean but lazy.
Azure: Think up a story and stop pestering with mine. Meanwhile, please review if you think this is worth typing up…