Chapter 2

Allen awoke at the sound of someone knocking on his door. He looked around and found that he was on his bed in his room. Allen felt his cursed left eye, it was fine; he then touched his side. There was no injury on his body.

"Allen, you awake?" Lavi called from behind the door.

Allen sat up on his bed.

"Allen? Are you okay? We have to leave for our mission soon."

"I'm alright," Allen responded. "I'll be ready in a minute."

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"Are you okay Allen?" Miranda asked as they rode in the carriage.

"I… I'm fine." Allen assured her as he awoke from his dazed state of looking out the window.

"Are you sure? You look depressed."

"I'm completely fine," He said as he resumed his dazed state of looking out the window.

"Here," Miranda dug in her handbag and produced a bottle of pills. "Have one."

"What are they?" he asked as he accepted the bottle from her.

"Anti-depressants, Komui gave them to me." Miranda smiled.

"Thanks, but I'm fine." Allen handed her the bottle back.

The carriage stopped.

"What's wrong?" Krory asked the finder who was driving the carriage.

"Wheel's broken," finder replied.

"We need to hurry," Miranda said. "Don't worry about fixing the wheel; I'll just use my innocence."

Allen watched as the whole scene unfolded in front of him. Am I going Crazy?

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There was no one in the village; only clothes with piles of ashes beside them.

Kanda scooped up a handful of ashes that were next to the clothing and let the ashes slip through his fingers. "Akuma."

"Stop…" Allen whispered as he fell to his knees. "This can't be happening!"

"Allen… Are you okay?" Lavi asked.

"We are going to die…"

"The Kid's gone nuts." Kanda examined.

"I'm not crazy, I saw it. And it's happening again."

"Calm down, Allen. What happened?"

"In my dream, you…"

"That's all what it was Bean sprout, a dream." Kanda cut Allen off.

"You don't understand! I…"

"Shut up, you'll alert the enemy."

"The enemy is already here." Allen stated. "This was an ambush!"

"What?" They cried.

"Allen's correct." A voice sang.

The group turned to find Road sitting on Lero's handle, floating above them. "Let's play a game exorcists…"

As everyone looked at Road, Allen watched as a horde of candles appeared before him.

"Did I say it was a choice?"

"We aren't playing your mind games Road!" Lavi called.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!" Allen screamed as he tried to dodge the oncoming assault of candles, but one stray candle hit his left eye. Allen covered the wound, blood running between his fingers and flowing down his hand.

"Allen, are you okay?" Lenalee kneeled beside him.

"Take Allen and get out of here!" Kanda yelled, preparing to unsheathe Mugen.

A horde of 50 level 3 Akuma appeared behind Road.

"The game is called find and kill. It's simple. I will give you exorcists enough time to run and hide and my Akuma will find and kill you. It's like a better version of hide and seek."

Lenalee helped Allen to his feet.

"10…"

"Run!" Kanda ordered.

"9… 8…"

"In here!" Lavi called as he ran to the multi-story building.

"No… Stop! Please!"

"Stop it Bean sprout!"

"No! We need to run into the woods!"

"But you're not in the shape to run." Krory informed.

"Just run!"

The Akuma who where persuing them stopped at the forest's edge.

"What are you waiting for? Go after them!" Road demanded.

"We can't see them, Mistress Road."

Road sighed in frustration.

Fwoosh! Slice!

Five Akuma exploded and five others were devoured by a torrent of fire in the form of a serpent.

Kanda, Lavi, Krory, and Lenalee continued to destroy the Akuma, while Miranda cared for Allen.

"Retreat!" Road commanded. As she said, the Akuma along with their master disappeared in the mist.

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Allen woke in a hospital bed at the order. His eye was bandaged and Lenalee was sleeping in a chair at his bedside. "Lenalee, are you okay?"

She opened her eyes and looked at him. "Allen, you're awake." She smiled and stood up. "I'll go get my brother. He wanted to speak to you." She left the room.

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"How are you Allen?" Komui asked as he popped his head into the room.

"Good," Allen smiled as he sat up in bed.

"Can you tell me what happened?" Komui asked as he sat down in the chair where his sister, Lenalee, was sleeping earlier.

"I don't know, but I saw it."

"Saw what?" Komui persuaded gently.

"I saw everything that happened.

"How?"

"In a dream."

"What did you see?"

"We were attacked, we ran into a building, the Akume destroyed the building. It fell; killing Krory, Miranda, and Lenalee. Me, Lavi, and Kanda survived, but we were all seriously injured. I had received the worst of the injuries. My injuries were so bad, that they left me behind. But Lavi and Kanda both were killed by the Akuma attack. Then Road noticed me and killed me too."

"That was one heck of a dream."

"It about happened! All the events leading up matched. If we had taken shelter in that building we would've…"

"It's okay, Allen." Komui soothed. "It's over; because of you, everyone made it out okay."

"I don't know… But through my life I've learned many things. One of them is that Death always follows you. I have a bad feeling that I just made it mad."