Chapter 2

When asked later on how it had happened, no one present could give a complete answer. Road, Tyki and Lulubell had been walking through the African jungle, the poor umbrella Lero being forced to act as a walking cane for Road, when Lulubell yawned and stretched.

Something green had come swishing around a corner and flew right into Lulubell's mouth with so much force it threw her of her feet making her yelp and the other 3 having the same look on their face, the 'what the hell just happened' look.

"Hey Lulubell are you all right?" Tyki asked walking over to Lulubell who lay sprawled on the jungle floor.

She groaned and sat up, then her eyes got wide and she started coughing.

"Lulubell Sama lero. Are you ok Lulubell Sama lero?"

Lulubell clutched at her chest, still coughing.

"Oy Lulubell answer me damn it, what's wrong?" Tyki asked.

"I think I know the answer to that"

Road, Tyki and Lero turned to the voice and gasped.

"An exorcist" Road said growling.

Cloud simply smiled. "Before you do anything rash, let me tell you something" she said smug. "My anti akuma weapon Lau Shimin is somewhere up in the tree's hiding, whit 2 of the 3 spare innocence I carry around."

"And the 3rd?" Tyki asked.

"Your Noah sibling is currently choking on it" Cloud said.

Road and Tyki's eyes got wide as they turned to Lulubell who looked in pain.

"Lulubell" Road said almost in a whimper.

Cloud smiled, loving fate at the moment.

"The way I see it" she said trying not to look too smug as the two angry Noah looked at her. "1 of 3 things is going to happen to her" Cloud said pointing to Lulubell's sweaty pained body.

"Opinion 1, the body automatically declares her unfit of the innocence, making the innocence recoil and make… Lulubell was it? Yeah well the innocence will recoil and make the being known as a fallen one."

Road and Tyki's face paled and Lero gulped. "Opinion 2" Cloud said dragging some of her blonde hair over her ear. "The body will accept the innocence, she will calm down, you two will kill me and try to find the rest of the innocence hidden away in the jungle, you will take Lulubell back, force her into betraying her innocence… and she will turn into a fallen one."

Road hated admitting it, but the exorcist general was right, she had seen a fallen one before and Tyki had told her about Suman Dark.

"Opinion 3" Cloud said looking straight up at the two Noah's, even walking a few steps up to them. "Is more or less the same as option 2, whit some few adjustments. The body will accept the innocence and she will calm down. She decides she want to live and leave together whit me… as an exorcist in training."

Road and Tyki rose, both about to tell Cloud to go to hell, when Lulubell screamed in pain and they turned, their eyes wide as the middle Stigmata on Lulubell's forehead suddenly glowed green and calmed down, the stigmata now green and solid.

"Huh parasitic type" Cloud said, talking as calmly as if she where talking whit friends about the weather.

"Well that leaves opinion 2 or 3" she said lifting an eyebrow as if silently asking, 'so what will it be?'

"Road please tell me that she is bluffing" Tyki begged as he sat down next to Lulubell who opened her eyes and looked over at Tyki before she sighed and closed her eyes.

"You know she isn't" Road said sighing, sniffing as she walked over to sit next to Lulubell hugging her.

"What will we do Tyki? We can't just let her die."

"No" Tyki agreed sighing. "But if we let this exorcist take her whit her…" Tyki didn't finish the sentence… it wasn't necessary.

Road looked up as she felt something cold on her face. She looked up and saw tears on Lulubell's face, as the taller woman looked down on Road whit her golden eyes.

"Road… Tyki… I don't want to die… I'm sorry."

Her voice was raspy and weak, and as soon as the words were out of her mouth she closed her eyes again.

Road sighed and hugged Lulubell. "Very well Lulubell, it is your choice, I hope you will live as long as possible."

Tyki sniffed and hugged Lulubell too, slipping a deck of cards into her coat pocket. "Don't forget about your family Lu" he said and rose from the ground, he and Road looking at Cloud who where smiling in triumph.

Lero was having none of it. "Road Sama, Tyki Mikk Sama, you can't just abandon Lulubell Sama lero."

Road sighed and took a good grip around lero looking seriously at Cloud.

"The moment Lulubell said she wanted to live, she had sided whit the exorcist, making her a traitor to the Noah family. We can't take her back, the only reason we are leaving her and the general alive is as a last service and farewell gift from the Noah family."

Road snapped her fingers and a door appeared and opened.

"Let's go Tyki; we need to gather a family meeting."

"Hai" Tyki said whit a sigh and walked, lifting a hand up to touch his hat in polite respect for Cloud.

As they disappeared and the door vanished, Lau Shimin appeared on Cloud's shoulder, carrying the two innocence, giving them to her.

"Thank you Lau Shimin" Cloud said tucking them away walking up to Lulubell.

"Care to lend me your hand so I can help you stand up?" Cloud asked Lulubell.

Lulubell opened her eyes, a small something that could look like a glare in her eyes as she held out a white gloved hand wich Cloud used to drag Lulubell up, supporting her as she laid the arm around her shoulder, taking her own free arm around Lulubell's shoulder.

"Believe it or not, I have a boat waiting at a river a few meters down this way, can you manage that far?"

"Do I have a choice?"

Cloud smiled. "By the way we haven't been properly introduced." She stopped talking and Lulubell took the point and sighed.

"Lulubell Noah."

"Nice meeting you Lulubell, I'm Cloud Nyne."

Lau Shimin chirped, and Lulubell opened her eyes to look at the small monkey who deemed it nice to climb on top of her head.

"Ah yes this is my pet/weapon Lau Shimin."

"Pleasure" Lulubell said dryly.

Lau Shimin chirped again indicating that he at least approved of this new human, although, her skin colour was very much different than from his mistress