Title: Dragon's Eye
Author: Knux33
2.
"Allen!" Lenalee called throughout the training rooms, causing several practicing Finders and exorcists to pause in mid-workout. "Have any of you seen Allen?" Most shook their heads at the cute girl while others shrugged in a apologizing fashion.
She ran further into the training area, searching for the tell-tale sign of white hair and gray eyes. "Allen!"
Further on in she spotted not the missing English boy, but a familiar dark haired Japanese exorcist. "Kanda!" She called out loudly, causing Kanda to give her a very cold stare. Ignoring the exorcist's usual attitude Lenalee ran up and asked as she had the last dozen or so, "Have you seen Allen, Kanda?"
With an annoyed 'che' Kanda turned around and went back to doing his best to smash a training bag into pieces, succeeding as sand began to poor out of several tears in the bag that hadn't been there moments before.
After staring for a moment, Lenalee asked, "Would you like to help me find him?"With an even louder 'che,' Kanda gave one final driving punch into the sandbag, causing the bottom to fall out and sand to explode into a cloud around him.
Turning his back to the coughing Lenalee, the older exorcist stomped off to the showers. Despite the difficulty breathing Lenalee smiled. "I'll take that as a 'yes' Kanda!" She called after him, much to the amusement of the older members sweating at their own work an to Kanda's own dismay.
/DRDRDR/
Miranda Lotto wasn't the type to stand out. In fact, she was the type that took pains to blend into the background when her powers weren't specifically needed. Hence the fact that as the other exorcists were finding ways out of the infirmary, she was the only one taking pains to stay in.
As everyone else seemed to have found there own ways of stretching their legs, Miranda found herself very much alone in the lonely serialized space of the hospital-like rooms. Well, alone except for one Arystar Krory the Third, but he didn't seemed inclined to talking, since he seemed to be in a coma. He had been for a while now, but that didn't make him any less creepy to Miranda, who didn't like the way his fangs seemed to protrude from his thin lips when the infirmary staff injected him with his almost hourly nutrients.
Right now was his after-lunch dose of calcium, important for his parasitic teeth that needed to be kept in top condition ... and used to build strong bones.
Miranda really wanted to leave the creepy vampire's presence, but she was worried that something might happen to him all alone, seeing as most of the staff were on lunch break and every other patent had taken the chance to run off to wherever they wanted to go. So with a growing sense of doom that usually happened before she was fired from one of her many failed jobs, Miranda sat down next to Arystar's bed and stared out a nearby window, trying really hard not to look at the peeking teeth or listen to his growling stomach that sounded like it was threatening to eat her...
/DRDRDR/
Lenalee looked quite happy, almost skipping as she made her way the the cafeteria where Lavi had said to meet. Kanda, on the other hand, seemed to look like he wanted to cut someone into very, very, small pieces.
Ignoring the silent exorcist next to her, Lenalee began talking to him as if he didn't look like the grim reaper in a very bad mood, "Well Kanda, if you haven't seen Allen, have you seem my brother?"
Looking away from glaring a very scared finder, Kanda shook his head in a negative and went back to seeing how long those walking by dared to look him in the eyes until they looked away or stupidly walked into something solid.
"Oh," Lenalee looked disappointed for a moment, then went back to unloading her worries onto the silent exorcist she had known and trusted since a young age to keep an ear open and that was always ready to give short, but helpful answers in advice. "Well, I was looking for Allen in his office this morning but neither he or Komui was their, and the scientists outside had seemed to be waiting for a long time."
Thinking for a moment, she added with narrowed eyes, "I hope Komui isn't bothering Allen about his innocence; I know after mine changed he and Hevlaska looked and poked at it forever, and Komui just kept saying 'just one more little thing,' and before I knew it he had me down their for eight hole hours,"
Having reached the doors to the cafeteria, Lenalee smile at Kanda, "Thank you for listening."
All she got, and expected, was a 'che,' and some muttering about 'chattering females,' before they made their way into the large eating area. Quickly spotting Link sitting alone Lenalee lead Kanda to the table. As they made their way over, Lenalee had the passing thought of , Lavi shouldn't take too long, before a screaming wail brought her, Kanda, and everyone else in the room to a painful standstill.
/DRDRDR/
I'll just go now. Miranda tried to lie to herself. Yep, I'll be taking a step out that door ... now?
Failing in trying to persuade herself to leave, poor Miranda shuffled miserably back to her seat next to the unresponsive, and all the more scary, Arystar Krory. Moaning in self pity, Miranda brought her head to her hands dejectedly, only to find it was a very good thing that she did so when it sounded like the time her neighbor's wife found out the truth about her husband's 'Saturday night entertainment' magnified by about ten thousand.
/DRDRDR/
"What ..." Allen seemed unable to finish his question, but with the whole of the science department gazing down with mouthes gapping, close to all of them at a loss for any words at all, Lavi thought Allen had them beat with one able word at a time like this.
Clearing his throat, Komui drew everyone's attention back to business. Reever backing him up with some hasty orders. Soon the few scientists that had passed out were being ferried up to the nearest infirmary, Lavi was relived to see them still breathing, along with those still bleeding from their ears. Though Komui and Reever had been two of the closest to Hevlaska and were also blood covered, they seemed automatically exempt from immediate rest and recovery.
Slowly gripping the railing of the metal pathway, Lavi hesitantly moved to get a better look at the eggs, now resting where the innocence once had. Working far more quickly that the average human eye, Lave counted around fifty glossy white spheres bellow, close to the number of innocence that had been down there before the commotion.
"Can anyone get the water pumping to lower the temperature down there?" One scientist called out to his fellows.
"No!" Reever yelled out over the raised voices of so many scientists. Many stopped what they were doing and before long there was silence once more. "Don't do anything rashly. We don't know whats happened yet, we need to gather enough data before changing any unknown variables and messing with unstable substances. Just try to gather all the data you can for now."
"Yes section chief Reever!" Rang out and all the unhurt scientists got back to their monitoring stations quietly. Komui and Reever got to work almost before the echo had died from the shot and began mumbling hypothesis' and possible conclusions to the strange occurrence to one another.
Allen joined Lavi closer to the railing, gray eyes gazing down, almost in awe. "Do you think those could really be eggs?" Lavi looked up curiously at Allen's hopeful tone.
"Maybe," Lavi said uncertainly. "Or they could just be innocence in a different package."
Allen looked uncertainly back at him. "What would the difference be?"
/DRDRDR/
After the sound had finally stopped, Lenalee slowly got up from her fallen position on the floor and took stock of her surroundings, feeling like an earthquake had just shook the tower from the top down to the very core. It looked like Kanda had managed to remain standing through the ordeal, while Link had thrown himself under the table he had been sitting at. He seemed self conscious as he got up and briskly rubbled the non-existent dust of off his coat.
Looking around, Lenalee saw that no one seemed hurt besides the occasional bruise from falling unexpectedly. Kanda and Lenalee slowly made their way over to Howard; stepping as carefully as if there might be land mines planted on the cafeteria floor.
"What was that?" Link croaked out; seemingly shaken.
"You think we know?" Kanda answered gruffly back, startling Howard with his cold, unrespectful tone. The inspector sneered distastefully at the exorcist, only making Kanda glare back.
Lenalee, seeing a battle a mile away, tried to intervene. "Do either of you think that came from downstairs?"
Looking confused at the statement Link answered, "Why yes Ms. Lee. I do believe that did come from below."
Kanda only gave her a confirming look.
Deciding to end a war before it began, Lenalee suggested all three of them going down to the lower floors of the Order to look for Lavi; where the damage could have been worse. Kanda agreed to going while Link determinedly sat down, stating that he was to remain here to wait for all of them. And if Allen Walker wasn't accompanying them along with Lavi upon their return, that he would report this as a serious stroke against Allen in is coming heresy case.
Kanda could almost see Lenalee measuring the distance between the 'special inspector's' head and her foot. Abruptly deciding to stop Lenalee from doing something stupid, Kanda began waking towards the exit; forcing Lenalee to follow by grabbing her arm securely.
Once out of the cafeteria and one their way Kanda released the girl and they both started on an unusually quiet trip down into the depths of the Order.
After a few floors, Lenalee began speaking again, though more quietly than before with none of the usual cheerfulness. "I don't know why you didn't let me bash his head in." She said almost as if commenting the weather. "It always seems to knock some sense into my brother when he's acting like his skull is as thick as some of his own robot's manuals."
"I stopped you because it wouldn't of done you or Allen a bit of good." Kanda said, almost surprising Lenalee into walking into a wall. Looking at her seriously he said icily, "But if you dare to tell bean sprout a word of that I'll cut you into so many pieces even your sister-complex brother wouldn't be able to put you back together again."
Lenalee smiled at the stubborn exorcist and kept that smile on her face for a long way down--
Until they ran into the scientists being dragged bodily up the stairs by the panicked nursing staff and rushed to the informatory.
/DRDRDR/
Miranda wasn't sure on as to how she had gotten on top of Mr. vampire-in-a-coma, but what she did know was that she wanted to get off him right, now. Getting up she was ashamed to see her arm had fallen across the man's face. "Oh, sorry,sorry--" She began as she slowly got up, but was confused when her arm didn't come up with her. Looking closer, she saw her limb had somehow jammed itself into his mouth. Growing very pale, she profusely apologized while trying to yank her arm out.
Then she saw why it hadn't wanted to come out. Removing her arm she saw two very small puncture holes in her pale skin. When blood started flowing dully from the wound, she slowly turned her eyes, to the now-not-so-out-of-it vampire. With dark depressed eyes staring at her from the hollow looking holes on his face, he spat out the blood that had been in his mouth and said in a very deflated manner, "Eliade ..."
And with that Miranda screamed, then fell over in a dead faint. Arystar Krory the Third lay there, contemplating his growling stomach, and decided that if he had died and gone to heaven, he wouldn't be this hungry and the blood wouldn't have tasted quite so bad; even if he had half expected the angels to scream and faint.
/DRDRDR/
Lavi was at loathe to leave Hevlaska's Chamber, even if he did need to get Allen back to his watch-dog. The area was a hive of activity, and even when the scientists weren't shouting all of their discoveries aloud Lavi found he could just stand there and stare at the perfect-looking porcelain eggs for indefinite amounts of time, Allen standing next to him with as much awe for the small round objects then he had the first time he saw them.
But what brought them out of their stupor was a very determined looking Lenalee walking on air with a very angry looking demeanor cloaking her as she seemed to stomp towards her distracted brother. Both exorcists and most of the science team stopped what they were doing to watch the show.
"Brother." Komui looked around and a very silly look of unbridled joy swept across his face.
"Lenalee! Thank goodness your ok!" He seemed to looked her over for and bumps or bruises and, spotting one small (Almost none existent) bruise on her left arm went straight into typical Komui histarics over his 'precious Lenalee.' "Lenalee, your poor arm! Quick, we must get you to the infirmary at once!"
Lenalee looked narrowly at his and Reever's blood smears trailing from their ears down to their shoulders, and how both of them seemed to need to hold on to the computer they were working on to stand up straight.
"No Komui." His little sister said, surprising everyone, that is, almost the entire science department plus a few exorcists, "You have got to go to the infirmary now."
"But Lenaleeee," Komui said, sounding very much like a small child, "This is really important! Look, right down there--!"
"No brother, you and Reever are coming with me right now." That said, she forcibly grabbed her brother and Reever, ignoring his protests of 'What did I do?' and carrying them in a very swift manner up and away.
There was a stunned silence for a moment, before all activity resumed with out the department heads; the scientists talking quietly amongst themselves with a few chuckles here and there. Allen and Lavi both tried to stifle down howls of laughter at the looks on both Komui and Reever's faces. That is, before they noticed Kanda glowering at them from behind. Slowly the two turned their heads, caught.
"Hello Yuu!" Lavi said, letting some laughter slip. "How kind of you to join us!"
"Lavi, Bean sprout."
"Its Allen."
"Che," Kanda glared darkly. "Whatever the title you're still just a puny little bean sprout."
Allen glared darkly back, a twisted smile growing, "Well then--"
"Wait, wait you guys!" Lavi said, trying to keep the delicate peace. Watching the scientists turning away form their work to watch. "Don't we have to get back to the cafeteria?"
As if hearing the sound of a race horn, Allen was off and running; reminded of his heavily delayed lunch. Kanda stared after him for a bit, then turned to glare at Lavi.
"Well Yu?" Lavi said, plastering a ridiculous grin on his face. "If you don't beat him there, I'd say at this late lunch hour most of the soba is gone; and once Allen gets up there--"
Kanda instinctively grabbed at the sword, Mugen, that no longer rested at his hip, most of the scientists being buried in paperwork or far to busy to finish fixing it, and gave Lavi a glare that sent chills down his spine before running to the stairs. Lavi sighed and looked at spot on his belt where is own hammer usually hung. Stretching out his arms he made his way lazily up the stairs, following his friends at a more leisurely pace.
But not before having one last curious look at the eggs huddling down below.
/DRDRDR/
The young German exorcist Miranda Lotto awoke feeling vaguely out of sorts, wondering when exactly she had went to bed. And then she remembered, and it almost set her off screaming again. Gulping the impulse down, she saw that they had placed her in the bed closest to Arystar, and it probably had something to do with the fact that the infirmary was now full to the brim with groaning invalids. Miranda looked around, spotting a complaining Komui and Reever being tied down to their beds.
Blinking at the strange, but not so strange, sight for a moment she turned to look back the Krory and found that Lenalee was sitting beside him and speaking very softly, while he nodded every once and a while and devoured large amounts of food from a nearby plate. Miranda thought the girl must be filling him in on all the things he had missed while he had been unconscious.
Turning her head back to the more active end of the room she saw that most of the patients were scientists; most were active and talking excitedly to one another while disgruntled nurses were wiping blood from their ears and checking them with various medical instruments.
Slowly, Miranda eased herself up into an upright position and tried to get out of the bed she was sure someone else needed. That is, until the head nurse pushed her forcibly back down again. Miranda shrunk away from the older woman's steely glare, "You are not to move from this bed unless I say so, understood?" She pointedly glanced over at the immobilized Komui and Reever.
"Y-yes mam," Miranda squeaked. Satisfied, the nurse moved on to Komui's bed, since he was obliviously the bigger problem as he had started to determinedly gnaw at his leather restraints.
Quite a few of the doctors and their wards turn their attention to watch the growing spectacle.
"I. Have. To. Work," Komui said while trying to both gnaw and stare down the head nurse at the same time.
"You are going to stay right here until we clean you up and you get some rest Supervisor." The nurse said in a very no nonsense tone. Komui continued chewing. "And stop chewing on the leather please."
"Why, should, I?" Komui said stubbornly. With a smile the nurse informed him then he didn't know who else had chewed on it, bled on it, emptied their stomach contents onto it...
With a look of disgust the Supervisor gave up on his plan of escape and lay there miserably, moaning at Lenalee to save him from 'Mrs. Hitler-Nurse.' Miranda saw out of the corner of her eye that Lenalee just smiled and continued talking to Krory.
/DRDRDR/
Allen Walker was having quite a time trying to eat his late lunch, ignore Link's ranting, and Kanda's angry glaring at him for devouring the last of the soba before he got there. Then Lavi waked up and he knew he was never going to eat in peace.
"Well Yuu?" Lavi asked, smiling. Kanda just glared at him. "Looks like you missed out on your lunch," Lavi said, adding wood to the fire. Kanda went back to staring at Allen's mound of food, seemingly trying to ignore the Apprentice Bookman.
"But thats ok, 'cause I've got something very important to tell you, Yuu." Lavi, looking serious now cleared his throat. Kanda continued to ignore him. Whispering loudly, Lavi said to Kanda, "Hevlaska's a girl, Kanda."
Looking over exasperated at Lavi, Kanda looked like he was ready to tear out his jabbering jaw. Lavi smiled widely and called through out the cafeteria, "Hevlaska's a mommy!"Causing many to turn and stare dumbly back at him.
"I can only wonder who the father is--" But Lavi didn't get a chance to voice his speculations, because at that point Kanda pounced. Jumping nimbly away Lavi the rabbit ran and the enraged hound followed.
Allen watched the chase for a moment, then got back to eating. Link sat there very quietly for a while, apparently at a loss for words, and for that Allen was very grateful.
End 2.
AN: This chapter really just elaborated on the first, but I think it was needed. Because of the kind reviewers (artist-girl731, addenza, and Kayday) I have decided to be kind and put the second chapter up on this Sunday instead of the next Saturday.
I may even put chapter three up on Wendsday if at least 4 people review this chapter.
I would like you all (The ones that just did story alert/fav without reviewing) to know I love the appreciation to my work. But I will not mention you by screenname like I did those above unless you review!
Now for the personal thank-yous to the first three to review this story!
artist-girl731: As you can see, I DID update soon! (Plate full of cookies for First Review!)
addenza: Thank you for the advice of keeping my fic strictly friendship! I think it will probably stay that way, just because that way everyone can luvz Allen... (Two cookies and a bunch of candys for second Review!)
Kayday: Thank you very much for the Review that got me to update so fast. (So many capital letters...) Plus, I really hope this stops you from imploding... (A Cookies plus some candy for third Review!)
Congrats you three, you all got me to update faster. Now if I could only finish ch 7 today on schedule...oh yeah, I'm going for writing a chapter a day until this is finished, so I really can update fast if you all get your friends, or the other 70 people that read this, to review.
I AM open to Anonymous Reviews, if that will help any.
See you again either Wensday or Saturday, your choice.
-Knux33
