HURRAH IT'S CHAPTER TWO YEY OMG LETS HAVE A PARTY I HAVE A.D.D YOU DON'T KNOW THAT BUT NOW YOU DO NO YOU DON'T YOU WILL NEVER KNOW~! (foams at the mouth)
Allen: Are you okay Kiki?
Me: I cannot be killed but with fire! (jumps out the window and barrel roles into the car) WHOO I'M SINGLE!
Lavi: (yells after her) You were never in a relationship! ........
Allen: I hope she's all right.
Kanda: I hope she dies.
Lavi: But she can't die! If she dies she'll never finish this story!
Allen: And if she never finishes this story these poor impersonations of us from the manga will cease to exist!
Lavi! Nuuuuuuuu.....!
Kanda: .......(looks to the sky).....Please God....Kill her.
Chapter Two: Those who Fight Further…
Allen soon learned that the stranger was Lavi from the future. He didn't think much on the subject until he got some food in his belly. Kanda would have spent his time glaring at Lavi, who had resumed his post by the entrance, but he had to make sure Allen didn't eat the whole bag.
"We can't afford your hollow leg here Moyashi. Eat one can." Kanda handed him some beans and hid the rest of the food behind him.
"But it's a big bag Kanda!" Allen whined, even though he had already started to prepare the beans.
"I don't care." Kanda replied.
"I know where we can get some more…" Lavi offered, but was silenced by Kanda's glare. After Allen was done eating, (which took like two seconds) He sat Allen beside him and looked sternly at Lavi.
"Alright." He said. "Talk."
Allen looked at the two confused, but sat and waited patiently regardless. Lavi was silent and unmoving for a long while before he sighed, drew his arms around his legs, and looked at the ground as he spoke.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you the year. I don't remember anymore. I can't even tell you what day it is. The days, weeks, months, years, they all blur together into one passage of time. Meaningless time. I think a century has passed since…since Allen…Gosh I don't know how to say it." He fumbled around for the words. "This is the future, at least a hundred years into the future I think. As you can see…the humans have lost to the Earl. I'm the only one left. Not just the only exorcist, but the only human left alive. There aren't even any animals anymore. The Akuma killed them off too in desperation. With no more people to kill they went mad, became less and less human looking as the hunger slowly took over them."
Kanda and Allen sat wide eyed. "What happened to the order? To all our friends?" Allen asked. Lavi's head shot up.
"The order is the one that caused all this!" Allen and Kanda shrank away, taken aback by Lavi's sudden outburst. But it was short lived and Lavi quickly went back to looking at the floor. "This is all the orders fault…They messed with things they should have left alone…They thought they were helping…but they only fueled the Earls power…It's their fault…Everyone's dead because of them."
Allen and Kanda watched helplessly as Lavi seemed to brood to himself. Allen reached forward a little. He felt sorry for Lavi. A hundred years, and he was the only human in a world of Akuma. Lavi seemed to be wrapped in so many emotions. An anger great enough to lose himself in, fear and…a maddening loneliness. Lavi curled closer into himself.
"Everyone died. Lenalee tried to save Komui from the collapsing order. Neither of them came out…Krory and Miranda…Were killed by the Noah…Kanda…" He trailed off. "Allen is still alive…sort of…"
A glint of hope shined in their eyes. "Really?" Allen inquired. "Where is he? I mean me…I guess."
Lavi smiled. "The Earl couldn't kill him. Allen fought long and hard, and just wouldn't die. So the Earl sealed him away. Hevlaska's prophecy was true. Allen was the great destroyer of time. He almost beat the Earl…We killed off almost all the Noah…But all he could do before the Earl sealed him off was destroy my time…and make me immortal."
Kanda and Allen gawped. "So…" Kanda began. "That's why you don't need food…"
Lavi shook his head. "I still have to eat and stuff. My time has stopped but I'm still human…sort of…maybe…there's so much to explain…" Lavi took in a deep breath. "The order caused all this with their meddling in the affairs of the Earl. They messed with black magic, the Alma Karma, half Akuma people, the like. They experimented with the egg, tried to see what they could find, but they were really just fueling the Earls power. The Akuma were his. Whether they were half human or not didn't matter. Pretty soon the half Akuma, half humans out numbered the exorcists. We were so few, and the number only shrank as time went on. When we exorcists were at our weakest, that's when the Earl unfurled his plan. All the Akuma people turned, they killed everything and anything in sight. They took everything the science department was experimenting with and unleashed its true potential. And just when we thought things couldn't get any worse, the Earl released a weapon he's been saving. An Akuma he's been fueling himself, until it was level twelve."
Allen and Kanda's jaw dropped. Lavi went on. "This Akuma…looked completely human at the time. But the lack of killing in this era has also turned him into a mindless monster, just like the level eights. People called him the Eater, because he just looked at you and ate your soul. All I could do was watch as he sucked them away one by one. We had no choice but to run…And it was the superiors in the order, those stupid bastards, who brought all this about. Years came and went and the Akuma only grew stronger. One exorcist after the other fell, three regular humans right behind them, until…this. Nothing but fire and ashes, all dust and memories. It was me, Allen, and Kanda for a while. Then it was just me and Allen. Now it's just me."
It was silent for a long time. No one moved, no one breathed. Lavi looked out the entrance again, and suddenly Allen thought that maybe…he was waiting for someone. Hoping for someone to come and keep him company, as he fought this war, all alone. Allen frowned and moved forward, sitting next to Lavi and putting an arm around his shoulder. Lavi didn't move. It almost seemed like he didn't know what to do anymore. Allen thought that was okay and leaned his head on his shoulder. He would just keep hugging him until he remembered.
Kanda looked on firmly. "So Allen and you kept fighting…until the Earl sealed him away and he made you immortal." Lavi nodded. "And the world has been destroyed. How do you explain the tree that brought us here?"
"That's Hevlaska." Lavi said. "She was here for a time, though she couldn't fight with us. But she found a way to help, after Allen got sealed. She sacrificed her body, soul, and all the innocence she had gathered in order to create a way for us to contact the past and tell them what was happening. I didn't think she'd bring anyone here…"
"Why would she?" Allen asked.
Lavi looked at him. "I think she wanted more than just a warning, she wanted help. I bet you think that the past can only affect the future and not vise versa. Fortunately, that's not true. The past and future are like a parallel universe. You remember your mission to Rome, where a soldier was still fighting in the arena for a princess that died. It's like that. If I destroy the Earl in this future, then I will destroy it, and eliminate any possibility of it happening. There are thousands of possibilities for the future; this is only one of them. My goal is to make sure this one doesn't happen again. I think she was trying to find someone who could help with that."
Allen looked at Kanda, whose expression hadn't changed. "What if…" Kanda said and both boys looked at him. "I was to call you a liar?"
Lavi smiled. "Where do you think you are then? Do you think you just got transported to the old order and this is all some cruel joke? Everyone's laughing from the order, watching the scene from some invisible golem hovering above us. Okay guys, jokes over!" Lavi laughed, and slowly frowned. "I wish I was a liar…"
Allen shot a glare and Kanda who only returned the favor. Allen rubbed Lavi's shoulder and tried to comfort him, but Lavi had taken to his usual gaze, down the empty hall.
Kanda tried to think. What Lavi said made sense. All the pieces fit. And he was right, if he was not in some bizarre future then where was he? It couldn't be a cruel joke, this was way too extreme. The part of this world he remembered, and it was most certainly not all ash and decay. So then there was only one explanation. Lavi was telling the truth, this was the future and he really was over a hundred years old now. The question was, what were they going to do now?
After a time, Lavi spoke again. "I'll take you guys back to Hevlaska's tree when it's quiet. Then you can go back to your time."
Allen perked up, having almost fallen asleep on Lavi's shoulder. "I don't hear anything…"
"But I do." Lavi said calmly. "They're looking for us. These marks prevent them from finding us." Allen looked at the black marks on the wall. "Some old relics are still helpful." Lavi said.
Kanda starred at Lavi, as he had been doing for that past hour. "I'm staying." Both boys looked at him. "I'm going to stop this future."
Lavi moved forward. "You can't-"
"The hell I can't! You haven't told me how, but somehow I die right? Not just me, everyone dies. I'm not letting this future happen. There are still some things I need to do."
"Kanda you don't understand, there's no way you'd survive here. The Akuma are way too strong-"
"So teach me how to fight them." Kanda folded his arms, absolute on the matter.
"Yeah Lavi." He looked up and saw Allen smiling at him. "Let's fight together again."
Lavi starred at them both and seemed to think for a moment. Hevlaska… Lavi thought. Why did you bring them here? Lavi looked at the floor helplessly, wondering what he should do. Decades had passed without human contact, just he himself, alone in his shell. Fighting the Akuma, searching for the last Noah, trying to find a way to get the Earl. He was the only thing left, standing between the Earl and world domination. He knew though, as the Earl did, that even with immortality, he could not do it alone.
The day passed with nothing to speak of. Allen fell asleep with ease, and soon even Kanda could not deny himself rest anymore. When they were both curled inside the blankets again, Lavi stood and walked over to them, watching them sleep. So long he had gone alone. And now someone had come to help. He should have been excited. But he felt only fear for his friends, whom he was trying desperately to remember.
It was night outside when he stepped into the air. Not surprisingly, there was ash falling from the sky. Ash had become the entire world now. It rested and covered the land, and fell from the skies. The harsh air no longer fazed him, nor did the burning cinders below his feet. He looked up at the sky for a moment, seeing the illumination of the moon through the grey clouds. There was some things that could not be destroyed. The moon always shined each night, just as the sun rose each day. He jumped from his hole he had made his home, and ran swiftly down the road.
The trip back to the tree was no different than the ones before. He had come here every night since Hevlaska sacrificed her body, just as he did when she was alive. He walked up the moss covered roots, bigger than himself, and to the trunk of the tree. He touched its soft bark tenderly; white orbs of light falling all around him. He had never felt much of a kinship with Hevlaska. No one really had. But in the final years of her time alive, Hevlaska had been his only comfort. She was wise, and knew what Lavi had to do, even if he didn't. In this tree, he trusted his life.
"Hevlaska…" Lavi whispered. "Why did you bring them here…? They can't be here…they'll die."
The whispers floated up again, calling to him with sweet, melancholy sounds of trust and hope. So teach them. She spoke. To survive in this world.
Lavi frowned and looked up at the tree. "Can…Can they? Can they really just be taught?"
You have forgotten yourself Lavi. The whispers faded. And forgotten the friends you used to fight beside. Remember Lavi...Remember…
The voices faded away to nothing and Lavi was left alone again. His head fell in silence. His mind had grown weary of time. Of madness, of fear, and of loneliness. He longed for the end. But…was he willing to sacrifice his friends for that end?
Lavi walked all the way back.
…No… He was not.
Soooooo? This is like the moment before you know everything is going to hit the fan. So lets go! Review!
