Prologue: Dreams and Innocence
His red hair is matted with blood. It is hard to tell since they were the same shade, but he smelt of bloodshed from even a foot away. Another man with gray hair, but a young looking face is standing beside him. On his arm, is attached a claw-like weapon. 'Where did these men come from?' I asked myself. The gray haired man is also covered with blood. They both stand in front of a woman with blonde hair.
"What do you want with me?" She squeaked at them. The red haired man laughed. He brought down his weapon upon her, but she rolled out of the way and her appearance changed. She now was a grotesque creature with a fire in her eyes, and a gun for a nose.
"HAHA boys! I am a level two akuma, and I have sworn to the Millennium Earl that I will destroy all exorcists!" She said to them. 'What is an akuma?' I ask again. But it seems that the two men cannot hear me. The gray haired man howls at the akuma, and they both attack with their weapons. Together, they manage to bring down this 'akuma'.
'Hello?' I say, but both men ignore me, and turn to each other. "I think we're done here." The red haired man said, and he finally turned to face me.
I get my first glance at him, and I notice that he has an eye patch over his right eye, and his left eye is the deepest shade of green. His mouth is a straight line as he gazes his eye across the empty field.
"I can feel another presence, but I do not see anything." He stated. The gray haired man nodded to show that he agreed. 'Why do these men talk like they're from another century?' That's when I also noticed what they were wearing. The black coats were buttoned up to their necks, the red haired man was wearing an orange scarf, and the gray haired man had a scar upon his left eye. They were definitely dressed like they were from a different time.
"I cannot find the person, Lavi." The gray haired man said to his companion.
"Well, look harder Allen." Lavi said back. I sighed. 'This is going to be hard.' I crept closer to the man named Lavi, and tapped him on the shoulder. He spun around quickly to face me. 'It looks like they can feel my touch, but can't hear me…'
"Al—" He started, but the man named Allen was on the other side of the field. He stared directly at me. In fact, he was staring with his one eye straight into my right eye. Allen, who heard Lavi start to call him, looked over. When he noticed Lavi staring into space, he ran over.
"What's up?" He asked.
Lavi's eye changed to one of surprise. "Oh, Allen! I found the person we were looking for." He was about to reach out to touch me —
The scene changed. I was now hanging from a high wall by chains.
"Look at how pathetic she is." A girl with purple spiky hair made her way through a door frame. "Maybe she could be some use to us Millennium Earl."
A round man with a large, toothy smile came through the same doorway. "I'm afraid not, Rhode. She is compatible with Innocence because she can see the exorcists. However, she hasn't found the Innocence yet. We'll deal with her after she joins the Order." The Earl stops in front of my face. "You're extremely lucky that I can't kill you here."
I wake up panting, and drenched in sweat. 'That was the first time I've ever had that dream… What did it mean?' I push back the covers and look around the room. I sigh. 'At least I'm still at home.' I get out of bed to make my way downstairs. I notice that all the lights are off, so I decide to take a look at the clock. I groan. 'It's only four-thirty.' I walk over to the window to see that the street light was bright, and it made the snow on the ground glitter.
I smile. Even though I didn't enjoy winter, the snow that came with it was gorgeous. That was when I saw a shadow of a man lurking behind the tree on my front yard. 'What the hell?'. I blink my eyes, and then the man turned to face me. His eyes were bright yellow, and he smiled. His teeth were shiny, and the street light reflected off them. This time I rub my eyes and then look back to the tree, to find that the man had disappeared.
I shake my head, and sit down on the couch in the living room. I continue thinking about the dream. "It was so real…" I whisper. I think back to how that was the first dream I've ever had about D. Gray-man. "Lavi…" I sigh. He was also incredibly real. I rest my head on the pillow and then pass out.
I open my eyes to see Lavi's eye looking into mine. I smile. He smiles back. "Have you found your Innocence?" He asks me.
I reply by shaking my head. "No…" I mutter under my breath. "I'm sure I'll find it soon though."
Lavi smiles again. "Good! I can't wait until you join the Black Order!" He stands up and pats me on the head. "See you soon!" His image fades out, and the last thing that fades is his smile. I smile to myself one last time—
I sit in a chair in a black circular room. 'Where am I?'. Faintly, a glowing orb appears, and as it comes closer, I can feel the energy emitting from it. 'Is that what a real Innocence looks like?'.
As though the orb can hear my thoughts, it glides closer to me. It stops in front of my face, and now I can feel the heat coming off of it. 'It is an Innocence!' The orb glides even closer, and finally passes right through my chest. I can now feel the energy from it inside of me. I smile, and think 'Wow, I can't believe this is just a dream—'
I wake up again for real, and feel a burning sensation around my heart. I fast walk up to my room and shut the door. I turn on the light, and rush over to the mirror closet doors.
I lift up my shirt to see an intricate pattern of swirls around where my heart would be. The swirls made flowers across my chest, that looked a lot like Japanese cherry blossoms. I stood there in front of the mirrors with my mouth wide open and my shirt lifted up. I turn my head to look at the alarm clock on my desk. 6:30. I sigh and let my shirt fall. "I'd better get ready for school…" I say to myself, and start pulling out the clothes I want to wear for this turning point of my life.
