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Chapter 3: Let's Start
The girl stood there, looking quietly at the Allen, Link, Leenalee, and Lavi who had just walked into her shop. She happened to be glaring at the Lavi with her eyes narrowed as she looked at him with no emotion. She did remind Allen of Kanda as she continued to glare.
"What do you want?" She asked, dark aura coming from her as she continued to glare. Allen shuttered at her scary presence. She seemed to want Lavi gone.
"Umm, we wanted to talk to one of the florist here. A kind lady told us he was investigating the incidents of people going missing here." Allen gave the girl a kind smile, trying not to provoke her anymore. The girl looked at Allen and smiled. Then she started to chuckle to herself.
"What's so funny?" Link asked, his expression staying the same. The girl giggled a little longer before stopping herself and keeping the same smile om.
"S-sorry," She said waving her hand side to side. "It's just the lady you talked to is Mrs. Benett and she tends to screw up genders a lot lately. When she meant 'he', she actually meant 'she'. I'm the only florist in this town." After she was done talking everything kind of went still from then. The elderly lady mixed up someone's gender. You don't hear of that everyday. The girl in front of them sighed, stilled smiling. She looked at Lavi with no more hate.
"Sorry about what happened then. If you're here to help I apologize. I'm Sol, it's very nice to meet you all." Sol stuck out her hand in front of Lavi. Lavi smiled back at her, shaking her hand.
"I'm Lavi." The red head said. "And that's Allen, Leenalee, and Link." Lavi released her hand and Sol gave Allen and the others a big smile.
"If your here to help, why don't we go back and discuss this?"
Sol lead Allen and the others to the back of her shop. The back had a two couches and in between was an old wooden table. She gestured them to sit down. She then disappeared into another room, coming back with a tray of tea. "Here you go everyone." She handed everyone a cup and sat down on the couch across from everyone else. "So, what would you guys like to know about this event?"
"Do you how everyone is disappearing?" Link started. Sol shook her head in reply and took a sip of her tea.
"It's quite a mystery why everyone's just disappearing. At first the towns folk and myself thought some of the people were just leaving the town. It started off as teens and young adults, but lately parents have been leaving without taking their children with them. I thought this was odd, especially since everyone was leaving at night. I thought this was odd so I started to investigate. Just recently, Mrs. Benett's son and daughter-in-law went missing. I was there when it happened. I was patrolling the area when I saw them walking in the town. It was mid-night and I thought it was weird since they should be asleep. They just walked for a long time. I followed them from behind making sure they didn't see me. They walked out of the town and into the woods. I followed them into the woods, but a strange fog covered the woods. I lost them instantly due to the fog."
Everyone sat there quietly. This doesn't seem like the Akuma's doing, Allen thought, replaying the story inside his head.
"This might be innocences." Lavi said suddenly. Sol tilted her head to the side.
"Innocences?" She said cluelessly. "What are you guys talking about?"
Allen sighed, they probably shouldn't involve Sol in this. Akuma might already be here and it would be best if she didn't know. "Sol, we'll take over this incident, you no longer are needed." Link said as he stood up. Sol looked at the blonde in disbelief.
"What!? You're not my mother!" She yelled standing up. "This is my town and I started this! You can't kick me out!" Sol glared up at the taller man. "And don't say it's because I can't defend myself! I can defend myself." The florist was about to yell more when she stopped. Leenalee had a hand on her shoulder.
"Please Sol, we don't want you to get hurt. Let us take over." Sol bit her bottom lip, probably wanting to say something back, but stopped herself from doing so. Allen could see the frustration building up in her.
"F-fine." She finally said. Allen was quite surprised at this. He thought the girl might start yelling more like Kanda, but then again she wasn't him.
"Thank you Sol. We'll have this done in not time." Leenalee smiled at her and let go of her shoulder. All four of them walked out of the flower shop. Sol stood at the entrance waving at them.
"So, what do we do now? Sol said that people were disappearing at night. should we wait till then?" Allen asked. Everyone nodded their head in agreement.
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"Yeah right! Like I'm going to listen!" Sol yelled as she entered her shop. She huffed a heavy sigh. Who do those people think they are? Angels? I'm going to finish this whether they like it or not. Sol walked over to the counter of her shop that sat in the far left corner. She faced the wall and knelled down. She ripped off a part of the wall, revealing a white katana. She smirked as she took the sword out of it's hiding spot.
"We're going into the woods tonight and going to bring Mrs. Smith's son and daughter-in-law back."
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Night finally came for the four and they all headed out to the woods. Indeed, like Sol had said there was fog covering the forest. When they walked in, it reminded Allen of when Tyki shattered his innocence. Like Fou had said his innocence created a fog around the whole area and that she had tripped on him because of it. The four proceeded on though the woods, nothing strange happening yet.
"This place is giving me the creeps." Lavi commented, looking around uneasily at the place. Leenalee nodded her head in agreement and Allen couldn't help, but agree as well. Timcampy was no longer flying next to Allen, but was sitting on his head, flapping his wings.
Allen sighed, there was still nothing out of the ordinary, other than the fog, but that all changed quickly. Loud noises began to beat against his ears. It sounded like bullets. All four of them dashed forward. As they got closer and closer so did the noise. Momentarily they found themselves facing some people. The bullet noises from before had stopped completely and there stood a couple of people. From Allen's guess these were the ones that went missing.
They all stood around a cave. It looked like the people couldn't get in for some reason.
"Mr. Benett!?(Mrs. Benett's son)" Allen turned around to see Sol standing right behind him. She had a wide grin on her face as she looked at the group of people. Allen noticed that she had a katana strapped to her waist. "I'm so happy your okay!" She ran forward with a happy smile, but then Allen's left eye activated.
"Sol wait!" Allen screamed, his innocence activating as well as everyone else's. Sol stopped in her tracks, her happy smile turning into a shock expression. Mr. Benett and the other's that were there turned into Level 1 Akuma.
