Chapter: 3
Mater. A lost city that's story, no…legend dates back to as far as anyone could remember. The frightening ghost that walks amongst its labyrinth streets and passageways chased all of the city's citizens away. All, but one. One boy who was shunned by society, an outcast. Together they occupy the abandoned town, making it their domain and theirs alone. That is. Until a man dressed in pale yellow came to their town. Sure he didn't stay for long, but he came back with more. Many more. One by one they marched in, their long coats softly glowing in the moon's light. They said they were there to protect them. They'd only be there for a short while they said. But days turned into weeks which in turn bled into months.
Then, the monsters came. Of course, the finders (they later found out was their names) protected them. In fact, they both sat inside of a yellow barrier, watching with horror as each and every one of them were gunned down. Blood splattering against the shield as the last yellow coat fell.
Hope seemed lost. But it came back strong as dual black clad men falling from the sky. A blade sliced through the closest demon leaving a young man with a long pony tail in its crumbling wake.
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"I think you scared them Kanda." Allen said as he worked on disabling the shield.
The samurai looked over shortly before turning back to the left over battlefield, "No, they're only traumatized."
"Like that's any better." The silverette murmured before giving a short shout of glee. The yellow barrier faded down, he was right. It was the same system as his own, well, almost the same, minor differences. "There we go, now let's get you out of here."
No sooner did he say that did he have to swing around and protect himself.
"Heheheh! An exorcist an exorcist! Let's play!" a monster. It took the appearance of a jester, how ironic.
"Sure. Kanda!" Allen called to his comrade without breaking contact. "Take them out of here. I'll take care of this one. It'll be clown to clown." With that he jumped into action. He dodged attack after attack the demon unleashed, a smirk on his face the whole time.
"Take this, exorcist!" a forked arm swung head on towards the lithe silverette. "You're done for!" Allen's eyes widened as he saw no escape.
Crimson droplets scattered through the air accompanied with the torn pieces of fabric that the attack ripped off.
"You know, you are very lucky Kanda isn't around right now. You would've put a big wrench in my plans. Maybe have even ruined it. Even killing you wouldn't have justified the misdemeanor on your part." The black fabric slowly fell away, revealing the black arm underneath. The fingers were more like claws and elongated to sharp points.
"W-What's this!? You were holding back on me." the two fighters drew back from each other, prepping for the second attack.
"Like I said. This form isn't yet meant to be seen yet. Let's see." A light breeze was carried through the town, a small portion of it swirling softly around the blackened hand. As the silverette smirked the arm slowly morphed into a dark red color, far less smooth than its previous form.
"What did you just do!?" the creature backed a few more steps away.
"Like I said. This form isn't supposed to be seen as of yet. But don't worry, this should be more than enough for an akuma like you." Allen flexed his hand, reconnecting with the limits he had broken long ago. "Then again. I could use this to my advantage."
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"Tyyykiiiii! You're so boring. I wish we could've brought Red with us, I bet he would be more interesting than you." Road whined. She sat on her Uncle's shoulders as they walked to the city of Mater. Sure they had used her dimensional doors but they didn't want to risk being spotted before hand. They were only there to observe, nothing else. Thus, the young looking Noah was doomed to entertain herself by seeing how many braids she could put in her Uncle's hair without being caught.
"You know why we can't. The Earl doesn't want to bring him into the outside world just yet. He wants to give him a chance to get…accustomed to our family before even thinking about introducing him back to those humans." Tyki took a long drag of his cancer stick, letting his words sit in their minds. They really did need to find a way to help heal the kid.
"He needs a name." Road stated after a while, which in hindsight seemed logical.
"I'll let you handle that, we're here." The two stood above the town, easily seeing down into every inch of the place.
"Looks like something's going on down there."
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"You IDIOT Moyashi. I'll handle it, you said. It'd be clown to clown, you said. I sure as hell aint a clown!" Kanda bellowed to his partner after parrying the akuma's attack.
"My name is Allen, or can you not remember even that? Do you think I tried to smash the akuma into you? Yes, I have a BaKanda sensor built into me and knew exactly when to smash the wall when you're right behind it." Allen responded. The two bickered back and forth despite the heat of battle, in fact it seemed as if their skills had improved during their argument than before.
Both soldiers had their fair share of wounds yet neither would show it, that'd be surrendering to their enemy. And their enemy? No it's not the akuma, it's each other.
"Don't you dare act all innocent to me Mo-ya-shi. First you slam that damned machine into me, then you decide to let that same exact machine eat the innocence! You have no right to speak right now. And don't call me 'BaKanda' dimwit." Kanda sliced off one of the arms of the akuma only for it to grow back. Stupid akuma morphing into stupid sand.
"My name is Allen! Fine then move aside BaKanda and let me kill it!" Allen went in for the kill only to have Kanda in the way. Again.
"As if. You've had your chance. Why don't you step aside and I'll show a newbie like you how it's done." The samurai unleashed hell's insects onto the akuma, barely leaving a scratch on its ever moving sand body.
"Yes. Such a marvelous job. I don't know why I haven't thought of it before. Silly me. Here let me try to copy your oh so effective moves." Allen was tired. Sick and tired in fact, this fight was going on too long and it needed to end now. He had other places to be and things to do. His arm morphed into a cannon like thing, shooting bullet after innocent bullet at the akuma, not at all surprised when the machine exploded.
"Great job idiot, now the innocence is destroyed too!"
"Like it was on purpose, BaKanda. And my name's Allen!"
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"Interesting. Looks like the Black Order has recruited a new exorcist." Tyki said in a puff of smoke.
"Allen huh? Looks like this was just got a lot more interesting." Road hopped off of her Uncle's shoulders, strolling towards a door she just summoned. "C'mon Tyki, I wanna play with Red some more."
The disciple followed, failing to realize how his hair fell in multiple braids of varying widths and length.
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"So the innocence got destroyed huh? Oh well, nothing could have prevent it so it seems. At the very least, the two of you came back safe. Right now the Black Order needs exorcists more than it need innocence, but both are important of course." Kanda and Allen were back at the Order. Having just finished debriefing Komui, Allen couldn't help but feel a bit bad. This was his first missions, and it failed. Of course, Kanda was fairing no better, this having been his very first failed mission ever, it was fair to assume there'd be a lot less trees surrounding the Black Order's building before sunset.
"I'm deeply sorry Komui, if I had tried harder to defeat the Akuma a different way, maybe then the innocence would have been retrieved." Allen bowed his head in assumed shame.
"It's ok. There wasn't any major damage. You two should go rest up. Take advantage of the time you have before the next mission. You're dismissed."
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"Road! Tyki! You're back!" a mop of red hair collided with a shin, one of each said persons. It was already late into the night and the duo was missed.
"Hey there Red! Do you know where the Earl is?" Tyki went down to one knee in order to properly ruffle the child's hair.
"He's out on the back porch. Careful though! He'll try and make you drink bitter tea." Red made a face, tongue sticking out and everything. "Anyways, come and check out my room Road! Millennie helped me pick out the toys and everything!" Red tugged excitedly on Road's hand, his whole body leaning towards the direction of his room.
"Go on, I'll tell Lord Millennium the details of our mission and join you two later." Tyki waved over his shoulder, knowing full well that the two were already gone as soon as 'go on' passed his lips. It was only a short stroll to reach the back porch where the Earl was waiting for him.
"How did your mission go?" the Earl asked casually, taking a sip of tea.
"It was a simple observation mission, not much happened. Oh!" Tyki exclaimed, but paused to take a bite of a near by biscuit. "There was a new one. A new exorcist that is. He seemed pretty strong, though a bit green. He may pose a threat, but not until the distant future. What was his name? Hmmm, I could've sworn that samurai said it at some point." Tyki finished off his biscuit and a cup of tea quickly followed it down.
"An absent name is fine for now." The earl swung around his small tea spoon. "I'm guessing it's safe to assume that your assessment went well. We'll talk more into depth later; I do believe that Red has his new room to show you. He was talking all about showing you two once you've gotten back, very excited that young man was. Go on now."
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Tyki honestly didn't know what to expect. Red was a cute kid yet he had a rough life living on the streets, his likes and dislikes had a wide range filled with many variables. Saying a quick prayer to a God he didn't completely believe in the Noah of Pleasure opened the seemingly innocent door.
The room was a pastel blue with white trims. A queen size bed was pushed to a corner of the room; it was covered in multicolored pillows with stuffed toys laid out on top of a thick white comforter. The ceiling was covered with polka dots and the floor was littered in toys. In the opposite corner from the bed was a walk in closet freshly filled to the brim with brand new clothes. A built-into-the-wall television was placed mid-wall on the wall across from the bed with a gigantic toy chest below it. Road sat happily on the navy blue bean bag chair while Red revealed a game station that sat on the shelf next to the toy chest.
"Well Shounen, I must say I am impressed. You did a great job with making up your room." Tyki let out a low whistle taking a quick spin around. "Nice color."
"Tyki!" Red jumped up onto his shoulders. "Millennie took me out all day today, we bought so much. Is that ok?" he cocked his head to the side revealing the hair cut he got to straighten out his once choppy hair.
"Of course it is. How else are you supposed to fill this room up?" Tyki lifted the boy off of his shoulders ad gently tossed him onto the bed, plopping down besides him.
"Tyki stop riling him up! I'm trying to get him to go to bed." Road pouted as she clambered up to join the two on the bed.
"Is a little red-head not catching his Z's?" Tyki latched onto Red's ankle as he tried to crawl away. In a flurry of movements Tyki maneuvered Red the right way and under the covers.
" 'm not trd." Red slurred, rubbing at an eye with a tiny fist.
"Sure you're not. We'll see you in the morning, g'night." Road said softly, ushering her Uncle out the door, peaking back in for a moment before shutting the door completely.
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"So how was the second day?" A greenish glowing object was tossed up into the air and fell back into the waiting palm.
"We've secured our first piece of Innocence, I say it was a success." Allen stepped out of the shadows and into the piano room.
"I'd have to agree with that." Neah smiled and fiddled with the Innocence fragment in his hand. "Baby steps my dear nephew, baby steps."
A/N: Sooo, I've a solid reason as to why I haven't updated recently. 1) I've been sick. The clinic I volunteer at had a rush day and I was the only one bringing in patients. Naturally I got sick. Still sick to be precise. 2) I've been going through the college application process and still have more questions than answers yet they say I'm 2/3 done. 3) though not as important, I didn't get a single review on the previous chapter. It wasn't that bad was it? =( Meanies.
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So Red needs a name. should I name him Allen? Or do you guys want to pick one? I'll change his name in Chapter 5 so if I get nothing by then I'll just change it to Allen.
So I don't own D. Gray-Man, REVIEW PLEASE!