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Deceptions
Chapter 3: Confusion III
After the three exorcists fled from the battle scene, a mob slowly started to form around the café, as more police officers came. Rhode and Allen managed to slip away quite easily, changing back to their normal forms. After all, who would believe that two children almost blew down the entire building? Children of their minister no less.
Shocked, the by-standers stood curiously at the wreckage, as medics took the police officers and the woman that Rhode stabbed to a hospital. How horrible, who could do this? They murmured. While trying to get past the police force for a closer look at the damage.
However, it was not long until the townspeople shifted uneasily, as after they snapped out of their stupor, realizing that the criminals had yet to be caught. Within an hour, the streets were fairly empty, people stared out of their windows for any signs of strange movement.
They walked down the street, dust gathering at their feet, knowing that people followed their movements, being the last several people on the street. A hurried man walked by, in his hands carried goods that he sold on his souvenir stand.
"Hey kids, what are you doing here? You should go back to your parents! They must be worried!" he told them, as he scurried down the street, before making a turn and disappeared from their sight. The sun was about the set down, warm colors blended in with each other, interweaving. It would have been a beautiful sight, if the crimson red not reminded Allen of blood.
Rhode was still spinning in circles, skipping near him, leading them towards the center of the town, the last rays of sunshine shining down onto a huge fountain. However, there was already a group of people there. They were waiting for them, except this time there were five people rather than three. They were standing in a line, their Innocence activated, looking cautious, as they started at the odd pair. It wasn't long before the silence in the town was broken.
"Why are you with them?" A girl asked. It was direct, no hidden meanings and yet it was a question so deliriously outrageous that if he answered them with the truth, they probably won't believe it. He couldn't even believe it himself. He was about to open his mouth to speak, when a soft melody echoed.
It was a high soprano voice, somewhat sorrowful, somewhat alluring. He couldn't help but turn towards the sound. It seemed like he wasn't the only one. They too, turned towards the voice, slowly walking towards it. They turned a corner, arriving at an already dark alleyway. Ahead of them, a translucent figure danced in the darkness. In the middle of the figure, a small ball of light glowed a pale green. Innocence. It was completely still for a second, as they stared at the hypnotizing light, before chaos reigned.
It was a whirl of black jackets, colorful candles that darted around them, and a flash of white. And a small girl who stood above it all, watching. It was during this confusion, that she started walking towards the Innocence. The translucent figure was still dancing, singing, as if oblivious of the fight. She reached the figure, smirked, before reaching her hand towards the light source, itching to destroy it.
"MIRANDA, NOW." A yell echoed through the empty alley. One dark haired exorcist jumped down seemingly out of nowhere before casting a shield-like appearance wall between the small girl and the figure. The small girl blinked several times, before an amused look appeared on her face.
"You know…this really is fun! You guys think that casting a time shield won't allow anything through…but have you forgotten? I can move through time and-" She was cut off by an extremely unusual strong gust of wind. She turned around to see that the rest of the exorcists had gathered around Allen, forming a circle around him, as if cutting him any place he could escape from. The wind slowly gathered in the middle, until it looked as if Allen was in the middle of a tornado.
The wind had forced Allen to stop in his tracks, making him to put a hand up to his face to block the wind, while trying not to get blown away. In that split second, something hard had clobbered at the back of his head. There was a sharp pain, dark spots appeared in his vision, before all was turned black.
"ALLEN!" She yelled, running towards her now unconscious brother. She fought her way past another exorcist. However, before she could reach him, Lenalee managed to pick him up and fled at the speed of sound, the other exorcists followed her on Lavi's hammer as Rhode blanked out for a second, shock seeping in from her brother disappearing. She started to run after them, when a faint voice appeared in her head.
Rhode, retrieve the Innocence!
TYKI, THEY GOT OUR BROTHER. DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT HIM? She thought, exasperated. She never felt so helpless.
Her anger seeped through. She had been too careless! She ought to have known they wouldn't have targeted her, but Allen instead, since their attacks wouldn't work against her.
It's orders. You know you won't be able to catch up to the girl…besides, they won't hurt Allen…they still don't know he's a Noah right?
And if they did, Rhode would have to say good bye to another one of her siblings. She cringed at the thought, before stomping to the figure, grabbing the Innocence away. It disappeared with one mournful cry, but Rhode ignored it. She crushed the little sphere in her hands, until it was all but particles of dust, swirling around her. There was nothing she could do. And when she can, she will hunt down that girl, who had escaped from her once too many times. Her temper flared as the scene kept replaying in her mind. Damn you, exorcists!
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First Class Compartment; Train
It didn't take them long to go back to headquarters. The threat of an angry Noah following them was enough of an incentive for them to push past their limits, zipping through town after town, not bothering to stop. A few akuma appeared, alarming them whether or not a Noah was there as well, but it was one false alarm after another.
When they finally stopped, it was dawn, and their kidnapped conformer still hadn't woken up. They were exhausted out of their minds, as they hadn't slept for the past 36 hours. They slouched on the velvet covered seats.
"Yu, I think you hit him on the head too hard."
"Che! The stupid moyashi deserved it! And don't you dare call me Yu, unless you want to get die." He growled, before looking back outside the window of their train. They were too exhausted from traveling all night, but stopping for too long in one place would have been dangerous.
"Lenalee-chan, do you think it was okay for us to leave the Innocence for the Noah to retrieve…? I mean…" Miranda spoke softly, still quite shaken from the events.
"No…Nii-san said the priority should be getting him…" she looked towards Allen, still sleeping. "Since we won't know if we will ever find a conformer for that piece of Innocence, and we are dangerously low on the number of exorcists-" She stopped, as a groan echoed through the compartment.
"Ughh." The white haired boy stirred, before slowly sitting up, a hand gripping his head. It hurts! His head pounded, it was hard to think straight. What happened? Where was he? He slowly opened his eyes. He blinked several times, trying to make a connection if this is reality or a dream, since sitting around him were all the exorcists, now staring at him. But unfortunately for Allen, no matter how many times he blinked, the same result stared at him in the face.
Oh. Shit.
Vote for your favorite pairing - btw for anyone reading this and thinking 'man, she's desperate' I'm not. The reason why there's not much of me talking is because chapters 1-9 we uploaded on the same day.