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Chapter 3 : The meeting
In Noah's Ark
Tyki and Road were on their way to go pick up the exorcist. Both were in their human forms so as not to attract to much attention in case there were other humans visiting the abandoned town the earl had given them as a meeting place. It wouldn't do to scare the poor thing after all.
Road was happily skipping ahead while Tyki followed behind at a more relaxed pace, It's not like the bookman would run away after all.
Road, still skipping happily turned around, "Ne Tyki what do you think he'll be like ?" She asked.
"The bookman ? hmm I don't know, you probably won't really like him though," he answered, "Bookmen aren't exactly known for their social skills after all."
Slowing her pace so she was now next to Tyki she continued, "So you think he'll be boring then ?"
"I don't really care as long as he's quiet." Here he leveled a meaningful stare at the skipping girl beside him.
"Aww you're no fun at all." The girl said with a pout on her pale face, Seeing the door come into view however she cheered up again. Looking over at the tall man beside her she grinned, "Tyki I'm gonna go look what our new member looks like now , see ya! And she ran at the door laughing cheerfully while doing so.
Repressing the urge to roll his eyes at his niece's antics , The man sighed and followed after her, still keeping the same relaxed pace he had been walking at the entire time.
In the town centre of Ashio Dozan
Lavi was still lying on the ground in the middle of Ashio Dozan's town square, completely lost in thoughts about his friends and time at the order. So caught up was he in his musings that he didn't even notice the odd heart shaped door appearing about a meter to his right. He did however notice when a spiky haired girl came running out of the door, it was hard not to notice someone after all when they tripped over your stuff and none to gently fell right on top of you.
Opening his one uncovered eye Lavi looked up dazedly trying to figure out what the hell just happened to him.
Finally blinking the many stars out of his vision he got a good look at the perpetrator only to see the body of a young girl, looking about 15 years old, with pale skin, spiky blue hair and wearing what looked like a school uniform draped across him. Immediately forgetting about his own discomfort the redhead reached out to gently shake the prone girl not wanting to hurt her anymore then she might already have been.
Somewhere in the back of his mind he wondered though, what a young and innocent looking girl like this would be doing in an abandoned village like the one they were in.
He was quickly helped out of his musings however when said girl sat up, and all his ideas of innocent and lost schoolgirls were immediately kicked out of his head.
"urgh..what happened." Road sat up slowly, feeling a bit dizzy. Blinking a couple of times the world around her finally came into focus . Looking around her she tried figuring out how she had ended up on the ground, one moment she had been skipping out of her door, the next she had been on the ground.
There was nothing on either side of her except for her door which was still floating besides her and an old man who looked to be meditating on her other side. Deciding the old man couldn't have done anything from over there she finally looked down and suddenly everything made sense.
"YOU! You idiot what were you doing lying right in front of a door like that!"
The redheaded boy underneath her looked up at her, his one visible eye widening in shock.
"What do you mean in front of a door?" the idiot, in Road's opinion that is, had the nerve to ask,
"There is no door around here."
"Of course there is! Look!" at this point she grabbed the poor boy's head and turned it so he could now see the heart shaped door about a meter to his right. "See ? she continued, "that door."
Gaping Lavi looked at the door that hung next to him in the air. Carefully he reached out a hand and to his surprise he found it solid to the touch. There really was a door hanging next to him!
'But…that wasn't here before,' he thought, 'I would have noticed something as odd as that.'
Looking back up at the odd girl on top of him, he got another shock. Gone were the pale skin and dark eyes, dark grayish skin and golden colored orbs having taken their place, a line of crosses appearing on the girls forehead.
Slowly understanding started to dawn on Lavi, he had heard the stories about a Noah that looked just like a young girl with spiky hair from his friends and had read through the reports about their confrontations with the young Noah himself, a privilege being a bookman's apprentice got him. If he wasn't mistaken the Noah straddling him right now was none other than Road Kamelot .
Road however hadn't noticed the boy's attention drifting away from her and had happily continued ranting about sleeping in front of doors, particularly her own.
Bookman had long since noticed the commotion and was now watching the interaction with interest. He wouldn't interfere though, his apprentice could take care of himself and if things really got out of hand, well he had a couple of needles out just in case.
"So will you apologize now?" Road asked, seemingly running out of things to call the redhead underneath her.
"huh?" Lavi asked, finally noticing the girl's talking and realizing he had probably just missed something important. 'Not the smartest thing to do right now.' He thought to himself, 'If I want to get out of this in one piece it might be better to start paying attention right now.'
"I asked, will you apologize now." Road said looking quite pissed, "you did cause me to fall after all, I could have hurt myself!"
Seeing the girl's angry face his hand slowly started making its way to the holster on his thigh where his innocence was stored. If only he could grab his hammer he would at least feel a bit safer. For a little girl she could look quite scary.
"Uhm, I'm sorry, but it really wasn't my fault you know, you're the one who made a door right next to me." He said, a bit of annoyance creeping into his voice while he said the last part.
"What was that?" The girls screamed grabbing his shirt and lifting him up, "Are you blaming me now? You're the one who was laying in the middle of the square!" apparently she didn't take to well to criticism.
'Maybe I should've just left that last part out' the redhead thought to himself, chancing a look at the enraged female above him, 'yeah I'm screwed.'
Meanwhile Tyki finally reached the door Road had walked through about 5 minutes ago, he wasn't too worried though , even Road wouldn't be able to create any trouble in so little time.
Or at least that's what he thought. Cause walking through the door and taking a look around, he wasn't so sure about himself anymore.
There on the ground in front of him was Road, which wasn't really such a problem, the problem was that she was sitting on and yelling at what looked like a body.
Tyki sighed, leave it to Road to do the impossible. He really hoped that person wasn't their target , they were supposed to play nice after all and Road yelling and screaming at them really wouldn't work in their favor.
He tried seeing what they looked like only to realize he couldn't since Road was blocking his view, but when his niece finally stopped screaming for a moment he could hear what sounded like a male voice coming from the body.
'Well at least she didn't kill them, that's something.' He thought, trying to remain optimistic.
Convinced the boy would be fine for now he resumed his scrutiny of the area. In the corner he noticed an older looking man sitting cross legged looking at his niece and her victim.
Not seeing anyone else Tyki made his way over to the two on the ground. He grabbed the back of Road's neck and pulled her off the poor boy, finally getting a good look at his niece's victim. He was young, about eighteen he'd guess, had fiery red hair that was held up with a green bandana and one of his green eyes was covered by an eye patch, the uncovered eye wide with a mixture of surprise, anxiety and what looked like quite a bit of irritation as well. 'Hmm he looks familiar .' Tyki thought, 'I feel like I've seen him before, but where?' but before he could remember he was interrupted by the indignant squawking of his niece.
"Tykiiii, put me down! C'mon how long are you gonna keep staring for? Tykiiiiii."
Snapped out of his reverie Tyki looked down at the girl in his hands and finally put her down. "Road, he began with an exasperated sigh, "Why were you attacking that boy over there? "
Straightening her skirt with a huff the girl replied "I didn't do anything! He made me trip!"
Looking back down at the still confused redhead on the ground Tyki asked, "Is this true?"
Lavi however wasn't really focused on the man's question as much as on the man himself. In front of him stood that same miner that had taken all Crow-chan's clothes in that poker game on the train! Sure he may have just a little more stubble on his chin than last time but it really was the same guy, what was he doing here ? and with a Noah of all people?
Hearing the man softly clear his throat Lavi snapped back to the present, stood up and answered the familiar looking man in front of him, "It isn't! I was just laying here and she suddenly comes out of nowhere, falls on top of me and starts yelling!
Hearing this Tyki sighed once again, "Road." he groaned, but before he could continue he was once more interrupted this time by the redhead in front of him. "uhm I'm sorry to interrupt, but who are you?" he asked a sheepish smile spreading across his face.
"Ah my apologies", he said letting his appearance change into his black form," my name is Tyki Mikk, a pleasure." He finished with a smirk seeing the shock on the exorcist's face.
Slowly though the shock transformed into rage and with a jolt Tyki suddenly remembered where he had seen that look before, 'Oh boy this is not gonna be pretty,' he thought remembering the last time the, now remembered, exorcist had looked at him like that. 'I've got to stop him before this gets out of hand.' Too bad the only real way he knew of stopping someone involved quite a bit of pain for said someone, well there was one other way but he didn't really think the exorcist would appreciate that right now.
Luckily for him though Bookman had finally decided enough was enough and had restrained his apprentice before he could really screw up. It was bad enough he had already pissed of one Noah they didn't need the other one to get angry at them to.
"Lavi! Calm down! Remember why you're here!" The old man yelled at his apprentice.
"But he's the one who almost killed Allen!" the boy retaliated obviously not caring about reason at the moment and still struggling trying to reach his hammer so he could tear the still smirking Noah in front of him a new one.
"And why would you care?" Bookman asked, and that shut the boy up quick, Tyki noticed, seeing the stricken look on the boys face before he quickly hid it away again. 'Interesting'
"Yes master Bookman" the boy answered almost mechanically seemingly having lost all the fight in him.
"Good," the man answered, turning to the two Noah he continued, "I apologize for my apprentice's rude behavior, I am Bookman and this idiot here is Lavi," he said. "He will be joining you for the remainder of the war, though I trust you know this already." Seeing the Noah, or at least Tyki, nod, since Road was looking off to the side with a pout on her face trying her best to ignore everything going on around her, Bookman turned back to his apprentice,
"Well then since they're here, it seems I'm no longer needed. Try not cause too much trouble would you? He asked. and Before his apprentice could answer him he abruptly turned around and left, Bookmen didn't do sentimental goodbyes after all.
Stumped Tyki looked back at the apprentice bookman, expecting to see the boy look upset once more, only to see the boy smiling at the older man's back. Because what Tyki didn't know was that if the older man really hadn't cared, he would've just left without saying a word the moment the Noah showed up. Him staying and actually saying some form of goodbye showed the man cared and for that Lavi was grateful.
Feeling a lot calmer now for some reason Lavi turned back to look at the tall Noah in front of him.
Taking a deep breath and gathering his courage he looked straight up into those deep gold eyes and tried to force a smile, "Let's go then, shall we?" he asked and moved towards the door that was still hanging in mid air and without looking back even once crossed the threshold. The other two following behind as the door fell closed and disappeared, taking the two Noah and the bookmen's apprentice with it.
