It took me longer than expected, but on the day I was going to do the story I had a surprise visit, and then the next day I hard to take the surprise visitors back home. So now I'm finally getting the next chapter posted. Give me some reviews!

Chapter Four: The Great Fall (Part One - Roots)

"The gatekeeper was defeated? Are there any Exorcists left in the headquarters?" said Komui near a panic.

"There are, but…"

"But?"

"The only one just arrived from their mission, Miranda Lotto."

"Miranda?" said Allen surprised.
"She couldn't be" said Komui, and Allen rushed off.

"This is bad" thought Komui and ran to the infirmary.

"Where is Hevlaska?" said the gunsman pushing a finder against the wall.

"Like I'm going to t" said a finder, but stopped when a gun went in his mouth. "W-wait, I'll" started the man, but the gun shot through him to stop him.
"I hate your type, if you want to beg for your life, then you don't deserve it" said the gunsman before walking away.

"Miranda, where are you?" thought Allen as he ran out to the courtyard. He heard a crash, and looked down below.

"Shouldn't you be dead by now?" said the ball and chain man.

"You keep rushing me at un-harmed even after I beat the hell out of you, even if your Innocence can heal you, you're just wasting time"

"Heal?" thought Allen.

"I can't let you in t-there" said Miranda getting back up as the blood vanished from her face.

"Miranda!" said Allen and jumped down.

"STAY DOWN!" yelled the man and swung it at her, but stopped as he noticed someone coming down.

"What?" said the man looking up.
"Innocence, activate" said Allen, but felt a sharp pain go through his arm as it struggled to form.
"Damn it, listen to me!" thought Allen, but his arm didn't respond.

He crashed right into the ground, with two confused people looking on.

"It's the Noah, how annoying" said the Ball and Chain guy.
"What kind of entry was that?" he called out while swinging his ball and chain.
"Shut up" said Allen getting up.
"Allen!" said Miranda surprised.

"Are you alright?" Allen asked smiling.

"Yeah, what about you? I heard you were injured" said Miranda getting up.
"I got the least of the injuries" said Allen.
"Oi, this is no time to have a conversation" said the man.

"Miranda, how injured are you?" said Allen looking over at him.
"I might have some wounds, but I should still be able to move after this" she replied.

"I see" said Allen.

"Quit standing around!" yelled the man and threw the ball and chain, they both jumped aside, but he whipped it around and hit Miranda's Innocence source on her wrist.

"Miranda!" yelled Allen, as she toppled over on the ground.
"I thought I saw something glowing there, seems I took out her Innocence" said the man.
"You bastard!" yelled Allen looking over.

"So he's coming" said the swordsman with a smile.

Komui turned a corner, and stopped surprised at what he saw.

He was heading towards the infirmary, but there was already someone else there.

"Who are you?" asked Komui.
"Names Altair, and I'm your enemy" said Altair with a smile.

"What do you want here?"

"I want to know where the human you call Stephen is"

"Stephen? Who's that?"

"Don't play games with me, unless you want all these injured Exorcist to die"

Komui didn't say anything.

"You bastard!" yelled Allen and ran over to the man.

"You can't…huh?" said the man, and as he noticed Allen didn't have any Innocence out, got punched in the face.

He fell back a little, but laughed.

"Did you want to hit me that badly? I like the spirit, too bad I'll have to crush it"

"Is your only purpose here Stephen?" asked Komui.
"Well, I was considering crushing all you fake Exorcist while I was here, but it's not a solid plan yet or anything"

"What do you mean by fake?"

"You're not the ones chosen by God, simply pawns"

"Pawns? Pawns of who?"

"Pawns of an old man, he has many different names, you may know him as Lucifer"

"Lucifer!? You mean the Fallen Angel?"

"That's right, he's still very active today, looking for that chance where he can fight back against God"

"How are we his Pawns?"

"Because you're going against his will, helping Lucifer win the war"

"Helping him? How are we doing that? We've all been trying our hardest, people have sacrifice their lives to defeat the Millennium Earl!"

"This isn't all about the Millennium Earl. This is about the event long ago. Gathering the Innocence in this damned place, have you any idea what you've been doing? All you've done is help the Devil from the start, you think that the Devil doesn't have power? You've nearly giving' him the fucking battle, you're pathetic! Each and every one of you running around claiming the name of God, you disgust me!"

"What are you talking about? We haven't gave him anything!"
"I'm talking about Hevlaska, I'm talking about your superiors, and this whole circus you call the Black Order"

"What?"

"There's been a Noah here since the start, the very foundations of this place is built by Lucifer himself, ever since the begging the idea has been to gather up the Innocence here, so that he can use it to finally defeat God, and finish what started a long time ago"

"You mean, we've been tricked?"
"That's right, because of you're willingness to trust humans, because that you wanted to trust humans, you were deceived. Have you ever read what you preach, it's always the worst things that look the best. Now take me to Hevlaska, so I can end this before Lucifer himself shows up"

"Lucifer is coming?"
"Possibly, so you need to take me to her now, if you want to repent of your sins, and possibly be forgiven by God"

"Forgiven?"

"That's the biggest load of shit I've ever heard" said Kanda from behind him.

Altair jumped over to the side, barley dodging his blade.

"Kanda!" said Komui surprised.
"Load of shit? What do you know, fake Exorcist?" said Altair.

"Komui, don't believe anything he says, the way he attacked us all, that's nothing like God" said Kanda.

"Nothing like God? What do you know about God? You just make your own guesses based of what you know, but in reality, you don't know anything! It's not like it matters if you believe me or not, I'll just kill Hevlaska and be on my way" said Altair.
"I won't let you!" said Kanda and jumped at him pulling out Mugen and swinging it down.

Altair quickly whipped out his sword and blocked it with one hand.

Kanda and Komui both gasped in surprise.

"You think you can fight me with an injury? Have you still not realized yet, I'm an Angel. I've met the man you've worked whole lives for, failing and trying to see constantly, but you weren't good enough! You think you can beat me just like that? Don't underestimate me!" said Altair, and put his other hand on the sword. He pushed back, and sent Kanda flying. "DIE!" he yelled and jumped forward.

"WAIT! I'LL TAKE YOU THERE!" yelled Komui, and managed to get Altair to stop right before the blade went in.
"I see, you're smarter than him" said Altair with a smile.

"Komui, yo-" started Kanda, but Komui looked over at him with a serious look.

"If, if what he said is true or not, I don't know. However, we can confirm that by letting him see Hevlaska. If it's not that then we can fight, but I don't think we should be fighting right now" said Komui.
"Hurry up and lead the way then, since you understand, there isn't much time before Lucifer arrives."

"Are you going to fight me like that?" said the ball and chain man as he looked at Allen.

Allen didn't answer, but instead looked at his hand.

"Damn it, is that Noah sleeping?" he thought as the Noah wasn't talking like usual.

"Yeah, I'm going to fight like this" said Allen looking up.
"Whatever, either way's fine" said the man with a smile.

He swung the ball and chain, but Allen jumped out of the way. Allen tried to run up to the side, but had to jump as it came flying at him again. He knew that if he had his weapon, he could shoot right here, but he landed and continued running. He flipped to the side and avoided another attempted hit, and closed up on the man. He went to jump and hit him, however the ball and chain suddenly came back faster than before, and hit him in the stomach. He fell down on the ground, with cuts all over his back.

"What was that?" thought Allen.

"What an idiot. I simply moved slow until you were confident, then hit you with my real speed. It's because you came rushing in without thinking, now get out your Innocence, or I'll kill you right here if you like" said the man.

"Stop" said a voice, and Allen turned to see Stephen walking up.

"You…you're Stephen, right?" said the man.
"That's right, so fight me, not him" said Stephen.
"To walk out to us like this, surely you were told not to run to people trying to capture you, after all you've already figured it out haven't you? That you're the heart" he said.

"The heart!?" said Allen looking over at Stephen.
"Daiphyris, come forth" said Stephen, as chains showed up on the ground.

"So you don't know much besides that you're different" said the man.
He jumped forward and swung his ball and chain, but a shield had already formed around Stephen. The stone begin to crawl around the ball and chain, before it was all over it and moving up the chain towards the man.

"Weird shit" he said, and jumped backwards pulling it wit him, and the substance let go. Stephen jumped towards him however, and his stone sunk into the ground. It raised up out of the ground behind the man, but he jumped out of the way as it stabbed at him. However he jumped to another one coming out, but it was shot just before he hit it.

"What the hell are you doing, nearly getting killed?" said the gunsman walking out. "Shut up, at least I actually found something" he said landing.

"There's two of them? Damn it, I need to activate my Innocence!" thought Allen.

"They've found her, we've been ordered to take the boy there, is that him?" said the gunsman.
"Yeah, that's him, his Innocence is weird enough to be the Heart"

"Then we'll take him down together"

"This isn't time to chat" said Stephen as a wall of stone rose around them and begin to collapse down on them, but both men managed to jump out of the way. A figure crawled out and extended it's arm out to grab them, however they both destroyed the figure.

"What's up with this fight?" yelled the gunman, as the ball and chain guy threw his chain towards Stephen. Stephen jumped up to dodge it, but the gunsman shoot at him. Stephen formed a wall of stone, and kicked to the left to get out of the way.
"Damn" said the gunsman.
"This is pointless" said the ball and chain man.

"Innocence activate" they both said.
"Innocence?" said both Allen and Stephen at the same time.

The ball and chain begin to glow, and shrank into a small one. The man whipped it with quick speed, but it grew to normal size just before it hit Stephen into the side of the stomach. The gunman's gun shot off twice as fast, but Stephen managed to jump up and dodge it. However, it turned back around and pressed him right in the back. "STEPHEN!" yelled Allen. "Got him" said the Gunsman with a smile.

"Alright then, let's take him there" said the ball and chain and begin to walk up to Stephen as he lay on the ground.

"Don't touch him!" yelled Allen and ran over there.

"What are you doing back up? And without Innocence again, sit down or we'll kill you" said the ball and chain man.

"I won't" said Allen.

"So be it" said the man and swung his ball and chain at him.
"Innocence, I beg of you to activate. If you don't activate, then we won't be able to make it through this battle. Do you hear me Fourteenth, you better wake the hell up!" thought Allen. He looked over and saw the ball and chain closing in. "Innocence, I'm going to leave this to you, activate!" said Allen, but fell down as a sharp pain hit his arm.

"You idiot" he heard the Noah say, as the ball and chain reeled in to hit him. However, he saw a blade like object stop the hit. "Damn losers, you shouldn't be an Exorcist if you can't take some enemies!" yelled a voice.

He looked over, and knew who it was right away. He had never meet him personally, but he had seen pictures of him. He was General Winters Zokalo.

Well got chapter four out, though slowly. Now next time we will have our first big fight scene of the book, as Winters Zokalo takes on two guys who have yet to give their damn names! I don't know if I'm even going to go until detail into the fight, I'm actually not bad with fighting scenes, I just don't really care for them. If I get a good amount of reviews asking for one, I will attempt to please you of course. Until next time.