A/N~ Next chapter, yay! I felt a bit better about this chapter; I don't think it was anywhere near as boring as the last. I know I labeled this under romance but there won't be much other than a few fluffy moments until the end. Hmm, I was just listening to the radio for this one, but I would say 'In this city', by iglu and heartly was the inspiration for this one.
A few days later, after causing enough trouble to last a life time, the small group of time traveling exorcists and Emily were called to Jamison's Office.
They stood in front of his desk as an almost murderous intent flowed from him. His hands were clasped in front of him, and when he looked up, everyone visibly flinched.
"Over the past week My Order has slowly deteriorated into a zoo… All because of you," here he stopped with a sigh. "In one week, this boy has eaten our entire food stock." He glared at Allen who laughed nervously. "This one has played so many 'pranks' that half the building needs to be repaired." He turned his glare to Lavi who stood with his hands behind his head. "This girl has turned my science department into a gossiping group of friends, not hard workers," he glared at Linalee, whose eyes welled up with tears. "And this one, the silly excuse for a swordsman, has scared the living daylights out of the entire staff." Kanda crossed his arms and glared at Jamison. "And what have you done?"
It was directed at Emily, who had a neutral expression on her face as she looked over his chair and out the window.
"I didn't hear you," Jamison said, his eyebrow raised.
"I did nothing," she said clearly.
"No, what you did was sit on the side lines and laughed! If you had done nothing I wouldn't be punishing you!" He shouted, standing from his chair.
Emily flinched and took her eyes off the window and looked down to the right in humiliation.
"You have always teetered on the line between obedient and disrespectful." Here he started to move around his desk, making his way towards here. Linalee took a step back behind Kanda. "But I overlooked it; I figured that it was just because you were a rambunctious child. But now, now after you have finally disobeyed me, I am going to have to seriously punish you."
Emily's hands were pulling the hem of her jacket, clenched into fists as she bit her lip. All three boys radiated a kind of hate for this man at the moment.
"And how do you act? You act like a pitiful puppy, you've messed up and you know, so you sit there with her head bowed and your tail between your legs." He sneered in her face, as he pulled a cigar off his desk. Emily hunched her shoulders as her eyes welled up. "What would your mother say?" Her tears spilled and Allen moved towards her, placing his hand on her shoulder.
There was a rush of movement and a loud 'Smack!'
Jamison Leverrier stood stunned, cigar still in hand, as Linalee stood in front of him, her right hand clenched into a fist at her chest, and her eyes burning with anger, and a rather bright hand print on his left cheek.
"You are a horrible, horrible man who deserves nothing better than a sad life in jail!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
Jamison's secretary burst in through the door, "Sir Leverrier, is everything alright?!"
Emily turned and ran past the secretary in a rush. Linalee glared at Jamison before turning and following after her.
The tall blonde woman with glasses blinked, feeling the blood thirsty aura rolling off the males she nervously closed the door and went back to her desk.
All three boys stared at him with such hatred that if looks could kill, he would have died and been sent back and killed again three times over.
Kanda was the first to move, uncrossing his arms he turned in a flurry of blue and black and left. Lavi followed after feinting towards Jamison, who jumped and glared at the boy who left his hands still behind his head. Allen stood in front of him alone. His fists clenched and his eyes blazing.
"Do enjoy making women cry?" He asked, his head was tilted a strange way as he glared at him in a threatening manner.
"If it gets the job done," he stated curtly.
"You better watch it, or no one will be on your side," Allen turned, a gruesome and horrible smile, spreading its way across his face. He left then, and as Jamison sat there, he could have sworn he had been having a nightmare.
None of them could find Emily, and they were all a bit worried, except for Kanda, who only crossed his arms and che'd. They sat huddled near a window in the concourse, ignoring all the people that made their way to the cafeteria. Soon the place was empty except for the occasional finder.
"I don't know where she went, I was following her but she suddenly disappeared," Linalee said sadly.
"Where do you think she would go??" Lavi asked quizzically.
"I don't know… where would puppy go?" Linalee hit Allen on the head.
"She is not a dog!" Linalee said. Allen rubbed his head.
"What's got your panties in a bunch?"
The group blinked and glanced at Kanda, thinking he had said it, but he was looking to his right. They all turned and were a bit surprised and what they saw.
A man around 25 years of age stood there. His hair was pitch black with bright blue streaks randomly positioned, it had a ruffled un-kept appearance, he chocolate brown eyes that held years of experience and knowledge. They noticed afterwards that he was an exorcist. Only that his uniform was a neon purple duster with silver finishing. Black pants could be seen on his legs and knee high white boots with silver zipper adorned his feet. But what caught there eyes was the thing on his back, it was painted a blood red with black edging and had metal strings on it. It looked like some kind of instrument. They later learned that it was called and electric guitar.
Linalee sweat dropped, 'he wears a lot of jewelry,' she thought wearily. The man had several earrings, rings and necklaces on. He was looking at them with a curios gaze.
"Ah, a friend of ours has gone missing," Allen said.
The man blinked and pulled a lollipop out of his mouth, "Hmm, she wouldn't be about this high, with big blue eyes, and a very childish personality, would she?" He asked, describing Emily to the dot. They all nodded. "She's this way."
He led them through hallways and eventually taking them to a small, dark music room. She sat in the corner with her hood pulled up over her eyes.
"Oi, Midget~" the man called. Emily lifted her head and blinked before jumping up and running to the man, throwing her arms around his waist and crying.
"Jamison yelled at me!" She sniffled. The man patted her head.
"I see, so he forgot to remove the stick from his ass again," Emily nodded.
Allen choked and Lavi burst out laughing while Kanda just shook his head, Linalee sweat dropped.
The man ushered them further into the room before he closed the door and patted Emily on the shoulder. She let go and sat on a small chair that had been sitting in the middle of the room.
"So, why don't you all tell me what happened to make Emily cry." He stuck the lollipop back in his mouth and sat down on another chair while they began to explain there situation, when they were done the man had a stunned look on his face.
"Cody?" Emily asked.
Cody blinked and took out the candy, "Holy shit monkeys, you can time travel?"
Allen shrugged and rubbed the back of his head. After a couple more seconds Cody sighed and stood up, fingering the neck of his guitar, which was down by his left thigh.
"Why don't we go get some food and then we can find out what Emily's punishment is," he said, heading for the door. Emily followed after him with a smile and the others sweat dropped.
"No matter how you look at it, she's a puppy," Lavi said. Allen nodded. They followed soon after, and as they sat around a small table that was surprisingly still able to hold all of Allen's food, they introduced themselves.
"Sorry about that, my names Cody Williams," the man said, a polite smile on his face.
"Allen walker," he replied, shaking the man's outstretched hand.
"Lavi Bookman," Lavi grinned while shaking his hand too.
"A bookman, now that's new," Cody commented with a grin just as big.
"And who might this young lady be?" He asked, looking at Linalee.
"I'm Linalee Lee," she smiled.
Cody looked at Kanda with a deadpanned expression. It went on for five minutes while everyone sweat dropped.
"What the hell do you want?!" Kanda finally asked.
"Your name, dumb ass!" Both Cody and Allen shouted.
"Kanda," he said while he held his chopsticks menacingly.
Emily giggled and Allen smiled at her, happy to see her laughing again.
Just then a girl with long blonde hair stopped at their table, her hands on her hips. Cody flinched and seemed to be determined not to look at her.
"How dare you leave me at the station like that," her voice was even and just barely carried the hint of a warning in it. "I didn't even know where HQ was and you just left me there!" her voice raised an octave.
Cody pulled Emily to his chest and turned to her with watery eyes, "I'm sorry, but my Emily radar went off. She was calling for my help and I couldn't just ignore her!" He cradled her head even as she struggled against him.
They all sweat dropped. The girl herself looked 17, she had long blonde hair that almost touched the floor and an oddly colored flower held her bangs out of her deep blue eyes. She was a good height and it could easily be seen. Allen was puzzled; there were so many exorcists now. Her uniform looked almost like their old coats, except it looked like it had been purposefully made to look tattered, the ends cut into several triangles. On her left side the tattered ends hung just below her thigh and slowly they got longer as they worked there way across her front. At the tip of each triangle there was a metal spike, as well as at the end of her sleeves. Black flat boots covered her feet and dulled her footsteps.
"Sure~" She rolled her eyes and glanced around the table before she blushed, "I'm sorry! Did I bother you guys?"
They all shook there heads, she was kind of scary when she was mad.
"Well, my name is Alisha Diamond. I'm here to help watch over you, if I am correct in my reasoning, then you must be Allen Walker, Linalee Lee, Lavi Bookman, and Yuu Kanda."
Cody, who had been taking a sip of some kind of strange drink, spat it out on the floor in a fit of laughter. Kanda glared at him before slamming his chopsticks down and crossing his arm. Allen chuckled as he finished off a round of mitsurashi dango.
"General Williams!" Allen blinked as a scientist ran up to Cody, "Leverrier is calling for you, and the others," the man glanced at all the others around the table before leaving in a hurry.
"General?!" Allen, Lavi, and Linalee asked in surprise. Cody shrugged and stood, dragging Emily behind him, who was clawing at the floor.
"No, I don't want to go!" She cried. "Allen, help me, somebody!"
Allen sweat dropped and followed them, if only to comfort Emily. Alisha sighed.
"Chop, chop, and follow the idiot!" Lavi and Linalee followed Cody, but in Kanda's mind he was following Allen.
When they got into the office, Emily was walking behind Cody with a firm grip on his coat, while she had Allen by the arm.
Allen sighed, Emily was so child like, he wondered what she would be like if she was mature. His mind wondered in thought, wondering about the innocence and how they had 102 pieces when nine of them were destroyed so long ago, where was the heart?
His thoughts were interrupted by Jamison as he began to speak. The other Exorcists had filled in after them.
"Williams, nice to have you back, how was your mission?"
"Good, it went surprisingly smooth, I defeated the Akuma with little help from…," here he glared over at the tall blonde, "Alisha."
Alisha blinked innocently and stared at Cody in puzzlement. An awkward silence fell on the group before Jamison cleared his throat. "Well, I suppose either way it had a good outcome. Now, I have a new mission for you that involves these…children." He said the last word as if it disgusted him.
Cody raised and eyebrow at him before glancing back at the other exorcists and sweat dropped, 'what did they do to this man?' he thought.
"We are going to begin distributing large amounts of exorcists all across the world, if the Earl is going to begin moving, we'll be ready. As such, you are going to be sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee."
There was another silence, this time it was one of confusion. It was rolling off Emily and Cody in large waves and engulfing them all.
"Chattanooga, why would the Earl appear there? You should be sending us to places like L.A. or Washington." Cody blinked in confusion.
"He's just pushing us out of the way," Emily muttered, though it was just loud enough for Cody and Allen to hear.
"Never the less, your job is to kill all Akuma and if you spot the Earl, a Noah, or even a Level 4 for the matter, send a message. There was once a report sent in about the possibility of Innocence which is why I'm sending you. You are to leave in two hours. And Snow, I'm warning you, dismissed."
Emily was thankful she was being let off.
They left after that. As they were all heading for their rooms however, Caroline pulled them all into her office.
"Your uniforms are finished just in time!" She said happily. Same as the last time, the uniforms were folded neatly on the small table and as they went to change Caroline chatted with Cody. The woman was almost on the floor laughing five seconds in to the conversation. Allen blinked, looking at Emily who giggled.
"Cody's really fun to talk too, he makes every one laugh, and I think Caroline has a crush on him too," she whispered to him. Allen nodded and glanced at the closet that Kanda and Lavi were standing in front of, waiting for Linalee to get changed.
Linalee's uniform was a jacket that was a bit longer than average, the sleeves almost going past her fingers. Instead of a hood she had a collar that was folded down. She had on a pair of gold shorts that were just a few inches above her knees. She also had a golden hoop in both ears.
Linalee admired her black and gold uniform with something like adoration. She smiled at Lavi and Kanda. Lavi moved to take the closet before Kanda could, he grinned at him before shutting the door.
Lavi's uniform was a long jacket, similar to his old one, except that this one only had short sleeves, a pair of fingerless gloves covered his hands but they went all the way up to his elbows. A pair of gold pants covered his legs and like the rest he had a pair of knee high black and gold boots. Just like the others he had a golden hoop on his ear.
When Kanda finally came out, they blinked, his arms were bare. His coat had no sleeves what so ever, it was long and almost touched the ground, just under it they could see a gold shirt with black pants and knee high boots.
"Yay! Now we all match," Emily said with a smile. "Let's get going."
"I think we're taking a plane," Cody said thoughtfully.
"A plane?" Emily asked, confused.
"We do have a bigger group," he replied.
"Hmm, it'll be a really short ride too…" Emily grinned.
Alisha sighed, she had been standing off in the back for a while now but she couldn't help feeling excited to go somewhere other than this building. She always hated being locked up.
So, two hours and ten minutes later they all found themselves in a fist class jet. Out of the entire group only two people were actually scared of flying. The first was Emily, who had never flown before, and the second was a very sour swords man who wouldn't admit to the others that he was afraid. But it was obvious in the way he gripped the arm rest every time they hit the smallest bit of turbulence.
Allen was sitting at a window, staring out at the clouds as they passed by. His mind wondering like normal, when he glanced at his reflection he was surprised to see the 14th, not looking at him like it normally was, but looking over at a very small and very skittish exorcist who was playing a game of cards with Lavi and Alisha, trying to get her mind off the flight.
He narrowed his eyes in puzzlement as he watched the girl with shaky yet determined eyes ask Lavi if had had any eights. 'What would the 14th want with her?' he watched as the 14th turned back to look at him once again, but this time it wasn't giving off a scary aura, more of a comforting one. Allen's eye's drifted shut for the first time in a few days. He had spent each night staying up late, trying to call the ark back to him, but it never came. As sleep began to overcome him he wondered why Emily was so childish, and why she allowed Leverrier to destroy her like she did. She had been about ready kill the girl Daisy a week ago…
"You pervert!"
Allen woke with a start, hitting something hard with his forehead. He blinked and looked down while rubbing his poor head. Emily sat on the ground, cradling her head in an attempt to stifle the pain.
"Sorry, are you ok Emily?" Allen asked leaning forward. She looked up.
"Yeah, I'll live," she muttered.
Allen nodded before glancing over at Alisha, who was the one to scream. She was glaring at Cody who was still chuckling while Lavi was on the floor laughing.
"You're such a jerk!"
"What ever you say," Cody stood, brushing imaginary dust off his coat. "But, the jet has landed, and I am getting out of here," he said.
Allen looked to Emily for an explanation. She opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by Lavi who placed his hand on top of her head while he was laughing, as if she were a piece of furniture.
"Boy Allen, that guy is so perverted, he wouldn't be allowed in the same country as Linalee if Komui could help it." He wiped a tear away from his eye. He glanced down at the fuming Emily who was supporting his weight and grinned. "Sorry Chibi-chan, I didn't see you there."
As Lavi took his weight off of her head, all the strength she had been using to hold him up forced her to fall forward onto the floor.
Linalee was pulling all their stuff together as Cody walked off the jet and outside. Kanda was following right after him with his bag thrown over his shoulder. Lavi rushed over and pulled out his and followed Kanda.
Allen stood and ran his hand through his hair in a tired manner before helping Emily to her feet.
"Sorry about him, you know how he gets," Allen said, smiling he pulled his new bag over his shoulders and stepped out. He was surprised at what he saw; mountains surrounded them on all sides, and amongst these mountains were quit a few Akuma.
The others had already activated their innocence, Kanda with his Mugen, Lavi with his hammer, and Cody had his guitar out in front of him. As the three girls followed him off they all seemed to fall into a battle stance.
Linalee activated her boots and Alisha stood in the average battle stance, but something seemed very different about to her. Emily ran past him and jumped in front of Cody. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a handful of small crystals, all shaped like a kite or diamond. She counted them first before she threw them into the air and they each grew about a foot long, and a few inches thick. One appeared in her hair, as if it were a hair piece, this one was smaller than the rest and was more of a purple color while the ones that hovered at her wrists and ankles flicked between red and blue.
As the akuma drew closer the familiar white cowl enveloped Allen, and his hair was swept backwards as the power coursed through him. He was the first to move, with the slightest of movements he was flying through the air, straight for a level two Akuma. This was when he noticed that these were all higher level Akuma, not one level one was visible. He raised his clawed hand and plunged it deep into the Level twos chest.
After that, they all moved. It was a swirling whirlwind of battle and confusion. Somewhere in the middle of it all there was a tactic, between Cody and Emily it was simple, Emily took the front lines and distracted the enemy with her crystals while Cody worked behind, blasting Akuma from a distance with sound waves from his guitar. They had their own styles and somehow it was coordinated between people, Cody worked from behind while the others worked in front.
There were so many Allen was reminded of the incident with the level 4. He reached for his left hand and pulled, his sword appeared and he began to slash away at a small group of level two's and threes. There was the distant thud of Lavi's hammer as it hit the ground, then the wooshing noise of Linalee zipping through the skies, the slicing of Kanda's sword. These were all familiar two him, what wasn't was the sound of Cody's guitar echoing off the mountains.
Allen flinched as he saw an Akuma out of his peripheral vision; however it was run through by something that looked like… hair? He followed said item and stopped at Alisha. Her hair was her weapon, it would harden in to spikes and lengthen so she could stab her enemies. 'She's a parasitic?'
Then he heard something different, a snarl. Just as he was about to cut another Akuma a beast so beautiful it blinded him appeared. It was a large wolf, bright blue eyes, but what caught HIS eye was the fact that it was made completely of sharp crystal. Each detail seemed to be carved out of ice as the wolf's coat flickered between red and blue and purple. He was certain if he even touched it he would pull his hand back only to see a bloodied mess. And the reason it was bright was because it was reflecting the light of the sun into his eyes.
He glanced around, where was Emily?
A/N~ hmmm, I don't know if I'm happy with Emily's character, anyone got any suggestions? I want to hear opinions on all my OC's and the new uniforms, let me know what you think.
