The journey to Aryell took a day by train, and by the time they arrived Lucy had asked Alice over fifty times how long it would take and it was starting to annoy the older girl. Taking this into account Lucy had gone onto trying to steal Timcampy from Allen but she was failing terribly, the little golem was very good at evading capture by landing in the highest place possible and staying there for good.

"Lucy look the station" Alice said suddenly to her sister who was standing on her seat and reaching up to the luggage area in order to grab Timcampy but just before she managed to catch him he flew away and she fell backwards as the train shuddered to a stop. Alice giggled to herself as Lucy was thrown from her seat and landed on Lavi across the cabin with a crash.

"Ouch sorry" she said blushing slightly at the fact she was sitting in his lap, he just grinned and shook his head.

"Were here" Alice exclaimed excitedly, standing and retrieving her suitcase from the over head compartment, she dropped hers on the seat and reached for Lucy's.

"Thanks" Lucy took her suitcase from her twin and left the train as fast as she could; ready to see what the new town looked like. She wasn't disappointed the town was situated in the middle of the countryside, and was surrounded by a forest on one side, it was really peaceful.

"Wow, this place is gorgeous" she said, feeling the cool breeze rustling her hair. It was the kind of place she could imagine horses running freely through the forest.

"First thing we should do is find somewhere to sleep, then we can investigate" Allen suggested, although from the information they had received it didn't look like winter, the sun was shining and birds flew over head whistling happily.

"Strange, did the chief get it wrong?" Lavi mused to himself, following the other three into the station building, as they walked through the building it seemed to get colder and colder the nearer they got to the door, and when they opened it, it was clear why. On the other side of the station a blizzard was blowing, throwing snow and high winds at the little town. Lucy shivered regretting not bringing her coat but she wasn't going to admit that Alice was right so she just shrugged it off and continued walking.

"This place looks like somewhere good to stay" Allen stopped outside a small, homely looking building with warm lights flooding the rooms. The four entered the building, and the warmth hit them.

"Good morning, what will it be today?" an older woman standing behind a desk asked as the four teenagers walked into the room bringing with them a cold wind.

"Four rooms please" Allen answered, smiling at the woman.

"I'm sorry but we only have two rooms left" the woman explained apologetically, Allen looked back at the other three before returning to the woman.

"That's fine" he replied, with a warm smile the woman nodded and left from behind the desk and led the four up the stairs opposite the desk.

"These two are free" she explained, stopping between two doors opposite each other.

Lucy promptly chose the right hand side room for herself and her twin, opening the door and going inside, leaving the boys in the corridor.

"Huh this room is tiny!" Lucy complained, noticing that there were twin beds but they were so close together they might as well have been one double bed, the only gap between the beds was a tiny table, with a lamp in the centre. The only other furniture in the room was a small set of draws and a mirror above them. The younger girl claimed the bed which was pushed against the wall, below the window and dropped her case on the pale sheets and sat on top of it.

"It'll do" she said with a sigh, smiling at her sister.

"Its...cosy" Alice muttered placing her own case on the other bed and sitting next to it.

"Hey you girls ready" the twins heard a voice from outside the door and looked to see Allen and Lavi standing in the corridor grinning at them. The girls jumped from their beds and left the room closing the door behind them.

"So where to first?" Lucy asked, the boys.

"Well we should probably ask the owner of this place if they've noticed anything strange besides the weather that is" Lavi explained all the time grinning from ear to ear.

"Sounds good" Lucy answered linking her arm with her twin and walking down the stairs.

After talking with the owner of the inn, who had explained when the weather had changed and that she hadn't noticed any other strange goings on besides that. Allen suggested that the group split up to search the town for clues. Lucy and Alice ended up together as Alice didn't want to leave her younger sister alone, even though it was obvious to everyone that Lucy was the more confident one.

"So sis, which way?" Lucy asked as the twins reached a cross roads, Alice looked down each of the four roads with a blank expression, they had thought they had gone round in circle but neither of the girls had seen this place before.

"Erm left?" Alice answered still looking confused, Lucy sighed looking left then right.

"Alright, left it is then" the two took the left road, arms still linked they walked slowly always on their guard in case of an attack. However they hadn't realised that someone or rather something had been following them for some time and it was getting closer.

"This is a long road" Lucy complained as they walked, the street was lined with houses on either side of them. And they had been walking for at least ten minutes without a sign that the road even had an end to it.

"I'm sure it doesn't go on forever" Alice reassured, but her attention was grabbed by a shadow she saw behind her.

"Lulu I think were being followed" she whispered to her sister leaning closer to her, Lucy looked back but couldn't see anything.

"I don't see anyone" she said confused, but Alice didn't relax she could feel something watching her from a distance she stopped in her tracks forcing her sister to stop as well.

"There's definitely something following us" she insisted, staring down the road they had just walked down, Lucy sighed and walked into the middle of the road.

"Nothing here!" she shouted spinning round.

However when Lucy faced her twin once again she saw an expression of complete and utter terror, as the older girl stared not at her sister but past her.

"What's with the face?" Lucy asked, but her question was answered by something picking her up and throwing her against the wall of the house behind her twin, Lucy screamed as her body hit the stone with a deafening crash.

"Lucy!" she could hear her sisters screams as she struggled to get her pistol from its holster but the monster held her tightly against the stone stopping her from moving.

"Alice! Kill it!" she shouted to her sister who was frozen in fear behind the monster, Lucy's voice seemed to wake the blonde girl from her fear and she nodded. She slid one of her hairpins from the fringe of her hair and held it above her head.

"Innocence activate" she whispered under her breath, her innocence obeyed and in place of her hairpins now hung a whip, twice her height in length and glowing a pale blue colour.

"Wonderland whip, destroy the Akuma" she said confidently as she swung the whip backwards and back towards the monster catching it around the neck. Alice pulled as hard as she could and the demon released her sister turning on her. Alice faltered slightly her confidence rapidly leaving her, but she stood strong and swung her whip again this time at the AKUMA's head but it dodged, barely moving.

"your fast, for an Akuma" Lucy said from behind it, it turned on her and grinned evilly something she had never seen any akuma do before, come to think of it this Akuma was a lot more humanlike in appearance than the others she had seen.

"You're no fun, exorcist" it hissed at her Lucy and Alice gasped in surprise.

"How are you able to speak?" Lucy demanded, the monster stepped back and took a bow.

"I am a level two, now die exorcists" the monster grabbed Lucy by the throat so fast that she dropped her twin pistols to the floor, it crashed her into the building once again. She whimpered as its grip tightened. Behind the monster Alice swung her whip again and again at the monster but it didn't budge it was like it didn't even notice her anymore.

"Not dead yet?" the monster hissed, Lucy smirked.

"Not yet, you monster" at this the Akuma released on of its hands from her throat and drove its claws into her side. Her scream was deafening, but only lasted seconds before her consciousness left her and the monster dropped her to the ground turning on Alice.

"Lucy!" Alice called but her sister didn't move.

"Your turn" the Akuma hissed, grinning at the shorter girl. Alice's fear was replaced with anger as she realised what had happened to her sister, and she charged the monster without thinking. She swung her whip over her head but before she could bring it down on the monster it grabbed it and lifted her into the air.

"Nice try" it said, before flinging her across the street and into the other building, glass rained down on the girl as she lay unmoving on the concrete, the Akuma started laughing looking between its two victims of the day. There was a crash as the sign above were Alice was lying broke free of its metal frame and crashed down onto Alice who was still lying unconscious.