Chapter: 4
Neah Walker wandered around the halls of the manor, despite his efforts to distract himself his thoughts kept turning towards his brother, Mana. He was the kindest man Neah had ever met, and even though he wasn't a Noah, Mana was always welcomed in every family household. Even the Earl approved of him.
Everyone was devastated once they heard news of Mana's presumed death. Mana was doing a clown act in Britain when he suddenly disappeared, each member of Neah's family searched for the loved man but each of them came up empty handed. Allen was with Mana for a while before his disappearance, no one from the family even knew of his existence. He didn't know anyone from the Noah family, not even Neah, so when his foster father was suddenly ripped out of his life he had no one to go to. Allen didn't have a clue of the war between the exorcists and them, nor did he know what an akuma was. So when the Earl came to Allen in an attempt to resurrect Mana as an akuma, the boy was completely unaware of what would happen when he said yes. Unaware that something would go wrong and that day would be forever burned into his memories for as long as he lived.
"I was wondering when you would stop by." Neah was interrupted from his depressing thoughts by a soft yet slightly frightened tone of voice.
"At least you were smart enough to figure that you should be expecting me." Neah forced himself to flash a smile at Tyki, who only frowned in response.
"Okay, quit the act. What's eating at you?" Tyki asked even though he already knew the answer to his own question. He watched as Neah slumped into a reading chair in front of the sire place and cradled his head in his hands.
"Everything! I mean Allen either has a split personality disorder or he's about to have a mental break down, no one should be able to do a 180 on their emotions like he can! He wont even open up to me even though whatever's bothering is eating him up on the inside! Then you go and leave him in the care of Cross!? I don't care if he's indebted to us, he's a womanizing drunkard! Who knows what kind things Allen could have been exposed to when he was alone with him!" Neah slumped deeper into the chair, his depression hitting him full blast.
Tyki poured two glasses of whisky, handing one to Neah. Figuring that if he wanted to keep all of his limbs intact to just let the distressed man rant.
"And just to top it off, Allen went on a rampage thanks to those damned exorcists barging in here at the crack of dawn!" Neah downed his drink in one gulp, Tyki scrambled to refill it. The two sat in uncomfortable silence. Neah slipped back into his deep thoughts, occasionally taking small sips of his drink. Tyki just stood there, glaring at his own glass as if it were the reason to all of there plights.
"So it's tomorrow huh? His 'anniversary'? I guess Allen's behavior makes sense considering the occasion. After all that was quite a traumatic experience." The Portuguese was desperate to get his brothers mood back up, but he regretted what he said once he saw Neah sigh and slump deeper into his self-induced pit of despair. He was about to apologize but was cut off when a golden ball suddenly smashed into his face.
"What the hell?!" Tyki yelled after pulling a frantic Timcanpy off his face by the tail.
"Tim? What's wrong? I told you to stay with Allen." Tyki released the poor golem after receiving a nice up close view of Timcanpy's teeth. Said golem projected an image of the piano room, Allen was laying on the floor trembling in fear. Any possible questions were cut off by a blood curling scream. This caused the frantic golem to bite onto Neah's sleeve and start pulling him in the direction of Allen's room.
"Come on Tyki!" Neah yelled to his almost twin brother. These three words were what unfroze Tyki from his spot and soon he was right behind Neah.
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Allen yelped as he tripped over a tree's outgrown root. Quickly he scrambled to his feet and continued his desperate attempt of escape. But it was useless, Allen felt as if he was running in circles and no matter how far he ran he could still hear the gruesome event replaying itself over and over.
"Would you like me to revive Mana Walker?" NO! Allen covered his ears with his tiny hands as he hid behind a dead oak tree and screwed his eyes shut.
A sickening wail filled the still air of the grave yard. What ever words that attempted to leave the unnatural machine was turned into gurgling nonsense. With a slice of a blade the metallic smell of blood reached Allen's nose. Tears started to stream down the boys face.
"Well that never happened before~! I wonder what would make my precious akuma defective. Oh well you live and learn, on to the next one~." The Millennium Earl disappeared in a wisp of smoke. Just like he had seven years ago.
As the scene replayed itself for what seemed to be the millionth time, Allen failed to realize the strange shadow that fell over him until it was too late.
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As Neah ran into the room he was met with the sight of Allen thrashing on the floor and his agonizing screams, tears flowed out of the boys tightly shut eyes and his once peaceful sleeping face was now twisted into one of pain. Neah dropped down onto his knees and gently gathered the boy in his lap.
"NO! I'M SORRY! STOP, PLEASE STOP!" Allen had a fistful of Neah's shirt tightly grasped in his hand as if it was the only thing keeping him alive.
"Allen, it's ok. You're fine, it's not your fault. It was never your fault. Come on wake up now." Neah rocked the boy back and forth while continuing to whisper words of comfort.
As Allen's sobs turned into pathetic whimpering Neah pulled back just enough to see his face. The boy's eyes were barely open but from what his worried Uncle could see, the silver pools were filled with sorrow.
"Why won't he wake up?" Tyki asked from his spot from the doorway, not daring to get any closer, as if his presence would aggravate the traumatized child even further.
"I'm not entirely sure, he just stopped after a while. Usually he'd wake up by now, but…" Neah let his sentence trail off, glancing down at his nephew. The boy's eyes were open but they were glazed over as if he wasn't all there. As if he was still trapped in the world of dreams. Reliving his worst nightmare that was once a reality.
A/N: Here's chapter 4. Sorry it's shorter than the others but school's started and I don't have as much time as I usually do to type these things up. Yes, things are different in this. No, Allen's not an akuma. Like I've said; things will all be explained in due time. If time goes by and you don't think I've explained things properly, or I forgot something then just PM me. I do NOT own D. Gray-man! Review please!