As the Science Department continued to study the captured zombie, Reever suggested to the Earl out of the whim,
"We can give you guys a health test, if you want. I mean, it's no trouble to check whether you have the 'X-Virus' inside of ya,"
But the Noah leader only shook his head, denying the curious scientist the opportunity to research on his soldiers, "Sorry, but the Noahs are private and confidential. We don't need a health test, thank you very much,"
This sparked a suspicion in Reever's heart, and he decided to bring this matter up to Komui the next time they meet up. Every Central soldier was required to undergo a health check whenever they come in contact with the zombies, and the Noahs are surely no different. If there was a chance of the zombie virus contamination, there would be an epidemic in their hands before they could even say "zombie!". Shrugging his shoulders as a gesture of aloofness, Reever left the Earl to discuss business with his fellow scientists. The Earl stood solo, watching the zombie watching him. Reever found it scary that the Earl still had that creepy smile upon that large face, almost as if the Noah was thinking of eating the zombie alive.
Meanwhile, the hyperactive Black Order Major was accompanying the white Noah to his designated room. The other Noahs had all but fled after playing with the sealed zombie, leaving the poor and lost Allen alone yet again. With those puppy-dog eyes that no one had a heart to turn down, Allen asked Lavi to show him to his room. Lavi could practically feel the rushing heat enveloping his cheeks, and hoped to God that Allen didn't see the rising blush. Now I know how Tyki feels when he said Allen used the puppy-dog eyes!
During the journey, Lavi struck up the conversation with mild wondering, "How come your names end with a title? Like Earl the first and Tyki the Seventh? Yours doesn't have any too,"
"It's our name, so much as our responsibility. It's to remind us of our sworn duty, basically," After a few moments of silence and Lavi's failure of response, Allen threw him another question, "-Do you believe in angels and demons? The sorts?"
Before Lavi can answer the random question, however, something ahead of them caught his eye. The tall, broad shouldered nobleman was leaning against the wall beside Allen's appointed room. His Central uniform discarded to be replaced by a grey shirt that did nothing to hide his tone chest and abs and tight-hugging jeans used to formal night activities. Upon sensing the couple's arrival, Tyki stopped smoking and greeting the little shounen with a side hug.
"How'd you find us?" Lavi asked, surprised that the Noah knew where they were actually heading to in the first place.
The second Noah answered back with a dignified smirk, "I can find Allen anywhere. Hell, I have an Allen-GPS system implanted in my head!"
"No, Lavi, it doesn't exist," snapped Allen, humor and weariness mixed into his tinkling voice, "The Noahs just have this odd way of knowing where I am, let's leave it at that. Excuse me, I want to change,"
Lavi waited outside with Tyki, who had already continued smoking lightly. The Black Order soldier declined an offered smoke, jokingly recited that he could die young from all that unnecessary smoke.
"Tsk, it doesn't matter if you die young or old-" Tyki laughed happily, his eyes painting a faraway look as he reminisced the past, "-what matters is whether you die knowing you lived your life to its fullest, or you die wondering what would've happen if I tried this/that,"
"You talking from experience?" Lavi asked, his voice as low as Tyki's own now. But he didn't get an answer. Tyki just solemnly smoked on like he had all the time in the world.
The door opened to reveal Allen in what looked like a mouth-watering outfit that deserved a standing ovation from the audience; with a normal black shirt that had a zip on the top, Allen's waistline can clearly be seen and would probably be the envy of the world's females. But the male was no less muscular, his arms and shoulders showed years of constant training and battle scars. Allen still had his left arm bandaged up, giving him a somewhat mysterious aura around him. That 'come-hither' pants didn't seem to help Lavi's imagination at all, since Allen's short but lean legs looked like they can run a marathon and still have energy to train and play in bed. Lavi began to wonder how those legs would feel like underneath his hands, when they were wrapped comfortably around his own waist.
"You may stop drooling anytime now, Lavi," Tyki said, effectively breaking Lavi's dirty train of thought. Hey, a guy can dream, right?
Allen tilted his head to acknowledge Tyki's presence once more while his white gloved hands smothering his wild hair down, "what're you still doing here, Tyki?"
The nobleman snapped his fingers and his eyes widen like he just realized something very important, "Oh right! Come follow me, Allen!" Without waiting, Tyki grabbed Allen's hand and dragged the little one ahead. Lavi already 2 steps behind them, laughing to himself as he saw Allen's flustered expression.
Tyki was dragging them to the main cafeteria, where the Black Order soldiers ate and drank to their heart's content when they weren't assigned to a mission. But Lavi didn't see anyone eating in the old and used cafeteria, oh no. He had expected to see soldiers eating and resting, the tables filled with more than enough food and the people talking about their daily schedule. But Lavi was starting to regret expecting things when it involved the Noahs.
"FOOD FIGHT!"
A loud scream that spoke in mortal combat rang the wild cafeteria. There were plates and cutlery everywhere, the tables messily thrown together to make a poor excuse of a fort. Food was flying in every direction, the drinking cups used as artillery. The same went for the sharp forks and knives, while the trays were used as mini shields against the onslaught of today's mystery meat. Quite literally, the cafeteria was a war zone.
"Allen, look out!" Lavi said, pulling Allen away from the coming weapon of choice. Lavi's head felt a soft smack of a cream pie, his face ruined by the cold desert that was currently crawling into his shirt.
Tyki stuck out his finger, "mmm, raspberry!" He licked the desert from his finger, making Lavi arching his eyebrow in disgust for the older soldier.
"Tyki, behind-" Tyki just had to turn behind as a quick reaction to Allen's warning. He was also smacked in the face by what looked like a small strawberry cake, filled thickly with cream. Allen was busy wiping Lavi's face clean of cream, his hands gently stroking Lavi's cheek worryingly. Tyki wiped his own face on his own, his eyes glowing red with quiet fury at the laughing sadist of his comrade.
"Road, you will pay for that! That's my face you're dealing with!" With a war cry that would make the barbarians proud, Tyki charged into battle with a plate of food on hand.
Lavi sighed, watching the scene grow seriously at every turn. When he licked his lips, he could still taste the raspberry. With a quiet look, he turned to regard the only sane person left in this entire hall. But Allen was no longer at his side.
"ALLEN!" The loudest boom of a voice cried out in tearful joy. Allen was being crushed to death by Skinn, the overly-muscular man hugging the little Noah with all his strength. Lavi can barely hold back his laughter as he saw Allen's frantic face turn red and his hands waving around in the air like a dancing banshee. It was really a funny sight to behold, because Skinn was covered by cream, water and glittery sugar from head to toe and was now infecting his captured victim with the same things. It was the first time in years; Lavi had felt somewhat childish with nothing to lose and everything to gain. He looked around and saw that the war torn soldiers were also having the time of their life with wide smiles and cockiness in their faces. And by the looks like things here, I'm not the only one relieving old memories!
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!"
Lavi dropped his plate of burritos, his heart stopping short at the sight of Komui and Earl standing together with their faces aghast -well, Komui's face... Don't know about the Earl's- Komui side-stepped a puddle of mixed vegetables and looked around at the effects of a food war.
"Alright, who's responsible for this mess?" The commanding officer of Black Order finally gave a sigh.
In union, the soldiers all pointed at the gathered Noahs. The said Noahs then pointed at Jasdero and Devit, who were pointing at each other.
"Jasdero wouldn't share his pancakes!" Devit cried, his love for pancakes still unsatisfied. Jasdero smacked his twin's head, "That wasn't pancakes, dumbass. Those were just toasted bread!"
"Yeah, but you didn't have to hit me with your gun after that!" Jasdero fought back.
"Then you flipped my food!" Road accused out loud.
"And Road just had to throw her tantrum on the table, which resulted in my hot soup getting spilled onto my lap," Sheril said, rubbing his still-aching legs that came in contact with the sizzling hot soup, "And do you have to throw the bowl ice-cream at me, Lulubell?"
The blonde archer looked at the nobleman angrily, "I was trying to help you cool down! You were jumping around like cats bit down onto your leg and were chewing it off!"
"That was my bowl of ice-cream!" Skinn shouted, his low anger coming back with a vengeance, "it wasn't my fault that my plate of fish missed you,"
"So it was you who threw that fish!? I thought it was Road!" Sheril said with amazement in his voice.
The Black Order was now confused as to what was going on. They stood wearily as the Noah officers started a mini-fight amongst themselves as to whether Road's craziness was justified and whether it was worth wasting that extra-large size of spaghetti and meatballs. Lavi felt Allen's presence brushing his side, and chuckled as he saw Allen's figure all covered with white flour. The quiet Noah appearing quite ghostly to Lavi's left.
"Does this happen often?" Lavi bent down to whisper. He received a quiet growl from Allen.
"Every. Single. Day," Allen whispered back without taking his eyes off of his family, his breath coming out in small clouds of flour. Not liking the grumpy look on Allen's too-pale face, he wiped a finger of apple pie onto his face and thus surprising Allen.
"Cheer up. The soldiers needed the stress relief, anyways. You Noahs are perfect," Lavi smiled, making Allen feel at ease quickly. They were contented to stare into one another's deep eyes before a loud cackling voice shouted,
"THAT'S IT! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Devit took out his gun and shot to the ground, making the Noahs fall back into defensive position. Devit taking out his gun made Jasdero take out his own, and this made Sheril crunch his knuckles and Tyki stretching his shoulders. The Noahs' eyes showing venom and fighting lust. They were clearly on high, and Devit's shooting was only the beginning.
"RUUUUUUUUUN, YOU MOTHERF-"
Okay, I take back my words! You Noahs are CRAZY!
Back in the Science Department, Reever quickly held onto a table as he felt the ground shook. He definitely didn't want to know what was going on..
"Reever, come take a look at this!" Johnny said, making Reever put down his cup of tea away from the edge of the shaking table and head to the electronic microscope that they were currently using to study the zombie's DNA. Reever's eyes widen at the strange and world-triggering discovery and suspicion went straight into his mind. What's going on here?! His mind whirled in questions after questions after seeing the DNA, his eyes flitting to the captured zombie. The zombie only stared on passively, a sinister expression that Reever can only regard as a zombie smile, was showing on the zombie's grey face.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR~ I do hope you enjoyed your holidays and this new update. I had intended to update this yesterday, all ready and covered. But as soon as I clicked 'publish', the page showed 503 Service Unavalailable... *flips table, shoots laptop, run around screaming and eating chocolate for comfort* So here I am, back again~ Here are the names that should be placed in Santa's nice list haha
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