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Chapter 6
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Whispers were everywhere, but none of it was useful enough for him. To make it worst, he could feel Allen's presence leaving that area as both him and Leenalee are still searching high and low for his flower. Frustrated, he punched the tree just beside him.
Did Allen heard them?
If he did, how much had he heard?
"...Tch." He clicked his tongue and lean on the tree. Allen never got mad on anything, Allen was always an understanding person. Even when realizing that he was hiding his identity, Allen never once demand him for answers. Allen simply waited patiently for Kanda to tell him. So what difference does it make now?
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"What were you guys talking about?"
"We did not talk about anything."
"You did!"
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Sighing out loud, he stared ahead at the cliff before him.
That was where Allen last located before his presence disappear from the forest. The wind whispered again, informing him of Allen's meeting with another leaf tribe named "Lavi". Allen seemed to have talked with Allen a while before Allen leave the forest with Lavi. The content of their information remained as a mystery though. Even so, that's good enough to know that Allen's safe. From the data he gathered from the surrounding, he could conclude that this "Lavi" does not have any bad intention. For now.
"Can you sense him?"
"... Nope." He hesitated, but he ended up hiding the fact that he did sense Allen's location from Leenalee. She may be useful to them in the future, that does not mean that she have the right to know everything.
Leaf tribes, even if they can use magic, they could not communicate with the nature. They could only simply control particles of everything around them into something they desire. Flowers however, have the ability to talk and communicate with nature. They could listen to the whispers of the nature, and exchange words with the nature.
Or in other words, Kanda is an abnormal leaf tribe. Which was the reason why Kanda could sense Allen but Leenalee could not.
"Oh great. This is all your fault."
"How is this my fault?"
"Are you putting the blame on me now, Kanda?"
"You are the cause of this."
"... But I don't mean it!" Leenalee countered back harshly, refusing to take the blame, "And it was your idea to hide our conversation from Allen!"
"You do realized you are the reason I need to hide our conversation from him."
"I- I may have convinced-"
"Blackmailed," Kanda corrected.
"Fine, blackmailed you that I will tell Allen his real identity if you don't bring me along."
"And there you have it. The reason I need to hide our conversation from Allen."
"I'm not that stupid to say his identity out loud!"
"Could have fooled me."
"... I'm trying my best here not to fight with you, Kanda."
"And I'm trying my best not to kill you on the spot, missy."
They both glared at each other, arms crossing over their chest and turned their head away from each other.
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Alright... It was not a good thing to "kidnapped" a flower, though the victim was willing, but he was doing it out of good intentions?! Perhaps if he bring this poor little flower back to his leaf tribes the flower would stop showing that sad face? He must admit that Allen looked cute that way too, but that was not the point! Now now, he brought this poor little flower away from his leaf tribes because he thought the flower was sad with them. He thought bringing the flower away from them would help the situation. Well, seems like it was backfired.
Allen looked worst as time pass.
He was looking a bit hesitating at first. Then comes, guilt and sadness. It looked like Allen regret leaving his leaf tribes back there...
"... You know, we can turn back now. Those two should still be there."
"No."
No? Lavi raised his eyebrows up in confusion.
"... I don't want to see them now."
"You sure?"
Allen looked like a kicked puppy now, with his teary large silver eyes staring ahead. And that pout! Does Allen really wish to not to see them? Then why in the world is he acting like he was being forced to leave them?! Oh wait, he was the culprit for Allen's leaving...
Well then, what to do?
He first thought that he could save himself from being attack by staying near a flower. A flower, he picked up, but the flower does not seems to be able to save him from his danger... A wrong target perhaps? Even so, how weak can a flower be?
Taking a deep breath, Lavi calmed himself down. True, flowers are strong enough to protect a leaf tribe, with that in mind he opened his eyes slowly and was greeted by thousands of eyes staring at them.
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Allen seems to be still lost in his thoughts to notice about the stares. His wish to be safe from danger was broken by the so-called protectors of leaf tribes, flower.
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A flower is supposed to save him! Not attracting attention to him!
How fantastic.
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"... A flower?"
"What is it doing with that filthy leaf tribe?"
"Maybe he doesn't know?"
"Well, we just have to force that filthy leaf tribe to use his magic before a flower." Arrows were aimed at Lavi as they waited for their leader's signal to fire those shots.
"Careful not to shot the flower." The leader moved his hand forward as a hand signal of releasing the arrow towards their target. Hands released the strings of their bows, allowing the arrows to travel towards the targeted leaf tribe in high-speed.
"Allen, watch out!" Lavi yelled to Allen as soon as he saw the incoming dangers, hoping to warn the distracted flower before danger hit him. Seeing that Allen made no move in defending himself, Lavi clicked his tongue, Great, a flower that can't even protect itself. He quickly ran to Allen's side and created a soil-made wall to block the arrows. But the arrows never reach them, instead it burst before it could reach the soil shield. Shocked, Lavi frozed in his place. So he did realize the danger...? He slowly turned to look at Allen only to be greeted by a still day dreaming Allen.
That was just a reflex?
He gulped silently. So this is a flower's power. Allen did not even need to be conscious to control his magic.
Gasps could be heard, before long, the leader stepped out and knelt before Allen with his head down, with his other followers behind him.
"We're so sorry! We were only aiming at that leaf tribe beside you!"
"... Why were you aiming at him?" Allen stared at the one kneading down with a curious look. The attackers snapped their head at the white flower before the with wide eyes, disbelieve shown on their faces.
"... Haha, that's a nice joke, flower."
"No seriously. Why were you aiming at him? He's the same as you." Pointing out the fact he could observe, Allen started to get confuse. Why is a group of leaf tribes attacking another leaf tribe? Lavi did not do anything to them, right? What if he did before he"kidnapped" me? He shivered inwardly and pushed those negative thoughts away from his mind.
"He- He uses magic, flower!"
"I did too."
"He's a leaf tribe!"
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"I was kicked out of my clan because I use magic."
"Magic is evil to some people, moyashi."
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Was Leenalee being chased and attacked by these leaf tribes as well? He remembered the time he first saw Leenalee in the woods. Her body was covered with wounds, not an inch undecorated by blood. And her hands, her hands received the most damage. Subconsciously, he squinted his eyes to glare at the group before him.
"He used magic, so what?" He asked the group before him with a stern voice he never knew he had.
"Flower! He embraced magic! He's filthy! He should not exist!"
Something cracked in his mind, he could feel it. The hatred towards the selfish group before him started to grow.
Kill them, he heard. No it was not the whispers of the wind or anything this time; it was from his inside. Kill, it was a bad thing to do, he knew. Killing will solve nothing, instead more hatred will be born from that action, so why kill? Killing is a waste of time.
At least that was his thinking before now.
Those disgusted stares towards Lavi from the group before him is really starting to piss him off. Would it disappear if this group lost their existence?
Kill them, the voice urged.
"Flower, please get away from that filthy leaf tribe!"
All thoughts about sparing the group evanescent into thin air as that sentence escaped from the leader's mouth.
Leaf tribes or not, it does not sound so bad to kill them.
"Oh, sure. I'll get away from Lavi."
"Flower!" They sounded so happy. Allen smirked before smiling sweetly at them, still not moving away from Lavi.
"If you live after this, that's it."
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"Someone's lost?"
Kanda threw his hand upwards, attacking the one above him without turning up to see who that was.
He knew that voice too well.
"Kanda, that's a flower!"
"So~ You lost your flower again huh?" Neah continued lying down on the thick tree branch, his hands placing behind his head as a pillow. The attacks were once again repelled by Neah before they could make a scratch on the ex-flower.
"Get lose, Neah."
"That's not very nice, Kanda. After all, I'm here to inform you the location of your precious white flower."
Another attack.
"Kanda, stop that! We need to find Allen now!"
"Indeed, you need to find that flower of yours now before it's too late."
Loud whispers rang out in his ears suddenly, causing Kanda to cover his ears with his palm in pain.
"Oh? So it started." Neah's smirk darken as he turns his head to the direction Lavi and Allen left not long ago.
"Kanda, what's wrong?!"
He did not answer Leenalee, in fact he focus on the loud whispers of the surrounding, his eyes widen in disbelieve as he absorbs the words. That Lavi leaf tribe—!
"There's no turning back now, Kanda. He will start remembering."
The whispers were too much for his body to handle, after all he's just a leaf tribe. The whispers sounded so much like screaming to his ears. It hurts so much. The surrounding stirred, probably due to the shocking news that was traveling in the air. Uneasy was present in every whispers. He was starting to get breathless, the overwhelming amount of magic that flows into his body through the whispers were starting to take a toll on his body.
"You- You planned this!" He yelled out to the smirking ex-flower.
"Did I? Maybe I did, maybe not."
"You fucker—"
"Kanda stopped trying attack the flower already! It's useless! Your body can't handle anymore magic!" Leenalee quickly cast a large whirlwind, swallowing all of them up and create a temporary vacuüm that prevents entry of any magic.
"A wind user... Hm... Not bad, not good enough though." Neah started to analyse the whirlwind and voicing out his opinion.
Leenalee stared at the flower, surprised. She did not think twice when she pushed off the magic from Kanda Yuu, never had she thought that there would be another flower exist that accept leaf tribes using magic. She had thought she's dead meat when it crossed her mind that there was a flower present.
"You are..." She was unsure of the flower in front of her. It can't be that flower, right?
"I'm what?"
"Your name is... Neah?"
A nod was all she received.
"Neah D Campbell?"
She could not believe it, that Neah was before her. She had heard so much about this flower. How he was once one of the strongest flower alive, how he fell in love with a leaf tribe, and how he had lost his leaf tribes. Neah D Campbell was surely a hot topic among the leaf tribes.
"We need to go to Allen. Now." Kanda stated in his breathless state. Why is Kanda looking so worried?
"But how? We don't know where he is!"
"I can gladly lead you there. All you need to do is ask." Neah said as a matter of fact.
"Then, Neah, can you—"
"Not you. I want Kanda to ask that."
Glancing at Kanda's weaken state, she panicked. How much magic is he handling to the point he's like this?!
"Come on, it's not that hard. You just need to say "please", Kanda."
"Neah, Kanda can't in this state!"
"That's his problem. Right now, the only lead to Allen is me. The choice is all yours."
"Neah!"
"We don't need this fucker."
"Kanda! He's the only lead!"
"Allen fucking Walker, stop this childish act and lead us to you already!" Kanda yelled into the air, weakening his body even more as he did so.
Neah frowned in response, but it was then replaced with a wide grin as he remembered something.
"Fine, get to him yourself. But do remember. He don't have much time left before he went mad."
"He won't."
"How are you so sure, Kanda?"
"I won't let him."
Chuckle at Kanda's answer, Neah nodded in amusement.
"Sure, I can't wait to see that."
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Slaughter.
Leaf tribes, killed.
A flower, the killer.
What? A flower?
That's impossible!
Which flower?
A mad flower.
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A mad white flower.
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TBC
A/N : Sorry for the short chapter... Feeling really sleepy and nothing's going through my brain... I'll stop here for now and get some sleep.
And thanks a lot for those that reviewed last chapter! Those reviews really cheered me up!
[17/12/2014] I felt sorry for posting such a short chapter yesterday, so I repost this chapter again today. I'm really sorry about yesterday! I was too tired ((That's what you get for sleeping at 5 in the morning and wake up at 11am later for 4 continuous days)) Once again, sorry for the delay(?)
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