A White Light

I do not own D. Gray Man

I really hate this guy! Krory thought, allowing his rage to increase his strength. He had exchanged several blows with the man Sheryl Kamalot standing in front of him. The man held a rapier in his right hand and was laughing even as he was bleeding. It was too bad that Noah's blood tasted so bitter, Krory wanted to suck the bastard dry.

"Eat this!" he yelled. He launched a furious assault against the man with his blood claws. Sheryl dodged side to side like a fencer. Just as Krory closed the gap, the man grabbed a pile of saw dust from a broken box and threw in Krory's face blinding him.

He jumped backward and tried to rub his face clean when he heard the Noah shout. He opened his eyes to see a look of shock on the mans face. "Earl-sama!" the man yelled in the air, "Rhode, we have to go now!"

"You'll pay for this exorcists." He said turning towards a black gateway that appeared in mid-air. The younger Noah joined him and they quickly fled into the gateway before it disappeared.

What just happened? Krory wondered staring up at where the gateway had been. He was snapped out of his trance as General Nine came towards him.

"I'll go ahead and back up the others," Kloud said, "you stay here and secure the rest of the building.

"Yes," Krory replied. All around him akuma were crashing into the ground and walls. Something had driven them mad, but what? "Be careful." Krory said looking up at the general before she left.

Krory grinned and eyed his now helpless prey. He needed to eat quickly so he could help his comrades.

Lenalee opened her eyes and tried to focus on what was in front of her. It was quiet, there didn't seem to be any fighting going on but...Allen-kun! He was lying face down on the floor, and he wasn't moving. Just a few feet away the body of the Earl lay severed in half. Lenalee got up and ran to him. As soon as she got close, the Earl's body dissolved into sand. She thought she heard laughing but it barely registered as she turned over Allen's body

"Allen-kun, Allen-kun wake up!" she pleaded over and over gently shaking his body. He wasn't breathing and she couldn't feel his pulse. Allen-kun no! She held him close to her chest and started to cry.

"That's enough, Lenalee-chan," a voice called out from doorway. "let him go. There's nothing you can do now." Inspector Rouvelier walked over and placed his hand on Lenalee's shoulder. She slapped it away and glared at him.

"How dare you?" she asked through choked back tears, "how dare you come here and say that to me?! You never cared about Allen-kun at all. This is all your fault you heartless monster!"

Rouvelier lowered his head, and to Lenalee's surprise, tears started streaking down his face. "You-you have no idea what I...you have heard that Allen was abandoned by his family because of the 'deformity' of his left arm, but that's not quite true. I am his father. My family has been sworn into the service of God for over a hundred years, we sacrificed ourselves to the war. I grew up watching horrible things done in the name of the church...and when Allen-my son was born with an innocence fragment embedded in his arm I panicked. I didn't want this life for him so my wife and I abandoned him hoping that whoever took care of him would give him something more."

"Inspector I-"

"My wife was killed by the Earl less than a year later, and I swore that I would never again let my feelings get in the way. You were right about me, after that I looked upon you all as tools hoping it would lessen the pain of what I had to put you through. Ironically my son became an exorcist anyway, and was even involved with the 14th. All because of me. It seems God has decided to punish me. I have lost my wife, now I've lost him to." The inspector fell to his knees besides Lenalee and they both began to cry.

He was standing next Mana, yet he was taller than the man by several inches.

It's the same dream! Allen thought.

"They are my memories. Watch." the 14th said from somewhere in the darkness.

"I can't believe implanted you're legacy in him, he's just a child!" Mana yelled at him.

"I had no choice," he replied, again through the 14th's voice. "the Earl is going to catch me eventually. I have to have a way to keep fighting so we can beat that freak. I'm too wounded to go on brother take the kid and run." The other him turned and walked away. Everything faded to black.

"What's going on?" Allen asked. He couldn't see or hear anything.

"You're dead Allen," the 14th replied. "I'm holding your spirit here."

"Dead?!" Allen asked incredulously. "well at least I managed to take the Earl with me."

"No," the 14th said, "but you dealt him a serious blow and destroyed his false body."

"There's one thing I don't get, I thought you said we would be OK once we got the sword back from the Earl." Allen asked.

"No, he said you would be complete." said the voice of Mana. Joining the conversation. "Your innocence reacted to my power within you, giving it it's form. The Noah were not always evil, they are being manipulated by the Earl. Their power and the innocence...they exist as a balance, yet one is not complete without the other."

"I don't understand." Allen said.

"You hold both the power of the innocence and the Noah within you. But since part of my power was stolen by the Earl, there was an imbalance, and the innocence fed off your life force trying to draw out what wasn't there. Now the balance has been restored to the vessel, but the life is gone." the 14th replied.

"So it's no good then. I guess I'm ready to go to the afterlife then." Allen said.

"No," the 14th replied, "you wont be going to heaven."

"What?! You don't mean I'm going to..."

"Relax. I said you're dead. A part of me isn't. I left you my legacy. Draw upon it and it will refill the well that has been dried. You will have my memories and my power when you wake up. Don't let them overwhelm you. My life has drawn to a close, go live yours." the 14ths voice faded seeming happier than Allen had ever heard it.

Allen felt rather than saw a warm light in front of him. He reached out for it. Visions swirled through is mind. Mana. Music. Earl. Pain. Memories of a flood. Memories of a thousand lives. He screamed in pain. He was Noah. A farmer. A thousands peoples from all over the Earth. NO! I am Allen Walker!

Lenalee stood up and wiped away her tears as she heard footsteps coming through the door behind her.

The general walked into the room and took in the scene before coming closer. Lenalee didn't know what to say. She had failed. General Kloud had been right, she loved Allen, and now he was gone. The center of her whole world had gone with him.

Kloud looked passed Lenalee with a strange expression on her face then yelled for Krory to check the buildings infirmary for a stretcher.

"General-Allen, he's..." Lenalee couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence before Kloud interrupted her "Glowing!" Look behind you the older woman replied. Lenalee turned around and saw with her own eyes. Her Allen-kun's body was radiating a faint white light.

But how? She thought rushing over to him. Lenalee lifted up his head and his whole body flashed a brilliant white causing General Kloud and Rouvelier to back up. The glow faded and color returned to Allen's face. She could feel him breath.

He was Allen Walker. An exorcist of the Black Order, but now the memories, hopes and dreams of another lived on through him. He was the 14th, the Noah of music. Allen opened his eyes wincing as they tried to readjust to the light. They focused on a woman, Lenalee was holding him. "Allen-kun!" Lenalee whispered embracing him tightly, and forcing the air out of his lungs.

"Lenalee your OK." Allen said with a smile. "You shouldn't have followed me." Lenalee frowned and slapped him across the face for the third time that day. She seemed to be developing a habit he suspected would become quite unhealthy for him.

"Allen-kun, I-I love you." Lenalee said, "and if you ever leave like that again I'll never forgive you."

She stood up and helped him to his feet. Allen was at a loss for words. Lenalee loved him?! And that last part sounded far scarier than dying had been a minute ago.

"Lenalee I don't know wha-" Lenalee cut him off and pulled him into a kiss.

When Komui finds out, he'll kill me for good! Allen thought deepening the kiss.

"My aren't we bold today," General Kloud said walking towards the pair. "I see you finally managed to reign him in." Lenalee blushed and Rouvelier cleared his throat before turning towards the door.

"Can you walk Allen?" he asked.

"Yes, I think I'm OK." Allen replied. Rouvelier nodded then left.

"Once Krory and I are finished here we can move out of the safe-house and back into the inn," Kloud said. "I'll see about getting you two a room."

"It's not lik-" Lenalee elbowed Allen before he could finish and said "maybe later. I need to punish Allen-kun for all the trouble he's caused me over the last few days." The general's eyes widened momentarily then she smiled and started towards the door.

"Fine then, just bring him back soon. Reever still needs to check him out and he'll definitely want a look at that new right arm of his." Kloud said the walked away.

"Now it's just you and me..." Lenalee said stalking towards Allen.

"Wait," he asked, "what did you mean by 'punish'?"

It was well past dark before she was done with him.

Author's notes: Well that's the story. I'll be going back through the chapters and editing a little bit here and there over the next few days to correct a few spelling and grammatical errors. I'm thinking about adding an epilogue to this story and I'm definitely going to do a sequel. I'll start on that in about a week.