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Other than the roof, Allen found his only solitude in his own room. It was small and several stories off the ground so he couldn't just jump out the window. The design of the room contained a single bed, a desk and lamp and a chair. Just a simple layout and an annoying bonus was that he got himself his own personal alarm clock.
He only got it because he refused to get up in the mornings to attend the morning classes. That bastard called Cross gave Allen Tim to wake him up and the golem did its job a little too well.
In fact it was so loud that Allen was exhausted from chasing the darn thing around his room whilst getting ready.
It did the exact same thing and Allen had had enough of it as he lunged at the golem only to miss by a mere centimeters.
'Fuck you, get back here!' Allen demanded as he grabbed the rim of a basket in the corner of his room and used it like a net. Timcampy dodged to the right but Allen, now used to the mechanical nuisance's flying pattern, managed to actually get the thing in the bloody basket and flipped it over.
'Gotcha…' he panted before he heard a knock coming from his bedroom door.
'Oi, Allen is everything ripe as apples in there, you sound like you're wrestling a croc,'
'Shut up!' Allen demanded as he hurried around the room getting dressed sport uniform consisting of a long sleeved polo shirt and shorts.
'Don't have to get feisty mate,' came the replay from the other side of the door. When Allen was satisfied that he had done everything he opened the door to find Jesse standing there with a look of bemusement.
'You might want to deal with the critter,' the boy pointed out glancing at something behind Allen.
'What?' Allen turned only to have a basket smack right into his face and a hissing golem to top it off. He could hear Jesse laughing behind him as he turned to glare at the blonde kid.
'Blimey don't need to get all clucky on me,' Allen felt his eye twitch at this guy's words.
'Mind repeating that,' Allen asked dangerously but it seemed that Jesse wasn't a complete idiot to fall for that and bolted down the hall quickly.
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When he eventually got down to the oval, the other students were already there; they were lazing around and talking to each other waiting for the teacher to show up.
'How's it going mate?' Jesse who noticed his approach called out as Allen glanced the other way and sat down on the slope of the hill.
'Aw, don't have to spit the dummy on me,' Allen glared at him before Lenalee swatted Jesse over the back of his head with her hand.
'Enough Jesse,' Lenalee said with slight concern in her voice. Jesse just grumbled as he rubbed his sore head.
'Yeah, if ya don't want to get ya head bitten off,'
'Phoenix!' Lenalee flared as she eyed the flaming haired girl sitting on top of a wired fence surrounding the track. Allen sighed hopelessly as he laid back and looked at the clouds racing across the sky.
'Just ignore Jesse-senpai, he might sound insulting but he actually cares,' a small voice spoke through the bickering happening to the right of him. Allen winced at that wondering briefly where the guy had come from.
Allen snorted instead of saying what was on his mind as lifting his discolored hand above his face. The rays of sun were getting annoying and he tried blocking out as much of it as he could.
He ignored Amber after that but the kid didn't say anything after that and continued to sit next to him.
'What are you doing lazing around, you pathetic runts?' Allen felt his eye twitch as a loud yet deep voice echoed from behind them. Amber jumped to his feet hastily while Allen took to leaning on his elbows.
A muscular man stood at the top of the hill with a scowl that could match Kanda's. The man came down still glaring at each of them before his dark eyes fell on Allen.
'So you're the brat that Cross picked up? I'm a little disappointed,' the man snarled harshly before looking at the rest of the students. All while Allen was left to fume over the man's obvious insult to him.
'What are you still doing standing around, twenty laps each…' then he threw his gaze between Limina and Amber.
'I want to see at least ten from you two,' Jesse was the first on up as he jumped onto the tracks.
'The old codger has spoken!' Allen could hear the man grizzle angrily as the other students started doing laps before the man's gaze was pinned immediately on him.
'What you waiting for? Join them!' Allen had never been this hasty before but he was quick to get to his feet and joined other reluctantly on the fields.
After they had completed the given task of running laps, Allen collapsed exhaustedly on the grass. Everyone around him were panting as heavily as he was before the man who Allen found out was called Winter Zokalo, towered behind them.
'Oi, oi, we have barely started because we are now going to play a little game everyone the rules are simple… protect you tag at all cost and no rules,' Zokalo threw down some tags that they were to tuck into the elastics of their shorts. Allen grabbed his and did just that before glancing at the only person he was willing to talk to.
'What's going on?' Allen asked Amber who happened to be standing beside him at the time.
'We have to use our innocence to defend ourselves while going for the other's tags,' if we lose ours we are out,' came Amber's reply as Allen watched the kid pale probably threw anxiety.
Allen didn't like the sound of that and for good reason; he couldn't bloody activate his innocence properly yet. So he was going to have to go on the defense against those who can, which he could see wasn't a fair advantage at all.
'Mr. Zokalo, one of us is incapable of activation…' Lenalee interjected before she was rudely cut off.
'Bloody oath, makes it easier for those who can even grab a third tag. Sheila-impersonator over there keeps nabbing them,' Jesse interrupted while throwing challenging glares towards the longhaired exorcist standing to one side of the group.
'You're all weak,' came his reply as Allen silently boiled at the boy's insult as he stood up.
'Alright, I'll give you all ten seconds to spread out… one…' Zokalo began counting down as Allen saw the students dash off quickly away from potential threats.
'Don't let Phoenix or Kanda be your first opponent,' Allen vaguely registered Amber's words of caution as the young boy scurried off to some part on the oval. He didn't like being told what to do, but he will reluctantly admit that that advice would come in handy as he remained where he was because he was the only one there… besides Zokalo that is.
'… Three, two, one aaaaand began!'
Allen barely had time to register as something whizzed right past his head, it was so close that he had felt the breeze.
'Bloody hell mate, what are you standing around for?' Allen was spun around positioning himself in a fighting stance as he saw that his first opponent would be the nonsense babbling Jesse.
'Why'd you throw your weapon?' Allen glared as he saw that Jesse wasn't holding onto anything but safely presumed that he was the one who threw something at him. Jesse just grinned and pointed at something behind him.
'What goes around comes around…' just as Allen heard that, he made out a red glint in the sky of blue as it sped towards him. Jumping back, Allen tumbled out of the way as the object speed past him and was caught by Jesse.
'I'll give you the heads up mate, I'm a crystal type my weapon taking the form of two boomerangs and just so you know they always come back,' Jesse lunged towards him, wielding the curved shaped weapon as the boy aimed to get at his tag.
Allen flipped back just in time as the weapon was thrown at him with the flick of Jesse's wrist. But unfortunately he slightly forgot about the part that the thing could come back as he barely felt something as cold as ice leaving a stinging trailing across his forehead.
Wincing, Allen clasped his arm as the warm blood began to flow freely. Damnit why did it have to be his right arm? Allen glared at Jesse before he saw that the boy had thrown them again at him.
He dove to the side but out on the oval, there was barely any cover to use and Allen still didn't have the slightest idea of how to activate his innocence. Realizing this, Allen knew he was at a heavy disadvantage.
During his distraction he was once again struck by the nasty innocence while Jesse caught them with ease and prepared to throw them again.
Suddenly a dark blur landed in front of him before it knocked away the boomerangs. Allen noticed the dark grey hair belonging to Amber who was holding onto a wicked looking scythe. Allen's blood chilled as he wondered what was going on.
'That's not nice Jesse,' Amber muttered as he stood up straight in between Allen and Jesse. Allen couldn't help but noticed that the younger boy's stance wasn't strong as Jesse just grinned.
'Ok you little ankle biter, try me,' Amber dashed away but not before Allen caught a soft 'sorry' from the kid before he immediately looked at his waist and swore. Amber had taken his tag without him knowing it! But he sighed and got up as he walked away… Allen really couldn't care less for that matter as he slumped onto the grass and just gazed up at the sky.
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Later that even, he found himself in the last class being taught by the last person he had wanted to see at the time, Marian Cross. The class was smaller this time since Phoenix had gone back to doing her punishment while everyone else had to continue their bloody lessons.
'… With that we conclude that the… are you even listening idiot?' Allen felt something small bounces off his head before he turned to stare at Cross whose fingers were drumming impatiently on the desk.
In fact Allen wasn't listening to the lecture at all because the man taught it and secondly he just didn't want to be there in the first place.
'Fine class dismissed… except for brat zoning out in my class!' Cross said as everyone quickly left the room leaving only Allen and Cross there. Allen ignored the emptiness because it didn't bother him that much as the man strolled over to where he was sitting.
'Can you at least learn to like it here? Most of us don't like it but we have to deal with it,' Cross growled as he pulled out a seat for himself and sat down in front of Allen whose gaze was out the window.
'This place is fucked up,' Allen retorted as he continued to gaze out the window.
'Don't I know it?' Cross mumbled as he pulled a cigarette free from its packet and put it in his mouth. Allen glanced at him, eyeing the man briefly as he lit the cigarette.
'You're not suppose to smoke indoors,' Allen stated bluntly as Cross just grunted at him.
'Does it look like I care? Listen kid, we all have things we don't like but we have to deal with them,' Allen slumped down further in his seat as Timcampy made it its business to fly around them both.
'Besides that, Komui would like to see you in his office tomorrow… it should be easy enough but we're hoping that it will at least help with getting your innocence activated,'
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A/N
Seventh chapter peoples and enjoying it so far… displayed two of the OCs innocence and Jesse speaks with some Australian slang just so you know… so anyway…
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