Chapter Eight:

~Raye~

Unfortunately for him, Road was still a heck of a lot stronger than he was and that meant he couldn't do anything that would possibly stop her from attacking them. He watched helplessly as she launched her nasty candles at them, but Raye got distracted when Road flung Lero over to him.

'Road please stop this!' Raye was increasingly worried, he didn't like this at all, even though one appeared to be an exorcist, his powers were ineffective at the moment and all the kids could do was dodge. Oh what has Road gotten them into?

Road laughed like a maniac as she continued to pelt them with candles as they took cover behind some fallen trees but Raye knew it wasn't going to last long. He looked quickly between there hiding place then at his fiery cousin before he stood between them to stop her from attacking them for what seemed like the hundredth time.

'Road, I don't like it, let's go home please… please I just want to go home,' Raye couldn't help using himself and a reluctant Lero as a shield but Road really needed to settle down before she did something she would regret. Road seemed to calm down, if only a little as she frowned at him a little pissed he had used himself to stop her.

'Raye don't be like your mother now move,'

'NO, can we just go home, we can play there and…'

'Skin's gone Raye, GONE and you're acting like a bloody human…' Road froze as the words came out. Raye glanced at the ground his eyes stinging with tears that threaten to fall. It wasn't his fault that his Noah powers weren't fully awakens yet but he was still one of them.

'We're humans like they are!' Raye stammered his voice was wobbly as he fought to keep the tears back. Road fell silently feeling slightly guilty for making her cousin cry and sighed.

'Fine we'll go,' she said finally as Raye looked up with a smile twitching the corners of his mouth even though a single tear fell down his cheek.

'Great…'

'Why leave the fun's only began…' Raye froze, someone was behind him, and he could sense the figure's dark murderous aura pulsing from there being as he slowly glanced over his shoulder. He tried to jump back out of the figure's reach back a rough hand shot out and grabbed his neck pulling him close to their body. Lero flew from his grasp and managed to hover in the air before hitting the ground.

Raye struggled to cough and squirm out of their grip but the feeling of something sharp began to dig into his throat and he stopped struggling. Road glared at his captor with as much hatred and murderous intent as the figure itself.

'Let him go!' Road demanded summoning forth an array of lethal candles but the figure that held Raye just laughed.

'Why would I? I have the perfect shield,' Raye winced because he knew what they meant, if Road decided to attack, he would be taking the hits instead and neither wanted that. His cousin gritted her teeth and clenched her hands into tight fists that drained the blood from her hands. She didn't like this opponent as much as he did and he was in a rather precarious situation.

'Let him go, or else…'

'… Or else what? You have nothing to hold against me,' that was frightfully true as Road made one clean sweep with her golden eyes and quickly disappeared before a scream could be heard. Raye felt his body jerk as his captor turned around as saw Road twisting the arm of one of the kids she had managed to grab hold of.

'How about a trade then? Raye for this Misaki brat?' Raye's captor seemed to be considering this but Raye only felt the hand gripping his neck wring tighter till the point where his airways were almost completely cut off.

'No deal!' that made Misaki and his friend, Timothy grasp as Road frowned at Raye's captor before taking a step back. Raye knew she only had one choice and he nodded slowly to make sure she knew that it was okay. The figure didn't seem like they were going to kill him anytime soon though he was beginning to lose consciousness as the seconds passed by.

Luckily, Road caught the gestured as sadness and pain filled her molten gold eyes as she summoned forth one of her heart-shaped doors.

I'll come back for you, I promise…

I know…

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~Tyki~

Tyki rushed into the room, Elena was sitting slumped in a chair with her head in her hands seemingly heartbroken. He had been quickly called by the Earl to see to his wife who seemed to be experiencing some sort of trauma… his only clue… Raye!

He didn't understand what was going on as he crossed the room and cradled her in his arms. She leaned into his chest, welcoming the warmth and comfort it managed to give her, as Elena seemed to let it go. Her loud sobs seemed to be the only thing filling the quiet room. The Earl was sitting in the chair opposite them as Tyki stared at him, hoping that he would say something to help him better understand the situation but couldn't.

What could he say? He was possibly in the dark just like Tyki was as the door behind him suddenly swung open with a bang and Road stormed into the room dragging someone behind her. Tyki, for a moment, hoped that it was Raye but the dark green hair of the child told him that it wasn't. Elena looked up too, glancing if not emotionlessly at the child as he struggled to get out of Road's steel-like grip.

'Who do we have here?' Earl asked quietly as the boy froze and his cobalt eyes flickered over to where the Earl was seated. Elena stiffened in his arms but she didn't say anything as he frowned at his niece.

'Road, you might want to explain what this is about,' Tyki said to her in a low voice, he wasn't in the mood for one of her childish pranks but she looked as if she wasn't playing one.

'Some stupid nun, showed up and took Raye, I managed to get this kid here, hoping I could do a trade but nooo…'

'Road! Where is Raye?' Elena had finally spoken up as she gripped Tyki's shirt tightly in her grip as she glared at Road. Road flinched slightly but still held the boy securely in her grip nonetheless.

'She took him… to the Black Order,' Tyki had to struggle to get Elena to sit back in the chair as she began to throw a violent fit that seemed to frighten the boy that Road had captured. He knew exactly what she was thinking and that wasn't going to be a good idea at all, even though he was just as tempted as she was in going there himself.

'Raye, Raye, Raye…' he continued to hear Elena muttered as he looked quickly at the Earl.

'I think I better get her to lie down,' he suggested as he convinced Elena to stand and escorted her from the room before she halted just as they reached the door.

'Who is he?' Elena said, her dark coated voice made everyone including Tyki shudder.

'Misaki, Misaki Kanda,'

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~Komui~

Komui was busy sitting at his desk staring at the usual mountains of paperwork that piled up on his desk daily and only seemed to be growing taller till a flustered Reever rushed into his office almost tripping over the scattered paper.

'What is it Reever?' Komui said standing instantly from his desk, his assistant wasn't usually this clumsy, that would probably be mostly Johnny or Jiji but Reever… well that was unheard of.

'Sister Mary… she's returned… something's strange…' the poor man was out of breath as Komui sped off out of his office and towards the docks where he was just in time to see the nun climb out of the boat carrying an unconscious child in her arms. Timothy jumped out moments after her; his face was dark and grave, which made Komui fear the worst.

'What's going on here?' Komui demanded as he filled his voice with authority, the child in the nun's arms didn't stir from his unconscious state. The nun stared at him seriously before dumping the child into his own arms.

'Timothy, Misaki!' a voice called behind them as Komui turned to see his nephew's tutor come clomping down the stairs a frown forever fixed to her face. The head supervisor knew all too well that the two boys were clearly in trouble but then he realized something.

'Where's Misaki?'

'The Noah… they have him,' the nun spoke as if it didn't matter to her as Komui stiffened as he heard another pair of footsteps come down the stairs.

'Lenalee…'

'Yes, brother,' his sister answered as she walked up to him. Komui stood up and turned to face Lenalee who had just been released from the infirmary.

'Gather the exorcists and Generals to my office, Sister Mary's got some explaining to do,'

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Author's Note:

And I'll leave it there… whoops, sorry for a short chapter but revealing too much in one chapter can kill the suspense… oh and continue reviewing please!