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Chapter Seven: Kill the Puppet
"Urgh, my head…" moaned the redhead, Lavi, as he tried to clutch his stinging head. As his hand moved, he heard some kind of clinging sound and he couldn't reach his head. It was as if something was restraining his hand from doing so. Why can't I…?
He squinted his eyes to get a clearer vision since his vision right now was blurry. His face felt like someone burnt it because it was all stingy and it hurt—so does every muscle in his body. It hurt to move—he noticed.
"Ah! I think this one's stirring up, Allen!" he heard an excited voice say. It was a girl's voice, but he didn't recognize it.
Lavi's vision began to clear now, but his head was all jumbled and he didn't really register what he saw. At first, he saw red. Was it blood? At a clearer look, it was. He saw a red dark puddle of blood right beneath him. And when he looked at the restraints at his hands again, he saw that it was iron cuffs, and he was tied to the dark stone wall. And he saw at a corner lay his Innocence. It took him time to realize one thing: He was captured.
Then he saw someone's foot come into view. When he looked up, he saw the white-haired boy again; he saw that the boy was smiling the same sadistic smile he had before. "I can see you're awake, Exorcist."
And Lavi still remembered what happened before at the canal. The boy's hand just suddenly became claw-like and attacked Lavi and the Finder he was with. The white-haired boy killed the Finder with one shot, and he, Lavi, was just about to attack with his hammer using Fire Seal, but then someone hit him behind his head.
"You…bastard…" Lavi muttered under his breath.
"Allen, this one's mine," he heard the same girl's voice before. Slowly, he turned his head towards the girl's voice—and he saw an unconscious Lenalee on the ground. The girl was right next to her. Lavi couldn't help but feel angry.
The boy smiled. "Are you angry?"
Angry? Of course I'm angry! What are you? Stupid? Lavi wanted to tell this to the boy, but his wounds and burns tells him otherwise. So instead, Lavi just shot the boy a dirty look.
The boy raised his brows and grinned in amusement. This only made Lavi think that the boy's psychotic. Why would you grin at someone who glares at you? Maybe this kid's an Akuma? He could be, but why hasn't he changed his form yet? Form… His hand… His hand changed at that time at the canal. But it doesn't even look like Dark Matter, it looked like Innocence. Why would a kid that has Innocence attack people? Maybe this kid's the reason why those people disappeared?
"Wh—why…" Lavi muttered in a low voice through gritted teeth, but the boy didn't hear him and asked him to repeat what Lavi said. "Why are you doing this? Aren't you an Innocence accommodator? An Exorcist?"
The boy just smiled and sighed. "I am an Innocence accommodator," he said softly as he turned away from Lavi to take a glance at the girl he was with. Then he said it in a low, hating voice, "But I never considered myself to be a low, pitiful Exorcist. That's that," he added with a shrug.
"And we are not Akuma," said the girl—much to Lavi's surprise. How did she—? "We're human, dummy."
Just then, there was a sound of pounding on some kind of wood, then someone walked over and Lavi hear something like a door opening. As Lavi turned his head and winced in pain. Sometimes, he just wish he didn't feel pain.
Right there from the door was a pink umbrella, and by the looks of it, the umbrella didn't look too happy. "Waaahh!! Mistress Road, Master Allen! What's this?! Why are you meeting with these Exorcists?! You two are supposed to be home studying! The Earl will both spank you!" It spoke in a high-pitched and annoying manner, but Lavi couldn't quite miss the important point out.
Earl? Did that umbrella say Earl? Did Lavi hear it right? He's only been able to hear it from the old panda about these people that actually work with the Earl to destroy the world. The Noah family. Are they Noahs? If so, then why's an accommodator with them?
"Nahh," said the girl, Road, confidently. "Millennie won't do something like that to me. I am his favorite. Anyway, this won't even interfere with his plans."
Plans? The Earl is planning something? This can't be good… Lavi thought, gritting his teeth. Then he remembered their companions. The Finders. What happened…? "The…Finders… What did you do…?" Lavi asked with a struggle. It was hard breathing.
The boy smiled and raised his eyebrows and glanced at Lavi with his cold yet-amused gray eyes. "Oh, don't worry," Allen said as he slumped to the ground right next to the girl he was with. "I've already taken care of them. You should've seen their faces! They were terrified!"
"Shut up…" Lavi whispered softly. To think this happened… And that boy…It was like he'd done that a million times before. And he didn't care. Why did the Innocence choose a boy like this? Shouldn't he have already been a Fallen? He has betrayed what the Innocence stands for!
But the boy didn't seem to hear clearly, or acted like he didn't and kept going. "Did you know?" he asked, then Lavi told him to shut up again. "They were asking for help from you—screaming, I would say." Shut up. "The both of them were crying so hard…" Shut up. "It must be hard being a Finder, right?" Shut up. "Oh, sorry," Allen, the boy said almost apologetically before his face turned sadistic again. "Were they your friends?"
"YOU SHUT UP!!!" Lavi screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Allen," says Road, her tone almost playful. "You hurt his feelings! Poor him!" She was mocking him. Wait 'till I get free from these chains and I'll rip you both to tiny insignificant pieces! Lavi thought violently.
Lavi gritted his teeth. They both pissed him off. Somehow, he's got to save Lenalee and report this to Komui. An accommodator working with the Noahs. Wait—what if this accommodator is a Noah too? But that's impossible! But recently, the impossible have become possible. Right, Lavi thought with a resolve. I'll just make sure that both me and Lenalee get out of here and back to London.
"Well, Road," says the boy, who quickly gained the attention of Lavi. "You now have a doll. Mind telling me what is it you're planning on doing with her? There's another one there too," he motioned to Lavi and the latter growled at him. "Ooh! Feisty one aren't you?"
"Shut up," snapped Lavi.
The girl glanced at him with amusement. Then, she seemed to have an idea, her smile turned into a grin and her brows shot up. "Hey, Allen. I have an idea," says Road. This can't be good.
"Oh?" says an interested Allen. "What is it?"
"A game," says Road, her eyes glinting menacingly. "What about it, Exorcist?" she says to him, Lavi. "If you win against us in a game, we'll let you and your pretty Exorcist friend go," she said in an almost sweet way; then her voice changed into a low and dangerous one, "but if you lose, you're going to die. Well, maybe not afterwards you lose, but you get the point."
"Hmm, sounds good to me," Allen said, gazing up as if he was considering the idea.
Why are they asking him this? Couldn't they have done it right now? He, Lavi, is already powerless with these chains bound to him and yet they want to give him a chance at getting away? I can't understand these people, thought Lavi. But nevertheless, it's now or never. "Sure. Whatever. You'd better keep what you say, Noah."
"Oh, don't worry," says Road, enjoying herself along with Allen. Then he felt himself being set free, the one cold chain that bound him disintegrated into pieces before his eyes. Was this Road's power? he thought. "This game would be not-so easy, but otherwise quite amusing for both of us siblings."
They're siblings? It doesn't look like it. They don't have any feature of them in common. Maybe they're adopted? Never mind about that! "What's your game, Noah? I want to finish this now," Lavi said coldly.
"Oh," says Allen, wincing. "Don't be so cold, Exorcist! Just have fun like we'll do!"
"Anyway," interjected Road, skipping to where Allen was and held his hand. "The rules are simple; if you survive this game, you win! And the game is called 'Kill the Puppet', by the way," she said with a giggle.
"Wahh!" wailed the pink umbrella. "You two! This is a very, very bad thing to do! The Earl will be mad at you two!"
Road grunted. "Shut up, Lero," she says. "I told you the Duke won't get mad at me or Allen."
"Yeah, Lero," agrees Allen. "Besides, it's been a while since I've seen an Exorcist."
Then the girl seems to have become tired of the conversation and said, "Anyway, here's the puppet you need to kill, Exorcist." Just then, something caught his eye, and he felt a strong blow to his stomach.
He was thrown backwards and painfully hit the wall behind his back. His hand automatically went over to the back of his throbbing head only to feel something hot and wet. It was blood.
"Urgh… What the—" he muttered as he tried to search for his assailant. He gasped as he saw her. Her eyes were somewhat vague of emotion. And as soon as Lavi saw her emotionless eyes, he knew she was being controlled. He turned to look at the Noah and the Innocence accommodator, who were grinning with amusement. "What is this?! Some kind of joke?!" he shouted at them.
"Do you really want to shift your concentration on us?" asks Road; then Lavi turned to Lenalee again, only to be kicked at the stomach again.
This time, he couched up blood and got thrown back into another wall again; and he couldn't breathe normally now because of the hard kick.
The girl giggled. "That's right, Exorcist. In order to be free from us, you need to kill her first!"
So? How was it?
