Chapter 8: Capture and Pain

(A/N: Hey guys! So I got a review to work on this story only and put my others on pause. I looked at all my stories and realized... the others are practically crap compared to this... so since nobody seems to care about Neah{sadly} I'm going to stop the voting. All is planned out now hahaha! Time for you to read! Enjoy!)

Allen started to regain his consciousness. He started to open his eyes but was blinded from the light shinning directly into his eyes. He noticed what he was laying in was soft and warm. He figured it was a bed. He tried to remember what happened before he passed out but before he could get far, a massive pain surged throughout his body. He pin pointed where the pain came from and found it was where he got shot. He realized the wound had healed, but around the bullet leaving the metal piece laced with Innocence inside his body.

He recalled who shot him and what happened when he woke up for those few moments. Cross had shot him and then had the nerve to say 'Calm down I don't want to hurt you.'

Allen could help but think one thing. 'Damn you Cross... Who the hell shoots someone then goes and says I dont wanna hurt you!? You'll die by my hands alone Cross...'

At this point, the pain was truly horrible. So Allen decided to take a chance and do something drastic. He lifted his hand and pointed it like when he would use it as a weapon. He lifted his arm as well and brought down his hand at the source of his Hell. He nearly let out a scream but knew if he did someone would stop him from what he was doing.

Allen had his hand in his own lung and was trying to find the bullet. When his fingers had felt the sting of Innocence he knew he found it. He put his fingers around the bullet, ignoring the new pain he had gained, and started to pull it out.

How wrong he was. Allen's wound wasn't healing AROUND the bullet it had started healing making the bullet a part of his body. He could feel some of his own flesh on the bullet along with a few of his viens connected to it. He could feel it. The more he pulled the more blood would come out as well. After a few pulls he got annoyed with taking it slowly so he wrapped his whole hand around it and pulled as hard as he could. His hand, along with the bullet, came shooting out of his body.

Allen opened his eyes for a moment to look at the bloodied bullet then look at the new hole in his chest. He didn't care honestly. He was just happy the piece of metal was out of his body. He looked around and saw a metal tray next to his bed and put the bullet there.

He closed his eyes and tried to calm his breathing. Just then the door opened and two sets of footsteps were heard. The footsteps got a little louder as they got closer to Allen. The drape around his bed was opened so the people could go in and see him.

They were shocked when they saw Allens hands over a fresh wound. The kid was breathing heavily and looked like he was in pain.

"What happened here?" one of them voiced out.

Allen opened his eyes to see who was there. The first person he saw was one of the doctors and the other was Cross.

"Hey kid! What the hell happened here!?" Cross shouted with annoyance for Allen not answering sooner.

Allen lifted one of his hand and pointed at the tray and more specifically the bullet that used to be lodged inside him. He looked at the two people and saw they were shocked.

"When did you take the bullet out?" Cross asked the doctor.

"We... we didn't... I was going to ask you how major of a procedure it would have been to take it out... I didn't know if there was a risk of him dying half way through..." the doctor said with shock.

"I'm... not that weak..." Allen said with deep breaths laced with pain.

"Why did you take it out yourself?" Cross asked with surprise.

"It hurt like hell... to leave it in... the Innocence in the damn thing made my entire body sting..." Allen said with the deep breaths continuing but now he was holding his wound tighter.

"Here's another question for you kid. Which hurt more the hole in your chest or the bullet?" Cross asked for the shocked doctor.

"Leaving the bullet in... felt like my entire body was burning in a raging inferno and showed no signs of dying down... the hole in my chest just makes it hard to breath..." Allen said with his voice becoming hollow breaths.

"Y-you shouldn't speak... there's a hole in your lung so you have a lack of oxygen... calm down and I can take care of it-" the doctor stated but got cut off.

"Shut up... give it a minute and the wound will heal... so leave me alone already..." Allen said with annoyance yet with a face that showed pain.

"We won't leave until the pain goes away." Cross said with annoyance.

"It doesn't hurt though..." Allen protested.

"Really?" Cross said as he came up with an idea.

Cross put his hand on Allens and slightly pushed adding some force on Allens wound. Allen couldn't hold it back any more. He let out a shout of pain that was heard throughout most the halls.

"See it still hurts..." Cross said bluntly.

"Damn you... you bastard..." Allen said with even more pain written on his face.

"That is why you can't leave yet." Cross said as he eyed Allens wound which was still covered by the boys hands.

"What is going on in here!?" Leviller said as he slammed open the door shortly followed by Howard Link.

"The kid was trying to leave so I stopped him..." Cross said without care.

Leviller grunted and walked over to Allen pushing Cross and the doctor out of the way. "How do you think you could have left?" Leviller asked Allen with a scowl.

"Beat the crap out of the people in my way..." Allen said while trying to look menacing yet the pain wouldn't allow it.

"You can't even argue with me... so how do you think you could fight?" Leviller said with a mocking grin.

Allen was about to comment and maybe even punch Leviller but more pain ran through him. It was worse than when the bullet was inside him. Without knowing, Allens face showed only a fraction of his pain. His hands putting so much force on the wound. But it wasn't the hole in his chest that hurt. The pain had come from his entire body. He went from lying flat on his back to his knees bent, feet flat on the bed, both hands still on the wound, and his head on his knees.

"What the hell... Hey kid what are you doing?" Cross yelled at Allen.

"It hurts... It hurts so much..." Allen said barely above a whisper.

"Where does it hurt?" The doctor asked as he tried to calm Allen.

"Everywhere... it hurts all over..." Allen said a slight bit louder.

"I need you lay back down and stay calm. Otherwise it will hurt even more, understand Allen?" The doctor said with a soothing voice.

Allen tried to nod and move but his pain wouldn't let him. "I cant... please help me... I cant move at all..." Allen said with both pain and fear in his voice.

"Can I get some help here, Cross? Link?" the doctor asked.

Link looked at Leviller who nodded thinking if the kids pain went away he would get answers. Cross, on the other hand, looked like he'd commit suicide but since he had nothing better to do at the moment he helped. Link held down Allens feet while Cross held Allens shoulders against the bed.

"Allen can you please move your hands?" the doctor asked as he noticed something black around the wound.

Allen was wearing a white shirt. There were two things that stood out on his shirt. Some dirt mixed with some blood but the one thing that stood out the most was the black around the wound. As far as he knew, Allens shirt was a plain white dress shirt. So the black concerned him.

Allen moved his hands away after a few moments and the doctor saw the black was coming from the wound. He wasn't the only one that noticed either. It seemed everyone in the room had noticed including Allen.

"D-damn it..." Allen whispered with shocked eyes. "Please I need to go! I need to get out of here right now! I'll come back and do whatever! I just need to go right now!" Allen shouted like it would be the end of the world.

"Why should we trust you?" Leviller asked. "What makes you think I'm stupid enough to fall for that?"

"Because I know you just want information out of me! And if you dont let me go then I die along with everything you want to know!" Allen shouted past the pain.

"What's that supposed to mean? And how would leaving for a few moments help?" Link asked with slight shock from the outburst.

"There are two 14th Noahs. Neah Walker and me. We share the power. And by share I mean one of us gets all the power while the other gets what they had before the Noah powers. The longest we should have the Noah abilities is for six months, but I've had the abilities for over a year. If you have that power for too long then you start to loose your sanity along with your life. Me bleeding is a sign of it. I shouldn't be able to get injured let alone bleed, but if my immortality starts to wear off then its easier for me to get injured. Now let me leave!" Allen explained and demanded.

There were a few moments of silence, Allen wasn't even hissing in pain. Everyone was looking at Leviller wanting to know what his response would be. Finally Leviller made a decision.

"Link." Leviller said.

"Yes sir?" Link responded.

"Watch over him and make sure to bring him back. I don't want my information to get away without me knowing it first." Leviller said.

"Yes sir." Link said with a salute.

"So... how are you going to get to the other?" the doctor asked for everyone.

"With the Ark." Allen responded bluntly.

"The hell is 'the Ark'?" Cross asked.

"This." Allen said as he snapped his fingers and a near diamond shaped white door with the number '39' appeared.

Allen started to move around and eventually sit up. Once he sat up he lifted his right arm of the bed and a cane appeared. Allen let his legs fall off of the bed and his feet touch ground. Slowly he stood up and leaned on the cane while still holding his wound.

"You coming or what?" Allen said with an annoyed tone.

"Y-yes." Link responded as he walked over to Allen to help balance him out.

"Lets go already." Allen said while walking closer to the strange door called the Ark.

When Allen walked through the door, they all freaked out. Link practically froze yet remembered his job and walked through as well. When Link came through he found himself in the middle of a pure white town. There was nobody around which made it easier to find Allen and Neah.

"What the hell happened to you? You look like you've been run over at least ten times." Neah said with curiosity.

"Your damn Noah got me into trouble... again. Take it back already." Allen said with pain evident in his voice.

"You really need to control it better..." Neah said with a sigh.

"Don't you think I know that!?" Allen yelled.

"Whatever. I'll take it back now." Neah said with all seriousness

"Fine." Allen said while holding out his bloodied left hand.

Neah took his hand and they shook. With that Allen got another surge of pain and nearly fell to the ground but Neah helped balance him. When Allen lifted his head he started to look better already. He wasn't sweating any more and the pained face returned to a normal calm.

"There. Better?" Neah asked.

"Much. Thanks. See you in another six months." Allen said calmly with his eyes closed, hands in his pockets, and standing tall.

"Ok." Neah said as he walked through a random door.

"Where is he going?" Link finally spoke.

"Don't know, don't care." Allen said while waving his hand and walking back through the door they originally came from. "Oh and the Ark eliminates whoever is in here when Neah and I aren't. So you might want to get out now."

Link started to look around and thought everything was calm. When Allen stepped completely out if the Ark it started to react to Link in there alone. The light blue sky which was calm a second ago became a blood red. The pure white building turned black and strange creatures crawled out of the shadows. Link nearly screamed with terror but instead ran through the door Allen went through.

Allen saw Link run through the Ark door right before it closed and he had a face that showed pure terror. He released a small laugh and went back over to his bed.

"Let me guess. You took too long to leave and you saw the defense system?" Allen asked while looking over at Link.

Link nodded rapidly and Allen laughed. Everyone looked at the kid on the bed who had his hand under his head. Most didn't understand what the defense mechanism was but it must have been terrifying if Link was like this.

"So... what do you want to know?" Allen asked Leviller as he rested his head against his fist.

With that question out in the open and lingering in the air, everyone was silent.

(A/N: Ha thought Allen would be tortured didn't you!? Well he was somewhat tortured but mostly by himself... Whatever. Hope you liked the chapter! Please review, fave, and follow! Bai! c(X )