Hey guys! So I woke up randomly this morning around 5:00 and couldn't get back to sleep, so I decided to squeeze in one last chapter. I put my headphones and played a really loud song over and over again to make sure I stayed awake too. ^_^
By the way, this isn't going to be a LenaleexAllen fanfiction, so don't worry. I couldn't torture myself or Allen like that. I can't stand Lenalee really... Anyway, Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Just a sleepy person writing a fanfiction with characters she doesn't own.
The morning sun illuminated the halls of the Black Order, and everyone was slowly waking up. Already, the cafeteria was buzzing with conversation between finders. Of the exorcists, only Marie and Lavi were awake, but neither were in the cafeteria. Marie was in the training center, meditating and listening to everyone the in the order within a certain radius. Lavi was walking through the halls, making his way to Komui's office from the library. He'd pulled an all-nighter thinking about Allen, without Bookman's knowledge. His head was full of incomplete ideas, and he was hoping to get some help from Komui.
Somewhere else in the morning, Lenalee woke up. She stretched her arms above her head and yawned wide. She got out of bed and took a shower. When she was done, she remembered what she'd thought of the night before. Suddenly rushing, Lenalee pulled on her boots. Activating her innocence, she ran out of her room, running full speed to Komui's office, which was only down the hall. Lenalee slowed down to a normal walk once she came in sight of the door. She took a breath before pushing the door open with both arms.
"Good morning, Brother!"
"Ah! Good morning my Lena! Did you sleep well?"
"Yes, actually, I slept really well. Thank you." She paused. "Listen, I was thinking last night about Allen. I think we should go save him." Komui put on a surprised face and at that moment the door Lenalee had come through opened.
"Funny, I was thinking the same thing." Lavi walked in with a grin on his face. Lenalee smiled back at the entering bookman.
"Komui, I was doing some reading up on the Noah, and I think I know a way to save Allen from the 14th. I don't know how I didn't see it before. It's all innocence. If we could get Allen back, we can all channel our innocence through Allen. I think it'll purify the dark matter inside of him, thereby destroying the 14th's memories. It's an old thing exorcists used to do with each other to purify themselves when they were shot by an Akuma. It wasn't always reliable so the practice was discontinued, but at least there's a chance to help him."
Lenalee was happy to hear the news Lavi shared. She had come up with a way to get Allen back, and had thought of a way to get rid of the invading Noah. If her brother would let them carry out their actions...
"Brother, I thought of a way to find Allen. Although it's rather risky, like Lavi's plan." Komui still hadn't said anything, but he nodded his head to continue.
"I think if we could disperse the exorcists to distract the Noah, we can grab him directly from under their noses."
"And how will we find him?"
"We'd first follow some Akuma and try to find an ark entrance."
"An Ark gate? Why would we need another one?" Lavi felt a little confused.
"I mean the new ark that they created a little while ago. Where else would they stay? I bet the Akuma have to report sometime, and that means they'll make a trip to the Ark. We just have to find a group of migrating Akuma, and follow them without invoking a fight. Then we have other exorcists do the best they can to attract the Noah's attention. By fighting Akuma making a big deal over some innocence. Anyway, while the Noah go to see what's going on, a small group will sneak into the gate."
Komui shook his head. "That's only if we can successfully find a gate and distract all the Noah. I doubt they'd just leave Allen alone." Lavi agreed, but he tried to smile when Lenalee looked upset.
"But we should probably find a black ark gate anyway. That'll help us in the future, right Komui?"
"Mmmm, yes, most likely." Lenalee brightened. She was happy she wasn't completely useless.
"Brother? Can we start looking today?" Komui was thinking, his eyes calculating different possible outcomes.
"I suppose so. You two can go. You might want to bring Krory or Marie. They can help you find the Akuma. Krory's teeth can taste the Akuma blood and Marie's sensitive hearing can 'hear' the dark matter in a sense." Lavi nodded and Lenalee grinned. She reached out and gave her brother a hug, bringing him to tears.
"Oh! My Lena loves me! Don't go! I don't want you to leave me here with all these mean scientists!" The Chinese girl giggled at her brothers antics.
"I'm off to get breakfast! Want to come Lavi?"
"Sure."
"Lavi," Komui started, "Come back after you eat, alright?"
"Yes sir." Lavi and Lenalee left Komui to his office and went to the cafeteria. Many people called out good morning to both of them, and the both replied with enthusiastic waves.
"Hey there, Darlings? What would you like to eat?" Lavi ordered first.
"Clam chowder soup, please." Lavi ordered.
"I'd like two pancakes with strawberry syrup." Jerry nodded at both their orders. Then Jerry sighed at watched the entrance longingly.
"I wish Allen-kun was here. I haven't gotten to cook for him in a week." Jerry sighed again.
"I bet he'll be back soon, Jerry. If not, I'll bring him back personally." Lenalee smiled.
"I hope so too. Here's your food, sweeties." They gratefully grabbed their food and sat down at their usual spot.
"Should we ask Marie or Krory to come with us?"
"Krory-kins! I haven't seen him much since the Ark." Speaking of Krory, at that moment, Krory walked in. he looked around and waved at Lavi and Lenalee before going to get his food. He came to the table with his order and sat next to Lavi.
"Hey Krory-kins! Are you busy today and possibly tomorrow?" Krory raised his eyebrow.
"I have a mission. I'm leaving this afternoon. Any reason?"
'Komui didn't tell us Krory-kins was going on a mission. He probably forgot.'
"No, I just wanted to play with you. You've been in the infirmary so often recently." Krory just laughed.
"You can blame General Socalo. He's been 'training' me a bit, but I'd say he's really just using me as an excuse to beat someone up. He's rather violent in a fight." Krory grinned happily though.
"I'm glad he's training me. I'm not as up-to-sync with my innocence as I'd like. Oh, did you guys see any Akuma yesterday?"
"Huh?" Lenalee knew what Krory was talking about, but she decided to play innocent.
"Yesterday, a little after sunset, I felt some Akuma around, but almost as soon as they came, they left. I was wondering if you had destroyed any."
Lavi interjected first before Lenalee said anything.
"Yeah, actually, there was a few. I took care of them though. I don't know what Akuma were doing here." Lavi decided not to lie to Krory, but didn't explain the whole thing.
"Strange."
"Very." Lavi agreed. The three exorcists continued chatting until they'd finished their breakfast.
"I hope Allen comes back soon. This is an awfully long mission."
"Me too, Krory-kins. It's not the same with out a Moyashi inhaling food next to you every time you eat." Lavi grinned.
Somewhere, Allen sneezed.
"See you later Krory! Good luck on your mission!"
"Thanks Lenalee!" They parted at the hallway, and the two exorcists left started looking around for Marie. After a bit of asking around, they found Marie at the training center.
"I heard you guys are asking for me?" He smiled. "I could hear people talking to you."
"That's pretty cool, Marie. I wanna hear people talking about me!" Marie chuckled and stood up from his meditating position.
"So, what do you want?"
"You busy Marie? Like, are you going on a mission anytime soon?"
"Not that I know of. Why?"
"It's about Allen." Marie's face shadowed over and he gestured for them to follow him. They moved out from the middle of the training pit and went to a supply closet where they wouldn't be interrupted.
"What about him?"
"We're going to go rescue him. We've already been approved by Komui. We'd like it if you'd help us."
"Please, Marie-san?"
"Of course. What's your plan. How are you going to find him?" Lavi and Lenalee took turns explaining ever detail of the loosely, thrown-together plan.
"This was made up on the spot, wasn't it?"
"Just because it was made up on the spot, doesn't mean it's not going to work. But yes, we came up with it overnight."
"Heh. When do we leave?"
"Whenever, I think."
"Is Kanda coming?"
"Kanda?" Lenalee asked.
"Well, he knows about Allen's situation and we'll need all the help we can get, right?"
"I guess. Can you get him, Marie? He probably won't listen to us. Yuu-chan can be so mean sometimes."
"What was that?" A new voice came from the closed door of the supply closet they were in. The door was shoved in and sword came up to Lavi's neck.
"Don't call me that, Baka Usagi."
"See?" Lavi whined.
"Che."
"Kanda, will you calm down? We actually were going to go find you. Brother is giving us a mission and we'd like for you to come with us." Kanda re-sheathed Mugen, and looked to Lenalee.
"What is it?" again, Lenalee explained the plan with Lavi putting in a few details she missed.
"Moyashi? Are you sure this'll work?"
"No," Lavi said, "But we don't really have a choice if we want to save Moyashi."
"Fine. We're leaving now then."
"Now? But we have to get packed!"
"We have to travel lightly if we're tracking Akuma. Kanda's right. You should grab a change of clothes and some money, but that's it. We'll be walking a lot and probably won't get to stay and any inn's. The Akuma don't have to sleep. This is going to be very hard." Marie explained to the girl and red-headed exorcist.
"Alright, I'll hurry then. We'll meet by the boat in half an hour."
Everyone nodded and went to grab their possessions. Kanda, though, went straight to the boats. He was only taking Mugen.
In the Ark
Tyki went as fast as he could to the kitchens to grab a glass of water. He had mentally ordered an Akuma maid to prepare the glass of water while he got there, so when he arrived, the glass was ready.
"Thank you." The Akuma bowed after handing the glass over.
As Tyki walked back, he walked through wall to get there quicker. At one point he came across Jasdevi running in the hallway with an army of Road's candles chasing them. They were screaming and trying to shoot the candles down, but nothing deterred them.
Tyki just laughed as the twins ran by and turned around a corner. Tyki guessed there were about fifty candles chasing them. Then he continued his walk through walls. Tyki finally made it the the shounen's room.
When he gave Allen the glass, he noticed Allen had done his best to clean off the blood from his face. Tyki took the washcloth that was resting next to Allen, and got the last bits of red that was left in his hair.
"Thanks." Allen murmured. He sat up and gulped down the glass in one go.
"Anything else?" Tyki was hopeful.
"Not really. I just want to sleep some more."
"How can you sleep so much? You've slept non-stop since you got here."
"Not true. I had breakfast and played the piano." Tyki rolled his eyes.
"Hey Tyki?"
"Yeah?"
"On second thought, can you take me back to the piano room?"
"Sure. Now?"
"Yes. Can you help me up?" Tyki leaned down and held the boy's shoulder while he sat up. Allen grabbed his wrist to steady himself, and stood up, wobbling.
"Ugggg."
"You sure you want to go?"
"Yeah." Tyki didn't question him and instead put Allen's arm around him. Tyki hobbled him to the door, and led him down the corridor.
'This is gonna be a long walk.' They were walking really slow, though Tyki could tell the boy was trying to walk fast. Unfortunately, his legs felt like jelly and moving too fast made his head sting.
Finally, Tyki stopped and let go of Allen, who put his hand on the wall.
"Are we there?"
"No. Get on my back." Allen glared at Tyki.
"Why would I do that?"
"So you don't hurt yourself. We'll get there quicker anyway." Allen didn't move and furrowed his brow.
"I can walk."
"Sure. Why are you falling after every step then?"
"For fun..." Allen muttered. Tyki laughed loudly.
"Uh-huh. Get on." Allen glared again, but finally gave in. Tyki picked Allen up on his back and started walking at a much quicker pace.
Tyki felt a little self conscious carrying the boy. He was very aware of the arms draped over his shoulders and the legs loosely wrapped around his waist. The more he walked, the more nervous he felt. After a few seconds, Allen rested his aching head on Tyki's shoulder and Tyki could feel himself blush.
'Stop being so cute!' Tyki tried not to think of how red his face must've been.
Finally they reached the piano room. Tyki, eager to not be seen, phased him and Allen through the wall.
"Ah! The hell?" Tyki realized Allen was freaking out.
"What?"
"Warn me before you start walking through walls! You scared the crap out of me!" Tyki laughed and set Allen down on the piano bench.
He watched as Allen rested his right hand on the piano, but he seemed to be having problems lifting his left arm. After picking his left hand up with his right, he scanned his mind like he had done before. The only thing that came to his mind was Canon in D major. It was slow and very simple, but Allen somehow played it better than it deserved to be played.
Tyki listened intently, and never lost interest even though it was several minutes long.
While Allen played the piano, Tyki noticed a slight smile had appeared on the boy's face and that he looked genuinely happy to be playing the piano. In the middle of the song, however, he stopped.
"Shounen?"
"Tyki, do you have any other instruments?" Tyki was very confused but slowly nodded his head.
"This is the music room. Everything is hiding in these cupboards. What do you want?"
"Hmmm, the flute?" Tyki nodded and opened a long door two reveal two flutes, disassembled and hooked to the wall. Not knowing what to do, Tyki took three pieces and handed them to Allen. With ease, Allen connected the joints and played one crisp note, to check for tuning.
Then, a full song with vibrato and peaceful transitions poured from the flute. Tyki was amazed. He didn't know that Allen could play the flute. Although, there was a lot he didn't know about Allen.
The song was relatively short and when Allen finished, he laid the long metal instrument across his lap.
"I didn't know you played the flute." Tyki said, voicing his thoughts.
"Only a little. Neah's doing most of the work though."
"Neah is? What's that supposed to mean?"
"I can't actually play the flute too well. I only learned a little from the circus. I couldn't teach anyone. But if I start to play something, no matter what instrument, I automatically know what to do."
"Because the 14th is the Musician."
"Correct." Tyki insisted he play more, and soon, different assortments of brass and woodwind instruments were strewn across the floor.
"I'm gonna have to clean this up, aren't I?" Tyki said after half an hour of listening to Allen play every instrument they owned.
"I'll help." Allen suggested. Bending over, while still sitting on the piano bench, he reached for a clarinet and put the pieces in their place. Then he took the mouth piece off a saxophone, and put the saxophone in to it's case. He'd only put the two instruments away when Road came bounding in the room.
"Alle~en! I wanna play with you! Lets go do something!"
"I'm cleaning, hold on." Allen passed the full cases to Tyki and looked at the flute last. Instead of passing it on to Tyki, he held onto it, saying he wanted to take it to his room.
Suddenly, Allen sneezed.
'Oh, I hope I'm not sick... Unless someone's talking about me? No, that's not real. Can't be.'
"Now can we play?"
"What do you want to play, Road?"
"Tea Party!"
"Ah, Shounen, it looks like your on your own with this one. I have to, erm, feed the cat."
"Tyki, you don't feed Lulubell." Road exclaimed.
"Uh, the other one."
"We have a cat?"
"We do now! Gotta go. Bye." Allen watched Tyki leave, confused.
"Alright, Allen-kun. Let's go to my room!" Road grabbed his sleeve and dragged him along. Allen was too weak to walk on his own, so he just let her pull him from the room.
"Should I regret this?" Allen thought as he gripped the flute in his hand.
There we go. I'm happy I got this done. I'm about to leave for the airport pretty soon, so I'm just in time.
Allen got to play the flute this chapter! Yay! (I play the flute myself)
Also, the Black Order is taking action. I've got some ideas, and I'll go ahead and tell you now, Lenalee will be crying some more sometime. Mwahaha.
Okay, for real this time, last chapter for a while and all that shizzle-wizzle. R&R while I'm gone, 'kay?
Abyss-chan Out~!
