10th Dusk: Distrust, Rogue Exorcist
"You want this Innocence, go ahead and try." Kanda taunted, tossing the Innocence into the air. "Mugen, activate," He said, activating his Innocence.
"Innocence, activate," Dylan said, morphing his Innocence into a blade.
Dylan swayed a bit on his feet, he was still tired from lack of sleep last night, and in that moment of realizing how sleepy he was, He thought about his latest dream... ANGER, DISTRAUGHT.
Dylan jumped at the rat-like Akuma and slashed, but it jumped back to dodge, then took a couple of it's javelin-like hairs off its back and used them like swords. Kanda charged the werewolf Akuma, but it blocked with it's claws, then threw a punch, and Kanda dodged; The Innocence hit the ground.
"Silly Exorcists, do you really think you can take us at level 2?" The rat Akuma asked.
"It's not necessarily that we think we can take you... It's that we need to defeat you; For the sake of all humans." Dylan responded, then slashed down on the Akuma, but it blocked with it's hair-blades then struck back, and Dylan dodged.
"Hee, what poor reasoning. Even now, there are millions of Akuma all over the world, just killing humans and no ones even paying attention to it. What kind of impact will it have in the overall outcome?" The Akuma asked, and it hit Dylan like a ton of bricks.
The Akuma was right, Dylan hated to admit it, but in the amount of time it would take to destroy these 2 Akuma, 10 others would have already been created in their place. Now that it had been brought up, just how was the Order supposed to defeat the Akuma in the world? Their numbers were so few, while the Akuma's were so large.
"You understand? Nothing you exorcist do will ever make a difference in the end!" The Akuma yelled and swung down on Dylan, and although still in shock, he blocked, then he looked up at the Akuma with what resembled, but wasn't quite anger, then countered, but the Akuma dodged, although its hair-blade was cut in two.
Dylan morphed his Innocence into a gun quickly and shot 3 bullets into the Akuma's chest, destroying it. Dylan then turned toward Kanda and the second Akuma, pointing the gun, but couldn't get a clear shot right away. But when he held the gun then, poised to destroy the other Akuma, he remembered how he had overused it before, and felt like if he pulled the trigger now, it wouldn't fire.
Kanda saw that Dylan had killed the other Akuma, then slashed at the werewolf Akuma, and it blocked, but Kanda didn't give it room for a counter-attack.
"Shot it!" Kanda yelled, holding the Akuma at bay so it couldn't move. "Go on, pull the trigger!" He yelled again, as Dylan hadn't even moved.
Dylan was unsure of himself, he didn't think he would be able to do it; He dropped his arm.
"Tch," Kanda scowled, and pushed the Akuma back. "Underworld Creatures, First Illusion." He said and used the skill to destroy the Akuma. Then he deactivated his Innocence and walked over to Dylan. "What's wrong with you?!" He shouted at him, grabbing him by his coat collar. "I gave you a perfect shot and you didn't move a muscle." Dylan gave no reply, but shook Kanda's hand off and picked up the collected Innocence.
"Forget it, we're done here, let's leave." He said, sounding kind of depressed. Kanda scowled in anger, but didn't really care if he got an answer.
They returned to the Order and gave the Innocence to Hevlaska. Komui said they should hurry to catch dinner, but Dylan just went strait to his room, thinking about what the Akuma had said.
He had stayed up for hours just thinking about all the bad experiences he'd had since joining the Order. There was just this night with the Akuma telling him things that were without a doubt true. There was the time his Innocence got overused, and Kanda saved him. And there was his first mission, in which a family was put in danger because he wanted to discreet when obtaining the Innocence.
Also there was seeing Lenalee, which could actually be classified as both a good and bad experience. Seeing Lenalee, who resembled his sister so much, had given him something to hold on to here at the Order, where he didn't really know anyone. On the other hand, it also reminded him of his greatest regret, that he couldn't save his younger sister when it mattered.
After a long while, he finally feel asleep due to pure exhaustion, and he had his dream again.
The dream, however, was different this time. He was still in the white room, but he didn't see the Earl or Cloud. He did however see Hevlaska's prophecy in the air.
The Innocence will grow into a most dangerous power indeed, properly nurtured, it will become a great aspect in the battle. But be it nurtured poorly, with anger, distrust, or distraught, it could prove to become a grave enemy. The prophecy, unlike last time, did not disappear. Instead, 2 figures began to appear below the prophecy's text. The first to appear was the first Level 2 Akuma he fought, with the word, ANGER, floating above it. Then Lenalee appeared, with the word, DISTRAUGHT.
But now a third figure was beginning to appear. It came up in full view, and the word, DISTRUST, hung in the air above it. And the person who had this word written above him... was Dylan, himself; he woke up with a start, breathing heavily and sweating.
It was morning, and everyone was getting up for breakfast. After a few hours, all of Dylan's friends had yet to see him anywhere. Lenalee went up to his room, Komui had a mission for the two of them.
"Dylan," She said, opening the door. "Komui has a mission for us, are you up?" Then she turned to Dylan's bed and saw a note on it; oddly enough, it was addressed to her.
It read: Lenalee, I need time to sort out some personal things, don't look for me. I hope you can understand.
-Dylan
Lenalee ran up to Komui to show him the letter. After reading, Komui said, "It appears Dylan has left the Order, for what reason I cannot say. But he's probably long gone by now, we are not going to look for him."
Lenalee was depressed, and there was something she hadn't told her brother. In Dylan's room, above his bed and scratched into the wall. Rogue Exorcist was written.