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Immortal Chapter 11 – Unstoppable
Allen's grin did not falter as he looked down at his right arm wrapped tight in the seal. A couple of seconds seemed to drag by before he dragging his facial muscles into obeying his will and they formed a perfect emotionless poker face. He then looked up at all the people watching him closely and sighed rather exasperatedly.
"Bookman?" He finally asked, smiling sweetly towards the small man. The aged male just continued to watch him with calculating eyes, giving nothing to indicate he was listening, however Allen did not let it deter him. "Bookman, would you be so kind as to tell these people one of the main reasons the Noah clan fears me to such an extent as what was, I am sure, described by Miss Lenalee, Yuu and your own apprentice on their return just last week? The reason that applies to the current situation, to be more specific." Bookman just continued to look at him for a second more before clearing his throat a little.
"Allen Walker, am I to understand that you give me full permission to discuss certain facts about you to these people; that the agreement you and the Bookman clan made to never reveal said certain facts about you is approved to be broken, at least on this occasion?" At the slight smirk and nod from the white haired boy, he nodded his own nod in understanding and turned so as to address all those in the room. "Allen Walker, as I have already disclosed, is the chosen child, the child blessed by God himself to save or destroy all humanity." He paused a moment to let his words sink into those present's shocked minds. "As both a destroyer and saviour Walker has been gifted with both innocence and its counterpart, dark matter. It is because of this that he was given another title by the Noah Clan, out of fear and resentment. The unstoppable one." Silence reined for a few moments at the sudden ending to the Bookman's supposed explanation that just caused more questions to arise.
"Unstoppable?" Leverier scoffed, finally regaining his voice. "You've been sealed! You've been stopped in your tracks! There's nothing you can do now!" However his breath caught in his throat as the malicious grin that Allen had fought for control over won the battle and returned to his face at the outburst.
"Now now Inspector, you must not go jumping to conclusions like that you know." He taunted. "Now, your name is Link, right?" He said turning to face the blonde who had sealed him. On closer inspection the man looked rather pale, he had obviously worked out where this was going form only the small clue that Bookman had slipped them.
"Ooo, you are a clever one, aren't you?" Allen continued to mock. "Shall we explain it to the others? Let them in on the joke?" Link just seemed to pale further. "Let's start with what type of seal you are using, shall we? What type of seal did you use Link?" All eyes reverted to look at the crow member.
"A-an Innocence seal…" He croaked out, seemingly of no will of his own.
"Very good. And what does an Innocence seal not seal?"
"Dark matter."
"Well done." And that was the only warning anyone received before his grin grew until it practically split his whole face in half and his skin darkened to a deep grey, his white hair remaining as a shocking contrast to the new skin tone. The seal surrounding his arm disintegrated before their very eyes. Shocked gasps voiced all of the exorcists, Komui and the Central's officers' new found terror at what was before them.
"N-Noah!" Komui stuttered and almost fell out his seat as all the Generals fell into battle stances around the child. Kanda also drew his own sword and took a swift step back from him, but hesitated to do anything more.
"Please do not refer to me as one of them damn deceiving treacherous swine!" Everyone was shocked by his sudden outburst and even General Winters lowered his innocence a little. Allen cleared his throat and regained his composure. "Sorry, but you people really do not know much do you?" At the continued now rather expectant silence he picked up from where he left off. "This dark skin is in fact proof that one is blessed by God as the Noah Clan once was. However they lost God's faith and love when they betrayed him and decided to destroy his own creation of innocence. I would suggest that everyone sits down for the story I am about to retell is long and tedious."
"How can we trust that you aren't a Noah tricking us?" Link voiced from across the room.
"Surely my eyes should be proof enough?" Everyone was suddenly drawn to look and see just what he meant and were surprised to see that the golden fires that usually met them along side such dark coloured skin was absent. Instead there were cold bottomless grey pools that felt as though they were being sucked in. As they all received the same sensation they hurriedly looked away in sync. Everyone, that is, other than Kanda.
Kanda did not know quite what it was but there was something about those eyes. They looked so lonely and cold, as though nothing could break down the wall of solitude that surrounded Allen. However, at the same time he was so sure he knew them already, they just looked so familiar. And for some reason he could see clearly in his mind the same eyes but crinkled a little around the edge, silver and swimming in mirth whilst perfect supple pink lips beneath curved up into such a beautiful awe inspiring smile. As he stared at the reality before him, this other image seemed to overlap until he was unsure which one was the illusion.
Slowly everyone with some unseen agreement backed up to their previous scattered positions, however none of them deactivated their innocence weapons, not being able to fully trust the stranger just yet. Kanda on the other hand remained where he was still gazing into Allen's eyes until Allen looked back and then recognition appeared within the grey depths and the lids slid shut to hide their treasure, breaking Kanda's trance. With his eyes remaining shut the white haired boy walked back to Komui's desk to balance on the edge once more. Kanda, now back to reality tracked the boys movements easily with his deep ocean blue eyes, still confused at what he had just seen, but pushed it to the back of his mind for now to concentrate on the 'story' that the boy was about to tell.
"Thousands of years ago the Lord created the earth. He created many beings to share his achievement with. And then he created the first man and woman, and from there on everything seemed to go wrong. He had created light and darkness, land and sea, good and evil. He had created everything in a perfect balance with one another. However his humans threw the perfect harmony out the window. They were not happy with the perfectness, they wished for everything to be their own, and so they went about bending everything to their own will.
God, horrified by the monsters he had created, selected the chosen few, the ones who were yet to be overcome with imbalance and impurity and sent them his will. He blessed them with gifts to carry out his resolve, and they became known as the Noah Clan. The thirteen he chose were each given an achievement to overcome, the emotions that needed to be defeated if balance were to return to the world. Tryde was to defeat the judgement within everyone, that little voice in the back of everyone's minds that makes them look down on others. Joyd and Desires were very much similar in both needing to control the extent to which their names came to control the humans. Wisely, perhaps the origin of everything right back to Adam and Eve, was to steer everyone's knowledge in the right directions towards the holy truth. Fiddler, Mercym, Wrath, Rhode, Bondom, Lustful. And lastly was Mightra, to correct all of humankind on their belief of their power and abilities and show them the truths of their origin.
God forced upon them this task, and this became his greatest mistake.
Forced against their wills to comply with their Lord's wishes the spirit of Adam who wanted revenge for the banishment from Eden found it oh so easy to convince the Noahs of his cause and the Noahs came to despise and hate the Lord for taking and using their lives as his own to the point where they rebelled. Each of the dark emotions that they were sent to defeat they became the embodiment of, to live for all eternity as humanities very own shadows and weaknesses.
When the Lord realised what he had done he was overcome with guilt but could not bring himself to destroy his once devoted followers. And so humanity continued to grow weaker and darker inside their souls and ways of life.
That is until around 1800 years ago. God found he was unable to just continue to watch his humans suffer in such a manor any longer and chose another vessel. The boy was to be his chosen child, but this time there would be a vital difference. He gave the child the power to choose. He endowed two gifts upon the boy and created a perfect balance and harmony within the same person. He gave the boy the power to both save and destroy but with the control to choose for himself just what should be done. However he also cursed the child with immortality, his destiny to always watch the human race and judge everything they ever did. The second gift I will keep to myself.
In his first life span he chose to save the human race from their sins, opening the gates to heaven for all those who still believed after their tiresome lives on earth. He sacrificed himself for every person to see, to make them aware of their wrongs and therefore putting them on the path to correction, atonement and forgiveness. Three days later he had recovered enough to escape from the tomb. After that he travelled the world helping those in need in any way he could." Allen finally came to the end of his long monologue. The whole room was silent for a long time until Leverier broke it with his usual commanding arrogant voice.
"Exorcists, capture him immediate! We must force him to work alongside us and-" A dark laugh cut him off and everyone's eyes fell upon Allen again who was laughing openly with his head thrown back.
"I'm sorry, no, scratch that, I'm not! But that is pretty much exactly what I expected you to say!" He managed to get out before cracking up again. When he was calm once more, he smiled up at the moustached man who was now glaring up at him. "Bookman, Komui and Yuu already knew who I was you know, that is the reason this meeting was called for in the first place."
"I demand one of you detain him this moment, or there will be dire consequences for all of you!"
"Oh, shut it Leverier, I thought I told you your behaviour will lead to a rebellion."
Leverier looked as though he was about to explode with the rage that filled him. His face was read and slowly turning purple and his hands were shaking with the suppressed urge to hit the boy that was so intent on riling him up. Link stood impassively on his right, keeping a calm attitude on show whilst keeping tabs on the situation, not allowing it to get out of hand and let his boss get in any danger.
"Fine. I will leave for now. I'll let you deal with this for now Komui, but I will be back…" He turned on his heal and headed to the door. Link followed closely behind but Leverier stopped just short of the exit and took in everyone who was still watching him before glancing at his blonde follower. "Link, remain here and observe this brat's actions. I expect daily reports."
"Yes sir." And with one last sweeping glance Leverier left leaving Link behind who stood to one side not letting Allen leave his sight.
Allen remained in his 'Noah form' and stood proudly in the centre of the other occupants. He still had a crazed look about him and waves of murderous intent seemed to radiate off him leaving the others close to cowering if their pride as exorcists had let them. Komui, on the other hand, was free to let a small whimper escape his lips and him to back up against the wall. Their 'guest' startled everyone when he started giggling manically again.
"Oh, this is just great! It's been so long since I last took on this form… and all of your Innocences call out to me with thirst for my blood!" He took a jarring step towards General Tiedoll who was closest to him but came to a sudden halt at a light tapping on the window behind Komui's desk. He tilted his head to one side whilst staring at the glass window pane. There was a slight pause in the tapping and then the laud shattering of the glass breaking and the dull tinkle of the shards hitting the cold stone castle flooring. A blur of gold hit Allen square in the chest and sent him flying into a filing cabinet that promptly exploded spewing important documents and random robot part in every direction with a cloud of dust. The container had obviously been stuffed full to bursting point, to the extent where even a breath would have caused such a disaster, Allen's collision had been more than enough to show off Komui's cleaning and organisation skills.
As the dust cleared Allen came back into view, back in his 'white form' lying on his back with a slightly larger than usual Timcanpy sitting on his chest.
"Tim!" He whined at the golem, but did not complain further and stood from his spot with surprising speed. "Erm… I've got to go. See you later everyone!" He smiled and bowed quickly before practically running out the room. Timcanpy followed closely behind and the door shut with a sharp snap behind them. All those still present let out a sigh of relief and finally relaxed enough to deactivate their weapons. Whilst Kanda also deactivated Mugen, he continued to stare at the door still seeing the image of Allen just before the wooden door removed him from view. After a few more moments he shook himself and came to realise something. Damn that bastard! He was going to tell me about the curse. Fucking Moyashi! And with that he stormed out the room after Allen, determined to get his answers.
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Allen rushed out the room the second he recognised the stabbing pain in his heart and the blurriness before his eyes. Even his throat was already rebelling, convulsively trying to dislodge the blood that was steadily filling his lungs by spewing the stuff out his mouth. He put off the action long enough to make a hurried excuse to Yuu, the Generals, Bookman, Komui and Link and then dash out of their sight.
It was not until the door was safely shut behind him that he allowed his body to convulse into the fit of coughs that had been trying to force their way past his throat for a while now. As he kept walking he kept one hand on the wall to keep him upright, the other covered his mouth in an attempt to stop the blood that was pouring out from dirtying the ground.
"Shit…" He gurgled around the crimson liquid still flowing freely as his vision began to swim before him. He managed two more steps before his vision faded to black and he briefly felt the jolt and pain of his knees hitting the cold stone flooring. Then large strong arms wound themselves around his torso stopping the rest of his body from slumping to the ground.
"Moyashi!" Was the last thing he heard as his mind finally found freedom from the pain in the abyss of unconsciousness.
Questions and Answers
To Kris: Sorry if that bit on the last chapter didn't make sense to you. The idea is that Allen was thrown by Link across the room and straight into Kanda. Hope that clears things up!