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'So Allen,' Road looked at him across the breakfast table, 'You must know this town pretty well, huh?'

'Not really. I haven't been outside since I was four.'

'Oh, well then you must be really familiar with the house then. Any cool secret places? Hidden torture chambers behind bookcases or revolving walls?'

'Of course not.' Allen raised his eyebrow, surprised that a girl would be interested in such a thing. 'But then,' he thought as Road smiled sadistically at him, 'This WAS Road...'

He sighed and shovelled the last of his cereal down, and got up. Road had been staying there for three days, and during that time she'd forced him to play every game imaginable, which was fine, but wasn't very good at the games making Allen the winner at most of them, and then she'd throw a tantrum and keep playing him until he caved and lost on purpose, but if she figured out he lost on purpose she'd call him a wimp and force him to play again. He could hardly believe this girl was only two years younger then him.
He tried to mask his agony with a forced smile.

'So what would you like to do today Miss Kamelot?' he asked politely. After the incident at dinnertime Lulubell had told him if he upset her too much there'd be punishment, and he didn't feel like finding out what. The girl stood up and sighed.

'I wanna see your room.'

Allen blinked and his smile faltered.

'M-My room?'

'Yes, your room. Take me too your room.'

Allen nodded stiffly and started leading her out of the breakfast room and down the hall towards a staircase. He really wasn't comfortable with this, and besides, what if she saw Tim? He shuddered to think what she would do to the kitten.
They ascended the staircase, walked along the hall, and stopped in front of his room.

'Ok miss Kamelot,' Allen hoped Lavi could hear him inside, 'Here's my room.'

'Yes, yes,' she yawned boredly, 'hurry up and open the door.'

Allen nodded, swallowed nervously and opened the door slowly to peek in. As he did he saw his bathroom door shut, and he sighed in relief and went in fully. He and Road stood in the middle of the floor, the girl looking around.

'Well, here's my room,' Allen repeated, plastering on a nervous smile, 'Nothing special about it. Just normal bedroom stuff...'

He knew he sounded like a babbling idiot but he was so nervous she'd want to look in the bathroom that his brain had gone into autopilot. He tried to swallow, and took a deep breath.

'So why do you want to look in here?'

'Because there's supposed to be a tunnel in your room that leads to a secret garden.'

Allen blinked.

'You know about that?'

'Yes, my family knew the person who built it. We have a copy of the plans that show a tunnel, and your housekeeper told me your room was above the spot where the tunnel starts. Now show me the garden.'

Allen hesitated. It wasn't a big deal to show her the garden as there was nothing there to hide, but... He still didn't want her down there. He felt strange thinking this, but he considered that his and Lavi's place. However, it didn't look like Road was going to let it go.

'Show me now or else I'll make you wear a dress again.'

Allen sighed, nodded and went over to the rug with an oddly heavy heart. He pulled the rug back, and opened the trap door. He walked down the stairs, with Road following, and felt around the floor for the lamp. After lighting it, he led the girl down the tunnel, with her ushering him to hurry up.
Up above in Allen's room, Lavi opened the door of the bathroom, brow furrowed in confusion. She seemed familiar to him suddenly.

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'Ok,' Road looked at Allen once they emerged in the bright sunlight. 'The plans said there were three tunnels, but only showed where two of them were. Where's the third?'

'I don't know.' Allen said truthfully.

'Well you must! It's your garden!'

'I know, but I haven't known of its existence for long, so I haven't exactly mapped it out yet. I'm not even supposed to be here cos I can't go outside.'

'Well your housekeeper told me she's now lifted that rule. I'm going to look for that third tunnel so stay out of my way.'

Allen blinked at the less bratty but equally rude way of talking she'd suddenly adopted, and could only stand there as she wandered off past the archway. As she disappeared from sight, she pulled out a small stone from her pocket.

'Oh my god...'

Allen looked to see Lavi standing next to him, eye wide in shock.

'Lavi..? Are you ok?'

'Allen, you need to get her out of here right now.'

'Why? I don't like her down here too but-'

'No, seriously; get her out. She's the witch who killed me!'

'WHAT?!'

'I thought she seemed familiar when she was in your room, but didn't think much of it, but just then she pulled out a searching stone from her pocket! She's looking for the thing with everyone's power sealed in it!'

'Th-thats here?! Wait, how can she be the witch?' Allen looked confused, 'She's only thirteen! And you died decades ago!'

'There are certain spells and potions witches can use to preserve or regain their youth, though you're not really supposed to use them last time I checked... Anyway, just get her out before she finds the third tunnel!'

Allen nodded and rushed after the witch, mind spinning. He had no idea how he was supposed to deal with all this, being engaged to an evil witch old enough to be his grandmother who had killed his best friend, but for now he had to keep her away from the tunnel entrance, wherever that was.

'M-Miss Kamelot!' Allen yelled as he spotted the girl in section four, 'W-We need to go back to the house now!'

'Go away, I'm doing something.'

'But uh...' Allen racked his brain, 'The chef promised to get you really good candy for lunch! And chocolate and ice-cream! He's serving it up now but it will melt if we're not quick! We can do this later.'

Road sighed and stood up.

'Fine. But after lunch we're coming back.'

Allen nodded, smiling fakely. He'd at least held her off for a little while. Now he just had to persuade the cook to go out and buy her some candy and ice-cream. Though with the way she insulted his skills at every meal, he'd have to beg.

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Allen almost cried in relief when Lulubell told him Road ate too much and was too sick to see him for the rest of the day. While she called the doctor, he collapsed on his bed in his room, utterly spent. Lavi was leaning against the wall, looking spaced out.

'Dammit...' he muttered, 'I can't believe she came back... My family told her they destroyed the crystal after I died!'

'Why didn't they destroy the crystal in the first place?' Allen sat up and looked at the redhead curiously.

'Cos that would have destroyed all the magical power in the world. Think of magical power like pyramid of cards; if one important piece goes down, all the rest go down as well. Every country has one High witch whose powers are connected to everyone else's in the world. England's High Witch just so happened to live here and have his powers sealed away, and even though he's long dead his powers are still alive. We destroy the crystal, then his powers are destroyed and so are everyone else's.'

Allen smiled weakly.

'Why does Road want her powers increased?'

'To enslave humanity.'

'Then wouldn't it be better to destroy the crystal rather then risk humanity like that?'

'That's what I said when they sealed our powers!' Lavi nodded and sat on the edge of the mattress, 'But nooo... No one listens to the guy who can only do size-shifting spells cos he doesn't have real powers...'

Allen smiled weakly and inhaled.

'Ok, so next question; why is the Chrystal in my family's garden?'

'A father built the garden when he was a teenager as a favour to your family right? Well it's cos your family was the only human family in the town that treated witches nicely. Then the crystal was created years after and the witches weren't sure where to put it so the Walkers offered one of the secret places in their garden. Then Road came and killed me and was looking for the crystal with her searching stone. They put the crystal inside my body so that it took the place where my soul was, so when she looked for the crystal it wouldn't turn up on the searching stone's radar. She left, thinking the crystal was elsewhere, and obviously she's figured out its still here, so she created the Road Kamelot farce to get close to the garden.'

Allen could only stare in amazement. He couldn't believe any of this was happening. He'd thought seeing a ghost got as weird as it gets, but now witches and magical powers and humanity being enslaved? This felt like a dream!

'Wait. Lulubell said I was engaged to Road, and she was looking around my room the other night. Is she a witch too?'

'Nah, she's not a witch, she's a Noah.'

'A what?'

'A Noah; a servant of a witch created out of dust. How long have you known Lulubell?'

'Um, all my life.'

'Right, and in all of your fifteen years has she ever aged?'

Allen blinked. Lulubell had always looking in her twenties, despite claiming to have worked for hi father for ten years before Allen was born. He shook his head, amazed.

'Ok, so Road has taken over Lulubell. I always knew she was a Noah, but there are heaps of leftover Noahs scattered around the town, so it wasn't worth thinking about. Anyway, we have to figure out what we're gonna do now.'

'I-I don't know...' Allen stuttered, 'I mean... I can't stand up to a witch... And from the sounds of it I can't make her leave either.'

'I know...' Lavi sighed, 'I'd say we could just let her take the crystal and let the power kill her, but cos it's taken up space in my body... And plus she said she's got a way of containing it so...'

'Yeah...' Allen nodded and sat up, 'about that whole "Put it in the place where your soul was," thing. What did you mean by that?'

Lavi hesitated for a moment, thinking, and then got up.

'Come with me, I'll show you.

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Lavi led Allen to a space in the garden at the back of section six, which was full of daffodils. Allen quite liked this section because the sunny yellow made him feel happy, but he didn't have time to admire the flowers as Lavi brought him up to the vine-covered wall. He pulled back the vines and was surprised to see a door there, with a small symbol on it that looked like a hammer. They went in, and Allen blushed as he felt Lavi hold his hand to lead him through the darkness. Since he'd realised he'd had strange feelings for Lavi he'd stayed awake for hours in bed thinking about them, trying to figure them out. It was love, yes, but not a love he was used to. Then, he'd remembered conversations he'd had with his father when he was little, often asking about his mother who he'd supposedly killed due to his deformity, though Mana never told him that. Mana had mention he loved his mother several times, in a way that was different to the fatherly love he'd had for Allen, calling it True Love. So now, Allen had at last figured out that he loved Lavi in the way his father had described loving his mother; True Love.

He sighed heavily, and Lavi's pace slowed.

'What's wrong?' the redhead asked.

'N-nothing...' Allen stuttered, glad the redhead couldn't see the blush on his face. Although he'd figured out his feelings, he was still unsure of them. Lavi was dead, and a ghost, plus Allen was pretty sure he didn't love him back in that way. So it was silly he felt that way, and yet he did.

Just then, they stopped. Allen felt Lavi let go of his hand, and a second later there was the sound of a door being pushed open to reveal a moonlit cave with something long and shimmering in the middle. When Allen looked closer, he saw an exact copy of Lavi lying in a coffin made of something similar to diamond.

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Had to leave it there, but it was a lot longer then the rest of the chaps.

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