I do not own d gray man. All characters are copyright of Katsura Hoshino. I do own James/Jasper.
Jasper's Pov
I watched from a distance as Tyki and Allen fought. Tease was fluttering in the air. As Allen was a good enough distance from Tyki.
"Boy, what are you thinking right now? Are you happy that we've agreed to kill one another? It was pretty fun when you defeated us at cards, right? Don't put on a poker face, just tell me."
"It's sad. At the time I met you, you were aloof from the world. You had the traits of a human and you were humane. If it could come true, this is all I'd want. It would have been good if we played poker, and nobody died," Allen said sadly.
So then he had fun playing poker with Tyki and his friends. Really that seemed better than what was happening now.
I walked beside Rhode, as she sprang the trap for Lenalee, and her companion in a box.
"Lenalee!! Chaoji…!" shouted Lavi as he turned in shock and horror.
"W-We're okay, Lavi! It looks like we've just been shut in…" responded Lenalee.
"Yeah!" said her companion Chaoji.
"Right now I'm simply shutting them in, just for you. So? Let's play, bookman?" said Rhode playfully.
"Lavi… I'm sorry," Lenalee said.
"The eldest child of The Clan Of Noah. 'Rhode', was it?" questioned Lavi, as he extended his hammer. "I'll play, on the condition that if I win, you're gonna have too let these two go."
"Yup. Fine with me."
Rhode with one foot on Lero, activated her power for the bookman.
"Lavi!?" shouted Lenalee in desperation.
Lavi became immobilized, completely in Rhode's dream world.
"… Isn't that worst then death, Rhode?" I asked.
She was humming a tune not saying anything. What I had said made Lenalee worry even more.
I caught my eye on Tyki's and Allen's battle. They were really going full out. I saw a lot of Tyki's Tease. But not the small ones I normally see but huge ones.
"Lavi. What's wrong? Answer me. Lavi!!" shouted Lenalee desperately. "What's wrong Lavi!! Lavi!!"
"Lero- Lero- Lero is scared of Rhode's ability the most -Lero-"
"I can't agree more, Lero…" I said quietly.
"Now then, I wonder just where I'd have to stab the future Bookman's heart for blood to gush out. When it's crimson it's pretty. If it's amber that'd be nice ," she said smiling wickedly plotting on how to kill the bookman Jr.
I turned away and studied Tyki's and Allen's fight. They were far away from where we were.
They were flying at each other. Tyki was on the ground while Allen was using his Crown Clown to stay in the air. At a sudden movement Tease flew all around Allen.
Allen activated his Crown Clown as a shield and blocked their attacks. In one swoop of his cloak he destroyed them all.
It was incredible; there fight was head on battle. I stared at the tiny dot that was Tyki he seemed to be destroying Allen's arm again. There was a-
I moved to the side, Bam right on the box where Lenalee and Choji were. Allen was face bent and knees crouched.
The attack from Tyki was really hard, I'm not surprised he isn't dead yet.
"Allen!" shouted Lenalee.
Tyki jumped to where he was.
"Ouch… So one blow isn't enough, huh…" said Tyki. "You are quite sturdy for someone who just evolved." He continued to walk forward. "But the next one will end it. Just don't try to resist anymore, okay?"
"Tyki, I told you, you're being too harsh on Allen," saud Rhode not happy.
"Just let it pass," said Tyki staring at his hand.
"Don't come any close!" shouted Lenalee. "Don't. DON'T TOUCH MY COMRADE!!!"
"My heart hasn't been smashed yet…" said Allen shakily. "I will never… let you guys… escape from the darkness!!"
Allen's innocence was really damaged. It was all cracked almost to bursting point.
"What's wrong? You can't be happy that I've broken your arm down, right?" asked Tyki.
Allen started coughing blood, and Lenalee was really worried for him.
"Allen, you can't let the Noah's power touch you! It isn't just your innocence being affected. As a parasite-type, your body suffers the load too, you know right!?" asked Lenalee.
Huh, Allen was still standing able to move. What was his plan…
"Tyki Mikk. There is something about us exorcist that you don't understand… you think exorcists are mere humans and by destroying their anti-akuma weapon which is innocence…They will become powerless since they are mere humans." Allen became all serious and wiped blood from his mouth. "But opponents that you should really be afraid of are those humans. Even if the power is given to them by the innocence yet the one handling the power are those humans and their hearts as exorcists." He activated his innocence. His hand started to heal and fix all the cracks at an alarming rate. "My hear is tied to the innocence. Unless my body that is the vessel perishes, I will continue as an exorcist. What's important to me is… to exist in this world."
I suddenly felt grave danger. His arm was glowing and fixing it self, I grimaced. Is this what the Noah was talking about. I wasn't sure. And I wasn't hoping to find out.
I gazed wordlessly, at what I think I saw. It looked like the force of Allen's innocence blew Tyki's right side apart. But a second later he was find. I felt my heart beating hard and rapidly in my chest. I gripped it. I paled; I hope the thing Noah was crying about never will happen.
"To put it simple, you can't break down my Crown Clown down."
Tyki's hair fell on to his face. I was right as I paled and gripped my pounding heart something was wrong.
"Tyki Mikk. All of you have underestimated us humans far too much!" as Allen's arm started to glow.
My eyes were wide, I knew something was going to happen in the pit of my stomach, as Tyki started to laugh madly.
"Who do you think you are…" Tyki activated a circle as it started glowing he said, "Ok, I get it. So I don't kill the boy first, that innocence won't die huh?"
Rhode stood up on Lero abruptly.
"What's wrong- Lero!?"
"Tyki's snapped" I answered for Rhode as she used he power to move everybody to higher ground.
Rhode and the boy with the exorcist rose higher. As I activated my ability to create dark matter to raise my self-up.
Tyki started his ability and was intent on destroying Allen at all costs.
I stared at the ball that was sucking up and destroying everything in its path.
Lenalee and Choji were still in the container. So was Lavi in a different container.
"Tyki is serious- Lero."
"Hey, wait do you want this place to get smashed up-?" asked Rhode.
"Rhode, Jasper, what is this? What happened to Allen!?" questioned Lenalee.
"Allen is inside that. That's a little dangerous. Tyki is able to choose for all creations as the Noah of 'Pleasure'. If you look at the space in Allen's surrounding… he's probably rejected the atmosphere and created a vacuum. Now that he can't breath and this rate, Allen's body may be destroyed," explained Rhode worried.
"Jasper… what's going to happen…?" questioned Rhode.
I looked at her my hand was still on my heart. I was gripping so hard my knuckles at turned white.
"I'm no certain… but I…" my face blanked as I turned as white as a sheet of paper.
Rhode's Pov
As I asked Jasper the question he never answered me. He kept his hand where his heart is and was pale, looking like he hadn't slept for days.
I turned my eyes away from Jasper and surveyed the black orb, which was occupying the ground.
"Allen, can't you do it?" I questioned.
Jasper's pov
The wind blew around me. My eyes were vacant as I watched the scene before me. What do I have to do I questioned Noah. He didn't answer but I felt when the time came he would take over.
I heard some noises inside the box as Lenalee tried to find a way out to help her friends.
She was trying her hardest but no matter how hard she tried she would never go out of that box until Rhode allowed it.
"That's useless, Lenalee," I spoke.
"You can't activate your innocence with your legs either…" said Rhode after me.
Suddenly the black ball split open with a light. I opened my eyes in horror.
The wind swept around me threatening to push me off my board I had created. I held and saw as Tyki emerged through the rubble.
"What's happening, Tyki?" asked Rhode.
"A surprising human, hmm?
"Huh?" I questioned, Tyki wasn't making sense at what had happened in the ball.
He was bent holding on to his knees in support not looking how he had been before he attacked.
"I'm too surprised to laugh at all," he said mostly to himself. "Did I just wake up or something? Not good at all…?"
Huh…? I jolted at what I saw. Allen was still alive. But his left arm was gone and he was holding a sword that was an opposite of what the Earl carries.
Rhode was looking in shock not believing what she saw. She shook her head several times and looked really serious.
Allen was very serious he gripped his newly found sword hard and said, "I'll shoe you that I can protect them…"
He leaped forward at an alarming rate to where Tyki was.
"Why are you…" Tyki began, but was stop short as Allen's sword hit Tyki's shield, "so stubborn?"
"Even you guys… should know why," answered Allen.
I blinked and Tyki's shield was breaking. He was cut across the chest, but nothing happened to him. But… I felt my heart beat hard again. The thing that the Noah was crying about was going to happen.
Tyki was in shock as to why he wasn't death.
"… What was that? I'm not dead…? But I've not been cut!! What trick did you pull, boy?"
My eyes flashed in horror I needed to warn him!
"It wasn't a trick. What I slashed was…"
Tyki started to cough blood; bright crosses appeared to where he had been cut. Dark shadows started to leave his body; his hand was on his face gripping it.
"Inside of me… Noah has…" he couldn't finish as he started to scream in agony as part of the Noah was exorcised.
"Destroy the evil inside a person, that's mine and Crown Clown's power."
"Tyki!!" I yelled angrily. This was dangerous. Even Allen should know exactly what he is dealing with. Or maybe he doesn't know.
"Did you tear the Noah from me… boy…. You just killed the Noah in me? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! You are… naïve!" shouted Tyki. "Too soft… this is because of your ego…"
"Whatever happens, I'm prepared to bear the burden for the purpose," said Allen as he readied his sword prepared to strike again.
"Tyki…!" Said Rhode as she jumped down.
I jumped down after her, since Tyki's Noah…
Tyki put his hand out to stop us. I didn't know what he was thinking.
"Tyki what are you…" but before I could continue.
"It's alright," he said smiling as blood dripped from his mouth.
I clenched my teeth together. What was Tyki thinking?
"Retreat from this battle," was his reply not turning to look at us.
Allen pulled his sword back and lunged it at Tyki shouting, "Tyki Mikk."
Tyki eyes widened as the sword slashed through him. Veins started to appear on his face as his skin turned to his human shade.
"It's a pity… boy…" he said as he put his hand on Allen's face. "Sorry… Rhode…Jasper."
I clenched my hand into a fist. This… what was Tyki thinking? Allen pulled his sword out of Tyki and he flew several feet away. Tyki's holy marks disappeared.
"Tyki…" said Rhode surprised.
"Tyki's… holy mark has disappeared- Lero."
My face was blank, but I was angry at what had happened.
Rhode began her attack.
"Don't move. If you move, I'll pierce through you all. Although Allen of Crown Clown might not die so easily, those other than him probably will die, right?" She moved to where Tyki was and looked down on him and said, "You know, though I like Allen," she held Tyki to her and continued, "My family is also special to me…this kind of feeling is the same as yours, Allen." Allen attempted to move but Rhode stopped him by saying, "Don't move. I am not quite myself at the moment. Do you want to see holes open up in the bodies of your companions? But that alone is not enough. 'One person…' of Allen's companions will be punished for this. I'll wreck that heart and show you!!"
So the thing that the Noah inside of me was crying about had happened. But then how are we connected so strongly when I rarely go into my Noah form…