Day: 039 as a comrade

I ran towards Solara, "Solara! That dream yesterday! I have questions!" "I don't want to hear them," Solara hissed at me.

"Please Solara, just tell me what happened to Aaron that day!"

"Shut up!"

"Solara!"

All of a sudden tears were streaming down her pink cheeks. I had never seen her cry so hard, I knew that she could cry, but I never imagined that she would ever cry like that. "Please just shut up," she choked. When Solara hid what really happened to Aaron, was she really not hiding anything? Could it have been that she didn't know what happened to Aaron because he had left her. But the what of the Earl? "I hated that day." Solara sobbed and I said nothing more of the dream. "Don't worry Solara, they're our memories, we'll suffer through it together." All of a sudden an unexpected chuckle left Solara's lips. "Our memories? So you still haven't realized it yet, how unexpected of you."

My eyes fluttered open and I found myself in my bed. I tried to remember the name Mana again, but all that I could recall was that he had something to do with Allen. I got dressed and yanked at the ring around my neck (they could be quite a bother sometimes). I wanted to know about that Mana guy, so I was going to look for my only source that wasn't Solara, which was Allen.

I searched all over the order, but couldn't find him anywhere. At least I searched everywhere, but the chapel. Allen was normally never in there, but I decided to check anyways and there he was. He looked somehow sad and dark. I approached him cautiously. "Hey Allen. What're you doing in here?" he looked at me and my heart almost stopped. He had gold eyes, gold eyes… where had I seen those eyes before. "Hey, you wearing contacts or something? What's up with that?" I laughed, my guard was completely up. If something happened I would be able to knock him unconscious in less than two seconds. He continued to stare at me with the eyes that saw through me like glass. They sent chills down my spine, it was almost like Allen was a different person. In fact I was almost sure that the boy standing before me was not Allen Walker. "Allen, you okay?"

He didn't answer, instead he snatched my wrist and held on hard with his left hand. I was all ready to knock that white haired boy dead. Maybe his senses would return when he woke up. My fist was inches away from his head when he whispered the name Solara and everything fell apart. My fist dropped to my side and my guard came crashing down. Wrong move. He held on to my wrist even tighter and I swear if he did anymore the bone would shatter. "Allen! What the hell are you doing!" Then I was yanked forward and his lips were smashed on to mine. He clamped his stupid gold eyes shut while mines surpassed the size of golf balls. I let out a screech that was muffled by his mouth and pounded on his chest with my fist that wasn't being held. Then he had both my arms. I was defenseless, and I hated it. His mouth left mine and I heard him whisper, "you belong to me." Instant anger and humiliation flooded in to my chest and I finally broke free from his grasp. I tumbled to the ground and winced in pain when I saw a huge bruise on my wrist. The gold eyed Allen stared down at me, and even though I was beyond angry I felt small and afraid. All of a sudden his eyes became the silver and kind ones that I knew.

"Huh? Sephiria? What are you doing here, and on the floor of all places?" Allen asked me, his voice no longer filled with want. I looked at him like he was crazy, "you don't remember! You don't remember what you just did to me!" Now Allen was giving me the confused expression, "What did I do to you?" My eyebrow twitched, "Allen Walker…"

"Yes?"

"May I punch you?"

"What-?"

The next thing he knew my fist connected to his face and he skidded about a yard away from me. I winced at the pain that shot through my wrist. "Sephiria? What- why are you punching me!" Tears brimmed my eyes and I shook with anger. "Allen Walker." My voice shook. "That was my first kiss you stupid idiotic bastard! I never want to see your stupid face ever again!" Allen's cheeks instantly flushed, "Wha-?" But I was already out of the chapel.

I hid in my room and through myself on to the bed. Then I beat my pillow imagining that it was Allen's face. "STUPID, STUPID, STUPID, IDIOTIC, BASTARD!" Then the pillow broke and feathers flew everywhere. "I hate you! You jerk!"

"I'm right here," Allen let himself in to my room and I gasped. "Are you trying to anger me even further than I already am Allen? Because if that is the case I will skin you right here and now." I hissed. "No, Sephiria. What's going on and what is this me kissing you crap?" I leapt to my feet and my aura became equal to that of a demon's, "crap Allen? You really did come in here asking to die."

"No! Wrong usage of words! But seriously what is going on!"

"You kissed me ad I don't know why the hell you did it! That's what's up!"

"When?"

"In the chapel! How do you not remember! You also did this to me!" I put up my purple wrist and his eyes got wide. He rushed over to me and grabbed it, but more gently this time. "Did I really do this?" He choked. He put his left hand over the bruise lightly and his hand size matched the print bruised in to my wrist perfectly. It was him, and I knew that he knew it. "You know, hurting girls is illegal in America," I snapped still mad at him. His face got dark again and my first thought was, oh hell no not again. Kill, now. But it was different this time, he grabbed my back and pulled me close to his chest. He was shaking, like he was sad, or mad at himself. I didn't know which it was. "Sorry Sephiria, I really don't remember doing any of the stuff that you just told me. I know that I did it though." "I don't understand why you don't remember," I blushed. "Neither do I, but I'm really sorry Sephiria." "I don't forgive you," I snapped. Allen laughed quietly, "as expected from you."

"Maybe I shouldn't go on that mission with you," I pushed him away and turned my head to the right so that he knew that I really didn't forgive him. "N-no! Don't do that!" He protested. "Well, Allen. At first I thought that you weren't the type of guy to do stuff to girls, but I've realized that you're just like Lavi. I can't trust you." "It won't happen again!" Allen cried. I looked him in the eye, "promise?"

"Yes, promise."

"Then maybe."

"Only maybe!"

"Yep."

Allen sighed, and I knew that he understood that my word was final. All of a sudden I remembered the reason that I had gone to find Allen in the first place. "Allen, I actually wanted to ask you something before you did what you did to me." "Really? What is it?" "Who is Mana?" I asked. "Mana? He's my dad. Well not my real one, but… you know." Then I remembered where I had heard that name from. It was Lenalee.

Aaron's brother was Mana, and Mana was Allen's adoptive parent. They were connected. That would make Aaron Allen's uncle. Allen's rumored to be the 14th Noah, the words replayed in my head like a never ending song. I shook the words from my mind the best that I could. There was no way that Allen was Aaron. "Oh and Sephiria, I know the date of the mission," Allen told me. "Then let's hear it," I said. "Does that mean you're coming!" Allen sounded excited.

"Didn't I say maybe?"

"Yeah, sorry. It's next week on the 23rd."

"Exactly a week from now actually." I calculated.

"It's funny, you're a new exorcist but you get so many missions that you barely come home," Allen laughed.

"Guess they expect a lot from Zokalo's apprentice."

"Man, hopefully you don't get transferred to another branch," Allen sighed. "Especially to the Asia Branch, people over there are rather obsessive. The Section chief is in love with Lenalee."

"Anyone in love with you?" I sounded oddly defensive which surprised myself also.

"I don't know. Maybe Lou-Fa." He thought hard. "She gets unusually excited when she sees me."

I laughed to myself about her name. (Lou-Fa in Cantonese, a form of Chinese speaking actually means old flower. Which makes me think of a shriveled up flower)

"When I'm there I'm the only European, besides the section chief who's half German. So it's a little odd."

"I could imagine."

All of a sudden Lux flew to my shoulder and shot out a projection of the clock. My hair stood up on my skin. I was late to training. Allen and I had been talking for too long. "Crap," I said aloud. "Sorry Allen, I got to go." "Where?" He asked. "Training. I'm already late. See ya'." And I was out the door.

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Zokalo and I trained for hours. Until it got dark actually. I could already feel myself improving. Moving around was a lot easier since I was able to invoke the ring around my neck and fly now. I had to cut slits in the back of my shirt though. I would have to have Johnny help me with doing the same thing to my uniform. I also could breathe easier, my body must've adapted to this endless training. Out of all the exorcists I was the one that visited the training grounds the most frequently. The longest I had activated the innocence on my legs for was five seconds, but I intended to change that to eight seconds. The perfect copy of Lenalee's "Dark Boots" formed on my legs and I immediately sprung towards Zokalo full force. I landed a kick on Zokalo's blade and managed to make him skid back a few centimeters. I threw my other leg at him and hoping to hit his body in time, but right before my leg collided with his arm it dematerialized. Zokalo grabbed my ankle and flung me to the ground which was something that he couldn't do when I had the "Dark Boots" on. I hit the ground and groaned loudly. "10 seconds," Zokalo said. "One more time," I groaned getting to my feet. "No, that's all for today. Get yourself to the clinic so they can check up on that healing wound of yours."

"Stop training so hard!" The head nurse scolded me. "You're going to reopen your wound! You just got the stitches out!" "Don't worry, it doesn't even hurt anymore," I reassured her. She stared at me with a demonic expression on her face that told me to listen to her. "O-okay! I won't push it I promise!" I stammered. "You don't mean it, I know it," the nurse said. "Sorry nurse, but I'm always busy and have to train. I don't have enough time to just 'take it easy'," I explained. "That's what's wrong with all you workaholics! All you care about is work!" The nurse examined the scar on my side. "Well as an exorcist it's hard to not care about work the most, same with the science department." "I know, just try and squeeze in some time for yourself," she sighed. "I have plenty of time for myself. At night," it was a sarcastic comment. "Don't you stay up all night Sephiria Liang! I don't want you coming in next time because you have a fever!" Nurse snapped.

"Don't worry I'm just joking!" I laughed. "By the way, how's Alystar doing?"

"Still no signs of him waking up," she told me.

"I see."

"He's the only exorcist that you haven't met yet huh? You really want to meet him that badly?"

I nodded, "Allen and Lavi always tell me that he's a good person!"

"Okay, you're good to go."

As I walked out of the clinic I ran in to Lenalee. "Hey." "Hi!" She waved at me. She was holding a cup of coffee on a tray. "Off to Komui's?" I guessed. "Yeah," she smiled brightly. "So what has one of the most well known exorcists in the Black Order been doing all day?" "Training," I said bluntly. "And getting scolded by the nurse." I left the part about Allen out. "You know, for once I actually think that you deserve it. You really push yourself to the limit way to much. I've seen you train, it's almost painful to watch," she winced and I laughed. "I just want to get stronger!" "Oh and how's your side?" She seemed a little concerned, I felt like a lot of people always looked at me in a concerned way. "Got my stitches out," I grinned proudly. "You shouldn't grin like that, you gave the order quite a scare back then. We seriously thought we were going to lose you! Allen even wanted to fly over to where you were because he was so worried!" I blushed a bit, "Allen did?" "Yeah, we were all worried." Lenalee said. "You're lucky you're a parasitic type."

"Oh, Lenalee. There's something that I've been meaning to ask you!" I said.

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Why's Allen under suspicion for being the 14th?"

"Oh, that's because he can read and play the 14th's song."

"Song?" Then I remembered the song that Aaron always played to me on the piano, the one that I always sang along to.

Lenalee began to explain to me what the 14th's song was, but I already knew what it was. She stopped talking after a while, "what's wrong Seph? You're looking a bit pale, you okay?"

I've never felt so bad in my whole entire life, it thought.

Pissed off Sephiria, and don't tell me that this girl is from this one anime named Toradora because I know. But I could only find this picture of a pissed off girl.

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