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Aydl held her hands out, her palms down, almost in an airplane fashion. Sparks began dancing around her hands, and soon she had it settle down. Turning to the two she nodded in the direction of Edo. "There's a lot of power. We need to be careful, otherwise we might just end up fighting a Noah wasting our lives for nothing."
Cielo and Jaden gave an affirmative nod.
"We destroy as many Akuma as possible. When the main group gets here, we protect them with our lives. Now, let's find a nice high place to start things off."
Aydl hummed to herself, stepping off the boat as soon as they hit shore. Almost instantly she had summoned a small storm, lightning hitting the ground around her- effectively catching the attention of an extremely large amount of Akuma running to them.
"I won't do much help here. Jaden, help Cielo to a good hunting spot. Eradicate everything standing in your way, and if possible, make a lot of noise," Aydl said, the winds picking her up and dropping her off with Cielo and Jaden angry at her for abandoning them. Jaden eyed the area. Ceilo pointed out an area that would be good for the both of them to work as a team. Giving a grunt of approval the two dashed towards the area. He obeyed Aydl's command by eradicating the Akuma in their way with his sharp wings.
Aydl watched the two from her position on a partially destroyed skyscraper. In her peripheral vision she could make out a horde of Akuma. With a swing of her hand in their direction a large bolt shot down and danced from body to body. Corpse after corpse dropped, disconnected from the souls that were controlling them.
Snorting she looked back to the shore- seeing no boats coming in she used the wind to push their boat off with the finder to sail back to the last branch they were at.
They should have a few days, and if they were to survive until the main group got here she would need to find a place they could rest.
"Damn it, Marian! Where the hell are you?" Aydl screeched, punching a level three that had managed to escape the lightning that was her signature attack. A loud boom echoed, and Aydl yanked of her gloves, the green circles on her hands glowing. She was about to send a lightning infused punch at what she though was another Akuma until she recognized the vibrant red hair of a certain drunk womanizer. She looked at the perverted smile he had and smiled back. "Ne, Marian, where've you been hiding?"
Cross chuckled, tossing an arm around his young friend. "Around. I'm certain I can spare you and your kids safety when you have to recover. The Akuma population of Japan is already down 3%. Of course, majority of the population is level 2s and 3s."
"Have you gone back to the restaurant since I've left?" Aydl questioned, her lightning taking out another round of Akuma.
"Yes. I was surprised you weren't there. If you weren't here in front of me as an Exorcists I would have thought you got killed by the Noah," Cross chuckled. "The shop's still in good condition. The girl in charge forced me to pay before she allowed them to start preparing the food."
Aydl laughed at Cross's scowl. "I certainly taught her well. It's a good thing I gave the restaurant to her in my will."
Cross raised an eyebrow. "Are you really going to go through with it? When you said he was awakened I was certainly surprised, but that doesn't mean you have to help him break Critical. I certainly wouldn't want to lose my favorite non-violent female companion."
Aydl chuckled once more. "Cloud the favorite violent female companion?"
He nodded, and Aydl turned solemn. "I met a teenage gypsy. She was an experienced Accommodator experienced with her Innocence, and ran from me on site. If not for my Innocence's side effect I wouldn't have been able to corner her, and learn she was avoiding the Order. So I let her go after making her promise on her blood that if I was to die she takes my place. Once I'm done with the plan, go after her. Borrow my Innocence against its will if you must to locate her."
Cross froze, reached into his uniform's coat and pulled out a bottle of wine. He took a swig straight from the bottle before offering it to Aydl- who gladly took it. "Aydl, I've heard from a certain bushy haired foster father friend of mine that you and Yu are rather close…"
Aydl chuckled, glad for the change of topic. She waited for Cross to stop shooting Akuma to speak. "Our only really sore spot is Allen, and my hatred for Japanese. As long as he doesn't speak in that cursed language we get along quite well, and every now and then we train together."
She glanced up at the red hair and ran a loving hand through it. "Remember Cross, if you need me, I will be your marionette."
Cross' eyes widened, and he gave a sad smile before leaving with a noogie messing up her hair as goodbye.
Allen was sent into town, seeing as a certain redhead or Lenalee wouldn't be trusted alone (Lavi would flirt and Lenalee's Innocence wasn't working), Kanda was simply antisocial, and the others plain simply didn't want to go. Being deemed the one to go since he had picked up the signature of a battle between a Noah and some Accommodator, he was now moving through the desolate city, tapping into his Noah to grab the shadows and blend in.
He studied the Accommodator that was stupid enough to engage in battle against a Noah without backup. She certainly had style, he'd give her that. Deep blue eyes were brought out by jeans and a red shirt with a checkered vest on top. She was fighting in boots (suicide for anyone that wasn't Lenalee), with her black hair moving with the air as she jumped around trying to get in close enough to hit who he knew to be Tyki with twin daggers. She also used this jumping to avoid the flesh eating butterflies that was one of Tyki's signatures.
He could tell she was losing, so when he saw Tyki's butterfly covered hand striking to feast on her heart he dashed forward after releasing his Noah and took the hit instead. He could feel it rip a hole into his heart- and the Noah's eyes widened in surprise. He took off after Crown Clown activated itself and began attacking- heading in the direction of Edo. Allen fell unconscious- barely hearing a certain angry samurai calling his nickname. After passing out he was caught by the new Accommodator.
"Ne, Alice-chan, you wanna be my-" "Shut up if you want to keep your family jewels."
Lavi shuddered as Alice Knight, their newly recruited Exorcist, held her parasitic twin daggers far too close to his manhood for his liking. He backed up, hands held up in a sign of his backing off. Kanda was smirking, which was his an equivalent to him laughing in this situation.
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A/N: Next chapter will be an intro (/omake as it was originally intended to be) to another –man story I'm thinking of doing to see how well it hits off with my current readers. So if you like the next chapter leave a review on that chapter saying so!