"Where's Tiedoll supposed to be?" Lenalee asked. They'd reached the area Tiedoll was reported to be, but finding a general in such a big place was like finding a needle in a haystack. She hoped to God Kanda had a better idea than she did at the moment. She didn't want to have to search for a general yet again. Cross was more than enough general searching for her.
Kanda had to suppress a small laugh. Tiedoll was never where he was "supposed to be." Usually, he ended up wandering away on some artistic whim. If they thought Cross was hard to find, they'd obviously never tried to find Tiedoll when he went on one of his 'artistic journeys.' At least Cross was nice enough to leave a trail of debt in his wake.
"Che, follow me. I'd bet almost anything that he moved to a more 'artistic' area. Most likely he's moved to the outskirts of town to do an oil painting or something like that."
Lavi nodded as he and Lenalee began to follow Kanda. "I don't know General Tiedoll well, so I'll take your word for it, Yuu," he said. Lavi clasped his hands behind his head and leaned back slightly as he walked. Lavi wasn't quite sure what to expect from all this. The Noah were bound to come, and that fact alone made him wonder: Will Allen betray them again, or will be betray us? Lavi couldn't say; what Allen did back in Normandy was a bit of a surprise to him, and a good one at that... sort of.
"Say," Lavi began, "do you think the Noah are already here? They can travel around faster than we can with their Ark."
"Lavi, you're a genius!" Lenalee said, grinning. Lavi stared at her blankly, not quite understanding until she turned to Timcanpy. "Tim, is Allen nearby? Can you find him?"
Timcanpy nodded and turned this way and that, trying to locate Allen. Once he'd located his owner, he stopped and pointed urgently in that direction.
"He's this way! Come on!"
The six Noah stepped out of the Ark's gateway as it opened into the Black Forest of Germany. Tyki pulled out the playing card that the Earl had given him with the coordinates of the General's location and read over it once again. "All right, we're in the right area," he announced as he slipped the card back into his day coat. "Keep a sharp eye out."
"Akuma," Lulubelle called out in a monotone voice. At her command, the mass horde of Level Three Akuma assigned to them for the mission swarmed out of the Ark's gate and floated around, awaiting their orders. "Spread out and find the General. Contact us when you've found him." The Akuma then scattered and began their search for Tiedoll.
Allen watched silently as the Akuma spread out to search for Tiedoll, but he was uninterested in their movements. He was more worried about Road, who hadn't spoken to him at all since he'd confronted her after breakfast. Sighing, he sat down on a fallen log to await the Akuma's return.
The Noah waited around the drop off site for a few minutes for any of the Akuma to return with news. However, as the minutes dragged on, Tyki was getting restless and impatient just sitting around. "C'mon guys," Tyki said to the group. "Let's move."
"Awww... Really?" the twins cried in unison, halfway up a tree. While they were all waiting around, the twins decided to occupy themselves by chasing after a squirrel they had spotted once they emerged from the Ark.
"The General is probably on the move, and we can't afford to just sit here if by chance the Akuma don't spot him," Tyki explained.
The Noah agreed, even though they really didn't all want to move. The twins climbed down from their tree, Lulubell put away her nail file, and Road jumped down from the low tree branch she was perched on while they were waiting. Road ran up to Tyki and jumped onto his back, expecting a piggyback ride, all the while giggling like nothing was wrong.
Normally, Tyki would object to such a thing, but he wanted to talk to Road about her little bout with Allen. He wrapped his arms under her knees and began walking east, leading the others toward where he thought the General was. All right, Road, tell me, he thought, knowing that she could hear his thoughts, what's this all about between you and Allen?
Road turned her head to the side as an objection to say or think anything back. However, she eventually ended up thinking back, He's still thinking of them Tickie. He said the girl's name in his sleep...
The Heart girl? Tyki thought again. He's a Noah now. How do you know he wasn't killing her in his sleep?
He wasn't doing that, she thought bitterly. I could tell.
Did you check? Tyki thought as he looked over his shoulder at her, giving her a look that showed he didn't believe her.
There was a long pause in their mental conversation before Road finally thought, feeling rather dumb that she didn't check in the first place, ...No...
See? You can't just assume, Tyki lectured her. Hear him out later and then decided if it's worth your while to stay mad. He is worried about you, you know? He glanced inconspicuously over at Allen, as did Road.
Allen followed the other Noah silently. He was still a little depressed about the whole thing with Road. He didn't even know what he did! Why should he be being punished for it? The irritation soon vanished and the depression came back even stronger. He sighed. This sucks, he thought miserably.
Time went on as the Noah traveled whatever path Tyki could make out in search of Tiedoll. It wasn't until a while later that Road picked up a distress signal from the Akuma telepathically, northeast of their current location. "Tickie," Road said seriously, loud enough for the others to hear as well, "the Akuma found the General."
Tyki looked behind him at Road to make a comment but caught a golden glint amongst the trees. Not too far off, he spotted three black uniforms heading their way. "That's not all we found," Tyki commented as he stopped in his tracks and let Road down off from his back. "Road, Lulubelle," Tyki said, tightening his gloves, readying himself for a fight, "go on ahead and intercept the General. The four of us will keep the Exorcists busy."
Road glared at the approaching Exorcists as she herself was geared to fight them. She knew the general came first, though. "Fine," Road said reluctantly. "We'll meet up later." Road summoned her door the two female Noah left the scene to follow the trail of the distress signal.
The twins ceased pointing their guns at each others' heads and pointed them at their approaching targets and said in unison, "Let's have some fun, Tickie, Allen."
"Agreed," Tyki said darkly before he snapped his fingers and a large swarm of Tease melded from his hand and encircled the Noah. "Tease," he commanded the dark butterflies, "obliterate them." Tyki snapped his fingers yet again and the swarm charged the Exorcists, the mass horde of Tease engulfing the trees and foliage in its path.
Allen activated his reversed Crowned Clown and waited. If the exorcists survived the swarm of Tease, he'd be ready to fight.
Lenalee was the first to spot the dark mass heading toward them. "We've got company!" she shouted, activating her Innocence. "Get ready!"
Lavi quickly turned toward the mass hoard of Tease coming toward them. How didn't we see this coming? he thought in aggravation as he activated his Innocence. But that doesn't matter now. He raised his hammer high into the sky. The many seals surrounded his hammer and began to revolve around it. Level Two Release. Lavi stamped his hammer against the fire seal, Hammer of Fire, and then stomped it hard on the ground, saying inside his head, Hell-fire.
A vortex of fire surrounded the three exorcists, bursting any Tease that would dare to pass through to the fiery wall into flames. As usual, it didn't take long before the hellish flames diminished into nothing. There were less Tease than before, but there were still quite a lot continuing to come at them.
Trying to look past the hoard of Tease, Lavi saw Tyki, Jasdero, and Allen. For the first time, Lavi wasn't surprised to see Allen siding with the Noah. Nor was he surprised to see that Allen looked as if he would lunge himself at them if any of them dared to approach him and his Noah comrades. What did surprise Lavi was the sight of Allen's Innocence. ...Is that his Innocence? It looks...different, like in a demonic way...
As soon as Lavi's fire faded and Lenalee could see Allen, she shot like a bullet toward him. "Allen!" she shouted, but stopped. There was something different about him... Something... evil. "Allen?"
Kanda heard Lenalee's exclamation before he saw anything. Tyki's Tease were surrounding them but Lavi was quick to burn them with the flames from his hammer. Across the field were the Noah, only four from what he could see. Tyki Mikk, David, Jasdero, and... Was that Allen? No it couldn't be, the arm was too different. For a moment, Kanda thought back to the Akuma he and Allen had faced on their first mission together. Maybe it was a shape shifting Akuma trying to throw them off. But the way Timcanpy fluttered around snuffed the thought. It really was the Moyashi.
"Hello, exorcists," Allen said, lifting his claw. "Happy to see me?"
Lenalee flinched. His voice was so cold... so empty... . And his innocence...it wasn't the same. Like it had been reversed almost...like it had evolved. Something was wrong. Something was very wrong. "Allen, your Innocence... What happened?"
Lavi was speechless; his best friend Allen seemed so... heartless. The sound of his voice as if it was nothing but pure hatred for them. So evil, so calm. It put Lavi in a daze; he wasn't sure what to think of his friend. All he knew was that Lavi, along with the entire Black Order, had most likely lost Allen to the Noah.
Lavi finally shook his head some, managing to pull himself together and out of the trance he was in. "Allen..." Lavi muttered, "it's only been a few days, and yet, you're so... different..."
"Bean Sprout, what the Hell happened to you?" Kanda didn't care; he just needed to know.
"Haven't you been paying attention," Tyki said as he snapped his fingers again. The remaining Tease regrouped around their master and then thrust themselves in a pillar of mass at Kanda, flinging him back thirty meters into the trunk of a large tree. As the tease scattered, Tyki explained, "He's a Noah now. No longer one you. No longer possessing his old powers."
A new swarm of skull Tease melded from Tyki's body and mixed with the ranks of the black Tease fluttering about the area between and around Tyki and Kanda. Two other Tease melded from his hands and converted their bodies into white energy, forming Tyki's white cross blades over his wrists. "Come now," Tyki said with a demonic look in his eyes, "we have yet to settle our little duel."
The twins, meanwhile, called out in unison, "Baka. We told you last time. His Innocence isn't God's crystal anymore." The two seemed to disappear and then reappear in front of the hammer-wielding exorcist while pointing their pistols at him. "It's now Red Innocence," they said before a colored bullet materialized in the gun chambers. "Red Bomb!!!" they cried out as they fired a large fire ball at Lavi.
Lavi's eyes widened as the twins pulled the triggers of their guns. He quickly jumped out of the way of the "red bomb," just barely dodging it. Panting, Lavi stood up straight and looked over in Kanda's direction, then Lenalee's. Allen's going to fight Lenalee... I wonder if she'll really be able to fight back, he wondered as he glanced back at his own threat. As much as Lavi would've loved to go after Lenalee and fight by her side against their friend, he couldn't with the twins shooting bombs at him.
"Two against one, huh?" Lavi muttered. "Seems a little unfair, don't you think?" Lavi smirked as he gripped the handle of his hammer tightly, and made sure that his feet were planted firmly on the ground. He raised his hammer high and shouted, "Hiban!" right before he brought it right back down to the ground, forming a dragon of fire that lunged right for the twins.
Allen smiled. He would have answered his former "friends," but his family had done it for him. "It seems your friends and my family are already busy." He bowed mockingly to Lenalee. "Shall we?" He didn't wait for an answer. He launched at Lenalee and swung his claws at her.
Lenalee barely dodged. "Allen, I don't want to fight you," she said, backing away another step to avoid another swing.
"What, you still believe we're friends?" he asked, halting his attack to look over Lenalee in mild amusement. "You're pathetic, to think that. I've already moved on," he readied his attack again, "so why can't you?" He swung his claw at her again, this time catching her coat with the claw and tearing the fabric over her stomach.
Lenalee let out a small gasp of surprise. He really meant to kill her. Allen wanted to kill her. She had no choice now; she had to fight. She dodged his next swing and kicked out. Allen was sent flying. Apparently, he hadn't expected her to fight back. "Allen, I don't want to fight you," she repeated, "but I will if I must."
Allen wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He'd bitten his lip when he was hit and was bleeding a bit. "I wouldn't have it any other way, Exorcist."
Kanda hadn't been paying attention to the Noah of Pleasure, which proved to be a mistake. Pain assaulted the swordsman's senses as a horde of Tease smashed into his chest, sending him into a nearby tree. Cursing at being caught off guard, Kanda pushed himself back to his feet, glaring at the Noah through the man-eating golems. He then paused to watch the remaining tease swarm to form the Skulls.
Reaching over his side Kanda felt a surge of adrenaline as he withdrew Mugen from its sheath. "Mugen, Hatsudou..." he murmured, running his fingers against the steel blade, his Innocence responding to its master. He grinned when he looked at the Noah again. Apparently Tyki didn't plan on beating around the bush either and already had formed his power into the strange crosses. Kanda wasted no time activating his Second Illusion: Twin Blades, just to be fair. Pissed that he Noah had made the first move, Kanda struck.
"Eight Flower Praying Mantis!"
Tyki readied himself as the sword-wielding exorcist came charging at him with a trick up his sleeve. Tyki blocked Kanda's attack with a degree of difficulty. Although Tyki was fast, one of Kanda's strikes slipped past Tyki's cross blades and cut a gash on his arm and clipped his chest, slicing through his tuxedo coat like tissue paper. Tyki melded into the ground to avoid another barrage from the exorcist as he assessed his wound.
Tyki melded out from the ground again behind Kanda, a safe distance away. "You've gotten faster Katana-kun," Tyki said as he looked over his wounded shoulder at the exorcist. "But you're alone in this fight. Meanwhile, I have back up." As if the Tease knew what their master was saying, they began swarming in a circle around the two of them, creating a blurry barrier between them and the outside world. "Tease," Tyki commanded as he snapped his fingers. The Tease stopped moving, and the skull Tease charged their lasers. "I know you can cut my Tease if they swarm in front of you," Tyki said as he turned to face Kanda, "but what happens when they keep their distance?" Tyki snapped his fingers once more and the Skull tease simultaneously fired their lasers at the exorcist.
"Uh oh." the twins muttered in unison as the fire serpent came careening towards them. They had hardly any time to react and before they could, the serpent engulfed them. As the fire died away, the twins were left standing, charred and burned whilst simmering in a slight rage.
"Two against one you say? Unfair you say?" David said as he stood as straight as he could with the sheer amount of burns on him.
"Well, let's even the odds for you. Hee hee," Jasdero said with a snicker as he stood next to his brother. The two of them pointed their guns at one another and fired their pistols. Their bodies remained in a freeze frame fall as their shadows swirled together in a dark vortex. From the vortex, a figure began to form as if the vortex was being stretched from the ground to create a three-dimensional figure. The stretching black shadow then faded into long, flowing yellow hair as it parted from the body in the center of the mass off hair.
Jasdevi flipped his hair back so it was out of his face and glared at the exorcist in front of him. "How's this?" Jasdevi said in an echoed voice. "Does this better suit you?" Jasdevi simply raised his arm and held his hand out towards the exorcist as a purple star five feet in diameter formed over his palm, which then shot forward and crashed into the exorcist, sending him flying.
Lavi had no time to think; before he knew it, Jasdevi had sent him back flying, crashing hard into a tree far away from where he was originally standing. Damn, Lavi thought as he weakly brought himself back to his feet, I didn't even think about them combining like that...
Managing to stand up straight, Lavi glared at the conjoined twins in the distance. All around them there was fire, burning the trees every second. That probably wasn't the best idea... Lavi looked up at the sky and let out a steady breath. Once again, he lifted his hammer high into the air, allowing all the seals to rotate around it. "Tenchi Bankai, Moku-ban" Lavi whispered under his breath. High above the earth, dark clouds began to form, and then rain began to fall from the now dark and gloomy sky.
As the rain fell, the elemental seals continued to spin all around Lavi, until he pounded his hammer down against on one--a seal with a question mark on it that changed into a new seal for him to use. Mumbling quietly to himself, Lavi said, "Umi Kanri." Suddenly, the pouring rain froze all around Lavi, and then began to merge together into one large wall of water in front of him. Once the water wall was ten feet or so high, Lavi added, "Mizu-ban," as he thrust his hammer forward, toward Jasdevi. With that, the water blockade rapidly made its way toward Jasdevi.
Now, Lavi quickly shouted in a louder, more confident tone, "Raitei Kaiten, Ten-ban!" Lavi smacked his hammer hard on the ground in front of him, sending a large bolt of lightning directly at the conjoined twins. Of course, the lightning had just reached the large water blockade once the twins were hit by the rapid wave.
Allen charged again, this time focusing rather than swinging wildly. A few well-aimed swings were better than powerful-but-inaccurate ones. After all, it would only take one good shot at her heart to kill her, regardless of the power behind it.
Lenalee noticed Allen's change in tactics and changed hers to match. She'd have to dodge fewer blows, but they would be harder to avoid and block. Now Allen wasn't just threatening her with the claw. Now he was serious.
Allen swung again; Lenalee parried. Lenalee kicked; Allen dodged. It was a deadly dance with neither leading nor following. Neither could win--they knew each others attacks too well. The battle was all about who would tire first, and it seemed, for a moment, that Lenalee would be the victor.
"Damn Exorcist," Allen panted to himself. She wasn't tiring. It wasn't that she was stronger; it was that he'd wasted so much energy in the beginning with his wild swings.
"Do you give up?" Lenalee asked, not dropping her guard.
"Not in your life," Allen said, grabbing his claw arm with his other hand.
Lenalee danced back even before he'd had a chance to activate the sword. Allen's Innocence had changed. The sword, which once purified evil, might now be lethal. She stood, ready for anything.
Allen's eyes narrowed to slits. His Innocence refused to transform into the blade. Do it, damn it! I'm your master! But the Innocence didn't obey. He glared at the red cross, then launched at Lenalee.
The girl didn't even have time to scream as Allen tore through her flesh. She hadn't been expecting a claw attack again, and so she'd been ready for the sword. She was able to block, but not with her Innocence.
She staggered back from her attacker and collapsed, her arm streaming blood and her Innocence reverting back to the ruby anklets. It hurt to move her arm, but it could still move. The force had broken something--that was certain--but it hadn't severed a nerve nor done anything more serious than that.
She heard Allen coming closer and lifted her head. Her vision was blurring from pain and tears. "Allen..." she whispered. "Please, don't..."
"Allen" smirked. He knelt down and picked her up by the front of her shirt. He got a twisted satisfaction from the cry of pain as her arm fell limply at her side. "I'm sorry, I don't believe your Allen's around anymore," he hissed, his sadistic smile growing, "but don't worry. I'll send you after him, girl."
He lifted his claw arm to finish her.
Lenalee had other ideas, though. Her legs still worked even if the Innocence wasn't activated, so she used them. She kicked Allen hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him and forcing him to drop her. She wobbled, but was fine otherwise. She retreated far enough that she wouldn't be caught without warning and activated her Innocence once more. "Allen, stop this," she said. She hadn't understood Allen's words, but she knew one thing: the Allen they'd known was gone. She just hoped to God that he wasn't as gone as this Allen made it sound. "Please, we want to help you."
"I don't need your help, Exorcist," Allen growled. "I have my family."
Remembering their last duel Kanda opted for speed over strength and was rewarded with a cut to the Noah's shoulder. Not a very deep one, but in this kind of duel, anything could gain you the upper hand. With the Noah on the ground, Kanda moved for a second strike but was stopped when the Tease surrounded him once more at the command of their master. Kanda waited for an attack but had forgotten about the mass of Skull Tease hidden among the regular ones. He knew that he wouldn't be able to defend against them all, so when the bursts of energy fired from each, the samurai took a defensive stance with Mugen to protect his vitals at he very least.
White-hot pain assaulted him as the beams of energy ripped through his clothes and skin. When finally the attack ceased, Kanda fell to his knees. Tyki seemed pleased with himself for the damage his golems had done. Lucky for Kanda, however, Tyki knew nothing of his 'ability,' which gave Kanda some time to heal, knowing that Tyki would let him be while thinking he was dying. Hell, that would've killed a normal person.
Kanda truly hated using the Third Illusion, but the situation definitely called for it. With the time he had, Kanda activated the Third Illusion, his life force draining as it healed his many wounds. He could feel the burning sensation on his chest and near his eyes as he did this. Kanda knew that was a bad sign. With a huff, the exorcist pushed himself back to his feet and gripped Mugen tightly in his hands when he'd healed himself adequately.
"Kaichuu Ichigen!" The swarms of Hell's insects emerged from the sword, making a beeline straight for the Noah, and for a second, Kanda almost believed all that was worth it to see the shock on the Noah's face. "It'll take a lot more than that to kill me, Noah."
Tyki eyes remained glazed over as he watched the illusions come at him. "Tease," he commanded again as he snapped his fingers. This time, all the Tease flew between their master and the approaching threat and swarmed into a thick barrier to protect Tyki. The illusions crashed into the wall and were halted to a dead stop.
Tyki knew the barrier wouldn't last very long, so he melded into the ground just seconds before the Tease scattered, letting the illusions fly on by and ram into trees in the distance. Tyki appeared out of the ground again right in front of Kanda and cut him wide open on the chest and forced him back with a wave of white energy from his second cross blade. Looking where the exorcists now laid, Tyki said to him as he pulled out a cigarette, "That was more, are you dead now?"
Kanda knew he was screwed the moment he saw Tyki's indifference. Like it was nothing, he evaded the First Illusion and with his cross blades sent Kanda flying backwards. Hitting the ground with a thud, the pain of his newest injury kept him nearly paralyzed. Only able to listen, the samurai could hear Lenalee's cries and Lavi's scream. Damn, they're losing... Badly. Kanda tried to get up but couldn't, the wound protesting and splattering blood onto the earth. He waited for Tyki's death blow, but it never came.
Instead, Tyki struck a match to light his cigarette, but all of a sudden it began to rain which put out his match. Tyki looked up in a daze and then looked around him. He noticed the hammer exorcists had activated one of his seals and was in the midst of counterattacking Jasdevi. I wonder how Allen-kun is doing, he thought as he turned his head and watched Allen just barely fending off the Heart-girl. They're too evenly matched in skill, Tyki thought to himself as he put his cigarette away, but that new weapon of his should give him an edge.
Lavi had from one seal to the other so quickly that this time, Jasdevi hardly knew what was going on. The wave of water had crashed into him before he could conjure up a defensive wall and soon after, a bolt of lightning electrified the wave. Jasdevi screamed in pain as the current ran through his body for an agonizing amount of time. When the lightning dissipated, Jasdevi was left on the ground, smoking and burnt.
He lay there a few moments as he regained the feeling in his body. Slowly and inhuman like, Jasdevi lifted himself to his feet and threw his head from side to side, cracking it very loudly. "My turn," Jasdevi declared as he glared at the exorcist. His hair came to life and started moving about like snakes before it formed sharp points and grew in length to shoot the points out towards the exorcist.
Before Lavi could even react, he was pinned up against a tree by Jasdevi's hair, being electrocuted fiercely. Lavi let out a loud, painful cry, and let his head hang low. He attempted to break free from, but could not. Only slightly, Lavi lifted his head and watched Allen and Lenalee in the distance; Lavi couldn't believe that Allen was on the very edge of taking Lenalee's life. "Le...na...lee..." Lavi said quietly just over his slow breathing. He attempted to reach his hand towards her, but it soon fell, for the pain was unbearable.
Lenalee watched saw her friends go down. "Lavi! Kanda!" She cried out. She gripped her broken arm tightly and turned to Allen. "Are you happy?" she asked, tears welling in her eyes. "Your "family" is killing your friends! How can you let that happen?"
"Quite easily, Exorcist. They aren't my friends." Allen charged again, but stopped himself. His claw was touching her chest, right over her heart.
Small tears rolled down Allen's cheeks. "Lenalee..." he whispered. "R-run..." He took a few shaky steps back. "I... I don't..." He kept backing away. He knew she knew what he meant.
Tyki watched with joy as Allen looked as if he was going to make the killing blow on his former friend but was astounded when he stopped in mid-strike.
To make matters worse, a Level three Akuma with an arm ripped off came up to Tyki's side and said, "Lord, Mikk, we've lost the General's trail. Mistresses Road and Lulubell are hot on his trail but we're not sure where exactly he is now."
Anger was building up in Tyki as one thing after another went wrong. Tyki finally snapped and spear-handed the Akuma right through the head. Tyki retracted his hand from the Akuma, and it exploded, destroying the soul inside. Tyki sighed heavily and said, "Allen, Jasdevi, we're leaving." Tyki snapped his fingers. The sky split open as a gate to the ark appeared behind him.
Jasdevi looked over at Tyki as his attack on Lavi continued and he whined, "Awww, but we were just starting to have fun." Jasdevi ceased the lightning and forcibly ripped his hair from Lavi's body, causing him to fall on the cold, bloody ground below, and it returned to its normal length. With one step, Jasdevi rocketed to the Ark's gate and zoomed pass Tyki as he entered, causing a large gust of wind to flutter the tails of Tyki's coat and to make Tyki hold onto his top hat.
Allen blinked. The tears stopped immediately. He watched Tyki destroy the Akuma and nodded and turned back to Lenalee. "Too bad. I should've killed you sooner." He turned and followed Tyki back onto the Ark.
Lenalee's eyes widened. Allen had shown no reaction to the Akuma's destruction. "Allen," she said, reaching for him as he walked away. She felt dizzy, but shook her head. She couldn't pass out--not with the others already unconscious.
"Allen," she whispered again, collapsing to the ground weakly.
Timcanpy glanced over at Allen. Allen was his technical owner, even if it was a fake one. But, since the Noah ignored him entirely, Tim landed on the ground next to Lenalee to stay.
"Tim..." Lenalee whispered. "Is he even the same Allen anymore?" It was hard to tell. He hadn't killed her, and yet... he'd allowed Tyki to destroy those Akuma without complaint. "What should we do?"
But of course, Timcanpy couldn't answer. He wiped away Lenalee's tears with his tail, as if to say, "Don't cry. Things'll get better."
"You're right, Tim." Lenalee wiped away her own tears and settled against a tree. There was no way they could leave now, not with the others unconscious. "You're right."
Note from sailorstar165
At the time of -Man, Germany was A LOT bigger than it is present. Though I don't know exactly where Twilight (the RPer behind the Noah and the one who picked the location) was talking about, I'll assume it's closer to Russia, since Germany bordered Russia in 1850 (about the time DGM takes place according to the anime...)
And again, a fight scene... They're really hard to format when they split off into groups like that. My apologies if this one didn't turn out as well as the other one. I tried to group each fight best I could while keeping to the correct flow of time. Over all, though I'm happy with how the scene turned out.
I also had to cut out parts of the original posts to make sure the story flowed remotely smoothly. I hated to do this because a lot of it was very well written and absolutely amazing. I apologize to the Rpers for this, but a lot of things were repeated information or just didn't fit and weren't important to the overall plot. If anyone wants to read the full, uncut, unedited version, please visit our homepage and look in the DGM section under Anime/Manga and click The New 14th Noah. We'd also loved it if you joined the site. :)
Thank you for being patient with me and the updating. I'll try to get the next chapter up sooner, but it all depends on how long it takes us to post on the site. This is based on an in-progress RP, after all.