Chapter 21- Where The Hell Is Lavi!?
Author's Note: This is the second chapter for the week! Enjoy!

The room was deathly silent as Kanda, Krory, and Komui stared ahead at Seedry in shock.

"How is that possible!?" Kanda snapped at Allen, and Allen flinched and he sighed.

"I don't know, but…" Allen trailed off as he looked at Seedry's eye and a purple aura surrounded it in Allen's eye.

"Would you like to know?" Seedry asked as he grinned at Allen, and Allen braced himself as Seedry started to twirl Hellblade in the air with two fingers.

"There was once a mother who lost her oldest son, and she cried and cried until the Earl came. The son was revived, and took his mother's skin. He then devoured the entire country with ease because the country had no interaction with the outside world. The Akuma ate and ate until he grew to Lv.3, and it then gained the power to merge with other people's souls by spreading its own. After he had eaten the entire country, he was killed by the last survivor of the village, but before he disappeared, he used the last of his strength to merge his last bit of soul to the person who killed him, and he also gave him valuable info. The person who had killed the brother buried the remains, and then fled from the world. The End." Seedry said, and he tossed Hellblade into the air, and then grabbed the hilt with a swing of the blade.

"Now are you ready?" Seedry asked with a grin, and Kanda readied Mugen as he narrowed his eyes.

The two disappeared for a split second, and then their blade collided in mid-air, and Krory backed up a little as they jumped back down to the ground.

"Bean Sprout! You get Komui and Krory out of here!" Kanda snapped back at Allen, and Allen nodded calmly.

"Be careful, Kanda!" Allen called back as the three ran away from Kanda and Seedry to find the exit.

"Ara… They left." Seedry said with a sigh, and Kanda raised Mugen to the side as he prepared himself.

Seedry chuckled as he moved Hellblade so it glinted in the blue light.

"The Blood Virus seems to be still working."

"I can't be killed by the Blood Virus though, idiot."

"Not yet, but what would happen if I ripped your heart out?"

Kanda narrowed his eyes, and he swung Mugen at Seedry.

"Kaichu: Ichigen!"

The insects flew straight at Seedry, but missed as they were suddenly slashed.

"Not good enough." Seedry said as Kanda raised Mugen in mid-air, and he swung it down at Seedry.

'Where am I…? I remember beating old man, but then…'

Lavi opened his eyes slowly, and he sat up as he glanced around.

He was in a hut made of some weird straw, and he glanced down to notice that he was in a bed while a wet cloth fell off of his forehead.

Lavi slowly started to stand up until someone suddenly shouted something, and Lavi was hit back onto the floor as someone held a basket where Lavi's head was.

"You're still not ready to stand up!" The person snapped, and Lavi weakly glanced up at the person before his eyes widened and became hearts.

"Strike!" He shouted, and the girl flinched as Lavi suddenly jumped onto his feet as he stared at the girl.

"She's just my-" Lavi was cut off as the girl smacked the side of his head with the basket again, and Lavi fell to the ground in pain.

"I said not to move!" She snapped again, and Lavi nodded weakly while blood rolled down his head.

"Oh, your bandages need to be changed." She muttered, and she moved Lavi's hair out of the way as she unwrapped the bandages on his forehead.

"You're lucky my father found you or else you would have died!" She said as she took the bandages to a box nearby, and she pulled out new ones.

Lavi sat quietly on the floor and he noticed that she had auburn brown hair with a brown cloak on that covered her shirt underneath as she wrapped his head with bandages again, and then sigh in relief as she finished.

"Now don't move around so much!" She ordered, and Lavi nodded quickly as she stood up.

"If you're hungry you can come outside. I have fish cooking right now." She said before leaving the hut, and Lavi stared after her.

He slowly stood up, and while being careful of the bandages over his forehead and forearms, he left the hut and into the sunlight.

He looked around to see that he was at the shore of a large lake, and the girl was crouched in front of a fire as several fish cooked.

"It's beautiful here!" Lavi said happily as he looked around, and the girl nodded as she smiled back at him.

Lavi sat down next to the fire, and stared at it silently while the girl stared at him.

"Where are we?"

"We are just two hundred miles from Paris."

"Really? Okay then, can I borrow your phone?"

"Don't have one."

"Eh?"

Lavi looked behind him, and froze as an extremely large man stared down at Lavi with his moustache gleaming in the sunlight.

"We are just a couple of vagabonds." He stated as he sat down cross legged next to the girl.

"I am Fredrick, and this is my daughter, Milly." Fredrick said as he motioned to the girl next to him, and Lavi nodded.

"I'm Lavi."

"Lavi? What a weird name." Fredrick said, and Lavi grumbled as he looked away scowling.

Fredrick chuckled at Lavi's reaction, and Milly reached over to the fire to remove the fishes.

"Here." She said as she handed a fish to Lavi, and he took it with a smile.

"Thanks." He said, and then bit into the fish happily.

Fredrick smiled as the three ate silently, and Lavi put the fish bone down on the ground, and sighed in relief.

"That was good…"

"Glad you liked it." Milly said with a smile, and Lavi grinned nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Well, I'm sorry to eat and run, but I need to go help my friends." Lavi said, and he stood up as he reached for his hammer, but froze when he felt the empty space where his hammer should have been.

"Where's my hammer!?"

Fredrick and Milly watched as Lavi patted himself down to look for his hammer, but he didn't find it.

"Um… Your hammer was broken…" Milly said nervously, and Lavi froze as he gapped at the two.

"What!?"

"Most likely it was broken by the two men who had kidnapped you." Fredrick stated, and Lavi looked over at him.

"Speaking of which, who were they?"

"Possibly just a couple of hired people to kidnap someone for a ransom. I deal with them all of the time."

"Father is a wandering sheriff." Milly stated at Lavi's confused look, and he nodded slowly.

"Yep, it was a good thing I was heading back here or else you would have been taken away. I gave those two a good thrashing, and then left them on the road." Fredrick stated heroically, and Milly smiled at him.

"I-I see…" Lavi muttered with a sweat drop as he looked away.

"I'm going to need Komui to fix it though…" Lavi muttered sadly, and Milly perked up suddenly.

"Father could fix it for you, right?" She asked Fredrick, and he nodded with a grin.

"Of course!" He said, and Milly reached into the little bag at her side and then pulled out Lavi's hammer which was snapped in half.

"How are you going to fix it…?" Lavi asked slowly, but froze as Fredrick pulled a large drill from behind him, and grinned evilly as he turned it on.

"This is how."

Back at the dirt road, the two men who tried to kidnap Lavi were trembling as they stared up at someone looking down at them.

"S-Spare us, Master!"

"Please, we won't mess up again!"

The person sighed as he looked down at the trembling men, and he smirked.

"Okay, I'll spare you."

"Really!?"

"Thank you, Master!"

The men bowed several times at the feet of the person, and the person crouched down, and then lifted the two to their feet.

"You wanna know something, you two?"

"What is it, Master?"

"We won't mess up again!"

"Of course you won't."

The person smirked as he put his hands on the two men's shoulders, and he chuckled.

"I lied." He said, and the two men burst into flames as two pillars of fire billowed out from under where the two men were cremated.

The person chuckled again as he turned around with his black cloak with a flame symbol on the back flowing behind him.

Lavi sighed as he looked down at his newly fixed hammer, and he looked at Fredrick's beaming smirk.

"How is it?"

"Just like new… Thanks again…" Lavi muttered as he twirled the hammer around a few times to check it out.

"But how could you have fixed something with an Inno..." Lavi trailed off as he caught himself before saying Innocence.

"With a what?"

"N-Nothing!"

Fredrick and Milly stared at him in confusion, and Fredrick shrugged with a sigh.

"Well, it was quite easy to fix actually." He said, and Milly smiled happily at her father.

"I see. Well, I should be going now." Lavi said, but was suddenly smacked to the ground by Milly's basket again as she glared down at him.

"You're still injured!" She snapped, and then grabbed Lavi's leg to drag him back into the hut. Fredrick sweat dropped as he watched, and he then sighed.

"She must like him to do that over and over again." He muttered as inside the hut, Milly put Lavi in the bed, and glared down at him.

"Rest now, and you can leave when your wounds have healed, understand?"

"Yes, ma'am." Lavi said quickly as Milly held the basket up threateningly.

"Good." She said before putting the basket down, and preparing another cloth.

"Oh, um, where's my headband?" Lavi asked as Milly put the cloth on his forehead, and she pointed over to the wall where Lavi's Exorcist cloak and headband rested.

"Ah, I see." Lavi said with a nervous chuckle, and Milly glanced at the cloak.

"Those are the Black Order's cloaks for Exorcists, right?" She asked, and Lavi's eyes snapped open, and he stared at Milly in surprise.

"Yeah, but how do you know that!?"

"My brother was recruited by the Black Order, but he died on his first mission." Milly muttered sadly before putting her hands on her face as she started to cry.

Lavi watched silently before patting her head.

"It's okay, you aren't probably old enough to stand the sight of the dead unlike me."

"I'm 19."

"… Damn, never mind…"

Lavi looked away utterly embarrassed, and Milly glared at him.

"You thought you were older than me, right?"

"Kinda…"

Milly and Lavi stared at each other in silence before Lavi let out a sigh.

"Well, I might as well-"

"Milly! Take Lavi and run away now!"

Milly and Lavi glanced over at the door to the hut, and Milly stood up cautiously.

"Father?"

"GRAH!"

Milly and Lavi froze as Fredrick's piercing screech filled the air, and Lavi quickly stood up and grabbed his hammer.

"Father!?" Milly cried out, but was stopped as Lavi held her back, and then jumped through the window swiftly before the hut suddenly burst into flames.

"Damn it!" Lavi shouted as his cloak and headband were still inside, but were probably burned to a crisp by now.

Milly trembled as she stared in front of them as Fredrick lay on the ground scorched black.

"Father!" She cried out, but Lavi stopped her again.

"Get back, Milly!" He shouted, and he pushed her out of the way before his hammer grew and a pillar of flames erupted where Milly was just standing.

"Lavi!"

"I'm okay!" Lavi called out as he grinned while holding onto his hammer while it extended.

Lavi landed on the ground, and he glared over where someone stood next to Fredrick's burning body.

"You must be Lavi."

"Who the hell are you!?" Lavi shouted as he readied his hammer, and Milly trembled as she started to cry.

"Heh, I had a feeling those two idiots wouldn't be able to kidnap you perfectly, but all is well that ends badly." The person said as their cloak blew in the wind, and Lavi narrowed his eyes as he stared at the person's forehead.

"Noah."

"Correct! I guess you aren't a Bookmen for nothing. I am Tyrir Breaker, and I'm here to break you." Tyrir said as he unsheathed his katana from on his back, and Lavi grinned as he prepared his hammer.

"Sorry, but I'm going to be doing the pummeling!" He shouted, and then looked back down at where Milly was slumped onto her knees.

"Milly, get far back. I can't say for certain if you'll be safe here. I know he uses flames, but he might still be able to do something else." Lavi stated, and Milly nodded slowly as she stood up and slowly started to run away, but she turned back to glare at Lavi.

"You'd better not die!"

"Heh, don't worry! I won't die, and with any luck, your father won't be dead either!" Lavi stated, and Milly smiled before running away from the area.

"Don't worry, huh? Heh, who are you going to save?" Tyrir asked as he raised his hand so it lay above Fredrick's body, and Lavi froze as Fredrick's body turned to ash.

"Huh!? Who are you going to save!?" Tyrir shouted as he suddenly appeared behind Lavi, and Lavi barely dodged it as he jumped back, and the ground where Tyrir's katana hit exploded.

The earth flew into the air, and Lavi twirled his hammer around as he faced Tyrir.

"That does it. You're going down!" Lavi shouted as he raised his hammer, and the stamps appeared around him.

Tyrir grinned as he raised his katana sideways so it pointed to the lake, and he chuckled as the blade suddenly burst into flames.

"Bring it on, Exorcist!" Tyrir shouted as fire surrounded the two, and Lavi glared at Tyrir.

"Don't worry, Noah. You won't feel the pain for much longer."

Lavi gets no rest... -sigh- So the Noah of "Destruction" shows up, and Lavi has to fight him! Scary... hehehe...