I'm alive! Hey everyone sorry about the (really) late update. I've been busy with school and writing other things instead of this story. But mostly because I had a huge writers block. And it seems I get those a lot :P Well I hope you enjoy this chapter. Enjoy!
Chapter 21: New Memeber New Limbs
Two months passed since Lily had woken up. Things were just as they were before. The scientists worked nonstop, Komui slacked off as always, the exorcists were given missions, and the finders did their thing. Today, however, was slow and boring. Lily sat in the lounge with Lenalee, practically doing nothing.
"Ugh!" Lily groaned slouching in her seat. "There's nothing to do. There hasn't been any missions for a week."
"I know," Lenalee said. "It's been so slow here. I can't believe Komui hasn't gotten any missions. Well not many at least."
"Where's Allen?" Lily asked.
"Probably eating," Lenalee replied.
"Lavi?"
"Library."
"Krory? Kanda?"
"Both on a mission with Marie and Miranda."
"They got a mission?"
"Yep."
Lily sank lower in her seat. "Lucky."
There was a moment of silence until Lenalee got up and said, "Do you want to go to the Science Department?"
"Sure." Lily got up and followed her out the room.
At the Science Department the two girls found that, even though the scientist were busy at work, they were bored as well. Some had fallen asleep at their desks, others were walking around looking like zombies, other than the zombies they were already. Lily spotted her brother at his desk talking to Reever.
"Hey Jack. Hey Reever," Lily said as she and Lenalee approached the two scientists.
"Hey Lily. Hey Lenalee. What's up?" Jack asked.
"Bored," they deadpanned.
"Yeah. Same here, this day feels like it's getting slower and slower by the minute," Jack said, rubbing his soar neck.
"Is there a mission for us Reever?" Lenalee asked.
"Not that I know of," Reeer answered. "Komui hasn't said anything. Then again he hasn't come out of his office all day. Probably sleeping," he said, mumbling the last part under his breath.
"We should wake him up. We need him to sign some paperwork," Jack said to Reever, nodding to the stack of papers on his desk.
"Want me to wake him up?" Lenalee offered.
"It'd help," Reever said.
Lenalee walked away leaving the three at Jack's desk.
"So what have you been doing all day, Lily?" Jack asked his sister.
"Nothing," Lily groaned.
"Seriously?" Reever asked.
"Yes! There's nothing to do!" she exclaimed.
"Where's Allen and Lavi?" Jack questioned.
"Allen's probably eating and Lavi's in the library," she answered.
"Why don't you and Lenalee go get them and find something to do? There's bound to be something you guys can do," Jack suggested.
"Ok, thanks," Lily said as Lenalee came back with her brother.
"Hey Lenalee, lets go find Allen and Lavi and figure out something to do," Lily said.
"Ok," Lenalee said, leaving the room with Lily. "I bet anything there just as bored as us."
"Probably," Lily laughed.
The last thing they heard was Komui complaining about Reever forcing him to work like a dog and Reever yelling at him.
ooOOoo
"How about we mess with Yu?"
"For the last time Lavi, Kanda isn't here," Lily said.
For the past half hour Allen, Lavi, Lenalee, and Lily had been sitting in the lounge debating on what to do to get out of their boredom.
"What about we bake a cake?" Lenalee suggested.
Allen's face brightened at the idea.
"That does sound fun," Lily said, contemplating the thought.
"Not me. I don't cook, Allen doesn't either. He's just drooling over the thought of eating cake," Lavi objected.
"Okay then, what do you want to do?" Lily asked. Lavi opened his mouth to say something until Lily said, "And don't say messing with Kanda." He closed his mouth.
They all thought for a moment. Then Lenalee snapped her fingers, causing the rest to look up at her ending their thought process. "I've got it!"
"What?" they all said.
"Why don't we spend the day in town?" Lenalee said, a smile on her face.
"I like that," Lily said, brightening up. "What about you guys?"
"Sounds good to me," Allen said, turning to the red head next to him. "What about you Lavi?"
"Sure, it beats being cooped up inside all day," he said.
"Then it's settled. We're going into town," Lenalee said joyously.
ooOOoo
Outside the sun was shining bright, the heat beating down on the people, the birds chirping over head, and a few clouds dotting the blue sky. Children ran around as their mothers scolded them while they shopped. The cafes and resturants had many people eating, drinking, and chatting. The shops and other buildings stood in long rows lining the cobble stoned streets.
"Wow!" exclaimed Lily. "It's so gorgeous out. And hot," she laughed. She had decided to wear a blue skirt, a white thin strapped top, white sandals, and had a purse that went across her body. Her hair tied up in a high ponytail.
"I know right?" Lenalee said, enjoying the cool breeze that was blowing. She was wearing shorts, a black shirt, black flats, and a shoulder bag. Her hair hair falling down her back in their regular pigtails.
"I'm so glad we're out of headquarters," Allen said, who was wearing grey pants and a plain white shirt.
"Yeah, now we're able to enjoy this nice day," Lavi said with his arms behind his head. He was wearing his boots with a pair of black pants and a short sleeved maroon shirt, his hair not in it's usual bandana.
"So where do you want to go?" Lenalee asked the group.
"I wanted to check out this cute boutique I saw back there," Lily said, pointing behind them.
"Oh no, I do not want to go shopping at women's stores," Lavi said.
"Oh come on. It can't be thtat bad," Lily said, putting her hands on her hips.
"That's because you're a girl," he said.
"Please?" she begged, grabbing his arm.
Lavi felt heat rsiing to his cheeks and tried hard not to let it show. He finally gave up," Fine."
"And that's why it's great to be a girl," Lily said, Lenalee laughing.
For the rest of the day the group went to different sops, the grils trying on clothes while the boys stood off to the side bored. Occassionally they all would try on ridiculous outfits enjoying their time. Lavi hitting on girls and women in the stores. Finally it was late afternoon and the group was sitting outside at a cafe, enjoying the wonderful weather.
"This was so much fun," Lenalee said.
"Yeah," Lily said with a sigh, sipping her tea.
"So now what?" Allen asked.
"The moment we walk back into headquarters we're going ot be bored yet again," Lavi said with a huff.
"I know bu-" Lily felt something tugging at her purse. She looked down and saw a small, blue wolf reaching into her purse.
"Come on. There's gotta be something in here," it said.
"What the heck!" Lily screamed.
"Uh oh," the wolf said, realizing it was caught.
The whole table looked down at him bewildered.
"What is that?" Allen said.
"I think it's a wolf!" Lenalee exclaimed.
The wolf got scared by the out cries from the group that it clung onto the first thing it could: Lily's skirt.
"Ah!" Lily screamed. "Get off!"
"Hold still," Lavi said, trying to grab the wolf as Lily tried to shake if off. Lavi then finally grabbed something, only with his luck it wasn't the wolf. He looked at what he had grabbed and turned a bright shade of red. Lily also turned the same shade of red because instead of the wolf, Lavi had grabbed her butt. Everyone froze at what happened until Lily punched Lavi square in the face, causing him to land very roughly on his back.
"I said grab the wolf not my butt!" she said, still red.
"Hey you were the one who wouldn't hold still," he said as he slowly got up, holding his nose.
"Oh my god, I am so sorry," a girl with brown hair and pink streaks said running up to the group. A similar looking wolf like the little one at her side, only bigger. "I have been looking for him for ten minutes. I hope he didn't cause any problems."
"He was trying to steal something from my purse," Lily said.
"What?" the girl exclaimed. "Luke! I thought I told you to stop stealing from people?"
"But it's a habit," the wolf, Luke, complained. "What about Ray? He steals from people."
"Used to. Used to steal from people," the other wolf, Ray, said glaring at Luke.
"I'm really sorry," the girl said.
"It's alright," Lenalee reassured her. "No one got hurt."
"Uh hello?" Lavi said, still clutching his nose.
"You deserved it," Lily said, crossing her arms across her chest.
"I already told you, if you weren't moving around so much that wouldn't have happened," Lavi protested.
"Ignore him," Lily said.
"I'm Robin," the girl said.
"I'm Allen Walker."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Lily Sahi."
"Hi I'm Lenalee Lee."
"What's up? I'm Lavi."
"Nice to meet you all," Robin said. "These are my partners, Ray and Luke."
"Hello," Ray said.
"Hi!" Luke said, waving vigorously.
"It was nice meeting you," Robin said. "I better get goi-"
"Hold on!" Allen said, his eye acting up. "There's akuma here."
Everyone activated their innocence just as an akuma wielding two swords appeared. Robin looked at the exorcists, fear etched on her face.
"What's going on?" she cried.
"There's an akuma here," Allen repeated. "You better get out of here Robin."
"Follow me," Lily said, activating her innocence and turning her fan into a razor sharp fan. "I'll get you guys somewhere safe."
Robin and Ray followed Lily, not realizing Luke wasn't following. When they reached a good distance away Robin looked around realizing the small wolf wasn't with them.
"Oh no, where's Luke?"
"Over there," Ray said, nodding his head back towards the akuma and the others.
Luke was standing in front of the akuma smiling and waving. "Hi! You're huuuuge!"
The akuma looked down and pointed one of it's swords at him.
"Luke, run!" Robin said.
"Woow! Cool sword. Where'd you get it? I want one. Can I have one of yours?" Luke said.
"Ray, go help him!" Robin commanded.
Ray dashed over to the akuma and jumped up and bit its arm, leaving a huge bite mark on it. "Luke! Attack!" he said to the smaller wolf.
"Aw, but I was making a friend," he whined.
"Now!"
"Okay," Luke said and jumped at the akuma's leg, biting it as well.
Lily watched in astonishment as the two wolves helped the other three destroy the akuma before she ran towards the akuma as well. How is that possible? Nothing but innocence can do damage to an akuma. Unless...
The fight continued on Robin stayed out of harms way and everyone else fought. When at last the akuma was finished off Robin wakled over to the exorcists and Luke and Ray ran over to her.
"Good job guys," Robin praised the two wolves.
"How were those two able to fight the akuma?" Lenalee asked.
"I don't know," Allen said, looking over at the two creatures.
"I think they're innocencee," Lily said.
"What? Why do you say that?" Lavi asked.
"Think about it, General Cloud has Lou Jimin as her anti-akuma beast weapon. How else do you think those two would be able to fight the akuma? It's the only logical explanation."
"Lily's got a point," Lenalee said. "We should take Robin, Luke, and Ray with us to the headquarters and have Hevlaska take a look at them. She'd know if they have innocence or not."
"Good idea, w-" Allen stopped himself as his eye activated again. "There's another akuma! Robin behind you!"
Robin whipped around to see an akuma that looked like a giant snake standing before her. It's tongue flicking in and out of it's mouth looked to be a razor sharp whip of some sort. She didn't have time to react before the snake lunged at her. Luke and Ray on the other hand reacted and jumped in front of her, taking the snake's attack full on, knocking to the ground. They didn't get up.
"Luke! Ray!" Robin screamed, running over to them as the others took care of the akuma. The attack had taken a huge toll on the two wolves. Ray was missing his back left leg and front right leg, where as Luke was knocked unconscious. Blood was covering their ground around them. Robin tried to stop the bleeding, but failed. The others, having taken care of the akuma, rushed over to them.
"Don't worry, we know who can help," Allen said. "Lenalee take Robin, Luke, and Ray to headquarters. Lavi, Lily, and I will follow."
"Got it," Lenalee said. She held out her hand to Robin, who took it while holding Luke and Ray in her arms, blood staining her clothes. "Activate!" Lenalee said and her dark boots invoked and the females shot into the air.
"Ready guys?" Lavi said his hammer ready for the trip.
"Ready," the two said, getting a firm grip on the handle.
"Extend!"
The three flew through the air as they followed Lenalee back to headquarters.
They finally reached headquarters, rushing inside, and running through the halls, Robin following closely behind.
"Lenalee, get Komui or Reever," Allen instructed, running next to her.
She nodded her head and ran off in another direction.
The others continued running through the halls, turning corners sharply until they reached their destination. They burst through the doors of the infirmary, startling the staff.
"Head nurse, we need help!" Lily exclaimed.
"What's going on?" head nurse asked. She noticed the two wolves covered in blood in Robin's arms. "Oh! This way, quickly. Place them here."
Robin did so, placing each wolf on a bed. She watched as head nurse bustled about tending to Ray's wounds, while another nurse checked Luke. Tears welled up in her eyes. "They can't die," she whipsered. "Please don't leave me alone."
Allen put a hand on Robin's shoulders. She looked and saw him giving her a reassuring, warm smile. "Don't worry, they'll be alright. Let's go to the cafeteria. You must be hungry."
At the cafeteria Lenalee met up with the others at one of the tables. "Komui and Reever are at the infirmary. How are you feeling Robin?"
"Fine...," Robin said quietly as she pushed the food on her plate around with her fork. Her eyes were empty; there was no happiness or shine in them, just sadness and fear.
Everyone looked at her sympathetically. For the rest of lunch everyone didn't say a word, they sat there looking down at the table or their hands. Komui and Reever walked up to the group about halfway through their lunch. Their expressions were grim yet serious.
"Robin is it?" Komui asked the brunnett female.
"Yes?" Robin looked up scared. "Are Ray and Luke okay?" she asked suddenly, tears welling up in her eyes again.
"They're stable," Komui said. "We are having some of our scientists make Ray new limbs."
"Oh...okay," Robin said.
"But we want to keep you three with us for a while."
"Why?"
"We believe you are an accommodator and Ray and Luke have innocence somewhere inside them," Komui explained.
"A what?" Robin asked.
"An accommodator is someone who is able to use the power of innocence and use it to destroy akuma," Allen said.
"And you think that I am an accommodator and Ray and Luke have innocence in them?"
"Pretty much," Reever said. "When Ray and Luke come to we'll have Hevlaska examine them for the innocence. We are still not entirely sure if you are an accommodator, but from what Lenalee told us about Ray and Luke being able to destroy the akuma we are certain it's true."
"What will happen to us if they have innocence?"
"You'll join the Black Order with us," Lenalee said with a smile.
"So once they wake up we'll fix Ray up and take them to Hevlaska," Komui said.
"Okay," Robin said.
ooOOoo
A week had passed and still no sign of Ray or Luke waking up. Every day the fourteen year old girl would visit her two companions in the infirmary. Sometimes sleeping next to their beds. Only on occasion would she leave, either for bathroom breaks or to eat. Usually Lenalee or Lily would bring food to her.
Today was no different. Robin was sitting between the two beds that held Ray and Luke. Silence surrounding the occupants except for the beeping from the monitors and the three's breathing.
"Robin?"
Robin turned to see Lenalee and Lily standing in the infirmary's doorway, looks of concern, worry, and kindness on their faces.
"How are they doing?" Lenalee asked, walking over to stand next to the young girl.
"They still haven't woken up," Robin replied looking at her two wolf friends.
"Lenalee and I are about to head out to town. Do you want to come?" Lily asked. "It'll get your mind off of Ray and Luke for a while. Come on," she said with a smile, holding out her hand to Robin.
Robin hesitated for a moment looking at Lily's hand then looked at the wolves laying unconscious on the beds. She turned back to Lenalee and Lily and nodded her head. "Okay, let's go."
ooOOoo
The town was overflowing with people today. Children were running around, carefree, playing tag. A group of women were at the cafe sitting outside drinking tea. Quite a few couples were walking along the streets in the sunshine, holding hands and looking at each other with affection.
"Wow the town's really crowded today," Robin said, pulling her tattered hat over her face to block out the sun from her eyes.
"Well it's no wonder. With such nice weather it'd be a shame to spend the day inside," Lenalee said, closing her eyes and taking in the sun's heat and the town's chatter.
"Where should we go to first?" Lily asked, looking at all the different shops.
"Lets try that shop," Lenalee said, pointing in the direction of a little hat shop. "I want to see if there's anything Komui might like."
"I could use a new hat," Robin said, looking at her old hat.
"Maybe I'll find a hat for myself or Jack," Lily said.
So the three went to the hat shop trying on hats of all shapes and sizes, laughing at the most ridiculous ones. The girls went to many other shops during their trip. At last they took a break at the cafe, sipping iced tea outside at one of the cafe's outdoor tables.
"This is so much fun," Robin said, a smile on her face.
"I know," Lily said. "Where should we go next?"
"There's a new candy shop ju-" Lenalee said, but was cut off by her golem flying out of her bad and hovering in front of her face.
"Lenalee is Robin with you?" Reever's voice came from the golem.
"Yes, why?" Lenalee asked as Lily and Robin leaned in to hear what Reever was going to say.
"Luke and Ray have finally woken up," Reever said.
"They did?" Robin exlaimed, nearly dropping her tea cup.
"We need you to come back to headquarters so we can take you, Luke, and Ray to Hevlaska."
Robin didn't hesitate for a second. She was out of her seat and gathering up her bag in a span of two seconds. "Come on!" she said excitedly to Lenalee and Lily.
The other two females smiled and quickly followed the younger girl.
They ran and ran until they got to headquarters and met with Komui and Reever in the infirmary. On the beds, wide awake, were Luke and Ray. Luke was smiling and talking as if he had never gotten hurt. Ray was standing on his bed moving his new mechanical limbs the Science Department had built him.
"Hi Robin!" Luke said energetically. "I feel great! I'm hungry, but great! How did I get here? Is this a new bed for us? Whoa Ray you have metal legs! I want metal legs! Can I get some? Can I? Can I? Can I?"
Robin laughed as Luke kept talking a mile a minute while Ray looked like he was going to snap if Luke didn't shut up. "Welcome back," she said hugging both wolves.
"Where did we go?" Luke asked when she released them.
Robin laughed as Ray face palmed.
"Robin we need you, Luke, and Ray to come with us to see Hevlaska now," Komui said, turning to the door.
"Okay."
The group walked through the halls following Komui. Their footsteps making soft clicks, Luke's paws making soft thuds and his claws clicking, and Ray's new mechanical limbs making loud clangs mixing with his soft thuds and clicks on the tiled floor. Komui led them to the elevator and took them down a few levels.
"You probably have a lot of questions," Komui said.
"Yeah, what exactly is innocence?" Robin asked as Luke ran around the elevator saying "Oh, ah." Ray sat calmly by Robin's side.
"Where to begin," Komui said, chuckling. "It all started with a cube that was discovered several hundred years ago. Inside it was a prophecy from an ancient civilization and instructions on how to use a certain material. The cube itself was made from the same material as well. The material is known as the 'Crystal of God' and it possesses mysterious powers. We call it 'innocence'. As we've mentioned before we believe there is innocence somewhere inside Luke and Ray."
"I have something inside of me?" Luke exclaimed. "Will I be able to fly?"
Everyone just stared at him in response.
Komui cleared his throat. "Anyways, we are taking you to Hevlaska to see if what we say is true."
"Who's Hevlaska?" Robin asked.
"She is our oldest accommodator. She has been with the Order for one hundred years."
"Just a heads up," Lenalee said to Luke and Ray, "don't freak out. It's kind of pointless and really nothing's going to happen. Just stay calm."
"Okay," Luke said. "Wait what?"
They reached the final level and were facing a long platform.
"What do you mean 'Don't freak out'? What's going to happen?"
The two were then lifted into the air suddenly by tentacles with hands.
"What's going on?" Robin asked horrified as her partners were facing a white giant.
"Calm down. I won't hurt them," the giant spoke calmly.
Luke looked at the giant then smiled saying excitedly, "Hi! Want to be friends?" His tail wagging energetically.
Ray did what Lenalee said and stayed perfectly still and calm.
"Not to worry," Komui said cheerfully. "Hevlaska is only trying to figure out what your syncronization rate is."
"Synchronization rate?" Robin asked.
"It tells us how well you are connected with the innocence and how fast you can activate it," he said, adjusting his glasses. "Hevlaska is abl-"
"Ninety-one percent. Ninety-one percent is the synchronization rate between these two and their partner," Hevlaska finally said, setting Luke and Ray down next to Robin.
"That's fantastic!" Lily exclaimed.
"Although considering how close you three are it's no surprise," Lenalee said.
"Well now that we've figured out that Luke and Ray have innocence inside them, you can become an exorcist, Robin," Komui said. "Welcome to the Black Order!"
"Th-thank you," Robin said, smiling as everyone said their welcomes. We finally have a home...
I hope you enjoyed the chapter. And my sister pointed out that I misspelled Lavi at one point so I had to go and fix it and because I'm currently using my mom's laptop I can actually check for any grammar or spelling mistakes unlike my basement's computer's word pad (which does not have spell check and what not). So there may be a possibility that I will be editing every single chapter (yet again) just for you guys so you won't have to deal with my mistakes.
Please leave a review; it encourages me to write more. And get out of my writers block. Tell me what you would like to see happen next and I may take it into consideration. Thank you. :D