Chapter Twenty-One:

~Elena~

Elena ducked behind a pillar as stupid as it seemed, there was few place to hide yet so many shadows to be concealed. Why did this place have to be so complex? She watched the Crow split up to search for her, Rouvelier, who was giving the orders looked rather pissed and red in the face because of her childish game she had dared play with him.

Elena chuckled softly before hurrying down one of the corridors led by Timcampy. Her golem flew this way and that and took much delight in devouring any of the Order's golems that happened to come across them.

Soon enough word of her intrusion had spread like wildfire, well technique over the loud megaphones that were around the corridors and she soon had a more difficult task at hand.

She ducked into another corridor and waited for several finders to wonder pass before heading in the opposite direction and collided head first into a fretful brunette panicking with her innocence jumbling about in her hands.

'Wah! I'm sorry,' Elena nursed her sore head and stared at the woman and instantly recognized her as Miranda Lotto. To say she was surprised could possibly be an understatement for Miranda as she gaze Elena the once over and wailed even louder.

'Don't kill me!'

'Shut up and head back the way you came,' Elena hissed before running away from the distraught woman who got up in a panic and hurried away in the other direction to what Elena had suggested.

Elena rolled her eyes, Miranda didn't seem to have changed much as she skidded and went down another corridor when she just saw someone come up from the other end of the corridor.

She felt like a mouse in a cage at the moment, she had carelessly made a proposition with a merciless man who would rather see her burn alive than give her a swift death. Elena shuddered at her own thoughts and ducked into the shadow of an alcove.

She really could be stupid as she closed her eyes and willed herself to blend into the shadows but to her surprise, as she pressed against the banner, it gave way under her weight and she fell into a room that she was unfamiliar with.

Elena groaned aloud as she rubbed her sore head and gazed around, not like there was anything to see, the whole room was pitch black as night could ever be. She stood up and stumbled around vaguely remembering about being in a similar situation seven years ago.

Waving her hands in front of her, Elena made small progress in getting somewhere having the feeling that she was going around in circles. Unfortunately she couldn't have Tim do anything because he was still in the alcove she had tumbled from, which couldn't have made her mood any better.

With no other option she took a large step forward and regretted it greatly as she fell down a whole flight of stairs. Despite being a Noah, her pathetic lack of direction still haunted her as she gazed around her before her eyes fell on a floating light.

It seemed to beckon her to follow, but Elena was skeptical because she knew what it was…

….

~Kanda~

Kanda grizzled as he watched the kid lay back down, the feverish red tinge still hovering over his cheeks. Despite being awake, the brat seemed a hundred times worse than before and that couldn't be a good thing for either of them.

Komui had left moments before with strict instruction to not leave the Noah unattended while he dealt with Rouvelier and Elena. Kanda understood why Komui had asked him to do it and not someone else but it still pissed him off more than it should.

He watched as the bird fluttered down and perched besides the kid's head its yellow eyes glazed with worry as it tried to comfort the boy with its twitter language. It was really getting to him. Honesty to hell, he was never good with children even his own son could hit some very sensitive nerves but he still deeply cared for Misaki.

Kanda noticed the Noah slowly slip unconscious and fell heavily back onto the bed with what seemed to be exhaustion. He wasn't sure whether or not to be worried because he never wanted to be here in the first place.

But the bastard that left him with the brat was going to go through a lot of hurt for leaving Kanda like this as he grumbled inaudible curses just to ease his frustration.

Suddenly he mood worsen when the appearance of a certain Central bastard and his guard dog came into the room. Kanda glared at them and stepped between them and the Noah.

'Yuu Kanda, I order you to move aside,' Rouvelier said sternly eyeing the towering samurai who was a good few inches taller than him. Kanda's eye twitched he heard the mentioning of his first name but stood firm. He had had enough of this demanding bastard.

'And what, let you put him through shit and have my son's life pay for it!' Kanda flared his inner rage at the thin-lipped man in front of him. Rouvelier wasn't pleased by this response as Link stood forward.

'Step down Kanda,' Link said in a low tone as Kanda glared at both of them, he was fully aware of what Link was capable of but he couldn't give a bull about it.

'I'm following Komui's orders, not yours,'

'Now is not the time to be stubborn! Move aside!' Link demanded one final time as Kanda barely saw the dog's hand flick sending a spell out in an attempt to restrain him. But Kanda was ready jumping back and quickly throwing the Noah over his shoulder. He lashed out and sent a surprised Link into the wall before racing pass a pissed of Rouvelier.

Kanda wasn't an idiot about what the Inspector was able to do, even to a child! But there was one thing he wasn't sure about and it confronted him more. What the Noah was capable of doing to Misaki once they realized what would happen to this brat?

It was beginning to nag him as much as the beansprout had when she was still and exorcist but that was besides the point as he halted and jumped quickly back, avoiding the assault of a level three akuma. Kanda gritted his teeth as he stared at the akuma, things were getting interesting as he dashed forward and cleaved the akuma clean in half and felt it explode behind him.

He was mildly surprised by the lightness of the kid hanging over his shoulder but couldn't lay on that thought for long as yet another akuma appeared, this time accompanied by several more.

Damnit, it was going to be one hell of a night!

….

~Tyki~

Road, Lulubell and Tyki walked through the gate that the Earl had made for them as they all stepped into one of the corridors at the Black Order. Tyki was smirking at the shocked expression of the staff members who were they before they started running and screaming when the akuma emerged like a frightening swarm of locusts, destroying everything in their path.

'Spread out and keep an eye out for both Elena and Raye, the akuma will keep the exorcists busy,' Lulubell explained as she sat on the shoulder of a level three before moving in one direction with a large group of akuma. Tyki and Road shared a silent gaze and nodded before Tyki melted through the floor and dropped to the corridor below.

His surprise entrance had startled many of the scientists in the room before they panicked and tried to use barriers to keep Tyki at bay, the Noah just smirked at them and sent a large wave of tease to eat them alive.

To be honest, he didn't have time to mess around with them and walked casually down the corridor while people around him died. Tyki tried to recall the last time he had been in the midst of death and it hadn't been in a long time before he caught the eye of an exorcist hurling himself towards him.

Tyki sighed and sidestepped the young man as he came hurtling by taking out a huge chunk of wall with his fist. He blinked in surprise before jumping away and using the air as a foothold staring down at the exorcist who seemed rather red in the face.

'Come down here coward,' Tyki rolled his eyes and continued to stare as he pulled out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, inhaling deeply. Luckily, Elena wasn't there to see or she'd be pissed.

'And why, the view from here is lovely,' Tyki remarked smugly as he then recognized the exorcist from his mission to Northern China.

'Oh I remember you, your… Choaji was it?'

'Shut it, monster, you are nothing but filth,' Tyki feigned hurt at the same words he had heard over a million times before.

'That's cliché now, come up with something else,' Tyki challenged him darkly before sending a ball of dark matter that crumbled the floor underneath the exorcist's feet and sent him hurling down to the next floor below.

Tyki realized that it had been too easy to take him down that he walked over to a stable piece of ground and continued his search for Elena and Raye. He kept running into a large amount of staff members desperately trying to defend themselves against akuma before he spotted Road taking a childish delight in penetrating their barriers and skewering them with her sharp candles.

He winced despite it not being he in that situation and wondered over to Road.

'You seem to be having fun,' Tyki commented as Road took her time to look at him and frown.

'At least I'm doing something,' she smirked as he rolled his eyes.

'Any news?'

'One, it seems we have to find the head supervisor if we want to find Raye, about Elena, I'm still finding out,' Road said as Tyki nodded and walked through a wall before pausing, he had forgotten to ask who this head supervisor was.

Raking his hand through his hair, Tyki resorted in finding someone wearing the crest of the Order but not the uniform of an exorcist.

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Author's Note:

Sorry for a short chapter but I need to carefully plan this part of the story or else I get the feeling that it is rushed.

Hope you enjoy it and post any comments and/or reviews; I'm still looking to beat 46 reviews from the previous sequel!