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Chapter 20: Trouble
Krory, Rey and Miranda stared at the brown jacket they got, thinking about what to do with it. Morning had come and after having their breakfast, the Exorcists were deciding what to do.
"I think we should ask the townspeople if anyone recognizes this jacket," Miranda said.
"Yeah…I guess we should," Rey said, taking the jacket, "Come on."
When they got out of the hotel and into the flower filled town, they approached the people one by one, asking if they recognize the jacket. All of them didn't recognize the brown jacket, until the next local they asked.
"Excuse me, Miss," Krory called out, and the lady turned around, "Could you tell us if you recognize this jacket?"
The lady inspected the jacket for a while, and then she cried out, "Oh yes! I recognize this jacket."
"Can you tell us who owns it?" Miranda asked.
"Actually, this is one of the identical jackets the orphanage provides the orphans when they go out of the orphanage during the winter season," the lady explained.
"Orphanage? Where is it?" the Rey asked.
"The orphanage is located at the north east area of this town, you can't miss it," the woman said.
"Okay, thank you very much, Miss," Krory thanked as he walked along with his other two comrades.
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"Syra! Wake up!"
The young blond girl opened her eyes slowly to see her twin sister shaking her awake. "Lyra! Stop shaking me! I'm awake! I'm awake!" the young girl now known as Syra cried out. Lyra stopped shaking her twin sister. Syra looked at her twin sister, they were exactly the same except for their eye colors, hers was sky blue while Lyra's was emerald green. "Good!" Lyra sighed, "I don't know why you're coming back in the middle of the night now. Can't you tell me why?"
"I already told you, it's a secret," Syra answered as she shooed her twin out of the room, "Go get breakfast first, I need to get ready."
"Fine! Just don't take too long!" Lyra said as her twin closed the door. Syra entered the bathroom and looked into the mirror at her reflection; she had dark rings below her eyes as she hasn't been getting enough sleep. She pulled her night gown off and turned around to see her back. There was a slight, almost unseen green glow from somewhere below the middle of her two shoulders. Several green tendrils protruded from the green glow. She rubbed her fingers over the marking and it felt slightly raised and rough.
She remembered her parents saying that she had the marking when she was born, at least before they died in an accident. Syra felt a tear fall from her eyes at the thought of her parents. She quickly wiped it away and did her morning routine before getting dressed and going down.
Lyra tapped her foot as she waited patiently for her twin to come down. Where is she? Lyra thought to herself.
"Aren't you eating, Lyra dear?" a woman asked as she entered the room.
"Not yet, Supervisor," Lyra answered, "I'm waiting for Syra to come down."
No sooner had she said that did Syra enter the room, "Morning, Supervisor!" "Morning, Syra dear," the Supervisor greeted.
"I'm sorry again for losing one of the jackets," Syra apologized.
"No worries, Syra dear, just have your breakfast before playing with the other kids."
Syra sighed and then sat down to eat her breakfast as the Supervisor left the room. "Don't you just hate it when she treats us like children, I mean, we're fourteen for goodness sake," Lyra complained as she ate her food. "You can't blame her, she treats every children here as her own," Syra said.
"I suppose you're right," the green eyed twin sighed. She had noticed that lately her twin had been eating more but she didn't bring it up. Just then, there was a knock at the door. Syra tried to get up to answer but the Supervisor stopped the young girl as she herself went to get the door.
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"I hope someone's in," Rey said as he knocked the door again, Timcampy nestled in his green hair. The three Exorcists were outside the orphanage now and were waiting for someone to answer. Rey was about to knock on the door again when the door opened, revealing a middle-aged woman standing in front of them, "Can I help you people?"
"Actually, yes," Krory said as he revealed the brown jacket, "We found this last night on the ground and when we found out it belonged to this orphanage, we brought it over."
"Oh! Thank you very much, strangers," the lady said as she accepted the jacket, "Would you like to come in? It's cold outside."
"Yes, thank you, Miss," Rey said as the three entered the orphanage. It was then that the group saw the twins eating on a table. Krory eyes widened as he saw them.
Syra saw the group and widened her eyes when she saw the vampire-like Exorcist, and the both of them yelled out in unison as they pointed at each other.
"YOU!"
The other people looked confused. Rey and Miranda haven't seen Syra's face last night and only saw her back, so they didn't recognize the girl.
It took the Lyra, Supervisor, Krory, Rey and Miranda to stop the other blonde from bolting out of the building, the children who saw this had thought they were playing and tried to join in. Krory then explained to the two other Exorcists that she was the one they were chasing last night. Once Syra settled down, they begun to talk, starting with the introductions.
"I'm sorry for Syra's behavior," the Supervisor apologized, and then begun the introductions, "Anyways, I'm the supervisor here, Laura, and this is Syra and Lyra Giod. My assistant, Syrene, is out today, though she'll be back soon."
"I'm Miranda Lotto; this is Rey Walker and Arystar Krory the Third," Miranda introduced gesturing towards the respective names of the Exorcists, and Syra blushed at seeing the green-haired boy clearly, thinking, He's cute.
"We actually found the jacket when we were chasing her last night," Rey explained.
"Why were you people chasing Syra?" Laura asked.
"It's because I saw her making a wilting flower grow back to its original state," Krory explained.
"Syra! Is that true?" Lyra asked, shocked.
"…Yes…" Syra reluctantly answered.
"But that still doesn't explain why you were chasing her," Laura said.
"We believe her to be the accommodator of Innocence," Rey replied.
"Innocence?" Laura, Syra and Lyra asked in unison.
"I guess its best we explain first," Rey said. Then, he, Krory and Miranda begun their explanation on the Black Order , what they do and the war their fighting.
"So that's why we need her to come back with us, to check if her power is from Innocence," Rey finished, and paused as the three other non-Exorcists digested what the Exorcists have explained. Then he asked, "Syra, do you have any strange markings around you?"
"Yes…" Syra replied.
"Can I see it?" Miranda asked, "We'll go out of the room and go somewhere private."
"Okay…" Syra said as she reluctantly walked out of the room together with the older female. The other occupants of the room remained silent and after a few moments, the door reopened, with Syra and Miranda walking in. "She has a marking on her back and I believe it is Innocence," the female Exorcist informed the two male Exorcists.
"If what you have just said is true, then what will you do with Syra if it's really Innocence?" Lyra asked when she heard Miranda's news. Rey bit his lower lip before saying, "Then she'll have to stay with us."
"What!?!? I won't go with you! I'm staying HERE!" Syra yelled, and it was so loud it was heard by the other orphans in the orphanage.
"She's right, you know," Supervisor Laura said, "You don't have any rights to take her away against her will."
Rey then signaled for his two comrades to huddle together. "What should we do now? She clearly won't come with us," Rey questioned.
"I think we should call Headquarters and wait for their orders," Miranda suggested. Rey and Krory looked at each other, and then nodded together.
"Fine, we'll go with your suggestion," Krory said. The group then returned to their seats.
"We'll call HQ first then wait for their orders," Krory said.
"No matter what you are ordered to do or say, I still won't go," Syra said sternly, folding her arms.
Suddenly, explosions and screaming were heard from outside. The three Exorcists widened their eyes as they raced towards the nearest window, at the same time hoping it wasn't what they thought it would be. However, their prayers weren't answered as they saw Akumas outside, both Level Ones and Twos and a couple of Level Threes, attacking the people of Latina.
"They must have sensed the Innocence! Miranda! Stay here and protect the children! Krory! Come with me!" Rey yelled out as he opened the window and jumped out with Krory following. Miranda stayed in the orphanage, shouting out, "Time Record! Activate! Time Out!" and the disk located at her right shoulder slid down to her hand and activated. The time around the orphanage then stopped flowing and created a shield around the building.
Rey and Krory ran towards the Akumas, activating their Innocence at the same time.
"Dark Light! Activate!" Rey yelled out and his arms transformed and he held a white blade on his left hand and a black blade on his right hand.
"Innocence! Activate!" and Krory's hair stood up and the white part of his hair stood at the center, "Looks like it's a feast for me, and I can't believe my teeth didn't react to them"
The two Exorcists jumped towards the Akumas, one was slashing them with his energy swords while the other was either sucking the blood out of the Akuma's bodies or slashing them with his crimson claws.
The two Level Threes saw the shield around the building and then, "Level Ones and Twos! Attack that shield and get that Innocence! " All the Level Ones and Twos obeyed as the Level Threes became the two Exorcists opponent.
"You know…I wonder how long before that shield will give in," one of the Level three, a ruby red one, smirked. Rey and Krory tried to help Miranda by destroying the attacking Akumas, but the Level Threes intervened and pushed them back. The two Exorcists gritted their teeth in anger.
Miranda wasn't doing as well as the other two are, each Akuma attack on the shield slowly drained her energy, but she still stood strong. "Miss Lotto, are you okay?" Laura asked, watching the battle along with the twins, who were watching the fight in fright.
"I'm fine… Just get the other children to safety…" the female Exorcist said, feeling more and more energy being drained from her with each hit. "Okay then," Laura then raced off to gather the other children.
"Purity's Boomerang," Rey yelled out as he threw his white double bladed weapon towards the dull orange Level Three. The Level Three didn't move as the spinning blades just went through it and the Level Three disappeared instead of an explosion happening.
"Hahahaha…" the green-haired youth heard and he looked around, widening his eyes when he saw a dozen or more identical ruby red Level Threes around him in the air, all talking at the same time, "You'll have to do much better than that, Exorcist!"
"Purity's Boomerang," the boy yelled as he threw his weapon again, this time he tugged the energy thread and spun, making sure he hit every copy of the Level Three. All of them just disappeared like the previous one.
"Try again, boy," a voice sounded from behind him as he was struck from his back. Rey spun around and landed on his feet. Looking to where he was just standing, the boy was surprise when he saw the same Akuma he was fighting standing there, "You're not giving me your best, boy," the Akuma taunted.
Krory jumped towards the pitch black Level Three with his crimson claws ready. However, the vampire Exorcist was pushed away by an unknown force and the Akuma just laughed manically. He tried again but the same thing happened. "Come on, vampire! Is this really your best?" the pitch black Akuma said blurted as it continued laughing.
And as the three Exorcists struggled to protect everyone, unknown to them, the marking on Syra's back started to glow more, as if responding to the battle ongoing in the town.
This must be the longest I've written so far, but I hope its good enough for everyone though.