I do not own d gray man. All characters are copyright of Katsura Hoshino. I do own Jasper.
Sorry for the very late update T^T. School was killing me for a few weeks, but now I had some free time to finish this chapter, so I'm happy with that... Enjoy
No One Pov
Jasper continued to laugh, the Noah side stronger than ever as it saw the fourteenth awaken from his sleep.
The air crackled with the energy, as more buildings shook from the fight.
As Alma stared at Kanda, crying he said, "This is the end. Die" as he pointed his arm out at Kanda and fired another shot.
"Wait both of you!" yelled Reever. As he yelled that Allen's unconscious body began to light around it and rise from the air. As the force of it, made Alma and Kanda moved away in surprise.
"What…?" yelled Kanda in surprise at Allen's risen form. "Bean sprout!" As he heard a smack he turned and saw Alma hit the wall and grunt in pain, as start to fall. He ran in time to catch the falling Alma, looking worried. As Alma just stared at Kanda in pain, not saying a word.
As they stopped and look Allen's surrounding had changed, a white figure surrounded him from behind encasing a ball of energy around him, as he laughed.
"Thank you, Kanda Yu " said the Earl pleased at Allen's progress, leaping in the air for joy as he held to Wisely and Sheryl. "He's awakening . Thanks to you making a mess of Allen Walker with your Innocence. The '14th' sleeping dormant within him just got a perfect wake up call . The Noah can never forget their hatred of the Innocence. The more you wounded him with it, the more that hatred gushed out ." With his head back he put it forward his face glee full and said, "Thank you! Allen Walker's now gone "
"That damn Earl… using Alma and Kanda with this in mind all along…!" said Reever angrily.
"Dammit… Dammit… DAMMMMIT!" yelled Johnny.
"You know all that yelling isn't going to change anything," mused a voice chillingly."
"Oh~ hello " said the Millennium Earl a tad surprised. "I didn't think you'd be here… Noah of Memories…" he beamed at Jasper suspiciously.
"Heh, this seems fun," mused the Noah of memories ignoring the Earl. "But, Jasper, is doing something very unfortunate at the moment though…"
"What happen to my Jasper!" raged Sheryl.
"We'll see…" laughed the Noah darkly grinning.
"Hmm… you were always a meddler, Noah…"
Jasper's Pov
I stared at the world I had awakened in… I didn't know what had happened. I was looking at Allen turn into a Noah… that thought frightened me… but I remember about Victor… very vaguely though, the memories of him are slightly blurred.
The thing that shocked me was that I saw the Noah inside me for the first time. We were in white room, nothing in it but windows of backgrounds. Black and white forests, a messy room with papers that littered the floor, an empty room with nothing but a bed and an hourglass, and other rooms…
The Noah, it looked like Victor… a younger version in Noah form. Black hair and dark skin but there was a shadow with a wide smile, he just smiled and laughed at my shocked face.
"So, your Jasper huh?" he replied laughing. "You haven't gone insane yet, I've been taking care of the library so you don't have to worry about that… for now." I didn't answer I was too shocked for words to form, as he smirked evenly. "I know how you can meet with that Walker boy, your friend, that doesn't remember you…"
I merely stared hard at him… my other self, before saying as I followed him to a window, "Why are you doing this?" I hesitated. "Don't you want the Earl's plan to succeed…?" I asked softly more to myself than to him.
"Heh," he said smirking at me, as if I was a child, "I do want, but don't you think it'd be interesting if there were at least something interesting that happens?" he said grinning from ear to ear. He led me to a window of an open land, filled with white trees in a forest with a dark, bright night sky.
"What the…" I muttered seeing this place from somewhere.
"See yah!" he cried with glee as he kicked me headfirst. I landed on the hard ground and turned to yell at him till I noticed there was no window. It had disappeared.
I cursed under my breath and stared wildly around the place. I didn't know that… my other half acted like this.
I continued to walk onward till between the white trees I saw two figures. One standing and one looking like it was chained to a particularly very tall chair.
As I came closer I heard, "Tyki…?" said a voice that sounded like it belonged to Allen.
"No, wrong. I'm the one who will destroy everything, the 14th Noah," said the tall black hair man extending his hand out. I walked within distance of the pair and he paused noticing my presence and turned to look at me. "Hmm, what are you doing here," he said.
Allen turned to look at me in surprise, "Jasper! What are you doing here?"
"Huh…" was all I said, not sure how to answer that question. "Um… my Noah is controlling me at the moment…" I muttered under my breath so they wouldn't hear my pitiful reason.
"So you're a Noah too," he stated. "The Noah of Memories?" he asked staring at me with a pitiful look on his face.
"Yes…" I said hesitant, not liking how the 14th had said that. "The Noah of Memories."
No One Pov
Wisely stared at the Noah thoughtfully. He was using Jasper's body, but it was the original Noah that had taken control. "How'd Noah's Memories learn to speak?" he asked bluntly.
The Noah of Memories chuckled at Wisely and answered, "That's because I have the memories of people in this world, and partly of other Noah of Memories before me…" he said softly, then grinning widely.
"You don't say," paled Wisely.
"You there!" yelled Sheryl holding Rhode. "Get Jasper back here."
"Noah, what are you planning this time?" the Millennium Earl asked dangerously. "You always meddled and made everything more complicated then they need to be."
"Oh nothing much…" said the Noah grinning and laughing, arms stretched out looking at the black clouds in the sky. "Don't you think life would be boring without obstacles to jump over?" he said laughing as his eyes flashed dangerously at the Earl. He lifted his head to up as light filled the sky as the blue, smoked filled sky appeared in sight. "Let's see how things will turn p hmm, Earl?"
"The sealing barrier that had locked the branch HQ in… has been destroyed!" said Sheryl in surprise.
Allen, controlled by the 14th grinned as energy sparked all around him. But his left eye began to glow, as his dark skin returned to normal. His eye in the form of the akuma seeking eye, stared intently at Kanda, and where Alma was in his arms. Allen looked shocked at what he saw, as the Noah of Memories grinned interestedly.
"Bean sprout…?" muttered Kanda.
"Alma your…" stared Allen.
"DON'T SAY IT!" roared Alma hatefully. He then turned to Kanda, attempted to strangle Kanda, but didn't continue but started to self-destruct. A bright destructive light filled the area, engulfing all those who stood in its path. At the end of the destruction Kanda laid white as sheet and began to slowly crumble.
"Kanda!" yelled Allen franticly running to him.
"Hmph. That should be an ample enough revenge for Skin Boric, wouldn't you say, Earl?" asked Sheryl.
"… Even he who prided himself on excelling even within the church… Look how brittle he was before Alma Karm… "
"Wow, wasn't expecting that…" muttered Jasper darkly.
"Jasper!" shouted Sheryl and Rhode gleefully.
"So, your back? " questioned the Earl.
"Yeah," said Jasper voice strained, smiling weakly, hope nothing major went on when he was away.
"Look for your self ," gestured the Earl, staring at him intently, as Allen was over Kanda crouched and crying at what he had learned about everything. Alma didn't become an akuma for revenge. Alma's soul was of the woman Kanda loved! Alma found out the truth about Kanda though Noah's power and became an Akuma to forever bury his own true form!
"Kanda, who lived the past 9 years knowing nothing…What will happed to Kanda's feelings?" yelled Allen angrily crying.
"I can't tell him…" said Alma's voice softly. "If Yu found out that I was 'that person'. Then he would stop searching…The promise we made that day… As long as he was bound by the promise he made with 'that person,' he is forever hers…foreeeeeever…" he said smiling softly. "Yu's body. Where…? Where is it…? I want to be beside him… where…? Yu…? Yu…" he muttered laying his eyes on Kanda's broken body, cracks appeared in his flesh. Tear began to pour out of Alma's eyes as he saw the damage he had caused to the one he loved the most. "He's the one person I didn't want to lose…!"
Jasper stared intently at the scene as it unfolded before him. No Noah was moving just watching with plain interest. Allen was crying, as he wrapped his arms around Alma and lifted him up, intent to bring him to Kanda. "Kanda is this way."
"You're so nice..." muttered Alma into Allen's neck crying. He then floated into the air as dark matter took over his body transforming it.
"Dark matter?" said Allen in alarm.
"This is fine… Thank you…" as his body cracked and splintered into piece, leaving Alma's akuma like soul to fly upwards.
"ALMA!" screamed Allen, activating Crown Clown.
Jasper stared down and looked to the sky, as Alma shot past. "What's going to happen Earl?" asked Jasper peering at Alma's form.
"Nothing. It'll just bounce away like a bubble and disappear ," the Earl said smiling, his hands folded together. Suddenly a white cloth appeared as it twisted around the Earl tighter and tighter and pulled. "Ohhhh ?"
"Earl!" yelled Wisely.
"What?" yelled Jasper in surprised as he leaped to try to catch him. As he grabbed on to the cloth, he was joined by Sheryl and Wisely as they pulled hard, to prevent the Earl from falling.
"That…" as a white-cloaked figure shot past, using the Earl as leverage to shoot by.
"What the hell is he up to now?" snapped Jasper irritated, as Allen landed near where they were and activated the ark. But he fell silent as he watched Kanda hugging Alma fall into the gate and it shut before them.
"Goodbye Alma… Gate 'Adara'". He stood before everyone and stated, "I will not allow Noah, or the church to get in the way any longer!"
"Really Allen? What about your friends?" asked Jasper intently.
As the pair locked eyes Allen said, "I'll protect them, from you." He said determination filled in his voice. Jasper just stared back at him with doubt in his eyes.
"Eh? Jasper what was that about?" asked Sheryl.
"Nothing," shrugged Jasper, "just wondering…. Just wondering if humans can really protect the people that want them dead."
….
As Bak held the stone letting its power work, it broke in a million shards in the Bak's hands. The girl that Tyki was fighting disappeared in a flash of light, screaming.
"The spirit stone broke…" yelled Bak's grand father. "The Third Exorcist's binding will be released!"
All the strength in Bak fading away, he slumped to the ground holding his shoulder.
"Alma's grudge…" said Leverrier.
"It hasn't disappeared…" said Bak in a defeated daze. "Allen Walker!" yelled Bak in surprise, as Allen came forth to take town the out of control Third Exorcist.
"This is a serious betrayal. Do you have any idea what you're doing?" How could you let both Alma Karma and Kanda Yu escape…" said Leverrier angrily. "Unless you destroy Alma the rampage of the Third Exorcists will never cease! There are lives right before your eyes that could be saved… Do you really intend to destroy the Third Exorcist project?
"Walker?" said Bak.
"Fools… Alma Karma is already loooong gone . That thing is merely a grudge wandering on this planet. " said the Earl smiling. "It just goes to show how deep… Alma Karma's sadness really was… "
The whole Noah family just watched in silence as the science members, looked in despair, as they had lost everything. Alma Karma and Yu Kanda together and off in a distant land and the Third Exorcist being destroyed…
Allen struck at Tokusa drawing large amounts of blood to splatter around the fighting pair.
"How can anyone believe the Earl's words… The Third Exorcist project an absolute necessity…! Go through the gate and destroyed Alma this instant!" roared. Leverrier. "If you don't, THEN YOU ARE NO LONGER AN EXORCIST!" he threatened.
The Earl grinned at Leverrier's choice of words, waiting for the right moment to stop everything and take the Black Order's supposedly winning pieces.
Suddenly in a flash Allen was covered in white papers with writing on it, making him unable to move.
"Wha…?" Allen began shocked.
"Deactivate Allen Walker!" yelled Link, holding Tevak.
"Link?" said Allen quickly, before his whole body was covered and even his ability to speak was hindered. Caught in mid air, his Crown Clown deactivated he fell to the ground with a loud thud. "Let me go…" Allen said spitting out the binding on his mouth. "I might still be able to survive! Link!"
"Don't listen! Yelled Leverrier. "Walker is out of control right now. Immobilize him and do not let him open that gate! Now Auditor Link!"
In Link's hesitation, Tevak began to break free of he bind, "Brother where are you…? Did he kill you…?" she said, he arm beginning to transform into Alma's hate. "Brother-" she then saw Allen and flew at him in a rage. "Allen Walker…!"
"Tevak! Stop!" yelled Link, "Dammit the seals are already…"
"WHERE IS MY BROTHER?"
Then in a flash, a giant golem shoot past Allen and hitting Tevak hard, pushing her away. "Timcampiii? HUGE!"
"We can worry about that later…" stared Link, but looked in surpise as a giant shadow loomed towards him, its hand outstretched.
"No, stop!" yelled Allen, as Tokusa had his all hand around Link ready to crush. But he disappeared in a flash.
"He disappeared…?" said Tevak in a daze. "Brother…?" Then began a bright light that began to grow at her feet. "Tokusa. Kiredori. Goushi. Everyone don't leave Tevak alone…" she said beginning to cry.
"Get away from there!" Allen roared.
"…Tevak!" yelled Link, running to try and grab her, but in the nick of time she too disappeared. Both Allen and Link looked in shock.
"To tell you the truth, I can deeply understand the 'Third Exorcist Project' you all planned. It is utterly natural act done by those who seek their own survival. But unfortunately we have our own rules . We must kill under the 'God' we've chosen to tout . And anything that atrays from that path will not be tolerated . If you seek power, then you must search for the 'hearts' , Said the Earl grinning broadly.
Behind all the Noahs was a gate. The Noah Mercym, was holding Madarao. They all were proceeding to walk through.
"I am going to have the Third Exorcists become my pawns. And follow my rules ." He said slowly walking into the gate. 'Oh, and to you who has done nothing but break the rules. I will come for you soon . You can no longer live in that place can you…? " finished the Earl.
Jasper was the last one to leave through the ark. He glanced back at Allen angry and worried eyes of the future. His eyes hardened and his mouth in a straight line, deep in thought and walked through.