Chapter 25: Just a Little Hope

Tadaima~

I know this is super late. So…I'm sorry? Yeah, yeah I apologize. I have my reasons, though. First, the chapter did a number on me that I didn't finished in due time, hell my father did a good job in hunting me down to sleep early. It has been a while since the last time he scared me to death. Ahaha. Second, han-chan and I went to Greenwich for lunch(Sunday) then to cosplay summit and afterwards to the comic alley. Hey, I saw a samurai in there like the one in Bleach and when I unsheathe it…oh gawd…it's an umbrella not a sword! They tricked me! TTATT. And third, I have my speech(Monday). All in all in just 3 days..*sigh* this chapter is pretty hard for me, I dunno why is that so. By the way, I have title for the last sequence already and that would be "The Last Act". How is that?

Well, hope you guys will still love me after you read this chapter.

*Preparing my shield should you goes wild and assassinate me."

On the floor lies the trembling body of the white haired teen forming a ball. His dull and lifeless eyes were widely open screaming for someone to help me but nothing came. His friends watched him helplessly. They already tried to calm him down, to wake him from his dreams/nightmares which were truly his past.

While they sympathizing the white haired, Kanda, Lenalee, and Lavi gasped when they found their hands bound together. Little did they know, a finder found them and called the remaining exorcists including the crows. Komui was also there, helpless as he watched them.

"Nii-san…" Lenalee looked at him, tears forming in her eyes telling him to help them save their friend, Allen.. but Komui chose not to but closed his eyes and slowly shook his head.

"I'm sorry…Lenalee. It's an order…" Komui said without looking directly into her eyes but on his toes. He can't bear to look at her. He just can't.

"We don't want frther chaos. Please surrender Mr. Walker to us so we can continue." Said one of the crows.

"Tch. Dammit." Kanda stood defensively. "What will you do if we won't surrender him?" he asked.

"You can't fight us."

"If we can't…" Lavi kneeled down and held Allen. "Uh, Kanda, care to help?" Kanda then assisted him to carry Allen on his back. "Thank you!" Lavi said before continuing what he was about to tell the crows. "If we can't fight you then…we're going to RUN!"

N cue LEnalee crashed the wall using her dark boots and escaped through it while the group that chase them divided into two groups. The first group run after them, the other descended and run to where the runaways would be.

Somewhere behind the walls hid two other people. They had successfully infiltrated the HQ without triggering the alarm.

The Noahs, Road and Tyki, watched them silently.

"Tyki~! I want to play tag with them!" Road whined, swinging the poor pumpkin head umbrella. "It looks so fun! See? They are running like they are playing tag."

"Lero~! Road-tama stop! Lero~!"

Tyki facepalmed and sighed. "Road, they are not playing tag, okay?"

"Hmph!" Road hopped onto the umbrella and stepped on its head.

"Eeek! Lero~! It hurt Road-tama!"

"Then we should go get Allen so we can go back to the Ark. I want to play with him!" Road said as she ignored the protesting umbrella.

"Hai, hai. Let's go."

"Say, they caught us already, Yuu." Said Lavi who was tied and hanged upside down.

"Tch. Baka usagi, I told you before not to call me that." Kanda, who has the same fate as the baka usagi, scowled while he kept on swinging himself back and forth, side to side, and wiggled like an idiot trying his best to escape from a tight hold. "I'm not giving up yet. BA-KA! Untie me so I can kill you all at once!"

Lenale, unlike the two idiots, was not tied by rope or anything but her brother Komui, the ultimate sister-complex crazy/mad scientist, clanged on her thighs wailing and crying some incoherent word asking for forgiveness. Lenalee sighed. It was Komui's fault why they were captured. Of course, thanks to one of Komui's Komurins to lure them.

"Sorry Kanda-kun. B-but if we-we untie you you will k-kill us." Miranda stuttered.

"Hmph."

Allen…Well, he was over their sitting on chair behind Lenalee and Komui, binds wrapped all over his body like a mummy save the nose so he can breath, that restrained him so he can't move or attack them subconsciously.

"Al~len!"

Everyone turned their heads to where the voice came from. They stunned and gasped to see the Noah of Dreams, Road, hugging the mummified body of Allen from the back.

"Ro-Road!?" Lenalee clutched her hands against her chest eyes were wide open in surprised. "Since when did you…" she trailed off her voice when a purple butterfly came in her view fluttering across her face. Her eyes widened in both shock and horror. "Tease?"

"Sorry if we didn't knock the door first, it's open. See?" Tyki said sarcastically while emerging from the wall. He stepped out and move closer to Road and Allen.

"Hey! Toma, untie us!" Lavi yelled.

"Hai." Toma reached for the loop and undid it causing the two to fall face first.

"Uhmf!"

"Sorry about that, Lord exorcists."

"Just hurry up and untie this damn rope!" Kanda yelled impatiently.

"Yes, coming."

Just as Lavi and Kanda were freed, Road had her ability used to trap them inside her cubes surrounded by colourful pointed candles. "Move and you die." She warned. Tyki then used his tease, the bigger ones, to bite the binds that mummified Allen.

"Road, can you put shounen back to sleep? And try to look for the 14th, I hope he's not hurt that much to leave the boy's body."

"Okay."

After a few moment, Road had managed to put Allen back to sleep but…

"Hm? What's with the face?" Tyki asked worriedly.

"I-I can't find him. the 14th. I can't sense his presence and Allen…" she slumped down and cried.

"Road?" Tyki kneeled down and patted her back. "What's wron-?" just as he was about to ask if what's wrong, his head snapped to where Allen is. His eyes widened in disbelief and worried plastered on his face when he realized that the boy's heartbeat was faint until it stopped.

Road sobbed rubbing her eyes and cheeks.

The exorcists, finders, and some scientists looked at them, confused of what was happening. "Hey, why are you crying?" Crowley asked.

"Allen…" Road mumbled in her sobs.

…

They really don't have a single idea as to what was happening but the mention of Allen's name made their chests felt heavy.

"Allen? Wha'bout 'im? Ne, general Klaud…" Timothy tugged the general's sleeve. "What does she mean?"

"I don't know, timothy…" the General answered him without taking off her eyes to the group of Noahs. "Noahs, tell us what's happening. What happened to Allen?"

"You…you w-want to know?" Road stopped her cries and rubbed to dry her face. She turned her head up, smiling to them. "YOUR DESPERATE MOVE KILLED HIM!" she yelled. "He subconsciously suppressed his Noah powers afraid that he would hurt you…afraid that he would kill you…that lead to his death. His own powers drowned his heart…" she said softly between sobs, looking on the floor. Tyki hugged to comfort her.

All of them who had heard the petite Noah's yell and mumbling were in the state of shock.

What a BIG MISTAKE.

Thanks to Mr. Hitler-wannabe Allen died. They were too shocked to move, to steady themselves, to utter a word. Too shocked that they felt limp and slumped back, unable to absorbed the events. They refused to believe but they saw it. No matter how much you look at the white haired teen, his chest doesn't indicate a single hope of life.

"No…" was all what Lenalee can say and cried.

I don't know how well was the chapter so far. You may find lots of missing words or words that were not supposed to be there and misspelled. And I'm sorry about that, it's just that my hands and mind don't get along pretty well. Ahaha. So far, for me the chappie's good. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Thanks for reading!

*hides before you chase me to death*

R&R

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