Day: 353 as a comrade
We go to the airport first thing in the morning. Lux fluttered behind me cheerfully at the thought that she would serve useful again after awhile. The six of us, Allen, Lavi, Lenalee, Kanda, Link and I all stood coolly in our black uniforms. Will all except for Link who was always serious and wore a striped red uniform instead. I could hear girls from every corner of the airport squealing about how cute the three black uniformed guys were. "Isn't the long haired Asian one hot?" I heard one of the girls say. "Oh please, it's easy to see the spiky haired redhead is a lot hotter." Another replied. "I like the white haired one the best. He's got such a nice figure and how did he get his hair to be so white? It's so pretty! I wonder if he eats enough!"
I scoffed when I heard her. If only she saw how much of a pig he was. He's probably the least starving person on the face of the earth.
"They've all got a nice figure, the perfect guys! Tall, skinny, and handsome! Like models! Let's talk to them!"
As expected the girls came to them. Allen, being his usual polite self just smiled as the girls tried to talk to him. It irritated me, and I hated it. To me Allen should have just ignored them. Though I knew if I was who I was before and I saw them in the airport I would've done the same thing. That part irritated me the most. Lavi placed his hand on my shoulder and smiled at me. "It's okay," he whispered and that was all I needed. Did I expect something to happen between Allen and one of these girls. No! Now I felt stupid for being angry.
Kanda flat out ignored the girls and pretended the didn't exist, but I was pretty sure that he wanted to snap at them right there and then. On the other side, just as my amazing friend Lavi always did to me he flirted right back. "Would you like to grab a drink with us?" They asked him hopefully. I swore Lenalee flinched.
Without a second to spare a smile went over Lavi's face. "Sorry, I already have a girl I like and I wouldn't want to go anywhere with another girl besides her. Not you guys." Flat out turned down. The girls were appalled.
"We must be greater than that girl though!" The girl that had said she'd liked him before blurted out.
Something in Lavi's face changed, or maybe it was just the air around him that became cold as death. He smiled through it too, which just made it much worse. "You guys don't even compare to her."
That's got to hurt.
I was right. The girls looked so hurt that I could have laughed. I looked at Lavi. He gave me a small smile back. He'd done it for me. Been rude to those girls, because he knew they had been bothering me. "Thank you," I whispered. Another smile.
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"We have reached Nanjing, China. Please unload your carry on bags from the upper compartment and exit to your right." The voice on the intercom said. My eyes fluttered open. I'd just realized that I'd fallen asleep. "Come on Sephiria, time to go," Lenalee told me. I nodded drowsily and slowly got up out of my seat rubbing my eyes at the same time. "Aaaw look Sephiria's all sleepy," Lavi teased. "You're so cute Seph!" That woke me up and I made sure to punch him right in the gut. Lavi groaned, "Dammit Seph, I feel like you get more and more violent every single day."
"Shut up you idiot," I pouted. "I don't like people making comments about me being sleepy."
"Noted," Lavi gave out a pained laugh.
When we got out luggage from the baggage claim a man with a white crazy looking beard approached us. "Exorcists of the Black Order, I was ordered by branch head Bak to escort you safely back to the Asian branch." The man bowed so that his back was as flat as a board. "Hey Wong! You don't need to do that!" Allen laughed. The man named Wong rose back up from his bow and nodded. "Please come here," he said waving his hand indicating for us to follow him.
Wong showed us to a car that drove us to a huge cave. I marveled at the size. The car continued to drive in to the cave that got deeper and deeper and deeper until the entrance was blocked by a huge decorated wall. It looked more than a hundred years old. Paint was peeling off the gate and I imagined that this was what the gates of Atlantis would look like. We all got out of the car and it drove away. Wong walked towards the huge gate, "Fou, it's me," Wong said to the gate.
"You may enter," it sounded a lot like the voice of a teenage girl. "Oh, and if it isn't little Allen Walker. Back so soon?" The gate seemed to laugh.
"Yep guess so. Nice seeing you again Fou," Allen replied.
"Hmph! I was hoping not to see your face again," she joked.
Then the wall began to disappear in to nothing. That was the order for you. They made the impossible, possible.
The first thing that happened to me when I first set foot in to the Asian branch was that a blonde haired man in his mid 20s jumped towards me and hugged me tightly.
"Lenalee!" The man cried. I was so shocked that I almost stopped breathing.
"W-what!" Lavi cried. Lenalee put her face in the palm of her hand and let out a sigh.
"Chief Bak! You've got the wrong girl!" Wong cried.
The man looked at me and his eyes widened.
"Uhm, hi. My name is Sephiria Liang. I'm the not so new exorcist in the Black Order…. I don't believe we've met before," I said slowly.
"You look so much like Lenalee!" He gasped.
Allen pulled me away from him, "she's not Lenalee," Allen said in a stern tone.
"I apologize," replied Bak. "Let me introduce myself. My name is Bak Chan and I'm the branch head of the Asian branch."
Bak showed each of us our rooms. "Welcome to the Asian branch! This is the biggest branch in the whole order and it's still getting bigger!" he told us proudly. "So don't get lost or they might not be able to find you," Allen finished for him.
"Nice to know," Lavi muttered under his breath.
I put my things in my room and Lavi and Lenalee decided to go to sleep. Link needed to give a report to Central about the branch so that left Allen and I.
"So you've been here before?" I asked him.
"Yep, when I lost my innocence they were the ones that saved me. Let's say it wasn't exactly the most pleasant experience in the whole world." he replied.
"I could imagine," I said.
"People here are actually pretty nice though. This is a science dedicated branch and do most of the order's studies. It's amazing."
"You like science?" I asked.
"It's interesting. I would rather be a clown than I scientist though, but I guess exorcism is more of my thing though." he grinned at me. I laughed. "What about you?" He asked.
"Science was one of my best subjects when I was at school, but I don't know about it now. It's almost been a year since I've done anything academic," I told him. "Guess exorcism is more of my thing than academics." I smiled.
He laughed. "Hey, Sephiria you hung-"
"Mr. Walker!" A girl with two large and tight braids on her head ran up to us.
"Oh, Lo-fa. Nice to see you." Allen smiled. The girl named Lo-fa turned a bright red. "I-It's n-nice to s-see you too Mr. W-walker!" The girl stuttered. This girl was very short and was visibly crushing on Allen. Once again I felt an irritation rise in my chest. I faked a cough so that I could interrupt her. "Nice to meet you, I'm Sephiria," I smiled at her.
"Oh! Nice to meet you I'm Lo-fa!" I shook hands with her.
"Well I'm a little hungry so I got to go," I said.
"Wait Sephiria! I'm coming with you!" Allen cried walking after me. "See you Lo-fa!" He waved.
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After Allen and I ate he showed me around. "Here's the training grounds," he said. The floor was sand and white pillars towered over the grounds. "It's not actually the training grounds, but that's what I call it since this is the place I trained to get my innocence back. I looked around. Here was the place where Allen once stood not so long ago as a mere human. No left arm and severely wounded.
"That's right Allen. Aren't your memories of this place so beautiful?" The voice of the gate said.
"Not exactly Fou, after all this is the place you almost killed me several times." Allen laughed. "So you've finally come out of the gate?" Allen turned around and I followed.
"Just hoping to beat the shit out of you again," she grinned.
Fou looked like a girl a year or two younger than I was. Considering that I looked 16 (but I'm actually 13) she looked like a true 11 year old girl. She had pink hair and wore few clothes. She didn't have hands, but she had balloon shaped things to replace them.
"Hey, you're the new exorcist Sephiria," Fou said.
" Yeah, I guess."
"You're so young," her tone of voice became kinder.
"How old are you?" I asked out of pure curiosity.
"Older than Allen here, older than our stupid branch head Bak, older than old Wong, and definitely a lot older than you," she smiled.
Somehow it was hard to believe considering she looked younger than I was.
"So is Allen still weak?" She asked me.
"Of course not! Allen's amazing! He's really strong!" I blurted out without thinking. I quickly threw my hands over my mouth and blushed madly at my stupidity. Fou stared at me with a shocked look on her face, then she smiled sweetly. "Well it's good that he's stronger now." Then Fou left.
"She's so nice Allen!" I said turning around to face him.
"To you, but to me she's like a demon," Allen replied. "Oh, and…" he chuckled putting a hand over his mouth to hide his grin. "Did you really mean all those things you said about me? Am I really amazing in your eyes?"
My heart pounded and once again I wanted to bash myself for my stupidity. I was so absentminded. "You-you're amazing. You're strong and kind, and you're the exact person that I want to be like," I admitted.
Allen looked very pleased with my answer, and I turned to look away from him. Why was Allen so drop dead gorgeous? Maybe if he wasn't I wouldn't always get nervous around him. Or maybe my heart wouldn't feel like it was going to burst every second. Maybe I wouldn't feel jealous of the girls he hung around.
"Sephiria," When Allen said my name I couldn't help but turn back to face him again. And the way he said it made all the hairs on my back stand up. "Sephiria, you know. For a long time now I've been in love with-"
"There you are Walker!" Link rushed over to Allen.
"Goddamn Link! Could your timing ever get any worse!" Allen groaned looking genuinely mad.
"Watch you language Walker," Link warned.
"I'm going to go to bed now," I said rushing out of an uncomfortable situation leaving the boy who made my heart pound and hurried to my room where there was a quiet place to think.
When I got to my room I slammed the door and slid to the floor. "Solara what do I do. I think that I might be in love with Alle-" "Don't fall in love with Allen!" Solara's voice rang so loudly in my head that it made me jump.
"Wh-why not?"
"There's someone better for you than Walker."
I was surprised. "Who?"
"He will come clean when I feels that it's the right time."
But it was too late. Whoever it was that was better for me was too late. I'd fallen head over heels for Allen without even realizing it, and without even trying he'd always made my heart pound.
Embarrassed Sephiria. (pic corrections. Seph's hair is longer and it's black.)