Chapter 27
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A/N: Lol. Enjoy.
"Lavi. What were you doing outside the closet door?!" the angry nineteen year old female exorcist fumed. "Answer me Lavi!" "Emm…Eves dropping?" Lenalee let out a frustrated sigh.
"Look, if you want to know what I was talking about, seriously, then I'll tell you. But next time, don't eves drop. Not on me, not on anyone else. Got it?" The air of strictness in her voice pushed Lavi to agree, though quite not of his own will.
As Lenalee opened her mouth to speak again, Lavi brought his hand up to stop her. "I think I heard everything." Lenalee blinked and closed her mouth. "Well, where did you hear until?" "Until the bit where you said something about leaving after they take the fake Feliske." "Hmm. That about ends it. So, are you willing? A battle might just break out." Lavi rubbed his chin in mock thought. Finally, he grinned. "Sure, why not?"
Lenalee and Komui spent the rest of the remaining few days carefully planning out the rescue. Well, it wasn't exactly a 'rescue' but close enough. Lavi trained with Hikaru, who had unconditionally invited himself into their conversation the minute Lavi had agreed to go. He too, decided to make this mission and regarded it as a first challenge mission for himself. Feliske had perfected her replica and Allen was carefully watched over by both Lenalee and Bookman. The plan was now totally decided. Lavi, Lenalee and Hikaru would come along and as first decided, Feliske would stay by Allen's side at the opening site of the portal, which had been measured perfectly according to their previous entrance to the Black order through there. All they had to do would be to put it into play.
Feliske's drawn fake looked up at her master and bowed sincerely. "Now remember, you must look sad, and the Noahs will probably check you. I will grant you the temporary power of creation. You will be able to create objects at your own will. However, if the Millennium Earl tries to use your power, it will immediately disappear. Got it?" Feliske's drawn fake nodded lightly in total obedience to her master.
Lavi zipped his coat up. Adjusting his bandana, he glanced at the ebony haired girl as she bent low over the side of the bed of the fallen exorcist. "I will bring back your soul, Allen-kun… I promise," he heard her murmur.
He smiled to himself as he saw the female exorcist bend down lower and give the unconscious white-haired exorcist a kiss, a last kiss, should they not return alive.
Lenalee turned around, a deep set determined expression imprinted on her face. "Let's do it."
"So, you have not brought the child Walker?"
Lenalee clenched her fists and scowled at the two members of the Noah family which stood in front of them.
"Look. We aren't giving him back. It was either the girl or Allen. You can't have both."
Tyki smirked.
"So you chose the boy over the Power of Creation? What senselessness. Oh well. Sorry Road, You can't have a new 'toy'." Lenalee saw, though glaring head on at Tyki, the smaller sized Noah girl pout from the corner of her eye.
"Allen isn't a toy," she retorted automatically in response to Tyki's curt comment. "So where's his soul? It was a deal. Give it to us." Tyki shook his head, a small smile lingering on his lips. "You exorcists sure are impatient." He pulled out a glass orb, a half wilted flower floated inside. Lavi looked on as Lenalee went up to Tyki to take it.
The flower was a gentle rose. The only problem was, it was half black.
"Hey, what's the meaning of this?!" Lavi demanded, an infuriated glint in his one emerald orb, an accusing finger pointed at the half wilted rose. Tyki smirked again. "Road?"
Road shifted lazily on her feet. She walked up to Tyki's side, dragging her feet as she went. She looked irritated and, Lenalee expected, was so due to the fact that she hadn't gotten her 'toy'.
"We've already implanted his inner Noah into his soul. That," the girl Noah gestured to the flower in Lenalee's hands, " would be his soul."
Lenalee's eyes widened in disbelief. She glanced downwards at the small orb in her hands. "This is Allen-kun's…his… his soul?" "NOW LENALEE! GO,GO,GO!" Lenalee's head shot up and her eyes widened as Lavi raised his hammer. Tyki and Road didn't look in the least bit surprised.
"Look," Tyki said in a negotiating tone, "we don't want any trouble. We just came to affirm your decision on our offer. You came, you've got your pretty-boy's soul, we've got the girl," Tyki put an arm on the fake's shoulder, "and now, you can go."
Tyki smirked again.
"Allen will come running back to this place once the Noah has developed. Even though it's not positive, there's a higher chance he'll come here rather than stay the same. So go, we don't want a fight."
Lavi gritted his teeth as the Noah girl next to Tyki laughed. Lenalee's hand landed on his shoulder in a light tap and he saw Hikaru a short distance away gripping his bow tightly, a glowing arrow threatening to be fired. He was trembling, a disgusted expression on his face. Lavi still looked irritated, but he lowered his hammer and shrunk it back to its original size. His brows were furrowed as he walked back to the portal without a word.
Lenalee shrugged and gave one last untrusting look to the Noahs and followed Lavi's league, stopping by Hikaru to coax him into letting it go. (Not the arrow!)
Lavi halted near the mouth of the portal and looked back, fuming. He pointed his middle finger at the Noahs. Shock beyond whatever shock Lenalee had ever seen on any Noah family member's face was now found on the faces of the two Noah nearby.
"You will pay one day for this. I will have my revenge on you for attacking my best friend. I swear."
Tyki's shocked expression changed to an amused smirk. "Sure. Let's see if you live till then."
With a last glare at the Noahs, Lavi exited through the portal and vanished from sight in the depths of its ghostly hue.
Hikaru and Lenalee looked back at Lavi and then at each other. Lenalee gave the auburn haired boy a light nudge that sent him off to the portal. As Hikaru entered the portal, Lenalee turned to the Noah's again and bowed.
Tyki raised an eyebrow and Road simply nodded as Lenalee went into the portal which closed a split second after she had entered.
"What was that for? And the boy… What did I do to deserve the finger?"
Road shrugged. "At least the girl was polite. We did after all give them his soul." She turned to the fake Feliske. "Now, you. You were willing to come here as a sacrifice for your comrade's soul. Am I correct?"
"Y-yes…"
Road sighed. "I was hoping you were forced to come here. Then that would prove how twisted you exorcists are." Feliske's replica looked up with wide eyes, an offended expression on her face. Road laughed at her expression and then, speaking to Tyki, said, "Tyki, I'm going to go get a nap. Bring the girl to Lord Earl yourself okay?" And she yawned before walking off hastily.
Tyki sighed.
"Come on."
And the two walked away calmly, solemnly, as if the whole world had heard their conversation.
Exorcists were not cold evil beings.
Lenalee exited the portal's grey abyss and stepped back into the room where they had left some time ago. She cradled Allen's soul carefully in her arms.
"Lenalee, put it in him. He deserves his soul after that long." Lenalee nodded and padded over to the white-haired exorcists, her boots dissolving back into blood, a soft thudding sound the echo of her footsteps on the velvet carpeted floor.
Slowly but surely, she placed the ball in mid air as it levitated there for a while before dropping, easing into its owner's body.
"Allen-kun… Allen-kun!"
My eyes… I can't see much…It's so blurry… Who's calling my name...? They sound familiar…
"Lenalee, wait, give him time."
"I know but his eyes… They're beginning to open!"
"Don't get all excited. Hush now, give it some time."
"I think Lavi's right. We should wait."
More familiar voices…? Where am I? Lavi? Lenalee?
Allen's silver grey eyes opened, still quite out of focus, with much effort from their owner.
"Allen-kun!"
Lenalee looked down at the white-haired exorcist, hot, overjoyed tears threatening to fall. "Allen-kun…"she whispered, the words barely escaping from her lips.
Allen smiled. "Lenalee… I'm back…"
A/N: oh the mushiness! Sorry for this. I'll get rid of that notice and put this up. It isn't much but It's okay isn't it? And Thank You Thank You THANK YOU to your guys, mangafreak7793, addenza, Zboi, Azngummy(did I get that right?) ahhh! And Gabi of course! Thanks for finishing your Innocence of Noah! If you liked this story so far, you should go read that cause Gabi rocks! Anyway, I'm so sad I got banned so here's to one of my last chapters for now!
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