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+ - Chapter 35 - +

Too quiet...Allen realized, feeling dread build with every step he took. He hadn't heard Lenalee screaming, nor had he heard any signs of life anywhere. He hadn't even seen any AKUMA as he ventured on. "I must still be disoriented..." He groaned, recalling the vile stuff the twins shot at him prior.

How was he supposed to find his 'friend' as he was now? His directional sense really did suck, though. It didn't help that many of the corridors and halls looked alike. The Earl really should have gotten someone to redecorate. Then again, maybe the place was set out like this to prevent intruders from getting too far in and being able to navigate their way back out.

It also came to the boy's attention that some of these doors led to walls, windows, rooms with doors, with no doors, with only windows, or empty all together. In the end, perhaps the Earl actually did know what he was doing when he made this place...either that...or...Allen's eyes widened in shock as it finally sunk in.

"I'M IN THE ARK?!" Looking around frantically, he quickly ran to a door, and pulled it open. Yes, this was one of the "empty" rooms that held nothing more than a dark abyss. Which meant...the Ark was installed on the outer perimeter doors of the mansion.

When had they even set up the Ark like this anyway? Last time he'd checked, the technology hadn't been fully developed. He'd only been gone a couple months; had that really been enough time for them to find the breakthrough they'd needed.

Judging from his surroundings, he supposed it was. Hopelessness filled him at the thought that he may actually never find his way out.

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Lenalee slowly came to, only seeing darkness. As her eyes attempted to adjust, her other senses came back to her, little by little, there were things she was aware of. First, her hands were over her head, rather than being cuffed from behind. She felt something under her...soft, plush..a bed? No, if she were on a mattress it'd of sunk under her weight...

"Are you awake now, my cute little Lenalee?" Where was that voice coming from? She realized she still couldn't see anything, no matter how many times she tried blinking, all she could see was darkness. She was…blindfolded? "Wonderful~! We can go back to playing~! I have a few toys I've always wanted to try out." Lenalee could hear the grin in the other girl's voice, and it only filled her with so much dread. "Don't worry~! I only need you to scream to lead my cute little Allen to me~! Maybe when all is said and done, I just might keep you too~ You're rather fun to play with after all."

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In the middle of what he thought to be his never-ending search, the screaming started up again; this time even louder and closer than before. "LENALEE!" He shouted, frantically running towards her tormented screams. If Road did anything...which she mostly likely did, he grimaced, he would make sure the damage he put on his friend would be ten times worse.

It was his fault that this was happening; if only he'd never met her in the first place. Everyone could have gone on with their regular lives... and she wouldn't be where she was now... screaming in agony at the hands of Road. He, personally, knew the kind of 'games' the little NOAH liked to play, and hoped to save Lenalee before it got too out of hand.

Lenalee's screams became louder and more frequent. Louder was good, it meant he was getting closer, but frequent...wasn't as good. He was running now, there was no way he was going to let his friend be harmed any more than she already was.

Please...please hang on, Lenalee... he hoped and prayed the damage wasn't life-alternating bad.

At the end of a particularly long hall, he stood before it. A single harmless door. The door that hid his screaming friend. It was here that those sounds emanated from.

Throwing it open, what he saw inside was ought to make him snap. His eyes narrowed at the sight of Lenalee clothed in little less than her panties, handcuffed to a bed, blood sticky and drying on her body. The multitude of cuts decorating her only served to anger him all the more. Beside her stood Road, in her hands a variety of toys she'd obviously been planning to use in her sick and twisted game.

The gun he'd stolen from Jasdero pointed straight at her, he barely allowed the wretch time to react. Stumbling back to avoid the bullet, Road's foot slid in the blood, disorienting her for but a second. It was enough. Even still under the effect of Jasdevi's drugs, he was a force to be reckoned with.

He darted forwards in her moment of weakness, pulling the trigger again to confuse her. Her back hit the wall as his fingers clamped around her exposed throat, cutting off her airways, and she struggled to pry his hand away as her face turned red from lack of oxygen.

Allen kept his face expressionless as he fired the gun straight into her stomach, knowing that she would die at point-blank range. The bang echoed throughout the house, not that he cared in the least. Let more of them come; he'd kill them all.

Now that the deed had been done, he allowed a deranged grin to tug at his lips. Leaning in closer to the woman's ear, he was pleased to discover that her breath hitched as he spoke to her words that only she could hear. "I'll be seeing you in hell; save me a seat, would you?"

Golden eyes so filled with hatred gave out a weak glare, before she nodded once, her body falling to the ground soon after. He simply watched as her lifeblood pooled around her still for, staining the pristine white carpet a deep crimson. It was surprising, to say the least, that her blood had in fact been red. Did that mean she was human? Did that make what he'd done yet another sin to add to his seemingly never-ending list of transgressions? It wasn't like it could get any worse by this point.

An unexpected rush of giddiness suddenly swept through him. He'd finally killed her! The NOAH he so hated, second to only one, was dead! "I thought I'd have gotten worse without training all this time. Ha! Not many left now~!" He all but giggled to himself, scaring the girl bound behind him, who sat blindfolded and listened as the person she considered to be her younger brother slipped farther into the grip of insanity, and there was nothing someone like her, who could barely even defend herself, could do about it.

Then, as if flipping a switch, Allen's demeanor turned impassive, frightening Lenalee all the more. He didn't want to scare her; he had to be careful. Now was not the time to lose it; that was for later. He could just bottle it all up till his crumbling mentality could bear it no longer. Because that always worked.

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Short chapter is short, but it's all that was needed for this chapter :) Okay, so Road is my favorite Noah, and it wasn't my idea for her to die :'(

Well, show a little love~ R&R ain't for no rest and relaxation...not for me anyway xD Leave a review and thanks for sticking with us so far!