"We have a confirmation! Noah in the area!"

"No!"

"Call all units there, retreat! I repeat, evacuate the area and retreat until further notice!"

"I can't get in touch with the Finders!"

"It might already by too late!"

"No! Please no!"

"But sir, Allen Walker is there-"

"Yes! We don't want Allen getting anywhere near the Noah while Leverrier is after his blood still!"

"Shit!"

"Who is there?"

"Give me the list!"

"Allen, Lavi and Kai, sir!"

"Fate hates me! Do we know who the Noah is yet?"

"Not yet sir, trying to confirm our sources."

"Get on it!"

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Things were not going well.

It was a simple statement that did lots to sell the situation short of how bad things really were, Kai mused as she managed to get to her feet with a grunt. Besides her Corbec finally rolled onto his feet and shook the rubble off of his body, looking over at her for instruction as she looked again at the battlefield.

Lavi was still laying in a heap on the floor, he was alive but out cold still from the same blow that had sent her shooting into the ground so hard there was practically a new creator from her landing. Allen was being held by two level Four Akuma, his sword being held by the demon that was standing before him.

Road Kamelot.

It was supposed to be only a small operation really, even thought they had sent three of them. The Finders had picked up on a little girl that seemed to be using strange abilities to get her own way with people. Looking back at it, it was a stupidly simple plan she realised. Road Kamelot, changing her appearance and acting like an ordinary little girl, arrives in this new town with two Akuma for parents, and starts to display strange abilities. It truth it was just her ordinary powers it seemed, but she managed to kill a few Akuma on the way, there attack on the town seeming to be just another random act of destruction that she managed to help stop.

Once they had arrived and been shown the girl, her large purple eyes had made them all halt, but her long blond hair and innocent, almost shy nature! Kai had remained cautious, enough to never be alone with the girl in the two days they had spent together before Road had been found out.

She felt her blood boil now, anger pouring threw her faster than water through a dam, it washed away her fatigue, blurred her vision and made her thudding heart rate seem suddenly calm compared to the pounding in her head.

'Innocence, Activate Level Two.' The words whispered between there minds and Corbec roared a bellowing challenge as they began to glow together, Kai's armour and his armour plated hide. Road looked up suddenly, stopping half way through her monolog to Allen, her eyes going wide in curiosity at this unexpected turn of events. The white haired boy that was hanging from the grip of the two Level Four Akuma felt a large, if twisted, smiled grow on his lips, tugging at the corners until he had to hold tight to stop the laughter bubbling out. The 14th was terrified of his kin but it rivalled his hatred of them and it had felt the power that lapped out from the girl.

Road dropped the sword on the ground as she walked towards the light, almost in a trance as she stared at it. The minuet the sword clanked to the ground, Allen wrenched and twisted in the grip of the Akuma, grabbed the handle, swinging it around to bite deeply into the armoured hide of the white Akuma on his right, making them back away enough for him to escape.

Another roar cut the air and then standing before them all, the light now fading were two figures. They were identical. Two identically armoured figure stood before them, the same ornamentation on them as Kai had on her normal armour, but this time the helmet was transformed into a large dragon's head, horns coming out the back of the helmet to frame the hair that still spilled down there backs. But that was not all, large wings adorned each of there backs, one set feathered the other scaled. Matching swords and shields were gripped firming in each hand as they stood before the giggling Noah.

"The Armour of Heaven and the Beast of Hell, combine to make the Champions of Light." Said Kai but her voice was two toned, another voice speaking out through her words. Allen felt something inside him, it was almost tingly and the white cape around his shoulders seemed to flutter in response to that call.

"Impressive title," said a cheery -if pained- voice to Allen's right and he saw Lavi slowly getting up and swinging his hammer up onto his shoulder. The two Akuma still floating near by seemed to wake up and realised things were not going to be going well soon.

'Play time, Crowned Clown' thought Allen with an uncharacteristic smirk as all three of them launched themselves at the Akuma. The two figures that both seemed to be Kai moved in perfect unison with each other, not moving in sync but there attacks were perfectly timed.

"She's showing us up," laughed Lavi besides him as Allen blocked another blow by the now angry Akuma. Pushing the monster away Allen had to chuckle in agreement at least, "you've got a point. Think we could put one of these out if its misery before she does?"

Road folded her arms over her chest and watched, tilting her head from one side to the other as she watched the combat with interest. The internal struggle inside her continued, she was annoyed at being first interrupted from her time with Allen, just when she had managed to slip away from everyone to come and have some play time with her favourite exorcist. Secondly she was annoyed at being ignored by them all as they focused on destroying the two Akuma bodyguards that the dear Millennium Earl had insisted she take with her whenever going out as a Noah.

Over all, Road was feeling a little neglected and now, as she watched the combat continue, she realised that they were beating down the two Akuma! That couldn't happen! More and more Akuma were achieving the status of Level Four, but the Earl still did not like to waste them needlessly. She didn't want to get into trouble….

Reaching out with her mind she summoned her powers and attacked the minds of the Exorcists fighting, freezing them all mid-swing, feeling the surface thoughts on there minds, all of them. She reeled back in mild shock, each of them was a confusion miasma of conflicting thoughts and desires! A large smile appeared on her face as an idea came to her, making her chuckle as she rubbed her hands together, drawing them closer with her telekinesis. The two damaged Akuma backed off, limping to rest on the ground besides her.

: Road! : She winced as she felt the angry mental call of the Earl. : What are you doing? This is naughty! :

Feeling her conscience tug at her, she sighed and made to put her toys down when the chiding voice of her gently mother whispered up from her memory, "always put your toys away after your done playing with them." Even better, she realised as she concentrated her powers so intensely sweat broke out on her forehead.

The three Exorcists were released from her grip, the four bodies falling to the floor with painful thuds and making them look up at each other in puzzlement. "What is she doing?" Asked Kai in her two tone voice, both bodies indicating the expanding purple aura around the small girl.

Both Allen and Lavi shrugged or shook there heads but never once took there eyes off of the girl as they stood up, hands gripping tighter to weapons, ready for what ever she was dreaming up. Kai's mind stared out threw the two bodies, feeling apprehension growing as they waited ever more, part of her telling her to run from the monster before them while they still could.

With a simple gesture from the girl, a sudden blast of power rippled out in a shockwave from Road, making them all grimace as they fought to remain standing until it passed. It didn't! Behind them all appeared the largest version of Road's strange door they had ever seen! The club shaped doors appeared, the little crown on the top glowed and seemed to pulse as the black and red doors swung open to reveal the blackness within.

"Enjoy your holiday!" The words should have been shouted, screamed or delivered in a manic laughter but it sounded like they were whispered next to there shoulders for each of them as the power increased, the unseen force within it pushing them all tumbling into the doorway behind them.

It snapped shut with a small, disarming click. The door stood there innocently in the large field they had been battling in, slowly beginning to shrink down to its normal size as a panting Road walked towards it. She smiled happily with herself, reaching out a hand to gently touch the door. They would not be gone forever, but, it would be enough to challenge them, to keep them out the way long enough for the Earl to get scene two of his play underway. Just long enough for her to maybe have a little fun with that girl… what was her name? Lenalee?