Akatsuki finally arrived at the mine gate opening, panting from exhaustion. He had been running for nearly a mile, so of course he would have been panting in complete exhaustion. He looked around, seeing that no one was around within the area to wonder why a child would be near the mine gates. "Why do I feel something strange nearby though? I mean I can sense Cyril coming this way, but I feel something else… Something… almost like death…

"So, it looks like you made it… You look completely tired," Cyril's chuckle could be heard ringing out from behind Akatsuki. "Yes, these are the mines. This is where we found that Innocence you were speaking of. We just need to enter, and search through the tunnels carefully. If you remember from what we were told, around six o'clock PM will be another earthquake. We need to watch it now that we are close to it," the Noah chuckled lightly.

"I know that, I have a good memory. I am not as stupid as you may think I am," Akatsuki chuckled. He looked at the darkness within the mines that were once filled with people. Inside those dark tunnels, an Innocence was hidden in it. All he had to do now was to join forces with Cyril in there and search for it. Not too hard, but then again, with what light source would they be able to do this?

"Yo Mr. Noah and Fancy Pants," a joker-like voice rang out from the woods behind Cyril and Akatsuki.

Akatsuki twitched his right eye and immediately grabbed his katana. He then whirled around while unsheathing his katana, slicing it through the air as a flow of blood red Innocence energy formed in the air. The blood red flow then burst towards the originated spot where the voice came from in a forthwith manner. He swung a Heaven Cutter at Lavi, even though he knew that it was him.

Lavi immediately reacted by leaping, evading the attack that would have killed him if he continued to stand there. The Heaven Cutter sliced through several trees, knocking them over. Those trees then knocked over others, like dominos! Lavi looked at the falling trees and sweat dropped. "Sometimes you scare me…," he chuckled lightly.

"So where is Kanda?" Akatsuki questioned with a sweat drop as he put away his katana. In his mind, he thought, "Damnit! How the fuck did I miss that! I should have thought that Lavi would dodge it either way… Next time, he says that to me, I will take it as a 'Please Kill Me' plead…" He shook it off and cocked an eyebrow at Lavi, waiting for his answer.

"Kanda could not come, he decided to head off on his own yet again. Though aside from that, how do you plan on going through there without anything to give off light?" Lavi chuckled as he watched both Cyril and Akatsuki sweat drop about the fact that he was right. "Do not worry, as an Exorcist, I came prepared!" he said cheerfully as he dug through his left pocket.

Lavi slid his hand back out of his pocket and showed his clenched hand to the Exorcist and Noah. He then opened his hand, revealing a strange crystal that glowed a slight dark blue. There were three crystals in his hand, each of them glowing a different color. One glowed bright white and the other one glowed a blood red color.

"Each of us gets one, and we will use these to not only signal where we are, we can also use it to light our ways through," Lavi explained. He handed the blood red one to Akatsuki, the white one to Cyril, and he kept the dark blue one for himself. "Alright then, are we ready to head out?" he looked at them both.

"One question… How are these things glowing?" Akatsuki asked as he looked at the crystal. The wonderfully glowing crystal seemed slightly warm, but the light was familiar as well as the feeling of the light.

"I do not know, the Panda gave it to me when he knew where I was going. I handed one to Kanda as well, just in case he would arrive to the conclusion that the Innocence would be here," Lavi answered with a smile on his face.

"Then why did Kanda split away from you if you knew that the Innocence would be here?"

"Listen, are we just going to stand around doing nothing but questioning each other's motives, or are we going to search for the Innocence that we were assigned to look for?" Lavi said. He seemed to be slightly annoyed, beside his usually cheerful mood.

"Okay, okay, calm down there Lavi. Alright then, lets go look," Akatsuki said softly as he began to walk in the other direction, heading towards the mines.

A smirk formed over Lavi's lips as he thought, "Perfect, exactly how he planned it. I just need to make sure that they split up in the mines, and by then, it will be accomplished…" He then walked over to the mines, heading into the dark tunnels with the Exorcist and the Noah.

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Crowley followed the two Vatican Council members all the way to their general destination. They had arrived at a strange location that looked almost like a garden with a large, pure white gazebo ahead. The gazebo's inside was pitch darkness with the walls covering every angle on the inside. All that could be seen was darkness within the only opening that was wide enough for a person to enter.

The flowers around the gazebo were black roses. The flowers that were outside of a four foot radius from the white gazebo were blue, yellow, green, white, red, pink and orange roses. Crowley thought in his mind, "Why would they be here? There is no reason for them to be around here…"

"Are you sure we are alone?" a voice rang out from the darkness within the gazebo.

"Yes, sire. We made sure that no one had followed us both, now explain why we must be here," the male one said in his Romanian accent.

"I have gathered the both of you here because I want the both of you to get everyone else ready for what will happen next. Our master has ordered for his precious warriors to be ready for the invasion on Black Order. I want the both of you to do that however, meanwhile tell the other members that they must continue acting the way they are. If anyone asks about you two, they must answer with, 'They left off to do something, they will probably return tonight," understood?" the voice rang out from the darkness within the gazebo.

"Yes, sire. Lord Deceit, we will not fail you," the male placed his hand over the right side of his chest. Then, he bowed by his waist, pledging his loyalty that he will not fail the mission that he was assigned by the strange person.

The female one took a bow as well, "We will not fail. Thank you for trusting us with this mission."

Crowley growled, "Looks like they are the ones that planned with murdering the Pope. This I know I cannot allow myself to forgive. Also, who is this 'Lord Deceit'? This I will find out from the main sources themselves. Maybe if I actually succeed, I will be known as a hero!" he thought both seriously and not so seriously since the fame now reached his mind. He shook it off as soon as he saw two -12 Insei Akuma gather around the Vatican Council members.

They stood on their own two feet like a human would. Their fangs seemed to be razor sharp, and their tails were long/whip-like. They had yellow-gold eyes. The main colors of the creature in front of the female was red and black. The one in front of the male one was orange and black. The Insei Akuma then followed behind them as they had begun to walk away from the gazebo.

"Hold it right there!" Crowley immediately jumped out from the shadows of the woods, his Innocence already invoked. "The time for your dark actions' punishment has arrived, and I shall be the one who will deliver that punishment!" he said as he leaped at the Vatican council members.

The robed, hooded figures looked to each other and nodded. The male one looked to the Insei Akuma that were both ahead of him, "Take your battle stances and face him off! Do not allow him anywhere near here!"

The Insei Akuma growled and nodded their heads, accepting their commands. The both of them leaped at Crowley, initiating battle with the vampire-like Exorcist. Dark Matter gathered in the left one's cannon openings and then burst forth immediately, blasting past Crowley as if they were feint shots.

Crowley landed on Insei Akuma that had opened fire on him. He then licked his lips and sunk his fangs into the Level -12's neck. The fangs sunk in deeply as he begun the process of drinking the Insei Akuma's blood. "This blood… It seems a bit different from that of an Akuma's… I feel stronger from just drinking a small droplet of it…," he thought in his mind. Immediately, he pulled away and jumped away from the Insei Akuma when he saw its partner beginning to open fire on him.

The blasts of Dark Matter landed on the Insei Akuma that he had drank from, leaving large holes in its armor. Insei Akuma blood splattered everywhere as it fell down to the ground. It twitched several times while screeching in pain. Then, it fell silent, for it was now dead from too much blood loss.

The partner Insei Akuma looked around for Crowley, growling in rage for it had seen its own partner be destroyed in front of its very own eyes. Then, pain shot throughout its entire body and it screeched a pain-filled screech. It fell face forward, twitching several times, as if trying to shake something off it. Finally, it stood still, now lifeless…

Crowley leaped out from behind the Insei Akuma, now high in the air, hovering over the two Vatican council members. "Looks like that was a complete failure," Crowley chuckled as he landed on the ground ahead of the Vatican council members.

The male looked to the female, whispering as if they were collaborating with each other. "But if we let you go, you might lose," the male one said.

"Do not worry, its not like he can match me that easily," the female answered with a confident tone of voice. Then, she stepped forward as soon as the male nodded his head in approval of the plan that they were now going to fill in. "Now then, Aleister Crowley, prepare to die…," the person said as a purple aura began to glow around them.

"Finally, one of you are going to choose to fight me," Crowley smirked as he took fight stance. In his mind, he thought, "This strange aura… I know that aura looks like Dark Matter, but it is not one at the same time… I should be careful, for this may be someone I will end up losing to…" What would happen? Would Crowley win? Find out in the next chapter of Dark Future!

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Author's Note: I am liking how this is being written. Frankly, I freaking love it! See ya next chapter!