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"Amber?"
But Amber didn't acknowledge Allen; she was too busy glaring at her father.
"Why?"
Cross sighed, "I had no choice."
"You could have at least told me you were going to tell him!"
"I had no time."
Amber scowled and Cross frowned.
"What are you even doing here?"
"I needed to tell Allen something."
Cross raised an eyebrow but Amber made no move to respond to it, she went over to Allen and knelt in front of him.
"Allen?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm really sorry."
Before Allen could reply, Amber wrapped his arms around him and hugged him tight. Allen took advantage of this moment to drink in the warm hug she was giving him. If it wasn't for the pissed off expression on her face, Allen would have described her to look really pretty when he first saw her at the doorway.
Her long wine red hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall, her petite body clad in long sleeved lavish red cotton sweater with a white, wavy accent to the top and was greatly complemented with the ribbed sleeve cuffs and stylish ridge-detailing hemline that ended at mid-thigh. To finish the look, she wore a pair of mid-calf tan brown boots. (Picture on profile!)
He then realized that Amber smelled like strawberries and somehow, he liked it. It calmed him in a way he couldn't explain. Finally, he wrapped his arms around her and hugged back tightly in return.
"You shouldn't be you know. It's not your fault."
"You're right but I can help you."
That's when Allen slowly pulled away to stare at her, "You can help me?"
Amber nodded.
"You see, years ago, I had this dream when I was told that I had a destiny, to save the Destroyer of Time."
Allen's eyes widened but Amber continued.
"That's when my father told me about your first time with Hevlaska and what she called you. He then told me everything and I knew that I had to save you. For the past few months, I've been working on an enchantment that could save you but now that I know that the 14th is awakening inside of you now, I'm going to have to work on it more to complete it quickly before it's too late…"
Allen couldn't believe what he was hearing.
He still had a chance!
"Wait…an enchantment? Like magic?"
"Well yeah, I'm a sorceress like my father. He never told you?""
Allen shook his head.
"Oh well, that doesn't matter. Anyway, if you give me the time I could probably finish it in…3-5 months?"
3-5 months…
"Can you really?"
"I'm pretty confident."
"Alright then, you've got my faith in you then."
Allen and Amber smiled then. Suddenly, the moment was ruined when Amber felt herself being pulled away; she looked up to see that it was her father.
"Daddy!"
Cross didn't respond and moved to carry his daughter in his arms.
"Ok, that's enough touching for one day. Allen you can go. Amber, I'm taking you back to your room."
Allen sighed as he watched as Cross turned his back to him and walk out of the room with his daughter in his arms, yelling at him to put her down.
Poor Amber…
A month later…
Amber was assigned her first group mission together with Allen, Link, Marie and Kanda. They were told that some strange occurrence was happening in Paris and they were sent to investigate. Finders were sent but they haven't heard any word. But what really excited Amber about the mission was the fact that her father had allowed her to go on a shopping trip afterwards and had even given her enough money to afford 3 new outfits!
"I love my Daddy" Amber thought to herself in her mind.
Really, Cross only did it because since telling Allen about the 14th incident, she didn't want to be anywhere near him as she was real pissed at him for not telling her anything. But thanks to that generous offer, Cross gained a big hug, a kiss to the cheek and a promise for a lunch date from his sweet daughter in return.
Ah…daughters…
(Chapter 172)
Anyway, at Paris's Central Police Station…
Inspector Galamar and his daughter Emilia were having an argument until his right hand man, Damian interrupted him.
"Ah…sorry to interrupt sir but there's someone here to see you."
Emilia smiled sarcastically, "Oh look! Work calls once more! Well! I'll just leave then!"
She turned around in a huff but bumped into someone.
"Oh! I'm so-!"
"Watch where you're going" Kanda said, looking down at the French woman.
Emilia looked up at him in awe.
Wow! He's gorgeous!
"Move it"
"Kanda! That's mean!"
Emilia looked down to see a red haired girl scolding him.
To say she was pretty was an understatement; she practically took Emilia's breath away!
She was petite but cute, almost like a little doll. Her wine-red hair was long and wavy and went down to her waist. She had a soft, round, almost oval face with a small straight nose and eyes that were a pretty shade of copper.
"Why are you staring at me?"
Immediately, Emilia snapped out it and blushed, embarrassed, "I apologize."
"Who are you?" her father, Inspector Galamar asked.
Marie spoke up then, "Ah, we heard that some of our friends had been held here, do you think we might be allowed to meet with them?"
That's when Inspector Galamar recognized the symbols on their uniforms.
The Rose Cross?
"The Black Order? What could you people want in a place like this?"
Later on, after some explaining, the Inspector led the group to a special jail cell where several men inside, dressed exactly the same, resided in.
"They'll be in here somewhere. I'm afraid you have to find them yourselves."
"What is all this?" Allen asked, surprised by the large number.
"Inspector, who are all these people?" Marie asked.
"Phantom Thief G, the ones we've captured so far."
"Phantom Thief G? That criminal who's at large in Paris?" asked Marie.
"So you caught him? And so many too?" asked Allen.
"We're not G at all!"
"We're just made into G!"
Amber looked at the two men who spoke.
They don't seem to be lying…
So are they really telling the truth?
"Inspector! Surely even you must have realized it by now that what we have been telling you is the truth! Phantom Thief G is no ordinary man!"
"Hmm…what ever are you talking about?" the Inspector asked innocently.
"He's playing dumb!"
"Aww…crap! We've lost him again!"
"Should a police officer even be ignoring the truth like that?"
"He's just scared that's all!"
Kanda scowled, "I 'm not following…"
"I think he's forgotten we're even here" Allen told him.
"Amber-chan! Is that you?"
Amber turned and saw a few men she recognized, crying at the sight of her, "Zhizhi! And the Finder squad?"
"Thank god!"
"You really came for us!"
You've got to get us out of here!"
Suddenly, Kanda came forward and kicked the glass box that was keeping them in which shattered under his foot, "And what the hell have you punks been doing?"
"WAAAH! WE'RE SORRY KANDA!"
"Kanda! Stop being so mean!" Amber chided.
"Tch"
"Truth is, we don't have a clue what's going either!"
"We came here because strange things had been happening to the locals, so we wanted to find out if any innocence was involved." Zhizhi explained.
Kanda scowled, "Cross told us this much but apparently he hadn't head a word from you since."
Marie sweatdropped, "So what happened?"
"We were just carrying on our investigation but then we somehow ended up in this cell in these crazy outfits…"
Amber's eyes widened, "Seriously?"
Zhizhi nodded, "We apologize profusely. However, thanks to this little incident, we've become certain of one important thing! The innocence in question has something to do with Phantom Thief G!"
"What makes you say that?" Allen asked.
Zhizhi adjusted his glasses before speaking, "Phantom Thief G is no mere man. Just as his name suggests, he is a ghost. There are 3 things we know about him. First, he wears an outrageous costume. Second, without fail, he always sends out a note before he commits a crime and third, he has no physical form. That's why he always uses the body of another to perform his crimes and no matter how many times the Inspector catches him, a new G pops up every time. "
"Stop it! You're just trying to escape the guilty verdict!" yelled the inspector.
"But we're telling the truth!" argued Zhizhi.
"What do you think Marie?" Allen asked.
"From the sign of their heartbeats, there is no deception from any of the prisoners"
Kanda rolled his eyes, "Thief, ghost or if there's innocence involved, we have to retrieve it."
"Innocence?" the inspector asked.
Link answered, "It is a gift from God and we are the ones who retrieve them before it falls into the wrong hands."
Wrong hands?
As Amber and the others were making their way to their hotel for lunch, they stopped when they heard someone cursing loudly.
"Damn it!"
They looked up to see a girl around Amber's age with long curl platinum blonde hair and baby blue eyes lying down on the ground, glaring at something. In her right hand, she was carrying her shoes so she was barefoot. There were even a few tears in the blue dress she was wearing.
Amber's eyes widened when she recognized the person in front of her.
Lulu de Morcef?
Hime: Done!
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