Chapter 1: Two Exorcists

Ever since I was little, I can't remember my past... My country, my home, and my family… I couldn't remember anything... Except for one thing: a girl. Every time I see her in my dreams, she and I were smiling... But no matter how I try I can't remember her face... If there is a wish, I want to see her face to face and not in a dream. That's why I became an Exorcist.


"Geez… How far did those two go?" A girl complains as she looks around walking through the street at night. The girl has long dark blue hair that reaches to her lower back and brown eyes. She wears a coat fitting around her body, a metal chain bracelet with a small bow-like shape hanging on her right wrist, black pants, and black boots.

She then stops her track and quickly turns to her left to see a church in front of her. "This presence…" She narrows her eyes and enters the building as a flash of light in her hands, the girl holds two silver curved swords.

In one of the rooms of the church, a boy caught a cat but then he realized that the person who is holding the cat is a female officer named Moore and now the boy is tied up at the window by the said officer. The boy has short white hair, gray eyes, and has a scar on the left side of his face. He wears a green cap that covers most of his hair, a brown coat, and a black glove that covers his left hand.

"Hmm… I wasn't aware that there were such bad rumors about this place." The boy says. "My friend and I came to this town this morning, but while we were walking over here, this cat ate a valuable item of ours, and we were just looking for it." The boy explains, but Moore looks at him with disbelief. "It's true! It's an item we got from our master, and we can't afford to lose it!"

"Master? Then, where is he?" Moore asks.

"Well… umm… He's missing somewhere in India…" The boy stammers. Again, Moore looks at the white-haired boy with disbelief.

'He's just a kid…' Moore thought as the boy starts to blame the cat. 'What a weird kid.' "Well, I'm going to round up your companions," Moore says. "So just wait here."

"GYA—!" Someone screams. Then they start to hear cannon shots repeatedly.

"W… what?" Moore stammers and runs out.

"Um…" The boy speaks.

"You stay here!" Moore orders and she looks around and sees nothing. 'It's coming from downstairs!' She thought, running down the stairs. "Who's there!?" Moore shouts, questioning at the person who made the loud sound, once she reaches the bottom of the stairs and turns around to see something horrifying. She sees her partner, Charles tied up to a column with a large bullet hole through his body as the column is covered in bullet holes and on Charles' face, stars appears. "Cha… Charles!"

He starts to repeatedly mutters something and stops as more black stars appear on his face until it was covered in them before his face became black and he shatters, leaving his clothes remain.

Moore's eyes widen in shock. "This is…" She stutters walking towards Charles' clothes. "This can't be… the rumors are true…" Smoke starts to appear behind her causing her to clutch her neck. "Ugh. Wh…at? I can't…" she kneels on one knee.

Rushing to the scene, the sound of footsteps come towards her and a girl appears from the corner of another pillar, holding a sword in each hand but then grimacing at the sand and ruined clothes. "I came in too late..." She trails off and the blades disappear from her hands.

Then there is a figure behind her and the figure pulls Moore back and it covers Moore's nose and mouth.

"Be careful." Moore looks up and sees the boy she had tied earlier as he is the one covering Moore's mouth. "The gas coming from the corpse is poisonous." The boy adds. "He got killed by the Akuma."

"Ah..." Moore utters and she faints.

"Officer!?" He calls out.

'Devil?' She thought.


~Later~
At the police station

Moore opens her eyes and sat up quickly.

"Moore! You're conscious again!" Says an officer and grabs the said woman's arm.

"Eh? Where am I?" Moore asks, still half awake.

"The station! And just in time! Come with me!" The officer answers and pulls her as she puts her glasses on.

"What?"

The officer led Moore to a room and he knocks on the door. "Detective, Officer Moore is conscious again." The officer says.

"Come in." The detective answers and the male officer opens the door for Moore to go into the interrogation room and the officer closes the door.

In front of her, her superior is smoking on a cigarette and Moore remembers what happened to Charles.

"By the way, Charles…" She starts.

"We know." The officer states. "We're interrogating the suspects right now."

"What!?" Moore looks at who was in front of the detective, it was the boy from the church and a girl who came in after Charles died. Their hands were tied, but between the boy's arms was the cat.

"The boy's name is Allen Walker. The girl is Alice Lakefield." The detective says. "Both unknown address, underage and from an unknown country." The detective reads from a paper. He then slams his hand into the table which gives Allen and Alice quite the scare. "The both of you did it, didn't you!?"

"WE TOLD YOU, WE DIDN'T!" The two shout in denial of the accusation.

"Why are you so suspicious of us!?" Alice asks. "We just carried the unconscious officer here!"

"IT'S WEIRD THAT YOU TWO WERE IN THE CHURCH IN THE FIRST PLACE!" The detective points out and he then pulls Allen's left hand. "And besides, look at you hand! It's red, it must be blood!"

"Umm, no, this hand is really..." Allen trails of as the officer pulls off the boy's glove revealing his hand is a quite venous and red, with an embedded cross on it. Everyone's eyes, except Alice's, widen.

"What… What the hell is this…?" The detective questions with shock as he let's go of Allen's hand which the boy sighs. The officer grunts and points at him. "What the hell are you trying to pull!? Doesn't hurt burning a cross into your hand!? You damn psychopath! You're supposed to take good care of that body that your parents gave you!"

"Uh… um!" Moore speaks and walks behind Alice and Allen's chair. "These two were with me when the incident occurred."

"What!?"

"Detective, there seems to be a large bullet hole where the incident happened." The officer whispers in the detective's ear. "However, these two only had a cat with them and the girl has a bracelet. At this time, we haven't found any weapons in the church that are capable of such thing."

The detective slams both hands on the table.

"WHY DID YOU BECAME UNCONSCIOUS!? OFFICER MOORE HESSE!" The detective shouts angrily at the female officer.

"I-I'm very sorry." Moore apologizes.

"Be more courageous! You were in the scene and didn't see the culprit!"

"I know the culprit." Allen says as raising his hand and everyone looks at him.

"Hey Allen…" Alice whispers, but Allen just smiles at her.

"I couldn't see it, but I know 'what it is'." Allen states. "Let us help you in this investigation. Its nickname is 'Akuma'. We see them often. They get experience by killing, and evolve as it kills. And it won't stop killing. If we don't stop soon, it'll get out of control." Allen smiles and Moore looks at him with disbelief. Alice shows her bracelet and Allen held his left arm which had the cross embedded on it. "This cross and Alice's bracelet are Anti-Akuma Weapon." Allen explains. "Do you know what 'exorcist' are? They're members of an Anti-Akuma group that consists of holy priests."


At the gate of the abandoned church

People are talking with each other after the incident with Officer Charles.

"I heard an officer died recently." First person says.

"Yeah, I hear it was bad." Second person says.

"I guess the rumors were true after all." Third person says.

"That church is possessed. Bad things even happened to Father Mark."

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"I shouldn't say this in public, but two years ago, an incident involving a priest and his priestess wife occurred at this church."


In a certain house
A man's room

The said Father is sitting in his wheelchair beside the window. He takes a breath and when he exhales, smoke comes out from his mouth. The Millennium stands beside Father Mark and the Earl clasps his hands together.

"Hehehe. Everyone is frightened. My precious Akuma," the Earl says happily. "Kill more and more and evolve even more."

"Nii-san?" It was Moore's voice. "I'm home, Mark nii-san!" How are you feeling?"

The Earl disappears in the shadows and Moore opens the door.

"Welcome back, Moore." Father Mark replies. "You're home early today."

Moore smiles but notices a tray full of food. "Oh, you still haven't eaten!?" She walks over to pick up the tray. "Nii-san, you haven't eaten anything lately. You know you have to start eating."

"My stomach is full. I'm sorry." Moore set the tray down where it was and looks at Father Mark. "But, I'm sure I'll want to eat again soon."

The officer kneels in front of him. "All right, don't give up, nii-san! I'm sure our nee-san in heaven is wishing for that as well."

Then there is a crash sound causing Moore and Mark look towards the door and hear Allen's voice.

"WAAAH! Hey, I said not to make a big commotion!" Allen screams.

"AH!" Alice shouts.

"Is someone there...?" Mark asks.

"Um, nii-san?" Moore stands up and leaves the room to see both Allen and Alice lying on the floor and Allen is holding the cat in his arm."WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TWO DOING!? I TOLD THE BOTH OF YOU NOT TO LEAVE THE ROOM!?" She shouts at the two.

"Um, yeah…" Allen and Alice answer.

"YOU TWO WERE GONNA GO TO THE CHURCH AGAIN, WEREN'T YOU!?"

"Just for a little while!" Allen and Alice start to walk away, but Moore catches them by the collar.

"NO!"

"Haaa…" The three sigh out while remembering of what the detective said earlier.

~Earlier~

The detective crosses his arms and looks at Allen and Alice. "Exorcist? What the hell's that?" He questions then he shoos them away. "All right, you two can go now! I'm going back to the scene. Officer Moore, you can go back to your house and watch over them!"

~Present~
In the study

Moore sits down on the chair and sighs. 'Doesn't that mean I'm supposed to stay here until the investigation is over...?' She then looks at Allen and Alice standing in front of the window looking out at the church.

'The church is right in front of me, too... I wonder if the detectives are all right in there.' Allen thought and sighs.

"Allen, Alice." Moore calls. "Do you two really think the culprit is an Akuma?"

"Yeah," Allen answers as both he and Alice turn around to see Moore.

"Why?" Alice asks.

"Don't you know an 'akuma' is just an imaginary creature that was created by our ancestor, who feared disease and pain. It's only a word, or an imaginary thing. They don't exist in reality. I don't believe in curses or akuma you're talking about." Moore explains. "I hate them."

"Umm… the Akuma I'm talking about isn't the akuma you're talking about." Allen denies and Alice nods her head agreeing with Allen.

"What?"

"Akuma is the name of a weapon. It's a weapon made by the devil that targets human beings. That… is an Akuma." Allen explains.

"Normally it takes on the form of a human being, so it's hard to tell, but…" Alice is cut off by the door open as Mark is the one who opened it.

"Ugh… Uhh…" The Father moans.

"Mark nii-san!?" Moore calls and kneels in front of him. "What's wrong?"

Allen's left eye then turns into a black and red ringed eye. Through his left eye, he can see a soul that is trapped and chained in Father Mark. As Alice widens her eyes sensing the same presence from before from the man before her and Allen.

'Akuma!' Allen and Alice thought.

"My…" Mark speaks. "My stomach… is starving… Let me kill!"

"What?" Moore asks and Mark appearance changes into a large, round creature with multiple gun barrels. "Nii-san...?" He finishes changing. "What the hell is this…?"

Allen and Alice then run toward Moore and covers her when the Akuma shoot its bullets towards them. Allen catches it with his left crossed hand but the velocity of the bullet causes the three to shoot backward and crash into the church.

"Err… are you okay Moore-san?" Allen asks.

"Yeah…" Moore replies. "Where are we?" She asks looking around.

"At the church. We got blown away." Alice answers.

Moore sees in Allen's hand is the bullet. She slowly reaches toward it. "Impossible… you stopped a bullet."

"Don't touch it, Moore-san." Allen warns moving the bullet away from the officer's hand.

"It's a bullet made with Akuma's blood." Alice states.

"This bullet contains a poisonous virus." Allen says opening his arms. "The Akuma changes its physical aspects into a gun, and fires a bullet at us." In Allen's arms is the cat, but the cat is hit by the bullet. "If you get hit by the bullet, the virus immediately infects you and..." The cat's fur starts to have multiple stars and then it shatters.

"You shatter." Alice adds.

"Damn it…" Allen said. "I'm sorry I couldn't help you."

"What happened to Mark nii-san…?" Moore asks and Allen takes off his coat and places it over the cat's shattered pieces.

"Moore-san," Alice calls. "The Akuma takes over a body and infiltrates our world. That wasn't Mark. That was an Akuma that killed Mark and took over his corpse."

"My brother… was killed?!" Moore says in shock.

Allen stands up and pulls both Moore and Alice behind a column. "Here it comes." He says and the Akuma appears.

"You! What the hell are you guys doing here!?" It is the detective voice shouting at them causing the three to see him and the other officers from Moore's work station.

"DETECTIVE!?" Allen calls surprised.

"SHIT! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" The detective shouts looking at the Akuma. "SHOOT IT! I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT IT SEEMS DANGEROUS!" The officers start to shoot at the Akuma and their guns wouldn't work against the Akuma.

"YOU CAN'T IT WITH GUNS! RUN AWAY NOW!" Allen shouts.

The officers stop shooting and the Akuma looks at them. The detective's group shudders in fear.

"Stop it…" Moore says while walking out from hiding, but Allen pulls her back. The Akuma shoot its bullets again and it hit the detective's group. They all shatter.

"Detective… everyone…" Moore calls and starts to tear up before angrily shout at the Akuma, "YOU BEAST! WHY DID YOU KILL EVERYONE!? WHY!?"

"It's useless trying to talk to it, Moore-san." Allen tells Moore. "It's not doing this because it wants to. It's programmed to act as a weapon so it can evolve."

"THAT'S JUST A KILLING MACHINE!" She shouts, pointing at the Akuma.

"No." Allen denies. "An Akuma is a living weapon that has a soul implemented in it. That soul is then controlled by the Creator."

"A person who has no faith in life, who hates their looks, and who hates to face reality…" Alice adds.

"It is frustration of the soul that becomes the source of energy that drives an Akuma to evolve." Allen says and looks at the Akuma. He sees a soul chained down by the Akuma. "Even in that Akuma, a soul has been implemented, 'the girl' probably someone that has a special bond with Mark…" Moore's eyes widen.

"An Akuma is born with the ingredients of 'machine', 'soul', and 'despair'." Alice explains. "All human beings have a dark side to our hearts. That dark side gives birth to 'despair', which in turn makes the Creator appear and give birth to an Akuma."

"Mark was probably in so much despair that the Creator has his eyes on him." Allen tells Moore.

"Despair…"Moore mumbles.


~Two years ago~
At the church

"You had a fight with Moore?" Mark asks the nun, Claire, Moore's sister. She turns to look at him. She was crying and then she turns to face to organ.

"I'm opposed to her being a police officer." Claire answers. "But she wants to catch the criminals that murdered our father and mother." She adds. "God is teasing us. I threw out my anger, and prayed everyday so she could be happy. I never expected Moore to choose this path." Claire states.

"Claire," Mark calls. "Believe in God." He says as behind him is Moore hiding from Claire's view. "Moore didn't become a cop to avenge your father and mother. It's so we could all live together happily and protected." Claire turns and looks at Mark surprised. "You and God helped her grow up. Believe in her." Mark smiles and Moore silently shed tears. "Moore's feelings and the protection of God. God wouldn't betray those who put faith in him."

Claire smiles at his encouragement. "… You're right. I believe that!"

All of a sudden the large cross that hung on the ceiling falls and crashes onto Claire.

Moore fell unconscious after the cross crash had come to when hearing Mark screaming for Claire's name. With all the dust around, she could see Claire's hand reaching up from the cross.

"CLAIRE!" Mark screams. "WHY GOD!? WHY!? CLAIRE! CLAIRE! CLAIRE!"


~Present~

"Are you saying… THAT 'THING' IS MY SISTER CLAIRE!?" Akuma Claire looks at Moore and Moore falls to her knees. Allen walks in front of Moore and held out his left arm.

"The Cross that lives within me…" Allen says and his left arm glows. "It's time to unleash your power to destroy darkness."

His left arm turns into a monstrous adamantine claw with a supernatural glow at his scapula-joint, his Anti-Akuma Weapon, Cross.

"Pitiful Akuma, let your soul be saved!" He adds and he goes closer to the Akuma. "I'm sorry… I'll make it comfortable soon. Rest in peace, Mrs. Claire."

Allen slices the Akuma, freeing Claire's soul. Claire smiles as she goes back to heaven.

"Thank you…" Claire says as the remaining Dark Matter shatters. Moore cries as she looks at Allen.

Afterward, Moore, Alice, and Allen are sitting by the column. Moore tucks her legs and hugs them. Alice falls asleep on Allen's shoulder.

"I wonder if they were able to go to God... both Claire nee-san and Mark nii-san." Moore says.

"They are, I'm sure of it." Allen replies. "'The Millennium Earl'… that is the Creator's name. He is putting a scenario into action, in which all of mankind will come to an end, bringing an end to that scenario is what an 'Exorcist' does."