The journey to the Black order had been exhausting for both Robin and Leenalee. Robin was more mentally tired than physically because he was nervoust what may happen when they arrived.
'Calm down! You've been preparing for years for this exact moment. I'm not gonna run away and waste all the years in hell that was spent in training and torture go to waste!' - he thought and made a fist with his left hand.
Leenalee led him to a secret passageway to the Order because she was tired and knew Robin was a new Exorcist, a new part of the family.
"Come here! We have to board this lift and press the L button."
She got in and showed him how to work with the lift.
"Wow, what an amazing invention! I haven't seen such things anywhere else. The most advanced thing I had boarded untill now was a new model car I was shoved in...hehehe..." - he laughed hollowly at the end, looking away from her.
"Eh, shoved? What do you mean?"
"Oh, nothing! Who came up with it?"
"Ah, it was my older brother. He didn't want for me to get wet or dirty, so he drilled this whole thing and built this automatic lift. It runs on electricity by the way. This is actually one of the very few inventions of his that work properly." - she whispered the last part but Robin heard it.
'Does that mean everything else goes awfully wrong? gulp...I don't want to get hurt, so I better stay away just in case.'
The lift finally stopped and its doors opened at a large lobby of sorts. Two lines of stone columns held the ceiling up, a lot of paintings and a long red carpet lined the room, making it look stylish, although a bit intimidating and dark. Robin noticed the guards next to the large doors on his right, which was the other entrance, look at him a bit strangely. They whispered and threw him glances. He got a bit nervous and fridgeted, it wasn't good for people to get suspicious, so he smiled as friendly as he could.
"We have to go to by brother's office now, to report about the mission and introduce you. Oh, also welcome to the Black order, your new home! I hope we all can get along!" she led him up the stairs "Here is the hearth of our organisation, well, at least the European part. There are other branches such as the American and Asian. Almost all exorcist take their orders from here, with small exceptions. Here's also a place you can rest and be yourself! Everyone gets along, like a big family, we're really close."
"Wow, it sounds great." 'A big family, huh?' - he thought and squeezed the medallion around his neck.
"Eh, a medallion? It's pretty! Do you have a picture in it?"
He realized what he was doing and snapped his head up to look at Leenalee, his eyes a bit guarded.
"AH! Sorry, you don't have to show or tell me if you don't want to!" she waved her hands around, frantically trying to fix the mood "I can be verry blunt sometimes, sorry!" - she bowed her head down.
"Nno, it's fine!"
"Rreally?"
"Yes, really!" - he then opened the lid, revealing a picture of a younger version of himself and a beautiful blonde girl.
"Wow, she's pretty, you are cute too! Who is she?"
"She's my older sister. This is the last picture we took together." - he sounded sad at the end.
"Oh, I'm very sorry!"
"No, you don't have to. It's been a long time already..."
They both stayed quiet untill they reached two doors that read Chief Komui Lee's Office.
"Here it is!" - she knocked and entered.
Robin looked to see a circular room that would have been put under the 'chaos' word in dictionaries. There were books, papers, folders and letters everywhere. On the desk in the other end was a sleeping figure of a man in white uniform. Leenalee walked to him and whispered in his ear.
"Nii-san, I'm gonna marry Jhonny tomorrow..."
"NOOOOOOOO! LEENALEE! I won't allow you! NEVER! I'm gonna kill that Jhonny octopus!" - he bolder up and started shouting.
"I was joking nii-san."
"You were? Thank God!" he latched on her midsection "I would never let you marry! My sweet Leenalee, your nii-san will protect you! Oh, who are you by the way?" - he looked at Robin, still hugging her.
"Nice to meet you! My name is Robin Gray, I'm honoured to meet you."
"Ah, Cross' disciple, nitce meeting you! No need to be SO formal!" he waived his hand dismissively "Now, come with me I have to check something with you."
"Ook." - he followed Komui relucantly.
Leenalee decided to stay and try help with the mess. Robin was led to a metal door that had a sanitary smell coming out of it.
'Oh, no. OK, stay calm! If you get nervous, they'll notice! Go with it and look natural!'
Komui opened the door, revealing, as Robin feared, a medical room.
"Sit there, please." - Komui pointed at a chair next to a metal table.
Robin did so and stayed on guard.
"So, Cross taught you?" - Komui asked, his back at Robin.
"Yes, he did."
"You seem good mannered, so I would trust you, for now. But... if you turn into an octopus like your master..." he turned around, holding a giant needle and a chainsaw "...I won't allow you to ever touch anything! Especially my Leenalee! Got it?" - he leaned closed, his angry face mere inches away from Robin's.
"YES! I got it!" - Robin scream-cried.
"Good!" he threw the scary machines and looked at Robin like nothing happened "Now, I want you to activate your Innocence."
Robin hodded, placed his arm on the table and commanded the Innocence to activate. In a second it turned into its bony white form. Komui looked at it curiously, knocked on it a few times and checked it over, even the place that was burning.
"Interesting, you don't see a lot of parasitic types. Very rare. Deactivate it please, I want to see how you hand is."
He deactivated it and rolled his heft sleeve up. His arm looked red and scaly at the joints, a pulsing cross and the place where the the red stopped were many stitches that connected it with the rest of his body.
"Hmm...you implanted it by an operation, right?" Robin nodded "Why, you could have put it in an item or a weapon, right?"
"No, we tried at first but id didn't work out, so master had it implanted in my arm."
"I see...now, let's go. I want you to meet someone." - Komui led him out of the room.
'Strange, usually an Innocence would be compatible either way with its accomodator, so why it didn't work with him? Also, those stitches...why are they still there?' - Komui wondered.
'Ugh, I hope he won't try and make me tell him about it...it was horrible.' - Robin rubbed his bicep.
===Flashback===
Robin was screaming and trashing around, his body strapped tightly to a hospital bed.
"Wwhat shall we do? Bring sedatives, painkillers?" - a nervous nurse asked her coleagues.
"No need! He'd burn through them in a second, also you may get hurt." - Cross said from the door as he walked towards the screaming boy.
"Get out, I'll deal with things here! Don't enter untill I come out, got it?!"
He glared at them and they ran out of the room. He wasn't known for glaring at women but he had to. He looked at the writhing form on the bed, the leather straps starting to tear a bit. He took out a bunch of talismans and sent them on his body. It was just in time as the stitched scar split open and black goo started to seep. A sharp, sleek metal horn rtarted to grow out of the hole. (see the pilot chapter for image) Robin's teeth had become razor sharp, cannies elongating, his left eye black and red. It spun rapindly all around. The talismans restricted him, and thakfully because Cross knew the straps would be unable to hold an Akuma donw, even if it was a level 1, not to mention Robin with the strenght and endurance like that of a tough level 3.
"Get hold of yourself, stupid disciple! Didn't you want this? You could have given up right after the sword or the other weapons we tried stung and burned you, but you decided for the transplant, so shut up! You are stronger than that!"
...
Inside his mind Robin struggled. The Innocence burned his body at the part it was stitched, because the arm started to fall off because his body tried to eject it. On other hand the Akuma program flared up when it came in contact with the Innocence. It tried to force him to transform, to destroy, to kill. He struggled and screamed as he pushed at the program, at the Akuma instincts, pushing them away but his strenght was weakening. Then, he heard his master's voice and pushed with even more determination.
...
Cross on the outside also looked worried. A drop of sweat had formed on his forehead.
'What the fucking hell is happening?!'
A minute ago some of the talismans' ends has started to blacken and fray. He could feel the dark matter inside Robin flare up more, it would soon break the seal.
'Hurry up boy!'
He got ready for the worst, one of his hands lowering towards Judgement. If Robin indeed went out of control, he would have to kill him this time.
...
Meanwhile Robin felt the pressure on him increasing, his control and strenght decreased by the second. In a sudden burst he was propelled back into his subconsciousness.
...
The talismans suddenly became black and burned in black fire. The restrains broke and Robin's body jumped out of bed. Hand and feet transformed into wicked claws, his left side of the face all black and gray, a red strak and a seal running down to the chin. The red and black eye focused on him, teeth bared and left hand hanging limply. The place where it had been sewed was sizzling.
"Damn it!"
With a roar Robin was going to attack when he doubled in pain and clutched his head. Screaming more and kicking on the floor as a spot near the centre of his forehead swelled and popped, more black goo flowed out of it. Cross jumped away and looked with caution, his gun out of the holster. One las scream and Robin's body slumped, falling into a blissfull dream.
"Damn, stupid disciple! Why do you always make such messes?! Now, I have to clean all this goo up!"
He shouted and cursed but was inwardly happy Robin made it. That boy reminded him too much of his friend for his own good.
...
Robin floated in the darkness.
'No, no, no! I can't let this happen!'
He saw a faint light, a spark floating in front of him. From that light he felt the warmth he felt the first day the Innocence choose him as an accomodator. It reminded him of home, of family. He stretched desparately at it.
"I won't give up!" - he grasped it with his left hand.
The light then fused with his arm, forming a giant claw with a cross and green burning flame. He then charged at the darkness and at the force that pushed him back. He swung the claw and hit it.
"I won't allow you to control me! I'm my own person, I have my own will and I WILL take my own decisions! I will fight and save all the souls suffering inside the Akuma!"
CRACK! Crack...crackle...
The black force started to crack and break the more he pushed. With one last hit it completely shattered and disappeared. He felt relief. It was like some sort of invisible shackles that had held him had broken. He sighed in relief, no longer in pain he fell into a blissfull sleep of his time before his parents and the real Robin had died.
...
When Robin woke up his head hurt like one og the steam trains had passed through it.
"I see you are awake stupid disciple." - Cross' voice sounded from the corner of the room.
"Good morning." - he sat up in the bed and stretched.
"It's noon. You've been sleeping for almost two days. Now, I see you are fine, so dress up! We've stayed here long enough!" - he tossed a set of clothes in Robin's face.
Robin got out of bed and waited.
"What are you waiting for, boy?"
"For you to go out. I can't dress up with a man looking at me!"
"Oh, quit yapping! If you haven't noticed it, you are a BOY right now! So quit acting like a girl. You may be an Akuma but now you are also an accomodator, which means things will change for you. Who knows, maybe you would even need to lear to go to the toilet and bath like a boy."
"You're kidding, right?"
"Ha! Like I know! There's no manual about 'How to take care of an accomodator Akuma' as much as I know, so it's possible. Now get dressed or I'm leaving you here!"
Robin blushed and dressed with Cross in the room. He was still a bit flushed even after they exited the hospital.
===End===
"We're here! Watch where you step!"
Komui's warning snapped him out of his musings. Robin carefully stepped on the metal platform and grabbed the guardrails as it descended. He was a bit nervous. It was like they were going down a bottomless pit. After a while the platform stopped.
"We're here."
"Here? But there's n-!" - Robin was interrupted by translucent tentacles that wrapped around his limbs.
He was lifted up in the air as more tentacles appeared and restrained him. He panicked and squirmed. He wasn't afraid of falling, mind you, he was an Akuma and could float down slow enough not to die even in human form. He may be unable to fly unless transforming his back to use his wings but still could use his Innocence to reduce the impact. He was worried they had discovered him or that they will discover what he was.
"Wha! Let me go!"
"Don't struggle. I'm just going to check something." - an eyeless face appeared and said.
Robin got even more worried and struggled more. He felt the tentacles doing something at his left hand. He pulled to no avail, commanding his Innocence to activate in the end. It caused him a bit of pain and his stitches started to itch.
"Robin-kun! Don't worry Hevlaska is just cheking you sichronisation rate with your Innocence!"
He heard Komui's words and decided to trust him, he relaxed but didn't deactivate his Innocence just in case.
"10...25...40...69...70...89%!" - she counted and lowered him on the platform.
"So, how was he Hevlaska? Good?"
"Yes, his sinchronisation is 89%. Sorry I scared you like that."
"Nno problem!" he deactivated his Innocence "I just didn't expect it."
"Any prediction to make?" - Komui asked her.
"I have to say only one thing. He will be an Exorcist we have never seen before and may not see ever again. he's sure to change the world in the future."
