"Come here everyone! Come and see the circus! It's very fun!" – Robin called to the crowd.

Robin was currently dressed like a jester and had a pumpkin on his head that was made to look like a Jack O' lantern. Lenalee was his assistant and would occasionally throw a ball for him to juggle or would something to make it a bit harder for him and more interesting for the public. He currently juggled 6 balls, while balancing on a bigger ball. Miranda on the other hand went around with a sign and a bag for people to put money in.

It was going very well, judging by the half-full bag of coins. Timcampy flew in the air, making kids squeal. Suddenly, he flew into Robin's shirt and hid in a pocket.

'What's up with him?' – the boy though but then he felt it.

His scar pulsed and he felt the skin parting slightly. He was grateful because it would have freaked people out if his stitched scar suddenly moved, no matter how little.

'It reacted?! No way… does it mean that HE is here? NO! Impossible! This isn't nearly as strong as the Earl. Then what…'

"Hey! You are very good!"

Robin jumped and his superhuman reflexes were the only thing that saved him from falling on his butt. He looked at the source of the voice. A young girl with spiked purple-blue hair, dark eyes, fair skin, wearing a pink shirt with a tie, skirt and striped long socks. She smiled at him and he froze. She scared him.

"H-Hello." – he managed to finally say.

"You are really good at this mister!"

"Thanks…"

"Hmm…" Road looks thoughtful for a moment "Strange. Have we met before?"

"Uh…No, I don't think so…" – Robin wished for a miracle to happen and make her or him disappear.

"Robin-kun! The director of the circus is calling us!" – Lenalee called.

"I have to go now, so…" he jumped off the ball and brought all the props with him 'Lenalee, you are currently mu angel!' – he though as he approached her.

Meanwhile Road turned around and walked away.

'There's something strange about that boy… But WHAT exactly?' – she hopped to the roof of a house and continued moving forward.

===Time skip===

"I'm SORRYYYYYY!" – Miranda cried and wiped her tears.

"Calm down Miss Miranda. It wasn't that bad. You'll do better once you give it some time!" – Lenalee tried to cheer her up.

"Yeah, what are a few broken batons? When I was in the circus, I accidentally set the animals free. Trust me, it's not nice to have to catch a lion on your own."

"A lion?!" – Miranda shrieked.

"Robin, wh-" – Lenalee was interrupted when Robin's eye activated.

It became black with a red scope, the stitched skin parted slightly, revealing a strange darkness underneath, the star also appeared.

"Akuma!" – he shouted and activated his weapon.

Lenalee did the same while Miranda and everyone else was confused. Robin faced the right side. Two Akuma – Kazekiri and Pang- swooped down from the sky.

"Miss Miranda, please go somewhere farther away from here! We'll hold them off!" – Robin deflected a slash from Kazekiri.

"Die Exorcists!" – Pang shouted and began to shoot purple energy beams at Lenalee.

He jumped out of the way and sent a few kicks his way, he dodged them and retaliated with a barrage of bullets. Robin's clawed hand stopped one of Kazekiri's slashed but another one almost cut him.

Miranda ran away and hid in an alley, watching the battle when suddenly a hand clamps around her mouth and drags her into the darkness.

Robin and Lenalee were occupied with the level 2 Akuma, so they didn't notice it at all. Robin slashed with is claw and from it 4 arcs of white energy shot out. They managed to slice Kazekiri but couldn't kill him.

'Damn it! Lenalee's doing good, so maybe I can use a bit more energy…'

"Kya!" – Lenalee screamed and his eye registered a 3rd Akuma.

Lenalee was sent flying into a wall. The girl made a hole in it and slumped to the ground, not even twitching.

"Lenalee!" – he was about to go and defend her when pain seared through his left eye.

A strong hit to the neck made him crash on the pavement below. He felt his scar throb as the same scary girl stood above him. In her hand was a familiar umbrella.

"Sweet dreams. Hehe…" – she says in a cheerful voice and Robin soon faints.

===Somewhere else===

"Why did you kill me? WHY?!" – the voices of the dead asked, pinning him down.

"Guah!" – Robin woke up with a start, covered in sweat.

"Oh! You are up sleepy boy~ It's so nice! Now we can finally start." – Road floated down on Lero.

The 3 Akuma stood to the side and watched their master carefully, too afraid not to make a mistake.

"Who are you?" – Robin asked, hoping to buy time and look around.

He was in a strange place that looked like the inside of a present box and now that he found he couldn't move his upper body properly, le looked to his right. He was nailed to the wall with candles! Sharp candles!

"Oh, how rude of me! I am Road Kamelot, nice to meet you Mr. Exorcist."

"Why are y-" – he wanted to ask but was cut off by her.

"You may not understand why I am with the Akuma. I may have pretended to be one but…" she leaned closer to his face "with your interesting ability I won't be able to trick you. I am a Noah! You must have at least heard of us!" – she then transformed, her skin got gray, crosses appeared on her forehead and eyes glowed amber.

Robin shuddered and she relished his fear. Robin was indeed scared but for an entirely different reason.

=Flashback=

Robin sat in a pub room across him was Cross.

"Listen now, foolish disciple! Your biggest enemy after the Order and the Innocence ARE the Noah!"

"The Noah? You mean those with the Earl?"

"Yes, you ARE a traitor, something that has never happened until now has happened, an Akuma became free."

"I rejected the control and became an Accommodator."

"Yes. For Akuma, the orders of the Earl and the Noah are absolute, they can not disobey them but you broke free and an Exorcist to boot! If they ever find out about you, you'd be chased no matter where you go and they won't stop until you are DEAD! You mustn't be discovered!"

"I understand, teacher."

"Oh, they can also detonate Akuma and we don't know if they can do it to you. With no way to test it… Well, hope it won't work on you." – Cross then left the room.

"Wait! What do you mean by that?! OOOOOIII…"

=end=

"Ah! You have such a lovely face! Too bad you are an Exorcist." – Road's words snapped him out of the flashback.

"You… Where's Lenalee? And Miranda?" – he struggled but it was no use.

He wasn't hurting too much, it was only an ache, but his left arm, the part that hosted the Innocence to be specific, burned like hell. He could feel it sting at the stitches and blood starting to seep out of them.

"Don't worry! They are here!"

Two lights illuminated the darkness. Lenalee was dressed in a fancy dress, sitting on a chair and her eyes were empty. Miranda was laying on the floor, clutching the grandfather clock while crying.

"See? Isn't she cute? I plan to take her home with me." She pointed at Lenalee "She's so good-looking, so I decided to make her one of my dolls!"

"Grr.." Robin struggled despite the pain "Why are you doing this?!"

"Why? Because it's fun!" – she smiled and swung Lero around, pointing him at Robin's face.

One of the many floating candles in the air was launched like a rocket and impaled Robin's left eye.

"GAAAAH!" – he cried out in pain and it seemed to satisfy Road for now.

"Wonder what I should do with you right now~"

Road turned around and paced for a bit, looking half-serious. Meanwhile Robin's head hung low and he didn't react to anything that happened around him.

His eye was pulsing, it felt like tendrils had encroached the left side of his face. The candle was the cause of this. It was conjured from Road's dark matter and Robin's body was slowly absorbing small amounts of it. Something strange was happening with his body and Robin could do nothing but hold himself together. He couldn't transform no matter what! No matter how much his instincts were telling him to take his true form, he grit his teeth and refused to give in.

"I know! You three!"

"" Yes, Road-sama!"" _ Ice, Kazekiri and Pang saluted.

"I am keeping the pretty girl for now, you decide how to kill that gloomy woman."

"What about the boy?" – Ice asked.

"I'm thinking about it!" – she pouted.

The 3 huddled together and started doing rock-paper-scisors to decide what to do. Road just floated on Lero, swinging her legs, feeling a bit bored.

'What should I do to him? There's something strange about him. Maybe it's the cursed eye? ...'

Robin shivered ever so slightly, looking at the floor with an empty eye. The 3 Akuma had decided what to do to Miranda and were getting ready to kill her.

"NOOOOOO!" – she screamed.

"Shut up!" (Ice)

"Gloomy woman!" (Pang)

The scream seemed to do a better job than it was expected. Some light started to return to Lenalee's eyes. Road was annoyed and glared at Miranda.

"Kill her already!" – she commanded.

At that moment many things happened. Robin's head shot up, his one eye shone bright golden on a black sclera. Without paying attention to the candles, he literally pulled himself free. Powered by the new kind of dark matter, he scooped Lenalee, ran past everyone and landed next to Miranda, just as her clock activated. It formed a dome around them.

"What happened just now?" – Pang asked as everyone stared.

Inside the dome, a candle clattered on the floor as Robin's healing eye began to fill up. The end of said candle looked a bit melted but due to Miranda's Innocence, it was restored to its previous state, just like he and Lenalee currently were.

'T-this Innocence…' Robin felt a light twinge but was otherwise fine 'It can restore ANYTHING!'

"Robin, Miranda! You are OK? I'm so glad! I was closed in this awful place again…"

"We are fine, Lenalee. Can you fight? We are against 3 level 3 Akuma and a Noah."

"A Noah?!"

"Yeah. Get ready, they're coming!" – Robin stood up and walked out, Lenalee followed him.

…..

Ice, Pang and Kazekiri attacked the two Exorcists head on while Road chose to float up in the air and watch the show.

"Die!" – Ice slammed his fist down but Robin dodged it.

Lenalee managed to kick Pang and sent him flying like a ball, he was not dead, yet.

"Lenalee!" – Robin shouted.

She nodded and launched him towards Kazekiri. The boy flew and swung his claw, launching an attach that not only cut the Akuma in two but also made a gouge behind him that spanned for at least 10 meters. Road was just a bit surprised at the Exorcist's sudden power boost.

'I've seen how Exorcists would get better and get power boost but it doesn't look like this boy's Innocence had gone through any major change. How did he do this, then?' – Road was getting more and more interested in him.

Robin on the other hand felt like he was on a sugar rush. His body was buzzing with energy and although he didn't mean for the attack to be this destructive, he used more energy than he intended to, resulting in that. Nevertheless, it felt amazing!

"Guh." – pain shot through his left arm as it started to bleed again.

Lenalee also discovered this.

"Retreat!" – she shouted and jumped in the dome.

Robin grit his teeth but followed. He could feel his injuries appear again.

'So, it's not permanent? I knew it was too good!' – Robin thought.

"They retreated! What do we do now?" – Pang asked Ice.

"Shoot!"

They began so shoot at the dome but their attacks didn't seem to do any damage to it. Then, Lenalee and Robin launched a surprise attack and managed to cut one of Ice's arms off.

"Graah! Damn Exorcists!" – he shouted, taking a step back.

Pang wasn't so lucky.

"Waltz: Mist Wind!" – Lenalee sent a whirlwind at the pumpkin-headed Akuma.

"Gyaah!" – he was spun in the wind and his body was destroyed.

Lenalee landed, panting from using too much energy. Robing goes next to her and helps her not to fall.

"Che. You are too boring." – Road suddenly opens her mouth.

"R-Road-sama…" – Ice is terrified.

"Akuma!" she suddenly demands his attention and Robin's left eye throbs "You are useless, so… Self-destruct." – she said calmly and it scared Robin.

"Y-yes Road-sama."

"Wait!" – Robin jumps towards Ice.

He wanted to reach the Akuma, to help him and set the tortured soul free. He tries but is too late. Ice explodes, the shockwave sending Robin tumbling back. The white-haired boy watches in horror how the soul is shredded and disappears, like it never existed. A tear escapes his left eye.

"Haha! Why the gloomy look? Shouldn't you be glad another Akuma is gone?" – Road smiled while looking down at them from her perch.

"You destroyed him! His soul is gone! Why would you do something like that?"

"Because it's fun Ro-bin-kun!" – she then stood up on the flying umbrella.

"Robin! Let's pull back for now!" – Lenalee tried but he didn't listen.

Road lazily pointed at them and sharp candles started to rain over them. Robin deflected as much as he could but a few managed to scratch him. In the end he and Lenalee retreated again.

"You can't hide there forever!" – Road sent more candles at the dome and smirked when she heard Miranda's wails.

She wasn't seriously trying to get rid of them, otherwise they'd be dead. After a bit, she stopped and waited. Road wanted to see if they can entertain her some more. The two exorcist come out and get ready to face her.

"Come on! Let's play." – she summons more candles.

"Whirlwind spin!" – Lenalee jumps up and spins.

The generated wind stops some of the candles while Robin darts around with his inhuman speed, deflecting or stopping the candles that come too close to the dome, it being something like a lifeline.

"You know I can also make them change direction, right?" – Road teases.

Just then a few candles head towards Lenalee's back. She notices it and dodges but one stabs her in the shoulder.

"Lenalee!" – Robin pulls out the candle and brings his friend in the dome to heal.

Road is a bit surprised when Robin comes out alone.

"What? Your friend doesn't want to come out? Are you going to fight me all on your own Robin-kun?"

Robin doesn't answer. He leans forward and dashes towards her. A whole cloud of candle shoots towards him. Some go forward, others curve and head for his back and others zig-zagged around before trying to hit him.

"Cross Gray-man!" – Robin swipes his hand down.

Gray crosses appeared, destroying most of the candles and he handled the rest by slicing or crushing them with his hand. Road scowled but continued.

'Should I put him in a Nightmare? Nah, I want to see what else he can do. He's very interesting!' – she smirked and conjured more candles.

Meanwhile Robin was unaware of what she was thinking. He did his pest to hold Road back and if possible to hurt her. Rage had overtaken him and the buzzing energy in his body wasn't helping. He felt like he could run for days without even feeling exhausted. Robin needed an outlet to release all that energy, so he stopped restraining his energy output. He had more than enough to keep the seal in place and not turn into an Akuma. This continues for a while and Road was getting a bit pouty because none of the injuries she gave Robin seemed to faze him at the moment. Lenalee comes out, fully healed and ready to help her partner and friend.

"Aaah! This is getting boring~! Let's go Lero."

"Bbut Road-sama!"

"Shut up! I'm bored and I'm going back! That's it! No objections!"

"Lero…"

"Wait!" – Robin want to follow but an injury on his leg re-appears and he falls on one knee.

"See ya some other time Ro-bin-kuun! It was really fun, so make sure to not get any weaker, OK?" – she opened a door and disappeared in the swirling darkness within it.

The space around them disappeared and they found themselves in the middle of the town square. Suddenly the dome disappears and Miranda is still there, crying and clutching her clock. With the deactivation of said Innocence, everything started to go back to how it was supposed to be. Robin and Lenalee collapsed, littered with injuries and the town's time finally started to move again.

"Mr. Robin! Miss Lenalee! Please don't dieeeee! DoctOOOOOR!" – Miranda yelled, shocking the people nearby.

After a bit, a group of people, led by Toma, came rushing into town. Thay had come because of Toma's report and brought doctors and medical supplies in case some of the Exorcists survived.

"Thank God everyone is alive!" – Toma said and sighed in relief, he really liked Robin and Lenalee, they were very kind.

Komui hurried to the hospital wing. He had received the news that his sister and Robin were injured, thankfully their lives weren't in danger. He entered and quietly walked towards his sister's bed. He looked at her sleeping form, bandaged but stable. He leaned down, kissed her forehead and caressed her head.

'She's here, she's fine…' he looked at the opposite side of the room 'I guess I would have to thank him.'

Komui approached the bed and pulled back the curtains that served to give some privacy to the patient.

"Ah, Komui. You are also here."

"Bookman. What a surprise to see you here."

"Yeah, what can I do? With my stupid disciple being an Accommodator and all…"

"So, how are they?"

"Your sister is fine and will recover soon but..."

"What?! Is something wrong with Robin-kun?"

Komui just noticed there was a sheet on Robin's face. He gasped.

"Is he dead?! But they said he was alive! What happened?"

"He's not dead! Just close the curtain and come here. I have something to show you."

===Meanwhile===

Miranda packed her clothes and personal possessions. She was now dressed in a lighter dress, wore a hat and her hair was down. Without the black circles she looked like a completely different person.

"Are you ready Miss? We're leaving."

"Y-Yes! Just wait to put my luggage in!"

She hauled her suitcase in the carriage and struggled to get her clock in.

'Mr. Robin, Miss Lenalee… I am coming and will become an Exorcist. I will not waste the chance you gave me!'