AN: Here comes Star's Innocence! (Finally). Read the next chapter to see it in action. ;-)
Though she hated feeling separated from everyone in the group, Star sat alone on a bench on the outer wall of the passenger area. It faced the ferry's stern, the dark, glistening water reflecting the night and the waves and ripples the boat made as it pulled them closer to their destination.
Star found the "white spot" in the sky and wondered when this world would begin to be effected by it's presence. They think the Millennium Earl is a problem now? Evil is about to double and multiply around here.
Footsteps approached on her left and she glanced around to see Lavi coming over to her.
"Allen went to sleep on me and Kanda might kill me if I bother him."
Cradling Gaia in her lap cupped in her palms, Star chuckled.
"Kanda isn't much of a talker. It was smart not to bother him."
Lavi sat down beside her on the bench.
"I thought about it and I figured it out you know."
"Did you now." Star had seen Lavi's master join their party earlier. There was no way he hadn't said anything to his successor, Lavi, about Mahoja, Jump, and herself.
"The only thing the old man is more secretive about than Bookman memories is the Bookman Clan itself. I figure you must be—"
"I can't talk about it."
"I know." He leaned forward, elbows on his knees and stared at the deck.
Star and Lavi sat in silence for a moment, one of the only comforts two Bookman could give each other.
"In my world, there are no Akuma," Star said. She didn't know why she said it, she just started talking. "No one has any special powers. If Innocence exists, it lives only in the divine providence of God, in a domain humans cannot touch."
Lavi sent her a sidelong glance. He gave her a lazy half-grin and tried to go for carefree and casual though it never reached his green eyes.
"A world without Akuma. Sounds good to me."
"Hmph," she said absently and softly. She stared off into the night. "No matter how ideal it sounds, you'd be surprised how difficult it is to fight evil in such a world. There's still war and everything else, even without Akuma. Believe me, the history is disappointing there, too, Lavi. And me… There, I can't save anyone. Can't save myself. Can't make anything better. I'm nobody."
It was Lavi who broke the quiet that came between them this time.
"Some days I still don't know if I'm an Exorcist or not."
"Me too. Ever since I got here. But I can at least pretend to be for a few minutes at a time."
"Same for me," Lavi smiled. He put his hand on her shoulder and gave a little squeeze. "For right now at least, we're Exorcists. The same as all our friends."
Suddenly, Star smiled. She clapped him the on the shoulder and returned the squeeze.
"Right!"
They leaned back against against the bench and rested their heads on the wall. Gaia fluttered her wings the settled into a snooze. Soon they fell asleep beneath the light of the moon in the peaceful quiet, the sides of their faces pressed together.
A terrified shout jolted them both awake moments later.
"Akuma!"
Allen, Lavi, Krory, Lenalee, and Kanda appeared immediately to protect the ferry and its passengers.
"Miranda, please protect everyone else," Allen said as he activated Crown Clown, cover himself it's bright, luminescent cloak.
"Right!" Miranda nodded and activated her Innocence, the Time Record, as well. "Yes, of course." She cordoned off the passenger's area and the rest of the ferry in the Time Record's protective barrier and the battle started on both sides as the Exorcists engaged.
As explosions and canon-like gunfire sounded loudly, Star climbed on top of the bench, Gaia circling her head. The night sky was littered with them, Level 1 and several Level 3 Akuma. She studied each of them quickly. They all look like normal Akuma, but I'll need to activate to be sure none of the others are around too.
"What are you doing, Johannes!" Kanda shouted while leaping into the air and slicing an Akuma in two with Mugen. "Get it in gear!"
I'm not supposed alter anything native to this world… Not unless it's absolutely necessary.
Lavi kept looking at her as he swung the Iron Hammer around, smashing Akuma that got too close to the boat.
"Could really use some help here, now might be a really good time to show us that Innocence of yours!"
But…for right now…I'm an Exorcist, too!
Star cupped her hands in front of her body, fingertips down. Her voice resounded in the night.
"Innocence, awaken." Shining through her uniform, from her sternum to the tops of her thighs, a glowing, flourishing symbol appeared on the center of her body.
"Parasite Eve…ACTIVATE!"
Author's Notes:
Star, Mahoja, and Jump being Bookman is appropriate (for what I know about the Bookman Clan since there isn't too much about them in the D. Gray-Man story yet) . It would explain how they knows things about the characters and the story/the world/the lives of the characters. Some kind of extra-dimensional and/or alternate universe special Bookman. They don't belong to any world so they can oversee the history of multiple worlds.