„Speaking"
„Thoughts"
„Neah talking telepathic"
Scarlet-Nin: Sorry for the late update! Had a bit of trouble with the plot so….
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Chapter 16
Tyki was walking through the town, where his first victim waited for him. It was raining and the sky was already a bit darker. He walked through the city without a care in the world. He already had lit up a Cigarette.
He blew smoke out and sighed.
"Looks like we can´t have a rematch, Cheater-Boy-A." Tyki thought in disappointment. He would have really liked to play Poker with him again, but you can´t have everything you wish for. He quickly crushed the disappointment he felt. No need to be distracted during his job. He heard an explosion and saw an Exorcist before him.
BOOM!
Tyki blinked unimpressed, then he felt the Card in his pocket pulse. "I-I´ts….D-Daisya Berry…...!" The Card whispered. Daisya looked at Tyki with a horrified face. "N-Noah…" he breathed out fearfully. "This was bad!" He cussed. He couldn´t take on a Noah on his own and the signal was to weak to inform Marie or Kanda!
Tyki chuckled darkly and bowed. "I am Tyki Mikk, It´s a pleasure to meet you." He purred. Daisya flinched. Tyki watched in dark humor how the Exorcists breath got caught up in his throat, how he tried to hide the trembling of his body or the deep fear in the eyes of his victim.
"S-Stay B-BACK!" Daisya tried to demand bravely, but even he couldn´t deny that he was scared. That cold fear that gripped his heart was cutting of his air.
Tyki only laughed. Daisya shuddered. "Hahahaha! How cute~! Now, let´s see how much fun we can have Exorcist!" Tyki stated with an insane grin. His Golden eyes were blazing in sick pleasure.
By Allen, Lavi, Eliade and Crowley.
"Lenalee!" Allen yelled happily. They were finally reunited with Lenalee and Bookman. Eliade only shook her head. "That kid, it isn´t like we are in such a hurry." She muttered. Crowley only hugged her. "It´s okay, I think he´s happy because he´s together with his friends." Crowley said with a nervous smile.
Eliade sighed. "Aleister, please stop shaking so much." She stated softly. Crowley´s legs were shaking. He chuckled. "A-Alright, dear." He replied while he smiled sheepishly. Eliade rolled her eyes fondly.
Lavi went over to talk to Bookman. "Hey there, Panda!" He greeted with a grin. Bookman looked him over and only sighed like he got a heavy burden. "So your back Idiot? I hope you recorded all of what happened." Bookman warned halfheartedly. Lavi´s face turned more serious. "Of course." He assured with a blank face.
Lenalee smiled brightly at Allen. "Could you tell me why Lavi called us so late?" She said sweetly. Allen cringed at her tone of voice. "He just forgot it! We were in battle!" He tried to save Lavi´s life here, so Lavi better appreciate it!
Lenalee looked at him in disbelief. "A Bookman forgot something!?" She cried out in anger. Allen took a few steps back. No need to be near her and risk getting a kick in the face. He held his hands up in a peace offering.
"H-He was unconscious!" Allen yelped when he saw Lenalee´s eyes narrowed. She was silent for a few moments. Then she crossed her arms and sighed annoyed. "Fine, this time I will let it slide." She muttered, still angry.
Allen sighed in relief and saw that Lavi gave him thumps up. One of the Golems acted up.
"An All Exorcists. General Tiedoll has been found. We are sorry to say, that Exorcist Daisya Berry is dead. Please be careful. The Noah´s are moving. He was killed by a Noah who removed all of his organs without harming his body from the outside." Came a deep voice from Lenalee´s Golem.
It was silent after that.
Lenalee looked horrified and her eyes began to water. She blinked a few times to force back tears. Lavi´s eye was blank. No emotion could be seen in it. Bookman looked grim. Eliade looked a bit uncomfortable, but otherwise she seemed unimpressed. Crowley looked sad. Lavi and Allen explained all about the Order during the train ride. He may not have known the Exorcist but they said they were all friends at the Order.
Allen felt a strange cold settle in his gut. He got a chilly feeling. He hesitantly reached a hand out to Lenalee. She flinched when she felt a hand on her head. She looked up through tears.
Allen smiled down at her kindly. "You can cry if you want to. Nobody is going to laugh. It´s okay to be sad." He assured her with soft eyes. Lenalee made a chocking noise and threw her arms around Allen.
"H-He…-sniff- was o-one o-of the first people, -sob- that I met t-there!" She cried into his chest. Allen rubbed her back soothingly. She sobbed a bit more. "I-I don´t want to c-cry anymore! I am n-not a little girl!" She yelled in a heartbroken voice. She tried to get herself together.
"Lenalee…" Lavi muttered sadly, while he watched them.
Allen lightly hit her forehead. She looked up at him in shock. Allen looked at her disapproving. "Who are you!?" He asked her with a frown.
Lenalee looked confused. "I-I am Lenalee?" She said quietly with a frown. Allen shook his head. "I said Who are you!?" He repeated this time with more force. Lenalee scowled. "I am Lenalee!" She retorted louder. This time her voice had more strength.
The others watched them with confused and interested expressions.
Allen raised an eyebrow. "Who. Are. YOU." He asked again and finally got the reaction from her he wanted. Lenalee glared at him through tears. "I AM LENALEE LEE! A PROUD EXORCIST OF THE BLACK ORDER AND YOUR FRIEND!" She yelled loudly. She panted after her outburst.
Allen stumbled a bit from her volume but smiled at her. "Exactly! You are a strong woman aren´t you!? So act like it! Don´t be ashamed!" Allen told her with an encouraging grin.
Lenalee´s anger cooled down. She took a deep breath and nodded. "Of course! My goal is to protect my family and friends! There´s no time to wallow in sadness! We have a mission to continue." She replied with a determined face. Lavi smiled at the scene.
"So that was your purpose, Allen. You wanted to cheer her up." He thought with a grin. Lavi put his hands into his pockets and walked towards them.
"Let´s go." He cheered. Lenalee and Allen nodded. Bookman watched them like a hawk.
Eliade and Crowley introduced themselves to Lenalee and Bookman and they continued their journey.
"Why isn´t Neah answering when I call him?" Allen thought worried. For a short moment, when he heard the message he thought that maybe Neah was involved into it, but that thought was quickly killed. Allen knew that Neah wouldn´t kill an Exorcist till it was absolutely necessary. And Neah couldn´t remove organs without causing damage to the body.
It also wasn´t Neah´s style to cause such a blood bath. He may be the Noah of Destruction, but he didn´t like blood all over him. He just liked to destroy things more than the others. Said it was damned hard to get the blood out of his good clothes.
Allen sighed in annoyance. Well, he just had to scold Neah next time he saw him. Hopefully, Neah wouldn´t do something reckless like get himself killed. Again. Hmm, maybe he could try to practice his magic skills on him? Yes, a fried Noah sounded good, right? Great, now he was hungry again.
Allen couldn´t shake the fear of that if he went lose with his Noah powers that he would be brutal like that. …Like a monster. But he was a monster ether way. After all Innocence and Noah in one body plus magic isn´t exactly normal. Allen snorted mentally.
"Master was right. I am fucked up." He thought with dark humor. But who said that fucked up was a bad thing? He couldn´t change himself, so he would have to deal with it.
Allen felt an arm around his shoulder. He looked up and saw Lavi grinning at him. "Wow, Beansprout! You looked like Yuu-chan for a second there! Brooding isn´t for you. You have to be careful! If you are thinking of killing someone, don´t smile like that! Crow-chan is going to have a heart attack!" Lavi teased him playfully. Allen looked at Crowley and saw he was holding Eliade´s hand more tightly and was the furthest away from him.
Unknow to Allen, he had something like a Noah smile on his face when he thought about frying Neah. It was a mix between sadistic glee and creepy happiness. Needless to say, Crowley thought it was better to be distant to Allen, till that smile was wiped off.
By The Earl
The Earl finished Road´s homework and went to his room. He was pacing in his room. He was in his human form. In the mirror that was in his room, you could see a man that was about 35. He had glowing Golden eyes that had an insane gleam in them. (Look at the manga, the earl looks like that in his human form)
"These d-damn Memories!" He hissed in anger. He looked at the mirror in pure hate. He took a book and threw it at the mirror. It shattered into many tiny little pieces. The Earl was panting and sweating.
He hated his reflection in his human form! It reminded him of him. His dear Destruction, his twin, his otherhalf. How much it hurt him. How much his Destruction hurt him. They were both so similar but at the same time the completely opposite. After all what could he, the Creator make if there wasn´t his Destruction to destroy it. How should he create something if there isn´t someone who can compensate it?!
The only thing in the end that both of them agreed to was to protect that young man. The only person who meant so much to them. Who was there to keep them in line. Who greeted them with a smile on his face. They would have killed everybody if he only spoke a word of distain about them.
Their dear Time.
If only he had released it earlier. That that young man, who Neah loved so much was their brother. The new host of The Noah of Time. It took so long, but he came back to them.
"And you killed him!" whispered a voice into The Earl ear. He shook his head wildly.
The voice had to shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUTUP!
He hadn´t meant to drive him away! I-It wasn´t his intention! He was only so angry! He lost it! B-But he had promised him to stay with him till the end! Both of them had! Even to his other half!
"Yes, they did. Now, how did that go? You killed them both! You killed him, just like you killedDestruction!" The voice got louder again.
The Earl felt like someone drove a knife through his heart and twisted it without mercy. His throat felt incredibly dry and all he got out was a whimper.
…Destruction. It was him! With him everything started! He betrayed him! He left him! That was unforgivable! And he hadn´t killed their Time! I-It was Mana! Mana was it! Without him nothing would have happened! They would both be by his side now! The three of them together with their family!
The Earl seethed quietly. His Golden eyes burning in hate while he searched for something to let out his anger on. He looked through the room, but he saw something that got a reaction out of him.
His anger suddenly disappeared when he saw the book he threw. He hesitantly walked over in front of the broken mirror and feel on his knees. He brushed his fingers gently over the cover to remove glass shards. He picked the book up with care and opened it.
On the Cover of the Book was written in elegant letters:
"Memories"
The first picture warmed his heart. He could feel tears well up in his eyes. It was a picture of his whole family. Next to him stood A…A-...
The Earl blinked a few times in confusion and frustration. The name of the young man from 35 Years ago wouldn´t come to his mind. He …forgot.
The pressure on his chest got worse. He tried to concentrate on the photo.
Next to him stood …Alexander, if the name of the young man doesn´t come to mind he will just use the Noah name. Anyway he stood in the middle of him and Neah. Over them floated Road in the air. She was laying in the air. She struck a peace sign into the Camera. The rest of the family was surrounding them.
They were all smiling, grinning or laughing.
He began to look through all the pictures and photos.
The Earl saw a wet spot on the paper and chocked back sobs. He stopped at the picture of Alexander and Neah together with him. Alexander was in the middle. He had his arms linked through The Earls and Neahs. Without his glasses on his face. He smiled happily at the Camera. Neah had a warmth expression on his face. His Golden eyes had a mischievous glint in them as he grinned at the Camera. You could see that he was holding Glasses.
The Earl looked like Neah. He had long hair in a low ponytail and his face looked like Neahs he just had softer features. He smirked at the Camera with affectionate eyes.
The Earl´s tears streamed down his face. He sobbed quietly and heartbroken as he read the writing underneath of the picture.
There stood. "We will always be by your side~! 14th August 1923."
He heard a knock on the door. The Earl quickly closed the album and hide it under his pillow. He quickly rubbed his eyes to get rid of the tears and looked towards the door.
"Come in~!" He called cheerfully. No need to worry one of his family members.
The door opened and a boy with short white hair came in. He wore a scarf around his head and had a third eye on his forehead.
The Earl cussed silently. "Why did it have to be Wisley?" He would even have preferred the twins. You couldn´t hide anything from the Noah of Wisdom. His job was to know almost everything after all.
"You still look at these?" The question was asked carefully, like Wisley was trying to test how he would react. His voice was warm and soothing and quiet. Like he was talking to an injured animal that was backed into a corner.
The Earl noticed this and chuckled. "Of course, these are pictures of my dear family after all~! I can´t hide anything from you, Wisley~!" He said with a strained smile. Wisley sighed and jumped at him. He hugged the Earl tightly.
"You can let it out. How about you take a nap? I will be here the whole time, don´t worry." Wisley suggested with a smile. The Earl didn´t notice how his body was shaking. He hugged Wisley back as tightly as he could.
"W-Why?...H-he promised….S-So why did…N-Neah? ….I a-am..n-not..Mana!" He sobbed hurt, confused and a bit hysterical. Wisley only hummed and gently led the Earl to the bed. He was careful not to step on glass shards.
He tugged the Earl in and laid down next to him. Wisley made a mental note to tell one of the Akuma to clean the room.
"Poor Milleni, you were completely broken back then, right?" Wisley thought uncomfortable as he heard the Earl cry himself to sleep. He hugged him tightly.
By Kanda and Kanda
They finally found their General after they escaped the many Akuma. They told him that Daisya was dead and the General cried for an hour. He even sat down and began drawing.
Marie was pretty sad that Daisya was dead but he couldn't break down now. They had a mission to continue after all. Daisya wouldn´t have wanted them to cry over him anyway.
Kanda was growling to himself. Yes, he could admit that he maybe felt sympathy towards the dead idiot. They found him hung up like some sort of scarify and dead. But they had to continue and their lazy ass General was still sitting here and drawing while crying like a little girl.
"That damned senile old man!" Kanda thought annoyed. They didn´t have time for this! Kanda looked over to the General only to see a man with long hair and glasses sitting next to the General. A book was on the man´s lap, but Kanda didn´t pay attention to it.
His eyes had widen as he starred at the spot next to the General in confusion. He tried to focus on what wasn´t blurry. It obviously was the same man that Kanda saw before in his hallucinations. He wanted to know why that man was so important to him that he saw him almost as often as her. As quickly as the man had appeared he vanished.
Kanda´s heart beat had increased without him noticing. His breath was a bit shorter than normally.
General Tiedoll stood up and burned his painting. "Rest in peace, my dear son." He whispered when the it burned away. After he was finished he turned and walked on.
"We have a mission to continue don´t we? Keep me Company please." He stated softly. Marie nodded. "We will go with you General." He assured with a smile. Marie softly put a hand on Kanda´s shoulder. He shook him a bit when he saw Kanda´s dazed expression.
"Kanda, we need to get going. Are you alright?" Marie asked in concern when he noticed Kanda flinch a bit.
Kanda turned and nodded. "Tch, I am fine." He grumbled while he caught up to the General. This was his life now. He doesn´t have time for other things like these hallucinations. He still couldn´t shake of the feeling that the man was familiar to him. That he recently spoke to him or something. But that was impossible, that man had to be dead.
Marie sighed at Kanda´s stubbornness and walked after them. He heard how Kanda´s heart beat increased, but didn´t try to comment on it.