Been a while I know, trust me. Anyway, here's chapter five and thanks for that review Lena-luvs-cats!

This is the correct chapter 5, not a repeat. I fixed it.

Chapter 5

"I'm bored~"

I pushed back my unruly hair with my free hand and replied, "I know. So am I."

The ninth apostle rolled towards me before popping up with her hand reaching for the sky. "I know! Let's talk!"

I raised my eyebrows in confusion, "talk?"

"Yup." She patted the floor next to her and I warily moved towards it until I was sitting right next to her. I shifted slightly though to get in a more comfortable position, once I was done, I was leaning against her back with our heads touching.

We were inside the Ark but it felt like we were outside, because I had taken a liking to gardening and had made it my goal to make it less white and more colorful. So far I had been doing pretty well, if I did say so myself, we were in a small clearing filled with red dahlias that were swaying slightly in the wind which brought their sweet scent to our noses.

I took a deep breath feeling more at peace than I had before and I mentally reminded myself to come here more often.

"Alright so what do we talk about?" I asked deciding to humor her some.

While I didn't see it, I could feel her smile and I wondered what in the world I had signed up for.

"Guys."

I spluttered, "W-what?! G-guys!?"

I felt her chest shake as pearls of laughter reached my ears, "yeah, you know about my relationship with Neah but I know nothing about your love life."

I should've seen this coming since day one. "I don't have one."

"Why? I mean, there have been so many love stories about a girl and guy falling in love but not able to see each other."

"My life is plenty complicated as it is, I don't need to add a secret lover to it."

"Oh, but don't you want to be held in a person's strong arms and feel protected?"

I thought about it for a moment before answering, "I do but… it's not worth the trouble right now. Maybe one day, just not today. Anyway… you're a Noah, so why do you have the same feelings as me?"

"I just do. Just the way, I have a little girl's body."

"Hm, that makes sense."

"Not really." Silence reigned over the clearing each of us stuck in our own thoughts.

This time it was Road who shifted in position and asked, "Who would your dream guy be? What would he be like?"

I pondered for a spell. In my other life, my husband had been decent; he had been smart, funny, and had cared for me just as I had cared for him. He had had the prettiest hazel eyes that had changed color every few seconds and curly light brown hair that always covered his eyes that made me complain about how he should get a haircut soon…

My heart panged with homesickness and crystal, clear tears appeared blurring my vision. I didn't even know if my child had survived, didn't even know the baby's gender as we had wanted it to be a surprise. A sob escaped my throat and Road turned surprised that I was crying. Her face softened and she gently wrapped her arms around me.

I don't know why, but that caused me to cry harder. I missed my old life, I wanted it back. The tears were falling faster now and as I went to wipe them away, Road took her arms off my shoulders and brushed them off herself.

Just as I felt the feeling diminishing, I remembered Jessica and Fred and the waterworks were renewed with a new vigor. I had never truly cried for them, I either hadn't cried at all, or if I had, it had been because they had left me. And what right had I to get mad at them? I had left my husband and child to fend for themselves, never once thinking about how they were faring. I let out a bitter laugh.

Humans were such fickle and selfish creatures, yet we still believed we deserved to be at the top of everything.

Maybe the Noah did have a right to want to kill us all. We had certainly deserved it.

I was being dragged along to who knows where and was complaining about how I wanted to sleep. I liked my sleep a lot and didn't like being disturbed when I was only half-awake.

"Dammit Road! We had a truce, I wouldn't give more than one page of math homework and you wouldn't wake me up!"

She ignored me and continued to pull me unwillingly along the white hall. My orbs flashed with anger and I stopped putting half-hearted effort into slowing her down, and this time thrust all my weight behind me when I tugged in the opposite direction. She, being skinny and smaller than I, was easily thrown off course, however, all I got in response was a glare that I had seen several times but only twice had it been at me.

Her serious face shut me up and I followed her silently, wondering what had happened while I had been sleeping.

Finally, I got an answer, though admittedly it only gave me more questions than before; I was going on mission with Road. I never knew exactly what happened during those missions, per say, but I knew that it had something to do with exorcists. I was curious, of course, but, even more so, nervous. For all I knew, it could be to kill the exorcists and, somehow, I knew that if that was the case, I wouldn't ever be able to look at Road the same, hell, I doubted I would be able to talk to her the same.

Eventually, I realized that Road had stopped walking and was now waiting for someone. Most likely a Noah, though it could have been an akuma. My suspicions were confirmed when I saw the third child, Joyd, appear in a full on blazer and pant suits with lero in his hand.

When he reached us, I spoke up. "What's going on?"

Joyd looked at Road who sighed but answered my question nonetheless. "Millennie wants to test you and so he decided to bring you along on one of Joyd's mission. I didn't want you to go alone so I came along~. Can't let my precious doll get hurt, can I~?"

At her last statement, I felt myself relax, Road was back to her crazy old self. She wasn't being serious anymore. A part of me recoiled in disgust at my reaction, I had just felt reassured about her saying I was doll. Her precious doll. Something was wrong with me. Something had been wrong with me ever since the day I had signed my soul over to the devil.

"Hey…" Joyd waved his hand next to my face trying to get my attention, "you're looking a little pale there."

I offered him a small, strained smile that he most definitely saw through but he didn't pry. I was reminded of that time where I had been shocked and hadn't talked at the dinner table; Joyd hadn't pried then either. This time when I smiled, it was genuine and grateful.

"Alright so he wants to test me… What is that supposed to mean?" I asked, feeling rather dumb.

Road turned to Joyd with a sadistic smile, getting revenge for putting her on the spot earlier. He sweat dropped but still explained, "Basically, he seeing your loyalty to us."

I blinked confused, "How?"

"During the fight, you'll probably be able to escape." Road said, cutting to the chase. She was staring at me with her golden, cat-like eyes searching for my reaction to her words.

My own eyes widened but other than that I didn't have too much of a reaction. I had guessed that after Joyd had said what he had, but I hadn't wanted to believe it. I hadn't wanted to go through the struggle of deciding who I would chose in the end. And I still didn't.

Road closed her eyes before turning around to construct her elegant, gold-rimmed door. It opened for her and she stepped in after making sure both Joyd and I were following her through it. When I took the second step, I flinched.

The sun was too bright. The Ark had had a 'sun' but it could not compare to the actual one that was shining down upon me. It had been too long, I thought, stretching my hand out to block out the ball of pure fire. However, I wasn't able to stand around for long as Joyd and Road strolled into the main street from the small alley we had appeared in.

I sneaked a look behind me and found it slowly vanishing until there was just the red bricks showing from the wall it had been covering.

"Hurry up, Cori~" Road sang, licking a lollypop that had somehow found itself in her hands in the five seconds I had looked away.

"Yeah, yeah." I walked a bit faster, almost tripping on my poofy skirts, but managing to catch myself at the last second. The Noah of pleasure sighed into his palm and I glared at him. "Don't you say anything, Joyd. It is hard to freaking walk in these- these… things they call dresses."

Joyd looked away but not before I saw the corners of his mouth twitch in an upward motion. I shook my head while thinking, traitor.

"So do we have a plan…? Or…?" I trailed off waiting for them to fill in my gaps of knowledge.

Road turned to face me, "nope. We don't have a plan, we just fight and win."

Well, she sure was confident. I wasn't, that was the truth. "Can we make one? I'd rather not just get stuck in the middle of a fight."

The two Noah shared a glance before responding, "I guess we could."

I ran desperately towards the men who had on black cloaks and a compass rose pinned on their uniforms. "Help! Help!"

I fell on one of the men, this time not because of my dress, but because of the uneven streets. The man caught me on instinct but released me immediately, warily observing my every move with his dark blue eyes. "Th- thank you, sir."

I was bending slightly at the knees to rest my hot hands on them. I could sense the man wanting to ask me questions and tried to even my breaths out. When I had rested enough, I straightened and looked at the man signaling to him I was ready.

"Why were you crying help, miss?" He asked, never taking his orbs off of me, making me slightly uncomfortable.

"There… there were these creatures- no- monsters, and…" I faltered before continuing, "And they killed Fred and Jess- Jessica! They turned into dust right in front of my eyes! Please believe me, I'm not lying! I promise!"

The man stiffened and nudged his companions who had tuned me out thinking I was but a lost girl searching for her boyfriend. "There are akuma here. The girl's friends just died."

They looked at me and took in my appearance; my hair that had been in a bun earlier had escaped and was now drooping covering part of my face, my eyes were bloodshot, and my face was frantic, showing the horror I had just witnessed. They had no solid proof telling them I was lying.

"Where did the monster attack you?" I pointed in a vague direction down the street forcing them to bring me with them that way I could bring them to the right spot.

We walked in silence; the exorcists didn't want to be distracted and I thought about how I was going to magically appear next to Road and Joyd without being attacked. They had waved it off muttering how 'I shouldn't concern myself with such petty details'. I sighed, I had nothing else to do other than trust them.

The man that had caught me earlier looked at me for confirmation as he turned off the main street to a side street. I nodded, keeping my face frozen on the face of 'verge of tears'. While he turned back around, I mentally sighed.

This was too much trouble than it was worth. I didn't want to kill two men, hell, I didn't want to kill period, plain and simple. Why could the Earl have given me an easy task of just going into a city alone and returning? I would have been able to do that one in ten minutes flat, but nope. The earl just had to give me the hard one that went against all my morals. Perhaps that was why he had assigned this particular mission for me?

I played with a spare curl that had fallen near my chin while a crease between my eyebrows became bigger. I was going to get nowhere trying to figure out what the Earl had in stock for me; I doubted even the Noah knew exactly what went on in his head at times. Except for maybe the one that had a third eye on his forehead, Road had told me he could read minds, though I had kept away from him so I wouldn't know. I hadn't wanted him to figure out my secret.

Dammit! I needed to think of important things, like whether or not to save one of the men. I could possibly come up with the excuse that I had been to shocked to remember the correct alleyway and send one to the wrong one. I sighed, that wouldn't work; Road and Joyd had probably counted how many exorcist there were to begin with so they'd know I had let one escape.

Stupid Noah. Stupid exorcists.

"This is the place, right?"

My head snapped up and I stared at the man for a second before processing what he had just said, "huh? Oh, yeah. It is."

The exorcist looked at me suspiciously but still went into the small clearing that was in-between several house and had a small water fountain in the middle. The exorcists went in first vanishing when they passed the two ladybugs on the brick wall parallel to themselves. I hesitated, not quite sure if I really wanted to go through the barrier.

While I wondered about the pros and cons, another exorcist appeared running towards me with a haunted face. I didn't notice him until his nose was practically touching mine. "A-ah!"

The man stumbled back in surprise as his eyes flashed with an emotion I didn't catch. "It's you."

I looked at him, truly looked and then gasped. It was Allen, the man I had met near Neah's mansion. Why was Neah in-contact with an exorcist? I shook my head, now was not the time for asking questions; it was time to get answers.

"What are you doing here?" I hissed, jabbing my fingers in his chest.

He glared at me with his steely silver eyes, "I could ask you the same!"

"Listen, I don't have time for games! The Noah are in that barrier right now killing your comrades and unless you want the same fate as them, scram! I'll ask you later, at Neah's place. Got it?" Road was going to come barging out anytime soon to see what had held me back. I, unfortunately, did not have the time to ask him the questions I wanted, but I would later.

He sent me a wild look and then it was like another persona took control; his eyes became dull yet calculating like he no longer had emotions, and he quickly turned around, no longer debating whether to leave his friends or not. It was good he left as he did, becoming yet another plain face you see on a street as Road came just a second later.

"Cori? Come on." I stopped searching for a flash of red hair and faced in her direction. After taking a deep breath, I stepped in the invisible plane. Almost immediately, I heard the noise of weapons colliding and clashing, I also smelled the pungent scent of blood. I put a hand to my mouth to prevent me from throwing up right then and there.

"Oh, god…!" I gasped in horror, the man that had caught me was already dead with a purple striped candle that I knew belonged to Road protruding out of his heart. The crimson liquid had pooled around his mid-riff and a ragged cough drew my eyes to his face. Blood was slowly dribbling down his chin contrasting with his pale, almost white, complexion.

Road, off to the side, casually observed my reaction before yanking lero off her small, grey wrist and hitting me with it. "What did you expect? This is war. We don't have the luxury of giving them mercy each time they ask for it, or rather, they don't deserve to be given mercy. Humans are disgusting creatures that I'm ashamed to be even slightly related too."

At my startled glance shot in her direction, she corrected her statement, "Except for you Cori~ You're much too perfect as a doll for me to hate."

"I've told you before Road, I'm not a fucking doll!" I yelled, while internally thanking her for bring me back to reality. She was right, it was a war; I didn't have time to be shocked by every corpse I saw.

"You damn traitor!" That was the only warning I got before being scratched on my face by a blade chained to a weight. My lips pursed in pain but I didn't make a noise. I wouldn't become a helpless burden that would yell with each scratch she got, no, I would hold it in.

"Corian!" Joyd shouted concerned, not being able to tell if my wound was bad where he was.

"I'm fine, don't worry about me!" I yelled back before being gently pushed to the side by Road who was now glaring at the exorcist who had just thrown his weapon across the plane to injure me. Joyd smiled that creepy smile that had never failed to make me shiver whether it was aimed at me or not.

He chuckled darkly and I shuffled back some more behind Road, "you just signed your death in blood, exorcist."

"She's my doll and she won't shatter till I tell her to," the ninth apostle claimed with her gold eyes flashing in fury supporting Joyd's statement. She summoned more of her floating candles, and swung herself onto lero making me think of her as a witch on a broom.

And as much as I was disturbed by Road's claim, part of me was reassured that I most likely wouldn't be dying anytime soon… unlike that poor exorcist.

Joyd was defending Road by using his Noah power to use the air around him to reject the blade that swung at him. Meanwhile, Road was attacking with her candles which he was barely managing to block by using the weighted block at the end. I felt the battle, if you could even call it a battle, it was more like a flat out massacre, come to an end when the Noah of dreams created a few behind him as well. He was hit immediately being too busy fighting with Joyd to notice.

I winced and shut my eyes when I saw the candles zoom in for the kill. I didn't want to see the man be murdered right before me even if he had wounded me. It just wasn't right.

Killing wasn't right, whether in a war or not.

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