Bleh sickness kills! Still trying to get this story worked on though!
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Chapter 4
Petersburg
It was a nice warm day with a small breeze every once and while and the smell of delicacies wafted in the air. They've been walking around the town for an hour or so and have learned many rumors and contradictions as to strange occurrences and their host Allen. Some spoke of demons on the prowl at night and others of how Allen was a clown or that his aristocratic father adopted him and helped save him from the 'devil's' curse. In the end, even Lavi had no idea as to what might actually be true, and so Lenalee and Kanda continued on the search while Lavi called Komui to tell him of the new developments.
Meanwhile, at the circus Allen laughed and shouted with the crowd while Marie and Bookman watched intently. Tiedoll, on the other hand was quickly drawing many things that grabbed his attention. It wasn't till right after the last act that something strange happened, shouts and cheers of "Allen!Allen!Allen!" rang throughout the tent.
Allen blushed but smiled and jumped onto stage as a pure white cloak seemingly appeared out of nowhere and a silver mask covered his face by the time he landed. The tent's atmosphere seemed to change as he smiled really big and spoke, "Who's ready for some fun!~~"
As the crowd shouted ooo's and aww's at the stunning performance, Bookmans eyes narrowed but he didn't say anything, Marie was stunned but wished he could see what he was hearing, and Tiedoll, well he smiled but was still in his own world. After the performance Allen showed them to the back of the circus into the gathering area. They all asked about rumors and several embarrassing situations for Allen and later they left with too many.
They all met back up at the fountain in the town's center. Smiling, Allen thought to himself of how lucky it was that he and the Earl found a way to hide his innocence from the exorcist's just a few weeks prior. He made a surprised face like he just remembered something and ran off yelling that he'd see them back at the manor. Hmm they're so uptight around me I'll have to leave them for a bit to stew,it's best to stir the pot at the right time! He laughed as he ran to the other side of town.
Lavi was just as surprised as the rest of his teammates at Allen's sudden running off. When he regained his thought process he snapped his agape mouth shut with a audible click. They all looked at one another and he shrugged saying, "Might as well say what we got I guess."
Out of all the ridiculous rumors none sounded innocent related but did seem like a lot of akuma have been to this town. And their strange host, from what they could gather, was a street rat turned clown who was adopted by an aristocrat, who later died but left many distant relatives behind to help look after the boy. It was complicated and it didn't sound like the boy was visited by the Earl but it did explain the off mannerisms somewhere between how a noble and regular villager would sound. There was only one rumor which popped up that they questioned, 'The Devil's Curse'. It was clearly established earlier that he wasn't an akuma so what did the villagers mean and they said he was saved, this was way to confusing and left them thinking hard on what they learned.
Glancing to make sure he was in the clear Allen used the trick ,that once again, the Earl taught him, to control and communicate with the akuma. One appeared in front of him and he looked at the suffering soul, "Elena? Lovely name, I have a job for you."
Long ago when he was still new to joining the Earl he found out that talking to the souls of the akuma he could gain their ultimate loyalty even stronger than the Noah's command and that the more he did it the less the soul seemed to suffer. With his cursed eye it made his life a lot easier. The only disadvantage was that the akuma really would go to extreme lengths to please him, since he was the only one who could hear and cared about their existence… in a way, some where along the line they became like his lost children.
Inspecting the skin the akuma Elena wore it would be perfect for his plan. With a mad grin he speaks to the akuma, "It's about time that we GREET our guests don't you think?" And so the plan was set in motion.
Thanks to Mana for helping edit!
I appreciate the comments and i do read them i just can't respond it just feels weird to.
Sorry i know i kept dangling Allen's plan in your face but i decided to do the next chapter on it, i just wanted readers to have a little more input of how some of this works since Allen hasn't awakened as a Noah yet.
Thanks for reading! =^.^=)/
