Right, I know i'm a little late (or a lot late) so to make up for it I'll give you 2 chapters at once. enjoy.
Chapter eighteen: Snowbell
Ayume, did her best to sneak into the order. She still had her hood up and all of her hair was in the front. She looked around before she walked in a little bit. If i make it to my room, I'm safe. She thought.
"Meow." A small voice went from inside her hood.
"Epp." Ayume said as her hand quickly went to her mouth. A small white kitten, with a pink nose and blue eyes, appeared though Ayume's hair and started to rub against her head purring. Ayume sighed as she started to pet its small white head.
"What am I going to do?" Ayume said her eyes up to the ceiling.
"Put it back in the cold. Cause before you know it, it'll start trying to eat me." Natsu said flying out in front of her, glaring at the kitten.
"Natsu, it's just a kitten. And i can't do that." Ayume said.
"Can't do what?" A voice asked from behind.
"Eek!" Ayume said as she placed her hand over the spot the kitten was and quickly turned around.
"Allen, don't do that." Ayume said her hand still in midair.
"Sorry." Allen said, he looked confusingly at her hand. "Why's your hand up."
"Oh! Uh...I have a pain on my neck?" She said as if she was asking a question.
"Then won't your hand be on your neck?" Allen asked.
"Uh." Ayume said, unable to think of a reason. At that moment, the kitten appeared on the other side, taking one too many steps causing it to almost fall of her shoulder. Ayume quickly caught it in both hands before looking back at Allen. Busted. Ayume thought.
"Allen-kun, please don't tell anyone. I mean, its small and cute and small and furry and, and, and, and SMALL!" Ayume said as she started to stutter her words. Allen looked at her confusingly.
"Oh. I couldn't help it. I saw it in the cold snow, and it was meowing and it was hungry. Please don't tell anyone." Ayume said again. She pushed the kitten so it was the only thing Allen could see.
"Look at it. It's too cute to be abandon." Ayume finished. Allen smiled, and started to pet the kitten.
"No way, It's too cute." Allen said.
"Really?" Ayume said as she gave him a smile, the smile like a little girl getting a giant teddy bear.
"Yeah, so you won't have to worry about me telling any one. Where you find it anyway?" Allen asked.
"On my last mission. I was just about to leave when I it meowing. I followed the noise till I saw it alone in the snow, all cold and hungry." Ayume explained as she looked at the kitten.
"So she decided to bring it home and wait till it wants to eat me to realized that it's PURE EVIL!!" Natsu yelled.
"Ignore him, He is suffering from the 'I'm a chicken' disease." Ayume said in an annoyed manor.
"What are you gonna call it?" Allen said as he helped Ayume get up.
"Snowbell." Ayume answered, the kitten happily responded by rubbing its head against Ayume's neck.
"It suits it."
"I think you should call in Dragon eater." Natsu said glaring at Snowbell who just tilled its head in confusion. Ayume hit Natsu hard on the head for that one.
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Ayume, was sitting on her bed, watching Snowbell harmlessly playing with Natsu's tail who was freaking out and flying from one side of the room to the other. Allen was next to her. The two of them sat in silence, both thinking hard.
"What are you going to do? Taking care of it is out of the question for sure." Allen said finally breaking the silence.
"My best idea is to find it a good home, until then I guess I'll have to take care of it. It'll just be cruel to rescue something just to put it back in misery." Ayume said.
"True." Allen agreed.
"So what's with the cat?" Lavi said appearing out of no where.
"LAVI!!" They both yelled jumping out their skin.
"Where'd you come from?" Allen asked.
"And how the hell did you get into my room? I locked the door!" Ayume yelled.
"I was in here for a while looking for that book you borrow. By the way….." Lavi said his hand out to get the book.
"Why? Bookman said that he had a lot of copies of that book." Ayume said.
"Yeah, but that was my copy and I really like that book, so if you please." Lavi said, raising his hand a bit just so he could drop it down in the same place.
"Yeah….. about that….. You can say you have another reason to hate Natsu."
"What happen." Lavi said in a half demonic voice.
"I just finished reading it when Natsu accidentally burn it." Ayume said in a small voice.
"Just so we're clear, It was on purpose." Natsu said.
"You….you…….you….." Lavi said there was partially fire behind him.
"YOU NO GOOD STUPID PETRIFIED LIZARD!!" Lavi yelled.
"PETRIFIED WHAT?!" YOU SHOULDN'T CALL ME SOMETHING LIKE THAT GINGER!!" Natsu yelled.
"Oh god, Not again." Ayume muttered as Snowbell jumped on her lap.
"So, you found a cat, called her Snowbell, and is now looking for a good home for her?" Lavi said. He was scratching the side of his face, sitting on a chair, Natsu on Ayume's head. Natsu and Lavi had finished their argument when Natsu tried to breath fire and Lavi nearly broke her chair. Ayume instantly stopped the two of them and gave them both a black eye.
"That's about the best I could think of." Ayume said.
"And you're not going to tell anyone?" Allen asked, Snowbell moved to his lap when Ayume got angry, and Allen was petting her.
"Are you kidding? I unfortunately know how Ayume gets when she's angry. My god, she might even scare the Earl for god's sake!" Lavi said.
"Lavi, that was because you attacked me and tried to kiss me." Ayume said. WHAT!? Allen screamed in him mind, ready to kill Lavi. He did his best to resist though.
"But I was bored, and you're cute." Lavi said jokingly. However it made Ayume blush slightly in embarrassment.
"Do you even know how sick that is? You're four years older than me!" Ayume yelled.
"So? Age is but a number." Lavi said.
"So in other words you're a pervert." Ayume said.
"Pretty much." Lavi said.
"If anything we should tell Lenalee, she's a big cat lover and knows what to do with her." Lavi said.
"You think so?" Ayume asked.
"I heard she tried to bring a cat in once." Allen said.
"What happen?" Ayume asked.
"She doesn't know?" Lavi asked Allen pointing to her.
"She doesn't know." Allen said.
"What don't I know?" Ayume said, looking at Allen then Lavi then back to Allen.
"Komui's allergic to cats." Allen said. Ayume's face fell, Snowbell has been here for less than five hours and her future here was already dim.
"Oh." Ayume said in a low voice. This is just too perfect. Natsu thought trying to hold back his laughter
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"Snowbell! I brought you back some fish!" Ayume yelled as she walked into her room with a take away box. She looked confused when she saw that her room was empty, nothing was inside. My. Room. Is. Empty! Ayume thought as it slowly processed though her mind. She dropped the box.
"LAVI!!" Ayume yelled as she busted to into the Bookman's room. Lavi looked up from his book and to her.
"Yo Ayume! How's Snowbell?" Lavi said, as happy as always.
"Please tell me your joking and she's in here." Ayume said, extremely panicked.
"No, why is she missing?" Lavi asked.
"ALLLLLEEEEENNNNN!!" Ayume yelled before she darted out of Lavi's room and headed to Allen's room.
Snowbell was having a wonderful time exploring. She hated being cramped up in that room, even though the bed was incredibly soft. The stone was hard and cold, but it was big and mysterious. There were so many rooms, each one bigger than the last one. She was even starting to find her way around. But she was interested in trying to find Allen's room. See, Snowbell has an extremely special sense of smell and can smell certain emotions, including love, and there was defiantly something going on between the two of them. Especially Ayume, now she need some good proof from Allen, but she's having an extremely hard time to find him.
Snowbell wondered into a small room that was far in the back of one of the halls. She was surprised when the paper on the floor was bigger than her, she slowly made it though the giant mounds of paper, hardly being notice since the paper and her fur are nearly the same color. She slowly walked over to the large desk in the center where a loud snoring sound was coming from. She somehow manage to find a way to climb up on to the top of the desk and in front of Komui, who was fast asleep. Snowbell stopped for a moment, looking strangely at his hat, she tilted her head, never see anything like it. She slowly extended her paw, gently tapping the hat. She meowed happily, apparently liking the way the hat bend under her paw. She then continuously hit the hat gently with both paws until the unexpected happened. One of her claws got stuck in the strings of the hat, she started to move her paw as face as she could left and right, trying to remove the hat. Komui was still asleep. When she found out that it was hopeless she laid down on her back and use all of her free paws to push the hat off. She got this move when she saw Natsu's head was stuck in a small pot. Quickly she removed the hat, but unfortunately she hit Komui hard in the face with her claws. Apparently there is more than one way to wake him up. He looked at Snowbell ten small points were he was bleeding on his head. It toke him about six seconds to analyze that a cat was right in front of him.
Ayume was on her board, speeding as fast as she could in midair, on her board, though the Black Order's halls. She recruited the help of Allen and Lavi and all of them were silently calling out to Snowbell, not wanting the little kitten to be caught. Allen and Lavi were having no luck but Ayume was much closer to Snowbell than she would have originally thought. But someone worse found her first.
"REEVER!! THERE'S A CAT!!" Komui yelled from inside his office. Oh, no. Ayume thought as she slowly headed off to Komui's office, she covered her eyes as she slowly entered the room, her board being held by her other hand. She slowly moved her hand to see Komui up in a corner sneezing like crazy, Snowbell still on his desk, under his hat.
"Oh dear." Ayume slowly said.
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"But Komui…." Ayume begged.
"No." Komui quickly answered.
"But…." Allen said.
"No." Komui repeated.
"Komui." Lavi said in an annoyed voice.
"No."
"But." Ayume said very high and squeaky.
"For goodness sake! No means NO!" Komui yelled before sneezing. Komui was sitting at his desk, Ayume, Allen and Lavi were sitting on the couch. Lenalee had just entered when the arguing began, she was standing behind the couch, and the Innocence she recovered on the desk, next to Snowbell.
"Nii-san," Lenalee said a bit annoyed, "it wouldn't hurt to keep her for a few days, just until we found her a home."
"NO! UNEXCEPTABLE!!" Komui yelled.
"Why are you being so unreasonable! It's just a few days!" Lavi yelled.
"No! It can't stay!" Komui said as he turned away, then sneezed.
Snowbell started to become bored at this point, apparently letting out a sigh. She looked at the Innocence next to her, gently she whacked so it would move a little, it glowed slightly. Finding enjoyment from the glow, she whacked it gently back and forth creating a glow that grew brighter and brighter. No one noticed her.
"Komui please! Snowbell's harmless she can't hurt anyone." Ayume pleaded.
"Except me! Besides, we can't have a cat running around the Order, she can only if she's compatible with an Innocence." Komui said. At this point the light grew so bright, it caught everyone's attention.
"Huh?" Komui said as they all looking at the Innocence and Snowbell playing with it. She stopped as soon as the light was blinding. The light engulfed Snowbell and disappeared, leaving a two ton white saber-tooth, in her place. It gave off a low confused meow.
"SNOWBELL?!" Allen and Ayume shouted.
"IT'S BIG ENOUGH TO EAT ME NOW!!" Natsu yelled as he flew up to a high corner in the room.
"Snowbell, is that you?" Ayume said as she slowly walked to the saber tooth. It meow yes in response.
"Your…..your…..your…." Ayume said, then she quickly wrapped her arms around Snowbell's neck.
"Your so amazing look how cute you are!" She yelled, she moved back placing her hands on Snowbell's shoulders. "Wait this means you're an exorcist!"
"Who would have thunk it?" Allen said his eyes up to the ceiling.
"So we're going to be sending a cat into battle? A cat. Do you know how desperate that sounds?" Lavi said his face in his hand.
"Wow. I guess that means she gets to stay." Lenalee said.
"But a- huh?" Komui said, his position was froze as he slowly flew back and fainted.
"Nii-san!" Lenalee yelled.
"Aw, leave him be, Lenalee. His worst nightmare came true, the least we could do is let him pretend a little bit longer." Lavi said.