Chapter 2: Catching Up

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Flashbacks/Thoughts

"Spoken"

"Three of a kind" Allen and Alice said at the same time while throwing down the playing cards they were holding. Both had been playing poker for about 2 hours straight. Alice was getting impatient.

"Damn it Allen. Lose already!" She yelled. Allen just chuckled and smirked.

"I'm not giving in sister. I'm just waiting for you to crack." Allen said with an almost evil chuckle. Alice shuffled the cards again. Lavi, Lenalee, and Krory were sitting in amazement. Was Alice as good of a cheater as Allen or was she just damn good at poker?

"Alice how are you doing so well? Allen is the best player here. He never loses." Lenalee whispered into Alice's ear.

"Easy. I'm cheating." Alice whispered back. She was just as good of a cheater as Allen. It's in the genes.

"Four of a kind." Allen says putting down his hand. Alice smirks.

"Royal Straight Flush." Alice says. She beat Allen. She just beat Allen in his own game. Allen stares at the cards on the table. Did she just beat me? Damn. Allen thought

"Where did you learn to play like that?" Lavi asks. Alice gets an evil look in her eyes. She looked almost like Allen did when he got that way. She laughed evilly and had a wide, insane smile spread across her face.

"Sitting in a classroom everyday for two years makes you rebel every chance you got." She laughed again. "I gambled every chance I got. It's fun kicking the asses of those thugs." She now look like an incarnation of Satan himself, in girl form. Allen, Lavi, Lenalee, Krory, and the rest of the cafeteria were now in the corner. They have faced many deadly akuma, the Noah, and Komlin I-VI but Alice this way was scarier than all three combined. Lavi and Allen were shaking. Allen was almost crying.

"My sister is a psychopath." Allen said. Alice suddenly turned back to normal.

"Why are you guys in the corner? Was it something I said?" Alice said, completely clueless of what just happened. Allen's sweat dropped and they got out of the corner.

"Don't mind it. You won fair and square." Allen said. The whole cafeteria's sweat dropped. Reever walked in just then.

"What happened in here?" he asked. Alice just shrugged and went to get some more mitarashi dango.

"Never mind it. What's up?" Allen said. Alice was getting back to the table with the food.

"Komui wanted to see Alice in his office. He has her room assignment and her uniform ready." Reever said. Alice looked up from her finished plate.

"Alright. Allen do you want to come with me? I don't really know where the office is." Alice said to her brother, who had stolen one of the mitarashi dangos from the plate and was finishing it off.

"Sure. How about they come too?" Allen said pointing to Lavi, Lenalee, and Krory.

"I don't mind. The more the merrier." Alice said throwing her hands behind her head and starting off to the unknown location of Komui's office. They walked in silence for a few minutes. Allen's mind wandered to what Alice said only a few hours ago. "It was your stupid mistake that has almost gotten me killed so many times!" Her enraged voice echoed through his head.

"Alice," Alice turned to look at Allen, "What did you mean that this curse has almost gotten you killed so many times?" Alice stopped in her tracks. Eveyone else stopped with her. Their ears ready to hear about what she meant. They all were wondering but only Allen said anything.

"Those damn Noah. That's what I meant. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 13. They wanted to kill me, and they almost did... damn them." Allen was shocked. Why were the Noah after Alice? She was no threat to them. She wasn't officially an Exorcist until today. Allen thought to himself.

Flashback

"Her white hair gives her away. She is the one we want. She will die today." Road says to no one in particular. She giggles a laugh that can send chills down a person's spine. "Time to have fun guys" She snaps her fingers and 30 or so akuma show up. Three of them were Level 2's. "You are too bring that girl to me. Now go" She says while pointing to the white haired girl on the mountain path below. "Stupid girl. She should cover up that hair and arm of hers. She could get killed that way." She adds another evil laugh to the statement.

"Damn it! Where is that man Master wanted me to meet? He should be here by now." Alice said. She stopped and laid down on the hard, cold dirt of the path. "It can't hurt to catch some sleep while I wait." She says as she closes her eyes. About an hour later, Tyki Mikk walked up to the sleeping girl, scooping her up into his arms.

"The things I do for Road." Tyki says shaking his head. Alice woke up after feeling the suddent movement. She looked around and saw she was being carried away by some man.

"Who the hell arm you? Let me go!" Alice says while thrashing around.

"Feisty on aren't we." Tyki said, an evil smirk on his face.

"You're not gonna rape me... right?"

"No... She'll has more fun with blood shed than rape." Tyki said.

"She?" Alice was put down on a chair of some kind. She hadn't realized her surroundings have changed in her conversation with her kidnapper. She could feel her legs being tied down. She panicked. She activated the Innocence on her arm and pushed the man that was tying her down away from her. Her left arm, from the elbow down, was a giant claw-like hand and looked like it was wrapped in bandadges like a mummy. She used one of the fingers to untie her leg. She ran to the man that was tying her down before and swung around her arm to claw him dead. He dodged it like it was nothing.

"I'm not the one that's gonna have the enjoyment of killing you." Tyki said while he elbowed her back. She landed one her stomach and cried out in pain. Spitting blood from her mouth. She got up of the ground, blood running down from the corner of her mouth.

"Lucky shot." She turned around and he was gone. There was a little girl standing a few feet away. She didn't look much younger than her. "Who are you?" Alice asks the girl. The girl giggles. Alice cringes from the noise. She wasn't giggling because Alice asked. She was giggling because Alice was in pain.

"I'm Road, Road Kamelot, and that guy that made you bleed, well, he's Tyki Mikk." She said walking towards Alice. Alice froze with fear when Road touched her face. "You're Alice Walker, aren't you?" Road almost caressed Alice's cheek. Alice moved back only to be met with a wall. She could feel her Innocence being held down by something. She looked over and it was tied down by some steel that appeared out of nowhere. She tried to move her arm and panicked when she couldn't. She couldn't get out of Road's, now death grip on her throat. "Circus child. Apprentice to General Klaud Nine. Adoptive daughter of Mana Walker. Twin sister to Allen Walker. Am I right?" She was now right in Alice's face. 'How did this girl know so much about me' Alice thought to herself. "Am I right?" Road said jerking Alice's face. Towards hers. "It would be smart for you to answer." When Road didn't get an answer she was now mad. "Fine. Just die now." Road almost floated back and hundreds of candles with sharpened points were pointing right at Alice. The candles ends pointed right at Alice . She tried to move her arm, and when the candles pierced her she cried out in pain. She got her arm free and protected herself from the rest.

"Damn you Road Kamelot and you too Tyki Mikk." She said as she passed out from loss of blood.

Flashback Over

"Damn those Noah. I still don't know why they want me dead so bad." Alice said finishing her story. Allen was in shock. Was it because of him that they want her dead? Did it have something to do with him being the Destroyer of Time? He had no idea. All he knew was he hated the Noah even more now than ever.

"You're lucky you survived, Alice. They almost never let anyone survive an encounter." Lavi said hanging his head, remembering fellow Exorcists that have died from a battle with a Noah. The group started off to the office again.

"What I don't get, Alice, is why they are after you. You weren't officially an Exorcist until today. They have no reason to want you dead." Allen said. Everyone thought about it the rest of the walk. When they finally got there Alice learned her room was on the same floor as Allen's. She was only about three of four doors down from him. She got her uniform too. It was a black jacket with the silver Rose Cross on the left breast, adorned with silver buttons. The jacket gave her a mid-drift that Allen wasn't too happy about. She wore a black under shirt to cover it up after Allen almost attacked Komui. The sleeves were three-quarter length. She had a pair of skinny pants that , according to Lavi, made her look very sexy. She knocked him out for that comment. She wore knee-high, heavy-duty black lace-up boots. Komui offered her a pair of black elbow length glove to wear.

"I don't need them." She said.

"Why not? Don't you want to cover up your arm?" Komui said. Alice looked at her arm and shook her head.

"No. Why should I? It's my arm. If people don't like something that has saved their butts so many times then that's their problem. It's not gonna change." Alice said. Allen was kind of ashamed of covering his up for so long. "Master Nine told me that. She is one of the wisest people I know." Alice said with a smile. She put on some hair ties on her wrists and put her hair up in one of them. "So how do I look?" Alice said while striking a pose. Lavi, who was finally awake, eyes widened.

"Oh my goodness. Amazing" he said fainting again. Allen shook his head. Stupid, everyone thought. Alice's left hand morphed into a hammer with a red cross on the ends and hit him in the head with it.

"Your Innocence is amazing. You can shape you hand into anything." Komui said while rushing over to examine it.

"I can't form it into anything, only a claw, hammer, blade, and cannon. Nothing truly special." Alice said like it was nothing.

"It isn't nothing, Alice," Komui said while pushing up his glasses, "not many accommodaters can manipulate their Innocence like you can. Usually they can only transform it into one or two things at most. Yours can morph it into 4, maybe more. Who truly knows?" Komui finished. General Nine did the same when Alice learned how to do that. She thought it was amazing. "How about we do some target practice and see how well that cannon works?"

"Yay I get to shoot things!" Alice said jumping up and down clapping. Everyone just smiled and laughed. It was moments like these that made Allen miss Alice so much.

Komui's Lab

"Alright guy's I'll shoot up these clay discs and you just shoot them." Komui said holding up some contraption. Allen's arm was like a giant cannon with pipe like things and was pure white. There was glowing orange diamond shaped things surrounding the opening Alice's was from her elbow down and just looked like a tube on her arm. "annnnnnnndddddd GO!" Komui said shooting up about 10 discs. Allen and Alice shot them just fine. Allen's shots looked like orange rod and Alice's was red orbs.

"Is that all you got Komui?" Alice taunted. She stuck out her tongue for added effect. He smirked evilly.

". Hell no, you little girl." Komui taunted back, so Komui being Komui brought out another Komlin robot. Allen and Lavi, who went to join them in some training, stood in shock. Alice stood there smirking.

"Bring it on, sister-complex." Alice taunted. She stood in front of the robot ready for battle, while Allen and Lavi cowered in the corner.

"She's crazy." Allen said his shaking obvious in his voice. Alice changed her hand into the claw. Her claw, unlike Allen's, had red fingers on it. She jumped at the robot and only managed to scratch it.

"Huh? That should have killed the damn thing. Why did it only scratch it? Damn it Komui!" She yelled going in for another shot. Her hand was now the blade. She kept on attacking like this for a while then realized she could get help. She stopped what she was doing and turned to Allen and Lavi, who were still cowering in the corner. "Shouldn't you two cowards be helping?" She asked an evil tone in her voice. Allen shook his head.

"I ain't going near that damned thing." Lavi said point at the 'damned thing'. Alice grabbed him by the claw form of her Innocence and threw him into battle. He just stood there looking up at the menacing contraption. "Oh shit." He was frozen with fear. It was Allen's turn now.

"Oh Brother." Alice sang he just turned to her and giggled.

"Yes Sister." He said, the fear in him apparent through his voice and his shaking body.

"Your turn." She said grabbing him and throwing him into the battle. She grabbed a cup of coffee of the table, took a set, and crossed her legs ready for the comedy to start. Allen and Lavi were running around the lab screaming, while Alice and Komui were laughing evilly. Lenalee walked in and stared at the insanity in her brother's lab.

"What's going on in here?" She asked the laughing, female twin. She laughed even more evilly and smirked.

"They wouldn't help. So I made them." She said. Lenalee was now convinced she was crazier than Allen. She activated her Innocence and kicked Komui right on top of his head.

"But, Lenalee." He whined.

"No Buts! Turn off Komlin and get to work!" She yelled at her brother kicking him again. He turned off Komlin and put him away.

"Lenalee. That was just getting fun." Alice said turned back to normal. Allen and Lavi waked up right behind Alice, pissed off looks in their eyes.

"Alice." They hissed to her. She froze and slowly turned around.

"Yes cowards" Alice said. Allen activated his Innocence and Lavi got his hammer. "Now, no hard feelings. It was all in good fun." Alice said putting up her hands alike they would protect her from the pain that was about to happen.

"Fun for you." Allen said. His Innocence glistening.

"Bye." Alice said quickly before zooming away. The pissed off boys ran after her. Reever waked into the lab at this time and stared at the trio running around.

"Ummm, Lenalee, Komui wants to see them in his office in a few minutes." Reever said.

"Alright, I'll tell them." Lenalee said. She yelled, "Guy Komui wants to see you in his office." The trio stopped running and looked over at her.

"Can I have a bodyguard to get there in one piece first?" Alice said. Lenalee laughed. This is going to get interesting here. Lenalee thought.

Komui;s Office

"Looks like you survived that, Alice." Komui said to the girl who was cowering behind Lenalee. Allen and Lavi still looked mad and were glaring at her.

"Almost. What did you want sister-complex." Alice said using her new nickname for him.

"You are going on your first mission with Allen and Lavi. You'll have to head off ASAP." Komui said.

"Plenty of time for revenge." Allen said to Lavi. They both had the same evil look. Alice just cowered more and Lenalee sweat dropped.

"You are to go to the town of Covealia and retrieve some Innocence found there. This town is known for it's legends. The most famous is the one of the beast. This beast can change it's shape into anything, even a living human. This Innocence seems to be very powerful. It can be a great asset to the Order. Your train leaves tomorrow, so get some sleep. You'll need it." Komui finishes.

The trio headed off to bed like tomorrow was just another day going by. Alice on the other hand was plagued by nightmares. She got up in the middle of the night, about midnight, and went to Allen's room. When the twins were children, Alice always had nightmares. Allen never knew what they were about, or why the plagued her mind almost every night, but he was always there for her. She would climb into his bed and they would just talk until they fell asleep. Alice knocked on Allen's door, clutching a blanket to her chest. She heard the door open and a sleepy Allen greeted her.

"Nightmares again." He said. She shook her head yes.

"They've gotten worse." Alice said hanging her head low. Allen lead her into his room and she sat on the bed.

"Do you remember anything?" Alice shook her head yes and stated to explain it.

"I was in a white room. The only thing that was in there was me and a blank canvas. I walk over to the canvas and a-a face was on it, like a mirror, but the girls hair is black and her eyes are blood red. It kept saying 'give into your inner yami'. I'm scared. I don't want to give in. I have to stay in control." Alice mumbled the last part. Allen didn't know what she meant by having to keep in control but didn't question it.

"Do you need to stay in here, like old times?" Allen asked her. She crawled under her blanket she brought and her climbed under his. They were silent for a while and Allen decided to speak. "What does it mean by give into your inner yami? What is a yami anyway?" Allen asked her.

"Yami is the Japanese word for darkness. It wants me to give into my inner darkness." Alice said. "I really need some sleep for tomorrow so goodnight Allen." Alice said closing her eyes. Allen sighed and fell asleep too.

Next Morning

Allen woke up to a bright light in his eyes and the smell of food. Wait? Food? Allen shot up and saw a giant try of food on the floor by the bed and Alice missing. She must have went to get ready. Allen thought. He ate the food and put on his uniform and went down to the underground tunnel to wait on Lavi and Alice. They were there in a few minutes along with their finder, Toma. They head off and catch the train. They head off to the private room they have and Alice is in love.

"We get our own private room on the train? Are you shitting me?" She says. Allen and Lavi just laugh.

"Yeah. Being an Exorcist does have its perks." Lavi says sitting down across from where Allen was sitting. Alice takes a seat right next to Allen and starts to look over the overview of the mission. She ends up falling asleep on Allen's shoulder.

"You guys used to be really close, huh?" Lavi asks.

"Yeah, but when General Nine came to where the city the circus was at, she discovered that Alice was an accommodater. Come to think of it, I have no idea what happened to that Innocence that reacted to Alice. She already had the Innocence in her left hand. I have no idea what happened to that Innocence." Allen says, now deep in thought.

"I have no idea, but just be happy she's here. She is much safer here than off on her own. The Noah are really persistent. They will come after her again." Lavi says.

"Yeah." Allen replied only halfway paying attention to him. He had so many questions for Alice, especially for the whole thing with the yami nightmare. He wanted to know why so many people were after her. Did she have something about her that made her a threat to the Noah or the yami, or did she possess something that could potentially destroy them and they wanted it gone before it was a threat?