Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall. Miria wondered how many times she would fall and how many times she would be willing to get up afterwards, it was like walking a path full of glass and pitfalls. When humans walked such a path, what was it that made them keep going? That was always the ultimate question, and is it ultimately all the same answer or does it differ from person to person? Her answer was most likely ahead of her as she stood on the deck of a small boat that was taking her to the Black Order, sitting next to her was Night. He was now fully healed from the wound he had received a couple days ago from one of the blood bullets when they encountered a level one for the first time. Because of this encounter she was now an exorcist and Night was with her as an anti-akuma beast.
"So that's it, I heard this building is new because the last one was damaged pretty bad from an akuma attack. I believe it was a level 4, I wonder if we will encounter akuma that strong during our life here" Miria whispered. "Also Uncle is here so be sure to behave, alright?"
Night made a light woof sound.
She smiled lightly then sighed as they came closer and closer to their destination. "I wonder if I look older then I should" she muttered.
Miria was wearing business woman type of clothes, and her hair was up in a high ponytail with her bangs clipped back with a golden hairpin. She finally shrugged and sat down with her legs to her chest and her arms hugging them.
When her father had saw her, he was rather stunned even more so when she told him the whole story of what had transpired, the shock turned to a congratulations because now she was a saint for the Black Order who will fight akuma till the day she dies from old age or from being killed on the battle field. In truth she really didn't know what to think. Sure she was happy that her father was happy, and now she was away from home and can hopefully experience new things with her friend by her side. But it was still inescapable destiny and now her friend Night was within it as well, however no matter how depressing it seemed she wanted to look on the bright side of things.
So she got up and dusted herself off, "on the up side I was always well educated so I wont have to do much study, I also cant wait to see what everything looks like, its always better to see with your own eyes then look at a picture".
Night wagged his tail.
Soon they were docked, Miria grabbed her things and walked off the boat along with Night. The Finder then led the way.
Once inside she had to say the place looked very nice, it made her curious as to what the old building looked like but she shoved away her curiosity and kept on following the Finder as he led her to Komui's office. She knew that her Uncle Malcolm C. Lvellie was there as well most likely however he would be leaving soon for other matters, he just stayed long enough to get things done here and say hello to her. She's met him a couple of times through her childhood, he baked her a few things and she always gladly tried new recipes of his. Baking. Strange hobby for someone who seems to stern.
"Right this way" the Finder said as he pointed out a door, she walked over to the door. For a minute she looked to Night and nodded. "Alright here goes nothing" she muttered then she opened the door and entered.
When she came in she saw two men, one was a Chinese guy with dark hair wearing light clothing with a hat. The other man was someone familiar with his rather strict military look and pencil mustache, he smiled lightly, "well hello Miria its been a while" he said.
She nodded, "yes it has Mr. Lvellie sir" she said with a bow of her head. He was family but she has always been told even though you are related call your relatives by respective name while in front of others who are of good rank, or in this case who are in the Black Order. "Its fine to call me Uncle" he told her. He then got up from where he sat, "anyway Komui this is a relative of mine both her and her pet beside her can use innocence so from here on out she is an exorcist and the dog is an anti-akuma beast" he told Komui Lee. Miria looked to Komui and gave a polite bow, "hello my name is Miria Lvellie and this is Night" she said introducing herself and her friend. Like promised Night was behaving well, not making a single sound.
Komui smiled kindly, "its nice to meet you Miria Lvellie, and its nice to meet Night as well". He then held out his hand and Miria shook it, "and welcome to the Black Order".
"Thanks" Miria said with a nod, so far this Komui guy seemed nice.
Malcolm Lvellie gave a nod as well, "right now your weapon is in the process of being made, afterwards your synchronization rate will be checked along with Night" he told her. She nodded, "yes" after that was cleared the air seemed to get a bit more tense.
"Now I also need to inform you of a few things that have transpired here, now only the exorcists, Central, and the Order staff know this information so it is forbidden to speak a word of it" he said. Miria nodded in response and waited for what he was about to say, from the looks of it, Komui didn't like any of it. He had a pained expression on his face that told her so.
"There's is an exorcist by the name Allen Walker. Before the destruction of the first European Branch, it was found that he was able to control something called Noah's Ark, which was used by the Noah up until it couldn't move anymore because a Noah called the 14th defection from them, and trapped it at Edo. Allen Walker was able to use it and thus it became ours, however this was quite suspicious and Cross wouldn't answer any questions so I had my assistant Howard Link keep surveillance over him. After the attack of the level 4 akuma, Marion Cross finally answered my questions. That's when we learned that there's evidence that Allen Walker might be the host for the 14th's memories, so the 14th can take over his mind at any moment. Although since the Order needs him as the Player and since we cant afford to lose exorcists Central has decided to keep him, but if there are any signs that he is starting to become a Noah it needs to be reported. But if it looks like he might give in then he is to be killed before he becomes a threat to us, right now Link is still keeping surveillance but he is to be watched by everyone. Also within that time frame General Cross has been killed, but we are saying he is missing at the moment until proven otherwise" he explained.
Once the explanation was done Miria hid her surprise and mixed feelings of killing someone who was an exorcist, and a fellow human no less but she had to follow orders especially ones that came from someone of her family. So she nodded, "yes Uncle".
"Good, and you know of the Noah Clan correct?" he asked.
"Yes I was given some files to read so I was caught up on all information including the bits and pieces of info gathered from the level 4 attack" she replied.
"Good, well I have some things to do so I will be heading off. I would offer you something I baked but unfortunately I didn't have a chance to bake anything, perhaps another time" he said pleasantly, whether it was fake or real was always a mystery. Even to her.
"I look forward to it" she said to him with a small smile.
He then looked to Komui, "I will be back in a few days".
Komui nodded, "right".
Then her uncle left the room, leaving her and Night alone with Komui.
She looked to him, "so where's my room?" she asked.
"Oh I'm sorry I will give you a quick tour then" he said with a cheerful smile, as he led the way out of his office. She followed silently but as she did she decided to speak, she knew her Uncle was a rather intimidating person and for those who are to be like sacrifices he could be a heartless person who thought of ways to strengthen the Order rather then look for a third choice, so that way there didn't have to be sacrifice.
"Sorry if my Uncle's words bother you" she said.
Komui looked to her, he seemed to be slightly surprised at what she said but then he smiled, "its alright nothing any of us cant handle" he said. "Anyway I will show you where you room will be!" he said becoming very cheerful.
She followed him and soon she saw where her room would be, "thanks you, hey Night take my things into the room and catch up a little later alright?" Night barked and took her things using his jaws and easily used his paws to open the door and walk in making Komui look with amazement. "Like Lau Shimin, I will definitely have you be Cloud's pupil, since she has an anti-akuma beast as well" he said with a smile.
"That's sounds good to me" she said as she followed him.
The more she saw of the Order the more she thought she could be comfortable in this place, although she was now starting to wonder what the people were like. So far she met one of the Finders, Komui and saw a few other Finders and scientists as well, but she didn't talk to them.
Soon she saw the training area. It was a very neat looking place, very spacious.
She also saw that a few of the Finders were in battle practice as well, most likely to keep their muscles going so they were ready when it was time to help the exorcists fight the akuma, and also stop a few akuma using barriers until an exorcist came to the rescue. Miria wanted to say that being a Finder was most likely one of the more dangerous jobs since they really didn't have anything to defend themselves with, other then barriers which would be no problem for a level three to get through. Night would get a kick out of this place, she thought.
As she looked on she saw one guy who looked to be twenty who had short dark hair in a ponytail and a pair of bracelets on his left wrist. Another one was a rather tall guy who had black and white hair, all in all vampire like, and then there was a person who was a bit out of place. But she was talking to a few people about something, "well lets go to the cafeteria you must be hungry!" Komui said as he ushered her away from the training area. He started doing this when he saw the woman, perhaps she was tracking him down about something. However Miria wasn't given a chance to think further about this as she was led to the cafeteria.
When they got there Komui went into talking to some guy who looked to be of east Indian decent, but soon the guy noticed her. "Oh what a little cutey! And who are you?" he asked with a smile.
Miria bowed a little, "my name is Miria Lvellie and I'm a new exorcist" she said introducing herself.
"Oh she's so polite, its nice to meet you Miria my name is Jerry and I'm the head cook here! Just name anything you like and I will make it for you" he told her cheerfully.
"Oh really? Well I'm not hungry right now but I will have something soon for dinner" she said.
"Alright then!" he said cheerfully. "Oh and by the way over there, is a few of the other exorcists" he told her as he pointed out a table.
Komui nodded, "yes you should introduce yourself to them" he said cheerfully.
"Um…okay" she said hesitantly as she walked over to the table.
Now that I think about it, I've never really hung out with people that are around my age, she thought. It was true she always hung out with Night or she was with adults, when it came to doing things like hang out or talk about something that didn't involve education or what will you do when you enter the world of adults, she was clueless. She wasn't some snooty rich girl or anything she was just lost when it came to doing things a normal girl would do, Miria found it useless to go shopping with friends, seriously was shopping really all that exciting when you were with someone?
When she approached the table she nodded a greeting, "hello".
Before she could say anything else she flinched a little when she heard someone say 'strike!' suddenly, it came from a guy with flaming orange hair and wearing an eye patch for some odd reason. Miria blinked and then cleared her throat, "anyway I'm Miria and I'm a new exorcist".
"Its nice to meet you Miria my name is Lenalee Lee" a girl with dark hair said with a smile.
"My name is Lavi, and this old panda over here is Bookman" the guy with the flaming orange hair said. The old guy he pointed out as Bookman swiftly hit him over the head when he was called 'Old Panda', although she could clearly see how he earned that nickname from the eye makeup he was wearing.
Then a guy with odd white hair smiled, "my name is Allen Walker". Then the guy with blonde hair looked to her, "I'm Howard Link".
"Its nice to meet you all" Miria said with a slight bow of her head.
Didn't expect to meet Allen so soon, he really is unique looking. She thought. However she also felt a sort of guilt for being given such an order like kill, Allen seemed like a good kid, one of those types of people who was dragged into something unfair and was swept away before he could defend himself or learn more about this situation. I don't know maybe its like me.
I think it was a little jumpy in my opinion, oh well. And yes for those of you who thought Lavi's hair was red it has been confirmed by the character books that its actually orange. And seriously, baking! can you imagine a guy who looks like hitler with a pink frilly apron making a strawberry shortcake?
Anyway hope you enjoy this chapter and I should have my next chapter out next week.
