Movie suggestion – An American Carol
You don't have to be an American to love it xD in fact... I think almost anyone will get a kick out of it! Happy 4th!! (Really... it cheered me up after the DGM anime's 'ending'.)
Oh... and here's something that might make people happy... a friend on dA siad that he/she knew someone from Japan who said that the anime was just on haitus and waiting for more chapters to come out, so when they start again, it'll be like a sequel to our D.Gray-Man! ...what'll they call it? 'The Fourteenth Man' ? Okay, bad joke, I know, but really... doesn't that soothe the anguish?
It's four pages, it's been a bit, and it was for some reason hard to write T.T I love Lavi and Lenalee to death, but... they're hard to write for some strange reason 0.o ...maybe I'm not as in synch with them as I am Allen and Road?
Oh, yeah.. sorry, not much Allen and Road in here. There was too much to be done with Lavi and Lenalee, and I'm sorry, I think Miranda's out of character... and she doesn't have a very big part in here, I'm afraid... sorry, Miranda fans!
...This is already longer than what I thought it would be... I mean, I thought it was going to be like... four chapters in total, and here we are, chapter four, not even halfway done! 0.o;
I'm still looking for suggestions for what to do between them. Suggestions?
And sorry, Allen cant develop 'his own' personality. Trust me, I have a reason, but it's a sad reason, and a spoiler, so... okay, yeah, just leave it as he cant have his old personality back.
Disclaimer: The first person who asks me if I've finally run out of creative disclaimers, I sic an Akuma on, got it?
Lavi and Lenalee felt small tremors go through their bodies as they entered the barrier, but not much of anything more. It was not going to be a good mission, they had decided that on the train as they had discussed the horrible feelings they both were harboring. It lasted through the ride and now into the city. A city they most likely would not be able to leave.
"I'll check the wall, you go scout the town," Lavi whispered, even though there was really no need to whisper. Lenalee nodded in reply. They spared one last glance out at where they had entered. There was no finder there, only the darkness of the sunset the town had experienced over a month ago. The air was warmer and less heavy. It really was a complete other time.
They had arrived later than they would have liked, do to technical difficulties with the train. It was late now, the time when a typical ten or twelve hour day would be ending. People going home exhausted from work. Lavi swallowed as he looked at the moon, which had apparently been stuck at full for a month. It was a scary idea, a town be suspended in time. He wondered vaguely how long they would be trapped in it.
Lenalee gave him a sidelong look before taking the first few steps toward the town, whispering a soft 'see you later,' to him. They had decided before hand that if they separated for one reason or another, they would meet at the Belini Bar, where the whole mission had originated from. Ten barrels of wine delivered by the tenth... it was as if 'ten' was the new unlucky number. Shaking the thought out of his head, Lavi grinned good-naturedly and stalked off to find a good spot in the wall to trash.
The wall was apparently stones laid one on the other, by hand and not the new machines that people had been recently inventing. The town had been around a while, apparently. It was made it's color by the whitewash on it, which smeared onto Lavi's hand as he rubbed it. Whistling to himself as he pulled out his hammer and twirled it loosely between his fingers.
Finding a spot he didn't like too well, he flicked the hammer up. As though by planned-out cliché, it spun in the moonlight, which was growing more noticeable ever moment as the sun faded more. He caught it again, now more than ten times the original size. "Hosta lavesta, wally-baby!" He yelled as he swung the hammer, still growing ever larger, at, into and through the poor wall.
He paused after the shrapnel had finished flying around him and stared at the hole he had made. "Okay, maybe not 'hosta lavesta'... um, adieu? I think that's permanent, anyway..." He said, muttering to himself, not really noticing he had switched from Spanish to French. He shrugged it off and tried to walk out the hole he made...
...and blinked stupidly when he realized he had just walked into the town again, through the whole he had just made. It took him a moment to register what happened. He tried to walk through it again, only to find the same result. It almost made his head hurt, trying to make sense of him being flipped without his knowledge, or even a sensation to tell him what was happening.
He sighed and whistled again, trying to lift his spirits when he heard a small thump and some leaves rustle in a nearby tree. He turned sharply on his heel and pointed his hammer in that direction, waiting something to spring out of the tree and attack him. Several minutes passed with him like that, standing there, posed for instant battle. But there was no more noise, not another thump, not a snap of a twig or rustle of leaves, nor any flapping of wings of birds, startled out of their nests.
Slowly, Lavi relaxed his stance, thinking maybe a squirrel had fallen, or something similar. A baby bat who hadn't spread it's wings fast enough. He swallowed his spit and kept walking down the wall, away from the hole and the tree. He didn't whistle this time, though. There was one major problem with being a Bookman besides the obvious 'no attachments' policy. You learned superstitions from everywhere.
Whistling invites demons.
Allen was silent as he prid himself from the tree branch that had chosen an inconvenient time to fall on him and slam his head against the trunk.
000
Lenalee walked almost silently through the town. Most people were on their way or already home, except for those who lived a ways away and didn't have the money or will for a carriage. The walkways were cobblestone and clicked against her heels. She scanned the street constantly, not only worrying about Akumas, but also nervous about some of the more human predators.
She swallowed and continued down main street. Figuring it was finally late enough, she took a few more steps forward as her boots activated and lifted her gently into the air, as though she were walking on glass steps, invisible to the eyes. She soon soared over the town, the sun still setting slowly.
She scanned the streets from the sky, looking for any sort of hint that might indicate something odd. Anything that might mean that they had found a hint to the rewinding city. She was on her second circle of one block when she heard the scream.
"Where is the innocence?"
"No, Please!"
"Tell me where it is!"
She swooped around, flying hard and fast against the wind which had carried the voices. Directly above the end of an alleyway, she straightened her legs and flew down, crushing the Akuma who was pinning a lady to the alley's end. The lady shrieked hysterically as the smoke began to thin out and eventually completely clear.
"Are you alright, miss?" She asked, bending over to the level the poor woman was at, as she had collapsed on the ground and gone into shock. She looked old because of the wrinkles and creases on her face from fear, and her bun pulled high on her head.
"What— oh— oh— please don't hurt me!" The woman shrieked, hovering her head and closing her eyes, as though waiting for something to happen to her. Lenalee blinked in confusion, then realized that not many people knew about the Order. It was sort of sad, she thought, that she had forgotten, even though she had grown up there.
"I'm Lenalee, ma'am, and I'm not going to hurt you," She said kindly, "I'm a member of the Black Order, that was an Akuma, I destroy them, you arent in any danger anymore," She said, hoping that would be all the explaining she would have to do. Questioning time, now. "Why was that attacking you?" She asked. The woman slowly took her hands away from her head and looked up at Lenalee's face, fear written over her pale face.
"I-I don't know!" She stuttered helplessly. "P-please! Please save me!" At that moment, she lept up and latched around Lenalee's waist, crying on her uniform. "Has the day ended? Did it go back to normal! PLEASE SAVE ME!"
Lenalee blinked. "You noticed the day isn't changing?" She asked. The woman nodded her head furiously.
"I'm the only one! No one else knows it, no one notices anything!" She wailed. "Please save me! I cant keep going on like this, please please, please!"
Lenalee swallowed and slowly tried to pry the woman off her. Helping her sit down in the alley, she pulled out her golem. It flew around her head a few times, stretching it's winds, tired from being in her cloak for so long. It finally paused in front of her face a minute or so later, all the while, the women stared at it as though she thought it was about to grow fangs and bite her head off.
"Lavi, I think we've found someone."
000
Road jumped on Allen the moment he returned from spying on the redheaded exorcist. He was planning on sounded realistic by saying something like 'you're crushing me', but Road looked so happy he decided to just let her keep going. Thankfully, she decided to let go before her grip really did bend his inner structure.
"Well?" She asked, finally pulling bak and allowing his false internal organs to work again. He smiled softly.
"Nothing of any interest, Road, I'm sorry," He said glumly. Road pouted before her face suddenly burst back into a smile.
"Ah well, I can make this fun anyway!" She cried loudly, flinging her arms around him again. "Alleeen!" she continued. "Lemme play, alright?" Allen smiled as she opened her door beneath them, letting him fall though first and cushion her fall.
000
It was morning again. The transition of nighttime to early morning had been slightly horrifying for Lavi and Lenalee. It would have scared anyone who witnessed time flying by as though it were a real, physical, touchable thing. Miranda had collapsed and vanished in front of them when it had happened, finding them again in the Belini bar, where Lavi and Lenalee had hoped her to show up at. Of course, there would have been a problem if Miranda didn't drink, but she had confessed the previous night that she was a heavy drinker, not so much because she was addicted, but more of her being in constant depression.
They moved not-so-steadily through each topic, each question bringing more and more dramatic hysterics from Miranda. Being trapped in a rewinding town and being the only one to notice it while already having a horrible life must have been quite traumatizing.
It took them a good long while to start getting worthwhile information. Miranda did eventually calm down and answer questions well. The trick was to ask them in a way that wasn't so serious. Casual questions, or questions asked in a casual enough way that they didn't seem serious.
It was hard, and it required a lot of focus, so much that even Lavi had to ignore what was happening around them while asking. That was a bad thing.
That was a very bad thing.
They only realized that when Miranda screamed and the faint click of a gun was heard behind them.
Lavi spun around, grabbing his hammer and growing it instantly to a size so large it broke the table. Lenalee grabbed Miranda, dragging the poor woman into the air and spinning into a fast kick, hitting one of the Akuma in the forehead, knocking it backwards and back into the others. Miranda shrieked and wiggled in her grasp, but she wasn't released and she didn't fall.
"Lenalee, go somewhere safe," Lavi yelled from the floor below her, "I'll handle the Akumas!" Lenalee paused in mid air.
"You cant get them all—" She cried back, falling into a back flip to avoid one smaller Akuma's attack, which apparently caused wind projectiles. Miranda shrieked again, not wiggling anymore, but holding onto Lenalee for her life.
"Yeah I can," Lavi called back, and as though to prove himself, he struck his hammer into the large Akuma that had been kicked by Lenalee moments before. It crushed it quickly. "Hurry up—" He called, pulled his extended hammer back close to himself quickly enough to block an attack from the second large Akuma, which spewed blue ice everywhere.
Lenalee bit her tongue and turned to go through a smashed window. Before taking off, she yelled, "If you don't come back, I'll kill you!"
Lavi chuckled at the joke, spinning his hammer around to knock into the Akuma again. It didn't destroy it this time, but it definitely caused a bit of damage. He head the loud swoosh of wind and knew Lenalee had left with Miranda. He chuckled quietly, facing towards the Akuma.
Now the only problem was making sure his golem was intact to find her later.
He almost smacked his face, but that would have made him even stupider as he realized their one mistake.
He was currently destroying their regroup spot.