Lady Hawke
By belletigerBt

Chapter 10- the memories of the black bird and the lone worlf

The train ride was very quiet to the exorcists. Lenalee and Kanda ( after he recovered) were shocked when they learned from Lavi that Allen had fall from the cliff and they couldn't find her body. Tyki was the most devastated from this before leaving the group. Thought he was the enemy, Lavi was worried about Tyki. Especially by his words.

"Somewhere….. somewhere where I can be able to be with my Allen on the other side."

Lavi closed his hand into a first. Could Tyki be planning to kill himself? His thoughts were interrupted as their flying golem rang. Looks like they will have another mission on their way back.

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Tyki was still walking like a zombie trough the woods. The image of Allen falling from the cliff still replaying into his mind. Tears were rolling down on his face; they were so close and once more fate had been cruel to them. Then, he felt a presence behind him.

"What do you want, Sheril?" Tyki asked without turning around.

"I heard what happened." Sheril whispered. "I am sorry, Tyki."

Tyki only feel into silent. Images of Allen were coming into his mind; memories of before their curse.

"Sheril, I wanna ask you a favor." Sheril blinked in surprise as Tyki turned to him, with tears in his face "Take care of Eve like she was your own daughter, when you get her back from Cross."

Sheril's eyes widen in surprise when Tyki said that. What does he mean with this? No, he couldn't. not his brother.

"Tyki….. don't tell me….." then, Sheril gritted his teeth in anger "What about Eve? Do you plan to leave her alone?"

"Eve, she will not miss us because she doesn't know either of us. And I can't raise her without Allen, even if Earl-sama were to remove my part of the curse."

Tyki removed an old photo from his pocket. It was a photo of Allen and himself ( in his white from) on the night of their wedding. He remembered how happy he and Allen were and how special their nuptial night was. He handed the photo to Sheril.

"Adeus, meu querido irmão." Tyki said smiling softly .(1)

Sheril's eyes widen as Tyki became a wolf when the dusk arrived. Tyki looked at Sheril one last time before he ran off.

"Tyki!"

Tyki ran as fast as he could, without looking back. Tyki can't live without Allen, so he would find a way to kill himself to be with his Allen on the other side.

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Allen moaned as she stared to open her eyes. Her sight was burry as she blinked a few times before her sight returned to normal. She noticed she was in an unknown room.

"W-where…"

Then, her eyes widen in horror when she remembered her fight with Jasdevi and when Lilith took over her body and almost killed the twins. She also remembered falling from the cliff. She wondered how she was alive.

"Are you awake?"

She turned her head to her left side and she saw a man in the doorway. He was a well muscled guy, around his early 30's, he had raven hair, dark ash skin and stigmata marks on his forehead. Allen's eye's widen in surprise when she saw the man before her; he was a Noah.

"w-who are you?"

"I am Tryde-Noah of Judgment. It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Allen Walker Mikk, wife of Tyki Mikk- who's also known as Joyd the Noah of Pleasure." Tryde said as he took Allen's bandaged hand and kissed it softly. Allen blushed as she looked at the Noah she never met before.

"Why?" she asked "why did you saved me? Except for Sheril, I thought everyone in the clan hated me for taking Tyki away from you."

Tryde took a chair and sat down beside of Allen's bed. He looked at Allen with serious eyes as he folded his arms.

"Like I said before, I am the Noah of Judgment. I don't hate. I don't have any other feelings. I just judge the facts. I saw the facts involving you and Joyd. You love him and risked your own happiness and soul to be beside him. You cared for his happiness." Tryde said to Allen, who was surprised to be hearing this from a Noah. Then, he continued. "I need to ask you something before I continue; why did you stop Lilith from killing Boundomu?"

Allen's eyes widen in surprise, then she pushed herself into a sitting passion.

"You know about Lilith?"

"I have been watching you since a year after you both were cursed and I was there when Bondomu attacked you and your group at the astronomy institute." Tryde said. "I know you're her host and you try everything to not allow her to posses you. But I admit I found myself surprised when you stopped Lilith from killing Bondomu because they are the ones who took your child away along with Earl-sama."

Allen lay down in the bed again as she sighted. She admitted she hated the twins for taking Eve away from her, right after her birth. But however, since Sheril always gave them updates about Eve's growing up, she also found out that Jasdero and Devit created a deep bound with her daughter. And she also found out from Sheril they were the ones who named her daughter and the origins of the name.

"As much as I hate them, I can't allow anyone to hurting Jasdero and Devit. My daughter adores them and in the same way they care about Eve. She would be sad if anyone take them away from her. And also I learned from Sheril that they named my daughter after their late mother."

Allen was surprised when she learned Jasdero and Devit named her daughter after their late mother. Sheril had told her that the twins had a wonderful mother named Eve. She truly loved the Noah twins and she did everything she could to rise and educate them, even when they were very poor back in New York. She also learned the twins had awaken as Noah when their mother died from an illness and they did whatever to survive until they were found by the Millennium Earl.

Tryde nodded to himself. He judges Allen a being one of the purest souls he had ever met and being worthy to be saved when the 3 days of darkness came. The Noah are allowed to choose people who are worthy of being saved when they destroy this era of mankind and star a new one. He now understood why Tyki had chosen her as his wife. Then, he took out a book from a drawer and he gave it to Allen. Allen blinked in surprise at the book in her hand as she again sat up in the bed.

"what's this?" Allen asked confused.

"Its Earl-sama's journal."

"Eh? His journal? What are you doing with it? I don't like Millennium Earl, but even he deserves some privacy!"

"What he is doing is unfair to you both." Allen blinked as Tryde continued. "And he's also doing this because of jealousy. He never did this because you never invited him or anyone in the family to your wedding. Especially when I hadn't even awaken yet when he cursed you both."

"What do you mean?" Allen slowly asked Tryde. She didn't understand what that Noah meant with this.

"Read the journal and you will understand the facts." Tryde answered.

Allen gulped. She wasn't sure if she should read this journal, but Tryde had encouraged her to read it. Especially when he mentioned his diary would make her understand the Earl's actions were more than "not being invited to especial occasions" like he says whenever he visits them. Then, she opened his journal and she saw the date of the first page. The date showed it was almost 40 years ago.

"Today was a very special day. I went to a circus to have some fun. I felt like being a child again and since it has been years that I had to go to one. Living for more than 7000 years, even with all your family reunited, you can still feel a bit of solitude. But I never expected I would find at the circus a person outside of the family who could fill what I was missing in my heart. Her name was ….."Then, Allen's eyes widened in surprise when she read the name "…. Neah Lilith Walker…."

*Flashback- 40 years ago*

"Lilith! Get down there! You will fall!" a young Mana Walker yelled to his sister, Lilith.

Lilith was around 15 years old, she had long raven hair tied in a long braid, blue eyes and her skin was pale and yet beautiful. She was climbing on a tree, with her right hand holding a baby chick.

"Don't worry, Mana. I am an acrobat, did you forget?" Lilith asked from a high twig.

She stretched out her arm and she placed the baby chick back in its nest, along with its siblings. The girl smiled as she sighed in relief. Then, the twig she was on cracked and she was falling.

"Lilith!"

Then, she fall into something soft…..or rather into someone. When she looked down, she saw she had falling down on top of a man with aristocrat clothes. She blushed in embarrassed as she helped the man to be in his feet.

"I am so sorry!" she apologized, still feeling embarrassed. "Are you alright, sir?"

"Yes, I am." said the man removing the little bit of the dirt from his cloths. Then, he looked at Lilith with a big smile. "For a moment I thought an angel had fall into me."

Lilith and Mana's eyes widen in surprise. The Walker girl's blush was even redder as she narrowed her eyes, folding her arms.

"If your trying to charm me, you should know you failed."

"Really? I thought it worked." He grinned "My name is Adam Millennium, can I know the name of the angel who fall on me?"

"Stop saying that. You're making me sound like a fallen angel. Anyway, my name is Neah Lilith Walker, but you can call me Lilith. And this is Mana Walker, my brother."

Then Adam took Lilith's left hand and he kissed softly, as Lilith blushed even more.

"Nice to meet you, Lady Walker"

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Lilith was surprised when she learned Adam was in the fact a duke. She was feeling a little embarrassed for talking so casual with an aristocrat, but Adam didn't mind at all. He enjoyed the Walker girl's company. He even invited her to one of his ball, to play the piano ( he found out beside being an acrobat, Lilith was also an excellent musician). Each day their friendship increased, but things started to change when Lilith fell very ill.

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Mana was sitting next to his sister's bed and dunked a towel into a bowl full of water, wringing it to get rid of the excess water and folded it before placing it on Lilith's forehead. Lilith was having difficulty breathing as her fever was still high. Mana feared for the worst. He doesn't want to lose his only living relative. Then Adam entered their tent.

"How's she doing?" he asked worried. Adam had returned from his business as soon as he had heard Lilith had fallen very ill.

"Not good." Mana answered to the duke. "Her fever has worsened this morning. The doctor said I need to be prepared for the worst."

Adam gritted his teeth as he closed his hand into a fist. After 7000 years, he finally found someone who filled the solitude in his heart. He will not lose his beloved one.

"Adam is that you?" Lilith asked as she opened her eyes. Her voice was horse.

"I will leave you both alone." Mana said, leaving the tent. He knew how much they like each other, even being in different worlds.

Adam holds his maiden's feverish hand, as he looked at her with soft eyes.

"How are you feeling?"

"Like I am at the doors of death."

"Don't said that." Adam said to her "You will live and get better. In a blink of eye, you will see yourself performing again."

Lilith couldn't help but smile at him.

"I have tuberculosis, Adam." she whispered. "My illness has no cure. I lost my other friends from the circus from the same illness. I already have accepted my fate. But I will die happy because you and Mana have given me good memories. I will die in peace."

Then, she put her hand over her mouth as she started to cough. She coughed a few times before she stopped. Uncovering her mouth, she saw there was blood on her hand. Adam only looked at her with sadness in his eyes. He will not lose her!

"As I said before Lilith, you will live." Said Adam taking from his sleeve a syringe, filled with a black liquid. Lilith looked at him confused as she saw the syringe. The duke only hoped it would work.

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*back to the present time*

Allen couldn't believe what she was reading. The Millennium Earl had used his own blood on Lilith to save her life. Because of Earl's blood in Lilith, the genes of Noah that were still dormant had waken up within her, making her a 14th, surprising everyone in the family, including the Millennium Earl himself. He hadn't expected this phenomenon could happen to her.

"I never expected my blood would awaken her Noah genes within her." Allen said, still reading Millennium Earl's journal "I was surprise and happy at the same time. I never thought my musician maiden would be so beautiful as a Noah and being able to control the arc like Road and myself. Sometimes I wonder if it was because of my genes in her, or if it's her natural gift. But even though we like each other and the other members of the family had welcomed her with open arms, she still felt like an outcast, since there was only suppose to be 13 members. I was furious when she told me she would rather return to live with her family at the circus as a human than living with us. I had to do something to make her be by my side for good. I sent Bondomu to kill everyone in the circus. Lilith was furious and she killed Bondomu to save her brother Mana. She stared to hunt down and kill every Noah member on her way to sealed the arc in Japan before coming to confront me. I had to interfere when she tried to kill Road while they were in the arc. She cursed my existence; before she died she promised she would return to finish what she stared. Even with the death threat, I admit I am eager to see her return."

It was the last thing written in the journal. Allen now understood more about Lilith and Earl's relationship. They really liked each other but because of Lilith not wanting to loose her humanity and Millenium Earl not wanting looser to humans, they stared a bloody war with each other and even with Lilith going so far as killing each member of the Noah clan, except for Road and Millennium Earl himself. She closed his journal. Her face wasn't showing any emotion.

"Do you understand now, Lady Allen?" Tryde asked. " He cursed you both because of jealousy. He saw your relationship with Tyki in the same way he wished he had with Lilith. And since he couldn't have that with her, he thought no one should get the happiness he had lost."

Allen looked at the glass in the window, to see Lilith's reflection. Lilith's shadow didn't show that wicked smile. It showed sadness and grief. No wonder Lilith wants Earl's head.

"I see," She whispered. " Does Tyki know I am alive?"

Tryde shook his head.

"No, he doesn't. Not even Earl-sama knows. Only myself and another member know you're alive. Right now, Joyd is looking for a way to kill himself."

"WHAT?" Allen shouted in horror as she tried to get up, only being stopped by Tryde. " W-Why would he do that?"

"He said he can't live without you, that's why he plans to kill himself. But this will work in our favor." Tryde said as Allen looked at him confused.

"How can Tyki trying to kill himself work in our favor? Are you insane?"

"In four days the solar eclipse will happen, you both will be in the human form at same time then, but for the curse to be broken for good, you both need to be in the presence of Earl-sama" Tryde said, explaining the facts. " Even with Tyki feeling miserable, Millennium Earl-sama will not allow Tyki to get himself killed. Right now, my ally is with Tyki, to tell him a perfect place where he can kill himself without anyone interfering except for Earl-sama."

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Meanwhile, Tyki was still walking in the woods in his wolf form. Still in grief for his loss. Then he stopped when he saw a figure before him. It was a large Noah who had sunglasses in his face, even when it was night. TYki narrowed his eyes at his 'relative'.

"Mercym…"

To be continued.

One more chapter being over. Be prepare because theres only two chapters left before the story being over.

[1]"Adeus, meu querido irmão": goodbye , my dear brother.

Now lets see the little preview for the next chapter.

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"Looks like you win again." Tyki said smirking "No wonder your name is Victorio."

"You seem you're not afraid to die, follow swordsman." Victorio commented to the noah.

"Not really. Just be over with it and give me an honored death."

"As your wish." Victorio said as he raised his sword to give the noah the final blow.

Sandra hugged Eve to make sure she doesn't see Victorio killing the man. She doesn't want the child's innocent eyes being tainted by the death. Eve somehow knew was about to happen as the embrace got tighter. Tyki looked the sky for one last time; he could see the sun was almost completely covered by the moon. A day without night, a night without day. He remembered the words from the tale of Aquila. But unlike the lovers Isabeau and Navarre, they were not that lucky.

"I am sorry Eve. And Allen, I will be with you soon in the other side." Thought Tyki as he closed his eyes as he was expected the final blow.

CLANG!

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See ya in the next chapter!