OKAY! 1 Thing I really wanna get out of the way: This is NOT GONNA BE ONE OF THOSE "OMG! MY OC HAS THE HEART! TAKE THAT KATSURA!" fics.... So I am changing both the title and the prophecy from the earlier chapter. The new title is Melody of Madness as you can probably tell and if you want to check out the prophecy, go back and look.
Warning: A little OOCness..... sorry...... Mostly Allen's POV. A few little snippets of the others.
Arisa was watching the news a little later, after she ended her phone call with Hikomi and was totally blown away by what she was seeing. The field, very near her house, was covered in machine parts. Had their been a plane crash or something?! A terrified reporter was exclaiming that no one had managed to see what happened and it had been called in by an anonymous source on their way to work from the neighborhood. What the heck was happening?! There was something not right going on in this town....
Allen, Lavi and Lenalee would be heading back to the order to deliver their report that day by train. They had already reported to Komui that the strange happenings were untraceable. They had at first planned on bringing the possible exorcist girl with them but on orders from Leverrier, they were to come straight back and he would send people from central to observe her. Lenalee especially was worried from her past experiences and Lavi and Allen were nervous. Why wait? Why on Earth would Leverrier want to prolong bringing in a possible ally?
"Ne, Allen. What do you think is going on?" Lavi asked.
"What do you mean? " Allen looked at Lavi worriedly.
"I mean, we have an unexplained phenomena that's haunting the news, at least 1 possible exorcist who may or may not be skilled with her innocence, or maybe even 2 from that field incident, and they're calling is back to headquarters? Some thing's not right...."
"I suppose you're right. I'm betting Leverrier just doesn't trust me near the new exorcists," Allen said bitterly, showing the first glints of annoyance in a long while, "and we did go out with out Link.... Plus, we know there has to be an exorcist of some sort but we're not really sure who it is..... The one who exorcised the ones in that field could have also saved that girl from the level 2 and gotten away before I saw....." Allen was unusually downcast.
"Allen? Is something bothering you?" Lenalee asked as she came in the compartment door with drinks.
"Not really." It was a very unconvincing lie.
"Allen....." Lenalee said in a warning tone.
"I've just been having weird dreams lately. That's all." He got up and mumbled something about stretching his legs.
"What's up with...." Lenalee stopped as she saw the worry in Lavi's eyes. It wasn't normal friendly worry though. It was more fearful......
Arisa was starving so she got up to heat up some leftover spaghetti she had made a few nights ago. As she waited she reached up to itch her nose but stopped halfway there. There was a weird scratch she didn't remember getting on her arm. She looked at it carefully and it was indeed a pretty deep scratch. She poked at it and it hurt. When had she gotten this?! She left her dinner to heat up and went into the small bathroom to wash and treat the little wound. Had she scratched it on a bed post or something? Maybe been sleep walking? It had been a few days and her leg was feeling better. She would be able to go back to school in a few days. Since it was Friday, her first day back would most likely be Monday. She was sure getting injured a lot lately.
The three exorcists finally arrived back at the new headquarters in London after a tense and silent trip. Lenalee had resigned herself into taking a nap, Lavi had been deep in thought and had kept that worried glance and Allen had shown up with a suspicious amount of cash on his person a few minutes before they arrived, most likely from beating some poor souls at poker.
They all did their best to shake of the mood and walked in with cheerful enough expressions. A few of the wandering by finders waved or spoke a greeting but most just walked by. The mood in the order was tense to, it seemed. They walked through the corridors towards Komui's office and were greeted by Reever and several crows. So that was the reason for the mood..... Lenalee tensed a little bit but they all continued into the office full of papers Komui should have seriously filled out by now.
Allen knew that Leverrier was most likely inside along with Komui and that was why the whole of the order was tense or falsely cheerful. Everyone hated Leverrier and his men from central but they had to put up with them one way or another.....
Lavi paused for a second then pushed open the door. Komui and Leverrier seemed to be arguing about something but as soon as the door creaked open, both heads snapped to attention.
"Welcome back, Lenalee, Lavi, Allen." Komui said with a somewhat warm smile in his face. Normally he would have just thrown himself at his sister but with Leverrier there, any breech in protocol could cost you your job. Anyone with common sense knew that Leverrier would simply love to replace Komui with one his central puppets.
"Yes. Welcome indeed." The cold eyed inspector said casting a glance over Lavi and Lenalee but lingering on Allen with a clear look of distatse. "I look forward to reading over your report.... Perhaps you'll give me a prelude now?" With that, he sat down in a recently added chair and continued to glare with cold eyes. Komui cleared his throat and Lavi decided to start the report.
"While there is definitely something strange going on in that town it has been deemed untraceable. We have one suspected High school student exorcist and a for sure second fully trained exorcist who caused the massacre in that field that's all over the news. It may not seem like much but that's pretty much the basis of the written report." Lavi sat back down.
Leverrier looked unhappy. "Are you sure that's absolutely all you found or saw?" His suspicious eyes lingered on Allen who met his gaze evenly.
"Yes sir, at least one exorcist and an untraceable phenomena." Allen's voice was a monotone. He felt Lenalee shivering next to him on the couch in Komui's office and he knew all three of them just wanted out of here. Leverrier gave a sharp nod and they all got up to leave.
"You may go," He said in an annoyed voice, "Except you, Walker." Allen stopped in his tracks and turned slowly towards the inspector. The inspector's voice had been grudging and angry. Komui hid a smirk.
"Yes sir, what is it I'm remaining behind for?" Allen asked, his voice more polite than he was feeling at the moment. He was scared, annoyed and angry all at the same time.
"The Grand Generals wish to have a word with you." The inspector was almost snarling. Allen was more than scared now. The Grand generals?!
Allen slowly followed Komui and Leverrier towards the elevator that would transport them down to Hevlaska, and the Grand Generals', chambers. Since the layout was different than the old headquarters, the elevator was no longer a floating green triangle but rather a normal elevator.
The three stepped onto the walkway towards the large drop off standing before the cloaked generals above them and Hevlaska's strange form.
"Allen Walker." A pause as they all intoned together.
"Point Breaker, accommodator of Crowned Clown." another pause.
"Disciple of the late Cross Marian." They sure liked leaving breaks between phrases....
"Leaving us only three of five generals, the most powerful of all disciples of god."
"We ask not of you to become a general, but since the others are out searching for disciples in this holy war, you shall take on the role of training new exorcists."
Allen paled. Whaaaaaaat?!
"Will you accept this task, Allen Walker?" Even though he was a suspected heretic they were giving him this duty?! No wonder Leverrier had seemed so annoyed!
"I-I accept." He wondered if he even COULD teach other exorcists to use their innocence.
The Grand generals all nodded in unison and the lights upon them blinked out. Allen took it as a sign to leave.
"Walker." Leverrier said in his clipped tone as Allen lagged behind on the way down the plank. He knew this job wasn't really much, considering new exorcists were few and far between but he was still amazed and delighted that the order trusted him enough still to put this job in his hands. Maybe it was just central who thought him guilty of heresy? He felt a new surge of energy and hope course through him. He still had friends in the order. He was still trusted and no silly dreams were going to change that! He was an exorcist and he always would be! He exited the elevator, determined to get away from Leverrier, and dashed off towards the cafeteria in hopes of finding some friendly faces and possible apologizing to Lavi and Lenalee for his rudeness on the train. He wondered why he had been in such a mood.... It hadn't really been the dreams, though they were starting to worry him. Something had just made him ticked off...... He decided to ponder it over once he had food and set off to the cafeteria. It was late so he'd probably go back to his room after the meal. He went over to Jerry, ordering his cart load of food and wheeled it over to the table his friends were occupying. He was glad to see that they were smiling at him and didn't appear mad. He shook off the lingering feelings of strangeness and pushed the cart of food over.
Leverrier watched Walker and his friends eat. It sickened him that even in his position the Grand Generals had still been allowed to appoint Walker such an important position. In fact, he currently had a few crows preparing a train that they and he would board and bring in the new exorcist whom they had 100% evidence of innocence use from. He would confront her tomorrow when he arrived and arrive with her for training within two days. Leverrier was determined to find something to use against Walker. He and his followers from central wanted to study him and how the dark matter and innocence could co-exist but they had no proof reliable enough to do so with and apparently, he had many followers himself here in headquarters. But Malcolm C. Leverrier was not the type of man who gave up easily.....
Okay, I'll try and be good about updates so bear with me, okay?
Oh and the companion fic which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ FOR THE BACK STORY Will be up soon, and if you read it on my other account, like this one, it's going to be HEAVILY REVISED and hopefully a lot better.
R and R~