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Chapter 4! Yay! :D reviews plz!

Chapter 4: Innocence ~

"Becca------------." I moaned.

"What-----------?" She moaned back.

"It's still raining…" I was lying on the floor in her room staring out the window.

"Good job Morgan, great observation." She gave me thumbs up that I couldn't see.

"I know…" I said, lightning stuck the ground, and a gigantic boom sounded almost immediately. I shot up from the floor. "Becca I think the horse barn just got hit by lightning." I looked out the window but couldn't see the barn.

"We should go check." She said.

I nodded.

We made a mad dash towards the barn, which was on fire.

"DAMN."Becca Cursed, recklessly opening the door so the horses could possibly escape.

I looked around, akuma - more than the day before - were coming from all different directions. Shoot… this isn't good, I thought. I looked down at my wrists. Now that I needed to use them how was I supposed to? I thought about it for a minute, and then the words naturally came to me. "Innocence… Activate…" Hands and feet turned to talons, wings came from thin air. I was floating no more than a foot or two off the ground now, the natural instinct of attack coming to me again.

Within a split second I was off, leaving Becca to take care of the horses. My movements flowed naturally, tearing through each akuma in my way. Talons through rock-hard skin (or whatever it is akuma are made of) smoke engulfing me as each one perished. It felt so foreign, how I could destroy something that had once been human without any thought of it.

I stopped once there seemed no more demons to kill. I went down, hovering just above the ground. The barn was no longer on fire, and even had a chilling wind coming from it. My wings and talons dove back under my skin and I landed lightly on the ground. I ran steadily towards the barn, slightly confused as it began to get colder.

I stopped before the entrance, took a breath and continued in. I noticed the horse were still inside as calm as could be. I shivered, I was wet and it was cold, I had plenty a reason to.

"Bec-?"I almost finished her name before being baffled by what was in front of me. Ice, more then I had ever seen concentrated in one place. I stopped, watching Becca take a step then another. "What are you doing?" I asked.

"My staff." She said plainly.

"This is no time to be worrying about your staff. What about the gigantic hunk of ice right in front of you?"

"My staff is in the ice."

"All the more reason not to go get it!"

It was true, the staff sat there on its very own thrown, crystals of ice coming from under it.

"Paranormal or natural disaster type events…" Allen voice rang in the back of my head. "Weird things normally happen when innocence is near, and akuma swarm the area..."

"Never mind what I just said! Grab the staff!" I yelled taking a step forward.

"Sorry Morgan but I don't take orders from you!"She grabbed the staff as she had originally planned to and the ice shot back into the ground.

All was still, the rain had stopped, and the horses were safe.

"Becca… what just happened…?" I asked.

"Hey, don't look at me."

We stared at each other, then the staff for a moment, then a realization hit me. "We should go tell Allen and Lavi about this..." I paused.

"That's would probably be a good idea." She nodded. She began to leave, though I just stood there. "You coming?" she asked.

I turned to face her, and nodded, kicking off the ground a bit and running outside. "Shoot!" I said, then mentally cursing myself.

"What?" Becca asked blinking in confusion.

"How are we supposed to find them?"

"That's a good question ..." She paused, thinking for a moment. "They couldn't be too far away, town isn't that big, not to mention they have to be staying somewhere."

"So you're suggesting we go to the inn and see if they're staying there?"

She shrugged.

I sighed. "This is gonna take a while. Grab one of the horses and ride around. See if you can find them, unless you wanna walk."

"What about you?"

I pointed to the sky.

"Oh, that's right you can fly now..." a hint of aggravation in her voice.

I merely smiled at her and watched her head back to the barn.

After about an hour of ground and aerial search, we found them. I dropped lower to the ground and landed a few feet in front of them.

"Hey." I said casually. "We found the innocence."

Allen blinked.

Lavi blinked.

"... Guys?" I asked. I heard the 'clip clop' of horses' feet and leaned to the side to see Becca on horseback coming up behind the two taller boys in front of me.

The exorcists snapped back to reality, turning to Becca who had the staff.

"You're welcome." She said.

Leave? I asked, sitting in the darkness of my room, a faint light from outside shinning in though the window. Of course I'm leaving, anything to get out of this terrible place... I put my arm in front of my face, just barely making out the lines of my marks. I wonder what the world looks like outside of here... I looked through my window, focusing more on the shadows than anything else. The tree tapped against my window, making it sound like someone was trying to get my attention.

I couldn't get what the two boys had asked me earlier through my head, it seemed almost too good to be true.

After we had found what was now Becca's innocence, they had told us we were needed to stop the Earl. It was a simple question for me and my sister, with a simple answer too, but they told us to give them an answer the next day, which seemed like it would never come.

I tried going to sleep but to no avail, so I gave up, got out of my bed, opened the window, and jumped.

Normally

It would have been a painful and short 3 story drop, but with my newly acquired flying abilities, I never hit the ground. I landed lightly of the ground, wings and talons sinking back into my skin. The air touched my now bare back.

Note to self: get cloths with holes in the back.

I started walking towards where ever my feet would take, and that place happened to be the south garden. It was light with candles and a few lights, it had a sparing stage, for Becca and myself; a pool farther back, with a fairly large isle of grass and a tree; with walls surrounding the garden on all sides apart from the entrance, which was a simple arch. I smiled; it was probably one of the last times I would see it for only god know how long.

I scanned the arena for my sword, which was -as expected- in the last place I left it. Thinking back on it I began to wonder why Becca's staff had been in the barn of all places, but ignored the thought and went to pick up my weapon.

As unladylike as it was, I had learned to use a sword, and bow & arrow when I was little, though the person who taught me was long gone. The same person had taught Becca to use a staff.

I'm taking this with me... I thought, putting the sword in its sheath. It was my favorite blade, I always used in when I was sparing with Becca.

I heard something snap, my first thought was Hunter, but he was asleep inside. "Who's there?" I asked in a flat tone.

No answer.

"Who's there?" I asked again.

Still no answer, I took a step towards the origin of the sound. A sharp pain ran through my body, I dropped the sword and fell to my knees.

"Wake up!" I heard someone yell.

I opened my apparently closed eyes, to look up at Becca who was hovering around me.

I fell asleep?

"I'm awake, not sure why I fell asleep out here but I'm good now." I smiled up at her, sitting up.

"I bet you were sleep walking again." She said.

"No, I came out here last night cause I couldn't sleep, and then I thought I heard someone in the bushes, and now I'm here."

"Weird."

"Yes I know, now I need to get dresses in actual cloths, and then we have to go find our new friends." I smiled, getting up to go into the house.

And so begins our new lives...

Wow... sorry it took so long to get this out ^^; I hope you like it, R&R, it makes me type more, and get them up here faster