Disclaimer: I don't own D. Gray – Man
Spoilers: There will be some if you have not seen all of the anime.
Timeline: Four weeks after first chapter
Pairing: Eventual Tyki Mikk x Ellen Walker
Warning: None
Original Story: A Backwards Story
So important notes:
1) Allen is gender bent in this story.
2) The 14th stuff in the past never happened. (this hasn't changed from the old story)
3) Mana will be taking Mightra's place as the Thirteenth.
4) Pairing will still be Poker Pair
Noah's Ark.
The white city within Noah's Ark was a beautiful place.
Its roads were paved with white stone, the buildings just as white and pristine. The soft sent of varying types of flowers filled the fresh warm summer air. The sky a stunning blue. The blue sky clear with only a few white clouds lazily moving across its seemingly endless expanse.
At night the blue sky was the same, though the shade of color was a smooth midnight blue. The dark sky was always filled with countless specks of light, the stars flickering and twinkling over the timeless town. Noah's Ark was peaceful, never changing, always the same, day and night, even after seven thousand years.
The white town within the Ark seemingly forever trapped in time.
Though at this specific moment, the peaceful atmosphere of Noah's Ark was destroyed by a loud and nerve racking sound that seemed to continue on for miles. A new born baby's wail cutting through the once serene night, the sound having broken the late hours of any given day with its sorrow for the last four weeks.
The last few weeks having been a truly trying time for all aboard Noah's Ark.
Mana sighed in exhaustion as he walked down the stone laid roads of the Ark. In the young man's arms, wrapped up tight in a white soft blanket, was the infant that the Noah Clan had welcomed into their family four weeks ago. The small baby girl wailing softly with a very healthy set of lungs.
Little Ellen, it seemed, had a horrible case of colic.
The Noah having tried everything that he could think of to calm the crying baby, but everything he tried had the same result. Mana had tried swaddling, a pacifier, rocking, patting the little girl's back, walking...
The young gentleman had even tried pacing up and down the roads while patting the little girl's back and rocking her within his arms. His dark blue eyes were rimmed with dark bruising from lack of sleep, his once clean and proper appearance now disheveled and rough, the man looking more than just a little tired.
He had tried everything he could think of, Mana had even broken down and tried some of the others suggestions, and it went without saying that none of their suggestions work.
Mana had been appointed by the Earl as the infant's caretaker, even though the young twenty three year old didn't have much experience with such young children. Mana Walker was at his wits end on what he could do to get the small baby girl to stop in her sorrow and pitiful wailing.
And aside from taking Road up on her generous offer to take a night with little Ellen, which he would never even consider taking her up on, he was out of ideas…
Mana sighed again, his heavy feet dragging him back in the direction of the tower at the center of the Ark. The man having already walked the outer rim of the Ark and had also already made a few good laps of the white town's inner roads. The man's efforts went unrewarded however, baby in his arms continuing to cry.
The Noah of Talent had been determined to do this by himself, though he supposed he could swallow his pride and ask for help just this once…
He only hoped Lulubell or Tryde wouldn't mind being woken so early in the morning, and taking the baby so he could get a few hours of rest.
A soft and comforting sound flouted down from the highest level of the center tower, the gentle melody whispering soothingly through air and filling Noah's Ark with another sound besides the soft heart wrenching cry of the infant in his arms. The young man tiredly shuffling his feet forward, the Thirteenth Noah slowly making his way closer to the white tower.
The Earl must be playing the Piano. Mana smiled tiredly, his drooping blue eyes filling with a strained hope that maybe he could ask the Earl to take the baby for a few hours. The First Apostle of Noah had been asking if Mana needed help with little Ellen. Mana had always told the Earl that he could handle it.
But after four long, long weeks of barely a few hours of sleep here and there, Mana was willing to do just about anything for a few moments of rest. Well, anything other than ask Road for help, because there was no telling what the Ninth Apostle would do to the infant while he slept.
Like what crazy clothing she would dress the poor infant in…
Manna slowly stumbled his way along the road that would lead him to the tall white tower, the young gentleman opening and entering through one of the double doors at the towers base, Manna managing this after only a few failed attempts of grabbing for one of the gold door handles.
The man continuing forward, the Noah forgetting to shut the wooden door behind him in his exhaustion. The Thirteenth stifling a yawn as the exhausted man fought to get his heavy feet to climb the few long flights of stairs that would bring him to the Piano room.
The Earl was already awake, so maybe he wouldn't mind the trouble of looking after Ellen just for tonight?
The Noah of Talent finally made it to the top of the stairs, the man yawning for the fourth times since entering the tower. Mana shuffling his tired self to the slightly ajar door, and without even thinking of knocking, entered the room that held the white Piano.
The large room was bare except for the one lone white Piano that sat at the very center of the circle shaped room. The Earl sat on the stool, playing the instrument without flaw, the other man's playing didn't even pause as Mana entered the room, even though the baby in his arms wailing cut through the pleasant melody.
The Earl turned to face Mana after a few more uninterrupted key strokes. The First only slightly turning to look at the slowly approaching Thirteenth, his smile widening as he continued to play the ancient lullaby. "Need some help with the little one Mana-kun?" The Earl chuckled out in amusement, his gold eyes unable to miss the poor state of his fellow Noah.
Mana sighed and forced himself to swallow his pride, but before he could open his mouth to ask for a very much needed break, the crying suddenly stopped with only a few sorrowful trailing whimpers. Fatigued blue eyes turning to look at the bundle in his arms, Mana greeted with drooping and sleepy golden eyes instead of sad upset silver.
A weary and slightly delirious smile started tugging on the corners of Mana's mouth, the man carefully shuffled his way closer to the Piano as the smile slowly twisted his exhausted features. "It looks like Ellen is fond of the Piano..." Mana mumbled out with a little too much effort, his words lined with his grogginess.
"It seems so.~" the Earl answered as he peered at the infant in the other Noah's arms. He reached the end of the melody all too soon. The moment the music flowed to a stop the small infant started to whimper again, the sound quickly building up to a loud wail as the final notes of the lullaby faded into nothingness.
"Quite a bit it seems." The First added as his fingers once again took their places on the black keys, the song the Earl had been playing starting from the beginning.
Mana finally reached to piano, the man sitting down and leaning against the white instrument as Ellen's now golden eyes finally fluttered closed and her sad wailing faded to silence once again.
Mana's own sleep deprived eyes feeling like lead weights, his heavy eyelids fighting to close on him. The young man fighting a losing battle to stay awake. "I think we'll just sit here until Ellen's fully asleep..." Mana slurred out as his dark blue eyes drifted closed, the man in his fatigued state, forgetting why he had walked all the way to the piano room in the first place.
Mana quickly drifting off to sleep along with the infant now held gently to his chest.
"Yes, yes. ~" the Earl sang back happily as he continued to play. The lullaby's soft and relaxing notes lulling Noah's Ark back to a sweet peacefulness for the first time in weeks. "Good night Ellen-chan, good night Mana-kun. Sweet dreams. ~"
So there you go, chapter 2, sorry its so short. Please review...?
Next one will have Tyki in it. I forgot to mention that I have been thinking of changing up ages some and adding the chapters from "The Mini Allen Story's". So anyway, instead of Tyki already being an adult, I decided that he would be the correct age that he should be according to the anime and manga... Unless people want me to keep Tyki the same age wise? So basically should I keep Tyki at being age 26 for the rest of the story, or start him off younger?
Also, I have another question for you readers. The original story "A Backwards Story" had some one-sided Kanda/Ellen in it. Should I have that in this version also? Or change it up? what would you let to see?