Pained Life

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Chapter 3: Crystal Revelation

After his agonized scream he trembled with his eyes slowly dimming making his pupils darker like his soul had been sucked out. He clutched his head after his blood thirsty scream and fell painfully to the ground. Tears clouded his vision but instead of the watery blurred vision everything went red. As he fell on the ground more blood stained his clothes and seeped into his mouth. The spoilt yet salty taste dulled his senses. It was like he was drowning in a sea of blood. He looked like he was in a trance from pain and sadness. All that was heard in the silent eerie place was his strained sobs and cries. He was like a lost child all alone in the world. It reminded him of... Who did it remind him of?

"Mana" he whispered through his sobs that started turning into strained chuckles.

"Mana. Aha…" Just like how everything used to be before Mana came along. Either way he would stay all alone. Tears were flowing freely. This was real. He was alive and everything around him was destroyed. The aftermath of destruction. He couldn't hold it in and flipped so that he was lying on his back staring up at the crimson sky that loomed ominously above him. He was laughing crying out into the silence.

Just as he had thought.

Just as predicted right.

A figure walked up to his body from behind with his face unseen through his glossy black hair. Something black formed looking like a pitch black chain from his body to the crouching boy. The figure stared down at Allen's body not moving or talking. The chain shattered into pieces before dissolving and then mixing with the crystalline lake of blood engulfing everything as if a virus was spreading. Everything was engulfed black including both figures. The place fell deathly silent apart from the echo of the last words muttered.

"****"

Kanda was sweating discreet beads as his eyebrows twitched and his fist clenched even harder.

"You've got to be kidding" He whispered, clenched teeth. Miranda was shivering with her eyes welling up and Krowry was crying as soon as he deactivated his innocence. The finder walked in with a huge smirk across his face as he looked at all the exorcists intrigued.

"You sure know how to treat a new guest. My name's Antonio, Antonio Lombardi, how do you do?" Lenalee jumped when he spoke which made the boys eyes dart to hers. He gazed at Lenalee before bowing mockingly hiding a slight blush whilst still grinning mischievously. He watched everyone in the room freeze up with the uncomfortable feeling which made him unusually confused. All the exorcists' eyes were still on the new finder as they could not find the energy to pull away. Levierrier smiled before turning and walking

"He will accompany you exorcists only on your missions so 'keep an eye on him and show him around". He then turned to face Link with his seemingly naturally strict, disappointed look on his face before he continued to talk." Link go and find the boy Allen Walker so that we can continue this meeting. We will be waiting in the cafeteria. We've moved a piano there for 'entertainment' purposes". Link nodded before he ran out of the room while Levierrier picked up a cup and drank some of his hot tea that he had left on a small table. His smile was the same that could plunge anger or fear into the depths of a person's soul. "Move to the cafeteria and we will continue this conversation and until Allen walker comes we will see about our ability to control the ark without his help." Lenalee froze and immediately pulled her gaze away from the Finder.

"What does he plan to do?"

Allen remained lifeless as he lay upon the cold marble floor with blood falling quietly down the right side of his head. The only sounds audible were the quiet drops of blood and water leaking onto the floor that had slowly flooded the lonely room. There wasn't even a faint sound of breathing coming from him, let alone any movement.

Black smoke began to emit from his body and formed a familiar shadow over him as the clear water began to seep in to his mouth and nose. By the rate the water was flowing he was going to suffocate. His eyes that were lifeless looked like they flickered then something Black covered his irises before completely disappearing with no trace. Then he twitched. A sudden loud gasp for oxygen echoed through the small room rippling the water across the floor and then coughing followed. His nose and fingers began to started twitch and his heart that was lifeless began to beat again. His hands scratched at the floor and he struggled for air. By reflex he pushed himself off the ground choking .His skin that was pale regained its light complexion and his eyes opened with panic to show him the water that had covered half of his face. He tried to stand up but his legs gave way making him plummet back to the ground. His mouth felt heavy and his is skin cold with his vision became blurry. Tears escaped his lifeless eyes.

"Where am I? What happened? Still confused his memory shattered at that moment. He felt blank. What just happened. The eerie feeling still hung inside him. Did the 14th now fully awaken?

That question brought forth the answer. That dream.

Unable to stand up he sat there for some time just reflecting on the situation at hand. He could feel the cold water stream from his damp hair to his face. His face suddenly felt slightly warmer as some 'water' streamed down. Finding new strength he wiped away his tears and forced himself to stand up He walked silently listening to the water rippling beneath his feet. All his senses felt enhanced for some reason.

A certain splash caught his eye and he stared at the water that had formed red ripples in them. Allen's jaw clenched. He tensed when he reached the mirror. The tap was still running and out of instinct he switched it of while consciously stared into his reflection. The 'water' that streamed down his face scared him. He was still dizzy and dazed but he could still clearly understand.

"I'll never let you have control of me" He whispered wiping away the blood then walked out of the bathroom ignoring the small flood in the room.

"I will stop you before anything else".

Chaoji ran into the cafeteria noticing that there was an unusual feeling in the air. Everyone was staring in one direction, even while eating. When he spotted Lenalee Lee he smiled sadly.

"Anita Sama" Spotting a familiar hairstyle he felt slightly confused by the colour of it. Maybe he was seeing things.

"S-sorry I'm late, is that?" He questioned staring at the finder just like everyone else in the room. He could understand why everyone was now frozen in place.

Lavi laughed silently as he noticed Chaoji crash into the room. His smile quickly vanished though, as looked back into a side of the hall calmly observing a brown haired finder talking cheerfully to Lenalee while she was desperately trying to listen despite the awkwardness.

"This is messed up" He muttered and even from across the room Kanda silently agreed.

"Can't argue with you there."

Lenalee continued looking round the room for Allen while still feeling slightly worried. She sighed loud enough for everyone to here before another smile graced her face. As fake as she and everybody, apart from Antonio, knew.

"I'm going to look for a friend." she smiled jumping up and walking quickly before anyone could grab her into another conversation. Being around the new finder without seeing Allen was an uncomfortable feeling for her because it felt like he was just there to distract or replace Allen while he could have been captured by the order for 'information'. It scared her. Who wouldn't be scared.

"I'll definitely find a way to help you beat the 14th but for now Allen –kun please be okay" Activating her Dark boot she prepared to boost herself down the long hallway into the direction of Allen's room but a dark throat being cleared rendered her useless. She stiffened immediately from the chuckle, head reluctantly turning to face the one guilty of stopping her. Sweat gleaned down her face as she stared at the man. The finder looked on confused by the sudden disruption when he noticed everyone else partly tense.

"And just where do you think you're going, Ms Lee?"

Allen ran into his room slamming the door behind him as quickly as possible. 'I'm hearing voices' were the only thoughts that entered and left his mind. He ran straight into the room before stopping as he noticed a picture that he would recognizes anywhere. The fear was immediately replaced with pain.

"Why Mana?"

He paused staring dead plan and sadly at the painting before stiffening. He felt like he was forgetting something important and the uncomfortable feeling burning in him only made things more frightening.

"What am I forgetting?" The nightmare had become crystal clear and it was preventing him from being able to think properly. Friends. Families. Children, Women, Men. Humans, and even Akuma. It just kept replaying in his head fuelled by his fear.

Allen began to shiver again from the memories causing his skin turned pale and he could feel the cold air against his skin. Goosebumps prickled on his skin. When some water dripped down his forehead he remembered exactly something important that he had forgotten. His body felt cold and he began to tremble in alarm. He jumped up instinctively and finally reached directly into his cupboard and he grabbed a plain white shirt with black trousers. Rushing into the bathroom he changed quickly into the dry clothes drying himself down.

"I'm just being paranoid." He mused to himself smiling forcefully, he caught one last view in the mirror. A pained smile formed on his lips as he ran out of his room begging silently that he didn't miss anything to important, ignoring his image.

Darker than Black and Whiter than White.

Link ran all around the headquarters in search for Allen walker. He had searched all the likeliest places for him to be but it was useless. Allen wasn't anywhere that he would have normally expected him. As Link ran around he began to get annoyed about the situation and the fact that he couldn't find and complete his supervision. He halted and gritted his teeth with frustration and anger from the lack of Luck before taking a deep frustrated gasp of air.

"ALLEN WALKER IF YOU DO NOT GET OUT HERE RIGHT NOW I'LL…?"Link stopped screaming and stood in the same position just looking down at the floor that seemed recently stained with something leading towards the washrooms. He kneeled down and felt the substance on the floor fully observing it. As he observed the substance he became confused of what could have happened.

"Is this blood?"

He shot up and began to run in the direction the blood led to. 'Does this have to do with you Walker?'

Komui eyes were shut as he clenched his fists with all the strength he could summon. He knew about Levierrier's plan for the young exorcist Allen Walker, so the more he thought about it the situation the more tense he got. For a friend to be sent into a life of hurt and torture was evil but, this friend was also just a child. Everybody loved him so how could they just turn to hate him without care. His sister was worrying and they had to fight a horrible war that definitely had death concerned in it. He looked on at his sister who had frozen stiff at Levierrier's question. He had no idea what to say or do in that situation. Normally he would run in front of his sister then pull her out of the situation but in this case it was definitely different. Before Komui could finish his train of thoughts a something hard and painful crashed into the back of his head making him slam painfully to the ground.

"K-Kanda" He whined. By instinct he just knew it was him. Kanda stood above the supervisors limp body as his foot continued to kick and grind into him drawing stares and horrified shouts to his side.

"I can't stand to listen to you whine about trivial things. If you want to help so much do something about it instead of whining like an idiot, moron." The hall fell silent as Kanda had finished his sentence. Komui sighed before jumping back up with another serious face which made Lavi snicker due to the blood spurting out of his head. He looked calmly towards Kanda who was standing pissed off next to him. When he finished his sentence another foot planted squarely on his forehead sending him flying through the hall.

"DON'T CALL ME YUU! BAKA!"Komui tried to drag himself away from the pissed off samurai until Lavi finally pulled the killing intent from Komui to himself with a single name.

"What's wrong with yuu, yuu" He emphasised on the name which gained a twitch. Kanda lunged at Lavi almost cutting his head swiftly from his neck while Komui boosted himself up and walked silently behind Lenalee while she remained unaware of that fact. A warm hand was placed on her shoulder and she flinched unexpecting it.

"Nee-san?"

Allen ran out of his room and he darted down the stairs as fast as he could tripping occasionally.

Right now he had just remembered that there was a meeting and he was pretty sure that it would have continued without. Plus, with Levierrier it meant that it was something that would be disturbing yet crucial. Maybe even about him.

"Please let me not have missed anything." The speed he was running was annoying him because he felt a snail could go faster than him. His hand slammed on the railing by his side and he kicked himself up then jumped over the railing which made him move a lot faster than he was going a second ago by falling letting gravity completely take control. His hair was flowing freely through the wind and he felt the wind rush by him. He noticed the floor closing in. Preparing for a rough landing he bent his knees adjusting himself to land lightly as if he waved no more than a feather not making a single sound. As landed as smoothly as planned and he dusted himself up before noticing that nobody was there then felt himself freeze.

Rewind, pause.

What just happened? Allen looked up into the air staring at the floor that he had just jumped from. Not even with his innocence activated. How could he have not noticed anything and land so easily. His senses and abilities felt different like he had woken up as a completely different person. He felt like he acting instinct more than his initiative. Something was defiantly wrong.

Allen shook his head roughly forcing the thoughts out. Not the time to be dwelling over something like that. He sighed in defeat when his stomach grumbled loud enough to wake the entire science department if they were sleeping.

"I must have missed the meeting." He said gloomly. Then he beamed

"But that doesn't mean i can't have something to eat"

Now smiling he ran towards the cafeteria imagining what he was going to ask Jerry to cook up for him.

"And since I'm going through a lot right now I'm going to order as much as I can"

A dark grin formed and energy he never thought he had helped him to dash down the narrow corridor.

Everything would work out. He would make his own path.

Link ran into the direction when he heard something hit quietly behind him. His hearing was sharp for an average human, as was his skills, so he could hear a person whisper for quite a distance. He spun round to see Allen patting off some dust from himself then look up with a worried look in his eyes. Then he shook his head, unaware of how crazy he looked, before running into the direction of the cafeteria. He seemed distant for some reason but his grin proved over wise. Link looked up in the direction of the rooms and he stared at the floor where Allen's room was before gasping.

"Did he just jump from that high up?" Before being able to ask questions to no one inparticiular his eyes caught the silvered hair boy again as he began to sprint. Links eyebrows twitched when a thought came to him. "If Allen Walker Gets there before me then..."He gasped and began sweating."Levierrier will remove me from the field for being unreliable" Link turned around almost immediately that the thought hit him and he ran straight up towards the cafeteria as soon and fast as he could.

When Allen reached the cafeteria he noticed that everyone's gazed turned to him. He was now blushing slightly and he scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. He was the last one there and it looked like he missed the entire meeting. He watched everyone before a voice made him tense.

"And where is Link?"

Allen's eyes trailed towards the source but before he could answer footsteps were heard as well as someone panting.

"Well I think that answers that. Now that you have finally decided to grace us with your presence we can now get this meeting started properly." Levierrier stated. Allen laughed nervously to himself while walking to stand next to Lavi.

"What does he...?" The voice whispering was immediately silenced be another member of the audience and Link took up his usual stance.

"Now that Allen Walker is here I believe it is time for him to meet the new finder Antonio Lombardi." Lenalee tensed as well as everyone in the room tensed as their thoughts echoed in their heads. "He and his mother are both going to be finders in the order form now on and they will be accompanying you on you missions." Allen looked puzzled form Levierrier's words. He turned to Lavi then realized the uncomfortable looks everyone was giving off.

"Why is he discussing to us about a new finder? He never even discusses about a new exorcist unless he is talking about their innocence but even that happens only once in a while with general levels." He asked quietly as not to be heard.

Lavi was too tense for Allen's liking which made Allen question what was going on. He was now glad that he did not miss the meeting now due to the turn of events. He looked at Lenalee and noticed she was shivering and that she had Goosebumps on her uncovered arms

"Lenalee what's..?" Allen froze when someone walked out from behind him. His eyes widened and he was baffled. Antonio who walked up behind Allen turned to face him with a hand outstretched. Allen didn't move and he ignored the hand that was meant to be shaken not caring about manners. Antonio looked up slightly annoyed that the boy didn't accept his politeness but when he looked up he understood exactly why. Allen's eyes remained wide open and his mouth looked like they couldn't form any words. He was cold now and a headache was forming. Both boys stared at each other not sure of what to do next. Levierrier grinned and Lenalee was frightened as she watched the scene in front of her. Both boys dared not to move making the eerie feeling in the air worse. Allen finally found words to say as he didn't even blink and neither did the boy he was looking at. They both opened there mouths at the same time to speak and the same words came from both of their mouths but with Allen it came out more like a strained whisper.

"You look exactly like me."

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How would Kanda react to being told to sing Balamory?