Disclaimer: Again, I do not own D. Gray-Man. Unfortunately. And Tyki Mikk is hot 3
Everything hurt. And the white florescent light on the ceiling was too bright. He squeezed his eyes tighter. He? Who was he? It was strange. The only things he could remember was heat. And…two names. Lenalee and Road. But he should know more than that! Why couldn't he remember his name? Lenalee. Road. They weren't his names. But they were something important. Lenalee. Road.
"He's awake! Jeez, finally." He opened his eyes to a redhead with an eyepatch leaning over him with a happy expression, "Allen!"
Was that his name then? Allen? Why didn't it sound familiar? He watched the redhead's expression turn into one of sadness. A woman with gray hair and a white dress came into the room. She looked at the redhead, "He doesn't remember, does he? I was hoping this wouldn't happen. I'm sorry, Lavi…"
So that was Lavi. And he was Allen. He opened his mouth in a question, "Lenalee? Road?"
"Lenalee's over in the next room." The woman told him. She was unsure of what to say about Road. But at least he didn't forget everything. That had to be a good sign, right? Allen. He wanted to know his last name.
"Allen, don't you remember me? I'm your best friend! I'm Lavi, Bookman Junior, and my innocence is the hammer!" Lavi stopped as a serious looking guy with long, bluish black hair strode into the room.
"Hey, beansprout." He gave Allen a rare smile. Allen just looked slightly confused. He didn't know what innocence was, and why was that guy with weird hair calling him a beasprout?
"Aw, come on, you remember Yu, don't you? Yu Kanda." Lavi waved his hands at Allen.
"Don't call me Yu." Yu Kanda snarled. As he whirled around to face Lavi, Allen noted that he was carrying a thin sword. Huh. Was he a samurai or a ninja before? Why couldn't he remember? He didn't even know his last name. Or his age. Tears of frustration leaked out, but when he cried his chest hurt. The woman in white-she must've been a doctor- put something in his IV bag and he fell asleep.
That night, Road Kamelot teleported herself into Allen's hospital room. She felt a twinge of sadness at Allen's broken state. He had been so full of life and emotions the last time they met. She carefully detached him from his IV line and carried him like a baby in her arms. His eyes shot open and he winced slightly, "What are you doing?"
"Shhh, it's okay, Allen Walker." She smiled. Ah. So Walker was his last name. He felt comfortable that girl, because she was one of the only people he recognized. But who?
"Are you Lenalee?" He whispered.
"No, of course not. I'm Road. Road Kamelot of the Noah Clan." Road's eyes narrowed slightly, bracing for a struggle. It never came. Allen smiled happily and closed his eyes again. She was slightly taken aback by that. It saved her a lot of time though, and she stepped once more into her heart-shaped doors.
He woke up in a plush, king-sized bed with silk blankets. He looked around the room. The floor was covered in a thick red carpet and the walls were black with burning candles set into hollows along them. A couch sat on the other side of the room with a slightly impatient Road Kamelot sitting in it, bouncing her feet and licking a lollipop.
"Hey, Allen!" She bounded over when she noticed he was awake and accidentally knocked over a weird-looking umbrella, causing it to squeal in protest. She wrapped her arms around the boy. He winced slightly from pain, but the embrace felt familiar. He hugged her tightly back, because he didn't want to lose the one thing that might trigger his memory.
Other people trickled in, the first being a rather fat man with a top hat and a creepy grin. Some of them smiled at him while most shot him a suspicious look.
"Meet the Noah Clan! We all have special powers. That's the Millenium Earl." Road pointed to the fat man, whose creepy smile widened even further, "He's like the head of the family. That's Sheryl Kamelot, my dad, and his younger brother Tyki Mikk."
Allen noted that those two were pretty handsome, especially Tyki Mikk. Sheryl and Tyki nodded at him.
"Lulubell, she's also the cat." The women just stared at him unblinkingly.
"Jasdero and Devit, also known as Jasdevi. They're twins."
The two of them chimed, "Hiii!" in unison and waved.
Road went through a couple other names, but Allen didn't catch on all of it. He had a headache. Was this really his family from before? If so, then why did he first wake up in a hospital room, with Lenalee and Lavi and Kanda? The Noah had filed silently out of the room and Allen could hear them talking in hushed whispers. He could hear snatches of conversation.
"-really gone?" "we can't trust him." "-innocence-"
Finally, Road came back into the room a few minutes later with two people trailing behind her. She eyed him curiously, "Do you really not remember anything?"
"Yes…And you know how you Noah all have powers? What's mine?"
Road paused thoughtfully for a while before replying, "Yours is different. We get our weapons from the Noah inside of us, but your Noah's been dormant for almost two decades. But you do have an Innocence power. It's actually supposed to be the opposite of Noah. If you want, I could try to train you when you get better. By the way, these are your akuma servants. They're under your command now."
Allen's gaze swept across the two so-called akuma. The girl had blond hair that was almost white and gossamer that covered most of her face. She looked around his age and wore a cute maid's outfit. The man was a few years older, with jet black hair and a shirt and black pants. Allen winced when a dull ache throbbed in his left eye when he looked at them.
"They're not Noah, are they? Nor human. My eye feels weird when I look at them." Allen said.
"No, like I said, they're akuma. To make a long story short, Noahs can bring back the dead in the form of akuma. They're under our command. And they're extremely deadly to humans, who turn into sand when hit by akuma bullets."
"Wouldn't that hurt the dead human's soul? And…you're telling me your family kills humans all the time?"
Road gave him another long stare. "Dead people don't have souls. And we're not humans, Allen. We're different." The girl began pacing across the room, "The place where you woke up is one of the Exorcists' living quarters. You were one of them, Allen. But now you're a yet to be awakened Noah. Exorcists don't care about the Earth as a whole, only useless individuals. So we're not on friendly terms. Do you know that humanity is wearing out the planet? With populations growing like that, more people are just catalysts towards the end of the world. And that will come eventually. Thousands of years ago, Noah built an ark to save the best of every species from apocalypse. That's what we have to do again, even though it means wiping out the weak so that only the strongest will live."
"Wow, that's kinda cruel."
"It's what we have to do, Allen."
The Black Order Headquarters was now moved into a stone castle on the edge of Switzerland.
Lenalee was frantic about Allen. He had a broken rib, burns and head trauma. Where could he go? She had made it out with only a few scratches, with her Dark Boots. Lavi tried his best to comfort the girl he cared about, but it was to no prevail. One of her best friends had disappeared without a trace for a month.
During that time, there were several members that came into the Black Order Headquarters. Tommas Lycan, a boy who was inseparable from his pure white husky and who was thought to be a werewolf. He had become fast friends with Lavi. Gemma Robinson, a new research scientist who was quickly moving up the ranks to the co-branch leader.
With one of the most promising Exorcists gone, Lavi was going on a lot more missions than usual. Lenalee was more alone than ever. One sleepless night, she knocked tentatively on Tommas' door. Then she broke out into tears.
She sobbed about what a great friend Allen Walker was, how they helped each other through tough times…She missed the old Headquarters. Almost everything had been destroyed, and a few of the finders had died. Tommas was a great listener, and didn't speak much as he patted the sobbing girl's back.
At the end, he said, "Have you thought about looking for him?"
"Yes, every day! The Generals all think there's a good possibility that he's in the Noah's place, but they won't do anything about it because that would be risking too much."
"Then we should go." Tommas said thoughtfully, "Me and you. I'll protect you. We'll study the Noah's living quarters and map out a plan."
After they confided in Lavi, he also decided to go. After all, Allen had been his best friend. So they set out on a treacherous journey, unsure of whether or not they'll even succeed.
One day, around two months after he'd settled into his new home in the Noah's spacious mansion, Allen noticed something different. Road looked at him warily from the side as he attacked and blocked two level three akumas. It was frustrating that they were giving him such a hard time. Allen was certain that before the fire that changed everything, he could easily overpower them. But now it was so hard…
As he wandered into the kitchen for food, he heard some shouting, then two faces flashed in the door in the hall adjacent to the one he was in right now before disappearing again. Allen's blood chilled. It was Lavi. And Lenalee. Two of those akuma were carrying them towards some unknown place in the house, and there was a third person with them. Lavi was the one who he first saw when he woke up. Although Allen no longer felt anything towards the redhead, he was certain that they were once great friends. And Lenalee…
Allen hurried into the Millenium Earl's library. He wasn't in there now; Tyki had told him that the Earl was in Thailand with some newly dead person. The white-haired boy-Noah or Exorcist?-snagged the sleeping Lero.
"Whatcha doing lero!" It woke up and snapped at him angrily.
"I know some of your…people captured Lavi." Allen held the umbrella with one arm and hissed at him.
"You-" Lero started to protest, but Allen turned his hand into the big sword called Crown Clown and put the blade where the pumpkin head connected to the umbrella. "If you tell anyone, you're dead."
"Okay, okay, lero! Don't kill me! Yes, they captured three Exorcists. What do you want lero?"
"I want you to give me whatever they need to escape. Their weapons, the key to wherever they are…"
"I don't know lero!"
Allen tightened his grip threateningly, "Really?"
"T-the key's behind a big red encyclopaedia in the last shelf of the other library lero. Lavi's hammer is in the second drawer to the left in the Earl's office."
A few hours later, Allen, with a bag of what he needed, walked towards the tower where the Exorcists were being kept. He tried not to look as scared as he felt. God, he was scared as hell. He was going against everything his new "family" had been telling him for the past few months. Would they forgive him if they found out? Allen's two servants were also there. He had nicknamed the red level-three akuma Cross and the golden yellow one Tim. Allen wasn't sure how he came up with the names. They were probably people from his unknown past.
"Lero, tell them the Millenium Earl has a mission for them and that they have to be in his office." Allen said, eying the two level-fours guarding the prison. "Tim, Cross, can you pretend to be guards?"
The two akuma muttered uncertainly but did as their current master said. He was the only one of the stuck-up Noah that treated them as equals. Or at least closer to equals than any of the others.
"Lavi!" Allen whispered. He felt sad when he looked at the three Exorcists. The all looked tired and dirty, with bits of dry blood coating their outfits. A white dog, or wolf, stalked around the perimeter of the tiny windowless prison. He nuzzled the unfamiliar Exorcist with black hair when he saw Allen.
"Allen? It's really you?" Lenalee's face lit up.
"Shhh…" He put a finger to his lips and slipped the smallest version of the hammer-Innocence through the bars.
He then turned the key in the hole and the door creaked open.
"I brought some clothes so that you'll appear like akuma if no one looks too closely. There's plenty of them in human form around the area. I was thinking that you guys could jump out the window over there. Lenalee, can you fly everyone safely down? There's a garden in the front. Walk around the garden so that there will be less people. If you are attacked, run as far away from the garden as possible so that no one will join in on the attack. The front gate has a security alarm. Use your hammer to smash a round speaker on the right column of the gate, then quickly snip the red wire behind it before it sounds. The second to last metal bar on the gate is slightly loose. You should be able to go through it. Here, I brought you some clothes and food."
They stared at him slightly suspiciously. Tommas asked, "Aren't you coming?"
"No. This has been my home for as long as I can remember."
Lavi started shouting, "We came all the way here for you! And now you're just gonna leave us again? Are you really our friend?"
"Look, that's the thing. I don't remember being friends with you. I saved you because I'm sure you were once important in my life, but not anymore. I'm sorry." Allen closed his eyes against tears. There was a commotion in the hall.
Lenalee didn't want to give up, "Tommas is also training under General Cross. You'll have the same master. He still has Timcanpy! Don't you miss your golem? You'll be great friends with Tommas, he has a really cool husky called White Fang…and you were always great friends with Lavi."
You love him, don't you? And from what you said, I also trained under General Cross. I don't even need to go back because soon Tommas would completely replace me. Allen didn't say that out loud. He wasn't accusing them; in fact, he wanted that to happen so that he'll be forgotten. Allen could see the way Lenalee looked at the new Exorcist, with a faint blush spreading across her cheeks. He hoped that she would eventually find someone other than himself to love.
"The level fours are back!" Tommas cried.
"Come one, Allen!" Lenalee begged.
"No. This is my home."
Lavi glared at his ex-best friend, "You're a f*ing(I don't know about the language expectations for something rated T, so I might censor some stuff just in case) traitor. Lenalee, Tommas, we're going."
"But…Allen! There's some new people at Headquarters. Tommas is the newest Exorcist…If you come back, you'll be great friends! Please…" Lenalee shook her head desperately.
"Lavi, Tommas, take care of Lenalee." Allen watched as they climbed onto the ledge outside the window.
Lavi ignored him, but Tommas turned around and nodded. Then they were gone. As he spun around to leave, he was shocked to see his loyal akuma in shreds. The level fours were eating them alive. And Allen couldn't fight them.
"Oh shit…" He whispered and activated his Innocence.
They rushed at him with scary speed. He barely had time to duck before they were at him again. Allen managed a clumsy blow, but his sword clanged uselessly against the level four's hard body. Somehow, he was bleeding. The teenager shot out the white ribbons of his Crown Clown and smashed one of them against the floor. And gasped when the other one slammed against him. Just when Allen was ready to give up, Tyki Mikk walked calmly onto the bloody scene.
He spread out his arms with palms up, "Tease."
Allen walked in transfixed horror as swarms of beautiful purple butterflies swept around him and flocked around the level fours with their deadly sharp little teeth. When they finally broke apart, only broken shards remained.
Yay, another chappy finished.
Thanks for your reviews! Belltiger BT and Kaiqua, hope you like how I put in your characters. Hoppip, I'll get to you eventually and you know I love you honey3.
Anyone read the newest DGM manga? It's rather confusing. –sigh- I actually hate reading mangas. But I found out one thing: the 14th's name is Neah.
Please submit more Noah OC's! Most of the story's happening at the Earl's mansion.
Expect an update every once or twice per month. So, read and review!
~Frostyshadows