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"They were Akuma! And these fine people standing in front of you are Exorcists," Dumbledore was standing just inside the Great Hall, with Komui at his side. He was smiling.
"E-Exorcists?" Ron murmured, looking from Allen to Lenalee to Lavi, still staring at his hands.
"Yes, Mister Weasly, Exorcists. Oh Lavi, come here. I'll fix up your hands. You can't use your hammer with those hands," Dumbledore said, walking over to them and up to Lavi.
Lavi gritted his teeth and held them out, palm up. Dumbledore waved his wand, not saying a word, and then the cuts were healed. Lavi's eyes widened.
"Whoa… neat!" he muttered, looking at his newly healed hands. "Aw." He wiped the blood from the none-existent gashes on his jacket.
"Lavi! That's gross!" Lenalee said, looking at him with a look of disgust. Lavi looked around.
"What else am I supposed to do?" he asked her. She just shook her head.
"B-but Sir… what is an… an Exorcist?" Hermione stuttered, asking Dumbledore. He looked at the three students over his half-moon spectacles. When Dumbledore turned to look at Harry, he turned his head, refusing to look at the Headmaster.
"Come, all of you, up to my office. There, I will explain," the silver haired wizard said and turned toward his office. He led them through part of the castle, then reached a stone gargoyle.
Allen heard the wizard murmur something to the gargoyle and it leapt aside. The exorcists stepped back, slightly surprised. The three Hogwarts students, however, didn't react.
Dumbledore led them up a slowly spinning spiral staircase, up to a large door, which he pushed open. They all walked in, and the three young Exorcists gasped. It indeed was a site to behold. Portrait upon portrait lined the walls and each had a name under them.
Off to one side a fiery bird as big as a swan was standing on a perch. It turned its great eyes toward the Exorcists, examining them as they came in.
"Please, sit down," Dumbledore said, waving his wand. Seven puffy armchairs appeared in front of them. Allen walked several steps to the nearest one then sunk into it gratefully. He closed his eyes and leaned his head back on the chair.
"Mister Walker, please don't fall asleep just yet. I need your help to explain this, as well as Miss Lee and Lavi," Dumbledore said as the others sat down. Allen raised his head and shifted slightly, grunting.
Harry had been silent this whole time, looking anywhere but Dumbledore and he had the air of someone in a fowl mood… Kind of like when Kanda finds out he's on a mission with me, thought Allen as he stared at the Headmaster.
There was a silence then "What was that? Who are they? They aren't students! Why are they here?" Harry blurted out angrily.
The Exorcists looked at each other. Why was Harry so mad all of a sudden? Allen watched Harry and noticed that now the black haired boy was glaring at Dumbledore venomously. Dumbledore, however, was watching the Exorcists.
"We're Exorcists," Lenalee said, looking at Harry. He turned to her sharply, his glare turning on her as well.
"And what is that?" he asked. Allen watched him.
"Harry, please!" Dumbledore said, cutting Harry off from asking anything else in his venomous voice. "Now, I shall try to explain, but I shall need the three Exorcists help on this."
He turned to look at the three wizards. They all stared back at him, Harry still seething.
"These people, Komui, Allen, Lenalee and Lavi, along with Miss Miranda Lotto, Krory, and Kanda, are from what is called the 'Black Order'. They fight what are called 'Akuma'. You saw one today. And—"
"What exactly is an Akuma?" Hermione butted in, asking. Dumbledore looked down at his hands for a second, thinking, then looked up again.
"Allen, would you like to explain that, seeing as you can… see them," he asked the white haired Exorcist.
"Ok… um… where should I start?" Allen asked, looking at Lenalee and Lavi.
"Just about the Akuma… we'll tell them about the Innocence later," Lenalee told him, looking at Komui. He nodded as well.
"Innocence? What's tha—" Ron was cut off by Hermione, who had elbowed him in the side.
"Sh… let them talk!" she hissed.
"Um… Ok. Akuma are made up of three things; a machine, a soul and a tragedy," Allen said, counting on his fingers. Ron made to interrupt again, but this time Harry stopped him.
"There is darkness in everyone's hearts," Allen said, blinking slowly, "and a tragedy makes it deepen. Someone dies, and the one who loves them… the darkness fills their hearts. That's when the Earl comes."
"The… Earl?" Hermione asked.
"The Millenium Earl," Lenalee said, but gave Allen a look of 'keep going'.
"Well… the Earl comes and presents the person with a machine body, saying that if they speak the name of the one they loved and lost, then they shall come back to them. When they do so, the soul of that loved person gets trapped in the body of the Akuma and the Earl tells that person to wear the… skin of the one before them. That way they can look like just any normal person," Allen finished, closing his eyes for a very long time and swallowing.
"Except you, though. You didn't tell them…" Lavi said, looking at his friend, his green eye filled with concern.
"Didn't tell us what?" Ron demanded, looking from Lavi to Allen, who had finally opened his eyes.
"Except me, yes Lavi, except me. To everyone else, they look like humans… but to me… I can see the soul trapped inside the Akuma," Allen had turned slightly pale.
"Allen. How do you know all of that… that stuff about these Akuma if you said that the Earl tells the Akuma to take the… the skin? No one would live to tell the tale, if I understand correct," Hermione said, thinking, then turned to look at Allen.
Allen blanched even more; he was white, and Lenalee looked at him with concern. "Allen… do you want me to tell them?" she asked him gently. He shook his head.
"N-no… I'll… I'll tell them," he managed to get out.
"Tell us what?" Ron asked loudly.
"Shut up Ron," Harry told his friend. He could see that Allen had blanched.
The Exorcist swallowed once then started to speak, "I know that because… because I turned my father into an Akuma. That's how I got this," he pointed at the scar, "and now I can see the souls."
"Wicked… that's nifty, ain't it?" Ron asked, looking at Allen with more admiration, like it was something to be proud of.
"Nifty? I guess…" Allen muttered, looking down.
"You can see the souls. I think that'd be cool," Ron continued. Allen's head snapped up and gave Ron a hard look. Ron recoiled slightly.
"If I might say something… Ron… it's not. Once I saw it… it was… horrible," Lavi said, shivering slightly.
That shut Ron up. He looked from Lavi's slightly disturbed expression to Allen.
"Ok… now we know what an Akuma is. But earlier you said something about 'Innocence'? What's that?" Hermione asked.
This time Lenalee answered, as Allen had been staring at his feet and Lavi was looking at him, his eye filled with concern. They clearly weren't paying attention.
"The Innocence makes us able to defeat the Akuma. It's also called the 'crystal of god'. In some ways, it's the opposite of what Akuma are made up of. We have to find it before the Earl does. A prophecy said that the Earl was defeated once before using these crystals. We're searching for them… and we think that there might be one hidden in the castle," Lenalee explained. "That's why there are Akuma."
"Why can't we defeat the Akuma as well… well, you know, with spells and stuff?" Ron asked.
"If anything but an Innocence destroys an Akuma, the soul is lost forever," Allen murmured darkly, looking up.
"So? I mean… if it's evil, why do you care if its soul is lost?" Ron asked bluntly. The three Exorcists blinked.
Allen looked straight at Ron, his eyes filled with a fire that the three wizards had never seen before. Ron pulled back slightly. "Because… the soul isn't evil."
"What?" Ron asked, looking slightly startled.
"The soul is a human soul that was trapped," Lavi said to Ron.
"Oh."
"So, how do we find this Innocence?" Hermione asked.
"We don't know. We've asked for help from Dumbledore. If there is anything odd… odder than usual that you notice, you should tell one of us," Komui said, fixing his beret.
"Anything odd? This is a magic school!" Harry said rudely. "How are you gonna narrow it down?"
"Harry!" Hermione hissed amazed at how Harry was acting.
The Exorcists and Komui turned to look at him. Lenalee and Allen just stared at him but Lavi raised his eyebrow.
"Harry, please. They are trying, and maybe with yours and Ron and Hermione's help, they could find it before the Akuma," Dumbledore said, standing up.
"But they just said that we couldn't help defeat the Akuma!" Harry said loudly, standing up.
"Harry!" Hermione whispered, grabbing her friends arm and pulling him back down.
"Its ok… you may all go now," Dumbledore said.
"Wait… what does an Innocence look like?" Ron asked.
"If it's just an Innocence, than its green… and glowly… and… squarish," Lavi said, thinking. Lenalee just shook her head.
"What d'you mean by 'if its just the Innocence'?" Hermione asked, puzzled.
"I mean what I said," Lavi said.
"Lavi," Lenalee said bonking Lavi's arm. "You need to explain more than that." Lavi just stared at her.
"Why?" he asked. Lenalee sighed. "Fine, I'll explain."
"The Innocence that we probably will find is what Lavi explained it as. It's a greenish crystal. But if it has come as an anti-Akuma weapon, then it can take many different shapes," Lenalee explained. "Each Exorcist is equipped with an anti-Akuma weapon."
"What's yours?" Hermione asked.
"Dark boots," she answered simply. "I'll show you some time."
"So… what is everyone else's?" Ron asked. He was very interested in this.
"Miranda can control time… Krory has his fangs, Kanda has it in his sword, Lavi in his hammer, and me in my dark boots," Lenalee said. She had left out Allen.
"What about you, Allen?" Hermione asked, catching that she left him out as well. He turned and smiled at her.
There was a bright flash of light then the three Hogwarts students were on their feet. They had jumped up as Allen's arm was now a silver claw and as long as he was tall. Ron had yelled in surprise and tripped over his chair. Harry had jumped out of his chair and had pulled his wand and Hermione had gasped.
"Whoa!" Ron yelped.
"That's what mine is," Allen said, deactivating his Innocence.
"Wicked!" Ron said, recovering from his shock. Harry stuffed his wand back in his pocket and Hermione sat back down.
"Is that what you cut your hand on Lavi?" she asked, looking at the red-haired exorcist. He nodded.
"Its about time that you go to bed, all of you," Dumbledore said, standing up. Harry glared at him and stalked out. Everyone stared after him, then the exorcists and Ron and Hermione headed to the door as well. Komui stayed behind to speak with the headmaster in private.
Harry was waiting at the bottom of the stairs for everyone else.
"What was that about?" Lavi asked as they met up with him.
"Nothing," Harry muttered, heading toward the Griffindore tower. He had his hand hidden from view, and was trying to keep it that way. Allen noticed, having done that himself, but shrugged it off. He was too tired to think of anything right now.
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