I am so sorry for those who have waited so loyally for me to be lazy. But I have finally finished another chapter! Don't know if you'll like it, but I do so hope that you will. I also want to thank all of those who have been reading all this time, and have been sending reviews. It really means alot to me. So, don't let me hold you up! Reviews please!
"Goddamn rain! I hate it! I hate it!"
"Calm down Silk! A little rain, that's nothing. Not compared to the storm that the exorcists will have to deal with!"
"You're right Ichi-Tamashii-sama! So, Silk, our friend, wait just a little bit longer. But we promise that we won't make you wait as long as them!" cooed one of the twin Akuma.
Silk sigh, twitching slightly as water dripped on her then looked from one Akuma to the other, then across the clearing, where her other partners were talking. Ghost muttered something, his tail gouging the ground.
"What're you guys planing over there, all secret like?" one of the Akuma called out in a high pitched voice.
"Yes, we want to know! Don't we Ichi-Tamashii-sama?" asked the other to the first. They both nodded in unison.
"Yes!" they said. "But we're excluded! Why're we excluded?" they hugged each other, looking like a mirror had been placed in front of one of them. Silk watched in amazement.
"Because you came barging in and start telling us what to do," snapped the leader, fangs bared.
"Aw, that's not very nice," whined on, looking at its twin.
"It's ok Ni-Tamashii-sama. We can make our own plan!" said Ichi-Tamashii-sama.
The leader growled dangerously, but turned back to Ghost and Widow. The two twins Akuma broke apart, laughing hysterically.
"So easy… so easy!" one cackled.
"So, when are we going to attack?" asked Silk.
The two stopped laughing and grinned widely. "Soon," they said in unison.
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"Lavi. Lavi… LAVI!"
The redheaded exorcist grunted, then stuck his head out of the shelves.
"Have you been there all this time?" asked Allen as he saw Lavi. Lavi nodded blearily, rubbing his eyes.
"Found anything?" he asked, coming over and sitting down next to his friend. He blinked several times when he realized that Lavi was sitting beside an enormous pile of books. "H-have you read all of those?"
"Uh… most of them just scanned, but I haven't seen anything about Innocence in them. But, there is this," he said, then looked around. "Where'd I put that?"
Allen watched at Lavi dug through the books and finally found which one he was looking for. It was a very small book. The exorcist flipped through until he found the page he wanted and then held it up to show Allen.
Allen took the book and read: "Not all passageways in Hogwarts are known to all. There are many secret passages and doorways, hidden from passersby. One of these very rooms I have come to call the 'Needed before seen Room', for that's exactly what it is. I myself haven't set foot in this room, and only found out about it when overhearing a conversation. But upon questioning, the couple denied any knowledge. Not knowing where it was, I…"
The white haired exorcist stopped reading and looked at Lavi.
"You think… that if we could find this room, then we could maybe find the Innocence?" asked Allen.
Lavi shrugged. "It's a try at least. But they don't really give any information about it. What if we find the room but we don't know it's the room? It could be possible… It sounds as if we couldn't find it unless we were in need of the Innocence," said Lavi, putting the book down.
"But we do need it," said Allen, not quite understanding Lavi.
"Not at the moment. I'd think that we'd only really need it if the Akuma were about to get it. So, if it was in this room, then—"
"—then we'd only find it when the Akuma find it," finished Allen, leaning up against the wall.
"Yep, that's about the idea. I'm gonna write that down though…" Lavi shuffled around, locating his paper, quill and ink then set to scribbling the information down that he had learned. When he had finished, the paper had the exact quote, the author's name, book title and some notes from Lavi.
"Wow Lavi…how can you remember that?" asked the younger exorcist as the redhead rolled up the paper.
"Photographic memory," was the answer.
Allen leaned against the bookcase again, looking out of the window. It was thunderous, cloudy, and altogether gloomy.
"I wonder where everyone else is?" mused Allen, still staring out of the high window.
"Dunno. But I was thinking, maybe we should talk to Komui. About wands, you know?" said Lavi, sifting through the mound of books.
"You're right. But… should we tell him? Or another of the exorcists? I mean, they should have a chance to learn spells as well," said the younger boy, picking up a book that had escaped Lavi's organization.
Lavi paused. "But remember, Hermione put a spell on that paper, so if we do tell, we'll get spots or something," mumbled the redhead.
"Can't we just ask Hermione?"
Lavi shrugged and went back to putting the books in piles.
Allen turned the book around that he had been holding. It was green and on the cover had an outline of some sort of creature. He stared at it then flipped through it, pausing on an interesting looking page.
"What's that?" asked Lavi, noticing that Allen had fallen silent.
"A book… about magical creatures, looks like. Whoa, that's really cool…" he drifted off, continuing to read.
"What?"
"What? Oh, just all the magical creatures and such. Look, there's a whole chapter for dragons! Wow, there's so many different breeds!" Allen showed Lavi a picture of a green dragon. The picture was moving, of course, and the dragon was rearing up, stomping its feet in the attempt to squish the people standing beside it.
"A Common Welsh Green," read Allen, looking at the caption below the image.
"That's fascinating Allen," said Lavi, going back to his books. "Nothing, nothing… already read this one."
Allen tuned out Lavi's comments to himself and continued to read. He flipped past the dragon section, which took up many pages. Finally reaching the end of the dragons, he found himself looking at an image of a skeletal horse… thing with bat wings.
"Whoa, that's awesome… sort of. Kind of creepy though," he muttered to himself.
"What now?" asked Lavi irritably while he scribbled something down.
"This animal… you can only see it if you've seen someone die," he said, not looking up.
"Really? How's that work?" asked Lavi, taking interest for the first time. Allen shrugged but showed the image.
"Kinda creepy looking," Lavi commented as he looked at the black horse.
"Yeah," whispered Allen, staring down at the picture. The horse was standing in a clearing, with some others. They were lounging in the shade, one kept looking straight him.
"Hey, Allen, Lavi, we're having a meeting! Go to the room where we've met before," both Allen and Lavi looked around. A batwinged golem had flown into the Library.
"Ok Lenalee, we'll be there in a minute," said Allen, standing up. "I think I'm going to check this book out."
A few minutes later they had reached the room, Allen carrying the magical creatures' book and Lavi his papers.
"Hi!" said Allen as they entered.
"Finally," grumbled Kanda from where he sat. Allen glared at him as he and Lavi sat down next to Lenalee.
"Is Komui going to come?" asked Lavi as he put his papers on the table.
"No, he's busy with Professor Dumbledore, so its just us," said Lenalee, smiling.
"Where's Krory?" asked Allen, noticing that he was missing.
"Also busy, but with Professor Sprout. Apparently they got some new plants going and they're being a handful," said Lenalee again.
"Has anyone seen any Akuma?"
"Not that I—"
"There might be one," cut in Kanda, interrupting Lenalee.
Everyone looked at him, staring.
"Stop gawking. But I think there's an Akuma that might be lurking about," he said, tsking slightly.
"But… how could there be? I-I mean, Allen would see it, wouldn't h-he?" asked Miranda.
"What if his eye isn't working?" asked Kanda to the room at large.
"What?" everyone stared at him again.
He narrowed his eyes impatiently. "It wouldn't be the first time."
"I-I guess… I have been having an odd… feeling," said Allen.
"Why haven't you said anything?" hissed Kanda venomously.
"Sorry if no one told you, but I did say something. I told Lavi and Lenalee!" he shot back, glaring at Kanda.
"Then why didn't you tell anyone?" he rounded on Lavi and Lenalee.
"Well, we forgot. Anyway, I have something that might interest you, if you want to find the Innocence," said Lavi, not reacting to Kanda's dangerous tones.
"Really?" asked Lenalee surprised.
"Yes, I do… found it in the library," he said and unrolled the paper with his scribblings.
"Well, what?" said Kanda, calming slightly.
"There's a room, mentioned in this one book, that's hidden in the castle," began Lavi. "The author says that you need it before you can go into the room. I was thinking that maybe the Innocence is hidden there… and we wouldn't be able to get it until we need it."
"But… don't we need it now?" asked Miranda, confused.
"I thought that as well," said Allen. "But then Lavi pointed out that we wouldn't need it until the Akuma find out where it's hidden."
"Which makes us in a tight spot," said Lavi.
"So if we can only find it when the Akuma know where it is, since its in danger of getting found, then…"
"The Akuma might have a good chance of getting it," finished Allen.
"Well done Lavi," said Kanda sarcastically. "So we might have a big battle in the middle of the school."
"Hey! It's the first clue I've found, so shut you mouth! You haven't been living in the library for the past week, have you?" for some reason Lavi exploded from Kanda's last comment.
"You're doing a fantastic job!" said Kanda loudly, standing up quickly, his chair falling to the ground.
"What've you been doing? Walking around and getting goggled at! You could at least help!" yelled Lavi, also standing up.
"Shut up! I've been looking for the Innocence, what do you think I've been doing? And you think I like people staring at me?" Kanda's voice rose.
"Yeah, I think you like the attention!" retorted Lavi.
"WHAT? I hate having people stare at me!"
"No, you just want someone to beat up! You think its boring looking through books so you leave it to us!"
"GUYS!" Lenalee shouted. They took no heed to her yell and continued to fight, Kanda walking around the table. Lavi did as well.
"WOULD YOU GUYS QUIT IT?!" that yell came from Allen. It was followed by two yells of surprise and thuds.
Lenalee looked around. Allen was standing in the center of the room and looking very angry, his Innocence activated. Lavi and Kanda had both been thrown back, to opposite sides of the room.
"What's the matter with you two? It's not the best time to fight, if you've noticed! If my eye isn't working properly, then we have to watch out! The Akuma could be in the castle right now and you two want to start a fistfight! We have bigger problems to worry about, instead of beating each other up! We have no clue where the Innocence is, or where the Akuma are hiding! If you want to fight with each other, fight after we've found it or else you'll have to deal with me!"
Lenalee and Miranda both stared at Allen with very surprised looks on their faces.
Apart from Lavi and Kanda almost starting a fight, they hadn't seen Allen act like that.
Lavi pushed his headband from his eye and stood up. "Sorry… I… don't know what happened. I was really angry all of a sudden."
Allen let his arms fall and let go of the invocation. His arm turned back to normal. He watched Lavi walk over to the table and sit down again. Kanda had risen to his feet as well and was brushing himself off.
"What h-happened?" Miranda asked Lenalee quietly.
Lenalee looked worried. "I don't know. But I have a feeling that it might have something to do with the Akuma."
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"Have your exorcists found anything involving the Innocence, Komui?"
Komui sighed, sifting through his papers. "I'm not sure. They're having a meeting right now."
"Why aren't you there with them?" asked Professor Dumbledore, looking at the head chief over his fingers.
"Some things they have to figure out by themselves," said Komui, looking up at Dumbledore.
"You are absolutely correct. Some things need to be found by the ones who are responsible," said the Headmaster.
"You're right. But I'm worried about them."
"Why?"
"The Akuma are keeping unnaturally quiet and tempers are rising. It's going to be tough for them," said Komui.
Well, there you have it, chapter 16. Wow, I never thought I would get that far in a story. I hope you enjoyed it and I really really hope that I can get another chapter sooner than this one. But, I'm sorry to say, that I start school on monday and that will slow my progress in the story. I will try though. Reviews? Tell me what you think!
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