Here is the second chapter, hope everyone will enjoy it. : )
Disclaimer: I can't think of any reason that it could be own by me, but having Timcanpy who could even eat cigarettes would be nice.
Chapter summary: Allen decided to go back to the Order to warn his friends, but would it holds a price too great for him to pay?
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
Documents
Flashbacks
The teen and the mist was in a heated conversation inside the Bookman's library.
"Grave digging? More like overturning the entire yard." The mist retorted. "What's the chance of someone finding this diary from all those coffins." He gestured towards the field that was covered by December snow.
"There are a lot of people who could have read this entry." the teen slapped his head in frustration; "You think people from the Central might have access to here?"
"They have access to everywhere, so why not here? Those recorders are neutral!" The mist growled. "Wasn't the title 'Bookman' given to them by the Vatican?"
"We need to tell the others. If you are right, then the Heart is dangerous." The teen whispered.
The mist gasped, surprised the teen. "You mustn't!"
"Why not?" The teen glared at the mist
"I don't want you to return to the Order." The mist pleaded.
"I'm not going to watch them die for something so idiotic." the teen protested, "I decided that I would be fighting for Akuma and my friends long time ago, that haven't change even though I'm not with the Order anymore. "
For once, the Mist was silent.
***
The grand Ark once pure and white now soaked in crimson and black blood. Countless bodies of Finders, Exorcists, Akumas, even a few Noahs now lay on the ground lifeless.
Two people were running toward their destination, soaked in blood from head to toe, both from the dead and from their own wounds. Tears ran down the face of the girl, her long green hair loose down her shoulder. They would be cut again as they were dirtied beyond repair. A boy with with messy white hair dyed light shade of red was running right next to her, his gray eyes appeared hollow.
Flashback
"Only you two can reach it! So get going!" Kanda screamed at them. He was covered in blood and wounds as his curse no longer heals him. His black hair hanged loose, free from their normal style.
"We can hold them back!" Lavi still wore his cheery smile...it was so fake, so forced. He too was covered in blood. "Hi-ban!" He yelled.
One single flame serpent appeared from his hammer destroying a group of levels 3s. Kanda slammed Lenalee and Allen into the final hallway and shut the door in their face.
"Lavi, Kanda! Why? Let me go back!" Lenalee slammed and kicked at the door, with her body finally gave out, she collapsed to the floor.
Allen bend down to pick Lenalee up.
"Let me down! Let me down, Allen!" Lenalee screamed, "I have to go back and help them!"
"Listen to me Lenalee." His eyes were stone hard. "We have to get the heart, it's the only way out now. Besides, Lavi and Kanda are both too stubborn to get killed by level 3s" Allen tried to cheer her up.
"Allen..." Lenalee buried her head in his arms and cried, soaking his jacket with her tears.
Flash back ends
Allen knew that Lavi and Kanda weren't going to be there to greet them when they get back. His newly evolved left eye told him there were at least twenty level 4s heading towards Lavi and Kanda, fast.
He sighed, How did the Earl found out about the location so soon? He remembered his conversation with the mist. He warned me not to come back, is it too late to change my mind? Allen shook his head, troubled by the thought.
I'm supposed to keep on walking like Mana said, not to turn back!
It all started with his left eye's new function-finding innocence. Which led to finding the heart. Allen finally returned to Order after he made up his mind, despised going against Mist's pleading.
Allen was found unconscious in front of the Order few days after he left the Library. Due his friends' request, the order sent him to the hospital with 2 CROW members guarding the door. A strange red glow pulse out to him during those days, calling out to him. Somehow, he knew that it was the Heart.
Thanks to the inspector's threat, Allen was forced to reveal the location, but an unknown person slipped this information to Earl. Almost all of his Akuma army were sent to block the order from getting to the Heart.
'Only the Heart can change things now.'
Flash Back
"Allen! You got to wake up!" A voice called out, forcing him to open his eyes.
Allen groaned,"Who..."
A girl gasped in delight and bend over to hug him. "You woke up. I thought you were never going to wake up again."
A tear splashed onto his face, "Lenalee?"
Tears continued to splash down her face, "When you disappeared, I thought we weren't going to see each other again, everything just felt...empty." She looked around at the room they were in.
"I..." Allen looked around to see the new hopsital room, everything was painted white with no windows in sight. 'This is worse than painting it blood red, at least it won't feel so...dull.'
"Oh! I forgot! You slept pass your 16th birthday! Happy birthday Allen." Lenalee wiped away her tears.
"Lenalee..."
"DINNER TIME! Allen, it's dinnertime! There are Mitarashi dango!" Lavi along with Bookman and other close friends came through the door. "Ah you are awake! Did you know how heavy you got while you were away?"
"I think it's probably you who got weaker." Allen laughed as he tied his hair back into a ponytail, he noticed that everyone was looking at him. "What is it?"
"You made Lenalee cry again." Lavi pointed out.
Allen sweat dropped, but suddenly froze as a blade was pointed at his throat. He looked up to see Kanda looking down at him.
"Kanda! Let Allen go!" Lenalee cried out in fear.
Kanda ignored her, "Where were you?"
Krory and Miranda wanted to say something but Lavi held them back. "Let's see how will Allen work this out." He whispered.
"Kanda, you are here too?" Allen smiled.
"Don't give me that innocent look. You still haven't answer me." Kanda's hand wavered.
"I was traveling around." Allen sighed. "Could you please remove Mugen?"
"Traveling? Don't joke."
"Kanda, a entire CROW squad was sent to kill me, I had to go somewhere else." Allen protested.
'CROW was sent to kill him? What is he talking about?' Lenalee wondered, 'Brother said he went missing during a mission.'
"You..." Kanda was having a hard time holding his sword there. 'What is going on? Mugen is howling, at me?'
"You really need to shed your sword," Allen's face darkened, "I can't guarantee your safety if you insist on attacking me."
"Allen! You won't go and attack a friend! It's not like you." Lenalee cried out.
"I won't, but Clown might." Allen replied in a matter of fact tone.
"Clown?" Lavi's eyebrow went up. 'Who on earth is Clown, I mean who wants a name like that?'
"Did you call me Allen?" A childish voice called out from behind Allen before appearing in front of everyone.
"He looks like..."
"Crown Clown." Krory finished the sentence for Lavi.
Clown wrapped his black arms around Allen like giving a big brother a hug, "Kanda is hurting you."
"Don't worry about it. Feminine face is always like this." Allen smirked.
"What did you call me Beansprout!?" Kanda went on fire.
"What? Not good enough for you? And my name is Allen, A-L-L-E-N!" Allen yelled, pushing Kanda's sword away before turning to Lenalee "Is the supervisor here?"
"You are looking for my brother?" Lenalee asked.
"ALLEN, you are back!" A man holding a cup of coffee barged into the room, wearing his everyday cloak. Now and then, a strange click could be heard from within his hat. "We were getting really worry."
Everyone sweat dropped when Komui entered. 'He haven't change at all.' Allen thought.
"Supervisor." Allen called out.
Everyone flinched at the iciness of Allen's tone, especially Komui. 'Does he blame me?'
Komui went to sit by Allen, "So you wanted to see me?"
"Yeah... it's about-"
"Look at what we have here." A tall, well-built man entered the room with a smaller figure, two CROW members were following behind.
'I should have realized that they would be here! I was so caught up with warning my friends that I forget something so important!'Allen wanted to slap himself, "Malcolm, Link." He nodded at the smaller figure.
"So now you addresses me with my first name, Allen Walker." the inspector looked around at the crowd. Many shuddered under his gaze, Lenalee completely paled. Allen watched Lenalee as she tried to calm herself down, 'She still has fear for him? What did he do to her? I never got the chance to ask Komui.
"Allen, let me kill him!" Bitterness filled the childish voice. Clown somehow activated his black claws and was ready to strike. "I had enough of him hurting you."
"Allen, what is Clown talking about?" Miranda asked when she saw the teen clenched his fists"
"I was tried for Heresy." Allen whispered, Clown who was beside him growled, sending people away.
"That wasn't what we were told about." Lenalee looked at her brother. "Did you know brother?"
Komui looked away, refuse to meet his sister's gaze.
"They decided that 14th was dangerous. However Crown Clown somehow absorbed him so I gained 14th power, but not his memories. It seemed that he gained some personalities afterward like General Klaud's anti-akuma beast, so now he is like this." Allen gestured towards Clown who was still baring fangs at Malcolm and Link. "My left arm is now filled with swirling tattoos, instead of the normal black color. It doesn't change anymore when I activate.
"He is way more aggressive than Lau Shimin." Lavi retorted.
"His not a monkey Lavi." Lenalee argued.
"Why were you tried for Heresy if the 14th never woken up?" Miranda questioned.
"Miranda, it's obvious. In their eyes, I couldn't be trusted." Allen shook his head, "Clown woke up in rage, I couldn't calm him down at all. He took control of my body and fled the Order."
"Why didn't you tell me this brother?" Lenalee turned to her brother. "Why didn't you? Was it because so that people would forget Allen?"
"I..." Komui didn't know how he could answer his sister's question. Kanda noticed komui's knuckles were pale white.
"It's fine, I'm not here to start some inside war if that's what you two were expecting." Allen stared at the two inspectors before turning back to the crowd. 'Should I warn them with the inspectors here?'
"Do you guys know who Wisher is?"
"Who?" Lavi asked, not noticing Bookman's stiff posture.
"I'm surprised that you even know that name." Malcolm watched him with interest.
"Allen, what are you talking about?" Lenalee asked.
Allen hesitated, he didn't expect the inspectors will be in the room when he planned this. "I came across a Diary in the Bookman's library, an apprentice translated a document and recorded it down. It talked about a Wisher who could make a wish come true by sacrificing her own son. Her son possessed a unique object, Clown and I believe that the Heart is that object."
"She sacrificed her own son?!" Miranda looked horrified before fainting, Krory grabbed her before she falls to the ground.
"The Heart is the unique object? We are trying to find something that would kill a innocent child for a wish?" Lenalee grasped Allen' hand so tight that he yelped. "Oh sorry Allen." She released her grip. "Brother, did you know about this too?"
"I..." Komui looked like a mouse trapped in a glass cage.
"Would this make Earl the good guy?" Krory pointed out, still pale from the shock.
"There might be some connection between the Wisher and Akuma's evolution." Allen replied.
"The heart is one of the material."Malcolm replied, shocking everyone,
"What! We are helping you performing some kind of sacrifice ceremony?!" Lavi yelled out before he was shushed by a warning glare from Bookman.
"Using the Heart, we shall win this war!" Malcolm ordered, "Your next mission, retrieve the Heart."
"We don't even know where the Heart is." Kanda turned to Malcolm, "Unless you are planning to send us on a around the world trip, which would be wasting my time."
"There is someone here that knows the location." Malcolm smirked, "Right Mr. Walker?"
Everyone quickly turned to Allen whose eyes went larger than dinner plates.
'How did he found out?!'
Flash back ends
The last door leading to the Heart was right in front of them. They rushed towards it with a new burst of hope. However that hope were crushed just like all the others. Hundreds of level 3s and maybe about fifty level 4s were waiting for them in the room, a few giant Akuma were present as well. They were the last obstacle standing between them and the heart.
"Dark boots, activate!" Lenalee yelled.
The two blood anklets melted and formed her dark boots. She used sonic boom and landed right in the middle of the Akumas. Using her waltzes of wind, many of them soon fall.
"Clown! We got to help her!" Allen called to his Crown Clown.
A silvery transparent mist started to form around Allen, a mask appeared out nowhere and settled on top of the mist.
"Go to her." Allen pleaded.
"You better take care of yourself." Clown reminded him before heading toward Lenalee.
"Hiss"
Allen turned around to see a group of level 3s surrounded him.
"Oh, the exorcist here just left himself out in the open! We can have some fun with him!" One of the level 3s laughed like a maniac.
"Do you really think that I will leave myself helpless?" Allen's eyes turned cold. He raised his right arm high about his head and began to sing.
Two strange circles appeared around his arm. Strange symbols soon covered them similar to the ones on 14th 's score.
"What? I can't...move!" A level 3 called out in frustration as a circle appeared around him. "What did you do to us?"
"I may be a exorcist, but I also have his power!" For a second, Allen's left eye turned gold.
All around him, level 3s and level 4s started to act strangely. They started to attack other Akumas that were not in Allen's control **. Every time when the controlled Akuma took down another Akuma, they explode in pain. Allen took advantage of this confusion and grabbed Lenalee as he rushed towards the heart. 'Am I so desperate that I would let their soul disappeared like that?'
They fell into a strange chamber...headfirst. The heart lay at the very center, a glowing red cube. Allen pulled Lenalee up to her feet before rushed toward the Heart. He held it in his hands so gently.
"We got it!"
'You are finally here! I been waiting for soooooooo long! You really took your time!" a voice sounded inside his head.
Allen yelped in shock, he tried to find the voice.
"Ahhhhhh!" a loud scream came from behind him. He quickly turned around to see a sword much like his own sticking out of Lenalee's chest. The sword was drawn sending a spray of blood across his face. The poor girl died before she even hits the ground.
"Lenalee?" Allen froze, as if he didn't believe what he just saw.
"Even if they are exorcists, they are so fragile." A weird, almost straggled laugh came from the shadow. "So we meet again, Allen Walker!"
Allen looked up at the weird bunny like person with pitch black eyes, "You! Why did you kill her? I was the one that had the Heart!"
"Ah, she was a nuisance to my plan. I have you to thank for, bring her right to me." Earl laughed his straggled laugh. "Why don't I show you miracle before you die." Earl withdrew a strange white orb from his pocket.
Allen backed away with the Heart. "What is that?"
"You already know the answer!" Earl looked at Allen straight in the eye with an evil gleam. "It's time to wake my masterpiece!"
The Earl dropped the now glowing orb into Lenalee's body. Lenalee's body started to shudder, her eyes opened in shock, revealing a pair of glowing gold iris. The Earl laugh happily while singing Happy birthday, "Let's make a wish for the birthday girl!"
"NO!" Allen sudden falls to his knee and started to cough, drops of the blood splashed onto the Heart. 'I over used his power!'
"Looks like your time is up!" Earl laughed as he watch the boy coughing up blood. Seeing the boy having no chance of defending himself, Earl once again raised his sword and slashed down. "Goodbye, boy!"
'I will not let you die!' A voice called out in Allen's mind.
The Earl went pass the dead Allen to grab the Heart, his eyes went wide. "How could this be? Where is the real one?" Earl howled in frustration and crushed the fake heart in his hand, "How could I have miscalculated this?"
Clown rushed in as he heard Earl's howl. Allen was lying on the ground with the shattered fake Heart beside him. 'So the frozen time restarts.'
***
So dark...
So cold...
Where am I...?
"You should stop hurting yourself by asking such useless questions." A voice called out to him.
Allen looked up at the sound of another voice. He saw a white figure walking towards him, or rather more like dancing towards him.
"You are the one who called me?" Allen puzzled.
"You have to ask?" The white figure pulled down his hood, revealing a mass of brown hair tied back much like Tiki Miki, the Noah of pleasure.
Allen's eyes went wide in shock.
"You look like..."
"You? At least your are not too dumb in the head to realize that!" The Allen looked alike laugh. It sounded like pearls hitting each other in the most beautiful melody.
The white figure looked like he was made from the same mold as Allen, however there were still few differences. The Allen look alike didn't have the tattoo that now rest on Allen's left arm and he doesn't have Allen's cursed eye, his hair was also much longer in a different color. Allen couldn't see his eyes as they were hidden behind his bangs.
"Who are you?" Allen questioned.
"Don't know, don't remember, but there is one thing I am sure of." He smirked.
"What's that one thing?" Allen's mind was overfilled with information that he couldn't possibly digest. He calmed himself down by taking in a deep breath, "And why do you look like me?"
"Man! I supposed someone must have hit your head too much. I can't believe you haven't put the two questions of yours together." The other Allen smiled so angelically that it could fool a devil.
Allen looked at him, puzzled.
"I am you."
.....and chop.
*The heart wants him. There is a very good reason, Allen wasn't chosen randomly. Clown doesn't want Allen to find the heart though.
**Allen gained 14th power along with the power to control the Ark (of course they are made up). However they put a lot of pressure on his body, which is something he can do without.
Just in case you haven't made the connection yet, the Mist is Clown. I didn't want to name him before the flashback.
/Taking a deep breath
Finally got this chapter done. It was definitely different from how it was draft in the first place. Allen's plan to warn his friends really backfired. He played right into his enemies' hand. I felt bad about pushing Komui into the corner, but a job as the supervisor will always be hard.
A lot thanks for the reviews! : )
I hope this chapter wasn't too confusing.