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Chapter 27:

I ran toward the Akuma wanting no more than to bash into the thing in order to tear it to pieces. I didn't know where this rage came from. I believed it came from seeing the suffering of my friends and my own self-hating for being selfish all this time.

In any case, I was mad, there was a huge Akuma in front of me, who am I to say no?

I then heard a huge mechanical voice saying "Evil star guitar" and sound waves came out of the Akuma destroying what it hit.

I felt them hit me. Never had anything hurt so much. It slammed into me with the force of two trains. Yes, I'd been hit by a train before, it had hurt, and it had taken me a while to recover from that. This hurt more. I certainly didn't want to know what it would do to me.

I kept going at the Akuma. Thankfully you could see most of the sound waves. Most. The ones that you couldn't see hit you and it wasn't pleasant.

Man did it hurt.

I jumped up and landed on the Akuma's head. It cracked the mask, but didn't destroy it. I jumped up again and twirled through the air gaining momentum so that gravity, speed and innocence would give me enough power to destroy this thing.

The Akuma, being an Akuma, and not very intelligent for it's level- probably because it had too many minds to be of one sound mind- looked up.

I came down hard and fast smashing through it's face and half it's body.

I looked back at the warehouse and saw another huge one there.

I ran in that direction, ready to beat another one up. It smacked at something and then stopped moving. I looked closely and saw strings holding it down.

Marie was here! And if Marie was here then- yup, Kanda was here- He sliced through the Akuma's head in one clean swipe.

Great… it took me two hits to get one down and him only one. Will I never get better than him? I stopped and stood next to Krory and Bookman.

"What a splendid young man." I frowned.

"With most of us injured, he couldn't have come a t a better time." Bookman was right, our group was pretty badly injured. Not to mention, Lenalee couldn't seem to activate her innocence. It was a great help that Marie and Kanda had come.

"Hey you," I heard Kanda say and turned to see if he was talking to me. "if you ever call me by my name again, I'll cut you." Nope. Talking to Lavi.

Then- You know how when you're having a nightmare, and you're dreaming about the thing that scares you the most, and all the muscles in your body tense up, you open your mouth to scream but no sound comes out, and then you wake up shacking head to toe with your mouth open in a silent scream and your muscles are on fire from the amount to time you kept them tensed up?- Well, that's the feeling I got then. That indescribable fear that makes your body react instinctively.

All the muscles in my body tensed up when I sensed that horrid evil that words can't describe. That impending doom coming at me in a black ball.

It hit me, and it was worse than being hit by two trains. I don't know how to describe it. All I know was that it hit me and I flew back 400 meters at least before I was able to hold my ground, though I fell to my knees.

I coughed and tasted blood.

I got up to my feet shakily and saw that the others were all right, then I saw Lenalee's innocence. It had crystallized around her, it must have been what had saved her and most of them from the blast. I'd never seen anything like it before.

"Hannah… Kanda… Lavi…" Lenalee's voice came into my head clearer than I had ever heard it in all my years of knowing her. "Hey! I'm in here! Help!"

"Look out Kanda!" Marie's voice cut my concentration bringing me back to the battle taking place around me. I saw the curly haired Noah attacking Kanda. Another Noah came at Lavi and I saw the remaining Akuma prepare for another sound attack. I ran off to fight it.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw General Tiedoll step out and activate his innocence.

"Know the beauty of this world." He said in his bass voice, sticking his innocence in the ground. A puppet came up and tackled the Akuma to the ground. "Go destroy it." He told me.

I didn't need to be told twice. I ran toward the Akuma, jumped in the air and landed on its face, splitting it open and destroying the Akuma.

"The sky split open!" Lavi's yell turned my attention to the sky where I saw something white pushing the Earl away from Lenalee. The Earl flew back and then turned his umbrella into a sword. I turned my attention to Lenalee, she was unprotected and there were two more Noah out there.

I rushed to get to her side and there was a blinding flash of white light.