Chapter 3- Searching Essen
Author's Note: X.X Still hurting from Kanda's attack... Enjoy...
Komui took a sip of his coffee as he went through some papers with a blank stare.
Reever was busy working as usual as he grumbled about the large amount of work with no break.
"I found something!"
Komui and Reever looked over at Johnny as he waved a book around happily while running to Komui.
Komui took the book and read the cover quickly.
"History Of Noah? What did you find in this old book?" Reever asked as he looked at the book also, and Johnny chuckled nervously.
"Actually, it fell open to a certain page and I saw the word Coldblood."
Komui perked up, and he opened the book to the page that Johnny bookmarked and started to read out loud.
"The waters grew until the Ark moved in the shifting waves. Noah looked out in the rain and saw a single person standing among the rain, and he watched as the person was swallowed by the waves of Coldblood."
Reever and the others stared at Komui as the chief slowly turned the page and read it also.
"God must purge the land, so he sends the angels to deliver the message to Noah and to the rain bringer. The ark is built and the Coldblood calls upon the cleansing rain to wash away the earth's sins…"
Everyone was silent as Komui closed the book, and stood up while staring at the cover of the book that showed a small ark with a man standing at the front.
"That means… Reever!" Komui suddenly shouted, and Reever flinched as Komui pointed at him.
"Find any information about these people called Coldblood! Johnny, send word to Allen, Kanda, and Lavi and tell them to get back as soon as possible! This mission is far too much for them!"
Everyone began to run around, and Komui slumped back in his chair in a daze.
"It can't be… This isn't possible…"
"Um, Chief?"
Komui looked up to see Reever holding a piece of paper in front of him.
"I found out about that Innocence you asked for."
Komui took the paper, and then nodded as he read it out loud.
"Records of a Innocence that can become anything it "records". This Innocence was called Kikan Mizu or Water Mirror, and it disappeared after the Earl was beaten in the great flood. That makes sense…"
Komui handed the paper back to Reever, and then stood up with a determined stare.
"Get those three back now!"
Allen, Kanda, and Lavi faced the Akuma around them as the girl happily stared down at them.
"Little Hammer, Big Hammer…Grow… Grow… Grow!" Lavi shouted as his hammer started to grow in size, and he swung it down at the Akuma with a large grin.
"Not good enough." Kanda said as he swung Mugen at the Akuma, and called out.
"Ichigen!"
Several insect-like things shot out of the blade, and impaled several Akuma.
Allen ran his claw through an Akuma, and the three froze as water poured down onto their weapons.
"What the!? They were just water!" Lavi shouted, and Allen looked over at him, but then suddenly Allen's eyes widened as he shouted to Lavi.
"Behind you!" Lavi was barely able to turn around as the girl kicked him straight in the stomach, and send him back onto the ground.
"These Akuma are fakes, so that's why your eye didn't sense them, Bean Sprout!" Kanda snapped as he slashed more Akuma apart, and Allen nodded as he ran at the girl.
Allen swung his claw at the girl, but flinched as the girl leaned back and dodged the claw.
"Master Gin thought you'd be able to find that out quickly."
"Master?" Lavi asked as he stood back up and wiped some blood away from his mouth.
Kanda pointed Mugen at the girl, and glared at her while water dripped down his cloak.
"Who are you, and how are these Akuma made out of water?"
"I am Hâna Kiki. A Japanese Exorcist, and these Akuma are merely simple mirror images of the originals they were copied from."
The three stared at Kiki in surprise as the girl smiled kindly.
"Master Gin's Innocence can make anything from water. He is impossible for you to defeat, Weak Exorcists." Kiki said, and then suddenly disappeared as she landed on the roof of a building.
"Bye-bye! Can't wait till next time!"
"There won't be a next time!" Kanda shouted as he appeared above Kiki and swung Mugen down at her.
Kiki looked up at him with a bored look as she raised her hand and caught the blade with her bare hands.
The three flinched as her foot swiftly slammed into Kanda's ribs, and sent him down next to Allen.
"You three couldn't even wake Master Gin up." Kiki said coldly before disappearing again.
"Who was she?" Allen asked out loud as he helped Kanda back up, but was hit away as Kanda stood up on his own.
"She's an enemy of course. If she's in the way, I'll kill her myself." Kanda said while his murderous intent glowed demonically red behind him.
Allen and Lavi watched, but then flinched as Kanda glared back at them.
"Let's go! We have no reason to stick around here."
"Okay…" Allen and Lavi muttered as they followed Kanda down the empty street.
In the nearby town of Essen, three Exorcist ran down a deserted street as they looked around.
"Where is he? The one Chief described?"
"I saw him a moment ago!"
"Over here! He went this way!"
The three Exorcists turned the corner, and stared down the street as someone calmly strolled down the street with an open umbrella above him.
"Hold it!" One Exorcist shouted as the three ran toward him.
"One… Two… Three… Why is it always three?" Gin asked as it started to rain, and a few moments later, Gin licked his fingers as blood rolled down his hand.
"Let's see… That is how you spell that…" He muttered as he ran his finger down a wall, and smirked at the writing he had wrote with the Exorcist's blood.
He happily walked down the street while dragging the three Exorcists' Innocence behind him.
"What beautiful rain we have in this area…" Gin muttered as he disappeared, and people slowly looked out of their windows, and several people shrieked as they saw the writing.
GOOD BYE WORLD, I'M BACK
Allen suddenly shivered as a cold shiver went down his spine.
He looked around, and then shrugged as he continued to follow Kanda and Lavi.
The walked in silence as Kanda walked ahead of them.
Lavi was the first to break the silence.
"So Yu, do you like Lenalee?"
"What!?" Allen and Kanda said in surprise as Lavi stared at the two as they continued to walk.
"Just wondering…"
"A little." Kanda said, and the two stared at him in surprise.
"W-What…!?"
"She good at fighting. That's why." Kanda stated with a scowl as he pointed Mugen at Lavi, and Lavi nodded with a sweat running down his face.
"Just wondering if Allen had an competition." Lavi said with a grin as Allen looked away and Kanda scowled again.
"Like I care what Bean Sprout thinks."
"It's Allen! Not Bean Sprout!" Allen snapped at Kanda, and the two glared at each other angrily.
"Okay, let's just calm down now." Lavi said in defense, but the two glared at him instead.
"You're the one who brought it up!" They shouted, and Lavi backed up a little while the two continued to glare at him.
"S-Sorry?"
After they had stopped beating Lavi up, Kanda and Allen went back to walking forward as Lavi limped behind them.
'I was just wondering…' He thought bitterly as they came to another train station.
"Let's get on and head to Essen."
"Why Essen?"
"That's the direction that that girl headed toward."
"Really? Okay, so we might find Lenalee there?"
"Maybe."
The three boarded the train casually as the people around them stared at them, but then went back to whatever they were doing.
In the corner seats, someone was calmly spinning a card between their fingers as they watched the three Exorcists walked toward the First Class rooms.
"King, Joker, and an Ace." The person said as they tossed those three cards onto the opposite seat.
"This will be interesting…" The person said as they picked the cards up, and walked toward the First Class rooms.
"I wonder how well they can play?" The person muttered as they knocked on the Exorcists' room's door.
Allen opened the door and stared at the person with a surprised look.
"Hi! Can one of you play with me?"
"Um…" Allen looked back at Kanda to see him glaring at him.
"Do what you want until we get to where we're going, and while you're at it, you go too, Eye-Patch." Kanda said to Lavi, and Lavi and Allen left the room and stared down at the little girl holding a deck of cards.
"Um… Why did you want us to play with you?"
"Nobody else would, so I was waiting for new people to come. Thanks for saying you'll play with me!" She said with a smile, and Lavi and Allen smiled as they sat down on the floor and she dealt the cards.
"Why didn't your parents play with you?" Allen asked as he looked at his cards, and the little girl sighed sadly.
"I don't have any parents. I sneaked on board this train to go to Essen."
"Really? We're going there too." Lavi said as he glanced at his cards and then sighed.
Three hours past by, and Lavi was staring in shock as Allen and the little girl were still playing the same card game for the past three hours.
"Call."
"Call."
Allen let out a small nervous laugh as he dealt the cards and the two stared at their hands.
'She's just as good as Allen! I can't even tell if she's cheating…' Lavi thought as the two put their cards down and stared at each other's Call.
Suddenly, the door opened, and Kanda glared down at them while he fixed his cloak.
"It's time to get off." He said coldly down to the three, and Allen sighed as he handed the cards back to the little girl.
"Thanks for playing." The little girl said happily as Allen and Lavi stood up, and the two smiled down at her as they walked away.
Kanda grumbled bitterly as they stepped onto the streets of Essen, and looked around.
Behind them, the little girl hopped off onto the streets and looked around also as she slung a bag over her shoulder so it lay on her other side.
"We should start looking around." Kanda said as he walked toward the center of town, and the other two grumbled as they followed him.
Allen looked around the quiet street as the three walked farther down toward the center of town.
Kanda suddenly stopped, and so did the other two as they stared ahead of them in shock.
The blood glinted in the sunlight as the three dead Exorcists lay around with their bodies ripped to shreds.
"Who did this!?" Kanda snapped at the surrounding people, and they flinched as an older woman stammered. "I-I-It was… a man with a black umbrella and wearing a black cloak." She finally said, and Kanda gritted his teeth as he looked back at the bodies.
"It must have been Gin. So he was here…" Lavi muttered as Allen knelt down to look at the bodies closer.
"They look like they were ripped apart by a weapon, probably a scythe." He stated, and Lavi nodded as the two remembered the scythe they saw appear from Gin's umbrella yesterday.
Kanda sighed as he looked back at the two, and then at the three bodies.
"I'll call Komui when we can to tell him if this isn't plastered all over the news." He said, and Lavi and Allen nodded as they slowly followed him.
"The blood wasn't dry, so he was here a short while ago. He must…" Allen started to say until the three stared at the writing they had missed.
"W-What is this?"
"It's blood as well…"
"He used their blood to write it!"
Kanda gritted his teeth harder, and then let out a deep breath as he turned away.
"Let's find him faster so we can stop him from killing any more Exorcists." Kanda said, and the two followed him.
'We also have to make sure he doesn't do the same to Lenalee…' Allen thought as an image of Lenalee flashed through his mind.
Allen let out a sigh as he looked back at the scene, and then followed Kanda away.
People continued to look at the blood as the little girl from the train calmly walked past it while glancing at it.
She turned down into a deserted street, and then smiled as she moved her hair away from her forehead to reveal a row of crosses along her forehead.
"Foolish Exorcists."
"They sure are."
The little girl looked over with a smile as the person smiled back from underneath his black umbrella.
"Master Gin. Why didn't you reveal yourself to them again?"
"I thought this would make it more fun." Gin replied with a mysterious grin as the little girl nodded with an icy smirk.
"So what's the plan?" She asked as rain slowly started to fall from the sky.
"Simple." Gin said as he held a finger up.
"When those Exorcists go to sleep, I'll send "her" to them."
"How evil of you." The little girl said as she reached into her bag and pulled out her deck of cards.
"I'm supposed to be evil. That's why I have a Noah with me." Gin said with a happy grin as the little girl nodded.
"So is she ready?"
"Just about. I just need to do one last thing, and she'll hunt down Allen relentlessly."
The little girl nodded as Gin happily twirled around in the rain while his umbrella absorbed the falling rain that landed on it.
"So now it's your turn to do your part… Rôade." Gin said as he happily disappeared into the rain, and Rôade nodded as she happily twirled around and smiled.
"As a sister of a Noah, and a Noah, I'll do my job without question."
There's Chapter 3, and two more enemies have been named. The girl kinda reminds me of Tyki and Road put together...
Lavi: ... Why am I always being glared at:(
It's funny.
Lavi: T.T Little Hammer...
O.o; Oh no... Bye!