Chapter 5

Sorry if this chapter is short.

Timcanpy was fluttering around his head worriedly, Allen had collapsed suddenly, his curse had activated and he was uneasy in his slumber. It was swirling around in the confined monocle, like it was watching something. Allen could see the battle between the Noah and the exorcists, they needed help. "Come on, Tim. It's time to go. They need help now, right?" Allen said, getting up, it was obvious that his Master wouldn't appear soon, he might even be in the battlefield already! Allen started to run towards the battle, when Lavi and Kanda started fighting the Noahs, he knew that he wasn't going to reach there any time soon and the Earl was going to attack Lenalee. The idea of using Noahs Ark popped up, but as his eye surveyed the battle; he knew that Kanda and Lavi needed his help against the Noahs.

"Crown Clown."

His Innocence activated, he knew that his crazy idea would be possible. "Go help them out. I will head there through Noahs Ark. You'll travel faster without me."

Crown objected, "Go!" It had no choice but to leave Allen, leaving his left arm numb. So that was what would happen if Crown left, it was sort of painful…

"Urgh," Allen groaned and the Noahs Ark appeared behind him and enveloped him in its dark purple folds.

He was walking in the streets of the Noahs Ark, even though disconnected from his Innocence, Crown sent him daily notices of where it was and so on. It had reached the battle and through Crown, he asked, "Would you like me to help?" Before Crown destroyed some of the Akumas and stopped the two Noahs from moving. Crown continued towards Lenalee when Lavi whispered his name and warned him of the barrier, just as Allen opened a door and stepped through it. The gate materialized and sliced through the barrier with a crackle as crown jumped to Allen immediately. He saw the Earl scaring Lenalee with his actions and jumped to the defense, stopping the Earl.

"Good evening," the Earl said reflexively and surprised to the newcomer, his tone changed when he recognized the albino, "Allen Walker! Every time I meet you, you destroy my plans!"

A layer of hate covered his words as Allen's lips curved into a smile, "Good evening, Earl." Lenalee seemed surprised and relieved to see him; it seemed that someone had told them he was still alive. But first, to get the Earl away; he pushed the Earl off, as the Earl took in his appearance.

"This is like the white Augustus that chased after me. Did it choose you? I wonder what it's called now…" The Earl said, Allen did not reply, intent on killing the Earl, he used Crown Edge, but the Earl remained alive.

'What? Normal people wouldn't have survived that… Then again, the Earl isn't normal.' Allen thought. Apparently, the Earl agreed and reached towards the umbrella that always called out 'Lero' and pulled out a sword with a cross on it. A pang of pain hit Allen's eye as it activated and stared at the Earl accusingly.

It was enough to make the Earl stop as he stared at the evolved eye, Allen took the chance to attack him, although the attack was feeble.

"That eye… it looks just like the eye of a level three…" the Earl murmured out loud as a pierce of pain made Allen cover his eye, breaking the Earl out of his thoughts; he had a lot to think about.

Then the Earl formed a ball of dark matter in each of his hands, "Our little lady is being quite the sleeping beauty, eh?" the Earl said as he hurled both balls at Lenalee. Allen lunged and reached out for the girl. He cradled her in his hands as he landed a few feet away and the dark matter collided with the ground, causing another explosion and more white mist to appear. When it cleared, the Earl and the Noahs were gone, as were the Akumas; destroyed by Tiedoll and Bookman. Allen could only wander around with Lenalee in his arms and wait for the mist to clear a little more. He came across Lavi who was disoriented by the explosion.

"Allen, it's you! Are you alright? I mean, the level 3s that got you didn't do anything bad right?" Lavi asked concernedly, like a mother.

"Yes, Mum, it's me. No, Mum, I'm alright." Allen replied sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

"That's a good boy. Now go along and do your work. Have you gotten a girl yet? I want to see those grandchildren of mine." Lavi said, playing along.

Allen's face turned pink, "Lavi, stop it!" But the older boy was enjoying himself tremendously—too much to be stopped—"You'd better get a girlfriend soon… Oh, is this her—"

"Hey you, stop right there!" the shout alerted Allen to a highly dangerous attacker and he stepped out of the way, allowing Lavi to take the attack. The chokuto chopped off a few strands of red hair and Lavi spuealed in terror.

"Yuu-chan?" Lavi said when he made out the figure. Kanda growled at the use of his nickname and made to shave the rabbit's head off. Allen just looked on, he wasn't going to step in; Lavi was receiving his punishment from Kanda and it didn't bother him. It was payback for the previous topic anyway.

He headed off to find the others, leaving Lavi to his doom. He met the others, Bookman sizing up the destroyer of time as they headed to a bridge nearby for shelter. Just at that moment, Lavi burst out of a cloud nearby, shouting, "Allen~, how could you have left me behind with—YUU-CHAN!" Lavi's sentence ended in a scream as Kanda burst out with the Devil. They ran in circles before Lavi was caught, slaughtered and sent to the butcher.

Lenalee was still unconscious, Allen had wanted to apologise immediately, but she was not up for the task. In the mean time, he updated the others on him, knowing that they had many questions. Bookman asked a few peculiar ones and seemed relieved after that, 'He's not the 14th.' Then Lenalee stirred, catching his attention. He waited eagerly for her to open her eyes.

Lenalee was happy and glad that a piece of her world was back. He had saved her from the Earl, she was grateful for that. She opened her eyes, feeling a little more refreshed to meet the world. Everything was hazy, then her vision focused on one person who had white hair.

"Allen-kun," she greeted him.

"Lenalee," he replied, "I'm sorry, about… about…"

Why was he apologizing to her? Ah yes, it was about Suman… He was guilty because he hadn't been able to save Suman.

"Allen-kun," she interrupted, "If it's about Suman, you have saved him from being a Fallen One. Without you, Suman would have died unhappily. You saved Suman from that, didn't you? Even though his other ending was still nasty, but you saved and relieved him mentally."

Allen's eyes filled and one tear rolled over before he covered it with his bangs.

"Oh, Allen's crying." Lavi teased, breaking into their conversation.

Allen glared at him with watery eyes and retorted, "Well, at least it's better than what you told Lenalee on the ship! I didn't break a window, make her cry and got a punishment from Bookman and Mahoja!" Lavi could only stare at him in surprise, how did Allen know this? He wasn't with them… so how? Just then, Tiedoll came in with Marie, they settled down before beginning another topic on the General's mind.

"I think the Cross unit should stop searching for Marian. That bastard has a different level of fighting and you would get in the way. Besides, your unit and ours, along with Hevlaska, we're the only exorcists left. Are you sure you want to continue?" Surprisingly, it was Miranda who answered, "General Cross asked us that too, at that time, Lenalee here said we would continue with our mission. We can't give up when we had supporters behind us all the while." She was crying now and the others nodded their heads in agreement, "The comrades and supporters who had sacrificed so much for us." Lavi threw in, his eyes glistening oddly and Lenalee crying silently with Allen as her handkerchief. Bookman threw Lavi a look.

Tiedoll sighed, "What about you?" He had already expected the answer, "You know the answer to that already." Allen replied, an empty smile on his face; all this talk of dead people made his heart ache.

Tiedoll sighed yet again, "The road from now on would be one filled with brambles." He told them. Just as he said that, Allen noticed that there were several crackles of dark matter around him and Lenalee. A pumpkin popped out of the ground, crying, "Found you!" Before a black star appeared beneath them and dragged them into the black abyss.

"Lenalee, Allen!" he heard Lavi crying out before they were swallowed and a hand grasped his outstretched one.

Yeah, I know, another cliffhanger again, huh? I'm pretty much unlucky since I lost 2 chapters or more when I lost my time drive. Sheesh… Anyway, nxt chap would be up pretty soon. Oh yeah, about the pairings…

Allen and Yuu: 5

Allen seme: 1

Allen and Lenalee: 5

Yullen[Yuu and Allen] and Alena[Allen and Lenalee] are on par, heh?