Akirina: I'm considering this a filler chappie... :) Hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 12

"What do you mean he's not here?" Link asked frantically as he tried to move from his position. Lavi struggled with the blonde man, managing to keep him lying on the floor.

"He pushed us into this strange structure—I'm telling you that's all I know!" Lavi replied and Link went limp suddenly, surprising Lavi.

"Then do you recognize where we are?"

Lavi looked around. The white buildings seemed familiar… Then his eyes fell upon the white tower in the middle of the city. Lavi gasped in surprise. Link noticed Lavi's sudden change of expression.

"What's wrong?"

"I recognize this place…" Lavi breathed. "This is the Noah's Ark."

"Noah's Ark?"

"But why are we here?" Lavi wondered to himself. "The last time I was in the Ark, it was self-destructing…"

"You said Walker summoned this… Noah's Ark?" Link asked, breaking through Lavi's mumbling.

"Yes," Lavi replied. "It was two years ago, though."

"That's funny. There wasn't any mention of this Noah's Ark in the reports I received."

Lavi frowned. "That's funny. But I'm sure Inspector Leverrier knew about it…"

"If he did, he never mentioned it to me." Link replied. "There's a great deal he doesn't tell me, though."

Lavi started to say something else when a door appeared and three Exorcists stepped through. He noticed that Allen was holding a hand over his left eye. Strange, Lavi thought, I'll have to ask him about that later, I suppose.

"Allen!" Lavi exclaimed, bolting off the ground. "How did we get in here again? How did you… summon the Noah's Ark?"

Allen merely grinned and shrugged. "I don't know. But I've done this at least twice two years ago."

"Before you left?"

"Yeah. Kanda came along, once."

"Yuu-chan?" Lavi aimed his eye at Kanda. "Why didn't I hear about this?"

"It slipped my mind," Allen shrugged. "And I didn't think it was important."

Lavi gaped at his friend and superior. "You must be joking. You can control something the Noahs can and you didn't tell us?"

Allen blinked. "Um, no?" he replied.

"Komui will have to know about this as well, I suppose." Lavi sighed to himself and turned back to the young General. "Well? Did you manage to get the Innocence?"

"Yeah." Allen grinned again and showed him the glowing blue crystal ball.

"Allen, I nearly forgot to ask: why were you trapped in that stone structure?" Lenalee asked as she stepped in after Kanda and the door closed, disappearing into the air.

"Stone structure?" Lavi caught on quickly.

"Um, well, the Innocence reacted to the self-destructing Akuma and Crown Clown reacted to protect me from it…" Allen explained, "It's just like how it reacted to your Innocence two years ago, Lavi."

"Hm." Lavi said as he stored the information away.

"And your eye?" Link asked from his position on the ground.

Allen winced, he'd been hoping that Link would not notice. He slowly pulled his hand away from his eye. Lavi gasped at the sight presented: Allen's eye had been mutilated and blood pooled in the bloodied cavity.

"What happened?" Lenalee managed to ask, her face horrorstruck, unable to believe that Allen had gone through such a horrible experience. And he was still standing! Was the teen inhuman or what?

"Self-destructing Akumas and an Akuma who wanted to poke my eye out." Allen replied nonchalantly. "It reminds me of that meeting with… with someone. I can't remember who, though." Allen frowned.

"Allen," she asked softly, attracting Allen's attention again.

"Hm?" Allen replied, still trying to remember (the first meeting with Road).

"Doesn't it hurt?"

Allen blinked. Then blinked once more at the expressions of his comrades. He frowned lightly. "No. I can't feel the pain anymore. I did feel it, but now," he shrugged. "it's numb, I think. I don't know, but it feels that way."

"We should get you and Link to the Headquarters immediately." Lavi said in a faint voice. "Bookman would like to see that eye of yours, I suppose."

"Alright," Allen replied cheerily and he walked over to another door. "Black Order Headquarters, Infirmary, then?"

Without waiting for anyone to say anything, he lifted Link up in his arms and strode over to one of the doors, kicking it open with a 'bang'. Throwing an amused look over at his three companions, he said, "Come on, then. The portal's not going to be here forever."

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"I think you should stay in the Hospital Wing, Allen…" Lavi advised his friend while throwing a quick glance around the room to check that the Head Nurse was not around. After they had managed to shock the Head Nurse with their sudden appearance in the Infirmary, she had ordered the four Exorcists to stay in the Infirmary as she and the other medical personnel rushed to treat Link quickly.

"I don't want to." Allen replied stubbornly as he walked to the doors of the infirmary and threw them open before striding out. Lavi stared after his friend with a dumbstruck expression before he cast a desperate look at the other two equally surprised Exorcists. As one, they exited the infirmary and headed after Allen. Who knew what would happen if they allowed him to wander the corridors of the Black Order alone—most likely he'd end up lost and would get trapped as Komui's guinea pig.

"Allen, wait!" Lavi called after his friend. "You're walking to Komui's experiment lab!"

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"Hevlaska."

The four Exorcists were currently on the elevator that would allow them to meet Hevlaska. [A/N: Imagine how the Exorcists managed to meet Hevlaska in the old Headquarters.] It was a moment before the first and oldest Exorcist rose out of the depths of the darkness, her luminescent glowing body providing light them for the Exorcists to see her.

"Ah, welcome back, Allen." Hevlaska said in that resonant voice of hers. "How was the mission?"

"It went well," Allen replied. "We retrieved the Innocence."

He offered the crystal ball to Hevlaska and she reached out for it with her white tendrils. But to their surprise, no innocence fragment appeared from the crystal ball, although it pulsed a brighter blue.

"Ah," Hevlaska said and withdrew. "This Innocence already has an accommodator, Allen."

"What?" the four Exorcists exclaimed at the same time.

"From what I can detect, this accommodator is in China… and it is someone whom you've met before." Hevlaska told them as she started to withdraw into the depths. "Find the accommodator and bring her to the Black Order, Allen…"

Then she was gone. The four Exorcists threw bewildered looks at each other. Someone they knew? A new accommodator?

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"You are to stay in bed until I say otherwise." The Head Nurse ordered the four Exorcists that she had restrained to the bed with metal cuffs to keep them from escaping. Well, three, actually—Lenalee was a very good girl and she knew to stay in bed until she had fully recuperated. The other three, though, were a different matter.

"But I wanna eat!" Allen whined loudly as his stomach protested loudly. Very loudly.

"You just had dinner!" Lavi stared at his friend in shock. Allen looked at him incredulously.

"You call that dinner? I call that a snack!"

The Head Nurse sighed. She knew of Allen's appetite and this was not her first time having the teen in her infirmary. "Fine. Allen, you can go and find Jerry. Just come back immediately after you come back, alright?"

Allen let out a whoop of joy and was out of the infirmary before Lavi could protest.

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"Lavi, have you seen Allen?"

"No." Lavi sulked. "He went to have his meal."

"But it's been two hours since he left."

"Well, considering all the food he has to eat—" Lavi stopped, frowning.

"Well?"

"I didn't know you were so concerned about him, Kanda?" Lavi swung around, grinning evilly at Kanda. "Maybe these two years really have changed you! Do you love Allen? I think that boy loves you wholeheartedly—"

Thwack.

Lavi widened his eyes at the knife sticking out of the wall behind him. Then he turned to the blue samurai in the other bed from the opposite side of the infirmary.

"If you tell anyone about that, I'll castrate you first before I kill you," Kanda smiled eerily. "And I'll make sure the process is very thorough and painful."

Lavi felt his goosebumps prickle. "Y-yes, Yuu-chan." He whimpered.

Kanda threw him a glare. "And you will not call me that."

"Y-yes, K-kanda," Lavi stammered thoroughly cowed and trying to hide from Kanda's glare behind his blankets.

There was a moment of silence before Lavi broke it. "Come to think of it, Allen usually finishes his food within ten to fifteen minutes. He would never take one hour…"

"He's got a bad sense of direction." Kanda suddenly remembered.

"…Oh. Right."

Silence once more.

"Shall we tell the Head Nurse that Allen is lost?"

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"I'm sure that the canteen used to be here…" Allen wandered down the dark, lonely corridors of the Black Order. "I should be in the canteen when I round that corner and turn right two times…"

Allen rounded the corner and turned right two times… only to be met with a—

"EH? WHEN DID IT MOVE?" Allen exclaimed as he stared at the dead end in front of him. Then, he slumped down onto the ground and muttered to himself. "I give up. I'm lost."