A/N; figured out what OC of mine I'm going to use for the Noah of Wrath. This means, I can work on this chapter. Her name is Vahni, Vahnishikha. Yeah, the name's pretty odd. I love my angry little thing though. She's naturally angry at the world. …But as I now type her, she's been less and less angry. ;~; Whaaaai Vah. Whaaai.

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Awaken the Noah of Wrath

Her head was pounding, the pain only increasing instead of decreasing with each passing second. There was a sticky wetness to her forehead that she assumed to be sweat. The pain was just so…painful. She closed her eyes in pain, leaning back after the wall of her tiny bedroom. Everything hurt, but nothing hurt as much as her head. It felt like a billion needles were being shoved into her forehead.

"Vahni?" The voice filtered in through the door, unmistakably female. "Boss wanted to know if you could take an extra shift down at the tavern…"

The female ran her fingers through short light blue hair, before responding to the question. "Yeah. I'll be down in a minute…" Moving off the bed, she moved into the small bathroom adjoining to splash water from the sink into her face. Her eyes widened in shock when she saw her reflection in the mirror. They weren't that normal gorgeous shade of blue anymore…they were gold. Blood was streamlining down her face from seven odd injuries on her forehead.

She frowned deeply, and shook her head vigorously and splashed more water into her face before moving to find a first aid kit under the sink. After a few moments of fiddling around, she managed to wrap bandages around her forehead, hiding most of it under her hair and bangs. She opened the door, looking at the other woman who was still standing there.

"You alright, Vahni?" The woman asked, a large and jolly-looking woman as she headed down the stairs of the inn towards the bar. The employees were provided rooms at the inn of their own, so they could always be on call for their boss.

Vahni flashed a fake smile towards the woman. "Just fine, Jess," As Vahni followed her, her hand reached it, ready to strangle the woman…but she pulled it back in time. She was shocked by the flash of murderous intent that she'd just experienced. She shook her head vigorously before she stepped onto the floor and placed on an apron from the bar over her head.

The bartender glanced over at the female who had just come down and placed a bunch of ale glasses down in front of her, pointing at each person they needed to go to. She nodded, easily picked up the glasses and moved towards the customers, placing glasses down as she went.

The pain never stopped though, it was there lurking in the back of her mind. Every time she moved passed a human in the room, she felt like killing them. That wasn't normal…Far from it.

She was so into her own thoughts about what was going on, that she didn't notice the man with lovely red hair watching her every move with a mixture of lust, and curiosity, and just plain drunkenness. Hey, she had his next drink…so why not stare?

"Allen, looks like the Noah of Wrath is finally awakening," Neah commented as he watched Allen practice playing the cello in their personal music room. Nobody was allowed in his training room because it would just provide a distraction. "You're holding the bow all wrong, by the way," he stated, but Allen put down the cello next to a myriad of other instruments Neah had him working on.

He opened the door to Tyki's room, who was already experiencing the things that informed the Noah of an awakening sibling. Rhode was already there; ready to go with a bucket of sweet stuff. Apparently the last incarnation had nearly bitten his fingers off, so Rhode had replaced that with sweets and thus a love of sweets erupted from Skin Bolic. "The Earl's probably sensed it too…so we should prepare for a fight."

The three slipped into the Musician's room, and Allen brought up the screen to allow him to see what was going on within the Ark itself. Komui, Reever, Lavi, and Lenalee came up on the screens. He was bringing the former two because the scientific aspect of witnesses a Noah awakening was going to be curious for the two, same with Lavi. Lenalee because from the tone of the new Noah's awakening, Allen could tell it was female. It was one thing that Neah had wanted him to learn on his own.

Each living being had a certain /tone/ to it. Like a musical score to their personality and what they were truly like. The more chaotic a tune, the more chaotic they truly were. Females had a higher pitched tune, while males had a lower pitched. As the Musician, Allen had the ability to calm these tunes. "I need you four to come with us, a Noah is awakening. Be prepared for a fight."

A few taps to the piano opened doors from each location into the music room. Komui and Reever watched in curiosity as the three Noah with them altered their Noah forms to that of their human ones. The race to reach the final Noah was on as Allen opened the door into an alley of the busy streets of Dublin in Ireland.

The four followed the three Noah towards a tavern, and Allen stopped outside, twitching at memories of finding his master drunk in taverns and having to pay off his tab before dragging him to wherever they were staying that particular night. Tyki patted him on the head lightly as they entered.

"Upstairs," Allen whispered beginning to hum to get the entire populace of the downstairs tavern to act like the group who had just arrived weren't even there. The moved upstairs, and stopped at one of the doors at the end of the hallway.

Lavi was rather amused when he watched Allen pick the lock to the door, wondering how in god's name the boy even knew how to do that. Probably some other trauma from his childhood he assumed as the door opened.

He twitched and found his former master sitting on the bed with the newly awakening Noah. "Master?"

"About time you got here, idiot apprentice," Cross stated, rising to his feet. "Took out all the Akuma the Earl sent." He rose to his feet and stalked passed Allen, handing him a bill. "Handle my tab, will you?"

"Master!" Allen said, starting to chase after the man. "Why…"

"Allen. Don't forget your new sister," Neah drawled. "I stopped questioning Marian a looong time ago. Oh geez…that's a lot of money, nephew. Big tab there. Offer to play a little music to pay it off." The Noah suggested wisely. "S'how I did it."

When Allen returned to the room with the awakening Noah, the Earl was there with Lulubell in his arms. "Earl," he greeted simply, glaring at the man and ready to activate his Innocence in a second.

"Allen-kun, Rhode, Tyki-pon," The Earl greeted coldly, looking down at the female before him. "She's coming with us, you know," he stated in a matter-of-fact manner as he moved to brush the female's hair out of her forehead towards the bleeding stigmata. "It's okay, honey. Papa Earl is here to help you, my child."

Allen moved forward as well, humming quietly to get the new Noah's attention on him. Tyki and Rhode looked at each other and sighed, knowing that neither of them would risk a fight that would harm their lovely new sister. The Earl reached out, and swiped at Allen's face with Lero, who in turn scratched him with his claws of Innocence.

Reever and Komui were switching between watching the Earl and Allen, to watching the female clutch at her bed sheets, her eyes squeezed shut in sheer agony. Patches of ashen gray skin were seen as blood coursed down her face. She was digging her teeth into her lip, and Rhode kindly offered her some candy, which she pushed away with a growl.

"Her tune is too chaotic, Rhode," Allen explained slowly, then shooed Komui, Lavi, Reever, and Lenalee from the room figuring the presence of humans and Innocence was making it worse, besides their curiosity had been dealt with.

Neah was now in Allen's place and he smiled at the Earl sweetly. "Good afternoon, Earl." He attention was back on the girl now, and gently he began to sing.

"So as the boy fell to sleep.
The fire in the ash engulfs the air. One by one...
what rise and grow large are my beloved profiles.
What trickle down to earth are the thousands of dreams...dreams...
On the night when the silver eyes were trembling what came to born was you, as you shined.
No matter how many times the ever-passing time return the prayers back down to earth...
I will never cease to pray.
Oh please, show this child what love is.
Please give a kiss to his hands you hold.

I will never cease to pray.
Oh please, show this child what love is.
Please give a kiss to his hands you hold."

The melody that was the Fourteenth's put the newest Noah into a sleep before Neah scooped her up into his arms. "Good bye, Earl. You've lost this round. The sides are even," the four Noah backed from the room easily, watching the Earl for any funny business before they headed out of the inn/tavern into the streets towards the gate again. They met Cross on the way out, who without a care followed them into the air.

"Neah, get me some wine and some cigarettes."

"Get it yourself, you lazy good-for-nothing. I'm not giving you anything until I get back the money you owe me from the /last/ time I bought you wine and cigarettes, and paid your tab. And don't even try to tell me that it's to make up for taking care of Allen, you barely did that.

The rest of the family materialized around Neah and the group to see their new sister. Sheryl was the first to say something as he kidnapped the girl from Neah and began spinning. "She's darling! She's my new daughter."

Neah rubbed his temples, and looked at Rhode. "Please go after him so he doesn't do anything lewd to her while she's asleep…" In return, he received a chuckle and she moved after her father.

The question that Neah was stuck with was…now what? Their families were even, and Neah had the exorcists on his side…but the Earl was still powerful with all of his Akuma. He supposed the best they could do for now was hunt down the Innocence, take out as many as the Earl's Akuma as possible, and if they had to…take out the Noah on the Earl's side and hope for the best when they reincarnated.

Things were going to start heating up now that the race to find the Heart of Innocence, and to be able to defeat the Earl.

A/N; Done! Ugh. Nothing much else to say here except. YAY CROSS. I was waiting for a moment to bring him back. And he just came back and was all like. "Meeeeh." And dumped more debt on Allen.

Neah can sing 3 And doesn't take any crap from Cross. "Get me…" "NO. GET IT YOURSELF." He's right though. Cross can be a lazy good-for-nothing.

Next chapter; on the hunt for Innocence. Dwindle down the opposing forces a bit.