Day: 009 as a comrade

knocks rand out from my door, I groaned. "Sephiria wake up! Komui wants to see you!" Allen's voice rang out from behind my door. When I heard I quickly got up and got dressed. I put on my exorcist's pants and threw on the tank top. I just grabbed the coat and put on some random shoes, then headed out the door.

Allen stood by the door waiting for me. "You sure slept in today," he laughed. I turned red, my hair was a tangly mess, and I probably looked like crap considering I had put on my clothes in a hurry. "Uh yeah, what time is it?" "12:48, were you really that tired?" He asked. I nodded, I wasn't used to having so many people seeing me in the morning still, it felt so weird but everyone else didn't seem to mind at all. "I have to brush my teeth still, and my hair," I told Allen taking out the toothbrush Lenalee had given me. "Sure I'll wait outside for you," he said.

I want to the washroom and brushed my teeth. I realized I didn't have a hair brush so I poked my head out the door. "Uh, Allen. Do you have anything that I could brush my hair with by any chance?" "Oh yeah. I actually have a comb with me right now. Here," he reached in to his pocket and took out his comb, then handed it to me. "Thanks," I told him taking it from him. Truthfully I was surprised that he actually had a brush with him. I finished up in the washroom and walked with Allen to Komui's office.

I had just realized what Allen was wearing. A black hoodie with a white t-shirt and jeans. It made him look so un-Allen like and more regular looking, but it looked good on him. Allen never had looked like a normal guy to me before. In fact all the male exorcists I had met before all seemed somewhat more special than guys back at home. And it wasn't just that they were more good-looking, it was something else that I just couldn't put in to words. Adding on to Allen never looking normal to me, he had white hair and was 15. Now that was something you didn't see every day.

(hey so this is actually a revised version of my original story. So yeah I cut out stuff in this version, don't get upset though. It's not anything important. For an example this right here was a paragraph in the original. Well it was totally pointless so I cut it out but I've decided to talk about it anyways. So this paragraph was basically about Sephiria comparing Allen to Harry Potter, and I think it was just something that I put in because I thought it was funny. I mean Allen's parent, not parents died. He has a cursed scar shaped like a lightning bolt, and Timcanpy is like a golden snitch. Just in case you've never watched the -man abridged series on youtube, watch it, it's hilarious. Also that guy always makes fun of Timcanpy calling him a golden snitch. Well sorry if you don't think it's funny I think it's hilarious. Well I totally wasted a whole paragraph and wasted your time… well on with the story now! -ExcorcistGirl11)

We finally arrived at the office. Allen knocked on the door and waited for it to open. It did and out walked Komui. "Thank you Allen, I'll be taking over from here," Komui smiled. Allen shot him a suspicious glance. "Are you going to have Hevla-," Komui quickly covered Allen's mouth. "Shall we go now Sephiria?" "Uh sure," I replied looking at Allen who looked like he was suffocating big time. Komui dropped his hand and Allen gagged loudly. "Stupid Komui!" he managed to choke out. "Yes yes indeed," Komui said sarcastically leading me away.

We got to a doorway (that had no doors. Typical Black Order huh?) with a bunch if machines. People wearing white lab coats ran all over the place carrying around small machines, attacks of paper, and stuff of the like. They ran all over the place looking very busy and tired. Some had serious bags under their eyes, but forced themselves to stay awake with coffee and any sort of caffeine.

I walked in following after Komui. "What is this place?" I asked him. "This is the substitute Lab. 5, which was destroyed by the level four demon that attacked the order." Komui replied. I recalled passing by a huge room that was blocked off because the whole ground had caved in. rubble lay all over the floor below. It was hard to believe that a single demon could cause such damage, but for everyone that worked at the order it was definitely and frighteningly real.

Komui stopped walking in front of a big machine so I stopped alongside him. "What's this for?" I asked curiously. "This is for checking your innocence synchronization rate," Komui replied tapping on a keyboard with no letters on it. "My what?" all of a sudden an electronic visual of a human body showed up on the screen and on top of it was 0%. "What is that-?" something white wrapped around my body and raised me in to the air, I realized that it was glowing white hair. I let out a loud shriek at the sight of the huge white thing that held me in the air. This thing was definitely not human. I kicked and struggled with it's strong grip. It was no use though, it drew it's head forward and placed it's forehead on my own. An echoing voice began counting. "83, 84, 85%." it's head drew back and set me back to the ground. I looked at it with a horrified look.

"I'm sorry if I scared you, my name is Hevlaska," the thing said with a kind echoing voice. "Uhm- it's- okay," I sputtered still in deep shock. "I'm an exorcist just like you are Sephiria Liang," Hevlaska told me. "I have the power to detect innocence and store all 109 fragments of innocence in my body to form the whole innocence cube." "What's the innocence cube?" I asked. (okay Hevlaska is explaining, but you know what I don't want to type it up, instead I'm just gonna' give you a book reference: .?ch=Volume+01&page=177

click on this link and read all the way to page 184. I know it's a slow website but onemanga shut down a couple weeks ago and -man is licensed on mangafox) Hevlaska didn't look like an exorcist at all to me, she was huge but looked utterly defenseless. "Sephiria Liang, your synchro rate is 85%," She told me. "Not 100%?" I said a little upset. "No, very few people ever make it to 100%," Hevlaska laughed. "And out of those few majority are generals." "I see," I replied.

I was far away from the power of a general. Now I felt even more idiotic for challenging General Zokalo. At this rate I would probably end up serving under General Cloud Nyne, which truthfully I didn't really mind. "Oh and Sephiria, good luck in your battle with Winters (if you don't know Winters is Zokalo's first name)," Hevlaska told me. "Yeah," I said gloomily. "Hevlaska, is Sephiria's innocence really Crystal Type?" Komui asked. I had almost forgotten that he was still there. "No, Sephiria's innocence is a parasite type posing as Crystal type just to confuse people, it also poses as equipment type because Sephiria doesn't eat like a parasitic type would. I sensed her innocence inside of her blood." "I see," Komui said.

"The name of Sephiria's innocence is Bloody Joker Princess." Hevlaska said.

I shivered at the name of my own innocence. It made me sound like a murderer or something.

"You may leave now Sephiria," Komui told me and I nodded.

"Thanks Hevlaska," I smiled brightly.

Hevlaska seemed to be a little surprised and taken back. "What's wrong?" I asked her.

"Sephiria Liang, are you really Sephiria Liang?" Hevlaska's voice sounded confused as it echoed.

"What do you mean?" I was confused.

"Oh, it's nothing sorry," Hevlaska said.

"Okay then," I replied suspiciously walking out of the Lab.

Hevlaska

It was impossible, but they looked so alike. It was impossible, because she disappeared almost more than half a century ago never to be found again. Then why? Why did Sephiria Liang look like my best friend from when I was still a normal human, when clearly she was already dead and had already been dead for a long time now. This was impossible, and if what I was seeing was right, Sephiria Liang could get the Order in to a lot of trouble.

Sephiria

I walked out of the lab wondering what would've happened to me that day in the church if Allen hadn't come and rescued me. I would definitely be dead considering the demons were after my innocence and my innocence was in my blood. Allen had saved me that day, I owed him my life. I walked past the clinic and out walked Allen. Speak of the devil. "Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself?" I asked trying to hide the worry in my voice.

"No, actually I was visiting my friend."

"Another exorcist?" I assumed.

"Yeah he was hurt pretty badly in the battle with the Noah clan a while back. He's in a coma, do you want to unofficially meet him?"

"Sure," I shrugged following Allen back in to the clinic.

We walked in to a cold dark room that was a lot different than the others. Stone bricks made up the grey walls. In the middle of the room was an old bed and in the bed laid a man in his mid-twenties. He somewhat reminded me of Dracula. The white streak in his head of jet black hair, down to every little detail on the face. The man's fangs didn't help much either. It frightened me a little but I kept telling myself that if he was Allen's friend he definitely was a good person. An oxygen mask covered his mouth and an IV machine sat next to his bed.

"Hey Krory this is the new exorcist that everyone's talking about. The one that was brave enough to challenge General Zokalo." My cheeks got hot when he said that. Did everyone in the Order know now? "Uh, hey uhm-" "Alystar Krory," Allen told me (I know that it's supposed to be Arystar but I prefer Alystar so that is what I'm gonna say) "-Alystar." I finished.

When we left the clinic I looked at Allen and asked, "Is there a chapel in the Black Order?" Allen looked at me with a surprised look on his face and I realized that there probably wasn't. "It's okay if there isn't one or anything!" I said quickly. "Actually there is one, it's just that people don't ask where it is that often." He replied. "Can you show me where it is then?" I asked.

"Sure."

Allen walked me to the chapel. I was always being toured around all the time. To me it was unusual because at home I was the one that was always touring, not the one getting toured. Guess that was how it was for a newbie like me though. That was why I was determined to get used to the Order. "Here it is," Allen stopped in front of big and polished double doors. He opened the door for me and I walked in. I gasped at how huge it was. There was nothing but a piano and a huge sculpture of the Rose Cross. This was probably one of the only rooms in the whole order that had windows. The windows were made of stained glass and reflected all different kinds of colors in the chapel from the sunlight.

"This is the place where we lay the coffins of our fallen comrades. Then we cremate them and send their souls up to God," Allen said. "I doubt that he even cares though." Allen's voice became dark and sad. Almost like he was remembering something bad, "What's wrong?" I asked. Was it because of his dad? Why did he lose faith even though he was an exorcist? "I lost my innocence a month or two back ( I've changed the time of the move in this story. In a year they will move believe me) it was terrible. I hated it. Not being able to fight demons, it felt like I had no meaning in life anymore. To get it back was a lot of long and painful work. While I was defenseless and doing nothing my comrades were fighting the Noah clan. At the same time Lenalee was out on the battlefield without innocence too. It all happened because of out comrade Suman Dark who turned against the order, because he wanted to live and someday see his daughter again. He sold information to a Noah named Tyki Mikk so that Tyki wouldn't kill him. In that act he became a fallen disciple and his innocence turned him in to a monster. I tried to save him- I really did but in the end it was impossible. Now his daughter is fatherless and she doesn't even know it!" Allen's hands were balled up in to fists and they trembled violently. He must've always felt guilty knowing that he couldn't save his comrade. "If there's a God like that than I don't want him!" Allen's voice shook.

I shook my head, "Allen, we're not heroes. We can't save everyone. We're just exorcists and we can only be exorcists." There was no response from Allen. I knew that what he had said was wrong. At that moment in time though the only thing that I wanted to do was hold him tightly. To tell him that it wasn't his fault that he couldn't save his friend. I stopped myself though, I didn't know why but I did. Instead I stood there like an idiot and waited until he calmed down.

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I walked quickly towards the training grounds. My body shook wildly. I really was afraid of fighting the general. Was it really a battle? He didn't tell me in person that it was. Either way I was nervous out of my mind. I had thought about forfeiting, but that would be even worse than getting all beaten up, at least I would have tried. Encouraging myself didn't help either. All of a sudden someone tapped me on the shoulder, and I jumped. I turned to see a group of people behind me. I easily spotted Allen, Lavi, and Lenalee in the small group. "Us exorcists are just here to tell you good luck and that we'll be watching and cheering you on," Lavi told me. Oh that's just dandy and makes me feel so much better Lavi, I thought sarcastically. Now forfeiting definitely wasn't an option. "Good luck Sephiria," I heard Allen say. I looked at him and my fears were immediately wiped away. I was glad to see that he was okay again. "Thanks," I replied.

I took a deep breath before approaching the general and all of my fears returned to me. "So why did you want me to come here?" I forced myself to sound confident. "I want to say if you're really as strong as you say you are," he told me. Oh gosh it really is a battle! Crap! "Land one hit on me by sundown and I'll let you become my apprentice." He said. I nodded not knowing what else to do. I wondered though. Was this some kind of joke? One hit? Before sundown? Was he kidding me? I could probably land more than just one hit on him by sundown. I didn't realize how wrong I was.

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Attack after attack. It was impossible to hit this guy. It seemed like every time I tried to land a blow on him he always ended up dodging, and I always ended up as the one getting hurt. This was impossible. Zokalo was the world's best dodger. I was surprised when he said that we would be fighting without innocence. I was a little scared too. The innocence always gave me a surge of power and now I didn't have that. I had to fight like a normal human. I lunged towards him but before I could even swing he jabbed me in the stomach and on impact I coughed up blood.

Another half our passed and the sun only peeked over the horizon now. I had to make my move quickly. It was then that I realized something. The general only attacked from the front and avoided attacking from the side. It was my last hope. One last time I jumped to the side and thwack! My leg landed right on his side, I had won.

"Right on time too," Zokalo said sounding completely unharmed. The sun disappeared completely. Victory exploded inside of me, but at the same time exhaustion over whelmed me, and once again after hours of battle I collapsed to the floor.

This is Allen smiling. Why did I post this picture? Cuz I think it's an absolutely adorable picture of him ^ _ ^ he's so cute! Anyways Allen smiles a lot in this chapter.