I know that the 14th's name isn't Aaron, it is the name that I have made up for him. The 14th's name was just recently revealed in chapter 198 as Neah, but for my own reasons I have decided not to change the name in my story. Sorry if it displeases anybody.

Day: 040 as a comrade

"What is this Solara!" I cried. "Allen couldn't possibly bee Aaron! That's just not possible right!" Solara liked just as confused as I was, if not more, "I don't know anymore. No one knows that song but Aaron, the Earl, and I." "So Lenalee's lying? I barely understand what the hell's going on!" I groaned. "I don't think that Allen Walker is Aaron. I mean I saw him… there's just no way but…" Solara was exhausting herself thinking of all of this. "You saw him what? See this is the problem! You're keeping so many things from me!" I cried.

"Just shut-up! I can't think with your damn blabbering coming out of your mouth every two seconds!"

I flinched, Solara was mad, annoyed, a mixture of a lot of things that were not 'happy'.

"Could you just try and find out of he really is Aaron or not! Make him play the song, lure Aaron out of his body, just do anything! And if you find out that Allen and Aaron really are the same, please let me talk to him, I'll give back all of the memories that you're missing if you do." Solara begged me. When it came to Aaron, Solara did a lot of things that I never imagined she would ever do. The kind of stuff that she would rather be tortured than doing. She loved him that much, and I couldn't help but think that Aaron knew Solara so much more than I did. For some reason that made me a little jealous, Solara was like my best friend even though we would bite each other's heads off about the stupidest things.

"Solara, Mana Walker is Allen's foster father," I told her. She turned all of her attention on me. "That would make Aaron, Aaron Walker right?" I confirmed. She nodded. "So no matter how you put it the two of them are connected huh?" I chuckled but felt my stomach tied in to knots. "I have a feeling that the only reason you're not giving me my memories right away is because of the death of Aaron Walker, am I right? He was murdered?" Solara looked pale like she had just been stabbed. I was right, Aaron was murdered. It would only make sense if Aaron died at a young age and hopped in to the soul of another that was close to his older brother. Solara didn't take her eyes off of me. I knew that talking about Aaron dying was worse than torture for her, but I was determined to find out who did it, and why.

t

'You're not concentrating!" Zokalo snapped at me. My times were worse than the day before. I was barely holding my innocence out for five seconds. This was probably because my focus was all on figuring out a way to make Allen show himself as the 14th. If Allen showed me that he really was the pianist then Solara would get to speak with Aaron and I would get the rest of the memories that she held, everyone would be happy and Allen wouldn't remember a thing about it!

What're you zoning out for? Zokalo said. "I'm sorry… it's nothing," I replied. "Then invoke again!" Zokalo snapped. "O-okay," I nodded. I told myself to forget everything and to just worry about training at the moment and cleared my mind of anything other than innocence. Everything started out normal at first, but then I noticed that the boots showed no signs of disappearing. I hurled myself towards Zokalo at the speed of light. Zokalo barely blocked himself in time to avoid getting turned inside out by the force of the Dark Boots copy, but as expected Zokalo stood his ground the whole time when the boots collided with his innocence. I rebounded and lightly set foot on the ground. Lenalee's innocence was really amazing, I could almost feel the ground shift under my feet. "It's not going away!" I said proudly, looking at Zokalo. "As expected from my apprentice, you got it in three days," he chuckled. I grinned very proud of my accomplishment. "So you have a copycat innocence, no wonder it's named joker. Try and copy madness," Zokalo ordered and I immediately did as I was told. "Heh," Zokalo smiled. "We're done for today, do what you want."

I ran from the training grounds in search for Lenalee. As I had somewhat expected she was in the temporary lab. 5 serving coffee to the tired science workers. By then I was gasping for air from running so fast through the order, but I said what I wanted to say in absolutely no time at all. "Fight me Lenalee!" I cried a little too loud. She was dumbstruck at my challenge for a moment, "you want me to what!" "Fight me Lenalee, with your innocence." I repeated myself. "Are you crazy Sephiria! My innocence isn't to be used on people! I could kill you!" Lenalee half whispered half yelled. "Please," I begged. "I promise you that I won't die." "No," was her firm answer. I knew what I had to do to convince her now. I would use against her what she hated most.

"You're right, maybe I shouldn't fight you. You're probably not even worth my time. I would beat you easily," I examined my nails and made myself look like a complete bitch by putting on the I don't give a damn look. A buzz went through the lab when they heard what I had said. I saw Lenalee flinch and ball her hands in to fists, "you think you can beat me Sephiria Liang? Me?" Lenalee muttered. "Well Sephiria, I accept your challenge! Don't blame me if you lose a limb!" She cackled maniacally. Well the evil 'black' Lenalee has appeared. I laughed nervously to myself.

When we got to the training grounds I had to force myself to not jump up and down while cheering at the same time knowing that my plan had succeeded. More than anything, Lenalee hated cocky people and people that messed with her friends, whenever someone fell under those two categories she would immediately snap. I obviously knew that she was quite mad at me at that moment, but I really wanted to measure the strength of my Dark Boots copy to her real Dark Boots. "You're not going to put on your uniform?" Lenalee asked with her arms crossed. "Nope, I only wear it when I'm on a mission," I shrugged. I was wearing basketball shorts and a t-shirt that wasn't too tight but at the same time wasn't to flimsy. That was something that the people at the order never wore (Yay to American style!). The only other person that wore shorts at the order was Lenalee, but her shorts weren't the kind that I wore. While mines were longer that my knees hers barely made it down her thigh, I always wondered how she was never cold.

I activated the rings on my ankles and they immediately formed the Dark Boots copy. Lenalee's eyes grew to the size of golf balls seeing her own innocence on another exorcist. She was visibly confused so I took my chance to attack. The surprise attack failed and she blocked me off with her boots. A huge crash sounded out when our boots collided and we both broke in to sweat trying to hold each other off. I should've known that a silly ambush would have never worked on her, she was a pro at stopping those kind of cheap attacks now after all the years of battle she was involved with.

I rebounded and the scenery around me completely blurred for a moment, by the time it went back to normal I was far away from Lenalee. One second Lenalee was standing about a court away from me then she immediately disappeared. My eyes scanned all around me, sides. Nope. Back. Nope. And not in the front either, there was no way that she was underground. She's overhead, Solara told me but I already knew that. I blasted off of the spot I was standing on quickly and almost just as quickly Lenalee fell from the sky feet first. The court completely got crushed in and I felt so glad that I had moved the instant I had realized she was above me.

Even though Lenalee fought as if she wanted to kill me she really didn't. she just expected me to keep up, if she killed me by accident it wouldn't have been her fault, it would've been mine for not keeping up in the fight. Lenalee and I attacked each other relentlessly, each time rebounding, disappearing in a blur, and reappearing again only to attack, fail, and repeat the cycle once more. Somehow I had made my way in to the sky without Lenalee, almost touching the clouds. I somersaulted and fell back to the earth below feet first ready to land until I saw Lenalee flying up at me. She flipped so that her legs were coming up at mine, the soles of out boots colliding with such pressure that you could almost see sparks fly. The air between our legs became distorted and you could see two winds crashing between each other, having a battle around our feet. Let's just say that Dark Boots against Dark Boots hurts a lot, and I mean a lot. That's partly the reason I shot to the side away from Lenalee. The feeling of an unstrained body didn't last too long for me though because almost immediately Lenalee charged for me again. Irritating girl, doesn't know when to stop, Solara sighed. Now if this was me she was fighting and not you she'd be killing herself by charging so recklessly towards me. She has some work to do on her fighting strategy.

Our fight was literally going no where. It was obvious that my copy and her real boots were of equal strength already so I really didn't have a reason to fight anymore. I began my fall that Lenalee had interrupted me in before. She followed me down all the way.

The ground split when the both of us landed right next to each other. Little sharp rock pieces shot out from the ground and cut my arm, for Lenalee her leg. When we looked at the ground below us we realized that we were standing in a huge depression that we had created. We leapt out of the ditch and saw all of the surrounding training grounds. They were demolished, chunks of earth were lying everywhere. It looked almost like we were standing on a battlefield that had been bombed just about a million times. Pillars were strewn all on the ground. "Oh-" Lenalee began. "Crap," I finished for her.

We heard running footsteps that sounded more like rumbles and out burst all of the Exorcists, generals and all. Their innocence's were all invoked and ready for battle, my heart almost stopped beating right then. "W-what's going on?" Lenalee asked. "What's going on! What's going on here? We heard loud crashes and booms coming from the training grounds and we thought that we were under attack again!" General Cloud cried. "We're sorry, that was probably us. We were sparring with innocence," I explained nervously. "You mean this whole mess was you guys' doing?" Allen looked around at the completely destroyed training grounds. Lenalee and I just both turned the other cheek not wanting to answer the white haired boy's question. "Take note," said Lavi who had apparently just gotten home from a mission. "If you ever make Sephiria or Lenalee mad you just might die." "Of course you would be the first one to crack a joke about this mess," Chaoji sighed. "Now we have to clean it up." "Like hell I'm cleaning up this mess, do it yourselves," Kanda snarled.

I blinked, fixing this mess? That you'd almost be impossible for even exorcists to do! Then I realized a quick and easy way to fix everything. "It's okay. You guys don't have to do anything. I can do it alone." Everyone looked at me like I had completely and officially gone nuts. "Sephiria you're not serious right!" Lenalee cried. "No, it's okay. It'll be easy," I smiled. "Easy!" Allen choked. "Has Zokalo really made you work to the point where something like this would look easy to you!" "We've got to tell Komui's been forcing you to do child labor!" Lavi finished. "You know I'm standing right here?" Zokalo tapped his fingers irritably. Allen and Lavi's faces went white as sheets.

"Go ahead apprentice. Clean up this mess," Zokalo told me. "Now Winters. Don't you think that's a little too harsh?" General Tiedoll looked me with a concerned look. "Whatever, c'mon Sephiria," Zokalo urged me and I nodded in response. "But General!" The exorcists protested, but they were immediately shut up by one of Zokalo's killer glares. "Don't underestimate my pupil you bunch of mice!" Everyone stood still as stone. The only ones that were rock solid was the generals and myself.

I looked at my cut that I had gotten during my spar and squeezed it so that quite a bit of blood came out. I soaked my finger in it and let the blood drip down my arm until it hit the ground. Once the last droplets of blood were off of my finger I shut my eyes and whispered, "invoke." All of a sudden red light flooded through all of the cracks in the ground and created a loud howling sound. The unleveled rock moved back in to place and the broken cracks in the ground began to fill up with the excess debris. The uncovered spots bubbled up as blood and hardened forming a perfect copy of the rock around it. The exorcists behind me stood with their mouths hanging off their faces, their eyes in awe. I could even tell that the Generals were amazed with my work, though they sort of tried to hide it. Zokalo stood their with his arms folded around his chest. All of his spiky teeth showing in a proud grin.

"You can really do stuff like that with your innocence?" Lavi sad his mouth still agape. I nodded slowly feeling somewhat uncomfortable with everyone's eyes on me. "That's amazing," Lenalee said staring at the floor that looked completely untouched. "Man if only you were here to when the level 4 demon attacked us. You would've been able to fix the mess, but now we've already started renovating the new order." Chaoji sighed.

t

The word spread about my so called 'miracle working' and I was bombarded with questions for the rest of the day. Especially during dinner. I barely had any time alone. "How did you do it!" A finder asked excitedly. I had been asked the same question just about I million times and I was seriously getting sick of it. I tried not to show any signs of annoyance, but I almost couldn't help it. "Hey!" I heard a familiar voice say. "Can't you see that you're bothering her? Just back off!" I looked up to see Jayson Stadfeld walking towards me with his finder jacket on. His hands were in his pockets. The other finder backed off and Jayson smiled at me. I smiled back, "thanks Jayson." "No problem," he shrugged. "After all, I am your finder, aren't I?" He smirked walking away. I was really starting to like that kid.

I feel like this pic really represents Seph and Solara! (Left: Solara Right: Sephiria