Day: 042 as a comrade

The order was very quiet at four o'clock in the morning. This was the time between when the science department workers went to sleep and woke up. I didn't know how they survived off of two hours of sleep, but they did. I was all dressed in my uniform and was out looking for Allen, holding his uniform in one hand. It was in his suitcase and I decided that I should bring it to him. Just like the day before the order was covered in complete silence.

I saw Allen's white hair in the darkness and almost called out his name, but then I got close enough to hear the voice of a another person. Link. "Walker, what did you forget out here? couldn't it wait until tomorrow?" Link sounded extremely tired. "Sorry Link, it's really important," Allen apologized even though it was obvious to me that Allen wanted to get away from him. He must've been looking for me. "You better thank me for this, Allen," I muttered under my breath and pulled on my black leather gloves. Judging from where Link's voice was he wasn't too far away. I could pin point his location while he was still talking, as long as he didn't move. It was a trick that I learned from fighting demons in the dark all the time. I charged and the side of my hand connected with the back of Link's neck. The 19 year old dropped to the ground like a rock. "My God you're good," Allen laughed nervously. "Thanks," I said removing my glove and sticking it in my pocket. That was when I realized that Allen was not wearing a shirt. I blushed madly and was grateful that it was dark. Allen's skin was a pale creamy color and scars covered his chest. I almost slammed his uniform in to his face and turned my face away, "P-put this on." "Thanks, it's a little cold." He replied taking the uniform from me. "W-why're you walking around with your shirt off?" I asked still a bit flustered wishing that he would just put on his coat already. "Well Link was with me and you had my uniform," he explained. Allen slept in baggy long pants, and did I mention that he was shirtless? Yes? "Just put on your coat already you're going to catch a cold," I cried in a whisper.

Allen and I grabbed our suitcases and headed down to the only way in and out of the order, well that was except for when Lenalee wasn't with us. It was the underground waterway. "Good, they left out a boat," Allen said in relief and we both got on to the small wooden boat. The boat moved smoothly across the completely black water. I shivered a little and Allen looked back at me. "You okay?" I nodded in response. Soon we hit the exit dock and jumped out. We had to get out of there quickly before we were caught. The outside was dark, but small rays of sun peeked over the horizon.

Running as fast as our legs could take us we reached the train station. We hurriedly crammed our way to the front of the ticket booth and half cried, "when's the next train to Luxembourg leaving?" The ticket man had a shocked look on his face. "The last train just left a minute ago. I would've dropped to my knees and given up right then, but Allen didn't let me. He grabbed my hand and we took off running towards the bridge that the train passed under. He looked around frantically and spotted the train's headlights. Allen turned to me, "on the count of three." I shook my head horrified. "Yes Sephiria," he said even though he knew I would rather jump off a cliff. Then his count began. "One." I swear I was going to have a heart attack. "Two." Please God don't tell me this is really happening! "Three!" A sharp cry left my mouth as my legs shot over the bridge railing and I was soaring in the sky. One second I had an extremely scary freefalling feeling in my gut, the next I felt a sharp pain shoot through my back. I had hit the train, but I didn't just hit it and stay. I was skidding towards the end of the train.

I flew off the end of the train and just in time grabbed a hold of the hand rail in the very back. My body was literally flailing like a flag off the train. "Sephiria!" I heard Allen call and he jumped off the top of the train and to the opposite side of the balcony from where I was. It was obviously the safer side. Allen released his suitcase and it fell to the ground. Then he turned his strong grip on me and pulled me towards him so hard that I came flying back over the railing and in to his arms. Once I hit his chest he stumbled back and fell to the ground, but not even for a second did he release me of his hold. "Thank God you're okay," Allen sighed. "How did you even manage to hold on to your suitcase through all of that?" I chuckled, hypervenalating just a bit, "cos' I'm just that cool."

After a couple minutes we were still sitting on the floor of the balcony. He still held me tightly, my face was pinned to his chest and my heart beat a mile a minute. Maybe it was because I had just almost had a near death experience, not that I hadn't had one before, but I had to say that this was worse than getting shot or stabbed by a demon. Wind rushed through his snow white hair, and his face was filled with relief. "Uhm… Allen, could you please let me go now?" I blushed. "Oh, sorry I didn't mean to-" Allen stumbled over his words, but released me. I rolled over to the side so that I was sitting right next to him.

"You're used to jumping on trains aren't you?" I laughed quietly.

"You're not are you?" He teased right back. "Yeah, I usually jump on trains, I've got a bad habit of missing them."

"Yeah, I'm usually on the train by the time it leaves," I told him. "But what I horrible first experience that was. I am never jumping on a train ever again. I have been officially scarred for life." I shivered.

"You look a bit cold, want to go inside?" Allen suggested and I agreed.

We snuck on to the train and slipped in to an empty cabin. We sat down on the seats and immediately made ourselves comfortable. It was a lot warmer in the train that the outside obviously. Soon Allen fell asleep and I couldn't help but stare at his vulnerable sleeping face. His and Aaron's resemblance constantly haunted me. If Allen really was Aaron and they were two different souls in one body it meant I was going to end up losing one of them in the end. That person most likely being Allen. Leaning towards Allen I took my finger and lightly traced the red scar that ran down his eye. The scar was Mana's doing, Aaron's brother had cursed Allen. I always wondered what kind of world Allen saw out of his eyes. "Why would you curse Allen?" I asked the dead Mana. How did Allen always smile with all that had happened to him? He had been broken over and over again, but he always smiled. I admired his strength, if it were me, my resolve would've broken long ago. "God, protect Allen," I prayed and fell asleep on the seat next to him.

Allen:

Allen's heavy eyelids lifted. Bright light immediately came streaming in and he winced a little. It took him a little while to realize where he was. He was on a train with Sephiria, headed to Luxembourg. Looking at the seat across from him he found no Sephiria. His heart worried until he looked to the side and found her leaning on his shoulder fast asleep. His heart skipped a beat seeing the young black haired exorcist sleeping like a child. She was beautiful, he had recognized that fact long ago. Maybe even since the first time he had seen her unconscious in the storage room. The first time he had ever laid eyes on her. Allen wondered how she had gotten over next to him, because he swore that when he fell asleep she had been sitting across from him. His hands moved by themselves and moved a lock of her silky black hair out of her face revealing her perfectly tanned skin. Remembering the day that Sephiria ran out of the chapel furious claiming that he had done all these things that he hadn't even remembered doing haunted him every day. In his mind he was almost positive that the 14th had taken over his body and done those things to Sephiria.

Allen understood why the 14th would want to hurt her, but why would he want to kiss her? Anger boiled up in the white haired boy's chest. All of a sudden a voice came in to his head, it was calm and had a annoying bit of confidence in it. She's mine Allen Walker. She's mine and always has been. Her everything belongs to me. It was the 14th. Infuriated Allen said aloud. "She's not yours 14th. She belongs to nobody, but herself."

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"Sephiria," Allen nudged my shoulder and I immediately woke. "The ticket collector is coming, let's split." Allen pilled me our of the cabin and I quickly grabbed my suitcase. We were back outside by the guardrail again. "Sit," Allen told me and I did. "So we're almost there am I right?" I asked. "Yeah," Allen responded. After about 15 minutes the train slowed to a stop at the station and the both of us jumped the railing and ran for it hoping that we wouldn't get caught.

We finally got far enough from the train station. Allen stopped a man and asked him if anything unusual had happened lately in the town lately. The man nodded and pointed towards the forest, "a big bomb went off there just a couple days ago." I was about to leave and head right over there until Allen grabbed my shoulder and stopped me. "What's wrong Allen?"

"Let's go there when it gets darker."

I agreed, but inside I was growing very impatient.

The small in we checked in to was a little old but cozy overall. We only got one room, but it had two beds so I was somewhat okay with it. "Hey, I'm going to get some food, want to join me?" Allen asked, but I declined. I wasn't that hungry anyways. I told him that I was going to rest a little in my room and he nodded and was off on his way.

t

Knocks rang out from the door. Was it Allen? Had he finally returned from his probably extremely large meal? I checked the time, it had only been half an hour since he's left, "He finished pretty quickly." I opened the door and to my surprise it wasn't Allen. A middle aged man stood before me. "Excuse me miss, but are you Sephiria Liang?" I nodded, "why?" "Could you come with me for a second? There was a problem with your check in and I want you to help me fix it," the man told me. "Okay, what's the problem?" I stepped out of the room and took a step towards the man when all of a sudden Allen burst out up the stairway and cried, "Sephiria don't follow him! It's a trap!" Right when the words rolled off of his tongue I was sent flying back words and right through a glass window. An indescribable pain went through my lower abdomen that told me that my ribs had broken. It was then that I realized I was falling.

Allen jumped out of the window after me and his innocence activated. He wrapped his white cloak around me to shield me from the demon bullets that were fired at us. We managed to land safely and Allen carried me over as fast as he could in to a car. He kicked open the glass and somehow got us both through it unscathed. Breathing out he muttered, "let's see if this works." A spike from his white cloak shot out and connected to the keyhole. The engine revved to life. He stomped on the gas and we were off like a NASCAR, only he didn't drive like the people in NASCAR. He swerved around on the road and was partly out of control. "Have you ever driven a car before?" I panicked managing to sit up straight with my broken ribs. "Never in my life! I'm not even old enough!" I cried back at me sounding as, if not more panicked than I was.

I looked behind us and saw a human child sized doll with wings. "What in hell is that?" I choked. Allen with a face sick to his stomach while looking at it replied, "it's a level 4. We don't stand a chance." I knew that we were going to be dealing with a level 4 on this mission, but did I think any deeper than that fact? No.

An explosion burst out in the back of the car. "Crap! The thing's fast!" Allen muttered under his breath. Another shot was fired and the whole car exploded. I didn't know if I was alive or dead for a second because everything in my field of vision was white. It turned out that Allen's white cloak had wrapped around my body and protected the both of us. "Are you okay?" Allen asked me. "Been better," was my reply. Then we both got up and began to run.

I felt so useless running away. I mean, wasn't I the one who wanted to come here? Not once had I fled from battle, but there I was running away. The thought drove me mad until I finally gave in. I spun around quickly and invoked my innocence. "Sephiria! What are you doing?" Allen cried. "I won't run from battle," I replied firmly. My ribs ached, but I'd experienced worse pain before. "I will kill you!" I threatened the demon. "I will kill you!" The level 4 sang back at me. "Exorcists are so fun! It's a shame I can't kill you, Millennium Earl's orders." "I pity you for taking orders from such a person," and my words were truth because I pitied Aaron for the exact same reason. More demon bullets flew at me and I quickly dodged. "Are you going to help me Allen?" I asked when he moved to my side. "Yep, how could I not?" He pulled his sword out of his arm.

"Thank you," I said.

"No problem, this is my job, and you're my friend."

I smiled, friends. I'd met so many new people that I could call friends. My innocence on my legs formed in to Lenalee's boots. Allen stood wide eyed, I jumped towards the demon that hovered over me in the sky and swung at it. Knowing that it wouldn't work afterwards I changed my innocence in to General Cross's judgment. "So you can copy innocence. No wonder the earl is so interested in you." The demon sneered. "You might be the heart." I laughed aloud, "that's not possible. I'm not even on par with a general."

The demon didn't talk much after that. It fought me, but I knew that he was holding back so that he wouldn't kill me, which I was fully confident that it could. The next thing I knew it had a gun pointed at my face. It knew I was a parasitic type so it didn't have to bother holding back with it's guns. All of a sudden Allen's huge blade flew in to the sky and struck the demon's arm forcing it to point in a different direction. The demon cursed and pointed the gun once more.

Allen and I lured the demon away from the town and in to a nearby forest so that the townspeople wouldn't be harmed. "So you can copy innocence's" Allen asked me. "Yeah, but that was worded exactly like the demon though," I laughed still luring the demon. Once we were deep enough in to the woods I fired a shot out of the gun, but the bullet missed. Fortunately it began to chase the demon and knocked the demon out of the air when it hit.

We stood above the demon. One of it's wings were shattered, and there was a hole in it's chest. "Is it dead?" I asked Allen. He shrugged. Well we were wrong. Faster than anything had ever happened before the both of us were on the ground. Bullet holes and pentacles on our bodies. The monster had tricked us. Played dead and caught us when our guards were down. The majority of the shots were fired at Allen and we both lay limp on the ground with the demon virus consuming our bodies. Allen and my blood mixed on the dirt floor.

I had been hit on my shoulder and leg. Allen was much worse, and wasn't moving. That scared me, I didn't wasn't Allen to die. I didn't want to lose a friend like him. If he died now it would've been my fault. I had agreed to let him come with me, and if I'd tried harder to make him stay this never would've happened. That was why Allen couldn't die. I reached out my unwounded arm towards Allen's motionless body. "Hey, are you okay?" There was no answer. "Hey Allen answer me! You can't scare me like this!" There was still no answer. "A-Allen! Wake up please!" I was in tears now. "To bad for you, your friend's dead!" The demon laughed maniacally.

"Who's dead?" I looked at Allen. It was his voice and I was overjoyed. "Allen you're okay! Thank God!" Allen slowly got up and I realized that he wasn't actually Allen at all. He walked over to the demon and crushed it's head with his bare hands. His eyes were gold again. The boy before me was the one that had kissed me in the chapel. He was the one that bruised me. He was the one that told me I belonged to him. He was- "Aaron?" I asked. A grin spread out over his face and he knelt down at where I lay. "Solara, it's been really long since I last saw you," he had a velvety and comforting voice. My heart skipped a beat as he cupped my chin in his hand and kissed me. My heart was overwhelmed with love, I loved Aaron. I loved the 14th Noah. When our lips parted I looked at him desperately. "Is Allen okay?" In my head I was wondering why I even cared at that moment? Even though my heart was completely consumed by him I still worried for my friend. Aaron helped me to my feet and kept me from falling. "Yes, he is fine. Just asleep at the moment." Then as expected Solara's pleading voice rang in to my head.

"Sephiria! Sephiria!" She pleaded. "Please let me talk to him! I begging you Sephiria!" I had promised her that if Aaron ever showed himself I would let her talk to him, but I just felt like a couldn't. I felt like I had waited forever for Aaron even though Solara had waited decades longer. "The memories," she said and my immediate attention was sparked. She was desperate to see him, and I was desperate to learn the truth. I looked one more time at the gold eyed boy and everything went black.

Solara

I opened my eyes and saw him before me. Though he was in Allen Walker's body I could tell it was him. "A-Aaron," once the name slipped my mouth tears formed in my eyes. "You're the real Solara aren't you?" Aaron said. "You noticed? Then why did you kiss Sephiria you idiot!" I cried punching his arm. He acted as if he'd felt nothing, "I didn't notice until she asked me how Allen was doing. You would never do something like that." "Yeah," I scratched the back of my head. "Sephiria is…" "Reina Lightsworth," Aaron replied. "She's Reina isn't she?" I nodded, "My twin sister, she's pretty strong just like in the last life. She still doesn't remember who I am though."

"Do you remember who you are Solara?"

"Yes, I'm Solara. Real name Leiah Lightsworth."

"I prefer Solara."

"I do too," I answered. "That's what I expected you to say though."

Out of nowhere Aaron pulled me close to him and held me tightly. "You're the same old Solara, thank the heavens." I laughed, "of course, who else would I be?" Aaron stayed quiet for a second. "And guess what?" I started up again.

"What?"

I got my face real close to his and it was obvious that he was expecting me to kiss him. His eyes were closed. I flicked his forehead and his eyes shot open with surprise, "you're the same old random cheese ball that you've always been. Rough and impatient too." I heard Aaron chuckle, then crushed out lips together, if Sephiria found out about this she would be angry. Angry that we kissed in her body, because that would've meant that she's kissed Allen another time also. "I love you so much Solara," Aaron mumbled. "I love you too."

Sephiria

It was memory after memory, almost too much to take in.

"Hey Hevlaska!" A pretty blonde haired girl looked at me. "Hello, do I know you?" "You're in my class! I'm Solara! Let's be friends okay?" The blonde haired girl's eyes widened, I knew that she had no friends just like me. Then a big smile spread across her face. "Okay then Solara! Let's be best friends!"

Another memory flashed over.

"Welcome the 15th Noah everyone!" In front of me was a long dinner table filled with people. 14 people to be exact. All with gray skin and gold eyes, stigmata lining their foreheads. My eyes went over the faces of every single one of them and I finally found, "Aaron." This really was worth it, becoming a Noah really was worth it. This was the first time I'd seen him since he abandoned me at the park. His eyes grew wide when he saw me. My gray skin and gold eyes. My stigmata that lined my forehead. He got to his feet, walked over to me, and walked me out of the room. "Why are you a Noah?" His voice was furious, but somehow I was less scared of it than I was before. "I want to be with you," I answered in a tone that told him I wasn't going to budge. "Y-you're so stupid! I never thought you'd be this stupid!" He said through clenched teeth. I could tell that he was in pain, but it didn't matter. Nothing mattered but being with him. Nothing.

That was how I lived for a year. A year with Aaron, even though I could tell that he was still upset about me being a Noah I could tell he was happy at the same time. We both were, because we were together.

We approached the huge tower. The order, this was out attack, bring them down with one huge sweep. "Ater fulger (black lightning in latin)," I whispered. A crackling ball of black electricity formed in my hand and I threw it at the base of the order. Rock and cement blazed in the gaping hole that I had created. We had an entrance.

There was screaming, blood, killing, battling. Exorcists with their innocence's invoked. A beautiful brunette exorcist girl that was battling Tyki's blood splattered all over the floor. "Mirella!" I heard a familiar voice call, and I looked. There she was, a girl with black hair and brown eyes, her hair was cut short and just passed her neck. "Reina?" I said aloud. Her head rose and we were eye to eye.

All of a sudden a sharp pain went through my head. I was seeing two different perspectives at the same time. It was almost like my left eye was Solara's and my right was the other girl's. "Reina, why are you here?" but at the same time their was. "Who are you? Why do you look exactly like me?"

After the attack my head was just about ready to die. I approached the girl that looked like me, she was bloodied up and lay limp on the cold floor. At the same time I saw Solara towering over my body and felt great fear. Then Solara spoke, "I'm your twin sister, Leiah Lightsworth. Do you still not remember me Reina?" The other me was confused, twin sister? I don't remember, is that why you look like me?" Solara didn't answer all she said was, "Reina, I don't want you to die. Please let me take your soul in to my body so that we'll be one person like we were meant to be instead of twins."

"You would do that?"

"Yeah, we're sisters."

"O-okay."

Then once again my vision returned to normal. I was once again seeing out of Solara's eyes. And I understood, I wasn't Solara like I had thought I was all this time. In reality I was Solara's twin sister. Reina Lightsworth, and soon half a year passed.

"Solara was walking in the hall and stumbled across an open door. Curiously she snuck towards the door that was slightly cracked open. Looking inside she saw and heard the Earl and Aaron talking. Both their voices were itching with irritation. Then all of a sudden Aaron snapped. "I will kill you Earl! You've ruined my life! You take everything that is precious away from me, you even turned Solara in to a Noah!" A twinge of pain went through her chest when she heard his words. She thought that he had gotten over that topic long ago already. "Still dwelling on that subject 14th? What's done is done, there's no changing the past!" The Earl argued back. "Bastard! Stop saying it like it's nothing!" Aaron was wild with rage, he reached in to his shirt and removed his silver knife with the red jewel at the bottom of it. Then he lunged towards the Earl. Solara wanted to call out, to tell him to stop, but it was too late… and Aaron had been too slow. The Earl's sword had impaled his stomach and he collapsed to the ground in to a sea of blood. Her breath caught in my throat. Aaron was dead. She fell to her knees and everything went black.

The day Aaron died was the day of Solara's 16th birthday, our 16th birthday. Not the birthday that Aaron had given us the day that he found her. Not the age that Aaron told us I was when he found her. We were 16 years old, two whole years younger than Aaron, and I remembered that we had been so excited to tell him.

One week after Aaron's death Solara commit suicide, and I had no objections, because without Aaron… we had nothing.

Bad picture alert! First of all the girl on the floor's hair is supposed to be short and black. Yep, Reina's hair is black and Solara's is brown (she dyed it). And what's up with the dresses! Sorry for the picture fail.

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