Day: 356 as a comrade
We left for Shaolin's house at two o'clock in the afternoon after we all got suited up in our uniforms. When we arrived at her house I was the one to knock on the decrepit door. Just like the day before she only opened her door a crack and peered out. "*(1)你好, 抱歉打扰你了, 但我们真的需要和你谈谈." I told her. She began to shut the door again, but I quickly jammed my boot in to the doorway. "*(2)正如我所说, 我们真的需要和你谈谈," my tone was serious and absolute. She looked at me with a frightened expression then opened the door and motioned us in.
Shaolin's house was very small, probably just a little more than my room at the Order. "I-I can speak English," she said slowly with a slight accent. She removed her hood and she was just as she was in the picture. Allen and Lavi's eyes were glued to her beautiful, but slightly dirtied face. "My fiancé was an Englishmen."
"We're from the Black Order, we're here to ask you some questions," Lenalee said. "My name is Lenalee, that's Sephiria, Lavi, Allen, and Kanda," she pointed.
"Shaolin Wong," she nodded, and shook Lenalee's hand.
"Shaolin, what year were you born?" I asked.
"1991."
She was 19 years old. "Oh, and what's the name of that fiancé of yours? I'm very interested." I smiled.
Shaolin's tongue caught. I hadn't meant for that question to be anything severe, but it seemed that it was. Her hands shook violently.
"Shaolin?" I asked.
Next thing I knew a knife had slipped out of her sleeve and she was lunging towards me. I got ready to activate my innocence, but then I caught a glimpse of that knife, and the air caught in my throat.
"Sephiria!" Lavi cried and next thing I knew a searing pain shot from my shoulder. I screamed out in pain, but my wound was the least of my worries. The knife, it was a perfectly polished and completely silver including the hilt. The same design and red jewel and the end of it. The same as Aaron's weapon, it was Aaron's knife. "Why do you have that knife!" I hissed. Shaolin now sat on top of me because she'd tackled me to the ground. She said nothing. "Don't take… what's not yours!" I screamed and slammed her on the ground tearing the knife from my shoulder. It clattered to the floor leaving a stain.
I sat on her with a innocence made gun. It was pointed straight at her forehead. The four exorcists ran towards me and tried to pull me off of her.
"Sephiria! What are you doing! You're not actually going to fire are you!" Allen cried tugging at my arm and attempting to wrestle the gun out of my hand.
"Stop it! Let go of me!" I screamed at all of them.
"What's going on with you Sephiria!" Lenalee tugged at my back.
"Stop it! That knife! Why do you have that knife!" I looked at Shaolin with eyes of death. "You're working with the Earl! That knife's not yours!"
"Please Sephiria your wound! You're losing too much blood!" Lavi begged.
"Shut up!" I screamed. Then black spikes shot out from my back. A trick that Zokalo had taught me to kill demons too close to me. They all rebounded immediately barely avoiding being impaled by the spikes.
"Why the hell!" Kanda cursed.
"No one will get in my way," I hissed. "I must kill the Earl's human slave."
Shaolin scrambled to her feet looking terrified. A shot rang from my gun grazing her cheek.
"I missed," I growled cocking the gun again. "All people that work for the Earl must die."
"That's right Sephiria, they must die." An all too familiar voice said. A smile crept at the corners of my lips.
"Earl! So you're finally here! Finally!" I began to step towards him innovating the spikes on my back.
"Sephiria! Do you know what you're doing!" Allen cried running in front of me and pushing me back in to Lavi's arms. "I don't know what's wrong with you right now, but you're not in the right state of mind to fight right now." Allen told me pulling his sword out of his left arm.
"Lavi let go of me!" I cried as the three exorcists fought the Duke.
"No Sephiria," he replied.
"Please Lavi! I'll lose my chance! I want to kill him! Please let me go!" Tears flooded down my cheeks. "If you guys font let me kill him you're all my enemies!" I screamed. "Traitors! Traitors!" Then Lavi spun me around to face him.
"Sephiria wake up!" Lavi shook me. "Please don't get swallowed by Solara's feelings! I don't want to lose you!" Then he pulled me in to his arms. "Don't forget that you're Sephiria, please," he sounded pained. What had I done? What was I doing? I'd tried to hurt my friends. I'd tried to kill someone.
"Why did I do all this?" I asked myself aloud.
"So Sephiria Liang? Are you in your right mind again?" The Duke asked. Lavi released me and we both looked at him. He was blocking off Allen's Crowned Clown with his own sword. "Shall I reveal all of you secrets to your comrades now?" he chuckled.
My body became like stone. "Don't please," I begged.
"Guess what exorcists. Your dear friend Sephiria is-" The Duke was interrupted by Lavi's hammer.
"Shut up you marshmallow or I'm gonna be the next one to snap," Lavi glared at the Duke.
"Duke, Duke you should kill that girl right there, she's dangerous," Shaolin tugged on his sleeve.
"Quiet girl, do you know how long I've been looking for her?" Then the Duke's sword was in Shaolin. Her face showed true betrayal, and I understood. The Duke was her fiancé, he'd approached her in his human form. This had all been a trap for me, and I'd fallen right in to it. Shaolin really was just 19 years old. The Duke must've messed with the Order's Asia Branch history. I was speechless.
Blood pooled around her ghostly white body. "Earl, why?"
"Were you not going to kill her yourself? What's the difference? I only needed her to lure you here. She's a toy that has lost her purpose." He shrugged. I fell to my knees.
"Sephiria!" Allen rushed to my side. He got to his knees and looked at my face.
The Duke was right. I'd tried to kill Shaolin just as he had killed her. What was the difference. No, there was a difference. Shaolin trusted the Earl. "Humans aren't your toys Earl." I whispered getting back to my feet. "We're not your toys! And He and I were not your toys! So why! Did you think it was funny the way I chased around for him! The way that I loved him so much that I could've died! Did you think that was funny! Did you think it was funny when you killed him right in front of my eyes!" I screamed. "I hate you! Hate you in life! Hate you in death! Hate you forever and ever!" All of a sudden a sharp and powerful wind mixed with a huge white light threw everyone including myself backwards. I slammed back to the ground with a terrible force. I felt my right arm snap and I cried out in pain.
When the smoke cleared I saw the Duke standing above me. Shaolin's hut was reduced to nothing but ashes. "I see the 15th's anger is still intact. Her usual uncontrollable anger." I knew what he meant. My anger had blown up everything.
"It's truly a sad event that I would have to go this far to make Solara come out." The Earl said.
"What?" I hissed.
The Duke raised a normal looking kitchen knife. "You thought that this was the 14th's knife am I right?"
I stared at him confused.
"I cast a spell on this knife so that you would think that it was his knife. I did it to draw Solara out, but it looks like the only thing that appeared was her anger. So let's see what happens when I make her sister writhe in pain. Will she save you or will she be cold hearted and let you suffer?"
"What are you talking about-" then he sank the knife in to my right shoulder. I screamed continuously. Shaolin had stabbed me on that shoulder already, not to mention I'd just broken it. Tears brimmed my eyes.
After stabbing me a few more times the Duke began to look upset. "I don't understand. You're her sister, is she really going to just leave you like this?" He sank the knife in the my shoulder even harder this time and I let out another cry of pain. Tears were streaming, but the pain wasn't as bad as before now. My arm had begun to go numb.
Sephiria! Let me out! Solara screamed. He's going to kill you!
"No," I replied in my mind. "He wants me to give up and let you out. I want to show him that I'm not just part of his game." Once again the Duke raised the blade and I braced myself for pain.
When I realized that the pain never came a part of me thought that I might've died from blood loss, but when I opened my eyes I could see that wasn't the case. Allen and the Earl's matching swords had once again clashed. "You have begun to become a menace to me Allen Walker," The Duke told him.
Allen took one glance at me and his eyes filled with rage and hate for the Duke. "Y-you bastard! You hurt Sephiria dammit!" He fought the Duke wildly, blows flying from every direction.
"Walker, you've fought me with those eyes before have you not?" let's say back when I almost killed the Bookman Jr. and the sailor Chaoji Han I think his name was. I must say though, your eyes are scarier this time though." Allen completely ignored him and kept on fighting.
I knew that Allen had to stop fighting the Duke. He was only fighting him out of hate. I'd made that mistake already, Aaron had made that mistake. He would make a play toy out of Allen using his emotions. I tried to lift my body but I couldn't. I'd lost too much blood already.
"Walker, now if I were you I would pay more attention to Sephiria. She just might die of blood loss." The Duke snickered. A look of realization swept over Allen's face and he quickly rushed to my side.
"Sephiria! Hey Sephiria!" Allen cried holding my hand tightly. His sword reformed to the Crown Clown Edge. My vision was starting to blur, I looked at the Earl. "Where's the real knife?" I managed to ask.
"Now that's what I want to ask you Sephiria, I wonder if you would come to me if I destroyed you Black Order," I heard him say before I slipped in to unconsciousness.
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When I awoke I knew exactly where I was. The infirmary of the Asia Branch. "Thank God you're finally awake," Allen breathed a sigh of relief. I looked around. Everyone was there. Allen, Lavi, Lenalee, and Kanda. The very people I'd tried to hurt, but the Earl, he was gone. "We thought we actually might've lost you back there," Allen took his hand and brushed it against my cheek. Almost immediately tears sprung from my eyes.
"Why are you guys all still so nice to me when I tried to hurt you?" I sobbed and the next thing I knew Allen was holding me tightly.
"Sephiria, you think that just because you weren't acting like yourself we would hate you?" My heart pounded wildly in Allen's arms. Soon I found myself holding him back. I turned my head to see what Lavi was doing but when I saw him I saw that he looked upset. He wouldn't even look at me. "La-" I began, but was interrupted by Allen.
"Come with us, we have something to show you."
"I don't think I'm allowed to go anywhere and I can barely stand," I protested.
"I'll carry you," Allen replied.
After Allen scooped my up from my bed I realized that my red rings were gone. "Where did my innocence go?" I asked.
"We told the nurse not to but she broke them. It's been hours but they haven't come back yet," Lenalee told me. I looked at her with a worried look. "Don't worry Sephiria, we still sense innocence in you, maybe it just needs a little more time." Lenalee reassured.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
"C'mon, we have to hurry or we'll miss it," Lavi said in a monotone that made me a little uneasy.
"Miss what?" I asked.
There was no answer just a, "you'll see."
They brought me out of the cave and flew me in to the air. Everyone's innocence's were invoked except for Kanda's since his couldn't get him in to the air. Allen used his white cape that was usually his armor in battles to fly and Lenalee used her boots. Lavi used his hammer that got Kanda up too.
"What's going on?" I asked Allen who was still carrying me.
"Just wait." next to us I could hear Lenalee starting a countdown. "10, 9, 8, 7, 6."
I turned my head to face to starry night sky. "3, 2, 1." then fireworks sprung in to the air blooming like flowers. How could I have forgotten what day it was.
"Happy New Years Sephiria," Allen smiled at me. My heart throbbed once again. This, I wanted nothing more than this. Than to be held by the boy I loved on New years… if only that was what I thought, but it wasn't. I wanted something more than Allen. Something that was really important to me, and was worth risking everything for. The Earl's voice echoed in my head,
I wonder if you would come to me if I destroyed your Order. I had a plan.
Wondering what Shaolin looks like (or looked like)? Here it is, but she has brown eyes.
*(1) Hello, sorry to bother you again, but we really need to talk to you.
(2) As I said, we really need to talk to you.