"Allen, are you sure you want to do this?" Neah asked him, "What if it backfires?"
"Then I just have to take that risk," he said calmly.
Neah gave up. "Then do it." Allen nodded. He clenched his right fist. It slowly turned black. Holding it up, he gently pushed it into the bark of Cornelia, the only tree for miles. It didn't break or bend, it simply accepted the hand as if it were its own bark.
Allen closed his eyes as his hand touched an object. Slowly pulling it out, Allen looked at its gentle glow. Releasing the Noah power on his right arm, Allen spoke to Neah, "It's done."
"Took you long enough, bakadeshi," a new voice said.
Turning around Allen saw Cross. Behind him was a coffin.
"Why did you bring the whole coffin?" Allen shouted.
"Well I don't want to get it out of there!" Cross shouted back.
"What makes you think I want to?' Allen wined back.
"Fine then you bakadeshi! I'll open it!" Cross walked over to the coffin and slowly pulled off the lid but only on one corner. Even Cross didn't want to see the skeleton of a man he once knew. As the corner was opened, a small red bag was seen inside. Cross looked at Allen. Allen walked over. Reaching in, he hesitated, almost afraid that the skeleton would reach out and grab him. Taking a breath he grabbed the bag. Clutching the bag close to him he shut the door to the coffin.
"Thank you Mana," he whispered.
The order came to the edge of the town, on the border between safety and the open, defenseless fields.
"I know it seems old fashioned but finders, you need to cover the exorcists with shields if we go under fire. We may have a barrier keeping them from seeing us but they may still notice us," Reever shouted to everyone. "Now head out!"
The exorcists set out to the front, each accompanied by a finder. Following them were the rest of the finders, Komui and any other people. At the very back were the crow, who were creating the barrier keeping the enemy from seeing anything.
Unfortunately they weren't good enough for Kanda. The second they set foot in the grass, Kanda knew they were there. He saw the strange moving of the grass. There may have been wind but even wind has a pattern. The grass was only moving in this section and it was slowly growing closer.
Hardly moving at all, Kanda took his knife and cut a sting. The string made a pillow fall down to Johnny, who was the one who set up this contraption.
Johnny and his group had just finished and they all looked at each other. It was time. They each ran to their positions, ready for the enemy.
But something was missing. Johnny ran to the hole on the roof where Kanda was, "Where's Allen?" But Kanda was one step ahead of him. He took a second knife. It was almost black since Kanda had been covering it in ash in case something like this happened. He took the knife and threw it like a dart as far as he could, somehow managing to reach Cornelia. It landed softly in the dirt next to the tree and Allen saw it and understood.
Allen pulled up his hood to cover his hair and Cross did the same. They got down on all fours and crawled through the grass, soon coming to the back of the house. They pushed aside a few boards they loosened earlier and crawled inside. Cross screwed them back in place and they ran to their positions. Well, Allen did but Cross took a leisurely walk.
His position was on the top floor so he had to watch out for the traps. Allen didn't have a floor. He had to watch out for everyone. If a single person didn't play their part right they would lose this battle. Everyone knew this and was prepared to do anything to play their part.
Allen went to the second floor and hid by a window so he could know when they got here.
"Let the games begin," Neah said to Allen.
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Total words: 1657
Author's note: So I think it should be really obvious by now that I am not very good at updating… sorry about that. I will try to update soon. As always please review and if you have any questions or suggestions please say them.
And since I haven't updated in a while, just wondering has my writing changed at all since the last update? If it has is it better or worse? And let me know how OCC some of the characters are because I haven't read D Gray Man since the last chapter came out which was December.
Oh and everyone give a huge thanks to Mukuro234! Since they reviewed I was reminded that I hadn't finished this story yet. Thanks a ton Mukuro234 and all other people who have reviewed so far!