NoName-chan: I'm glad you guys like this story so far! ^^
Kanda: I don't, baka.
NoName-chan: Love you too, Kanda.
Christina: HA! I'm the main character again in this chapter!
Allen: SHUT IT!
Christina: And you thought I was "like a goddess!"
Allen: THAT WAS NONAME-CHAN'S DOING, NOT MINE! And what about you? You were absolutely petrified when I showed up! And then in this chapter, you-
NoName-chan: SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SPOILERS!
Lavi: We have a chapter to attend to! So, Christina, Allen, just shut up and love each other for ten minutes, okay? Lenalee, care to do the Disclaimer?
Lenalee: NoName-chan will never own DGM.
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Christina was utterly confused. This boy had just went from pinning her down by the throat and looking like he wanted to murder her to smiling at her happily as if they were best friends. And on top of that, he'd called her an….
"A-an Exorcist?" she stuttered. "What's an Exorcist?"
The boy smiled at her empathetically, as if understanding her bewilderment. She peered into his, now kind, eyes. They were a beautiful silver-blue color and sparkled with friendliness. The two shining orbs were partially covered by tufts of his luminous snow white hair. The boy's face was shaped with baby fats that practically caused it to radiate a sense of innocence. On top of it all, he had an odd red scar that began by forming and upside down pentacle above his left eyebrow, ran over his eye completely, then down the curve of his cheek. He looked so sweet, so unique, so….. captivating. Christina couldn't help but stare.
The young girl was shaken from her memorization as the boy answered her question. "Exorcists. We are beings chosen by God to be the accommodators of Innocence. We use the Innocence in the form of weapons to destroy the unholy beings of this world. We are part of an organization known as the "Black Order." The Order exists to hunt down and destroy the Millennium Earl and his Akuma."
Christina felt a brief flash of understanding, but soon found herself with more questions than she had before. "What are Akuma? What does the Noah family have to do with this?"
The white haired boy seemed as if he'd anticipated these questions and immediately answered. "Akuma are miserable beings. They are created when the Millennium Earl convinces a distraught person to bring back the soul of a loved one who had passed away. However, once they are brought back, they are forced to be under the Earl's control as living weapons designed to kill humans. He orders them to kill their loved ones who brought them back in the first place and wear their bodies as their own. And after that, they are forced to keep killing. The souls inside the Akuma are suffering. They cry in sorrow for their loved ones and for all of the sins that they have no choice but to commit. The sorrow of the victim's soul is what powers the dark matter that makes up the Akuma itself. The more the Akuma kills, the more pained and distorted the soul is, and the more pained and distorted the soul is, the more powerful the Akuma becomes. This is what we call the Akuma's "level." With each level, Akuma become stronger, more powerful, and develop more traits and abilities. Level 1 Akuma are typically large, gray, flying, spherical beings that don't have much awareness except for the crying souls within them. Level 2 Akuma gain self-awareness and develop a form of personality other than the soul's. They also evolve into their own unique forms and gain a special ability. Level 3 Akuma each have remarkably strong armor and similar forms. They also have self awareness and special abilities like level 2s. Finally, there's level 4s. They have humanoid structures and are unbelievably strong. As far as we know, this is the highest Akuma evolve to. Akuma can only be destroyed in two ways: they can self-destruct, which causes them to revert back to dark matter and for the soul to be lost, or they can be exorcised by an anti-Akuma weapon made from Innocence, which allows the souls to be set free and the dark matter destroyed. As for the Noah family, they are beings who inherited the genes of the original Noah from the Old Testament. They each inherited a different piece of Noah's memory. For example, Road is the Noah of Dreams, and Tyki is the Noah of pleasure. And with those memories come special powers and abilities. I'm sure you've already figured this out, but Road's ability is to travel through dimensions, and Tyki's is to pass through anything at will. Noahs tend to refer to themselves as "super humans" and work with the Millennium Earl to wipe out mankind. Like Akuma, their weakness is Innocence. They are humans, however. They have a human side and a Noah side. In Noah form, they typically have dark skin, golden eyes , and a row of seven cross-shaped scars on their foreheads. Because of your golden eyes, I believe they have mistaken you for one of them. At first, I had mistaken for you for one of them as well, so I attacked you." His face flushed slightly. "Ah, sorry about that, by the way….."
Christina's head was spinning. This was a lot to take in. She stared at the boy in front of her. This boy…. 'Wait…. What's his name, again?' "Ah, what's your name?" the light haired girl asked.
After a brief expression of confusion passed the boy's features, he seemed to grow angry with himself. "How could I be so rude? I'm Allen. Allen Walker."
Dumbfounded and lacking a better question, Christina then asked, "Well, what do we do now?"
Allen chuckled softly. "Well, since you're an Exorcist and have the Innocence now, my mission here is complete. Now we go meet up with my friends, go back to the Order, and-"
"The Order? She's not going there~" a deep raspy voice interrupted. The two teens jumped to their feet and whirled around to find none other than the Millennium Earl himself. "Now, Christina, isn't eight years a long enough time to run from us~? Why don't you just come along and join the rest of your new family?"
Christina trembled. She had been running from the Earl and the Noahs for so many years, and as far as she knew, the round man before her was the most powerful. 'I don't want to go with him. I'm not a Noah. I don't belong there. I don't want to kill innocent people. But… I'm powerless here. I can't do anything to stop him from kidnapping me. It's just like earlier. If it weren't for that cloaked figure, I never would've had the chance to escape in the first place.' More and more of these negative thoughts raced through the young girl's mind, and before she knew it, she had partially hidden herself behind Allen.
Suddenly, a flash of white appeared before Christina's eyes. In front of her, where Allen should have been, the cloaked figure had arrived to her rescue once again. He glanced back at her, his silver-blue eyes shining through his metal masquerade mask. 'Silver-blue…..' she thought. Then the realization struck her. Allen! Her angelic savior was Allen!
"Stay back," Allen ordered. Christina just nodded her head and quickly ventured into the jungle of roses to hide.
"Hm? Playing hide-and-seek again, Christina~?" the Earl questioned in a singsong voice, seemingly amused. "No matter. I'll find you soon enough~" The large man turned his attention to the masked boy in front of him. "Allen Walker~! We meet again."
Allen showed no signs of familiarity toward the Earl as his eyes bore down upon the grinning man. He wrapped the fingers of his right hand around his left wrist and converted his entire arm into a large sword. The black cross stood out against the white of the blade in the shining starlight. In the Millennium Earl's hand, a reversely colored sword of the same characteristics as Allen's materialized. The battle began.
Christina observed from the cover of a particularly thick tangle of rose vines. 'Allen's arm….' she thought in shock. 'It just became a sword!' She closed her gaping mouth and watched as the battle between the two men began. Swords clashed. It was apparent that Allen was an incredibly skilled fighter. He easily matched the Earl easily as they each switched from offense to defense. Loud clangs of metal clashing with metal rang throughout the cavern each time the twin swords met. Throughout the entire battle, the Earl just stared at the white haired exorcist with an expression of amusement.
"You've gotten stronger, my boy~!" he mused, and Allen responded with a deadly glare. "Oh~? Still not very friendly, are you? No matter. I'd really like to just fetch Christina and the Innocence and be on my way, so I'll go ahead and end this little fight."
Allen's glare was broken with a look of confusion, then realization and shock, then, finally, pure urgency. The Earl held out his arms as two balls of dark matter began to form in his hands.
Christina had seen this attack before. Those black spheres would easily be enough to destroy the entire city, and the Earl was aiming them directly at Allen! She had to do something! A sinking feeling set in her heart and stomach. But what would she do? She bit her lip in frustration. She was nothing more than a teenage orphan! She couldn't fight this! She couldn't protect Allen!
Then, as if responding to her feelings of hopelessness, the girl's newly acquired necklace began to glow. Somehow, Christina knew to touch it. She reached a shaky hand up and caressed the glowing rose pendant. Suddenly, she felt a surge of power and energy course through her veins. She glanced down at her skin to find glowing golden tattoos of rose vines where the plant had entangled itself around her earlier. Her entire body was glowing golden! She then looked to find that the pendant of the necklace had transformed into the golden rose that had called to her being. The feeling of hopelessness and powerlessness disappeared and were replaced with now found feelings of confidence and control. She knew what to do.
Chapter 2 End
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NoName-chan: So there you have it! Chapter 3! I apologize for the long explanation you had to sit through about Exorcists, Akuma, and the Noah family. But Christina had to learn about them somehow, right?
Christina: HA! That rose plant made me a total badass! What now?
Allen: Oh, shut up! I was a badass before you were even thought up!
Christina: But if I'm remembering correctly, you looked at me and thought I was a "beautiful goddess."
Allen: Are you seriously bringing this up again? Plus, I remember something about you thinking that I was your "angelic savior."
Christina: "ZIP IT!"
Lenalee: "BOTH OF YOU, STOP IT RIGHT NOW OR I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASSES ALL THE WAY TO JUPITER! THIS IS A ROMANCE STORY BETWEEN YOU TWO, SO SHUT UP AND LOVE EACH OTHER ALREADY!"
Allen, Lavi, Christina, NoName-chan: *shocked silence*
Lavi: L-Lenalee got scary!
Christina: Wait a minute…. Romance story? WHAT?!
Lavi: Wait, you mean nobody told you?
Christina: NO!
Allen: Damn it, guys, why did you have to tell her?
Kanda: Che. Just do what Lenalee said and shut the fuck up! You are all too noisy, and it's annoying.
Allen: Don't tell me what to do, BaKanda!
Lenalee: JUST SHUT UP AND DO IT!
Allen and Christina: *yelp* Y-yes, ma'am. *Awkwardly hold hands*
NoName-chan: AAAAWWW! I can see the love already! Anyways, I'll post chapter 4 soon!