Hello everyone! This is Artemis615! Kyaaaa!
Well, to tell the truth, I wanted to continue to write In The Light. But since I have written the end of this chapter, I just put in some moments that I have not managed to write in the fics. This chapter depicts how the rest of the Exorcist lives after Laia's death, and how her body is to be put into the graves. I hope you will enjoy this story as much as I do, because I love Laia Elfreya and Kanda Yuu! Kyaaaa~!
Well, I am sorry if Laia Elfreya is too powerful for your tastes, but I made her this way with a purpose. She couldn't live long due to the powers of all the Innocence she wields, and to atone for the powers she has, she will die when the war ends. Her life is dwindling, and she saves Kanda Yuu and the rest of the exorcists's life.
I especially love the part when she would make the barrier when she is asleep or passed out. I so love that moment. It is so cool! Gosh, I am praising myself. Hahahaha! Well, I really love that part, and the part when she passes away. I was going to make that part longer, but oh well, she is going to die anyway, so why not make it faster and decrease her sufferings?
And that part when the golden particles came out of her body and forms the Heart? Oh, it's so nice too! I love it! I love how Laia is able to protect her friends and the rest of the Exorcist even after she has dies, and I love the part when Lavi cries, saying that she is still protecting them even when she is dying, and Kanda tells him that they are all she has left in the world. If she does not save them, then who does she wanted to save?
For Laia's sake, her brother, the 14th made the Black Order. And in that Black Order, a kind of new weapon called the Innocence is forged by the 14th himself, who made it for her. It was all for her, and for that, he hides his identity and silently make the Black Order to fight the Earl of Millennium. The 14th loves Laia very much as his adopted sister, and for that, he is willing to do anything to make sure she is alive and well and away from disaster. The Black Order survives to protect the Heart, and he made sure to let Hevlaska know in the writings of the cubes that the Girl that the God of El Loves would come and save them and salvage all the souls of the Exorcists. Hevlaska knew she is the one, and had made sure Komui knows about it too!
And so, enjoy my last chapter. I wish I could write more, but I will make sure to write up something more if there is another idea for this story. I love In The Light! So I hope you will love this story too!
The Last Gathering of Black Order
Laia's body is carried by Kanda back to the headquarters. Kanda sheds tears of sadness at the loss of his beloved as she lay there quietly in his arms, not moving forever and growing cold. The rest of the Exorcists cried as well at the loss of their Heart Apostle General, and mourns for her loss. The Noahs disappears, but somehow, the Exorcist knew they would return, because Allen had told them that Road Kamelot informs him of this particular event. They said they are well and not Noahs anymore, and wouldn't wreak any havoc anymore forever.
A huge funeral is held in place of the fallen Heart Apostle General. Everyone attended the funeral, including Malcome Leverier. He came with a black rose in his hand, and he places it on her glass coffin with a sad expression on his face. He just wanted the world to be safe, not for her to die just like that. But her death serves to bring the rest of the group together as one, and they become a family after they becomes immortal. A black tombstone is erected in the funeral grounds, and together with the rest of the fallen exorcists, Laia is buried there in a huge mausoleum, and no one can enter it. It is richly decorated with gems and other valuable stones. Stories of her bravado and her strength as the Heart Apostle General is marked there with gold ink on the walls, and they even drew a portrait of her, hanging it in the grand halls of every church in the whole world, telling everyone that this girl has saved the world with her strength alone. They made it in such a way that the mausoleum is forever cold just so that her body won't rot. They put her in a glass coffin, and slowly, they lowered her body into the mausoleum.
Then suddenly, her body disintegrates. It slowly becomes flower petals, and soon, nothing is left in the coffin. Everyone panicked, and thought of black magic that has settles into the Black Order.
"No," Kanda suddenly said, silencing the whole panicked group immediately with his booming voice. He kneeled down by the glass coffin and watches as Laia's face disappears in a flurry of white rose petals. "She has been reborn. We only need to find her. And to do that, this Black Order must disappear.
He touches the black tombstone with his fingers.
Here lies The High Priestess Queen, the Heart Apostle General.
Laia Elfreya
Rest in peace. Loved by all. Respected, and forever embedded in our memories.
Goodbye Laia.
Love from…
Kanda Yuu, Lavi Bookman, Bookman Senior, Komui Lee, Lenalee Lee, Allen Walker, Chaoji Han, Bak Chan, Baron Arystar Krory III, Miranda Lotto, Noise Marie, Reever Wenham, Timothy Hearst, Johnny Gill, Jerry, Frio Tiedoll, Hevlaska,Klaud Nine, Winter Sokaro and Howard Link.
With that, the Black Order dissolves. No one spoke about the Black Order. The Priests and the Fathers and Popes all have no way in retaining the Exorcists. They went away, and they went as a family in a huge group of Exorcists, proudly leaving the Black Order with money in their huge bags.
General Marian Cross came back unharmed. His Innocence has left him, and he felt that it is safe for him to return back to them. He did not receive Laia's immortal powers, and so, he dies after a few years from cancer.
The rest of the Exorcists move on. Timcampy is brought back to life by Komui, and he continues to serve Allen as his best friend. It would bring back news about the search of Laia's reincarnated form, but for those years, his search went empty handed. But still, they waited.
They knew, Laia would not leave them behind and move on. She would come back one day. And she would, for them. For their sake, she would come back.
And so, the rest of the Exorcist who are immortals went on to live their life together. They bought a huge estate with the money of the Black Order, and lives there. There are many houses inside the estate, and they all changes their surname to Elfreya, in memory of Laia herself, who has bestowed them immortal lives. Only Kanda and Lavi Bookman refused to change their name, and remains as Kanda Yuu and Lavi Bookman for the rest of their immortal lives.
For years, they searched for Laia. They moved from estate to estate, and when the time is up, they would move away so that people won't realize that they do not age. They would all have dinner together, and Jerry would cook up a sumptuous meal for all of them. They even have a small farm full of animals and vegetables growing at the back of the estate, the same goes for some fruit trees. They have plenty of food, and they made some booming business with Lavi's brilliant head.
Lavi is the last surviving bookman. His grandfather, Bookman Senior, passed away due to old age. He, too, did not receive Laia's immortal powers that day, and remains a mortal.
Link, on the other hand, becomes Allen's best buddies. Although he still retains his serious face, Link has swore to guard Allen forever. Since he is an immortal, he will guard him forever as his bodyguard, and often went into a bicker with Allen with how he eats.
Allen's appetite has gone down to what a normal human would have usually. And he is grateful for it. He had thanked Laia from the depth of his heart, and he thought that it is a good thing that Laia had took back the Innocence's powers. He wonders about the hole in his heart, but he is still well from it even after the Innocence has been extracted out from him after the war. He guesses that with Laia's healing liquid, he has healed from everything, including some scars, and his hand had went back to normal despite it retaining the monstrous powers when he still has his Innocence.
They travel around and finally decided to settle in a small place in Paris. They open an October Café, in memory of Laia's death during a cold October afternoon. Kanda put up the plate of the October Café himself, and became Head Barista. Many customers came at Jerry's delicious food and Allen's superb cakes and cookies. Soon, the small café is famous.
They still bought estates, and from that, they are rich as hell. Money never ran out, and they are dressed in the latest fashions available in Paris. Gucci, LV, Mont Blanc, everything expensive and high class is bought by Lenalee for all of them. Lenalee, of course, never got over the joy of having her Innocence taken away from her. She couldn't forget Laia, and had, like the rest of them, waited for her return patiently.
They made a statue of her in their estate. It was made to look like Laia, and that statue serves as their memory of how Laia looks like in the past when she is still alive. They made her according to how she looks like when she is still alive, and they even made it so that she held her Innocences in her hands. Kanda always used to stand out there and stares at the statue, imagining to him that it was Laia that had came back and stood there to stare at him.
The statue is made from the finest porcelain, and the carver who had made the porcelain statue had praised the beauty of the girl, going as far as to carve out the lotus shaped mark on her forehead that serves as the center of her Innocence power. For such a kind person, fate is not kind to her. She dies while protecting her friends, and still does so when she could.
The carver made the statue so that she is holding onto her Innocence staff, while the other is made to hold Kanda's lotus sand time. Forever it blooms in her hand, and it made him felt as if from the start, his fate is already grasped in her hand. She sacrificed herself for him, and for his sake, she dies. For his sake, she evolves, and becomes the long awaited Heart Apostle General. Were it not for him, the Heart would never truly present itself in front of everyone in the Black Order. Her fate as the Heart is cruelly tormented by Leverrier, but nevertheless, she came back for them, and protected them with all the powers she have. From then on, the lotus time sand is held in Laia's porcelain figure's hand, and it stood there till this day.
Kanda frequently went out to find new materials for his coffee and tea in the café. New ideas came in, and their little café became famous with Mocha Latte and Green Tea Ice Blended Latte. Many came to their shop to buy the cute drinks, which he could draw on with milk and make a face of sort on the drinks. As for the rest of the Exorcists, some of them stayed with the Café, while others went to open a flower bouquet shop or a fruit stall. But they always went home together and stay together. Immortality becomes them, but at the same time, they couldn't bear to leave each other apart.
It was too much to bear. Being alone and watching everyone beside you grow old and die is too much for them to handle. No one could bear the sadness of death. They'd rather kept it to themselves and not make new friends, and instead stays together forever.
And wait for Laia's return.
And she did.
After 200 years, a girl came into the shop with her friends to try out October Café, which is famous throughout the streets in the little streets of Paris. Its quiet and tranquil café shop provides everyone the sort of peace they wanted that they couldn't get anywhere else, and the café shop is expanding to a huge block of buildings. Soon, all of the Exorcists came back and work in the café shop. They work as baristas under Kanda's supervision, and everyone is happy.
Everyone was silent when they saw just how similar this girl looks like to Laia Elfreya, their fallen Heart Apostle General. Only Lavi regains his composure quick enough and serves her, stalling her from leaving and made Lenalee talk to her. They wanted to make sure it is her, but she did not seems to recognize them.
She did not recognize them.
Not any one of them.
Save one.
Kanda Yuu.
The moment Kanda Yuu came in and bumped into Lara Evenskie, she recognize his voice and his face. And that hair.
His long dark blue hair.
He still wore it in a ponytail. He never changes, but his bangs are longer, and it frames his face handsomely.
"Kanda… Yuu-kun…" Lara said to him, and Kanda melted.
He hugged her, and from then on, he swears not to leave her for any reason at all. They would be together for eternity, and until time ends, they wouldn't be separated.
"Don't ever leave me again..." Kanda whispers into her ear, and Lara smiles widely.
"Never again..." she said, and lets go of Kanda.
"Lara-san," Lavi hugged Lara tightly after Kanda, and Kanda flashed out his Mugen onto his neck. But he worries not. No, no. Not with Allen there.
Not with Allen Walker there to save his neck.
Oh, how he loves this moment.
Allen had his magical whisk out and saves Lavi's neck by blocking the terrifying Mugen.
"Take. Your. Sword. Off. BaKanda," Allen said to him, gritting his teeth at the result.
"Lara-san! I miss you so much!" Lavi said happily, and a vein popped in Kanda's forehead.
"Your. Hand!" Kanda gritted his teeth, pressing further into Mugen and Allen's whisk.
"Yuu…" Lara said to him, one hand holding onto Kanda's arms. And Kanda melted.
"Just this once, you stupid rabbit…" Kanda said to him, and Lavi swings Lara in his arms.
For that short moment, everyone is happily reunited with Lara, the reincarnated form of Laia Elfreya. Everyone came out and greeted Lara, who remembers every one of them. They were happy that she came back finally, and for once, Kanda smiles widely at her, and everyone saw just how in love they are with each other. Finally, Kanda is not alone anymore.
Finally, they are reunited, and finally, they are one again.
Forever, they are together, and they stayed together in centuries to come. Kanda marries Lara, and Lenalee come together with Allen. All the other Exorcists are happily together as a family, and for once, no one is sad and lonely anymore.
The Heart Apostle General came back in a brand new form, and named as Lara Evenskie. There are no more war, no more sadness, and no more tears and death. In this new era, they lived under the roofs of October Café and becomes one of the richest people ever to live in Paris, and together, they live their immortal life to the fullest.