Chapter 2: Mission
There was a knock on the door, waking Beatrix. She opened her eyes and let out a yawn. "Come in."
A girl with her hair in two black ponytails came into the room, carrying a tray. She wore a pair of boots and an exorcist outfit. She was a bit younger than Beatrix, but she made Beatrix feel a bit jealous.
Sheesh. Are all the girls at this headquarter so pretty? I'll never fit in!
The girl smiled. "Hi there. I'm Lenalee, Komui's sister. You're Beatrix, right?"
Beatrix nodded. "It's nice to meet you, Lenalee."
"Well, if you're ready, Komui would like to see you again. I'll show you the way."
Beatrix got out of her bed and followed Lenalee out the door. She was asked some questions about her life in Germany and some basic questions about herself. Beatrix forgot about how pretty Lenalee was and actually talked to her. They got to Komui's office both smiling and laughing.
They stepped in to see Kanda, Lavi, Krory, and a strange gray haired boy Beatrix hadn't met yet. They all turned around and smiled at the two girls.
"Hello, Lenalee and Beatrix. Glad you could make it." Komui said, smiling at the girls.
Lenalee laughed. "You're so silly, brother. Here, I brought you some more coffee."
She handed him the tray and stepped into the group. Komui beckoned Beatrix over and she made her way over to him.
"Guys, and Lenalee, I want you meet Beatrix. She is an experienced exorcist from Germany who will be working with our headquarters now. Since she is around your age group, she will be working on missions with you. Everyone go around and introduce yourself to her."
Lavi smiled. "I'm Lavi. I've already met the cutie."
The rest of the group sighed. Krory smiled. "I'm Krory, even though we have met as well."
The gray haired boy smiled, and Beatrix saw that he had a scar on his left eye. "Hi Beatrix. I'm Allen."
Kanda shrugged. "We already met."
Komui sighed and shurgged. "Well, that's all of them. General Viztarsaid that you had a special abilities that went along with your innocence. Care to tell us all now, since it would beneficial for your teammates to know as soon as possible."
She nodded. "Well, I can summon things with my Innocence. Plus, I have the ability to heal injuries, to a certain extent."
Komui nodded. "Care demonstrating? Allen, you have a large cut on your right arm, don't you?"
Allen nodded. "Yes."
Komui smiled. "Well, try healing his wound, Beatrix."
She made her way over to Allen who showed her where the cut was. She closed her eyes. Innocence... Activate.
She was soon surrounded by a warm green light and she put her hands on his wound. She murmured something quietly, and the wound immediately healed itself. She deactivated it, and saw the group looking on in astonishment.
"Wow.." The group murmured.
Allen lifted his arm and it was pain free. "That's amazing! She's kind of like Miranda, right?"
The others in the group nodded and gave Beatrix a welcoming smile. Komui patted her on the shoulder. "Well done. Welcome to our headquarters, Beatrix."
She smiled and looked around the group. "I want to help win this war as much as I can. Let's win together."
The group cheered and gave each high fives, including Beatrix. I fit in! This is awesome!
Komui coughed, silencing the happy group of exorcists. "Well, this may seem sudden, but you have a mission tomorrow. As most of you know, tomorrow is the Fall Festive in the city. I'm assigning all of you to go and be, let's say 'security guards.' Are you up to it, Beatrix?"
Lavi laughed. "Of course she is! Plus, we'll all be there to help her out!"
The rest of the group murmured their own approval. Beatrix couldn't help smiling; this was the first time she had ever gotten so much attention from a group of people. In Germany, people looked at her and passed her by.
Komui laughed. "I guess it's settled then. You all rest up today, and set out early tomorrow morning. Hope it goes well for you, Beatrix."
She nodded. "I'll do my best, sir."
The next morning, the group met outside of the headquarters. Most of them were silent, except for Lavi.
"Woo-hoo! A mission! I can't wait to see those Akuma show up and then -BAM!- be destroyed!" He laughed, slapping Kanda on the shoulder.
Kanda hit Lavi in the side with his sword, shutting the red head immediately. Beatrix let out a small giggle, seeing how funny the two guys looked.
"Well, if we're all here, we should start heading down." Allen said, starting down to the town.
The rest of them followed, and the girls chatted while the guys were being guys.
"Man! Sometimes I wish that Akuma didn't attack during festives! They're so pretty and the people are always friendlier that day." Lenalee lamented as they approached the town.
"Really? I've never been to a festive before. I'll take your word for it, though." Beatrix murmured, looking for the town with longing eyes.
Lenalee gasped. "You mean you've never been to a festive in Germany? I'm sure that you had! What did they make you do back at your old branch?"
She shrugged. "The usual stuff: fighting, healing, and watching things around the branch. There was usually no time for me to party or go to a festive, if there was one at all."
Lenalee sighed. "Sorry. I thought that you did the same things in Germany."
Beatrix smiled and patted her on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it. It's not like you knew anyway. Well, there has to be a first for everything."
The girls smiled and Beatrix tapped Krory on the shoulder. He turned around and gave her a smile. "Is something the matter, Beatrix?"
She shook her head "I just wanted to ask you if you could tell me everyone's innocence powers, so I can base my attacks and such off of that."
He nodded. "Let see.. Allen's left arm turns into an anti-Akuma weapon, and his left eye can track the Akuma from a distance. Kanda uses his sword and his innocence ativates strong attacks. Lavi carries around a small hammer, that grows into a huge hammer with his activated innocence and to add to that, he uses elemental attacks. Lenalee's boots are her innocence weapon. As for me, I turn into a vampire with my activated innocence and I bite into the Akuma to destroy them."
She nodded. "Thank you, Krory."
He smiled. "No problem."
London soon came into view, and the sights were so beautiful. When Beatrix same the festive decorations, she gasped. It's so..so beautiful! I wish I had been to one of these before in Germany! Lavi tapped Beatrix on the shoulder. She turned to him, and he gave her a smile. "This must be your first time at a festive, huh? We're going to look around and enjoy ourselves until the Akuma attack, if they do at all. Ready for some fun?"
She couldn't help but smile. "Sure."
Lavi nodded and slapped Kanda on the back. "Hey, Yuu-chan! Ready to smile?"
Kanda gave him a fierce glare. "No."
Beatrix giggled, and Lavi smiled. "Don't mind Mr. Grumpy over there. If he ever gives you a hard time, not take it personally. He's like that to everyone."
They passed a stand, which sold beautiful autumn colored jewelry. Beatrix's eyes caught a beautiful orange glass beaded necklace. She stopped walking and gazed at it. The rest of the group stopped, and Kanda was about to say something, but Lavi stopped him.
"I'll stay with her, guys. This is her first time at a festive. You guys go on ahead and treat yourselves. We'll catch up later."
Krory shrugged. "Are you sure, Lavi?"
He laughed. "Of course I am, Krory! Go, go!"
The group walked off into the festive, and Lavi walked over to Beatrix. He pointed to the necklace she was gazing at. "You like that one, huh?"
She nodded. "It reminds me of the flowers I used to grow in Germany. They came in that color orange, blue, purple.." She sighed.
Lavi smiled. "You must miss Germany, huh?"
Beatrix shrugged. "Yeah, I guess I do."
He smiled. Poor girl. I remember how hard it was for me to move from place to place with Gramps. I kinda get what she's going through. He got the vendor's attention and pointed to the necklace. The vendor handed it to him and he paid the price asked.
Beatrix watched on with tears brimming her eyes. He handed her the necklace and she put it on. "Thanks, Lavi. I'll pay you back."
He smiled. "Nah. Think of it as a welcoming gift."
They walked off down the street, talking non-stop. Lavi was funny to Beatrix, so she was laughing a lot. He smiled and they were having a great time. They passed an alley, where they heard a small child's crying.
Beatrix stopped, making Lavi smiled. "You heard someone crying, didn't you?"
She nodded. "Yeah."
They walked into the alley, where the saw a little boy crouched down on the ground. Lavi walked up to him. "Hey, you okay, little guy?"
The boy kept crying, and it started to sound like a laugh to Beatrix. Innocence, activate. Third eye!
She immediately felt the presence of an Akuma coming from the boy, so she gasped. "Lavi! Get away from him. It's an Akuma!"
Before Lavi could move, the boy exploded and an Akuma came in his place. Lavi was cut from the explosion, but nothing extensive. Beatrix rushed forward and did a hand symbol for lightning. She out held her palms and large amounts of lightning hit the Akuma, destroying it.
She rushed over to Lavi, who was sitting on the ground. "Lavi! Are you okay?" She said, sitting next to him.
He shrugged her worries off. "Yeah, nothing terrible. Well, we should get going. There's probably more where he came from."
As an answer to what he said, a large scream arose around the city. The two exorcists got up and saw the large amounts of Akuma floating around. Lavi got out his hammer and activated it. "Small hammer, big hammer. Grow, grow, grow!"
The hammer grew large, and he summoned his fire attack. Beatrix summoned more lightning, and struck down most of the Akuma in close range. Lavi's attack killed the rest of them. They ran down the street, to be greeted by Lenalee and Krory.
"We just defeated all the Akuma in the east part of the city. If only Allen was here to tell us where the other Akuma are!" Lenalee said.
Beatrix closed her eyes. Third eye, outer levels. She felt the presence of a large amount of Akuma coming from the south and west side of London. "They're coming in from the south and west. Can any of you fly?"
Lavi nodded. Beatrix sighed. "Lenalee and Krory, you run to the west side, since it's closer. Lavi and I will fly over to the south side. Hurry!"
The two rushed off and she summoned her broom. Lavi jumped onto his hammer, and they flew off to the south side. The Akuma had just about reached the city, like Beatrix had predicted. They jumped onto a house top and she did a hand symbol for her favorite move, the Frozen Tiger.
A large tiger made of ice appeared in front of the Akuma, and it roared, destroying the Akuma with its icy shards of breath. Lavi looked on in awe, as the twenty or so Akuma were destroyed. She fell to her knees, not used to using so much Innocence at once.
"Hey! You okay, Beatrix?!" Lavi asked, approaching her.
"Yeah. I'm fine. Do you think the others will be alright?"
He nodded and looked up into the sky, and saw that there were no Akuma around. "Hey, Beatrix, can you check to make sure no more Akuma are coming?"
She nodded and closed her eyes. Third eye, outer levels. She sat still for a few moments, and felt no presence of Akuma around the city for hundreds of miles. "No more Akuma."
He sighed. "Man! I really wanted to kick some butt!"
She stood up and laughed. "Sorry. You should have told me to back off."
Lavi laughed. "Nah. It was cool to see what you could do! That was so awesome!"
Beatrix blushed and dusted off her outfit. "Thanks, Lavi. We should probably go to the west side to meet up with the ot-"
Just as she was speaking, she saw the rest of the group below them. Lenalee was smiling. "Beatrix! That was awesome!"
Lavi and Beatrix jumped down from the house top and she blushed. "Thanks. It's really nothing, so please don't worry about it."
The restof the group smiled at Beatrix, who was furiously blushing from all of the attention. Lavi, being himself, kept bragging about how awesome it was to have her with them. She gave Lavi all of the credit, but he pushed it off, because it wasn't true.
The townspeople around them also thanked them, but most of them were weary of their presence. They knew of the headquarters and what their purpose was, but the thought of powerful exorcists scared them, and the exorcists knew it.
Krory noticed the frightened people and nodded to the group, who knew it was time to go. They surrounded Beatrix and headed back to headquarters.
AN: Next Chapter! Yay! Please review and tell me how I'm doing! .