Hey, it's another update! And not only is it an update of Allegro's Crescendo, but if you've been checking your manga sites like I do, there's also an update of D,Gray-Man!Chapter 210 is out, and I personally think that it's kickin'! But, that's just me. So, yeah.
Your reviews last chapter not only made me happy, but also some made me giggle as well [not that it's a bad thing, it's just... thoughts may have been similar...]
This chapter has Allen/Allegro, Erika, Cross, and a not-so-new new character~! ^_^
Warnings: Cross's mouth again.
Let The Sixth Movement begin!
Disclaimer: My name is not Hoshino Katsura, therefore I don't own.
Allegro's Crescendo
Allen was never found by Cross after attempting to bring Mana back. Neither did the Millennium Earl or the Noah's take him in. No, a third party found young Allen instead, and from that day on, he wasn't 'Allen' anymore. Instead, the Destroyer of Time gained a new name. That name was…
The Sixth Movement: Accented
He wasn't really following what was going on around him- none of it made any sense to him. Then again, things hadn't made sense for a while. Not since… that. It still hurt to even think of it. All he wanted to do was curl up in a ball and die, but he hadn't been able to.
This lady, who had taken him in, didn't let him. She always took care of him, no matter what, and for nothing in return. Just like… it hurt to think about it still. He still wasn't even able to think about him.
Still, she was really nice to him, protecting him from both the monster from before, and from the man in front of them with the big flying object that looked like a bird. He didn't want to leave the nice lady; sure, he didn't know anything about either the lady or the man, but the man gave off a way scary vibe that frightened him.
He didn't know what happened- or how, even. He saw the man's fingers glowing, and he felt really sleepy, but a part of his head was telling that he needed to stay awake. Stay awake or he'd probably have to go with the scary man. And he didn't want that.
He moved without realizing it- one minute he was next to the lady who had been really nice to him, the next he was in front of her, and he had no clue how he did it. The light from the man's fingers had gone, but his arm really, really, really hurt and it didn't look like a normal arm anymore, and it was scary looking, and all he could remember was that glow of green and silver from when his life had ended, and he felt like he couldn't breathe, and, and, and, and-
~~Accented, Accented~~
Allegro- no, it was Allen, not Allegro, he wasn't hers, she had to remember that -had been at her side one moment, right when Cross's fingers started glowing and she started feeling tired, but then, the next instant, he was in front of her. Cross's fingers had stopped glowing, and she stopped feeling tired. But that wasn't what she noticed right off.
It was Allegr- Allen's arm. His left arm, to be more specific.
She had seen it before, needing to change his clothes and give him baths, of course, during the past week and a half. That being said, Erika knew already that almost all the way up to the shoulder, Allegro's arm was a blood red color that appeared to have scales on it. Blackened nails, and a cross in the middle of the back of his hand with something that glowed green down in the center of the cross. At first, Erika had thought the shining green was a piece of glass that had gotten into an open wound, but the theory was quickly aborted after Allegr- Allen started howling in pain when she tried to remove it.
But this arm of his now, it wasn't the red skin with blackened nails that she knew.
It was a disproportionate arm- almost bigger than Allegro himself -and it was a shining silver, and looked more like a machine or a weapon than an actual human arm. The fingers weren't even fingers- they were lethal sharp claws that one would expect to find on an animal of some sort. It was a monstrosity, something you saw on a monster, not an innocent little boy.
The little boy she had been taking care of for the past week and a half was a monster.
Erika looked down at Allen's face, saw the fear on his face, and reeled back like she had just been slapped. Ashamed for what she had just been thinking. Here she was condemning a child for something that wasn't his fault, like she was the higher authority who doled out punishment, whether innocent or guilty.
"Still want to keep the brat now?" Cross called out across the room, seeing the look on her face, and most likely interpreting it as repulsion at Allegro, and not at herself.
"Why wouldn't I?" Erika rested trembling, tentative, hands on Allegro's shoulders. "He's a little boy. Not a monster. Not a killer. I've taken care of him this long- why not longer? He's done nothing wrong."
"He led that Akuma to your house." Cross challenged back. "You keep him, there will be more. Untrained as he is, you'll be dead within a week. Both of you."
"Says who?" Erika snapped back. "How do you know we'd be dead?" The gun was back to being pointed at Cross.
The sound of the gun cocking in the silent room was louder than if the actual gun would have gone off.
"I'm a bit more durable than most would expect."
~~Accented~~
Komui Lee sighed, sitting at his [new] desk, staring at all the paper work he was expected to fill out with his [new] job. He hadn't been at it for long, and, to be honest, he was only doing this job because of family. The only family he had left, really. His baby sister.
She was eleven years old, but she had been taken away from him when she was six. They had been reunited with each other almost a year ago, when he had taken on his new job that still felt like a new job, even after all these months.
He was a supervisor. Not just any supervisor though. He was the supervisor, and science department head, of an organization called 'The Black Order'. Well, the supervisor of the European Branch, at least.
Being a part of the Order for almost a year had gotten him fairly acquainted with some of the accommodators that lived there. There was his darling sister, Lenalee, and a young anti-social boy, Kanda, who refused to talk to anybody the majority of the time. Daisya Barry, who was around Lenalee's and Kanda's age, and Marie Noise, who was a few years older than Daisya. Suman Dark, and a few others who he hadn't met yet. Then, there were the five Generals. Froi Tiedoll, who was Daisya, Marie, and Kanda's master, and Winters Sokalo. There was Klaud Nyne, Kevin Yeager, and then his current headache.
General Cross Marian.
Now Generals all had the task of finding accommodators while they were out on assigned missions. However, General Cross Marian had been given a specific mission barely a month ago, and, while the General seemed to love dropping off the radar for months at a time, taking ages to complete the mission, they had received word from the General.
Well, not from the General, technically. A Finder, who had at some point, stumbled upon Cross, or vice versa.
"Please put him on the phone," Komui sighed tiredly, tapping his pen on the top of the desk. "I'd appreciate hearing the story from him."
There was a pause, some shuffling, and then the General's gruff voice was filling the receiver.
"You're in the hospital." Komui's tone was light, as if being in the hospital wasn't a serious thing, and that it happened all the time.
Which, unfortunately, happened almost all the time for accommodators.
"Mind telling me what exactly happened?" Komui's voice was open, posing the demand as a question, and Cross growled to himself, staring at the phone that had been handed to him by the Finder. He had to tell the idiot supervisor something.
"Got shot." It was an offhanded comment, and he made it sound as if it didn't matter as Cross decided he'd tell the idiot supervisor an abridged sort of tale of what actually transpired.
"I'm assuming it wasn't by an Akuma, seeing as you aren't dead." Komui's voice was dry as it filtered over the phone. "Why?"
"Why what?" Cross parroted back. Maybe if he got the supervisor irritated enough, he'd hang up on Cross. "Why wasn't I shot by an Akuma? Why aren't I dead? Why-" Komui cut through Cross's sarcasm.
"Why were you shot?"
"I found an accommodator." Cross responded, and there was a second before Komui responded.
"You were shot by an accommodator?" Confusion. He could just leave it at that, and hang up on the supervisor himself, but that meant the idiot would send someone out this way to check, and Cross wanted to try and find those two himself.
"No." He answered instead, and added quietly after that, "Doubt the brat would be that good of a shot, anyways…" A pause, which meant the supervisor probably heard his mumble, and was trying to come up with something to say. He could probably hang up now, if he did it quickly…
"How old?" Komui's voice came right before Cross could make good on hanging up the phone. "How old is the accommodator?"
Ah, he forgot. The supervisor had a little sister who was an Exorcist as well. What was she, ten? Nine? Either way, she had been six, when she had been brought to the Order, and Cross remembered how they had treated her under the last supervisor, alongside Leverrier.
"Ten," Cross answered surely. "Maybe nine." Cause the little bastard was small, and he had never bothered to learn his real age. "I got shot by the woman who was taking care of him."
"Ah," Komui's voice was filled with mirth, and Cross could practically see him, leaning back in his chair, a smug little smirk on his face, like he knew one day that Cross was going to get shot by a woman or an irate lover for hitting on them. "Do you know where the accommodator is now?"
"No, she fucking shot me and took off with the kid, leaving me to bleed out on the floor." Cross swore. "I'll be surprised if she's still even in the country, the way she took off with the kid."
"What about Timcampy?" Komui asked. Cross looked down at the golem that was sitting faithfully on his knee, wings in and tail curled around the stubs that were his feet.
"Fucking shot him too. They were gone before Tim could reform." Cross grumbled, reaching for a pack of cigarettes, and cursing again when he realized that he didn't have a pack on him because the nurses took them away from him.
"How long are you expected to be in the hospital?" Komui asked next, changing the subject.
"I want to be out now," Was Cross's immediate response, "But the fucking bastards of doctors here say I'm not allowed out of here for two months."
"I see," Komui's voice was distracted, and Cross could hear the shuffling of papers filter through the phone line.
"When you're back on your feet General," Komui said after a pause. "You are to continue on your assigned mission. Leave the accommodator be for now, and don't go chasing after him. The mission is more important than the accommodator right now."
Cross resisted the urge to swear, wondering what the hell to do. Never in his entire life as an Exorcist had he heard that a mission was more important than finding an accommodator, especially when Innocence wasn't involved in the mission. This mission of his was that important, apparently.
"Do you understand, General?" Komui's voice entered through his thoughts.
"Yeah, yeah," Cross grumbled. "Whatever."
"Alright," Komui's voice wasn't surprised, but it was close to it. "Good-"
And Cross hung up on him, because the conversation was over anyways, and it made him feel slightly better knowing that he had at least hung up on the supervisor.
~~Allegro's Crescendo~~
And Komui makes his entrance~! ^_^ And Cross got shot, but, then again, most of us were expecting that, weren't we? I'll let you speculate on where exactly he was shot.
I'm sorry if I screwed up ages and that for when Lenalee/Kanda and them arrived at the Order, but I don't recall exact ages being said of when they arrived, so I fished for ages that sounded about right. If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate being told so I can fix it. ^_^
Next time on Allegro's Crescendo: The 3/2 Time Signature:
Big brother hadn't seemed too happy with the General, but she knew that her big brother wasn't ever really happy unless he was around her. Not that shee minded or anything, but she really wished that he could be happier more, because she knew that with as dangerous a job as the one she had, she wouldn't be around forever, and she wanted her big brother to be happy, even when she was gone.
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~~Paw-Chan Signing Out~~