Chapter 3
Once the group of Exorcists reached the room they had found more of the holy saviours inside the large room, Bookman, the small old male with tall grey hair that he managed to somehow get to stand upwards and who is also known as 'Panda' because of the black circles around his eyes and next to him on the couch was a giant (compared to Bookman) red haired male with his right face covered by a white mask while smoking a cancer stick known as a cigarette, was Cross Marian, making the white haired male standing at the door scream in horror and try to flee the room before the door shut behind him locking him in the same room as his Master, unluckily for him his three 'friends' grabbed his arms and dragged him further into his 'doom.'
"YOU TRATIORS!" The 'poor' boy screamed while kicking and struggling in the hold of Lavi, Lenalee Lee and Yuu Kanda.
"Shut it Moyashi! You're going to sit down!" Kanda snarled, his grey eyes flashing in annoyance while the red haired female beside him grinned happily.
"Yeah Allen! Take it like a man!" Lavi grinned.
"You guys don't understand! That guy's a demon!"
"Watch your mouth stupid apprentice!" Cross growled out.
"Let me go!"
Once they managed to all settle down the purple haired male sitting at the desk managed to speak after trying to hug his baby sister.
"Well, there has been a large attack of Akuma and Noah at a small town in Ireland, we want you to go and investigate what has been happening, get rid of the Akuma and run the Noah out of town before they hurt anyone else."
"How many Noah is there?" The purple eyed female questioned her older and 'insane' brother.
"Witnesses have been saying that three Noah have been spotted, but…"
"But?" Allen asked with confusing written all over his face like everyone else's.
"Another female seems to appear a lot, she looks like a Noah but she doesn't seem to go anywhere near them."
"What does she look like? And who is she?" The General asked.
"We don't know her name but she had dark brown hair which is long and blue eyes when she looks human." Komui described as best as he could.
The female Apprentice felt a pair of eyes gaze at her making her shiver slightly, she had a thought of who the 'mysterious' woman could be and it annoyed her to no end that her knowledge managed to be unhelpful for once.
"Hey Lavi, are you cold?" The cursed Exorcist asked noticing her shiver which made her grin in embarrassment and start rubbing her hand against the back of her head.
"A bit, sorry about that!" The female faked a laugh, she did not feel happy, no way could she, if the person really was her then Lavi herself may get found out and destroyed like any Akuma, she right now, had a feeling of sickness and fear washed over her.
"It is a little cold, sorry about that Lavi." The Supervisor said with a laugh.
"It's okay, now for my question, when do we leave?"
"Tonight."
"Lovely, notify us at the last second why don't you…" Nyoibou hissed out, of course the only ones who could hear the poor girl were Lavi and Bookman since only they are supposed to know about her.
Once the group arrived in the small town they found that the place looked deserted making them having to wander in deeper and be cautious. Unfortunately they were ambushed more than a couple of times and rather quickly by many Akuma, it got to the point were they had to hide which made most of the Exorcists annoyed, expect for the red haired female behind them who was gritting her teeth because of her pounding headache.
"Why are there so many of them?" Lenalee asked in surprise, she looked quite tired from the running and fighting as did most of the people in the group save Cross and Kanda.
"It seems things were worse here than we thought, do you think anyone is alive now?" The white haired male asked who was kneeling beside the purple eyed female.
"There could be." The red haired male standing next to them muttered out.
"Lavi, are you okay?" Nyoibou asked the female without anyone hearing her, though she did notice Bookman turn his head a little towards the red haired female since Nyoibou was in her Innocence form, she also noticed Cross's head titled towards them as well.
'I'm fine; it's just that there are so many Noah here that it's starting to hurt me a little.' The female replied in her thoughts, so none of the others thought she was crazy, though that was the least of her problems.
"It must hurt… being like this." The Innocence commented softly.
'Sometimes…'
"We should try to gain better shelter; this place won't keep us safe for long." Bookman muttered beginning to get ready to make a move back outside.
"Agreed." Cross grumbled walked towards the door with everyone following, he pulled out his gun with a smirk. "But you might want to be ready."
"Che." Kanda replied and walked straight out the door with his sword unsheathed, but he froze, noting that he was pointing it at a young scruffy blonde Finder who looked like he was about the die of shock. The dark haired male turned around back to Cross who had a very large grin on his face.
"I didn't say there would be any Akuma around." The older male taunted.
"Are you alright?" Lenalee asked the Finder rather gently while she moved next to him.
"I-I y-yes, Master Exorcist." The Finder whined softly.
"My name is Lenalee, please just call me that."
"That is very kind of you, thank you Lenalee." The grey eyed Finger smiled.
"You shouldn't be out here by yourself y'know." Lavi commented. "You could have gotten hurt."
"I'm sorry, but I began to worry, you were supposed to be at the hotel an hour ago, so I came to look for you."
"Hotel?" Everyone asked blinking.
"Uhh yes?"
"KOMUI!" Allen and Lavi screamed while the rest just sighed.
"The Supervisor sucks…" The Innocence commented.
"Big brother…" Lenalee whined softly then smiled at the confused Finder. "We didn't know about the hotel, could you please lead us there?"
"Uhh, I'm a little lost… sorry?"
"AHHHH!" Lavi and Allen cried out and fell over while Kanda and Cross started twitching.
"We'll just have to continue on as we have then." Bookman spoke as he walked past everyone and towards a random direction.
"Gramps? Do you even know where we are going?" The green eyed female asked following him.
"Shut up, of course I know you idiot!" He snapped while truthfully, he really didn't know, but he wasn't just going to admit that to his apprentice now was he?
"Oh boy…" Lavi sighed while her Innocence laughed inside her head.
"Finally…" Was the word heard around the small room as the red haired female fell onto the bed while the other occupant of the room sat on her bed and smiled at her friend.
"You seem to be enjoying yourself Lavi."
"Beds are good!" Lavi smiled cuddling into her bed.
Lenalee giggled at her friend's words, but she felt something was on her fellow Exorcist's mind, she just didn't know what it was, the purple eyed female frowned and looked over to the other female.
"Lavi…"
"Hm? Yeah Lenalee?"
"Are you okay?"
"Of course! Apart from being tired, why?" Lavi asked with a frown on her face, but Lenalee couldn't see it because her knees hid it the she raised up.
"You just sound…well, sad."
"Hm, wonder why you would think that, I'm actually in a happy mood right now." Lavi lied; she was worried, about the Akuma, about the Noah, and about how she would hide her secret from her fellow Innocence user.
'This'll be fun.' Her Innocence commented sarcastically.
Soft groans were heard from the darkened room that had the Bookman Apprentice contained inside, Lenalee Lee had already left with Bookman while Allen left with Kanda to clear out the Akuma during the night while General Cross and Lavi slept so they could start in the morning., Lavi had been groaning as she was feeling a dull ache in her head making her uncomfortable. Slowly her eye opened up to reveal the darkened room she was in, the red haired female sat up and looked around to find a figure standing in the corner of the hotel room making her move towards her Innocence which was no longer there.
"Relax Lavi, I'm not here to harm you." A female's voice spoke softly.
"Jane…" The green eyed female spoke softly, starting to relax again.
"Yes," The female confirmed moving to the centre of the room were the moonlight hit her body to how her long hair and golden eyes with the long dress and tall boots she wore. "I never expected you to be in the town I was terrorising." She spoke as the now golden eyed female inspected her finger-nails.
"We have a mission here Faith."
Jane laughed.
"Now, now, I shouldn't be the one who's called Faith, I am your Noah side after all." The taller female purred as she walked casually to Lavi's bed and sat down leaning close to Lavi's face as her red nail-polished hand gently tore off the Exorcist's eye-patch to reveal a golden eye. "You should show that eye more often, Exorcist." She smiled as Lavi glared at the Noah half.
"Why this town?" The shorter hair female questioned to change the subject.
"The Mayor owes me, and never repaid, I wanted his Innocence, the man thought it was one of the rocks he collected! But Pleasure and I had been fighting over it and it managed to disappear into that fool's collection of rocks!" She snapped.
"Why all these Akuma though?"
"You don't know?" Jane asked softly.
"Know what?"
Jane smirked and leaned to Lavi's ear.
"The other Noah are here, and quite of the few powerful ones at that."
"Who exactly? I only know that some Noah are here."
"Tyki Mikk and Rhode Camelot are both here, I'm not entirely sure if anyone else has arrived yet, I faintly expect that the twins are here though." Jane said leaning away with a smile.
"For the Innocence?"
"Probably, The Earl is getting pretty fed up that he doesn't have his Heart yet, he wants it…now."
"He won't be getting it easily, not while there are still Exorcists alive." Lavi snapped in reply.
"Not while your precious Innocence is alive of course." The golden eyed female smiled while holding out Lavi's Innocence. "Nyoibou is rather annoying; if it was destroyed then maybe you'd be with the Noah…" Jane spoke softly before laying the Innocence on the desk beside the Exorcist's bed. "Though I can't break her, no matter how much I want to…"
"Like her too much?"
"Bah! Don't think that! It's just not my time to break it yet!" Jane lied with a bitter tone.
"Really?" Lavi asked after a brief pause.
"Really…" The older female snapped in reply, then frowned at herself for the attitude she was showing and leaned backwards so her arms pressed against the pillows. "How annoying… my irritation is showing up so easily, how foolish." The golden eyed female complained.
"Indeed it is, Jane." A male's voice purred out in the darkness making both females freeze. "That would be my fault wouldn't it? I am terribly sorry if it is."
Jane spun round, and stood quickly from the bed and in front of the Exorcist protectively. Both the females and the male could feel and see the room suddenly grow colder as the air could be see in a thick cloud and how some of the room was starting to run into ice. A thin and sharp sword was quickly materialising in the female Noah's hand while her eyes grew burned with anger.
"Pleasure, you should not be here, it is rather rude since you weren't invited in." The long brown haired female spoke angrily while The Noah of Pleasure chuckled.
"I was invited in, the fool thought I was a normal human, you're just bitter about me stealing the Innocence you have been after lately."
"You have been rather irritating Tyki." The female snapped.
"Why are you here Noah?" Lavi growled out while covering the golden eye she had with her eye-patch.
Tyki Mikk looked over at the Bookman Apprentice and smiled softly, he took a few steps forward allowing the light of the moon to reveal his black hair and golden eyes and the suit that he was wearing along with a large top hat.
"Now, now Lavi, there is no need to hide that eye from me. We are siblings after all and we are both fated to care for each over as siblings."
"Shut up! We're not family!"
"Oh course we are Faith, you just won't accept your real life. It must hurt you, being like this." He said softly and soothingly to lure The Bookman Apprentice and her Noah half into a state of calmness.
"I said shut up…" Lavi replied though with a bit of weakness in her voice since she could right now fell the pain swelling up in her head and burning her golden eye.
"I know you don't want to accept this, but we are the only ones you can trust my sweet little sister, if the Exorcists found out they would torture and kill you! I don't want to see that happen to you, it already did once…" He said while the red haired female looked down and Jane hissed angrily.
"Tyki, leave." The brown haired female snapped.
"Fine." He said putting up his hands mockingly and walked towards the wall before looking towards Lavi. "But know this little sister, no matter what secret you hold, be it Innocence or anything else, we will accept you, when you are ready, come back to us, we shall be waiting." Tyki spoke then walked through the wall, Lavi focused on trying not to stare after him.
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