Chapter 9
Rain dripped down from the cloudy skies, a dark, moody atmosphere covered the ship that the Exorcists and the Black Order supporters where in, the said Exorcists were called up to the deck by Mahoja, The Captain's right hand, Anita, the Captain of the ship was also standing with her as a red haired, grey haired, brown haired, green haired, black and white haired group of Exorcists appeared with an Akuma, including a certain long brown haired female and short blond haired female.
"Where's the Crew?" Lavi asked, noticing that most of the sailors were gone making the area around the boat less cheerful.
"Don't tell me." Lenalee whispered softly, figuring out what had happened.
"I told the crew that they needn't send you off, I wanted them to have their last moments to themselves."
"They are downstairs feasting." A crew member said with a smile.
"I wanted them to spend their last moments as they wished." Anita explained again.
"You…are you only ones that survived?" Lenalee asked in shock making Miranda cry.
"It's okay, shh, we all became Supporters because we had lost our families to the Akuma, we have only been living for revenge." The black haired female comforted the distressed Exorcist.
"Please win Sir Exorcists!" Several voices called out surprising everyone. "For our sake go on! Win this war!"
"From the speaker?" The purple eyed female gasped. "The crew…" She whimpered out as more tears gathered in her eyes.
"Everyone…" The Captain is the ship whispered out.
"Please win sir Exorcists!" Once this was said again Lavi was staring in shock, hands clenched tightly. "Look after our comrades!"
"Gramps… this is so painful…" She whispered out while Bookman looked down. "Dammit… I really do hate this record…"
'Such foolish people, the Exorcists will never win, they will die under the might of The Earl and the Noah Clan.' Jane thought with a scowl, she even was hissing which Nyoibou noticed as she restrained herself from mocking the humans and from becoming upset. 'But why do I feel like crying?'
Once they sat in the boat and helping the crew members on Chomesuke was explaining how he would take them closer to Edo. Jane noticed Anita and Mahoja not climbing into the boat and realised they had been hit by the Akuma, Lenalee kept reaching out towards them even when the Akuma pulled the boat away, then she began crying hard which made Lavi wince, blue eyes also watched the other brown haired female cry as she was forced to release her Innocence.
"We will, we will definitely win!" Lenalee Lee promised.
Jane had to restrain a scoff coming from her lips as she sat nearby Lavi crossing her arms and legs and looking down, her hood covering her head from the water pouring down around them after she yanked her Innocence's hood up, who was gazing around dully, so the light matter wouldn't gain a cold and would not be able to work properly for the Bookman Apprentice.
"Welcome to Japan!" Chomesuke exclaimed as he actually turned into a she shocking everyone there.
"You're a girl?" Lavi gasped.
"Just like you." The Akuma smiled.
"So pretty." Nyoibou smiled, but then scowled. "For an Akuma."
"Anyway about ninety percent of the population here is Akuma and the government is controlled by Master Earl. Human's cannot breathe easily here." Chomesuke explained, ignoring the Innocence as best as she could. "I guess the same goes for us Akuma actually…"
"Chomesuke, what do you mean by that?" Miranda asked but froze when someone was standing there.
"Sachiko." The woman called out.
"Kawamura!"
"Sachiko?" Lavi asked in surprise.
"That's the name of my body! She's another modified Akuma!" She said happily and went to hug the other Akuma, however she stopped. "Kawamura?"
The Akuma's face had gone funny then was trapped by a spider's web, the woman's Akuma form was being forced out of her this made Chomesuke run back towards the group and forced them to hide.
'What's going on?' Lavi sent her thoughts to Chomesuke.
'Those Level Three Akuma got to Kawamura first, she's a goner.' The Akuma replied in fear and irritation.
'Why? They are all Akuma!'
'You're Noah's memories must not have activated yet, Akuma eat each other! To control their murderous instincts and to steal their powers they feed. In this country only the strongest survives Mistress Lavi.'
'Please don't say Mistress…'
'Oh, sorry, I'm used to it since the Noah all have those titles.'
'I know, but technically I'm not apart of the Clan, she kinda is however.' The red haired grinned, jerking a finger towards the long brown haired female who looked rather bemused.
The group had begun to move again, complaining about how Akuma eat each other and how sickening it was. They were introduced to the crew members that survived Chaoji, Kie, and Masao during that time as well and managed to have a friendly chat with them. Suddenly Chomesuke gulped, she knew she didn't have much time left and Lavi knew that too, the Exorcist was also dreading it, Chomesuke was a rather nice Akuma in her books and wanted to have her friend hang around longer.
"What's wrong Chomesuke?" Miranda asks.
"Nothing." However she then gasped in pain and held her head.
"What's wrong Sachiko?" Lavi gasped.
"Call me Chomesuke you idiot! I'm receiving a transmission from Master Earl!"
Both Jane and Lavi froze at that in fear, everyone did actually.
"The Earl?" Kie cried out.
"Has he found us here?" Miranda asked worriedly.
"N-no, doesn't seem like it, but it's so long! I feel so dizzy! Who am I? Where am I?"
"AHH! GET A GRIP!" Lavi, Nyoibou, Krory and Kie screamed hysterically.
"The Earl, he must be gathering all the Akuma in the country!"
"What?" Lenalee gasped.
"Hey…where's Jane?" Nyoibou asked.
"What? She was right here a second ago…" Lavi asked, glancing around.
2 hours later
They were heading to Edo, where The Earl was, Chomesuke could no longer ignore him, she had apologised to Lavi because of this feeling guilty about abandoning her friend. The group decided to go along with her to face The Earl, and now they were just outside of Edo.
"You guys are slow." A female's voice spoke out to them from behind.
"Jane." Miranda said in shock at seeing the young looking woman there.
"Where were you?" Lavi asked, watching her Noah side.
"There's no point asking! She was probably telling The Earl about us, damned Noah!" Chaoji snarled.
"Shut up boy, Lavi's with you fools so I won't give away her whereabouts, however if she wasn't here then you'd all be dead right now." Jane said smugly before glancing at her host with her arms crossed. "I was searching for information, lots of Noah are here, Bonds, Wrath and Pleasure, they may sense me."
"How?" Masao asked.
"Since I am a Noah they could sense me, I can also sense them depending how close we are, since we are quite close I've managed to sense them, not sure if that's the same the other way round though." The blue eyed female shrugged during her explanation while also making sure Lavi wasn't given away as a Noah.
"Why would you help Miss Lavi? She's an Exorcist and you're a monster" Chaoji asked suspiciously while earning a glare from Nyoibou, Jane and Lavi for the 'monster' part.
"Never mind that now! Hurry up and let's get into Edo!" Bookman snapped and hurried on with the rest, not noticed in any way they hid in a building and listened to The Earl.
"Attack my Akuma army! Strike down the Generals as one!" The Earl commanded harshly.
"Lavi?" Jane asked with a smirk as she laid her hand on the hammer. "Let's combine our attack on an Ice seal as that's the only element I control."
"Of course." The red haired female grinned.
"Ice Seal!" (A/N: Don't know if it really exists but some Seals will be made up by me throughout the story ^^)
The mixture of light and dark matter flew into the skies and charged towards the Noah and The Earl, all the Noah dodged but the ice dragon swallowed up The Earl and tore his coat. He erased the dragon easily though and glanced towards the roof that the Exorcists had been hiding in who were now on the roof with a sharp glare making the Akuma with them cower.
"We will not let you near the Generals Millennium Earl!" Bookman informed.
"Really?"
"So this fat ass is The Earl?" Krory asked.
"Yes, that's our sworn enemy, The Millennium Earl." Lenalee said seriously a glare aimed at the overlarge being.
"Our? I only attacked him as a greeting." Jane shrugged.
"How nice you are." Lavi commented with a sweat drop.
"Yes, I'm all things sweet and everything nice." The Noah side smirked.
"You know smirking really doesn't help trying to convince people about that statement…" The red haired female sighed.
"Well, let's get the fat ass!" Krory snarled and took off, his fangs showing easily.
"You fools!" Chomesuke screamed as Lavi took off to help Krory who was attacked by Tyki. "There are Noah and The Earl and countless of Akuma! You can't beat them! Mistress! Please stop!" She screamed and glanced at Jane hoping the Noah would stop them; however she just sat there lazily and inspected her nails.
As Krory was pushed back Lavi used her hammer to block a Tease aiming for her friend's head, she activated her Fire Seal which tried to take a nibble at the Noah of Pleasure though he dodged it and threw both Exorcists back on to the roof while landing in front of them.
"Well, well, Exorcists, you are very foolish turning up here, especially you Lavi, haven't you been trying to avoid us? You seem a little willing to come to us dear." He smirked as Lavi sweat dropped while the three crew members looked confused.
"Y-you…you're the one who k-killed Allen!" Lenalee whimpered out, her body shaking as tears gathered up in her eyes, she brought her hands up to her chest as if to protect her breaking heart making everyone glance at her.
"Oh, a friend of the boy's? You must have seen him from that Golem huh? His broken body, his smashed Innocence-"
"Tyki, leave her alone." The green eyed female snarled noticing that her friend was about to release her tears.
"Now, now little sister, it's certainly rude to interrupt." The male scowled.
"'Little sister'?" Chaoji asked, anger and confusion was shown clearly on his face. Jane had also stood up while glaring at both Chaoji and Tyki.
"Shut it." Lavi snapped at Tyki.
"Just to inform you little Exorcist," Tyki said turning to Lenalee with a large smirk as the Akuma began to form into one giant one. "Allen Walker is alive, so, let us see if you survive long enough to see him again, I am having him brought here after all."
"What?" Jane, Lenalee and Lavi gasped out.
The black haired male had chosen to fight his younger sister to make sure she didn't try to battle The Earl again, a large Akuma was now loaming over Edo, and this was distracting Lavi during her battle with the Noah of Pleasure until he called out to her to make her eye look away from the giant Akuma looming above them.
"You don't have time to be sight-seeing Lavi." Tyki smirked as he came out of the ground aiming a large charge of dark matter towards her, she managed to block it with Nyoibou however but she also had to use her right arm which was still healing making Tyki smirk in amusement. "It looks like you can't use that arm very well Lovely."
"Dammit." Lavi cursed as she released her Seals making Tyki back away. "We both know you can't pass through Innocence attacks, you can slip through anything else however. The Noah Clan are just like Akuma, Innocence is the weakness. Fire Seal, Heaven Seal, make a Combo Seal!" She cried out as the fire snake appeared, though this made Tyki summon his Tease to devour the snake.
"It's a feast my pets! A feast!" He laughed insanely making his younger sister cringe as she burnt those purple butterflies while sending the fire towards her brother.
"Lavi? What's she doing here? And Jane's there too!" Jasdero gasped, staring at the two females.
"Shall we join in? It looks fun." Debitto grinned. "And with Jane around there will be more entertainment as she get's pissed off so easily."
"Yeah!"
"Jasdebi." The Earl called.
"Yes?" The twins asked.
"Get to Cross Marian now, I'm worried about what he is up to, these Exorcists here means that he might be trying to steal the Ark."
"Shouldn't we just leave with the Ark then?" Debitto asked while the less brighter twin panicked over the General stealing the ship.
"We can't right now, the download still needs completed which Rhode is taking care of."
"Can't we help her?" The black haired teenager asked.
"No."
"Only The Earl and Rhode can 'perform' that task, not the likes of you idiots." Skin growled out.
"Shut it! I'll kill you!" Debitto snapped.
"Why can't this ship leave Edo now?" Jasdero asked The Earl.
"An incident that happened before you guys were born, another 'performer' betrayed us and drove the Ark insane, so I killed him."
"A Noah did that?" The twins asked in surprise.
"Yes. He managed to give his right to be a 'performer' to someone else and since then the Ark cannot move and that is why I have created a new Ark. The people Tyki is killing off are connected to that traitor."
"Cross was on Tyki's list too! He's super strong! And arrogant! I bet he's the 'performer'!" Both twins shouted.
"That's why I want you to find him." The older man sighed.
Jane watched as Chomesuke flew up with Krory and Bookman to attack the giant Akuma, what saddened her was when the yellow Akuma self-destructed, she saw Lavi watch in horror as that happened, Lavi then noticed her Master and Krory being chucked throw a building nearby, to her surprise Tyki appeared behind the red haired Exorcist and set a wave of dark matter, she managed to block it just in time but she was sent into the same building as her Master and fellow Exorcist.
"Lavi?" Bookman shouted.
"Yo…" She said weakly, sitting up while holding her head.
"What are you doing moron? Get yourself together! You're being beaten so easily!"
"Damn Panda… I throw those words right back at you."
"I'm older than you! Respect your elders!"
"I'm covered in even more wounds now." The green eyed female hissed out in pain but then heard a scream of 'Mistress Exorcist' shocking her. "N-no way, he went after Lenalee and the others…"
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