Chapter 14
When the group arrived back at the Order they received a friendly welcome, after greetings and hugs were given the group had to convince Miranda to release her Innocence and once she did Lavi saw a lot of things happen. Firstly, Lenalee collapsed along with Miranda and Nyoibou, secondly Allen began to faint, then thirdly everything began to slowly fade into black as she felt her body give out and someone catch her before she fell.
"You stupid rabbit!" She heard her easily angered friend shout out from behind her.
"Lavi! Nyoibou!" Her Noah half cried out.
"Lavi!" An older man's voice shouted in surprise.
For a while the redhead faded in and out of consciousness, and when she finally managed to regain her bearings she wished she'd go back to sleep. Lavi groaned as she felt like her body was on fire, the female gave a cry of pain as a stabbing sensation appeared in her chest and in her forehead, a hand clasped her own tightly and firmly as the burning grew more intensely.
"Lavi... I'm so sorry... Nyoibou is being fixed because she completely smashed into pieces and your going through a Noah stage. I'm sorry you're in so much pain." A female's voice sounded in her ears causing her to open her left eye.
"J-Jane..."
"Everyone's fine, Bookman, Kanda, Allen, Lenalee, everyone is completely safe and sound and resting, you've been put into a separate room from everyone else until the Noah stage is complete."
"Wh-what's happening t-to me?"
"...You know what happened on the Ark right? When you couldn't control your body?"
"Yeah." The redhead female groaned out.
"It wasn't me... I wasn't controlling you..."
"W-What?!"
"Listen and try to understand. Be very calm about this, Lavi this is important. I wasn't planning on telling you this until you had more faith in the Noah Clan but now I have no choice. I told you once that all three of us, you, Nyoibou and I are apart of the Noah of Faith, well we were combined together Lavi, you and I, we were merged into the Noah of Faith during that time period on the Ark. That person who was controlling you is the whole Noah of Faith, now your body is trying to prepare for another situation like that, your willpower was the only thing that kept you from collapsing after you regained control. That power was too much for your body to handle because you haven't even managed to pick a side, now your body is preparing for another take-over so you won't be as damaged. Don't worry, when you next wake up things will feel better." The Noah said covering Lavi's eye and then forcing her to slowly go into a deep sleep again.
The brown haired female stood up and walked over to a mirror, placing a hand lightly on it she concentrated her dark matter into it allowing someone to slowly be seen, a large man was quickly seen who had a large grin on his face and a large top hat on his head.
"Ah, looks like you did survive then huh Jane?~"
"Yes, Cross found another room with a piano in it, now everyone is back in the Black Order resting from the large battle. There are only a few Exorcists able to fight properly now, the Generals are the only ones at their full strength. Yuu Kanda and Lavi's weapons are both being repaired, Lenalee Lee has lost hers and everyone else is too injured to fight at their full strength. I take it you shall be going after the Egg?"
"Our lovely Lulubell is coming to collect it~ Will you be coming back with her now that Lavi's starting developing more with her Noah side?~"
"Not sure yet..."
"Your growing attachments to the people of the Black Order aren't you?" The older male looked upset by this.
"It's hard not to, I've been with them for so many years now. It doesn't matter though, the Black Order will die... especially with who is here now..."
"Oh? Someone interesting?~"
"Yeah, what would you do if I told you that the Inspector, Malcom Leverrier, is here at this very moment? Destroying the happiness the Order has right now?" The dark haired female giggled, a smirk appearing in delight as she sensed her Master's interest pick up.
In the dining hall Howard Link, a blonde male inspector assigned to watch over Allen Walker, was offering him some food, the white haired boy nearly ate the whole thing but Lavi panicked because the Inspector said he'd be watching Allen.
'It's been a few weeks, since the Ark incident. Cross is torturing Malcom's men while Allen is being put on watch, The Order has also been glaring at Lavi and I rather evilly for a while now, I wonder what they will do...' Jane Scot thought as she sat beside Lavi.
"It's her..." A male whispered from nearby.
"That Noah scum..."
"The Order needs to kill that Exorcist off before she betrays us..."
"Lavi's the Noah's whore now..."
"Who said that?!" The dark haired female snapped, turning around the crowd.
"Get out of here you Noah freak!"
"We don't want you here!"
"Hurry up and die already!"
"Kill her!"
"Rip out the Bookman Apprentice's other eye!"
"Yeah!"
"We should torture them for information!"
"...Jane... calm down... you can't hurt them." The redhead whispered urgently, grabbing the older female's arm.
"Like hell I can't! I am the Noah of Faith! I can do what I like! And anyone who thinks differently can come over here and say it to my face! Then I can torture them instead!" The now golden eyed female hissed, ripping her arm from the girl's grip and standing up.
"J-Jane please calm down!" Miranda whimpered out.
"Jane you aren't helping! Sit down and just ignore them!" Lenalee said. "We'll deal with them!"
"You?! You'll deal with them! You've done a great job so far! You and your idiotic brother both have! You know what?! I have had enough! I shall tear you fools to little pieces!" Jane snarled, her hands starting to glow with dark matter.
Out of the corner of her green eye Lavi saw the Inspector starting to move with a dagger in his hand angering her, but instead of fighting him she turned around and grabbed her Noah half, Bookman quickly stood in front of the angry female while Lavi held her from behind.
"Jane! Are you intending to destroy Lavi's and Nyoibou's future?!" The older man asked calmly, staring into her eyes, trying desperately to hold her back from the humans in the building.
"No, but I do plan to destroy those Order slaves lives instead!"
"Calm down Jane! They aren't going to do anything! They're only afraid! Leave them be!" The green and golden eyed girl begged, clinging to her other half.
"They aren't just afraid you little idiot! I am not allowing you to get yourself killed for these people! Not again! I won't deal with that!" The girl howled in rage, more dark energy glowing around her surprising both the Bookman clan members.
"Jane." An older male's voice rang out in the hall.
All eyes looked towards the entrance of the room where a long red haired male stood, holding a bottle of wine and a cigarette in one hand while the other held Judgement casually, the male looked serious as his eyes clashed with the female Noah's.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed?" The male asked.
"Don't be a fool, I'm trying to kill everyone else." She snapped back.
"Jane, they won't hurt you."
"Can you promise they won't Marian?" The golden eyed female asked, looking lost and afraid for a brief moment.
"Yes." Cross nodded.
"You better be correct, or else we both know what will happen..."
"I know."
"Jane?" Lavi asked, looking puzzled.
"I'm leaving." The girl said quietly, shrugging herself out of the Bookman Apprentice's grip and the Bookman's grip then moving out of the hall, towards her room.
~A Few Days Later~
"Lavi where are you going?!"
"I've gave you the notice! I'm going back to the others!" The redhead shouted back, running, thinking back.
The day had started out normally, not counting all the glares and threats the redhead got from behind her back, she didn't care though. Suddenly though Allen had given out a cry during breakfast that there were Akuma in the science department where the scientists where working on the Egg. An Ark gate was blocking the doorway though, no matter what the small group did they couldn't break through so the Inspector Howard Link got them to go through an Ark gate, them as in Bookman, Allen Walker and Jane Scot. The youngest female was to inform the Black Order of what was happening.
While running the redhead froze as someone jumped past her, a wave of surprise flowed through her to see a bare-footed girl appeared out of nowhere before her.
"Lenalee?!"
"Lavi! Do you know where the floor elevator is?! I'm going to see Hevlask-" She was interrupted when she slammed into her brother's chest who grabbed her shoulder to keep her from running off. "Brother?!"
"Lenalee... so Lavi is here too." The Supervisor said calmly.
Before the green eyed female could move she was grabbed by one of the guards then she and the green haired Exorcist were thrown into another room, both women slammed on the doors, trying to open it.
"Brother! Let me out!"
"Oi Komui! What's the idea?!" Lavi snapped.
"There has been a barrier erected around the door to protect those who cannot fight, we are searching for Kanda and Chaoji right now."
"What?! No! Let me go to where my Gramps and Jane are!"
"Let me go see Hevlaska, Komui! I'll join with my Innocence using the experiment!"
"...What?..."
"Please brother! Let me fight! I don't care if I die! Just let me protect everyone!"
"...'I don't care if I die'? So as long as it is for my sake and everyone elses you'd let yourself die? ...Stay here Lenalee... stay here where it is safe... I'm begging you..." The man begged, his head pressed against the door.
"Supervisor! Marie and Miranda have arrived at the scene!"
"I'll be right there..." Komui said quietly, leaving his sister trapped in the room.
"Bookman! Are you okay?!" Jane cried out, blocking another blow with a wave of ice, watching as the old man was flung away.
"I'm fine you fool! Keep fighting!"
"Stop turning those people!" Allen snapped, trying desperately to attack the Skulls but ended up being blocked by Akuma.
The brown haired female dived under a group of Akuma and freeze them all in her ice but suddenly stopped fighting, going over her own thoughts.
'I could leave now... I'm suffering here and so is Lavi... if we caught her right now we could leave, Nyoibou wouldn't be really happy but she's been with her family and friends all this time... I've fought mine... I-I want to go home... I hate the Black Order...'
"You have stopped fighting Jane." A woman's voice stated calmly from behind making the younger female turn around to face the blonde, now black, haired Noah.
"Yeah..." The younger said sadly.
"Jane! What's wrong?! Are you okay?!" Allen cried out, worried.
'Wait.. Lavi has told me how upset Jane is... and the way the girl snapped a few days ago... Jane's scared...being tortured by those Black Order members all those years ago did something to her.' Bookman groaned as he was pinned to the wall, thinking of these new thoughts. 'Jane... you don't think Cross Marian is enough to protect you anymore from the Black Order, they may find out that if they kill you, Lavi will no longer be able to be a Noah.'
"...I want to come home, Lulubell...I- I really don't want to be here anymore..." Jane said shakily.
"Then stay near the Egg." The older female said firmly, walking past her sister towards the now captured Allen.
The Noah of Lust knocked Allen Walker out, he was nearly taken through the Ark with the Egg, but luckily Miranda saved the white haired male with her time record while the Generals started fighting the Akuma. The Akuma were quickly terminated but Miranda was then captured by Lulubell who turned into water so she couldn't get hurt. Jane luckily managed to avoid going into the Ark and being captured by the time record while watching her sister be defeated by the Exorcists making her frown, Allen quickly saved Miranda from death as they destroyed the Egg making the brown haired female sigh and look around for an escape route.
"Well, now what should I do?" The female asked herself before pausing, surprised. "And when did I start talking to myself?...I blame the Order..."
"Hehe. Hehe. Hehehehe."
Both Allen and Jane froze, sensing a new presences in the area with was highly destructive and dangerous, they saw the blood across the normally white floor and the unconscious scientists. More giggling was heard.
"I'm level four~"
"That thing has to die! It'll slaughter us all!" Jane screamed, scared as Allen was slammed into the wall with an attack from the Akuma.
The Level Four turned around to look at the Noah who paled slightly as a large ball of energy suddenly appeared in his hand.
"Time to slaughter."
"Dammit!" Jane cursed as he released the energy but felt a sharp tug at her shirt pulling her underneath the ground and into a set of arms, blue eyes opened up to see a set of golden eyes staring down at her. "Ty-Tyki?!"
"Yes, seems you're in a bit of trouble Jane."
"The level four!-"
"I know, I heard. Calm down Jane, you're trembling." The male hushed, trying to calm the frightened female Noah.
"You can't blame me... he gave out such an extreme force of death. Wait Lavi and Bookman!" The girl panicked, trying to squirm out of Tyki's arms.
"Calm down! Lavi's alive and the Bookman probably will be as well." The older Noah growled out quietly, trying to hold on to Jane as he lowered himself and his sister to the ground.
"You better be right!"
"Let's go look for Lavi alright?" The male said quickly, looking up as he heard the alarms calls out more warnings about the new Akuma.
"Agreed." She nodded, now able to jump out of Tyki's arms and run off.
"Stay safe Jane." The male muttered, disappearing underground.
"Wow... that was a lot of shaking..." Lavi muttered in the dark as the Head Nurse ran over with a candle.
"Are you both okay?" The older female asked urgently.
"Don't worry, we're fine." The redhead replied before grinning. 'No way! Kro's still not up yet!"
"Lavi, you're hurt..." Lenalee spoke quietly, surprised as she looked over the older female's arm which had a large cut on it letting the blood ooze out.
"Huh? Oh, I didn't notice... it's fine though, doesn't hurt at all." Lavi said casually, inspecting her damaged body part.
"Stop acting tough and come with me. I'll treat it for you." The nurse said gently, grabbing the Bookman Apprentice's arm.
"I'm not 'acting tough' it isn't anything serious."
"Is something wrong? Treating injures is my job y'know." The woman said darkly scaring the younger female.
"Forgive me!" Lavi cried out, afraid then mumbled to herself. "I swear that if I didn't know better I would think she was a Noah..."
"Hold on..." The nurse said, taking off her boots and handing them to Lenalee. "Here put these on."
"W-wait! What about you?" The green haired female asked, worried.
"I'll take off my shoes and lend them to Lenal-" Lavi began to say but was interrupted by the darkening look from the Head Nurse.
"Silence! You'll only add to my workload if you two get anymore injured!"
"Forgive us!" Both females cried out in fear, clinging to each other.
"How do they feel Lenalee? Do they fit alright?"
"Yes... so warm... my feet are so warm..." The youngest female whimpered out, crying from joy as she threw herself at the Head Nurse, hugging her tightly while sobbing.
'Nyoibou explained that wearing the Dark Boots would be heavy and cold... I guess Lenalee forgot the feeling of wearing normal shoes. She's in so much pain... so many people are... Innocence... Dark Matter... Exorcists... the Noah Clan... they are so annoying...' The red haired female thought sadly, watching the crying girl until another warning was heard from the speakers.
The Lab has been destroyed! The enemy is one Level Four moving into the Science Division Floor!
"No way! Gramps! Jane!" Lavi cried out.
'Lavi! Hevlaska wants to sacrifice herself to save the Order!' Nyoibou informed her owner.
'What?! But that's insane!'
Suddenly the doors slammed open to show an angry looking blonde male glaring darkly right at Lenalee who stared back terrified, like a deer caught in a cars headlights.
"Leverrier..." The green and golden eyed girl mumbled, looking surprised as she stood up.
"Lenalee... you're an Exorcist right? Come with me!" The male snapped, grabbing her arm as he had the group listen to the announcement that the Black Order was to be evacuated.
The scared purple eyed female slapped his hand away, looking horrified as old and haunted memories flashed before her eyes, replaying over and over in her mind. Lavi looked at the younger Exorcist surprised and worried as the cold hearted man began shouting and grabbed the girl which angered the redhead who firmly grabbed his wrist.
"Bookman Apprentice? Why are you giving me that look?"
"You know exactly why."
"Leave now! We take our orders from the Supervisor! You cannot treat these children as if they are mere objects that can die for you!" The Head Nurse snarled angrily, gathering Lenalee into her arms, trying to shield the young female from the male's glare.
"Come along Lenalee, for the sake of the Order you must fight! You are a weapon that must be used to fight against the Akuma! Are you an Exorcist or not Lenalee?!"
"Stop it!" Lavi hissed, enraged.
Trembling, Lenalee Lee gently took off the boots and let them fall to the floor as she began to walk slowly towards the door, her trembling became worse as she clutched her shoulders, desperately resisting the urge to cry and vomit on the floor in fear.
"...Thank you..." She whimpered out, moving forward more.
"You may let go now... Noah." Leverrier smirked, yanking his arm out of the stunned redhead girl's hand.
"I've stopped running the day big brother came... I moved on and became an Exorcist." Lenalee smiled shakily, bitter tears gathering in her eyes as she and Leverrier moved out of sight making Lavi curse and run out of the room.
"LAVI!" The Head Nurse screamed, trying to stop the girl from running away.
'I know a Bookman Apprentice wouldn't do this! But I have to go! I'll regret it if I don't follow! Don't cry Lenalee! Please don't be afraid of him! He's nothing but a fool!'
"I thought I was gonna die..." The redhead whined as Leverrier stepped out of the broken elevator, brushing away any dust on his clothes.
"Oh yes... why are you here Bookman Apprentice?" The male asked darkly, staring at the grinning sheepishly girl. "Your 'records' huh? You Bookman... do what you want, it's for your records after all."
"Thanks, I will." Lavi smirked happily.
"Lavi..."
"I'm not here to stop you Lenalee, but I am coming with you."
While traveling down the stairwell Lavi remembered the history behind Malcom's family which was beginning to worry her as the past experiments came to her mind immediately.
"Inspector... why are you here? What are you doing all of this for?"
"There's no other reason than to defeat your precious Earl, why would there be?"
"Because of-"
"BROTHER!" Lenalee screamed in horror, seeing the Level Four Akuma hitting the elevator that he was on and fall to the ground.
"I'll go help them!" The redhead shouted, jumping off the railing and running down the pathway towards the wrecked elevator watching as the white Akuma hovered above the group. "Komui! And... Yuu?!"
"Lavi?" Kanda asked, surprised.
"Thank God you guys are okay!" She replied, running over.
"Lenalee!" Komui cried out, standing up shakily.
"You done running Supervisor?" The Akuma giggled from behind making both the long blue haired male and long red haired female spin around in front of Komui, one holding a katana and another holding a metal pole.
"You can sit out of this Lavi..."
"Don't plan to Yuu."
"Kanda! Lavi!" The scientist screamed, worried.
After a few moments the female felt herself being slammed into a wall, a hand gripping her neck tightly, bruising it causing her to choke and clutch at the hand. The Akuma in front of her giggled and forced her body to slam into the wall repeatedly, glancing over her appearance.
"Aren't you a Noah? Why are you fighting with the Exorcists little girl?" The white demon asked curiously, tilting it's head.
"Shut up! I don't side with the Earl!" Lavi snarled, coughing out blood as a hand punched her stomach.
"Hehe, that's silly, you are a very naughty girl then. Maybe I should kill you?" The Akuma smiled, his hand glowing with energy making the redhead pale.
"D-Dammit!" The girl swore, closing her eyes. 'Maybe I shouldn't have told the Akuma who wants to kill everything to 'shut up', great job Lavi, way to go and get yourself killed!'
"Oi! Let go of that stupid rabbit!" The dark haired male snapped, his blade cutting down the back of the Akuma, hardly making a mark.
"Y-Yuu!" Lavi gasped but then yelped as she was thrown into the floor while Kanda was grabbed and hit several times by the madly happy Akuma.
"Lenalee! Is she joining with the Innocence?!" Komui gasped, surprised as he held the male Exorcist up from the floor who had been dropped by the demon who went to investigate Lenalee.
"Go to her Komui..." Lavi groaned out, standing up and rubbing her aching head. "She lives for you... go and stay by her side... you are her brother... aren't you?"
"I-I don't know what to do anymore..."
"What was that?!" Kanda snapped, kicking the male. "Go to her you sister complex! I'm getting fed up of listening to you people! You entered the Order because of her right?"
"Go Komui... having a family is very important... please go..." Lavi said softly, smiling gently as she thought of her Noah's family while the older male ran towards his sister.
'She's drinking it...' Nyoibou's thoughts poured into Lavi's. 'What is the Dark Boots doing?... Evolving?'
'Nyoibou? What's wrong?'
'Allen's fighting!' Nyoibou cried out from within Hevlaska.
"Yuu!" Lavi yelped as the older male ran past her, but just as she was about to help she froze. "Nyoibou?!"
'She activated her Innocence! It's evolved into something new! L-Lavi this has never happened before! It's so beautiful!'
"Wow! She's all the way up there!" The redhead shouted, surprised at the new speed that Lenalee could travel to as she just saved the white haired Exorcist from the Akuma.
'They're going to finish him!' The Innocence yelped in happiness. 'Go Lenalee! Go Allen! Yeeey!' She cheered.
"The evacuation is off Komui! This guy is going to make a good test subject!" Cross Marian announced from above the group.
"Master!"
"General Cross?!" Komui cried out.
"Lavi!" Another voice shouted from nearby.
"Jane!"
"I need to go! Everyone needs help to get out of that room! Kanda! Is Lavi okay?!" The Supervisor asked, rushing towards the doors.
"I wanna sleep!" The redhead whined, waving about while Jane stared at her stupidly.
"We're fine, get going you idiot." Kanda said, glaring.
"So manly Yuu!" Lavi grinned.
"Shut it rabbit!"
"That wasn't nice!" The girl whined.
"I hate Innocence!"
"Crap! He's still alive!" Jane cried out, shocked at the Akuma.
Quickly though Cross finished him off by shooting him with Judgement several times over because he messed up the General's clothes making everyone stare stupidly at him. Leverrier though continued to stare at Jane angrily, because she tried to abandon the Order, as he pulled out a gun silently, taking aim at her while she spoke with Lavi about the Akuma.
Click
BANG
"JANE!" Lavi screamed, seeing the bullet going into her Noah half's chest, near her heart, and seeing her Noah falling before feeling a sharp pain in her own chest making her clutch it and fall to the ground. "Oh God Jane! Get up! Dammit!"
"...Lavi! I'm sorry!... Th-this is my fault!" The brown haired female cried.
'Jane! Lavi! Leave them alone!' Nyoibou shouted.
"Jane! Lavi!" Allen cried, worried.
"Oi! Why'd you shoot the stupid rabbit's Noah?!" Kanda growled, angry.
"LEVERRIER!" Lavi snarled, enraged, surprising everyone.
"General Cross, kill that Noah with your Innocence." The male ordered, ignoring the Bookman Apprentice.
"Jane." The male muttered as he appeared before the sadly smiling girl, aiming his gun at her while she shakily stood up.
"It's okay Marian... just make it quick... I don't want to be alive if I'm going to be experimented on again..." The blue eyed girl smiled.
"...Jane..." The Bookman Apprentice muttered in horror, trying to get up, but the feeling of the bullet nearly rubbing against her's, no Jane's heart, pained her too greatly.
'Please don't kill her...' Nyoibou begged.
"...Get out of here..." The red haired male said quietly, shoving her back with his foot as an Ark door appeared from behind the girl shocking everyone except said male.
"Cross!" Jane cried out, surprised as she disappeared into the door.
"Where did she go?!" Lavi demanded.
"Back to her own home, which is what you should do." The male muttered to her, glancing calmly at her.
"CROSS! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Leverrier screamed, angry.
The redhead felt a hand wrap around her arm and pick her up surprising her, she quickly noticed a pair of golden eyes and long black hair before both the person and herself disappeared inside the wall.
"Tyki?!" The girl gasped as they appeared outside after disappearing through some walls.
"Hello little sister, miss me?" He smirked.
"Why are you here?!"
"Helping Jane and yourself, you look exhausted dear."
"My other half just got shot and my chest is in pain!" The girl grunted out, holding her chest again, groaning slightly. "Jane? Is she okay?"
"Rhode got to her, though that General did help slightly. What is he up to I wonder?" The male pondered as another door appeared in front of them. "A question for another time, for now we'll be going to the Kamelot Mansion."
"What?! Wait just a minute Tyki Mikk!" She snapped making the said male chuckle.
"I'm in trouble, you used my full name."
"This isn't a joke! I'm still recording here! I can't just go where I want!"
"Well Lovely just think of this as a kidnapping them." He smiled charmingly before walking through the door.
"Put me down Tyki!" Lavi snarled, her eye flashing golden and her skin darkening, surprising the older Noah. "They shot Jane. I can feel someone trying to pull that bullet out... let me go and slaughter the Inspector."
"Faith... it's you huh?"
"Of course it's me! And you! Do you realise that I have a bone to pick with you as well?! Seriously?! What the hell did you mean by 'It's alright'?! You let Allen Walker stab you in the chest! Are you insane?!" The now darker haired female growled, smacking the back of the golden eyed male's head making him grunt.
"Yeah... it's definitely you... you're the only woman who insults me..." The male sighed.
"WHY WOULDN'T I CALL YOU CRAZY YOU IDIOT?!"
"Love you too dear."
"Do you want me to shove my boot up your ass?!"
"Why couldn't I get something like 'It's good to see you again' or 'I missed you' no instead I get called crazy and an idiot..." Tyki whined, shrugging slightly in defeat.
"Silence! I'm going back to that damned Malcom Leverrier! Then I- ohh... ouch!" She gasped, clenching her chest again, wincing. "Can't they take it easy trying to pull that bullet out?! Hello! My host is getting tortured here!" Faith snapped, then groaned and relaxed into Tyki's arms.
"Let's get you home before Lavi takes over and tries to hit me okay?" The male hushed, kissing the younger Noah's forehead.
"Yeah... she does know about me now after all..." Faith sighed, closing her eyes as the couple went through the doors and disappeared along with the door.
.:End Of Chapter:.