So, here's chapter 2 - I'm going for an update at least every other day. I don't get much homework, and I often have a lot of time on my hands, so... yeah. =^_^=
Chapter 2
"Hey, guys! Look who I found!" Lenalee called, waving as she and Allen made their way towards the others. Miranda was the first to react.
"A-Allen-kun?"
Allen blinked and looked at her. After several seconds, he smiled, and said, "Ah, you're Miss Miranda Lotto-san, am I correct?"
"Yes." Miranda was overjoyed that he remembered her. There was a flicker of irritation in Lenalee's eyes, but she said nothing, instead pretending to smile.
Kanda was busy sizing up his opponent, and possible rival, while Lavi and Arystar both gave each other high-fives and yelled in triumph. Allen smiled easily, and waved a hand in hello.
"I'm Allen Walker. Other than Miranda-san and Lenalee-san, who might the rest of you be?"
"I'm Lavi, this is Arystar Krory, and this guy is Yu," Lavi said, and laughed when Kanda growled at him angrily.
"It's Kanda," he said, turning to Allen. "Call me Yu, and I'll kill you – got it?"
Lavi was about to protest that Kanda shouldn't talk that way to the new guy, but Lenalee and Miranda beat him to it.
"Kanda! You shouldn't talk that way to Allen-kun!" they both said in unison. The boys all blinked in surprise, and looked warily at Allen, who looked uncomfortable.
"It's alright, you two, really. Don't worry about it," Allen said to them both. They looked at him, then bowed their heads in acknowledgement. Allen turned to Kanda. "Sorry about that Kanda-san."
"Don't worry about it," Kanda said, shrugging.
"Well, I think we should get going. Komui probably wants us back at HQ asap, now that we've found Allen-kun," Lenalee said. The others shrugged and nodded their agreement, all except Allen, who was looking down the road.
"Allen-kun?" Miranda asked curiously.
"Shh." Allen held a finger up to his lips. He never took his eyes off whatever it was he was seeing. Slowly, he slipped off his pack and dropped it on the ground. His face was serious.
"Something up?" Lenalee asked, cocking her head to the side.
"We seem to have visitors – and not the human kind, either." Allen's eye suddenly activated, at the same time that the others were able to see a mass of seemingly human people came into view.
"How do you know-"Kanda started to ask, but at that precise moment, all the people turned into level one akuma. Kanda activated his sword, Mugen, but Allen had already long-since activated Crown Clown and attacked. He hadn't even waited for the akuma to come out of their human shapes – he just simply started taking them out, one by one. His eye was crying tears of blood, and little drops of it were running down his face. A single drop landed on Lenalee's cheek as she stood with the others, watching in silent astonishment, as Allen took down each akuma, one by one. Kanda had frozen, his Innocence still activated, as he watched the scene unfold.
Allen was dodging and weaving through the demons, destroying every last one of them. Suddenly, he was attacked from behind, and turned to see a level three akuma behind him, laughing as it raised his clawed hand to strike again. Without thought, he slashed upwards with his hand, and the demon blew up in his face. There were just two level one akumas left, and, even injured, Allen took care of them in quick succession.
"Aware na akuma ni, tamashi no kyuusai wo."
"To this pitiful akuma's soul, I give salvation."
He limped back towards the others, deactivating his Innocence along the way, and bit his lip as pain shot through his back where the level three akuma had hit him. He stumbled a bit, and Lenalee was instantly by his side, taking him by the arm and forcing him to sit down on the ground. He took his now ruined shirt off so she could see his injury.
He heard a gasp from behind him. Ignoring this, he turned towards Miranda and asked quietly, his voice hoarse with pain, "Could you go grab my pack, Miranda-san?" She nodded and hurriedly grabbed it and gave it to him.
He sighed quietly, and slowly got out the first aid kit he had packed. Just as he was about to unravel a roll of bandages, Lenalee grabbed his hand and gently took the roll from him. She smiled at his surprised look, and started to bandage his wounds up herself. They were bleeding badly, but the wound was not life-threatening. She frowned as she thought about how Allen had noticed that akuma had been nearby even though there had been no sign of them as far as she had been able to tell.
"Allen-kun, how-" she began, but Kanda beat her to it.
"How did you know that akuma were nearby when none of the rest of us had seen any sign of them?" He asked, glaring suspiciously at Allen.
"My eye," Allen said flatly. "I'm cursed." He touched his left eye, wiping the blood off his face that had come from the scar he bore.
"Cursed? What kind of curse?" Miranda asked, obviously concerned.
Allen smiled sardonically. "I am cursed with the ability to see an akuma's soul – trust me, it's not a pretty sight. I'm surprised that you guys didn't see them as well – my eye has that ability too, unfortunately."
"Who cursed you?" Kanda asked, crouching beside Allen and staring right at him.
Lenalee had finished fixing up Allen's wounds, so, instead of answering, he just smiled, got up, and said, "Might as well get going – we've probably got a long trip ahead of us."
"But-" Kanda started to say.
"Sorry, but I really don't want to talk about such depressing stuff at the moment." Allen looked apologetically at him. "You'll find out soon enough anyway, most likely."
"What makes you say that?" Kanda asked challengingly.
"The fact that whoever your supervisor is at this HQ of yours will probably ask to know some of my history. Which means that, even if I ask it to remain secret, it'll probably leak out anyway. That's just the way things work in this world." Allen looked up at the moon, and a frown crossed his face.
When he turned back to them, however, he was smiling again, and he gestured for one of them to lead the way. Lavi did this. He ended up walking backwards so he could face Allen and talk to him, which led to Kanda yelling at him when he nearly took a wrong turn. Finally, Kanda decided to take matters into his own hands, and led the way himself, muttering about how "BakaUsagi" couldn't do anything right. Lavi didn't seem to mind, though. While Allen listened to him talk excitedly about everything from the food at the Black Order HQ to the normal kinds of missions exorcists get, Allen started getting the feeling that something was wrong. He felt like they were being watched.
He glanced behind them, and thought he saw a shadow disappear down an alley. What was that...? He thought, frowning.
"Something wrong, Allen?" Lavi asked. He had long-since stopped using "san", and had ended up just calling him Allen.
"No, it's probably nothi-" Allen started to say, but at that precise moment, something shot out of the shadows towards them. Nobody even had a chance to blink before the thing had grabbed Lenalee and run off with her.
Allen was the first to react. He ran off in the direction the thing had gone, and skidded to a halt in front of an alley the shadow had dove into. There was no sign of the girl anywhere.
She was gone.
Everyone agreed to go looking for Lenalee in the morning - everyone but Allen, that is. While the others slept in their hotel rooms, Allen sneaked out of his own and made his way back to the alley that Lenalee had disappeared in. He had intended to look for clues, but when he got there, he soon found that there was no need - the person he was looking for was right there. And next to her was the shadow that had kidnapped her. It was a level three akuma, and it was staring at him coldly.
"If you want your precious little sweetheart back, you'll have to destroy me first." It's voice had a slightly reptilian sound to it, and it laughed when Allen activated Crown Clown and prepared to fight it.
"You honestly think you can win so easily? Ha!" It gloated, and almost before Allen could blink, it was by his side, and it's clawed hand was coming down towards his head -
No! Allen thought desperately, and, without any hope of actually hitting the thing, slashed wildly at it - and got a lucky hit. The thing flew backwards into the wall with a boom. It looked up at him dazedly as Allen stood above it. Without any mercy, Allen used his clawed hand to squash the demon like it was no more than a bug.
He deactivated his Innocence and hurried over to Lenalee. One look at her told him she was unconscious. He untied her and picked her up, princess-style, and felt pain shoot across his back. He instantly bit his lip, so hard that it bled. He slowly walked out of the alley and made his way back to the hotel. About half-way there, he felt the girl in his arms stir, and glanced down to see her gazing at him in a daze. He continued walking. When he glanced down at her again a few moments later, she had passed out as before. He sighed, but said nothing. There was a slight, tired smile on his face.
When he got back at the hotel, he took up to his room and laid her down on the bed. The thought of what the others might say to this crossed his mind for several seconds, but he didn't dwell on it. Lenalee was his priority right now. He felt her head, and breathed a sigh of relief when he found out she didn't have a fever.
She just needs rest then, he thought. Too bad I can't sleep myself, at the moment. He grinned ruefully, sat down in a spare chair, put his hands behind his head, and gazed out the window. It was going to be a long, sleepless night. But then again, he'd had enough of those before to be able to deal with it.
"Lenalee! When did you get back here?" Lavi exclaimed, blinking at her in surprise. Then his eyes narrowed as he saw Allen come out after her. "And what were you doing in Allen's room?"
"For lack of a better place, I let her sleep in my room - I had other things to do, so I didn't get a chance to sleep at all myself." Allen looked at all of them, and when they saw the very deep, dark circles under his eyes, they believed every word.
"What were you busy doing?" Kanda asked, raising an eyebrow as Allen handed Lenalee her pack, and slung his own over his shoulder. Allen glanced at him.
"Telling my manager that I'm leaving, and that he probably won't be seeing me for quite some time. As you can imagine, he wasn't too happy about it." Allen sighed resignedly, but his pride refused to let him complain about it. "Anyway, let's get going, shall we? From what I hear, we've got a long road ahead of us." Without another word, he made his way out of the hotel. Lenalee hurried after him until she was walking by his side. Lavi, Kanda, and Arystar looked warily at each other, while Miranda looked at the two, feeling frustrated. They all quickly followed after them.
Allen and Lenalee led the way to the train station. They got to stay in the more luxurious compartments, and Allen somehow found himself in a compartment with Kanda and Lenalee. Lenalee sat next to him, and soon fell asleep, her head resting on his shoulder. Kanda sat opposite him, and didn't say anything. Allen had a feeling, however, that the man disapproved of Allen allowing Lenalee to do this. Not that Allen could do much to stop it - he had already come to the conclusion that the girl had completely fallen for him, and he had absolutely no idea what to do about it. He thought she was cute, yes, beautiful, in fact, but he just didn't know her well enough to have fallen in love with her yet. He somewhat pitied the girl.
This is going to become a bit of a hassle, he thought unhappily. I just hope it doesn't get out of hand.
Well, there's another chapter. It was a rather abrupt ending, wasn't it? Sorry. I really did end up having Lenalee kidnapped – I'd been thinking of doing it, but wasn't sure how to go about getting it done. I hope this isn't too cheesy – and if the action scenes are really dumb, please tell me, I've never been good at doing those either – my romance scenes are worse though. -.-
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this!
And if you did, drop a review, would you? I don't live off of them like others do, but it makes me feel more obligated to update when I have people who are waiting eagerly for the next chapter.
Was this too short?
- Mystic101