This story is for yukinothekoneko's July contest.
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1. Any and all fandoms are accepted.
2. You must commit to the month of July.
3. Each chapter must be at least 100-1,000 words.
4. One of the genres must be Comedy, Gender Bender, or Boy x Boy.
5. Talk about the challenge in the first chapter.
The chosen Genre for the story is... (Drumroll please) GENDER BENDER!
Please enjoy. ^^
Disclaimer: D. Gray Man and Ouran High School Host Club do not belong to me.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Begin
Everyone sat on the plane, bored out of their wits. I, was becoming annoyed at the silence.
"You know, we could make the time productive. Why don't you tell us about The Black Order, or these, 'Noah'." Kyouya asked.
"Good idea-" I started before Kugaya cut me off.
"Maybe you should tell them about the hero?" Kugaya asked excitedly.
"The hero?" Tamaki inquired.
I sighed, then leaned back into my seat and said, "Yes, the hero." Everyone looked at me expectantly, so I sighed and said, "The 'hero' was born in 1884 and went into apprentice-ship under a general by the name of Cross Marian at age ten, ten officially joined the order at age sixteen."
"Wow, he was young." Tamaki interrupted.
"Back then, yes. But nowadays, it's normal for someone that young or younger to join." I muttered.
"Anyway, the 'hero's' name was Allen Walker-"
"Walker? Does that mean he was related to you?" Tamaki interrupted again.
"Yes, he was my great great grandfather. Now will you please shut up?" I hissed.
"Sorry..." Tamaki apolgized while shifting his gaze to the floor.
"Now then, a hundred years ago, there was a being known as the Millenium Earl. No one was sure if he was human or not, but we knew he was evil. Before the Noah started creating Akuma, the Millenium Earl did, and he made them at twice the speed they do today. He is also the one who taught the Noah to create Akuma. Well, in the year 1911, the Earl decided to make his move to destroy every living human on earth. Of course, a battle ensued and the entire island of Japan was wiped clean of any living thing." The last statement earned some confused and concerned looks from the host club. "But, the hero, Allen Walker, continued fighting with the Earl and defeated him, or so it's said."
"What do you mean, 'or so it's said'?" Haruhi asked.
"Well, everyone on the battle field was dead, or too far away from the battle to know what happened, but Allen Walker and the Millenium Earl simply disappeared. No one's seen them since, so it was and still is presumed that they died. A piece of evidence that supports that conclusion is a giant crater where the Earl and Allen fought."
"So, he's considered a hero for killing this 'Earl' person?" Kyouya asked.
"Yep." Was my reply as I leaned back into the seat, crossed my arms, and closed my eyes. "Although, monster is a better term to describe him instead of person."
Kyouya raised an eyebrow, then shrugged afterwards. "You know, I just realized we've heard the term 'fallen one' several times, but I'm not relly sure what it is." Kyouya stated.
My eye twitched, but I figured I might as well warn him. "A fallen one is one who drifted to far away from the will of his or her Innocence. Or, in simpler words, lowered his or her sychronization rate to below 10 percent."
"What do you mean the will of the Innocence?" Haruhi asked.
"Every shard of Innocence has a will that somehow synchronizes with the will of the user. Maybe the Innocence's will is to destroy all Akuma, or maybe it could be to keep anyone else from dying or to stop all the suffering. When a person discovers the will of their Innocence, they need to try and agree with the Innocence whole-heartedly, or else they'll always be an Exorcist, but for some people, that's just fine." I explained.
"Wait, so the Innocence can decide what it wants to do?" Tamaki asked in disbelief.
"Yes, but it's up to the Exorcist wielding its power to agree with it and do those tasks. But, if the Exorcist completely disagrees with it or betrays it by becoming evil, they become a fallen one. A fallen one is a monstrous being that starts destroying any and everything within a ten mile radius before self destructing after twenty-four hours of becoming a fallen one."
Everyone stared at me wide-eyed before Tamaki spoke up and exclaimed, "You have to be lying! People don't simply become monsters because they disobeyed the will of god!"
"People don't, Exorcists do. You truly have no freedom when you're an Exorcist. Get used to it." I hissed.
"I refuse to get used to it!" Tamaki yelled.
I stood up and glared at him right in the eye and yelled, "I've been trapped my entire life with no freedom! You at least had those few years up until now when you were free! Be thankful for that time, but move on with your new fucking life! You'll be thankful you even had a few years of freedom in ten years from now if you even survive that long!"
I snapped my mouth shut, then gave him one last glare before storming off to the back of the plane with him yelling after me. I went to the last room, then slammed the door shut and locked it.
I glared at the door, not satisfied with the amount of security on it, so I went over to the bed, then pushed it to the door, baricading it.
"Stupid, ignorant, son of a bitch..." I muttered to myself.
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Tamaki stood fuming in the aisle as he watched Raven lock herself in the farthest room.
Haruhi raised an eyebrow and looked at her sempai; It was different seeing him actually angry.
"Kugaya, is there any way to save a fallen one?" Haruhi asked, hoping to find a way to calm her sempai's nerves.
"Of course." Kugaya stated, earning himself many stares. He sighed, realizing they wanted him to elaborate on exactly how.
"Well, you should first know what a fallen one looks like..." He was searching through his bag for a few seconds before pulling out a golden finch.
"Unzel, holographic display of fallen one." Kugaya ordered the bird.
It tweeted, then opened its small beak and had a holographic projection of a whit torso with a strange object over its heart and a strange... skirt thing? I don't know how to describe it. Above its neck was a halo.
The Ouran club gaped at it in shock. Kugaya ignored it and had the golem close up on the thing that was over the heart. The Ouran club felt slightly sick when they saw a person, who was entirely white, with the top half of their torso sticking out of a strange blue void. Blood was streaming from black pits where his eyes should have been and blood flowed down from the corners of his mouth. He appeared to be in a lot of pain, but also seemed angry at the same time.
Kugaya pointed to the blue void and said, "All that we know, is that a person has to dive into the fallen one, using this blue goop as an entrance, then somehow find the Innocence and get it out of there, along with the person, before it self destructs. The person who had become a fallen one though, can never use that Innocence again unless he changes his will to match that of his Innocence again."
"What knowledge do you have on the process of finding the Innocence and extracting it along with the host?" Kyouya asked.
"I'm sorry to say we have minimal information on that. Often times, the fallen one is too dangerous to go near so..." He trailed off sadly.
"You let it self destruct." Haruhi finished for him in a disbelieving voice.
"If it were our choice, we'd save them in an instant, but it's always dangerous. No one knows what happens inside a fallen one, but it often leaves those who attempt to save them scarred. They refuse to speak of it, and sometimes, they refuse to speak at all. And a few of the unlucky ones... end up stuck inside during the self destruct sequence." Kugaya stated sadly.
"Have you ever even saved a fallen one!" Tamaki yelled at Kugaya.
He flinched, but sighed and said, "I haven't, but some people in the order have. There was a fallen one about a year ago. His name was Junichi Sangaro. Somehow, he became a fallen one and we started our procedure of directing him towards the sea so he wouldn't cause any damage, but another Exorcist saw him, and it was her first time seeing a fallen one. To this day, she claimed she did it because he seemed to be in so much pain, but sometimes people question that answer. She used her Innocence powers to get into the fallen one. We waited an hour, fearing she might be dead, but then, Junichi started screaming and someone else appeared in the blue ooze. She had his Innocence in her left hand and pulled him out with her right. The fallen one crumbled and Junichi and the Exorcist were rushed to a Black Order infirmary. He had burns on his entire body from the bottom of his chest and down. The Exorcist, however, recieved only minor burns and her left hand and arm were cut and bleeding from pulling out the Innocence. Even when the nurses insisted she stay, she just got up, and left, returning to her line of duty."
The host club, whom were in complete awe, wondered who the person was and Tamaki voiced the question, "Who was she?"
Kugaya hesitated, then said, "Ravenel Walker. I wouldn't be surprised if she saved you guys if you became fallen ones."
Everyone stayed silent from shock for a while. Kugaya used that time to put the golem back in his bag.
Kaoru was lost in thought and blurted out, "How much has she been through?"
"That's for you to ask her yourself." Kugaya stated.
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I sat up against the wall after muttering swear words for a while. I sighed and pulled my knees to my chest and rested my chin on them. I felt something wriggling in my pocket and was startled a moment before remembering Timcanpy.
I quickly pulled him out and looked at him. "What? Too hot in there or are you just hungry again?"
It fluttered its wings, then glanced at the door.
"You wanna go out there?" I asked it.
It nodded, then hovered in the air, then landed on my hand again. I sighed, then said, "You'll have to settle for hovering around in this room because I'm not going out there."
Timcanpy leaned to the left, almost like a person would cock their head to the left when they're curious.
"Well, he had those few years of freedom and I never had any, yet he's the one complaining. Besides, people that are recruited into the order and not born into it have an easier time then those who are born into this war." I explained to the little orb.
A realization hit me and a dryly laughed for a moment. "You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?"
Timcanpy's wings went limp and he stared up at me. I sighed and whispered, "Sometimes I wish the Walker curse came sooner. I can't kill myself, it'd just prove I was weak... And I'm the last Walker left. I have to prove the Walkers would never betray the order."
I looked at Timcanpy whom had been fluttering around like crazy ever since I said my last name.
"What?" I asked him. He started opening his mouth and I quickly looked around for the box since I thought he was going to bite me. I silently cursed when I realized I had left it in my seat with the Ouran Host Club.
I quickly stood and got ready to dodge, but was surprised when I saw a holograph appear from his mouth.
There was a young man, probably in his early twenties, standing beside a mirror, but not looking at it. I caught a glimpse of Timcanpy in the mirror though, and he was much bigger than he was now. I quickly realized he must've been an old golem.
The young man had pure white hair that was about chin length. He had stone grey eyes and a scar over his left eye. I was shocked to see the scar was actually a curse. Then I realized, it looked exactly like the person from that crazy dream I had.
"Allen, are you ready yet?" A female voice asked. I blinked in surprise. I didn't know golems from back then had audio.
A female, also in her early twenties, stepped into view and she was beautiful. She had long green hair that was tied in pigtails and her eyes were a bright violet.
"Ah, Lenalee! Gomenesai, I was about to head down to the canal now." Allen said.
Lenalee smirked, then leaned in for a kiss with Allen and I rolled my eyes at the fact Timcanpy had watched the entire time. When they pulled apart, Allen chuckled and said, "I'll return home soon my love."
I pointed to my throat and made a gagging noise. People back then were too sappy. I watched as the hologram showed from Timcanpy's point of view, him following Allen.
"Allen Walker," A gruff voice said, "I wish to know you are not going to betray us."
Timcanpy (In the hologram) turned and showed a man with slick brown hair and a small mustache. He kinda reminded me of hitler.
"No need to worry Leverrier, I'd never betray my friends." Allen said with an obvious fake smile.
"Then tell me, who are your friends." Leverrier ordered.
"Lenalee, Lavi, Kanda, Komui, Reever, Bak..." Allen listed off.
Timcanpy suddenly stopped the projection and looked at me. My eyes were wide and I was still staring at the spot the holograph had shown Allen Walker.
"That was... my great great grandfather?" I asked no one in particular.
Timcanpy didn't answer, but merely flew up onto my head and snuggled into my hair. I felt his tail curl around my ponytail.
"So you're a golem..." I stated, still in shock. "But not just any golem, the golem of my great great grandfather..." I looked in a mirror in the room and saw Timcanpy had fallen asleep, or so it appeared.
"Do you know what happened to him?..." I whispered in wonder while staring at the little gold orb's reflection.
A knock suddenly sounded from the door and Kugaya asked, "Miss Walker, would you like anything to eat?"
I stood up, went over to the dorr and pushed the bed out from in front of it, then unlocked said door and opened it and said, "No thanks. But, have you seen my wood box?"
"The one with the music note and strange engravings?" Kugaya asked. I nodded my head and he said, "You left it on your seat."
"Thanks." I muttered and was about to walk past him when he stuck out his arm.
I cocked an eyebrow and looked at him. "Pardon my rudeness, but what is that you have on your head?"
I quickly realized I hadn't hid Timcanpy and mentally slapped myself for it.
I grabbed him off my head, gently, and held him in front of me and said, "He's a golem I found. You know, an old fashioned one. Although, he works quite well."
"Your going to use an old fashioned one?" Kugaya asked in disbelief.
"Why not? He's perfectly functional." I defended.
Kugaya sighed, then said, "Very well then."
I shook Timcanpy a little to make sure he was up. "Hey, Tim, wake up. You have to fly and I'm pretty sure golems don't sleep."
Timcanpy had an aura one would have when one would pout and it slightly amused me. But, he complied and flew next to me none-the-less.
I figured it had been long enough, so I walked to the front of the plane and sat back in my seat. The host club stared at me, well, stared at the golem, in awe.
"What is that?" Honey asked in a happy cutesy voice.
"It's an old fashioned golem. One that was used in the earlier days of the order." I answered.
"Why do you want an old fashioned golem?" Kyouya asked.
"I didn't really decide. He was the family heirloom that was in the box. I decided to use him because I don't really like the process of getting a new golem. Besides, he's already programmed." I answered. Truthfully, I just wanted to see what other videos he had stored in him.
Tamaki grabbed Timcanpy's tail while he was in mid air and said, "You say you don't like cuteesy things, yet here you are with a cute new golem."
I glared at him and was about to respond when I saw Timcanpy open his wouth and bite the hand that was holding his tail. The host club looked at the golem in shock while Tamaki shook his hand around yelling, "Get it off!"
I smiled, then said, "Timcanpy! Heel!" Timcanpy unlatched himself from Tamaki's hand and flew over to me and rested in my hair. "That's another thing I like about him, he can bite people who annoy me." That excuse I honestly just made up, but it unnerved them none-the-less.
The rest of the plane ride was uneventful. Kugaya had Tamaki's hand treated and they were now conversing. The twins were talking to Haruhi and Honey was eating dessert after dessert. Mori was watching over Honey and Kyouya was again writing in his strange black book.
"You know, we're going to need new school uniforms since we no longer have ours." Kyouya stated to me. I sighed, then said, "The Black Order will pay for new ones."
Kyouya just nodded his head, then remained quite with whatever it was he was doing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skippity
When the plane landed, we immediatly got a limo and Kugaya left us to do, 'Finder duties'.
"We should go back to the school; We still have to open the host club!" Tamaki exclaimed with determination burning in his eyes when we arrived at school.
"In these outfits?" The twins asked at the same time.
"Well, we could use them as today's cosplay theme." Kyouya suggested.
"Yes! Mysterious, yet formal and appealing at the same time! I like it!" Tamaki fist pumped.
I rolled my eyes at the fact they were going to use the Black Order uniforms for their ridiculous club. All the sudden, the twins were on either side of me and had hooked their arms through mine and started marching forward and said, "Come on! Time to entertain the ladies!"
"Let go of me! I am perfectly able of walking to the club myself!" I yelled at them while trying to keep myself from falling.
They ignored me and just dragged me through the school to the third music room despite my protests. When they pushed me inside, I turned and glared at them, but they just smiled and said, "Now, what type are you?"
"What?" I asked, completely confused.
"They mean, are you lolita, silent cool type, charming type." Haruhi listed off.
"We can only find out by doing a trial run today and see what the ladies think of him!" Tamaki stated. "So," Tamaki started, "Let the ladies enter!"
I blinked in shock and could feel Timcanpy shiver on my head. I had a bad feeling about what i had just gotten myself into.
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Sorry its shorter than normal, but I'm tryin to rush, yet make it nice at the same time.
So anyway, REVIEW please! Every review is now worth one cookie!
