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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Begin
The two girls in front of me stared and patiently waited for my answer.
"Sorry, but I don't talk about my family." I stated bitterly. I had no family to speak of, I was now the sole survivor.
Tamaki made a gesture from across the room, telling me I needed to try and be more charming. I glared at him, then when I was sure no one but him was looking, I briefly flipped him off and his mouth dropped open.
After the two girls in front of me chatted for a moment, the brunette turned to me and asked, "So, what do you talk about?"
I shrugged. "I don't know a lot of stuff that people would talk about since I'm constantly busy with my job." I hissed.
"You have a job? How peculiar..." The blonde beside the brunette stated.
"It's a family job. It's not like I ever wanted it." I seethed.
The brunette gasped, then asked, "Are you a prince?"
"What?" I asked her incredulously.
"Well, you don't want to talk about your family, it seems as though you hate them, and you have a job. It sounds like a prince who wants to rebel against his parents, but his duty keeps him from even standing against them even though he really wants to!" The brunette explained.
The brunette and the blond suddenly joined hands and stared at me with hearts in their eyes. "And he doesn't want to fall in love because he already has a fianceé, but he wants to know the pleasure of charming a girl, but he's too nervous to say anything!" The blond continued. I sweat dropped at their incorrect assumption.
"How sexy!" Both the girls exclaimed while swooning.
"Are these girls insane?" I whispered to myself. I had a new found fear of what goes on inside a normal teenage girl's mind. I may be a girl, but I was far from normal. "You're forgetting one thing though, I'm not a prince."
Either they didn't hear me, or they choose to ignore me because they continued swooning. I groaned and hid my face behind my hand. Obsessive high school girls were just too crazy, even for me.
The club continued like that for a while with all the girls that visited me making similar assumptions. There were little to few variations. One thought I was already married, another said I was only at Ouran to escape an assassin, and a truly crazy one thought I was already king and was looking for a queen. All of them ignored me when I stated that I was not a prince.
I sunk into a couch as all the girls left and Timcanpy flew down from his hiding spot and landed back on my head. "Timcanpy, I think this is hell." I mumbled to the small golem.
"Well, it looks like the girls have decided your type." Kyouya said with an amused smirk.
I stood up and was about to retort when someone spoke before me.
"Rebellious Prince, new, unexpected, but it's a type." Kaoru and Hikaru said as they put their arms on my shoulders and leaned on me.
"Get off of me before I punch you." I hissed. "And I'm not a prince! Can't these obsessive girls get that through their empty skulls?"
"Harsh." The twins stated while ignoring my demand.
"Raven, you mustn't speak so rudely of our guests behind their backs, you are a prince after all." Tamaki stated while trying to be charming.
"How many times do I have to say it, I'M NOT A PRINCE!" I yelled at him. "And once again, I demand you get off of me!" I hissed at the twins whom just smirked at my annoyance.
"We know you're not a prince, it's just a type that the girls see you as." Haruhi stated as she sat down on a couch and fished her homework out of her school bag.
"Why do you have homework? We didn't go to school today." Hikaru asked Haruhi.
"I went around to all the classrooms just now and the teachers already seemed to know we had a valid reason for not being at school today and they just gave me the homework." Haruhi answered with a slightly confused expression.
"The Black Order is quicker than you might think." I stated bitterly. "Anyway, anyone question on where you got the, 'costumes'?"
"No, they simply found them mysterious and alluring at the same time." Kyouya stated with a smirk. He was happy that he didn't have to waste money on costumes this time.
There was an awkward silence, then I said, "So, does the club end for today, or do you guys just stay after and plan the next day or something?"
"It's pretty much over for today." Haruhi said as she stood and stretched.
"Time to go home." The twins said a bit dejectedly as they finally stopped leaning on me and walked towards the door. Mori followed close behind with Honay on his back and Kyouya left after them.
"Haruhi, want me to walk you home?" Tamaki asked excitedly.
"You don't have to sempai." Haruhi answered.
"I insist!" Tamaki said, feigning hurt for being rejected.
Haruhi sighed and said, "Alright sempai."
Tamaki cheered and they headed towards the door. I rolled my eyes, then grabbed my box off a table in the back when I heard Haruhi ask, "Raven, do you want to walk with us too?"
"No thanks." I stated as I walked towards the door where they were waiting.
"Aww, c'mon! We can talk more about this 'order'." Tamaki said cheerfully. It was obvious he liked Haruhi and wanted to walk with her alone, but his curiosity was too strong.
"Whatever." I said with a sigh. I found out that arguing with people here was useless.
Tamaki cheered and all three of us walked towards the front gate. Tamaki asked about random things. How old the order is, when it was established, what countries it influenced. I answered them all with a nonchalant shrug. Haruhi just kept quite and pondered something. I turned my head forward once we stepped out of the gate and caught a glance of someone on a rooftop.
I quickly looked up and saw a tattered cape blowing in the wind before the figure turned and disappeared. I had an eerie feeling about the figure, then had an urge to follow it.
"Raven?" Haruhi called out when she saw I wasn't paying attention to them anymore.
I glanced at her, then handed her the box and said, "Can you hold onto this for me until tomorrow? Exorcist duties call." I glanced back up at the rooftop, hoping it wasn't too late to pursue the figure.
Haruhi tentively took the box and said, "Sure."
"Wait, you see an Akuma?" Tamaki asked as his eyes sparkled in excitement.
"Gotta go." I replied before dashing across the street, making a few cars stop and honk. I jumped up and used the small ledges on the wall of the building to get to the top. It was only a two story building so it only took a few seconds.
When I got on the roof, I looked around. My heart was beating slightly faster from the sudden exercise, but seemed to stop when I connected eyes with the figure. He was a few buildings away and was completely covered by his dark red cloak, except for his eyes that glowed red from behind it. He turned, then hopped off the building and I quickly pursued him. He wasn't an Akuma, but he wasn't human. At least, that's what my instinctss were telling me.
It became a game of cat and mouse as he led me through different allys and jumped onto the nearest roof when he hit a dead end. I suddenly realized he was leading me exactly west, no slight turns or anything, just directly west. I growled in frustration since I hadn't been able to catch him yet. I sped up a little, and was frustrated when he sped up to. It was then that I realized he might be leading me into a trap.
I stopped right after I jumped off a building, only to be faced with a forest. That had been the last house on the edge of the town. The cloaked figure stared at me from the shadows in the woods, silently taunting me about my failure to catch him. I panted slightly, that was more exercise than I normally exerted to chase Akuma.
"Who are you!" I called out in a demanding voice. The figure didn't speak, didn't move, heck! He didn't even flinch! He just seemed to be waiting for me to catch my breath so we could continue the game of chase. "Answer me god damnit!" I yelled at him.
He turned and started walking into the forest and I saw he was quickly disappearing from view. I cursed under my breath as I followed him deeper into the thickening woods, all the while having a churning feeling in my stomache while every fiber of my being yelled at me, saying it was a trap. I ignored the creeping feeling I had and continued forward. This person was different, and I wanted to know why.
"Do you know where Demons come from?" The cloaked figure asked, making me jump at his sudden ability to speak. I narrowed my eyes at the figure walking head of me. What did he know that I didn't?
"They come from the Egg." I stated as I kept my guard up.
The figure continued walking and chuckled. "Ignoring the facts of this sacred war, where do legends say Demons come from?"
"Hell." I stated as I narrowed my eyes at him. What was he getting at?
"And in legends, who does it say Demons always obey?" The figure asked before he disappeared behind a thick wall of vines.
I ran over and went through the vines and said, "Satan."
"My, your not completely blinded by lies after all." The figure said from across the clearing that the vines had led to.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I blurted out, becoming annoyed by his elusive questions.
"Tell me, who do Akuma obey in this sacred war and what is the english translation of Akuma?" He asked.
"They obey Noah and Akuma means Demon." I said as I walked towrds him, thinking I could finally catch him since he wasn't running away. "Are you trying to say the Noah are Satan?"
The figure growled, then three other figures appeared in the clearing, surrounding me. A little voice in the back of my mind said, "I knew it was a trap! I knew it!"
I immediatly took a defensive position, but they just made some hand motions and a certain barrier I despised appeared. I immediatly felt the Innocence become heavy and I sunk to my knees under the immense weight. I put my hands on the ground to support myself as much I could. I felt the energy from my body just slip away and I started sweating from a mixture of fear and exhaustion. I glanced nervously at the three new strangers. It was hard to tell anything since they were all wearing dark red cloaks.
"How the hell do you know Innocence restraining magic?" I spat out angrily.
The first figure I had been pursuing chuckled, then walked inside the barrier towards me, but I could barely move, let alone try to flee. He put a finger under my chin and tilted my head up and I glared at him. Even though he was a lot closer, I still couldn't tell anything about him. "My my, little cursed one," He said, making me wan to hit him, "It's only natural for hell's horsemen to know how to restrain an apostle of god."
My eyes widened. There was no such thing as a hell's horseman in this war, was there?
"Now," He said as his finger disappeared from under my chin and my head fell back down. His hand suddenly wrapped around my neck tightly, and he lifted me in the air until my feet could no longer touch the ground and I feebly tried prying away his hand that was depriving my brain of much needed blood and oxygen. "Tell us where the key is and we might decide to let you live. Or," He said, his every word laced with malice, "I'll do to you what I did to the others when they refused to speak."
My eyes widened and I said, "What others?"
All of them started chuckling and I desperatley wanted to punch all of them in the face.
"You don't know? It is the reason you're now the only one left in the Walker line..." He trailed off.
"The reason I'm the last one left?..." I also trailed off before realization hit me like a train. "You! You're the ones who killed my family!" I attempted to scream, but found it difficult because of the hand around my neck and the lack of strength I had from the barrier.
"You're family was dead the day you were born, they were simply relatives, not a direct descendant like you." The man said as he tightened his grip on my neck, making me grunt. "Now, tell us where he hid the key!" He demanded, his voice filled with rage.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I said as I tried prying his fingers away from my neck.
"Don't toy with me kid!" He yelled at me. My vision started going blurry and black was starting to creep in from the edges.
"Like I said, I don't know what you're talking about." I said, my voice weak and feeble sounding, yet somehow still laced with hate towards the creaturess around me. I was fading into unconciousness fast.
The grip around my neck tightened once again as the man swung me back and slammed me against the ground. The breath was kncok out of me and it was twice as hard to regain because of the fingers looped around my neck. I felt something wet and warm start to coat the back of my head, and in my state, I couldn't tell what it was. "Quit playing dumb, we went through a lot of trouble to find you, and seein' as how you're the last Walker left, you have to have the key." He hissed.
My vision was completely black now and I could barely breath. "I don't... have the key... and I don't know what..." My voice stopped as unconciousness was a second away from lack of oxygen.
"Is that any way to treat a lady?" A familiar voice said. Even though I couldn't see him, I knew who it was. I didn't know if I should've been relieved, or worried, but before I could decide, the darkness known as sleep took me away from the grasp of reality.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skippity
Conciousness slowly returned to me, yet I didn't open my eyes. I still felt exhausted from the barrier that the horsemen had set up. As my senses started returning to me, I felt an immense pain in my left leg, but more importantly, I felt something touching my right cheek.
My eyes snapped open and I saw a pair of concerned yet amused golden eyes staring at me. I quickly slapped Tyki's hand away from my face and sat up, trying to maintain a certain distance.
"What did you do?" I asked quickly, ready to accuse him of heinous crimes.
"Moi?" He asked, feigning hurt, "I merely rescued a damsel in distress from four evil knights." He said as he smiled teasingly.
"I didn't need rescuing." I hissed as I felt a blush creep into my cheeks and turned my head away.
"Really? From my point of view, it seemed like you were utterly helpless." Tyki said with an amused voice laced lightly with worry.
"Don't you have something better to do? Like, I dunno, kicking puppies?" I hissed.
"Your words wound me! I think I might die!" Tyki said as he clutched his heart like my words had stabbed him.
"Good, why don't you just die already then?" I seethed.
"Because my fair lady is injured, and someone has to tend to her wounds. What surprises me is you have a few old ones." Tyki said, genuinly concerned.
My eyes widened and I looked down to see my entire torso wrapped in bandages, as was my right arm, down to the wrist. Thankfully, I still had my pants on.
My cheeks burned and I growled, "You undressed me?" I glared at him.
Tyki averted my gaze and rubbed the back of his head and said, "W-Well... when I-I was fighting them... One of th-their weapons cut y-your stomache and I didn't want your cut g-getting infected... s-so I..." Tyki blushed and I was slightly amazed that he could actually blush. "But I swear," He looked me straight in the eyes with a serious expression, "I didn't do anything." I searched his eyes for any sign that he was lying, but found none. It slightly angered me, but I was glad he didn't do anything.
"Why didn't you just let me die?" I asked him as I turned my head away and looked down.
"Aww, your bashfulness is so adorable." Tyki chuckled. When I didn't respond, he sighed, then leaned back in his chair that was beside the bed I was in. He lit a cigarette, then took a long drag and breathed out the smoke before saying, "Truth be told, us Noah were stupid a hundred years ago."
"You're just realizing that now?" I hissed. The Noah's stupidity in creating Akuma caused many unnessecary deaths.
Tyki glared at me, silencing me instantly. Tyki never glared at me. "We made our mistakes, we listened to the Earl, and now we can't go to either heaven or hell. But we're trying to fix that. We're trying to help now."
I snorted and said, "What about that Akuma that attacked those kids from the Host club two days ago?"
"That Akuma was chasing after the horseman who nearly killed you. Him accidently firing near them was unavoidable." Tyki stated casually. I glared at him, but he didn't even flinch.
"What are the horsemen after?" I asked Tyki.
Tyki took another drag on his cigarette before saying, "They call it, the 'key'. I don't know what it looks like, but it supposedly leads to where Allen and the Earl are trapped."
"Wait, they're trapped?" I asked incredulously.
"During the battle in 1911, Allen and the Earl pushed their power beyond its limits and caused a small tear in the dimensions. They fell through to a different one and it's supposed this 'key' can open a portal to get to them." Tyki explained.
"Why do they want to get to my great great grandfather and the Earl?" I asked.
"I'm not sure myself." Tyki said after a short pause. Silence hung in the air for a while.
"How much does an Innocence barrier affect you?" Tyki suddenly asked.
"Why do you want to know?" I hissed.
"Well, I don't know if it was because of your injuries, or because of the barrier, but you've been out for over twenty four hours now." Tyki said with concern lacing his voice.
My eyes widened and I immediatly asked, "How long have I been out?"
"Oh..." Tyki pondered it a moment, "Forty hours or so."
It was the middle of the school day on Friday then! I immediatly got out of bed and stood up, but nearly fainted from dizziness. Tyki stood up and grabbed my shoulders to steady me and scolded, "Don't move around so much! You have stitches on your stomache and leg!"
"What happened to my leg?" I asked angrily as I looked down at my left leg and saw the pant leg had been rolled up to expose the shin and that there was a six inch gash with several stitches.
"The horsemen have spikes on their shoes and they like to kick." Tyki said with a small wince.
I sighed, then said, "Whatever, I just need to get to school, now."
Tyki rolled his eyes and said, "You have to rest, you're injured."
I slapped his hands away and glared at him angrily. "Listen asshole," I hissed as I pointed a finger at him, "The Exorcists and Noah have been enemies for years. Don't think that because you saved my life that we're all buddies now. I still don't believe the bullshit your spouting that the Noah are actually trying to be good, so back off." I turned and went towards the door, but Tyki grabbed my wrist, stopping me instantly. "Let go!" I yelled at him as I tried pulling my wrist free. Thunder sounded outside and I realized my Innocence was making it storm.
"You really wanna leave here looking like that?" Tyki asked as he raised an eyebrow and a smirk formed on his lips.
I felt blood rush to my cheeks when I realized I only had bandages covereing my uppser body. "Shut up and give me a jacket before I hit you." I hissed. Then I remembered something. "Wait, where's Timcanpy?" He had been on my head, hadn't he?
"Ah, the little gold golem that belonged to Allen Walker," Tyki said as he went over to his closet and pulled out a black tux jacket. He walked over to me holding out the jacket, and used his other hand to point to a bird cage. I took the jacket and looked at the bird cage. Inside it was Timcanpy. "The little thing tried to bite me." Tyki hissed while glaring at Timcanpy. I quickly slipped on the jacket and started buttoning it up while walking over to Timcanpy.
"Good boy." I said with a smile as I opened the cage. Timcanpy flew up and landed on my head. "How far are we from my hotel? I need to pick up my school uniform."
"Actually, we're in the apartment below yours." Tyki said with a smirk.
My mouth dropped open and I said, "That takes creepy obsessive stalking to a whole new level."
Tyki shrugged like it was the most normal thing in the world for two enemys to live in the same hotel with only a floor/ceiling seperating them.
I hissed, 'Pervert.' before leaving his room and heading towards the elevator.
"Not even going to say goodbye?" Tyki asked as he leaned against his doorframe.
I just hit a button for the elevator, walked in when the doors opened, then flipped him off before they closed. I went up a floor to my hotel room and immediatly saw a package on the coffee table in the living room. I went over and opened it and found my new school uniform, then quickly changed into it. I left the bandages on, except for one that went around my forehead to cover a wound on the back of my head.
I then went to the bathroom and opened the mirror cabinet and pulled out a bottle of nutrition pills. I opened it and popped three in my mouth. I had gone forty hours without one, so I desperately needed more than one.
I then quickly brushed my hair and put the long part of it in a ponytail. I walked out of the bathroom and grabbed a pair of gloves and slipped them on. I then looked at my reflection and saw Timcanpy still resting on my head and remembered something.
I quickly rushed to the living room and said, "Timcanpy, connect me to the order." I picked up the phone and he bit the cord and it started ringing, a moment later, someone answered.
"Hello?"
"This is White Dragon reporting in and requestiong an excuse for missing school yesterday." I stated.
"White Dragon!" The person was obviously shocked and I strained to hear what he was saying to the others he was near. "Cease searches for White Dragon! He's reported in!"
There was a small commotion, then someone else said, "White Dragon? Where the hell were you yesterday?"
I chuckled weakly and lied, "Akuma trouble. Some... minor injuries, but I'll survive. But! I need to get to school, so can you inform the supporter in charge of the education department that I need an excuse?"
"Fine, but you need to fill out a report form. An Akuma has never been to troublesome to cause you to be missing for a whole day!" He exclaimed.
"Alright, thanks for the excuse and no report form is necessary. I just neglected my personal needs and used too much energy defeating the Akuma and passed out after defeating it. Just send Link if there are any concerns." I quickly hung up and Timcanpy was about to unlatch from the cord when I said, "Wait Timcanpy, can you connect me to the Bookman apprentices golem?" Timcanpy tilted to the side, but nodded. I picked up the phone and impatiently waited for Lupus to pick up.
I didn't like him, but he had access to limitless amounts of knowledge. Offering him a chance to record the past events that just happened would give me much useful knowledge.
"What?" He asked, probably expecting a finder.
"Yeah, I hate you too, but I have some information you might like." I said quickly.
"What could you possibly know that I dont?" Lupus asked bitterly, yet slightly intrigued.
"Didn't you know I was missing for forty hours? And don't you wanna know what I discovered during those forty hours?" I asked innocently.
There was a pause, then he growled out, "You wouldn't do this for free, what do you want?"
"Any and all information the Bookman have on Hell's Horsemen, Allen Walker, and The Millenium Earl. I don't care if they're myths or rumors, just bring the information and I'll meet you at my apartment at seven or eight." I stated.
"And you promise to tell me what happened?" Lupus asked incredulously.
"Cross my heart and hope to kill." I twisted the old saying.
"Fine." Lupus replied.
"Thanks, I gotta go to school now. But don't forget, I still hate you." I stated.
"Ditto." Lupus said before hanging up. I hung up, then let Timcanpy land on my head. I grabbed my school bag, then rushed over to the window and opened it, then jumped out and did my routine of going to school, although, with a little bit of pain because of the injuries the Horsemen oh so kindly gave me.
Timcanpy his in my pocket when I got to the school and I headed for the office and they immediatly sent me to class since they were all Supporters and knew my excuse. I casually strolled to my next class which happened to be my next to last class of the day. I sighed, then opened the door and everyone looked at me.
"Ah, Ravenel! The office already called and said you were going to be late. Go ahead and take your seat." Mister Komikori said as he gestured towards an empty seat beside Kaoru. It also happened to be a seat next to the window.
I nodded my head, then walked over to my seat and he continued his lesson.
I took out my notebook and started taking notes when Kaoru threw a piece of paper on my desk without the teacher noticing. I glanced at him and he pretended not to notice. I opened it and read its contents.
Where were you?
I scribbled down, Akuma trouble. Then tossed it back to him.
A moment later, he tossed it back and it said, Do ALL Akuma take an entire day to kill? Tamaki and Haruhi said you started chasing it right after the host club ended on WEDNESDAY.
It was a level four Akuma. They're the hardest to kill. I wrote a reply before tossing it back at him.
The note got tossed back to me and I read his reply. What's the difference between levels?
I jotted down, Save the questions for your lesson tomorrow. then tossed it back.
He wrote something down and flicked it onto my desk. That sounds wrong. :)
Before I could even write pervert, the bell rang. I quickly stuffed the note in my pocket and gathered my things and left the classroom. Haruhi and the twins were waiting for me.
"Where've you been?" Hikaru immediatly asked.
"Akuma trouble." I grumbled as I walked past him.
"Told you." Kaoru said to his brother as they immediatly started following me to the next class while dragging Haruhi behind them. I turned and entered the Biology room and Hikaru and Kaoru followed close behind and Haruhi actually walked in without the twins dragging her. I took a seat next to the window and stared out it while ignoring everything. I just needed to think for a moment. My great great grandfather, the hero, Allen Walker, could be alive...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skippity
I sighed as the bell rang and I got up to go to the host club. Hikaru and Kaoru came up on both my sides and looped their arms through mine and started dragging me off to the host club.
"I can walk there myself you imbeciles!" I hissed as I tried pulling my arms free.
"Ah, but the rebellious prince needs an escort." Kaoru said with a smile. I glared at him, then stomped on his foot and he let out a yelp and let go of my arm. Hikaru let go of my arm on impulse to check on his brother. I ditched them and immediatly headed towards music room three. When I got there, Tamaki, Kyouya, Mori, and Honey all looked at me surprised.
"Raven! Where have you been?" Tamaki exclaimed.
"Long story that I've had to explain a million times already, so don't ask." I hissed. They looked at me surprised, but didn't press me for answers. Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi arrived a little while later, although, Kaoru was slightly limping. He glared at me, so I turned my head away.
"Alright! Today's theme is..." Tamaki said excitedly, "Phantom of the Opera!"
I raised an eyebrow. This was slightly interesting. Tamaki then gave everyone, including me, an outfit and mask that covered only the right side of the face. Everyone then went into their own changing room and changed. The mask had a very tiny elastic string that I had to put on like I would an eyepatch so that the string could be hidden in my hair. The 'costume' was a pair of black dress pants, black shoes, a white long sleeve button up shirt with a black vest over it, and a black cape that could've doubled as a cloak.
I stepped out from behind the curtains and saw some of the others had aslo finished changing.
"I dunno, I kinda feel more like a vampire than a phantom." Hikaru stated as he swung his cape up, doing the infamous, 'dracula pose'.
"You don't really have the 'fangs' to try and be a vampire." I stated. Hikaru dropped his arms and just shrugged.
"Now," Tamaki said as he swung his cape around, "Let the ladies, enter!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skip (You hate me now, don't you?)
I sighed as the last guests for today left. The ladies were starting to question the type they choose for me. They were starting to think I'd be more of a bad boy since I was so 'insensitive' and 'rebellious' (That description coming from the fact most of them thought I skipped school yesterday). But, then some argued I was a prince, (Which I insisted I'm not) but others argued saying I was to classy to be a bad boy. I wish they'd stop fussing over things. Sometimes I was glad I was born into a different part of the world than them.
Everyone quickly changed back into their school uniforms.
"Tomorrow's Saturday! We can just relax and sleep in until noon!" Hikaru and Kaoru cheered. Amazingly, Tamaki joined them.
I coughed into my fist to get their attention and said, "You didn't forget you have Innocence training tomorrow, did you?"
Their faces dropped and they said, "Oh..."
I smirked and said, "I'll have a Finder pick you all up at seven a.m. sharp tomorrow. I don't care if you're half asleep or even if you're passed out, you're going to training. And all of you better eat breakfast because lunch won't be served till one p.m. and there will be no breaks until then. Then after lunch, we'll continue training until eight p.m. But, since tomorrow is your first day of training, the first hour of the day will be used to answer any and all questions."
Everyone was staring at me like I was crazy. "You've got to be kidding!" Tamaki exclaimed.
"I'm not, and bear in mind," I narrowed my eyes at him, "I was born into the order, so I had to do this training routine since I was three. If I could do this at age three, you can certainly train at age seventeen through nineteen." I looked at my watch, then said, "Now if you don't mind, I have some order buisiness to attend to." I walked out the door as everyone gaped at me. Timcanpy merely fluttered down and landed on my head before snuggling into my hair.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skippity
I walked into my apartment to find a million books stacked everywhere and Lupus sitting on my couch waiting patiently.
He looked at me and raised an eyebrow. I glared at him and said, "Listen, I don't like you, and you don't like me, but we have information that the other would like to have, so let's make a truce for now and we can tear each other apart later."
"Fair enough." Lupus stated. "So," He fished out a journal and pen and asked, "What happened while you were missing?"
I sighed and said, "There's a third hand at play in this war."
Lupus raised an eyebrow, as he jotted the information down. "And they are?"
"They call themselves, Hell's Horsemen." I stated.
"And what does this have to do with your disappearance?" Lupus asked.
"Right after the host club ended on Wednesday, I saw a cloaked figure on a rooftop. I pursued him and dumbly fell for a trap in a secluded area of the woods west of here. Three other horsemen appeared and the first one started asking me for a key." I stated.
"A key?" Lupus asked, intrigued as he looked up from his notes.
"Yeah, a key. They said they asked the other Walkers for it, but when they refused..." I didn't have to say the rest.
Lupus suddenly stood up and said, "They're the ones who killed the other Walkers?"
"Isn't that what I just said?" I asked him bitterly.
He just realized the stupid question he asked and sat back down on the couch and looked down at his journal.
"But anyway, I would've attacked them but..." I paused and Lupus looked at me. I sighed, then continued, "They know a very powerful form of Innocence Barrier Magic."
"How are you still alive than?" Lupus asked me incredulously.
"Tell anyone this and I'll kill you." I hissed. "Tyki... saved me." I groaned at admitting it.
Lupus chuckled at my misfortune. "Did these 'Horsemen' say anything important?" Lupus asked.
"Only one of them talked to me, and he was asking me where Akuma came from and who they obeyed. He said I was wrong when I said the Egg and Noah. He made me guess again and said I was right when I said they came from hell and obeyed Satan." I stated. "But he nearly killed me because I didn't know what the god damn key was!"
"Nor do we know what it opens." Lupus said with a sigh as he continued jotting down information.
"Tyki told me." I stated.
Lupus raised an eyebrow and said, "Oh?"
"He said that when the hero and the Earl fought almost a hundred years ago, that their power was so strong when it last clashed, a tear was made in dimensions and that they both got trapped in it. They 'key', supposedly will open a gate to the dimension they're in." I elaborated.
Lupus stopped writing and stared into space. I cocked an eyebrow, than said, "Earth to Lupus, abort mission:Search for your brain. We have learned it never existed."
Lupus snapped back to reality and said, "Raven," He looked me right in the eye, "Do not open that gate."
I blinked in surprise, then said, "What?"
"If you do have this 'key', you can not open the gate. Allen might've been killed by the Earl years ago and the Earl could be lying in wait."
I shook my head side to side to say he was wrong. "I know Allen's alive."
"How? How can you be sure he's alive? If he's dead, you could make this war a whole lot harder." Lupus warned me.
I ignored him and picked up a book with the title, 'Hell's Horsemen'. It had a picture of the same person I followed. "What information could you gather?"
Lupus looked up at me, then closed his journal and put it back in his bag. I just opened the book and skimmed over a few pages.
"There was an amazing amount of myths and legends on Hell's Horsemen, but little to no information on The Earl and Allen." Lupus answered with a sigh.
My brow furrowed and Iglanced up from the book and asked, "How can you have only a little bit of information on the hero?"
Lupus sighed, then said, "When I went to gather the knowledge you wanted, I found that almost every book on the hero was missing. The only book that was left had piano sheet music he made, nothing else could be found."
I reached up and grabbed Timcanpy off my head, then chewed on my bottom lip as I stared at the tiny golem. Should I, or shouldn't I tell him about Timcanpy.
I sighed, then asked, "How much do you know about old fashioned golems?"
He looked at me, then looked at the small orb in my hand. "Not much. They're a little more complicated than modern ones, but less efficient."
"Do you know how to retieve stored data without causing harm to the golem?" I pressed.
"I can try, why?" Lupus asked.
I gnawed on my bottom lip, then said, "This is Timcanpy." Lupus raised an eyebrow. "He was... Allen Walker's golem."
Lupus bolt straight out of his seat and exclaimed, "You're kidding!"
I shook my head and said, "I found him in a box in the storage room and... fixed him. But I don't know how to retrieve data from him yet."
Lupus rushed over to me and snatched Timcanpy from my hands and started examining him. Timcanpy fluttered his wings about worriedly, but I gave him a weak smile. Then a sudden idea hit me and I bent my fingers so they looked like a head, then made a motion like it was biting something. Timcanpy got the idea, and bit Lupus who let out a surprised yelp and released the tiny golem. I quickly snagged Timcanpy out of the air and whispered, "Good boy." Then when Lupus glared at me, I said, "Bad Timcanpy, don't bite people I hate when we have a truce!" My voice was laced with sarcasm and I grinned when Lupus glared daggers at me. He turned and walked over to the couch, then sat back down and started writing in his journal.
My eyes widened and I said, "Lupus," He stopped writing and looked at me. "Please don't tell anyone about Timcanpy yet. He's the only connection I have to my only living relative." I knew if the order learned about Timcanpy, they'd forcefully take him apart to retrieve his data and that would leave me with no information, and with one less friend.
Lupus sighed, but then said, "Only if you promise not to let him bite me again."
I sighed, then said, "Fine."
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