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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Begin
"The question is, where do I start?"
"You could start where you left off after kicking us out of the room." Lupus stated as I rounded the corner where he and my disciples were waiting.
"She stated bluntly that Allen Walker isn't dead." Racquel answered for me, earning her a glare.
For the Ouran teens, this statement didn't mean much, but for Lupus... Well, him being a bookman and all, it was just one of the juiciest pieces of information possible.
"What? How do you know that for a fact?" Lupus asked hurriedly.
"My eyes don't lie and neither do my ears. I talked with him. He's the one who told me central was the cause of my ancestors' deaths." I answered.
"How?" Lupus asked, obviously wanting to get as much information as possible.
"Not answering that." I answered.
Lupus's eye twitched, then he asked, "Are you going to answer any of the questions any of us ask you?"
"Depends on the question." I answered casually as I leaned against the wall.
Lupus gave me an incredulous look, then asked, "How long have you been speaking with Allen?"
"'Bout a week." I answered.
"But how is he alive?" Tamaki asked. "I mean, didn't he go missing or die in that battle with the Earl guy or something? And wouldn't he be dead from old age by now?"
"Noah don't age, and if you've forgotten, he is a Noah. And he didn't die. The clash of power between the Earl and Allen Walker was so great, a temporary rip between dimensions was caused and they both fell into it. They're both alive, just trapped in another dimension." I explained.
"Raven, you're not planning to try and save Allen, are you?" Michio asked, slightly worried.
"But, wait, if you go after Allen to save him, wouldn't the Earl get out too?" Haruhi asked.
"I plan on killing the Earl once and for all anyway. Besides," I glanced at everyone and said, "If I can't save one person, how can you expect me to save anyone?"
Everyone was silent for a moment, but Lupus was determined to learn more about the elusive Allen Walker since almost all the information on him was lost somehow. "How old did he look?" Lupus asked.
"No answer." I stated, not wanting to answer stupid questions and just to see how bad I could piss him off.
Lupus's eye twitched, then he asked, "His appearance?"
"No answer."
"His attitude?"
"No answer."
"Are you going to answer any of the questions?"
"Nope." I answered with a smirk.
Lupus huffed, then said sarcasticly, "I have a feeling you're going to hell."...
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I, was expecting another conversation like that once I walked through the portal; but, glancing around, I was gonna get anything BUT that...
Racquel... Where the hell did you send me now?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~POV Change
Racquel focused completely and entirely on making a portal to where Raven's signal was last detected. She got it open and was waiting for Raven to step through. Just... any second now...
Kaoru and Hikaru were down in the pit with the other teens, but they were faring slightly worse. They were worrieing about Raven. She was like a second Haruhi. Sure, you had to push her buttons in a different order, but her reactions were just as entertaining. It was even easier to annoy her when they figured out she didn't like watching public displays of affection. They just had to act, and she was instantly annoyed.
None-the-less, they were worried about her. Why had her signal suddenly disappeared? Was she hurt?
Hikaru stumbled as he dodged an attack made by Michio's clone, and he scrambled to get up, but the clone was right in front of him, ready to strike. Hikaru closed his eyes and crossed his arms in front of his face, waiting for impact, but nothing happened. He opened his eyes and saw Kaoru standing in front of him, grinning proudly as Michio's clone had a face full of sand.
"Careful Hikaru." Kaoru teased, happy he had saved his brother.
Hikaru cocked an eyebrow, then pulled Kaoru out of the line of fire of another clone as he said, "I could say the same thing."
Kaoru scoffed, then said, "We shouldn't be here. We should be helping Raven..."
Hikaru frowned, then looked down. "She could be hurt, and were here, not even getting a scratch, yet supposedly 'training'."
"What if she's in pain... what if she's suffering..." Kaoru whispered, pain and sorrow in every word.
"What if she's dead?" Hikaru stated bluntly.
They were silent a moment, then Kaoru whispered, "I don't like this. I wanna help. I don't want people to suffer..."
"I can't stand it either... I don't want people to die..." Hikaru added.
What happened next surprised everyone in the room while the twins were slightly unaware of what was happening.
All the twins knew, was that there was a warmth on the back of their shoulders that was slowly enveloping their bodies. Exhaustion, pain, fear... all was forgotten in that instant as the only thing that crossed their minds were the simple words they exchanged moments ago.
The words... the will of their Innocence...
"Holy shit..." Michio muttered as his eyes widened. He was expecting their Innocence to activate sooner or later, but he wasn't expecting it to be that type of Inncocence.
Racquel watched in amazement, temporarily forgetting about the portal. Only when she sensed someone in the portal did she look back at it and realize what she had just done. Her distraction caused the portal to become unstable, and Raven was already in it.
She was ecstatic Raven was alive, but she was worried to death since Raven was slipping out through another portal into a location unknown to Racquel. Racquel couldn't sense Raven's presence within the portal anymore and tried to keep the portal open, but exhaustion and an unclear mind got the better of her and the portals imploded on themselves. Racquel sunk to her knees repeating, "No. No. No."
Michio saw her, then saw the portal was closed. He appeared at her side in an instant and asked, "Racquel! Racquel, what happened?" Worry was evident in his voice.
"Raven's alive... but I sent her somewhere else, and I don't know where..." Racquel admitted, tears begining to stream down her face. Raven was like a bossy, rude, little sister to her...
And now she had no idea where she was...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~POV Change
I blinked as I looked around. Horse drawn carriages, old fashioned gas lamps, funny outfits.
What. The. Hell?
It was like... I was in some kind of old fashioned town that didn't believe in technological advances. Another noticeable thing? There were a hell of a lot more Akuma than normal. I put my hand on my chin as I thought a moment. These Akuma were level ones and the ones I faced were normally level twos or threes; not to mention I'd only find two to four on a normal hunting day. Why were there so many and why were they so low in levels?
"Oi! You gonna stand there staring into space all day or are you actually gonna go somewhere?" An annoyed voice from behind me asked.
I turned to look at the the owner of the voice, and hopefully tell him off, but someone beat me to it.
"Nei nei Yuu, don't be so mean. He looks lost." A red head with an eyepatch stated to a japanese man with long dark blue hair that I guessed was, 'Yuu'.
"Baka Usagi! Don't call me that!" 'Yuu' shouted at the 'Usagi' as his hand twitched towards his katana.
To stop any blood shed (Mainly because it would've been the blood of someone who's actually being nice to me) I said, "You're correct in you're assumption I'm lost; Care to inform me where I'm at?"
The swordsman looked at me with murderous intent, but the redhead seemed ecstatic that someone had actually saved him. "You're at London... Mister?..."
"Ravenel. No last name." I answered. I had a nagging feeling in the back of my head I shouldn't give away my last name.
"No last name? That's odd." The red head answered with a suspicious glint in his eye.
"I was orphaned. So sue me for not knowing my parents." I stated. "Although, I still haven't caught your names."
The red head seemed less suspicious, then said, "Oh, I'm Lavi and this is my buddy, Yuu Kanda."
"I'm not your buddy you Baka Usagi!" Yuu yelled at Lavi, then turned towards me and said, "Call me Kanda, or you'll meet an early demise."
"Alright then Yuu." I stated with a smirk. I quickly ducked as the katana slashed through the air where my head had been a second ago. "Too slow Yuu." I taunted him as I jumped back when he lunged at me. I kept skipping around, tossing insults and saying his name constantly and he seemed to get angrier and angrier with every dodged swipe.
It continued for a while and people gathered, thinking it was a street show. Lavi even started a small betting booth on who would win. Yuu stopped a moment and tried to catch his breath and I seriously wondered how long we had been sparring. It was then I realized I should be looking for a portal and not sparring since Racquel had most likely already realized her mistake and opened a new one by now.
Yuu saw my distraction and lunged, but I simply turned slightly, then grabbed his wrist, then twisted myself and flipped him over my shoulder and onto his back. He muttered something along the lines of, 'Fucking bastard'. I cocked an eyebrow, then looked at the katana that was still in his hand. I nudged it with my foot and felt a sensation go up my leg that meant only one thing.
His katana was made of Innocence.
But... I had never seen him at the order before, so was he an unknown Innocence bearer? No... the order had every shard of Innocence except for the ones that had been destroyed and the missing one.
I must've been staring because Yuu hissed, "What?"
"Have I met you before?" I asked automaticly.
He gave me a funny look before Lavi appeared beside me and said, "Probably not, Yuu's pretty hard to forget."
"U-sa-gi..." Kanda hissed threateningly.
Lavi ignored him, then asked me, "Where'd you learn to fight like that? No one can beat Yuu!"
"Sorry, I don't have time to talk. I didn't realize how late it got. I gotta leave." I replied.
Lavi gave me a suspicious look, then said, "But you don't even know where you're at."
"True, but that doesn't really matter when you're looking for someone." I stated as I began walking off.
Lavi started walking beside me and asked, "Who are you lookin' for?"
"That, my one eyed friend, is none of your buisness." I answered.
"Aww, c'mon, I can help!" Lavi whined.
I turned to him to say 'no', but I saw something out of the corner of my eye that made me look. There were a bunch of level ones, still in their disguises, along with a few level twos behind us. Lavi looked, saw nothing out of the ordinary, then turned to me and asked, "What?"
Kanda had caught up to us by now and I whispered, "Walk." Then started quickly walking in the opposite direction of the Akuma. Lavi shouted, "Wait!" as he jogged to catch up to me. Kanda followed close behind, but didn't have to jog.
"Nei nei, what's wrong?" Lavi asked, trying to keep pace with me.
I glanced over my shoulder at the Akuma and saw they were following, so I hissed, "Just walk."
"With how fast you're going, it's more like running." Lavi stated.
"Even better." I stated as I started sprinting.
"Hey!" Lavi yelled as he tried catching up to me. I sprinted into an alley and hid in the shadows, looking around carefully. I just then realized I lost the red head and pmsing swordsman on accident.
"Shit." I muttered to myself as I looked around the corner to try and find them. I saw them a few blocks away. Kanda was leaning against a wall, looking pissed, and Lavi was asking someone something. I narrowed my eyes as I saw it was a level two Akuma in disguise.
I saw something glint in the shadows and saw another level two aiming at Lavi. My eyes widened and I quickly shouted, "Duck you idiot!"
Lavi seemed surprised, then quickly did as I said. Just in time too, because an Akuma bullet flew through the air where his head had just been.
I dashed over towards the Akuma that fired at Lavi and activated the Innocence on my right arm and quickly cut the Akuma in two.
I turned and saw Kanda had wasted no time in slaying the level two Akuma that Lavi had been talking to moments ago. The still disguised Akuma surrounded us and blocked my view of Lavi and Kanda.
I smirked to myself and said, "Hundred to one? Piece of cake."
I wasted no time in slashing through the Akuma nearest to me as the rest revealed themselves.
"Koicho Ichiga!*" I heard Kanda shout as some strange etheral insects flew through some Akuma and blew them up.
"Ozuchi Kozuchi! Maan, maan, maan!*" Lavi shouted as a giant hammer came down on top of a group of Akuma, effectivly destroying them.
I jumped towards a group of four level ones and a level two, then spun in the air and sliced through them.
The Akuma began firing and I dodged while slicing through the ones nearest to me. As I was about to slice through the twenty-something Akuma, it exploded and Kanda was standing there with his sword where the Akuma had just been at.
"You have a lot of explaining to do Shisha*." Kanda hissed at me.
I blinked in surprise, then yelled at him, "Who are you calling a Shisha? The name's Raven!"
"Hiban!" Lavi shouted as a giant flame serpent erupted from the ground and engulfed the remaining Akuma in flame. Lavi stood a short distance away resting a giant Innocence infused hammer on his shoulder.
"Yuu's right Ray-chan, why didn't you tell us you had parasitic type Innocence?" Lavi stated with a grin as his hammer shrunk and he placed it in a holster on his thigh.
"Ray-chan?" I repeated, quite baffled by the nickname. Meanwhile, Kanda was pointing his katana threateningly at Lavi.
"Usagi, call me that one more time and you'll lose your other eye." Kanda threatened.
I deactivated my Innocence and placed my hand on my chin as I lost myself in thought. They didn't recognize me, yet every Exorcist and Finder knew me because of my snow white hair and piercing green Innocence eyes. And why is it I've never heard of these Exorcists 'Lavi' and 'Kanda' before? Not to mention, why were there so many Akuma in one place and why were they such low levels? Something just wasn't adding up...
"Lavi! Bakanda! Toma's here with our new uniforms!" A frighteningly familiar voice called out to the other two Exorcists, pulling me from my thoughts to see that Kanda was just a millimeter away from cutting off Lavi's head. I ignored them for the moment and turned my head to see a certain white haired Exorcist that shouldn't be there.
"Allen!" Lavi shouted as he suddenly appeared behind him. "Yuu's being mean to me!"
"Move Moyashi, I need to kill a certain rabbit." Kanda hissed.
"It's Allen, Bakanda, but I forgot your mind is too small to remember the simplest of things." Allen stated with and aggravated sigh. I stared at him a moment. He had the scar, the white hair, the grey eyes, but he seemed... younger. Possibly eighteen or nineteen.
He seemed to just then notice me and said, "Oh, I didn't see you there." He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, then said, "I'm Allen Walker, and you are?" He held out his right hand for a hand shake.
I eyed it as I thought about what had happened, then said, "Ravenel." I didn't make any move to shake his hand, so he dropped it to his side a bit dejectedly.
"Guess what Moyashi-chan? Ray-chan's an accomodater!" Lavi stated enthusiasticly.
"Eh? Really?" Allen asked, surprised.
"Can you tell him not to call me Ray-chan?" I asked him, annoyed as I glared at the red-headed Exorcist. Really, that was the least of my problems right now. I mean, Racquel sent me back in time! How the hell did she even do that?
"Let's go back to Toma. He can take him back to headquarters while we retrieve the Innocence." Allen stated to Lavi and Kanda.
"One problem." I stated, earning their attention, "I'm not going." And with that said, I turned and started walking away in search of a portal.
"Hey! Wait a minute!" Lavi called after me, but I ignored him and rounded a corner. I heard him starting to run after me, so I quickly scaled the building and hid from his sight. "Eh! He disappeared!" I heard Lavi shout. I rolled my eyes, then laid down on the roof.
"We can look for him, right? I mean, it's not raining or anything." Allen asked Lavi.
I smirked, then used the Innocence in my eyes to conjure up a storm and over the noise of rain hitting cement, I heard Kanda say, "Tch, nice jinx, Moyashi."
I heard their footsteps rapidly retreating as I made the rain come down harder. As soon as I couldn't hear them anymore, I stood up and strolled across the rooves of the buildings, making my way back to my point of arrival. I hopped down off the building I was currently on, then sat in front of a lamp post and leaned against it. I made the rain and clouds dissappear, then glanced at the moon as I waited for a portal to open.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skip
I glanced in the prescription bottle and saw there were only five pills left, and I had started out with twenty. That means that I've had two a day, so I've been here for about seven and a half days. Where the hell was the portal? Racquel should've opened it exactly where it was before... Was there a problem I don't know about?
"Aren't you hungry yet?" Lavi asked from behind me.
I had been sitting in the same spot for the entire week and Lavi decided to wait with me on the second day when he somehow found me again.
"No." I answered him. I was begining to find my predicament very irritating.
"You haven't moved at all in the past week, what are you waiting for?" Lavi asked.
I ground my teeth together in frustration. He had asked the same question about a hundred times. "None of your buissness." I seethed.
He stayed quiet for a moment, then asked, "Alright, why are you sitting there then?"
My eye twitched since it was the same question, just in a different form. "Because I don't want to stand." I answered. I felt his gaze on me and said, "If you're gonna ask stupid questions, you're gonna get stupid answers."
"Someone's grouchy." Lavi stated in a sing-song voice.
I turned my head and glared at him. He was wearing a Black Order uniform which he hadn't been wearing when I got here which would explain why I didn't recognize him as an Exorcist.
I, thankfully, had changed before going to hell, so I wasn't in an Exorcist uniform which raised no questions. I was in a simple pair of dusty black dress pants, black combat boots, a dark red long sleeve shirt that hung loosely, and a pair of black leather gloves.
"You'd be grouchy too if you've gone a week without food or sleep and if someone you were expecting to be somewhere days ago had yet to arrive." I grumbled as I turned my head to look back at the street.
"So you're waiting for someone!" Lavi exclaimed, happy he finally knew what I was waiting for. "Who are they? When were they supposed to arrive?" Lavi asked eagerly.
"Who they are is none of your buissness, and when they were supposed to arrive was the same day you met me. The latest they were supposed to arrive was the day after you met me." I answered bitterly.
"Really?" Lavi asked, surprised. "I'd hate to sound rude, but it sounds like you've been ditched."
I shook my head side to side and said, "No, they wouldn't ditch me. There had to have been a problem. Maybe the problem was finding a way back here?..."
"'Back here'?" Lavi quoted me.
"Ignore it." I stated, realizing my mistake. When I had said 'back here', I was talking about back in time, but he might take it the wrong way and become suspicious.
"Why should I?" Lavi asked in a slightly accusatory voice.
I turned my head and glared at him, then said, "Because I'll sick Yuu on you."
Lavi gave me an incredulous look, then said, "Yuu's my friend, not yours."
"But he hates being called Yuu, so I just have to make a lie out of that and he'll want to kill you." I stated as I turned my head back towards the street. "Where is he anyway?"
"Him and Allen are on their way back from the mission. They should be here by tomorrow, then we're leaving. We really need you to come with us." Lavi answered.
I shook my head side to side and said, "I would, but I can't. I have-"
"To wait. Yeah yeah. But, face it you've been ditched." Lavi stated bluntly.
I blame lack of sleep for my next actions.
I stood up, spun on my heel, activated my Innocence, and placed the tip of the blade near his throat. "They wouldn't ditch me." I hissed at him as I saw him stare wide-eye at me. "One of them sees me as too valuable to lose, two see me as a sister, and the rest look at me for guidance because everything's so hectic for them. They wouldn't ditch me!" I yelled the last part at him.
Lavi was at a loss for words for a moment, then stuttered out, "You're a girl?"
My eye twitched in annoyance, then I yelled at him, "That's all you care about?"
He smiled and said, "Of course not. I'm curious as to who they are, how you can stay up for seven days straight with no sleep, how you survived seven days when you're a parasitic type, and why you haven't passed out yet." I blinked in confusion at his last question and he elaborated, "You went seven days straight with no sleep or food, and you just activated your Innocence. I'm sure your remaining energy reserves are at or near zero by now."
It was then that I realized how right he was. I was becoming dizzy and it felt like a struggle to keep myself on my feet. It was taking all my strength to keep my anti-akuma weapon pointed at his neck and my vision was begining to blur. I deactivated my Innocence, then somehow made it back to the lamp post and sat down again.
My eyelids were trying to flutter shut, but I was using all my willpower to keep them open. I reached in my pocket and pulled out the pill bottle again and popped two of the pills in my mouth and swallowed. I was hoping the extra nutrients might restore some of the energy the Inncocence took when I activated it.
Sadly, luck wasn't on my side that day and the last thing I saw was a red head rushing towards me as my head connected with the cement.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skip
I cracked my eyes open, them squeezed them shut as the early afternoon sun shone through a window onto them. I brought my hand up to shield my eyes, then opened them and looked around.
I was in an empty hotel room and it was apparently the next day... Or later...
Damn! How long have I been asleep? I sat up and checked myself. I was still in my clothes and it seemed like the only thing that was done was a wet cloth was placed on my forehead. Did I have a fever earlier? My eyes widened in shock as I thought, Did Racquel open the portal and I missed it? I started swearing like there was no tomorrow, which might be my last day.
With the butterfly effect and all, I could do something stupid and destroy the past which, in turn, could make it so I was never born.
My stomache growled and I placed my hand on it, then realized something. I may have gotten a substantial amount of nutrients from the pills, but energy comes from fats and sugars, and I've had none of those in the past who knows how long. Basicly, I had substantial nutrients, but not a substantial amount of energy sources and what little fat I had was gone and I was begining to look anorexic.
I groaned, then pushed myself off the bed and let the cloth fall to the floor. I staggered a moment before steadying myself and headed towards the door. Just as I reached towards the handle, someone on the other side opened the door.
I suddenly found myself face to face with my great great grandfather. I blinked in surprise, then quickly said, "I'm leaving."
I gestured for him to stop blocking the doorway, but he shook his head and said, "You've been out for four days and we've been watching the place you have, but no one's come and we're really starting to worry about you."
My eyes widened and I stuttered out, "They haven't appeared yet?"
Allen nodded and I backed up and sat on the bed. "I'm starting to think they don't even know where I'm at..."
Allen walked in the room, shut the door, then sat beside me. "If you think they don't know where you're at, then why were you expecting them at that spot?" Allen asked quietly.
"Because, wherever I'm at, they should be able to find me because-" I stopped and my eyes widened and my hand flew to my ear. I had completely forgot Satan destroyed the earring! They can't track me... Realization dawned upon me.
I'm stuck here.
"Because...?" Allen gestured for me to continue.
"Oh god..." I whispered to myself, "They can't find me. They can't find me. I'm stuck here."
"No one's stuck anywhere, you just got to find a different way back." Allen stated.
"I'm stuck. There's only one way back and it's a one way train in the opposite direction." I stated.
"Then you just have to walk along the track to get back." Allen stated cheerfully.
I 'tch'-ed, then said, "It's a long way back and there's no path or guarantee I'll be alive by the time I get back."
There was silence for a moment, then Allen asked, "Why's it so important you get back anyway? And where is, 'back'?"
The Butterfly Effect. Were the first three words that popped into my head when he asked that, but I kept myself from voicing it aloud. Instead, I sighed, then said, "It's just... important I get back. I could screw up big time if I stay here."
I glanced at Allen and saw he was staring at me. "You're really cryptic, you know that? I mean, Lavi and I want to help you, but you're leaving us in the dark. We can't help you if you don't tell us what's wrong." Allen stated, making me feel guilty.
I looked away and glared at an innocent gas lamp on the other side of the room and said, "I... I want to tell you, but I can't. Things could happen. Bad things..."
I heard Allen sigh, then say, "Alright, don't tell me. But, at least tell me what you're gonna do. I need to know so I'll know whether or not we're going to have a new accomodater in the Order."
I closed my eyes and tilted my head down. What was I going to do? I can't get back, so what the hell am I supposed to do now? "I don't know what to do." I answered in a whisper.
"Then fight with us; Fight with the Black Order. Save the souls of the Akuma. Don't sit around and do nothing when you have the power to do something." Allen encouraged me.
I gave him a sad look, then said, "I'll help, even though it might kill me." In more ways than one. I added mentally.
Allen smiled, then Lavi popped out of nowhere and said, "We have a new buddy!"
I stared at him wide-eyed, then asked, "Where the hell did he come from?"
"A womb." Lavi stated with a smug grin.
I gave him a, 'well, DUH.' look, then turned to Allen and said, "Remind me to never ask him another question."
Allen smiled sheepishly and said, "Lavi's just being... weird. He's not always like this."
I sighed, then smiled a very small smile and thought, What have I gotten myself into now?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skip
The train ride back to headquarters (Which was in a different location than in my time) was uneventful. When we got there, there was an impassible wall surrounding a castle, so I had to enter through an underground canal. (What was with the order and underground canals?)
When we got inside the 'castle', my stomache let it be known I was hungry.
Lavi and Allen chuckled and I sent them a murderous glare. "Cafeteria's that way." Lavi said while pointing down the hall. Allen walked towards it and said, "Come on, I'll go there too and explain your situation to Jerry."
"Jerry?" I repeated.
"The chef." Allen said with a smile. "Don't worry, he loves cooking."
I sighed and slumped my shoulders in defeat. I used the last of my pills on the train ride here, so I really had no choice but gorge myself on food to get proper nutrition. Curse slow developement of technology.
I followed Allen to the cafeteria where there was an african american guy, with pink hair, that I had a strong feeling was gay. Apparently, he was overjoyed to have another parasitic type at the order. He became even more enthralled when Allen and I ordered the same amount of food.
Finders were looking at us oddly as we ate. I swear, if I heard one more, 'pigs', I was gonna kill someone. As soon as we finished, Allen started leading me to Komui's office. Apparently, he was the current leader of headquarters. Well, science leader that is.
As soon as we stepped in his office, I blinked in surprise. It was a mess. It was like a paper tornado came through.
Amazingly, there were actually three other people in the room. A man in a white beret that I suspected to be Komui; A girl with long green hair that was tied in pigtails, and a woman with wavy brown hair and dark circles around her eyes.
"Welcome home Allen. But, who's that?" The green haired girl, whom I suddenly realized was Lenalee, asked with a hint of jealousy in her voice.
"Ah, um, this is Ravenel. Lavi and Kanda found her on our last mission." Allen answered nervously.
"Hmm? Really? Interesting." Komui stated as he took a sip from his coffee mug.
"We weren't interrupting something, were we?" Allen asked nervously.
"Not at all. But tell me Allen, is she an accomodater?" Komui asked. Allen nodded and Komui smiled. "That's good. We need another since we need to take Miranda out of action for a while."
Allen looked confused and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Everytime I activate my Innocence, it starts dragging me to the west." The brunette, whom I guessed was Miranda, answered before adding an, "I'm sorry!"
Komui, Lenalee, and Allen sweat dropped at her apology. "It's alright Miranda, you did nothing wrong." Lenalee assured her. None-the-less, she still cried.
Allen turned towards Komui and asked, "Did you have Hevlaska check her syncronization?"
Komui nodded, then said, "It was quite odd actually. Hevlaska said the Innocence seemed to have two thoughts at once. A double will, so to speak."
Allen nodded as he processed that information. "When did it start acting strange?" Allen asked.
"About eleven days ago." Komui answered before taking a sip of coffee.
Allen turned towards Miranda and asked, "Could you try activating your Innocence?"
Miranda looked at him, then said, "Yes!" She then stood, ready to activate her Innocence. "Innocence, Activate! Time Record!"
A disk on her shoulder started spinning and glowing green as it slid down her arm to her wrist. Miranda seemed to blink in surprise, then said, "It's not being weird?..."
Oh, how I love jinxs. Note the sarcasm.
The disk started spinning faster and even I knew something had to be wrong. It started pulling her in any and every direction before breaking off of her arm and flying right towards me. In what seemed like a millisecond, the disk cut my left eye as I tried to dodge it, then lodged itself deeply in the wall behind me before deactivating.
I covered my eye with my hand and cussed loudly. Blood was running down my cheek in a never ending waterfall. Miranda was apologizing, Lenalee was trying to calm her down, Komui was pondering how to get the Innocence out of the wall, and Allen was trying to see if I was okay, but I wouldn't move my hand. Can you blame me? It hurt like a bitch.
"Komui, we should get Bookman to check her eye, she might not be able to use it." Allen stated to Komui.
Komui nodded his head, then said, "Yes, that would be the best choice right now. Lenalee, take Miranda to her room and calm her down. Allen, go find Bookman, I'll watch over..."
"Ravenel." I answered him through gritted teeth.
He nodded, then waved his hands in a shooing motion as a sign for Allen, Lenalee and Miranda to leave for their assigned jobs. They disappeared and I suddenly found myself on the couch in the room.
Komui appeared in front of me and asked, "May I see your eye?"
"No." Was my simple response as I glared at him through my good eye. He took a sip of his coffee, then went over to his desk and walked behind it, then set his coffee down and opened a drawer. My eye widened when I saw what he had in his hand.
"This should help with the pain." He stated as he tapped the side of the needle.
"Come near me with that and you'll be on the recieving end of my Innocence." I hissed as I slid off the couch and ducked behind it.
"You're afraid of needles?" Komui asked, obvious amusement in his voice.
His only response was me hissing at him. He probably thought I was being weird, but it was my dragon instincts kicking in. Oh, how I hated them sometimes.
"It's just a painkiller, all you'll feel is a small prick." He stated as I heard his footsteps walking towards me. I stood up and started backing away from the couch, and hopefully, to the exit. I suddenly bumped into something and turned my head to the right to see a certain pmsing swordsman from before.
"What are you doing here, Shisha?" He asked, pissed as always.
"You really shouldn't talk about yourself that way, Yu." I hissed at him.
"What did you call me?" Kanda asked, pissed.
"What? Is Yu angry? Is Yu gonna throw a hissy fit?" I mocked him. I quickly ducked as his katana cut through the air where my head had just been and I said, "Whoa, whoa. Calm down. You'd really try to hurt an injured person?"
"If someone injured you, I might as well finish the job." Kanda threatened as he raised his katana to lunge. I prepared to dodge, but then saw him make a funny face, then fall to the floor. I blinked in confusion as I looked at his unmoving form, then looked over at Komui. My eyes widened as I saw he was holding a blowdart tube.
"Now, how about that painkiller?" He asked with a menacing smile.
I felt sweat run down my forehead and said, "Yeah... well... You see, I-" I quickly made a dash for the exit, and upon successfully getting there, turned to the right and ran down the hall.
I stopped for nothing, not even when I ran past Allen and some short dude. He called out to me, but I ignored him and eventually found my way to a small courtyard where I quickly scaled the side of the building and hid on the roof.
Yes, I, The White Dragon, owner of six shards of Innocence, arguer with the devil, descendant of Allen Walker, absolutely, hated, (feared), needles. I had gotten many painful injuries, broken bones, deep gashes, etc... But needles... oh, they were the worst. They slid under you're skin, left the area painful for who knows how long, and worst of all, they were an injury not obtained honorably in a battle. Merely, it was injuring ones self with a sharp object and stinging fluid in a quest to obtain relief from pain. What was the point of that? Injuring yourself, to heal yourself? It made no sense! Especially since your time could be better used. Instead of having the drugs make one loopy or lethargic, would it not be better to hunt Akuma instead?
In my opinion, needles were the true bane of human existance.
"Ravenel!" I heard someone shouting from below. I looked down and saw Allen franticly looking about the courtyard. Standing nearby, shaking his head, was a short man with an odd hair-do.
I put my right hand behind me on the roof and leaned on it as my eye that was not injured watched him zig-zag through the courtyard. After a few moments, I got bored of his antics and let my gaze drift to the odd short man.
It was apparent by his apparel that he was an Exorcist, but he seemed... odd. He didn't seem to have much of a concern for anything, but seemed to be storing everything away in some unknown mental file.
I narrowed my eye at him. I had seen this same calculating look before... but where?
Ignoring the pain my eye was causing me, I reached far back into the endless abyss of my memories and tried to pull that specific look from them to place a name to what he reminded me of.
Struggling fruitlessly, as was Allen in his search for me, just as I was about to give up, as was he, the short man sighed, looked around, then locked eyes with me. In that moment, I recognized the look. It was the look of a Bookman. Not as inexperienced as Lupus, more so, most likely an elder, but a Bookman no less.
"I take it you're Ravenel." He staed more than asked in an annoyed voice. I saw Allen look at him, then at where I was sitting. I cursed under my breath as he rushed over to where I was.
"Why did you run off?" He asked hurriedly, but concerned.
"Who the hell in their right mind would stay in a room with a mad-man wielding a blow dart tube?" I seethed, more angry at the fact I had truly run away because of my fear of needles.
Allen sweat-dropped, a look of understanding passing over his features. "Nevermind... But! I brough Bookman! He can help with your eye." Allen stated happily.
"Is he an Opthamologist?" I asked curiously as I stood up to jump off the roof since I trusted Allen.
"No. Actually," Allen answered as I hopped off the roof, still covering mmy injured eye. "He an Acupuncurist." Allen finished as my feet hit the ground.
I felt my heart get caught in my throat as I thought, Acupuncurist? As in Acupuncture? As in millions of needles?
I audibly gulped as Allen jumped down beside me. "Something wrong?" Allen asked, concern evident in his voice.
Well, millions of things are wrong. I mean, I just traveled back in time, met my great-etc.-grandfather, got injured, and am now about to be stabbed by millions of painful needles. But besides that? Oh, I'm great. Just, bloody, great. I thought to myself bitterly. "Nothing." I moped.
Allen looked at me curiously, but before he could speak, the Bookman asked, "May I see your eye, Ravenel?" I sighed, then removed my hand, guessing that whatever cruel god was up there had decided that I needed to be stabbed by a needle today. Sometimes I wondered why I remained his Apostle.
The Bookman came near and seemed to pull a damp cloth out of nowhere and wiped the dried blood around my eye away. He would stop every now and again when I twitched at the slight pain I would have when the cloth came too close to the wound. As soon as he deemed it satisfactorily clean, he started looking at the wound, but not stabbing it to my relief.
"This is quite odd." The Bookman muttered to himself.
"What?" Allen asked worriedly.
"The wound has already begun to heal and appears to already be halfway done." Bookman stated, taking a step back.
I turned my head towards Allen, then quickly looked away when I saw the look I was getting. "I've always been a fast healer." I stated quietly.
"Alright, but that is not the only odd thing." The Bookman stated, making Allen and I look back at him; Allen out of curiosity, I out of fear he had discovered the Innocence shard in my eye. "I have treated Allen's eye before, and I can't help but notice the similarity between the situations." Bookman stated.
I let out a breath I hadn't known I had been was nothing to worry about. He hadn't discovered my Innocence, he was merely an old man lost in memories.
Beside me, Allen chuckled and nervously asked, "I haven't hurt my eye that much..."
Bookman gave him a look that I first thought meant, 'Yes you have', but quickly realized it was a look that meant, 'There's more.'.
"What I meant was, the two of you are very similar. Not in eye color, but your facial structure is amazingly similar. If I didn't know better, and I might not in this situation, I'd say you two were siblings." Bookman continued.
I instantly felt Allen's shocked and curious gaze on me, but I couldn't focus my eyes on anything. I didn't know whether to laugh at the fact that great-great-grandfather and great-great-granddaughter had gotten confused as siblings, or if I should start panicing that he had found out Allen and I shared the same blood, just not in the way he thought.
"I have no brothers; Nor family." I stated automaticly.
"How are you so sure? Lavi has told me that your parents abandoned you, as is the case with Allen here. How do you know he is not your brother if you and he do not even know your parents, but were left in identicle situations?" Bookman pressed.
I inwardly cursed at myself, then said, "It is highly unlikely that Allen and I are siblings; But on the slim chance we are, I would not care." I needed to make it obvious I needed no, nor wanted any, attatchment to Allen.
"And why is that?" Bookman asked.
I hesitated a moment to form a lie, but stated the truth, "I have grown up alone, and I do not need the pain of another person I care about, being torn away from me and pulled up to heavens while I remain trapped in the darkness." I paused a moment, then whispered, "Many lives are claimed by Akuma, I'm sure it won't be long before yours is too."
I turned and walked away. Where to? I'm not sure. I needed to escape. The last thing I had said was a lie. I knew Allen Walker would be around until he clashed with the Earl, nine to ten years later, but if I miraculously found someway home, would I be able to leave if I made any sort of attatchment to someone here in the past?
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