To those who asked, I made Allen stronger than Kanda due to the fact that she trains for multiple forms of combat- and basically her life depends on how strong and good at fighting she is. At this point Kanda trains to train- no motivation.
Also Allen in canon is better in combat than Kanda believe it or not. (Check the wiki if you must)
I am so happy that you guys like this, and sorry if Kanda seems a bit OCC at times, I haven't quite mastered writing him as of yet (It will improve as the story goes on hopefully)
Also, I am so sorry for the rapid fire updates, I have horrible self restraint. So after this it will be updated once a week on friday. (god i am so horrible at this so sorry guys its been forever and i'm excited)
Work was annoying, not that job at the café- but her actual work. The branch of the order she reported to was luckily situated in this very city- other times she would get orders over secure video call.
It was a large building, looking much like a high-end office building. The door attendant nodded and opened the door for her, and she strode up to the counter and asked for Lenalee. Since well, Lenalee was the one to ask for if you wanted something since Komui forgot about the little things half the time.
"Ah yes Allen I'm glad you're here. I can't give you an accurate assessment on just what level this particular nasty is at, but its rather bad. I'm sorry to send you alone, you really should have a partner but we are so short on exorcists right now." Komui glances down at the report before him, taking a sip from the half-cold mug of coffee in his hand.
"It's okay Komui, I'm sure I'll manage just fine." The shortage was starting to worry her really, so few recruits that were qualified resulted in stalemate.
"This particular Akuma is currently occupying an abandoned warehouse on your side of town. I can't say how long it's been there, but I urge you to be extremely cautious." Allen thought she probably knew where Komui was talking about, the place that she'd heard whispers about.
Moreover, why would you let it run rampant to the point where it was an actual physical entity with all of the nearby spirits under its control? "I believe I know the place, the one people have been saying is haunted right?" She would have to bring out the things she never bothered with for this, her coat for one.
"That would be it. Take care Allen, we sent Marie but well, but it went badly. Please don't get yourself killed, we're counting on you." That was a comforting thought, if this one was so strong as to put Marie out of commission well, that wasn't very good at all.
Taking count of her inventory Allen winces. She had brought home some things from the order, but she was trying to be cautious for this mission, and not just because Komui had told her to. It was dangerous and she wasn't too keen on dying, especially since for the first time in a while she had actual friends not connected to her work. Even if one of those people was essentially the most fucking annoying and infuriating person she had ever met in her entire life. And she had met a lot of people thank you very much.
The akuma was going to be high level this time around, any armor besides her coat was going to be utterly useless. (Unless it was made specially to work against akuma it'd fall apart at the first blow) Leaning towards flexibility she takes out the shirt she'd cut one arm off, and well she also cut it so it fell so it just covered her bra.
She needed to be able to activate her innocence without ruining her clothing after all. Honestly it was more comfortable, pairing it with a pair of thick leggings (Made by the order, much stronger than the regular kind.) and her knee high boots she grabs one last thing, a duffle filled with little things she'd probably need at one point and another, and both her cell phones, work and play.
Just in case.
"Hey Kanda I heard there's this thing haunting this warehouse on the edge of town. Wanna check it out?" Lavi plops down on the chair across from Kanda, who was in an even fouler mood than usual. Damn beansprout was out today so the person who does a shitty job with his tea had made it today and it tasted goddamn awful.
"Are you that eager to die or are you just that stupid?" Messing with haunted places wasn't a good idea. In the event that the thing haunting was a demon, that was a guaranteed death, and from what his foster father had told him that's how his birth parents had died.
"Yuu, can we at least check it out, just a peek?" Lavi wasn't quite sure why he felt the need to go himself. He just needed to know he supposed, though it really made little sense.
"Che. You're an idiot and will probably get us killed you know that right?" Lavi took that as an agreement and grinned broadly, narrowly missing the punch aimed at his one good eye.
"MANA!" The creature turns to look at Allen, its pale body taller than Mana had been and its huge mouth glittering with rows and rows of needle-like teeth, dripping with blood. The next thing Allen knew she was bleeding, and couldn't see out of her left eye. Her arm, that horrible horrible arm that the doctors Mana had taken her said was probably the product of radiation poisoning, its started growing, moving on its own towards the beast.
The next thing she knew a man with flame like hair was standing above her. He was talking, something about having to finish it. But what was she supposed to finish. Finally after sighing the man sits her up and speaks once more. "Kid you have to finish it or it'll come back, just repeat after me okay?"
And she did, with a shaking voice, after running a hand through her hair she finds clumps of it coming out, brown falling to the ground. When it was over she heard a shriek that turned her blood cold. "You did good. Say, want to be an exorcist?"
"What, what was that thing. God it ate Mana, Mana…" She finally lets herself cry, the man just stares at her before answering.
"That thing was an Akuma, or a demon if you want to say that. Sometimes stupid people call them out of hell. They kill until exorcists get to them, and perform the exorcism. Which you just did I might add." Pulling her up so that she was standing the man continues. "I'm Cross. And I'll ask again, do you want to be an exorcist?"
That was her first step on this path, what else could she do? Her father was dead; she was a deformed freak passing off as a boy because she was too much a coward to call herself a girl. And she couldn't let the akuma kill more people, she couldn't let others go through that same pain.
All of her hair fell out, and when it finally grew back, it grew a snowy white. The scarring on her face would never leave Cross had told her, it was the mark of the akuma and those specific marks never went away. She had had to split herself into two, the person that Mana would have been proud of and the person deep inside that only came out sometimes. The person that was able to cheat at poker so easily, who was able to go into brothels and not flinch- the person who only came out when she needed it to.
She didn't quite know which was the real her, she supposed it was a cross between the two. She tried to be someone like Mana, a man who had picked a foulmouthed, deformed orphan off the street. She would stand here, fighting until the world was free, or that is what she constantly told herself.
The akuma was higher level than she thought possible if she didn't know better- it reminded her so much of that day. It stood there, in front of her with its vaguely humanoid face sporting a large mouth full of teeth, claws dripping with her blood. She blocks out its words, because once she thought about what it was saying it would have control over her and more people would die, and she couldn't bear to have that happen.
Akuma were more terrifying than the church ever portrayed, they didn't have horns, they had disfigured bodies and looked close enough to a human to make it utterly terrifying. Limbs were twisted backward, but still fully functional- each deferred really. Especially when given enough power to form a physical body, it only took so much and they would be able to leave the area in which they had been summoned and bound. Then cities disappeared without a trace as nothing could stop such a thing, and it killed faster than the eye could see.
Shit. This wasn't going well, at all. Her innocence, it wasn't activating properly, this was trouble. Jumping quickly out of the way of the next attack she thinks rapidly, then one more time pushes it to activate. Thank God above, it finally does, it hurts like hell though, her innocence and the rest of her body were going to fall apart at this rate.
Firing one blast after another at the horrifyingly real and solid creature she winces at each shriek it makes. People are so stupid, so incredibly stupid. Finally, the body collapses into dust and she drops to the ground. She needed to complete the exorcism; otherwise it'd just form another body after it recovered. She was losing too much blood; she had let herself get hurt because she underestimated the thing.
Shakily she stands once more and places a bloodied finger on the crystal cross embedded into her hand, and calls and calls for the strength. Then she recites out of memory all the necessary words she had been forced to memorize in the case she couldn't get to the book. The latin felt familiar on her tongue, with her last words she heard a final shriek, so loud and piercing that it left her ears ringing for several minutes.
Dropping to the floor her last words before passing out are in this order, shit, and what on earth is going to happen to me?
Lavi had really gotten them into something; even as they walked the mile left to the building, they could hear a shriek that turned Kanda's blood cold. However, Lavi just laughed and dragged him along though he really wanted to turn back. There was a motorcycle parked in front of the building, a large worn down thing that was half falling apart. It was getting late, of course Lavi would want to go after twilight, he really was suicidal wasn't he?
Cautiously they duck through the door, Kanda couldn't feel the evil he did when his parents were slaughtered- but you couldn't be too sure These things weren't human, and were unpredictable. Maybe it was just haunted, or the rumors had all been lies. Lavi walks ahead, out of Kanda's sight.
"Oh my fucking god Kanda get your ass over here now!" Lavi calls from somewhere ahead, his voice panicked. It took a lot to shake Lavi up to that extent, so Kanda runs. What he sees turns his blood cold, and sends a large flash of murderous rage through his body like lightning.