When they had finally arrived back Kumoi had asked to see them. He was looking at the same newspaper article that had originally caught Allen's eye at the train station. He looked up from the paper to Sera who stood quietly behind his sofa.
"So can someone explain the meaning, well more like the cause of all this destruction that was caused?" Kanda turned to glare at Sera who instantly paled in her face as Kumoi asked the question.
"It was me Kumoi." Her answer was simple yet it shocked every single person in the room.
"And how did you manage it? You certainly cleaned out all the akuma in only two blows but how is what I really want to know, you see Seraphim-chan none of my exorcists that I know of can cause such a vast amount of damage in such a minimal amount of attacks. So I know it could have only been you and you out smarted us by leaving the others behind so we couldn't see what happened on their Golems and you are also well aware that because yours is so attacked to you we simply can't access its memory." A single glint of light ran across the lenses of Kumoi's spectacles as he looked at Sera.
"I wasn't expecting anything from anyone. I knew all too well that none of them could cause that single handedly but I knew that if they worked together that amount of damage is still mild compared to what they could actually do, but still that doesn't mean you can assume I would expect them to cover for me. It was my innocence yes. It's why I don't like fighting. Both forms have immense destructive power." The confidence she spoke with gave the air in the room a static charge as she faced Kumoi.
"Is that why Hevlaska never told us about your innocence?" he asked almost coyly.
It made Seraphim shiver in disgust. "When I went for my tests I asked Hevlaska if it could just be her and I while they were conducted. I connected with her using Shadow so I could explain without anyone present hearing. We decided that my innocence was better kept a secret because the power is too brutal for any mere human to handle because of its sheer destructive power."
"You say any mere human, but you are one of us assuming however you are hiding something else from us Seraphim Cross." She glared at Kumoi and the men who stood behind him.
Seraphim sighed and glared at the men, her entire gaze softened when she looked over at Lavi. She clasped her hands over her chest and closed her eyes mumbling something the others couldn't quite hear. Before them they watched as the girl they all thought they had known changed into something more beautiful that what they had ever seen. Her dark hair grew longer in its vibrant red only the bottom bits of hair faded into a raven black. A pair of large black wings emerged from her shoulders. As the light that had surrounded her slowly ebbed away all the eyes in the room turned to the creature that stood before them. Her now bright amber eyes resting on the red haired exorcist who sat staring open mouthed at her.
"I am Seraphim Cross the daughter of General Marian Cross and Serenity Grier a fallen angel who was outcast from heaven, her only sin committed, falling in love with your General and conceiving his child." She glared at Kumoi as she stood still. It was the secret that Hevlaska had promised to keep she didn't want to be locked up and experimented on.
She turned to look at Lavi expecting the worst from him.
"STRIKE!" he yelled as he looked all lovingly at Seraphim she flinched taken aback by Lavi's reaction to her actually been an angel.
"Lavi are you sure this doesn't bother you?" she asked softly as she looked down.
He walked up to her and took her hands in his, kissing both of them gently. "It's not every day some random guy finds out his girl friend is part angel." They turned together to face the others in the room shocked that even Kanda was staring at Seraphim.
"This is why the Earl seeks me I am the only one who would be able to protect the world from the Noah if they had gotten Allen in their possession, my father knew he would need some kind of guardian and that guardian is me. In this form I am the biggest threat to the Earl because I am not confined by my human body." She looked over at Allen then back to Kumoi who nodded silently putting all the pieces together.
Allen looked at Kanda who still looked shocked, "Well this is a major twist in everything no wonder you were always so good at been a bounty hunter and finding the innocence so effectively, but why is protecting me so important?"
She smiled at Allen, "Because you are the main piece in the Earls plans to destroy the world Allen. You are part of his clan, but you became an exorcist been one of very few Noah who actually possess innocence. Innocence goes to those who will use it rightfully they might be a drunkard like my father was but no matter the personality the underlying intention is always good and pure."
They watched as a light surrounded her and ebbed again leaving the Seraphim they were all used to behind smiling at all of them.
"It seems then we are one up on the Earl Brother." Lenalee stated as she smiled at Seraphim. "We have two pieces to his puzzle that he needs the most and even if he got one, the other wouldn't allow anything to happen."
Seraphim turned serious when she looked at Kumoi. "Kumoi if under any circumstances Allen's Noah does take over you many not remove him from the safety of the Order he has to stay where I can protect him. He is loyal and pure at heart so you will never have a reason to fear him."
Lavi kissed Sera gently on the top of her head as he wrapped an arm around her waist. The meeting with Kumoi was drawing to an end and they all knew it. Everything was out in the open. The Earl's intentions, Seraphim been an angel. And her purpose to protect her father's idiot apprentice.
As they left the untidy office Lavi couldn't stop staring at his girlfriend as she walked silently beside him.
"Sera-chan." He purred catching her attention immediately.
"Yes Lavi-kun?" she replied ever so sweetly as she stopped and turned to face him.
"Let's go for a walk, just you and I, in the forest around the Order." He took her hand and led her out.
"Sounds wonderful." She smiled even though the weather beyond the doors was angry and grey.
Once outside amongst the trees of the dark forest they slowed down their pace as they walked hand in hand. "I sense you want to ask me something Lavi." Seraphim said softly.
"You're mother, why did she leave you behind on earth if she was a fallen angel?" he asked in a low voice.
"Serenity Grier was an angel who constantly watched over the Earth from heaven. She as a young angel had grown up watching over my father, chosen to be his guardian angel because of how powerful he would grow up to be. So as he aged, so did she and when they turned eighteen my mother finally realized that she had over the years fallen deeply in love with my father. But as a law it is forbidden. Been one of the few angels allowed to walk amongst man she came down to earth one night and went where he was. It is believed that the attraction between the two was instant and with that they shared one night together. I am the result of that night." She looked at Lavi as he smiled down at her.
"My mother watched Cross and found a woman that looked closest to her before having an incubus place the seed of her unborn child in the woman while she slept, she thought the human would treat me well and then she returned to heaven. However the human woman who had been with Cross treated me poorly as the result of her broken heart blamed on my father. It was sad to find out that, I found it in a letter in the back of a book about him left knowingly that I would find it."
Lavi stopped her and pulled her close kissing her deeply before he pulled away and looked her in the eye.
"Well I never ever want you to leave my side, even if we have a family." He chuckled.
When he saw the gentle expression on Sera's face he pulled her close and kissed her again. The kiss they shared grew deeper and more passionate as it slowly filled with a need and want for each other. Something Seraphim had never experienced in her entire life. She found herself gently backed up against the damp bark of a tree grinning at Lavi in the kiss.
"Don't you think this is a rather primitive place my love?" she purred as he pulled away and looked down at her. Grinning he nodded as he kissed her again. They pulled apart reluctantly as the rain fell hard around them, droplets lashing around like razors in the wind that had picked up.
They entered the buildings laughing with each other and kissing sweetly as they ran through the corridors. Never had anyone ever seen a love that was more deserved by both parties as they watched the couple happily. Seraphim stopped by her room door. The routine always been that Lavi would drop her off and then leave, he bent down to kiss her in the door way when she smiled and pulled him in the room closing and locking the door behind him playfully, Lavi blinked in surprise but soon relaxed when he kissed his angel again. He had no idea what her intentions were for pulling him in with but he couldn't wait to find out as she pushed her body against his while they kissed.