Stage 7: Wolf Cries

Not being able to talk for days is no fun at all.

I swear, it's been four days already and I haven't spoken one word ever since I came to…whatever this place is called.

See what I mean? I'm already here for four days, and I haven't even got the chance to know where I am. Stupid Kanda. Making a blood clot in my neck with his stupid Mugen, yeah way to go! You just had to screw up my neck badly didn't ya??

Even the other exorcists here are making weird faces at me, since I'm so different from everybody else. Obviously I'm not from around here. I existed two centuries later, is it really that hard to ask? Oh wait, no it isn't!

…

I'm sorry, I really couldn't let my frustration get the best of me. That's basically what I've been doing this entire week basically. Anger and negativity…that's the mood that I've been showing ever since I got here. I really couldn't blame the folks that kept staring at me though, since I'm wearing clothes that came from the future, it's pretty obvious that I'd be an alien to these people anyway…

But, that won't slow me down. I really wouldn't care what people tell me anyway, I like the clothes that I wear, that's why I bought them in the first place (some of my wardrobe I made by myself). I'd be too surprised if they said they like it, but I doubt it's going to happen anyway. I could already hear the other exorcists making snickers at the opposite end of where I stood. Whatever.

I guess…I'm used to it. I've always been used to all of the teasing, not being popular, being alone, everything. But in the end, it really doesn't bother me one bit. I mean, who wants to be popular anyway? All they do is gossip and just spoil their lives and that's just what they do best. I least I have friends, who care about my feelings.

But now I have nobody. Ever since I made that dumb wish, I'm stuck in this century until who knows when. I honestly don't have a clue on how should I get home. I shouldn't have picked up that scepter I found in the graveyard in the first place…

Even if I try to fix things, it's always going to be too late. I guess I'm pretty much useless…

"Hey Lenalee!" I heard Allen's cry behind me. "I found her!!"

I spun around, what do they want with me? All I want to know is how to get home and apologize to Toboe.

I saw Allen and Lenalee run up towards me. Knowing those two, obviously something must've come up and I'm the one who's involved in this. If it has something to do for the treatment in my neck, I should probably just stay quiet and listen.

Lenalee, as cute as she is with her pigtails pulled up high, said, "Hey, we need you in Komui's office right away. He wants to have a word with you."

I just stood there, looking hopelessly lost all of a sudden.

The problem is…I can't even talk yet! And, he wants to have a word with me?, I thought about that for a moment. The guy is losing his mind if he wants to talk to me!

"Come with us," Allen smiled, holding out a hand to me. "We need you, we know you think it's crazy but just come with us anyway."

I had no choice but to go with them, I have nothing else to do anyway. I grabbed Allen's hand and the three of us headed up into the hallways and made our way into Komui's room.

This place is so big though; it's like a castle. Or so, maybe it was a castle. I wouldn't really care either way.

Right before I knew it, we set foot inside Komui's office. Normally, I'd expected to see just an average small office. Which consisted of a desk, a chair, a lampshade, one huge window with shades, and a bookshelf in the back. But no, this office was incredibly huge! There was a circle of bookshelves, covering up every corner of the room, and there was a small staircase leading up to Komui's front desk. And since there weren't any windows (I really can't say for sure) in this room, at least there were those special olden-day lamps that were attached to the walls before fanlights were invented.

"Ah!" Komui said with a huge smile, "Allen and Lenalee! Thank you both for bringing her in!!"

"Anytime, brother." Lenalee said with her smile, which is a lot cuter than her brother's by half a mile. "What do you want us to do now?"

"Nothing Lenalee," Komui said out loud, changing his expression all of a sudden. "You two carry on, I must have a word with this girl in private. You may stand outside if you like or just explore until I have another mission planned or something like that."

Both Allen and Lenalee shook their heads in response, and at the same time they both said, "Yes, Komui."

They headed their ways towards the door and out of the office. I bet they're standing outside waiting for the good or bad news, depending on what Komui's going to say to me. I hope it's something good, because I don't want to be screwed for life just because I can't get my voice back or something like that.

I slowly approached his desk; it feels as if I was in trouble or something. I never got in trouble when I go to school. I never was the sort to make any trouble anyway, but it feels like I did something wrong. Maybe, it has to do something with me breaking into the time orbit. I hope that's not the case.

"Hello there, Miss." Komui said to me with a serious look, but at the same time, he was smiling. "I know, it must be terrible that we never got the chance to know your name since you can't speak for the moment. But, I want to make things a little clear, so I hope that you will pay attention to what I have to say."

I nodded my head in response, although…it was hard for me to even nod my head since Kanda took a tiny swipe on the back of my neck with his Kedan. Not only that, the sticky bandage on the back of my neck started to itch too. Great. That just changes everything.

"There are three things that I need to clarify." Komui said while he took his finger and pushed the rim of his glasses away from the edge of his nose. "The first thing, it's about your disability to speak. I know it must be such a headache for you not to speak for just a bit of time."

A bit of time? Try almost half of the week to be more accurate.

"Anyways," Komui continued on, "The good news is that you may be able to speak again by tomorrow. That's when you can take off the huge bandage that's placed upon your neck. But, the only thing is, you must reapply a new bandage every week until the dead skin cells have left."

Okay, that's good to hear. I can finally speak again by tomorrow.

"The second thing is," Komui took a deep breath as he spoke, "I've heard the news that you've saved an innocent boy from the akuma and you used some type of dark weapon against it."

Oh yeah, the Earl's scepter…how could I forget that thing? That was the reason how I got here in the first place.

"I know this may not make any sense to you," Komui still continued, "But, I also heard the weapon you used was the 'Nightmare Assault' aka, the Earl's scepter. That's a very dangerous weapon, even if a mortal grabs a hold of it. The Earl is a devious character and his goal in life is to murder and create an army of akuma. Anyone who even touches the scepter for more than four hours will have their minds destroyed and create chaos."

Okay…I have to admit, that does sound a bit scary. So, I touched the scepter a lot longer than four hours, so…nothings happened to me. That's all because I've got Jaymi's protection.

Oh yeah, I should probably tell you right now, but Jaymi is an immortal. She's a special soul that I talk to for advice, whenever I feel down.

She used to live here on Earth like everybody else, but she has given up her life to save the person she loved, and the person she loved…was Toboe.

Toboe saw her die in his arms, and he started crying over her…hearing that story makes me feel sad, because…I never knew about anything. People even say I have the face of Jaymi, and it feels pretty weird that they would relate me to someone I never knew.

I always had this feeling…sometimes, I wonder if Toboe really does care about me as he did for Jaymi. Because he told me something once, and it was something like this:

"I swore to Jaymi that I'd never love another girl again, ever since that day she died in my arms. But, I always cried myself to sleep just thinking about those moments we shared together. All she ever wanted…was for me to be happy. But, somehow, I could never seem to fufill her last wish…I could never bring myself to smile anymore. Without her, it feels there's a huge gap missing inside…deep inside my heart…"

I feel like crying now, I don't know what to believe. But hearing all those things about Jaymi now gives me the sick feeling.

"Um, excuse me Miss?" Komui said out loud, "Do you feel alright? Is it the medicine that's giving you the pain?"

I suddenly woke up back into reality; my eyes burst open as if I heard an explosion that fell into the room. Feeling a bit startled by Komui's message I started breathing heavily. God, I feel so pathetic. That's what I do best anyway…just daydreaming all day long.

"I think it is the medicine…" Komui said, looking a bit frantic all of a sudden. And then, he sprung out of his chair and then he gave me the gentle push as if I was the little girl going to the school bus and then he said, "Just run along, find Allen or Lenalee or Kanda, and let them escort you to your room. That medicine after all has really powerful stuff inside. Go and get some rest, I will tell you everything else tomorrow morning at nine pm sharp!"

Well that was attractive. He sprung up from his chair and held both of his hands high, as if he's bringing in more customers or something like that. Not only that, he made this silly grin like he did something in his pants (crap. I didn't mean to say that out loud. Oh well…).

Anyways, I headed outside the office door just as Komui told me to, and then just as I predicted earlier (it was pretty obvious), there I saw both Allen and Lenalee standing there, waiting for me to return.

"Yeah, but I doubt that Miranda would have stopwatches. I doubt she'd buy another type of clock again after what happened last time." Allen said, laughing pretty hard.

Lenalee smacked him on the head for a split second, and it was with a rolled up newspaper too (I thought that was pretty funny.).

"Allen! People like Miranda can get over their fears you just gotta believe that! So what if she's been intimidated just because she doesn't want to buy clocks anymore? I mean, everybody's going to let go of something one day, even their own fears…" Lenalee said, feeling a bit proud that she said that.

"I'm sorry…" Allen said gruffly, while fixing his hair. "I didn't mean to go there, I thought it was—hey!"

Allen caught sight of me just standing there. In fact both of them caught sight of me standing around in the hallway.

"So," Lenalee brought back that cute smile of hers, "How did that little meeting go? I hope that Komui didn't say anything bad would happen to your throat."

I wanted to say something, but I have to wait one more day until I'm not disabled from speaking anymore. Thank goodness, I will finally get to speak again after so long. Well, it's been five days but you know what I mean.

"We should probably take you back to your room to rest." Allen said smiling, "We sorta…overheard him say that out loud."

Of course they did. Because all they did was just stand there for the news. But, it's actually pretty smart that they did since I cannot speak.

So, the three of us headed back to my room, and I just stayed there for the rest of the evening.