Kanda, and Crowley were fully tired, they had beaten down at least 12 Level 3 Akuma but still have not even come close to finding the Akuma factory. "This is getting us nowhere…" Kanda replied, panting.

"Yes… We're getting nowhere and we have no leads at all in the location of this Akuma factory. How is Komui even sure that the Akuma factory is here in Edo, Japan?" Crowley seemed to doubt.

"Just follow orders… We'll find it…." Kanda replied.

Miranda said "Um… I could use my Time Record to help you--"

Miranda got cut off by Crowley saying "No! Don't use it!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!!" Miranda cried out, since she was so used to people not needing or wanting her help, she'd keep saying 'sorry' which was kind of an annoying trait.

"It's alright." Crowley replied. They began to walk on forward, trying to find the Akuma factory. Next thing everyone knew, the sky tore in half with a dark violet cube-looking thing in the middle of it.

"What's going on here?" Kanda seemed confused at what was going on.

"Looks like the sky just tore in half!" Miranda gasped. Akuma from all directions began flying toward that tear in the sky as quickly as possible.

"Akuma… As many as the eye can see… Looks like I'll get my fill tonight…" Crowley smirked, his Innocence now in activity.

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Meanwhile in Beijing… The building was already beginning to collapse! "Damnit! Looks like the Earl pulled a trap on us. Guys, let's try to find the exit." Kesenai barked, running back to the room where they first were at. But to his bad luck, huge boulders were blocking the way. "Damnit… Road, can you assist us on this? Your teleportation powers?" he looked at Road.

Road nodded her head "Yeah, I can get us out of he--" She got cut off by a few boulders hitting her on the head and knocking her out.

"Damnit." Kesenai thought.

"Looks like your girlfriend's easy to knock out." Lavi sweat dropped.

"No time for jokes Lavi." Allen replied. Quickly, Kesenai ran to Road's unconscious body and picked her up, holding her close to protect her from any further dangers.

"Lets move out and try to find another exit." he said, walking to another hallway. The Exorcists continued walking through the building, finding dead ends almost everywhere and ending up exactly where they had started. "Damnit, this is getting us nowhere." Kesenai growled.

"Isn't there any other way out?" Lenalee seemed worried. Kesenai knew of another way out, but then it would involve showing the power of his Innocence to the others. Anytime he's joined something, and showed he was superior to all the others, they seemed to have never wanted to have wanted anything to do with him, or whatever involved him. He was used to it but it still did kind of hurt his heart, so he decided not to use his Innocence. Allen tried to break through the walls with his Crown Clown, but there were no effects at all.

"Crown Belt!" he called out his attack, the cape now moving to pierce the walls… No effect at all.

Lavi sweat dropped "Allen, is it me or is it that your attacks are now weak against a wall?"

"It's just you." Lenalee, Allen, and Kesenai answered at the same time. Kesenai thought about it again, not sure if he really should… Then again they had no other way out, and the only way to destroy a wall such as what they were dealing with, they'd have to decompose it down to nothingness. He sighed.

"Alright guys, I'm going to show you something that I can do. Just don't tell anyone else about this…" he began to unwrap the bandages around his right arm.

"What do you mean?" Lavi seemed confused.

"You'll see…" he answered the question. "Innocence… Activate… Hand of the Alchemist…." he called out the name of his Innocence. His right arm transformed into it's Anti-Akuma weapon form. Allen was surprised at the shape of the weapon, it looked almost like the Crown Clown except this one had circles drawn everywhere on it. Lenalee and Lavi were shocked as well, for they had never seen the Innocence that he was hiding for so long. A circle began to glow brown, meaning he was going to disintegrate something.

"What're you going to do?" Allen asked him. He did not answer the question. He placed his hand on the wall, the wall now glowing brown. The wall then completely broke down into dust.

"We'll keep moving out, trying to find an exit." he said, running ahead, keeping Road close to him, not wanting more harm to come to her.

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Kanda barked "We'll need to hide, the Earl might be planning something and we might get completely destroyed if we stick around here in the open with all these Akuma in the sky."

"Agreed." Crowley replied. Miranda nodded her head and guided the Finders to a nearby empty shop filled with bottles of sake. Kanda and Crowley were keeping a careful watch on the Akuma as they retreated into the shop as well. The Earl appeared out of the sky, flying using Lero to keep him up in the air (Note: That's creepy, a fat guy using a Halloween umbrella to stay in the air… Anime really doesn't use physics or anything do they?) The Noahs then appeared as well, standing on a building that was being kept afloat in the air.

"So are all of you here?" the Earl chuckled

"No, 2 of us are missing for some reason." one Akuma answered.

"I was talking about the Noah." the Earl replied.

"Well, the only ones missing are Skinn and Road." Tyki answered, fixing his gloves.

"Hmm, looks like Kesenai killed Skinn and somehow made Road join his side. I guess her love for him was actually real… Not one of her sadist jokes or dreams…" Earl thought. "Is the prisoner still on board?" he asked.

"Yes." Tyki answered.

"Good, we'll need that child since he seems to be the Noah of Darkness. One of the many we are missing from the family. What I don't understand is that the Noah of Sins is missing as well. I could've sworn that a Noah of Sins was born…" the Earl seemed confused.

"Maybe he was killed." Jasdero laughed, holding his gun pointed at Debitto.

Debitto laughed with him "Yeah. That could be the case."

"Hmmm… I don't think he would be dead. Sins was the one with the ability to never die, no matter what the case was…" the Earl seemed to be more deeper in thought. "That's beside the point though, it seems like 2 Akuma were missing, like that one said. Hm… Looks like there's intruders here already. It couldn't be the Exorcists I left to die in Beijing, so that means there was another team here. Oh and… Jesdero, Debitto, did you do your job yet? Kill Marshal Shiro and Cross." The Earl looked at the twin Noah.

Jasdero and Debitto sweat dropped "Uh, sorry Earl, sir. We couldn't find them. The lead you gave us was incorrect yet again… And…" They both pulled out a large stack of note sized papers "They left this in our names." The Earl went to look at the notes to see that they were all debts that were charged under the names of the twin Noah.

"So they outsmarted you yet again?" the Earl sweat dropped. "Try all the other hotels and bars since they tend to leave debts in those places only." the Earl commanded.

"But what if it's more bills?!" Jasdero and Debitto replied.

"You're Noah, do something about it yourselves." the Earl replied, chuckling.

"Well, alright then." Jasdero and Debitto replied, leaving off.

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A man with short white hair, 2 swords on each side of his waist, wearing the Marshal's uniform was with Marshal Cross. They were both a bar, drinking and laughing while having women all around them. Marshal Shiro was Kesenai's master, and Marshal Cross was Allen's master. They were both best friends, drinking buddies and poker buddies. Usually, they sucked at Poker, so the students were left with the debts when they used to be around with them. Now, they kept leaving the bills to an unsuspecting Jasdero and Debitto. "So how is life going for you women?" Shiro laughed, drunk.

"Oh it's been great…" one whispered in his ear. Kesenai always wondered what women even saw in a drunkard like Shiro. The same went for Allen about Cross.

"So any of you want to go home with us to our hotel room?" Cross laughed, drunk as well.

"Oh would you look at the time? Sorry ladies, but Cross and I have to go somewhere and do something important." Shiro replied, grabbing Cross by the arm and dragging him out of the bar. Shiro was always the one who would bail them out when women were all around them.

"But wait, you haven't paid your bills!" the bar tender called out.

"Don't worry, 2 boys that look like this…" Shiro drew a perfect sketch of Jasdero and Debitto "Will be the ones to pay our debts for you." and handed the sketch to the bar tender, like he always did for people that played poker with them, or in bars. Immediately afterward, Cross stood up and ran off with Shiro, laughing like a drunk would.

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"Damnit… Not one exit has been found yet…" Kesenai panted, now completely exhausted from using his power so much to keep finding places that weren't even close to an exit.

"I think we might actually die here…" Lavi said.

"No way… I won't let Road die here…" Kesenai growled, now moving at a faster rate for breaking down walls into dust and running to the next. The building seemed like it went on and on forever with no way out. Seems like they're trapped in there. "Damnit…" he kept panting.

"We have to keep trying!" Allen declared.

"I know that… But you guys couldn't even break down not one of these damn walls. Why else do you think I'm doing the work here?" Kesenai growled at him.

"I don't know, this building seems to go on forever as if we weren't even stuck inside the actual building, like we're in another dimension." he replied to Kesenai.

"Yeah, but that doesn't make any sense. Road did nothing to us." he replied.

"Hm that's true, but I think the Earl must've expanded this place somehow, that way it would be harder for us to get out. He wouldn't just simply have this place crumble to pieces without something extra." Allen shared his thought.

"Yeah, doesn't seem like the Earl to just leave it so simple." Kesenai said, agreeing with him.

"I think I figured it out." his eyes widened.

"What is it?" Lavi asked.

"I think the trap is that we have to somehow teleport our way out. Remember, only Road can do such a thing and she was the first to get knocked out, out of the entire group." he answered.

"That makes sense, but I don't think Road will be waking up anytime soon. I guess we could try though." Kesenai replied.

"Yeah, that'll be our only way out… She's our only hope as much as I'd hate to admit it." he sighed.

"Road, wake up." Kesenai shook her, trying to wake her up. "Wake up, we need you right now." he continued to shake her, now getting a bit impatient because he could never be too patient when it came to waiting for someone to wake up.

"Come on Road." Allen poked her cheek, trying to assist him. Sadly, no dice again. The boulders were beginning to circle around them now. A larger boulder began to fall, right overhead of all the Exorcists and Road. This was their end, no hopes for escape now or anything…

--

The Earl chuckled "Seems like they aren't in the Beijing base anymore, I can make the assumption that they're dead now. Oh well. 4 Exorcists down, 3 more to go. Then the Black Order… Then the world!" he laughed evilly. The Noah clan clapped, applauding the Earl.

Tyki thought: "If the group of Exorcists are dead… Then that means… Road was with them too… Could she actually be dead..?"

Kanda and the others were still in the sake house, conforming a plan. So far, no luck. There was no way they could get past what seemed to be a whole colony of Akuma, reach the Akuma factory and destroy it without getting killed. There was no hope at all at this point… "I guess the Earl has won this one… There's no way we could move out without getting killed, nor could we find Shiro and Cross without getting ourselves killed by all these Akuma." Kanda growled.

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"I hope they come out alive… I can't afford to have them all dead… Nor my precious sister Lenalee." Komui cried "Lenalee-chan!!" he kept crying.

"I don't think you should doubt the young Exorcists." Marshal Tiedoll walked in.

"Marshal Tiedoll! What a surprise to see you." Komui quickly got back up on his feet, removing the tears from his eyes. "Why do you think that?" he seemed confused.

"Because even though they're young, they have the potential of maybe even surpassing us, the Marshals." Tiedoll chuckled as Marshal Klaud walked in.

"True. I guess I shouldn't doubt them." Komui chuckled.

"No, they not only have the power to maybe surpass us… They have the power to greatly surpass the current Marshals and save the world from the wretched Earl…" Klaud thought.

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Note: CLIFF HANGERS FOR THIS AGAIN!!

Disclaimer: If I really did own D.Gray-Man, this damn thing would not even be on this site. It would be in the actual anime when it continues.