A big and hearty thanks to ChikitaWolf for her favorite! Please review guys, I like knowing how my dear readers think that I am progressing.
Also, I will be gone on a two week vacation so I will not be able to update on the regular time interval, I'll try to have the next chappie up in about three or four weeks. Thank you for your patience. I shall shut myself now.
Wait, she tilted her head so that she had a better view of the road, where two figures limped down the road, one battle-worn, the other resting on the other not using his left leg. Oh God.
She darted out of the house with a shocked, "WHAT HAPPENED?"
Minnie walked out of the kitchen, a long sigh being drawn out of her dark lips.
"Are they alright?" Alma asked, a worried glance given in the direction of the closed door that led to the eating area. The younger once again heaved a long sigh.
"Yes, for the most part, they are fine. Though Al might have a pretty bad sprain... Oh well: the swelling will go down if the correct amount of care is placed. For the time being he will be forced to take a large amount of pain killers that Mr. Komui proclaims will aid him in healing. Hopefully they won't turn out to be poison." Alma gave a small chuckle at the statement.
She turned to look at him, "What is so funny, eh?"
"The fact that you trust a man that you barely know with something as important to you as your own brother, that is what." He giggled, that was until Chéri slapped him on the back of the head and he took the time to give her a decent glare that would make any other person's soul crumble into little bits.
"Don't be rude." She snapped, her navy eyes glaring.
"La Stupida." Alma muttered darkly, then turned to face Minnie once again, and gave her a small smile, "Sorry."
She looked down shaking her head ruefully, "No, you have nothing to apologize for, I just wish to understand your humor!" She looked up to find two pairs of eyes fixed steadfast on her in slight confusion, "Ce qui vous signifient?"
"My humor?" Alma tilted his head, attempting to translate the word in his Spanish speaking head, "OH, what it's that I find funny?"
At the nod of the girl's head he collapsed on to one of the cream-colored armchairs.
"I just really don't get why other people trust one another so much, that's all: a personal matter." The smile was becoming a bit strained, and with that the only boy in the room jumped up, and left the room with an, "I'm thirsty, want drinks anyone?"
"Wow, I'm surprised that he told you that much." Minnie looked at the older girl with slight distrust.
"What do you mean?"
"His father: that is the personal matter." Minnie gazed at her curious, "You mean Mr. Kanda?"
There was a soft giggle, "No, his real father, the one that gave him the cards to begin with. He left Alma and his mother when the brat was five. His mom soon died right after in an Akuma raid. That's how he met the General, a lone little boy in this cruel world."
"You take a sick enjoyment in saying that... don't you?"
There was a dark chuckle, "You have no idea how much I dislike that guy."
"Why do you two hate one another so much?"
"None of your business, now, I shall go fetch the idiot... before he goes and makes something explode again and force us to take the same accommodations that we had in Moscow." With that she, too, left the room.
"Oh my god, they are such a weird pair." Minnie muttered to herself before collapsing on the couch and closing her eyes. Though only for a moment.
"Psst... Minnie-san... PSST!" She jerked up, to be confronted with exuberant black eyes glinting from beneath their glasses.
"WHAT THE HELL?" the girl screeched softly, then after a moment of catching her breath she managed to collect herself.
"What is it Mr. Komui?" She asked, still trying to regulate her breathing.
"I have something that I want to ask you, come on." He whispered beckoning energetically, and hesitantly, she followed.
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"What is it, Mr. Komui?" Minnie asked, and the man looked around fervently before stating, "Do you wish to be a wielder of Innocence?"
Brown eyes opened in shock, "What?"
The elder laughed softly, "Well, seeing as you are my dear niece's best friend, I thought that you might also like a chance to fight."
"You just don't like Elena being in battle with with a majority of boys do you?" she asked, knowing immediately that she had hit the nail right on the head when comical tears once again began to swell in the older man's eyes.
"B-BUT THEY'RE NOTHING MORE THAN RABBITS IN HEAT! THEY'LL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HER THE FIRST MOMENT THAT THEY GET! I KNOW THAT THEY WILL!" He screeched, once again pulling a drill out of the floor-boards only to have it swiftly taken away.
He calmed down quickly after all objects that could be used as weapons were out of his long reach.
"Back to the topic, what do you mean?" Minnie asked trying to keep the gleam of hope out of her eyes. The man ran a hand through his peppered hair, "Well, Reever and I have been working on an equitable Innocence for quite a long time, though well, we really haven't taken any further steps in it."
"Why?" Minnie asked, her curiosity growing, and the man waved his left hand in the air subconsciously, "Well, we didn't wish to create the same mistakes that have happened in the past, so we decided that the Innocence should not be placed within the person but in the item that was to be used as the weapon. That way Reever and I... well mostly I, believe that the weapon then in turn would be able to attach itself to whoever holds it."
Komui continued to ramble to himself, trying to calculate any errors that he could have not foreseen.
"M-Mr. K-Komui..." Minnie half-begged, trying to snap him out of the self-induced trance that he had placed himself into.
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"OWW!" Al groaned, as Mrs. Miranda once again placed a new pack of ice on his swollen ankle.
"Quit being such a baby." I chided, and earned a soft glare.
"Who's the one that began wailing right when the anapestic was put on?" he asked coolly, and in turn I stuck my tongue out at him.
"No fair: that stuff stings... Oh!" The adults all turned to glance at me when the sound of surprise and remembrance and after fumbling around in my pocket, I pulled out the green cube.
"Innocence?" Uncle Bookman's was curious and he soon continued, "Where did you obtain that?"
"Yeah, Elena, where the hell-er, heck did you find that?" Al asked, looking down at his feet as his parents glared at him.
I started to scratch the backs of my head in slight worry, "Well ya see what happened was~"
"YOU FOUL FIEND! I KNEW THAT WE COULDN'T LEAVE YOU ALONE WITH MY ELENA!" Whelp, I found Uncle Komui... coming out of a hole where a ceiling fan had been.
"C-Chief! What have I told you about taking apart the house?" Reever barked angrily, his blond hair seeming to get even spikier with his anger.
"But, But Reever, that brat has, that brat has~"
"I DON'T WANT TO EVEN HEAR YOUR PROCLAMATIONS! COME ON, WHERE DID YOU PUT THAT FAN?" The man soon grabbed the other by the collar like one would do with a small child and they both left the room for a minute, before the Asian returned a few minutes later.
"So, what's going on?" He asked, the smile right back on his face, without Reever.
After taking a deep breath I started, "Well, you see while we were looking around in the city, we sorta saw this girl, and we were having ice-cream and she looked like she wanted some, but then she turned out to be a girl named Roade, who had attacked us at the house... Don't worry though, we didn't really fight! She just tried to help and then tried to kill us!"
"But we are both fine exept for minor injuries to me, nothing happened to Elena, don't worry!" Al said, copying my cheerful tone.
"That's not funny." I muttered venomously to him, though he simply shrugged it off, laughing. The adults were now looking at us in absolute worry and fear, "Are you alright? She didn't do anything to you?" Uncle Link asked in shock and concern.
"What do you mean?" I asked, forcing the smile on my face to stay calm as the memory of what she had shown me flashed through my head.
"Roade Camelot of my time had the power to control illusions, dream, memories, what ever she wanted to." He explained, "Bookman Junior, here, knows that first hand."
"Come on now, Two-Point, did you have to tell them that? Not to mention, it's Bookman now." Uncle Bookman bickered, his showing eye glimmering with annoyance.
"This doesn't have anything to do with how the two of them obtained the Innocence that is now in their position." Auntie Kanda muttered darkly.
"Yuu-chan, can't we just fawn over the little kids for once? In my opinion you don't pay near enough attention to your charges!" Cobalt eyes glared angrily at the red-haired man, "Did I ask your opinion on the bringing up of children?"
"Kanda, we don't need to start a fight." Uncle Marie said, and the Japanese man muttered a small 'Che' under his breath before looking at us to continue.
"... Well, ya see, I was in trouble 'cause I didn't kill Roade when I was supposed to in her opinion, so she was about to kill me. That was when dear Alistair came to my rescue. He used some weird-named attack and these huge wave of vines came and started to protect us! Umm, yeah, and then we couldn't be attacked, it was cool! Then this weird man seemed to come out of nowhere and I found this were he was standing." I attempted to explain, though it didn't seem to work because most of the adults were stuck on the word "kill'' and Uncle Komui and gone out at the word ''Dear''.
Only two seemed to have paid attention to the majority of the explanation after the first sentence, "Kanda, don't you think that the Innocence sounded strangely formiliar?" Uncle Marie asked, but all the he was responded with in return was a look of absolute hate and a heated string of Japanese curses.
"Go wash your mouth out with soup, Dad!" Alma's voice called from one of the other rooms.
"Whats the matter, Yuu-chan?" Uncle Lavi asked, though his voice was smug, and he got a glare of death.
"General Tiodell had an Innocence that matched that description, the Maker of Eden." Uncle Marie explained.
"That's the name!" I bounced, and Al looked at me with false cheer, "I could have told you the name, sweet-heart."
"Stop it with the name calling, it's creepy. And I think that Uncle Komui is now hyperventilating." A smirk crossed his lips that could have rivaled the Devil's, "Why do you think I'm do it?"
"DEATH! Komuin XXVI, ATTACK!" Al was soon on the run with a large Komuin on his tail.
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"Well, that was entertaining." I chipper-ed, now bandaging my friend's wounded arm.
"Yeah..." Reever, who had finished replacing the fan, sweat-dropped and then went back to inspecting the Innocence that was resting in his hands.
"Well, it's a good thing that we found you first, or was it you found us? No matter." I looked at him with curiously, when he left the room for a moment, going to the stairs and then called, "Hevlaska! Can you come down here?"
There was the soft pattering of feet, then door creaked open. There stood a little girl, no more than six years old. She had long, light blond, almost silver hair and pale skin. Her eyes were a pale lucid green, the same color, I realized, as the glow of Innocence.
"No way." Uncle Lavi muttered shocked, "Way. She came along with us in this form during the attack to conserve energy, unfortunately she doesn't grow." Reever corrected.
"Please do not speak of me as though I am not here." The little girl said softly, and it seemed to surround the room with an airy comfort or calmness. Her voice held too much wisdom for her time.
"This, Elena, is Hevlaska, she was one of the Exorcist of the Black Order before it was broken." Komui stated cheerfully, "If you would like she can take care of the Innocence that you have until it's next invoker is found." She nodded, damn, how could a little kid... never mind.
"How so?" I asked, and to my surprise the cube which had been in Reever's hands began to lumeness, and seemed to float over to the girl. Ever so gently she took it in her hands, holding it close to her heart. Ancient runes began to shine on her arms and other visible skin and then began to spread to the floor in a large circle.
The Innocence turned to a flash and then moved down to the outer rim of the design before stopping at an empty space and creating an 'X'.
"Elena Lee, come here please." Her voice seemed to be almost monotoned though it still held care. After walking up to her, she placed her small hands on each of my temples. Something seemed to prod within my mind for a moment, though in a flash it was gone and the little girl reopened her eyes but they seemed to be dazed.
"Elena Lee, daughter of Allen Walker and Lenalee Lee, your accommodation rate with your Innocence is 84 percent. You will be the one to lead this battle that we are soon to face. You will be the one who is the shining light of this time, just as General Walker was before. Though if you are one to fall, we all shall be those to follow in your footsteps. Live well Crown Clown's Heir." Her eyes unmisted and she gave me a small smile. Though it did nothing to make me feel better.
Well hope that you enjoyed this chapter see you in about three weeks time!
Marine :)
Translations
"Ce qui vous signifient?"- What does she mean?~French
"La Stupida."- Stupid~Spanish