Okay, maybe I didn't reply to all of the reviews for chapter 8 v.v I'm sorry! So I'm going to do reviews for chapter 8 and 9 right here:
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Guys, I want all of you to read the bottom of this chapter! I'm serious, I know probably half don't usually, but this is VERY IMPORTANT! If any of ya'll follow this story of Quotev, then you already know, but even those people might want to read the bottom. And I'm gonna say right now, I'M SO SORRY! 10 MONTHS I'VE WENT WITHOUT UPDATING MY BABY!
Chapter 10
The three Exorcist stood in the woman's apartment. Lenalee was currently trying to patch up all the wounds. Allen had gotten from fighting the Akuma.
Gin currently had her arms wrapped around Allen's neck from behind, resting her head down on top of his. His Innocence-covered hand was currently intertwined with hers, no doubt the reason for the wide smile gracing her face.
"So the Akuma just ran away?" Allen winced slightly as Timcanpy bit his leg and Gin brushed the golem away.
"Yeah. They seemed a little weird. They were really motivated to kill me, but then just left. Gin and I looked around just in case they were still around."
"I'm glad though. I'm not sure you and Zaki-chan could take on three level twos by yourselves."
"They were ordered away. I heard someone telling them to find the Innocence or something like that." Gin frowned at Allen. "Did you not hear the voice? It was loud and clear to me."
"No, I didn't hear anything Gin. Was that who you were talking to right before the Akuma left?" Gin nodded. Both Lenalee and Allen looked at her worriedly. "I believe you, then. If you say there was someone ordering the Akuma around, then there's someone ordering the Akuma around." Gin smiled down at him and kissed his cheek.
"Thank you."
"Hey, Zaki-chan, I mean, where were you the past three months? Komui only said you were ordered away..." Lenalee said after a moment of silence. She fiddled nervously with her hair, not sure what the Order had Gin do.
"I was ordered to go to the Asian Branch to train, since apparently there was no one to train with here. They thought my synchronization was too low, and that I needed to improve it quickly. I trained for a whole month straight, then the other other month I spent going on solo missions to...get used to my Innocence...I'm still not very good with it," she admitted to the other two. "And for this past month I've been stuck in this town."
It was silent for a moment before Allen decided to speak up.
"Um. what is Ms. Miranda doing?" The three teens looked over to the woman who was frantically cleaning her clock.
"After I explained about the Akuma and us, she hasn't moved..." Lenalee deadpanned. Her and Allen shivered as Miranda started mumbling to herself.
"M-Miranda-" Allen started before she interrupted him.
"I...I can't do anything! Don't you people have special powers or something?! Then why don't you hurry up and help this town?!"
"We will," Gin said with conviction as she stepped forwards to Miranda.
"But to do that, see, we need your help, Ms. Miranda," Allen said kindly, kneeling before the sobbing woman.
"Somehow this is connected to you," Gin followed up.
"So do you mind helping us out please?" Allen finished with a smile. "Let's go back tomorrow." All of a sudden Miranda jumped up stiffly before go to lay down in her bed, asleep.
"You're going to sleep?! Wake up you old hag!" Gin practically screamed.
"This seems weird..." Lenalee mumbled before turning around. "A-Allen! Zaki-chan!" The room was covered with clock faces in different shapes. Gin rushed to the window and looked outside.
"It's the clock!"
"It's outside, too!" Gin exclaimed, rushing back over to Allen. Suddenly the hands on the clock spun backwards quickly.
The hand is going backwards! Allen thought before grabbing onto the doorway and reaching for Gin.
"Gin! Grab Lenalee and hold on!" Gin did as she was told, pulling Lenalee into her arms and grabbing Allen's shirt. He wrapped his free arm protectively around the two as the clocks' faces swarmed into the clock.
"Today's time is getting sucked in..." Allen murmured as screens for the past few hours past him by. When it was over, the clock's hands were at seven o'clock. Sunlight poured into the room from outside.
"E-eh?! It's morning?!" Allen let go of Gin, who let go of Lenalee as the three stared outside, completely frazzled.
"Hmmm? When did I get in bed...?" Lenalee and Allen turn back to look at the confused woman, both shocked. Gin now had a hand print on her forehead as her eye twitched.
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"Incredible..Lenalee, Gin, look at this!" Lenalee looked back from speaking to Miranda and Gin had her head in her hands, shaking it. "A human clock!"
Allen was inside the clock...his head and arms sticking out with Timcanpy laying on his head. The older exorcist and woman both screamed in shock.
"What are you doing Allen?! How did this happen?!"
"My clock...!" Gin walked over and stuck her hand through the clock, touching Allen's chest.
"Y-you can't touch this clock," he stuttered, fighting off a blush when she didn't remove it.
"It seems only Miranda, it's master, may touch it..." Gin removed her hand from his chest and he got out of the clock. "This only proves that this clock is the Innocence you two were sent to retrieve, and of course, that makes Miranda the Accommodator." Miranda looked at the white haired female, her eyes wide, before touching the clock, almost tenderly.
"Re-really? This clock is what caused the town to become paranormal..?" Somehow she had a knife clasped in her hands and pointed towards the Exorcists, sweating bullets. "Don't tell me you're going to break it? ...My friend..." Lenalee had Allen held their hands up in surrender, while Gin narrowed her eyes at the older woman.
"What's wrong with you, Ms. Miranda," Gin stated, almost mockingly. "Why is your clock messing up the town? What happened on October ninth? What did you do?" Miranda flinched slightly but lowered the knife.
"That...that was the day I was fired for the hundredth time...So of course when the number of times I've been fired reached the three digits, I was feeling, uh very...down..."
"Translation, you went home and got drunk," Gin chirped in.
"And I wished tomorrow would never come..."
"And because you're compatible with the Innocence, it granted your wish," Gin finished with narrowed eyes, no pity for the woman.
"What? 'Compatible?'" Miranda, asked, lost.
"Miranda! Try to tell the clock to stop the anomalies!" Miranda dramatically placed her palms on the clock.
"O clock, o clock~ Turn back time now~" Gin rushed over with the other two to see the fate on the newspaper. Lenalee and Allen took each side while Gin looked between them at the headline.
"October...ninth." Gin was the first to speak aloud, replacing any hope that it wasn't true with the cold fact.
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Three days later; 34th day of October 9th
"Haven't lost your touch, it seems," Gin called out with a smirk as she sat down between Allen and Lenalee. Lenalee scooted over to make more room for the older girl. Gin noticed that the other girl seemed a little distracted, but didn't worry about it too much.
After all, Allen was the one she cared about, in the end.
"Ah, hey- the pumpkin- where do you get a ticket for 'The Pumpkin and the Witch?'" In the entrance of the alley stood a girl, maybe around fourteen, with purple-blue hair and pale skin with dark eyes. She wore a button up shirt with long sleeves, a purple skirt, and long black and purple striped socks reaching above her knees. She had a lollipop in one hand, and a pink umbrella with a pumpkin at the tip.
"Welcome! Tickets are riiiight here~~" Allen quickly got up and started pushing the girl forward. "Later Lenalee, Gin! Gotta get back to work!" Lenalee waved and wished him luck.
When she didn't hear anything from Gin, she turned and looked over at her, confused. Her brow was furrowed and she was biting her bottom lip hard enough for a trickle of blood to drip down her chin.
"Zaki-chan! You're lip!"
"I've heard that voice before, but where?" she mumbled to herself. She quickly dismissed the thought when she heard Allen's and Miranda's boss yelling about some pickpocket. "Damn if...Lee, I'll take the roof- " she looked over to find the other girl gone, already jumping from roof to roof.
"Gin, stay with Ms. Miranda!" Allen yelled to her, as she was still sitting in the alley, before looking at Miranda and taking off the ridiculous pumpkin head. "Don't worry, we'll catch him!" he told her gently before running off.
The girl with the lollipop knelt in front of Miranda as she sobbed about being useless. With narrowed eyes, Gin slowly watched the scene, walking towards them away from the alley.
"So your clock is the Innocence," she stated, loud enough for Gin to hear. Her eyes widened when she heard the screams from behind her.
Akuma! Damn it, I let my guard down! she thought as she spun around, cursing her thoughtlessness.
"Innocence, activate!" Her innocence covered her arm just in time to block a hit that would have surely knocked her out.
"Take care of her, Level Two," the girl said as she grabbed Miranda and disappeared. Gin gritted her teeth and practically growled at the Akuma floating in front of her. It looked like a cross between a hog and fly, with its tons of eyes.
"Well, aren't you ugly Porky." She smirked as the Akuma started shaking and screamed (a strange cross between a buzzing and high pitched snort). Its mouth wide open, it sped to the exorcist as she prepared herself. Before it was able to bite her, Gin shot out her arm, catching the Akuma on its side with her Innocence-sharpened fingers.
"Damn exorcist! That hurt! I'll eat you, yeah!" Gin laughed as she jumped away from another attack.
"Is that all you got, demon? I've faced street rats better than you!" The Akuma shrieked in rage but did not come after her like she had planned he would.
"I'll teach you to mess with a level two, Exorcist!" With that said, the spit out glowing green saliva towards Gin, who ducked just in time for it to miss her head.
"T-that's just gross," she forced out with a grimace. "Get serious, I'm not some second rate Exorcist you can spit on!"
She quickly jumped into the air, pulling her legs against her body. Pointing at the Akuma below, a black ball of raging energy formed at the tips of her fingertips and it bursts towards the demon. To Gin's surprise, her attack barely slowed it down and only left a small burn mark on the side of it's face.
As she started descending, Gin dug her hands into to Akuma now right below her. Wincing as she felt one of it's legs make a large bruise in her side. the Exorcist quickly pushed off it and landed on a near window ledge of the building behind her.
"Stay still, stupid Exorcist!"
"Damn it," she muttered to herself as she jumped away from another glob of glowing saliva. "I'm having more trouble than I should!" Dodging another attack, Gin quickly shot off another sphere of energy on retaliation.
Fuck, I need to end this quickly. Allen and Lee might need my help!
With that in mind, she abruptly dashed forward, startling the Akuma for a split second, which is all she needed to dig her hand into its stomach, adding more force until up to her elbow was stuck inside the demon.
"F-fuck you, Exorcist scum," it bit out as it started disintegrating. Gin smirked up at it as she pulled her arm out with a wet sound.
"Ha! You're no match for me, demon," she replied haughtily. With a scowl from it's fat lips, it spit out to her before it disappeared completely. The Exorcist managed to avoid the brunt of the saliva, but a few droplets landed on the left side of her face.
"Damn it, that stings..." She rubbed furiously at her eye with her sleeve as it started burning. All it took was a moment for her face to start bubbling, a sizzling sound reaching her ears.
And then she started screaming as the pain tripled tenfold. It was like acid was burning off her the left half of her face, seeping into her eye. Screeching, she stumbled, her back slamming against the wall.
Through the pain she managed to feel some kind of liquid roll through her fingers to form a half solid puddle before she finally passed out.
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"...true apostles chosen by God." Those were the first words Gin heard as she woke up, pain still shooting down the left side of her face. There was more talking from the same person before she became fully aware of her surroundings.
"A-Allen...?" she whispered, seeing her white-haired brother. Practically sitting on top of him was the little girl from before, but her skin was gray and crosses went across her forehead. And wearing her brother's jacket. Neither had seemed to notice she had awoken.
Her Allen was bloodied and hurt, his Innocence damaged.
"You don't believe I'm human?" Gin's fingers twitched as the girl hugged his neck. Despite the pain, her Innocence stayed activated while she was knocked out. Good. "I'm warm, aren't I? Isn't this what it feels like to touch another human being?"
Allen's arm hovered over the girl, barely an inch away.
"Even though you're the same as humans...why?!"
And Gin's arm went straight through her body from the side, blood flowing from the girl's body and onto the two Exorcists. Gin ignored Allen's expression (horrified, how could you do that to a human?!) and pulled her arm from the corpse.
"I have no quarrel with killing another human, if they're just like the rest." Both were surprised when a grin spread across her face, and pull Allen's Innocence into her, on top of the wound Gin gave her.
Her skin was practically burnt off, her eyelids were gone, and her lips were gone, too. Then, almost instantly, her skin started coming together again, repairing itself, and as she grabbed the younger Exorcist's shirt, Gin nearly puked at the grotesque in front of them.
What she has seen was nothing compared to this.
"We are the 'supermen' who inherited the genes of the Noah, mankind's oldest apostles." She pulled Allen's face closer to her's, her eyelids still hadn't regenerated back. "We're different from you lowlifes."
And in almost in slow motion Gin watched as this little girl stabbed the white-haired boy in his cursed eye with a sharpened candle.
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Yeah...last chapter of the story is a cliffhanger...Yep.
I forbid anybody from throwing things at me!
Yes, it's the last chapter, yes I'm rewriting it.
No, it won't have Gin in it. I know, I know! But she just won't fit in with it! Mustn't Forget is Gin's story, and I can't just take her out and put her in another one, even if it is a somewhat rewrite. You heard-er, read me right, it's only a somewhat rewrite. I didn't like the style in which I wrote the entire story, and there's not even really an original plot at all! It's all practically a retelling of the manga, and I'm don't like it.
Don't get me wrong, I love this story. It's like my firstborn (but not really, since I've had stories older than this one). But I can't even think of where to go with it, and the rewrite of it at least as some original themes to it at the moment.
Please, just check it out, see if you like it, give it a chance!
And as a bonus, I promise I'll try and update it every month!
It's set in America the first few chapters, by the way. I haven't seem many stories featuring the North American Branch for very long, so I decided I would try it out.
I hope you enjoyed the final chapter, and I hope you enjoy the new story!
Is that all? I think so...
Message me if you have any questions about this story.
Or if you want to adopt it. I could put it up for adoption, if anybody wants it. The rewrite will be different enough I hope. Whoever wants it, might have to change a few names however, because I'm keeping Xerxes.
...Time to go now...