The child looks up at a figure who slowing starts walking towards the blood. The knife seems like a safety zone to the child…
Those Who Hunt Akuma
Mission 1: Finding Moyashi…
Moore Hesse was having a bad day. First, she finds out that her boss is going to potentially send her to the bad part of town. Then, mysterious people tell her about how 'Demons' are destroying the world. Lastly, she doesn't believe anything said, until it's near too late.
Starting off this already insane day, the young woman begins her day in her apartment. First waking up, the young woman does the usual thing of getting ready for work. Brushing her hair, making sure she had something to eat, looking outside her window to the abandoned church near her building complex. Her brown eyes look at the picture on her dining wall, a picture of two smiling young girls, and an older boy.
"Oh, Claire, why did you have to die?" the young woman whispers.
She walks down the small hallway down to a room, bringing a plate of food with her. She notes the person has not eaten anything. She asks for him to eat, but he says he isn't hungry. She wishes him luck, and heads off to work. She has on a blue police uniform, and makes sure to keep her gun, Taser and handcuffs on her. The area she watches was fairly dangerous, so she had to carry two sets of handcuffs. The area that she checks the most was the place her sister died in.
Getting on her motorbike, the woman heads off to the less dangerous side of the town, which is the apartment complex she lives in. She locks her bike in place, and enters the abandoned church. The church has been run down for two years, since the death of her sister Claire. The two were orphaned about thirty years ago, and adopted by the local church. Moore had since tried finding out what happened to her family. Three years ago, her sister found love, and just a year later she was killed trying to protect her husband from a falling cross. Moore was there, and she didn't know what to do. For years, she kept her brother-in-law safe while he healed from the whole ordeal.
Upon entering the Victorian era, rundown church, she is stopped by an oversized cop with a bowl haircut. She is quite annoyed, as she wanted to check to make sure the church didn't have any unwanted guests. Often, visitors visited the church, some of them homeless. She found it quite sad that there were people out there that had no one to rely.
"Don't go in there Moore! Locals say it's haunted!" Charles, a fellow cop, yells.
"Charles, those are just rumors. Ghosts and monsters don't exist," the young woman says.
The two enter, expecting to see nothing. This is not the case as something scares the poor man half to death.
"What the heck was that?" Charles screams.
"It's just a cat," Moore states as she picks up the oversized stray cat.
"Mrew," the cat meows towards the oversized policeman. He scowls at it, and Moore looks annoyed at him.
As the two walk into the church, a swarm of bats come out of nowhere. Moore, cat in her hand, is grabbed by a mysterious figure.
"Gotcha!"
"Shorty, that's a cop!"
"Al, get that cat!"
The mysterious figure and his, for she could see it was a boy, and his partners, a girl and a second boy, were arguing about the cat. She didn't know what they meant, but that cat was important. While the three were distracted, Moore chained all three strangers to the pole.
"Who are you three?"
"Just a couple a travelers," the second boy says, with a clear Australian accent.
"We, that is, my brother and I, came here to find this short guy right here…" Terry says, feeling a bit shy as she spoke.
It has been a while since the whole 'kidnapped by Exorcists' thing, and she was on her fourth mission. The only thing she wanted was to just be called an Accommodator. She didn't like being called an Exorcist because she allied herself with the Noah clan. Another thing that made her extremely shy was the fact she had to wear snow gear in the middle of an England summer. It was a bit too cold for her.
"That cat right there ate a few important things of ours, and my master will be upset if any of them are gone," the first boy said. The bizarre thing that Moore noticed was that all three had white hair. That, and the girl had on a heavy snow coat, the Australian accent one had on a black coat with religious signs on it, and the other boy had on a brown overcoat.
Ra ta ta tatata
"Wait here," she tells the trio as she leaves.
As the young woman goes into the main section of the church, she notes that there seems to be smoke everywhere. She keeps walking, not knowing why there was smoke. She comes to a pillar, and sees that her partner is wrapped up in a strange rope. The man struggles to speak as stars overtake his body and he disappears in a puff of smoke.
"What th-" she begins to speak, but a hand is placed over her mouth.
"Don't breath this stuff in, it can kill you…" Terry tells her, yet it was the first boy's gloved hand with a cloth who kept Moore from breathing the gas in.
"What is thi..i…-" Moore faints immediately due to lack of air.
"Oh, shiz!"
Moore wakes up and sits up on the bench she is sleeping on. Looking around, she realizes that she is in the police station. One of her co-workers signals to her to check on the three kids. She walks into the interrogation room and her boss begins yelling at the three kids.
"I KNOW IT WAS YOU WHO DID IT!" her commanding officer yells at the gray haired kids.
"I told you we are innocent!" the Australian accent yells.
"We were just looking for a place to stay the night," the second boy says, scared out of his mind.
"All because we had to search for shorty…" the girl whispers, not feeling fearful at all.
"Hey, I'm only three centimeters shorter than you, Teresa!" the boy yells. He is ignored. The chief notices the boy's strange arm, and yanks the glove off, yelling at the boy about why he burned his arm.
"It's been like this since I was born! I swear, the three of us were heading to the airport when Aussie lost his luggage! Then this cat," the cat seemingly smiles at the boy, "decided that Terry's coddling means it can eat our possessions. So we chased the cat into the church."
An officer walks up to the oversized police chief.
"They are telling the truth," the cop says. "They only had two suitcases and a cat with them."
"Not my fault that my luggage went missing finding Al," the Australian admits.
"OFFICER MOORE, WHY DID YOU FAIL TO DO YOUR JOB!?" the brutish chief yells.
"…"
"…."
"…"
"Sir, it's not her fault…" Terry says, as Allen begins to explain.
"It was the work of an Akuma. Akuma are machines used to wipe out mankind, and it is the job of an Exorcist to destroy them. These two are helping me get to the new location of the Order. My Master knocked me out before telling me to go to America, but he refused to tell me how to get there…"
"What a load of bull! Moore, keep these kids at your place for the time," the man says.
The trio and Moore leave, feeling a bit buggered out. Terry just wants to go to the sweet shop, but Moore says no. Aussie and Allen begin arguing about who holds the cat, and Terry pulls the cat out of both boys' hands.
"I'm holding the cat," she states, then places it around her neck like a living scarf.
The four make it to Moore's home, and when Moore opens the door, the three see that the apartment has several photos around the place. Aussie sees a couch and hops right on it. Terry sits on one of the kitchen chairs, and Allen sits by a window. Moore tells them to stay, and she heads to her room to find her tablet to look up what these 'Akuma' are. She sits next to Terry, who looks annoyed that the woman is looking at a tablet instead of the Encyclopedias, which are right next to the door.
"It says here that 'akuma' means 'demon' in Japanese and are often used in manga and anime. The history of the word 'demon' goes way back in history and are used to explain mysterious sicknesses and dying crops," Moore says. She doesn't believe in the supernatural, even though she is a Christian.
"Those aren't what we fight. 'Akuma' are machines brought back by the sorrows of others. They are poor souls brought back by the Duke of Time, our enemy. There is also another being that brings back lost souls, but his way is better, but Terry can tell you if you want to know," Allen explains.
Creak
A sickly pail man comes out of the bedroom he is in, moving in a wheel chair. His eyes look hollowed out, as if he hasn't slept for a long time. He groans, and begins whispering and muttering. Terry and Allen' Akuma seeking eyes activate.
"Mark, I thought you weren't feeling well…" Moore says in a hushed tone.
The man begins spazzing out, exploding into a giant metal balloon. All three kids stand guard against the officer as the balloon shoots large bullets at the officer. Luckily, Moore lives right next to the church, and the four go through the walls and into the church. Allen holds the bullet, with Terry on his left side. Aussie is on the other side of Moore, and he looks a bit dazed.
"What is that?" Moore asks the three as she attempts to touch it.
Allen pulls it away. "Don't touch it, it's poisonous to everything. As we told you guys, we are Exorcists, and that's our enemy."
The cat Terry holds has stars over it, before it disappears. Terry looks at the dust, and feels a bit sad.
"What the hell are you guys doing here?" the chief shrieks, his subordinates behind him.
RA TATATA TA TA
The chief and subordinates all turn black and disappear. Moore feels frightened, worried, and angry at the monster.
"You monster! Why did you kill them!" She shrieks.
"It's not her fault," Terry says, as she can see the soul trapped within.
"As I said, Akuma are machines used to kill. The Duke creates them to wipe out humanity," Allen says.
"We use Innocence, the opposite to dark matter, to destroy the Akuma. We are Exorcists," Aussie says, "although Terry doesn't like being called one, so just call her an Accommodator."
The Akuma attempts to attack, and the three Exorcists are about to activate their Innocence when Terry's eye senses an Innocence fragment reacting to the sad police officer.
"Moore, hold up your gun to the Akuma and do as I say!" The group has to jump away as the Akuma attempts to kill them again.
Moore holds up her gun.
"Yell, 'Innocence Invoke!" Terry yells.
"Innocence Invoke! Holy bullet!" Moore yells. She doesn't know why she yelled the last sentence, she just heard something whisper to her to say it.
A glowing cross shoots out of the gun, as something shoots into her gun. The cross slams into the Akuma, destroying it in one go. Terry and Allen see the soul disappear, while Aussie looks at the mixed colors.
"My right eye can see when Innocence is invoked, and you must be a new Accommodator," Terry says, as three small creatures come out of the cat's ashes.
"Timcampy!"
"Hey, Ben."
"Oi, Gray! Ow, ow!"
The three begin to leave, when Terry calls out to Moore, "Do you have a phone?"
"Yeah, here's my cell phone…" Moore replies cautiously.
Terry takes the smartphone and begins dialing. "Hi Rhode…Yeah, we found him…Link wants to talk?...I will call him now…We have a new Accommodator…Cya Rhode…"
Terry sits down on one of the benches and the boys sit nearby. Terry tells Moore to sit next to her. Moore agrees, mostly because Terry said she was calling the person that runs the Organization her brother, herself and Allen work for. Terry dials up Howard Link.
"Hey Link…It's going well, found a new Accommodator…A cop named Moore Hesse. Rhode told me you wanted to talk?...Construction is almost complete?...Gray Café is set?...Want to talk to Moore about a possible job, besides fighting Akuma?...Ok…Here, Moore…" Terry gives the phone to the woman, who slowly takes it.
"Hello?"
"Is this Moore Hesse of XXXX, England?" A British man asks.
"Yes, who is this?" she asks.
"My name is Howard Link, and I am the one in charge of the Black Order and the alliance with the Millennium Earl. Terry asked me to find you a job within our small town in America. What's your profession?"
"I was a cop, but today my boss…he was killed by the Akuma that used to be the Father of this church," Moore says as she begins to choke back tears. The kids explained to her that the Akuma she destroyed was the soul of her sister. She still didn't know how to handle all that has happened.
"Well, we don't have a chief for our police station." Link says as he looks over the lists in his office. Komui was supposed to help out; being the second in charge, but the man was busy coddling his sister about a mission and missing her coffee. Link sighs, 'that man is a pain.'
"When do I leave?" Moore asks.
"There will be a private plane coming to pick those three up tomorrow morning. And tell Aussie to please never leave his luggage on the plane again. I am sorry if this inconveniences you at all."
"It doesn't, I don't really have much in my apartment."
"Also, don't worry about detectives asking you about what happened. Terry will handle it. The footage that was taken was tampered with by my organization to make it seem that a fire happened."
"Ok…"
Moore gives the phone back to the girl, who continues talking to the man. Something about a school and a town for their organization. Moore look at the reshaped gun, trying to figure out the strange cross like shapes in it, and why that voice told her to say those two words.
"See you tomorrow, Link," Terry says, hanging up.
She then called back Rhode, and asked the girl for some moving boxes. Terry hung up, after telling the hyper girl her location.
"We are going to have to stay at a hotel for a few days. My 'family' will be paying for it and dinner. Rhode is finding some Dolls to help us out with the boxes."
The four went back to the apartment and waited for the items and Dolls. Terry explained to Moore that Dolls are similar to Akuma, but are instead life sized dolls that are given the souls of those either lost in time or have a grieving family member. As the four waited, Moore shouts in surprise as a heart shaped door appears in the middle of the living room. Three normal people come out, each one carrying two large boxes.
"Hello, the Noah Rhode Camelot sent us here to help you get your luggage set. We were also sent by the Earl to be destroyed by you to help your Innocence become accustomed to our dark matter."
Moore, feeling a bit surprised, shows them what to put in each box. The door disappears, and Terry begins calling a hotel and hiring a moving truck. The boys wonder why the thirteen year old knows what to do, and begin arguing about it. Terry thwacks them both on the head, and tells them that a moving truck and a cab will be coming by.
"We will help you to move the boxes into the moving truck. The drivers are also Dolls, so do not worry about destroying us."
"…"
"Don't worry, we have all died before. I was killed in a car accident," the first Doll says.
"Hung myself…" the second replies.
"Old age."
Moore agrees to help them pass on once again. The truck and taxi come, and the boys and Dolls help carry the boxes to the truck. Moore then realizes something.
"Aussie, why do you have a tattoo?"
"It's my Innocence," the boy says, looking down at the ground. "Yo, Ter, did you order dinner too? I'm starved."
"Seventy pizzas and two hundred spicy chicken wings. The Noah Orphan foundation will be paying for it, Millenie told the Dolls to tell me that."
"But we won't be able to eat all of that, right?" Moore asks, surprised.
"…"
"…"
"Our Innocence feeds on our life-force, according to the Odor and the Earl…so we, kinda, have to eat a bit more than a normal human…but you are lucky, you have Equip type Innocence, and we have parasitic Innocence…" Aussie explains, before popping something into his mouth.