I'm so sorry for not updating for so long. I had a little (read big) problem with the plot which lead to a massive writers block. I wrote this chapter twice before and had to rewrite it, because it made the story go in a direction I did not want. Also, you can take this as a Christmas present. But enough of me trying to find excuses for my laziness and on to the story.
Disclaimer: If I owned D. Gray-man I would not be writing this fanfiction.
Chapter 2 – Accommodator? Not exactly…
3rd POV
Crown was really desperate. He had been searching for compatible person for ten years now and he still hasn't found even a single sign of one! He was starting to be afraid that everything will repeat itself.
He screamed a silent scream of frustration as he flew across the sky. No! It won't be like last time! He'll make sure it won't!
Finding a compatible person isn't as easy as some would make you believe. Accommodator need to be compatible with both his body and soul, because of multiple reasons. For example you would find a compatible soul, but the body of said soul would be too weak to be capable of fighting. When a soul wasn't compatible, then in the best cases the Innocence wouldn't be able to activate, in the worst case the host would implode or explode or…well you get the idea.
But Crown found a little loop-hole in this. The sole reason why Innocence can't just enter a dead or any other body without a soul and take over, is because even if it has a level of self-awareness, it certainly isn't near the level of a human being, thus it wouldn't be capable to function by itself. Only exceptions are the Heart itself, which houses the 'soul' of Thirteenth and a piece of Innocence called Apocryphos, which is supposed to guard it. Apocryphos is even more special, because he has his own body – a present from god – even if it looks a little creepy…and disturbing.
So Crown only had to find a compatible body, easy enough…except it's not. Evidently his power is too much to be housed by anyone and it was beginning to piss hi…wait what's that?! It was weak and unstable but it was there, a signal! There was a person capable of housing him not far away from here! With light coming from his crystalline body burning even brighter from happiness he moved faster than before, speeding in the general direction of the signal.
Well…it wasn't exactly what he was expecting. He thought he was prepared for everything, but he sure as hell was not prepared for a still developing fetus in a ragged looking mother's womb to be the only thing on this planet capable of housing him. For a moment he though his senses were failing him, but the signal was still there. Oh whatever, he was not going to look a gifted horse in mouth, this was basically a miracle. Although he was a little sorry for the poor soul he was going to steal body from…
Meanwhile in Heaven
"What do you mean our rebirth isn't going to take place?!" yelled a fat man garbed in expensive looking clothes.
"I'm sorry mister Henry, but the body you were supposed to have had been already taken by somebody else. I'm sorry but I can do nothing about it," said angel responsible for people waiting for rebirth.
"We've waited in purgatory for ages and you refuse to give us what we deserve?! We're a king2! We'll get what…"
"Mister Henry, you are not a king anymore and even if you were, I'm much higher in hierarchy, so would you mind to shut up?! I'm starting to lose patience, so please go back to the damn purgatory, father-knows you still need it. If you look closer I think you'll find at least one of your wives down there. I'm quite sure that Miss Catherine is also waiting there. How about you go greet her?"
"NOOOOOOO!"
Back with Crown
He waited until the woman fell asleep before entering her body and then merging with the infant. Crown's crystal body merged with child's still incomplete heart while his consciousness began to work on the body's looks. Yes, it was selfish and it would make Earl's life a whole lot easier as he would recognize him without problem, but he didn't want to look like any other child from neighborhood. He wanted to look like himself.
He carefully changed the genes while he blessed his luck for entering the body so early in its development, such changes wouldn't have been possible if he was about to be born. He made it so that his hair would be silvery white and his eyes molten silver. He couldn't afford to have his skin black and white1 like before so he settled on pale skin tone native to England. He also couldn't afford to have the seven crosses on his forehead, as it would just look unnatural. Lastly he tweaked a little with the bone structure, but not much.
With that final upgrade he was satisfied. All he had to do now was to wait.
As it turned out, just waiting was pretty boring. Crown soon found himself browsing through his mother's memories. It wasn't all sunshine and unicorns. Apparently Margaret, which was his mother's name, grew up at streets and lived there for great part of her life. A few years ago she finally found a job and later bought a small rundown flat in the slums.
What disturbed him was that his existence was a result of her being raped in some back alley, when she was walking home.
Shame that she hasn't seen that pigs face clearly, he would have found the man and tortured him, then healed him, then tortured him again, then healed him again, then tor…ok, it's time to stop. Deep, slow breaths, count to ten…Oh maybe a too much of his siblings had rubbed of him. But still he would make that excuse for a man beg for death!
It saddened him to think that such a good person met such a fate. He'll make sure to give her everything she wanted in heaven, she deserved it.
Margaret POV
Why is fate so cruel to me? What have I ever done to deserve this? I barely have enough money to sustain myself, I can't take care of a child! Not that I blame the baby, it isn't its fault, but I am just so angry and devastated. My visions of better life and dream of finding a true love to give my virginity to shattered! I'm going to be fired, I can't work while pregnant, it's one of the rules. Ah…I guess I'll just cross the bridge when I get there, just like I always did and will always do.
3rd POV
Few months passed and nothing worth mentioning happened. Margaret still managed to go to work, but it was clear that she wouldn't be able to soon. Crown was glad that unlike normal parasitic Innocence, he didn't need that much nutrients sustaining him, so his mother was still capable of sustaining herself with almost same quantity of food.
After two more weeks Margaret gave up her job and was forced to spend the money she spared over the years.
Nothing else happened to the day of his birth, well, if you didn't count his mother falling deeper and deeper into poverty. Later, when somebody asked him how being born felt, he said it was damn uncomfortable. How would you feel, if you were pushed through a narrow canal in complete darkness? He was lucky he didn't develop claustrophobia from that experience. And then some idiot smacked his back a few times! This really made him want to cry…
Margaret POV
Oh god. Damn, shit, fuck, it hurts. It hurts like hell! Is this some kind of punishment? What did I do? Tell me, what did I do?!
I don't know, how long it took, but in the end I did it! I survived a labor!…The baby. What about my baby?! I was about to start panicking, but then I heard a loud cry.
"Congratulations, you have a healthy baby boy. He is strong and will survive, if you take a good care of him. Now…about my payment…"
…You just had to ruin it, didn't you? Such joyous moment and you had to ruin it by asking for payment?! Grrr…
"It's on the table. And now give me my baby."
When I was finally given my son, my breathing stopped for a second. He was beautiful. With tufts of white hair covering his head and silver eyes staring at me with wonder, he looked like a little angel.
"Allen. Your name will be Allen, my little angel."
1. I think I owe people explanation about this particular piece of information. You see, I didn't want the original look of Noah to be the same like the one they have now, so I tweaked with it a little and came up with this. Behold!
Their skin is black with white tattoos. For example Crown's/Allen's most prominent tattoo is on his right arm, which is completely white. (Take coloring of Crown clown, but reverse the colors and put it on another arm.)
They all have silver eyes, but different hair colors.
About the seven crosses, instead of being scars, they are more like little gemstones with different colors. For example Crown's/Allen's are green like Innocence, but Road's used to be purple.
2.I'm kinda curious if anybody will try to find out which king I was talking about. If somebody does or already knows, I deeply apologize if I offended you by my inaccuracy (To be honest I only looked at one article about him).
Have a nice day! *TheSevenArchangels*
