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Drabble #6 The order
Lenalee lifted her hand to her brow to block out the rays of the Sun that way she could see better. Not that she really expected to see anything. There was only the clear blue sky and the scorching orange sand to be seen.
They had been walking for a week and a half at most, and there had been absolutely nothing. In fact, Lenalee had begun to doubt Kanda. He had said three days at least and it had been four days since then.
But to her shock, she did see something. Something black and blurry.
"Hey! Is the thing were walking towards black?" Lenalee asked getting the attention of Allen and Kanda. Lavi just looked to see if Lenalee wasn't lying.
Allen shrugged, "I've actually never been there so I can't say. Kanda has though."
Now that caught Lavi's attention, "What?! You've never been to where ever 'there' is?"
"Y-yeah…" Allen said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. "I guess you could say Kanda recruited me. It is supposed to be an organization that works against the species known as Noah."
"Noah?" Lenalee questioned, feeling confused.
Lavi thought for a moment before saying, "Noah, like the gray people who like to kill witches and demons?"
"And ghosts." Allen added.
"Wait really?"
The white-haired teenager nodded, "yeah. Though they haven't targeted me yet. Master made me off the grid."
"Yet?" Lavi asked the same time Lenalee said, "Master?"
Allen sweat dropped, "Slow down with all the questions."
"Fine." Lavi and Lenalee pouted.
The ghost turned toward Kanda and wondered aloud, "Though is that what we're supposed to see?"
"Yeah. It calls itself the black order." Kanda replied. "It's pretty stupid."
"Then why are you still with them?"
"I have unfinished business with them."
Allen fell silent, hearing the distinct undertone of "it's none of your business." Though, of course Lavi didn't.
"Unfinished business?"
"None of your damn business, idiot rabbit."
"Anyway, shouldn't we hurry up that way we can get there before sunset?" Lenalee said defusing the mood causing Allen to shoot a grateful smile at her. Lenalee returned it with a grin of her own.
And so the group of four continued walking with the building in the distance slowly becoming more visible.
"F-finally," Lenalee panted, her hands on her knees, but her face only showed the joy of having arrived.
The building was black, or a rather dark grey, which caused the air around it to feel all the hotter and built out of bricks. It had two towers, though one seemed about to collapse. The door that stood in front of them was made out of a sturdy, chestnut tree and had several designs engraved in it.
Allen floated up to the door and raised his arm to knock only to be startled backwards. "The door just moved!"
"Have you never seen an enchanted door before, beansprout?" Kanda snickered and Allen blushed crimson, or he would've if he was alive.
"I had heard of them but I hadn't actually seen one till now."
"Well, are we going to knock or what?" Lavi wondered knowing that if he didn't interrupt now the ghost and the demon would go on forever.
"Che." Kanda strolled up to the door and said, "I'm back from the damn mission so open the fucking door before I tear down."
Lenalee gasped, appalled at his language, "Kanda!"
"Lena-lady, you're going to have to get used to it. You did come along with them." Lavi reasoned.
The witch glanced at him, "yeah, I know. I'm just not used to that sort of language…" Her brother had always prevented people from speaking like that if she had been present. So, needless to say, she still hadn't grown to used it.
"Y-yes, sir!"
"Ah! Who- no, what was that?" Allen jumped.
This time it was Lavi who laughed, "I didn't know you were magically challenged, Allen."
"I-I'm not!" Allen cried out, "I just never associated with witches all that much… or anything that was magickied really…."
"How? Nearly everything these days has a spell on it… Oh. You meant when you were alive…" Lavi trailed off, feeling slightly guilty of teasing the boy.
"Yeah. Mana always stayed away from things like that." He said with his eyes shining brighter than usual. "So I did too. Man- Oh, sorry I must be boring you guys."
Lavi's eye narrowed, Allen didn't like anybody knowing about his past but Lavi was going to have to find out something. He needed to, after all, if he didn't then he could no longer call himself a scribe.
Creak.
Everyone except Allen (he just floated upwards) and Kanda jumped at the sound. The dark colored door had opened and there were several people standing inside waiting to greet them.
"Hey, Kanda. Nice to see you've brought people for once." One of them said, he had spikey blonde hair and he seemed to be a higher up as not just anybody could talk to Kanda that way. (Lavi had learned the hard way.)
"Johnny, lead the new recruits to the cafeteria that way they can eat while we explain things. I'm going to ask Kanda how it went."
Johnny signaled for them to follow him and started walking with the group at his heels.
Allen's eyes sparkled at the thought of food, oh, how he had craved it during their hard and treacherous journey across the desert.
"Um, is this, er- normal?" The guy named Johnny said staring at Allen, who had drool coming from out of his mouth.
"Yes, he likes food even though he's a ghost." Lenalee answered with a smile.
"A ghost! So they really are translucent. I've never seen one before, I actually thought they were existent."
"Well, he said the Noah, I think, were chasing down ghosts…"
"We had our suspicions but we were never certain."
"Oh, I see."
Johnny turned once more before exclaiming, "Here's the cafeteria! Everything's free, so just tell the cook, Jerry, what you want."
Allen rushed over to the counter and ordered what he wanted, which, as usual, was a lot. Lenalee and Lavi joined him.
Once they had gotten what they wanted, they sat down together at an empty table and waited for the people to explain what was happening and what exactly they did.
The spikey haired man showed up at the entrance of the big room and looked around before spotting them. He waved and walked over.
"Hey! The name's Reever. Just realized I hadn't introduced myself."
"I'm Allen Walker."
"Lenalee, pleased to meet you!"
"Lavi, how do you do?"
"Pleased to meet you too, and I'm doing fine at the moment. Though what I want to know is why you kids, you guys don't look much older than eighteen, want to join us?"
Lavi was the first to answer, "I was just told to record what they do so I guess you could say, I'm just in it for the ride."
Reever turned towards Lenalee who shifted uncomfortably before opening her lips.
"Um, I just came here with Allen to take the burden of me off my brother's shoulders."
"I see. You really are a good child. Shame you have to be dragged into this." Reever muttered before turning his gaze to Allen.
"I have history with the people who have been turned and they've also been killing off ghosts." Allen stated with a polite smile plastered on his face.
"Is that how you got that scar?"
Both Lenalee and Lavi discreetly leaned closer towards Allen to hear his answer.
"No… I got it when I was turned into a ghost."
"Oh. Uh," Reever fumbled as he tried to switch the subject as it was getting rather awkward. What to say, what to sa- Oh! "How was your trip?"
"It was fine…"
Once he was done telling his tale with Lavi and Lenalee adding a couple random facts here and there, Reever cleared his throat.
"So I am sure you have questions about us so I'm going to explain things and then if you still have questions I will answer them, ok?"
They nodded in agreement.
"Alright. So we call ourselves The Black Order and we deal in protecting citizen of this world, whether witch, ghost, or demon from the invasive Noah species. There are three that we know about however, we have heard there are thirteen in total. The tree that we know are called Tyki, Road, and the first one to have been recorded in scribe scrolls, the Earl. The Earl is the one we believe to cause the miasma that creates their followers, akuma." Reever took a breath before continuing.
"The miasma seems to cause a soul to shrivel till it's just an empty shell waiting for someone to tell it what to do. However, they only obey the Noah which makes us think the miasma contains a substance that programs the soul in a certain way, however we have been unable to test it out as no one wants to take the risk of being turned into one. Those are the basics that you needed to know and while it may sound overwhelming now, you'll get used to it soon. I ask that Lenalee as a witch help us fight the akuma as she is capable of performing a spell from long distance. Lavi you could help find information on them. And Allen… Well, I've never met a ghost before so I don't know what you can do."
Reever scratched his head, sheepishly.
Allen smiled, "I will fight with Lenalee."
"Really?" Reever's eyes widened in surprise.
"Yes, ghosts can't die unless the thing holding them from passing on is destroyed."
"Oh, I see. Very well then, you will fight." Reever said before grinning, "why don't we get to know each other some more?"
Lenalee nodded, "Yes, let's. I'm very curious about what happens here."
"Well…"
The group continued talking for a long spell and both parties grew to like one another. Eventually, Reever officially made them members of the Black Order who fought against the Noah and their followers, most commonly known as akuma.
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