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Day 7
"So why do I have to go?" I asked groggily as I was awoken at four o' clock in the morning. I mean I usually woke up around five-thirty but now I just lost an hour and a half of sleep. I just hope Lenalee had something important to do and needed me for it.
"Because I haven't seen you in a while ever since I got back from my mission. And besides, I know nothing about you." She explained as she dragged me through the silent halls that was void of any life except for us. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes as I adjusted my Exorcist coat and put my spiked hair up in a lazy ponytail. Lenalee was wearing her tight fitting Exorcist coat with her skirt and thigh high boots which I heard was her Innocence.
"That's something I would say, I don't even know what your Innocence looks like." I said when we reached the edge of the island like platform the Black Order rested on, the sun starting to rise from the horizon. She turned around and suddenly her boots started to glow green and they suddenly morphed into shorter boots with semi-circles with crosses embedded in them.
"Grab my hand." She said and I did what she requested. Then she knelt down and sprang back up, launching the two of us into the air at imaginable speeds, and I almost lost my grip with my semi gloved hands but regained it by grabbing her forearms with each of my hands.
"Whoa, how is this possible?! We're flying?!" I shouted over the wind as I dangled from her hold on me as we approached the upcoming town. She glanced down at me and giggled at my expression.
"They're called the Dark Boots! They give me extra speed and flight!" She yelled back as the water rushed beneath us. Soon we were safely back on solid ground but I was still a little shocked from the experience, Lenalee then deactivated her boots. I looked around to find ourselves in the middle of a town that was just waking up as well. The shop owners swept their doorsteps and vendors sold fresh food.
"So tell me why did we come here again? Does Komui even know that we're gone?" I asked as we walked down the brick road, eyeing the shops and items for sale.
"So we could spend some time together. And no, Komui wouldn't let me go anywhere without him watching over me." Lenalee sighed as she shook her head. Suddenly my Golem started to flutter wildly in my face along with Lenalee's. I realized a message was trying to play but then I heard footsteps clomp their way towards me. I look up to find a man around seventeen, with ruffled red hair, a black eye patch, and he had the Exorcist coat on. My eyes widened when I realized that he was about to tackle me.
"She's just my type!" He shouted as he hugged me tightly, shaking me in the process as I tried to pry him off me.
"Lavi! Stop that!" Lenalee scolded as she pulled us apart. Talk about first impressions, this guy was creepier than Kanda! I could tell he already has a lovesick personality, there's no way I'm ever being his type! The man, Lavi apparently, dusted himself off and flashed me a grin.
"I'm Lavi Bookman, one of the Exorcist at the Black Order. Haven't seen you before but I noticed that fashionable coat you're wearing." Lavi complemented, tugging at the cuff of my rolled up sleeves. I jerked my arm back, giving him a questioning look as I readjusted my elbow high finger-less gloves.
"I'm Sasha Wright and I joined the Black Order a week ago. It's... Nice to meet you." I finished as I shook his hand, a little uneasy of his fetish of me. Suddenly his smirk wiped off his face when a flying kick reached Lavi's cheek, sending him to the ground. I resisted the urge to laugh and so did Lenalee when I saw that Lavi was taken down by and old man with black circles around his eyes and a little swirl of white hair sticking up from his head.
"Wow, you got beat by an old man!" I called out and I started to laugh. The old man glared at me, pulled out a book and smashed it against my head. "Ow! What was that for?" I called at him as I rubbed my head.
"Yeah Old Panda, it's not nice to hit girls!" Lavi replied as he slowly stood up and rubbed his cheek. First the "Old Panda" glared at Lavi and yelled, "I told you countless of times not to slack off!" Then he pointed to me, "And you respect your elders!"
"Oh sorry for giving you credit for beating up your pupil." I muttered under my breath as Lavi smirked at my soft comment, luckily the old guy didn't hear me.
"My name is Bookman, and I assume you've met Lavi the slacker."
"Hey I have to have fun too you know!" He cried out as Bookman punched him in the arm. "We both work for the Black Order. Who are you?"
"Her name is Sasha Wright and she joined a we-"
"I didn't ask you!" Bookman yelled as he hit Lavi with his thick book.
"That's Lavi for you." Lenalee chuckled sympathetically as Lavi recovered from the blow. Bookman turned to face Lenalee with a tired smile. "It's nice to see you again my dear." He said as Lenalee smiled back.
"Same to you. So where did you come back from?" She asked.
"We just came from the mountains in the North. There were people saying the mountain goats performed strange weather depending on their mood." Lavi explained. That was actually really idiotic to believe, magical goats who controlled the weather? What a laugh!
"So your saying the two of you defeated magical goats and ripped the Innocence from their corpses? Kind of hard to believe." I added, trying to imagine the scene.
"Basically, wasn't as easy as that though."
"Enough of this chit-chat. I need to bring our report to Chief Komui." Bookman said as he walked passed the three of us and headed towards the Black Order. Lenalee waved as he disappeared out of sight.
"Wow, this is a weird day so far." I said out loud as I turned to face the two other Exorcist. Suddenly a boy around ten came running up to us, his face etched with terror and sweat. He stopped with his hands on his knees and Lenalee asked what's wrong.
"I-It's my friends! These monsters just appeared and they're chasing us!" The boy choked out, tears threatening to fall. The three of us looked at each other with determined faces and we dashed in the direction the boy pointed. We ran down the road and turned right to find a hoard of Akuma, at least a dozen of them, chasing three kids and preparing to fire their cannons. Lenalee took action and activated her Dark Boots, diving in and grabbing the three of them and hiding them somewhere.
"Get ready!" Lavi called as he pulled out a tiny hammer. What was that going to do?
"I'm always ready!" I called back as I activated my Steel Daggers, making Lavi give me a weird expression. I leaped up and dodged the poisonous bullets, slamming my claws into their deformed masks and tearing downward. I landed on my feet as an Akuma dived towards me. I prepared to tear it apart but suddenly a enormous hammer comes out of nowhere and crushed the Akuma into the ground. I glance to my left to see that Lavi is holding the hilt of the hammer with ease. How did it get so big, was this hammer his Innocence?
Lenalee plummeted from the sky and came into contact with two Akuma, smashing them into dust with the heel of her boots. The three of us destroyed the enemy pretty quickly, only leaving three Akuma fleeing towards the forest.
"I got them! Check for more Akuma and make sure everyone is safe!" I barked out as I sprinted after the Akuma. Lavi gave me a worried look but followed Lenalee when she placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder. Soon I entered the forest but couldn't find the Akuma. I turned around to find one lingering behind me and I quickly destroyed it. Soon the second one popped up and then the third and they were all destroyed.
"Looks like that's done and over with." I muttered to myself as I turned to leave the dense forest I blindly went into. Suddenly I heard a branch snap and whipped my head around to find a dark cloaked man peeking behind a tree. He suddenly took off running and I pursued him. I dodged branches and uprooted trees as I got closer to the suspicious figure. I grabbed his wrist with my rough hand and pinned it on a tree above his head. He smirked under his hood as I slammed my forearm against his chest.
"Who are you?" I demanded as I pressed harder but got no reaction from him.
"I can't believe you don't remember me. I never did expect you to, after all, you did want to escape your guilt." He spoke with fake sympathy dripping from his voice. I honesty never met this guy and I couldn't tell what he looked like because the sun barely shone through the thick trees.
"You didn't answer my question! I don't know who you're talking about!" I spat out as I twisted his wrist and pressed my blade against his throat. He only smirked at my demand and snapped his fingers. Suddenly my feet began to sink into the dirt and when I looked down, the forest floor was quicksand. I Struggled to get my feet out but made it worse. The stranger then kneed me in the stomach, sending me to my knees which was quickly devoured by the sand.
I felt restraints on my hands and they were huge black and red snakes swirling up my arms. My dark eyes widened in panic as my thighs disappeared under the sand, no sign of Lavi and Lenalee. The man stepped forward and knelt on one knee, not even sinking in the sand as he roughly grabbed my jaw.
"What am I supposed to be guilty about? You're probably pondering that while your sinking lower and lower, aren't you? Well, I'm just going to give you a hint: No bonfires on your birthday." He said with hatred dripping from his dark voice as he patted my cheek. "Now I must be going, if you see others like me, ask for Travan."
With a flick of his hand, he created a dark circular hole that seemed like a way of traveling. With a wave of his hand, the hooded figure stepped into the hole and it closed behind him. I returned my attention back to the quicksand that was climbing up my neck and the snakes were hissing at my shoulders. They bared their fangs and sunk them into my skin and through my coat, making me scream in agony. As if on cue, Lavi and Lenalee broke through the bush and noticed me.
"Sasha, are you okay? What happened?" Lenalee cried, dropping to her knees by my side and checking for any injuries.
"Get the snakes off of me! The quicksand is rising, you have to get me out!" I cried out as I shifted in the stiff sand. They both gave me questioning looks and Lavi stepped forward.
"Sasha, there is no quicksand or snakes. What happened?" He said carefully as I looked my arms and the snakes were gone and the quicksand disappeared. Instead, Lenalee ripped what looked like poison ivy off my arms and Lavi rolled two big logs off my legs. I sat up carefully, noticing the small wounds on my shoulders were still bleeding. I know I didn't hallucinate all that. That man was real and I could feel the sand pulling me in and the snake's scales.
"Oh... I need to go back to Headquarters. I need to go see Komui about something. I don't know if I'm hallucinating or if I really saw that man." I explained as I deactivated my arms and the two of them helped me walk back through the village. But how could that man know of my family's death from that fire... On my birthday. That person couldn't have known that information because the only person I told that to was Kanda and that wasn't him. People don't come back from the dead either so there's something going on and I might be in the middle of this big mess.