Tranquil Darkness part 1.1
Title: Tranquil Darkness
Author: Dark Angel Kaos
Fandom: D.Gray-Man
Pairings: Allen x Kanda (AreKan)
Rating: PG-18
Warnings: Yaoi, shonen ai, blood, gore, death, language, OOC-ness, vampires
Genre: AU, supernatural, action, angst
Disclaimer: …still don’t own…sucks huh?
Summery: In order to continue living Allen made a deal with a Shinigami, in return he must slay the vampire lord. Allen accepts and goes to fulfill the requirement but he didn’t count on falling madly in love with said vampire lord. Now he must chose between life and death. Twoshot! AreKan!
A/N: Hey ya’ll!! I know I know…I should be working on Default and not writing new fanfics…I know but~ it’s not like I’m not working on Default, it’s just ya know…I do have a very reasonable excuse as to why it and all my other fanfics are really late…tell ya at the end k. Anyway since Default will no doubt be late here’s something to sink your teeth into hehehe. Hope this keeps ya’ll entertained and happy while I sort myself out. The setting should be a normal old age seventeen century thing or the same setting as the anime. R&R o-n-e-g-a-i ♥!!!!
Enjoy!!!
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Part One
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Four boys ran across the empty field engaged in some sort of game. Their giggles and laughter echoed, shattering the calmness that was once present. One of the boys - seeming the youngest - stopped his hands across his chest in a pout.
“Allen-nii Ryuu is tired.” he whined.
The one called Allen chuckled to himself and stopped causing the other two boys to stop also. He ran his hands through his thick brown hair and turned to face the younger child. His mouth opened to say something but the other two - twins - beat him to it.
“Aw look at this poor lil’ Ryuu-chan tired already!” the first one taunted.
“Haha he can’t even play a game of tag!” the second one chirped.
Ryuu looked at them angrily; his emerald eyes began to water. Allen sighed as he watched Mira and Kira continue to tease Ryuu who looked like he will burst into tears any minute now.
“Oi! Stop it you two.” he gave both of them a small but slightly painful tap on their heads. “Stop picking on poor Ryuu.”
“Ow!!”
“Allen-nii!!”
Both complained.
“You two deserved it.” Ryuu pointed his tongue at them.
Allen patted Ryuu on his head. Ryuu pouted at being treated like a kid. He pushed Allen’s hand off his head.
“Allen-nii stop treating Ryuu like a kid!” he complained.
Allen had to chuckle.
“But you are a kid Ryuu.” Allen replied. “You’re what, five years old?”
At that the twins chimed in.
“Ha ha we’re older so Ryuu is a baby!” the older twin ‘Mira’ began.
“Yeah so we can pick on you.” the younger one ‘Kira’ added with glee.
“No you can’t.” Allen added. “You two are still babies too you know.” he chuckled. “Four years isn’t much.”
The twins pouted causing Allen to laugh.
“Aw you two are just too cute.” his laughter died down. “Come one you two shouldn’t make a cute face like that, it’s my weakness.”
At that the twins blushed, their pale blue eyes shone in embarrassment.
“Allen-nii!” Ryuu complained he didn’t like the fact that Allen was calling Mira and Kira cute. “What about Ruu! Ryuu cute too ne?”
“Of course, Ryuu-chan is really cute” Allen replied without hesitation, he was the only one who could use the -chan suffix with Ryuu and he wouldn’t be mad.
Ryuu blush darkened exceptionally when Allen called him ‘Ryuu-chan’, whenever the twins called him that it always sounds teasing and when Lenalee or Komui uses it he feels like a baby but when Allen calls him like that…he always blush.
“Ah look at the time, its after nine already? Lets head back guys.” Allen said, he just checked his watch and was surprised to see how late it was, “Komui and Lenalee must be really worried by now.” he shuddered as a mental image of an angry and worried Lenalee passed through his mind.
The twin however didn’t fell like leaving.
“But Allen-nii we haven’t finished playing yet!” Mira whined.
“Yeah!” Kira added.
They were eager to continue their game of tag.
“Ryuu is tired so we have to head back, besides it’s already past your curfew.” Allen said in a voice that will have no arguments.
“But…”
“No buts.” Allen took Ryuu’s hand in his. “Come one you two we don’t want to get scolded by Lenalee do we?”
Ryuu turned back to look at the twins, wincing at the glare they sent his way. ‘Oh no they are angry with Ryuu.’ His head bowed when he realized he was the one that ruined the fun. Tears welled up in his eyes.
“Ryuu what is the matter?”
Ryuu quickly wiped the tears from his eyes and looked up at Allen.
“Ryuu not tired anymore.” Ryuu lied. “Ryuu can still play!”
Allen’s face creased in worry.
“Don’t push yourself so much.” he tried to dissuade him.
“Ryuu isn’t.” Ryuu protested. “Ryuu can play!”
Allen shook his head with a sigh, ‘When Ryuu is determined there’s no stopping him.’
“Ok.” he gave in. “But we’ll play hide and seek. You three hide and I’ll come find you.”
“Okay!” all three cheered, running off to hide.
“Don’t go too far!” Allen yelled after them, he sighs when they continued running towards the junk yard. “*sigh* Oh well, time to count to ten.”
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Mira and Kira chuckled to themselves at their perfect hiding place. They can see Allen when he tries to find them. It was perfect! Allen would find Ryuu first and then they’ll win!
“He he he we’ll win for sure.” Mira chuckled.
“True! Allen-nii won’t find us here!” Kira added.
“I guess so, right?”
“Yep!” Mira and Kira nodded, and then stopped. They turned towards the voice that they heard and almost shouted when they saw Allen.
“Hehehe found ya!” Allen chuckled, but something caught his attention and he stopped, his eyes widened in fear.
“Aw we los-mmph.” both of their mouths were clamped shut by Allen’s hand, they looked up to glare and complain but the look in Allen’s eyes made then gulp.
Allen looked scared, completely terrified. He shushed them and brought their head down inside the old carriage. After a while he let them go.
“We need to get out of here.” Allen said as soon as his hand moved from their mouths. “Where is Ryuu?”
“We don’t know…” Mira felt scared now and so did Kira.
“Allen-nii what’s going on?” Kira asked.
Allen didn’t answer them. He just stared ahead.
“Allen-nii!!” both yelled softly, everything was getting scary; they just wanted to go home.
“Go home and don’t look back, I’m going to go find Ryuu.” Allen said finally, his voice taking on an authoritive tone. “It’s dangerous to stay here any longer. I have a feeling something bad will happen, go to Komui and tell him to call the police.”
“P-p-police?”
Allen expression softened when he saw the scared look Mira and Kira were giving him. ‘Way to go Allen you’re scaring the kids.'
“Don’t worry just go now, they entered the dump already so it’s clear.” Allen said trying to calm them down. “I promise you, I’ll find Ryuu and come home okay so don’t cry.”
“…okay.” they sniffed.
They got up hesitantly and pushed the door to the old carriage open, before the left they turned back to Allen their right pinky finger extended.
“Promise.” they whispered.
Allen smiled taking both fingers with his two.
“Yeah I promise.”
They nodded no longer sad as they knew their Allen-nii always keeps his promise. They smiled brightly their way of saying ‘hurry up and get back’. Allen nodded and flashed them a genuine smile as his reply. Satisfied they jumped out of the carriage and ran off to the direction of their orphanage.
Allen watched until they were across the clearing and weren’t in his line of sight anymore. He sighed in relief that they were able to escape. Now all he has to do now is find Ryuu and get out before those bad guys find them.
He shuddered as he remembered what he saw awhile ago. Four guys with guns and a muscled guy carrying two men bound and gagged over his shoulder - no doubt on their way to be killed - but that wasn’t what scared him still. It was the symbol they wore. ‘Sharks’…that gang was the most ruthless and deadliest gang in all of England. No one ever survive an encounter with them and if there were witnesses none ever survived. They kill anyone even women and children…leave no one alive…that’s their policy.
‘Ryuu where are you?’
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“Allen-nii won’t find Ryuu here!” Ryuu chuckled to himself; he hid behind a large pile of garbage, mostly metal pots and pin. It surrounds him like a makeshift fort.
“Oi get there!”
Huh? Ryuu’s head perked up at the unfamiliar voice. ‘That’s not Allen-nii…who’s that?’ He peeps out to see who was with him. A gasp almost escapes his lip at what he saw. ‘W-who a-a-are tho..se p-people?’ He trembled almost knocking over a can from the pile.
‘Ryuu needs to get out of here…’ but was too scared to move, tears flood his eyes. ‘Allen-nii please help Ryuu.’
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“Damn it!” Allen cursed, he looked all over the places that were unoccupied by the Shark gang but Ryuu wasn’t anywhere there. Now the only place he could be is the gang was…shit he might already be…No! He shakes his head. There’s no way he’ll think that! Ryuu is alive and he’s going to find him.
A low mummer of voices to the left caught his attention. He hurried over to that side carefully hiding among the garbage.
‘There they are…’ he looked around frantically behind his hiding place, ‘but where is Ryuu.’
He got up, crawling over to a different angle.
‘Ryuu!!’
He felt really relieved, but it from the distance they were from each other it would be hard to get to Ryuu without gaining unwanted attention. ‘At least they haven’t started killing yet’ that was the only good thing about the situation. He tried again to locate a safe route to get to Ryuu and smiled when he spotted a pile of rubbish that he could hide behind. It was closer to where Ryuu is, but he’ll need a distraction to get there. He got on all fours and picked up a stone.
‘It’s a good thing their backs are to us.’ He threw the stone to the right effectively gaining their attention to it.
“What’s that?” one the men, presumably the boss asked, he gestured to one of the guys. “Go check it out.”
The guy nodded walking to the direction where Allen threw the stone. Allen used the opportunity to crawl over to the pile. He waited a while before crawling over to where Ryuu was.
Ryuu was on the ground hugging himself by his knees in a fetal position with tears streaming down his cheeks. Allen felt his heart quake at the sight, Ryuu was trembling and it was clear that he was very scared.
He crawled closer to Ryuu putting his hand carefully on his messy thick black hair in a comforting way. Ryuu stopped trembling; scared emerald eyes met relieved dark brown ones.
“Alle-“ Ryuu quickly placed his hands over his mouth when he saw Allen place his index finger on his lip, he was happy. ‘Allen-nii came! He came for Ryuu!’
“Ryuu follow me, we need to get away from here as quickly as possible.” Allen whispered softly. “Don’t make a sound okay.”
Ryuu nodded vigorously showing that he understood. Allen smiled in relieved and was about to take Ryuu in his arms so that he could lead him away but the voice of one of the Shark’s captives yelled.
“Oh God! Please don’t kill me!!” he cried out as soon as the gag was removed.
The boss laughed, a smirk formed on his lips.
“You betrayed the Shark’s by selling information to the police, I say its only fair that your punishment is death.” his smirk widened as he nodded to one of the guys beside him.
“Got’cha boss.”
There wasn’t anytime to prepare properly, the guy fired hitting the pleading guy seven times. The shots were loud scaring Ryuu even more. Allen had both his hands over Ryuu’s ears while he held him protectively in his arms, as a way to protect him from what was happening.
The other guy shook in fear as he watched one of his closest friends die before his eyes. After all it was his fault; he was the one that suggested that they sell information to the police. His fear rose when he saw the boss turn to face him.
“You’re next.”
The trembling increased.
His hands moved quickly behind him, working the blade he had on the rope tying his legs together. He’s been at it for a while now, the blade is a bit dull but he’s trying his best.
A relieved smile crossed his lips as the rope came apart. He turned his attention to the guy with the gun ready to let him to let him taste lead. It had to be timed perfectly if not he’ll die for sure.
“Oh well.” the boss drawled obviously bored. “Sayonara.”
Just before the gun fired he got up dashing to the left so that he was almost behind them. A smile crossed his lips as he thought he would survive. Before he could take another step he stilled then fell to the ground in a blooded heap thanks to the quick shooting of the other two guys that was there.
Four stray bullets whizzed past the guy and towards where Allen and Ryuu hid, embedded themselves in Allen’s left arm. He screamed out in pain, tears welled up in his eyes as the pain grasped him.
‘It hurts! It hurts!! It hurts!!’ He repeated over and over in his head as his blood gushed out staining his white shirt and Ryuu’s face.
“Allen-nii?” Ryuu mouthed against his hand. He was afraid because there was so much sticky red stuff flowing from Allen’s hand and he didn’t know what was causing it.
“What was that noise?” the boss yelled turning to the direction Allen was.
Allen still had his hand over Ryuu’s mouth hoping they’d just leave, but when he heard the boss yell ‘go search there by that pile of garbage’ he felt all hope die. He had to make a choice, it was either both of them die which was something Allen wouldn’t let happen to Ryuu no matter what or he’d help Ryuu to escape. He smiled slightly despite the pain. ‘That’s an easy choice…’
“Ryuu I want you to follow this path round here,” he pointed to a narrow passage to their left, “you remember it right?” he asked removing his hand from Ryuu’s mouth.
“Uh uh.” Ryuu replied with a small nod.
“Remember that fence…with the hole?” his breaths were getting harder to take. “I want you to go through there and…run home okay.”
“But…but what about Allen-nii?”
“I’ll be fine.” Allen replied his vision became blurred. “Make sure you run and don’t stop…until you reach home…”
Ryuu started to cry.
“It’s okay I’ll be fine.” Allen repeated in a way to reassure the younger boy. “Please Ryuu go now…”
Ryuu was hesitant but he got up, before he did what Allen told him to he leaned forward giving Allen a sloppy kiss on his lips.
“Ryuu loves Allen-nii.” was all he said then he ran as fast as he could to the fence where the hole was.
Allen smiled sadly with his fingers tracing his lips. ‘I’m sorry Ryuu…’ In order to get the attention away from Ryuu he kicked the pile of pans before him. They fell down bringing all the attention to him.
“Oh what do we have here?” the boss smiled as he saw Allen’s blooded state. “A sneaky brat who got caught eavesdropping.”
Allen grunted, his vision fading from the loss of blood.
“Boys hand me my Sheryl.” the boss smirked as Allen struggled to get up in a feeble attempt to escape them.
Allen staggered back once he was on his feet.
*Bang*
A shot fire, hitting him right in his left eye. His body fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes. He felt paralyzed, not even a scream passed his lips.
“Boss lets leave him.” one of the guys yelled.
“The cops are on our trails.” the other added.
The boss smirked seeming to himself, everything around him was painted in his favorite colour. He felt proud of his handiwork.
“Two dead, no torture involved but somehow I’m satisfied.” he replied before looking into Allen’s slowly dying eye. “Tough luck brat, you were at the wrong place at the wrong time.” he chuckled. “Say hello to your maker for me.”
With that said they left disappearing into the over of the night.
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“Where in god’s name are those boys!” a female voice cried, her dark purple eyes gleam in rage and worry.
“Calm down Lenalee I’m sure they’re fine.” a fatherly voice cooed.
Lenalee shook her head, her two pigtails swaying on each side.
“Komuii nii-chan they’re late! Allen would never have the boys out this late!” she sobbed, worry lacing her entire being.
Komui felt his heart quake just seeing his sister like that.
“It’s okay Lenalee I’m sure they are just playing somewhere.” he tried his best to comfort his little sister, but somehow he couldn’t help but fell that something will no doubt go wrong.
“Komuii oji-can…Lenalee oba-chan.”
Both turn to the tiny voice calling them; there they saw a small child no older than three with short pink hair that fell down around her head. She held a small patched up teddy bear in her right hand while in her left she had a dull pink blanket.
“Kuu-chan what are you doing up?” Lenalee asked, a smile immediately in place. “Come on lets get you back to bed right away.”
“Where’s daddy?” Kuu looked around. “And Mira-nii and Kira-nii and Ryuu-nii?”
Lenalee tried to keep her smile in place as she answered kuu.
“They are still out playing, sweetie come on lets go to bed.”
Suddenly Kuu burst into tears.
“No!” she cried. “Kuu-chanu had a scary dream! Daddy always made the scary dream go away! I want daddy!!”
Lenalee stooped down and held Kuu in her arms in a comforting way.
“Hush little Kuu-chan, its okay everything will be alright. It was just a dream.” she cooed rubbing Kuu’s back in a comforting way.
Kuu hiccupped, and her tears began to lessen. Just then the door burst open and Mira and Kira rushed in.
“Komuii oji-san!!”
Relief washed over Lenalee’s features when she saw them, but that soon died when she saw their ruffled anxious state and also the fact that Ryuu and Allen were not with them.
“Boys what is the matter? Why are you so late?” Komuii asked as soon as the boys caught their breaths. “Where are Ryuu and Allen?”
“The police!” Mira yelled in a rush.
“Call the police!” Kira added.
“Police? Why? What is gong on?” Komuii demanded. ‘This can not be good…’
Both started talking at once making everything sound confusing and hard to understand.
“Boys! Boys!” Komui called trying to get their attention, once he had it he sighed. “Calm down you two, just take a deep breath and tell me why I need to call the police.”
Both boys took deep breaths then spoke. In their own symmetrical way they told Komuii what happened, about the hide and seek game, how Allen found them and the scared look on his face when he told them to run home.
“Shark…” was all Komuii said after he heard what they had to say. “Oh no.” he sobbed. “The boys…”
“Nii-san!” Lenalee called, she let go of Kuu and stood up. “We have to find them, I’ll go down to the station right away!”
Komuii eyes were grave.
“Lenalee there is nothing the police can do…”
“What do you mean by that nii-san?” Lenalee asked, tears streaming down her cheeks. “Are you saying we must sit here and do nothing while we let two of our family members die?”
Komuii stayed silent.
“Well?!!” Lenalee demanded.
“Where’s daddy?”
Lenalee froze as Kuu came up to stand beside her. She tried her best to look as calm as her worry induce mind would let her.
“He’ll be back soon okay.” she assured. “I promise.”
Kuu smiled, she knew her daddy will some back really soon because her oba-chan Lenalee promised and Lenalee obaa-chan always keeps her promise.
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The air around him felt cold lining thickly with the scent of blood. It made him want to puke, but for some strange reason he didn’t feel any pain he just felt cold and numb as if he was dropped into the Antarctic Ocean…ice cold and freezing.
‘So cold…’the feeling was unreal. ‘Is this what death is like?’ He shuddered to think that. Dying…his one good eye watered at the thought. ‘I don’t want to die.’
“Another mess *sigh* time to clean up.” a deep voice muttered in annoyance.
Allen stared towards where the voice came from. There he saw a figure strangely shrouded in darkness. It wore a hooded robe that hid his face from view and in his hands he held a large scary - but enchanting - looking scythe. To anyone he would look like a Shinigami.
The Shinigami look alike raised his scythe, instantly the souls of all the persons who lay dead before him rose out of their bodies and flew to him. Using the scythe he slashed their souls in half sending then to their rightful place. Allen’s eye widened at what he saw. ‘Will this happen to me too?’ He wondered, not liking his soul being ripped in half on bit.
“Can you see me mortal?”
If Allen could feel his body or even move it a bit he would have screamed or trembled in fear at the deep voice.
“Ye..yeah…”
“Ah so you’re not dead yet, but you’ll be soon enough.” the Shinigami replied, he sat his scythe down and sat before Allen. “Lets see you have about four minutes top before you kick the bucket, I guess I can wait.”
‘Kick the bucket?’ Allen felt terrified. He looked at the Shinigami his eyes pleading.
“…I do…n’t want…to…die.” his voice was hoarse.
“Everyone always says that.” the Shinigami shrugged. “But its better if you die now, you’re young, you’ll keep your youth.”
Allen tried to shake his head, but realized he couldn’t move. He felt strained and restricted…his heart beat began to slow down.
“Ah its time for the final stages.” the Shinigami voiced out loud. “Poor kid dying slowly is painful isn’t it?” his voice took on a playful edge, it was a sickly cheery tone. “Ah before you die tell me your name, I may come to visit you on the other side.”
Allen didn’t know why but he was compelled to tell the death god his name even if he didn’t have the strength to.
“…All…en…Wal…ker.”
“Walker?” there was a weird sort of cheer in the Shinigami’s voice. ‘Perfect.’ “A member of the Walker family huh, interesting very interesting.”
Allen’s heart beat starts to fade as time begins to run out on him. The four minutes that he had before already became less than a minute.
The Shinigami seemed to smile as he counted his good luck. ‘A Walker descendant, how perfect can this get? He will be able to succeed where others have failed after all vampire slaying is in his blood.’ He turned to face Allen.
……20……19……18……17……
“Tell you what mortal, I’ll make a deal with you.” he began, an eerie air surround him. “I will postpone your death, stop it even so that you can continue living but in return you must do something for me.”
…….9……8……7…….6……..5…….
“What do you say Allen Walker?”
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“Ye…s.”
The Shinigami grabbed his hood and pulled it back revealing his gruesome rotted skull face. Once his face was revealed it was like all time stopped. He took up his scythe and slashed over Allen cutting a string of invisible chains that paralyzed him.
“I will grant you your life Allen Walker and bestow upon you a great power to assist you in your mission.”
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No one could sleep, not until they were positive Allen and Ryuu were alright. It’s been roughly twenty three minutes since the twins came back.
Allen five of them sat in the living room, waiting. Kuu stayed up too as she wanted to make sure that her daddy came back to her. She was about to nod off to sleep but the sound of the door being opened made her eyes stay open.
“Daddy!!” she yelled running to the front door with Lenalee, Komui, Mira and Kira close behind her.
The person at the door turned out to be Ryuu. Lenalee screamed when she saw his blooded state.
“Ryuu! Oh my god Ryuu!!” she ran to him fussing over his appearance. “Where does it hurt? Oh my so much blood.”
“Ryuu doesn’t hurt.” Ryuu cried. “The red stuff came from Allen-nii’s hand when Allen-nii hid Ryuu from the loud noise.”
Lenalee felt as if she would faint after she heard what Ryuu. ‘Allen…Allen got shot?’ Tears welled up in her eyes. ‘Allen…’
“Ryuu…where is Allen?”
Ryuu cried as he told them what happened. How Allen told him to run and how he stayed back to make sure that he got away. When he was finished Lenalee burst into tears. She fell to the floor sobbing wildly. Komuii had his hand on her shoulder in a comforting way as he tried to hold back his tears. The twins held each other sobbing quietly as they didn’t want anyone to know that they were crying. Kuu however had no idea what was going on so she walked up to Lenalee to find out.
“Lenalee oba-chan. Is daddy coming back?” her voice was an innocent inquiry. “And why is Ryuu-nii so red?”
Lenalee continued to cry as she held Kuu close to her all the while whispering ‘I’m sorry’ over and over. Kuu was about to ask why she was apologizing but then it hit her. Tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes as she wailed, the severity of the situation finally sinking in.
Lenalee broke her promise, her daddy wasn’t coming back.
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“Mission?” Allen asked the air no longer felt as stifling as it was before. “What mission?”
“The deal you made for your life,” the skull face seemed to smile, “consider it a mission.”
Allen nodded; well he tried to but only managed to make his head twitch slightly. Now that he wasn’t dying the pain was slightly coming back, the pleasant numbness almost gone.
“Your mission is simple. I want you to exterminate a certain monster for me.” the grin he had appeared unnatural. “I want you to slay the vampire lord.”
‘Vampires? They exist?’
“Yes vampires exist, they just are good at blending in with you clueless mortals.” he chuckled. “They are stronger than most demons and require special weapons to deal with them.”
“If they blend in with humans…how will I tell them apart?” Allen asked trying to keep his grasp on consciousness even though the pain threatened to knock him out.
“I’ll give you a present along with your weapon.” the Shinigami raised his scythe and with it he made a perfectly aimed slash at Allen’s left eye.
Allen screamed when the steel blade came in contact with his left eye. He could feel the blade cutting into the muscle ripping it in two.
“Calm down, it shouldn’t hurt so much.” the Shinigami teased although he knew that it definitely does hurt a lot. “Here take this and fulfill the requirement, after you have slain the vampire lord you will be free to return to your family until then you must not show yourself to them.” he took a green cross like gem from his robes embedding it in Allen’s unresponsive left arm.
“What is this?” Allen gasped, his strength suddenly coming back and the pain dying down as if the green gem was taking in all the hurt from his body.
“It’s called innocence.” the Shinigami replied, putting his hood back on. “It is an anti-demon weapon. This should help you greatly in slaying the vampire lord.” he the pointed to Allen’s left eye. “That present I gave you is a curse. It will allow you to sense when a vampire is near” he chuckled, “Kill them or not it’s up to you.”
Allen nodded, understanding the hidden message. He was thankful to the creature…- God? - before him after all he’s alive now because of it.
“I’ll take my leave now.” the Shinigami said after a while. “I will keep in touch with you when I’m not busy.” with that said he vanishes, bringing motion back to time.
Allen lay still on the ground, no longer feeling cold. He felt strangely warm as if he wasn’t just shot in his left eye and arm, as if he hadn’t just made a deal with a death god to save his life. Oddly it didn’t feel like he did any of that. He felt like he was lying somewhere warm and he didn’t want to move.
He blinked as something wet dripped to his face. Looking up he saw that the sky was dark with no form of stars in sight. ‘Rain?’ It started down in a light drizzle then it increased falling heavier.
‘Time to go I guess.’ Allen got up, he staggered a little when he got to his feet but managed to regain his balance. ‘Now what should I do?’ All he wanted to do was to go home ‘But I can’t do that…’
He walked aimlessly around the dump hoping that something comes to mind. His left eye was still closed shut, clamped together by dried blood. He was anxious to see how his eyes healed, as he couldn’t feel the bullets that pierced his eye or arms. Speaking of arms…he never did check out how that weird gem on his arm looked.
A gasp sounded from his lips at what he saw, his hand looked reddish and shriveled with black nails. While the green cross shape gem glowed standing out in the middle of his back hand. It looked inhumane and monstrous, indeed a weapon to slay monsters.
He pulled up his shirt to see how far the reddish skin stretched to, but after rolling it up to his elbows and still seeing red shriveled flesh he figured it might take up the whole hand.
Rain continued to pour but Allen didn’t mind as the rain was calm and cleansing as it washed him clean of his own blood. He continued on with his slow pace almost jumping in shock when he glanced over to his left seeing a boy around his age with white hair. ‘Wow a kid with white hair, cool.’ he found himself thinking.
He wanted to say something to him but he voted against it, ‘the kid will find out himself’ he shrugged, no sense worrying the kid about the two dead guys a few walks back, might scare him or he might think he did it. I mean he did have blood all over him ‘but so does that white haired kid….’ wait a second; he turned to face the boy only to see that the boy turned to face him too.
‘Wait a minute…don’t tell me!!’ he brought his hand up to his soaked hair which fell around his left eye, when the boy followed he almost freaked.
“That’s me?!” he yelled pointing to the boy which turned out to be his reflection on a sort of mirror. “What happened to my hair?” his eyes widened, “My eyes! It’s gray!”
Allen felt…he didn’t know how he felt but one thing is for sure he had a feeling that no one would be able to recognize him with his light brown hair and eyes now a snowy white and gray. ‘How did this happen?’
The words the Shinigami spoke before echoed in his head.
‘The present I gave you is a curse.’
‘So my hair and eye colour is a side effect of the curse.’ It wasn’t as if he was complaining but he would have liked it to be something less out of the ordinary.
He pulled his soaked bangs back then used his shirt sleeve to wipe the blood from his left eye. Once all the blood was gone he gasped. ‘Man I’ve been doing that a lot.’ he groaned in annoyance.
‘I’m a literal freak show now.’ he sighed tracing the scar like red lines that marred his left side of his face. He lifted his hair more looking at where the scar started, ‘Yep a literal freak show.’ he thought after seeing the reciprocal pentagon, but that didn’t get him down. He smiled shrugging everything off as nothing. If he spent time dwelling on the bad thing in life he’d never get anywhere. It’s better to push it back and forget it or just suck it up - as it won’t change - and move on with your life.
He has been doing the latter all his life. His poker face never seem to grow weary and he never got tired of seeing it or showing it to others. It helps to hide everything bad he’s been through - which is a lot - not to mention being the second oldest male of the orphanage he has a duty to take over when Komuii wasn’t there.
‘The kids…I wonder if they’re alright…’
He was about to continue walking but a low shuffling noise forced him to stop. His left eyes reacted; the gray almost purplish hue became black while rings of red encircled it. ‘What the-?! What’s going on?’ he didn’t know why his eye transformed so he began looking around. He saw a purplish aura among a pile of garbage near some bushed. He hurried over but saw no one.
‘I was sure…’ he didn’t get to finish that thought as someone attacked him from behind. ‘Ouch that hurts.’ he muttered to himself face down in the mud.
“Oi that hurt you know!” Allen complained getting up.
An amused voice filled the air.
“What a pleasant surprise, a human” the voice purred.
Allen’s head instantly perked up, ‘Is that a vampire?’ from the looks of things it was a vampire, meaning ‘My first fight!’ somehow it Allen felt calm and anxious. He was just ready to strike at any minute. ‘Why do I feel this way?’ he wondered as if something buried deep inside him has awaked willing and rearing to fight.
He stretched his left arm before him - an instinct - instantly it transformed into a large metal like claw. Though it was a bit strange he was not one bit perturbed by the transformation.
“Oooh a slayer on top of it my, my, my this must be my lucky day.” the vampire rushed forward. "Slayers blood are always irresitable!"
Allen stood his ground waiting for the fight to come to him, a strategy his late father though him. He was no stranger to fighting as he could hold his ground against the toughest opponents and not be tired to fight another one. Thanks to his amazing stamina and agility he remained undefeated in the ring - Allen does street fighting for money - so fighting vampires is the same to him. The only difference is that you can kill vampires.
With both eyes closed he waited, his hand twitched slightly. Suddenly he spun around and launched his hand forward piercing into the vampire’s chest. ‘This was too easy.’ the vampire turned to dust instantly leaving his clothes behind. Allen dropped his hand as it and his left eye returned to normal.
“The rain stopped…” he whispered to the sky.
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On to the next part....
Author: Dark Angel Kaos
Fandom: D.Gray-Man
Pairings: Allen x Kanda (AreKan)
Rating: PG-18
Warnings: Yaoi, shonen ai, blood, gore, death, language, OOC-ness, vampires
Genre: AU, supernatural, action, angst
Disclaimer: …still don’t own…sucks huh?
Summery: In order to continue living Allen made a deal with a Shinigami, in return he must slay the vampire lord. Allen accepts and goes to fulfill the requirement but he didn’t count on falling madly in love with said vampire lord. Now he must chose between life and death. Twoshot! AreKan!
A/N: Hey ya’ll!! I know I know…I should be working on Default and not writing new fanfics…I know but~ it’s not like I’m not working on Default, it’s just ya know…I do have a very reasonable excuse as to why it and all my other fanfics are really late…tell ya at the end k. Anyway since Default will no doubt be late here’s something to sink your teeth into hehehe. Hope this keeps ya’ll entertained and happy while I sort myself out. The setting should be a normal old age seventeen century thing or the same setting as the anime. R&R o-n-e-g-a-i ♥!!!!
Enjoy!!!
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Part One
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Four boys ran across the empty field engaged in some sort of game. Their giggles and laughter echoed, shattering the calmness that was once present. One of the boys - seeming the youngest - stopped his hands across his chest in a pout.
“Allen-nii Ryuu is tired.” he whined.
The one called Allen chuckled to himself and stopped causing the other two boys to stop also. He ran his hands through his thick brown hair and turned to face the younger child. His mouth opened to say something but the other two - twins - beat him to it.
“Aw look at this poor lil’ Ryuu-chan tired already!” the first one taunted.
“Haha he can’t even play a game of tag!” the second one chirped.
Ryuu looked at them angrily; his emerald eyes began to water. Allen sighed as he watched Mira and Kira continue to tease Ryuu who looked like he will burst into tears any minute now.
“Oi! Stop it you two.” he gave both of them a small but slightly painful tap on their heads. “Stop picking on poor Ryuu.”
“Ow!!”
“Allen-nii!!”
Both complained.
“You two deserved it.” Ryuu pointed his tongue at them.
Allen patted Ryuu on his head. Ryuu pouted at being treated like a kid. He pushed Allen’s hand off his head.
“Allen-nii stop treating Ryuu like a kid!” he complained.
Allen had to chuckle.
“But you are a kid Ryuu.” Allen replied. “You’re what, five years old?”
At that the twins chimed in.
“Ha ha we’re older so Ryuu is a baby!” the older twin ‘Mira’ began.
“Yeah so we can pick on you.” the younger one ‘Kira’ added with glee.
“No you can’t.” Allen added. “You two are still babies too you know.” he chuckled. “Four years isn’t much.”
The twins pouted causing Allen to laugh.
“Aw you two are just too cute.” his laughter died down. “Come one you two shouldn’t make a cute face like that, it’s my weakness.”
At that the twins blushed, their pale blue eyes shone in embarrassment.
“Allen-nii!” Ryuu complained he didn’t like the fact that Allen was calling Mira and Kira cute. “What about Ruu! Ryuu cute too ne?”
“Of course, Ryuu-chan is really cute” Allen replied without hesitation, he was the only one who could use the -chan suffix with Ryuu and he wouldn’t be mad.
Ryuu blush darkened exceptionally when Allen called him ‘Ryuu-chan’, whenever the twins called him that it always sounds teasing and when Lenalee or Komui uses it he feels like a baby but when Allen calls him like that…he always blush.
“Ah look at the time, its after nine already? Lets head back guys.” Allen said, he just checked his watch and was surprised to see how late it was, “Komui and Lenalee must be really worried by now.” he shuddered as a mental image of an angry and worried Lenalee passed through his mind.
The twin however didn’t fell like leaving.
“But Allen-nii we haven’t finished playing yet!” Mira whined.
“Yeah!” Kira added.
They were eager to continue their game of tag.
“Ryuu is tired so we have to head back, besides it’s already past your curfew.” Allen said in a voice that will have no arguments.
“But…”
“No buts.” Allen took Ryuu’s hand in his. “Come one you two we don’t want to get scolded by Lenalee do we?”
Ryuu turned back to look at the twins, wincing at the glare they sent his way. ‘Oh no they are angry with Ryuu.’ His head bowed when he realized he was the one that ruined the fun. Tears welled up in his eyes.
“Ryuu what is the matter?”
Ryuu quickly wiped the tears from his eyes and looked up at Allen.
“Ryuu not tired anymore.” Ryuu lied. “Ryuu can still play!”
Allen’s face creased in worry.
“Don’t push yourself so much.” he tried to dissuade him.
“Ryuu isn’t.” Ryuu protested. “Ryuu can play!”
Allen shook his head with a sigh, ‘When Ryuu is determined there’s no stopping him.’
“Ok.” he gave in. “But we’ll play hide and seek. You three hide and I’ll come find you.”
“Okay!” all three cheered, running off to hide.
“Don’t go too far!” Allen yelled after them, he sighs when they continued running towards the junk yard. “*sigh* Oh well, time to count to ten.”
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Mira and Kira chuckled to themselves at their perfect hiding place. They can see Allen when he tries to find them. It was perfect! Allen would find Ryuu first and then they’ll win!
“He he he we’ll win for sure.” Mira chuckled.
“True! Allen-nii won’t find us here!” Kira added.
“I guess so, right?”
“Yep!” Mira and Kira nodded, and then stopped. They turned towards the voice that they heard and almost shouted when they saw Allen.
“Hehehe found ya!” Allen chuckled, but something caught his attention and he stopped, his eyes widened in fear.
“Aw we los-mmph.” both of their mouths were clamped shut by Allen’s hand, they looked up to glare and complain but the look in Allen’s eyes made then gulp.
Allen looked scared, completely terrified. He shushed them and brought their head down inside the old carriage. After a while he let them go.
“We need to get out of here.” Allen said as soon as his hand moved from their mouths. “Where is Ryuu?”
“We don’t know…” Mira felt scared now and so did Kira.
“Allen-nii what’s going on?” Kira asked.
Allen didn’t answer them. He just stared ahead.
“Allen-nii!!” both yelled softly, everything was getting scary; they just wanted to go home.
“Go home and don’t look back, I’m going to go find Ryuu.” Allen said finally, his voice taking on an authoritive tone. “It’s dangerous to stay here any longer. I have a feeling something bad will happen, go to Komui and tell him to call the police.”
“P-p-police?”
Allen expression softened when he saw the scared look Mira and Kira were giving him. ‘Way to go Allen you’re scaring the kids.'
“Don’t worry just go now, they entered the dump already so it’s clear.” Allen said trying to calm them down. “I promise you, I’ll find Ryuu and come home okay so don’t cry.”
“…okay.” they sniffed.
They got up hesitantly and pushed the door to the old carriage open, before the left they turned back to Allen their right pinky finger extended.
“Promise.” they whispered.
Allen smiled taking both fingers with his two.
“Yeah I promise.”
They nodded no longer sad as they knew their Allen-nii always keeps his promise. They smiled brightly their way of saying ‘hurry up and get back’. Allen nodded and flashed them a genuine smile as his reply. Satisfied they jumped out of the carriage and ran off to the direction of their orphanage.
Allen watched until they were across the clearing and weren’t in his line of sight anymore. He sighed in relief that they were able to escape. Now all he has to do now is find Ryuu and get out before those bad guys find them.
He shuddered as he remembered what he saw awhile ago. Four guys with guns and a muscled guy carrying two men bound and gagged over his shoulder - no doubt on their way to be killed - but that wasn’t what scared him still. It was the symbol they wore. ‘Sharks’…that gang was the most ruthless and deadliest gang in all of England. No one ever survive an encounter with them and if there were witnesses none ever survived. They kill anyone even women and children…leave no one alive…that’s their policy.
‘Ryuu where are you?’
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“Allen-nii won’t find Ryuu here!” Ryuu chuckled to himself; he hid behind a large pile of garbage, mostly metal pots and pin. It surrounds him like a makeshift fort.
“Oi get there!”
Huh? Ryuu’s head perked up at the unfamiliar voice. ‘That’s not Allen-nii…who’s that?’ He peeps out to see who was with him. A gasp almost escapes his lip at what he saw. ‘W-who a-a-are tho..se p-people?’ He trembled almost knocking over a can from the pile.
‘Ryuu needs to get out of here…’ but was too scared to move, tears flood his eyes. ‘Allen-nii please help Ryuu.’
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“Damn it!” Allen cursed, he looked all over the places that were unoccupied by the Shark gang but Ryuu wasn’t anywhere there. Now the only place he could be is the gang was…shit he might already be…No! He shakes his head. There’s no way he’ll think that! Ryuu is alive and he’s going to find him.
A low mummer of voices to the left caught his attention. He hurried over to that side carefully hiding among the garbage.
‘There they are…’ he looked around frantically behind his hiding place, ‘but where is Ryuu.’
He got up, crawling over to a different angle.
‘Ryuu!!’
He felt really relieved, but it from the distance they were from each other it would be hard to get to Ryuu without gaining unwanted attention. ‘At least they haven’t started killing yet’ that was the only good thing about the situation. He tried again to locate a safe route to get to Ryuu and smiled when he spotted a pile of rubbish that he could hide behind. It was closer to where Ryuu is, but he’ll need a distraction to get there. He got on all fours and picked up a stone.
‘It’s a good thing their backs are to us.’ He threw the stone to the right effectively gaining their attention to it.
“What’s that?” one the men, presumably the boss asked, he gestured to one of the guys. “Go check it out.”
The guy nodded walking to the direction where Allen threw the stone. Allen used the opportunity to crawl over to the pile. He waited a while before crawling over to where Ryuu was.
Ryuu was on the ground hugging himself by his knees in a fetal position with tears streaming down his cheeks. Allen felt his heart quake at the sight, Ryuu was trembling and it was clear that he was very scared.
He crawled closer to Ryuu putting his hand carefully on his messy thick black hair in a comforting way. Ryuu stopped trembling; scared emerald eyes met relieved dark brown ones.
“Alle-“ Ryuu quickly placed his hands over his mouth when he saw Allen place his index finger on his lip, he was happy. ‘Allen-nii came! He came for Ryuu!’
“Ryuu follow me, we need to get away from here as quickly as possible.” Allen whispered softly. “Don’t make a sound okay.”
Ryuu nodded vigorously showing that he understood. Allen smiled in relieved and was about to take Ryuu in his arms so that he could lead him away but the voice of one of the Shark’s captives yelled.
“Oh God! Please don’t kill me!!” he cried out as soon as the gag was removed.
The boss laughed, a smirk formed on his lips.
“You betrayed the Shark’s by selling information to the police, I say its only fair that your punishment is death.” his smirk widened as he nodded to one of the guys beside him.
“Got’cha boss.”
There wasn’t anytime to prepare properly, the guy fired hitting the pleading guy seven times. The shots were loud scaring Ryuu even more. Allen had both his hands over Ryuu’s ears while he held him protectively in his arms, as a way to protect him from what was happening.
The other guy shook in fear as he watched one of his closest friends die before his eyes. After all it was his fault; he was the one that suggested that they sell information to the police. His fear rose when he saw the boss turn to face him.
“You’re next.”
The trembling increased.
His hands moved quickly behind him, working the blade he had on the rope tying his legs together. He’s been at it for a while now, the blade is a bit dull but he’s trying his best.
A relieved smile crossed his lips as the rope came apart. He turned his attention to the guy with the gun ready to let him to let him taste lead. It had to be timed perfectly if not he’ll die for sure.
“Oh well.” the boss drawled obviously bored. “Sayonara.”
Just before the gun fired he got up dashing to the left so that he was almost behind them. A smile crossed his lips as he thought he would survive. Before he could take another step he stilled then fell to the ground in a blooded heap thanks to the quick shooting of the other two guys that was there.
Four stray bullets whizzed past the guy and towards where Allen and Ryuu hid, embedded themselves in Allen’s left arm. He screamed out in pain, tears welled up in his eyes as the pain grasped him.
‘It hurts! It hurts!! It hurts!!’ He repeated over and over in his head as his blood gushed out staining his white shirt and Ryuu’s face.
“Allen-nii?” Ryuu mouthed against his hand. He was afraid because there was so much sticky red stuff flowing from Allen’s hand and he didn’t know what was causing it.
“What was that noise?” the boss yelled turning to the direction Allen was.
Allen still had his hand over Ryuu’s mouth hoping they’d just leave, but when he heard the boss yell ‘go search there by that pile of garbage’ he felt all hope die. He had to make a choice, it was either both of them die which was something Allen wouldn’t let happen to Ryuu no matter what or he’d help Ryuu to escape. He smiled slightly despite the pain. ‘That’s an easy choice…’
“Ryuu I want you to follow this path round here,” he pointed to a narrow passage to their left, “you remember it right?” he asked removing his hand from Ryuu’s mouth.
“Uh uh.” Ryuu replied with a small nod.
“Remember that fence…with the hole?” his breaths were getting harder to take. “I want you to go through there and…run home okay.”
“But…but what about Allen-nii?”
“I’ll be fine.” Allen replied his vision became blurred. “Make sure you run and don’t stop…until you reach home…”
Ryuu started to cry.
“It’s okay I’ll be fine.” Allen repeated in a way to reassure the younger boy. “Please Ryuu go now…”
Ryuu was hesitant but he got up, before he did what Allen told him to he leaned forward giving Allen a sloppy kiss on his lips.
“Ryuu loves Allen-nii.” was all he said then he ran as fast as he could to the fence where the hole was.
Allen smiled sadly with his fingers tracing his lips. ‘I’m sorry Ryuu…’ In order to get the attention away from Ryuu he kicked the pile of pans before him. They fell down bringing all the attention to him.
“Oh what do we have here?” the boss smiled as he saw Allen’s blooded state. “A sneaky brat who got caught eavesdropping.”
Allen grunted, his vision fading from the loss of blood.
“Boys hand me my Sheryl.” the boss smirked as Allen struggled to get up in a feeble attempt to escape them.
Allen staggered back once he was on his feet.
*Bang*
A shot fire, hitting him right in his left eye. His body fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes. He felt paralyzed, not even a scream passed his lips.
“Boss lets leave him.” one of the guys yelled.
“The cops are on our trails.” the other added.
The boss smirked seeming to himself, everything around him was painted in his favorite colour. He felt proud of his handiwork.
“Two dead, no torture involved but somehow I’m satisfied.” he replied before looking into Allen’s slowly dying eye. “Tough luck brat, you were at the wrong place at the wrong time.” he chuckled. “Say hello to your maker for me.”
With that said they left disappearing into the over of the night.
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“Where in god’s name are those boys!” a female voice cried, her dark purple eyes gleam in rage and worry.
“Calm down Lenalee I’m sure they’re fine.” a fatherly voice cooed.
Lenalee shook her head, her two pigtails swaying on each side.
“Komuii nii-chan they’re late! Allen would never have the boys out this late!” she sobbed, worry lacing her entire being.
Komui felt his heart quake just seeing his sister like that.
“It’s okay Lenalee I’m sure they are just playing somewhere.” he tried his best to comfort his little sister, but somehow he couldn’t help but fell that something will no doubt go wrong.
“Komuii oji-can…Lenalee oba-chan.”
Both turn to the tiny voice calling them; there they saw a small child no older than three with short pink hair that fell down around her head. She held a small patched up teddy bear in her right hand while in her left she had a dull pink blanket.
“Kuu-chan what are you doing up?” Lenalee asked, a smile immediately in place. “Come on lets get you back to bed right away.”
“Where’s daddy?” Kuu looked around. “And Mira-nii and Kira-nii and Ryuu-nii?”
Lenalee tried to keep her smile in place as she answered kuu.
“They are still out playing, sweetie come on lets go to bed.”
Suddenly Kuu burst into tears.
“No!” she cried. “Kuu-chanu had a scary dream! Daddy always made the scary dream go away! I want daddy!!”
Lenalee stooped down and held Kuu in her arms in a comforting way.
“Hush little Kuu-chan, its okay everything will be alright. It was just a dream.” she cooed rubbing Kuu’s back in a comforting way.
Kuu hiccupped, and her tears began to lessen. Just then the door burst open and Mira and Kira rushed in.
“Komuii oji-san!!”
Relief washed over Lenalee’s features when she saw them, but that soon died when she saw their ruffled anxious state and also the fact that Ryuu and Allen were not with them.
“Boys what is the matter? Why are you so late?” Komuii asked as soon as the boys caught their breaths. “Where are Ryuu and Allen?”
“The police!” Mira yelled in a rush.
“Call the police!” Kira added.
“Police? Why? What is gong on?” Komuii demanded. ‘This can not be good…’
Both started talking at once making everything sound confusing and hard to understand.
“Boys! Boys!” Komui called trying to get their attention, once he had it he sighed. “Calm down you two, just take a deep breath and tell me why I need to call the police.”
Both boys took deep breaths then spoke. In their own symmetrical way they told Komuii what happened, about the hide and seek game, how Allen found them and the scared look on his face when he told them to run home.
“Shark…” was all Komuii said after he heard what they had to say. “Oh no.” he sobbed. “The boys…”
“Nii-san!” Lenalee called, she let go of Kuu and stood up. “We have to find them, I’ll go down to the station right away!”
Komuii eyes were grave.
“Lenalee there is nothing the police can do…”
“What do you mean by that nii-san?” Lenalee asked, tears streaming down her cheeks. “Are you saying we must sit here and do nothing while we let two of our family members die?”
Komuii stayed silent.
“Well?!!” Lenalee demanded.
“Where’s daddy?”
Lenalee froze as Kuu came up to stand beside her. She tried her best to look as calm as her worry induce mind would let her.
“He’ll be back soon okay.” she assured. “I promise.”
Kuu smiled, she knew her daddy will some back really soon because her oba-chan Lenalee promised and Lenalee obaa-chan always keeps her promise.
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The air around him felt cold lining thickly with the scent of blood. It made him want to puke, but for some strange reason he didn’t feel any pain he just felt cold and numb as if he was dropped into the Antarctic Ocean…ice cold and freezing.
‘So cold…’the feeling was unreal. ‘Is this what death is like?’ He shuddered to think that. Dying…his one good eye watered at the thought. ‘I don’t want to die.’
“Another mess *sigh* time to clean up.” a deep voice muttered in annoyance.
Allen stared towards where the voice came from. There he saw a figure strangely shrouded in darkness. It wore a hooded robe that hid his face from view and in his hands he held a large scary - but enchanting - looking scythe. To anyone he would look like a Shinigami.
The Shinigami look alike raised his scythe, instantly the souls of all the persons who lay dead before him rose out of their bodies and flew to him. Using the scythe he slashed their souls in half sending then to their rightful place. Allen’s eye widened at what he saw. ‘Will this happen to me too?’ He wondered, not liking his soul being ripped in half on bit.
“Can you see me mortal?”
If Allen could feel his body or even move it a bit he would have screamed or trembled in fear at the deep voice.
“Ye..yeah…”
“Ah so you’re not dead yet, but you’ll be soon enough.” the Shinigami replied, he sat his scythe down and sat before Allen. “Lets see you have about four minutes top before you kick the bucket, I guess I can wait.”
‘Kick the bucket?’ Allen felt terrified. He looked at the Shinigami his eyes pleading.
“…I do…n’t want…to…die.” his voice was hoarse.
“Everyone always says that.” the Shinigami shrugged. “But its better if you die now, you’re young, you’ll keep your youth.”
Allen tried to shake his head, but realized he couldn’t move. He felt strained and restricted…his heart beat began to slow down.
“Ah its time for the final stages.” the Shinigami voiced out loud. “Poor kid dying slowly is painful isn’t it?” his voice took on a playful edge, it was a sickly cheery tone. “Ah before you die tell me your name, I may come to visit you on the other side.”
Allen didn’t know why but he was compelled to tell the death god his name even if he didn’t have the strength to.
“…All…en…Wal…ker.”
“Walker?” there was a weird sort of cheer in the Shinigami’s voice. ‘Perfect.’ “A member of the Walker family huh, interesting very interesting.”
Allen’s heart beat starts to fade as time begins to run out on him. The four minutes that he had before already became less than a minute.
The Shinigami seemed to smile as he counted his good luck. ‘A Walker descendant, how perfect can this get? He will be able to succeed where others have failed after all vampire slaying is in his blood.’ He turned to face Allen.
……20……19……18……17……
“Tell you what mortal, I’ll make a deal with you.” he began, an eerie air surround him. “I will postpone your death, stop it even so that you can continue living but in return you must do something for me.”
…….9……8……7…….6……..5…….
“What do you say Allen Walker?”
……4…….3…….2…………
“Ye…s.”
The Shinigami grabbed his hood and pulled it back revealing his gruesome rotted skull face. Once his face was revealed it was like all time stopped. He took up his scythe and slashed over Allen cutting a string of invisible chains that paralyzed him.
“I will grant you your life Allen Walker and bestow upon you a great power to assist you in your mission.”
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No one could sleep, not until they were positive Allen and Ryuu were alright. It’s been roughly twenty three minutes since the twins came back.
Allen five of them sat in the living room, waiting. Kuu stayed up too as she wanted to make sure that her daddy came back to her. She was about to nod off to sleep but the sound of the door being opened made her eyes stay open.
“Daddy!!” she yelled running to the front door with Lenalee, Komui, Mira and Kira close behind her.
The person at the door turned out to be Ryuu. Lenalee screamed when she saw his blooded state.
“Ryuu! Oh my god Ryuu!!” she ran to him fussing over his appearance. “Where does it hurt? Oh my so much blood.”
“Ryuu doesn’t hurt.” Ryuu cried. “The red stuff came from Allen-nii’s hand when Allen-nii hid Ryuu from the loud noise.”
Lenalee felt as if she would faint after she heard what Ryuu. ‘Allen…Allen got shot?’ Tears welled up in her eyes. ‘Allen…’
“Ryuu…where is Allen?”
Ryuu cried as he told them what happened. How Allen told him to run and how he stayed back to make sure that he got away. When he was finished Lenalee burst into tears. She fell to the floor sobbing wildly. Komuii had his hand on her shoulder in a comforting way as he tried to hold back his tears. The twins held each other sobbing quietly as they didn’t want anyone to know that they were crying. Kuu however had no idea what was going on so she walked up to Lenalee to find out.
“Lenalee oba-chan. Is daddy coming back?” her voice was an innocent inquiry. “And why is Ryuu-nii so red?”
Lenalee continued to cry as she held Kuu close to her all the while whispering ‘I’m sorry’ over and over. Kuu was about to ask why she was apologizing but then it hit her. Tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes as she wailed, the severity of the situation finally sinking in.
Lenalee broke her promise, her daddy wasn’t coming back.
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“Mission?” Allen asked the air no longer felt as stifling as it was before. “What mission?”
“The deal you made for your life,” the skull face seemed to smile, “consider it a mission.”
Allen nodded; well he tried to but only managed to make his head twitch slightly. Now that he wasn’t dying the pain was slightly coming back, the pleasant numbness almost gone.
“Your mission is simple. I want you to exterminate a certain monster for me.” the grin he had appeared unnatural. “I want you to slay the vampire lord.”
‘Vampires? They exist?’
“Yes vampires exist, they just are good at blending in with you clueless mortals.” he chuckled. “They are stronger than most demons and require special weapons to deal with them.”
“If they blend in with humans…how will I tell them apart?” Allen asked trying to keep his grasp on consciousness even though the pain threatened to knock him out.
“I’ll give you a present along with your weapon.” the Shinigami raised his scythe and with it he made a perfectly aimed slash at Allen’s left eye.
Allen screamed when the steel blade came in contact with his left eye. He could feel the blade cutting into the muscle ripping it in two.
“Calm down, it shouldn’t hurt so much.” the Shinigami teased although he knew that it definitely does hurt a lot. “Here take this and fulfill the requirement, after you have slain the vampire lord you will be free to return to your family until then you must not show yourself to them.” he took a green cross like gem from his robes embedding it in Allen’s unresponsive left arm.
“What is this?” Allen gasped, his strength suddenly coming back and the pain dying down as if the green gem was taking in all the hurt from his body.
“It’s called innocence.” the Shinigami replied, putting his hood back on. “It is an anti-demon weapon. This should help you greatly in slaying the vampire lord.” he the pointed to Allen’s left eye. “That present I gave you is a curse. It will allow you to sense when a vampire is near” he chuckled, “Kill them or not it’s up to you.”
Allen nodded, understanding the hidden message. He was thankful to the creature…- God? - before him after all he’s alive now because of it.
“I’ll take my leave now.” the Shinigami said after a while. “I will keep in touch with you when I’m not busy.” with that said he vanishes, bringing motion back to time.
Allen lay still on the ground, no longer feeling cold. He felt strangely warm as if he wasn’t just shot in his left eye and arm, as if he hadn’t just made a deal with a death god to save his life. Oddly it didn’t feel like he did any of that. He felt like he was lying somewhere warm and he didn’t want to move.
He blinked as something wet dripped to his face. Looking up he saw that the sky was dark with no form of stars in sight. ‘Rain?’ It started down in a light drizzle then it increased falling heavier.
‘Time to go I guess.’ Allen got up, he staggered a little when he got to his feet but managed to regain his balance. ‘Now what should I do?’ All he wanted to do was to go home ‘But I can’t do that…’
He walked aimlessly around the dump hoping that something comes to mind. His left eye was still closed shut, clamped together by dried blood. He was anxious to see how his eyes healed, as he couldn’t feel the bullets that pierced his eye or arms. Speaking of arms…he never did check out how that weird gem on his arm looked.
A gasp sounded from his lips at what he saw, his hand looked reddish and shriveled with black nails. While the green cross shape gem glowed standing out in the middle of his back hand. It looked inhumane and monstrous, indeed a weapon to slay monsters.
He pulled up his shirt to see how far the reddish skin stretched to, but after rolling it up to his elbows and still seeing red shriveled flesh he figured it might take up the whole hand.
Rain continued to pour but Allen didn’t mind as the rain was calm and cleansing as it washed him clean of his own blood. He continued on with his slow pace almost jumping in shock when he glanced over to his left seeing a boy around his age with white hair. ‘Wow a kid with white hair, cool.’ he found himself thinking.
He wanted to say something to him but he voted against it, ‘the kid will find out himself’ he shrugged, no sense worrying the kid about the two dead guys a few walks back, might scare him or he might think he did it. I mean he did have blood all over him ‘but so does that white haired kid….’ wait a second; he turned to face the boy only to see that the boy turned to face him too.
‘Wait a minute…don’t tell me!!’ he brought his hand up to his soaked hair which fell around his left eye, when the boy followed he almost freaked.
“That’s me?!” he yelled pointing to the boy which turned out to be his reflection on a sort of mirror. “What happened to my hair?” his eyes widened, “My eyes! It’s gray!”
Allen felt…he didn’t know how he felt but one thing is for sure he had a feeling that no one would be able to recognize him with his light brown hair and eyes now a snowy white and gray. ‘How did this happen?’
The words the Shinigami spoke before echoed in his head.
‘The present I gave you is a curse.’
‘So my hair and eye colour is a side effect of the curse.’ It wasn’t as if he was complaining but he would have liked it to be something less out of the ordinary.
He pulled his soaked bangs back then used his shirt sleeve to wipe the blood from his left eye. Once all the blood was gone he gasped. ‘Man I’ve been doing that a lot.’ he groaned in annoyance.
‘I’m a literal freak show now.’ he sighed tracing the scar like red lines that marred his left side of his face. He lifted his hair more looking at where the scar started, ‘Yep a literal freak show.’ he thought after seeing the reciprocal pentagon, but that didn’t get him down. He smiled shrugging everything off as nothing. If he spent time dwelling on the bad thing in life he’d never get anywhere. It’s better to push it back and forget it or just suck it up - as it won’t change - and move on with your life.
He has been doing the latter all his life. His poker face never seem to grow weary and he never got tired of seeing it or showing it to others. It helps to hide everything bad he’s been through - which is a lot - not to mention being the second oldest male of the orphanage he has a duty to take over when Komuii wasn’t there.
‘The kids…I wonder if they’re alright…’
He was about to continue walking but a low shuffling noise forced him to stop. His left eyes reacted; the gray almost purplish hue became black while rings of red encircled it. ‘What the-?! What’s going on?’ he didn’t know why his eye transformed so he began looking around. He saw a purplish aura among a pile of garbage near some bushed. He hurried over but saw no one.
‘I was sure…’ he didn’t get to finish that thought as someone attacked him from behind. ‘Ouch that hurts.’ he muttered to himself face down in the mud.
“Oi that hurt you know!” Allen complained getting up.
An amused voice filled the air.
“What a pleasant surprise, a human” the voice purred.
Allen’s head instantly perked up, ‘Is that a vampire?’ from the looks of things it was a vampire, meaning ‘My first fight!’ somehow it Allen felt calm and anxious. He was just ready to strike at any minute. ‘Why do I feel this way?’ he wondered as if something buried deep inside him has awaked willing and rearing to fight.
He stretched his left arm before him - an instinct - instantly it transformed into a large metal like claw. Though it was a bit strange he was not one bit perturbed by the transformation.
“Oooh a slayer on top of it my, my, my this must be my lucky day.” the vampire rushed forward. "Slayers blood are always irresitable!"
Allen stood his ground waiting for the fight to come to him, a strategy his late father though him. He was no stranger to fighting as he could hold his ground against the toughest opponents and not be tired to fight another one. Thanks to his amazing stamina and agility he remained undefeated in the ring - Allen does street fighting for money - so fighting vampires is the same to him. The only difference is that you can kill vampires.
With both eyes closed he waited, his hand twitched slightly. Suddenly he spun around and launched his hand forward piercing into the vampire’s chest. ‘This was too easy.’ the vampire turned to dust instantly leaving his clothes behind. Allen dropped his hand as it and his left eye returned to normal.
“The rain stopped…” he whispered to the sky.
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