Red’s POV:
Road was skipping while swinging Lero around, I was just putting on my dark red cloak, because the Earl didn’t want the order to find out about me, just yet.
When we arrived at the entranced of the rewinding town, a finder was standing under a tree waiting for the exorcists to arrive and which they should be here soon.
Road walked over to the entrance, stuck Lero up, opened him and walked through the entrance. There was sparks and the smell of burning flesh, when Road finished going through. I followed after her, ignoring the finders warning and appeared on the other side, standing next to a burnt Road. Road took a step and all of her injuries healed. We walked down the streets in the rewinding town to try and find were the innocence could be.
Time Skip Three Hours Later
We had been walking around the town for three hours, just trying to find the innocence. Road kept on complaining that she was tried and that her feet hurt from walking. After a while she stopped complaining and decided to take a break, while snacking on candy.
While we were sitting on the roof there was an explosion, Road jumped onto her feet and looked in the direction of the explosion. I got up and we jumped roof to roof, until we were near the explosion. I stood on the building across from the one that just blow-up. Standing in the building were three level twos and the samurai exorcist, which I saw while in the city of Mater.
I looked over to Road, who seemed to be fuming. Road then ordered the Akuma to come to us, they flew from the building and appeared in front of us. Road yelled at the akuma for not looking for the innocence and for playing with the exorcist.
After Road had cooled down, we discussed a plan.
…….
After we finished planning, we walked into a dark alley way. Road had an orange lollipop and Lero in her hand, she skipped over to one of the exorcists and asked where she could get tickets to the Pumpkin And The Witch.
The exorcist had dark green hair, dark purple eyes and a black long coat. She started to walk Road in the direction of the tickets.
I quickly saw the women holding the tickets and the money box. I ran up to her, stole the money box and sprinted to the closest stall, jumped up onto it and then continued to climb, until I was running on the rooves. I heard the women scream, so, I picked up my pace a little but I wasn’t running as fast as I could. I jumped roof to roof, hearing the exorcist shout at each other. I jumped off the roof and into a dead end.
I stopped and faced the wall as the exorcists landed/arrived behind me. I slowly turned to face them, my dark red cloak still on to hide my face. The samurai slowly unsheathed his sword as the girl slowly walked over to me. I took a step back and three black stars appeared; two beside me and one in front of me.
The Akumas fired their attacks all at once at the exorcist, knocking them unconscious. One of Road’s doors appeared; the akuma swung the unconscious exorcists over their shoulders and walked through Road’s door.
…...
Road made the akuma place the girl exorcist in a chair as she dressed her up in a crimson red dress and started to curl her long green hair. She tied the women who had the innocence to her clock. The women had brown hair in a bun, black make-up on and a black dress. She was unconscious like the other exorcists.
The akumas sat the samurai against the wall. I walked over to him and then bent down to his level. “Road, can I use some of you candles?”
“Sure…” Road said, who was still playing with the girl exorcist’s hair.
Some of Road’s candles materialized next to me, I grabbed one of the candles and then grabbed the exorcist’s hand. I pushed the hand to the wall and stabbed the sharp candle straight through his hand. I leaned back and looked at what I had done, then grabbed the other candles and proceeded to do this until I was at his shoulder. The samurai now had four candles piercing him to the wall.
I got up and walked over to Road, who was sitting on the arm of the chair.
“So, I take it you have finished dressing your new doll up.”
“Yep…Do you think she makes a good doll?”
“Yes, Road”
“Looks like he’s waking up~”
Road skipped over to the samurai, bent down a bit, with a big smile on her face and said “Hello Ex-or-cist~”
I stood next to the other exorcist in the chair, in the shadows. The samurai grunted and Road talked to him for a bit before the women, tied to the cloak started to talk and cry, loudly.
“K-Kanda……*sob* L-Lenalee….”
I ignored the crying women, Road stepped away from the samurai and faced the women.
“Ooh…I almost forgot about you...” Road pointed some of her sharp candles at the women.
Road sent the candles at the women…..but before the candles made contacted with the women, the samurai had somehow pulled out the candles of his arm and jumped in front of the accommodator. The akumas and I were about to step in, when Road put her hand up and stopped us.
Road sat on Lero, hovering a couple of meters in the air and watched the exorcists.
A dome of cloaks suddenly appeared and the samurai and women disappeared from sight. Seconds later the samurai came out of the dome, ran towards Road’s new doll, unsheathed his sword and swung it at me. I jumped back and the samurai grabbed Road’s new doll, ran back to the dome and disappear from sight, again.
Road flew over to me, until she was right in front of me. “Red, I want you to check out the dome. I think it would only let accommodators inside.”
I nodded, running as fast and quiet as I can over to the dome. I stood on the other side of the dome, were the akumas aren’t at. I needed to get in this dome but I had to wait for the exorcist to come out. As if on cue, a giant whirl wing burst from the other side, trapping the akuma inside. I took this as my chance and entered the dome.
Once in the dome, I saw that the woman was sitting in the middle with her hands clamped together, muttering under her breath. I walked quietly behind her, bent down and whispered in her ear. “The time has finished ticking to your end and you shall die without a friend.”
With that the women screamed and tried to get away from me. I grabbed her throat and made her look in to my dead grey eyes. She screamed and struggled in my grip. I was about to grab one of my knives that I keep on me at all times and kill the accommodator, when the samurai came into the dome and charge at me, I jumped back and dodge the blade by an inch.
I turned on my heel, ran out of the dome and over to were Road was. I stood under were Road was sitting on Lero. The girl exorcist, Lenalee, was what the women said was standing there and looking at me. The samurai, Kanda, I believe, returned from the dome and walked over to stand next to Lenalee and looking in my direction, glaring at me.
“Who or what the hell are you?” Kanda shouted at me.
“…..” I didn’t answer because I knew they weren’t allowed to know about me at all, yet.
“Are you an akuma?” Lenalee asked.
“…..” I still didn’t answer. I wouldn’t answer to these people, only the Earl, Road and the rest of the family.
“You’re not going to get an answer from him. He only answers to me and the Earl.”
Road came lower to the ground until she was floating next to my shoulder. Road reached out and put her hand on my head.
“Why? What is he?” Lenalee took a step forward, tilting her head a little.
“Does it matter what he is? No, it doesn’t…. You keep asking us questions, so, let me ask you one. What happens to an Akuma’s soul when it gets destroyed by something, other than innocence?”
Lenalee looked at Kanda, who was still glaring at me. They shook their heads and Road, now had a face splitting grin on her face.
“You...” Road pointed at the blue fire like akuma. “Self-destructed, Please~”
Road then tapped Lero and asked him to count down from ten.
When Lero was on six, Road said, while swinging her legs back and forth. “Let’s say if an akuma was too self-destructed, the soul would…..disappear.”
“Three, Lero……. Two, Lero. “
Lenalee was about to destroy the akuma when Kanda grabbed her wrist.
“One, Lero……Zero, Lero”
The akuma screamed as loud as it could and then exploded. The girl, Lenalee started to cry, Kanda stood and not showing any emotion on his face but if you looked into his dark eyes, you could see his anger.
Road laughed manically, I stood motionless next to her. The last akuma flew over to the dome but before it could get there, Lenalee quickly blocked the akuma and destroyed it with her boots.
Road created a door behind us, Road jumped off Lero, walked over to me while swinging Lero around and ushered me to follow her. I nod and follow Road to the door but before we walk through, Kanda lunges at us, I push Road out of the way, just in time for her not to get stabbed but couldn’t say the same for me…
The sword stabbed straight through my chest, the sword could be seen from the other side. I heard Road gasp; I looked down at the blade and took a hold of it, pulled it out of my chest and stumbled backwards.
“RED!”
I heard someone shout my name but couldn’t see them, my eye sight was becoming blurry and my body was becoming heavy. The wound in my chest felt like it was on fire, I couldn’t even find the power to scream. I fell to my knees and felt warm arms wrap around me. The last thing I felt before falling into the dark abyss was….
Pain…