Hello guys! With the new anime having just started, people found old art of my previous Reverse story. With the interest coming up, I decided to republish it. It was taken down originally because I didn't really know where to take it, so this will be based off the original idea, but with a rehash. Please enjoy and leave comments if you would like more! Thank you very much!

Chapter 1
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How did this happen…?

Allen's world was rushing around him, and he wasn't sure how anything could have led to this exact moment in time. Bodies lay around him, those of Tyki and Road Kamelot, their exorcist uniforms as tattered as their bodies were. Lenalee only feet away stood over Road, dark skin on her body and stigmata crowning her as a Noah. Her dark laughter confirming it as she stepped on Road's chest.

And then there was him.

Choking on a breath, he turned his attention back to the hand that was strangling him. His feet were barely touching the ground as he was held up by just his throat. Up the arm and behind the scary grin was… himself. His eyes glared back at him, and his smile twisted in a sinister fashion.

"It was nice to meet myself from this… 'other world'," He spoke. It was even his own voice. "But I'm afraid this has to be goodbye. I hope you understand that there is no way I can allow someone parallel to my power to exist on the same plane as I."

"But with the innocence lost, and no way for you to return, this is the only way." He continued."

Allen's eyes widened as he remembered. That was it. There had been innocence… a mirror that had taken him here. It was all because of this mirror that those he cared about were dying and he could do nothing. The sky was blackening around the sides. It could have been the darkness of the Millennium Earl destroying the world, or it could have been his eyes beginning to give way to death. Either way, Allen couldn't let it end like this.

"Keep walking, Allen!"

It felt as though he could hear Mana's voice. In his ear, he could feel the breath of his father whispering those words of encouragement. He grabbed at his opponent's hands and continued to struggle, but there was no strength left in him. Allen felt his arms drop to his sides, and his eyes close without his wanting to. He felt himself finally be dropped and his head hitting the ground. If he couldn't see from lack of oxygen, he definitely couldn't see now from the pain. He'd hit some sort of rock, but from knowing his surroundings just a few minutes ago, it was more likely it had been rubble from what was left of the Order of Light.

Even further away he could hear Road calling to him. Her voice was just as weak, if not more so. He was admittedly shocked that she could still speak. Allen could barely remember a time where he would be protecting Road of all people, but he knew those moments had been scattered in the timeline of his life.

"Road… I have to… I have to…"

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"You have to get up!" Lenalee? Yes, it was Lenalee's voice.

Allen's eyes shot open and he sat up quickly. He wasn't covered in blood, and his body didn't hurt. The stones around him were pressed together firmly as walls instead of broken apart around him. He lay in softness, blankets of crisp white and a clean mattress rested just beneath those. Beside him stood Lenalee, the one he'd known best.

Her hair was beginning to grow so she had begun keeping half of it in pigtails once again. Her uniform was finely pressed, and she looked happy. Not the evil sort of happy that he'd just dreamt up. That's all that had been.

"S-sorry. I was really out of it." Allen laughed as he scratched the back of his head. He was shirtless he realized so he grabbed for the clean shirt that rested on a chair beside his bed. "Good morning Lenalee."

"Good morning Allen! It's good to have you back!" Her smile was so bright that he couldn't help but return it. It was good to be back.

Just recently he'd been on the run. He'd been living on the streets. The family he'd known for so long that had finally taken him in, had disowned him. They called him a 'Noah' and had stuck him in the deepest of dungeons. They hunted him as a Noah. They tracked him down as a Noah. If it hadn't been for Johnny and Kanda finding him and helping him, then the help from Link, he wouldn't be back here. They'd fought for him, and brought him back. They'd helped prove his innocence still useful to the Dark Order. It was because of them that he could see this smile again.

"Thank you Lenalee." Allen stretched and peeked out his window. The sun was bright and the sky clear. Sumer was rolling around the corner and it was strange to be happy to be within the walls of this place again, but he'd rather be inside than be an enemy on the outside. "What's going on today?"

"Oh we have a mission!" She beamed. It had been a long while since he'd had a mission with Lenalee. It'd been a long time since he'd gotten to do any sort of exorcist mission in fact. "The higher ups are wanting to test you today. They know your innocence works, so there's no way you could have betrayed the Order. But this is your chance to prove it, they're letting you do missions again!"

He could feel her excitement and again it transferred over to him. She'd always had faith in him, and knew that he'd never give up being an exorcist. Now it was time for him to show the rest of the organization the same. A firm nod from him confirmed that he understood the implications of this, and he followed her out. His dark innocence imbued hand took hold of the familiar red and black uniform that rested on a hook by the door just as he left his room to follow Lenalee.

As he trekked the halls behind Lenalee, he took in the stone walls of the new exorcist headquarters. They were not the ones he had once called home, he actually got very little time in this place compared to the other, but home was home nonetheless. Just across the hall he could see Johnny waving to him, and he waved back. These people were his home.

"It's so weird… That was such a strange dream…" He was speaking half to Lenalee, and halfway to himself.

"Dream?" She paused a moment to look back to him. She'd known her own share of strange dreams after all. She could still remember Allen on the ground and she weeping over his dead body. "What was it about?"

When Allen noticed Lenalee had stopped in her path, he skidded to a pause himself, laughing nervously as he realized what he'd said had been out loud. "Oh uhm… Well, in the dream everyone was backwards. Lenalee and everyone else were noahs… and the Noahs were exorcists…"

Allen stopped as he realized what he said had strange implications. Someone that would be very dangerous to say when he'd just gotten himself rid of all the suspicion that had been on his back. "S-Sorry… It was just a weird dream." He laughed.

Lenalee turned her head and laughed lightly too. "Yeah, dreams are strange sometimes…"

She continued to walk ahead, and they spoke about small things. About how Allen seemed to have grown taller recently, and how his hair had gotten longer. Lenalee offered to cut it for him, mentioning that she cut her brother's hair for him sometimes. Small talk rang in his ears familiarly, but as the conversation continued, he found himself feeling a bit more like a stranger than he had before. Of course, he knew they were all happy to have him back, but there had been a lot that went on, and it would take a bit for them to feel okay not with his coming back, but with all the trouble he felt he had given them.

Luckily enough they were interrupted by the door to Komui's office. Lenalee knocked softly, and let herself in, Allen following easily. "Brother! Allen's here, so we can get started with the mission."

She made her way to Komui's desk and took a folder from her brother, then handed it to Allen. Her smile was sweet and Allen returned it yet again with a small 'thanks'.

"Well Allen! I know we haven't given you a welcome back party yet, but it's a little hard to do that with innocence running about… so we have to push that back unfortunately." Komui's smile was quite different than Lenalee's. It wasn't that it didn't want to make Allen smile back, but it had a sadness to it. Komui always felt responsible for all the younger exorcists under his care, and he hated putting them out there if they were not ready. He simply felt bad.

"It's okay. This is what I'm here for Mr. Komui." Allen nodded to show his resolution, and opened up his file to take a look.

Komui pushed his chair back and stood up to walk around his desk. He sat instead on the wooden table, not bothering to push away the papers from his desk as he did. "That's good… I'm glad to hear that you're back at this. You were always a valuable exorcist Allen. Dedicated and hard working. That's why we decided that this would be a good way to start your welcome back."

"It's a simple retrieval." He continued. Then again, no retrieval missions were ever quite simple. "A mirror in a town just on the border of Italy has been showing some interesting things lately. We all know mirrors show everything, but reversed. You see your left hand on the right, for example." He showed a hand mirror he was keeping just for the explanation, though everyone on the earth knew how mirrors worked. Komui had always been into the show of the presentation.

"What's so different about this one then…? Does it show everything the same…?"

"Not quite… It shows the opposites as it should, but to a certain… extreme." He stopped and let the exorcists turn their pages. "If the sky is raining, it'll be clear within the mirror. If it is night in our world… it will be day time within the mirror."

Allen's brows raised in surprise as he remembered his dream, then shrugged it off. It was just a dream after all.

"As it turns out, there's no living person that can touch it. It stands on its own in the middle of an abandoned field. It was discovered when older buildings in that field began to be demolished for new homes. Now it just rests in the middle of the land. Because of our success at the rewinding town and how exorcists were able to enter the barrier there, we can only assume this is much the same. We simply want you to grab the mirror and bring it back home for studying."

Again Allen nodded with understanding, and he closed his file. "When will we be leaving?" He asked simply.

"As soon as possible. Lenalee will be accompanying you of course."

"It'll be like old times" She clapped her hands together. She was excited that he was back with their family, almost as excited as he was.

"Just like old times!" He confirmed.