This is my first D.Gray-man fanfic... Many thanks to Timcanpi . net for information on the English translations of names and etc.
Disclaimer: all characters belong to Hoshino-sensei, my god. lol
Chapter One
Allen woke with a start and found himself entangled in a mess of his sweat and the sheets belonging to his bed. It was pitch dark in the room, and a sudden intake of breath broke the blank stare Allen was in as his small golem companion, Timcanpi lightly nudged his head. It was then when he noticed his own labored breathing. A nightmare? Something in his sleep must have disturbed him, but somehow the memory of his dreaming was replaced by blankness. What had he dreamt that had disturbed him this much?
With the intention of combing back his long, white strands of hair from his sweat-soaked face, he placed his left hand on his forehead, coincidentally where his beloved foster father, as an akuma, had cursed him with a scar in the shape of a pentacle with a long line that continued down across his left eye. Excruciating pain stabbed his senses, and he heard screaming. Screaming that came from somewhere deep inside of the human throat, screaming that was more animal than human. It took him a while to figure out that it was himself that was yelling his throat out, and that the pain was coming from the scar and his un-human looking left hand, which was now tightly gripped by the other.
Allen's vision was blurred. The lasting pain and sudden shock to his system was slowly dragging him in to the blissful, static silence of unconsciousness. His fuzzy and dull mind had one last thought of Timcanpi being gone, and with a crashing sound of the door and dark figures rushing in, he fell in to deep, deep darkness.
Glaring lights blinded his vision as he stumbled off on to the cold tile floor. Clinging on to the surgical bed of the medical treatment department, he slowly made his way across the room, his vision swaying in streams of grey and explosions of colors that shouldn't be there. By the time he reached the door which was distanced only a few feet away, his breathing was ragged and a slight whistling sound came from his lungs. As he took a step outside the room, his weakened legs gave way and he lightly braced himself for the fall... but instead, he was caught by warm, human arms.
"Allen, man, you alright? What are you doing walking around. C'mon lets get you back on to the bed..." Allen looked up to find Ravi, the red-haired Exorcist smiling down at him softly.
Allen took a few deep breaths and managed to croak a thank you, as Ravi put Allen's arm on his shoulders and half dragged him back in to the room. Once he laid Allen down, Ravi leaned his head out of the door way, took a deep breath and yelled at the top of his lungs, "He's awake!" then sat down on a stool nearby. There was a bowl with ice and water on a small table, and Ravi made his hands busy with making a cool rag for Allen to place on his head. The sound of Ravi's hands shuffling ice around in the bowl and his quiet whistling was all that filled the room. Allen finally decided to speak up, and tried a few times before he got a reasonable voice out.
"R… Ravi, why am I in the medical dept.?"
Ravi's hands stopped and he turned around. His usual smile was there, pasted on to his face.
"I think Komui would be better at explaining 'bout that. Here they come..."
At first, Allen couldn't tell what was happening. The floor trembled, and an infinite number of footsteps thundered throughout the castle. Allen clung to the bed for dear life, as Ravi just smiled with a hand on the wet cloth on Allen's forehead. The thundering came closer, and suddenly an explosion of people were at the door. Yelling, pushing, and cursing bodies pushed against each other as they crowded to get in to the room. Finally, it seemed to give way and along with a few bits of wood from the door frame, the men fell in to the room on to the floor in a heap. Calmly, a young girl with her hair tied in to neat pigtails walked gracefully over the squirming bodies. Her long bangs hid her face, and as she bent down and hugged Allen tightly, he noticed a slight trembling and something warm and wet on his shoulder, where she had buried her face.
"I'm so glad you're awake," she sobbed.
Her words puzzled Allen even more, and he turned his head slightly towards Ravi, pleading for help with his eyes. Ravi suddenly seemed very interested in tieing the shoelaces on his boots that he didn't have.
From the pile of men still struggling to sort themselves out, the familiar voice of Komui came.
"He's alright Linaly, let him go before he explodes with questions."
After the confusion settled and a few busy people went back to their jobs after seeing Allen was awake with their own eyes, there were four people left in the room. After soothing Linaly, her older brother and head officer of the Dark Religious Organization, Komui Lee turned to Allen.
"How are you feeling?" he smiled softly, with an unreadable emotion in his expression.
"Why am I in the medical department?"
"I asked you first Allen, how are you feeling?"
Slightly pouting at the reply he got, Allen mumbled an "I'm fine" and repeated his question.
"What am I doing in the medical department?"
"Timcanpi broke in to Ravi's room in the middle of the night and woke him, you see."
"He bit me damn hard, too,"Ravi said as he pointed at his ear which now had a perfect imprint of Timcanpi's teeth.
"And he heard you screaming, so he brought us with him to see what it was, and there you were on the floor, unconscious and bleeding."
"Bleeding?"
"From your left eye and the cross embedded in your hand."
"...What?"
"You must be very confused, I know, but right now its best that you get some rest and-"
"Tell me, Komui-san. If it was my cursed eye and Innocence that was bleeding, it has to be something to do with Akuma."
Allen was sitting up now, his eyes radiating his serious tone. Komui sighed, took a sip of his cold coffee and drew up a stool. He began to explain with a sad expression.
"You see Allen, your eye is something very valuable to us. As far as I know, its the only existing thing that can identify Akuma in its human form."
Allen nodded.
"Now, you have to understand that the only defense the Akuma has against us is its offensive attacks, and its defensive disguises. Our organization has up until now been fighting against the attacks with our Exorcists' anti-Akuma weaponry, and against the disguises by bearing the Rose Cross on our uniformas a target for luring them to us. The latter, as you can see clearly is very risky, and has in some cases has put us at a disadvantage. But then you came along."
Komui smiled gently and patted Allen's head lightly.
"Your eye puts all of us at an advantage, Allen. The Earl of the Millenium is not happy with you."
A silence rang through the room, and the air was filled with the tension of the bad news to come.
"We used Timcanpi and scanned your memory. Do you remember what you dreamed last night?"
"I... no, I don't. No matter how hard I try and think about it, its just... blank."
Frustration crossed his face, and seeing thisLinaly walked over to him. Gently, she placed her arm around his shoulders and patted his back in rhythm, soothing him. Though only Ravi noticed, Komui looked ready to kill.
"Its all right. Though it took some effort, with Timcanpi's help we found the images of your dream, and after a bit of research, we found what it was that disturbed you."
Komui paused after finishing this sentence, as if loathing the news he was about to bring.
"And...?"
"Allen, the Earl has createda new type of Akuma. We're pretty sure that there is only one of that type that exists, but this new Akuma is going to be hell to get hid of."
"How many others have been attacked?"
The question from Allen brought an uneasy silence in the room.
"None, Allen. Only you. I'm afraid that this Akuma has been made specially... for you."
To Be Continued...
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