Sorry it's been so long! School been tough and annoying. I'm hoping to get a few more chapters out since it's winter break, and they might come sooner.

Chapter 9

"Do excuse me." Tyki said as they walked into a deserted room. He punched Melody right in her stomach, sending her flying across the room and landing with a loud 'thud'. She was knocked out. "Sweet dreams little exorcist, we'll meet again." He smiled and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

After walking out Tyki stuck his hand in his pocket and rustled around something. He felt the sharp edge of paper and pulled a note out from his pocket. Smiling he located the exorcists by following his Tease to where they were directing him.

"Good day." He said taking his hat off and bowing. Kanda's hand immediately went to Mugen. "I don't wish to fight today, merely, I'm returning something precious to you." Tyki threw the note at Kanda, who caught it effortlessly between his fingers. "I'll take my leave." Tyki disappeared. He flashed his teeth as he went 'My part is done…for now.' He smiled.

"What the hell is this?" Kanda looked at the letter like it was going to blow up any second.

"Well if you would open the damn thing, we might find out." Damien said. He'd been quite pissed off and on edge since Melody got kidnapped.

Kanda glared at the brunette, but opened the letter nonetheless.

If you're searching for a tune try a spare room.

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Kanda nearly ripped the letter in half.

Damien stared at it for a few seconds and it clicked into his head. "Melody…he's referring to Melody. A tune, get it? She's in one of the spare rooms here in the airport." He looked around where they were standing.

"Wonderful thinking Damien. Now the only question is which room?" Nate said.

Seth shifted within Damien's pocket.

"We can use Seth, he'll sniff her out." Damien allowed Seth to poke part of his nose out. He sniffed for a minute and motioned, with his nose, left. Damien continued to follow Seth's instructions until they came upon a set of doors.

Kanda got his sword ready and they walked inside. Lying on the floor, unconscious, was a girl in a bright blue dress, and was very high class looking. Further inspection revealed it was Melody. Her hair was pointing every which way and the bottom of the dress had come to rest on her mid thigh, revealing quite a bit of leg. Her face was very peaceful, despite the method with which she was sent into her current state.

Kanda looked away, a hint of pink scattered across his cheeks.

Damien smirked at him. "Well it's her alright, but now what?" Damien looked puzzled.

Seth jumped out of his pocket and grew to normal size, he sniffed the silver haired girl over, making sure she was uninjured. Then he grabbed the bottom of her dress with his teeth and pulled it down to just past her knees.

"Well I think we should stay here until she wakes up, otherwise we might attract unwanted attention." Nate suggested and the others nodded.

10 Minutes Later

"When is she going to wake up?" Kanda asked impatiently.

"She's unconscious, be patient." Damien tried to suppress his anger towards the Japanese man, but really, you can only handle Kanda for so long.

"We can't spend all day here, let's just grab her and go." Kanda started to get up.

"Don't you dare." Damien said, looking Kanda in the eyes.

They continued to glare at each other.

"Ummm Exorcists?" Nate asked.

"What?" Kanda turned his glare on the poor man.

"I think Melody is waking up…" He looked over at said girl.

Sure enough as the two boys looked over at the girl she was slowly stirring.

Seth sat up from his spot beside her. Damien walked over and Kanda just watched her.

"Ugh…damn Noah…I'm gonna fucking kill him…" The girl's gray-blue eyes slowly opened.

"Mel? You okay? Does anywhere hurt? He didn't do anything to you did he? Can you stand?" Damien continued his torrent of questions, making her head spin from all of them.

Melody slowly sat up and took in her surroundings.

"Calm down Damien, I'm just fine." Melody replied trying to calm her friend down.

"Well that's…er…good?" Damien replied, as he had been prepared for the worst; quite the opposite from what had happened.

"Can we go now?" Kanda asked impatiently, tapping his foot on the floor.

"Nice to see you to, Kanda. How thoughtful of you to care and ask if I'm okay." Melody smiled falsely.

"Che, he already asked if you were okay and you're up so you must be." Kanda started walking towards the doors.

"Well let's go then." Melody slowly got up, slightly wobbly.

"Here," Damien walked over to her and put his arm around her waist so he could lean her against his body as support. "Better?"

"Much, thanks for the help." Melody smiled thankfully at him.

"Sure, let's get going." Damien lead her out the doors where an impatient Kanda was waiting.

"Oh, almost forgot. Seth." She held her pocket open as the wolf jumped inside, shrinking back to a little toy size.

Nate followed them out and they headed outside.

"Excuse me?" And officer walked over to the group. "Is the lady okay?" He asked motioning to the fact Melody couldn't stand on her own.

"She's fine, she just twisted her ankle." Kanda continued walking away.

"I'm fine really, it's nothing serious. Thank you for asking though." Melody replied, quickly shooting a glare at Kanda.

Damien kept leading her forward and they soon left the airport, along with the officer.

"How far are you planning to follow us?" Damien asked, looking back at the uniformed man.

"I'm not convinced that the young lady is actually a companion of yours. How do I know you're not forcing her to go with you?" The man asked in a firm voice.

"Here's your proof." Kanda flashed the man the cross on their uniforms.

The man stared for a few seconds and noticed it on the other two exorcists as well. He figured the last man, Nate, was with them too.

"O-oh. I'm terribly sorry for my persistence! Please forgive me!" The officer wailed.

"It's okay, really. You were just doing your job and very well at that. Nothing to be sorry about." Melody felt bad for the man, after all he was just doing what he felt was right.

"Please, be on your way." He bowed and motioned for them to ignore him and keep walking.

"Finally." Kanda walked forward and everyone else followed.

Melody glared at the Asian man, "He was just trying to be helpful." She said, anger rising.

"Well it was none of his business," Kanda stopped and turned towards her.

She was glaring daggers at him and more were gathering by the second. With their eyes locked in hatred, it began to dawn on him that something wasn't quite as it usually was. Not the glaring, of course, by now he was well accustomed to that, but something else was missing. "Shouldn't your eyes be changing color?" He asked frankly.

"What?" The anger gave way to confusion.

"Your eyes. Shouldn't they be like red or something?" He lazily pointed to her eyes, which were their normal blue-gray.

"He's right Mel, they haven't changed color! When did this happen?" Damien looked her in the eyes.

"They aren't?" She asked bewildered.

"Nope, not even the tiniest hint of another color." Damien replied, still holding her up.

"That's weird, they stopped changing after…" She thought about it for a moment…'well they were still changing before we left HQ, which means…' "The Noah! It was after he kidnapped me that they stopped changing color!"

"Well what did he do to you?" Kanda asked, expecting an answer.

"Hell if I know." She replied, suddenly feeling violated.

"Well let's figure that out later, right now we have to get going." Damien began walking forward and took Melody along with him.

With Tyki

In his hand was a glowing sphere of every color. He held it out in his palm and gazed at it, almost in a trance. He quickly snapped out of it and blinked, tucking the object back in his pocket.

"I wonder if they figured out her eyes can no longer change color…oh well. They'll figure it out sooner or later. Though I don't know why the Earl needs this power." Tyki sighed and pondered.

"It's not our place to judge the Earl." A voice spoke from behind him.

He jumped at sat up straight. A girl was standing behind him, she had short spiky black hair, a white blouse with a red ribbon tied around the neck, stripped tights and a lollipop was in her mouth.

"Oh, did he send you to fetch me?" Tyki asked the girl.

"Yes, let's get going Tyki, don't want to keep him waiting do we? Besides it's boring without you there." The girl talked in a childish voice and whined at the Noah.

Tyki gave a long sigh and stood up. "Let's go then."

He followed the girl and they disappeared into the night.

Back With The Gang

"So….this is the hotel we're staying at?" Melody looked up at said 'hotel'.

"Looks more like a mansion." Damien commented.

Indeed it did. The building itself was made entirely of some sort of white material, marble they suspected, and it looked close to Victorian-era made. Maybe older.

Kanda proceeded forward. He was used to the places the Order picked out, whether they were crap or extravagant.

"It's your choice if you idiots want to stay outside all night, but I won't help you tomorrow if you faint from lack of sleep." Kanda said noticing the others had stopped.

Melody rolled her eyes and she and Damien continued forward, inside and to the front desk, where Kanda was waiting for the keys.

"Here you go Mr. Kanda," The female attendant handed over a set of keys. "The room for you and Miss Melody is 274. The one for Mr. Damien and Mr. Nate is 275. Please enjoy your stay."

"Wait did you say Melody is sharing a room with me?" Kanda asked the attendant, unsure if he heard right.

"Umm yes, that's how it was booked. Is there a problem?" She asked looking confused and slightly scared. Probably due to the fact Kanda practically had fire in his eyes.

"None at all. Thank you." Damien dragged Kanda away towards the elevator, before he could attack the poor woman.

"What are you doing?! I was trying to change the rooms!" Kanda yelled at him when they got in the elevator.

"You're engaged remember? So obviously you'd share a room." Damien pointed out like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"So I actually have to share a room with him? I say we let him go back and get different room arrangements." Melody said.

"You can't idiot. We'll just have to split up the rooms between ourselves." Damien sighed at the stupidities of their ideas. "How about I switch with you Mel?"

"I couldn't possibly share a room with Miss Walker! That would be indecent!" Nate exclaimed turning ever so slightly red.

"Its fine Nate, I trust you. Don't worry about it." Melody waved off his concern.

"No, no really. I'll just sleep in the hallway, or on the couch, or by the door or-" Nate rambled on.

"Look she said it's fine so it's fine, but if you really have a problem with it you can share a room with Kanda and I'll share with Mel." Damien said trying to calm the finder down.

"Yes, let's do that then!" Nate was quick to accept the new idea.

"Well I guess this is where we part ways, oh loving fiancé of mine." Melody blew him a kiss and laughed. The elevator door opened and they all walked out.

Kanda just glared in response.

"Quite a catch you got there. He's just lovely." Damien smiled in amusement as he and Melody made their way down the hall to their room.

Nate and Kanda walked a little ways behind them and stopped at their door first.

"Goodnight Exorcists." Nate bowed and walked in the room.

Kanda just walked in and let to door close behind him.

Melody and Damien walked to the next door over and walked on in.

The room was just as the pair expected it to be. Above average. It was more like an aristocrat's room, everything was clean and white, with a hint of some other light colors here and there, and everything in a perfect place.

"Well is this goodnight?" Damien asked.

"No we're just going to sit here and talk all night." Melody replied sarcastically. "What do you think?" She flopped down on the bed.

"Just asking, jeez." He smiled and sat down next to her. "So you like the Black Order so far?" He studied her face carefully.

"Yeah, it's all right." She said, trying to keep her face mutual.

"You're lying." He stated after a few seconds.

She sighed and closed her eyes. "It's not like I expected it to be great or anything…It's just…"

"Restricting? Weird?" Damien asked leaning back on the bed.

"Yeah, it's just all so…" She trailed off, unable to finish her sentence.

They lay in silence for a few minutes, both thinking of their own things.

"Yeah I understand." Damien said at last, breaking the silence. "You've had a long day, go ahead and sleep." He turned to the side and smiled, wiping his bangs out of his eyes. Melody was sleeping peacefully beside him. Her hair fanned around her body like a fan, creating a silvery contrast between her hair and body.

He picked her up and carried her to the other side of the bed, with his foot he removed the covers and gently placed her under the warm comfort of the many layers of sheets. Then he pulled the covers up to her chin and made sure she looked comfortable.

Satisfied he stripped down to his boxers and pulled on his night clothes, a white tank top and green cotton pants. After using the bathroom to brush his teeth and everything else he walked back over to the bed and got in on the side opposite Melody. He looked one last time at her and then faced the other way, looking at the wall. "Goodnight princess."

Well how do you guys like how things are going. We got a bit more of a look at Damien!! I love my beta and i hope the stories will seem a bit better written and corrected from now on.