History of a Mystery

NOTE: This is a fictional work based off the events of D. Gray-Man. I understand that the information in here may or may not be true to canon, but there are a lot of assumptions I made to make this work. An example would be that Mana adopted the name Walker later in life. For this, I needed to find another family name for him. I also assumed he was NOT British. He's German in this story. My apologies in advance if this is not correct (which it most likely is not) but that's how the story is going to work.

Otherwise I hope you like my newest fic .

Part One: Segment One

-The Birth-

Screams could be heard through town as a young mother lay in her bed. A midwife sat by her bedside, coaching her through the most intense pain a woman could bear: childbirth. Her cries of pain fell upon the ears of the other two inhabitants of the house, both of whom sat in the main room outside the door. The child's father held another, an older son, while both worried over the woman's health. The child could only tremble as his father tried to comfort him. The small cottage-style house held almost no relief from the agonizing wait that befell so many births of the time. Each minute seemed like years to both. The darkness inside the house was augmented by the night outside, broken only be a few kerosene lamps sitting on the tables throughout the house. The screams grew louder and more labored until a new, more fragile scream joined and then replaced them. The now newborn baby could be heard over even the howling wind outside.

After a few minutes the midwife emerged from the room. Her face was strained and her cheeks glistened with sweat from the stifling heat in the room. She approached the child's father in the center of the room and bowed her head, "You have a healthy baby boy, Mr. Schäfer."

"And what of my wife? How is she?" the man asked. The midwife cringed and looked towards the floor then to the boy attached to his father's arm, "She didn't make it, sir. I'm sorry, but the labor was too much for her."

Schäfer looked flustered. The town's midwife had just told him his wife was dead and he had no idea how to react.

"Mana, go to your room. We need some private discussion time, please." The ten year old left his father's side and disappeared into his bedroom to the left of the house.

Once the door latched closed the father looked back at the midwife, "So you're telling me that my wife is dead?" The look of disbelief was quickly melting to sadness as the woman nodded slowly.

"Yes, the strain from the birth was too much. I believe she may have hurt herself internally, but only a doctor would be able to tell you that for sure. I'm sorry, Mr Schäfer."

Back in the bedroom, young Mana sat on his bed in silence. His mother had just died while his little brother was being born. He could hear crying from his mother's bedroom.

'That must be the baby. I wonder what father will name him,' he thought.

Just as these thoughts were about to put him to sleep he heard a shout from the family room. He bolted to the door and wretched it open just in time to see his father raise a gun to his head. The midwife screamed as the trigger was pulled. The man fell limply to the floor as both onlookers screamed. The crying from the other room grew louder as the baby reacted to the loud noise. The last thing Mana saw before everything went black was the midwife rushing to his side.

-Elsewhere-

"Master!" A young girl ran into a small room where a round man sat the bench of a piano. He turned slowly to look at her, "Hello, Rhoad. Any news? You seem excited about something."

"Yes, master Earl. A new Noah has been born. I've never heard of this happening, have you?"

"Indeed not," the Earl said with his huge grin, "Never before have there been fourteen Noah alive at once. This will be interesting."

END

This is the first half of the prologue to the storyline. My goal is to make this 14 chapters long for obvious reasons and that includes dividing my ideas into sectors.

As you may have seen, I chose the name Schäfer for Mana's family because it translates to Sheppard and I find that name befitting of a Noah.

Please review! I love feedback. Just try to be nice about it. I'm new to DGM and this was a really hard concept for me to do, especially since Neah has just now been formally introduced in the manga and thus has almost no development.