Dona Nobis Innocence | By : Marikei Category: +. to F > D. Gray Man Views: 1267 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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DISCLAIMER: D-Gray Man is the property of Katsura Hoshino and whatever media outlet is promoting it. I make no money off this silly crossover... oh; while I'm on the subject, Haunting Ground/Demento belongs to CAPCOM, but we won't see that for quite a few chapters.
Enjoy!
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The outside world was bitterly cold. Allen Walker spent many long moments pausing in the heavy snowfall as he walked, just so he could rub his arms and keep himself warm while frozen wind and ice shot him in the face as he tried keeping up with Lenalee and Lavi, who were ahead of him doing pretty much the same thing.
All three of them were trying to make their way through the heart of an abandoned village so they could reach the summit of a mountain just beyond it, their destination and to their misfortune the location of their mission.
"How much further?" Lenalee asked, yelling above the wind, her question directed at Lavi, who was currently in possession of the map.
Lavi clutched the paper tightly, trying to keep the wind from carrying it away as he squinted past the whitewash of snow so he could make out the details of the map with his good eye. "We're nearly there," He yelled back. "There's just this castle manor we have to pass by and we'll be on the trail to the mountain!"
"Hopefully we don't become icicles before we make it there!" Allen said, before sneezing loudly. He could feel the beginnings of a cold coming on and hoped it wouldn't become a burden if or whenever they made it to their location. Of course he felt mostly sorry for Lenalee, who had gone with them in her usual attire and had fallen victim to the biting blizzard earlier, her teeth chattering while her face and bare legs were red from the force of the windy snow.
She was wearing his coat and looked a little better than she had. Allen rubbed his nose and smiled thoughtfully. As long as she was alright a little cold didn't bother him.
Though it didn't make him wish any less that their mission could have been in a warmer climate.
As the trio trudged on, their vision seemed to get worse the closer they got to the mountain, which they could barely make out against the silhouette of trees in the distance. Allen was about to voice an opinion about how Komui could have warned them about the conditions of the area a little more thoroughly during their briefing but Lavi had spoken up first.
"Hold on, do you guys hear that?"
Both Allen and Lenalee stopped walking. With the crunching of snow they walked on gone the only thing they could hear was the whistling of wind.
"I don't hear anything." Lenalee replied. looking around while she wrapped both her arms tighter around herself.
As the three of them stood still Allen could feel his body becoming heavy and his head felt dizzy as he fought off a wave of nausea. It was followed shortly by fierce coughing.
"Allen you don't sound well, here take your coat back." Allen made a noise of protest while Lenalee moved toward him taking off his coat.
"I'm serious you guys, stop moving around." Lavi spoke up, making her pause mid-give. "Hearing nothing isn't good."
Allen and Lenalee's eyes widened at Lavi, who stood rooted while scanning the area with a cautious eye.
"Animals and birds get quiet when there's something on the hunt." He continued. "This either means they're being silent because were here or because-"
Lavi didn't get to finish his sentence, a sudden sound of low growling echoed all around them. From the white blizzard came dark silhouettes of creatures that stalked forward, surrounding them on all fours, teeth bared and yellow eyes trained on them like prey.
It was a pack of wolves. A lot of them.
"Well, I can see why the village was abandoned..." Allen said in a small voice.
Without warning, the wolves charged at the three of them, barking loudly and drooling greatly as they snapped their fangs.
"Big hammer little hammer!" Lavi suddenly shouted, making his anti-akuma weapon increase to outrageous size and bashed it at the ground in front of them, sending a few of the rabid wolves reeling back. Allen and Lenalee stood behind Lavi and managed to knock a few back, but the more they did the more it seemed like their numbers kept increasing.
"There's too many of them!" Allen shouted, then yelled in pain when one latched onto his leg. Hitting it over the head he heard the leg of his pants rip as the wolf backed away.
"Guys grab onto my hammer!" Lavi yelled back at Allen and Lenalee. They ran toward him, taking hold of the handle of the hammer as Lavi commanded it to stretch toward the sky and away from the barking wolves. The hammer shook like the beasts were trying to knock down their escape but they managed to stay skyward.
Lavi grinned in victory, letting out a sigh of relief. "That was a close one!"
Allen looked toward the ground, watching the few houses still standing become a valley of trees as they left the village limits. Suddenly he felt his breath give out as another wave of coughing bit at his lungs. Hacking loudly he didn't feel his grip on the pole give away.
"Crap!" Allen shouted, catching the others attention and they broke into hysterics.
"Allen!" Lenalee and Lavi both shouted, reaching out to grab for his hand, but the wind and frost blinded them from seeing him right away and they missed.
Allen could only watch their shocked faces as he fell away from them.
On his way toward the ground Allen spun, inertia making his eyes water as he fell at a rushing pace. "This isn't good!" He looked at his left arm and willed for his innocence to activate so he could cushion his fall. before the effects of his power could fully form he suddenly felt nauseated. His head pounded like someone was deliberately taking a steel chisel and hammer to his skull and it almost made him scream in agony.
"Is my cold affecting my innocence?!" Allen pondered behind his pain. As quick as it had come it was gone and suddenly the ground was right there. managing to roll as he hit the ground, he directed the brunt of the fall on his left shoulder.
As he sat up squinting one eye against the pain and gripping his abused limb he looked around, realizing there was nothing he could see. Like the horrible weather was getting kicks out of the situation, the wind suddenly picked up, continuously covering the entire area in a thick white blanket of frost and ice, his vision was all but useless as he got up off the frozen terrain. With blinded eyes he tried to spot where Lavi and Lenalee might be, hearing only the harsh wind and the very distant growls of the animals that had been in pursuit of them.
Ignoring the noise and running on pure instinct, Allen booked it away from where the growls were coming from and ran like his life depended on it, listening for Lavi and Lenalee, hoping to hear their voices calling for him.
It was only the wind dancing against the forest of trees and the blizzard that remained vocal.
As he ran the coughing continued to badger him. He had to stop running often and fell to his knees a few times it became so bad. His whole body craved warmth and he sorely wished he'd brought an extra coat. Between boding his own misfortune he hoped that at least Lavi and Lenalee had gotten away safely. If he could just find someplace to hole up in until the storm ended he could find them later.
That was unless he couldn't, and-
Shaking such negative thoughts from his tired mind he continued on, this time at a brisk walk, occasionally calling for his comrades between coughing.
It felt like hours had gone by. Just as Allen noticed he was losing his voice he spotted something in the distance that stood out in the blinding frost. It looked large and out of place in the wilderness.
As he got closer he could see it was a castle like building.
"That must be the manor Lavi was talking about!" Allen said out loud to himself in a raspy voice. This meant beyond it would be the trail that they had been aiming for.
Grinning tiredly he coughed again and charged forward with all his might.
He was so enraptured at the thought of being reunited with his friends and conscious thought was so numbed by the frozen weather he didn't even see that there was something blocking his path.
He'd felt it before he fell, whether it was a stone or something else he couldn't tell, but it was enough to make him trip none the less. He tumbled once or twice and wound up on his face, covered from head to foot in blistering cold snow.
Nausea rocked him once again and he lost the will to hold back harsh coughing that forced him into dry heaving. The building was right there, yet he couldn't find it in him to crawl the rest of the way there. Before he let his eyes close he could have sworn he heard a door opening, but he couldn’t for the life of him bother to look up and see.
"I'm so tired. I'm sorry, you guys, I'll be there soon, just one little nap..." He thought before everything went pitch black.
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