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100 drabble contest!!
Author: hey hey HEY everyone! guess who it is!!! your favorite author in the house!
Lavi: whoa author-chan, you sound super excited today!
Author: i AM! i had some great inspiration for a super cute extra! its called... the 100 drabble contest!
Kanda: ugh, you come up with the most retarded ideas...
Lenalee: Hush! any new ideas are a new chance for me to show up!! *jumps for joy*
Author: ahahaaa... we'll see. I've randomly generated 100 numbers from 1-1000 (assuming that's how many words are present in my tiny child's dictionary. sweatdrop ). I'll go through and find the numbered word, and then create a short (SHORT) story connecting with the word. All 100 stories will be in this post! can i do it!?
Group: YEAH!
Kanda: Che. We'll see.
Allen: should I be scared...
Kanda: weren't you... i dunno...dead or something?
Allen: *glares*
Lavi: now now, before you two get into another one of your love quarrels, lets get down to business!
Author: well said! Disclaimer please!
Kanda: Bak-author does not have the mental prowess to own D. Gray man. ... Or the dictionary.
Author: well, that's one way to put it... now...
Lavi: Let the Drabbles begin!!
100 drabble challenge!
Author...
Kanda: Oh god, what?
Author: *cries*
Lavi: AUTHOR-CHAN!?
Allen: is she sane?
Author: I'm sane... just... in need of some... MINOR... edumacation....
Kanda: Che. I could have told you THAT.
Lenalee: whats wrong author chan?
Author: Weeeelll... i picked numbers 1-1000 right? cuz i said i though that was how many words might be in the book? well... I.. um... barely got into the B's...
Kanda: Idiot.
Lavi: Ahahahaaaa... its okay author chan... we can make due with A's and a few B's...
Lenalee: You'll just have to do the rest of the alphabet later!
Author: my visual measurement skills make me want to cry...
But on the bright side! The words I picked are amazing! I'm so ready to write stories!
Lavi: here's the deal folks! We're gonna list the words, and then over time, write little drabbles next to them, starting from 1, and ending (hopefully) at 100! We'll also place the definition of the word before we write the story, for the benefit of the readers. :3
Allen: Don't forget these are themes, so the word may not necessarily be in the story, but it will be an important part of the general idea.
Author: and here are our words!!
1. Action- An explosion sounded nearby. Black cloaked figures turned toward the source. It was time to work.
2. Accomplice- As Allen ran down the hall, clutching a black sheathed sword to his chest and running for his life with an irate samurai on his heels, we wondered how the red haired trouble-maker of the order managed to get him involved in his plans so often. And then he laughed and continued to run.
3. Abort- "It's too dangerous. Come back."
"But Nii-san!" lenalee cried, wrapping the phone chord around her fingers, avoiding the burns on her arms, and leaning against the wall to keep her weigh off of her casted foot, "I can still fight!"
"No!" Komoui sighed, hiding his head in his hands. "No..."
Lenalee sent a sympathetic gaze toward the phone she was holding.
"No." her brother repeated. "Sometimes... sometimes it's more important to come home alive, than to complete a task. The mission ends here."
4. Behalf- "We are here on Behalf of the pope." The red head spoke as the blond behind her stared with startling blue eyes. And Komoui knew that everything was about to change.
5. Awful- "Mou, Nii-san..." lenalee whined, as she watched the giant metal Komourin tie lavi up with gauze and dangle Allen like yo-yo. She smacked a hand against her forehead and slowly slid it down her face with a sigh. "You're just awful..."
6. Abrasive- "Don't touch me!" Kanda snapped at the red-head who was once again trying to lean on his shoulder. He moved to the side, letting lavi fall to the floor, and stomped off in a huff. Allen came foreward.
"Why do you keep messing with him? He's got the social ability of a cactus. All spikes and no brain."
"Ah, Allen-chan!" lavi sighed, "But you forget! It's what's on the inside that counts!"
Later, when Allen looked up what, exactly, was inside a cactus, (because he had never really cared before) he was still confused.
"So... he's filled with water...?"
7. Access- Jerry was so excited about the new security measures that Komoui had installed into the kitchen. After a certain event occurred in the order (read: Allen), Food had been disappearing from the kitchen at odd hours, and it was really getting difficult to keep supplies up.
Smiling, he walked (read: sashayed) over to the fridge, and ghosted a hand over the shiny new keypad that kept the door locked unless the correct code was entered.
"Now..." Jerry sighed, "If only I could remember what, in all of Komoui's blabber, was the code..." He shifted from one stiletto shoe to the other, (Can't you just see him in heels? XD ), resting his chin in one hand, and holding his elbow with the other. After a moment of thought, he typed in the only number combination that popped into his mind... 5-3-6-2-5-3-3.
After a moment, the fridge beeped and two words appeared on the screen.
-Access Denied-
"Oh dear." Jerry sighed. "Looks like the fridge won't open now..."
And somewhere, in the hallways of the order, Allen Walker foamed at the mouth and collapsed into a heap on the floor.
8. Accept- "I challenge you to a duel, Moyashi" Kanda sneered.
"I accept." Allen smiled back, scaring several finders in the outskirts of the battlefield with his 'too innocent to be good' grin.
One destroyed marble floor, two marble columns, 2 ribs, a black eye, many bruises, numerous cuts, 3 passed out finders and one hilarious lavi later, and the two were flat out on the floor, panting like their life depended on it.
"I say we continue this tomorrow." Kanda breathed, blowing his bangs from his face. "If you can handle it."
"We'll see, girly man." Allen laughed. "Don't chicken out on me."
"Tomorrow it is then." Kanda growled, groaning as he rose to his feet.
"Accepted." Allen panted, closing his eyes, content to sleep on the floor until the next duel.
9. Ambition- "You know," lenalee laughed an empty laugh as she wrapped a bandage around Kanda's arm, trying to stem the bleeding and heal the wounds from a recent battle, "When I was little... I always wanted to be a doctor..." She smiled angrily at her perfect bandaging. Kanda stared down at her for a moment, before he decided that now was not the time for conversation, and instead placed a hand on top of the girls head in the only form of comfort that he ever knew.
10. Apricot- "It's a lovely shade of pink." Allen tried to keep a straight face, as his gentlemanly habits forbade him from admitting that the dress lenalee was wearing was down-right UGLY.
"It's Peach." Kanda crinkled his nose, obviously showing his disgust in the color.
Lenalee stared between both of them, red in the face and glaring.
"Its PINK, Bakanda." Allen snapped, trying to defend Lenalee's dress. "Why would she wear a peach dress? It would blend with her skin, idiot! but i wouldn't expect you to realize that of course..."
"It's PEACH sprout." Kanda snarled. "Its obviously too light to be pink. Learn your f*ing colors."
"That's colorful language for someone who's obviously COLORBLIND" Allen snapped back.
"That's a big word for someone who-"
The argument ended when the two were both slapped with large tidal waves of punch. Both turned to stare incredulously at Lenalee, who was practically heaving in anger by now.
"LAVI!" she snapped, turning to the bookman who just happened to be walking by. Knowing his choices were 'stop and act like a whipped dog' or 'take his chances and lose a limb (probably one that he would seriously miss...) He stopped immediately and put on his best "kicked puppy" face.
"Yes Lenalady?" he smiled.
"What color is this." she snarled, pointing to her dress.
"Apricot!" He grinned wider. "And a very lovely shade of it too!"
Lenalee's horrible glare snapped back to the two boys currently dripping with punch and giving her meek (or in Kanda's case, relatively indifferent) looks.
"Both of you... " she growled, putting a hand on either side of their heads.
"LEARN YOUR COLORS!"
And she cracked their heads together, showing them the most colorful rainbow they could have hoped for.
Author's notes on 1-10: OMG they keep getting longer! I'm scared!! I need to make some shorter ones!! 1 was pretty lame. I probably could have done better. As you can tell, I'm trying to get a mix of feelings, from serious, to funny, to sad, to happy. It's like an exercise to make my brain work. XD The cactus joke was pretty much a shot in the dark. I don't get what lavi meant by it either, accept that maybe he was just being lavi. In "Access", the access code for the fridge, 5-3-6-2-5-3-3, is actually how you spell "L-e-n-a-l-e-e" on a keypad. XD i thought that was a cute addition. And I thought Allen passing out was pretty funny. I can picture it perfectly. :3 "Accept" was kind of lame too, but I liked the bond feeling between Allen and Kanda. I really don't feel like they hate each other as much as people think they do. "Ambition" was pretty depressing, though i was going to make it funny by having kanda responde "Well I always wanted to be a barber" or something stupid like that, but serious just felt more appropriate. And finally, "Apricot" is probably like, my least favorite color. : P And, in case you were wondering, lovely #4, "Behalf" is actually a clip from upcomming chapters of Pieces of the Heart!
11. Arbitrate- Komoui stared at the cafeteria, covered in food. Seriously. It was dripping from the ceiling! That had to be like, fourty feet up!!
In the center of the mess, which everyone else had quickly abandoned, was Allen, with mashed potatoes down his front and what looked like celery in his hair, and Kanda, with cream cheese on his pants, and a bowl still sitting on his head. Both were glarring and snapping at each other.
"Okay." Komoui growled. "Who started it."
As expected, both automatically pointed to the other, with a simultanious, "He did."
Komoui grinned like a cat.
"I was hoping you would say that."
Both were starting to look scared.
"Because both of you are obviously at fault, seeing as BOTH of you said the OTHER did it, then that means you BOTH have to clean this entire room, from top to bottom, with TOOTHBRUSHES."
The boys looked ready to argue, when a large mechanical creature crawled in behind komoui and glared at them with a red eye.
"Boys, meet Komourin 78. This model responds to loud voices and arguing! Isnt that amazing! though I can't remember if I set it to shouting or whispering, but oh well!" He shrugged like he hadn't a care in the world.
"If this model activates, it will immediatly shave both of you bald!"
The two boys stared with mouths open.
"So this room had better be clean by the time I get back! You'll be providing your OWN toothbrushes of course."
The boys looked cross again.
"Unless you'd rather use your tounge?"
From then on, arguments were ususally held FAR AWAY from Komoui.
12. Birch - The blonde carefully pushed the large wooden door open, leading her to the abandoned rooftop of one of the many towers of the brand new order's building. Personally, she was confused as to how it had towers when from the outside, it simply looked like a cylinder, but she didn't question it.
Ahead of her, her red headed friend was squatting by a patch of dirt, surrounded by a circle of stones.
"Luna." the girl called hesitantly, blue eyes shining. "Luna."
The red head turned around, and for a moment, the blonde felt like her dark green eyes had been hard and cold, but as soon as she blinked, they were back to being soft and warm.
"Alteara." The girl called back, "Come see."
The little blonde, who was still rather small, trotted over her companions side and looked down. In the center of the dirt patch was a tiny plant, barely a foot high. Small green leaves spread like reaching arms toward the sky.
"It's a Birch tree." Luna smiled. She reached over and ruffled her friends blonde hair. "It's still little, just like you! But one day, it will grow big and tall, and will help people gain lots of fond memories."
Large blue eyes turned back to the tree. The girl leaned down and gently covered one of the exposed roots with bits of dirt.
"Did you put it here?" Alteara asked, turning back to her red headed friend who was looking at the tree fondly.
"No." she smiled. "But I know who did."
She stood and turned, walking to the door. After a few moments, the blonde turned from the tree and back to her friend, rushing to catch up before the door closed.
"Who was it?" she asked, as the wooden door creaked with age.
The red head smiled.
"It was-"
The door closed, and the tiny tree swayed in the wind.
13. Barber- The ONE time lavi tried to cut Kanda's hair as a prank, he found himself hanging tied up, and upside-down from one of the light fixtures in the caffeteria before he could say "Just Kidding!". He ended up staying there for several hours, as the science department tried to find something long enough to reach him with. How he got up there is STILL a mystery. Lesson learned: Don't mess with Kanda's hair.
14. Atomic Energy- Our favorite quad of exorsists, being 1 antisocial Kanda Yuu, 1 ovelry energetic Lavi, 1 usless Lenalee, and 1 ever inquisitive Allen walker, were chilling in the caffeterial today. They were enjoying the usual chatter when a red headed girl walked in, accompanied by a cheery blonde.
"Luna, Alteara!" Lavi waved, calling the two over. Not that he needed to. They were both coming over at quite alarming speeds.
Luna stopped first, smacking into the table, with Alteara slamming into her from behind. Both were panting.
"What's wrong with you two?" kanda raised an eyebrow.
"I suggest we all run." Luna panted, "Or go FAR away." She quickly squished from between the blonde and the table and dashed out of the caffeteria. Alteara turned to follow when Lenalee grabbed her to hold her in place.
"What's going on?" The dark haired girl cocked her head.
"... ah..." the blonde blanched. "You're brother?"
"Oh dear god." Allen jumped up immediatly, trying to shove as much food in his clothing as possible from his pile. "We're all doomed!"
Lavi... was already gone. Sneaky...
Kanda reached over and grabbed the blonde's wrist from Lenalee, before he quickly began to drag her from the room, lenalee and Allen right behind them.
They made it around the first corner when a giant net fell on them, stopping them in their tracks.
"THERE YOU ARE!" komoui called with a big smile. "I have a great new invention to show you all!"
"We're gonna die!" lenalee lamented.
*one epic hog-tying scene later...*
"Why are we tied to chairs?" Kanda snapped, glaring at the scientist before him. Alteara was giggleing nervously, lenalee was dead-panning, and Allen was getting a head start on foaming at the mouth.
"BECAUUUSSSEEE..." komoui twirled in a circle, before turning to a large maching that was giving off an eerie glow. "I want to show you all my BRAND NEW INVENTION!"
"Great, we've seen it, can we go now Nii-san?" Lenalee monotoned.
"But i havent show you how it woooorks!" Komoui whined.
"That's okay..." Alteara laughed. "We can just... uh... use our imaginations..."
"I call it!" Komoui announced, completely ignoring the others. "Atomic ENERGY! Its an alternative power source! Highly volatile, but super effective!"
"We're gonna die." Kanda sighed.
And komoui flipped the "on" switch.
15. Amend- Three days after their most serious argument to date, which literally shook the order with its furosity, Allen and Kanda, who had tried their hardest to avoid each other, found themselves face to face in the caffeteria. They stared fiercly in silence. Surprisingly, Kanda kept his mouth closed. Eyes narrowed. "BAKANDA." Allen sniffed, raising his nose at the man before walking past him with his horrendously large cart of food.
Kanda stood silently, before he "humphed" and left the room with a small grin.
"Why didn't the world end?" Reever's asked from under the tray he was holding over his head.
Lavi, who was calmly sitting next to him, grinned past his fist.
"Those two just can't stay mad at each other!"
And Reever's promptly decided that All exorcists were insane.
16. Apart- Luna still remembered the very first day she met Alteara. She still remembered the sun, filtering through the broken, dusty, panes of glass in that old shed and lighting the dusty air, makeing it seem like fireflies were dancing in that old, old place. The small blonde was in the back of the shadowed group of children observing her and speaking in hushed whispers. Sparkling blue eyes seemed to be the only source of color in that dreary place. She was the only one who watched her, instead of the stories around her.
The only one who really saw her.
Before then, (that day, that week, that place) it had always been her, and her alone. It was easier that way. You could move faster with one person. Communication problems were non-existant. There was no hassle for understanding.
But then, in that place, (with those people, those rules, that fire) she learned.
After then, (that event, that child, those eyes) company didn't seem like such a horrible thing anymore. The communication problems were suddenly wanted. The struggle to understand became a learning experience.
Now, so long after (weeks, years, decades) that feeling of "solitary" was so far away, that the only thing she felt was "company". The soft gazes between them, the shared words, the shared secrets. Now, the comfortable warmth of another person was in her reach.
But now, the feeling of 'solitary' was that much stronger when they were 'apart'. Because she knew what she was missing.
"Luna?"
The red head turned to lavi, who had interupted her train of thought. She looked at him expectantly, unable to grace him with her usual smile. Instead, he grined.
"Alteara is due to arrive back any moment now. Wanna go greet her?"
And she smiled as that 'solitary' feeling vanished into thin air.
17. Batch- One fine morning, Jerry walked into his beloved kitchen.
Just in time to see one Kanda Yuu pulling a sheet of cookies out of the oven.
An akward moment reigned.
"... What?!" the samurai snapped, still holding the tray.
And Jerry promply left the vecinity to go lie down. Because he was OBVIOUSLY ill.
18. Beep- Komoui knew he had put that new invention (the amazing "time bomb", that would explode after the holder had pleanty of time to escape) somewhere. He just had to listen for the sound...
Two floors and three corridors away... Lenalee turned to Allen.
"Hey Allen-kun, what's with all of the boxes?"
"Oh." Allen sighed, moving the load to make it more comfortable to carry. "Komoui asked me to move these to storage."
"Can I accomany you?" lenalee chirped.
"Certainly!" Allen grinned, blushing ever so slightly.
They walked happily for a moment before...
"Hey Allen..."
"Yeah Lenalee?"
"Do you... hear something beeping?"
19. Acquaintance- Allen smiled to the curly haired man in front of him, ignoring his strange swirly glasses.
"Its nice to meet you." he held out his hand.
The man before him grinned a little too cheerfully.
"Pleased to make your aquaintance, Boy-a."
20. Bewilder- And then one day, as Allen and Lenalee were strolling through the woods, trying to return from their latest mission...
Both stop in the path, their attention caught by rustling bushes.
"Allen-kun, what do you think it is?" lenalee asked, cocking her head at the foliage.
"Dunno." Allen blinked.
And suddenly, out popped Jasdero and Debbito.
"I Am Jasdero! Hee!" the blonde shouted.
"I Am Debbito!" The dark haired one shouted. They both spun in a circle, comming to a halt in a fancy pose.
"And together... we make Jasdebi! (Hee!)"
"Get back Lenalee!" Allen shouted, activating the crowned clown and moving into battle position.
The twins blinked for a second, before jumping back into the bush they came from.
The two exorsists stared for a moment.
"What was that about?" lenalee pondered as Allen shifted through the bush to no avail.
"I... have no idea." the silver haired boy shrugged before the two continued their jolly trot through the woods.
*With the Noah*
"OMG i can't beleive they did it!" Rhode laughed, holding her stomach and rolling on the plush flooring of the mannor.
"Well we did! Hee!" Jasdero shouted back.
"Yeah, So pay up!" Debbito yelled, extending a hand toward tiki, who simply sighed and pulled out his wallet.
"You boys are lunatics."
Author's notes on 11-20: Omg, another installment finished!! im 1/5 of the way there~! XD shall we look at what we've covered? :3 First is #11, "arbitrate" Not only did i learn how to spell it, but i also gave komoui a bit of "revenge" for all of the trouble Allen and Kanda cause! 12, "Birch" was another piece of the story that is yet to come! did you catch the connection? #13, "Barber" was one i just had to do. i mean, what is 100 stories without at least 1 about kanda's hair. XD 14, "Atomic Energy" was another playful komoui story. I could see him dabbling in science that is super dangerous. and wanting to flaunt it about. XD "Amend" was another one of my Allen and Kanda bonding pieces. I figure they never appologize, but still forgive each other. :3 "Apart" is another spoiler! I tried a more mysterious writing style (with parentheses! ) giving words that relate, but arent' exactly descriptive, at all. you'll just have to wait until that story is revealed! "Batch" was epic. As soon as i picked that word, i knew that kanda had to make some cookies. It was too perfect! >w< 18, "Beep" was pretty epic. Komoui causing trouble again! 19 was "Aquaintance" so i wrote simple interaction between characters. Can you tell who Allen is meeting? :3 And finally, 20, which is the first Noah based story, "Bewilder!" and who is more bewildering than Jasdebi. I actually had to go look at the manga to get their names down... sweatdrop
I hope you've enjoyed the stories so far! there are many more to come!
21. Antisocial- "Hey, Yuu-chan!" lavi grinned at kanda. To his utter surprise, the samurai grit his teeth and pulled back his mouth like he was snarling. Lavi paused.
"Uh.. Yuu-chan?"
"Could you PLEASE... not... call me that?" Kanda ground out, his face contorting a little bit more.
"Okay, i'm really frightened." Lavi blinked, stepping back. "Who are you, and what have you done with kanda?"
Said exorcist dropped his smile before turning and walking away. Lavi stared blankly.
"Lavi?" lenalee quirked her head as she walked up to the dumbfounded red-head.
"Uh..." lavi simply pointed at Kanda, who was smile/snarling at a nearby founder, who looked absolutely terrified and confused.
"oh that?" lenalee grinned. "Nii-san said Kanda could use some social-interaction, and has confiscated mugen. He can have it back if he behaves all day."
Lavi laughed. "Oh.. poor yuu-chan..."
The two sat in silence for a moment.
"Shall we go tease him?" lavi grinned.
"Lets!" Lenalee chirped.
22. Anarchy- Reevers could only stare blankly as another one of Komoui's machines was stabbed, sliced, smashed, and kicked to oblivion. Why was it that their leader seemed to be more of problem than the enemy? He sighed and continued to drag the stack of paper he was holding toward Komoui's office.
23. Attendant- "Mou, Panda!" Lavi whined, carrying the tea tray into the library. "Why do I have to carry this thing around?"
"Respect your elders insolent pup!" Bookman growled in his raspy voice.
"But pandaaaaa" Lavi whined.
"FINE!" bookman snapped, whipping around and stealing the tray from the red-head. "GO READ!" and he stomped off.
The next day, lavi was curious when Bookman didn't ask him to get the tea again.
'hmm.' he thought. 'Maybe he's given up?'
"Here you go bookman-san!" A cheery voice chirped.
"Ah, thank you young'un."
Lavi blinked, before leaning back to peer around the stacks of books all around him. Bookman was sitting with a young beautiful brunette girl. Lavi stared.
"Oyaji!" he hissed. "What's with the babe?!"
The girl blushed a little, looking away, but Bookman simply sneered.
"Well, I figured I should get someone to help me out a bit, since my apprentice is such an incompetent fool." and he quietly sipped his tea.
"Sweet!' Lavi grinned, wiggling his eyebrows at the girl.
"Don't get any ideas pup." bookman growled. "Get your own attendant. This one is mine."
"Awww.. stubborn old coot..." Lavi whined, before turning back to his books with a pout.
24. Belong- Sometimes, when the pair were out on missions, the red-head would curiously watch from atop nearby roofs as the blond approached passers-by for information on their most current goal. She watched the seem less interaction, and wondered. The blond seemed so natural with those people. With the innocents that strayed on the street. And she would turn, a strange feeling settled deep in her chest, to do her own mission. To find her own information.
Later in the night, while standing at the empty meeting point, listening to the sway of trees, and the soft, steady trickle of the nearby fountain in the park, the red-head would think back to her companion. Perhaps, this town, would finally be the one to snatch her away? She was built to live in a happy place, with good people, not running from town to town, facing darkness at every turn. If, one day, the blond suddenly decided to take up residence with a nice family, the red-head would simply leave, severing the last tie to the dark world, with the hopes that the blond would live happily in peace for the rest of her days.
The tightness in her chest increased, but she brushed it off. She wasn't wounded, so it wasn't important.
Looking back at the nearby clock, she watched as it struck 11. An hour past the meeting time.
Silently, she stood, red hair flowing like a stream from her shoulders. She turned.
It looked like this was it. She would be leaving alone.
Half way out of the park, the thought struck her. Perhaps, if the blond had a place that she belonged, maybe a place like that was waiting for herself as well...
Her heart throbbed.
"WAIT!"
She froze, steeling her face into indifference, before turning. The blond was kneeling over, hands on her knees, and panting like she had just run a marathon.
"W-wait..." she called, reaching out. "S-sorry... i got... lost...."
She blinked. Slowly, she approached the blond, moving to stand by her side. The girl looked at her curiously, still trying to catch her breath. As the red-head stood there, she realized something important.
"You're hopeless!" she grinned, "How could you get lost?! This town is probably the smallest that we've gone to!"
"I can't help it!!" the blond lamented "It's built like a maze!!"
The two stood together, and walked into the darkness.
Yes. The red head laughed. This was where she belonged.
25. Abode - Komoui stood at the entrance dock, holding a clipboard in hand. His feather quill moved furiously, trying to stave off the fire-y wrath of Reevers, who was standing behind him expectantly.
"Komoui, can't you do this in your office?" He snapped.
"No." komoui responded quickly, startling the assistant head with his intense concentration. After a few more moments, the clipboard was thrust at Reevers.
"You... finished?" He gawked.
Komoui didn't answer, just continued to stare down the tunnel. Reevers looked as well. After a few moments, a little boat came into vision. On it, was Lenalee, who smiled and waved.
When it reached the dock, she hopped onto the stone and ran to her brother, who engulfed her in a hug.
"Nii-san! I'm home!" she chirped.
He smiled back at her softly.
"Welcome home, Lenalee."
26. Accomplished- As the last Akuma went down, the three dark soldiers sank to the ground, panting, breathing, living. Quiet passed over the area, an errie difference from moments ago when explosions were wrapping agains their ear-drums.
The three turned to each other, assessing the damages of war. Some cuts there, a few bruises, and some muscles that would ache in the morning were a small price to pay for the safety of the small village they were just on the outskirts of.
Not that the villagers would ever know.
After realizing that all three could move, they decid to leave. Tomorrow is a new day, with new struggles. But for today, the battle is over.
27. Ad(advertisement)- They stopped, and stared.
"Um, Lenalee..."
"Ya?"
"Is that your brother on that billboard?"
"... ya."
"..."
Well, the order needed to advertise their services somehow, right?
28. Affable- "Hey Allen-kun. Watch this!"
Allen blinked as Lavi darted from his side in the crowded street. He wandered up to an elderly couple, who were peacefully minding their own business.
"Excuse me Sir and Young Lady" He wiggled his eyebrows at the woman, who gave a raspy giggle in delight. "Me and my companions-" he gestured over to Allen, who was still staring dumbfounded at Lavi, and Kanda, who was off to the side looking pissed, "- are new to this town. And frankly... we're totally lost."
The man looked skeptical, but his little wife gasped in pity. Allen just continued to stare, totally lost on Lavi's idea.
"Do you think you could give us some directions?" Lavi asked, giving his best puppy face.
The elderly man looked ready to object, but his wife cut in first, practically shoving him aside. "Of COURSE you poor dear!" she cooed, "Where are you heading?"
Lavi pulled a map out of his pocket. ("When did he get that!?" Allen muttered to Kanda, who rolled his eyes) He fumbled around with it, totally unlike usual, and squinted at the map in confusion.
"Ah... I'm sorry..." he stuttered.
"Poor dear, what's wrong?" The old woman asked.
"Ah, well..." Lavi winced, and put a hand to his eyepatch. "See.... I hurt my eye recently... so it's kind of hard to see..."
"Oh, well, what about your friends there." the old man finally spoke, gesturing at Allen and Kanda.
"That one is mute." Lavi said, pointing to Allen. "Poor thing is so self conscious about his hair... he doesn't speak a word. Not even to me!." he faked shock.
"I am not..." Allen grumbled to himself, ignoring the hand that unconsciously checked to see if his hood was still in place.
"And the other one?" The man grumbled, looking disappointed.
"Doesn't speak English. Has no idea what's going on around him. We just kind of assume he's following us for the food."
Kanda growled something apparently quite rude in Japanese, and the elderly couple nodded in amazement, like he was a sideshow act.
"Oh, poor darlings." the old lady cooed. The old man, seemingly expecting what was going to happen, rolled his eyes and turned away, pulling out their shopping list and muttering under his breath.
"Why don't you come and stay with us until you figure out where you are headed?" the nice woman offered.
"Oh but ma'am... I couldn't impose..."
"Oh but I insist! And that's Final!" the little old woman laughed, latching on to lavi's arm and pulling him along. She stopped to gesture at the other two.
"Please. Follow." She over emphasized with hand motions toward Kanda, who looked ready to kill her.
"Oh my... I hope that wasn't some kind of foreign insult... he looks kind of angry..."
"Naa!" Lavi waved the thought away. "Yuu-chan is always like that."
"Oh... His name is Yuu-chan?"
"Sure is!" Lavi chirped.
Kanda snarled in the background.
"What a pretty name!"
The elderly couple began to lead the way, and Lavi lagged back to meet the others.
"well?" he grinned. "Am I good or Am I good!? Free room and board!"
"Lavi!" Allen growled. "I could have gambled us into a four star hotel and I wouldn't have had to play 'metally disturbed' for the rest of the night!"
"Aw, come on Allen-chan..."
Suddenly a sword came from behind, resting on Lavi's neck.
"uh... Yuu-chan..."
"Rabbit." Kanda growled. "You know how you said you hurt your eye... I don't think you're pretending well enough. Let me give you a hand..."
"Nice old lady save me!!!" Lavi cried, as his two friends beat him down.
29. Anticipate- "So..." Lenalee sat her tray down at one of the caffeteria's wooden tables. Allen, Kanda, and Lavi all looked up at her. "Nii-san has been awfully quiet lately..."
...
"I'll get the fire extinguishers." Lavi stood up to leave.
"I'll call the police." Allen sighed.
"I'll go sharpen Mugen." Kanda growled.
Lenalee sighed as she dug into her plate.
"Why can't my brother be normal..."
30. Archipelago "I'm the one with the map, and I say the shore is THAT way."
"Yeah, and we all know what a great sense of direction you have. So it must obviously be THAT way."
"Bakanda, why can't you just accept that I'm right!?"
"Because a certain Moyashi is NEVER right when it comes to directions!"
"Why do you always call me short all of the time?!"
"Have you LOOKED in a mirror!?"
"Have YOU? Don't you know that only GIRLS have long hair!?"
"Oh, I am SO going to skin you and hang your carcass on one of these STUPID palm trees!"
"Psh, you'd have to FIND me first! And since you OBVIOUSLY can't use a map, you're sore out of luck!"
"You are RIGHT there!? Are you an idiot?Why would I need a map to find you if you're standing RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!?"
"Well you obviously can't find your way anywhere if you can't realize that the shore is THAT way!"
"OH MY GOD WILL YOU BOTH JUST SHUT. UP?"
The two boys blinked at Marie, who was practically seething.
"YOU'RE BOTH SO IRRITATING! YOU'RE HORRIBLY NOISY AND GIVING ME A HEADACHE AND IF YOU WOULD JUST STOP FIGHTING FOR A SECOND AND GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND YOU WOULD REALIZE THAT THIS IS AN ISLAND FOR HEAVENS SAKE! AN ISLAND! YOU CAN PICK ANY DIRECTION AND GO STRAIGHT AND YOU WILL GET. TO. SHORE."
...
"Yes, well, it's obviously faster in THAT direction!" Allen growled, pointing to the left.
"That's why you're such an idiot!" Kanda growled, pointing to the right. "I can hear water in THAT direction!"
As the two resumed their fight, Marie just sighed and turned on his Ipod. Hey, those headphones had to be useful for something other than Akuma right?
Ahhh, peace and quiet.
31. Asphyxiate : Kanda had died four times to date. And he remembered each one with grueling clarity.
The first had happened when he was young. That curse was not something the body accepted easily. The ceremony required a dead sacrifice after all. This death was probably the most shocking. One moment he was playing with his favorite uncle... the next, there was a glint of silver, and then red... red... red...
The second time he died, he had been careless. An akuma hunt had gone wrong. Marie and Tiedoll could only watch as one moment Kanda was in the middle of battle, and the next he was tossed aside like a broken doll. Though he had died only for a moment, he was awake shortly after, and for the whole healing process there-after.
The third time he had died, he... well... he didn't like to think about it. That noah, Skin, had caught him off guard on a solo mission. (well, it hadn't really been solo until the finder had died.) He was distracted, and fell asleep, and the next thing he realizes is that that big hulking noah is above him, hovering, and large boulder like hands are attaching themselves to his throat and squeezing. And the air gets thinner and tiny spots float into his vision and darkness is caving in and he cant breathe and he can feel his neck snapping and everything is turning a fuzzy grey color he hears a horrible croaking sound and realizes that it's him and hecan'tbreathehecan'tbreathehecan't....
When he wakes, the sun is shining, and birds are sifting through the grass around him, some of them picking at strands of his hair. He blinks for a moment, and then gasps, deep and long, startling the birds into the air. He coughs and sputters, and rolls onto his side, his lungs working triple time to bring in more and more of that precious air...
That time, for a small moment, he had thought he was really going to die. And that was something he didn't like to think about. In the weeks after, he wore a heavy blue scarf to hide the ugly purple bruises that formed a sick choker (oh the irony) around his neck. No one noticed. Or if they did, they didn't say anything.
The fourth death... well... that one had been worth it. Sure his life had been shortened once more, but really, truly, it was alright with him. To see her smile once more, he would die a thousand more times. If only.
32. Auction: "Anyone, 100,000,000$ for the brand spanking new Komorin mach 5, super durable, killing machine, capable of love, but only for carnage, we're starting the bidding at 90,000,000$! Any bids for the Komorin, it's quite the beauty, Oh! we have 90,000,000$ there, thank you sir, can I have 9.5, 9.5, anyone for 9.5 YES the lady in the back there, thank you ma'am, we have 9.5, do I have anyone for 10, 10million, anyone-"
"What the heck IS this?" Kanda grumbled from his seat in the auction crowd. "Who would want that piece of crap?!"
"Shush!" Lenalee snapped. "Brother needs funding for the order!"
"And THIS is how we do it?" Allen stared.
33. Abbreviate: "What's your name again?" Lavi slid up to the blond wearing her brand new order coat. The girl blinked for a second before glancing at her red headed companion across the room. With an encouraging nod of the head, the blonde responded. "It's Alteara."
"Hmmm..." Lavi put a hand to his chin in thought. "Nope! Too long!" he slung an arm over the blonde. "Why don't we call you.... Alte-chan!"
"W-what?" The blonde blinked.
"Hands off please."
Lavi jumped away just in time to miss a small knife flying right where his neck would have been. He turned to see the Red headed girl smirking at him from across the room, before she turned and continued to close the buttons on her coat.
"Dude." Lavi whistled, a bead of sweat falling down his cheek. "What's up with your friend Alte-chan..."
"Um... could you not call me that please?" the blonde asked.
"Sure thing Alte-chan!" Lave laughed, leaving the room.
"Uh... thanks?" the blonde shrugged.
34. Aeronautics: "Lavi... are you sure this will work?"
"Allen, Are you doubting me?"
"Well... no...?"
"Because I would be horribly upset to find out that my BEST FRIEND was doubting me."
"I thought Kanda was your best friend."
"Seriously Allen-chan!? I'm hurt! I'm crying inside... my heart... it aches..."
"All right, All right! I'm not doubting you!"
"Good."
Lavi stuck his pointer finger in his mouth, before pulling it out and staring at it.
"What are you doing..." Allen blinked.
"Gauging the wind." Lavi said in a way that just screamed duh.
"And why are you-"
"And here we go!" Lavi cried, pulling his goggles down and lodging his foot on the bottom of his hammer.
"Wait-what?!" Allen cried before the Hammer flew into the air, both boys barely hanging on.
35. Accustomed
36. Ain't
37. Assertive
38. Alarm Clock
39. Baby
40. banjo
41. Beautiful
42. Alcohol
43. abduct
44. Ageism
45. Bad
46. Atom
47. Arrest
48. Begonia
49. Anecdote
50. Aisle
51. Addictive
52. Abbey
53. Act
54. Appoint.
55. Ale
56. Backyard
57. Appease
58. Appear
59. Argue
60. Alphalt
61. Barrier
62. Adder (poisonous snake)
63. Ambulance
64. Appalling
65. Agitate
66. Allergic
67. abhor
68. Biased
69. Arbitrary
70. Atlas
71. Altogether
72. backfire
73. Attribute
74. Bet
75. Above
76. Alley
77. Anthropology
78. Beseech
79. Ball
80. Barometer
81. Beloved
82. Astride
83. Balance
84. Barbaric
85. Accord
86. Bayonet
87. Anatomy
88. Apprehend
89. Beet
90. Also
91. Anteater
92. Archaic
93. Barnacle
94. Bedraggled
95. Apathetic
96. Art
97. Acclaim
98. Barrow
99. Across
100. Aardvark
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