DGrayman Demons

Haunted

Which turned out didn’t really matter. Komui called an unexpected school wide assembly. We all marched to the auditorium. Personally unloved to hear the sound of over three hundred students pounding down the hall to one room. There is just something satisfying about it. I grinned to myself.
“Do you know what’s going on?” Allen asked looking up at me. He had found my side while we were still in the classroom.
“Not a clue. Knowing Komui he may just want to introduce us to his latest crazy invention. Or we could be under an attack.” I winked at his scarred face. “Ya just never know around here!” I chuckled.
“Stupid sister complex!” I heard grumbled at my back. Turning, yup there he was, or sweet lovely Kanda.
“Hey, Yu!” I greeted cheerfully.
“Stupid rabbit stop calling me by my first name!” He bellowed out. I laughed. “One of these days, demon, I will have your head mounted on my wall!”
“Only in your dream palace, love!” I taunted. He growled. Allen looked lost. I dropped my arm to his shoulders.
“Don't worry we really do love each other, deep, deep, deep very, very deep down!” I grinned at him. He gave a weak smile back. We reached our destination. I propelled Allen into a row of seats. He moved to the end, I sat beside him, utterly amazed when Kanda followed us. His gorgeous grouchy face sat beside me.
Leaning over I hissed in his ear. “One of these days I will find you asleep!” I twirled a permanent marker through my long fingers. He just tsked me. I laughed.  Lenalee found us. She smooshed into the row we were seated in. The guy beside Allen hopped over to sit behind us as she took his seat with a grateful smile. I groaned at seeing her.
“Please, sweet little goddess, tell me your idiot brother didn’t bring us all down here to introduce Allen to the school!” I watched as the pale face of the boy beside me paled even further. Lenalee laid a reassuring hand on his arm.
“No. It's not that.” She smiled warmly.
Soon everyone was seated. It took a few minutes to get the school to quiet down. Glancing up I saw many of the teachers lined up. Professors mostly. There was General Cross Marian who insisted on being called General. He was the language arts head and an Incubus which I never understood how he was allowed in a school with under aged females!.
Beside him was Tidal, Then a few of the science geeks Reever and Johnny where the only ones I knew by name, which for me was sad! Next was Ms. Nine. She was a Witch and taught health. Howard Link, known by no other name but that. He didn’t want to be called mister or professor or anything but Howard or Link, he was a magician and taught history.
Then there was Bak he was a sentinel and taught hand to hand combat. Foe was a pixie she taught ethics. Bookman taught general studies which really was a little of everything. At the very end sat… I gasped.  My knees had been pressed to the back of the chair before me, now my feet slammed onto the floor as I lurched forward to grip the seat before me.
“Lavi, what is it?” Allen asked a hand touching my arm.
“Malcom Lvellie" For the first time in many, many years I felt my fangs come out. They weren't like vampire fangs, I was a demon after all. My fangs were like a sharks, they filled my entire mouth. I could taste the venom dripping onto my tongue.
My clawed hands gripped the seat before me as I started at that smug face. The horror of what he did rising in my mind. I will never forget that night so long ago. I felt the rage boiling within. My demon side was shifting without my will. I felt the Jinn tense beside me. I knew that sword of his was gripped in his hand.
“Lavi calm down.” Lenalee said. It pushed me further away from calm. A snarl escaped my lips. A hand grabbed my arm. I was yanked from my seat. The grip stronger than any human could do. I was thrown from the room. Slamming into the wall on the far side of the hall, I spun.
The Jinn was there pressing me into the cool tiles. Our eyes locked. For one moment he saw me, not the demon, but me. Blue eyes rose in recognition. My hand was gripped again. He pulled me down the hall.
We ran out of the building. We ran into the woods. We ran farther and farther away from the school. We ran further from that face. The one that haunted me day and night. He was the reason I couldn’t sleep. His face was always there behind my closed eyes. We ran through the forest. We ran until the demon was under control. He never let go.
We ran until I struggled for breath. We ran until my sides ached. We ran until we couldn’t any longer. We fell onto the mossy ground. Gasping, panting for each breath. The Jinn beside me on all fours was doing the same. Pushing off of the ground I sat up.
Pressing my back into a tree I pulled my knees up to my chest. Resting my chin on them I glanced over at him. Looking around I didn’t know exactly where we were. I had never come this far. Yet in my head I knew where the school was and how to get home. I started pulling at the grass around my feet. He was stretched out. His back to a tree as well. Our feet were side by side.
“Care to tell me what the hell that was all about?” he asked.  I said nothing. After some time he kicked my foot. “Lavi?” why did he have to use my given name now?
“A long time ago, I lived with my family.” I began. I had only told two people this in my entire life. Both betrayed me tonight. “Yeah, I had one, a mother, father, little sister…” I found a stick and poked it into the ground repeatedly.
“And an older sister. Lily started dating him.” I growled the pronoun. “She brought him around the house numerous times. He was good to us. Always brought me and Leila gifts, flowers for mom, wine for dad. That kind of thing. They came for dinner one night…” My voice caught in my throat. I smacked my head with the stick.
“Lily was going to announce her engagement to him. Before she could Leila was so enamored with him she was so young…” I pounded my fists into the ground the images flooding my mind. Kanda was a patient man. Not once did he interrupt me. He waited each time I paused.
“She only wanted to sit beside that bastard. Lily had told her no. She lost control and shifted. Mom had to shift to control her. She got her outside but the damage was done. He had seen we weren’t human. Malcom made some excuse about work he forgot about and left.
It was after that that Lily told us he proposed. Later that night I was asleep in my room, Leila was beside me. She must've had a bad dream. She always crawled into bed with me when she did…” My voice trailed off remembering the warmth of her small body pressed into mine. I wrapped my arms tighter around me.
“I woke to voices outside. Peering out my window I saw Malcom. He was holding a torch. The barn was burning behind him. Many of the villagers were there too. Dad was face down on the ground. His wings and tail had been ripped off. He wasn’t moving. Mom and Lily were crying.” I swiped at my eye and nose.
“Lily was screaming wanting to know why at him. He caught her, holding her against him he pressed the fire close to her face. I couldn’t tell if he was talking to her or not. Another villager came up with a large knife. He gutted her. Mom screamed Leila screamed. I slapped my hand over her mouth.” I began to poke holes in the ground again.
“I hadn’t known she woke up. Mom yelled for me to run. I grabbed my little sister and ran out the back door. We made it into the woods. I could hear them following me but they were only human after all. I misjudged them. More were waiting in the woods. It didn’t take long before we were surrounded.
I threw Leila into the air, told her to fly away. I tried to save her. She shifted, but they had guns. Many of them shot her. Her small body fell to the ground not far from me. I saw those glassy dead eyes starring at me. The taste of my venom and his voice yelling my name where the last things I remembered for a long time.
When I came to I stood, barely in a circle of bodies and flames. My knees gave out and I fell to the ground. I heard the shot as it tore into my side. I fell backwards on the ground. The flames surrounded me. I saw his face watching. Yelling at me to die. I couldn't move my left arm or leg. I managed to roll over and crawl toward a section of fire. He laughed telling me I should burn faster. I was a demon, fire didn’t hurt me.” I sniffled swiping at my nose again.
“I knew where I was and I was able to make it to the cliff. My wings hurt coming out but I forced them to get me away from there. Bookman found me passed out by a stream a few days later. He helped heal me. Getting me bandaged up. I told him this story. I stayed with him after that. He gave me the eye patch so that I didn’t have to see the demon world. During the fight to get away my eye was damaged. I can't shift it back. Being stuck in its demon form all I see out of it now is that world.” I frowned looking down at the mess I had created around my feet. I punched the ground again.
“As we traveled we heard about the school. Bookman thought it might be a good place to rest for a while. When we came, he asked me to tell Komui my story. It was hard but I did it. Tonight they both betrayed me.”  There was silence for a few heartbeats.
“I don’t think they did.” I lifted my head so quickly it slammed into the trees, hard enough for light to flash in my eyes. I rubbed my head.  His lips thinned to a tight line.
“You were so fixated on his face you never looked at the rest of him.” I frowned. “He was wearing the uniform for a high ranking Central officer.” I gasped. Why would central suddenly show up at the school? They never bothered us before. My mind raced.
In an instant I knew. I saw the white- hair framing that small face. Those purple eyes smiling up at me as he dug into the trays of food just that morning. All the people around him had died. Could they be after…
“Allen!”  We looked at each other. “You think it's a coincidence that Central showed up right after we got control of a phantom?” I asked Kanda's lips thinned even more if that were possible. His eyes grew more icy. The anger radiated off of him in waves. He was stronger than I had been. Unlike me he didn’t lose himself to it. Our eyes met.
“How fast can you get us back?” he asked. Jumping to my feet I shifted to my full demon form. The Jinn stood beside me.
“Fast.” I told him. Gripping his chest just under his arms I flew us up into the sky. Hang in there Allen. We're coming. I thought as I winged toward the school.