Noah's Ark Arc

The Noah's ark arc is the ninth story arc of the D.Gray-man series, which is written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. According to its name, it unfolds in the Noah's Ark while it is being erased. The exorcists trapped in it try to escape it but they have to face the Noah Family who decided to play a little game. It spans from chapter 90 to chapter 135 and from episode 76 to episode 94 in the anime.

The Game begins
Allen, Lavi, Chaozii, Kanda and Krory in turn grab Lenalee's and each other's hand to prevent them from being sucked into the ark but the magic is too powerful and they disappear nevertheless leaving the remaining exorcists in a daze. They notice the ark above them and Bookman pronounces words of a mysterious language. In the Ark, the exorcists try to figure out where they are and what happened before noticing Lero who is seemingly responsible for the situation. An image of the Earl pops out of him and announces that the ark's downloading is being completed leading the ark to disappear with them: There are only 3 hours left.

Meanwhile, a cloud of giant akumas approach general Tiedoll and his fellows. He lets a shard of Innocence fly away before preparing to fight. In the ark the exorcist are looking for a way out but they soon realize that as the ark has stopped to work, all the connection gates are unusable and they are trapped. Suddenly Tyki Mikk appears with a key. He announces that the only way to get out is Road's gates. He offers them the key to open the 3 Road's gates to make their way through the ark of Noah. The challenge is to reach the final gate at the top of the tower before they are erased. With that, Tyki leaves not without a last taunt toward the exorcists.

They discuss the situation and resolve to play the Noah's game. They soon find a door and open it with the key. They enter a snowy dimension with rainbows and luminaries. Here, someone is waiting for them.

The Lightning of Wrath
Skin Bolic the Noah of Wrath is facing the exorcists. Kanda, as Skin was chasing his general claims that he is his preys and orders the others to leave him to him. They first want to stay but he scares them away and they bring themselves to go on after he promised Lenalee to survive. As they leave, Skin activates his power: a golden armor that blasts energy on the exorcists. Kanda manages to nullify it with Nigen while the others close the door. The two fighters make the presentations before starting the ordeal. Somewhere in the Ark, Tyki and Road are chatting.

In the snow room, Skin unleashes his power. Kanda dodges the bolts and cuts Skin. This however seems to barely scratch him. Kanda decides to go for the third illusion that drains his lifespan. Before Kanda attacks, Skin reminds him his power: the millions of volts in his body are conducted by Kanda's blade and slightly burned the exorcist's hand. Once Kanda reasserts his determination to survive, he attacks with a incredible speed burst dealing multiple cuts to the noah. As Kanda painfully feels the effect of Skin's energy on his hands, the ennemy starts to shiine even more. Chains binding Kanda and Skin appear and conduct a lot of electricity on Kanda, even hindering his movements. To make the situation worse the room starts to crumble.

As the time crunches, they decide to finish this quickly. Kanda rushes to his opponent as the latter send energy waves but he grabs the chains and violently send Kanda onto the wall. Kanda now unconcious is grabbed by the neck by Skin who utters him to give up. Yu suddenly stabs Skin through the chest, revealing this was a trick. Skin deals an violent blow but He manages to bisect him nonetheless. The Noah falls down on his knees in his own blood, realizing with sheer horrir that his body is being devoured by the Innocence. Kanda, alive and sure of his victory stands up and marches to the gate.

Dying, Skin Bolic remembers his awakening as a Noah and his meeting with The Earl and Road. Yu Kanda on his side is in a really bad state, having trouble to walk as far as the gate. Now completely out of his mind, Skin keeps uttering "do not forgive" again and again and prepares to blast both Kanda and the gate. Realizing this Kanda stands just between Skin and the gate to protect it, activating the third illusion once againand taking more of his lifespan. Wrathra finally shatters mugen to pieces but Kanda manages to protect the door. But Skin doesn't have time to rejoice as using Kanda's life power, mugen starts to reform and the exorcist severs the Wrath of Noah in half.

Kanda tries to reach the gate but this is too late. As the japanese youg man smiles, the room collapses.

The scarlet sunset
Upon realizing the death of her brother, Road wishes him goodnight. Slowly tears start to fall down the cheers of Road and Tyki. Suddenly twins Jasdevi burst into the room, weeping as well. The four Noah then organize a farwell party for Skin Bolic. After mourning him, Road notices bills fallen from Jasdero's pocket. They apparently received Cross Marian's debts while chasing him. Laughing out loud, Road confesses that Allen is Cross's disciple.

The twins then decide to take revenge by playing some games with the exorcists and particulary Allen. They set up some traps that the exorcists manage to thwart. They end up in a huge Library. There the twins introduce themselves before shooting the exorcists with ice balls from their guns. They soon hit Allen but the latter tanks the damages and send away the teenagers with his innocence coat. They get up before firing again tripling the pace. Then then shoot two fire balls. Allen stops one with his power and Arystar Krory III and Lavi send back the second one with their innocence. The Noahs cancel it with their powers. As the exorcists start to really wondering what is their ability, Lero sniggers and reminds them their jobs.

They explain their grudge over Cross and Allen. The three argue and Allen attacks them with his claws. He realizes that he only hit puppets as they are now under an illusion created by "violent goggles" the twins shot on their eyes. The key to the ark's gate has also disappeared and is now lost amongst millions of fake keys. To make things worse, the opponents are now completely invisible.

The Noahs shoot several fire ball who force the exorcists to be very careful. Chaozii Han's back is even badly burnt. The random attacks of the exorcists don't seem to hit their targets. Lavi suddenly claims to be able to find the real key thanks to his bookman abilities. Allen accepts his propositions but he considers staying behind to allow hiw comrades to pass the gate after Lavi found the key. Hearing him, angered Krory takes the situation in hand. He sends Allen right on the invisible twins.