Annabell was a little preoccupied dealing with Aleph's first
opponent. Annabell smiled at the roman who huffed and charged at
her. Annabell giggled and dodged out of the way causing the roman
to stumble as she brought her blade down stabbing the roman in the
back effectively killing him. "Well someone needs to come up with a
better enemy then this I barely had to use any brain power for
this." Alice came up next to her sister, "What should we do
daphnes? This is your fight but how can we help?"
"Ok!" She looked around for something to fight with. "And Annabell
that roman is a crumb compared to him we would know we have fought
him before..." She got quiet as she grabbed a Long pipe like Metal
and walked back talking to Daphnes Telepathically 'Daph we can't do
this to the students they are not ready yet..he will kill all of us
if we rush into this without a plan or anything!'
Annabell frowned, "I just said I barely had to do anything... Does
that make me weaker somehow?" Annabell looks at Alice confused with
how that happened. Alice shrugged, "She not really thinking clearly
based on her current emotions. If she was she might think about
power in numbers or the fact that we're both professionally trained
in combat. Or that there is a ninja somewhere in this room." Alice
also felt a little annoyed that Asuna had underestimated their
abilities.
Watching instead they witnessed Daphnes fall to the ground Annabell
looked confused, "Alice? What just happened?" Alice didn't look
concerned. "Daphnes has joined minds with Aleph's... I think for a
split moment I felt Daphnes emotions move to Aleph's body I can't
feel him anymore though.
Asuna wasn't trying but she heard Annabell and Alice thoughts and
their whole conversation so she called to them not looking way from
Aleph and Daphnes "Look I'm not underestimating your powers I'm
just trying to focus not on you right now but the real threat right
here. And also I know everything about you I am the one who
recruited you to this school or do you still not believe me oh wait
there is not time for a trivia of questions because Daphnes is
inside the mind of his evil, taken over brother and we cant do
anything to help him! and because Daphnes the owner and founder of
this school is gone technically I am in charge now if you wanna
leave when this is over be my guest but right now this is bigger
than all of us and all of your powers can help us defeat this and
we can leave here or you can leave now and possibly be the only
ones to return I'm sorry If this comes out as rude but someone
needs to say it now do I make myself clear?" She tearing up of the
thought of Daphnes doing all of this for nothing and I'm possibly
dying and we just sat around but she id it turning to the others
with a straight face fighting to keep her emotions inside but it
didn't matter if Alice read her emotions.
Alice sighed then, "Look we get it you should know we do. We were
born as triplets. our mother died in birth and 6 year later Ashton
our bother dies in combat training. Not that this is really the
time to be arguing with a killer cyborg in the ring but whatever.
Also we believe you about owning this school we read the letter we
know who your are. Also we can do something. We'll Annabell can at
least." Annabell looked confused, "I can?" Alice rolled her eyes,
"Yes sister you can. Keep daphnes body alive long enough for him to
return to it." Annabell looked shocked, "But sister he's not
injured his bodily functions are fine his soul is just somewhere
else." Alice looked at her sister intently. Annabell groaned and
walked over to daphnes body placing her hand on his heart, "Should
anything happen to him inside this should heal his soul but if he
sustains life threatening injuries and is marked for death I won't
be able to do anything."
"It shouldn't come to that we have you and then I can use your
powers and also heal him and it should..will be enough!" She placed
her hand on Alice shoulder "And I already knew all of that about
your lives..." She playfully added "Hey I had to read up on the
students to see what we were getting ourselves into!" She smiled at
Alice then she thought of something "Wait if..Daphnes can transport
himself into Aleph's mind I can use his powers to help him!" she
looked at Annabell and Alice not even wanting to know where The
others found themselves at but she had to "But wait what about the
others..they are still in the maze..." She started Biting her nails
And thinking.
Alice smiled and looked at Asuna, "Calm down our let me do it for
you. We got this. The others are safe I can feel their emotions I'd
know if any are in danger. Also they'l be fine once the arena shuts
off and ends the... simulation?" Annabell looked at asuna then,
"What are you waiting for teach? Get your but in this brain and
help him. I'm strong enough to manage the double healing." Alice
smiled and placed a hand on asuna's shoulder in return, "Would you
like me to give you some courage?" Alice chuckled at her own inside
joke seeing as how she could influence emotions.
Alice gasped and pushed tashiro to the side, "You idiot! Daphnes is
inside there! Anything you do to aleph is done to him! have you
been listening to nothing?" Alice turned to Annabell kneeling down
next to her, "Is he okay?" Annabell shrugged, "I felt the pain but
I healed him almost as soon as he took the blow. He should be
fine." Alice at least looked relieved to here that news, "Stupid
boy! Doesn't even realize the gravity of the situation." Alice
chuckled at her sister, "I can remember a certain young girl who
did the same thing once upon a time." Annabell huffed and rolled
her eyes, "Yeah but he's just lucky I'm around to he doesn't have
to face the consequences of his actions." Alice nodded at her
sisters comment and stared at Alephs body wishing so badly that she
knew what was going on inside.
"If the damage done to Aleph is also done to Daphnes, can you heal
Daphnes so that the end result is that the damage is only dealt to
Aleph or whatever" Tashiro asked Annabelle
Annabell stared at Tashiro with disbelief, "You would honestly beat
the crap out of another person even while you knew it would hurt
the other person inside? What kind of a person are you? Aleph isn't
the monster you think. He's just being control'd by another." Alice
looked at Tashiro sadly, "Your to trigger happy for your own good
you know?" Turning back to her sister she placed a hand on her
sisters arm, "How are you power-wise?" Annabell smiled, "Still
going strong. Just don't let tashiro pull another stunt like that
dephnes is fighting for his brothers life and he doesn't need any
distractions that could cost him his life."
"Hmph! That was for trying to kill his brother, controlled or not!
Anyway, I'm just going to go somewhere else on the playground to
find something else to play with" Tashiro said, walking off slowly
in the arena