She Has Arrived


Flashback

"Alicia, it seems they want us to do one more training course before the face off…" Beth said walking up to her sister, who like she thought was looking up at the moon again. Coming to a stop, Beth watch as Alicia stood, silently letting the moon light shin off the Black armor gear she wore…

"When there is nothing to do, I always found you look up at the moon, why?"Beth asks as Alicia kept her eyes lock on the glowing object in the sky… It was at time like these that if anyone saw her with this far away look in her eyes; one would see not a half-human, half-yomi but a warrior looking off into the night…

"It's, relaxing? Calming, soothing? We both know I really don't know why…" saying this while keeping her eyes where they were, Beth just look on as her sister remains rooted in her spot…

"Yet you keep own asking."

"Correct…"

"Why?"

"Because I am unable to see the point in this…" without so much as moving in inch of her body, Alicia turns her eyes to Beth…

"Right before the crack of dawn, before the sun rise, why is it you always look out to the sea?" She knew this question but never the answer… This was something they did, once a week, going through the same questions but never getting any real answers out of them, turning away Beth move to the door way that lead to the training grounds…

"You have five minute until our training begins…" And with that she was gone, Alicia turn back to the moon… Truth is told, Alicia DID know why she always looks up at the moon, but why she never told Beth, even Alicia couldn't answer that… It just felt like if she did, she be giving one of the few thing that were her away, and for some reason that bothers her to no end, and what bothers even more is she didn't know…

(I can hunt down any yomi, kill almost any type of Awaken being on my own and even hunt down my follow warriors, but this one 'quirks' of mine is the only thing I am unable to comprehend… Or let go…) Alicia thought while wondering if Beth was the same way when she look out into the sea, giving the moon one last long look Alicia turn and begin heading to the training room…

Heading down the halls of the Organization, Alicia was about to make a left when she heard two voices talking, stopping she watch as they came in view from a hall to her right…

"For how long do you intend on following me?"

"As I told you, until my debt fulfilled, beside both of us are in need of new armor or do you think I should keep on walking around with just your cloak on and nothing more?"

"Fine but once we get our gear you should-" Waiting for them to come into view, Alicia saw that the first of the two was wearing a outfit that made her look more look man and a civilians then a warrior of the Organization and the next one had short hair that she wears slicked neatly back with a few strands hanging in her face and was wearing nothing but a chine ball top ragged cloak…

(Where theses two attack?) Alicia thought, wondering if that was the reason for their state of dress, as it wasn't that uncommon for yomi's to destroy some or all of a warrior armor gear. Turning to her the first one stop whatever she was saying, do to her nearly running in to Alicia…

The two of them were virtually face-to-face over the moon light spilled from a nearby window into the hall, Now it was at this time, Jean and Clare gasped, and Alicia's eyes widened in one of their rare moments of displaying any emotion from her being; Surprise… It was truly like staring into a mirror, even with her hair cut low like, one would still think they were sisters (Or even twin?) Alicia quickly remove that thought from her mind, not knowing where it came, as 'if she remembers right' Jean step forward…

"Forgive us for blocking you Alicia-san, but we were just on our way to get new armor before heading to the north…" Jean placated, hoping to avoid any incidents with the Organization most powerful warrior, something even her friend Clare thought was the best move, as the number one made no point to suppress her yoki, and with her acute yoki ability, Clare was horrified to find that her readings put Alicia dangerous close Riful…

"It fine Jean-san, I was only just heading out to the training field…" Alicia said having quickly come out of her small state of shock and was back to using her old monotone, after a moment Alicia begins walking toward Clare who almost takes a step back when she reaches her…"

"You, you're that Rogue, who left the Organization after killing the warrior number 4; Ophelia who hadAwaken…"These words completely started Clare more then she would have care to admit as Jean eyes wide in surprised, not having know that…

"That… I… There no way I could do that… I'm just number 47, I can't-"Clare sputter, which was new for her, but even with all the trouble she got in for leaving the Organization, she it felt would still be best to not let them know just far off their rank for her power was. However it seems Alicia wasn't buying it…

"You, didn't kill her?"

"No, I'm just 47, there's no way I could beat someone of that…" Clare said, hoping the use of her rank would remove all thought of her being powerful enough to take out someone so high rank…

"I, see…" Alicia said in a mono tone that gives Clare the impression that she really didn't believe her, Jean not really knowing what was going on just kept quiet…

"So does that mean, that the warrior Ophelia, was hack and slice up by herself?" Clare could now feel the sweat drops falling down her brow, it was rhetorical, Alicia wasn't really asking, and saying no would only make Alicia think Clare take her for a fool…

"While, it doesn't really matter…" Alicia said breaking Clare out of her inner monologue as she walks past her to the back…

"The Awaken one is dead and you have return to the Organization…" walking off into darkness Alicia didn't even look as she said her last words, not knowing one would soon die and it would be seven lone years before she'd see the other again…

"I must be heading off to the training room; I wish you two the best in the land of Pieta…" with Alicia walk off into the darkness of the Organization. Not realizing that a small part of her hope that would meet that warrior again…


Flashback End

Looking down at the girl in her arm Alicia had one thing running through her mind at the moment. (She looks the same as she did seven years ago…) But that was only physically, yoki wise she was at the same level as Galatea the old number three, moving her eye down below-

"You two, you are survivors of the north, yes?" Helen and Deneve eyes wide even more at her words, not knowing what was going on Helen spoke up first…

"Ye. Yes, we are, but just what is the Organization number one, doing here?" Helen asks and was mat with silence for the moment as Alicia look down on Helen and Deneve…

"I-" However, it was at this time, Priscilla chooses to then resume her attack, angry at being ignored and as the tentacles hit the trees where Alicia was who had been able to dodge by jumping on to a tree farther away…

"I really dislike being ignored, and didn't I tell you not to get in my way!" Priscilla glare down at the number one, Alicia gave her a dull look before jumping high into the sky, and out of the way of the dark mass of yoki that try to reach her from behind…

"Helen! Move now!" Deneve realizing they had forgot all about the dark mass the Destroyer had become. Jumping to a tree the Destroyer's had yet to reach, Helen and Deneve were surprise to find Alicia appearing in front of them and slicing several tentacles from Priscilla, who gave her an Irritated look from up high in the sky...

"This is your last chance, Hand over that girl or die!" Priscilla said with her hand held out and making sure to release a huge amount of yoki to get her point across…

"Oh, shit! Just what the hell is up with her yoki! It still going up!" Helen cried as Deneve had finally finished healing her arm, look up at Pricilla and grimace. Even with Alicia helping them 'though she still didn't know why she was helping them' the three of them were still out match! (While I'm thankful the number 1 warrior of the Organization is helping us, we need a plan and fast…) Deneve thought trying to think of anything, at this point…

"Hand her over, is that what you just said?" Alicia spoke up cutting into Denever's thoughts, as both she and Helen turn to her to the number one whose eyes were hidden behind her hair…

"Yes, I don't often give people chances like this, so thank me, hand her over, and leave…" for a brief moment Helen thought Alicia would do just that, but when she look and open her eyes, Helen saw something that made her take a step back, in fear…

"NO! This girl will be the one to re-place the sister you stole from me…" Alicia eyes were cold as steel and Helen had chills running down her back, before anyone could react the black warrior dash right PASS Pricilla and race off into the center mass of the Destroyer… With Pricilla hot on her tail…

"If she won't to die that badly, she should have said so back then!" Pricilla comments dryly, firing several tentacles at Alicia who slices them away from her, before using a tree as a Booster to shoot forward into the Destroyer mass! Surprising Helen, Deneve, and even Pricilla as their eyes all widen…

"Is she craze! They'll DIE!" Helen cried watching in horror as Alicia put her sword away in land into the mass feet first…

"NO! The one I need to kill is-"Pricilla who had been worry that the child she wish to kill was going to die stop in mid air as the Destroyer who had been engulfing everything and draining its life energy stop moving with Alicia in a crotch position still holding Clare in her left arm and her right hand touching flat on the forum the Destroyer and neither of them were harm…

"Wha, what?" Helen was all could say as she and Deneve look on wondering what had happen… Up till now anything the Destroyer touch or was touch by wither away into nothing, so why Alicia and Clare were till a live?

"Though this is a new way of using it, I've seemed to gotten it down on the first try…" Alicia face was as expressionless as before, something Helen found amazing, how Alicia could keep that look on her face and not even flinch from the cold stare Pricilla was giving her…

"Oh, a new way of using what?" Pricilla ask indulgencing the girl a little bit as Helen and Deneve remain rooted were they where, sure they didn't won't to get caught in whatever was about to happen…

"Soul Link…" Pricilla rise in eye bowl at this before crossing her arms in flying down a bit, giving her a faked smiling at her indulgently.

"Oh, ho, so you were able to stop this thing using the power that let you in your sister Awaken and come back? Is it because the two minds in it are inactivating, leaving much room for control?" Alicia turns her face up looking in the eyes but said nothing… Pricilla frowned…

"That expressionless face of you has become tiring to me, let's end that…" Pricilla's claws sharpen as she got ready to launch at the two...

"I, I'm not foolish enough to think I can kill you on my own." Alicia said pushing her rights hand down on the Destroyer farther… "But with this, I can at least erase you!" with those cold words said the shapeless mass flow at hign speeds to Pricilla who was more than a little surprise as it begin shooting right at her!

"She… She's controlling that thing!" Helen gasps in shock as she and Deneve watch in awe as the Destroyer no longer just recklessly attack anything it saw, touch or was in the way. Now it all was heading for Pricilla and Pricilla only…

"No matter how much yoki you have, it is not Unlimited…" Alicia said looking up at Pricilla who this time had on a expressionless face herself as she dodge most of the Destroyer mass while re-growing the are and leg that had been rip off by it…

"Even you will run out of it, sooner on later…" Pricilla was moving at high speeds, leaping and dodging all thrown out the air space, while never taking her eyes off the black armor warrior and her prey…

"And the moment you do you'll be dead!" Alicia said in a very dark tone, at any other time Alicia would only be focusing on the most logic move to make, which at the moment would be to get Clare, herself and the other two Ghosts as far as possible from here… But at the moment logic was no where in Alicia mind… While Alicia could just use her Soul Link to point the entire killing intent of the Destroyer Pricilla and use the time where she's kept busy to get her Clare and the other two as far away from the battle as possible, she Alicia wanted to stay, she wanted to see this Awaken being die! It didn't make any scene why she was doing this or why she wanted the Awaken being dead so badly and at any other time she'd have stop to wonder why…

Helen and Deneve kept looking on as Alicia use the very thing that had all most kill them and wipe out most of the forest to combat Pricilla easy, not showing any kind of string what so ever…

Pricilla who had been doing nothing but dodging was for the first time in a long time curious about something, from the moment she mat this child there was never a singly emotional expression to come out of her, even now her face was a blank slate… But now, looking closer Pricilla saw this was not the case with her eyes, one look into those eyes and it was easy to see the raw anger and hate poring out of them… Dodging a giant part of the Destroyer mass Pricilla realize this was the same expressionless face the girl had on back when she was crying over sister's death.

"I see…" Pricilla spoke at last using her whole body to shoot out tentacles everywhere and destroy the mass all a round her, surprising Alicia, Helen and Deneve as they all went wide eye at her power who then gave them a faint smile.

"It not that you were unable to comprehend your sister's death, but rather you were unable to comprehend how you felt about… Really, what a hopeless child you are…" As she said that last word, Pricilla shot her arm forward push a huge deal off yoki into it, ripping thrown a wall of Destroyer mass Alicia had rise in order to block her and seemingly making a Directed hit… Much to the horror of Helen and Deneve…

"Just how powerful is this damn women!" Helen cries out as Deneve grip her sword, getting ready to rush over there in some hope she might still able to save Clare and their new ally when a figure leap thrown the air over them and landed on the their tree behind them…

"You dodge it! Thank god, we thought…" Helen who been in joy at seeing the number one behind them felt all the color leave her face when she saw that Alicia was no longer holding Clare, in fact the arm that was holding her and a good deal of the left side of her body was gone as well…

"Wha… What?" Helen and Deneve gasp.

"Sorry girls..." Pricilla said looking anything but regretful while holding Clare in her tentacle warped hand, Helen and Deneve face fall in horror while Alicia wore an indescribable expression on her face at seeing Clare in that thing hands.

"But this one is mine…" Pricilla said with a sinister look on her face, but then jump back in surprise as a warrior dress like Helen and Deneve had appear out of no where trying to cut off the arm that was holding Clare.

"Yuma!" Helen call out in surprise at seeing one of their friends drop in on them like that…

"Damn I missed…" Yuma growl in a aggravated tone at what should had been a clean shot as she land on the tree next to them and looking down at the two warriors below…

"Dietrich, Cynthia is still worn out from before; keep her out of this…" Yuma yell down too the warrior dress like Alicia but who's colors was silver and white and not all black, who was also holding another one that was dress just like Yuma and the other's. Getting a node Yuma saw move Dietrich move Cynthia and herself away from the battle.

"I don't know how you got here, but you've got great timing Yuma." Deneve said finally seeing some hope for them getting out of this a lives, as their numbers kept going up.

"We felt your yoki moving toward that thing that was attacking everything and knew something was up so we…" Yuma who had turn to Deneve and Helen gasp in shock at seeing the girl who had just turn into Awaken being and damn near killed her and Cynthia back to normal, wounded and was right behind Deneve and Helen, with her eyes lock on Pricilla…

"Wha… You… but… but… but how!" Yuma said struggling for the right words as Alicia to look at her for a moment before going to Pricilla, having never seen the girl before as far as knew...

"What this, someone new to get in my way?" Pricilla ask glaring down on them, while keep a tight grip on Clare...

"Putting that a side for now, what is going on? Why is that thing holding Clare?" Yuma ground out but Helen who was not in the move to explain quickly spoke up...

"We don't have time for that, we need to get back Clare and get the Hell out of where!" Helen exclaimed before turning to Alicia...

"Hey can you, can you still fight?" Helen asks and receives a nod from the black warrior...

"Yes, I still have my right arm.." Alicia replied as Helen then turn to the whole group...

"Good, everyone listing up, on three I say rush bitch! Aiming only for getting Clare out of her hands, then getting the hell out here!" Yuma and Deneve both look at her like she was craze, knowing her plan was insane at best and suicide at worst...

"Not possible, we are too out match here!" Deneve exclaimed, but Helen was having none of it...

"It fine you're in no shape to fight this anything, Yuma get Deneve out of here..." Helen ground out, then turn back to Alicia...

"Hey number one, you're with me right?"

"MY name is Alicia..." was her reply before readying her blade and speaking again...

"But yes I am, we cannot leave Clare behind..." Alicia was back to using her mono tone, at any other time Helen might have been curious about why Alicia seem so bent on saving Clare, But when quiet possibly the most powerful Awaken being was right in front of them, now was not the time to be Questioning why a Freaking number one show up to help out...

"Helen stops, you know can't..." Deneve try to argue, but Helens mine was already set...

"Yuma, get Deneve out of here, Alicia we're moving!" Helens order blasting off at high speed with Alicia right beside her. Pricilla who had finally gotten her prey and was no longer in the mood for this had shot her arm forward with plan of spearing the both of them, Alicia had move to the front of Helens quickly slash up the tentacles...

"Whoa..." was all Helen could say at how easy Alicia destroy those tentacles with just one arm (That a number one for ya! I don't think I'll mind much if she won't to stick around...) Helen thought as they both dodge out of the way... Mean while Deneve who been trying to join Helen and Alicia found herself being held back by Yuma...

"What are you doing? We have to help them!" Deneve shouted but the only reaction she got was being thrown over Yuma's shoulder as said woman rocket off, easily getting out of the battle and going to where Dietrich and Cynthia was. After landing next to the two and setting her down, Deneve was about to yell at her, but stop at seeing just how much Yuma was struggling to breath... Looking to her right Deneve saw that while live and unwound-ed Cynthia was clearly unable to move and Girl next to her that they had come to know as Dietrich wasn't in much better shape, (What the hell is happening here!) Deneve thought in shocked, the situation for them seem to worsened by the second...

"I'm sorry about doing this to you, but your yoki is dangerous low! Leave the rest to me..." Yuma said turning to head back but Deneve wasn't one to be left out...

"The hell it is, and what about you! You look like you're on your last leg!" Deneve yell as Yuma turn her head and give her friend a wary grin...

"Maybe, but I'm still in much better shape then you..." Deneve eyes widen at that as her normally insecure friend flow off to Helen and Alicia. Deneve grimaced at Yuma leaving, and then gave a humorless chuckle...

"He...He...He... What the hell, after seven long years it only now that she gains some gut?" Cynthia could help but give her own humorless chuckle at Deneve words...

"Yes, that is something, and to think it only take facing off against several being who were all dangerous beyond all reason for it to happen." both of them had a genuine laugh at this, Dietrich who had kept quiet up until now spoke for the first time...

"While I hate to speak out when you to seem to be, Reminiscing but we need to get farther away from here..." Dietrich said reminding them of the danger they were in and as much as Deneve hated to admit it the three of them were in no shape to be anywhere near this fight...

"Your right, we will..."

"NO..." Cynthia said speaking up and surprising them both as they turn to look down at their follow warrior...

"Let stay right where we are..." Cynthia said as Dietrich gives her a look of dull horror...

"No! Not happening! It bad enough that I can't save Helen but your friend Yume ask me look after you two, so at the very least I can still keep you two a live by getting us as far from here as possible..." Dietrich said, very much aggravated at knowing that there was nothing she could do to help Helen after she and Deneve save her and the hunting party she was with, but at being so close to that Awaken being she knew out right that getting anywhere near that thing in the state she was in would only mean her death. Cynthia just give her a small smile before turning to Deneve...

"Deneve can you please stand me up..."

"Huh?" was the only thing Deneve could say at Cynthia's odd request, turning her head to the left Cynthia was facing toward the battle field...

"I can't see anything from down here..." nodding Deneve pick her up by the waist and placing the right arm over her shoulder, Cynthia was now able to see then battle as it enter it's finally stage...

"This... This is good, let just stay up here on this mountain top until the end..." Dietrich once again looks at her as if she'd lost her mind...

"I just told you we can't, even this place won't be safe much longer..." Deneve had to agree with Dietrich, as Pricilla tentacle attacks seem to be getting closer and closer...

"No it fine... This battle will soon be over, anyway..." Deneve and Dietrich eyes widen as her next word stop them cold...

"That 'thing' will soon be activating, again..." Deneve and Dietrich didn't even need to guess what she meant... The Destroyer...

"Are you sure?" Deneve ask really hoping for a no, It wasn't that she forgot about it, just that when Pricilla had force Alicia to let go, the thing had stop moving, she had thought that meant Alicia put some kind of lock on it, but it seems that wasn't the case...

"Yes, I can feel it will wake up soon..." Cynthia said keeping her eyes on the un-moving Destroyer as Deneve and Dietrich turn their eyes to it as well...

"And when it does, one of the worst possible conclusions will come to pass..." the three were all in silence now, for some reason they had this feeling, like they should see the end of this battle with their own eyes… Even if it was an end nobody wanted...