Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice
A/N: Hope you enjoy and hope you submit a review. this chapter's kind of short coz I got so sleepy already while writing it. Thanks so much to those who reviewed in the previous chapters by he way.
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Flashback
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"What exactly did you do little kitty?"
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Learson's POV
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"No Lianna!" screamed Learson. The remaining members of his squad held him back and dragged him away from the coming black light.
"Let me go! I order you to let me go!" Learson struggled with the men holding his arms. "No sir! We cannot let you. You are our leader and we have to save you even if it means that we fail our mission." One of the men holding Learson said.
"No! Let me go! The rest of you can escape but for my sister and my pride I cannot run away! Now let me go!". "I'm sorry sir but it is a direct order from Reo that we bring you back now". Learson then felt pain in the right side of his neck. 'Tranquilizer…' he thought. 'They're putting me out'.
Learson was still struggling when he felt his arms and legs go weak. "No! Liannaaaa!". He dropped to his knees. Energy draining out of his body.
A hundred meters away he could see his sister and her squad being enveloped by the black light. His sight was blurring, he was about to lose consciousness. 'I have to give them one last order' he thought.
"Bring her back…" Learson slumped on the ground unconscious. One of the men in his squad carried him on his shoulders and ordered half of the squad to remain to investigate and recover the bodies of their comrades. "You heard him men. Bring her back." With that order they left. Disappearing in the shadows of the night.
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Persona's POV
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'Tch. That girl… what have she done?' he thought.
He looked at the unconscious body of Natsume on the ground where he dropped him. "Hmpf! Looks like you were saved by your girlfriend Natsume. For all those years of training and you end up being saved by a girl. Tsk tsk tsk…"
"Mi… kan…" Natsume was trying to stand but wobbled.
Persona rendered Natsume unconscious again.
"Its not yet time for you to be up yet Kuro Neko. She wouldn't want you to see it..." He whispered to himself.
In truth, he too, felt the chill coming from the girl. Her alice was different. It was energy of a different sort. Something from his instinct told him to heed her warning and get away as far as possible. It didn't scare him though. It fascinated him. But as with everything else, something different should be dealt with caution and suspicion, and not to get into something you aren't quite aware of.
"You really are something Little Kitty… Sorry I can't watch the rest of the show though. Got to get those two to the hospital right away." Persona looked at he two unconscious bodies of Ruka and Hotaru and hauled them to each of his shoulders. He left Natsume at the building's roof, still unconscious.
"Don't you go anywhere now Kuro Neko. I'll be back for you." Persona jumped and leaped towards the medical center of the academy.
After he left Imai and Nogi at the care of Subaru at the hospital, Persona made his way again for the place where he left Natsume but not without ordering another from the DA class students to follow him.
As he made his way through, he saw that the AAO forces were retreating, being pushed back by students and some teachers of the academy with offensive alices.
"Hmpf! Weaklings!"
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Mikan's POV
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'I hope Persona sensei got Natsume far from here.' Mikan thought. 'I can't hold it any longer.'
"Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!!" Mikan shouted as the power inside her forced itself out.
Black light that emanated from her increased its range. Creating a black bubble of 300 meters in diameter or so. Everything in its path was taken into the black light.
After a few seconds the bubble started receding. Quietly making its way back to its center. Then disappeared all together, back to where it came from. Back to Mikan…
"Natsume…" Mikan whispered as unconsciousness took over her.
She dropped to the ground barely breathing. Her hair a mess around her. Her uniform torn and crumpled.
And everything around her dead…
Persona's POV
"Natsume should be in the hospital by now". He ordered the student whom he ordered to follow him to bring Natsume to the hospital.
"Now where's the Little Kitty…"
He went back to the place where he left her. At the edge of the campus, at the Northern Forest.
When he arrived, his eyes grew wide. What he saw stunned him.
There on the middle of the field was Mikan, but everything that surrounded her in a diameter of several hundred meters, was dead…
The grass, the trees, and those AAO that attacked Natsume seemed dead.
He walked slowly inside the circle of death, the grass cracked like eggshells under his feet, he looked around the trees that a few hours ago had green leaves, but now, they were brown. A gentle breeze passed through and all of the leaves in the trees flew with it.
The trees were now bare. The trees too were dead.
He made it closer to where Mikan was lying.
Suddenly, he heard rustles from across the trees. A man emerged, then a few more. He recognized them as some of the members of AAO who fought with Natsume a while ago.
He advanced on them, and they retreated.
"We do not wish to fight. We only wish to recover what is ours." One of the men said and directed his gaze at the bodies on the ground.
As much as Persona wanted to squeeze the life out of their necks, he also wanted them out of his sight. They disgusted him. He thought of them as weaklings and not even worthy of any minute attention from him.
"Do what you want and get out of my sight as soon as you can, but remember that if I see any of you again, in this academy or if you mistakenly cross my path anywhere in the world, I will no longer be so generous to let you live."
The man bowed and ordered the other men to pick up the bodies. As they were leaving, he turned around and bowed and said "Arigato."
"Tch. You wont be so thankful after I hunt you down…" Persona said. The nerve of the AAO of attacking the Academy infuriated him. "They would pay."
Then, the muscles of his face eased. "The hunt would get better if I let them run for a while. Hehehehe." An evil smile spread across his smooth face.
He turned and looked at the girl lying on the ground.
"What do we have here? Little Kitty passed out eh? What a shame, with all that power you released, you too were overwhelmed. Useless."
He picked her up and carried her, back to the dorms. He wasn't going to bring her to the hospital. She was breathing normally now and those doctors could be so nosy. This was something that was better not to be known by other people.
He knew which room she occupied. Numerous times he watched Natsume go to her balcony after every mission and her offering him tea. He watched and listened to their conversations while crouching in the shadows of the trees.
He landed on her balcony, without making a sound and opened the doors leading to her room. He was assaulted by the scent of the room.
"Hmmm… Strawberries…" then he looked at her. He was carrying her in his arms and was still unconscious.
"Better not let anybody know of your secret yet Little Kitty." He gently placed Mikan on the bed and covered her with the blanket. He looked at her for a while. Even with messed hair and dusty clothes, that girl still looks beautiful and peaceful as she slept, Persona thought. "I guess Natsume would have thought of knocking her out cold too as compared to her irritating and hyperactive self."
Persona left the room the same way that he came. He headed out to look for the Headmaster.
Headmaster's Office…
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"It has been confirmed sir that all of the AAO members that attacked the Academy have retreated and are now out of the premises."
"Thank you Tokiko-san for that report. We can now breathe easily…" the Headmaster smiled at his secretary. "That would be all."
The secretary bowed her head then headed for the door and went out.
The Headmaster turned his head to the side and said, "Now, Persona-san, I would also like to hear of your report."
Persona narrated what has happened on the other side of the academy. Where no other people were able to see, of what happened to Hoaru Imai, Ruka Nogi, Natsume Hyuuga, and especially to Mikan Sakura.
"So, Ms Sakura has another alice… and it killed everything it enveloped." The Headmaster rested his chin on both his hands. "She would be targeted again by the AAO now that they know of what she can do. How do we protect her?"
"May I suggest something sir…" Persona said as he stepped out of the shadows.
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A/N: well... that's for this chapter... I promise to write the next one a little longer... Don't forget to review...
