The Promised Neverland AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)
"Are you sure this isn't too much for you Emma?" Isabella asked worried when Emma approached her and Krone once it was free time. The girl was grinning widely and almost unhinged in a way that made Isabella feel a bit nervous. Krone was visibly sweating under the girls grin.
"Nah, you two are pretty light. I'm going to do my run first, would you prefer to ride on my back or in my arms Mama?" Emma asked and Isabella sighed but decided to let the girl try her exercises with the two older women as her help.
"Arms. I don't think you'd be able to carry Sister Krone so easily simply due to the size difference." Isabella said and Emma nodded, easily picking the older woman up in her arms in a princess carry.
"Sister Krone. Hop on." Emma said turning her back to the taller woman who looked hesitant a bit but decided what the hell. After all if the girl broke her back or something it'd be considered Isabella's fault not Krones so…
"Alright! Time for the laps!" Emma said grinning brightly once Krone was secured onto her back, and she made sure she had a good grip on Mama as well.
"La-" Krone was cut off when Emma dashed off as fast as she could around the field, going a little but noticeably slower than normal.
Krone hung on for dear life and her eyes near bugged out of her head as Emma completed twenty laps around the field, even with the two women weighing her down.
"Alright time for chin ups!" Emma said grinning as she raced towards her favorite tree, shifting Mama to be held in one arm.
"Wait how are yo-" Krone was now noticeably pale as Emma jumped more than five feet in the air and grabbed onto the thickest branch with just one hand.
"Emma are you sure you'll be alright like this?" Isabella asked looking a bit worried, after all the girl wasn't just lifting her own weight or the very light weight of the little kids. She was lifting her own weight and the weight of two full grown women on one arm.
"I'm fine Mama! And don't worry! I won't be switching arms mid-way, that way I don't toss you from one arm to the other." Emma said grinning at Mama as if that was what the woman was worried about.
"Let us know if you need to stop okay? Don't push yourself too hard." Isabella said worried for the girl who was even more focused on being prepared for any 'bad guys' now than ever before.
"It's fine. You two are almost as light as Don!" Emma said grinning as she proceeded to do one armed chin ups until she reached 10,000. Krone was very pale and wide eyed now as Emma dropped from the tree like a stone but landed easily on her feet, not even jostling Isabella or Krone herself with the landing.
"Last thing left is the pushups! Sorry Mama but you and Sister Krone both got to be on my back for this." Emma said grinning as she set down Isabella who was also a bit paler than normal at what Emma was capable of.
"Of course." Isabella said almost numbly as she waited until Emma got into the push up position before sitting on the girls back, sitting on top of Krone as well so that she put extra weight on Emma in that particular spot. Besides it wasn't like Krone was arguing considering she was just still holding onto Emma's shoulders looking pale and stunned.
"Seriously. What the hell do you feed her?" Krone asked Isabella looking dead serious as Emma began to do her one-handed pushups while alternating hands between each one. She was going slower than normal and putting in more effort than she usually had to…but it wasn't that much more difficult than normal.
"I don't know or claim to have any influence on how she's able to do this. She eats and drinks the same things as the other children. She's just been driven to train and be stronger and stronger ever since she was a toddler…I had no idea she was this strong however." Isabella said shaking her head in disbelief. She was definitely going to have to mention this to Grandma during her nightly report.
There was no way in hell that Emma was just another normal human girl.
"10,000! Alright I'm done." Emma said making the two adults get off of her back while Emma flopped down for half a second before she popped right back up with only a little bit of sweat on her brow.
"Wow that was much harder than normal! We'll have to do this all the time until it's easy again!" Emma said grinning brightly as she looked at the two adults, Isabella just numbly nodding her head in disbelief while Krone was far too scared and shocked to think of saying 'no'.
"Here." Anna said handing Emma a glass of water and a rag, making the orange haired girl take it and chug down the water in an instant.
"Thanks Anna!" Emma said making the braided blond nod her head once while Emma wiped off the sweat on her forehead.
"Seriously what the hell is she made out of?" Krone asked under her breath in disbelief as Emma looked completely re-energized after just that glass of water.
"Mom…" Anna was looking at Isabella now and deciding to put Emma's orders into action immediately.
"Can you teach me first aid?" Anna asked and Isabella gave her entire attention to the blond-haired girl.
"I can but why would you want to learn?" Isabella asked making Anna give a flat look as she pointed at Emma.
"I want to be a doctor when I grow up, and with her ridiculous work out and desire to protect everyone Emma will probably end up pulling muscles and getting hurt badly. I want to be able to treat her when she does reckless things." Anna said and Isabella had to admit that the girl had a point about Emma likely ending up hurt by pulled muscles or something similar.
"Understandable. I'll teach you what I know but I'm not a doctor or nurse by any means." Isabella said and Emma just smiled as she threw her arms around Isabella's waist.
"Nope! You're Mama! That makes you better than any nurse or doctor!" Emma said brightly and Isabella smiled softly and fondly down at the orange haired girl.
"Thank you for saying so Emma but I sincerely doubt that." Isabella said and her voice was fond and loving. This girl was so childish sometimes…but that was one of the things Isabella loved most about Emma. That she wasn't afraid to be childish and she spoke the truth how she saw it.
"And Mom once more is proving who her favorite is." Don said, meaning to mutter it to Gilda but his voice was just a little too loud.
"I don't have favorites." Isabella denied immediately and the rest of the kids snorted slightly.
"Sure you don't Mom. Come on! Even Phil can see how you obviously favor Emma more! Honestly if she wasn't an orphan like the rest of us we'd think she was your daughter!" Don said rolling his eyes and earning a sharp look from Emma while Isabella's face flashed shock and confusion and worry for a brief second before she schooled her expression.
"If Mom is Mama Emma's mom…doesn't that make her our grandma?" Phil asked and the look of disbelief and shock on Isabella's face lasted for more than a mere second as she stared at Phil wide eyed.
"I…" Isabella was speechless and had no idea how she was supposed to handle this at all.
"Come to think of it…Emma is the only one over the age of three who calls Mom 'Mama' instead of Mom. Maybe she really is Mom's daughter." Gilda said and Emma shot her a sharp look as well.
Isabella could only just stand there wide eyed and confused and unable to formulate a response as the other children agreed and the little ones began to point out different things that Isabella and Emma had in common. Like Emma's one purple eye matching Isabella's own purple eyes.
"Who's ready to play Tag?" Emma asked finally getting them all to shut up on this matter as the little ones were immediately distracted. They wanted to use the new tricks that Norman, Ray, and Emma had been teaching them!
"I want to get along with everyone too. Mind if I play? I'll even be 'It'." Krone asked wanting to see these kids in action herself and see if she could find anything about which ones found out the farms secret.
"Alright then. Sister Krone is it. Let's go everyone!" Emma called and the kids immediately scattered into the woods.
Isabella was left standing there with the littlest ones, her mind stuck on how all of the kids noticed that she favored Emma more and how they had all been wondering if Emma was her daughter.
Something Isabella herself was still wondering.