The Promised Neverland AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)
If Emma remembered right then Krone would choose to go after the little kids first, making small shapes in the leaves so that the little ones would find them and follow the trail into a trap.
Emma waited patiently and watched as the others all began to get out until the only ones left were the three oldest kids, Phil, and Mark.
That's when she let out a vicious smirk that was unseen by everyone else as she saw Krone go for Phil and Mark.
Emma however was faster.
"Mama Emma!" Phil happily called out waving as he saw her approaching, Emma didn't say anything for a second as she scooped the boys up without breaking stride. She was going at a decent pace, but no where near as fast as she normally could or would go. She was making it seem as if her morning exercise had tired her out a good bit and therefore she was leading Krone in a merry chase. One where she wouldn't catch her prey.
"Be quiet. We're trying not to get found remember?" Emma asked and both boys immediately covered their mouths with their hands as Emma carried them away.
Once they got to the rocky area with all the blind spots Emma crouched down behind one rock with both boys in her arms still.
She heard Sister Krone talking and she ignored most of it until she heard what she was waiting for.
"You know if you saw the harvest that night…then I'm on your side." Krone said and Emma immediately darted from behind the rock and jumped up, easily landing on another one nearby.
"You'll have to do better than that to catch me Sister Krone…and if I can carry you with relative ease…then my brothers don't slow me down a single bit." Emma said with a smirk as she looked at Krone and then cracked her neck.
"I guess it's time for me to stop playing around with you after all. Boys…are you ready for some real fun now?" Emma asked and her eyes glinted darkly in the sunlight as she stared down at Krone.
"Yeah!" The two boys excitedly nodded their heads as Emma made sure she had a tight hold on them, and she noticed how Krone was getting ready to lunge at them as if to tag them.
"Good. Brace yourselves." Emma said and she felt the two four-year olds' tense before Emma tensed her legs and then launched herself off of the rock she was perched on with enough force that the solid stone was shattered at the top and cracked badly throughout the rest of it.
"What the fuck?!" Krone yelled that and Emma laughed as she dashed away far faster than Krone could keep up with and through the forest with her little brothers in her arms.
"Mama Emma? What's that word the Sister used mean? Fuck?" Phil asked while Mark was whooping at the high speeds, Phil had his face buried in Emma's shirt however.
"You'll have to ask Mama when we're done playing Phil." Emma said grinning widely as she wove between the trees, feeling more alive than normal as she enjoyed the thrill of the chase, the hunt, the escape…all of it.
"Okay!" Phil said snuggling closer to Emma contently as she jumped and ducked and basically danced through the forest at high speeds.
"Now who wants to climb a tree?" Emma asked once they were near the edge of the forest, to a spot where most of their already caught siblings could see them.
"I do!" Both boys said immediately and Emma laughed as she moved Phil into the same arm she was holding Mark in and then jumped up, snagging a branch and easily pulling all three of them onto a nice sturdy limb at least six feet off of the ground.
Then she proceeded to climb the tree a little higher until they were on the sturdiest branch of the tree more than ten feet up.
"Were you caught?" Don yelled to Emma who gave a laugh at that.
As if she would be caught by Sister Krone with her new and improved reflexes and training.
"No! We got away from her!" Phil yelled back and the kids that had already been caught looked stunned but the older ones weren't surprised to hear that. After all it was Emma with the two boys. No wonder they had gotten away.
"Shhh. We're hiding remember?" Emma asked shushing Phil and Mark as Krone came rushing from the woods looking pale faced and sweaty but still looking for Emma and her two little brothers.
"Did they come out here?" Krone called to the ones already caught.
"No! They haven't left the forest! We saw them at the tree line a second ago though!" Gilda called truthfully, after all Emma and the boys were still at the tree line…they were just in the actual tree. Krone looked all around her trying to find some trace of the three, but failed to look up before she turned back into the forest and decided to chase after Ray and Norman before focusing entirely on Emma and her two passengers.
Phil and Mark were giggling behind each others hands while Emma was grinning widely as she reclined in the tree against the trunk, the two boys safely being held to her chest.
"Let's take a cat nap waiting on Norman and Ray to get done playing with the Sister." Emma said grinning and both boys immediately snuggled closer to their nice warm loving sister who didn't mind being their human pillow at any time of the day or night.
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"Hey Emma! The games over now! You can come down!" Don was yelling as he waved at Emma to catch her attention, making the girl crack one eye open and see that everyone was on the hill near the house now. Everyone but her, Phil and Mark.
Both of whom were still sleeping peacefully curled up against her.
"Come on boys. Time to wake up and get down from the tree." Emma said gently waking the two boys who grumbled but woke up easily, yawning and stretching a little bit before they remembered that they were in a tree…and rather high up off of the ground.
"Just hang on to me while I get us down." Emma said softly and they both nodded, clutching tightly to her neck as she easily began to jump down from one thick tree limb to the next until she was only three feet off of the ground. At that point she just jumped the rest of the way and landed on her feet easily.
"Looks like it's our win Sister Krone! You were fun to play with though." Emma said grinning brightly as she approached the rest of the family with the boys in her arms before she set them down and reached out to shake Krone's hand.
As soon as Krone took her hand however, Emma's grip tightened noticeably and she grabbed the womans arm with her free hand.
"But don't you ever call or imply that my siblings are a burden ever again. Understand?" Emma asked giving a dark twisted looking grin as her hair shadowed part of her face but her eyes almost seemed to glow as she glared darkly at Krone.
"Y-Yes." Krone was visibly sweating heavily and scared of the look on the girls face, before Emma released her and gave a bright smile.
"Wow. I've never seen you so angry before Emma." Norman said swallowing thickly at how scary Emma could be.
"Considering what she said about the boys slowing me down or implied about them being a burden…and then the new word she taught them…I think I'm going to be the least of her problems in a minute." Emma said with a bright happy smile as if she hadn't just scared the hell out of a woman more than twice her height and weight.
"New word?" Don questioned confused as he glanced at Isabella just as Phil and Mark got over to her.
"Mom it was awesome! Emma was all phwoosh! And Crr-aaa-ck! And phwoosh again!" Mark was excitedly telling Mom about the game in his four year old way that emphasized how awesome he thought Emma was.
"Mom I got a question! Mama Emma said I had to ask you!" Phil however was tugging on her dress a little to get her full attention.
"Oh? What is it Phil?" Mama asked smiling at Phil and wondering what Emma had wanted him to ask her about.
"What does the word fuck mean?" Phil asked innocently and Krone immediately went wide eyed and started backing away. Partially because she realized he must have heard her say the word and therefore would tell Isabella that she had said it near him…but also because of the dark dangerous aura that now surrounded Isabella and Emma both.
"Where did you hear that word?" Mama asked and she wasn't smiling, in fact she was frowning and looking very serious now as stared at Phil.
"When we were playing tag Mama Emma decided to get serious and the Sister said 'What the fuck?' when Mama Emma raced off with Mark and I in her arms! I asked her what it meant but Mama Emma said I had to ask you!" Phil said and all of the other kids were slowly backing away from Krone, Isabella, and Emma all three.
"Sister Krone…we need to have a talk." Isabella said and her voice was cold and dark as she glared darkly at Krone who immediately tried to turn tail and run back to the forest.
She was halfway there when she heard two words that would haunt her for a while and then was slammed into the ground hard.
"Emma. Fetch."