Yuit and vante had been gathering the other rebels to come up with a new plan, they could not spend any extra time looking for their leader any more. They had to team and fight the queen themself if they wanted a chance to still get out of this victorious. Though impulsive as she was Lunaluna refused to listen to huit and was getting annoyed, as she was throwing her tantrum the rest were also getting on the nerves and refused to go on without annelotte. After a while of quarreling vante, out of all actually stepped in and stopped them. Sigui sighed and stepped up after everyone felt angry. "If we can not go on without sister annelotte then we have no choice but to continue looking, though there is no time to waste so we need to split up so this can go faster. Tarnyang, Sainyang! You two keep looking outside to see if annelotte still might have not gotten far from where she fell, lunaluna you get a high view from the towers. Huit you and vante check the upper floor to make sure she has not returned to the throne room but be careful of the queens aid. Mirim you come with me to the middle grounds." They all agreed and got off to the set locations as quickly as they could, staying unnoticed for the most part.
At a nearby town someone had been getting a bad feeling, the real aldra. She could feel when annelotte was in trouble, she did not know why or how but it had happened some times before so she knew it was her, the only other half demon she ever knew of. Though she did not want to get into any trouble herself and just wait for her husband like she always do, she could not help but feel really bad and left a note on the kitchen table before leaving for the castle. In the inner room of the throne hall the queen and her aid was coming up with a new strategy, finding a way to deal with only the main rebel group instead also thinking about their army, they figured it would be less harm to the innocent if they just got the ones running the entire scheme. It did not take long before lunaluna found the real aldra getting close to the castle, she quickly went to attack her but was of no match for the housewife. "How on earth are you so crazy strong? Nevermind that, who are you?" Aldra introduced herself and explained why she had come to the castle, which only confused lunaluna more. How could she be in two places. That was when she realised, just like with the iron strategist. "Melona! It had to be her before." She told aldra what had happened and they both hurried to find the others to tell them, because now they had to find melona and take care of her.
While the others were still looking, Mirim and Sigui had managed their way to the colosseum, mirim knew the way to it and it was the only place in the mid grounds they had not checked so far. As they got there they found annelotte quickly, she was in field in her full demon form causing trouble for dogura which was doing his best to keep her in check though obviously failing because every time he tried to shock her it just reflected back at him. She was instead seeming to have fun disobeying him and casually throwing a monster or two at him that she was supposed to fight, sigui and mirim was shocked to find her like this when they were both startled as someone had walked up on them from behind, it was branwen. The two got up their guard only to watch her pass them and watch the fight as well. "Branwen, why are you up here? And what is going on?" Mirim glanced back down at the arena while asking her. Sigui decided to try and find another way down while the other two stayed up by the window.
"Mirim, i have done something i regret. You know how i could only fight my way out to spare my pride to again be free." Mirim nodded. "I am free now but it was at the cost of her. Look at her, she looks like pure evil, i am the one responsible for that."
Mirim never took her eyes off of annelotte. "You should be glad, sometimes things can only get worse for it can get better. I am sure something will happen because of this, and do not feel bad, i was the reason for her being like this once years ago too. Though unlike you, i almost killed her." Branwen was shocked at her words but also relieved. She got her mood back and ran off to get her partner out. Mirim smiled and headed after where sigui had went before only to find her picking fights with the slave keepers about why they should turn to god or be burned, mirim just dragged her along to get to the arena.
It did not take long for yuit and vante to find the queen and the rest, she could not do much but kept them at bay until the others would hopefully show up, tarnyang and sainyang had given up on looking as she obviously was no longer out there or within close grounds. So they headed to the throne hall and got to helping yuit out of her pickle and the four then went to find sigui and mirim instead, however they quickly ran into Lunaluna and aldra, the others were about to attack aldra but lunaluna stepped in front and quickly calmed them to explain the situation. They all hurried to the mid grounds and ran into branwen with usher, without even exchanging words she pulled them to exactly where they wanted to be. Trying not to get distracted by the gigantic dragon that could almost not even fit the hallways they found the arena with a knocked out dogura tons of dead monsters and annelotte fighting sigu and Mirim.
As soon as they realised the others had arrived they did not even have time to question why aldra was with them, trying not to be killed by annelotte, though she quickly stopped when she saw the other half demon. Everyone took the chance to get out of the way and aldra was again facing her one on one. "I thought you were finally able to control this power after our last meeting, it seems i was wrong." Annelotte laughed, control? I am fully in control, of the annelotte you all know. You allowed me to let my power follow my heart. But you never specified which one of our hearts, im stronger now than i ever was before because of you sister!" Aldra quickly jumped back as a gigantic lance was thrown her way.
Up above, the queen and her allies was getting confused at the lack of rebels until they were met by usher catching them off guard and with branwen on him. She saw aldra again and got confused but usher recognized the queen, though she was different and he realised she was cursed."one of you are not who you appear to be!" The dragon roared. Then the fake aldra sent the giant wooden spoon his way, shouting at him. "A mere dragon trying to confuse the queen. For all we know you could be on the rebels side, and i know exactly where they have to be now that the two of you managed to get free." Elina was the first one to rush away from the scene, also fully aware where to head while the rest stayed behind to take care of Usher and branwen. Though just as she had ran off she came flying back and crashed into a wall, surprisingly the other aldra had crashed with her. Running in after them came the rebels, they looked out of breath and a tad scared.
