Silence fell and only usher's breath could be heard other than the clinking of metal coming from not far away, everyone quickly realised there was one too many aldras and before she could run away usher caught her, chomping her like a marshmallow, which she could very well be.
Then with everybody turned away, the rebel leader annelotte stood in the entrance of the throne hall, she summoned ambrosius. Though he looked different as a result of her being in demon form, he was gold and not see through like normal. Everyone directed their attention to the entrance and the rebels quickly got defensive, same did elina, mirim and ymir as they were the only others familiar with the power she had in the moment. Elina seemed even more scared when she saw ymir getting on the defensive as she had no problem matching up and even was stronger than annelotte the last time she turned. Aldra got up from the crumbles of the floor she had been tossed before, and attempted to get to annelotte but again was hit away.
Sigui attempted to request the queen and her allies to a temporary truce, while aldra continuously kept annelotte occupied. "You have to listen to me, queen claudette. We might be in a war but unless we all team up she might kill every single one of us, for even if you defy god she will not care about who gets in her path. She will attack anyone. i am willing to work with you, we all are!" As everyone of the queens aid agreed and got ready to fight her as well the queen just entirely ignored her and pointed her sword at annelotte, sending a shot of electricity her way with a huge power. It scattered as it hit her only to be ineffective at all and shocked everyone around instead. Even usher that no longer managed to keep Melona in check. "Ahahaha this i amazing to watch, master should be here and see it all. Though i am certain she is definitely watching, it is way better live." Annelotte ran up and easily hit claudette's sword out of her hands using her lance.
Melona took her chance and snuck up behind the queen just in time to pull her away from another one of annelotte's swings with her sword, saving her life. Everyone else except aldra tried to stay away from the path of Claudette and Annelotte but also trying to come up with a way to defeat both, mirim had explained about Claudette and usher had too. So right now the fight was mainly between Claudette, cursed and with more powers than ever from the swamp witch and extra flexibility with melona's help. Aldra using all the powers she could manage to stop both of them and annelotte, almost smoking with every move due to the quick attacks. It did not take long before they realised they were being watched by others, others that could not do much but watch because of their curses just like the queen. But what they could not make up for in power they could maybe help with knowledge, as the castle was slowly getting more destroyed than it already was. The old warriors approached those standing around, some of them familiar and some not. The warriors were Tomoe, Nowa, Melpha, Risty, Alleyne, Nanael, Cattleya and Maria. Though everyone could seem to calm down because not one of those fighting was focusing on them at all and even getting further away.
Maria started by explaining there was only one way to stop the curse put on both the queen and them self, but no one of them had been able to. This would also lift the curse put on aldra, everyone was confused by this but as sigui asked about what kind of curse aldra could have, maria had fallen asleep.
Risty picked maria up and melpha took over explaining that aldra was the one holding information behind the swamp witch that they needed to be able to fully defeat her, but she was cursed and could no longer remember her past.
Cattleya stepped in as well. "My husband owen once managed to defeat her, or so we thought. But she came back and she is now stronger than before, we need aldra's memory.
" Sainyang asked about what it was they had to do to be able to defeat her that no one of the warriors had managed before them, and Risty replied. "Well that is easy, neither of us could because we got cursed before we knew what revived the witch. There was, and is nothing we can do, but all of you are fully able and strong enough to do this. One of your obstacles are even right here in this fight, one of her minions. You need to defeat them all for the curse to drop, only then claudette and aldra will be on your side fully. I also suggest you all work together because this is no longer the war you started." The warriors headed off but Alleyne explained to them all that all of the warriors will be staying at the Vance castle if they were needed for more information.
Once all the warriors were gone they got aldra's attention and got her to bring them melona as she was the only one strong enough to hold her own against the other two at this point, she did as told and managed to bring melona back to them all without breaking the other two up from their fighting. "You got me here, now what? Think i am going to spill anything?" Melona giggled. But just like that branwen almost hit her with her sword with a power that would be unforgiving, only to just miss. "Woah there, i would not do that if i was any of you. I mean you would like to keep the queens sanity would you not? Destroying me means her memories goes with me, i am the one holding the curse on her remember?" Everyone just looked at each other and nodded. "Seems we just got to kill her to get the curse broken then!" Tarnyang said jokingly and some of the others laughed a bit. "Nonono wait ok i will spill anything i know, dont hurt me." She shrunk in size trying to slightly escape but her effort was fruitless as they captured her on jars every time she melted. "Well we need you to break the curse- but we are curious of what you might know too!" Yuit started but lunaluna cut her off. "You want to know what information i have gathered? Every memory i took from claudette i know, i know the horrible things she did to get her sisters murdered as young to get more attention from her father, i know how she is engaged with alphonse kreutz and that she has a soft spot for cute things."
"That is not the type information we talked about, whatever it is not important. Undo the curse now!" Branwen growled at her. And melona just rolled her eyes. "Well i thought it was interesting, though anyway fine all of you are no fun, i will do it." Melona let go of the curse on claudette and she snapped out of it, she didn't even know why she was fighting but kept it up bareilly to stay alive. "Would you look at that she is back, there is nothing i can do about everyone else though." She quickly made her escape just as everyone was focused on claudette. But they did not much care, they all knew they had to find the other minions. Though to find them all and also still be strong enough to take them on they decided to split up in groups of three, it was over in a moment and everyone found a group then went to the most likely locations of all the minions known of while yuit went alone to the vance castle to just gather more information and aldra stayed behind to help claudette stay alive.
