Author's Note: Yeah! I finally update! (Aniki in the background: and you past the deadline for 3 weeks)
SORRY TO YOU ALL!!! I couldn't help myself from getting sick... T-T
THANKS FOR ALL THE REVIEWERS FOR MY 10TH CHAPTER!!!
I'm really sorry about that, I said I am going to post it on Sunday three weeks ago, but I couldn't. My computer got busted up and all of it thanks to my uncle.My Nii-san forbid him from entering into our house again. I can only buy the spare motherboard a week ago.
Once again I'm really sorry. I already uploaded a new humor/romance story of Gakuen Alice. you can read it and reviews will make me very happy.
In this chapter, someone will be introduce! Hope you enjoy it! If there's any grammar mistake, I send my deepp apologies to you.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.
Chapter Eleven: Angels With Bleeding Wings (Part Two) – Little Miss Cinderella
"Mikan…I want to tell you a bed time story. Will you listen to me?"
"…"
"Have a nice dream…"
There was an old fairy tale, about a cold-hearted prince who fell in love…
Why?
Why?
He keep asking himself, 'why am I so weak, this weak?'
That is why she left him, because he's not strong enough to protect her.
…
All he can do is evade the fatal attacks from hitting him right in the spot while forming a plan to defeat her. Can he turn the table around so that she'll just get injured by her own Alice?
'No'. That would be too obvious. Judging by her skill, this girl might have been put under training.
Or he can attack her.
Also not a good idea, he didn't bring any weapons with him.
But then…can he even manage to win just by dodging? Is he running away?
Natsume still aware that the girl slowed her pace with each attack so he steps back, allowing a distant between them and formulating a plan, which seems a bit too familiar for him.
"Ho…Hotaru, don't you think we should find for Natsume? I know he doesn't really like the main event, but I think he will enjoy the fireworks"
Hotaru glance at Ruka with expressionless face. Then she sigh a little.
"You are such a softie"
Well, this make Ruka almost fell flat on his face, remember…almost is the keyword here.
"But honestly…I guess this is why I like you" and she pull both of them out from the crowd and walked for the Northern forest. They both knew that there is where he would go.
He knew it, whatever the solution is it has to be fast and precise. This girl, she seems fond with close combat fighting stance. From the way she dodged his every attack while defending herself, Natsume form a quick plan at the back of his mind.
'That's it!'
The best way to win this fight is,
'Attacking her from a short combat and send a swift strike from a long distance'
How much is the chance of succeed? He didn't know. But one thing for sure, if this attack won't do, Natsume had to get out of here, fast.
One day, there was a banquet in the royal palace. Everyone was invited. Everyone, except one.
Luckily, a fairy helped her. And the girl, who is little in the very moment of her life, becomes a shining star for once at the palace.
He sent a kick on her stomach and she back away. Using a long combat-stick, Natsume manage again to block her incoming fireballs attack.
Natsume almost forgot that he did bring a weapon with him, a portable long-combat-stick it is.
'Got to thank that Imai girl for this'
Thirteen fireballs, but only one caught his sleeve and leave a small burning. 'Just a little more…'
Rustle.
'What!'
"Hey Natsume, we jus…"
Sensing that this is just another intruder, the girl prepares a multiple attack, aiming for Ruka.
"Get down Ruka!" thankfully, Hotaru manage to grab a hold on Ruka and evade the incoming fireballs, just mere inches above his head.
"What happened?!" asked Ruka. He was just about to greet his friend, when they heard a few rustling sound and next thing was Ruka managed to keep himself intact.
"I didn't have enough time to explain now! Take cover!"
'Darn it!' Natsume stood behind a tree that acts as a shield.
Hotaru, who seems to understand the situation take Ruka's hand and pull small round shaped gadget out from her pocket. She pushes a red button and the gadget immediately turns into a shield protector.
"Ruka, this is an anti-fire shield. It should keep us safe, but not for long"
Judging by her expression, Ruka can tell that Hotaru was serious this time. "I need you to give this to Natsume-san"
Ruka take a look at the other device given to him, a communicator. "I'm pretty sure that Hyuuga is still searching for a better tactic. So I'm putting my faith in you. On the count of three, I give you another shield"
"And I need to run as fast as I can, right?"
"Good". He gave her a reassuring smile.
"One"
"Two"
'Three!'
After activating the shield, Ruka run as fast as he could towards Natsume. He handed the communicator to him.
"What the heck are you doing here anyway?" Natsume, who still in utter disbelieve, looked at the panting form of his friend.
"Shouldn't we're the one who asked you that?" answered Ruka.
"Ru-Ruka, you managed?" the communicator stats.
Tuning the device, both boys listens what the messages Hotaru about to tell.
"Hyuuga, I know it's urgent. So I think we skipped to the plan"
Their hiding place is still a bit concealing from the enemy. Taking a breath, Natsume steadied himself.
"It seems that she made an illusion around us. So that no one will notice"
"And"
"I'm planning to attack her in short range combat, then finish it with a long rage hit. Had any useful device?"
Ruka was trying to use his Alice to contact with the animals around them, but no luck.
"I can't use my Alice too. It's been blocked"
Hotaru was searching for the correct device, 'where is it'.
'Got it!'
"Hey, did you have any? Ruka can't used his Alice"
"Shut up. I got it right here, a freezing bomb, I will make it possible for us to stop the enemy movement for some time and make a run for it"
"Okay. In case it didn't work, we had to make Ruka take the run because his capable of contacting the academy"
The animal pheromone boy was taken back a bit. "Why…why me?"
"The area that was covered by her illusion is only limited to her surrounding. Once you managed to get out, you're free to use your Alice. In this time, this is the best that we can get"
"I'm going to throw the bomb. Take your place Ruka-"
1…
2…
3…!
There was a small poof sound and then, everything turned quite. Hotaru manage to freeze the area around the girl, which put a stop to her attacks. Ruka runs towards an opening.
He didn't have a choice but to leave them. With one last look, Ruka disappeared from them into the forest.
Natsume, who was now left with Hotaru, take a relief sigh. At least they can still hoped to be saved. Putting that aside, both of the Alice user knows that their Alices is useless had to somehow survive until the point where the rescuers arrive.
"Hey Hyuuga, I think I'll take those plans of yours-"
She dance, and danced, and dance…until she forgot what time it is…
When she realized that her time is almost up, the girl run from the palace, not knowing that the cold-hearted prince had followed her…
She left him a prize, her crystal shoe slipped on the stair that she didn't have time to pick it…
Natsume kneeled on the ground, with his arms and legs bleeding pretty badly while Hotaru, desperately trying to escape herself from electric current that imprison her in a ball-shaped cage.
He realized that their plan had some miscalculation that leads to a disaster.
How it happened again, Natsume didn't really recall it, since most of it happened in a blur…
[Flashback
Oh…
It was that time, when Natsume was about to counter attack the frozen. Unbeknown to them, it's just an illusion. The girl didn't really let Ruka go free, someone must be chasing them.
Realizing that he is just hitting nothingness, the fire caster had to warn Hotaru that it's just a trapped but it was too late, he was also attacked in a brief moment the attacker pass him. The little girl appeared beside Hotaru and…
[End Of Flashback
"Hey…it is almost time for you to show yourself" the little girl heard a voice commanding from the back of her head.
"No…not…now…" she tried to protest helplessly.
Reo was not pleased by the progress of this training. The doll was supposed to follow his every order! It doesn't have feelings, right? Or so the scientist said.
"Do it, it's a direct order!"
Somehow, she was having a brief flashback in her mind, about a boy and then, fire.
Already injured from previous battles, Natsume could not keep his consciousness. He tried, many times before, until now to call for his Alice.
He can sense the girl was having problem.
Hotaru can't help but scream a little when the electricity around her stroked her body part that came in touch. She is going to pass out if this continues.
"DO IT!!!" and what had been done is done. She lost her self-controlled and open her mask to reveal…
Two brown eyes…
Natsume saw her action, and again, he was shock.
Hotaru also saw it…
Yet, why are they so dull…
She had opened the last thing that still spared both their lives, her mask.
But then, it was not the thing that will come out from her, but her face instead. Those face of hers, looks so real, so close to her.
No matter how they looked the same, this girl couldn't be her. Her face held too much dullness in them. Hers was unemotional, far from her face that held too many happiness in them.
And there's also one more thing, the girl who they used to make friend to was dead four years ago.
Ruka was running through the woods and he knew someone was chasing after him. He can use his Alice now so without hesitation, he sends a message to a squirrel, hoping that the squirrel found someone in the academy that had the same Alice as him to interpret the message.
After finishing his duty, he faces the chaser. And found out it was a man. The unknown man attacked him, sending a few kicks.
It wasn't an easy escape after all…
The prince searches for the girl who haunts his dreams and captive him in daylight…
He looked from top to bottom of his large kingdom…
One day, fate had set a road for them…
Uncontrollably, her Alice starts to leak from her body. The girl's Alice take form in a liquid-like substance, wrapped her small body.
This brings question to Natsume. For a moment, the girl had taken everything under her control but the next, she desperately trying to not let something loose.
Reo watched the scene from a distance and amused by the power that the project had. 'So this is her true potential then'
"HQ, over, this is Reo. I'm taking my report to My Lady" he speaks trough a communicator.
"Speak−"
"The project, it is developing in a fast rate. Here's a transmitter for you to watch what happened"
A small camera catches every bit of development in the battle. The scientist in HQ was amazed by this.
"Don't make too much mess"
"Roger that"
After a while, the liquid that surrounds her turn again into a hard solid crystal-like.
The barrier around Hotaru vanishes and she was free. Just before Hotaru and Natsume had the chance to register what happened, a crack appeared on the figure, then a bright light.
The little girl had turn, or more like evolve, into an older version of her.
Her hair reached her waist.
She disappeared and reappeared on a tree branch with a guy, Reo. He whispered something into her ear.
Natsume couldn't believe his eye, at first she looked like her when she was little. Then an older of her appeared.
The girl took a hold on Hotaru neck. Hoatru who was half conscious tried to break free but no avail.
Reo smirk and walk towards Natsume. Yanking him by his hair, Reo speak to him in a teasing tone, "You know what, a Kuro Neko like you is nothing to us anymore. Now we had this"
"What do you mean…" he gritted his teeth I anger.
"Remember those four years ago? The document you stole with that pesky little girl was our project. Did you read it?"
"It's about some damn project that involves nano machine and Alice. So what?"
"I believe your partner got killed"
He can't remember it. Those memories were just too painful.
"How pathetic of her, trying to save her friend. You know what happened to her?"
Reo yank harder.
"We tortured her. But don't worry because she lived as one of us. As a thing. You know who is this girl in front us? She's the new experiment"
"She is…"
"Your beloved…"
"Sakura…
"Mikan…"
Reo let go of Natsume who kneeled in shock. "Why I'm telling you this, because you're going to die" and he disappeared using a teleportation.
And when the prince found the girl her truly love, the one he vow to protect, he showed her the proof of her existence.
The prince is no longer cold-hearted.
He asked the girl, the peasant girl, to be his wife.
Sadly…
The one who he truly love…
Didn't know who he is for the spell takes her memories…
And so…
As the fairy tale goes on, the prince will truly find his princess but the question is, will she remember…
That she was the princess…?
Author's Note: Sorry for the delay Here's the chapter, I hope it's, long enough.
Rai nii-san: Shut it already. There's no need for apologizing too much.
Ai-chan: But I felt bad if I didn't. Beside, this is a conversation of us. A special site in this chapter! Can't you smile?
Rai nii-san: I already take laughing gas and they didn't work...
Ai-chan: -sweat dropped- O...okay...So don't forget to review to you all okay! If there's any mistakes, please tell me ;)
Rai nii-san: In the next chapter:
There's no title yet but in this chapter, Natsume will know the truth about her disappearance. He's dying just the sake of her, but why?
Ai-chan: RXR!!!