"Ella ,I'm sorry things turned out this way but please, you have to calm down!"
Johnathan shouts while he pins Ella to the ground, holding her arms tightly over her head. "You killed me! You killed my mother and all for what!! the good of the kingdom? We were part of that damn kingdom!"
She kicks and struggles beneath him while his mind plays flashbacks of that fateful day. "How did it feel murdering hundreds of innocent people in cold blood!? Are you proud of yourselves!? I bet it feels good to be a black knight! All of you can just go to hell!!"
"Please...calm down, you have to calm down! ,tears form in Johnathan's eyes as his voice starts to break. His mind was already a mess and Ella showed no interest in listening.
"GET THE HELL OFF ME!!"
Her malice explodes with the echo of her voice. Johnathan is blown away and the knights help him up. None of them had any strength to pick up a sword anymore. Their will was broken by the ghost they wished to never meet.
She rises from the ground and floats above them as she spreads her arms. The malice from the tied-up children flows into her, causing them all to fall unconscious.
Under the darkness of a suddenly cloudy sky, Ella's eyes shone like emeralds as her rage leaked to the wind.
"Ella ,we failed you ,I get that ,I can never take it back and I'm sorry for everything but-"
Johnathan tries his best to get closer in the strong gust of wind surrounding her but he's pushed back when she shouts.
"Sorry!? Sorry will not heal my scars, "sorry" will not erase the echoes of my mother's dying screams! "SORRY!"will not turn back the clock to before you tore me apart!!"
As her anger rises, the winds become stronger. "What do we do? We can't hold her like this, she'll kill us even if we fight back!"
"Johnathan, where is my father? The coward who watched his wife and only daughter die at the hands of his friends."
"A-Aizel is dead ,Ella. He took his own life...to amend for yours, he had no reason left to live without you or your mother."
Her blazing malice dims as tears hang on her cheeks. Her memories playing like a recorded tape in her mind.
Eye brows drift apart and a pained expression is painted on her face.
"...He was one of my closest friends ,believe me ,I know how you feel."
At those words ,her expression changes once more. This time it brings back her anger and hatred.
With a furious growl ,she had dropped from the sky and slammed Johnathan into the ground. She drags him past through the ground, then pulls him out and throws him into the water.
"You took everything from me! You have no right to say that!"
Johnathan stands up , wheezing and gasping. "I tried ,Ella ,I really did. You have to believe me."
She charges over the water and smashes his head against the side of the cliff. "You. Did. NOTHING!"
She pushes harder and harder as cracks widen with the slowly rising sound of his scream.
"SIR JOHNATHAN!"
For the knights who tried to rush in to help, her pointed chains pierced them like spears without her even having to turn around.
Emberle's malice imploded as well and a phantom came flying out. Tiyanak hovers around her , screeching, until he flies to Ella and enters her body from behind. She growls and breaths sharply, then raises her head with a completely different expression.
She ogles Johnathan, who was still in her hand, "Nrrr ,I see. You're the bastard human who killed all of my puppets. Nnnn, you...can wait."
Now in control, Tiyanak throws Johnathan aside with an angered grunt and goes back to Emberle, who had just fallen to the ground.
"S-stop...her!"
Johnathan tried to force a shout to the few remaining knights while struggling to catch his breath.
He picks up a sword and runs after her, but before he or the other knights could reach, Tiyanak had grabbed the unconscious Emberle by the face and fled to the sky.
"You cannot escape me, black rose. [Revoke!]"
He places his other hand on Emberle's chest as her soul slowly begins to rise from her body. When it does, Eve's physical features are printed on Emberle's body, including the glowing chest where Lucifer's heart lies.
"Ahahaha, thereee it is."
Before Emberle's soul was completely removed, Grey flashed behind Ella ,with his silver hair waving like fire and a white electric aura burning all over his body.
Ella hadn't even turned her head when he placed his palm on her face and flung her like a rock back to the ground. Her crush was so hard that she broke the trees in her path and opened a ridge.
When Grey caught Emberle, the glow on her chest disappeared and she went back to normal but she was still unconscious.
All his wounds were completely healed and the light emanating from him lit up the sky like a giant lantern. The knights below were spell bound. "...no...way."
"Emberle, wake up, you have to wake up. I defied heaven to get here, you know? You can't quit on me now."
Ella blasted back at them as soon as her senses had returned. "WHAT! THE HELL! ARE YOU!?"
Grey kicks his feet as though he were swimming and he shot to the clouds in an instant, as Ella came fast beneath them. "Give her back!"
She throws two chains from both of her arms that wrap around his leg and pulls him back. Grey throws Emberle over the clouds where the moon graced her with a brilliant blue light.
He dropped back to Ella with a fist already set ,which he lands on her crossed arms. It sends a shockwave as loud as thunder across the night sky.
Ella is thrown back down but she refuses to touch the ground and hovers over the dust before her back reaches. She flies back to Grey who was diving towards her as Emberle emerged from the clouds behind him.
She was beneath Grey before anyone could even blink and tried to punch him back. Her chains were bent around him like spider legs ,ready stab him should he avoid the fist.
He holds her arm to stop the hit and the chains drill through his back and peek out the chest. She grabs his other arm and smirks. "...Die!"
"[Red rose perdition]"
The red flame runs up Grey's arm with a crispy sound as it burns his flesh but seemingly burns out when it reaches his shoulder, then he repeats her words, "Red rose perdition."
With a hand now placed gently on her chest, her heart beats fast as the palm explodes with the first thunder clap. She was blown back to the ground. The chains snapped on Grey's back and left their tips in as she crushed in the pond.
He kicked his legs again and went to catch Emberle who's cuts were still healing. She opened her eyes as the rain began to fall, the first thing she saw was Grey flying towards her with his open arms held out.
Seeing this ,the memories she had regained seemed to wrap themselves around him. What she felt in that moment and what she saw were only fractions of years long past.
Instead of waiting for him, she dove faster ,with her body upside down. As they were about to collide, she grabbed his cheeks and silenced out the entire world, with the gentle touch of her lips on his.
Grey's body went completely dumb and for a moment, time felt like it had stopped around them. Rain drops stopped falling and lighting was frozen near the clouds
"Hey princess, what are you doing?"
"Taking you back."
"...Your memories are back."
"Yeah ,no thanks to you. Why didn't you ever tell me or even try to jog my memory?"
"I lost hope long before I even came back. I mean ,how was I supposed to make you remember something that never existed to you? Be honest ,you would have thought I was crazy."
"mm- true"
She chuckles.
The momentary alone time is lost when they nearly reach the ground and everything resumes. Grey wraps his arms around Emberle and they splash in the pond, back first.
The same cuts that ravaged Emberle's body, ravaged Grey as they entered the water.
Ella's body was floating in the pond with the corpses of countless knights.
Johnathan, his knight,s and the children were safe at last. But what had happened in the past few days was far more than they had bargained for.