Cannon Fodder To Villainess

🏮88. Love and Punishment

Amber watched Jenna stare at her through the viewing screen. A huge grin was on her face and her eyes were glittering, while she rubbed her belly.

After a few minutes of being submerged in the strange liquid, black puffs of liquid started to leak out from Arabella's skin.

Seeing the space magic leak from Arabella, Jenna's eyes widened, and then became cold. "A useless thing like you really did have space magic? Well you soon won't have it anymore! I'll have all of your space magic extracted and then I'll transfuse it into my son's mana core. Then he'll have the royal's ice magic and your space magic. No one will be able to oppose him after that," Jenna said.

Amber glared at the viewing screen. As she watched, her view became more and more impeded by the black puffs, like ink clouding water. Then just as Amber couldn't see Jenna's face anymore, she felt a strange pulling sensation, and then she was back outside the consciousness space.

The first thing that hit Amber was pain. Pain from the needles, from being dragged, from thorns in her legs, and from the liquid seeping in through her skin. Her entire body burned and ached, but the needles felt like knives. Air was forced into her lungs while she floated. She couldn't move her body, not even just a little bit. 

Would this be how everything ends?  Would she die alone again?  An image of Nova flitted through her mind.  Then Ena, Finn, Fluffy, Prince Elystar, the twins, her little brother, Mabel, and everyone else that she'd met, who somehow managed to take another piece of her cold and armored heart, flitted through her mind.  She was needed.  She was wanted.  Then a certainty and drive that she hadn't known even existed started to burn in the core of her being.  What was she even afraid of anymore?  Dying alone?  Being forgotten about?  Opening up her heart?  It was obviously impossible to prevent anymore.  Without her consent, she loved them, she loved them all deeply, more so than she felt comfortable with, but there is was.  She could no longer even attempt to deny it.  So she embraced the warmth in her heart, instead of trying to push it away. 

Then she felt a strange sensation that she remembered experiencing once before. She glanced down to see her ghostly hand slip out from Arabella's body. Then her other hand slipped out, and then her arms. Little by little, more of Amber's ghostly form slipped free from the body she had been occupying. Until she was only connected to Arabella's body by glowing blue straps across her chest and the matching cord. Amber stepped out of the pod, as easily as if she were walking down a step. She stood beside Jenna, who did not notice her, and then a smirk appeared on Amber's lips as she stepped into Jenna's body.

Amber looked down at Jenna's hands and moved them experimentally. "Wow, that's weird," Amber said with Jenna's mouth.

Then Amber looked at the body that she had come to know as her own, which was floating in the black liquid. Amber walked forward in Jenna's body, collecting a large glass jar like she had observed Cray doing, and went through the same motions she had. She finally released Arabella's body from the pod and pulled it over off of the platform. Then she reached into her secret pocket and pulled out a stimulant to counteract the effects of the tranquilizer, forcing it down Arabella's throat.

Then Amber grabbed hold of her paralyzing needle she had hidden on Arabella's body and laid down onto the loading platform. She placed the breathing apparatus onto Jenna's face and then roughly stabbed herself in the arm. Once Amber felt the paralyzing needle start to take effect, she pulled on her connection to Arabella's body, and yanked herself out from Jenna.

Amber roughly snapped back into Arabella's body, gasping from pain and exhaustion. After a moment of laying there, Amber pulled out some mana water and drank it while coughing. She didn't drink a lot of it from fear that it would strengthen Arabella, but just enough to get her back on her feet.