"You killed him...It was you..." I hissed feeling my blood boil inside my veins with every second I had to sit and watch him stand there with no sense of remorse for anything he'd done
"Stop it!" Al yelled trying to save Suman who was being eaten by the Noah's butterflys
"Tease. Come" The Noah said as the butterflies that surrounded us all became absorbed in his hands forming two huge butterflies with black and white stripes
"Bastard!" Al yelled
"Ehh! You're that swindling A! But, even if I say that you won't remember." It said
"Stop screwing around! What have you done?! What did you do to Suman?!" I yelled
"Killing my enemies is the obvious thing to do, no?" He asked getting closer to me until we were face to face and lighting a match for his cigarette before continuing, "Well, even if you knew about my power, it would already be too late to run away. I guess I'll tell you. Listen closely children. These things are called Tease. They're cannibal golems made by the Millennium Earl. They look like butterflies because that's his style. These things eat humans. The more they consume, the more that they grow and multiply. However, that's their ability, not mine. The Tease are just a tool. My actual power is...this." He said and pushed his hand through my stomach
"Ali!" Al yelled, but I was too shocked to say anything. To my surprise, it wasn't painful, but I was frozen.
"It's alright. She won't feel any pain. My hand, no...my body can pass through absolutely anything. That is my power. However, there's an exception for things I want to touch. That's why, if I decided to pull my hand out right now...and if I thought about wanting to touch a certain girl's heart...without tools or cutting your body, I could simply rip out her beating heart. To take out a heart while you're still alive, I wonder what that would feel like. Shall we find out?" It said
"Do it then. Stop showing off." I said plainly
"That's it?" It asked with a disappointed look on his face
"I've never been afraid to die. Why would I start now?" I said
"I'm not going to take it. My gloves would get dirty." It said taking his hand out of me with all my organs intact
'I would be lying if I said I wouldn't feel bad about leaving Al alone, but this is not the time to be honest...' I thought to myself with a straight face
"This is why I usually let Tease eat what I catch." It said examining its gloves
"Usually?" Al asked
"You didn't know? The stories about your dead comrades whose organs were removed. Daisya Berry, Kazana Reed, Chalker Labon. Because Suman cooperated with me, he didn't die in the same manner. I put Tease inside of him to grow. Thanks to him, they multiplied a bit. Oh yeah, that reminds me, I met a guy called General Yeegar too. If I recall correctly, I didn't kill him right away... Eh? Why did I do that?! Ah, that's right! I made him my news messenger. His internal organs were eaten up, so it must've been fairly painful for him." It smirked
"Bastard... You bastard... It wasn't enough that you had to drive him insane or kill him, but you had to torture him and make him your damn messenger? Shut the hell up. Shut your damn mouth. SHUT UP BEFORE I SLIT YOUR DAMN THROAT!" I yelled holding him up by his neck as my scarf fell off
"Ah...I see. You're the girl in the picture. The one General Yeegar carried in his pocket. I'd recognize that neck anywhere. I should get rid of it. It's become a nuisance." It said passing through my hand and grabbing my neck with one of his own and choking me.
"Let her go!" Al yelled struggling to get up before something in my neck cracked and I fell to the ground gasping for air and getting none as only blood made it through
"It's a shame really. I've heard your voice once before in Barcelona." It said smirking at my struggle as he grabbed Al's arm and ripped it off in from of me
"Al!" I tried to scream as he fell to the ground next to me
'He's dead...' I thought to myself as silent sobs racked my body before I lost consciousness
"Allison!" Grandpa yelled from inside his stagecoach
"Ali's here?" Thierry asked as the door flew open
"She is here!" Pierre cheered
"Grandpa...Pierre...Thierry...I missed you..." I sniffled glomping on Grandpa
"You can't stay here! You have to leave! Hurry!" He said pulling me off of him and looking frantically for something in the woods that surrounded us
"What's wrong, Grandpa? You don't want to see me?" I said more than a little hurt
"It's not time for you to be here yet! You have to leave before it's too late!" He yelled running into the forest that seemed almost endless
"What happened?" I asked
"You're...dead..." He sighed
"I died?" I asked
"I warned you! I told you to stay away from Fallen Ones! Why didn't you listen?" Grandpa yelled
"I...I wanted to save him...I had to save him." I cried
"Why did you provoke the Noah?" He asked
"He killed you! I couldn't let him live!" I screamed
"Look where it's gotten you!" He yelled
"Master, she was just being loyal, stupid, but loyal." Thierry said
"We can't bring her back to life, can we?" Pierre asked
"Unless she gets turned into an akuma." Thierry said
"It's not happening. I'm dead. Forever. Where's Al" I said
"He's...also passed away." Grandpa said
"Where is he then? Isn't he here?" I asked looking around
"No. I don't know what happened to him. The afterlife must be in tiers." Grandpa explained
"If that's the case, Al would probably be with Mana or Narian." I sighed
"Ali! You're fading!" Thierry yelled
"Is someone turning me into an akuma?" I asked before ending up in under a lake of some kind, drowning
"Who...are you?" I heard Al ask from the shore
'Me! It's me!' I screamed internally as I watched the surface of the water freeze over
'Help! I'm right here! Help me!' I pleaded before the water froze completely and everything went black
'I don't want to be an akuma. I don't want to be the poor soul crying for help. I'm begging you! Please!' I begged the darkness
