(GS3) Field: Amusement Park

[Hope]

"Well... looks like that's all of them."

Hana sat atop the highest cart of the Ferris Wheel, overlooking the entire Amusement Park and grinning softly. She leaned over a little, the negative energy forming the shape of dark angel wings and connecting to her back. A large black ring slowly formed over the Amusement Park area. The bodies slowly rose and cheered her name. Whether this was good publicity or bad publicity didn't matter much to this Hana who had her entire mind and heart taken over by the Invader's power, at least for now. The Princess had simply stopped fighting it and had taken her rest now, Nociel was still keeping watch.

"This Bella-chan is sure scary... how long will this have to go one for.." The small angel panicked.

She started humming, eventually singing an empty and entrancing song. Slowly, the rest of those in the park followed, her voice was now part of the spell itself.

"It sure is nice when the crowd sings along..." She laughed.

A few tried to run off, passing off as having been reversed, but Hana spotted them. "I can see... everything haha... and you all don't seem to be my fans?... I guess I can change that with one quick performance."

The darks wings spread, under the control of her eyes and within a few seconds, she had descended in front of those whom tried to flee. "The show isn't over yet..."

[Jello]

The evening before laid a melody of beats in Sera's chest. He regained consciousness in an amusement park on a teacup ride. Probably came to relax... Except he was awoken by tremendous Reverse energy circulating the area, suddenly fueling him to max without much of a choice. He sat up, yawning as the ride endlessly rode in circles. I stepped out of the moving ride and walked off the platform, and over the *RIDE IN SESSION* gate.

After a slight stretch, he noticed something awfully strange. Grogginess. Sleepy eyes and the want for a cup of coffee. He started feeling more and more like the host everyday. This was definitely a bit more out of hand than he was expecting it to get. Hopefully the world can just be destroyed already so he doesn't have to keep this boy's body forever.

He has some apologizing to do about this anyways and would prefer to not do it in the body of the one he's apologizing for...

Everyone was a zombie at the moment, or so the Reverse did that to them. What happened last night? Did a General do this? It was pretty peaceful when he got here the evening before.... maybe..

A raven adorned with red and black wings graced the battlefield that the amusement park had become. A Reversed Hana. Sera didn't do this though, not with his knowledge anyways. Even in the space time distortions he never noticed her Reverse energy until now. But as far as he knew, not many people, if anyone, were really strong enough to beat her in the first place. Strange for sure.

He pocketed his hands, leaning against a corndog stand. Breathing out he noticed the fog. It was cold enough outside you could see your own breath at this point. The fall approached more than quickly, winter was going to set in soon enough at this rate. It was already October after all.

[Hope]

Hana woke up in the morning, well, the actual sane Hana that wasn't taken up by the void.

"Well, I made quick work of this didn't I?"
"You sure did..." Nociel groaned.
"How bad was it?" She asked.
"Pretty dang terrible."

The park admissions were open, admission was free if the potential attendees won a Card fight, which was all funny prank and joke that Hana had set. Hana was never good at telling when jokes had been taken too far or not. The reverse energy really made her super human, keeping her from really needing any actual bodily needs, but it would be nice to eat some breakfast out of pure habit. Does the amusement park have an egg stand?

Her wings spread, creating a gust as she descended down onto the ground from the peak of the Ferris Wheel where she watched over the park. Once she reached the ground, it seeped back into her and she stood up, ready to do some sight seeing. It seems that rides were in operation. The reversed were still doing their job, and even the stores were open, as silent and emotionless as this park seemed. Hana went over to the food court and ordered an egg sandwich from the man in one of the stores, and he slowly go to work, his face still expressionless.

This park was like something out of a horror movie. Admission was free if you got reversed.

As she took her order and headed outside, she passed by two siblings. A younger brother and older one who she could've sworn that she'd seen somewhere a year ago. They looked older and really, it looks like they came to this park together. The younger brother was crying because the reverse energy was hurting him and his brother was telling him to suck it up. That was cute.

This must have been what it felt like to own an amusement park, it was quite joyous actually. Free rides and stuff were great too. Somewhere around the tea cups ride she saw Haruka, well someone who could might be... she didn't know what to call him here but also how did he get here of all places? What a strange coincidence.

"Ohayou Haruka, what brings you here"  She waved at him, a little unsure, but there was nothing to fear nonetheless.

[Jello]

"Haaah..." He bit into a ham and cheese sandwich, noticing the raven-girl approach him. No use being anti-social. She's on your side as of right now. He shrugged, waving back.

"Yahellooo." That actually became a common phrase among his vocabulary now. Not just an act altogether, more of a "I've adapted to your dead friend's ways so it feels less lonely." He wouldn't say that out loud though.

"You can, er, call me Sera please. If it wasn't obvious from last night's little show, Haruka isn't here right now. You can page him another time though, if you want." Sera bit into his sandwich again, chuckling a little at the joke. Then he realized how messed up it was since, no, she couldn't. He ceased to live anymore so nobody would be responding to that page.

"Anyways. What are you doing here? And how did you get all..." He pointed at her, waving his finger up and down, gesturing to her.

"Reversed. Locked up. Wings. What." Sera was becoming more of a sarcastic little crap by the minute, not like he was trying to be rude. He was adapting to Haruka's personality, but it was infused with reverse energy causing some little dumb comments to be spoken out. He was genuinely interested in what happened but he honestly had no idea what to say casually to her.

[Hope]

The sarcasm didn't bother her much, it actually made her laugh and she took an appreciation for it. No one in the park really had a sense of humor, they were just dull and going about their business like zombies. There was the clown, but a reversed clown was more creepy and unsettling than actually funny at this point.

"I took the power from the distortion and that you created to have your private time with Sliffer yesterday and ate it." Actually, that was basically the gist of it.

She walked over to the corn dog stand and rang the bell, causing a slow and vacant-faced worker to emerge from almost out of nowhere. The man reached into the machine. He gave her a corn dog then immediately disappeared.

"Sera, huh? Well I did promise that I would stay by Haruka regardless of what happens, well I guess technically you can be him. Maybe. So, what are you supposed to be anyways? Weird split personality? Ghost? Ahh," She shrugged. Well with her eyes, she could see it now, the composition of the energy and what it was all made of, the difference from Sera's and the difference from a regular reverse fighter's. It was a nice side effect.

[Jello]

"Ghost works. Let's go with ghost." He finished his last bite of his sandwich and leaned back on in chair, letting out a sigh of relief. Tasty food was always a good way to start off the day.

"So you... You ate the Reverse energy? I'm going to assume you mean consumed it or its essence, either one makes sense, I guess. Erm, why though? Most people don't take kindly to having their heart torn in every which way, especially when invaders are up and about." Sera looked over at the ravengirl with a look of confusion but also just like "what possessed you to possess you."

Not much to do about it really. Hana seemed to be quite content in her current state. She radiated more Reverse energy than most people did anyways, so the fuel was pretty nice to keep him going for the day. Maybe as much as the Generals, just off of her strength alone. If only Sera hadn't felt emotions at all, this would be the best asset to him. However now he simply feels a bit guiltier about the life of his host.

"When was the last time you and Haruka talked? I mean, you know, really talked." Sera twiddled his thumbs a bit, looking at his fingernails.

[Hope]

"Ghost? Seems legit." Hana noticed him kooking at his nails. They sure were ugly nails, looking like the kind that hadn't been cut in a while, as if he's been passed out and around or something. Oh, right. "Your nails are ugly." That was all that was ever said about it.

She held onto his hand and looked him in the eye after, trying to keep her hand away from the ugly and disgusting finger nails as she held them. The tendencies of reverse turned her into a bit of a diva about more things than just water bottles and canola oil. If she wasn't reversed, this would also be the part where she would head straight to battle against the enemy who really was Sera. No matter how angry and frustrated she really was, the reverse energy suppressed it, at least against him. Her body acknowledged that whenever it used energy, Sera naturally supplied more as the source. So she was only provide a few words to him as an answer before the reverse energy silenced her.

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

[Jello]

"Keep your enemies closer..." Sera looked at the hand she was holding, then at her. What a strange feeling. Not only weeks before, Haruka had been feeling this things towards Hana himself, and so many things raced through his head it was impossible to think.

But Sera was thinking clearly. He enjoyed the touch of other people. The nerves sending electric charges through his body. The feeling was something he had never experienced before, not really anyways. Who would have thought a ghost could come to love humanity again?

"I believe in that phrase all too much, you see. I only wish it didn't mean losing your comrades in order to do so." Sera stared at this hand for a moment, slacking his shoulders and staring at down at his feet, biting his lip. This would have been harder to admit than he thought. It was Hana, the only other person besides Yukino who Haruka valued so much as to lay his life down for them. This was a terrifying way to do it, but better here than never.

"Sadly. You lost a comrade earlier this week. Haruka..." Sera looked up at Hana, in the eyes. Honor is key. Even Sera had that much. Despite his intentions, he had this much owed to the comrade of the host he had occupied.

"Haruka Nakahara died in a hospital bed, three days ago. He died in his sleep. Several hours later I awoke from my previous slumber and took control of the host body, in order to complete the mission I had set out. Forcibly reversing a person makes the host body take serious internal damage, and even consumes human matter and energy to do so. He died from internal bleeding..."

Sera's face softened, staring at Hana's eyes. He was never really fond of gazing into the human spectrum, more infatuated with the stars like Haruka. But she had very pretty eyes as well.

Pretty.

Sera had never thought to describe a human with beauty. A first for everyone.

[Hope]

"That sucks."

This is where Hana would draw lines and parallels between her and her sister as well as Miyuki with the power taking over their lover's bodies and taking them away. It wasn't only limited to her anymore, and it was now that it affected Yukino more so. Death would be something Hana didn't receive quite well, much less understand. Casualties such as this would tear more so away at her guilt as a Princess and even more so as Hana the person.

Death? Hmmm... Friend is dead? Lost friends to reverse, lost allies on Cray to reverse, many casualties, armies shattering apart, people getting hurt, and a friend died? Well the Princess continued to fail now. More guilt, negative emotions would come. She wasn't allowed to feel them, the void converted it to energy before she could, so now she was basically standing around, a little bit expressionless. People mourn and feel sad over the loss of a love one, Hana wouldn't mind crying right now, but the Reverse just fed off of that as well.

"I see, so that's how you're a ghost." A single teardrop went down her face. At least one got through. "I loved him in ever way. My mind didn't know what to think whenever it saw him. Eventually I just settled that I'd love him and see him like a brother even though there was much more than that for his and Yukino's sake as well as my own with Miyuki. To think that he would go away after things just had just gotten better.."

Lock away your problems Ha-

"No head message, stop that! Anyways..." She sniffled. "That sucks."

[Jello]

Sera simply stood there, watching Hana. She seemed guilt stricken as well, or rather less guilty, but simply just tearing apart at the seams. He wanted to reach out to her, to help her.

But the host body didn't move, because Sera couldn't allow it. Weird how no matter how much he actually wanted to help others he found himself destroying the world's around them? Sera had grown tired of the same old routine but alas, he is bound by the duty of his people. The "invaders" people called them. They weren't wrong, really. Discover. Capture. Conquer. That was all it took.

Suddenly people were against them in every which way. Which is fair. They really shouldn't just be forcibly taking everything they want but it was sort of in their domination nature. Not much to do about it now, the infamy has spread too far.

"It is... All my fault. Hana. I do not expect you to forgive me, or the rest of us. The Star-Vaders. We are cruel and corrupt creatures by design, it is our nature to conquer and use everything at our disposal. But please hear me out. Strange for a conquerer to plead to a Princess..."

Sera stood from his seat, still holding onto her hand. His was ice cold, as usual. A corpse, you know.

"Forgive Haruka. Forgive all those you love now while you still can, before they are gone. And one more thing." He breathed in, looking up, not wanting to get her hopes up all of a sudden.

"Haruka can, perhaps, maybe, come back. Overlord's connection to the boy has created a resurrection bond, to keep him alive. Such is gift of The Boy Born in Flames. You remember the house fire right? Well, its, err, something like that. Overlord is protecting him and intends to keep him alive. Just wait. He might be back before you know it."

Sera gave a small smile, albeit creepy because Sera is a creepy guy but it worked for him this time.

[Hope]

"The evil thing has feelings?" Hana teased.

She sent a quick group text on her phone and turned over to Sera. This was another joke for her that she would play, she didn't know what too far meant with these anyways. At the very least while she is reversed and all her feelings direct her to some decision, she may as well make the evil thing who is her friend right now feel at easy as well. There's a fun side to everything, an this may be the void talking in her heart, but she wanted to show Sera some happiness, as twisted as it may be.

"We're going to go enjoy ourselves. You got yourself in this, may as well have fun with it, otherwise you'll just be a crying bag of dead flesh. As for Haruka, I never thought bad of him or anyone for that matter." She sighed in relief of hearing that he could still be alive. Strangely enough, she was beginning to like Sera as well, as strange as it was. Maybe she was still naive after all.

She contacted one of the other reverse units.
"Dauntless Dominate Dragon, let's meet up. Bring your army." She stretched out her hand towards Sera and summoned forth her dark wings causing a quick gust of wind to spread along the area. The reversed fighters started to hum in unison, it looks like she was going to miss her nightly concert with them. "Let's go!"

[Jello]

Sera laughed a bit in response. She was right. The evil thing has feelings. What a strange thing, isn't it?

Watching Hana he noticed her send a text quickly, making note she was still Reversed. What kind of malicious intent did she have this time...? Well, she was still Hana. Maybe it was just a joke or something like that?

Placing his hand gently in hers, he felt the wind from her wings blow gusts of dark Reverse energy across the park. He reveled in it, with a grin. Evil? Of course? But caring? Yes. And very much wanting to enjoy himself a bit.

"Give me a show then, Miss Idol."

[Hope]

"I am the shadow, the true self..."

The Princess sat on top of the Ferris Wheel's highest cart , playing along in the first dungeon of Purse Owner 4. Like an egg, her idea hatched up into brilliance. She decided to go hammuske with her whole Princess role like Sukiko Tamagi.

Castle. Princess. Knight.

Plagarism.

[Hope]

Hana sits alone on one of the park benches. Her arms are rested along her sides, and her legs are straightened out. She's almost completely relaxed. A drop of sweat is going down the right side of her forehead, and she takes a deep breath. She feels that she had just experienced one of the deepest challenges of her life. She was victorious, yes, but to a cost. It felt strange to her that it was the difficult to pull off, that she almost failed. Despite all this, she was pleased that she didn't.

"My greatest accomplishment," she whispered to herself giving a small smirk, "this is..."

"Anoter waste of time," Nociel interrupted.

In front of Hana was an extravagant masterpiece, a building of grand construction, one that marked the golden age of architecture. The structure stood tall, taller than the others around it, making all others of its kind look like ants. In a scale of one to ten, this one was definitely a ten, it could not be taken down, as it was to become a symbol for generations to come. This structure, was Hana's Amusement Park Reevasu Roller Coaster Castle.

She put her faith in Yukino now. Tonight when her sister arrives, she would put her mind to sleep and let reverse completely take over, so it's either she becomes free from the spell or her sister is put under it. It wouldn't be an exciting thrill ride if it wasn't in such high stakes, at least, that's what her twisted heart led her to believe.

Hana sends Yukino a text message:
"Amusement Park for round 2. I'll be waiting for you, my knight. - Hana Isabella Espoir"

The Princess stepped into the castle, it was time for the fairy tale to begin.

Once upon a time there was Princess locked away in a dark castle.
Her heart was sealed away by invaders known as Link Joker, and as result...
She was put into a deep sleep.
For days upon days she would wait for her knight in shining armor.
The one who would be able to liberate her from the spell.

To be continued.

[Cherry]

Finally, the knights arrived at the Amusement Park. Stopping in front of the gates, Yugure summoned the glowing outline of Ezel's scissors. Quickly tracing them, the blacksmith created a copy of his weapons that transformed into a copy of his card. Merging it with the Liberators, the two nodded to one another, and the queen ran inside as the lion reverted to card form. He took his place within her mental lobby of Paladins once again.

Long story short, this turned into a joint-operation for every last one of them. Saving the princess was the objective, as was liberating Ramiel from the spell. Recovering Liberators, wounded Revengers, and lost Jewel Knights put all of their focus into this mission. Those emotions born of scars gave birth to determination - a resolution Yunos could never dream of reaching himself. Yet, he himself was fueled more with anger after losing to the clown. A couple of them giving a quick "welcome back" to Ezel, they decided the party would be for Hana as well after they retrieve her.

"I'm here for you."

That was texted with her arrival.